Chalk Cliffs
Chalk cliff formation?
On average, how long would it have taken to form a metre of chalk cliff at, say, Dover?
Yes, a slow process. Something I often quote when faced with the village idiots who insist the earth is less than 10,000 years old!
Chalk forms very slowly by definition. . There is an old geologists maxim “The present is the key to the past” Calcareous (Chalk and limestone ) deposits are being formed today , under warm calm tropical marine conditions.We can actually watch it happening. we can send drills down to the sea bed, collect samples of the limy mud as it accumulates and measure the thickness of it. Catastrophic evens are not conducive to chalk/limestone formations.
Answers in Genesis is funnier than Monty python. The section about Plate Tectonics is hilarious ( According to them,the plates used to move a heck of a lot quicker than they do now, that is why the Atlantic ocean has managed to widen out in only a few thousand years ,not 60 million, but now, surprise surprise, they have slowed down ) There are so many lies in there, Joseph Goebbels would have been proud of it.
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