[longshadow]

Maybe it's a loss of hydraulic information?

Well, perhaps if by "hydraulic" you mean "precious bodily fluids".....

;-)

[Doctor Stochastic]

The Creationists continually claim that "hydraulic sorting" explains the fossil layers. (Note that they need to add incorrect physics to their incorrect geology to support their incorrect biology.) Layers such as silt-salt-silt-salt-silt-salt.... cannot happen from a single flood.