1) As well preserved at the top as at the bottom? That doesn't sound like a flood to me. If there are trees fossilised in situ both at the top and the bottom of the formation, they cannot have deposited in a single event. At least, not unless antediluvian trees grew in mid air. What you describe is only consistent with gradual deposition of layer upon layer. No individual layer would have taken millions of years to form, but nor could it have been formed as quickly as you suggest. Such a formation could not possibly have been caused by a single huge flood.
Dr Adequate, in message 237 writes:
1) As well preserved at the top as at the bottom? That doesn't sound like a flood to me. If there are trees fossilised in situ both at the top and the bottom of the formation, they cannot have deposited in a single event.
I think he means at the top and the bottom of the tree. Which is in fact not usually true --- the roots are well-preserved and the leaves are not.
My "bolding".
I agree with the "bolded" sentence. I almost missed the distinction between that and Granny's interpretation.
I think DA is interpreting the phrase "as well preserved at the top as at the bottom" a little to literally (aka nitpicking). I think the trunk tops and even branches may be well preserved, but expecting leave preservation is going a bit far.
Now the strata containing the root systems and the strata containing the higher parts of the trees are certainly two different things, and I don't think Just Being Real is trying to say otherwise. The higher parts of the trees may or may not have been buried in a single event. Burial may have taken minutes, or it may have taken hundreds of years. Looking at the details, including the nature of the rock, would probably tell you which was the case.
Now different tree horizons at completely different stratagraphic levels are another thing. You are not going to get root system paleosoils covered by some sort of "flood event", then stratigraphicly higher up root system paleosoils covered by some sort of "flood event", all from the same "flood event". [sarcasm] Except in the case of "THE GREAT FLOOD", which is capable of doing any type of geologic deposits, regardless of how complex.[/sarcasm]
Please, no replies to the [sarcasm][/sarcasm] part.
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