Costal Geology with Nate Loper

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Okay, I'm Terri Kammerzell and I'm here on behalf of Creation Fellowship Santee. We're a group of friends bound by our common agreement that the creation account, as told in Genesis, is a true depiction of how

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We promise not to spam you, but we'll send you links to all of our upcoming speakers. Tonight, we're super blessed to have back with us

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Nate Loper. Nate is the Executive Director of Canyon Ministries, which provides creation -based rim, backpacking, and rafting tours of the

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Grand Canyon. In his previous role as a pastor, Nate traveled the nation teaching in churches, schools, and Christian universities for over 20 years.

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He has also led tours through dozens of national parks and natural history museums in both the

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United States and the United Kingdom. Earlier this year, Robin and I got to take a road trip up the west coast of the

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United States, and we observed a lot of beautiful shores and rock formations, and we were curious about how they got there.

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So we invited Nate to come and talk to us about coastal geology. With that,

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Nate, I'm happy to turn it over to you. All right. Well, thank you, Terri. You kind of gave me a big topic here, coastal geology, because there's a lot of coast in America, and there's a lot of rocks out there, too, a lot of that geology.

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So there's a few things we'll talk about tonight, but let me go ahead and start this sharing here, and hopefully that will come up correctly.

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There we go. I think that should be up. So, yeah, tonight we're going to talk about coastal geology.

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I used to live myself down there in Southern California, right near the coast, so quite familiar with California coastlines and the geology.

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Of course, I've also been fortunate to take some of those road trips up the coastline. So I've been to California and Oregon and Washington and seen just such a vast array of beauty and of God's creation on display.

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There's also a lot of variety as well, and so when it comes to coastal geology, we do have a lot of coasts we could talk about across the entire world, and there are some beautiful coasts that stretch all the way across the world and throughout many places we can see anywhere.

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But tonight, we're really going to focus primarily on the coastal geology that you have right there in California, and that's the

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West Coast, California, Oregon, Washington, the Pacific Coast geology.

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So tonight, my hope is to maybe do some overview of some of the things that you might see on a coastline or nearby the coastline even, and then how do some of these coasts get formed?

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How do we see this from a biblical creation and flood perspective? And then what do we see and how does it speak to things like the global flood and evidence for that?

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So we'll cover a few things like that. I know I do sometimes talk kind of quickly, and there's a lot of topics we may kind of cover tonight.

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Now, any one of these topics could be a whole entire discussion just by itself if we wanted to, but we'll kind of touch a few different things.

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And the nice thing about, you know, even if I do talk quickly, the nice thing is it's a video, so you can stop it, pause it, rewind, and catch up a few things.

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But anyhow, you know, the California coast, especially that coastline, the

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Pacific Coast, really is, in some people's opinions, you know, some of the most beautiful landscape to drive through.

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You know, we've got that Pacific Coast Highway, you know, California Highway 1 that goes basically all along that coast, and you can take that and just see stunning landscapes and different features and formations from kind of almost desert -like sands down in Southern California to, you know, rocky coast and cliffs and, you know, beautiful trees and forests and all kinds of things that you might be able to see.

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So there really is a variety along that coastline that you would see as you're traveling up or down the

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Pacific Coast. And so that's one of my favorite things to do. I used to live, like I said, in Southern California.

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I lived about eight years there in the Los Angeles area. So naturally, one of my favorite things to do when

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I lived in Los Angeles was to drive out of Los Angeles and go see other things in that state because it wasn't my favorite place in the state, as you can imagine.

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But driving along, whether north or south, going down to, like, San Diego, beautiful landscape up there, taking trips up to San Francisco and beyond.

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There's just so much to see, and I just love driving. And that's a good thing because with Canyon Ministries here, our offices are in Flagstaff, but the

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Grand Canyon is an hour and a half away. So every time we're doing a tour, we're driving a three -hour round trip every day that we're going up to do tours.

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So I don't mind driving. I kind of like it. It lets you see the landscape and lets you have a lot of, you know, time to just kind of go through your thoughts and prayer and listen to a lot of books on tape.

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But anyhow, looking at the California coastline, you do have a vast variety of different landscapes, and not just in geology, but there's a lot of different things regarding plants and animals and just all sorts of different things to see.

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And so, again, tonight we're not going to be able to cover every detail of it, but we'll cover a few different things.

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And beyond just speaking about the actual, like, coastline coastline of where the water meets the sand or the rocks,

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I kind of consider, like, coastal geology to kind of be not just right on the coast, but even things maybe a little ways inland from the coast.

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You know, there are fantastic mountain formations and things like that that we see that are kind of considered kind of that coastland environment, things that really almost these mountains that play into why we have the coast and why you have the type of environment and ecosystems that you might see on the

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Pacific coast. So I would kind of consider coastal geology to be kind of from the ocean to maybe, oh, 50, 60, maybe up to 100 miles inland, but basically some of the areas that have to do with that coastland environment.

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And so there's just tons of stuff to see. And so one of the big things, of course, you see as you're driving, you know, from, for example, from where I live here in Arizona, if you're driving to the coast, you do go through some pretty good mountains.

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And as you're driving up the coast, you can see some spectacular mountains. And I've been into Seattle a number of times and just seen some really awesome, spectacular mountains from between there and down to Portland area.

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And, you know, I grew up in Colorado and used to seeing mountains and pretty familiar with mountains.

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But tell you what, the first time I flew into Seattle, we were flying by one of those big, massive mountains just right off the airplane.

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I was just amazed because this thing is just massive prominence rising up and just right there next to the water.

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And it was just so stunning. So coastal geology, I think, has a lot to do with not just the sand and the rocks by the water, but also kind of what's a little bit inland.

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And again, what some of that to help shape the geology you might find in the coast. So speaking of these mountains, you know, how do we see mountains form?

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That's one of the big questions that people oftentimes ask. You know, where do those big mountain ranges come from?

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Like when you see, you know, the Cascades or you go down and you see mountains further south from there, where are these mountains kind of come from?

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And so from our perspective, when it comes to a creation and flood, you know, geology perspective, we see a lot of those mountains and mountains throughout the world, really as a result of the flood in Noah's day, by and large.

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A lot of our major mountains that we see and are familiar with today, we believe were the product or result of these year -long flood processes or shortly thereafter.

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So something to think about when it comes to mountains, things like the Himalayas, the

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Rockies, the Andes, the Alps, the Appalachians, you know, the Sierra Nevadas, the

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Cascades, a lot of these mountains that we see and are familiar with today, we believe were formed during the flood and most of those probably pushed up and through floodwaters.

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And it kind of helps us to understand when you study the geology around the coast and you see these mountainous formations along, you know, basically along coastal regions, you get an understanding that during the flood, it's not simply just a mere water event.

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This is not simply waters covering the earth, but during this year -long flood process, we would have volcanoes erupting around the planet.

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You know, again, we'd have earthquakes going off. We'd have tectonic forces. We'd have a lot of stuff taking place.

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And during the flood, we believe that the plates, many of our tectonic plates around the world were broken up.

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And that during the flood, there's pretty good evidence in geology that during this flood, that they were moving around, they were jostling, they were shifting around.

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And in some cases, they were colliding together. And as they collided, they came together in some cases, buckled and forced up huge major mountain ranges like the

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Himalayas, where you typically see two continental plates coming together as India comes slamming into Southeast Asia and they collide and push up.

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And in other cases, you have other plates doing different things. Well, when we look out into the Pacific Ocean and we start to examine the plates that we have out there, we kind of see, and geologists have kind of put together their ideas of kind of three to four major plates that you would see out there in the

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Pacific. And so this map you kind of see here, this is kind of a little loose illustration of maybe what these plates would have looked like before the continents kind of are the shape they are now.

