> Randy wrote:
>
> >How about coal formed from tree bark? Ever look at coal? To me it looks
> >just like tree bark. What if there really was a flood and all the trees of
> >the entire earth at that time floated bumped together removing all the
> >bark which sank and formed coal? I know it sounds farfetched but would it
> >be possible?
>
> The internal structure of coal is not that of trees or tree bark. It is
> structureless. If you want the coal to have been formed during the global
> flood, explain this problem.
If you do not believe that coal was formed from plant life then what was
it formed from?
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>
> "Assuming that 10 feet of plant remains form one foot of peat
> and that a 12 foot deposit of peat is required to make a layer of
> coal one foot thick, then a 50 foot seam represents the
> continuous growth of forests in one site equivalent to deposits
> of plant remains 6,000 feet thick. In coal measures containing
> several thick seams, such accumulations must have been repeated
> many times in the same location."~Wilfred Francis, Coal: Its
> Formation and Composition, (London: Edward Arnold, Ltd., 1961),
> p. 15
>
>
> Using this figure combined with the following presents a problem.
>
> "The exploitation in the Chelyabinsk region, where the productive
> measures are 1500 m thick and contain 5-30 seams of 50-200 m
> total thickness, is the most intensive."~D. V. Nalivkin, Geology
> of the U. S. S. R., translated by N. Rast, (Toronto: Toronto
> University Press, 1973), p. 376
>
> Let's see, 200 meters times 120 means that you had to have 24,000 meters or
> 78,000 feet of tree back piled up so that it can be crushed to form the coal
> beds of Chelybinsk. Where can one get that much tree bark?
>
> Knowlton says(~F. H. Knowlton, The Jurassic Flora of Cape
> Lisburne, Alaska, Part D, USGS Professional Paper 85D,
> (Washington: Gov't Printing Office, 1914, p. 40.) that there are 150 feet of
> total coal thickness in the Lisburne region of Alaska. This requires 18,000
> feet of tree bark.
>
> One single russian coal seam is 75 meter thick. This is 9,000 meters or nearly
> 30,000 feet of treebark.
>
> Was the world before the flood nothing but tree bark?
>
>
>
> glenn
>
> Foundation,Fall and Flood
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