Flood by Design (Design Series) by Mike Oard

Author:Mike Oard [Oard, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science, SCIENCE / Earth Science / Geology, RELIGION / Religion &#38
ISBN: 9781614581659
Publisher: Master Books
Published: 2008-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

Figure 5.11. Sugarloaf Mountain, the tallest of several inselbergs and a little right of center, situated in the Rio De Janeiro harbor, Brazil. It is 1,300 feet (396 m) high.

Figure 5.12. Stone Mountain, Georgia (courtesy of Carl Froede).

Many inselbergs are erosional remnants of granitic-type rocks. Ayers Rock in central Australia is a famous non-granitic inselberg composed of vertically tilted beds of sandstone (Ollier and Tuddenham, 1962; Twidale, 1978a). It stands 1,150 feet (350 m) above the surrounding flat desert floor (see figure 1.6). However, a buried pediment lies on its east and north edges (see chapter 6 on the subject of pediments). Ayers Rock is the surface erosional remnant of a huge sandstone body 20,000 feet (6,100 m) thick that continues into the subsurface! The origin of Ayers Rock (as well as other inselbergs) remains a mystery within uniformitarian geomorphology, since its survival was not due to the type of rock (Twidale, 1978a, p. 194):

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