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Interestingly, you know, when it comes to science and geology, truthfully, we kind of do agree by and large with a lot of mainstream geology.

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With the caveat, with the difference being mostly how quickly we would see things formed and maybe how recently we would say that they were formed.

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So we do believe in things like plate tectonics. We do believe in things like the continents moving. But instead of, you know, continental drift over millions of years of slow, gradual movement like we see today, we would be talking more like continental sprint, right?

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So rapid movement, rapid changes. And so big process happening quickly because this year long flood is such an impactful event that's taking place.

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So again, kind of continental sprint. And as these continents are coming together again, they're colliding and train wreck like collisions are buckling and forcing up these huge major mountain ranges.

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Today's present processes that we see of geology, you know, slow, gradual uplift and movement and separation.

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Today's present processes, I don't believe can explain necessarily what we would see happen in the past.

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Because the past holds some pretty key, big events and some really big things that we don't typically see happening today.

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You know, of course, you and I weren't there since the beginning in the past. So what every geologist, what every scientist has to do when it comes to understanding the past is they have to, you know, either make inferences based upon what they observe in the present or they have to rely upon another, you know, source of authority or information.

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Now, fortunately, we are given God's word, the Bible, as a key eyewitness, if you will, a history book of the universe.

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We're given that as a source book to be able to understand some of those events of the past. And so when you understand, again, what the

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Bible is really talking about, you realize that the flood that it describes in Genesis 6, 7 and 8, regarding Noah's Ark and Noah's flood, you come to the understanding and realization that this flood is the largest major geological change that the world has seen before or since most likely.

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This is a huge, huge event taking place. And so what we see are changes and shifts and tectonic plates.

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But again, not the slow, gradual uplift of millions of years, more of a rapid and catastrophic.

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And at the end of the flood, all that kind of comes screeching to a halt for the most part. But we do still see some residual movement.

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We still see some residual uplifts. You know, we still see these plates kind of moving together. So by and large, you know, and I've been to plenty of presentations.

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I've been to some fantastic presentations from everyday secular geologists who don't agree with our perspective of creation or the flood or how recently things would have happened.

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But I've been able to go to these presentations and actually learn quite a bit from that perspective. And really, truthfully, by and large,

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I look at it and say, you know what, I agree with a lot of what you're saying, except for the time and the speed and the mechanism.

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So there's a lot in the standard geological process that we actually do agree with. So one of those things are plates.

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So in this illustration, this model, you can see some three major plates that you would see that would be out there into the

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Pacific Ocean. Now, one of the major ones we want to talk about and focus on right here is this kind of Farallon plate that we see there.

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And so this would have been a major plate that we believe was in the Pacific Ocean. And we do believe that plates, again, they move, they sometimes push together if they are continental plates and they're going to push together and they're going to have a hard time, you know, jostling one another.

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But sometimes in the oceans, we have oceanic, you know, tectonic plates. And what you would see is in the ocean that the ocean floor plates are typically more dense and they are heavier material because they're made up of basalt.

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And so kind of the average density of basalt is about three grams per cubic centimeter,

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I believe it is. And so what you have there is a heavier, kind of denser material, whereas on the continents, the average weight is about a granite, which is about 2 .7.

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And so what happens is when you have heavy, denser, like basaltic plate material from the ocean bottom, when it comes in contact with the more light, buoyant, you know, crustal or coastal areas and where the continents are at, what's going to happen is the lighter material is going to float on top of it.

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And the heavier, denser material is going to kind of go down and subduct and go down into the asthenosphere and then pushing its way down where it starts to get in contact with the heat from the mantle and begins to liquefy.

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And that can do a whole lot of interesting things. So when you look here at this very long plate, this kind of shows us probably, you know, what things would have looked like before the flood stages.

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You know, we don't know exactly what the arrangement of the continents were, but probably definitely different than we see today. During the beginning of the flood, we believe, and during this year -long flood process, some of these plates were actually subducting and they were going underneath one another.

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So, for example, the Iznagi plate would be subducting and kind of going underneath where you see Japan. That Farallon plate would have been subducting underneath what we call the

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North American plate. And today, pretty much most of that Farallon plate is completely gone.

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There are some trace members of it, kind of, that we would see here and there, like little pieces of the

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Juan de Fuca. That's a small section of it. We have the Cocos plate. I think it's

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Coco. Yeah, Cocos plate down to the south. And the, I'm trying to remember the other name of the plate down there.

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Nazca plate that's down there by South America. So those are kind of members of that whole plate. But by and large, the

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Farallon plate is pushing and it's coming in contact with the North American plate. So what happens is to make these mountains, we have kind of this mountain building phase taking place right along the coastal areas.

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And I'm sure a lot of you guys have noticed, but if you look at major coastlines, especially like going down the entire west coast of the

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United States all the way down through the western coast of South America, you see some pretty big mountains.

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We've got, you know, big major mountain ranges going down all the way down to South America there. We have the

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Andes kind of pushed up. And so what's happening are these plates are coming in. They are subducting.

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And so you can see here a heavier, more dense ocean crust material because it weighs more because it's mainly basalt.

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It's actually coming in contact and it's heavier. So it sinks down underneath the lighter kind of granitic continental plate material.

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And so what's happening there is it's subducting. It's being pushed down. And it's almost like a, like a giant conveyor belt, if you will.

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You've got material from the ocean floor that's kind of moving. And maybe there would have been, there could have been pre -flood islands out there that we have no trace of anymore.

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There could have been whatever was on the oceans at that time. But there's kind of like this giant conveyor belt that's coming against and contacting and pushing against the continental crust.

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And as that oceanic crust is pushing against there, it's even sometimes bringing in some material that many geologists call kind of the accretionary stages or accretionary of continents.

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And basically imagine like you've got a conveyor belt moving. And if you remember the old I Love Lucy TV show.

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And when they were there, I think it was at the Chocolate Factory. And then all this, you know, coming by. And then I kept checking. And I kept pulling all these chocolates off of there and trying to figure out what to do.

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And she's eating them. It's like nonstop, all these, you know, chocolates are going down the conveyor belt. Well, imagine if we had islands out there in the ocean or other, you know, subterranean, underneath the water landforms that are being carried on that conveyor belt.

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They're not kind of colliding with the West Coast of the United States during this year -long flood. And it's pushing material.

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It's kind of accreting them onto the coastline areas. And so we actually have some stuff pushed together.

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This subduction creates what we call the accretionary wedge. And so it's kind of a push of all this material kind of crumpling together on the surface.

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It's kind of the lighter stuff. It's kind of scraping and getting pushed on, whereas the heavier, denser basaltic ocean crust is subducting down.

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And so what's happening, though, is that the salt -heavy material goes down into the asthenosphere and starts to get liquefied down there.

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You start to kind of warm it up because of the heat of the mantle. But also just the friction of these coming together, that friction starts to create a melt zone.

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That material starts to dewater. It starts to lose the water it has with it. It starts to boil up as steam.

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And so we have this kind of liquefied rock zone. And then you also have a lot of water contained within it.

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And eventually that heat and that pressure can start to force its way up through the continental crust and form many, many volcanoes.

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And so that's kind of what we see with a lot of these major mountain ranges. A lot of these ranges have some big volcanic activity associated with them or places where mountains have been kind of crushed up and crumpled up.

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And even sometimes heat and pressure from this process is changing rock material, turning into kind of this metamorphic rock stage.

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So the rock is undergoing this metamorphic change. And so if you remember from school in geology, all rocks around the world fall into one of three different classifications, right?

