128. Water above Mountains?
Is there enough water to cover all Earth’s preflood mountains in a global flood? Most people do not realize that the volume of water on Earth is ten times greater than the volume of all land above sea level.
Most of Earth’s mountains consist of tipped and buckled sedimentary layers. Because these sediments and the fossils buried in them, were initially laid down through water as nearly horizontal layers, those mountains must have been pushed up after the sediments were deposited. This is why fossils of sea life are on every major mountain range on Earth, including Mount Everest. [See pages108–148.]
If the effects of compressing the continents and buckling up mountains were reversed, the oceans would again flood the entire Earth. Therefore, the Earth has enough water to cover the smaller mountains that existed before the flood. (If the solid Earth were perfectly smooth, the water depth would be about 9,000 feet everywhere.)