Geologist Dr. Steve Austin talks about how the catastrophe that happened during Mount St. Helens' eruption created the perfect conditions for the first step of making coal. From the documentary "Is Genesis History?" Watch the full film on YouTube.

Transcript:
this is the the first step for the formation of a coal bed we haven't completed the coal bed operation we need another volcanic eruption to bury the bottom of the lake to make the plant material be compacted to form coal but we have seen the first step for the formation of a CO bed so let's suppose we had another volcanic activity here and we had a what would it be a mud flow then that might come in and it yeah or another Summit Avalanche deposit could very abruptly bury this and uh what was down on the bottom of the lake in 1980 that was buried could that be cified sitting down there already so so do you think it can uh it can that process can produce coal in that short of a time I think it can in the laboratory we can make a coal COI like substance uh very rapidly in weeks just by uh compacting uh the Water away and then generating a little bit of heat

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