The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood (46 page)

Thunderbird, 217

Tibet, 1–8,
2,
4,
260
n

flood story of, 7, 14

Guru Rimpoche and, 5–7

Tibetan Plateau, 33, 174

Tigris River, 146,
147,
153, 169, 171, 175–76, 223

Tolmachoff, Innokenty, 185

tongue stones, 57–60

shark’s teeth as, 58–60

topographic terraces, 1–6,
2

topography, xi–xiii, 1–14, 28, 34, 99, 100, 115, 118, 121, 132, 135, 166–67, 180, 181, 243

in aerial photography, 209–10

alpine, 44, 45

of Cascade Range, 202

deciphering, 1–7

inherent beauty of, 8, 77

as result of divine wrath, 38–41, 42, 44, 45, 47, 55–56, 71–72

scablands, 204–7

seafloor, 240–44

seventeenth-century opinion on origins of, 53–77

Toroweap Formation, 26, 27

Tower of Babel, story of, 149–50

Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy,
109

tree-ring records, 181, 193, 231

trilobites, 23, 33, 79, 91, 189, 229–30, 245

Tsangpo Gorge, 1, 3, 4–5,
4,
6

Tsangpo River, 1–7,
2,
4,
6

tsunamis, 172, 215–18, 248

Mediterranean, 217–18

2004 Indian Ocean, 8, 216

unconformities, 21–22,
21,
23–24

of Black Sea seabed, 221–22

of Siccar Point site, 93–96,
94,
95,
102, 107–8

unicorns, 167, 263
n

uniformitarianism, 108–9, 117, 119–20, 128–29, 130, 133–35, 136, 140–41, 178, 198–99, 203, 210, 211, 226, 235, 237

Ur,
147,
150–52

uranium-lead radiometric dating, 18–19, 196, 198

Urban VIII, Pope, 49

urination fantasies, 168–69

Uruk, 154

Ussher, Bishop James, 64, 97–98, 190

Utnapishtim, 146, 154, 156

vapor canopy theory, 74, 113, 230, 245

greenhouse effect of, 228, 235

vertebrate paleontology, 89

Victoria Institute, 220

Vikings, 215

Vindiciae Geologicae: or, the Connexion of Geology with Religion Explained
(Buckland), 122

Vishnu Schist, 16–20, 31

unconformity of, 21–22,
21

volcanoes, 10, 55, 67, 100, 105, 135, 186, 206, 229, 243, 260
n

cinder cones left by, 131, 132, 135, 136

lahars of, 116

lava flows of, 131–32,
132,
202

Mount Mazama, 176

Mount Pinatubo, 115–17,
117

Mount Saint Helens, 10

rift, 241

Santorini (Thera), 217–18

Vossius, Isaac, 55–56

Washington, 201–11, 216–17

Washington, University of, 201–3, 204, 231

Wegener, Alfred, 239–40

Werner, Abraham, 101–2, 104–6, 108, 109, 110

Whale, 217

Whiston, William, 75, 76

Whitcomb, John, 225–39

White, Ellen Gould, 185–87

Willamette Valley, 204, 206,
208,
212, 213

William III, King of England, 68

Witschonke, Alan,
65,
83,
95,
144

Woodward, John, 69–73, 75, 79, 81, 102, 126, 137, 187, 229

Woolley, Leonard, 150–52

World War II, 240–41, 242

Xisuthros, 157–58

Yahweh, 166

Yakama Indians, 212

Yellow Band, 32

Yellowstone National Park, 202

Young, Davis A., 237–38

Yu, 174

Zimmern, Heinrich, 168

zircon, 18–19

Ziusudra, 153–54, 156, 157–58, 222–23

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