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Edge:But it would have to be raging. In fact, TB has told us that this is a catastrophic depositional event with rapid velocities that transported sand to cover a hundred thousand square miles in a matter of what must be days!"
TC:--Specimen ridge is not a hundred thousand square miles..
So TC you are saying that it was gentle flood that set these trees in place so that it looks like they grew there?
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Edge:By the way, you have to do this a lot more than 12 times. Specimen Ridge is just a tiny fraction of the geolocial record, and near the top at that. Exactly where did these trees come from after the world had been totally immersed so many times?"
TC--They came from oceanic areas where their hydrodynamic transport did not allow them to be deposited on land yet.
So TC, this non raging flood that set the trees in place had ripped them out by their roots in oceanic areas and transported them to Yellowstone!?
I'll bet it just happened to bring only the kind of trees that grow in the area too. Any takers? I suppose the others had the wrong hydrodynamics.
Edge you just don’t understand this flood. It can be fast and slow and gentle and violent in the same place at the same time. It can carry trillions of tons of sand 200 miles without dumping it and then preserve delicate animal tracks and raindrop impressions in the same sand as it spread it in dunes over 200,000 square miles and it can do this over and over while the animals come down and make tracks.
Now we learn that it can rip up trees and carry them thousands of mile and set them up without doing any noticeable damage to them. It can surge up and down dozens or hundreds of times over vast areas while animals come back and forth from "high ground to build nests ad leave tracks. It can surge away from an area while hundreds of thousands of cubic miles of water evaporate to deposit salt and then come back in with a layer of fine silt to make shale and then maybe later make some limestone and later more salt and then later surge away while soils develop at hyper speed. It can spread 10,000,000 laminations that mostly look a lot live varves smoothly over large areas in the Green River formation without leaving ripple marks.
It can rearrange all the world’s geology depositing thousands of feet of layered sediments of various kinds all over the world but be gentle enough that a 600 year-old man and his giant wooden boat full of animals are not broken up or capsized by the waves that are producing all these surges. What’s more it can do all this in a year.
Randy
[This message has been edited by Randy, 11-29-2002]
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