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DISCUSSION No. 15
THE ASTONISHING
GENESIS FLOOD
Part 2: Some Evidence
Ariel A. Roth
sciencesandscriptures.com
OUTLINE
1. INTRODUCTORY COMMENT
2. SOME EVIDENCE
a. Abundant marine sediments on the
continents
b. Abundant underwater activity
c. Continent-wide direction of currents
d. Incomplete ecological systems
e. Unusual coal deposits
3. CONCLUSIONS
4. REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. INTRODUCTORY
COMMENT
1. INTRODUCTORY COMMENT
This discussion titled SOME EVIDENCE, is
the second in a three part series (No. 14, 15, 16,)
about THE ASTONISHING GENESIS FLOOD.
Unless you have a good perspective of the
Flood events, the first discussion subtitled
INTRODUCTION should be read first.
The third part of the series titled MORE
EVIDENCE should also be read, so as to get a
more complete understanding of all this evidence.
1. INTRODUCTORY COMMENT
When considering the Genesis Flood, the
sedimentary rocks of the earth are especially important.
Sedimentary rocks are usually formed by water
transport, and almost all fossils are found in
sedimentary rocks. An outstanding characteristic of
sedimentary rocks is that they have many layers that
range from very thin to very thick.
1. INTRODUCTORY COMMENT
While present scientific interpretations tend to
ignore the great Genesis Flood, there are a number of
significant features of the sedimentary layers of the
earth that are better explained by a model of a
worldwide Flood than by slow gradual changes over
millions of years. Five of these features are explained
below, while three more will be considered in the next
discussion.
2. SOME EVIDENCE
FOR THE FLOOD
a. Abundant marine sediments
on the continents
2. SOME EVIDENCE
a. ABUNDANT MARINE SEDIMENTS ON THE
CONTINENTS
The rocks forming our continents are relatively light (lower
density) and literally float on top of heavier rocks found below them.
Heavier rocks (i.e. higher density) are also found just below the floor of
the oceans. On a worldwide scale, rock is relatively soft, and lighter
rock rides on top of heavier rock like a boat floats over heavier water.
This arrangement keeps our continents above sea level and gives us a
dry place to live on. Hence, it is unusual that we find so much sediment
from the oceans on the continents. Why is it there? Something unusual
must have happened in the past, for it to be up there on the continents.
You can tell that you have sediments from the ocean by the kind
of rock you have, but especially by the fossils found therein. If the
fossils represent marine organisms, such as marine starfish, etc., this
indicates that the deposit came from the ocean.
In the next illustration, which is a sedimentary deposit from
California, you know that it came from the ocean, because the shells
found are those of organisms that live only in the ocean.
Shells of marine organisms, California coast
2. SOME EVIDENCE
a. ABUNDANT MARINE SEDIMENTS ON THE
CONTINENTS
The problem the marine sediments pose for a
normal slowly evolving earth is well illustrated in
the next slide. This is a cross section of part of a
continent and part of an ocean over deeper rocks.
The granite forming the mass of the continent
to the left of the figure has a density of around 2.7.
The basalt and schist rocks below the ocean floor
and lower down below the continents have a
density of 3.0 or higher. That is why we can say
that the continents literally float above denser
rocks.
2. SOME EVIDENCE
a. ABUNDANT MARINE SEDIMENTS ON THE
CONTINENTS
The incongruity is that when we look at the sediments
of the earth, the sediments from the ocean are thicker on
the continents than in the oceans! See the last illustration
where more than half of the thick layers of sediment on the
continent come from the ocean. Compare that to the thin
sediments on the floor of the ocean.
This is what you would expect from a worldwide Flood
as the continents were inundated from the oceans. The
Flood waters brought ocean sediments with them. You
would not expect this from ordinary conditions where
ocean sediments stay in the oceans.
2. SOME EVIDENCE
a. ABUNDANT MARINE SEDIMENTS ON THE
CONTINENTS
Some geologists suggest that the reason we find so
few marine sediments in the ocean is because the
sediments of the ocean were subducted (swallowed)
into the earth at the deep ocean trenches. But this is
not an adequate explanation because subduction of
sediments into the ocean trenches is too slow. For
instance, our present rivers pour sediments into the
oceans at a rate that is at least five to ten times as fast
as sediments are subducted by the ocean trenches. If
the present rates of sediment production by rivers into
the oceans were extended over the long geologic ages,
our oceans could have been filled up many times with
sediments.
2. SOME EVIDENCE
a. ABUNDANT MARINE SEDIMENTS ON THE
CONTINENTS
Some geologists suggest that the reason we have so
much marine material from the oceans on the continents is
that the continents were lower in the past and oceans
inundated the continents. However, in making such a
suggestion they are inadvertently moving into a Flood
model! That is what the Flood was all about!
The statement quoted in the next frame is from a
respected geologist and illustrates the dilemma of the
marine sediments. If the community of geologists believed in
the Genesis Flood, there would be no problem since a
worldwide flood would be expected to put marine sediments
on the continents.
Shelton JS. 1969. Geology Illustrated. San
Francisco: W.H. Freeman & Co., p 28.
“Marine sedimentary rocks are far more
common and widespread on land today than
all other kinds of sedimentary rocks
combined. This is one of those simple facts
that fairly cry out for explanation and that
lie at the heart of man’s continuing effort to
understand more fully the changing
geography of the geologic past.”
2. SOME EVIDENCE
a. ABUNDANT MARINE SEDIMENTS ON THE
CONTINENTS
The following picture of the Grand Canyon of the
Colorado River illustrates the abundance of
sediments from the ocean on the continents. While
the Grand Canyon lies many hundreds of
kilometers inland from the ocean, about ¾ of the
layers you see in the wall of the canyon are from
the ocean.
