[thackney]

Besides, in the Gulf of Mexico, we are getting oil 18,000 feet down. That's over three miles!

And still in a sedimentary basin comprised of materials laid down from the surface.

Take 1 inch of compacted sediment every thousand years. Now multiple by 400 million years. That is over 6 miles deep.

Where do you think all the sediment that runs out of the Mississippi and other rivers ends up?

[exit82]

Where does all the sediment come from to raise the level of the Earth six miles in all directions? C’mon.