“Steep-sloped Ararat would not
retain sedimentary deposits on its slopes…”
“If Mount Ararat was erected as a
submarine stratovolcano then it would be highly unlikely that conditions
on the sloping side of the active volcano would be conducive to the
preservation of ‘diluvium’ (‘coarse superficial
accumulations…glacial and fluvio-glacial deposits of the Ice Age’)
or fossils (Hunter 2003:62).”