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So we have sedimentary rock. Typically think of rocks like sediments, like glued together sand grains, things like sandstone and limestone and shale.

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So we have sedimentary rocks. And then we have igneous rocks. And those igneous rocks are rocks that have come up from these lavas and volcanoes and things like that.

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Igneous rock, like the word ignite, it's a great way to think of it. So we have igneous rocks. And then we have a third rock type called metamorphic rock.

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And so metamorphic rocks are rocks that have undergone a change by heat and pressure.

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So heat and pressure kind of squeeze it, melt it, typically realigning the crystalline structure, making a much stronger rock in the end.

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And that usually is, again, the product of heat and pressure. Well, when you have these plates coming together, there's a lot of heat, there's a lot of pressure.

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And so it can actually change and transform those rocks. And so metamorphic rocks.

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And so similar to a word we have often used, like metamorphosis, right?

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Which, of course, is the process of a caterpillar becoming a butterfly. And so from the

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Greek to metamorphosis, to change in its nature or in its form. Which is a pretty neat word because the

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Bible actually uses that word to kind of describe us. How we are changed and transformed into the image of Jesus Christ.

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So we are ourselves metamorphic in nature, you might say. We've been changed and transformed. So anyhow, when you're looking at coastal geology, we have all three of those major rock types represented that you see all over.

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We have the sedimentary rocks. We have the igneous rocks. And we have those metamorphic rocks. And we believe a lot of that took place either during the beginning of creation.

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So when, you know, day three of creation, when God drew the water to one place where the dry land would appear.

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We'd have a lot of movement. We'd have a lot of uplift. A lot of changing and all kinds of stuff. We'd also have a lot of erosion off the continents as the water's draining off.

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So we'd have a lot of sedimentary rocks formed then. And then during the flood, we would, again, have tremendous changes happening for this year -long flood process.

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So we see a lot of that happening during this year -long flood, we believe. So during this time, we have major big volcanoes that are being thrust up.

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And so, again, liquefied rock from either melting heat, you know, down below. But especially from friction from these plates coming together.

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And so rising up. And so not only lava and magma coming out of volcanoes, but we have a lot of steam.

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In fact, one of the biggest things coming out of volcanoes is not lava, but it's actually steam. And these big steam explosions that make these big, you know, free of magmatic explosions of volcanoes.

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And so we see a lot of water vapor coming out of volcanic vents. And so, again, a lot of that's associated with some of this water being pulled down through this whole process.

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Plates subducting as well as groundwater penetration down into those zones. So you look at coastal geology, and we still see a lot of mountains made up of igneous and especially metamorphic rock.

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And we see a lot of volcanoes. And it's actually the very thing that scripture talks about as well, regarding the flood.

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You know, again, the flood was not just about a mere water event. This isn't simply water covering the earth, you know, filling it up like a bathtub.

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And then you pull the plug and let it drain away, and the water all disappears. You know, the Bible, again, describes the flood as a major, huge, catastrophic event.

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And it's really a tectonic event too. During the flood, again, mountains, volcanoes, all kinds of stuff being formed.

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And, again, scripture gives us that indication as well too. Psalm 104 talks about the flood.

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And Psalm 104 verse 8 tells us that during this flood that mountains rose and valleys sank to the levels that God decreed.

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So what we're looking at is, during this year -long flood, we would have major mountains that are rising up.

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And so, especially near the end of the flood, as the floodwaters are receding off the continents, we would have mountains that are being thrust up, that are rising up from below.

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And so we have valley floors that are being ripped open. We have a deepening of the ocean basins, we believe.

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And we have mountains that are rising, in some cases, to incredible heights across the continents. Again, most of our major mountains, like the

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Himalayas, the Rockies, the Andes, the Alps, the Appalachians, the Cascades, the

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Sierra Nevadas, all those things we believe were formed either during the flood or shortly after that. And, again, most of that, again, triggered by the flood.

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And it also helps us to understand that when it comes to these mountains that we see, especially in these coastal regions, we don't necessarily need maybe as much water to flood the earth as what some people might think.

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People look at things like the Himalayas, and you say, oh, the Himalayas are risen to incredible heights, and, you know, 29 ,000 feet in elevation, right?

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You're telling me that floodwaters rose to 29 ,000 feet? And I say, no. And they say, oh, well, then you either don't believe your

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Bible, or the Bible's not true, because it said all the mountains were covered by water. And I say, yes, it does. And then they look really confused.

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Now, those mountains, I would say, were not formed before the flood. So, therefore, they were not covered to 29 ,000 feet by the floodwaters.

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They were formed during the flood. And so the pre -flood world probably did not have nearly as high mountains as what we see today, nor as deep an ocean basin even.

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I think both were greatly increased during this year -long flood. Again, mountains rose and valleys sank to the levels that you decreed.

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That's what it talks about, about the processes. And we believe that happened during the end of this flood especially. And so, again, we look at the coastal regions, especially there on the west coast, and you do see some pretty impressive ranges of mountains.

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We have the Cascade Range, which you typically see not too far from the coast, like you see there. So the

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Cascade Range, which goes all the way down from Washington through Oregon and into parts of northern

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California. And so this mountain range, we believe, was part of this orogeny, which is really what we refer to as a mountain -building phase.

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We kind of call those an orogeny. And so this is the result of these plates coming together.

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You know, Farallon Plate, the Juan de Fuca Plate coming together, pushing together, we believe. But, again, not slow continental drift, but rapid movement.

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And so the creationary phases of that taking place, adding material, crushing it together, sometimes pushing up, and then mountain ranges.

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And actually, if you follow the Cascade Range, there's a really nice ribbon kind of going right down.

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There's many, many of these volcanoes. If you trace them out, they're actually in a perfect alignment. And it makes sense because that's where these plates are coming together and subducting.

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So right around that same melt zone, right where the plate is melting and kind of up and down north to south zone, this is where you're seeing these volcanoes kind of pop up.

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And I found a neat picture, actually, earlier when I was looking for Cascade ones. And this is kind of an old vintage picture, but I love the look of it.

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Fantastic mountains that you can see there in the Cascade Range. So you're looking here, the first one kind of closest to you there, that's called

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Three -Finger Jack. Behind it, you can see Mount Jefferson and then Mount Hood in the distance there. And so you can actually see a fourth one if you look closely way back there.

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And there's actually one even closer to the view to the left. But these mountains are basically all kind of lined up.

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And so this coastal geology range, you can see some spectacular volcanoes. And, of course, and especially, you know, following creation and stuff,

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I'm sure people are very familiar with one of the very famous volcanoes near that coastal range. And that, of course, is

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Mount St. Helens. And so, you know, as we know, Mount St. Helens erupted May 18th of 1980.

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And this is actually not that event right here. This is actually after that. There was a smaller kind of little lava dome to begin to form inside of it.

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So if you actually go to Mount St. Helens, and I've been up there a couple different times, if you look at it, you've got the big, you know, basin caldera in the middle.

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And you actually have like another little volcano. So it's actually, if you look at it today, you kind of consider it a little mini volcano within a much bigger volcano.

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Now, that mountain has erupted multiple times in the past. And, of course, the last big eruption was

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May 18th of 1980 when it erupted. And that whole front side just kind of slumped down from an earthquake that kind of broke the rocks loose.

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And it kind of like, you know, when you shake up a bottle of soda and you remove the top, it just sprays out. And so kind of that's what happened.

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You have all this material when it was sliding off from that earthquake, the pressure inside that was being built up now just kind of exploded out.

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And it kind of came out unexpectedly to one direction. Instead of just kind of shooting straight up, it actually came out toward the direction of many people that were actually viewing it and watching it and recording, even scientists.

