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Tony Bennett on the BWMA forum.
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Sent: Tuesday, 2004-02-10 19:11
Subject: [USMA:28629] RE: Get a load of
this!
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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