Evaporites are too thick (Talk.Origins)

Claim CD302:

Evaporite deposits are far too thick to have been formed from the evaporation of ancient seas.

Source: Morris, Henry M., 1974. Scientific Creationism, Green Forest, AR: Master Books, p. 106.

CreationWiki response:

Some uniformitarian geologist have noticed this problem. The problem is that the building of such thick layers of salt by the "consistent with cyclical sea transgression/regressions" imagined by Talk.Origins would produce layers that show clear evidence of being in the open for a time, such as alternating dirt layers. Alternating dirt layers would not be fatal to the precipitation model, but their lack is fatal to the evaporation model.


 * Gish, D. T., 1988. More Creationist Research. In CRSQ 25(4): 161-169.

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