Talk:Sedimentary rock

The usual suspect: Time

It would be quite difficult to attribute the origin of all sedimentary rocks to the Genesis Flood. So, before the Flood, there were sedimentary rocks, may be all types of sedimentary rocks. Then there might be ocean existed before the Flood. How do we handle this speculation? --Juvenis Sun 21:54, 1 December 2006 (EST)

Oh, you've already been here.

Well, to assume that there were significant amounts of sedimentary rock before the Flood seems to be heavily dosed in speculation as well. Pre-Flood sedimentary rock would have had to come either from catastrophic volcanic activity ala Mt. Saint Helens or else from a creative act of God. I don't want to try and second guess God, but regarding the volcanism at least, we do not know how active volcanoes were back then, do we? As for time (I almost missed the heading for some reason), if we go by the geneaologies of Genesis there wasn't too great of a time span for volcanic accumulation, relatively speaking. So yeah, it's speculation to say how much sedimentary rock there would have been back then. --Zephyr Axiom 00:31, 22 April 2007 (EDT)