Sedimentation

From Flood Geology

Paria Canyon Wave

Seventy miles north of the Grand Canyon is the spectacularly beautiful Wave at Paria Canyon . This unique landform looks like a wave of the sea, frozen in stone. Located in a wild and remote region of the Western United States, this strange formation swirls with controversy.

Creation Week Sedimentation

Evidence indicates that more geologic layers may have been formed during Day Three of Creation Week than during the Flood. In one day, our infinitely wise, all-powerful Creator laid down some dirt layers 30 miles thick that are now deep in the geologic record and foundational to the landmasses we live on.

Sedimentation Over Long Distances

When the Flood waters swept over the continents and rapidly deposited sediment layers across vast areas, these sediments had to have been transported long distances. In other words, the sediments in the strata had to come from distant sources. And that’s exactly the evidence we find.

Uniformitarian View Questioned

This is another example of the uniformitarian view—a little water, a long time—giving way to the possibility that geological landscapes were formed by massive amounts of turbulent water over a short period of time and, once again, pointing out that there should be room to question the existing model.

Articles About Sedimentation

• Magazine Article

  Very Little Sediment on the Seafloor

  

  July 4, 2021 from Answers Magazine

  If sediments have been accumulating on the seafloor for three billion years, the seafloor should be choked with sediments many miles deep.

• Magazine Department Article

  Chalk It Up to a Global Flood

  

  June 19, 2016 from Answers Magazine

  At today’s rate of ocean-floor buildup, chalk layers would take millions of years to form. How do creationists explain them?

• Magazine Department Article

  Natural Teaching Tool

  Jan. 1, 2015 from Answers Magazine

  Nowhere is evidence of the worldwide Flood more accessible than Colorado Springs’ Garden of the Gods or nearby Glen Eyrie.

• Magazine Department Article

  Dredged Up Again

  April 1, 2013 from Answers Magazine

  Bible-believers don’t need Ballard to confirm the Flood. Ballard does not accept its global extent and considers the biblical account to be a myth.

• Magazine Article

  Flood Currents Frozen in Stone

  

  Jan. 1, 2012 from Answers Magazine

  You can’t walk into Paria Canyon without being struck dumb. The bizarre landforms look just like waves of sand frozen in time.

• Semi-Technical Magazine Article

  Sand Transported Cross Country

  

  May 19, 2010 from Answers Magazine

  We find thick layers of sandstone around the earth. Where did it come from?

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• Magazine Department Article

  Globe-Trotting Sands

  July 1, 2009 from Answers Magazine

  Geologists have confirmed even more examples of sands that were carried by waters flowing across the entire U.S. continent.

• Magazine Article

  Sinking a Floating Forest

  

  Oct. 1, 2008 from Answers Magazine

  This is a personal account of how the bizarre idea of a continent-sized floating forest came into being.

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• Magazine Article

  Thirty Miles of Dirt in a Day

  

  Oct. 1, 2008 from Answers Magazine

  When God lifted up the dry land on the third day of creation, thirty miles of dirt fell into the sea. The remnants of this event are still visible today.

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• Slow Deposition vs. Rapid Flow

  Dec. 22, 2007

  A longstanding understanding of how the “sedimentary geological record” was formed is apparently in error, according to research by geologists at Indiana University–Bloomington and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• Semi-Technical In-Depth Article

  Are There Half a Million Years in the Sediments of Lake Van?

  May 9, 2007 from Answers in Depth

  On March 15, the Science Daily website reported that there may be half a million years of precise climate information stored in the sediments of Lake Van in eastern Turkey.

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• Semi-Technical Research Paper

  Eroded Appalachian Mountain Siliciclastics as a Source for the Navajo Sandstone

  Aug. 1, 2004, pp. 3–5

  Recent studies have identified the provenance of the Navajo Sandstone by age-dating zircons contained within the formation. However, an alternative interpretation is possible.

• Feedback Article

  “Green River Blues” Raises Red Flag . . .

  Feb. 2, 2001 from Feedback

  AiG editors respond point-by-point, interspersed as per normal email fashion to a skeptic regarding the formation of the Green River Formation.

• Semi-Technical Research Paper

  Sedimentation Experiments: Nature Finally Catches Up!

  Aug. 1, 1997, pp. 125–126

  Readers of Nature could have read all about it more than a decade ago in the Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal.

• Technical Research Paper

  Sedimentation Experiments: Is Extrapolation Appropriate? - Part 2

  April 1, 1997, pp. 65–70

  The conclusions drawn from the sedimentation experiments presented on the video Drama in the Rocks are reiterated and defended.

• Technical Research Paper

  Sedimentation Experiments: Is Extrapolation Appropriate? - Part 1

  April 1, 1997, pp. 61–64

  The experiments investigated the stratification of heterogeneous sand mixtures either in still water or in a unidirectional water flow presumably at room temperature.

• Technical Research Paper

  Can Flood Geology Explain Thick Chalk Beds?

  April 1, 1994, pp. 11–15

  By working from what is known to occur today, even if rare and catastrophic by today’s standards, we can realistically calculate production of thick chalk beds within the conditions of the Flood.

• Technical Research Paper

  Experiments on Stratification of Heterogeneous Sand Mixtures

  April 1, 1994, pp. 37–50

  Superposed strata in sedimentary rocks are believed to have been formed by successive layers of sediments deposited periodically with interruptions of sedimentation.

• Technical Research Paper

  Experiments on Lamination of Sediments

  April 1, 1988, pp. 25–29

  Experiments on lamination of sediments, resulting from a periodic graded-bedding subsequent to deposition—a contribution to the explanation of lamination of various sediments and sedimentary rocks.