Given the photographic evidence of canyons, mountains, buttes, and mesas, I maintain we see a general pattern in the sedimentary rock strata that parallel layers were deposited (with relatively little evidence of any geologic activity) and then after the layers were formed we see massive geologic activity (erosion, faults, mountain building). The simplest explanation and …
I will now present all the questions. SG proponents will answer the questions first and then I will present the FM and answer all the questions. And then we will conclude the flood discussion and get back to the main topic of this thread. How did the sedimentary stratas form? Where did the sediment come …
TRANSPONDER wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 8:31 pm Incidentally, I’m interested to hear your explanation why Scientific explanation of Geological features researched by thousands of experts over a century or so are ‘ad hoc’ explanations, according to you. There are two aspects to SG – one is describing things and another is explaining origins. SG …
Surprise Canyon formation was only discovered recently. “George Billingsley of the United States Geological Survey first recognized the Surprise Canyon Formation as a separate stratigraphic unit, belonging to neither the Supai Group or the Redwall Limestone, during reconnaissance geologic mapping of the western Grand Canyon in the mid-1970s.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surprise_Canyon_Formation Outcroppings of the Surprise Canyon are …
And again, even if this couldn’t be explained, why would ‘a Global Flood’ be the default answer? There are many things SG cannot explain. And even if an explanation is offered, they are ad hoc explanations (like any explanation for unconformities). Why is a global flood a better answer than SG? We can deduce it …
Evidence of the parallel layer pattern across a vast area with little geologic activity and then massive erosion are buttes and mesas. Here is Monument Valley in Utah. How did the Mittens form? The entire area must’ve at one time been a complete strata. In other words, the entire area had sedimentary layers that reached …
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 …