Creationists cite marine fossil deposits — including trilobites, crinoids, and brachiopods in Ordovician limestone — near the summit of Mount Everest as evidence of a great flood. Mainstream geology explains that these were ancient sea floor sediments thrust upward over millions of years by the tectonic collision that built the Himalayas, not deposited by floodwater at high elevation. 🏔️🪨
Marine deposits on Himalayas used to argue for cataclysmic geological formation
Key facts
- Creationists cite marine deposits on Mount Everest as evidence for a great flood
- Speaker argues these deposits were brought to the top by the cataclysm that created the Himalayas, not by floodwater reaching the summit
- Speaker asserts mountain formation was likely much more rapid and cataclysmic than mainstream geology claims
Sources
Fossils of Mount Everest | VolcanoCafevolcanocafe.org
The top layers of Mount Everest are made from a marine sediment: a sea floor. ... The fossils lived when the ocean wasn't there yet. The ...
Mt. Everest - NASA Sciencescience.nasa.gov
The presence of limestone and ocean marine fossils at the topof these mountains is one of the key pieces of evidence cited that advanced the ...
The Ordovician rocks of Mount Everest - IUGS-Geoheritage.orgiugs-geoheritage.org
The summit of the mountain is a tropical Middle Ordovician limestone with abundant and diverse marine fossils that formed part of an ancient seafloor long ...
We keep finding strange ocean fossils on the top of Mount Everestsciencefocus.com
If you scaled Mount Everest, you'd probably be surprised to find fossilised marine creatures – including trilobites, crinoids and brachiopods – ...
Marine Fossils on Mount Everest · Videos · Creation.comcreation.com
We find fossils of marine creatures in limestone near the summit, which means that this area must have been under the sea in the past.
Was this story useful?
Keep exploring
Every site on this page sits on the globe, and the people who research them are on the Discord.
3D Globe · Sites by country · Story Archive · Research Library · Weekly Journal · Search
AI-generated text · images from the original sources · always verify with the sources.