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I m pretty sure I've seen them. And I'm pretty sure they don't tell you what you seem to think.
If they're the ones in this post:
Message 448 then they do indeed only show age - and that at the level of geological periods.
Personally I'd expect to see the following if almost all rocks were deposited by a world-wide flood.
1) Evaporites and lava flows which cooled under air would only be seen at the top or the bottom of the column. Neither could form underwater. Undisturbed surface features, coral reefs and developed paleosols would only be found at the bottom. Likewise angular unconformities.
2) There would be an upward-fining layer, perhaps a several yards thick containing a large majority of fossils, all sorted hydrodnamically. There would be no unconformities of any sort within this layer. This would be the majority of the
3) If the majority of geological features were formed by a flood all mountains should be clearly pre-flood structures, excepting volcanoes.
4) Geological evidence of continental drift would be absent. There's no time for significant drift. Any strata matched between continents would simply continue across the seabed, except where they have been pushed apart by rifts, and that for only a few kilometers at most.
I will note however that there s a huge difference between trying to imagine what a flood would do, and trying to force-fit the assumption of a flood to our understanding of the geological evidence. Only by taking the former approach can we work out what we should
expect to see.