Sedimentary blankets - evidence for Noah's Flood
One of the remarkable things about the geologic record is that blankets of
sediments cover vast areas of the continents. In his book, The Nature of the
Stratigraphical Record, evolutionary geologist Professor Derek Ager marvelled at
the way sedimentary layers extended for thousands of kilometres, even across
continents. He was particularly impressed with the chalk beds that form the
famous White Cliffs of Dover in Southern England, as these trace all the way to
Turkey and Egypt.
The strata exposed in the walls of the Grand Canyon provide another example.
Some of these sedimentary formations extend thousands of kilometres across North
America. Such vast sedimentary layers suggest that geological processes must
have occurred in the past that we don’t observe today. Sedimentary deposits
forming today are localised and confined to river deltas, lakebeds and along
narrow strips of coastline.
Sedimentary blankets covering vast areas are exactly what we would expect if the
global flood recorded in the Bible actually occurred.