Oilfields in old river channels

grmorton

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A good friend of mine gave a paper at the Soc. Exploration Geophysicists meeting yesterday. A slide caught my attention. It shows an oil field in the Morrow section of Colorado and Kansas. The target is a channel sand in an old river channel. This channel is at 5100 feet below the earth's surface which, if one is to believe the YEC world view, means that this channel was laid down during the global flood. But channels are products of quiet times, like today. We can see channels today along rivers and they are being formed during a period when there is no world wide flood.

So, why do we find channels formed during the middle of the flood? The flood should have been so turbulent and violent that channels couldn't form because channels mark places where sediment is flowing, (the channel) and places where it isn't, the non-channel. According to the global flood advocates, sediment should have been being deposited everywhere, not in limited channels.

Here is the picture of the oil field.