Ararat Geologic Scenario
Reference – Geologist Clifford Burdick
Reference – Geologist Clifford Burdick
Flood begins
Vulcanism in NW-SE elongated fault through Ararat basement complex of
granitic, trachyte rock
Same line as the Aras river flowage, the triple peaks of Greater Ararat,
Lesser Ararat and Unnamed volcano of Iran, and parallel to Tendürek mountains
Lava extruded with some pillow lava occurring
Sediments in Eastern Turkey laid down including limestones and fossils
interbedded with volcanic basalt and andesite
Lava cooled by flood at ark landing site
150 days after flood start, ark landed on cooled lava of Ararat
summit
Ararat is probably
a smaller mountain at the time, which enables easier descent to Ararat Plain
and Araxes Valley
222 days later, Noah’s family and animals leave ark traveling down the
fertile Araxes Valley toward Nakhchivan
Japheth
stays in the Transcaucasian area resulting in the Transcaucasian culture,
Europeans, etc.
Ham &
Canaan go south and southwest into the Fertile Crescent into Mesopotamia,
Levant, Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya
Shem’s descendants go to Mesha toward Sephar in the eastern mountains and
result in Elam, Assyria, Chaldeans, Lydia,
etc.
Vulcanism continues on portions of Ararat with lava
flows and pyroclastic volcanic dust (tuff) that with the pitch already on the ark helps petrify the ark
Ataturk University Professor Nazmi Orüc has found at least three periods
of volcanism in the Aras Valley with lava interbedded with sediments
Parasitic
cones are at 3,300 and 3,800 meters elevation
Perhaps hydrocarbon-containing fumes thus vented may have had a
preservative effect on the Ark as well, like creosote that is used at the base of electric poles to
keep them from rotting