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Posted on 02/27/2015 11:00:14 AM PST by fishtank
The Whopper Sand
by Tim Clarey, Ph.D. *
Evidence for Creation
There’s a huge deposit of sand in the deep Gulf of Mexico, and no one seems to know how it got there—except maybe Flood geologists.
Early in my career as a geologist for an oil company, we were told not to prospect in water deeper than 2,000 feet. Most offshore oil is found in sand layers sandwiched between thick layers of mud and clay, and our management believed no sand could get that far offshore, and drilling costs were too high.
However, in 2001 the BAHA 2 well was drilled through almost 7,800 feet of water and into the Wilcox Sand at the base of the Tejas Megasequence. The drillers found 1,100 feet of nearly continuous sand. This discovery shocked geologists, who termed it the “Whopper Sand,”1 and paved the way for numerous nearby discoveries of billions of barrels of oil.
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(Facepalm)
“There’s a huge deposit of sand in the deep Gulf of Mexico, and no one seems to know how it got there”
Uh, sand is created by the seas ... the ocean floor.
The evolosers lost this argument a long time ago.
They’re even trying to make faith in their religious fantasy a litmus test for public office.
There was a time when the testimony of an atheist was inadmissible in court. Though we may consider that harsh by modern standards, it was at least logical. After all, to what transcendent, objective, external authority does the atheist subject himself? If he lies and no living body discovers it, there are no consequences as far as the atheist is concerned.
But evolution isn’t even logical. Just in the face of probability and thermodynamics, it fails utterly, let alone genetics, geology, etc.
So the proximity of this sand deposit to the mouth of one of the largest rivers in the world couldn’t even be remotely related to an alluvial sand deposit?
That’s akin to the proposal that ISIS terrorism has nothing at all to do with Islam.
SANDMAN
America
Ain’t it foggy outside?
All the planes have been grounded
Ain’t the fire inside?
Let’s all go stand around it
Funny, I’ve been there and you’ve been here
And we ain’t had no time to drink that beer
‘Cause I understand you’ve been running from the man
That goes by the name of the Sandman
He flies the sky like an eagle in the eye
Of a hurricane that’s abandoned
Ain’t the years gone by fast?
I suppose you have missed them
Oh, I almost forgot to ask
Did you hear of my enlistment?
Funny, I’ve been there and you’ve been here
And we ain’t had no time to drink that beer
‘Cause I understand you’ve been running from the man
That goes by the name of the Sandman
He flies the sky like an eagle in the eye
Of a hurricane that’s abandoned
I understand you’ve been running from the man
That goes by the name of the Sandman
He flies the sky like an eagle in the eye
Of a hurricane that’s abandoned
I understand you’ve been running from the man
That goes by the name of the Sandman
He flies the sky like an eagle in the eye
Of a hurricane that’s abandoned
I understand you’ve been running from the man
That goes by the name of the Sandman
He flies the sky like an eagle in the eye
Of a hurricane that’s abandoned
Bump
No it does not. The flood deposits by the Mississippi river are completely different from what is in the deep gulf. I live on the river. My house is built on alluvial soil, the same that flows out the delta to the gulf.
IT IS NOT REMOTELY THE SAME
The sand is of a different nature and to be deposited over 40 thousand square miles to a depth of 1500 deep! ….you go figure how many years it would take the Mississippi River to do that with sand that it doesn’t carry in its flow….
Evolutionists are all the same… they refuse to see the obvious right in front of them.
Your god must be very small to fit in that little box of yours.
Well, now I’m fully & finally convinced the Earth is 6,000 years old. (/s)
And Mr. Clarey latches on to the most bizarre one of all.
Is it really “sand” - or is it sandstone? If it is truly sand - that is odd. Sandstone - so what. Ocean levels, continents, etc. have been all over the place, different levels, etc.
I came across an odd one though. On the coast of Oregon there is basalt rock - square miles of it. They drilled through one spot near the shore and went through 100+ feet of basalt. When they got through it they were into soft sand!
I’m guessing it was a basalt flow that is fairly recent and flowed over the old beach.
And while I do see evidence for a long geologic history of the earth, I also believe that God created it.
Soooo
ARE there other deposits like this elsewhere on Earth?
Should be an easy question to answer by now...yet the article leaves it as a big mystery. Is there one off the coast of Brazil? Africa?
SHOULD be known if there is...this one has apparently been known for years...
It was Anne Lamott who said, “You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out he hates all the same people you do.”
Well said. Thank you for the quote!
The deep ocean floor is basalt, not sandy like the shallows near the continental shelf.
Sand is created mostly by the weathering and erosion of rock. Some is from the breakdown of shells and corals.
SandSTONE is a rock formed from sand, not vice-versa.
Some sand, such as is found in White Sands, New Mexico (gypsum, not silica) is even water-soluble.
For background, see geology.com
Then maybe you can grace us with the fail that is your theory of petrified wood.
“So the proximity of this sand deposit to the mouth of one of the largest rivers in the world couldn’t even be remotely related to an alluvial sand deposit?”
If it’s due to the river, we would expect to see similar deposits associated with other large river systems, but we don’t. Rivers deposit their sand on the continental shelf, some of it stays there in river deltas, and the rest is spread back along the nearby coastlines by the incoming waves from the sea. In order for the sand to be carried out further, to the deep ocean, something with greater force than the incoming waves must have propelled it there. Normal river deposition simply doesn’t fit that bill.
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