Navajo Sandstone

By Matys Weiser                                                                             B-H
​The goal of this website and blog is a presentation of our understanding of the events of the Mabul-the Noach’s Flood.
It will be us studying statements of the Jewish sages, reflecting Jewish national memory, and finding a reflection of those descriptions in geological and geographical reality of our planet, as we understand it.
It is impossible however, not to mention the philosophy which, if Its goal is not to undermine the stories written and told to and by the Jewish people. This philosophy seemingly accomplishes precisely that – it contraindicates our narrative.
Many, if not most of the “proofs” used by propagators of this philosophy are stretched, skewed and plainly made up to create an impression of the undeniable “truth”.
If told otherwise, the reaction of believers of this philosophy is almost the same as Christians being told that the trinity is nothing but a badly constructed fantasy.
So is the theory of evolution.
It may happen sometime in the future, that we will take this direction to point out how wrong this philosophy of almost a religious character and how it is incompatible with the scientific observation, but at this moment we concentrate solely on the topic of the Mabul- Flood.
In the following essay-presentation, B-H we will show how the scientific theory is skewed to serve a greater theory of old Earth and how in an almost impossible way, plain facts are being omitted.
In another words – if it is possible for a person, the author of this website will find evidence of marine life in rock formations presented as an old petrified desert, the theory of science in this case is corrupt or at least sloppy.
Once more, this is the description of genesis of Navajo sandstone from Wikipedia:
“The (Navajo) sandstone was deposited in an arid erg on the Western portion of the
Supercontinent Pangaea. This region was affected by annual monsoons that came about each winter when cooler winds and wind reversal occurred.”
Below we will quote from the official website of Zion National Park where the greatest and most beautiful exposure of the rock formation exists.
“The Navajo Sandstone consists of thick layers of cross-bedded sandstone formed by windblown sand dunes in a vast ancient desert. In the early Jurassic, the climate of the Colorado Plateau dried significantly, creating desert conditions over a broad region. The Navajo Sandstone is the result of the largest known sand desert in the history of our planet, which covered the area of today’s Colorado Plateau and beyond.”
“Diagonal patterns in the Navajo Sandstone are called cross-bedding. Cross-beds are found in modern active sand dunes, but the Navajo Sandstone preserves the history of ancient wind patterns and migrating sand dunes in this vast desert.”
“The ancient sand dunes were similar to dunes in modern deserts, probably reaching several hundred feet at their greatest height. Only the bottom portion of a dune is preserved in the sandstone, but layer upon layer of dunes built up, until the total thickness of the pile of sand grew to be over 2,000 feet thick (although most of this thickness would have been underground).”
“The sand was eventually turned into sandstone due to the pressure from overlying layers, combined with the cementing effects of mineral-laden groundwater. Groundwater containing dissolved minerals–particularly calcium carbonate –percolated through and around the sand grains below the water table, leaving behind calcium carbonate that glued the grains together—turning sand dunes into the Navajo Sandstone.”
“By studying the orientation of cross-beds, geologists can determine the direction of ancient winds.
Cross-beds in the Navajo Sandstone at Zion indicate that the dominant wind pattern during the Early Jurassic was from the north-northwest. A close look at the sandstone reveals fine, well-sorted, and well-rounded sand grains –evidence of a very long journey for this massive pile of quartz sand.”
So much from Science.
We have to point out here that no evidence was presented to prove most of the assumptions presented in the description of originals of the Navajo sandstone formation. As usual we will put the issue of the dating aside as it will be I-H a subject of future essays.
What we can agree on in our observation, is that Navajo sandstone is a pile of quartz grains cemented together, 2,300 ft thick and covering a vast part of the western United States, however not always exposed on the surface. The observation that sand was deposited from the north western direction as many if not most of the formations deposited in the area is also a subject of agreement. The rest is hypothesis.
In the previous post on the blog, we presented evidence of marine fossils embedded in the Navajo sandstone which cannot be fossilized vegetation of hypothetical lakes and rivers flowing through this ancient desert, as imagined by evolutionary geologists.
We want to remind that the existence of those bodies of water is supposed to explain all the dinosaur and other tracks in the Navajo sandstone.
We are not aware of any lakes on planet Earth where Kelp grows.
The first video and pictures were taken in the Northern Cayote Buttes section of Vermilion National Monument on the border of Utah and Arizona.
It is not possible to get aces to this place of magnificent beauty without the permit from the National
Monument Authority but thanks to the lottery we were able not only to enjoy sense of beauty imbued in our psyche but also find what seems to be fossils of one of the creatures most delicate in structure, swimming in the waters of oceans, seas, lakes and rivers – jellyfish.

For comparison we present the pictures below found on a variety of websites showing the type of jellyfish covering the cold beeches of the Baltic sea, as it is remembered by the author.

The second video was taken on the site of Coppermine Trading Post track site also called Moenave Dinosaur tracks located seven miles west of the Tuba City in Navajo Land.

We visited the site multiple times in last 10 years but for the first time it was pointed to us, that bigger types of jellyfish fossil are laying right on the top of dinosaur footprints.
Please compare what you just saw with the pictures of adult warm water jellyfish.

The Moenave Track site was classified till just few weeks ago, as Navajo sandstone formation by paleobiodb.org and is still defined as such by the database on fossilworks.org.

It appears that there is an ongoing confusion regarding this site and the formation where footprints are being found.
The most plausible explanation based on the available data and our own limited analysis, is that indeed it is not Navajo sandstone but a Moenave formation.
We have to spend a couple of lines on this formation as itself it is a very puzzling strata layer located between Chinle and Kayenta layers, both of them fluvial i.e. wet deposits. Navajo sandstone lays right above Kayenta formation.
Moenave contains many dinosaur tracks mixed with marine fossils which makes our find of jellyfish not so extraordinary, although we are not aware of other jellyfish findings in this formation.
What is puzzling about it, is the fact that there is another formation between Chinle and Kayenta and it is called Wingate sandstone – another formation claimed to be ancient desert by evolutionary geologists.
See diagrams showing the cross section of those formations.

Above is the Moenave formation positioned between Chinle and Kayenta.
The details bellow of this formation shows multiple layers with mixed dinosaur tracks and marine creatures including fish.

Old Earth geologists would explain that one of the deposits happened first than it was washed away from some locations and filled up with another formation, only to be covered by Kayenta mixed beds formation later. We have to point that Wingate is a solid sandstone very similar to Navajo sandstone and Moenave is a multiple bedding formation similar to Kayenta.
We hope, we sufficiently proved that Navajo sandstone was deposited in the form of wet flows of sand mixed with marine vegetation and the assumption of dry deposit is simply wrong.
Considering that Moenave (wet) and Wingate (dry) formations are laying in the same position between Chinle (wet) and Kayenta (wet) we have no reason to accept unconvincing assumptions of any dry in its genesis strata layer on the Colorado Plateau, where those formations are being exposed.
Of course, in our own scenario as it was transmitted through the generations, the presence of marine creatures in the cubic miles of sand deposited by the waves of the Mabul, is completely suitable. Also - virtually all the other formations were thrown one above another as a wet deposit.