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> Earth Sciences
> The Earth Has Experienced a Worldwide Flood.
> Many of the Earth’s Previously Unexplained Features Can Be Explained by a Cataclysmic Flood.
> Earth’s Radioactivity]
Many of the Earth’s Previously Unexplained Features Can Be Explained by a Cataclysmic Flood.
The origin of each of the following is a subject of controversy within the Earth sciences. Each has many aspects inconsistent with standard explanations. Yet, all appear to be consequences of a sudden and unrepeatable event—a cataclysmic flood whose waters erupted from interconnected, worldwide subterranean chambers with an energy release exceeding the explosion of 1,800 trillion hydrogen bombs. Consequences of this event included the rapid formation of the features listed below. The mechanisms involved are well understood.
103. The Grand Canyon and Other Canyons
104. Mid-Oceanic Ridge
105. Earth’s Major Components
106. Ocean Trenches, Earthquakes, and the Ring of Fire
107. Magnetic Variations on the Ocean Floor
108. Submarine Canyons
109. Coal and Oil
110. Methane Hydrates
111. Ice Age
112. Frozen Mammoths
113. Major Mountain Ranges
114. Overthrusts
115. Volcanoes and Lava
116. Geothermal Heat
117. Strata and Layered Fossils
118. Limestone
119. Metamorphic Rock
120. Plateaus
121. The Moho and Black Smokers
122. Salt Domes
123. Jigsaw Fit of the Continents
124. Changing Tilt of Earth’s Axis
125. Comets
126. Asteroids, Meteoroids, and Trans-Neptunian Objects
127. Earth’s Radioactivity
For details on the above, see pages 110–441.