The succeeding picture is of earth’s highest
mountain, Mount Everest, that rises 8848 meters
above sea level. Yet, Everest is composed of rocks
from the ocean.
Grand Canyon, Arizona
2. SOME EVIDENCE
FOR THE FLOOD
b. Abundant underwater
activity on the continents
2. SOME EVIDENCE
b. ABUNDANT UNDERWATER ACTIVITY ON
THE CONTINENTS
Turbidites are an interesting type of sedimentary deposit
often found on the continents. They only form under water, and
they form very rapidly. Turbidites result when large quantities
of loose sediment flow down an underwater slope.
The mixture of sediment and water that flows down a slope
to form a turbidite has a greater density (heavier) than ordinary
water; hence it tends to keep its integrity as a separate heavier
flow called a turbidity current. Both the turbidity current and
the water above it are fluid. The denser turbidity current flows
below the lighter water somewhat like denser water flows on
land (streams and rivers) below lighter air.
2. SOME EVIDENCE
b. ABUNDANT UNDERWATER ACTIVITY ON
THE CONTINENTS
As the turbidity current slows down towards
the end of its flow, it lays down a characteristic
kind of deposit called a turbidite. Turbidites are
complicated and often consist of many layers
originating from a single turbidity current.
The next figure illustrates the process of
forming a turbidite in a large body of water.
2. SOME EVIDENCE
b. ABUNDANT UNDERWATER ACTIVITY ON
THE CONTINENTS
A significant turbidite was formed in 1929 in the
North Atlantic Ocean when an earthquake near Nova
Scotia and Newfoundland shook some sediments loose
along the edge of the continental shelf. A turbidity current
flowed down the slope of the shelf and spread 100 cubic
kilometers of sediments as a turbidite nearly a meter thick
over 100,000 square kilometers on an abyssal plain of the
North Atlantic. Some of the sediment traveled over 700
kilometers from its source. The turbidity current ran into
the hulk of the ship Titanic that had sunk in 1912.
2. SOME EVIDENCE
b. ABUNDANT UNDERWATER ACTIVITY ON
THE CONTINENTS
Unfortunately for commercial telegraphy, but
fortunately for geology, there were twelve
transatlantic cables between North America and
Europe lying in the pathway of this turbidity
current, and the current broke most of them. By
comparing the location of the cables and the time
when the messages quit being transmitted across
the Atlantic it was possible to determine how fast
the turbidity current was traveling.
The next figure sketches the general location.
2. SOME EVIDENCE
b. ABUNDANT UNDERWATER ACTIVITY ON
THE CONTINENTS
The data indicates that the turbidity current was sometimes
traveling in excess of 100 kilometers per hour. The last cable, more
than 650 kilometers from the continental shore, broke a little more
than 13 hours after the earthquake.
Turbidites, that represent underwater activity, have turned out to
be surprisingly abundant on the continents of the earth.
It is not only turbidites that indicate underwater activity on the
continents. There are several other kinds of rapid “mass flow” types of
sediment layers now on the continents. The large sedimentary layer
called the Niesen Nappe in Switzerland, that is very far from any
ocean, is interpreted to be of marine origin. It exhibits a variety of
rapid kinds of sediment deposition. (See: 1980. Geology of Switzerland:
A guide book. International Geological Congress, G10, p 168.)
2. SOME EVIDENCE
b. ABUNDANT UNDERWATER ACTIVITY ON
THE CONTINENTS
The next three pictures are examples of
turbidites at various localities on the continents of
our globe. (1) Ventura Basin, inland California,
the slanted layers of the stream bank are made of
turbidites - each one is 10-30 centimeters thick
and consists of many layers; (2) Switzerland, in a
rock quarry, far from the oceans - each layer, thick
or thin, is a separate turbidite; (3) New Zealand,
near the ocean - each layer seen is a turbidite.
Turbidites, Ventura Basin, California
Turbidites, Fayaux Quarry, Switzerland
Turbidites, Castle Point, New Zealand
2. SOME EVIDENCE
b. ABUNDANT UNDERWATER ACTIVITY ON
THE CONTINENTS
On rare occasions, when the right conditions
prevail, turbidites will form on the bottom of lakes
on the continents of the earth. However, the great
abundance of turbidites and related deposits,
found in the sedimentary deposits of the
continents seems out of character with the less
abundant stream and slow lake deposits now being
laid down on the continents. In other words, the
great abundance of turbidites in the ancient
sedimentary layers of the continents suggests that
in the past, they were subjected to a lot of
underwater activity, as expected from the Flood.
2. SOME EVIDENCE
FOR THE FLOOD
c. Continent-wide direction of
currents
2. SOME EVIDENCE
c. CONTINENT-WIDE DIRECTION OF CURRENTS
Often when looking at sediments you can tell in which
direction the water that deposited the sediment was
flowing. One uses ripple marks, comparison of size and
orientation of particles, etc. to tell this. A comprehensive
comparison of numerous reports in the geologic literature
[Arthur Chadwick. 1993. Megatrends in North American
paleocurrent. SEPM Abstracts with Programs 8:58] of the
direction of flow of sediments as they were being deposited
up through the geologic column indicates major unique
directional trends, as expected for a world-wide
catastrophe such as the Genesis Flood.
2. SOME EVIDENCE
c. CONTINENT-WIDE DIRECTION OF CURRENT
At present on our continents, sediments are being
deposited in all directions as streams flowing in different
directions deposit sediments along their banks or into lakes
or even the oceans.
When we look in the geologic layers, especially for the
Paleozoic and Mesozoic of the Phanerozoic in North and
South America, it appears that the direction of deposition
of sediment was mainly towards the west in the Paleozoic
and early Mesozoic, while it shifts towards the east higher
up in the upper Mesozoic. This suggests very major
catastrophic activity in one direction, and not the usual
deposition we now have in all directions.
