Surtsey still surprises (land features thought to take millions of years form in less than a decade)

Journal of Creation ^ | David Catchpoole, P.hD.

[GodGunsGuts]

Surtsey still surprises

by David Catchpoole

After the island of Surtsey was born of a huge undersea volcanic eruption off Iceland in 1963,1 geologists were astonished at what they found.

As one wrote: ‘On Surtsey, only a few months sufficed for a landscape to be created which was so varied and mature that it was almost beyond belief.’2

There were wide sandy beaches, gravel banks, impressive cliffs, soft undulating land, faultscarps, gullies and channels and ‘boulders worn by the surf (see picture left), some of which were almost round, on an abrasion platform cut into the cliff.’2 And all of this despite the ‘extreme youth’3 of the island!

The geologists’ surprise is understandable, given the modern thinking that young Surtsey’s ‘varied and mature’ features ought to have needed long periods of time—millions of years—to form....

[Uncle Miltie]

Surtsey and my wife were born on the same day!

[GodGunsGuts]

I see a vacation spot in your future!

[carumba]

billions and billions of years. The half life of some isotopes and conjecture prove it.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Look up Spirit Lake, near Mt. St. Helens, sometime. The bark from the pine trees knocked into the lake fell off the trees, settled to the bottom and was covered with silt. It will be fully formed coal within a few more decades.

[GodGunsGuts]

Figure 2: Fine layering was produced within hours at Mt St Helens on June 12, 1980 by hurricane velocity surging flows from the crater of the volcano. The 25-foot thick (7.6 m), June 12 deposit is exposed in the middle of the cliff. It is overlain by the massive, but thinner, March 19,1982 mudflow deposit, and is underlain by the air-fall debris from the last hours of the May 18, 1980, nine-hour eruption. http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/1541/

[GodGunsGuts]

I will. I remember hearing something about that, but never followed up. Thanks a bunch—GGG

[Nathan Zachary]

"But but but according to the holy principle of uniformitarianism, this couldn’t have happened anywhere else on the earth, not ever, not at all! /typical evo Except maybe the grand canyon. Evo's still can't explain where billions of tons of silt from billions of years of erosion are that should be at the mouth of river where it dumps into the Pacific.

[demshateGod]

Thanks for the ping. I’d never heard of Surtsey before.

[Nathan Zachary]

"Yep—all you’re missing are the sedimentary layers that take millions/billions of years micro seconds to form."

See post #7

[devistate one four]

I had to respond to your post. I heard that it’s been named “engineers canyon” but I can’t find any info.
I’m glad I’m not the only one to have learned of it though

[GodGunsGuts]

LOL...How very perceptive of you, Metmom :o)

[GunRunner]

Evo's still can't explain where billions of tons of silt from billions of years of erosion are that should be at the mouth of river where it dumps into the Pacific.

It would probably help if you asked a geologist questions about erosion and earth, rather than a biologist.

[Buck W.]

Let’s assume that it is. Does that mean you can extrapolate this specific case to sedimentary layers in general? That you can ignore the incontrovertible geologial evidence that dates layers to hundreds of millions of years?

[Buck W.]

See post 25.

[Buck W.]

Make that post 33!

[Secret Agent Man]

The other thing they found was that acres of trees went sliding into a nearby lake, rolled around for days/weeks and were stripped of their bark, then got waterlogged and sank into the muck and were subsequently buried, at all different angles, and became petrified in a year or two.

Petrification always being regarded as occurring over thousands of years by geologists under ‘natural’ conditions.

[Buck W.]

“Evos” have nothing to do with this discussion. This post is about the age of the earth. However, your post does spring from the same incredible set of misperceptions that spawn such questions as, “If evolution really happened, why are there still monkeys, huh? Gotcha!”

[ottbmare]

Your wife really has things backwards. IKEA makes overpriced junk out of fiberboard. It may temporarily look attractive, but has no lasting value and will deteriorate with time.

But if you buy used furniture (and there’s lots of good stuff available, especially now) it will last for centuries. Refinish it and it looks new. Buy the right styles and they’ll never be out of fashion or look dated. Wooden furniture that’s not made of good mahogany, cherry, or walnut can be painted. One strong piece can make a room. Some of these things can be passed on to descendants when you are old, or resold.

You and your wife should consult some good shelter magazines for ideas. It just takes taste and imagination.

[CottShop]

[[How long do you suppose it took these sedimentary layers to form??? ]]

Don’t be silly- don’t you know that there are NO evidences for young earth or the flood? Don’t you know that evidences that have cropped up have been ‘explained away’ and ‘thoroughly refuted’ a logn time ago? Don’t you know that there is an ‘explanation’ for everyhting? (As long as you have a good imagination, and pention for story-telling?)

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Except maybe the grand canyon. Evo's still can't explain where billions of tons of silt from billions of years of erosion are that should be at the mouth of river where it dumps into the Pacific.

Shhhhhh, don't ask questions like that. It makes you sound unscientific.

/sarc