Earth was one large ball of water before land suddenly emerged about 2.4 billionn years ago! The Bible states:
In Genesis 1:9-10 “And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
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Land came up from within the sea, dramatically rising up from the water, changing the entire planet’s geography, climate, and increasing chances of life in all its forms. Before this event, Earth was one massive ocean. Before this rapid emergence of land, the planet’s mantle was too soft to support mountain ranges and all the geographic features seen today, a new study has found, reports R&D. Researchers have found that shale sampled from various parts of the planet contains archived evidence of nearly unrecognisable traces of rainwater that led to the weathering of land from about 3.5 billion years ago. Before this event, the Earth was nothing more than a large body of water, hot and inhospitable. As the mantle cooled down, land emerged from the sea and climate on Earth also became a lot more temperate and bearable. Also, as new land clashed with each other, mountains, valleys, and plateaus came to be. In the Earth’s timeline, about 2.7 billion years ago, the first supercontinent came to be. Called the Kenorland, researchers till now always thought that the continent formed over a period of between 1.1 and 3.5 billion years ago. This new study, however, suggests that this change happened rather quickly, reports Daily Mail. The study found that about two-thirds of all the landmass seen today emerged from the sea about 2.4 million years ago.
In Psalms 24:1-2 “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it,the world, and all who live in it;for he founded it on the seas and established it on the waters.
The crust needs to be thick to stick out of the water,” said Ilya Bindeman from the University of Oregon who led the study. “When the Earth was hot and the mantle was soft, large, tall mountains could not be supported. Our data indicate that this changed exponentially 2.4 billion years ago. The cooler mantle was able to support large swaths of land above sea level,” he explained. It was also around this time that dramatic changes in climate triggered the blooming of life that was far more complex than life at sea, like plants, algae, and fungi. It was followed by a series of “glacial events”, notes the report, between 2.4 and 2.2 billion years ago. “This bright surface afforded by the vast ice covering the poles started to radiate and reflect heat away from the planet. What we speculate is that once large continents emerged, light would be reflected back into space and initiate runaway glaciation,” said Bindeman.
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In Psalms 104:6,8 “You covered it with the watery depths as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains…”they flowed over the mountains they went down into the valleys, to the place you assigned for them.–
Montana State University 2012 Everest research program: Seafloor to Summit, “Mount Everest is an extremely complicated mountain with several major faults that dissect it….. Therefore, the research agenda for 2012 will be directed towards gaining a better idea of the mineral composition, strain and age of rocks… This will include collecting a suite of samples to better date and describe the fossil-bearing marine limestones that form the summit pyramid of Everest;” Did you catch that last bit, “fossil-bearing marine limestones that form the summit”? In plain English that means dead sea creatures in the rocks at the very top of the tallest mountain on earth. The Burgess Shale formation in the Canadian Rockies, elevation 6,700ft [2040m]: “These fossils merit special interest for several reasons: •They were buried in an underwater avalanche of fine mud that preserved exceptionally fine details of the structure of their soft parts.” Have a look at the drawings of the variety of sea creatures buried up there. The Rockies in General: “From the moment the Rockies emerged from the ancient oceans, the agents of water and ice have been wearing them down and sculpting their rugged face.” Here’s a picture of trilobites high on one of these mountains. If you have time, there’s a long PDF of fossil sharks found in the Colorado mountains in Minturn (around the corner from Vail) elevation 7847ft [2392m]. I liked the reconstructions of the pre-Flood sea and land formations, very interesting! Appalachian Mountains road cut at Sideling Hill, Maryland starts at an elevation of 2,310 ft (704 m): “Marine fossils are present within the black silty shale 165 to 178 feet above the lowest exposed strata.” Andes Mountains: “Scientists have found fossils of whales and other marine animals in mountain sediments in the Andes, indicating that the South American mountain chain rose very rapidly from the sea…. Among the fossils the scientists reported bringing back were the bones of whales and other marine animals found at altitudes of more than 5,000 feet.” Dolomites of Europe, this is a translation, so the English is a little rough: “From what once was a warm and tropical see – with a position more South of what it is today – full of life and furrowed from warm sea flows, the mountains that we know today where formed. Small organisms, the corals, could live and multiply in the course of time in what was a gulf called Tetide…. With the help of the rocks and with the happenings of volcanic eruptions and various catastrophes…” The Dolomites reach to a height of 3200m [10,300ft] and are some of the spikiest mountains in the world. (For geology buffs, check out this article from Creation Evolution Headlines on Dolomite.) And sea creature fossils on nearby peaks: “Lhotse’s [8,516m/27,940ft peak] most defining aspect is its striking peak on the south face which has been reported as encompassing a variety of marine fossils….” Ural Mountains: “Located in western Russia, the Ural Mountains were once at the sea bottom, which explains the high quantity of marine fossils found in the area.” Papau New Guinea and Indonesia: “mountains were forming such as in Papua New Guinea, as the continents crumpled together. Former huge corals off Sulawesi, Indonesia, had also been lifted out of the seas by the same huge forces.” Sydney Morning Herald, “Delving further back in time, Dr Bridget Ayling went in search of 400,000-year-old clams in the tropical jungle of Papua New Guinea, where tectonic forces have lifted marine fossils to 1200 metres [3,937ft] above sea level. With the help of villagers, she collected more than 10 of the giants, whose chemical make-up reflects the sea temperature and salinity when they were alive. “They were exceptionally heavy and two men were needed to carry each valve down,” Ayling says.” Baguio Philippines: The mountainous area of Baguio I’ also remember we found fossils of ocean clams showing that Baguio was once upon a time under water.
In Psamls 18:15 “The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth laid bare at your rebuke, LORD, at the blast of breath from your nostrils.
Oceanic islands, also known as volcanic islands, are formed by eruptions of volcanoes on the ocean floor. Continental and coral islands, which may be hundreds of meters taller than high islands, are called “low islands.” As volcanoes erupt, they build up layers of lava that may eventually break the water’s surface.
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