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The Noah Code Chapter XIX
=2b. [There are] remnant sections of an earlier earth, these
sediment layers called "Pre-Cambrian" or pre-life. They define
them "pre-life" because they contain no fossils, except pollen,*
the same pollen we find in modern rocks! As there was no mass
death recorded before the flood event, we should expect to find
a virgin layer without fossils at such depths
*The Roraima pre-cambrian formation contains pollen in South
America as does the Grand Canyon
Why are they fossil free?
These upper are the death layers, where life ended in mass
destruction, including those of the dinosaurs and large mammals,
like the Mammoths!
=1. [Take the] Geologic Column ... Flip it upside down to fit
Montana and Alberta, reshuffle to fit Alaska, Switzerland,
Oregon and Wyoming.
=2b. It also assumes the impossible, that if a creature dies,
it’s slowly covered by sediments and fossilized, something that
rarely or only in extreme cases ever occurs in nature.
this is not how it works in nature. If an animal dies, its
normally quickly dismembered, consumed or dismembered by any
number of means before being covered in sediments over great
ages.
If evolution is true ... one should find entire sequences of
transitional forms in the layers, thousands of them, but the
fact is, there are none.
If we interpret the Chart in light of the flood model, we may
understand that the immobile or slow moving sea creatures would
be covered first by flood sediments, (as previously described by
Dr. Austin in the case of a turbidity covering the moving
nautiloids) this in the order of water mobility, starting with
shell creatures and bottom crawlers (such as trilobites, worms
and plants such as the crinoids, known only to grow in deep
water environments starting at a depth of 600 feet and deeper
Moving up the chart we see creatures with increased mobility,
just as we would expect to find in the fishes and nautiloids
being chased and covered by subsurface turbidity sediments, (as
described by Dr. Austin in a previous chapter) then destroyed
and trapped in layers, precisely as they are found in square
miles of deposits world-wide. These would naturally be followed
and sometimes commingled with the sinking reptiles, often found
as such co-located in the fossil record. (So found in the public
displays of the Morrison Formation at the National Dinosaur
Monument at Vernal, UT.)
Last at the top, we have humans, land and marine mammals. From a
flood perspective, portions of the chart tell a story
Animals that bloat and float (like the mammals) would often be
found entombed higher in the layers; they being dismembered and
buried last, depending upon the rapidity of the covering. Of
course, as the flood was not a calm and uniform event, we would
expect to find exceptions, such as that in Alaska where we have
dinosaurs buried above mammals at Colville River on the North
Slope, with a coal layer between! One must also assume the
better runners and swimmers would find high ground before being
overcome, people inclusive, they knowledgeable of the ultimate
demise. Such would account for human fossil deposits being found
higher as they moved to safe ground, explaining why few are
found in proportion to the heavier reptiles buried early on.
We can assume floating biomasses existed for square miles in
various places, this an intermingled body of dead corpses and
vegetable masses, some sinking and covered by sediments, and
some creating the coal and oil deposits we see today. Among the
coal formations we find many fossils: e.g. a shark was unearthed
as recently as 2010 in coal, a date of over 200 million years
... with no C-14 testing at all!
<EXPLAIN DEEP LAYERS OF COAL.>
These floating masses would have attracted carrion eaters of all
types including the large sharks, evidenced by the type of bone
fracturing exhibited in many deposits and shark teeth remains,
especially among the ossifurous deposits previously mentioned.
With the detonation of the volcanoes we could expect tremendous
underwater die offs
Here animals such as whales and marine mammals are piled en
masse,[i][ii]
Also found are mass deposits of fish, many with arched backs and
other marks of stress, suggestive of concussion death where
complete schools were annihilated leaving deposits measured in
many square miles.
We may assume people didn't choose to live near areas where the
larger dinosaurs lived as a case of habit, so we should expect
such an association in the fossil record rare.
this comment from Dan Batton of CMI[iii] in 2013
Gradually, more and more evidence is being discovered ... that
dinosaurs and other creatures ... mammals and dinosaurs ...
coexisted[iv]
=1. The only case where the apparent superposition may be
deceptive is where the strata have been inverted, as in the
Alps, where the rocks composing huge mountain masses have been
so completely overturned that the highest beds appear as if
regularly covered by others, which ought properly to underlie
them." [v]
Geikie also discuses the common formation of inter-bedding,
where wedges of various strata inter-tongue perfectly, allowing
for no space in time ,and explains the development of such
features occurring in the present along beach formations found
in the UK, but on a smaller scale.
