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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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