Ariel A. Roth (Click for full C.V.)

Coral Reefs and Flood Geology

General Interests

Ariel Roth's interests include living and ancient coral reefs, evidences of a worldwide catastrophic flood, and issues of philosophy of science.

Current Research

Although Roth has never been at a loss for things to do, he has recently completed a major work: Origins: Linking Science and Scripture, published by Review and Hearld Publishing Co.

Photo:Group of educators in the Alps near Saulzburg, Austria discussing with Dr. Roth the origin of the Lofer cyclothems. Three of the cyclothems (designated as 1-3) are visible in the cliff. Under consideration is evidence that these were dposited rapidly, in contrast to the usual interpretatiion that it took many thousands of years to deposit each of these.

Selected Publications

Roth, A.A. 1971. Estimate of carbonate production of some species on Japtan Reef. (Abstract) R/V Alpha Helix Research Program, 1971, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, p. 22.

Roth, A.A. 1974. Factors affecting light as an agent for carbonate production by coral. (Abstract) Geological Society of America Abstracts 6:932.

Roth, A.A. 1975. The pervasiveness of the paradigm. Origins 2:55-57.

Roth, A.A. 1975. Turbidites. Origins 2:106-107.

Roth, A.A. 1975. Some effects of light on calcification in coral. Abstracts of Symposia and Contributed Papers for the Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting (San Francisco State University, December 26-30, 1975) of the Western Society of Naturalists, p. 29.

Smith, A.D. and A.A. Roth. 1979. Effect of carbon dioxide concentration on calcification in the red coralline alga Bossiella orbigniana. Marine Biology 52:217-225.

Roth, A.A., C.D. Clausen, P.Y. Yahiku, V.E. Clausen, and W.W. Cox. 1982. Some effects of light on coral growth. Pacific Science 36:65-81.

Hodges, L.T. and Roth, A.A. 1986. Orientation of corals and stromatoporoids in some Pleistocene, Devonian, and Silurian reef facies. Journal of Paleontology 60:1147-1158.

Roth, A.A. 1986. Some questions about geochronology. Origins 13:64-85.

Roth, A.A. 1988. Those gaps in the sedimentary layers. Origins 15:75-92.

Roth, A.A. 1995. "Retro-progressing." Origins 22:3-7.

Roth, A.A. 1995. Three kinds of science. Origins 22:55-57.

Roth, A.A. 1995. Fossil reefs and time. Origins 22:86-104.

Roth, A.A. 1996. The age of fossils. Dialogue 8(2):23.

Roth, A A 1996. False fossills. Origins 23:110-124.

Roth, A.A. 1998. The disadvantage of collective ignorance. The Record (Australia), August 29, 1998, p.3.

Roth, A.A. 1998. Origins: Linking Science and Scripture. Review and Herald Publishing Association.