Mount St. Helens Erosion
Nature NuggetHistorical Account★★★★Dr. Harold Coffin studied Mount St. Helens and noticed in Spirit Lake that used to be this gorgeous lake, all of a sudden here was all these logs had washed in the lake and pretty soon they’re waterlogging because they had their entire root mass still intact with this tree with just no limbs. He decided to dive 1 year, went in there and here’s all these successional layers of forest laid down over millions of years. But wait a second. We know when that happened. It was only just a few years.
Ayer, Jim; Nelson, Janice, “Evolution The Evidence” (AudioVerse teaching 30976).
The point
Dr. Harold Coffin's observations of the rapid erosion and layering at Mount St. Helens challenge long-held geological timelines.
Scripture
2 Peter 3:8Psalm 90:4
Audience
AdultsYouth
Tone
Sobering
To tell aloud
about 2 min · 93 words