CONCLUSION Records in the book of Genesis have time-markers and particular successive historical stages can be recognized. From the geological record, historical stages can also be recognized. The challenge is how to correlate the two records. Regional geology and case studies were described. A biblical young earth history model was then developed in a successive stage-by-stage manner. Specific geological evidence (“ground truthing”) derived from an extensive literature search, has been used to infer processes in historical order. This included the destruction of pre-Flood topography, global marine transgression, receding and drying phases, along with consequences in the Flood Year’s aftermath. Almost the entire Neoproterozoic and Phanerozoic record is considered to have been impacted by Noah’s Flood and its aftermath. The model presented here provides a mechanism for the initiation of seafloor spreading and plate tectonics within a young earth biblical framework. There is a remarkable temporal coincidence between the sea level low at the end Permian, significant continental drying in the Triassic and the beginning of supercontinent breakup. I propose that the receding waters of Noah’s Flood returned to Flood fountain sites and reached the top of the mantle. Hydration by seawater lowered the silicate melting temperature and viscosity at the top of the mantle. That process enhanced mantle convection enabling Gondwana to rift further and seafloor spreading to take place. Waters streaming from an Antarctica highland into zones where Flood fountains had previously been active enabled Gondwana to drift apart. Passive margin sediments show little deformation. Thus, in a biblical timeframe, passive margin sediments formed relatively fast during seafloor spreading, but their deformation was not catastrophic. However, on active (collisional) margins, new mountains formed. This paper proposes a biblical framework which may successively explain in time order the origin of a number of geological features. These features include the major Mid-Carboniferous unconformity, the so-called Late Paleozoic “Ice Age”, Late Paleozoic coal measures, the Coal Gap; plant types through time, cyclothems, Permian paleodrainage and missing sediments, indicators of aridity in some Triassic strata, and the Mesozoic commencement of seafloor spreading along with associated passive margins. The Bible’s record of the drying stage of Noah’s Flood, in the context of successive stages, has received little attention in young earth creationist literature. It is hoped that newly presented geoscientific information will help fill a missing gap in Flood Year models and encourage further discussion, especially regarding which strata represent the end-Flood period. 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