Description: Exploring geology and apocalyptic railroading
Exploring geology, pseudoscience, and apocalyptic railroading
Is there “not enough” erosion on many unconformities? Mr. Wilford 4/20/2023 Updated: 4/24/2023
Introduction Piggybacking off my previous post on unconformities, sometimes some rather odd YEC claims about unconformities will come forward. One argument sometimes raised against unconformities with evidence of erosional marks is that the relief present simply is not “enough” relief for the timespan involved. This argument principally comes from those citing Ariel Roth (1), who has tried to calculate just how deep erosional channeling should be found at unconformities in the “uniformitarian” scenario. Rot