{"id":5332,"date":"2025-05-16T17:17:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T16:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=5332"},"modified":"2025-05-16T17:17:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T16:17:35","slug":"bent-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=5332","title":{"rendered":"Bent Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, in the waiting room, Papaia and Ravioli are talking about a book Banani found, on the geological evidence of Noah\u2019s flood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RAVIOLI<br>What else does it say?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PAPAIA<br>Here it talks about bent rocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RAVIOLI<br>Bent? But rocks don\u2019t usually bend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PAPAIA<br>You\u2019re right. Rocks break because they\u2019re hard and brittle. However, in many places we find entire sequences of rock layers that have been bent without fracturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RAVIOLI<br>How is that possible?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PAPAIA<br>All the rock layers were deposited rapidly and bent while they were still moist and pliable, before they fully hardened. That\u2019s the explanation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RAVIOLI<br>Ah, I see! Does the book give any examples?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PAPAIA<br>We\u2019ve got the Tapeats Sandstone in the Grand Canyon\u2014it\u2019s bent at a right angle (90\u00b0) with no signs of breaking. Yet this bending could\u2019ve only happened after all the other layers were already in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RAVIOLI<br>In theory, that would\u2019ve taken \u201c480 million years,\u201d with the Tapeats Sandstone staying moist and moldable all that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PAPAIA<br>Yeah\u2026 I really doubt that\u2019s the case!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IGOR<br>Some rocks in the Grand Canyon are bent. Just like Ravioli in after-school detention when he was punished for refusing to eat fish. \u201cHe bends, but he doesn\u2019t break!\u201d \ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, in the waiting room, Papaia and Ravioli are talking about a book Banani found, on the geological evidence of Noah\u2019s flood. RAVIOLIWhat else does it say? PAPAIAHere it talks about bent rocks. RAVIOLIBent? But rocks don\u2019t usually bend. PAPAIAYou\u2019re right. Rocks break because they\u2019re hard and brittle. However, in many places we find entire &#8230; <a title=\"Bent Rocks\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=5332\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bent Rocks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5333,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions\/5333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}