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PaulK Member Posts: 17825 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
quote: Parts of it certainly were, parts of it certainly were not. That isn’t hard to understand. If you want to argue that none of it was,then you need to deal with the specific examples. That shouldn’t be hard to understand either.
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jar Member (Idle past 419 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
We would see the surface rising based on satellite data. We would see elevation increasing everywhere.
AbE: it's the same as measuring how some mountain chains are still growing. Edited by jar, : see AbE:
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Percy Member Posts: 22489 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.0 |
jar writes: We would see the surface rising based on satellite data. We would see elevation increasing everywhere. A great weight on one region either from mountain building or accumulating sediments or accumulating ice or something else causes that region to sink into the buoyant mantle which in turn compensates generally by rising elsewhere around the world. I think it's called isostasy. Isostatic equilibrium can take a long, long time. You mentioned increasing compression from the weight, and while that must happen it seems unlikely as a significant factor in the rising or sinking of land due to glaciation and deglaciation. --Percy
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1470 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
None of the strata would have been formed in isolated bodies of water if they were formed by the Flood which of course they were. Cores are specific examples, and anywhere you find a partial column there is never a sign of a sloping edge either. Shouldn't there be something like that even in the Grand Canyon which is I think eleven miles across at its greatest width? Even somewhere along its 270 mile length? Nada.
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jar Member (Idle past 419 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Okay, change the term. But submitting every square foot of the earth to a few billion pounds of water placed there in just one year is a pretty extreme event.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1470 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
I already answered this post of yours about Lake Bonneville but reading through it more carefully I see that there is not one single feature you describe that would apply to the Flood. They all apply to what I've always postulated is most likely what happened: the formation of those huge lakes AFTER the Flood, followed by their draining away leaving recognizable evidence. Of course there are marks ON the mountains. They aren't marks of the Flood but of the lakes that formed afterward. You might find it interesting to pay attention to what I've written about these things some time. I've mentioned these lakes and my explanation of them, oh maybe a dozen times or more, and your discussion fits my explanations quite nicely.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17825 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
quote: Except of course some strata were formed in isolated bodies of water. Because they weren’t formed in the Flood - the idea that they were is just daft. Even if the Flood happened it wouldn’t form the strata we have.
quote: You’re saying that the examples of river channels you have been shown don’t exist?
quote: Even if the Grand Canyon happened to cut through a former lake bed, do you think that you would know about it? How? And would you recognise it? And what if the edge were lost to erosion as appears to be the case with the southern edge of the Claron Formation ? Anyway, here is a nice illustration of strata from Nepal
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1470 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Strata do sag under certain conditions and that's what clearly happened in Nepal. Also in the Michigan basin and the Gulf of Mexico and other places where there is a salt layer, usually at the bottom. Since I'm unable to read the legends on your illustration I have to guess that there's salt there. Yes?
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PaulK Member Posts: 17825 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
quote: Really? On what do you base that conclusion? (ABE I will add that even if the lower strata sagged, it doesn’t look as if that applies to anything above the black lignite layer. The strata immediately above it - which is a lake deposit of sticky black clay occasionally interspersed with coarse sand - does not seem to have sagged with them)
quote: I don’t know why you can’t read the legend, but no, there is no salt layer. The bottom layer is gravel and clay. Edited by PaulK, : No reason given.
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Percy Member Posts: 22489 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.0 |
PaulK writes: quote:Really? On what do you base that conclusion? Faith is at least consistent. As in the Smith stratigraphic diagram of Britain, she interprets any non-horizontal and/or non-straight strata as having sagged. Anyone who doesn't accept her interpretation and her explanations of it just doesn't understand:
quote: I don’t know why you can’t read the legend,... Eyesight issues, probably too much white, but I don't know that it matters. Faith has enumerable excuses for rejecting contrary information. --Percy
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1470 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
If it's not a salt layer then I don't know why it's sagging. I don't see any indication of the time periods involved by the way. Legend is easier to read now but still not easy, too small and bright, but earlier too blurry. My eyes improved since then apparently. It happens.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1470 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Yes those strata are clearly the result of sagging, yes indeed.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1470 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
I note that it seems more important to certain posters to change the subject than deal with what I've posted.
Such as Message 1458 and Message 1460 and the ones about Lake Bonneville. Message 1462 and Message 1476 Also Coragyps: Message 1470 sked you about the flatness of the oil strata in your neighborhood. Any comments? Edited by Faith, : No reason given. Edited by Faith, : No reason given. Edited by Faith, : No reason given.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17825 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3
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quote: I don’t think even think that it is relevant. If there is a lake filling a basin, it doesn’t matter how the basin formed.
quote: These are quite young sediments. According to this the lowest layer shown (which is a river deposit) is late Pliocene to early Pleistocene in age and the oldest part of the lake deposits are 2.5 million years old, which is early Pleistocene, while the youngest are a mere 29,000 years old which is still in the Pleistocene.
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jar Member (Idle past 419 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
What is important there is the difference in age between the oldest and youngest deposits. Again, if the material REALLY was from a flood, what is the flood mechanism, model, process, method or procedure that sorted the material to deposit the oldest on the bottom and the youngest on top.
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