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The Jurassic was named from the [[France|French]] word (Jurassique) for the Jura mountains of [[Switzerland]].<ref>[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=jurassic&searchmode=none Online Etymology Dictionary]</ref><ref>[http://www.geol.ucsb.edu/Outreach/TimeScale/jurassic.html Jurassic Period] (Department of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara).</ref>

The Jurassic was named from the [[France|French]] word (Jurassique) for the Jura mountains of [[Switzerland]].<ref>[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=jurassic&searchmode=none Online Etymology Dictionary]</ref><ref>[http://www.geol.ucsb.edu/Outreach/TimeScale/jurassic.html Jurassic Period] (Department of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara).</ref>

Under the uniformitarian dates assigned by secular geologists, it represents approximately the period of Earth's history from 200 million years ago to 145 million years ago.<ref>Gradstein, F.M., and Ogg, J.G.,[http://www.stratigraphy.org/scale04.pdf Geologic Time Scale 2004 – Why, How, and Where Next!]</ref>  [[Flood Geology|Flood geologists]] use a geological system that more heavily relies on [[catastrophism]] and reject the [[Uniformitarianism|uniformitarian]] assumptions behind the dates derived by secular geologists, and thus reject these dates (see [[geologic system]]).  Instead, most would consider most if not all Jurassic strata to be laid during [[Great Flood|Noah's Flood]].<ref>Snelling, Andrew, 1996, Where should we place the Flood/post-Flood Boundary in the Geological Record?, ''Journal of Creation'' 10(1) 29-31.</ref> Flood geologists also point out that catastrophism is increasingly being accepted in the field of geology. <ref>http://www.grisda.org/origins/12061.htm</ref>

Under the uniformitarian dates assigned by secular geologists, it represents approximately the period of Earth's history from 200 million years ago to 145 million years ago.<ref>Gradstein, F.M., and Ogg, J.G.,[http://www.stratigraphy.org/scale04.pdf Geologic Time Scale 2004 – Why, How, and Where Next!]</ref>  [[Flood Geology|Flood geologists]] use a geological system that more heavily relies on [[catastrophism]] and reject the [[Uniformitarianism|uniformitarian]] assumptions behind the dates derived by secular geologists, and thus reject these dates (see [[geologic system]]).  Instead, most would consider most if not all Jurassic strata to be laid during [[Great Flood|Noah's Flood]].<ref>Snelling, Andrew, Where should we place the Flood/post-Flood Boundary in the Geological Record?, ''Journal of Creation'' 10(1) 29-31, April 1996.</ref> Flood geologists also point out that catastrophism is increasingly being accepted in the field of geology. <ref>http://www.grisda.org/origins/12061.htm</ref>

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