"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.
"According to the team’s results, the Spanish Peaks first formed when magma welled up from deep within Earth’s crust but didn’t
quite break through to the surface.
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
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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?"
CEH