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So I'm sure there are plenty of talks out there that you've all heard on Mount St. Helens. But again, it's part of that coastal geology range and pretty spectacular little feature that we have there.

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I say little. I shouldn't say little. It's actually big. And again, this is much bigger than what

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I ever expected. If you guys have never seen Mount St. Helens, I really encourage you to go see it for yourselves.

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And I've seen many pictures. And boy, tell you what, this thing is so much bigger than what it looks like in pictures.

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You know, it's like I tell people Grand Canyon, you know, pictures don't do it justice. And the same thing is true for Mount St.

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Helens. Again, it's a spectacular place to see and to study, you know, rapid geological processes and things that could happen pretty quickly and even how the landscape could recover quickly.

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So along that whole region, we have some pretty spectacular geology. And a lot of that we can look at in relation to things like, you know, the global flood and maybe evidence of that flood or evidence of what rapid, you know, big changes can happen from big events, you might say, you know, catastrophic processes that produce pretty big events.

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So along that area, you actually have something a little bit to the south. So as we're kind of taking our journey along the, you know, coastal geology, we're kind of starting up here in the north, you know, we're going to work our way north all the way down to the south where you guys live down there,

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Terry. So we'll kind of work our way from north to south. But kind of looking, working our way down the coast, you know, we've got the spectacular

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Cascade Range. We've got some volcanoes like you see here. We have another interesting feature that you can see if you go down near Portland area.

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And so I've got the opportunity to kind of drive through here and explore this landscape. And we have the spectacular

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Columbia River Gorge. Nate, if you're showing something about Oregon, I'm still seeing

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Mount St. Helens. It's still Mount St. Helens, yep. Oh, okay. I haven't got to there yet. Okay.

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Yep. So we do have, you know, this Columbia River Gorge, which goes down from there a little bit further south, you can find.

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And pretty spectacular thing. So it goes all the way to the Pacific Ocean. But if you go further back, you can actually see as it goes through many valleys and this whole landscape.

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Now, this whole region goes all the way to the Pacific, goes all the way to the coast, but it traces its way back quite a ways to the interior.

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So it goes quite a ways back. And in fact, geologists now, you know, they believe that this whole valley, most of what you're seeing, the most, you know, dramatic portions of what you're seeing here were formed from a catastrophic spill of, you know, a big lake system that was basically back there, all the way back into Montana where we have this big

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Lake Missoula area. And so this whole thing was studied, especially going all the way back until about 1923, a guy by the name of J.

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Harlan Bretz, who had kind of surveyed this landscape, looked at it and he was told by many people that these were valleys.

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And he looked at this whole landscape and said, this doesn't look like a typical standard valley. This actually looks like a channel, like a channelized region.

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In other words, to carve a channel, you need some kind of, you know, typical water flow for the most part.

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And so he's looking at these massive channeled valleys, nowadays called the channeled scab lands.

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And he looked at it and said, boy, this looks as if there was a tremendous amount of water that was spilling through here all the way to the

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Pacific ocean, carving out these massive valleys and carving all kinds of things like big waterfalls, like dry falls that we see in the

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Grand Coulee region, which you kind of see here. And that Grand Coulee basically is showing where there was a massive big lake system,

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Lake Missoula, that they believe actually spilled through an ice dam, kind of burst through an ice dam.

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And this, all this water came together and began spilling through topping over different areas. And as it went through where the

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Grand Coulee region is, it actually started to spill over kind of a cliff edge, you know, where there was a waterfall they would think.

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And this force and this amount of water actually had so much erosion happening during this big spill event.

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It caused that waterfall to continue eating backwards from that, you know, the force of water from this kind of Nick point erosion, creating this backward retreating waterfall.

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And it actually retreated the estimate 20 miles. So going back 20 miles worth of cutting the cliff edge from this big spill of massive, you know, lake system, but it goes all the way.

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And so many geologists believe that the Columbia river Gorge, the big features of it, most of that was actually carved by some of these big spills.

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And so as you go and travel through that region, you see, and you can study some of this coastal geology all the way to the

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Pacific ocean and a beautiful landscape out there, by the way, if you guys haven't got a chance to drive up to Portland and check out the

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Columbia river Gorge and some of the areas up there spectacular, beautiful views. There are some really beautiful waterfalls of Multnomah falls.

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We've got a chance to go up there. I, we went one time though in December. And I'll tell you what the wind coming through that Valley, that Gorge was so cold.

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It may have been some of the coldest I've ever been in my life. It's just something different about, you know, when you're near the coast and it's cool temperatures and it's cool because of the water humidity kind of works both ways.

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Not only does it make, you know, things feel hotter, but it makes things feel colder. And that's not me. I was raised,

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I like to say high and dry. So I kind of grew up in the Southwest area and where it's higher elevation and very, very dry air.

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So when I was up there and I was surprised at how cold it was, but beautiful landscape, encourage you guys to get out there. Now, the neat thing about this whole study of the, you know,

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Columbia river Gorge, Lake Missoula channels, scab lands, this whole theory that, that Harlan Bretz had kind of proposed was he was coming at it for the first time kind of by himself.

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And he had so many detractors in standard geology that just kind of said, there's no way any of this makes sense.

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And they were trying to laugh him out of the room. And he kept trying to push and push and push and try to share that.

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This is a big, big flood event. And basically people were laughing him out of the room. Oh, the big flood.

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Yeah. What are you talking about? Like Noah's flood. And, you know, he wasn't even talking about Noah's flood necessarily. He was simply saying, look at this landscape.

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If you study it, it shows that there's a, there was a big event that took place for this big feature.

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And of course in those days, most geologists were only looking at slow gradual processes, only looking at, you know, slow uniformitarianism.

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So here he was trying to showcase something that was very different to what they were typically thinking and what they were looking at.

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And so if you go there to a dry Creek falls area, where they have the little monument plaque, and it's kind of neat to see this and this plaque, you know, dedicated to J Harlan Brett says, who patiently taught us that catastrophic floods may sometimes play a role in nature's unfolding drama.

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And so I think that's neat, you know, because again, it shows us that there are some pretty big events and of course the

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Bible describes a really big event and those big events can cause a lot of change rapidly and catastrophically.

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And so, again, when we think about not just a Lake Missoula sized event, but a global flood event, there's a lot of geology that you can really see and a lot of stuff that could take place very, very quickly.

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So as you continue driving down the coast from their beautiful landscapes, again, the California coastline is spectacular.

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It seems like if you're taking a road trip, you need to plan an extra day just to drive and stop and take pictures and enjoy yourself.

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And I highly encourage you guys to do that. As you're looking at the California coast, what you see oftentimes, you know, sometimes there are sandy beaches down below, but you see a lot of cliff areas.

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So we do have a lot of coastal cliff areas. And so we were talking earlier about kind of the coast of England and there's a lot of cliffs there.

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And we're talking about Dover and I've been out to Dover many times and seen the white cliffs of Dover and a big sheer cliffs, because oftentimes at cliff edges along coastal geology regions, what you see are that these waves are continually pounding these cliffs and it's causing them to fall apart and to break apart.

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And so you see many places where you'll find cliff lines and you'll see, you know, the continual pounding of that surf is just hitting it and water is a pretty good, powerful, erosive, you know, you know, mechanism.

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So it's continually hitting things. And I remember when I lived in Southern California, we actually had places down there near the

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Southern kind of the South Bay area like San Pedro. And there was a places where the houses that were right there on the cliff edge houses had fallen into the ocean and passed and the land had slumped away because building a house near the shore, it's not necessarily good when you're building it on, you know, sinking sand.