2. SOME EVIDENCE
c. CONTINENT-WIDE DIRECTION OF CURRENTS
In the Cenozoic, which is higher up, we don’t see a
dominant directionality, and this is what one would expect
in the later stages of the Flood as the waters receded off the
continents in all directions.
The arrows in the next figure show the dominance of
flow in sediments towards the southwest for North
America for the Paleozoic portion of the geologic layers.
This is based on hundreds of thousands of samples from all
over North America, and reflects world-wide directional
activity. (See: http://origins.swau.edu, look under
“paleocurrents.”) This major directionality is what we
would expect from the Genesis Flood, and not at all what is
going on now, nor what would be expected for activity over
many millions of years of slow erosion and transport of
sediments on the continents as inferred in most geology
books.
Courtesy of Arthur Chadwick
2. SOME EVIDENCE
FOR THE FLOOD
d. Incomplete ecological systems
2. SOME EVIDENCE
d. INCOMPLETE ECOSYSTEMS
In our food chain, animals usually get their
energy from plants that get their energy from the
sun. If you don’t have plants for the animals to
eat, they don’t survive.
However, in several localities in the fossil
record, we find the animals, but there does not
seem to be enough plant material for them to
survive. How could they survive and evolve for
millions of years without an adequate food
supply?
2. SOME EVIDENCE
d. INCOMPLETE ECOSYSTEMS
For instance, in the Coconino Sandstone layer of the
Grand Canyon we find many hundreds of animal
trackways, almost all of which are going uphill, -- they
might be trying to escape the Flood waters! – and animals
were obviously there; but, so far, no fossil plants have been
found in the Coconino. If the animals lived there for the
postulated millions of years for the Coconino, what did
they eat? The data favors the idea that the Coconino was
deposited rapidly during the Flood.
2. SOME EVIDENCE
d. INCOMPLETE ECOSYSTEMS
The next illustration points out the Coconino
Sandstone (arrow) and the following shows some
of the tracks that have been formed on soft mud as
might occur during flood conditions. Dry sand
does not preserve toe tracks this clearly. (See
Brand LR, Tang T. 1991. Geology 19:1201-1204.)
Geologists commonly interpret the Coconino as a
dry desert sand dune type of deposit, but at least a
major part was wet.
Grand Canyon, arrow points to Coconino Sandstone
Tracks in Coconino
Courtesy Leonard Brand
2. SOME EVIDENCE
d. INCOMPLETE ECOSYSTEMS
The same kind of situation seems to apply to
the small dinosaur Protoceratops in Mongolia.
Dinosaurs would seem to require lots of food. The
next figure illustrates a Protoceratops skeleton.
The flat teeth in the back of the jaw (arrow),
unquestionably indicate that this was a plant eater.
Following the skeletal picture is a quotation
from paleontological researchers in Mongolia
delineating the dilemma of lack of plants.
Protoceratops. Arrow points to flat teeth. From Vienna Museum
Fastovsky DE, et al. 1997. The paleoenvironments of Tugrikin-Shireh
(Gobi Desert, Mongolia) and aspects of the taphonomy and paleoecology
of Protoceratops (Dinosauria: Ornithishichia). Palaios 12:59-70.
“The abundance of an unambiguous herbivore
(Protoceratops) and a rich trace fossil fauna
[probably tubes made by insects] reflect a region
of high productivity [i.e. of food by plants]. The
absence of well-developed plant colonization is,
therefore anomalous and baffling.”
The animals need plants to survive, but few
plants were found.
2. SOME EVIDENCE
d. INCOMPLETE ECOSYSTEMS
The same kind of situation seems to be the case for the
Morrison Formation in the United States, a rich source for
dinosaur bones. The next four slides illustrate this.
• The first slide is a general view of the Morrison Formation
• The second shows dinosaur bones in the Morrison
• The third is a life size model of a Diplodocus dinosaur
• The fourth slide delineates the problem by quoting from
the scientific literature about the Morrison.
How did these dinosaur behemoths survive for
millions of years without adequate food? The Morrison
data also favors the Flood model. The animals did not live
in the Morrison for millions of years. They were buried
there during the Flood.
The alternating red and gray layers in the middle are the Morrison
Formation as found east of Capitol Reef National Monument, Utah
Dinosaur bones in the Morrison Formation,
Dinosaur National Monument, Utah
Model of Diplodocus, Vernal, Utah. This dinosaur
reached a length of 28 meters (84 feet).
White TE. 1964. The dinosaur quarry. In: Sabatka EF, editor. Guidebook
to the Geology and Mineral Resources of the Uinta Basin. Salt Lake City:
Intermountain Association of Geologists, p 21-28.
The paleontologist T. E. White comments: “Although
the Morrison plain was an area of reasonably rapid
accumulation of sediment, identifiable plant fossils are
practically nonexistent.”
White further muses that by comparing to elephants
the dinosaur Apatosaurus “would consume 3 ½ tons of
green fodder daily.”
2. SOME EVIDENCE
FOR THE FLOOD
e. Unusual coal deposits
2. SOME EVIDENCE
e. UNUSUAL COAL DEPOSITS
Dinosaurs need food if they are going to survive and
evolve for the millions of years evolutionists postulate for
the Morrison, but the evidence there for plants is sparse.
Could the waters of the Genesis Flood have floated and
transported away the plant material from the region where
the dinosaurs originally lived?
Water is a great sorting agent. At times, floating tree
logs and branches are transported by water and deposited
as great piles on river banks and shorelines.
2. SOME EVIDENCE
e. UNUSUAL COAL DEPOSITS
When we look into the rock layers, we sometimes find huge coal
deposits that originally came from trees and other vegetation. These
huge deposits indicate transport of the original vegetation on a scale
anomalous to our present earth, but in agreement with the powerful
activity one would expect from the Flood.
