Much more sediment is deposited than removed by subduction
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About 25 billion tons of sediment is deposited in the ocean each year, but plate tectonic subduction only removes about 1 billion tons per year. Currently, ocean sediment thickness averages 400 meters. At the observed deposition rate, it would accumulate in only 12 million years, not the hundreds of millions of years that the oceans have been around.
Source
- Humphreys, Russell, n.d. Evidence for a Young World. [1]
Responses
- Refuted explicitly in the David Thomas link below.
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External Links
- Thomas, David E., 1998. "Creation Physicist" D. Russell Humphreys, and his Questionable "Evidence for a Young World". [2]
Further Reading
- Fichter, Lynn S., 1999. The Wilson Cycle. [3]
