Depositional environments...do they exist and if so how important are they?

Faith has decried the term "depositional environment". I use as a simple start off to continuing discussion http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/Display.cfm?Term=dep...Plz hit the enlarge button on the figure to the right ( I did not directly link as that would be 'deep-linking'). The simple figure indicates some general depositional environments.These environments exist on Earth now and accumulate material.The question is how significant this accumulation is. The old time view is that the geologic column represents the many different rocks and fossils that accumulated in one area over millions of years. I presume the yec view is that deposition is a small degredation (erosion) from the short time after flood laid sediments were layed down.Old time allows for many layers of different origins to accumulate(usually in nice flat layers which flatten out as they lithify).So, to Faith, do these environments exist and if so please provide some reasoning or evidence as to why these processes are not significant.ABB

Topic seems fine, but Faith is restricted from the science forums. Let me propose an idea in the moderation thread, we'll see what the reaction is.

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--	Percy
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There is a Great Debate on exactly that issue which Faith has simply run away from.