The next picture shows a deep soft coal deposit at Morwell,
Australia. Note the power line poles for scale and note the parallel
layers of coal and clay deposit towards the lower right corner (arrow).
Such parallel deposits are typical of water transport and not of growth
in place as commonly attributed to coal deposits. The huge size and
widespread flat layering of the coal favor the kind of activity expected
during the Genesis Flood and is not like what goes on under normal
conditions on our earth at present.
Coal seam, Morwell, Australia. Note power line poles
for scale. Arrow points to flat sedimentary layers
2. SOME EVIDENCE
e. UNUSUAL COAL DEPOSITS
The following picture depicts some typical coal seams found in
Utah. The parallel nature of these coal deposits suggests transport as
expected during the Flood and not local growth of vegetation in the
place where the coal is presently found. Growth would tend to produce
irregular layers of vegetation. Some geologists admit water transport
for these particular seams.
The second picture is a coal parting (arrow) near Castle Gate,
Utah. Occasionally, in coal seams we find thin widespread sedimentary
layers within a coal seam which is called a parting. It would take
widespread water activity to spread these thin partings which can
sometimes cover well over 1,000 square kilometers! The red arrow
points to one of these partings in a black coal seam. The coal seam is
about 40 centimeters thick. Partings are further evidence for the water
transport expected during the Flood.
Coal seam, Castle Gate, Utah. The arrow points to a thin
parting in the coal. You can follow it across the picture.
3. CONCLUSIONS
ABOUT
“SOME EVIDENCE”
3. CONCLUSIONS
THE FOLLOWING DATA FAVOR THE
GENESIS FLOOD
a. Abundant sediments from the oceans on the continents
b. Abundant underwater activity such as turbidites on the
continents
c. Continent-wide current activity
d. Incomplete ecological systems, i.e. lack of plant food for
the animals found
e. Anomalously thick and widespread coal deposits
Further significant information that favors the Flood
is presented in Discussion 16: THE ASTONISHING
GENESIS FLOOD: More Evidence.
4. REVIEW
QUESTIONS
(Answers given later below)
4. REVIEW QUESTIONS – 1
(Answers given later below)
1. What peculiarity about the distribution of marine sedimentary layers
over the earth suggests a Genesis Flood? Why is subduction of marine
sediments into the trenches of the ocean floor not an explanation for
this peculiarity?
2. Why is the abundance of turbidites on the continents evidence for the
Flood?
3. At present, on the continents, sediments are being deposited on river
banks and lakes in all kinds of directions. What is the situation as far
as direction of deposition of sediments in the Paleozoic (lower) and
Mesozoic (middle) parts of the Phanerozoic, and what does this mean
with respect to the Genesis Flood?
REVIEW QUESTIONS – 2
4. Explain why incomplete ecosystems challenge the long geologic time
proposed for the deposition of the environments in which they are
found.
5. What features of coal deposits suggest that they represent transported
vegetation instead of plants growing where the coal is found, a process
that would take many years?
REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - 1
1. What peculiarity about the distribution of marine sedimentary layers
over the earth suggests a Genesis Flood? Why is subduction of marine
sediments into the trenches of the ocean floor not an explanation for
this peculiarity?
Strangely, the marine sediments are thicker on the continents and
are often higher in elevation than in the oceans where they form. It looks
like a lot of sediments from the ocean have been poured onto the
continents.
Subduction of marine sediments into the trenches is not an
explanation for the thinness of marine sediments in the ocean because
subduction is slow. It is at least five times as slow as for the sediments
being brought into the ocean by the rivers.
2. Why is the abundance of turbidites on the continents evidence for the
Flood?
Because turbidites form only under water. The more widespread
ones indicate large volumes of water.
REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - 2
3. At present, on the continents, sediments are being deposited on river
banks and lakes in all kinds of directions. What is the situation as far
as direction of deposition of sediments in the Paleozoic (lower) and
Mesozoic (middle) parts of the Phanerozoic, and what does this mean
with respect to the Genesis Flood?
In the Paleozoic and Mesozoic one finds a strong dominance of
deposition in the same direction over entire continents. This strongly
suggests worldwide catastrophic transport of sediments as expected
during the Flood.
4. Explain why incomplete ecosystems challenge the long geologic time
proposed for the deposition of the environments in which they are
found.
Several formations provide fossil evidence of abundant animal
existence, but they lack evidence of sufficient vegetation to support the
animals. It is postulated that these animal species lived for millions of
years, but how could they do that without sufficient nutrition? The
dilemma can be solved by proposing the sorting of the plants from the
animals into different sedimentary layers by the waters of the Flood.
REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - 3
5. What features of coal deposits suggest that they represent transported
vegetation instead of plants growing where the coal is found, a process
that would take many years?
The abundance, flat contacts and widespread distribution of the
coal seams strongly suggest mass transport. Furthermore, the presence of
thin, widespread partings in a number of coal seams also suggest that
these deposits would have been laid down by widespread water activity, as
expected during the Genesis Flood.
ADDITIONAL REFERENCES
For further discussions by the author (Ariel A. Roth) and many additional references, see the
author’s books titled:
1. ORIGINS: LINKING SCIENCE AND SCRIPTURE. Hagerstown, MD. Review and
Herald Publishing Association.
2. SCIENCE DISCOVERS GOD: Seven Convincing Lines of Evidence for His Existence.
Hagerstown, MD. Autumn House Publishing, an imprint of Review and Herald
Publishing Association.
Additional information is available on the author’s Web Page: Sciences and Scriptures.
www.sciencesandscriptures.com. Also see many articles published by the author and
others in the journal ORIGINS which the author edited for 23 years. For access see the
Web Page of the Geoscience Research Institute www.grisda.org.
