Questions about noah ark

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Seashells on a mountaintop? Guess I'd better stop eating oyster p'boy sandwiches. No telling what they'll take oyster shells in the middle of Texas to be the proof of.

We find coral around St. Louis routinely. The middle of the US used to be a shallow sea. I love giving chunks to my cousins and explaining where it comes from. 

[Minimalist]

See with an asshole like Dripshit who thinks the world is 6,000 years old there is no room for plate tectonics in his rather pathetic view of the world.

It also helps that he's as dumb as a bag of cunt hair.

[Jackalope]

Seashells on a mountaintop? Guess I'd better stop eating oyster p'boy sandwiches. No telling what they'll take oyster shells in the middle of Texas to be the proof of.

We find coral around St. Louis routinely. The middle of the US used to be a shallow sea. I love giving chunks to my cousins and explaining where it comes from. 

It's likely a majority of what's above sea level now was underwater - at some time in Earth's history. We have evidence of many types of mollusks, including bivalves, cephalopods, and gastropods from the Cambrian (half a billion years ago, give or take a few dozen million).

Most of the mountain ranges on Earth are younger than that, much younger. The dry surface of Earth has changed substantially in that time, no goddamned global flood needed.

[Rhondazvous]

Seashells on a mountaintop? Guess I'd better stop eating oyster p'boy sandwiches. No telling what they'll take oyster shells in the middle of Texas to be the proof of.

We find coral around St. Louis routinely. The middle of the US used to be a shallow sea. I love giving chunks to my cousins and explaining where it comes from. 

Really? That is fascinating. I always wondered if the Appalachians and Rockies aren't the result of 3 land masses coming together to form one supercontinent (Wilson Cycle).

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We find coral around St. Louis routinely. The middle of the US used to be a shallow sea. I love giving chunks to my cousins and explaining where it comes from. 

It's likely a majority of what's above sea level now was underwater - at some time in Earth's history.    We have evidence of many types of mollusks, including bivalves, cephalopods, and gastropods from the Cambrian (half a billion years ago, give or take a few dozen million).

Most of the mountain ranges on Earth are younger than that, much younger.  The dry surface of Earth has changed substantially in that time, no goddamned global flood needed.

And yet, contrary to the Genesis creation story, the Earth didn't began covered with water and then dry land appeared. The Earth began as a ball of molten rock. Not until it became cooler and larger did it have enough mass/gravity to keep an ocean on its surface.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Rhonda, I haven't looked in the plate tectonics for the various US mountain ranges. I do know that we have hundreds of feet of limestone here. And limestone is made up of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limestone



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Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs. Its major materials are the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). About 10% of sedimentary rocks are limestones.

So, we're on top of a column of dead sea creatures that took millions of years to form. The critters are/were microscopic and we build buildings out of their remains. 

You see this kind of thing all the time:

[Rhondazvous]

Rhonda, I haven't looked in the plate tectonics for the various US mountain ranges. I do know that we have hundreds of feet of limestone here. And limestone is made up of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limestone



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Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs. Its major materials are the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). About 10% of sedimentary rocks are limestones.

So, we're on top of a column of dead sea creatures that took millions of years to form. The critters are/were microscopic and we build buildings out of their remains. 

You see this kind of thing all the time:

I can tell that's a picture of a mountainside, but what detail should I be looking for?

[Jackalope]

I can tell that's a picture of a mountainside, but what detail should I be looking for?

The entire thing is limestone, and is made mostly of the remains of dead sea creatures.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Rhonda, I haven't looked in the plate tectonics for the various US mountain ranges. I do know that we have hundreds of feet of limestone here. And limestone is made up of:



So, we're on top of a column of dead sea creatures that took millions of years to form. The critters are/were microscopic and we build buildings out of their remains. 

You see this kind of thing all the time:

I can tell that's a picture of a mountainside, but what detail should I be looking for?

That's not a mountainside, it's a cut for a highway. Just plain old Missouri hills just like those in the near ground and far distance. The Ozark Mountains are mostly limestone, IIRC.

[Minimalist]

Same with the Adirondacks.

http://www.lakegeorgeguide.com/regional-...ack-rocks/

Limestones are formed in only 2 ways; either by the chemical precipitation of calcium carbonate from warm sea water, or by the accumulation of shell material from marine organisms. On top of the limestone are formed shales and siltstones which are up to 1200 feet thick. The layered rocks found above these are believed to be accumulations of airborne volcanic ash and dust

In any case, "god" is not one of the two ways!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Same with the Adirondacks.

http://www.lakegeorgeguide.com/regional-...ack-rocks/

Limestones are formed in only 2 ways; either by the chemical precipitation of calcium carbonate from warm sea water, or by the accumulation of shell material from marine organisms. On top of the limestone are formed shales and siltstones which are up to 1200 feet thick. The layered rocks found above these are believed to be accumulations of airborne volcanic ash and dust

In any case, "god" is not one of the two ways!

"As in every case, "god" is not one of the ways!"