[Seemingly trying to falsify plate tectonics]
In a rock formation, layers are said to build when new sediment forms on top of an already existing layer. As a result, the higher up the layer, the younger the sediment.
What you describes reverses the supposed age of layers. Already existing layers are replaced as new layers push up under it.
New layers......form under older ones.
This can't be explained any simpler.
From a logical standpoint, what you describe falsifies geologic rock ages.
Again, a flood is not only simpler, but more logically sound.
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Unless floods have the ability to dig up millennia old layers of rock- dozens to hundreds of feet beneath the surface- and spread them over the current layer of bedrock and topsoil, I don't see how your claim is either simple or logical.
Furthermore, you ARE aware that the continental crusts can fold in on themselves during periods of severe tectonic activity, thus producing the effect of "old" rock layers being under "new" ones...right?
"New layers......form under older ones"
No. Except in the case of subduction zones, new layers form OVER older ones.
And tell me, in your line of reasoning . . . how exactly did a flood that happened thousands of years ago put more recent layers under the old ones?
"New layers......form under older ones."
Yes, this -does- happen -- generally, though, it happens with _skin_. When a new layer of skin is ready, the old one falls/is washed off and the cycle repeats itself until you die.
Rocks, on the other hand... There are two other kinds of rocks, by the way. They're metamorphic and igneous. Only one kind of rock is formed by layers of sediment building up over time, and that is (surprise surprise) sedimentary rock.
Last, but not least, this: "This can't be explained any simpler." is a sad case of adverbial ignorance. The phrase you're looking for is "more simply". Adverbs tell *how* -- how can it be explained? simply.
...I have no idea why I'm bothering.
This could happen, as when magma flows out of a volcano, covering up older layers, but otherwise, your head is up your ass.
This could happen, as when magma flows out of a volcano, covering up older layers, but otherwise, your head is up your ass.
This could happen, as when magma flows out of a volcano, covering up older layers, but otherwise, your head is up your ass.
This could happen, as when magma flows out of a volcano, covering up older layers, but otherwise, your head is up your ass.
This could happen, as when magma flows out of a volcano, covering up older layers, but otherwise, your head is up your ass.
This could happen, as when magma flows out of a volcano, covering up older layers, but otherwise, your head is up your ass.
You display total ignorance of Geology. Sedimentary rocks are laid upon existing rocks. Extrusive igneous rocks are laid on top of existing rocks. Intrusive igneous rocks are injected under pressure into existing rocks.
The flatness and fine sedimentation of layered sedimentary rocks proves that such rocks were laid down over a very long period. I could go on and on, but it would be useless to someone with zero scientific knowledge.
He's either ignorant himself or depending on others ignorance, as tectonics push the areas up (and this only occurs someplaces, others are being crushed under or broken sideways.) they aren't building new mantle under 10 feet of surface or even 40, except at the very edge of the event, recognizable by it rubbly area.
Simpler, it's the usual Christian stunt of researching till they find an anomaly that suits their agenda then suggesting this is the state of all land mass. Whereas people who study this can show you charts where the conditions are different less than half a mile horizontally away.
shinbits should go to Iceland and prove these new mantles to us, I'll donate a pick axe.
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