that resulted in the formation of granites and regional metamorphic rocks, then how may this be interpreted with the Biblical framework of earth history? Dickens and Snelling (2008) and Dickens (2018) have suggested that these peaks may represent the results of God’s creative work in the first three days of the Creation Week. Of course, they are not diminishing the unique, miraculous, essentially instant creation by God when Genesis 1 says God spoke and it was so. The timescale was totally collapsed, so that what conventional geologists have claimed took billions of years, God accomplished instantly, but in the orderly sequence as also described in Genesis 1. Thus, each of these peaks (from “oldest” to “youngest”) might represent the initial created rocks on Day 1, the effects on the initially-created rocks of God separating the waters to create the expanse between them on Day 2, and then the uplifting of some of the initial foundation rocks to form the dry land on Day 3, which would have resulted in erosion of those uplifted foundation rocks as they breeched the waters’ surface and thus the deposition of sedimentary layers adjacent to the dry land and overlaying that erosion surface (Snelling 2009, 2022). What then is the significance of the biggest peak at about 0-450 Ma in the Voice et al. (2011) data plotted in Fig. 7, with a secondary small peak at about 450-750 Ma. These peaks coincide with the latest global plate tectonics episodes of the supercontinent cycle. First was the breakup of Rodinia to form Gondwana and then eventually Pangaea (Nance et al. 2014). The 0-450 Ma peak is the biggest because it represents the latest cycle of erosion of the latest-formed granites and regional metamorphic rocks. The later-formed granites and regional metamorphic rocks are better preserved than earlierformed granites and regional metamorphic rocks which have been deeply eroded and in some instances eroded away almost entirely, or they have been buried deeply underneath the latest sedimentary rocks of the Phanerozoic. The radiohaloes frequency data plotted in Figs. 5 and 6 essentially represent the frequency of radiohalos production during the Flood due to the heat of Flood tectonic activity having annealed any previouslyformed radiohalos. Thus, it is not surprising that the highest peak in radiohalos frequency would be in the granites produced during the Flood. Figs. 5 and 6 show radiohalos generation peaking at 200500 Ma, which would potentially represent the tectonic activity in about the first half of the Flood. This is consistent with catastrophic plate tectonics as the driving mechanism of the year-long Flood, as proposed by Austin et al. (1994) and Baumgardner (2003), in contrast to the conventional timescale of 500-750 million years. However, as already noted, this 200-500 Ma peak in the radiohalos frequency data does not fully match the shape of the 0-450 Ma peak in the Voice et al. (2011) data plotted in Fig. 7. Specifically, in Fig. 7 the highest portion of that peak is approximately in the 0-200 Ma range, reflecting the last part of the supercontinent cycle in which today’s ocean basins opened and today’s mountains formed in the plate collision zones and adjacent subduction zones. While some of this lack of matching of the radiohalos frequency data in the 0-450 Ma interval in Figs. 5 and 6 with the detrital zircon U-Pb ages in Fig. 7 is likely due to not enough sampling of granites in the 0-200 Ma range in this study, there is also another viable explanation. After all, Figure 7. Plot of the frequency of 100,445 ≤ 5% discordant-filtered pooled U-Pb dated detrital zircon grains versus geologic age (after Voice et al. 2011). 1000 1000 2000 3000 4000 0 0 2000 3000 4000 Frequency of Dated Detrital Zircon Grains Geologic Age (Ma) SNELLING Radiohalos through earth history 2023 ICC 555
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