The Amazing Heart Mountain Detachment

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There are people who claim that they cannot see evidence that God exists, but that is willful ignorance. A bit more difficult is evidence for the global Genesis Flood, Uniformitarian (slow and gradual processes over long periods of time) geologists say there is no evidence for it.

While the average person does not have the training to see Flood evidence, these folks are also willfully ignorant. Planation surfaces baffle them, the Great Unconformity testifies against standard views, other things — plus the massive detachment fault at Heart Mountain.

Heart Mountain from Exshaw, Wikimedia Commons  Jack Borno (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Wyoming is home to Heart Mountain, and that sure is a lot of pet food —

"You're thinking of Hartz Mountain, Cowboy Bob! The pet food company was named after a mountain in Germany."

Oh, thanks. Heart Mountain had a huge rock slide in the past, and uniformitarian geologists have to leave their preferred paradigm and admit to catastrophism. That is, the evidence is clear that a huge chunk on the mountain broke off and moved quite a distance very quickly, and was broken up. Odd that limestone being there, too. There are numerous puzzles for secular geologists to argue about, but using creation science Genesis Flood models, the detachment fault, rock placement, energy necessary to do all this, and more are plausibly explained.
Also known as a ‘detachment fault’, it is acknowledged to have been a massive ‘sideways’ landslide in which a huge block of limestone (calcium carbonate in the form of calcite), some 1,114 km2 (430 mi2) in area, broke off at the northeast edge of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, USA (fig. 1). It slid eastward some 50 km (30 mi).

As it moved, it broke up into 50 large blocks scattered over an area of 3,500 km2 (1,350 mi2). These blocks are about 500 m (1,600 ft) thick. The slide is named after Heart Mountain (fig. 2), an isolated high mountain in the northwest Bighorn Basin, north-central Wyoming. This basin is a large depression of the earth’s crust filled with a thick sequence of sedimentary rock layers.

The entire article is at "The incredible Heart Mountain slide."