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Right. I think there's a song about that. Isn't there maybe a verse, but yeah. So don't build a house on the sandy land, you know, build it upon a rock, because if you build it too close to the shoreline, well, that's going to eventually tumble in.

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And so you can see in this picture here, you know, big boulder, kind of big square rock in the middle of the water. Well, you know, something that has either fallen in or has tumbled in or has been left behind as the rest of it was kind of cut back.

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Well, as the water's cutting through here, eventually even this big rock is going to dissolve away, get washed away and disappear.

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And so as you continue pounding the coastline, even the features that you would see, you know, that once coastline, you might be building on, well, even here, these coastal features are going to erode.

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They are going to get continually pounded and it leaves behind when they erode, it leaves behind typically these nice vertical cliffs.

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And that's what we see in many places around, around the world where there's erosion. You can see where they rode out that they leave behind the kind of these nice vertical cliffs, big sections kind of slump off.

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They don't always tend to weather out into slow sloping beaches. If it's harder rock, or if it's rock is bound together a little bit stronger either through, you know, through water and moisture or things like calcite to kind of binds as gluing agent.

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What you're going to see is they're going to hold their shape, but when they do break off, when they do, they come off, they kind of cleave almost like icebergs do in the ocean, up in the

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Arctic and Antarctic, they kind of cleave and they break off these big flat sections and chunks. We see the grand

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Canyon all the time, especially with limestone. It tends to cleave this nice vertical faces and they have big, whole big chunks slumps in kind of like you see in this picture here, you kind of see the big chunk of rock in the background of distance there.

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It's kind of broken away from the cliff edge, but over time, even that big chunk is going to also erode and disappear into the sea.

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And so you're going to have the ocean continually eroding and cutting back. So, you know, when I lived in Southern California, we had all these really nice multimillion dollar properties that you would see right on the coastal edges and probably not the smartest place to build your multimillion dollar house.

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Cause pretty soon it's going to end up in the ocean. And then it happened certainly out in that area.

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So what we see though, as you're driving around, we see that there's continually erosion taking place.

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There's weathering, there's erosion, there's breaking down of the coast in many ways. And of course, as it breaks down, what happens?

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Well, a lot of that material forms what we call sand. And so if you start to look really closely at a lot of the sand, it's typically made up of all the different rocks and material that were once making up part of the, the mountains or the cliffs that were nearby.

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In fact, a lot of our sand there, especially on the Pacific coastline, a lot of that sand is mostly coming from granites.

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And so you'll take a look at it and you see quartz and feldspar and a silvery mica flakes in there.

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And a lot of the, the sand you would see, especially in Southern California and that region tends to come from the

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San Gabriel mountain range. So they've actually done some kind of figuring out the fingerprinting of it coming from the

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San Gabriel's and some of that material kind of weathering from there being washed down.

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But a lot of it also, we believe was washed off those mountains as the flood itself was retreating off the continents.

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We have a lot of erosion that's taken place off the continent. And a lot of that took place, we believe during the flood, near the end of the flood as waters are receding, but of course it breaks things down and it continues to kind of humble these rocks, rounding them down and making all kinds of beautiful rocks.

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You know, making beautiful beach glass that's been rounded and frosted by the wave action and by the salts and things like that.

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So we ended up seeing some beautiful coastal areas. Of course, the one thing California is also known for, especially

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Southern California, the beautiful beaches and everyone wants to go out there and the surfing and the beach and all that fun stuff, because that sand, you know, it's not too, not too terrible if you take a spill and you've got a bunch of sand underneath you.

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But if you're on your surfboard out there and it's all rocks and sharp, jagged stuff, not the best place to go surfing.

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That's why Southern California is one of the capitals of surfing in the world. But of course you have all this nice big sand and a lot of the sand again comes from sandstone, comes from granite, comes from weathering and transportation material.

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And so we have a lot of sandstone you can see in the region. And so interestingly, when you start to look at sandstone, we have a pretty good layering of sandstone, even around the planet.

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One of the things we point out at the Grand Canyon and all of our river trips are the sandstones that we see at the

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Grand Canyon. Some of those are really big in size. One of those you can see is what we call the

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Tapeats Sandstone. And so if you look at this, this is a picture I took a couple of years back in the

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Grand Canyon, a little side Canyon called Blacktail Canyon. This is a picture of what we call the Great Unconformity.

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This is where we believe the beginning of the flood is represented. The rocks underneath the crystalline basement rocks are kind of going tilted or kind of vertical.

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Those are part of the pre -flood world, we believe. And then where it starts to go flat and horizontal, that's the

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Tapeats Sandstone. And now the interesting thing about that Tapeats Sandstone, if you trace it out across the

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United States, it basically blankets most of North America, like you see here. But every time

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I do a tour and I have anybody from the Pacific coast, especially California, Oregon, up there to Washington, or I get people from like Florida down there, they start to look at this map and they say, well, wait a minute.

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I don't have the Tapeats Sandstone where I live. What's going on? How come it's only in the middle? Again, the flood,

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I believe, explains that nicely. This Tapeats Sandstone you see here blanketing across the

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United States is not just found here. As you can see, it goes down into parts of Mexico. It goes further up. It actually hooks around into Canada, goes further to the north quite a ways, hooks around, arcing all the way into Greenland.

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You could also trace the same Tapeats Sandstone equivalent across all of North Africa, into parts of Europe and into Asia, through southern

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Israel, through southern Jordan, and all the way through there. This is a basically cross -continental blanket of sandstone.

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But there are a few places where you don't see it. Some of those places would be maybe where there's glaciers that have scraped away the surface of the landscape, where there's higher uplifted sections.

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But you're also missing it oftentimes around the coastal margins of these continents.

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When you start to look at the coastal geology, you start to look at the coastal regions along the west coast there and to the east coast, you're saying, well, wait a minute, how come we don't have the sandstone going all the way across here?

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Again, I believe the flood explains that nicely. It has to do with the retreat of the floodwaters off the continents.

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As the floodwaters are receding, they're dragging with them tremendous amounts of freshly laid sediment.

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As the waters are receding off the continents, more water is rushing off of the coastal areas.

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You're basically seeing more water rush off of there because all the water in the interior of the continent is continually going off the coastal areas into the ocean.

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You have much more erosion taking place. The middle region and really by and large where you see it is kind of the mountainous region in some places, like the

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Rockies, a big section right there. This is uplifted. There's not as much water to rush off of there because most of it is already kind of drained away.

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But it's draining toward the coastal margins, the coastal fringes. On those areas, you see what we call sheet erosion, where water acts as a big sheet, and it starts to pull material off of these continents and erode them down.

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You guys, especially that live there near Santee or Southern California, anywhere along the coastal regions, you can really see sheet erosion, this kind of coastal erosion, all the time.

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You go and take a look at the ocean at the beach, and many times you'll see this nice sloping beveled edge that kind of goes right into the ocean.

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What happens is if you watch the wave, as this wave rises up, it kind of pushes, it carries sand and seashells and debris.

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But as that wave retreats and recedes, this big sheet of water pulls back, it draws with it and it drains with it tremendous amounts of sand and seashells and debris.

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It rises up and then it draws back down, and it drags with it material off of there, and it pulls material down into the ocean.

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If you leave something sitting there too close to the edge, well, there's a good chance it's going to get pulled into the water.

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That's what we would see, but on a much larger scale. Imagine not just a wave, but massive water covering the continents that is now receding off the landscape.

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It's draining away, it's pulling material off of those continents, and as it drains away, it kind of draws that material down into the ocean basins.

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Along the coastal areas, it's sloping downhill. More material's been scraped away, kind of beveled off.