Highly Recommended URLs are:
Earth History Research Center http://origins.swau.edu
Theological Crossroads www.theox.org
Sean Pitman www.detectingdesign.com
Scientific Theology www.scientifictheology.com
Geoscience Research Institute www.grisda.org
Sciences and Scriptures www.sciencesandscriptures.com
Other Web Pages providing a variety of related answers are: Creation-Evolution Headlines,
Creation Ministries International, Institute for Creation Research, and Answers in
Genesis.
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where credit is designated. Many illustrations are by the
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15. the astonishing genesis flood, part 2

  • 1. DISCUSSION No. 15 THE ASTONISHING GENESIS FLOOD Part 2: Some Evidence Ariel A. Roth sciencesandscriptures.com
  • 2. OUTLINE 1. INTRODUCTORY COMMENT 2. SOME EVIDENCE a. Abundant marine sediments on the continents b. Abundant underwater activity c. Continent-wide direction of currents d. Incomplete ecological systems e. Unusual coal deposits 3. CONCLUSIONS 4. REVIEW QUESTIONS
  • 4. 1. INTRODUCTORY COMMENT This discussion titled SOME EVIDENCE, is the second in a three part series (No. 14, 15, 16,) about THE ASTONISHING GENESIS FLOOD. Unless you have a good perspective of the Flood events, the first discussion subtitled INTRODUCTION should be read first. The third part of the series titled MORE EVIDENCE should also be read, so as to get a more complete understanding of all this evidence.
  • 5. 1. INTRODUCTORY COMMENT When considering the Genesis Flood, the sedimentary rocks of the earth are especially important. Sedimentary rocks are usually formed by water transport, and almost all fossils are found in sedimentary rocks. An outstanding characteristic of sedimentary rocks is that they have many layers that range from very thin to very thick.
  • 6. 1. INTRODUCTORY COMMENT While present scientific interpretations tend to ignore the great Genesis Flood, there are a number of significant features of the sedimentary layers of the earth that are better explained by a model of a worldwide Flood than by slow gradual changes over millions of years. Five of these features are explained below, while three more will be considered in the next discussion.
  • 7. 2. SOME EVIDENCE FOR THE FLOOD a. Abundant marine sediments on the continents
  • 8. 2. SOME EVIDENCE a. ABUNDANT MARINE SEDIMENTS ON THE CONTINENTS The rocks forming our continents are relatively light (lower density) and literally float on top of heavier rocks found below them. Heavier rocks (i.e. higher density) are also found just below the floor of the oceans. On a worldwide scale, rock is relatively soft, and lighter rock rides on top of heavier rock like a boat floats over heavier water. This arrangement keeps our continents above sea level and gives us a dry place to live on. Hence, it is unusual that we find so much sediment from the oceans on the continents. Why is it there? Something unusual must have happened in the past, for it to be up there on the continents. You can tell that you have sediments from the ocean by the kind of rock you have, but especially by the fossils found therein. If the fossils represent marine organisms, such as marine starfish, etc., this indicates that the deposit came from the ocean. In the next illustration, which is a sedimentary deposit from California, you know that it came from the ocean, because the shells found are those of organisms that live only in the ocean.
  • 9. Shells of marine organisms, California coast
  • 10. 2. SOME EVIDENCE a. ABUNDANT MARINE SEDIMENTS ON THE CONTINENTS The problem the marine sediments pose for a normal slowly evolving earth is well illustrated in the next slide. This is a cross section of part of a continent and part of an ocean over deeper rocks. The granite forming the mass of the continent to the left of the figure has a density of around 2.7. The basalt and schist rocks below the ocean floor and lower down below the continents have a density of 3.0 or higher. That is why we can say that the continents literally float above denser rocks.
  • 11.
  • 12. 2. SOME EVIDENCE a. ABUNDANT MARINE SEDIMENTS ON THE CONTINENTS The incongruity is that when we look at the sediments of the earth, the sediments from the ocean are thicker on the continents than in the oceans! See the last illustration where more than half of the thick layers of sediment on the continent come from the ocean. Compare that to the thin sediments on the floor of the ocean. This is what you would expect from a worldwide Flood as the continents were inundated from the oceans. The Flood waters brought ocean sediments with them. You would not expect this from ordinary conditions where ocean sediments stay in the oceans.
  • 13. 2. SOME EVIDENCE a. ABUNDANT MARINE SEDIMENTS ON THE CONTINENTS Some geologists suggest that the reason we find so few marine sediments in the ocean is because the sediments of the ocean were subducted (swallowed) into the earth at the deep ocean trenches. But this is not an adequate explanation because subduction of sediments into the ocean trenches is too slow. For instance, our present rivers pour sediments into the oceans at a rate that is at least five to ten times as fast as sediments are subducted by the ocean trenches. If the present rates of sediment production by rivers into the oceans were extended over the long geologic ages, our oceans could have been filled up many times with sediments.
  • 14. 2. SOME EVIDENCE a. ABUNDANT MARINE SEDIMENTS ON THE CONTINENTS Some geologists suggest that the reason we have so much marine material from the oceans on the continents is that the continents were lower in the past and oceans inundated the continents. However, in making such a suggestion they are inadvertently moving into a Flood model! That is what the Flood was all about! The statement quoted in the next frame is from a respected geologist and illustrates the dilemma of the marine sediments. If the community of geologists believed in the Genesis Flood, there would be no problem since a worldwide flood would be expected to put marine sediments on the continents.
  • 15. Shelton JS. 1969. Geology Illustrated. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman & Co., p 28. “Marine sedimentary rocks are far more common and widespread on land today than all other kinds of sedimentary rocks combined. This is one of those simple facts that fairly cry out for explanation and that lie at the heart of man’s continuing effort to understand more fully the changing geography of the geologic past.”
