Life-Activity Details within Geological Strata — in the middle of a flood?

note — pages in BOLD are NOT in the links-page for "AGE OF THE EARTH" SCIENCE

The links below (for pages written by Glenn Morton and EarthHistory) are followed by journal references from Mark Isaak.

These pages are from Glenn Morton:
bio-varnish (this is in the links-page)
turtle Poop
many geo-details [it's long, with lots of geology details]
carbonate with burrows
sideways burrows,… (is in links-page)
sideways burrows (is in links-page)
sand/shale burrows (is in links-page)
river channels (is in links-page)
buried canyons
termites & dinos (is in links-page)
tracks & raindrops (is in links-page)
fossilized dung (is in links-page)
insects in amber
multi-droughts (is in links-page)
thick + details
geological details
salt deposits (is in links-page)
flood lithification
rock properties & age [has been moved into "fossil patterns"]

Similar facts are described in an "EarthHistory" website:
Fossils [in-place] [this was moved into "fossil patterns"]
Dino Eggs [details] (is in links-page)
Isotopic Sorting [this is also in "fossil patterns" logic]

The following references to journal articles (with references at end of the page) are copied from Problems with a Global Flood by Mark Isaak, writing for Talk Origins.

How do surface features appear far from the surface? Deep in the geologic column there are formations which could have originated only on the surface, such as:

• Rain drops. [Robb, 1992]
• River channels. [Miall, 1996, especially chpt. 6]
• Wind-blown dunes. [Kocurek & Dott, 1981; Clemmenson & Abrahamsen, 1983; Hubert & Mertz, 1984]
• Beaches.
• Glacial deposits. [Eyles & Miall, 1984]
• Burrows. [Crimes & Droser, 1992; Thackray, 1994]
• In-place trees. [Cristie & McMillan, 1991]
• Soil. [Reinhardt & Sigleo, 1989; Wright, 1986, 1994]
• Desiccation cracks. [Andrews, 1988; Robb, 1992]
• Footprints. [Gore, 1993, has a photograph (p. 16-17) showing dinosaur footprints in one layer with water ripples in layers above and below it. Gilette & Lockley, 1989, have several more examples, including dinosaur footprints on top of a coal seam (p. 361-366).]
• Meteorites and meteor craters. [Grieve, 1997; Schmitz et al, 1997]
• Coral reefs. [Wilson, 1975]
• Cave systems. [James & Choquette, 1988]

How could these have appeared in the midst of a catastrophic flood?