Karen:This happened on a friend's front porch during the summer in Southern
California. We didn't take pictures. Perhaps you can observe it yourself
in a suitable place next summer.
I have no doubt that you observed something which you believed to be similar to varves that exhibited cycles, although lacking any measurements that will be hard to determine. So I take it that you really have no evidence, just some "story" about what you think you saw.
>
>
>I don't know enough about these salt layers to propose a specific
>explanation, but would not assume that their alternations must be yearly
>seasons or that their cycles must be multi-year. What characteristics of
>That they are seasonal is based on a variety of evidence.
>the layers lead you to affirm that they are?
What are the evidences? Inferences from palynology?
The contents of the layers, the observations in other lakes of seasonal layers.
This tells me that the layers were still bendable when much of the
formation had been deposited, indicating rapid sedimentation of the entire
deposit rather than deposition and crystalization of individual layers, one
per year.
That is how I read it.
So rock cannot "bend" ?