What area of sea floor would they need to cover to produce an amount that could build the chalk cliffs
The point is, they would be dead on the sea floor. They have to be on the surface layers of the sea where there is enough light for photosynthesis while they are alive, during a bloom.
When they die they slowly sink to the bottom and over time build up into thicker and thicker layers that are solidifying at the bottom.
I'm considering that perhaps where they collect at the bottom of the ocean that they are in that condition of "ooze" and might be transportable.
It probably would be transportable if there were currents there at the bottom of the ocean.
How would the ocean level getting deeper because of "the flood" create currents, at the bottom of the ocean, that would move the primordial ooze some place else and solidify it once it got there?
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