The flood carved canyons, gouged out enormous plunge pools, made rivers like the Snake and the Willamette run backward and scoured the earth of eastern Washington right down to bare basalt rock.

The up to two-kilometers-thick basaltic rocks of the Deccan Traps cover a ... carbon and sulfur dioxide during the formation ...

It is now recognized that the main Flood Zone deposit hosting structure offsets basalt stratigraphy; it can be interpolated that the same offset affects the sedimentary rock unit at depth, an area yet ...