Cataclysm in Cajon Pass Geology

        This is a slickenside in a crushed granite rock from the San Bernardino Mountains lower Cajon Pass I photographed today. There are several cracks in rocks in these granite rocks showing the sudden uplift of this mountain range by the San Andreas (mainly), creating Punchbowl, and Cajon Faults offshoots. Rocks and boulders in the ancient river bed of Cajon Pass are rounded by flowing water showing huge amounts of water flowed out of Cajon Pass and Lytle Creek from the Mojave Desert into San Bernardino in the Pleistocene from the present dry lake. There are also Quaternary river terraces in the lower pass.

One crack in this rock can be seen in the picture. These are common in suddenly uplifted rocks in this area.

Evolutionists claim mountains rise during orogeny periods over millions of years. This is based on evolutionary assumptions. The evidence indicates mountains rise suddenly during worldwide earth quakes.

The picture I took shows that a thin slice of melted rock is in part of this sliding material. Molten material only lasts for a few hours. The evolutionists say it is Jurassic granite that rose millions of years ago.

In Rubidoux Riverside the granite in road cuts has quartz in the cracks in the granite. This had to be liquefied quarts silicon a natural glass. These rocks had to be hot to produce this. They are not crystalized showing this was rapid. The silicon solidifies slower than most of the granite filling the cracks.

This molten material in the picture proves the mountains rose during a worldwide earthquake suddenly in hours or days not slowly over millions of years.

My research indicates this happened in 2000 BC during Peleg’s Division. When there was an asteroid shower. After people were scattered from Babel, and the continents were divided resulting in a massive geologic upheaval and volcanic eruptions.

Here are some references to secular research on this subject. I do not agree with the ages they claim. My research from the biblical viewpoint indicates sedimentary strata was deposited in mainly two worldwide major events. The Flood about 2348 BC and Peleg’s Division about 2000 BC)

Cox, B. F., J. W. Hillhouse, A. M. Sarna-Wojcicki, and J. C. Tinsley, 1998. Pliocene-Pleistocene ( 2000 BC) depositional history along the Mojave River north of Cajon Pass, California— regional tilting and drainage reversal during uplift of the central Transverse Ranges: Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, no. 5, p.11.

The huge Mojave River flowed north toward Baker. Today there is an underground lake here.

Dickinson, W. R., 1996. Kinematics of transrotational tectonism in the California Transverse Ranges and its contribution to cumulative slip along the San Andreas transform fault system. Geological Society of America Special Paper 305, p.1-46.

At the Pliocene mammal bone site in the Punch Bowl Formation lava is on top of some of the sedimentary rock here near the Mormon Rocks.

Kooser, M. A., 1985. Paleocene Plesiosaur? in Geologic investigations along Interstate 15, Cajon Pass to Manix Lake: Redlands, San Bernardino County Museum, p. 43-48. Lindsay, E. H., and R. E. Reynolds, 2008. Heteromyid rodents from Miocene faunas (2000 BC) of the Mojave Desert, Southern California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Science Series 41; p. 213-236.

Reynolds, R. E., 2015. New ursid and talpid occurrences from Hemingfordian and Barstovian units of the Cajon Valley Formation, Cajon Pass, California p. 281-283. Wagner, H.M., and R. E. Reynolds, 1983. Leptarctus ancipidens (Carnivora: Mustelidae) from the Punchbowl formation, Cajon Pass, California: Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, p. 131-137.

I found deer jaw, leg bones, jaw of Pigmy Antelope and leg bones (Identical to those found in La Brea Pleistocene asphalt.)

Although both Miocene basins are next to each other divided by a fault, it appears that the Crowder basin was located farther east than today. As noted above its depositional history was different from that of the Cajon basin. In addition to their Mojave source, late Barstovian elements of the northwestern Cajon Valley beds were in part derived across elements of the then-active proto-San Andreas fault.

More recent activity on the San Andreas Fault accompanied the continued rising of the San Gabriel Mountains, depositing Pleistocene sediments near the top of the In-face Bluffs. These units include the Phelan Peak Formation which records the change in drainage at 2 Ma (2000 BC), from south toward the Pacific Ocean to north into the internally drained Mojave Block. (Into a lake at Baker which is now underground) The Phelan Peak is overlain by the Harold Formation, Shoemaker Gravels and Noble’s Old Alluvium, the latter recording the Brunhes–Matuyama reversal 781,000 years ago (4000 years ago). The 70 Ma long biostratigraphic sequence (From the end of Noah’s Flood 2348 BC to the present) of Cajon Pass has been exposed by northerly headward erosion along the drainages of Cajon and Crowder creeks.

