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Heart mountain overthrust in Wyoming

Red Robin

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Here's just one of the many many examples of the problems in the old earth theory. Kola , maybe you should run into wyoming while out west and see if you can find the breccia. If the mountain just slid there, it should be a pretty sizable pile.


HEART MOUNTAIN—Here is one of many examples of an overthrust: The Heart Mountain Thrust in Wyoming is a triangular area, 30 miles [48.2 km] wide by 60 miles [96.5 km] long. One apex presses against the northeast corner of Yellowstone Park. Within this gigantic overthrust are 50 separate blocks of Paleozoic strata (Ordovician, Devonian, and Mississippian). They are resting horizontally and as though they belonged there—but ON TOP OF Eocene beds which are supposed to be 250 million years younger! Photographs of the fault line, separating the Paleozoic strata from the Eocene, reveal it to be perfectly snug and normal. No evidence of massive crushing of rock beneath the fault line is to be seen (as would be seen if the upper "younger" strata slid up and over the lower "older" strata).

Searching for the area from which this gigantic overthrust horizontally slid—the scientists could not locate it. They could not find any place where the top layer slid from!

"The Heart Mountain thrust has long been structurally perplexing because there are no known structural roots or source from which it could have been derived. Furthermore, there is no known surface fault or fault zone within or adjoining from which the thrust sheet could have been derived."—*Op. cit, p. 592.

One expert, *Pierce said the solution was "gravity" (op. cit., p. 598). But, as with many others, this particular overthrust is an entire mountain! Heart Mountain is a high mountain, not a plain nor a low valley. It is a horizontal bed of hundreds of feet of rock resting high above the Wyoming plains, overlooking them. It would require some special type of gravity to put those billions upon billions of pounds of rock up there—and do it all so carefully that it rests there, fitted perfectly together. This 30 x 60 mile [48.8-96.6 km] triangle of very thick rock is supposed to have wandered there ("gravitated there" is how some experts describe it) in some miraculous way from somewhere else—and then climbed up on top of all the other rocks in the plains beneath it!

http://www.evolution-facts.org/Ev-Crunch/c12a.htm
 

kolanuraven

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RR:

#1...this is not political...you're in the wrong forum.

#2...I shall "practice what I preach" when I said in an earlier thread that if any did want to have any contact with a certain poster , ignore them. This will be last contact with you.

#3...You have no knowledge of what you post...you've already told us that in many posts...so I'd suggest you keep to what you know. You constantly want to pick a fight , I'm a bit older than 3 yrs old...too old for that foolishness.

I've got better things to do....like get ready to be in WY in a week!

http://maps.unomaha.edu/maher/GEOL3300/week13/f&tbelt.html
I almost forgot...read and study this...there will be a test. This will explain it simply.
 

Red Robin

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kolanuraven said:
This will explain it simply.
Maybe you should read Mr. Maher's document Kola. I don't think he is firmly convinced. He certainly dosn't indicate his answer is simple.

"Possible resolution of paradox " Is what he called his answer. Not too definitive.
 

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