ultimately ended on Day 314 (Gen. 8:13), and provides a mechanism to drain the floodwaters off the continents. And CPT offers a reason why the tectonic plates are moving so slowly today. Furthermore, it is capable of producing the conditions necessary for a post-Flood Ice Age. Other models do not adequately explain all of these causes and effects, while still honoring the massive amount of data collected in the last 30 years. Finally, published 87Sr/86Sr ratios from ocean rocks independently confirm the production of new oceanic lithosphere during the Flood year and match our interpretation of a progressive Flood. We feel this progressive Flood model, based on stratigraphic data across the globe, and incorporating the mechanism of CPT, provides a superior and comprehensive framework for a new understanding of the geology of the global Flood. It is based on the latest discoveries from onshore and offshore oil well exploration and the newest seismic data. II. PREVIOUS WORK Many geologic questions are actively debated within the creation geoscience community. For example, did the Flood end at the K-Pg or was it higher? And, what was the mechanism of the Flood, catastrophic plate tectonics or something else? In addition, many Biblical questions about the Flood are still debated. For example, did the Flood cover the continents early and then again later, or did the water rise once and eventually reach a peak on Day 150? Or was it some combination of all of these interpretations? Figure 1. Uniformitarian sea level curve and its correlation to the geologic systems and megasequences (modified from Vail and Mitchum 1979; Haq et al. 1988). Whitcomb and Morris (1961) believed the Floodwaters reached a peak height on Day 40 and stayed high until Day 150 when the water level began to recede. Others like Coffin (1983) thought the Floodwaters rose from Day 1 to Day 150, reaching a peak, and then subsiding. Walker (2011) suggested that the Floodwaters reached a zenith episode that may have lasted over a period of 60 days, from Days 90-150 of the Flood, but reaching an apex on Day 150 (T. Walker, pers. comm., 2017). Barrick and Sigler (2003) put forth a modified Whitcomb and Morris (1961) model, suggesting that the Floodwaters rose until possibly a few days after Day 40 then maintained that high level until Day 150, before subsiding. Snelling (2009, 2014a) attempted to correlate the Floodwater levels to the uniformitarian sea level curve through time developed by Vail and Mitchum (1979) and Haq et al. (1988) (Fig. 1). Snelling has suggested that the Floodwaters rose until Day 40, peaked, and then dropped and fluctuated until rising again to a second peak on Day 150 of the Flood. Snelling (2014a) made a further attempt to tie his first peak in Floodwaters to the Sauk megasequence, near the Cambrian/ Ordovician boundary, and his second peak to the Zuni megasequence, near the end of the Cretaceous. Both of these megasequences show the highest sea levels on the uniformitarian global sea level curve (Fig. 1), but are not reflective of the sedimentary rock record (Clarey and Parkes 2019). Furthermore, a progressive Flood that peaks after 150 days is consistent with the Bible (Johnson and Clarey 2021) and with all CLAREY AND WERNER Progressive Flood model 2023 ICC 413
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