ARTICLES ON ROCK LAYERS & STRATIGRAPHY
Articles examining Grand Canyon’s sedimentary layers, stratigraphy, unconformities, and folded rock units.
The Layers Are Real: What the Grand Canyon Actually Shows Us
The sedimentary layers of Grand Canyon are real, extensive, and ordered. The question is not whether the layers exist, but what history best explains them.
The Great Unconformity in the Grand Canyon
The Great Unconformity, then, becomes a powerful visual representation of the type of geological event one would expect to see if there had been a worldwide flood as described in the Bible. One of the places we often explore on our Grand Canyon river trips is a fascinating little side canyon found at river mile 120…
Bent Rocks
Let’s look at one piece of evidence found in the canyon that supports the Flood model. To me, one of the strongest and most dramatic evidences of these layers being flood deposits is the folding found in the sedimentary layers. Folds, as the geologist call them, are places where the rocks have been bent instead of…