The family went on a weekend trip to the hoodoos in Alberta. It is a famous place where coal layers exist along with fossilized trees, etc. Above the coal layers, there were these hoodoos made out of expansive soil (clays which are hygroscopic = take up water and expands easily) which is the nightmare of every road builder and civil engineers, etc. The multi-colored hoodoos were purple, grey and beige; each color being from a different set of chemicals or ash types coming out of the volcanoes to the west (upwind from the prairies).
In the areas where there was a vegetation-rich area, the coal layers formed in various thicknesses. This is how it formed in the days surrounding the Great Flood. Here is a fascinating explanation of this phenomenon:
https://youtube.com/shorts/rmh5m05baa8?si=E0EgLqHadhnJePp4
The fly ash from the burning of the coal is the volcanic ash that catalyzed the plant matter. God is in all the details.
Such events are not capable of creating the massive amount of coal, oil and gas that the earth creates. What we know is that coal occurs in layers sandwiched between other layers of sandstone when I drive through the canyon between Price and Lehi area. In the Uintah Basin we have the Green River formation of oil and gas, then you go down further and you hit the Wasatch formation of oil, and who knows whats further down, means there have been multiple times of cataclysmic events involving floods where these hydrocarbons are sandwiched between layers of earth. I like Dean Sessions view on earth creation. This earth is extremely complex, it certainly didn't happen by accident.
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