How do we account for fossils when the fossils are older than the geographic features that they’re part of? “Marked world-wide continental uplifts and a major orogeny resulting in the rise of the Alps.“
Continental Uplifts and a Major Orogeny
August 24th
The Miocene is the Miocene because it's the Miocene. Anything that's not characteristic of the Miocene is assigned to something other than the Miocene. It's a little microcosm of circular reasoning.