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Relative Density and the Earth's
Rocks |
February 7
2004, 12:09 AM |
Bryan, your enquiry about the relative
density of liquids reminds me to inform visitors to this bulletin board
that this phenomenon lies at the root of how most of the earth's rocks
were formed; please see below for further
details:
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Fluids
under immense pressure were released during Noah�s Flood. From time to
time during and after the Flood, the fluids were able to be squeezed out
through cracks and fissures and then spread out on top to cool and
solidify into hard sedimentary rocks. In many cases these fluids were
trapped for a sufficient length of time to arrange themselves according to
their specific gravity. A typical arrangement would be:
pure water
(condensed steam)
salt water
liquid sulphur
liquid
slat
liquid clays and sands
liquid carbonates
granite
magma
basalt magma.
When the �fountains of the great deep�
were opened, water was generally the first fluid to emerge. In many cases
this water was let out in such vast quantities that huge chasms were
eroded very quickly.
The water became saltier with time. This is
because sodium and chlorine combined to produce vast quantities of sodium
chloride. The water got thicker until eventually molten salt emerged. This
was followed by fluids rich in sand and clay minerals and then fluids rich
in carbonates.
In some cases the fissures were left open long
enough for granite magma to emerge...often the fluids emerged so suddenly
that they engulfed whatever living creatures they came across. The living
creatures became immediately fossilised and this explains why many
sedimentary strata contain fossils of all kinds�occasionally the large
mammals, like dinosaurs, were able to walk on the quick-drying emerging
fluids, which dried into limestone in much the same way as concrete
dries.
The specific gravity of the liquids concerned, from top to
bottom, would have been:
water � 1.00
sulphur �
2.05
halite (salt) � 2.15
quartz � 2.65
(sandstones)
clay minerals � 2.68
calcite � 2.70
(chalk)
dolomite � 2.85 (limestone)
biotite �
3.00
hornblende � 3.25
olivine � 3.35
augite �
3.40
pyroxene � 3.60.
In many parts of the word, these
liquids held below the ground still emerge today - hot springs and geysers
in Yellowstone Park, Iceland etc., salt springs, oil (of course! - which
flows out naturally in parts of the Middle East and elsewhere), lava flows
etc.
There�s even a place in England, just near Wootton Bassett in
Wiltshire, where clay in solution comes up at a temperature of 70oF from
several hundred feet below the ground, piping up with it lots of small
fossils like ammonites and bivalves (nautiloid-like creatures) I�ve been
to the secret wood myself and collected them.
The fascinating
array of colours of sedimentary rocks - white chalk cliffs, red
sandstones, �greensand�, the orange limestones of the Cotswold,
Northamptonshire etc., are all accounted for by the colour of the liquids
which came to the surface, spread out over vast distances, and then
hardened, fossilising so much life that was around at the
time.
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Source:
�Fountains of the Great Deep� by Leander Pimenta, New Wine Press, ISBN 0
947852 04 2, Chapter 10; ��Rocks and Fossils� with a few additional points
by T.B.
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Bible
reference: Genesis 7 v. 11: �In the six hundredth year of Noah, in the
second months, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the
fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven
opened�
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