Formation of Thick Salt Deposits Inside Earth: Evaporites
by Owen Borville
January 16, 2019
Geology
Inside the earth there are thick deposits of salt that evolutionists say evaporated from sea water in basins over millions of years. The existence of these thick salt deposits, called evaporites, and the proposed long timeframe of evaporation has been used to question the creationist time frame of 6,000 years. However, there are many problems with the evolutionist old earth explanation for these deposits.
These salt deposits found inside the earth are extremely pure and lack contamination from non-salt sediments, dust, and biological material that would be certain with millions of years of evaporation processes.
In fact, these salt deposits are so pure that they are used for human consumption with little processing. These salt-evaporite deposits would need an extremely arid climate with much sun and little precipitation for long time periods for the evaporation model of formation, however evaporite deposits are found around the earth today in places that do not have this type of environment, such as temperate and even arctic environments.
Creationists today propose that these salt deposits are not the product of seawater evaporation over millions of years but from rapid precipitation of salt deposits from the mineral rich magma and hot waters released during the initiation of the "springs of the great deep" and the Genesis Flood. As the hot magma and hot waters rose to the surface and contacted the salty seawater, this reaction likely also precipitated a large amount of salt deposits. Creationists believe that this igneous origin of these salt deposits created the right temperature and pressure conditions to produce these thick salt deposits, in contrast to the evaporation model by the evolutionists. (1) (2)
(1) Journal of Creation 23(3):116–118—December 2009.
(2) Morris, J. 2010. Evaporites and the Flood. Acts & Facts. 39 (6): 17.
by Owen Borville
January 16, 2019
Geology
Inside the earth there are thick deposits of salt that evolutionists say evaporated from sea water in basins over millions of years. The existence of these thick salt deposits, called evaporites, and the proposed long timeframe of evaporation has been used to question the creationist time frame of 6,000 years. However, there are many problems with the evolutionist old earth explanation for these deposits.
These salt deposits found inside the earth are extremely pure and lack contamination from non-salt sediments, dust, and biological material that would be certain with millions of years of evaporation processes.
In fact, these salt deposits are so pure that they are used for human consumption with little processing. These salt-evaporite deposits would need an extremely arid climate with much sun and little precipitation for long time periods for the evaporation model of formation, however evaporite deposits are found around the earth today in places that do not have this type of environment, such as temperate and even arctic environments.
Creationists today propose that these salt deposits are not the product of seawater evaporation over millions of years but from rapid precipitation of salt deposits from the mineral rich magma and hot waters released during the initiation of the "springs of the great deep" and the Genesis Flood. As the hot magma and hot waters rose to the surface and contacted the salty seawater, this reaction likely also precipitated a large amount of salt deposits. Creationists believe that this igneous origin of these salt deposits created the right temperature and pressure conditions to produce these thick salt deposits, in contrast to the evaporation model by the evolutionists. (1) (2)
(1) Journal of Creation 23(3):116–118—December 2009.
(2) Morris, J. 2010. Evaporites and the Flood. Acts & Facts. 39 (6): 17.
