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.
August 24th
August 14th
The Triassic is another microcosm of inductive reductive circular reasoning that we may wryly refer to as an "eddy in the space-time continuum." It's a tip of the hat to Douglas Adams, author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
August 13th
After Noah's flood a wind caused the waters to evaporate. The cooling effect caused the formation of equatorial and polar ice. Temperate zones were in the mid-latitudes of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
August 7th
"Heavy rainfall and aridity?" An ecosystem had 40 days and nights of rain, was buried in sediment, and what was left afterwards dried out. The Devonian is one of the biggest jokes in human history.
August 4th
The Bible says that there was a world-wide flood, but failed science (SciPop) insists that there's no evidence of it. A world-wide flood would leave evidence, so where is it? It's the world-wide distribution of sedimentary rock.