Valley Beds (Woodburne and Golz, 1972) from 18 to 12.7 Ma (Liu, 1990) and the Crowder Formation from 18 to about 3 Ma (Weldon, 1985; Liu, 1990; Reynolds and others, 2008). The Miocene basins were covered with north-flowing Pliocene and Pleistocene debris when the eastern Transverse Ranges started rising about three million years ago (5000 thousand years ago). The Phelan Peak Formation is overlain by the Harold Formation, Shoemaker Gravels and Noble’s Old Alluvium, the latter recording the Brunhes– Matuyama reversal 781,000 years ago (2000 years ago), near the top of the In-face Bluffs. Those ranges reached their maximum height (11,000 ft) only a half a million years ago (4000 years ago).

The oldest nonmetamorphosed (Non melted) sediment in Cajon Pass is the Late Cretaceous marine San Francisquito Formation (Kooser, 1985; Lucas and Reynolds, 1991). The “Paleocene” San Francisquito Formation was renamed as the Cretaceous Cosy Dell Formation (Morton and Miller, 2008) due to the presence of forty articulated elasmosaurid plesiosaur vertebrae (Lucas and Reynolds, 1991), with elasmosaur being a late Cretaceous indicator fossil (This was deposited during the Flood in 2348 BC when dinosaur graveyards were formed). Other associated fossils include crustacean pinchers, fish scales, scaphopods, and gastropods. (The Flood caused the ocean to invade the dry land in a transgression. This cannot happen today because continental plates are mostly quarts lighter than basaltic ocean basins.) Deposition of the Cretaceous Cosy Dell Formation was followed by a local 40 Ma depositional hiatus (The period between 2348 BC and 2000 BC both triggered by huge worldwide asteroid showers). Comparisons of other San Francisquito Formation outcrops could determine if later sediments have also been removed by an erosional event of unspecified cause (Asteroid shower in 2000 BC at the time of the Younger Dryas and destruction of Babel).

The early Miocene Vaqueros Formation contains the long-snouted dolphin Allodelphis woodburnei of the superfamily Platanistoidea (Barnes and Reynolds, 2007, 2008), an early marine relative of the fresh water Ganges River dolphin. The Vaqueros Formation is rich in oyster shells and barnacle fragments. The dolphin skeleton was associated with fossils of elasmobranchs, the echinoid Scutella fairbanksi, and the mollusks Crassatella granti, Ostrea titan subtitan, and Pecten sespeensis. The presence of the gastropod mollusk Turritella inezana in this marine deposit helps to establish its Early Miocene age (22Ma, Woodring, 1942). (This is a deposit of a huge psunamis from the ocean during Peleg’s Division asteroid shower and worldwide earthquake 2000 BC.)

Magnetostratigraphy (Weldon, 1985; Liu, 1990) indicates that deposition of the Crowder Fm began 17+ Ma. Time-diagnostic rodents at the top of Unit 3 in the middle of the Crowder sequence indicate a Hemphillian age of 7.1 Ma (Reynolds and others, 2008). The greater than twelve million year depositional record has produced Hemingfordian, Barstovian and Hemphillian millipedes, lizards, small and large camel, antelope, forest horses, grassland horses, tapir, rhinoceros, weasels and badgers (Lofgren and Abersek, 2018), bone-crushing dogs, rabbits and rodents (Lindsay and Reynolds, 2008), squirrels and flying squirrels, shrews and hedgehogs (Reynolds and others, 2008). (These were killed and buried in the volcanic upheaval and flooding 2000 BC)

Although presently separated from the Cajon Valley Beds by the Squaw Peak Fault, the Crowder basin was originally located farther east and its depositional history differs from that in the Cajon basin. (During the upheaval the fault moved land for many miles.) Both formations have a source of lithic clasts from the Mojave Block.

Faults include Punch Bowl, San Andreas, Cajon Valley, and Squaw Peak Fault.

This geologic information came from http://digital-desert.com/cajon-pass/geology/

This cataclysm in 2000 BC caused a landslide in San Bernardino Mountains which can be seen all over San Bernardino named Arrowhead. The upheaval also created a hot water spring. https://activerain.com/blogsview/918949

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However I can see an arrowhead in Cajon Pass that looks more like an arrowhead than the one in San Bernardino. It is just above the old ranch where Wyatt Earp stayed with a friend to hunt deer.

Landmarks like these are commonly used to guide ancient people for thousands of years. I could not find any mention of the Cajon Pass arrowhead. So I went to Google maps and found and photographed it. From the 15 it looks more like an arrowhead than this picture. It is the only one in all these many mountains. And when you go north on Sierra Ave from Fontana it is right in front of you like a beacon, until the mountain hides it till you go into the Cajon Devore area.