Where Did The (Great Flood) Water Come From And Where Did It Go?

I'm not sure where the water came from, but I figured out where it went:"Have you entered the storehouses of the snow
or seen the storehouses of the hail," - Job 38.22I'm just glad I don't have to count inventory in either.

I work on Texas oil wells every day. They range from less than 400 feet deep to about 26,000 feet deep. As often as not, the reservoirs when initially discovered have pressure in excess of that from the overburden rock because they have natural gas trapped inside in addition to oil. No "pressure below it" is involved, unless it's a water drive. If it is a water drive, gravity is the motive force behind it. That's pressure from above, not from below.

And with no inkling of what "permeability" or "deliverability" mean, either. 5-kilometer-deep rocks tend to not have the megadarcy perms that Ye Greate Fludde would seem to demand. They, and the water in them, do, though, tend to be hotter than gopher wood will insulate against.

Buz, the mass of the current oceans is about 1.5 e +18 tons. This is enough to cover a "billiard ball" smoothed earth by over a kilometer of water.Are you now going to tell me that "lifeform materials" grew solidly packed over the whole Earth to a couple of kilometers deep when Noah was 599 years old? Wood and meat are pretty close to the density of water, so that is how much volume your 1.372 quintillion tons of life would take up. How does your "model" make this work?

In the GoM, it got there largely through the courtesy of the Mississippi River and its ancestral river systems. Organic matter sank in shallow, oxygen-poor water and was buried along with clays to make shales. Shales were buried by sands and more shales. When burial was deep enough, the shales got hot enough to be "cooked" to form oil and gas. Some of that oil and gas migrated out of the shales into adjacent sands, where it is fairly easy to get out by sticking a pipe into the sand.It tends to be overpressured down there because the sand it resides in is weak and compressible - so pressures can get close to the whole load of the overlying rock. That can be about 1 psi per foot of depth. A pipe full of oil will exert less than 0.4 psi/foot of depth at the bottom of the hole. So (1.0 -0.4)= 0.6 psi times 30,000 feet = 18,000 psi at the wellhead, on surface. And that's with no gas to lighten that 0.4 psi/foot up even more. Non-USA members: I apologize deeply for my pounds per square inch and feet. That's the way the American oil patch thinks, and I'm too frazzled at the moment to get you bars/megapascals and meters.Edited by Coragyps, : clarity, I hope

That's nice. Have you ever heard of kinetic energy, Foreveryoung? Do you know how much kinetic energy gets converted into heat when a 100,000-kg space rock hits the Earth at a speed of 7000 meters per second?Yeah, I thought not. I get 4.9 trillion joules. Do you know how much heat that translates into? No? It's enough to heat the rock plus about 600 times the rock's weight of the rock it hit by 100 degrees Celsius. I think that even cool water might boil a bit.

Dammit, Percy!!! NOOOO!!!!!!!

Where is your evidence for what conditions were "in Noah's day?" I'll take scripture, even, as that is all you've got.Except I don't remember what verse says there's five miles of water beneath the crust. Or the one that says there is a crust. A simple "Genesis xx:yy" formal will be fine.

Where is the sand today? Other than Lamesa, Texas, I mean. Is it disguised as rock or something?

Almost certainly, Jar.

I made an error - asteroids strike at at least Earth's escape velocity of 11,000 m/sec, not 7,000 as I wrote. Make that 12.1 trillion joules. 20 to 30 km/sec is much more common, at least in these post-Noachic times.

Well, no, that isn't true at all. Any (pure) water anywhere that's at 177 C and at a pressure over 136 pounds per square inch is hot water. Liquid hot water. Water hotter than 374 C or 705 F is vapor (or steam) regardless of pressure.I have worked around wells into the lithosphere in California and Costa Rica that tap into either liquid- or vapor-form water, all hotter than 176.66666 C. Pressure enters in to it, ICANT.

Steam for the Fludde. Old Faithful is a very mild example; wells around Indio, California can produce maybe a million pounds of steam per hour.When you take water at 600F and reduce the applied pressure to 14.7 psi, quite a bit of it flashes to steam. Think Mark Twain and Mississippi steamboats exploding.

And I'm having a hell of a time visualizing the Late Heavy Bombardment squishing trees and dinosaurs and moss into coal and oil instead of vaporizing it all.....

...testify to reformation after a violent destructive period which took place about 3,000,000,000 years before multicellular life arose. 3.8 billion years before the first Gopher Wood Tree.- fixed it for you.You're welcome!Was your great-great-great-grandfather buried in Baltimore? Named Edgar? If so, you're pretty good!