Indeed, a flood of global proportions initiated by and following a forty-day, hyper-intense, torrential rainfall event capable of covering the entire surface of the earth, would lay down an unbelievably deep layer of sediment.
Anyone who has observed rampaging flood waters following a 100-year rainfall event in the Ohio River or Mississippi River basins could attest to the amount of sediment carried by the flood waters. Even more to the point are the effects of the upland erosion that would result from intense, long-term, saturating rainfall scouring the supersaturated earth over a forty-day period in the volumes required to subsequently cover the entire earth.
Now, from an evolutionist's point of view, all the mineral and fossilized organic materials from millions of years of pre-Deluge sedimentation would be dislodged from their orderly layers, jumbled up together in an earth-scarifying, sediment-laden rush of waters resembling something along the order of a molten lava flow rather than just a thick, muddy little 100-year flood.
Then, as Roxrkool has said, the heavier sediment would settle out, immediately upon pooling, into a reconsolidated, very thick layer of mumbo-jumbo, mishmash of materials that had no previous evolutionary nexus within a previous, single sedimentary layer. Where is this worldwide layer of Deluge concrete mixer washout? It should be very easy to find as it is overlaid by only 5,500 years of subsequent sediment laid down by puny (by comparison) little rainfall events.
[This message has been edited by Abshalom, 12-13-2003]