Case 16: Rapid Ice Formation

During World War 2, six P38 fighter planes and two B17 bomber planes had to make emergency landings in Greenland.  All of the pilots and crew survived and were rescued but the planes abandoned in the remote area.  In 1988 private salvage hunters (United States citizens) funded a salvage operation to dig out the planes.  Surprisingly, they found the planes were now buried under 250 feet of ice and snow.  This is 250 feet of snow (hardened to ice) accumulation in less than 50 years (5.4 feet per year).

Cores through ice in the north arctic and in the south Antarctica have been falsely characterized as "millions of years" or "hundreds of thousands of years" or "tens of thousands of years" of accumulation.  A 3000-ft long ice core could represent just 2,000 years of snow deposition in perennial cold climates based on the empirical evidence.  The photograph below is from the ice cave excavated around one of the planes.  Parts were hauled up through a vertical shaft to the surface and planes reassembled elsewhere.

Evidence of Catastrophic Geology: Case 15

2011 Japan Tsunami

In 2011 a large tsunami hit Japan and caused significant damage and loss of life.  One of the amazing photographs is presented herein.  There is also video available online.  After the flooding, borings in the interior 1.6 km inland revealed the tsunami deposited 40 cm of soil in a matter of several days.  The height of the flood wave reach 26 feet in some areas.  The 40 cm deposit (almost 1.4 feet) is a single layer produced in a couple of days, not tens of thousands of years.  The flood deposit layer varied in thickness which was controlled by topograhy and the bedload in the water.  Multiple energy pulses (waves) produced different layers or seams within the overall deposit (i.e. a two day 1.4-ft layer with a varved appearance was not the result of dozens of deposits placed over tens of thousands of years).  This is just one more example of empirical evidence that proves the sedimentary deposits we find across the planet are not the result of imaginary slow ("millions of years") deposition.