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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / How fast can glaciers cut rock?
« on: 01/03/2010 20:50:12 »
A group of Young Earth Creationists (YEC, pronounced "yuck") has come up with the idea that an ocean heated by magma left over from the Flood scenario caused enough precipitation to create glaciers in Yosemite for a few hundred years. They even threw in some references to mathematical models that might be construed as tangentially related. Leaving aside the climate problem and scientific dating and evidence for multiple glacial events in multiple places, etc., etc. as Inconvenient Truths, my question is simply this: Is it even plausible that glaciers could gouge Yosemite Valley in a few hundred years?