mindspawn, this is not what is found in my country.
You forgot to mention Gondwana coal. Wasn't the global flood supposed to cover the whole earth?
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Percy, its the coal deposits that make the difference for me. Carboniferous coal deposits speak to me of the pre-flood swampy regions of earth.
—mindspawn
The Carboniferous coal seams in my country are very thin and very intermittent. They are found in glacial deposits of the Dwyka Group. Deposited around the Carboniferous/Permian boundary.
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Permian deposits are more mixed, the fossils less intact.
—mindspawn
In my country we do have lots of coal seams in Permian deposits. In the Main Karoo basin they are normally found as 8 seams; with different strata seperating those seams vertically. The two seams with the best quality coal which are normally mined, are the number 2 and number 4 seams, seperated, in places, by hundreds of meters of sandstones, shales and mudstones. Normally they are abot 60 metres apart, vertically.
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A flood would by necessity cause both types of coal deposits because it would cover over swampy regions of thousands of years of accumulated deposits (peat),
—mindspawn
Well, it seems like this didn't happen in my country. The flood must have missed it.
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...and also create new deposits of vegetable matter that would form into coal over time after flood deposits and subsequent deposits compress it.
—mindspawn
Please explain how one flood would deposit a coal seam, then deposit hundreds of meters of sandstone, shale and mudstones, then deposit another coal seam on top of all that. Then deposit sandstone, shale and mudstone strata, then another coal seam on top of that. And then does it again.
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Looking at the geologic layers, what is known as "Carboniferous" coal and "Permian" coal best conform to these two expected layers of coal.
—mindspawn
Well, it seems as if we have more than 2 "layers" of coal in my country. We even have Triassic coal seams, too!
The "global flood" must have missed it. It wasn't global, I guess.
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