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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1644 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
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edge Member (Idle past 1906 days) Posts: 4696 From: Colorado, USA Joined: |
Some time ago I asked you what exactly you do to determine the depositional environment of rocks.
I think that we might have mentioned some of this in passing, although without any quantification. Since sedimentary environments change laterally, there must be some change in water depth. Ergo, there is a slope. The first thing you do is measure a section. This has all the descriptions of the rocks and exactly how thick they are. We also know the thickness of units changes even in the Grand Canyon region where Faith says that they are all straight and level. This would be hard to imagine given the fact of variable thicknesses. Someone is also suggested that since the ocean gets deeper as you go away from shore there simply has to be a slope. This is, of course, pretty basic stuff. But Faith has made so many errors that it's hard to know where to start and explain things in a simple manner.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1644 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
I know the thicknesses vary and I've said so many times. That doesn't stop them from being visibly straight and horizontal over huge distances, even with knife-edge tight contacts. .
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1644 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
The rougher rock is a sort of hinge point where the layers start the sag to the left, the whole stack as a matter of fact, and to the right of it they are narrower, showing pinching against the basement rock.
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edge Member (Idle past 1906 days) Posts: 4696 From: Colorado, USA Joined: |
I know the thicknesses vary and I've said so many times. That doesn't stop them from being visibly straight and horizontal over huge distances, even with knife-edge tight contacts.
In your very next post, you say this:
The rougher rock is a sort of hinge point where the layers start the sag to the left, the whole stack as a matter of fact, and to the right of it they are narrower, showing pinching against the basement rock.
So, what is the case? Were the sagging rock layers deposited horizontally or not? Your own experiment shows that they need not be originally horizontal. And just what are the 'huge distances' that you talk about? Are you saying that the Tapeats Sandstone at the Grand Canyon does not vary over even a few feet? Are you saying that the Coconino is straight and horizontal all the way to Vermont? C'mon, Faith, you are creating an argument where none is necessary by making vague and outlandish pronouncements. Ask yourself if you are not just being stubborn for the sake of stubbornness.
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Admin Director Posts: 13100 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
Hi Faith,
I'm going to continue ruling that those arguments that are not directly relevant to the main topic and that you're unable to support with evidence can no longer be used in this thread. Feel free to propose new threads over at Proposed New Topics to discuss them further. The goal is to remove obstacles to discussing the original topic.
Faith writes: The rougher rock is a sort of hinge point... Unless you can present evidence that the rougher rock has some geologic origin rather than is just the result of blasting the road cut, please don't present this argument anymore.
Faith writes: ...where the layers start the sag to the left, the whole stack as a matter of fact, and to the right of it they are narrower, showing pinching against the basement rock. I presented an image showing a sublayer that gradually peters out as you look from left to right. Unless you can present evidence of actual pinching, which means the rock in the thinner section became denser or the material was squeezed elsewhere, please don't present this argument anymore.
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Admin Director Posts: 13100 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
petrophysics1 writes: Do you know that if you actually measured sections of rocks you would know how insane the stuff Faith is saying actually is. I think I already know how outlandish Faith's ideas are. She seems to have no criteria by which to distinguish valid from invalid ideas, no way of judging which details are important and which extraneous, and now we see that even her own experimental results dissolve in her eyes amidst a maze of irrelevant details of her own random choosing. If you think it would help to discuss the evidence for depositional environments by examining measured sections then by all means respond to Faith. I'm trying to stay out of the main discussion and am only focusing on bringing diversions to a quick resolution. Edited by Admin, : Fix grammar in 1st sentence of 2nd para.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1644 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Goodbye to this utterly ridiculous thread. Good grief what nonsense you all spout. "Science?" And what an absolutely disgusting excuse for moderation on this thread. Appalling.
Edited by Faith, : No reason given. Edited by Faith, : No reason given.
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JonF Member (Idle past 368 days) Posts: 6174 Joined:
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Yeah, not being allowed to repeat claims that you have personally debunked is just like Stalin.
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edge Member (Idle past 1906 days) Posts: 4696 From: Colorado, USA Joined:
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Goodbye to this utterly ridiculous thread.
What makes it ridiculous?
Good grief what nonsense you all spout. "Science?"
Why is it nonsense?
And what an absolutely disgusting excuse for moderation on this thread. Appalling.
Do you think that being less combative on your part might help? Could it be possible that it is your interpretation and application of the Bible is what's making the thread ridiculous and nonsense?
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Admin Director Posts: 13100 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
To help discussion resume I'll reintroduce the main topic. Faith's contention is that the Great Unconformity at the Grand Canyon was formed in this way:
If discussion doesn't resume then I'll throw this thread into summation mode in a week or so.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1644 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
All the layers of the Grand Canyon, including missing layers that have eroded completely away, were deposited by the flood. Except I don't accept the idea that whole layers eroded away. Itr's possible even in the Flood, but basically that's an idea necessary to the integrity of the Geologic Time Scale for which the evidence isn't exactly present.
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jar Member Posts: 34140 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Faith writes: Except I don't accept the idea that whole layers eroded away. Too funny Faith. The layers are missing, miles and miles of them. If they were not eroded away how do you propose they went? Did thy go "walk about" or "Poof" or are they magical like the Biblical Floods?Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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Admin Director Posts: 13100 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
Faith writes: All the layers of the Grand Canyon, including missing layers that have eroded completely away, were deposited by the flood.
Except I don't accept the idea that whole layers eroded away. Itr's possible even in the Flood, but basically that's an idea necessary to the integrity of the Geologic Time Scale for which the evidence isn't exactly present. I think you must have misunderstood what I said. There *are* layers at the Grand Canyon that were once present and now are completely missing at the Grand Canyon. I'm referring to layers like, for example, the Claron and the Carmel that exist in the Brain Head region but not at the Grand Canyon:
That layers like these are missing at the Grand Canyon is something you've explicitly said yourself. So let's make sure we have a very clear and accurate statement of your basic position, please provide any necessary corrections:
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1644 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
OK, yes, I definitely have referred many times to the layers that were once above the Kaibab in the GC region, all the way to the Claron level at least, eroded away.
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Admin Director Posts: 13100 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
So is this an accurate statement of your basic position or not? You just objected to part of it a short while ago, and while you've provided assent to my clarification you haven't actually endorsed that statement, and I'm trying to avoid leaving things in a state of ambiguity:
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