=2b. He goes on to explain the phenomena known now as
"Polystrate Trees" where individual tree trunks span [supposed]
multiple geologic time intervals
=0. Dr. Edmund Spiekler ... states: ... how many of us realize
that the time scale was frozen in essentially its present form
by 1840? How much world geology was known in 1840? A bit of
Western Europe, none too well, and a lesser fringe of eastern
North America.
=1. And in many parts of the world, notably India and South
America, it does not fit. ...[vi]"
[i]
HTML http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26343894
[ii]
HTML http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/10/photogalleries/arctic-monster/photo5.html
[iii] Creation Ministries International www.creation.com
[iv] Creation Ministries International newsletter, Mr. Don
Batten Oct 28, 2013
[v] Archibald Geikie Text-Book of Geology 1885, sec. ed.
Selections
[vi] Edmund M. Spieker: “Mountain-Building Chronology and Nature
of Geologic Time-Scale,” Bulletin American Association of
Petroleum Geologists, Vol. 40, August 1956, p. 1803.
[vii] Whitcomb, J and Morris, H. (1961). The Genesis Flood (pp.
209-211). Phillipsburg: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing
Company.
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=1. Chief Mountain of the 360 mile Lewis Range. The older strata
sit atop the younger with a missing gap of 400 Million years!
Amazingly, the water that eroded the Grand Canyon cut through
... these upper layers to the First Earth sediments. In the
image above notice the tilted layers beneath the red line,
directly slicing through a spot where the first-earth layers
lay. Further, we find these primal layers tilted and fractured,
sitting at angles. This indicates the entire crust was smashed
at this locale.
we have at the bottom layers of the canyon the original earth
eroded off flat, as if by a giant rock saw. What layer sits
directly above this cut? Hundreds of feet of near pure sandstone
... full of marine fossils! Note this layer is intercontinental
in size, extending over a million square miles!
[i] Geology of the summit limestone of Mount (Everest) of the
Yellow Band 2005 Harutaka, Sakai etal Un of Tokyo 12/2005;
14(4):297
[ii] Morris & Whitcomb The Genesis Flood 1961 Pres& Reformed Pub
p. 199
[iii] Archibald Geikie Text-Book of Geology 1885, sec. ed.
Selections
[iv] Price, The New Geology
[v]Price, George McCready Evolutionary Geology and the New
Catastrophism Pacific Press Publishing Association (1926):
p.335-
[vi] Price, George McCready, “Evolutionary Geology and the New
Catastrophism” Pacific Press Publishing Association (1926): p.
337
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=2a. Mt Everest summit rocks contain trilobites, brachiopods and
chronids, said to be of the 600 MY old Ordovician age. These sit
atop much younger limestone’s of the Cretaceous, dated between
14 and 40 Million years using isotope methods in the "Yellow
Band."[i]
Matterhorn rocks of supposed 40 Million year age sit at the base
of the pinnacle, directly under the oldest rocks of the 225 MYr
old Triassic period. Theorists say the upper layers came from
Africa.[ii]*
*Geikie observes: "…in the Alps, where the rocks composing huge
mountain masses have been so completely overturned that the
highest beds appear as if regularly covered by others, which
ought properly to underlie them."[iii]
In the Grand Canyon ... the Ordovician, Silurian and
Carboniferous units representing 270 Million years are missing.
Isotope dating of magmatic flows show the upper flow dates older
than the canyon bottom flow by over 200 MY!
The Mt St Helens valley (right hand image) was cut out in a
single day. The Grand Canyon [took a little longer]....
=1. On the left, notice the exposed rough walls cutting through
the granites, indicative of a past catastrophic event, not from
slow erosion processes of the Colorado River as geology texts
claim. Can a river eroding one-grain-of-sand at a time leave the
jagged edges (dark rock center left and right)? No, rivers leave
smooth walls. The Mt St. Helens eruption and the Missoula Flood
taught geologists a catastrophic gush of flood water can rip
through mountains!
The Tapeats ... covers millions of square miles
The Tapeats is classified as a turbidity - a high speed
underwater mud flow. As can be determined from the wide
distribution of this formation, a "local Flood" was not involved
in this massive deposit.
"You are Here" The Tapeats sandstone contact zone at canyon
bottom indicate tremendous forces and heat enough to melt
granite.
