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1. The Flood runs inland let's say 100 miles and deposits a meter of sand.
2. The Flood recedes and animals reoccupy this 100 miles of land that is now covered by sand, leaving tracks.
3. The Flood runs inland 100 miles again and deposits another meter of sand. The animals retreat to safety.
4. The Flood recedes again and animals reoccupy the 100 miles of land that is now covered by additional sand, again leaving tracks.
5. This same process keeps repeating, with the Flood inundating the land and depositing more sand, then receding and animals reoccupying the land and leaving tracks atop the new sand, then inundating the land again, until we have the full depth of the Coconino, which is a couple hundred meters at its thickest point.

• Radiometric ages of strata range from recent to billions of years old.
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• Fossils in strata increasingly differ from modern forms with increasing depth at an evolutionary pace consistent with radiometrically established ages.
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• The evidence left behind by life (burrows, worm holes, termite nest stacks, tracks, coprolites, etc.) indicates that many strata were once living landscapes for considerable periods of time.
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• Modern measurements of sedimentation rates are consistent with the ages of geological strata.
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• Walther's Law is a slow process taking millions of years to build sedimentary layers to significant depths. There's no such thing as a "rapid Walther's Law" because the deposited sediments are fed by erosion from the land, which is a slow process.
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• Unconformities that represent considerable periods of time require uplift or lowering of sea levels to expose sedimentary layers to erosion (millions of years), followed by erosion of sedimentary layers (millions of years), and subsidence or increase of sea levels so that sedimentation resumes (millions of years).
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• Striping on the sea floor is consistent with reversals of the Earth's magnetic field, which occur on average every few hundred thousand years.
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• The rates of sea floor spreading and continental drift are consistent with an ancient age for the continents and most sea floor, where I'll arbitrarily define ancient to mean more than a million years old.
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• The rate of slope retreat at geological structures like the Grand Canyon are consistent with their width and represent ages of millions of years.

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Why is there so little erosional channeling at formation boundaries within the thick layer-cake like succession of layers, as illustrated in Figure 15 (Snelling 2009, 591-592)? These features of the record are sufficient by themselves to falsify the claim that the present is the key to the past as far as the sediment record is concerned. Nowhere on earth is there currently such a sequence of layers, mostly of marine affinity, with such vast lateral extent being deposited within continent interiors.

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Figure 15. View of the contact between the Coconino Sandstone (above) and the Hermit Shale (below) in the Grand Canyon along the Bright Angel Trail. Note the lack of erosional channeling along this contact. This is not uncommon for contacts between successive formations across the geological record. (From Austin 1994, 49)

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• During each inundation does the flood deposit a meter of Coconino sand throughout its entire current extent, or only part of its current extent. If the former, then how do animals make the repeated journeys of hundreds of miles into and out of the inundated region? If the latter then the animals need make shorter journeys, but they must make them many more times, and there must be many more inundations. Neither alternative seems possible.
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• At the far end of the range of the inundated region the Coconino will be deposited higher and higher. That is, after the first inundation the Coconino sand at the far end of the inundated region will be a meter higher than the landscape beyond, presumably a Hermit Shale surface. After the second inundation it will be two meters higher. After the third inundation it will be three meters higher. And so on. How is it possible for the flood waters inundating the region to stop at a point that becomes progressively higher?
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• Why aren't boundaries between one repeatedly inundated region and adjacent repeatedly inundated regions present in the geological record?
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• Since the Hermit Formation also contains animal tracks, it must have been deposited in the same way as the Coconino, a little at a time by repeated inundations. If tides are driving the necessary repeated inundations that deposit a meter of sandstone/siltstone at a time, then with a thickness of 100 meters the Hermit Formation would have required 100 tides. Adding this to the Coconino would have required 200 tides, for a total of 300. Given the number of strata both above and below the Coconino, aren't there insufficient tides during the year of the flood.
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• Some strata contain no animal tracks. Is it your position that such strata were deposited in a single inundation? If so, why were some strata deposited a little at a time with repeated inundations, while other strata were deposited all at one time in a single inundation? If not, if each layer of strata were deposited by multiple inundations that deposited only a little at a time, then there is not enough time for all the tides needed for all strata.

• Why do you think "very few animals" could have created all the tracks in all the layers across 500 million square miles of land (total world land area)?
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• How is it that animals leaving tracks in the Tapeats were different from the animals leaving tracks in the Coconino, which are both sand environments?
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• How did worms that left behind worm holes make these repeated journeys into regions between inundations?