The crust of the earth is like the skin on an apple, very thin, and that crust was crumpled to form mountain ranges of the world, such as the Himalayas, apparently during a relatively short period of time, because the folding of the sedimentary layers in the mountains show no tension cracks from that folding, which must have occured by rapid plate tectonics, flooding of the continents (to deposit thousands of feet of sediments), with the mountain uplift of those sediments having occured at the close of that global flooding (which was caused by water through “the fountains of the deep,” now the midoceanic rift zones), the floodwater having slid off the then thickening continents into the then deepening ocean basins. Read all about it in chapter 9 of the free ebook download of my first book, Old Earth? Why Not!
And around the world are outcroppings of “pillow” basalts, which were lava extrusions that congealed into solid rock after emplacement, often between or through sedimentary layers, sedimentary meaning layers which were deposited in water, and so too were these “pillow” basalts, obviously emplaced during the same catastrophic geologic event, known to all the ancient tribes, and evidenced in the geologic record. To read much more about the dynamics and dating of this geologic event, checkout http://GlobalFlood.org, realizing that even the Mountains of Ararat, where the Ark of Noah landed at the close of the Deluge, is composed of pillow basalt, emplaced into water, the water of the Great Deluge of Noah’s time.
