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thinning of the megasequences from south to north toward the shield, in support of this interpretation. The top of the Zuni megasequence (fifth megasequence) seems to represent the highest water level of the Flood as water washed over the top of the pre-Flood high hills and uplands, giving the most globally extensive deposition of any megasequence (Figs. 11, 12, 13). Recall, the Zuni megasequence also has the maximum volume of sediment deposited globally (Fig. 7). This deposit likely represents the Day 150 high water point of the Flood. Many of these interpreted upland areas are completely devoid of any sedimentary rock as post-Flood erosion has stripped the little amount of possible Zuni sediment that may have been deposited. According to Genesis 7:20, the highest hills were only flooded by a modest amount of water, likely leaving little room for thick sedimentary deposits as the Flood waters receded. H owever, there are a few Zuni remnants in Hudson Bay and Michigan and Illinois in NorthAmerica that indicate the highest water level was achieved at this point in the Flood (Fig. 11). Humphreys (2014, p. 57) in his translation of Genesis 6:7 and Genesis 7:23 suggests the term ‘wiped off” to explain this stripping of the land surface right down to the crust: “And the Lord said, ‘I will wipe off man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.’” “Thus He wiped off every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky, and they were wiped off from the earth…” (emphasis in original). Humphreys (2014) goes on to suggest this ‘wiping out’ meant no earth (or soil) was left behind as in the way one wipes a dish clean (2 Kings 21:13). “Taking these verses straightforwardly means the waters swept mud, plants, the animals completely off the formerly dry land, the pre-Flood continental surface” (Humphreys 2014, p. 57). And this is exactly what we see across large portions of the continents. The pre-Flood uplands include the major shield areas of Canada, Greenland, Brazil and Central and Western Africa. When placed back together in a Pangaea-like configuration, the upland areas match up across continents and become quite substantial (Fig 8). The Tejas megasequence rocks likely represent material washed off the highest upland areas of the pre-Flood world and ‘backwashed’ onto the Zuni as the Flood waters began to recede (Day 150+) (Figs. 15, 16, 17). Fossils in the Tejas megasequence also contain increasingly more angiosperms and mammal fossils compared to the Zuni deposits, indicative of more upland terrains. These areas were apparently wiped free of all life, removing even the pre-Flood soil and any rock layers that might have existed there. Deposits in the Tejas include the thickest and most extensive coal seams in the world (Clarey 2017a). These huge mats of transported trees, almost exclusively non-lycopods, likely represented plants swept Clarey and Werner ◀ Pre-Flood geography ▶ 2018 ICC 364 Figure 13. Absaroka and Zuni isopach maps of South America. © 2017 Institute for Creation Research. Used by permission. © 2017 Institute for Creation Research. Used by permission.