spotlight wrote:LittleNipper wrote:http://www.wasdarwinright.com/geologicalcolumn.htm
What's the matter Little Nip? Are you out of ammo? You keep reposting stuff that has already been refuted.
"The column is supposed to represent a vertical cross-section through the earth’s crust, with the most recently deposited (therefore youngest) rocks at the surface and the oldest, earliest rocks deposited on the crystalline “basement” rocks at the bottom. If one wishes to check out this standard column (or standard geologic age system), where can he go to see it for himself? There is only one place in all the world to see the standard geologic column. That’s in the textbook! ... almost any textbook, in fact, that deals with evolution or earth history. A typical textbook rendering of the standard column is shown in Figure 44. This standard column is supposed to be at least 100 miles [160 km] thick (some writers say up to 200 [320 km]), representing the total sedimentary activity of all of the geologic ages. However, the average thickness of each local geologic column is about one mile (in some places, the column has essentially zero thickness, in a few places it may be up to 16 or so miles [25 km], but the worldwide average is about one mile [1.6 km]). The standard column has been built up by superposition of local columns from many different localities." (Morris and Parker, 1982 - Emphasis in original). From The geological column: Does it exist? To top
The entire column exists in North Dakota and several other places around the globe. Since your link starts with an outright lie I'll leave you to yourself to wallow in your religion which must be the same, a lie.
I am unsure if the website is just a failure to understand or and intentional destruction of understanding.
If all the layers of sedimentary rock were laid down in one world wide event one would expect to find them all all over the place. Normally they are not and considering what is missing in one area and how that area fits with other areas start to tell a story of what happened. The web site skips that and in skipping that avoids almost all of geology.
this web site does not talk about the large amounts of igneous and metamorphic rocks in the world. Why ? because how they fit together with the sedimentary rocks starts to show how very different sorts of events have happened at different times.
In the Wallowa mountains of northeastern Oregon there are high peaks made of granitic rock right next to peaks of metamorphised limestone next to multiple layered sedimentary rock. How did these get fit together? They are all above the 3000 ft thick layer of basalt which in Hells Canyon next door is on top of these same layers of sedimentary rock. These sedimenary rocks have been bent into great folds like a rumpled rug but the top of the curve is all gone.
Fitting these together tells a story. The sediments were laid down flat and thick in the ocean. To have layers of limestone and layers of mudsilt stone inbetween shows changing periods of activity. In the Wallows there are areas of alternating layers miles thick(they now lie at a steep diagonal so deep is visible going up the canyon) These layers at first flat were compressed together into folds thousands of feet deep. After that igneous rock was injected into big underground pools where cooling slowing turned into rock with minerals sperated out into crystals unlike lava cooling quickly on the surface. This granitic rock got to the top of mountains because the area was raised up into a mountain range which at least once (appears more than once) was eroded away into low hills. that is why the top of the sediment curves are all gone and the granite brought to the top.
A very interesting feature here is that south of the current higher peaks is an area composed of the same collection of rocks. but all low rounded hills almost level. This area is surrounded by the Columbia plateau basalt like a sea surrounding an island. Clearly the Wallowa mountains were worn to a low mound before the basalt eruptions started. Those basalt eruptions were not at once, there are layers of soil and sediment between them those some of those layers are thin. After the time the basalt was spread out the Wallowa mountains were raised up again some three thousand feet. Interestingly though this left the south end of the island at the low elevation the new mountain making raised a few pieces of the basalt cake on the East end of the mountains (Aneroid peak, where the basalt and granitic rock fit together)
This last uplift of the Wallowa mountains is most recent event in a long series of events observed here. Yet the mountains have been there long enough that deep canyons have been eroded. Glaciers have carved out large basins extending down canyons even to dig a lake at the northedge of the mountains. The glarciers have subsequently melted but their fingerprints are all over the mountains.
The Minam river flows from the center of the montains and within five miles of its source it is in a canyon over 3000 feet deep cut out of solid granitic block. I mention that because this rock is quite hard and comes in massive form not pieces. It is slow to be eroded by a small stream.
3000 feet deep, that canyon in the most recent mountain creation, last of a series of mountain creations, was not recent.
(if nobody cares about this little story, ok, I enjoy going over some of it from time to time. It takes my memory to places I enjoy)
