Buzsaw writes:
As for the streams and rivers, yes, the areas near them should change some, but there are many square miles which, before cultivated, evidently had a continuous yearly growth of grass and other ground cover to protect from extreme or prolonged loss of dirt. Dust storms in the plains states are not a major event as they are on the desert regions.
Are you apprised on specific areas where the stratigraphy is intact, the dating data on them and how large they are etc? This is more of what I'm interested in since it pertains more directly to your claim that dirt dating debunks the flood.
The best place to look for layers of soil accumulation is not topsoil, considering how it is disturbed by not just wind but also by reworking due to the very prairie grass and its roots, it is of course in the most undisturbed of depositional environments, namely lake beds, where such depositions create what is known in the vernacular as 'varves.'
I find it rather strange that you would consider unconsolidated soil as universally uniformitarian while consolidated rock as somehow considered falsely layered due to a so-called assumption of 'uniformitarianism.'
Now of course sometimes regardless of the actions of wind or roots, the layering takes place. However this can only occur uninterrupted where the forces of adding to the dirt are greater than those that subtract from the dirt.
Most science, particularly the geosciences are after all based upon what is often referred to as common sense, such as that on top is younger than that on the bottom (discounting overthrusts) or that which is denser over time sinks below that which is less dense.
At any rate the best examples of uninterrupted deposition are naturally undisturbed lakebeds. If you have another perspective upon this common sense deduction of geology, I assure you we are all ears (or eyes).
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