Genesis Flood a catastrophism differing from Grand Canyon and Mount Saint Helens
“ What MSH [Mount Saint Helens] demonstrates is not that the fossil forests at places like Yellowstone were deposited by a giant water flood, but that they were deposited in a volcanic environment like MSH ”. Kevin Nelstead This 2020 article needed to be written: What does Mt St Helens teach us about Noah’s flood? Almost nothing. – GeoChristian What does Mt St Helens teach us about Noah’s flood? Almost nothing. All I got from Mt St Helens (MSH) in the days following its May 18, 1980 eruption was a few pretty sunsets. I was an undergraduate student in my first year at the University of Utah, and most of the ash cloud passed far north of Salt Lake City. MSH became more significant for me a few years later as a geology graduate student at Washington State University, where my research project involved analysis and correlation of Cascade Range tephra (volcanic ash) layers buried at various levels in the Quaternary P...
