In December 2010, Peter Scheele from the Netherlands published an excellent paper in Journal of Creation on the carving of the Grand Canyon. It’s now available at creation.com (also as pdf).
Scheele shows in graphic detail that the Grand Canyon was formed while the waters of Noah’s Flood receded from the American continent, when they [...]
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Standing on the lookout at Mapleton Falls it feels like you are suspended in mid-air. Alongside is Pencil Creek with its white foam bubbling over the sharp edge of the vertical basalt cliff, and plunging 120 metres to the valley floor.
The steep walls enclose a secluded rainforest, dotted with palm trees. Beyond the amphitheatre [...]
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Yesterday my wife and I visited the Mary Cairncross Reserve in the Backall Range near Maleny and took this photo. I never tire of the view. It was slightly hazy but the outlook was spectacular as usual, with the clouds adding depth and intrigue. Imagine what the sky was like when the eruptions were in [...]
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Reader JF contacted me asking for help with their son’s assignment:
Hi, my son is in year 4 and has been given an assignment on “weathering and erosion at a landform in your local area”. If he could get some information and give a good talk it would be the boost for his confidence that he [...]
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I was encouraged to receive an email from a geologist friend who has been working in mining and mineral exploration most of his life.
A quick note to thank you for the list of references you sent. My interest in this topic came from looking at the timing of many of the landforms that one [...]
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My colleague Robert Carter recently sent me a link to a video that documents the draining of the hundred-year-old Condit Dam on the White Salmon River in Washington State in the Pacific NW.
About the event, the commentary on the video says: “On October 26th [2011], a hole was blasted in the base of 125′ tall [...]
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Here are some raised sea-level maps of the Sydney area that show very interesting features connected with the receding waters of Noah’s Flood.
First image: The 80m level is the level at which the scarp west of Sydney pops out. It seems that 80m is globally significant in many places. Near Perth it also [...]
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Here’s another image from JS, this one showing the effects of Noah’s Flood cutting water gaps in the Susquenhanna River Basin, Pennsylvania, USA, very late in the Retreating stage.
“Since you mentioned Ken Karle’s article [free pdf], I thought I’d send this SLR picture at 180m asl (red), 240m asl (orange) and 320m asl (yellow) of [...]
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JS has sent another image illustrating the effects of receding floodwaters in the western USA.
“In response to Berend de Boer’s comment, attached is another example of what can be done with Sea Level Rise. This is an image of the western US at 1650m asl (red), 1850m asl (orange) and 2100m asl (yellow).
“As you [...]
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Thanks to reader JS who sent two images of the windgap near Perth, Western Australia: a closeup of Walyunga NP, and a larger scale image of the Perth coast. They were obtained from Google Earth. JS said:
“The first is a Google Earth screenshot, in which the purple represents a filled-in contour of 80m asl [...]
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