  • 16. 2. SOME EVIDENCE a. ABUNDANT MARINE SEDIMENTS ON THE CONTINENTS The following picture of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River illustrates the abundance of sediments from the ocean on the continents. While the Grand Canyon lies many hundreds of kilometers inland from the ocean, about ¾ of the layers you see in the wall of the canyon are from the ocean. The succeeding picture is of earth’s highest mountain, Mount Everest, that rises 8848 meters above sea level. Yet, Everest is composed of rocks from the ocean.
  • 18.
  • 19. 2. SOME EVIDENCE FOR THE FLOOD b. Abundant underwater activity on the continents
  • 20. 2. SOME EVIDENCE b. ABUNDANT UNDERWATER ACTIVITY ON THE CONTINENTS Turbidites are an interesting type of sedimentary deposit often found on the continents. They only form under water, and they form very rapidly. Turbidites result when large quantities of loose sediment flow down an underwater slope. The mixture of sediment and water that flows down a slope to form a turbidite has a greater density (heavier) than ordinary water; hence it tends to keep its integrity as a separate heavier flow called a turbidity current. Both the turbidity current and the water above it are fluid. The denser turbidity current flows below the lighter water somewhat like denser water flows on land (streams and rivers) below lighter air.
  • 21. 2. SOME EVIDENCE b. ABUNDANT UNDERWATER ACTIVITY ON THE CONTINENTS As the turbidity current slows down towards the end of its flow, it lays down a characteristic kind of deposit called a turbidite. Turbidites are complicated and often consist of many layers originating from a single turbidity current. The next figure illustrates the process of forming a turbidite in a large body of water.
  • 22.
  • 23. 2. SOME EVIDENCE b. ABUNDANT UNDERWATER ACTIVITY ON THE CONTINENTS A significant turbidite was formed in 1929 in the North Atlantic Ocean when an earthquake near Nova Scotia and Newfoundland shook some sediments loose along the edge of the continental shelf. A turbidity current flowed down the slope of the shelf and spread 100 cubic kilometers of sediments as a turbidite nearly a meter thick over 100,000 square kilometers on an abyssal plain of the North Atlantic. Some of the sediment traveled over 700 kilometers from its source. The turbidity current ran into the hulk of the ship Titanic that had sunk in 1912.
  • 24. 2. SOME EVIDENCE b. ABUNDANT UNDERWATER ACTIVITY ON THE CONTINENTS Unfortunately for commercial telegraphy, but fortunately for geology, there were twelve transatlantic cables between North America and Europe lying in the pathway of this turbidity current, and the current broke most of them. By comparing the location of the cables and the time when the messages quit being transmitted across the Atlantic it was possible to determine how fast the turbidity current was traveling. The next figure sketches the general location.
  • 25.
  • 26. 2. SOME EVIDENCE b. ABUNDANT UNDERWATER ACTIVITY ON THE CONTINENTS The data indicates that the turbidity current was sometimes traveling in excess of 100 kilometers per hour. The last cable, more than 650 kilometers from the continental shore, broke a little more than 13 hours after the earthquake. Turbidites, that represent underwater activity, have turned out to be surprisingly abundant on the continents of the earth. It is not only turbidites that indicate underwater activity on the continents. There are several other kinds of rapid “mass flow” types of sediment layers now on the continents. The large sedimentary layer called the Niesen Nappe in Switzerland, that is very far from any ocean, is interpreted to be of marine origin. It exhibits a variety of rapid kinds of sediment deposition. (See: 1980. Geology of Switzerland: A guide book. International Geological Congress, G10, p 168.)
  • 27. 2. SOME EVIDENCE b. ABUNDANT UNDERWATER ACTIVITY ON THE CONTINENTS The next three pictures are examples of turbidites at various localities on the continents of our globe. (1) Ventura Basin, inland California, the slanted layers of the stream bank are made of turbidites - each one is 10-30 centimeters thick and consists of many layers; (2) Switzerland, in a rock quarry, far from the oceans - each layer, thick or thin, is a separate turbidite; (3) New Zealand, near the ocean - each layer seen is a turbidite.
  • 31. 2. SOME EVIDENCE b. ABUNDANT UNDERWATER ACTIVITY ON THE CONTINENTS On rare occasions, when the right conditions prevail, turbidites will form on the bottom of lakes on the continents of the earth. However, the great abundance of turbidites and related deposits, found in the sedimentary deposits of the continents seems out of character with the less abundant stream and slow lake deposits now being laid down on the continents. In other words, the great abundance of turbidites in the ancient sedimentary layers of the continents suggests that in the past, they were subjected to a lot of underwater activity, as expected from the Flood.
  • 32. 2. SOME EVIDENCE FOR THE FLOOD c. Continent-wide direction of currents
  • 33. 2. SOME EVIDENCE c. CONTINENT-WIDE DIRECTION OF CURRENTS Often when looking at sediments you can tell in which direction the water that deposited the sediment was flowing. One uses ripple marks, comparison of size and orientation of particles, etc. to tell this. A comprehensive comparison of numerous reports in the geologic literature [Arthur Chadwick. 1993. Megatrends in North American paleocurrent. SEPM Abstracts with Programs 8:58] of the direction of flow of sediments as they were being deposited up through the geologic column indicates major unique directional trends, as expected for a world-wide catastrophe such as the Genesis Flood.
  • 34. 2. SOME EVIDENCE c. CONTINENT-WIDE DIRECTION OF CURRENT At present on our continents, sediments are being deposited in all directions as streams flowing in different directions deposit sediments along their banks or into lakes or even the oceans. When we look in the geologic layers, especially for the Paleozoic and Mesozoic of the Phanerozoic in North and South America, it appears that the direction of deposition of sediment was mainly towards the west in the Paleozoic and early Mesozoic, while it shifts towards the east higher up in the upper Mesozoic. This suggests very major catastrophic activity in one direction, and not the usual deposition we now have in all directions.
