Ship Rock, New Mexico is the
remnant of a gigantic "volcanic plug" from a by-gone volcano in the
Navajo Volcanic Field of northern New Mexico.
Ship Rock
(Navajo:
Tsé Bitʼaʼí
means "rock with wings" or "winged rock".
The peak and surrounding
land are of great religious and historical significance to the
Navajo people.
It is mentioned in many Navajo myths and legends.
Flood waters that
formed the 33,000 square miles of Navajo and Hopi Lakes were held back
by the flood deposits known as the Kaibab Plateau in Northern
Arizona.
Volcano dome
Layers of mud deposited by the Biblical Flood in
Noah's day.
Magma thrust upward in a volcanic
eruption that formed the dome of the volcano.
Artists conception of the
"volcanic plug" or inner core of made by molten lava from an
eruption that probably occurred at the time of the Genesis Flood.
There is no evidence that Ship Rock was ever a huge volcano with a large
mountain-like dome . . . no volcanic rocks from such a mountain have
been found in the immediate area.
Rapidly receding
flood waters were apparently caused by the uplift of the Rocky
Mountains and the formation of huge ocean valleys.
Mud and soil deposits formed by
the flood were quickly eroded away by the raging waters flowing
into the newly formed ocean trenches.
As huge amounts of water began to
pour out through the dam-like Kaibab Plateau the Grand Canyon was
quickly formed and many amazing rock
formations were left exposed in the high desert areas of Utah, New
Mexico and Arizona.
4,000 years after the Great Flood,
Ship Rock stands as a magnificent monument reminding us of a changing world
and the catastrophic effects of the Biblical flood.
Ship Rock is just one of many "volcanic
plugs" found throughout the world.
Devils Tower in Wyoming is
another classic example of a volcano that eroded away by flood waters
leaving a gigantic rock monument.
People often ask the
question --
"Was there
enough water to flood the entire earth?" ANSWER:
If the surface of the earth was flat with no mountains and no deep
valleys in the oceans, there would be over 8,800 feet of water covering the
entire globe!
SHIP ROCK
A Look at the Inside
of a Volcano!
Like a gigantic ship
at sea, Ship Rock is truly one of the wonders of the world! You
can see this amazing rock formation in northwestern New Mexico, just about
50 miles south of Cortez, Colorado.
The remarkable thing
about Ship Rock is that it is not made of sand stone like so many of the
other beautiful monuments in the area. Ship Rock is composed of
fractured volcanic rock called "minette". The black formation juts
up 1,583 feet above the surrounding high-desert plain.
Wikipedia, the on-line
encyclopedia reports that scientists believe that Ship Rock was once a
"volcanic plug" formed when magma or molten rock hardened in the vent of
an active volcano. Similar rock formations that were once active
volcanoes can be seen in Australia, Saint Lucia, Scotland and Italy.
Other well known "volcanic plugs" in the United States include Devils
Tower in Wyoming, Morro Rock in California and Lizard Head in Colorado.
When I visited the
site years ago, I thought it was a rock formation that had been thrust
up out of the desert sands. I was wrong. Ship Rock is the
interior rock of a volcano, the outsides of which were miraculously
eroded away to leave a huge monument visible for over 100 miles on a
clear day.
If this huge rock
formation was once a hardened magma plug on the inside of a volcano,
we have to ask the question:
"What happened to the actual
volcano dome or the outside of the volcano?" "Where is the rest of the ancient volcano?"
Some scientists tell
us that the exterior of the volcano eroded away over the course of millions and
millions of years. Other scientists have a different and more
logical explanation as illustrated to the right.
Evolutionary scientists
claim that the Ship Rock volcano erupted millions and millions of years
ago and that it took 20 to 30 million years for the outer core of the
volcano to slowly erode away. Evidence throughout the desert
southwest, however, confirms that a massive flood eroded huge amounts of
soft mud deposits in an amazing short period of time.
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information about the formation of the Grand Canyon.
Lava Rocks from volcanic
eruptions are found in the San Juan and Colorado River drainages.
These rocks were moved by the powerful action of flood waters.
Some of them probably originated at the Ship Rock volcano in
northwestern New Mexico.
The picture above reveals
several large wall-like sheets of "minette" (hardened magma or volcanic
rock) that protrude up from the desert floor and radiate away from the
central "volcanic plug" formation. These "dykes" as they are
called, are visible for miles on the southern and western sides of the
Ship Rock formation.
This would illustrate
catastrophic events that occurred as the earths foundation or bedrock
was cracked, possibly at the time that the Rocky Mountains were thrust
up and the valleys of the oceans were formed.
View of the volcanic rocks that
apparently were formed when the foundation bed rocks cracked allowing
the molten lava to thrust up into the soft soils deposited by the flood.
These layers of mud and sandy soil acted like a concrete form until the
magma cooled and hardened. Later, rushing flood waters apparently eroded away
the layers of sand, revealing one of the most
interesting wonders of the world.
Million upon millions of
years were not required to erode away the soils surrounding the "dykes"
and "volcano plugs" . . . In fact, if the world was 20 to 30
million years old, the
size of the sun would have been so much
larger that life on earth could not have survived and there certainly
would not
have been dinosaurs wandering around as the evolutionary time-table
suggests!
We need to re-think
the unfounded claims of evolutionary philosophers who blatantly refuse
to believe in a universal flood or the God Who created all things.
The Bible declares --
"For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the
heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the
water, By which the world that then was, being overflowed with water,
perished." 2 Peter 3:5-6
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The magnificent Ship Rock
formation located in northwestern New Mexico is not made of sand stone like so many of the
other beautiful monuments in the area. Ship Rock is composed of
fractured volcanic rock called "minette". The black
magma formation juts
up 1,583 feet above the surrounding high-desert plain and scientists
tell us that it was the inner core or "volcanic plug" of a once active
volcano which has now eroded away. This massive erosion is another
evidence for an incredibly large flood.