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Other Natural Evidence
nShells on mountains
nEvery major mountain range contains fossilized sea life
nWater above the mountains
nTen times more
water than there is land above sea level
nMost mountains
consist of tipped and buckled sedimentary layers
nSediments
initially laid down through water as nearly horizontal layers
nMountains must
have pushed up after the sediments were deposited
nEnough water
on the earth to cover the smaller mountains that existed prior to the flood