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Author Topic:   YECs, how do you explain meandering canyons?
Buzsaw
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Message 14 of 43 (169778)
12-18-2004 7:57 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Harlequin
12-05-2004 9:00 PM


I'm not necessarily a YEC since I believe we don't know how old the earth is, but I do believe the Genesis flood story. I don't have time to get into another debate, but I just wanted to present this possibility. If there were a big rush bringing down a huge quantity of soft sediment, the meandering possibly could occur subsequently as a fairly strong but not rushing amount of water continued down the now relatively, I say relatively, level sediment which would be deep but still quite soft. We see this sometimes on a small scale where erosion occurs in soft sediment of fairly gradual slopes. After the meandering is shaped, though yet fairly shallow, surging water from a succession of other small outbreaks or pockets of water upstream could cut the now shaped meandering much deeper rather quickly.
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Buzsaw
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Message 18 of 43 (169938)
12-19-2004 7:38 PM
Reply to: Message 17 by Harlequin
12-19-2004 6:14 PM


Re: A simple answer.
It does not matter what the alleged catastophic flood is the Noachian Deluge or a dam burst, it will not create a meander.
Have you considered my message 14 possibility?

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Buzsaw
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Message 23 of 43 (170127)
12-20-2004 1:56 PM
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12-19-2004 9:14 PM


Re: A simple answer.
It is NOT a possiblity.
Meanders will ONLY appear on a relatively level river course. A flood capable of digging out something as large as a canyon is not going to follow such a shallow meanders.
Unless you are willing to invoke a miracle, the Grand Canyon was formed by a river, and not a flood.
I said I didn't want to get into a debate on this, but it's frigid out here in the NE and have a little time to discuss this. You seem to have ignored the specifics of my post. I would apprecieate if you would copy and paste them and address these specific points I've made?

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