PROOF SEDIMENTARY ROCK IS NOT OLD
It's about 5,300 years old.
(I had to repost this first post on 8/31/22. First posted 8/5/22.)
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SORTED STRATA: IMPORTANT QUESTION ON DEPOSITION RATE
EROSION & BIOTURBATION BETWEEN STRATA
HOW SEDIMENTS REACHED MOUNTAIN TOPS
THE CAUSE OF CONTINENTAL DRIFT
THREE SEDIMENT TYPES
There are 3 main types of Sedimentary Rock: Shale, Sandstone & Limestone. The proportions globally are about 60%, 25% and 15% respectively. They occur in sequences. The most common sequence is Sandstone on the bottom, Shale in the middle and Limestone on top. The thickness of each type varies a lot, but they are often 5 to 10 meters thick.
Mainstream Geology assumes that each layer was deposited very gradually over thousands to millions of years (e.g. ~2 millimeters per thousand years, or 2 meters per million years).
SORTED STRATA: IMPORTANT QUESTION ON DEPOSITION RATE
However, a simple important question that mainstream geologists have apparently not thought to ask is: If one sediment type is several meters thick, how did ONLY that one type get deposited for thousands or millions of years? Where were the other two sediment types for all that time?
The answer is that, if deposition occurred over thousands or more years, there would have to be thin layers or mixed layers of all three types of sediment. The only way the sediments can be separated into THICK layers (as they are) is by flooding. During a flood, the sands are deposited first as the current slows down. Mud (which forms shale) settles out next by flocculation* as the current slows down even more. And lime settles out last.
In order for each sediment type to reach several meters or more in thickness, the floodwaters must be tens or hundreds of meters in depth. Floods occur over periods of weeks to months. Therefore, many meters of deposition can occur in less than one year, which is over a million times faster than mainstream geology supposes.
EROSION & BIOTURBATION BETWEEN STRATA
More commonly known is that strata are by and large parallel to each other and they show little if any erosion between strata. Erosion should show channels or ditches in the strata, if there was normal rainfall for thousands or millions of years. They should also show signs of bioturbation, in which animal burrows and root growth disturb or erode the strata. But neither erosion nor bioturbation is evident in much if any sedimentary rock strata. This adds support to the thesis that the strata must have been deposited rapidly, mainly by tsunamis. Erosion did occur when flood waters receded, carving river valleys and canyons, like the Grand Canyon, but this erosion also shows signs of rapid, brief occurrence, mostly all at one time, followed by a few later lesser occurrences, all recent.
HOW SEDIMENTS REACHED MOUNTAIN TOPS
Many mountain summits consist of sedimentary rock. How did floods reach such heights? They didn’t need to. Continental Drift is said to have formed mountains by breaking the original supercontinent apart and pushing the newly formed continents against each other. The Himalayas are said to have raised up when the Indian subcontinent plate was pushed under the Asian plate.
So the sedimentary rocks formed before the mountains formed. The supercontinent, Pangaea, was all fairly low land, so the flooding didn’t need to be very high to deposit the sediments that later were raised up to form mountains.
THE CAUSE OF CONTINENTAL DRIFT
An asteroid struck Pangaea on the east side of what is now Africa. This caused some of the continents to break off and slide rapidly to their present locations. They slid on the thin plasma (frictionless) Moho layer, which is about 20 miles below continent surfaces. The shock of the impact caused the sedimentary rock strata to buckle and fold up into mountain chains.
I WELCOME COLLABORATION HERE
This topic has been a hobby of mine for many years, like kind of since 1969. I didn’t start to get serious about it till 2015, when I started a forum thread, which got a lot of views and a little discussion. Now that I have this substack, I hope to get a lot more helpful discussion with numerous like-interested people.
I have concluded that a lot of science is wrong, because the scientific method has not been developed sufficiently and there is too much bias and mostly political corruption in mainstream science. Early geologists thought there was a lot of evidence of a Great Flood a few thousand years ago. In the late 1800s big business began to take over science and to promote anti-religious views. I’m Christian myself, but I’m not a creationist. I don’t believe the Bible is infallible or God’s word, but likely the words of angels that were often misinterpreted. It appears that a Great Flood did occur about 5,000 years ago, but the Earth is likely to be much older than what most young Earth creationists assume. There do appear to be at least a few “miraculous” events in history. One is the shroud of Turin, which seems to show that Jesus was “resurrected” from death. I don’t believe Jesus is God, but an angel. And I believe he was not born of a human virgin, but of the virgin in the sky, called Virgo, which means he was born in the sign of Virgo. Another “miraculous” occurrence seems to be the preservation of Noah’s ark in Turkey. {I had second thoughts after reading a Creation.com article that claimed Ron Wyatt’s claims were erroneous or fraudulent, but another video seems to debunk that article.} I also believe in universal salvation, as suggested in Jesus’ parable of the Lost Sheep.
* Regarding flocculation see: https://creation.com/waves-and-sedimentation
Regarding the Asteroid Impact that broke up Pangaea, see Mike Fischer's site at:
Regarding Evidence of Ancient Global Cataclysm see my Forum thread started in Oct. 2015 at:
https://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=16025
Regarding Creationism, Myths & Catastrophism, see my Forum thread started in Nov. 2019 at:
https://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=17502
Continued at: https://www.thunderbolts.info/forum3/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=13
I want to explain better the sorting of strata. And I want to add folded strata and polystrate fossils as evidence of the Flood.