bursting of the fountains of the great deep as proposed by Dickens and Snelling (2015). If this were correct, there should be prolific deposits of partially dissolved vertebrates globally. Acidic waters would have also destroyed the invertebrates. Instead, we observe prolific volumes of mostly marine invertebrates in the earliest three megasequences and some marine vertebrates, especially fossils like fish (Fig. 22). There are few partially dissolved fossils of any kind in these early megasequences as would be expected if the fountains of the great deep did in fact cause significant dissolution. Clarey and Werner (2017) demonstrated quite conclusively that the early flooding was minimal across many continents, showing only limited areal extent during the Sauk, Tippecanoe and Kaskaskia Megasequences (Clarey and Werner 2017; Clarey 2020). Figures 7, 14, and 15 show that the Sauk is one of the least extensive and lowest in volume of all megasequences. 3. Days 20?-30? As the tsunami waves that generated the Sauk megasequence subsided, a new pulse of waves was generated from continued rapid plate motion, initiating the Tippecanoe megasequence. This megasequence also entombed tremendous numbers of marine organisms, reaching a slightly higher level across some continents and less in others (Fig. 8). Like the Sauk, the Tippecanoe seems to have been mostly confined to the pre-Flood shallow seas on the edges of the continents (Clarey and Werner 2018b). It was about this time that the narrow ocean in the Atlantic region began to close, bringing Africa closer to North America. The geologic record indicates the initial collision occurred along the northern Figure 22. Graph of fossil occurrences of the major animal phyla by land or water environment and geologic age. Data from the Paleobiology Database. Courtesy of Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson. boundary between those two continents. Figures 8, 14, and 15 show that the Tippecanoe is the least extensive and least in volume of all megasequences. 4. Days 30?-40? Possibly during Days 30-40 the tsunami-like waves of another series of megasequence advanced across the continents depositing the Devonian and Mississippian rocks of the Kaskaskia Megasequence (Clarey 2020, pp. 234-255). These deposits again covered primarily shallow seas, leaving a massive blanket-like limestone across a large portion of North America that included the Redwall Limestone in Grand Canyon. Figure 9 and Table 1 show that the Kaskaskia is one of the three least extensive and least in volume of all megasequences. The pre-Flood narrow sea (300 km width) between North America and Africa and Europe was completely closed at this point in the Flood (the end of the Kaskaskia). This caused deformation of earlier Flood sediments (Sauk and Tippecanoe) and created the Appalachian and Caledonian Mountains. Similarly, other early Flood mountains formed elsewhere, such as the Urals. The Sauk, Tippecanoe and Kaskaskia Megasequences contain nearly 100% marine fossils (Fig. 22). Very few land animals, or plants for that matter, were trapped by these three megasequence cycles. Apparently, the intense rain was the major factor affecting the “dry” land portions of the continents up to this point in the Flood. Humans on the Ark, like Noah, who lived through the Flood would have known the first 40 days as a time of intense rainfall, without significant flooding of the dry land. The Bible suggests in Genesis CLAREY AND WERNER Progressive Flood model 2023 ICC 429
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