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Around those coastal regions, you are missing some of that Tapeats sandstone that was initially, we believe, deposited, initially would have been laid down there, and then subsequently scoured away at the end of the flood.

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Sorry about it, but if you want to come see the Tapeats, come hang out with me at Grand Canyon. It's a terrible place to come visit, but come enjoy it.

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Or those of you who live in the Midwest, you can also see that same Tapeats sandstone equivalent out there near the

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Wisconsin Dells. If you go up to Baraboo area to Devil's Lake State Park, you can actually see the same

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Great Unconformity, the exact same Tapeats sandstone equivalent, and it's spectacular. I've gone up there too as well.

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You can see that that rock layer extends across many places. You find it again through the Middle East.

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In fact, most of you guys have seen it also. If you've never been to Grand Canyon even, if you've ever seen Star Wars, some of those movies where they're flying in through these canyon valleys and stuff, that's typically through places like Jordan or through places like Northern Africa where you have the same

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Tapeats sandstone equivalent over there. But anyhow, you are missing it with coastal geology by and large.

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What we see is on the coastal regions, you have a lot of erosion taking place, and again, especially near the end of the flood.

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You do have some spectacular other geology left behind. Not just sand and some sedimentary rocks, you also have igneous rocks.

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There are volcanic rocks nearby. When I lived in Southern California, one of my favorite things to do would be to go out and do some rock climbing.

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A fun little picture up in the top left, I used to take my students out there and train them how to do rock climbing.

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There's a really neat place down there called Pelican Cove. If you look at the bottom left, somebody had actually put some anchors, some actually rock climbing anchors into basalt.

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If you know anything about the California coast, there's not a lot of good rocks to climb around there because it's all loose and crumbly and mudstones and siltstones and just really breaks apart, really friable material, so it just falls apart.

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But there's a few places where you have some jutting of basalt material. This is one of the locations that we used to go out and climb, and I'd take my students out there.

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In fact, the middle picture you see, it's kind of neat because there's actually, it's not quite seen as much in this picture, it's more near the top, but there's actually some beautiful kind of columnar basalt, columnar jointed basalt, similar to what you would also see in California at Devil's Postpile or over at Devil's Tower in Wyoming or over there in Northwestern Ireland where you see

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Giant's Causeway. You see this kind of columnar basalt, columnar jointing, and that is typically formed, we believe, where there is basalt that comes in contact with a rapid cooling surface, mostly from water.

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So it oftentimes is seen where basalt contacts water. We actually have a lot of it in the

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Grand Canyon itself from lava flows that have flowed over the rim of the Grand Canyon after it was carved, spilled all the way down to the river, and there are miles and miles and miles of columnar basalt down there.

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Pretty neat, spectacular stuff. But anyhow, you have beautiful coastal geology regions, not just having to do with sedimentary rocks, not just sand, but also some very unique, interesting, you know, fingers of basalt that kind of stick into the water sometimes, a strong hard rock.

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So when I lived there, it was great to kind of to climb around to play in that and to take your students through there.

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And nearby, also down there, just kind of near San Pedro area, kind of the L .A.

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South Bay Harbor area, some other very unique things in geology, not necessarily just basalt hard rocks, but we also have sedimentary rocks, and here's a great example near that area of sedimentary rock that has actually been folded and bent up.

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And so I've seen that down there too, where you can definitely see there are tectonic forces and things taking place.

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This whole sequence of rock has been bent up and out of shape without really indications of metamorphic change to it.

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So this is kind of a good indication, I believe, that this sequence of rock was deposited and before it had a chance to fully firm up and become hard, before it fully lithified, it was actually pushed and bent up.

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And you can see it kind of bends and folds back on itself. And so this is a great example, and you may be familiar with Dr.

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Andrew Snelling's research with us here at Canyon Ministries and at the Grand Canyon on the bent folded rock layers.

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And a brand -new film called Is Genesis History? It's part two, called Mountains After the

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Flood, really features that research project and that landscape. And so whenever you're seeing bent folded sedimentary rock,

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I would say, take a look and see, does this exhibit signs of metamorphic change in process, or does this appear to have been bent and folded while it was still soft?

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And there are places throughout, especially Southern California that I've seen, where you can see these kinds of processes and things taking place.

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So again, this, we believe, would have been formed probably right after the flood, when there's still some changes, uplift and movement.

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We have really good evidence that even some of the California coastline in some areas, some of these cliffs have actually been pushed up out of the waters, even after the flood had left.

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But when you look at the landscape and you start to look through all the way down here through Southern California, there's another neat feature that you can see.

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And if you kind of look, you know, starting all the way back here where I live in Arizona, we've got this little thing called the

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Grand Canyon, and you can see that Colorado River flowing down through there. Well, that Colorado River, as it comes through here, basically it starts to make the border between a little bit of Nevada, but especially

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California. Once that Colorado River goes into Lake Mead, it basically turns straight south and goes straight south from there into the

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Sea of Cortez down there by Baja, California, going straight south. Now, when we're looking at the

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Grand Canyon, many people ask, what happened to all that dirt? Where did all that material go?

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You know, we have roughly 900 to 1 ,000 cubic miles of sediment that have been removed from the

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Grand Canyon. Where did all that dirt go? Well, here's an interesting thing.

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If the Colorado River carved the Grand Canyon, it should carry that material all the way down through the

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Colorado River as a giant conveyor belt, and it should be found piled up at the very bottom, down near here where the river enters into the sea.

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But that's not typically where we're finding material, not way down here where the river goes, way far south, where we actually find this material, by and large, is actually blanketing parts of the

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Mojave Desert and parts of the Anza -Borrego Desert, down here near Southern California, even two coastal areas.

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In fact, there are geologists that believe that the L .A. Basin actually sits on top of Grand Canyon sediments.

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So you might even say the coastal geology of Southern California is actually directly related to the

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Grand Canyon and some of the stuff that we see here. Some of that material that we are seeing in the

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Grand Canyon has been dumped out there, and in fact, a lot of it probably dumped out into the ocean when the

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Grand Canyon was carved itself. And so part of coastal geology is not just about what you find locally formed there, but what has been brought into that region.

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You know, we have big river sections you can see up here between Sacramento and the San Joaquin Valley there, where there are massive rivers that are pulling material out of there, and a lot of the material from these mountain ranges are being carried further downstream and dumped out there.

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And it's a great way to study geology that maybe comes from a different location. So, for example, if you go out there to the

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Mojave Desert, and if you were to drive out there to the Mojave, I encourage you guys sometime, if you're in the

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Mojave or the Anza -Borrego, pull over, take a look, get out of your car, and go start to look at the rocks and the gravel.

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And you'll see is there's a whole collection of material out there, and all this material basically are made up of all sorts of different types of rocks.

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There are sandstones and limestones and shales. And I've gone out there to the Mojave and looked at this and said, huh, this is

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Kaibab limestone, just like we see at the Grand Canyon. This material is blanketing the landscape, going all the way out there to the

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Anza -Borrego Desert area, like you see here. And so the interesting thing, again, if the river carved it, it should be found at the bottom, but it's not.

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It's found way over here, kind of into Mojave Desert, towards San Diego, Los Angeles area.

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And so, again, even part of coastal geology has to do with what we see over here where I live.

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And so it's neat, fascinating to study that. Now, that's kind of a snapshot of a few features that we would see from coastal geology in the region, and a few interesting things that I tend to like.

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Again, we could focus on just one of these topics and do a whole hour on just one of these things alone. But talking about studying and research, one thing that I would love somebody to do in the creation community is really study some of these big canyon valleys that you might see off the coastline areas.

