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Author Topic:   Age Correlations and an Old Earth: Version 1 No 3 (formerly Part III)
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Message 132 of 357 (371485)
12-21-2006 7:27 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by RAZD
12-15-2005 8:24 PM


Re: It just keeps adding up -- the earth is OLD.
Full size image can be found Here
Found near Yumenguan, China
The photographs here show sedimentary rock that has been eroded by wind to produce Yardangs. “Yardangs form as the result of preferential erosion of surrounding media. In desert environments, mildly cemented "cores" of sediment form the basis for the structure. Loose sediment surrounding the cemented section erodes faster, leaving the core behind. Yardangs are elongate, with their long axis parallel to the prevailing wind direction.”(Wikipedia)
In the first photograph there is an impact crater that was buried and then later exposed by erosion. One can see in the larger image that this crater is casting a shadow, which means the rock inside the crater rises above the area which is only possible if it has been filled in and the material turned to stone. This means the crater struck before majority of the sediments where deposited. The impact crater could not have happened after the erosion as it would then be a depression; and therefore not cast a shadow.
Though this is not a direct correlation to the various dates presented so far in this thread; it does show that there is a correlation to the various geologic processes seen on Earth with other planets. Though many creationists claim the processes we see on Earth are simply the result of a global flood this same process cannot be applied to what we see on other planets (or various satellites).
The images show deposits in layers and the results of erosion. The image from the Gobi desert could be argued as being the results of a global flood, but the same processes seen on Mars are obviously not the result of the same event. Rapid deposition, solidification, and erosion in a {month/week} event 6000 years ago did not create the features seen on the Martian landscape.
If Noah's flood did not create the sedimentary rock or the Yardangs found on Mars, then perhaps geologists really are on to something with "Old Earth" ideas? I cannot see how these formations could be created in a short period of time.
**More information on the satellite image can be found Here, the second image is from National Geographic (Jan, 2002, p. 72,73)

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