nevermorelenore: "Mount St Helens is a great demonstration of geological features produced in hours and days, contrary to what was previously thought to take millions or years..."
I'd think Grand Canyon stratigraphy could serve as a reasonable approximation.
As for Mount St. Helens, such features in no way resemble those formed over many millions of years.
Any geologist could tell the difference.
Of course, anti-scientists can always figure out ways to confuse one for the other, right?
Because it is impossible to have a continuous, non-interrupted series of sedimentary (or igneous) rock layers. Earth just doesn't work that way. Sedimentary layers are the result of sedimentary particles washed off of mountains or some other form of highlands, and once the elevated regions are erosionally reduced to a flat surface, sedimentary deposition, for the most, ends, and the sedimentary beds themselves begin to undergo the slow process of erosion.
It's a similar situation with igneous or ancient lava flows. Once the source is depleted, that's it. No more deposition.