Tim
May 4, 2025, 3:33am
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Skimming that thread, I found:
The Discussion section of the article, likewise, does not even touch on the topic of folding. The “Future Work” section lets us know that more research and more papers are coming. This petrology paper was just preparation for “detailed studies to determine the nature and timing of the folding of this sandstone unit.” Snelling states, “This will require scanning electron microscope (SEM) imaging of selected samples to closely examine the cement crystals which would show evidence of brittle fracturing and healing if the folding occurred after lithification, but would be still pristine if cementation occurred after soft-sediment deformation and before lithification.” Apparently Snelling did not find what he was looking for in the thin sections, so he is going deeper. That sometimes happens in research, so I am not going to fault him for this.
What the paper shouts out loud, however, is that Dr Snelling has not yet found clear evidence that the sediments were soft when folded.
I have to ask, in the four years since Snelling published that paper, has he published any of this “Future Work”, that might actually (unlike his original paper) attempt to provide evidence for YEC ?
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