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| Global Flood advocates put most of their
efforts with regard to salt to explain how the oceans supposedly
couldn’t be as old and evolutionists say. But they never tell their
readers about the evidence within the salt which proves huge ages and slow
deposition of the salt. The very presence of bedded salt in the geologic record is evidence that it was not deposited during a WET global flood. Salt dissolves in water, it doesn’t deposit out of water unless the water is saturated with salt. And when it is saturated with salt, no vertebrate life can live in those waters. So, why do we find huge salt beds in the middle of the geologic column and which are very widespread? All of Michigan is underlain by the Salina Salt which reaches as much as 3100 feet thick. How did this happen in the midst of the biggest water event in history—the Noachian flood? Some creationists have claimed that a mechanism by Omer B. Raup will explain the salt. In this mechanism, brines of different mixture come in contact with each other and when the interface is stirred, salt is deposited. That is the only known method of salt being deposited under water. But will it explain the salt we see in the geologic column? No. If the salt were deposited by Raup’s mechanism in a global flood with its turbulence, the salt should contain much mud quarts and other impurities. But salt is relatively pure. The biggest contaminants are other evaporative minerals like gypsum, anhydrite and carbonate. Salt beds contain almost no clastics But one other contaminant they have are microscopic plankton. The existence of such creatures makes it appear as if the salt really were evaporated! They also contain pollen grains, which are known to fall out of the air. This contamination makes it look as if the salt were open to the air at the time it was deposited. This is something that is incompatible with the global flood concept. Jux writes: "Samples of diapiric and bedded salt from the Gulf Coastal Province were studied for their pollen-spores content. Twenty-four different species were observed among them one new genus Gordoniella atwateri. The microfloral remains also include forms of algae (Chroolepidaceae or Mikrothyriaceae) and fungi. "The phytologic data obtained indicate a Rhaetic-Liassic (late Triassic-early Jurassic) age for the diapiric salt of Texas (Grand Saline), Louisiana (Winnfield, Avery Island, Weeks Island, Jefferson Island), and the bedded salt (Louann Salt) in northern Louisiana. There seems to be no difference in age between the salt in the interior belt of salt domes and the one stretching along the coastal region. The Louann salt is most probably the mother source bed from which the tremendous amount of diapiric salt originated." ~ Ulrich Jux, The Palynologic Age of Diapiric and Bedded Salt, Department of Conservation, Louisiana Geological Survey, Geological Bulletin 38, October, 1961, p. 1 It has always seemed strange to me that during the violent global flood, not a single fish or marine dinosaur would stumble into these supposed precipitational spots, yet algae and fungi could. Another deposit contains meteoritic dust in quantities consistent with what would be expected from a slowly evaporating basin. "The sedimentation rate of the A-1 Evaporite of Michigan was determined by analysis of micrometeorites found as inclusions in the halite deposit. The samples were obtained from the Dow Chemical Company salt well number eight. The residue from the dissolved salt was magnetically separated and later analyzed by Particle Induces X-ray Emission (PIXE), x-ray diffraction, and microprobe techniques. The amount of extraterrestrial material was determined from the quantity of nickel present.
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