Alexander V.Lalomov and Serguei E.Tabolitch

We presented a mathematical model based on "method of masses balance" for generation of coastal submarine placers that successfully predict the distribution of heavy minerals in placer deposits. The model implies that, under favorable tectonic conditions, massive thicknesses of placer deposits can occur in a brief time interval.

The time span for generating of individual placer layer in the much researched Val'cumey placer deposits (northeastern Russia) is estimated as 80 days. The available data show that the age of entire thickness of the placer sediments is not more than 40,000 years. This upper limit is approximately 1000 times less than the age derived from the standard geological time scale. The actual age may be much less. It means that the true rate of placer generation is dramatically larger than evolutionary geologists usually assume.

This model has enormous practical significance. Creationism is often considered by its opponents to have little connection with practice. A mathematical model of the placer generation process motivated by a creationist perspective nevertheless offers notable economic benefits. We believe there are exist other similar examples in the field of economic geology that if developed would further the credibility of the creationist framework of earth history.