  • 35. 2. SOME EVIDENCE c. CONTINENT-WIDE DIRECTION OF CURRENTS In the Cenozoic, which is higher up, we don’t see a dominant directionality, and this is what one would expect in the later stages of the Flood as the waters receded off the continents in all directions. The arrows in the next figure show the dominance of flow in sediments towards the southwest for North America for the Paleozoic portion of the geologic layers. This is based on hundreds of thousands of samples from all over North America, and reflects world-wide directional activity. (See: http://origins.swau.edu, look under “paleocurrents.”) This major directionality is what we would expect from the Genesis Flood, and not at all what is going on now, nor what would be expected for activity over many millions of years of slow erosion and transport of sediments on the continents as inferred in most geology books.
  • 36. Courtesy of Arthur Chadwick
  • 37. 2. SOME EVIDENCE FOR THE FLOOD d. Incomplete ecological systems
  • 38. 2. SOME EVIDENCE d. INCOMPLETE ECOSYSTEMS In our food chain, animals usually get their energy from plants that get their energy from the sun. If you don’t have plants for the animals to eat, they don’t survive. However, in several localities in the fossil record, we find the animals, but there does not seem to be enough plant material for them to survive. How could they survive and evolve for millions of years without an adequate food supply?
  • 39. 2. SOME EVIDENCE d. INCOMPLETE ECOSYSTEMS For instance, in the Coconino Sandstone layer of the Grand Canyon we find many hundreds of animal trackways, almost all of which are going uphill, -- they might be trying to escape the Flood waters! – and animals were obviously there; but, so far, no fossil plants have been found in the Coconino. If the animals lived there for the postulated millions of years for the Coconino, what did they eat? The data favors the idea that the Coconino was deposited rapidly during the Flood.
  • 40. 2. SOME EVIDENCE d. INCOMPLETE ECOSYSTEMS The next illustration points out the Coconino Sandstone (arrow) and the following shows some of the tracks that have been formed on soft mud as might occur during flood conditions. Dry sand does not preserve toe tracks this clearly. (See Brand LR, Tang T. 1991. Geology 19:1201-1204.) Geologists commonly interpret the Coconino as a dry desert sand dune type of deposit, but at least a major part was wet.
  • 41. Grand Canyon, arrow points to Coconino Sandstone
  • 43. 2. SOME EVIDENCE d. INCOMPLETE ECOSYSTEMS The same kind of situation seems to apply to the small dinosaur Protoceratops in Mongolia. Dinosaurs would seem to require lots of food. The next figure illustrates a Protoceratops skeleton. The flat teeth in the back of the jaw (arrow), unquestionably indicate that this was a plant eater. Following the skeletal picture is a quotation from paleontological researchers in Mongolia delineating the dilemma of lack of plants.
  • 44. Protoceratops. Arrow points to flat teeth. From Vienna Museum
  • 45. Fastovsky DE, et al. 1997. The paleoenvironments of Tugrikin-Shireh (Gobi Desert, Mongolia) and aspects of the taphonomy and paleoecology of Protoceratops (Dinosauria: Ornithishichia). Palaios 12:59-70. “The abundance of an unambiguous herbivore (Protoceratops) and a rich trace fossil fauna [probably tubes made by insects] reflect a region of high productivity [i.e. of food by plants]. The absence of well-developed plant colonization is, therefore anomalous and baffling.” The animals need plants to survive, but few plants were found.
  • 46. 2. SOME EVIDENCE d. INCOMPLETE ECOSYSTEMS The same kind of situation seems to be the case for the Morrison Formation in the United States, a rich source for dinosaur bones. The next four slides illustrate this. • The first slide is a general view of the Morrison Formation • The second shows dinosaur bones in the Morrison • The third is a life size model of a Diplodocus dinosaur • The fourth slide delineates the problem by quoting from the scientific literature about the Morrison. How did these dinosaur behemoths survive for millions of years without adequate food? The Morrison data also favors the Flood model. The animals did not live in the Morrison for millions of years. They were buried there during the Flood.
  • 47. The alternating red and gray layers in the middle are the Morrison Formation as found east of Capitol Reef National Monument, Utah
  • 48. Dinosaur bones in the Morrison Formation, Dinosaur National Monument, Utah
  • 49. Model of Diplodocus, Vernal, Utah. This dinosaur reached a length of 28 meters (84 feet).
  • 50. White TE. 1964. The dinosaur quarry. In: Sabatka EF, editor. Guidebook to the Geology and Mineral Resources of the Uinta Basin. Salt Lake City: Intermountain Association of Geologists, p 21-28. The paleontologist T. E. White comments: “Although the Morrison plain was an area of reasonably rapid accumulation of sediment, identifiable plant fossils are practically nonexistent.” White further muses that by comparing to elephants the dinosaur Apatosaurus “would consume 3 ½ tons of green fodder daily.”
  • 51. 2. SOME EVIDENCE FOR THE FLOOD e. Unusual coal deposits
  • 52. 2. SOME EVIDENCE e. UNUSUAL COAL DEPOSITS Dinosaurs need food if they are going to survive and evolve for the millions of years evolutionists postulate for the Morrison, but the evidence there for plants is sparse. Could the waters of the Genesis Flood have floated and transported away the plant material from the region where the dinosaurs originally lived? Water is a great sorting agent. At times, floating tree logs and branches are transported by water and deposited as great piles on river banks and shorelines.
  • 53. 2. SOME EVIDENCE e. UNUSUAL COAL DEPOSITS When we look into the rock layers, we sometimes find huge coal deposits that originally came from trees and other vegetation. These huge deposits indicate transport of the original vegetation on a scale anomalous to our present earth, but in agreement with the powerful activity one would expect from the Flood. The next picture shows a deep soft coal deposit at Morwell, Australia. Note the power line poles for scale and note the parallel layers of coal and clay deposit towards the lower right corner (arrow). Such parallel deposits are typical of water transport and not of growth in place as commonly attributed to coal deposits. The huge size and widespread flat layering of the coal favor the kind of activity expected during the Genesis Flood and is not like what goes on under normal conditions on our earth at present.