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You can see some sections here where there's actually some massive canyon formations underwater. And so some of this, we believe, was because at the end of the

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Ice Age, during the Ice Age, we had a lot of glaciers on the land. The ocean levels were dropped down. We know that there are actually entire communities and villages that are now underwater where there used to be kind of flat coastal regions are now inundated by the water.

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But imagine, as the glaciers are melting, there could be some other big catastrophic events, not just like the

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Missoula Lake bursting, but other big events, not just creating canyons we see on the continent, but even canyons cutting down into these coastal margins.

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And naturally, it's kind of difficult to study underwater geology, but I would love to have somebody in the creation community start to study underwater geology and start to put together, because if you were to even jump on Google Earth and look at the landscape, there are tremendous canyons and valleys and gorges and stuff that really looks like it was carved while water was moving across dry land.

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And then maybe some of this also where there's water draining off from rivers and big storms and stuff off the continents and maybe some of that colder, denser water sinking down and causing underwater erosion at the same time.

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But it's a fascinating thing. So that's one thing that I would love to do, get somebody out there that can do some deep water diving and survey some of the geology that's off there.

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Who knows what we're missing because we're only seeing what's on the continent. But anyhow, I know we've been talking quite a bit about some of the coastal geology.

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And again, there's so much to see. Again, driving up or down the coast, you can see all this stuff and this beautiful landscape where you guys live.

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And I want to leave some time for Q &A here in a second. But as you're driving along the coast and as you're looking at all of this beauty,

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I want you really to remember this, like all of this entire world, this proclaims the glory of God.

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And we as Christians, as those who believe in God's creation, have the ability to study this and to help see

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God's glory revealed. And so I'll leave you guys with a very fantastic verse that I really love to share in all of our tours.

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Psalm 111, verse two says, great are the works of the Lord studied by all who delight in them.

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And so this is something you guys that live along the coast can absolutely do. You have a beautiful coastline.

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You can drive from top to bottom and see the coastal geology that God has given and encourage you guys not just to see that beauty, but to study it because God's works are great.

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They're spectacular and beautiful. And I love it. Great are the works of the Lord studied by all who delight in them.

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And so as we're driving, as you're exploring, as you're seeing this landscape that God has made, remind yourselves, take delight in his works because God as a good heavenly father has given us, his children, good gifts to enjoy.

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And again, that coastal geology, fantastic place to enjoy that creation. So with that,

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I will kind of wrap that up and turn it back over to you, Terry. And if there are people that have questions, we can certainly see what we can do or comments that they might have.

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And I'll also open up the chat. In fact, I'm going to, I'll close out my screen here. So I'm not sharing. Perfect.

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I can see you now. Yeah. Yeah. That was, that was so great.

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Very informative. And we like, we like visuals and we like colors.

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So it was very engaging and interesting. And we do have some questions.

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So I, although I want to comment first, just how blessed I feel because God has, you know,

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In my personal life in the last couple of years, we've had some big changes in our family and, and very sad things, but I've also been afforded the opportunity to drive this coast several times.

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And, and I'm just saying like, I had done it once back in 2014 with my son.

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And, and before I took my first trip on the drive along the coast in the last couple of years, a couple of people told me just wait till you see the

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Oregon coast. And I didn't remember. The contrast between the California and the

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Oregon coast. Like. California coast. There are some really beautiful scenes, but once you hit that, that border and you get to Oregon, it's just amazing.

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I agree. Why is. Or, I mean, why are, why are they. Okay. I know there's other questions.

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I'm just jumping ahead here. I did notice that big difference between the

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California coast and the Oregon coast. And then we didn't hit much in the Washington coast.

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We did a little bit. But there's, there's a big noticeable difference.

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Is it because of the weather? Is it because what, what is. Mainly has to do with the geological processes of, you know, that fair along plate, the

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Wanda Fuqua plate, pushing against the North American plate. And so, you know, In some cases it's subducted more easily.

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And so it hasn't created such a collision. You might say. Hasn't pushed up as much stuff, but in some areas, you actually see more pushup.

01:00:05

More volcanic activity. And that's what you see, especially if they're in the Cascades. Up along Oregon, Washington, you're seeing a lot more volcanic activity.

01:00:13

I mean, all those volcanoes are up there. You know, kind of that Pacific ring of fire. So you tend to see. More volcanic activity.

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And then you see more mountainous regions, more hard rock. Coastal areas as well, because of just what's happening. Between the contact of these places that are coming together.

01:00:28

And then you had a slide up. That was look like the Oregon coast. There was a bridge. Going and then you made the rock disappear.

01:00:36

Do you know where that picture was taken? The one with the bridge.

01:00:42

Yeah. And then, you know, your graphics makes the rock disappear. And then. Those were two different pictures, but the one of the bridge,

01:00:50

I can't. Somebody might recall. Cause a pretty famous picture I've seen before. I don't recall where it is. I got off of a stock footage site.

01:00:57

Oh, okay. I can probably find it for you. No, that's all right. I thought you took it. We had a lighthouse in Oregon.

01:01:05

And that area just looked so, so much like that area, but Terry commented to me that they probably all look alike, but.

01:01:15

Yeah, I mean, it's somewhere along Pacific coast highway. He knows you're driving up through there. So. Thank you. I've seen the picture before, but I can't recall the name of that exact location, but I can probably find it for you.

01:01:26

Well, and can you repeat? I think that you said something about that. Mount St. Helens.

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There's a volcano within a volcano. Yeah. So, you know, the main eruption, the major big eruption.

01:01:38

We're talking about 1980, but then after that, you know, especially around like 1983. We started to have more kind of pluming up and it was kind of a lava dome.

01:01:46

So the big eruption happened here, but in the middle of it, this kind of lava domes are rising up. And so you can see in that picture that I showed some, you know, steam water vapor coming out of there.

01:01:55

So it actually kind of created like a little mini dome, like a little volcano dome within the much bigger volcano, you know, caldera.

01:02:02

So if you look at it, it looks kind of like a little mini volcano inside of much bigger volcano, which is really these, these volcanoes have erupted multiple times.

01:02:09

You actually have layer upon layer, typically kind of a strata volcano, multiple layer events that have kind of formed this big.

01:02:17

You know, Sequence of volcanic eruptions. Okay.

01:02:23

We have Bill Morgan, one of our past speakers with us again. And he's asking our underwater.

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Or is that underwater active volcanic activity evidence. The earth is young.

01:02:36

Or at least the formation of the mountains under the ocean being recent. Oh, yeah.

01:02:44

And I've, I've heard this. Multiple ways. Yeah. I would say to kind of depends on where somebody might be talking about.

01:02:55

You know, we have volcanic eruptions in the middle of, you know, oceanic plates from hotspots where magma is pluming up from there.

01:03:03

I personally don't necessarily see a lot of like evidence supporting a young earth perspective from that.

01:03:09

Simply because even in older perspective geology, you could have hotspots rising up from convection currents underneath these plates.

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And so we have these convection kind of. You know, currents that are moving that could actually create a warming hotspots zone in the middle of a plate.

01:03:23

And so, you know, but I would say somewhat related to that. Is the fact that we do find some plate material that is still subducting into the hot, you know,

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Athena sphere or down into the mantle that we should not expect to find if the earth were millions of years old, for example, some of these plates that have subducted.

01:03:40

Should have had adequate time to, to already melt or to have the process of melt and then rising up, but we're still seeing some cold plate material down into these zones where it's hotter and they should have had enough time for millions and millions of years to kind of equal temperature.

01:03:55

And so some regions you might have that, but I would, I'm trying to think of any like underwater volcanoes that would be evidence of a younger.

