After describing some features of the Leadville Formation, Steve Smith said:
> Now the problem for YEC advocates is this. Someday, they are going to have
> to get away from single issues like paleokarst and leave the relatively
> simple geologic setting of the Grand Canyon - little more than a stratified
> sequence of different sediments - and tackle a tough geologic section. How
> can a single one year flood produce in one small area, a sequence of ...
>
> (1) quartz sandstones and carbonates; topped by
> (2) an extensive paleokarst surface; filled in with
> (3) oxidized muds and sulfides; overlain by
> (4) thick reduced marine shales
> (5) all cut by large faults which demonstrate that the earlier sediments
> were already consolidated and brittle; and then buried by
> (6) thousands of meters of oxidized arkosic conglomeratic sandstones;
> and/or
> (7) thousands of meters of evaporites; all covered by
> (8) shales and siltstones containing dinosaur bones; overlain by
> (9) quartz sandstones containing dinosaur footprints; drowned under
> (10) hundreds of meters of black marine shales; topped by more
> (11) quartz sandstones, shales, and coal beds containing additional
> dinosaur footprints;
> (12) cut again by huge fault zones, again demonstrating that earlier
> sediments were hard; and
> (13) intruded by multiple stocks and plutons with associated
> mineralization, alteration, and metamorphism; and then finally
> (14) cut by a large rift zone, which demonstrates that all of the
> intrusions were already cooled and solidified?
I just love it when you talk dirty (quartzy, paleokarsty, muddy, shaley,
sedimenty, sandstoney, evaporitey, silty, etc.) like this!
Howard Van Till
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