Glossar y of Geologic Terms
Andrew Snelling, director of research at the organization Answers in Genesis, wrote a short article in a creationist publication describing his study of fifty-three samples he collected in the Grand Canyon (Snelling 2021a). He gathered them to support his view that two Tapeats Sandstone places and one place each in the Bright Angel and Muav formations were folded soon after all these sedimentary layers were deposited within days or months following Noah’s flood. Only the Tapeats Sandstone (see Figure 1) is discussed hereafter. In his article he wrote: