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...highlands get preferntially eroded for the simple reason that they are higher and will not collect protecting sediment as do basins! This is kindergarten level geology that is impossible to sensibly debate.
Have you ever been to a highlands, TB?
Large areas of the Central Rockies in the U.S. have no outlet to the sea. These intermontane basins collect sediments quite well. Some have tens of thousands of feet of
non-marine sediments.
Ever heard of the Basin and Range?
If a global flood covered them, marine fossils, marine sediments and marine evaporites would remain. Instead, we find ONLY terrestrial fossils, non-marine sediments, and fresh-water evaporites.
Back to kindergarten for you, TB... you have a lot of elementary geology to catch up on.
A "sensible debate" can resume when you are sufficiently versed in the basics.
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