Geology- working up from basic principles.

Kitsune writes:Thanks for the replies, guys. Sounds like I'm on the right track. Moose, I haven't heard "local yokels" before but I'm sure my sister-in-law has; I'll ask her next time I see her. Her area of expertise is glacial flooding, called a jkulhlaup.For your own interest/amusement, the creationist I've been debating with thinks that the video (erroneously) illustrating Walther's Law somehow explains all phanerozoic strata. He thinks it's evidence for a global flood too. I listed several other methods of sediment deposition for him and explained yet again what a marine transgression is. If you look at what the video is showing, it's sediment coming laterally or horizontally from the sea and settling in a kind of vertical order, the implication being that the facies would need to be read vertically with the oldest being near the shore and the youngest being furthest out. I suppose this could be close to the real scenario if the diagram were made almost horizontal rather than almost vertical. it then implies that geologists get fooled by facies that "appear" horizontal when the real ones are vertical. (The usual combination of scientific misrepresentation and the "scientists are stupid or liars" claim.)We've got brachiopod layers washing up into cracks in rocks on mountains and getting stuck too, LOL. This guy isn't too difficult for a layperson to deal with fortunately.