How can there be coal beds under the sea?

[Ariellamb]

How can there be coal beds under the sea?

Can't seem to find out much about there origin

 

[Ariellamb]

An old miner was talking to me about the coal beds off of Sunderland and how it took over 3hrs just to get to the face 2-4 miles out to sea from land.

 

[YoungEarthAstronomer]

I would say coal beds are the result of plant debris catastrophically buried by the deluge, and that they can be found anywhere.

 

[Mallon]

The earth is dynamic. Why shouldn't there be coal under the sea? Tectonism happens.

 

[Ariellamb]

Do we know that there was always water covering the earth before Genesis 1v2 onwards?

In the new heavens and the new earth there will be no more sea.

Has there always been sea.

Did perhaps the flood broaden its bounderies from its original shores?

 

[Mallon]

My mistake. I thought you were looking for a scientific answer.

 

[Ariellamb]

My mistake. I thought you were looking for a scientific answer.

Mallon Are you able to share it pls

 

[Mallon]

Mallon Are you able to share it pls

I can, but it won't have anything to do with a global flood.

 

[juvenissun]

How can there be coal beds under the sea?

Can't seem to find out much about there origin

It is in a time sequence.
The coal bed was made first.
Then the coal bed was submerged into a rising sea.

 

[Ariellamb]

Mallon, all ideas are welcome


I even wonder if there might have been a use for the earth before Genesis

 

[troodon]

I'd need a lot of information before I could properly explain it:
-Where off the coast they are located
-The local stratigraphy
-The composition of the coal
-The approximate age of the coal

Going just off educated guesses and what little I know about European geology, the North Sea is an epeiric sea, so in the past it was at times above sea level. During one of those periods, probably during the Carboniferous, a large amount of plant material accumulated under reducing conditions and was then buried under terrigenous sediment.

 

[troodon]

I even wonder if there might have been a use for the earth before Genesis

**shrug**, what's the point of some random asteroid in the Kuiper Belt, or in a distant galaxy for that matter? Not everything in the universe is designed with to have a direct impact on humanity.

 

[shernren]

Yeah, I don't get it either. Why should there be coal beds, under the sea?

After all, I like my beds warm and at atmospheric pressure, Captain Nemo notwithstanding.

 

[Mallon]

Mallon, all ideas are welcome

Here's how coal is formed: http://www.marble-chinese.net/stone...ina-column-pillar-stone-column-in-Granite.jpg

Here's how plate tectonics works: Plate tectonics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia