Alexander V.Lalomov and Serguei E.Tabolitch

We have presented a mathematical model based on diffusional-convectional migration of tracer in lateral drift conditions for the generation of coastal submarine placers that successfully predicts the distribution of the heavy minerals in such placer deposits. This model has been tested with field data in the north-east of Russia (Chaun bay near Val`cumey point, East-Siberian Sea). The testing showed that the proposed model reflected the structure of the geological objects being modelled.

This model allows for the estimation of the placer deposit's generation age. Our calculations show that all the tin-bearing strata with a thickness of about 50 m from the Late Oligocene to Holocene (traditionally estimated by evolutionary geologists as generated over 40 million years) have been estimated as having formed within 2,000-5,500 years, which bears testimony to the placer's generation in post-Flood time. This may thus provide a new method of determining the generation time for such geological objects and other strata.

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.