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A new look at the Earth for you?
Well, if the first post didn't do anything for you, then maybe this one will help you a little more. Everybody knows about how the ground settles in layers. You may think that it happened over thousands of years, gradually building up and slowly adding more layers. Well, that's partly true. Yes, the further you go down, the more pressure is on it and maybe making it a different density and even a different color.
Now here's where things will start to change a bit. If layers settle over time, then there would have to be erosion. Every natural thing on Earth erodes over time from wind, rain, etc. So keeping this in mind, all of the layers would have to line up perfectly without any signs of erosion. (There is no erosion to be found between layers.) So, how did these layers come to be without erosion in between them?
Experiment:
Get a bottle and fill it with at least 5 different kinds of dirt, sand, and other different looking dirts. Pour lots of water in the bottle and shake like mad. Then let it settle. What do you see? Most of the dirt has been seperated in layers.
Just like how the Earth has layers. So the answer is a flood. To be more exact, Noah and the Ark.
There was a huge flood one time on Earth which almost completely covered the entire Earth with water. Everything got shaken up because of all of the tides. Then when the flood started to go away, there was settled dirt left over.
An awesome example of this is the Grand Canyon. You may not think of this as a really good example, but many people think they know how it was formed. Ton's of people think the Colorado River ran through it and over thousands of years, eventually eroded away the dirt leaving a huge canyon.
Two really big problems.
One. The canyon gets higher the further the river flows through it. So if the river were to flow through it, then water would have to travel uphill. Which we all know doesn't. The water would have to go uphill and erode the canyon and keep this up for thousands of years.
Two. Everytime a river erodes through something, it has to put the dirt somewhere. Well this is the GRAND canyon, so there has to be a crazy amount of dirt that has to dissappear somewhere. This usually happens when it reaches a lake or ocean. This pileup of dirt is called a delta. The only problem with the Grand Canyon is that there is no delta at the end of the Colorado when it empties out into the Gulf of California.
To sum it up.
Huge flood (the flood with Noah).
Dries up leaving layers of dirt in Earth and the actual canyon.
Colorado River (made of water) runs down and through it.
I can still go further but I'm getting tired of writing. If you want to know a little more about this, just comment and I'll send you some more information about all of this.
 Herbie444 · Mon Jun 13, 2005 @ 06:16am · 0 Comments |
