"Geologists explore the hidden history of Colorado’s Spanish Peaks (University of Colorado at Boulder, 4 March 2024). A pair of isolated mountains in southeast Colorado is an anomaly. However they arose, these so-called Spanish Peaks didn’t follow current theory of orogeny (mountain building). Geologists at the U of Colorado tried to figure out what happened. It was something.
Then, something happened. In a very short span of time, geologically-speaking, huge tracks of land in southeastern Colorado vanished. Between roughly 18 and 14 million years ago, more than a mile of sedimentary rocks around the Spanish Peaks eroded away, then were swept into the Arkansas River.
The researchers suspect that as-of-yet-unidentified geologic forces were pushing up southeastern Colorado from below—exposing previously underground rocks to rain and flowing water."
Q: Did they see stuff happen?
A: No.
Q: Did they travel in a time machine 18 million years back?
A: No.
Q: Did they witness a mile of sedimentary rocks form?
A: No.
Q: Did they see them vanish?
A: No.
Q: Did they identify geological forces capable of doing these things?
A: No.
Q: Are any such huge tracts of land vanishing into rivers today?
A: No.
All they did was take samples at three sites and use voodoo dating on them, called U-Th/He Thermochronology. This divination method supposedly reveals to their imaginations how many million Darwin Years ago the rocks were hot.
If more than a kilometer of material vanished without a trace, it sounds like something catastrophic happened over a wide region—not the nearby river. Floods happen; is that a cause for consideration?
Q: Where did all the sediments come from?
Q: Why are those sediments filled with billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth?"
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