  • 54. Coal seam, Morwell, Australia. Note power line poles for scale. Arrow points to flat sedimentary layers
  • 55. 2. SOME EVIDENCE e. UNUSUAL COAL DEPOSITS The following picture depicts some typical coal seams found in Utah. The parallel nature of these coal deposits suggests transport as expected during the Flood and not local growth of vegetation in the place where the coal is presently found. Growth would tend to produce irregular layers of vegetation. Some geologists admit water transport for these particular seams. The second picture is a coal parting (arrow) near Castle Gate, Utah. Occasionally, in coal seams we find thin widespread sedimentary layers within a coal seam which is called a parting. It would take widespread water activity to spread these thin partings which can sometimes cover well over 1,000 square kilometers! The red arrow points to one of these partings in a black coal seam. The coal seam is about 40 centimeters thick. Partings are further evidence for the water transport expected during the Flood.
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  • 57. Coal seam, Castle Gate, Utah. The arrow points to a thin parting in the coal. You can follow it across the picture.
  • 59. 3. CONCLUSIONS THE FOLLOWING DATA FAVOR THE GENESIS FLOOD a. Abundant sediments from the oceans on the continents b. Abundant underwater activity such as turbidites on the continents c. Continent-wide current activity d. Incomplete ecological systems, i.e. lack of plant food for the animals found e. Anomalously thick and widespread coal deposits Further significant information that favors the Flood is presented in Discussion 16: THE ASTONISHING GENESIS FLOOD: More Evidence.
  • 61. 4. REVIEW QUESTIONS – 1 (Answers given later below) 1. What peculiarity about the distribution of marine sedimentary layers over the earth suggests a Genesis Flood? Why is subduction of marine sediments into the trenches of the ocean floor not an explanation for this peculiarity? 2. Why is the abundance of turbidites on the continents evidence for the Flood? 3. At present, on the continents, sediments are being deposited on river banks and lakes in all kinds of directions. What is the situation as far as direction of deposition of sediments in the Paleozoic (lower) and Mesozoic (middle) parts of the Phanerozoic, and what does this mean with respect to the Genesis Flood?
  • 62. REVIEW QUESTIONS – 2 4. Explain why incomplete ecosystems challenge the long geologic time proposed for the deposition of the environments in which they are found. 5. What features of coal deposits suggest that they represent transported vegetation instead of plants growing where the coal is found, a process that would take many years?
  • 63. REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - 1 1. What peculiarity about the distribution of marine sedimentary layers over the earth suggests a Genesis Flood? Why is subduction of marine sediments into the trenches of the ocean floor not an explanation for this peculiarity? Strangely, the marine sediments are thicker on the continents and are often higher in elevation than in the oceans where they form. It looks like a lot of sediments from the ocean have been poured onto the continents. Subduction of marine sediments into the trenches is not an explanation for the thinness of marine sediments in the ocean because subduction is slow. It is at least five times as slow as for the sediments being brought into the ocean by the rivers. 2. Why is the abundance of turbidites on the continents evidence for the Flood? Because turbidites form only under water. The more widespread ones indicate large volumes of water.
  • 64. REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - 2 3. At present, on the continents, sediments are being deposited on river banks and lakes in all kinds of directions. What is the situation as far as direction of deposition of sediments in the Paleozoic (lower) and Mesozoic (middle) parts of the Phanerozoic, and what does this mean with respect to the Genesis Flood? In the Paleozoic and Mesozoic one finds a strong dominance of deposition in the same direction over entire continents. This strongly suggests worldwide catastrophic transport of sediments as expected during the Flood. 4. Explain why incomplete ecosystems challenge the long geologic time proposed for the deposition of the environments in which they are found. Several formations provide fossil evidence of abundant animal existence, but they lack evidence of sufficient vegetation to support the animals. It is postulated that these animal species lived for millions of years, but how could they do that without sufficient nutrition? The dilemma can be solved by proposing the sorting of the plants from the animals into different sedimentary layers by the waters of the Flood.
  • 65. REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - 3 5. What features of coal deposits suggest that they represent transported vegetation instead of plants growing where the coal is found, a process that would take many years? The abundance, flat contacts and widespread distribution of the coal seams strongly suggest mass transport. Furthermore, the presence of thin, widespread partings in a number of coal seams also suggest that these deposits would have been laid down by widespread water activity, as expected during the Genesis Flood.
  • 66. ADDITIONAL REFERENCES For further discussions by the author (Ariel A. Roth) and many additional references, see the author’s books titled: 1. ORIGINS: LINKING SCIENCE AND SCRIPTURE. Hagerstown, MD. Review and Herald Publishing Association. 2. SCIENCE DISCOVERS GOD: Seven Convincing Lines of Evidence for His Existence. Hagerstown, MD. Autumn House Publishing, an imprint of Review and Herald Publishing Association. Additional information is available on the author’s Web Page: Sciences and Scriptures. www.sciencesandscriptures.com. Also see many articles published by the author and others in the journal ORIGINS which the author edited for 23 years. For access see the Web Page of the Geoscience Research Institute www.grisda.org. Highly Recommended URLs are: Earth History Research Center http://origins.swau.edu Theological Crossroads www.theox.org Sean Pitman www.detectingdesign.com Scientific Theology www.scientifictheology.com Geoscience Research Institute www.grisda.org Sciences and Scriptures www.sciencesandscriptures.com Other Web Pages providing a variety of related answers are: Creation-Evolution Headlines, Creation Ministries International, Institute for Creation Research, and Answers in Genesis.
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