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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1444 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
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ThinAirDesigns Member (Idle past 2373 days) Posts: 564 Joined:
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Faith writes: And all this pitiful stuff is presented against thousands of square miles of flat horizontal slabs of rock that may cross entire continents at a depth of miles. You do realize that those thousands of square miles of flat horizontal slabs can't actually be flat and horizontal don't you? Imagine how far you could see. JB
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1444 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
In the context of the deposition of the strata he means fluid such as water and that's the only context I'm talking about. Original Horizontality IS the topic.
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ThinAirDesigns Member (Idle past 2373 days) Posts: 564 Joined: |
Faith, several times later I've ask a series of perfectly simple A, B, C questions of you in an attempt to understand your position as to the formation of sedimentary strata. You go to extreme gymnastics to avoid answering. I'm going to try another round.
Scenario: I take an typical household sized fish tank / aquarium.I measure out enough fine silt to cover the bottom of the tank to a depth of one inch (I do not place it in the tank yet) I place a small dome shaped rock, 3 inches in diameter and 2 inches tall in the bottom center of the tank I fill the tank with water. I mix in the silt while stirring to make sure it is suspended in the water. I leave it undisturbed until the silt has settled and the water is clear enough that we can easily view the floor of the tank. Do you believe:A: that that 1" layer of silt that has settled to the bottom will be draped at all over that rock? or B: that the silt will the be butted up to the rock in a perfectly horizontal plane all the way around the rock? In other words, will we see the top of the dome shaped rock free of sediment or will the entire rock be hidden by the sediment? ThanksJB
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Admin Director Posts: 12998 From: EvC Forum Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
Faith writes: In the context of the deposition of the strata he means fluid such as water and that's the only context I'm talking about. But Steno didn't say "fluid such as water," someone at Berkeley said that, and it still only means that water is one type of fluid. We've provided you Steno's own words using "fluid" in both gaseous and aqueous contexts, and we've provided you actual definitions. You have provided nothing but your insistence that you are right. It is time to move on.
Original Horizontality IS the topic. It isn't the main topic, but it is a side-point on which I was hoping to achieve some clarity before moving back to the main topic. I was hoping to see some explanation from you for how sedimentation upon a rock protruding above a surface would not produce deeper sediments around the rock's perimeter.
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Coyote Member (Idle past 2106 days) Posts: 6117 Joined:
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30 posts since this morning! And presumably still getting nowhere (I haven't bothered to even read them).
I'm abandoning this thread as a total waste of time. Bah! Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge. Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?--Robert A. Heinlein It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers If I am entitled to something, someone else is obliged to pay--Jerry Pournelle If a religion's teachings are true, then it should have nothing to fear from science...--dwise1 "Multiculturalism" demands that the US be tolerant of everything except its own past, culture, traditions, and identity. |
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 734 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined:
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Faith has a small tank that could be used for such an experiment. She apparently never used it for an angle of repose experiment because she didn't think the sand I also sent was suitable.
We are indeed all wasting time here.
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herebedragons Member (Idle past 857 days) Posts: 1517 From: Michigan Joined: |
Oh Ok! I get what your saying now. Sediment can deposit non-horizontally as long as the final, top surface is flat. Ok so we are back to this same image again.
We suppose that the upper surface of the Tapeats is horizontal and flat, but the bedding inside the layer does not have to be flat and horizontal (like the Coconino Sandstone). So then we can agree that the surface of the unconformity is not flat in this image and that it is not because of deformation after the Tapeats sediment was deposited. Whew! we are finally getting somewhere. Surface of the Great Unconformity NOT FLAT in the area this drawing represents!!! HBDWhoever calls me ignorant shares my own opinion. Sorrowfully and tacitly I recognize my ignorance, when I consider how much I lack of what my mind in its craving for knowledge is sighing for... I console myself with the consideration that this belongs to our common nature. - Francesco Petrarca "Nothing is easier than to persuade people who want to be persuaded and already believe." - another Petrarca gem. Ignorance is a most formidable opponent rivaled only by arrogance; but when the two join forces, one is all but invincible.
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herebedragons Member (Idle past 857 days) Posts: 1517 From: Michigan Joined: |
You really did send her a fish tank and sand to do and angle of repose experiment?? I thought it was just a joke.
