What About Unconformities?
There are many unconformities in the actual fossil record and the geologic column, such as missing layers, reversed layers, fossils and artifacts in the wrong layers, etc. Here are a few of them.
1. The Lewis “Overthrust.”
In Montana, "Pre-Cambrian" rocks lie on top of "Cretaceous" rocks that have been dated to be 500 million years younger. Could a piece of land 350 miles wide and six miles thick (about 10,000 square miles in area) pick itself up and slide 40 miles on top of the "Cretaceous" strata and leave no observable skid marks? The Jurassic thru Cambrian layers are missing at this location. These layers are supposed to represent over 400 million years of time. This is the column we observe at this location.
2. The Franklin "Overthrust."
In Texas, rocks that have been dated to be 450 million years old (Ordovician) lie on top of rocks that have been dated to be 130 million years old (Cretaceous). The Jurassic thru Silurian layers are missing at this location. These layers are supposed to represent over 250 million years of time, but they are missing.
3. West Crazy Cat Canyon.
At a location known as West Crazy Cat Canyon near El Paso, Texas, scientists found massive Ordovician limestones on top of Cretaceous strata. The Ordovician period is supposed to be the age of sea life, and Cretaceous is supposed to be the age of the dinosaurs. The Jurassic thru Silurian layers are missing again and not represented at this location.
4. The Grand Canyon.
The Grand Canyon presents a much different kind of problem for Geologists. There is a gap between two layers of strata where several geological ages are missing, but in one place has interbedded layers of alternating Mississippian and Cambrian strata (Mississippian – Cambrian, Mississippian – Cambrian, Mississippian – Cambrian). The Devonian, Silurian, and Ordovician layers are missing and not represented at this location.
Who do you call if you have missing rock layers?
1. Human footprints have been found cast in Permian strata. In an article that the Smithsonian Magazine ran in 1992 about the discovery, it was noted that paleontologists call such anomalies as "problematica."
2. In 1983 Professor Amanniyazov, Director of Turkmenia's Institute of Geology, reported what appeared to be human footprints in Mesozoic strata.
3. Impressions resembling in shape a human footprint were discovered next to the tracks of the “prehistoric animals." (Rubstsov, "Tracking Dinosaurs," Moscow News, No. 24, p. 10, 1983.)
4. Max Han was fishing with his family near London, Texas in 1934 when he found a rock with wood protruding from it. When the rock was cracked open, this octagonally shaped iron hammer was exposed. The wood handle is partially coalfield with quartz and calcite crystalline inclusions. Seashells surrounding the hammer had been dated at 400 million years old. Part of the handle had turned to coal. There were no human tools 400 million years ago. The artifact doesn’t appear to be a fake.
5. Over 500 metal spheres were found in South Africa in a Precambrian mineral deposit that had been dated at 2.8 billion years old. It is thought they must have come from some sort of a machine. Were there any machines 2.8 billion years ago? Have scientists been wrong about their estimated age for that particular layer?
