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THE EVOLUTIONARY ?'HISTORY'
Most geologists believe that between about 900 and 600 million years ago, much of Central Australia lay at or below sea-level, forming a depression, an arm of the sea, known as the Amadeus Basin. Rivers carried mud, sand and gravel into the depression, building up layers of sediment. Other types of sedimentary rocks also formed. Then, they say, about 550 million years ago, in the so-called Cambrian Period, the south-western margin of the Amadeus Basin was raised above sea-level, the rocks were squeezed, crumpled and buckled into folds, and fractured along faults in a mountain-building episode.

During the late stages of this episode, ?'rapid' erosion carved out the Petermann and Musgrave Ranges. The Uluru Arkose and Mount Currie Conglomerate are the products of this erosion, being deposited in separate so-called alluvial fans. Though uniformitarian (slow-and-gradual) geologists believe the arkose and conglomerate were deposited ?'relatively rapidly', they still allow up to 50 million years for the occasional flash floods to have scoured the mountain ranges south and west of the Uluru area and carried the rubble many tens of kilometres out on to the adjoining alluvial flats. Thus in two separate deposits, layer upon layer of arkose and conglomerate accumulated respectively.

By about 500 million years ago, it is claimed, the region was again covered by a shallow sea and the alluvial fans of Uluru Arkose and Mount Currie Conglomerate were gradually buried beneath layers of sand, silt, mud and limestone. Then about 400 million years ago a new period of folding, faulting and uplift began and supposedly continued for around 100 million years. the layers of Uluru Arkose and Mount Currie Conglomerate, which had been buried by hundreds or even thousands of metres of younger Amadeus Basin sediments, were strongly folded and faulted. The originally horizontal Uluru Arkose layers were rotated into a nearly vertical position, while the Mount Currie Conglomerate at Kata Tjuta was only tilted 10-18o.

It is thus believed that the Uluru - Kata Tjuta area has probably remained above sea-level since that time - for some 300 million years. Initially the land surface would have been much higher than the top of Uluru and Kata Tjuta, but as erosion continued, today's shapes of Uluru and Kata Tjuta were gradually carved out. By 70 million years ago the area was covered in forests indicating a very wet, tropical environment. Today's arid climate and desert sands have only developed since the very recent ?'ice age', a few thousand years ago.

CONCLUSION
The evidence overall does not fit the story of evolutionary geologists, with its millions of years of slow-and-gradual processes. Instead, the evidence in the rock layers at Uluru and Kata Tjuta is much more consistent with the scientific model based on a recent, rapid, massive, catastrophic flood, such as that of Noah's day. Uluru and Kata Tjuta are therefore stark testimony to the raging waters of the global Flood, as in the eye witness record in the book of Genesis.