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> From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
> Behalf Of Steve Krogh
> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 9:05 PM
> Wouldn't these clay layers indicate a very low energy depositional
> environment?
That is why I mentioned that they were the result of still waters. Clay
particles are quite small and settle out of water only when the water isn't
moving anywhere. Their speed of deposition is governed by Stoke's Law, which
says, the bigger the particle the faster it drops through the water and the
smaller, the slower. That is not what one has in a flood. In a flood one
should expect moving water with only large particles deposited. One can't
have it both ways--one can't have a flood and have it deposit shales. The
shale particles move with the water further than the cobbles, pebbles and
sand.
glenn
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