The Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Creationism (2018)

continent interiors with their load of suspended sediment. Details of the numerical results show that, just as there are ebb and flow phases of the tide on a beach, the tsunamis display similar back and forth flow. In a tide the  ebb  is the outgoing phase, when the tide drains away from the shore; the  flow  is the incoming phase when water rises again. In the case of the tsunamis, the incoming phase has much higher speed, is highly turbulent, keeps the sediment in suspension, and there is little or no deposition. By contrast, in the outgoing phase, the water speed is lower, the flow is less turbulent, and deposition typically is appreciable. In terms of the flow direction recorded in the deposited sediment implied by this model, the flow direction recorded in the deposited sediment is generally in the direction toward the coastline. For example, in the case of the Laurentia, which today corresponds to North America and Greenland, tsunamis in the model invade the western coast from the west southwest. The current direction of the retreating water from these tsunamis, when most of the sediment deposition occurs, is therefore from the east northeast. It is noteworthy that the paleocurrent directions observed in the Paleozoic portion of the sediment record in the southwestern United States are also predominately from the east northeast (Brand et al. 2015). This framework also appears to explain a prominent feature of the sediment record largely ignored until now by Flood geologists, namely, the existence of thousands of individual beds separated by Baumgardner ◀ Large tsunamis and the Flood sediment record ▶ 2018 ICC 302 Figure 6. Plots at 140 days of water/land surface height (a) , (b) ; cumulative depth of bedrock erosion, (c) , (d) ; and cumulative depth of deposited sediment, (e) , (f) .