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So we've established that you are unwilling, for whatever reason (as if we don't know) to explain how an earthquake could produce a double turned angular unconformity with trace fossils on vertical bedding separated by fault gouge.
On the scientific explanation:
Everything we suggest as geologists, about the earth being old, is grounded in...really just simple logic.
For example, if animal tracks are found in a location of mudstone, it tells us that at some point in time, time passed in which animals lived and walked on a location of mud.
The below lines reflect horizontal land with tracks.
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Then, for the complete structure to form, these layers must have been turned horizontally for the later shawangunk to be deposited overtop.
This of course demands time. Time for sediment to be deposited, time for animals to walk through, then more time for lithification to shale and mudstone and further more time for vertical orienting uplift.
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Now, the next step is for the deposition of horizontal sands on top of the vertical shales (the shawangunk). These sands have burrows in them, therefore demonstrating additional expanse of time for animals to live and to burrow, and further more time for lithification of sandstone.
So now we have this:
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In its current state, the angular unconformity actually rests in the above "T" position, however this T is on its side with the shawangunk vertically up and down with it's burrows and the Martinsburg back at horizontal in which it originally was formed. Like this:
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So collectively, the logical explanation is as follows:
1. Deposition of ordovician sediment
2. Animals walked through ordovician muds
3. The mud hardened
4. The hardened mudstone was turned on its side by orogenesis
5. strata eroded flat to grade
6. The sandy shawangunk was deposited on top
7. Animals burrowed and lived in the sand
8. The sandstone hardened
9. The hardened sandstone and mudstone together were turned sideways again by orogenesis.
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The fault gouge between formations is a product of dense rock grinding against one another during orogenesis.
But what also should be noted is that this formation is post dated by much of the late Paleozoic strata, mesozoic and cenozoic strata as well. Which means that this rock was present long before any rocks of the mid oceanic ridge, long before many creationists seem to believe the flood even occurred
Other notes:
Simple logic tells us that these processes take time to occur. Continents move at the rate in which our fingernails grow. Rocks solidify under certain temperatures and pressures as well.
Granulite for example, is a rock that forms under high temperatures. So when we see these rocks in the environment, it tells us about nature of their origins.
This is why there is no such thing on earth as a phaneritic intrusive feature (if you dont understand, google it). Rocks form under particular conditions that are observable in todays world.
And so we can derive an old earth, really just by looking at the rocks and seeing the shape of them and what theyve gone through.
Hence this video
The location described in the video presents both compressional and extensional faulting side by side with hardened volcanic sils and dikes protruding at various depths.
These individual occurances are all things that take time. Time for strata to lithify, time for extension to occur, time for more deposition, time for volcanism, time for more cooling of magma, time for more deposition, time for compressional faulting, time for more deposition and volcanism, time for more cooling of magma and lithification, and so on... And time for dinosaurs and life to walk around and build nests and lay eggs and dig burrows and to do normal life things in each and every period of time. Throw in multiple layers of glacial till indicating multiple ice ages in the mesozoic and you have a good number of independently occuring events that each take time to unfold.
But lets say we smashed all of this down into say...what a 1 year long giant global flood? How could it all occur in a single year? How could it even occur in 100 or 1000? Logically, it just wouldnt make any sense.
