At 08:13 AM 11/7/97 -0800, Arthur V. Chadwick wrote:
>
>Not necessarily true for the shales. We did studies in a sedimentation
>tank in the 1970's in which we deposited successive sand turbidites under a
>water column saturated with mud. We obtained alternating layers of sand
>and mud simultaneously under these circumstances. The mud is depositing
>continuously, and the sand layers represent punctuations in this process.
>We could easily deposit alternating sand and mud layers as fast as we
>wished, all day long.
>
For small scale in a flume tank I would have no doubt about this. I would
question its scalability. In a global flood you need a constant source of
sand and you don't have a pump to move the water. Do you think you could
reproduce the burrows under the sands in the Haymond formation all day long?
It looks like:
_______________________________________________
sand
_____ _____________ ____________ ___
|s | |s | |s |
|a | shale |a | shale |a |
|n | |n | |n |
|d | |d | |d |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
---- ---- ---
shale
_______________________________________________
sand
______________ ______________ _____________
|s | |s |
|a | |a |
|n | |n |
|d | |d |
-- ----
x 15000 times.
glenn
Foundation, Fall and Flood
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