That's a good question...
Thank you. And thanks for replying.
and really, the answer is that I wouldn't expect any strata at all to have anything to do with it.
Okay, so what would have something to do with it?
Geology has cobbled together all kinds of rationalizations for the water including a series of six shallow seas. But given the great expanse of the strata across the land they have no way of showing how anything lived then anyway, or stayed living if they ever did. Yes even marine life. All that sediment in the water would kill them too. And did, judging by the fossil contents found in the rocks.
So if there were a series inland seas like the scientific explanation says, then what would you expect the geography to look like?
There shouldn't be a series of any sort at all, there shouldn't be stratified sedimentary rocks at all.
Why not?
At best maybe in one time period perhaps, as a sort of fluke, and then I'd expect it to be part of an extinction event;
I'm not sure what you mean; Can you describe what you would expect the geography would look like?
The eras should be continuous one from another, not flat and straight but lumpy and hilly and blended together.
What makes you think that? Don't forget about compaction...
Also, sedimentation "runs downhill", so the valleys would get filled in from the lumps and things would get smoothed out even before compaction.
ABE: There is no way strata make sense at all on the Time Scale theory but at the very least they should not be flat and straight AT ALL, they should show hills and valleys and gorges and canyons and eroded fields between layers, and they don't.
I think you are missing some steps in your mental picture of how erosion and sedimentation works.
You'd never get a complex landscape "frozen" in place as-is with hills and valleys and gorges and canyons all present in the resulting stratum. Everything is going to get flattened out and smooshed down during the process.