Mount St. Helens’ eruption on May 18, 1980 Image credit: U.S. Geological Survey
Posted on 05/14/2020 11:15:16 AM PDT by fishtank
Mount St. Helens, Living Laboratory for 40 Years
THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2020
Tim Clarey, Ph.D., and Frank Sherwin, M.A.
Nothing put a damper on uniformitarianism like the Mount St. Helens eruption on May 18, 1980. That explosion still echoes through the halls of the scientific establishment 40 years later. For nearly 150 years prior to the eruption, strict uniformitarianism reigned supreme in geology.
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"The cause of the sudden shift in thought was scientists’ direct observation of the effects of Mount St. Helens’ volcanic activity. Geologists documented that up to 400 feet of new strata have formed at the volcano since the first eruption in 1980.2 These deposits originated from air fall, pyroclastic flows, landslides, and even stream water. The geologists saw that laminated deposits (thin layers) can be produced quickly. Previously, laminated strata were believed to take many years to form, with possibly one layer laid down each year. We now know this assumption is false. One deposit at Mount St. Helens resulted in the creation of a 25-foot-thick finely laminated unit in a matter of hours!2
New studies show that rapid deposition is the norm, not the exception. Secular science has used the slow deposition of sediments like clay and lime mud (micrite) as an argument for an old earth, claiming that all clays form by slowly settling out of stagnant water. People have been indoctrinated with the notion that enormous periods of time are necessary to explain these thick rock layers."
Mount St. Helens’ eruption on May 18, 1980 Image credit: U.S. Geological Survey
Of tangential interest perhaps
I have some the ash still from my Grandparent’s yard in Ellensburg.
Will “scientists” ever be forced to say this about their “climate change consensus”?
I was at NAS Whidbey when that sucker blew.... from 300 miles away I heard it....it rattled dishes out of the cupboard
I lived in the Tri Cities at that time. We got less than the normal dust storms that we experienced on a regular basis in those days and every since.
It was humbling. To be mild about it.
Look at all that C02! If only there was some type of environmental international agreement that exempted 3rd world nations and ignored by nations like China and India and funded by confiscated American tax dollars and was sold to the public by a teenage girl with Asperger’s, this wouldn’t have happened!
The whole point of creation science is to justify a 4000 year old Earth. Taking evidence of regional catastrophic geology and extrapolating it to cover the entire earth is stupid science.
bump
It almost seems impossible that 40 years has passed in what seems, very quickly.
I have some the ash still from my Grandparent’s yard in Ellensburg.
Is it authentic?
RIP Harry Truman. He chose poorly
That’s a lotta ash. If you were going to bury it, you would need a huge ash hole.
There's no comparison between sedimentation and a local volcanic event in terms of timescale. No geologist claims otherwise.
Can’t believe it was that long ago.
Times flies even if you’re having a lousy time.
The rapid sedimentation, flood, log mat in Spirit Lake, canyons, etc were the after-effects of the volcano, not the volcano itself.
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