Q. 86: Do you believe Noah’s Ark came to rest upon Mt. Ararat in northeastern Turkey?
CPT Q. #86 – 101 Q&A on Catastrophic Plate Tectonics
Question: 86. What is your conclusion regarding whether or not Noah’s Ark could have come to rest upon Mt. Ararat in northeastern Turkey?
Response: I am confident that Mt. Ararat is not the landing site of Noah’s ark, a view I have held for the past 30 years. Numerous ‘volcanic bombs’, blobs of molten basalt that have been launched violently from vents near its summit, litter the terrane for miles around this mountain. The piles of basalt are fresh and unweathered and testify to dramatic recent eruptions of this volcano. Of even greater significance are the radioisotope dates for the lavas of Mt. Ararat itself and those of the surrounding region. The map below provides contours of radioisotope age, spaced one million radioisotope years apart, for the oldest volcanic rocks found in each locality. The numbers in aqua are the oldest age, in millions of radioisotope years, for specific volcanoes, each marked by a circle with four spokes. Mt. Ararat is the easternmost volcano on the map with an age for its oldest lavas of 1.7 million radioisotope years. This places its earliest eruption during the Ice Age, after the end of the Flood. These data indicate strongly that this huge volcano, just shy of 17,000 feet high, did not even exist when Noah, his family, and the animals disembarked from the ark.
The article from which this figure is taken is by Prof. Mehmet Keskin at Istanbul University and entitled, “Domal uplift and volcanism in a collision zone without a mantle plume: Evidence from Eastern Anatolia.” It is posted at http://www.mantleplumes.org/Anatolia.html.