The Great Unconformity - close up and personal. Here you can see
the heat tempering caused by the friction, weight and the sawing
action of millions of tons of water laden sediments from the
flood. They acted cutting off the tops of these granite blocks,
(actually mountain ranges) by the Tapeats sands near the bottom
of the Grand Canyon.
The Great Unconformity contact zone exhibits' heat, severe
compression and a perfectly defined event horizon, only ˝” thick
in places. ...[i]"
Now ... consider another formation ... the Tyee formation in
Oregon.
[i] Snavely, Park et al 1964 see
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=1. The Tyee deposit, (top arrow) extends across a thousand
square miles of the Oregon Coast range, here at 4,000 ft!
A section of water deposited hi-speed mudflow with fossils makes
up the (RH) peak of the Mary's summit at the 4,000 foot level.
Deep sea drilling revealed its thickness is in excess of 10,000
feet at sea!
The hump just to the right of the summit in the upper image is
actually a sandstone turbidity deposit (a high-speed underwater
mudflow).
The Coast Range in Oregon is a result of the Pacific Plate being
rapidly pushed under the North American Continental Plate, which
bulged this area vertically. The Tyee shows up atop many of the
mountains near and south of Mary’s, substantially thicker in
places and tilting to the south.
A recent study using spectral analysis of the granules that make
up the Tyee pinpointed a new origin of the material - the Rocky
Mountains![i]
It would appear the Continental Divide uplift caused a westward
current off-flow, eroding the Rockies. Their particles became
the Tyee, flowing to the west to the ocean, not from the south,
as postulated [previously].
A 1964 USGS study completed by Dr. Parke D. Snavely, Jr., Holly
C. Wagner, and Norman S. MacLeod[ii] documents the Geology of
the Tyee, showing the area was reformed by a tremendous
catastrophe involving volcanism, pyroclastic flows, ash and
water in the not too distant past. The study elaborates for
pages describing how this part of the west was catastrophically
destroyed volcanically and redistributed by water, leaving
deposits like the Tyee behind, building to a thickness of up to
10-15,000 feet! A “pyroclastic flow” of ash debris infused with
superheated water.... Such massive geologic work would have
affected the entire world, doing more geologic work than
Krakatoa itself!
What actually forms many valley features (as determined from the
St. Helens and Missoula Flood events) is that these high speed
clastic flows of volcanic debris simply dredge out valley
channels as they move (some found moving up to 60 MPH). In other
words, the drainage formed is a result of fast formed channels,
not from water erosion for eons of time!
Professor Ewart Baldwin, University of Oregon's Geology
department Director for many years, stated that the Tyee was
formed quickly and eroded rapidly! The Tyee carried the land
borne sediment to the sea as the "waters ran continually off the
earth"
[i] HEELER, P. et al 1985. Isotopic provenance of sandstones
from the Eocene Tyee Formation, Oregon, Geological Society of
America Bulletin, 96, 770-80.
(
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[ii] Geology of Oregon, Baldwin Ewart M. 1964 fig. 9 "Cross
section through the Central Coast Range" FIG 2 Tyee deposition
map image
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=1. The 10,000 foot homogenous Tyee sandstone deposit (LH)
compared to the Grand Canyon (RH) for scale
The Grand Canyon (RH) layers reach 7,000 feet above the canyon
floor. On the left, the Tyee, a single homogenous deposit of
6,000-15,000 feet, deposited and eroded "rapidly" per the late
Dr. Ewart Baldwin - Geology of Oregon 1976 &. Dr. Parke Snavely,
etal 1964.
Dr. Baldwin[i] mentions the Tyee formation's great thickness and
states: [it] "must have been deposited catastrophically."
So we have the Tyee, another monument to catastrophe on Mary's
Peak, the Last Mountain Standing.
[i] Baldwin, Ewart M. Geology of Oregon Kendall Hunt Publishers,
1964 and 1976 p. 7, 24
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=1. Figure 85 Cross section of the Lewis Overthrust ... 360 mile
range
The Lewis Range has trilobites and other "older" fossils within
the top layers, and far younger fossils according to the
"geologic chart" in the base.
The classic example [of Overthrusts] is found in Montana and
British Columbia in the Lewis Range
Commenting on the chapter concerning "Thrust Faults" (such as
the Lewis and other anomalies) compared to uniformity, Michael
Oard23 comments:
"As the mountains uplifted, the authors point out that some of
them spread laterally, thrusting rocks over the surrounding
lowlands (cited ref. p. 12). This would account for all the
thrust faults, if indeed they are real. Do the authors (Oard
says), or anybody else, know the cause of such recent vertical
tectonics? Does the lack of a mechanism nullify the authors’
field deductions? The answer is no. They provide a list of 20
possible mechanisms for vertical tectonics, none of which can be
demonstrated to be occurring today.”
