Dating in Hawaii

Great post Harlequin. I also started a post on this very topic a while back (YEC Challenge: Hawaiian Islands).In addition to the horizontal movement of the plate, the islands are also subsiding. In fact, seamounts thousands of kilometers away from the Big Island have submerged coral reefs. These reefs can be 50 meters underwater. Coral, if it is to survive, can only be in 1-2 meters of water. The depth of these dead coral reefs also correlates with the measured subsidence of the Hawaiian islands.

Thank you all for the corrections on coral depth. Marine biology is not my strong suit, so thanks for showing the errors of my ways.What I should have said is that the SPECIES of coral skeletons found in deep water on these seamounts is consistent with gradual subsidence. In addition, U/Th dating of the coral correlates with this gradual subsidence (and against a young earth). Is that better?