Guess we’ll need to go into the details of the Great Unconformity (GU)… Let me say at the outset that neither SG nor the FM can fully explain the Great Unconformity and it is a puzzle for any side. So, what is the Great Unconformity? The Great Unconformity of Powell in the Grand Canyon is …
bluegreenearth wrote: ↑Sun Nov 21, 2021 4:47 pm otseng wrote: ↑Sat Nov 20, 2021 11:22 pm Here is what I’m arging. Given the sedimentary strata of the Grand Canyon represents more than a billion years and a stratum represents on the order of millions of years, shouldn’t it be expected to see more geologic activity …
otseng wrote: ↑Mon Nov 22, 2021 11:26 am The pattern I talk about is the massive erosion after all the layers have been deposited and the layers themselves have little record of geologic activity. I’m not talking about a pattern of a single stratum that exists throughout the world. As for evidence of the pattern …
The layers are as flat as the floor of a series of shallow seas covering the area with intervening periods of erosion, which is what the papers I’ve linked say. What flat sea floors are being referred to? We see parallel layers in all the sedimentary strata covering vast areas across the world. So, at …
Difflugia wrote: ↑Thu Nov 18, 2021 1:42 pm What kind of faulting are you expecting along with that? Or do you just think that there ought to be more faulting in general? My assumption here is that you’ve been given the idea that the stratigraphy of the Grand Canyon area is much more uniform than …
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Capertee Valley is the largest canyon in Australia. It has a length of 19 miles and 1 mile depth. We see the same pattern of parallel layers deposited. And after all the layers were formed, there is massive erosion. Fish River Canyon is the largest canyon in Africa. “It features a gigantic ravine, in total …
One of the largest canyons on earth is the Blyde River Canyon in South Africe. It is 16 miles long and averages 2,460 feet in depth. We see multiple parallel layers. So, when they were originally formed, it was all relatively flat and underwater. These layers covers a vast range of land. Then after all …
TRANSPONDER wrote: ↑Wed Nov 10, 2021 9:29 am Well yes, it does sound reasonable. There is no reason to demand tilting, faulting, rolling over and strata folding everywhere. For the span of a billion years, there is relatively little evidence of faults, uplift, folding, erosion, seismic activity, geologic activity (and let me add even plant …
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am Let’s look at the strata of the Grand Canyon and try to go through the sequence of steps it must’ve gone through according to SG. As mentioned by brunumb, all of this must’ve originally been underwater. This is a large expanse and the strata is quite deep. “The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 …
Here are examples of exposed stratified rock. We see parallel layers and then massive erosion after the layers were deposited. This pattern is so common we don’t even think twice about it. But, if you think about it, what would cause this pattern? Why would layers be parallel? Where did the sediment come from to …