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You still haven't tried your angle of repose kit????

Faith: you have a handy-dandy angle-of-repose kit in your possession. I have the delivery receipt from FedEx. There is everything you need in that kit, except for water, to do angles of repose until you are exhausted.YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ ABOUT IT.YOU CAN DO THE FREAKING EXPERIMENT YOURSELF.Please, just for sweet, gentle Coragyps, do the experiment yourself, or just shut up about angles of repose.If you need sea water instead of tap, give me the analysis of sea water from The Flood, and I will send you a mix of salts to prepare some. Well, unless it contains dissolved Gopher Wood.

Accursed protractor-stealing FedEx employees! I may have to sue!

Dear heart, the age of the chalk at Dover must, of complete necessity, be greater than the age of the Cliffs. If only by an hour or two....
But it's by more than an hour or two, you see.

And before you say that this is only conjecture or imagination, Faith, go see the people at Morton Salt in Grand Saline, Texas or at the WIPP project over near Carlsbad, New Mexico. They mine salt. They watch it deform. WIPP was built in salt beds to take advantage of this creep to be sure our radioactive waste gets encapsulated.And yes, there is gypsum in beds beneath the salt. All evaporates.

And while you are figuring, figure out a place for many thousands of tons of water vapor per acre to go while it is covered in damp but nearly solid or at least kinda firm sediment.Or if you can figure a way for fresh water to escape in the liquid form from the salt it once had dissolved in it by, say, filtration through limestone or osmosis through gopher-wood membrane - that would be nearly as good.So your task is to 1) float some strata on mildly salty water and 2) remove the water alone, leaving the salts behind in layers.

How do evaporites form without evaporation, Faith? Or how does evaporation proceed under layers of rock? What am I confusing there, Faith?

So a deposit that was laid down in the middle of a Great Fludde was not laid in a flood environment?Do you really think that silt deposited along the Nile during a flood (back before they dammed the river up) and a mud + boulder slide on the California coast are not "environments" that can be told apart from each other? Of course they are different depositional environments!

OK - without looking up the source, I can be fairly confident about a few parts... Near the base, I would say that the sediments were very fine-grained and didn't show ripples. (Deep water, below wave action). Likely very few burrows (low oxygen, little life crawling or digging). Higher energy environments are likely larger-grained sediments (the silt washes away...) and may well have ripple marks. Stromatoporoids were relatives of our modern sponges - presumably they all died in the Flood, though.Intertidal and supratidal deposits are going to show ripples, etc.A real geologist can go from here....

You can say it's nuts if you like, but try another example first. Let's imagine that the Nile had a big flood in 1960, leaving a couple of feet of mud and silt along its banks. This sediment dried out, and then, in 1966 and 1967, big sandstorms covered the it with desert sand. A big flood in 1968 then laid more mud over the sand. The Aswan High Dam was finished in 1970, and stopped the floods, and sandstorms since then laid more sand on top of that second silt layer.Is it "nuts" to say that you could not tell the sands from the silts if you took a shovel and dug a hole through this (short) stack? I think I could do it.

Your answer is in your statement. "Some" is not "all."

For the umpteenth time of asking: why has no crab fossil ever been found among trilobite fossils, or vice versa? Both tend toward being seafloor kinds of critters. Both are flattish, generally small, both have shells - HOW did a flood separate their little corpses 100%?And that example is the first of many hundreds I could find, some of which I have presented before - dimetrodons, triceratops, and ground sloths, for one. How "nuts" is it that one single event can do that kind of sorting?