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Catastrophism (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Polystrate fossils are a key indicator of this being true. Maybe not those overlapping one-or-two layers, but the fossilized trees that cut through many layers, as that logically sets the date of those layers to be the same (geologically speaking; before the tree can rot). Although I don't know this to be true, I would not be surprised to find an unbroken chain of fossilized trues from the top of the geologic column right to the bottom, which would prove this idea writ large...