But there is no need to do an experiment because some guy a couple hundred years ago made a statement about horizontality. That's good enough. HBDWhoever calls me ignorant shares my own opinion. Sorrowfully and tacitly I recognize my ignorance, when I consider how much I lack of what my mind in its craving for knowledge is sighing for... I console myself with the consideration that this belongs to our common nature. - Francesco Petrarca "Nothing is easier than to persuade people who want to be persuaded and already believe." - another Petrarca gem. Ignorance is a most formidable opponent rivaled only by arrogance; but when the two join forces, one is all but invincible.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1444 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
In other words, will we see the top of the dome shaped rock free of sediment or will the entire rock be hidden by the sediment? A small amount will settle on the top of the rock, a smaller amount or possibly nothing at all, would stick to the sides, and the rest would form a horizontally surfaced layer on the bottom of the tank. Edited by Adminnemooseus, : Fix quote box.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1444 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
They aren't flat and horizontal where tectonic or other disturbance has deformed them, pushed them up into mountains or twisted them, or eroded away chunks here and there and so on, after they were all deposited horizontally.
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edge Member (Idle past 1706 days) Posts: 4696 From: Colorado, USA Joined:
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From BerkeleyEdu:
Yes, this was Steno's understanding 350 years ago.Assuming that all rocks and minerals had once been fluid, Steno reasoned that rock strata and similar deposits were formed when particles in a fluid such as water fell to the bottom. This process would leave horizontal layers. Thus Steno's principle of original horizontality states that rock layers form in the horizontal position, and any deviations from this position are due to the rocks being disturbed later. Care to join us in this century with the knowledge that we have gained since then?
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1444 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
So, there are no rocks forming to day? How do you know this? You live on land and think that is all that's going on in the earth? I know it from the evidence you all have posted here. Minuscule sedimentation beds compared to what produced The Strata; claims that a hill of gravel is the basis for a layer like those found in The Strata, a teeny tiny little hill of gravel; or The Mississippi River Delta with some layered sediments, about a thousandth of the horizontal extent of most of The Strata on the N. American continent; and arguments in the past that it's all continuing at the bottom of the ocean, despite a billion or so years of supposed accumulation on land, all said with a straight face in defiance of probability. The apparent observed fact/ actual evidence is that sedimentation and layering on the scale of The Strata long since ceased. And I know why that is even though you seem not to,.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1444 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
From BerkeleyEdu:
Assuming that all rocks and minerals had once been fluid, Steno reasoned that rock strata and similar deposits were formed when particles in a fluid such as water fell to the bottom. This process would leave horizontal layers. Thus Steno's principle of original horizontality states that rock layers form in the horizontal position, and any deviations from this position are due to the rocks being disturbed later. Yes, this was Steno's understanding 350 years ago. Care to join us in this century with the knowledge that we have gained since then? With all due respect, I hope, what you are calling knowledge looks more like a denial of reality on this particular subject, as I keep saying. Steno certainly didn't have it all right, but he did have original horizontality right. IMHO.
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edge Member (Idle past 1706 days) Posts: 4696 From: Colorado, USA Joined:
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I know it from the evidence you all have posted here. Minuscule sedimentation beds compared to what produced The Strata;
Please provide a reference to 'The Strata'.
... claims that a hill of gravel is the basis for a layer like those found in The Strata, a teeny tiny little hill of gravel; ...
Gravel deposits are never continental, even in the geological record. What are you talking about?
... or The Mississippi River Delta with some layered sediments, about a thousandth of the horizontal extent of most of The Strata on the N. American continent; ...
Ummm, most of the NA continent is above sea level, why would it be accumulating continental-scale sedimentary deposits?
... and arguments in the past that it's all continuing at the bottom of the ocean, despite a billion or so years of supposed accumulation on land, all said with a straight face in defiance of probability.
Gibberish. Are you saying that no sediments are accumulating on the bottom of the ocean? Who says there is a billion years of sediment on the ocean floor? As usual, you are making no sense. Please try again.
The apparent observed fact/ actual evidence is that sedimentation and layering on the scale of The Strata long since ceased.
As expected, Faith.
And I know why that is even though you seem not to,.
Then perhaps you could enlighten us. Edited by edge, : No reason given.
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edge Member (Idle past 1706 days) Posts: 4696 From: Colorado, USA Joined: |
With all due respect, ...
Heh, I seriously doubt that.
I hope, what you are calling knowledge looks more like a denial of reality on this particular subject, as I keep saying.
Yes, it appears that a hope is all you've got.
Steno certainly didn't have it all right, but he did have original horizontality right. IMHO.
According to whom?
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