Dr. John Morris ... mentions that geologists estimate 90% of all
the [mountain] ranges are less than 5 million years old, (some
less than 2 [million]) ...[iii]
[The author says] the tectonic forces ... created them quickly
accordion style!
[i] Price quoting Dana, Manual, p. 365
[ii] Price, quoting Willis, Research in Asia, Vol. 2, p. 24.
[iii] Morris, John D, The Global Flood 2013 p
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=1. Figure 86 ... The material was deposited level at the onset
of the Flood, the missing material eroded as the Flood waters
rushed off the earth’s surface. Such hill structures are the
most common in the world.
Europe
The Caspian Basin in Europe is a huge "sink" that contains many
uniform layers of water deposited sediments: It is filled by
sedimentary rocks measuring up to 17.4 miles or 28 km thick!
[iv]
This deep sedimentary basin is somewhat circular with a diameter
... 350 km by 550 km.[vi]
“The Caspian Sea basins of Central Eurasia constitute one of the
major petroleum provinces of the world (Devlin et al., 1999)"
The geology around the perimeter of this area shows no signs of
the ability to seasonally transport sediments to this extent.
[See
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Africa
Concerning Africa, and large-scale planation surfaces [level
plains], especially those existing at altitude, are difficult to
explain by any other mechanism than the withdrawal of the
Flood’s waters in its late stage. Oard states: "These occur all
over the world, although one of the most remarkable is that
found in Africa.[viii] The African Surface, as it is called,
covers most of Africa. Mountains, rift flank uplifts, and
volcanoes were all once eroded down to form this planation
surface up until the Mid Cenozoic. ... Then it was tectonically
deformed, causing the erosion that created the Great Escarpment
that circles southern Africa — also within the Late Cenozoic.
The Great Escarpment is up to 9,800 feet or 3,000 m high in
southeast Africa and is called the Drakensberg. (... the
geologic work involved would be hard to image happening today)
that would explain such widespread erosion, both in creating the
original large planation surface and the subsequent Great
Escarpments. The strong implication is that the Flood created
these features and the Flood/post-Flood boundary in much of
Africa is in the very late Cenozoic.[ix]"
Plains and Hills
Oard[x] reports that Ollier and Pain maintain that after the
base strata were folded by tectonic events, they were planed
down to form flat surfaces, called planation surfaces, on all
the continents, including Antarctica (cited text p. 214). This
process cut across most previously folded sedimentary rocks, and
smoothed both the hard and soft rocks evenly. "Even massive
granites were "planed" over in many areas, as in the Tien Shan
Mountains of central Asia (p. 144). The original surfaces were
planed down to what is called base level, which the authors show
is usually considered sea level (p. 3). Its interesting that one
area occupied by the Apennines Mountains of Italy today, was
planed below sea level!"
Some planation surfaces are very flat, such as the plains of
Australia and Africa (p. 1). Oard explains: "Ollier and Pain
marvel how such planation could have occurred at all and that it
was widespread" citing the authors:
“The remarkable thing is that plains of great perfection are
even made, ... But ... planation surfaces were widespread before
the uplift of the many mountains of Plio-Pleistocene [recent]
age” (p. 302)."
Oard comments: "The authors expressed surprise because the
observed surfaces are inconsistent with their uniformitarian
worldview. Present processes roughen surfaces, forming rills,
coulees and valleys. Planed surfaces do not develop today,
except on a very local scale.... Furthermore, the field
relationships show that planation in the past mostly occurred in
the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene period (p. 302), suggesting that
it occurred rapidly...."
Australia
"The Kimberly Plateau of north central Australia that was planed
in the Proterozoic (ancient rock) and has apparently not been
covered by protecting sediments since then (p. 27). It defies
imagination how such a surface could have remained so flat for
600 million years or more, when present processes could dissect
a continent and erode it to near sea level in 10 to 33 million
years. The presence of such ‘old’ planation surfaces is
objective evidence that the dating methods, both fossil and
radiometric, used to date the time of planation are wrong. Oard
notes.[xi]"
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=1. Mountains uplifted globally in Plio-Pleistocene
- Oard continues: "Ollier and Pain believe this time frame is
the origin of nearly all mountains and have an impressive amount
of evidence to back up their conclusion.
