Petroleum Reserves Formed in Noah’s Flood and Its Aftermath: A Proposed Geological Model

The historical stage-by-stage settings (both scriptural and stratigraphic) for petroleum reserves have received little attention in the Creationist literature. The challenge is how to correlate the Bible’s stages with the history of petroleum reserves inferred from the geological record. Trends in the geology of oil and gas reserves through time can be recognized. These trends were correlated consistently and successively with time stages evident from Scripture. A historical framework for oil and natural gas reserves is proposed in association with Noah’s Flood and its aftermath. A biblical young earth history stage model is proposed including topographic destruction, marine transgression, receding waters, and widespread drying, followed by seafloor spreading and associated continental mountain-building. These are inferred to respectively correlate with Neoproterozoic, Early Paleozoic, Late Paleozoic, Triassic, and Jurassic to Tertiary strata and their contained petroleum reserves. Seafloor spreading and associated continental mountain-building in a new Flood model are inferred to have occurred shortly after the Flood Year itself, but triggered by receding Flood waters. Matters considered in this paper include erosion and marine platforms, tectonic and basin style changes, different types of organic matter source material for petroleum, pre-Flood and post-Flood coal, marine and non-marine deposition, along with global sea level rise and fall, and drying.