Texas canyon forms rapidly
Mainstream scientists generally support the belief that natural erosional processes occur uniformly, slowly, and gradually today at the same rate as in the past. The assumption of "the present is key to the past" is the generally accepted model for geologic processes in mainstream academia, and the idea of quick, catastrophic events that occurred in the past are generally not considered. The possibility that canyons seen today were carved by a quick, catastrophic erosional flood event are generally ignored in favor of slow, gradual, and uniform erosional processes occurring over millions of years. However, a recent canyon formed in Texas gives further evidence of canyon formation by quick, catastrophic processes.
In the summer of 2002, a period of heavy rains caused the reservoir of Canyon Dam at Canyon Lake in central Texas and Guadalupe River Valley to flood, creating a large canyon very quickly within several weeks of the flooding event. The canyon carved was 2.2-kilometers long and 7-meters deep into the limestone bedrock. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology and Texas State University believe that the canyon itself formed in just three days, based on methods such as analysis of aerial photos of the canyon. Canyon formation such as this example is forcing today's geologists to accept that canyon formation can occur very rapidly and canyon formation does not require millions of years of gradual erosion. Mainstream geologists explain that canyons that formed in the past leave little evidence their rate of formation, so that geologists often can not confirm the rate of formation, whether that be slow and gradual or quick and catastrophic. Whenever rapid canyon formation is observed, however, geologists have no choice but to accept catastrophic formation of canyons as a legitimate method of formation and the possibility that all canyons on Earth could have formed quickly and catastrophically, despite traditional assumptions of slow and gradual erosional processes of canyon formation.
The observation of large boulders downstream can give greater evidence of rapid canyon formation by catastrophic surges of water in canyons in which their formation has not been observed. In addition, large islands of accumulated sediment found in canyons can give evidence of catastrophic surges of water flow in the past that slow and gradual water flow could not have produced. Rapid and catastrophic formation of canyons complies with the Biblical creationist timeline of 6,000 years from the creation week to the present and reduces the need for explanations of slow canyon formation over millions of years.
In the summer of 2002, a period of heavy rains caused the reservoir of Canyon Dam at Canyon Lake in central Texas and Guadalupe River Valley to flood, creating a large canyon very quickly within several weeks of the flooding event. The canyon carved was 2.2-kilometers long and 7-meters deep into the limestone bedrock. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology and Texas State University believe that the canyon itself formed in just three days, based on methods such as analysis of aerial photos of the canyon. Canyon formation such as this example is forcing today's geologists to accept that canyon formation can occur very rapidly and canyon formation does not require millions of years of gradual erosion. Mainstream geologists explain that canyons that formed in the past leave little evidence their rate of formation, so that geologists often can not confirm the rate of formation, whether that be slow and gradual or quick and catastrophic. Whenever rapid canyon formation is observed, however, geologists have no choice but to accept catastrophic formation of canyons as a legitimate method of formation and the possibility that all canyons on Earth could have formed quickly and catastrophically, despite traditional assumptions of slow and gradual erosional processes of canyon formation.
The observation of large boulders downstream can give greater evidence of rapid canyon formation by catastrophic surges of water in canyons in which their formation has not been observed. In addition, large islands of accumulated sediment found in canyons can give evidence of catastrophic surges of water flow in the past that slow and gradual water flow could not have produced. Rapid and catastrophic formation of canyons complies with the Biblical creationist timeline of 6,000 years from the creation week to the present and reduces the need for explanations of slow canyon formation over millions of years.
Canyon Lake Dam, US Army Corps of Engineers