- He says "In the mountains today we observe all stages of this
past dissection.
- Some planation surfaces were dissected completely during
uplift, leaving behind rough mountains with no sign of a
planation surface.
- In other mountains, the planation surface is left on the top
as an erosional remnant.
- Sometimes these planation surfaces are at different altitudes
in the mountains due to differential uplift.
- The highest mountains in Montana, the Beartooth Mountains, are
an excellent example of this.
- They display impressive flat topped granitic peaks at a height
of about 4,000 m."
Oard summarizes; "they present an impressive table of mountains
from all over the world that uplifted during ... the Pliocene
and Pleistocene (pp. 304–306)."
*Oard, M.J., Antiquity of landforms: objective evidence that
dating methods are wrong
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=1. North America
"The origin of far-transported, resistant, well-rounded
quartzite rocks in the northwest United States and adjacent
Canada has been documented.[i] These gravel-to boulder-sized
rocks have been transported up to 1,200 km east of the Rocky
Mountains and 650 km west, and have filled deep paleovalleys
with over 4,500 [meters] of thick conglomerate in eastern Idaho
and northwest Wyoming.
The Bighorn Basin is about 190 km north-south and 110 km
east-west, an area of 20,900 km2
a widespread erosional event must have removed at least 744 m of
the basin fill in the eastern half of the basin…it must have
been transported a great distance, perhaps all the way off the
continent.[ii]
in the Bighorn Basin, Oard mentions: "Some of the gravel is
quartzite, but the closest source of quartzite is central Idaho
... about 400 km away. ...[iii]"
Asia
Oard comments; "Although the coarse gravel in south-central Asia
was not transported as far [as in the United States], it
accumulated in thicker sheets; often reaching 1,000 [meters]
with a maximum of around 3,000 [meters]! All of the erosion of
the mountains and the accumulation of thick gravel occurred in
the Late Cenozoic." Oard continues: "Similar gravel deposits
have been found in south-central Asia.[vii] The transport of
resistant rocks from the erosion of the surrounding mountains in
that locale is somewhat different from that in the northwest
United States and Canada, in that the gravel mainly forms an
apron around the edges of the surrounding basins. Although the
coarse gravel in south-central Asia was not transported as far,
it accumulated in thicker sheets; often reaching 1,000 m with a
maximum of around 3,000 m!"
[i] J. Creation 21(1):98–110, 2007. p 105
[ii] Duller, R.A., Whittaker, A.C., Swinehart, J.B., Armitage,
J.J., Sinclair, H.D., Bair, A. and Allen, P.A., Abrupt landscape
change post–6 Ma on the central Great Plains, USA, Geology
40(10):871–874, 2012.
[iii] Oard, M.J., Hergenrather, J. and Klevberg, P., Flood
transported quartzites east of the Rocky Mountains, J. Creation
19 (3):76–90, 2005
[iv] Knapp, C.C., Knapp, J.H. and Connor, J.A., Crustal-scale
structure of the South Caspian Basin revealed by deep seismic
reflection profiling, Marine and Petroleum Geology 21:1073–1081,
2004.
[v] Artyushkov, E.V., Formation of the superdeep South Caspian
basin: subsidence driven by phase change in continental crust,
Russian Geology and Geophysics 48:1002–1014, 2007Oard, M.J., The
geological column is a general Flood order with many exceptions;
in: Reed, J.K. and Oard, M.J. (Eds.), The Geological Column:
Perspectives within Diluvial Geology, Creation Research Society
Books, Chino Valley, AZ, pp. 99–121, 2006.
[vi] Nadirov, R.S., Bagirov, E., Tagiyev, M. and Lerche, I.,
Flexural plate subsidence, sedimentation rates, and structural
development of the super-deep South Caspian Basin, Marine and
Petroleum Geology 14:383–400, 1997.
[vii] Oard, M.J., Retreating Stage formation of gravel sheets in
south-central Asia, J. Creation 25(3):68–73, 2011
[viii] Oard, M.J., The remarkable African planation surface, J.
Creation 25(1): 111–122, 2011.Oard, M.J., The geological column
is a general Flood order with many exceptions, J. Creation
24(2):78–82, 2010.
[ix] Oard, M.J., Is the geological column a global sequence? J.
Creation 24(1):56– 64, 2010
[x]
HTML http://creation.com/mountains-rose
[xi] Oard, M.J., Antiquity of landforms: objective evidence that
dating methods are wrong, CEN Tech. J 14(1):35–39, 2000
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