It all has a basis in fact.
You, if you really are a geologist, know that there is a two mile layer of carbon rich sediment below the Cambrian strata. The cobbled layer below it is sometimes used for the idea of a 'snowball earth.' These, however, ARE the Flood layers. Here:
http://www.setterfield.org/snowballearth.htm
I agree that the sediments above this were not laid down by the Flood of Noah. They came after. My point about the Grand Canyon was that is was carved suddenly, not that the layers formed in one year.
Same with Columbia Gorge and Engineer's Canyon, although the latter was rapid start to finish.
Now, the entire earth was covered with water for a minimum of five months (150 days), at which time the waters started to recede. You may be a geologist, but a biologist you ain't. There is no tree that will survive after 5+ months under water! You will also note in Genesis 8:11, that all the dove brought back was a leaf. Not a twig or a branch, just a leaf. Things had started to grow.
The leaves come after the grass, by the way, which will sprout up much earlier. In addition, it may well be that Noah had more food than had been needed for that year and that the animals could still be fed on the remainder even after release from the Ark.
In the meantime, I assume you do not know about vegetation mats.
http://www.fondriest.com/application/wa ... toring.htm
(note: Google froze on me, so I am going to post this as is.
This is what a lot of the earth would have been like after the Flood:
http://www.aecos.com/aml/KN_WL_2.html
A quick summary, before the whole thing freezes...
The flood would have erupted along the incipient plate boundaries primarily, as these would be the weak spots in the crust. Springs erupting under the seas would have had their force greatly buffered, although the sediments would have given evidence of what happened. However this does mean that not all the surface of the globe was affected uniformly although the flood was worldwide. The wave action of the Flood would have brought together large portions of ripped up vegetation and mats would have formed. We see this happen during bad monsoon seasons in the Far East and even during the hurricane aftermaths in our own southern US. This is not a far fetched bit, sir, but simply extrapolating from what we see during storms today.
By the way, sediment was laid down. It was not ripped up.
Nor does it take millions of years for igneous rock to cool. That is absurd. We see better than that today! The cooling rate depends on a number of factors: how deep it is, how exposed to water it is, how shielded it is. The surface cools rather fast, as do igneous rocks on the surface. You can get a feel for this looking at the lava flows in Hawaii.
And, finally, I am not 'my dear' to you. Don't be so supercilious, please.