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General topics

• Geology and the Bible (Tas Walker’s biblical geology page) (Semi-Technical)
• Genesis and catastrophe
• GlobalFlood.org (Dr. John Baumgardner’s work)
• The origin of old-Earth geology and its ramifications for life in the 21st century

What geological evidence in our world today supports events mentioned in the Bible, such as a global flood?

• Assessing Creationist Stratigraphy with Evidence from the Gulf of Mexico (Semi-Technical)
• Australia's Burning Mountain
• The case of the ‘missing’ geologic time (in Grand Canyon)
• A classic tillite reclassified as a submarine debris flow (Technical)
• Can Flood geology explain thick chalk layers?
• Canyon creation
• Canyon in six days!
• The collapse of 'geologic time'! (radiohaloes in coalified wood)
• Creating opals
• Deposits Remaining from the Genesis Flood: Rim Gravels in Arizona (off-site, Technical, CRSQ)
• Devil's Tower and Bible glasses
• Devil's Tower Formation (ICR Acts and Facts article)
• Diamonds—evidence of explosive geological processes
• Dinosaur National Monument (ICR Impact article)
• Flood Geology of the Crimean Peninsula
  Part I: Tavrick Formation (off-site, Technical, CRSQ)
• Fluidisation pipes: evidence of large-scale watery catastrophe
• Giant’s Causeway
• Grand Canyon
• Grand Canyon limestone: fast or slow deposits?
• Grand Canyon limestones (Semi-Technical, ICR Impact)
• Grand Canyon: Startling evidence for Noah’s Flood
• Grand Canyon strata show geologic time is imaginary
• Huge boulder shows power of Flood
• Iceland’s recent ‘mega-flood’
• Kodachrome Basin State Park: Where Can We See Young-Earth Evidence? (ICR BTG 211a)
• La Brea Tar Pits, part 1, part 2, part 3 (off-site, Semi-Technical, CRSQ)
• The Lesson of Surtsey
• The Lost Squadron (available in Spanish)
• Microscopic diamonds confound geologists (Semi-Technical)
• Mt Isa Metal Deposits
• Mt St Helens & Catastrophism (Semi-Technical, ICR Impact)
• Niagara Falls and the Bible
• Oil and Flood Geology (ICR Impact article)
• Paleosols: digging deeper buries ‘challenge’ to Flood geology (semi-technical)
• The Polystrate Trees and Coal Seams of Joggins Fossil Cliffs (off-site, ICR Impact)
• Rapid rock
• Recent Rapid Uplift of Today’s Mountains (ICR Impact article)
• Salty saga
• Shifting sands
• Stone Mountain Georgia: A Creation Geologist's Perspective (off-site, Technical, CRSQ)
• The story that won't be told (about the Lake Missoula flood)
• Surtsey, the young island that looks old!
• The Tertiary Stratigraphy Surrounding Americus, Georgia:
  Evidence in Support of the Young-Earth Flood Framework (off-site, Technical, CRSQ)
• Three sisters: evidence for Noah's Flood
• Tuluman — A Test of Time
• Uluru and Kata Tjuta: Testimony to the Flood
• Unmasking a long-age icon (Siccar Point, Scotland)
• Warped earth
• Were the huge Columbia River basalts formed during the Flood? (ICR Acts and Facts article)
• World’s oldest salt lake only a few thousand years old
• The Yellowstone petrified forest (Semi-Technical)

How were the Earth’s coal beds formed? Does coal formation take a long time?

• Coal Beds and Noah’s Flood
• Coal: memorial to the Flood
• Coal, volcanism and Noah’s Flood (Technical)
• Forests that Grew on Water (Semi-Technical)
• Too Much Coal for a Young Earth? (Technical)
• Willingly ingorant about worms?

How were limestone caves formed? Does cave formation take a long time?

• Origin of Limestone caves (Semi-Technical ICR Impact article)
• Were Grand Canyon Limestones deposited by calm and placid seas? (Semi-Technical ICR Impact article)
• Rapid cave formation by sulfuric acid dissolution (Technical)
• Limestone caves: a result of Noah's Flood?
• Caves for all seasons
• Forked seams sabotage swamp theory

Do stalagmites and stalactites take a long time to form?

• Bottle stalagmite
• Caving in to reality
• Do ancient stalactites really exist?
• ‘Instant’ stalagmites
• Rapid Stalactites?

Is there evidence that rocks don't take a long time to form?

• Bell-ieve it: rapid rock formation
• That Choking Feeling …
• The Clock in the Rock
• Do large crystals in granite prove very slow cooling? (Semi-technical, response to critic)
• Fascinating fossil fence-wire
• ‘Fossil’ pliers show rock doesn’t need millions of years to form
• Granite grain size: not a problem for rapid cooling of plutons (Technical)
• Geology and the Young Earth (Russian translation)
• Keys to rapid rock formation
• Petrified waterwheel
• The rapid formation of granitic rocks: more evidence (Technical)
• Rapid Granite Formation (Technical)
• Rapid Rocks — Granites … They didn’t need millions of years of cooling! (Semi-Technical)
• Sandy Surprise
• Sedimentation Experiments — Nature finally catches up! (Semi-Technical)
• Towards a creationist explanation of regional metamorphism (Technical)
• Confirmation of Rapid Metamorphism of Rocks (ICR Impact article)

How can many fine layers of rock be formed very quickly?

• Green River Blues
• ‘I got excited at Mount St. Helens!’
• Sandy Stripes — Do many layers mean many years? (available in Spanish)
• Sedimentation Experiments — Nature finally catches up! (Semi-technical)
• Experiments on Lamination of Sediments (Technical)
• How Long Did It Take to Deposit the Geologic Strata? (ICR Dr. John’s Q&A article)
• Geological Dating Principles questioned. Paleohydraulic analysis : a new approach
  (Semi-Technical, by Guy Berthault, off-site. Illustrates how experiments in deposition from flowing water can upset some of the most fundamental geological assumptions used to interpret strata.)

How can the earth be relatively young (thousands of years old), if dating methods produce dates that are millions of years old?

• Q&A: Radiometric dating methods

Are there other geological evidences that show the earth is not millions of years old?

• Q&A: Young Age

Are fossils proof of millions of years? Why does the evolutionary ‘geologic column’ claim the Earth is millions of years old?

• See Q&A: Fossils

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See also Q&A pages on:

• Flood
• Plate Tectonics