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Why not?Please describe your reservations.

So, your reasoning is that Paul is desperate?And just what are the 'costs'? But this is an assertion, not a reason or evidence. Quite wrong. No one sees this but you.The layers are not parallel across unconformities just as the Old Red Sandstone beds are not parallel to the underlying Silurian rocks at Siccar Point. Or do you deny that, also? So, just feet away from granite and schist, you have unmetamorphosed sediments that were deformed at the same time as the schist?Please explain. There could be a reason for that ... You are the only one to find it 'weird'.Perhaps it's time to reconsider some of your preconceived notions about geology.

Of course not. If you were shown such a situation in conformable strata, you'd simply deny the fact of an unconformity because the layers would be parallel.By showing deformed situations, you can see the effect more clearly in angular unconformities. Then you are reaching. You position is unbelievable.

Here is a schematic diagram showing the formation of flexural flow folds. This requires a degree of plasticity and usually occurs in a dynamic metamorphic situation.There are other types of fold mechanisms.

The little circles are traditional symbology for a conglomerate. The fact that they are round shapes refers to the rounded nature of conglomeratic fragments.

I'm sure that most of us find Faith's casual dismissals and misplaced air of superiority to be offensive. However, I think that we need not worry. Such distortions of reality are self-defeating. No one is going to be convinced by such anti-science denial that we see here, and if Faith wishes to cling to a distorted reality, we have the satisfaction of knowing that she represents but one person. An oddity, not a great hindrance to knowledge.

And why should be believe you over our own observations and those of geologists who have made thousands of observations previously?By the way, how many exceptions would it take for you to abandon your take on erosion? No, you have not explained it, you have only asserted it. Most of us would say that there is a missing record, but not missing time. Again, this is just an assertion. You do not show an understanding of the time scale in the first place. Again, an assertion. You do not explain angular unconformities nor why deeper strata are more deformed that shallow strata. And yet the older rocks are more disturbed. How is that to occur within your 'block of sedimentary rocks"? Another assertion. Why are the Supergroup rocks more disturbed than the Paleozoic sequence and less disturbed than the Vishnu series? So, how many such exceptions do you want before your notion collapses?And just how may blocks do you have? Please define a single block for us so that we can get some idea of your neighborhood. I get that Twilight Zone feeling every time I read one of your posts.

So, is a 'block' the same as a 'unit'?

And your blocks are unchanging as far as size and composition?

Fine.All I mean is that they change in time. In size or composition, etc.Just trying to figure out how someone could be so confused.So when the GC Supergroup was deformed (faulted and tilted), they were still part of the block that contained the Paleozoic rocks above, right?

The fallacy there is that if the upper and lower parts of the block are deformed separately, are they still a block? I thought that you said they deformed and eroded as a unit, but your narrative here rejects that. Perhaps you can describe this 'tectonic pressure'. What mechanism would cause a 'global scale' deformation? A cute theory, perhaps. Something fit for a 'nice' science fantasy novel, but not a theory grounded in reality.

This is true and demonstrably so. We know that the oceanic crust slowly subsides away from the mid-ocean ridges based on depth of the abyssal plains and the subsidence of the Hawaii-Emperor seamount chain. So the principle of isostatic adjustments due to cooling and thickening of the oceanic crust is established.It isn't hard to imagine that increasing the temperatures of the upper mantle over time will cause a rise in the elevation of the oceanic crust thereby displacing seawater across the continents (or cooling for the reverse effect).This is probably the cause of the stratigraphic mega-sequences recognized in the geological record. These are global events even though the may not show up on all continents (as per Pressie).I think what Percy was envisioning was a catastrophic collapse of the sea floor after flood waters were supposedly vented violently to the surface. Of course, this doesn't work. You can't just leave a vacuum where the water had resided ... the seafloor must collapse.But this is an interesting topic even outside of the biblical flood debate. So many things come together with with grand theories such as mega-sequences.

Well, then, the Paleozoic and Precambrian sedimentary rocks are in different blocks because they are not undergone the same deformation, yes?And also, PLEASE explain the unconformities to us. Please document this. Is the East African Rift part of that break-up? So, the deformation occurred before the Tertiary rocks were deposited. Except for the problem of not conforming to the facts, sure.So you had the mountains forming in western North America and the continents breaking up in eastern North America.When did the Appalachians form?

Except that there was no world-wide flooding, and there were six transgressions, and there were mountain-building events going on at the same time. And it has taken about a half billion years to happen. That does not follow.Edited by edge, : No reason given.Edited by edge, : No reason given.

Ah, it must be bliss to be unconstrained by facts. So you just handwave away all angular unconformities.That's convenient.