01:04:03

I'm not exactly sure. And Bill, I know, you know, a lot about this area. You might even have a great answer to that or a great thought that you would even have.

01:04:10

And so if you're here, I'd love to hear any thought you have on it too. Sorry about that.

01:04:24

I was thinking like the mid Atlantic ridge had so many active hotspots that if it was happened billions of years ago, it would have petered out by now, but I'm no geologist.

01:04:36

Yeah. And I'm thinking all Pacific area. Cause I'm thinking coastal geology in the Pacific. Yeah. Mid Atlantic ridge. Yeah. That's still,

01:04:41

I mean, you've got movement over there. And I think again, you know, that's where we're seeing push apart, you know, where continents are moving apart in different directions.

01:04:50

Again, today's processes are much slower. And so some of the activity that we would see through there could perhaps be that, or the geologist could simply just say that the convection currents are moving these continents still apart.

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And as they're splitting apart, it's exposing heat and magma that's coming up to kind of fill in the void. So anyhow, but yeah,

01:05:07

I mean, there's definitely still a lot of activity that is making things very, very active that you would think over millions of years, that some of these regions would have either slowed down quite a bit more or come to a complete halt and seized and frozen up.

01:05:22

Thank you. And great job. Thanks Bill. And we have another past speaker

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Thomas Lohman who's watching along with us on Facebook. And when you were talking about the volcano within a volcano, he, he said like crater

01:05:37

Lake in Oregon. Yeah. Yeah. Just like that. Yeah. Exactly. In fact, we see that many places where Northern Arizona, where we live, we have

01:05:45

Oh, 600, 650 volcanoes here. And we have a lot of the cinder cone volcanoes.

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And many times inside of a cinder cone, you have this like big mound, you have the big open, you know, caldera kind of cinder cone open spot in the middle.

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And in the middle of that, you also have like a little mound again, because typically even though it erupts, you still have a smaller pushup in the middle.

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So I would say oftentimes where you find volcanic openings like that, you do find some kind of like little pushup.

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And it may not be an explosive volcano, but it's a place sometimes where just more magma has kind of oozed up or mounted up.

01:06:18

And so, yeah, a lot like crater Lake, you got this cool little feature right in the middle there. Huh? Okay.

01:06:23

And then I'm back here in zoom. Dan White is asking, is there evidence of silt from the

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Columbia gorge area out on the shelf into the Pacific? Yes, absolutely. You know, they have done some underwater dredging and some samples and stuff like that.

01:06:39

And so they know for a fact that the material off the coastal sections there comes from that Columbia river gorge.

01:06:44

In fact, it still does today, just from the river itself. That's flowing through there. It's continually removing material from that whole region and carrying it out into the

01:06:53

Pacific. So even today we have fresh continual material being pulled off the continents and dumped into the

01:06:59

Pacific coast shelf areas. Okay. Next question. Robin would like to know, is the salt, the same thing as pumice?

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No, not necessarily. Pumice tends to become much more light, for example, like the opposite end on the igneous volcanic spectrum.

01:07:18

They're both igneous rocks, both volcanic rocks, but pumice tends to happen where oftentimes there's contact with, with water, which creates a lot of steam and bubbles and things like that.

01:07:27

So you end up having a whole lot of trapped gas and bubbles within the volcanic material, making it very, very light.

01:07:35

I do have some pumice around here somewhere that I collected recently, but it makes it very, very light. Basalt's almost the exact opposite.

01:07:41

Basalt has a lot of iron. It has a lot of magnesium within it, making it very, very dense.

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And so it's very strong. It's very hard. And so, you know, they're both igneous rocks, both coming from volcanic events sometimes or from magma oozing up, but kind of the opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to chemical composition, as well as, you know, just the weight and material.

01:08:04

Pumice tends to be very, very light in color too. So a lot of your pumice is whitish kind of gray in color.

01:08:11

You have other rocks kind of in between, like we have a lot of these black and red cinders around here, which are a little bit heavier.

01:08:17

They contains more iron to them, but then you get to the more solid black rocks of basalt.

01:08:22

So that's usually black to, you know, very gray, sometimes even greenish looking sometimes, but yeah. Great question.

01:08:29

Okay. And then also, I think that maybe you had touched on this, but she wanted to clarify, are there no creationists working on the canyons under the ocean?

01:08:40

I don't know that there are, there could be, I have not yet met everybody on this planet.

01:08:46

So I can't say that there aren't, but I don't know there, there could be somebody out there. I have not met them and boy, that would be fascinating.

01:08:55

I know when I've gone to many of these creation talks and seminars and good big gatherings like this year, we had the international conference on creationism out there in Ohio went out there and, you know, none of the talks that I saw were given about this topic and I've not come across or read anything, but who knows, maybe there is somebody that's starting to get into that.

01:09:15

And that would be fantastic. I would love to see that. That would be great. And, and then just another comment from Dan, going back to, when we were talking about the difference between the

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California and Oregon coast, he said another reason for the coastal differences in relation to what you were talking about, they're covered with the massive erosion from the grand

01:09:39

Canyon area down to the California coast, as opposed to not much massive erosion releases in the

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Oregon and Washington area. So. That makes sense. Yeah. I mean, a lot of material, the sedimentary material we see here was carried and dumped out across there.

01:09:55

It's a low lying region. So naturally, even from not just grand Canyon, but from the whole area, you would have a lot more of that broken up turned up sedimentary material that kind of blankets that area.

01:10:05

Yeah. That's a great observation, Dana. I like that. Okay. Well, we've reached the end of our questions.

01:10:12

We've also reached the end of our time because we'd like to have a little bit of time left for some fellowship back here in the zoom room.

01:10:19

So if you make, can tell everybody one more time, how they can find you, how they can support your ministry.

01:10:27

We we'd love to be able to let you have that opportunity. Go ahead. Absolutely. Thank you, Terry. Yeah. So we

01:10:32

Canyon ministries, we have been running trips and tours from a biblical creation perspective at the grand Canyon for 26 years now.

01:10:39

And so we run river trips. We do backpacking trips. We do hiking tours. We do walking tours. We do vehicle tours every day, except for Sunday year round.

01:10:47

We have those kinds of tours happening. So a Canyon ministries .org, people can find out about that, sign up for our trips and tours, or just simply

01:10:55

Google grand Canyon Christian tour or something like that. If you can't remember the name, you'll find us out there. And we serve between three and 4 ,000 people a year at the grand

01:11:04

Canyon and throughout the American Southwest. So I'd love to see any of you guys out here. I'd love to be able to be that guide that day for you.

01:11:10

We have a whole team of guides, so I might be it, but we have a whole team of guides. And if you want me, well, I'll just put my name on the request.

01:11:16

When you see that, when you make that reservation and I'll try to jump on there, but it's always great to see all of our creation friends or anybody that we meet on these sessions, come out and see us at the grand

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Canyon. And it's, it's a neat place to be. And in my opinion, Terry, it's the best place in the world to see and to study and understand flood geology.

01:11:33

It's no place quite like it on the earth. Yeah. I'll, I'll aim into that.

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And just getting out of the car at the first point, when you get there and stepping out and just seeing, it's just breathtaking.

01:11:47

I'm just going to say, if you haven't been to the grand Canyon, you need to go. So, and, and once again, we are creation fellowship

01:11:54

Santee and you can find links to most of our past presentations.

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And you can also find a list of our upcoming speakers by visiting tiny URL .com

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forward slash C F Santee. That's C like creation F like fellowship

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We'll be coming from creation truth foundation, and he'll be giving us a great message on the heritage of Thanksgiving in America.

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So you want to be looking forward to that. And with that, we're going to go ahead and sign off for this evening.