Figure 1. Uluru (Ayers Rock), central Australia
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Posted on 10/17/2018 10:56:02 AM PDT by fishtank
Inselbergs. Evidence for rapid Flood runoff.
by Michael Oard
As the world’s continents were uplifted from the waters of the global Flood, they were greatly eroded. During this massive erosion, the rocks that weren’t pulverized were transported hundreds of kilometres toward the oceans. The enormous power of the receding water, relentlessly shaving off the surfaces it flowed over, left behind large flat areas known as planation surfaces, along with coastal Great Escarpments, large natural bridges, and freestanding arches. Scientists studying conventional geomorphology find all these features puzzling because they ignore the Flood and rely only on slow erosion over millions of years, which does not work.
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Figure 1. Uluru (Ayers Rock), central Australia
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Hmmm...... global flood?
Actually, they don't. But nice strawman anyway.
From the article:
“Despite several hypotheses, the origin and supposed long survival of inselbergs is a mystery for the secular interpretation. Geomorphologists Twidale and Bourne state: “That an inselberg could survive for so long as is suggested here calls for considerable mental adjustment.”16 They later said that all hypotheses which attempt to explain the exposure of landforms for tens of millions of years fall short of solving the age problem:
“Various mechanisms and factors have been suggested in explanation of such very old palaeoforms (unequal activity, reinforcement mechanisms, stability of rocks when dry) … but they alleviate rather than resolve the difficulty.”17”
They once found them puzzling, and then through scientific inquiry, theory, testing and refinement, they explained them without resorting to magic.
It’s a rock that is more resistant to erosion than its surroundings. Nothing more complicated than that.
Good article, thanks for posting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluru
The remarkable feature of Uluru is its homogeneity and lack of jointing and parting at bedding surfaces, leading to the lack of development of scree slopes and soil. These characteristics led to its survival, while the surrounding rocks were eroded.[10]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluru
The remarkable feature of Uluru is its homogeneity and lack of jointing and parting at bedding surfaces, leading to the lack of development of scree slopes and soil. These characteristics led to its survival, while the surrounding rocks were eroded.[10]
Man, the arguments made in the article are scientifically wrong in so many ways. So MANY ways. It is like a child just tried to use his common sense in the absence of science.
I will take just one example.
They say the inselbergs can’t possibly be millions of years old, citing the fact they are eroding rapidly today. They make the erroneous assumption that the inselbergs were very nearly the size and shape when formed as they are today, and therefore could not have been eroding long.
They discount the scientific possibility that the current inselbergs are the result of million’s of years of erosion at current rates. It is very possible they were much wider when initially formed and have eroded over the millions of years since.
This is just one fallacy. Just like the simplistic assumption on their part. The article is riddled with such. It reads like a bad high school essay. Or rather a good essay for high school, but bad for a true scientific scholar.
Google Younger Dryas Comet Impact.
Possible theory that an impact of a comet or fragments blew up a glacial sheet above Laurentian shield in Canada, Great Lakes, northern europe causing a huge (HUGE) melt and global, historic change.
Amazing thing is that there were people living there at the time. (were)
South of some line everyone who survived remembered. No more Mastadons, Clovis, etc.
Arguments on actual cause and consequences are the norm but the melt and drastic cool down are in the geological record.
I’m gonna tell you one thing kid...Immanuel Velilkovsky.
I’m almost 60.
How old are you?
I can hear the didjeridus.
I have the mind of a 12 year old trapped in a 75 year old body
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