A global flood would also leave behind large bodies of water behind natural dams that once breached would cause catastrophic erosion of sediments and rock. This model is logical given that the upper rim of the Grand Canyon is higher in elevation than the upstream head water of the Colorado River before it enters the canyon. No slow erosion could can flow uphill.
The Younger Dryas metorite impact is only speculation with no basis I could find.
We don’t know what caused the Younger Dryas cooling.
But prior to that, there was a period of rapid warming about 14,500 years ago.
Could that rise in temperature have been caused by the cataclysmic eruptions of the thousands of submarine volcanoes all along the continental plates, warming the oceans from the magma and also the aerosol particulate matter then causing a solar winter? This could explain the glaciation across 1/3 of the Earth’s surface due to above normal ocean waters evaporation from the warmer ocean temps, and the condition needed of cooler summers not melting the resulting snowfall.
Actually, the mechanism of glaciation has not been fully explained.
We are in the middle of an Ice Age, where there is period of relative warmth called intergalacial lasting about 13,000 years between very cold glacials lasting about 30,000 years.
The current interglacial (Holocene) started about 13,000 or 14,000 years ago and is ending very rapidly.
The reason for this regularity is not fully explained, but it probably has something to do with the sun. Some even go further and say that it’s a cycle within the Milky Way Galaxy. Who knows.
Anyway, the massive flood which probably took place carving the Grand Canyon could have been at the end of the last glacial or the Younger Dryas or even before, during this Pleistocene.
I still remember it vividly. A friend of my Grandfather was on site doing research for USGS. It was a miracle they weren’t all killed.
Not only did we see it on the news we got to see their personal video, slides, and movies when they got home. They also brought us some ash and pumice from the explosion site.
Thank God it happened so far from any major population sites.
If something like that happened in the US today it would bring us to our knees as we are now a nation of frightened children.
Keep an eye on Yellowstone. That is most likely the next catastrophic event to happen.
THAT would be purely devastating.
Indeed it would for not only the US but the entire world.
Another interesting possible catastrophic event that many are observing.
The mechanisms required to form the glaciers is known, and can be explained as I set out in my previous post. Warm ocean temps, cool summers as could be explained with a catastrophe like the Genesis Flood.
Your timelines are only speculation since there are no Daytimer calenders buried in the layers.
What I meant was, nobody can explain why there is such a regularity between glacials and interglacials which last respectively 300,000 years and 13,000 years.
The difference in overall temperature is merely 5 degrees centigrade (or 9 F) and it makes the difference between our kind of climate today and the glacial climate where most of North America and Scandinavia etc., get covered by glaciers and ice sheets and the sea level drops.
In Manhattan they could build skyscrapers since early 20th century, because the ground there is rock solid, hardened by an ice sheet several thousand meters high during glacial periods.
There are conflicting research if there were more than one glaciation periods. The research does not refute the young Earth models. The other model of billions year age uses multiple rescuing devices to fit it into the data.
When the ocean waters were contained in the glaciers, there were land bridges between Asia America, Europe and Oceania.
The granite bedrock extents to form all the continents, not just Manhattan
The trouble with supervolcanoes like Yellowstone is that they are completely unpredictable.
It could blow five minutes, five years, five millennia, or five billion years from now.
In our lifetimes? Doubtful but when it does N. America will never be the same again. Much of the US and Canada will be a wasteland for hundreds of years if not longer.
Just the runoff with the pumice and toxic ash will likely kill off huge portions of the Pacific fisheries as well.
In the crater of the volcano.
Yep, it’s a good idea to leave as soon as your research is done before VW sized rocks fall on you.
WoW! It only took 20 years to build up an 80 feet thick glacier in the dome. Imagine what sort of glacier only 500 years of snow would form.
Numerous conditions these scientists thought would take millennia to occur have happened in less than 40 years.
The Earth is much more resilient than some believe. Thanks for that video.
Which one? The last one I found very fascinating. I don’t know if you remember the great fire of Yellowstone some almost 40 years ago? I had always made a yearly trip to Yellowstone for many years. That fire destroyed a major portion of it and when I came back the following year and subsequent years after that I was amazed how much life had recovered with newer life.
