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

TheTejasmegasequence extends fromnear the base of thePaleogene System to the top of the Neogene (Fig. 2). This megasequence documents another shift in depositional pattern in North America (Fig. 8b). The uplift of the Rocky Mountains shed millions of km 3 of shale and sandstone across the Western States. A notable shift in drainage to the south during the early Tejas (Blum and Pecha 2014) also poured tremendous amounts of siliciclastics into the GOM, including the basal Tejas Whopper Sand (Wilcox), which covers the deep, central GOM with a blanket sand exceeding 300 m in thickness (Clarey and Werner 2018). Siliciclastic deposition continued to spread across the continental shelf along much of the Atlantic seaboard, offshore northern Canada and Greenland. Few deposits were preserved in the eastern USA and across Canada, other than offshore. The basal Tejas in Africa again shows a fairly extensive sandstone deposit across the center of the continent (Fig. 9b). And a blanket of continuous carbonate deposition still dominated North Africa and offshore East Africa during the Tejas, as observed in the preceding Zuni megasequence. Figure 11 shows the carbonate deposition across major portions of North Africa never ceased throughout the entire Zuni and through the entire record of the Tejas. This continuous deposition of marine, carbonate rock continued all the way up from the Cretaceous system to the top or middle of the Miocene in many countries like Libya, Iraq, Iran, southeast Turkey, Qatar and Oman (Fig. 11 and Kendall et al . 2014). Interestingly, the stratigraphic columns in the Red Sea record 3000 m of continual salt deposition starting at the base of the Tejas. Oil geologists fromAramco claim there are areas with even thicker salt (up to 5000 m) in the Red Sea (personal communication, 2016). This extensive salt deposit marked the split of the Saudi Arabian Peninsula from the Horn of Africa during the Tejas megasequence. It also suggests that this area was still under marine influence like much of North Africa during the salt deposition. The Tejas megasequence across SouthAmerica shows an extensive sandstone layer running the length of the continent and east of the Andes Mountains (Fig. 10b). It is likely this deposit was from sediment eroded off the uplifting mountains and shed eastward, similar to the deposits in the Tejas east of the Rocky Mountains Clarey and Werner ◀ A Flood origin for the geological column ▶ 2018 ICC 342 Figure 11. Stratigraphic sections A-A’ and B-B’ showing the lithology (upper) and the megasequences (lower) across North Africa and the Middle East. Note the carbonate rocks (in blue) in the Zuni megasequence extend upward continually to the top of the Tejas in many locations on the section. The uppermost Tejas in this area is primarily Miocene and commonly contains salt (in pink) deposits associated with the Mediterranean region. © 2017 Institute for Creation Research. Used by permission.