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Euric:
You neglected to give us the name of the
scientifically-illiterate person who posted this. You also neglected to say
where you found it.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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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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