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Marketing the Navajo Sandstone - Jun 1, 2008
/article/marketing-navajo-sandstoneWilliam A. Hoesch, M.S. - A TV ad several decades ago stated with an air of authority that "dogs love cheese." No reports were cited and no canine polls performed, yet marketers hoped its mere repetition would drive the public to buy the cheese-flavored snack for...
Sand Injectites - May 1, 2008
/article/sand-injectitesWilliam A. Hoesch, M.S. - A combination of "squishy sand" and seismic shaking was responsible for some of southern Utah's most spectacular landforms. Preserved in this rocky landscape are unmistakable indicators that what is today sandstone was once fluidized sand...
Red Butte: Remnant of the Flood - Mar 1, 2008
/article/red-butte-remnant-floodWilliam A. Hoesch, M.S. - Sixteen miles from Grand Canyon's south rim, a cone-shaped butte rises like a lone sentinel 1,000 feet above the Coconino Plateau floor. Thousands of tourists rush past on Arizona Highway 64 without giving it another thought, yet this humble...
The Regularity of Nature - Feb 1, 2008
/article/regularity-natureWilliam A. Hoesch, M.S. - One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north;...
The Hualapai and the Flood - Jan 1, 2008
/article/hualapai-floodWilliam A. Hoesch, M.S. - It rained for 45 days, and the whole earth was flooded. All the people were destroyed, except for one old man atop Spirit Mountain. Many days passed and a dove brought him instructions from the Creator to drive a ram's horn into the earth....
Galloping Glaciers - Dec 1, 2007
/article/galloping-glaciersWilliam A. Hoesch, M.S. - "By the nearly imperceptible and inexorable work of glaciers, even the mighty mountains are worn down." Such dogma was routinely heard only a few decades ago in all of our university campuses. It is true that modern slow-moving glaciers...
Mount Moran: A Witness to the Flood - Nov 1, 2007
/article/mount-moran-witness-floodWilliam A. Hoesch, M.S. - Mount Moran, the nonconformist of Wyoming's Teton Range, is distinguished by having a blunt top, a prominent black vertical stripe on its upper part, and a tiny visible cap of marine sandstone on the summit. Its face is made of the same solid...
Megafloods in the English Channel - Oct 1, 2007
/article/megafloods-english-channelWilliam A. Hoesch, M.S. - Sir Charles Lyell, the father of geological gradualism, may have just turned in his grave. A hidden series of gouges on the floor of the English Channel suggests that huge torrents of water once traveled west from Dover Straits. The massive...
Lagerstatten! - Aug 1, 2007
/article/lagerstattenWilliam A. Hoesch, M.S. - Lagerstätten is a word creationists should be familiar with. German for "place, of storage [or] resting place" it refers to a sedimentary deposit extraordinarily rich in the diversity or quality of preservation of its fossils....
Calibrating the Flood? - Jul 1, 2007
/article/calibrating-floodWilliam A. Hoesch, M.S. - Rocks exposed in the walls of Grand Canyon testify of the advance of marine waters upon North America during the Flood. How rapid was the advance? What was it like? We may never fully know the answers but there are few places on earth that are...