Day Six – A Day the World Tilted

What would it have been like millions of years ago when huge sections of Earth’s crust tilted? If there had been people, would they have felt enormous earthquakes? Maybe there was loud roaring and billowing dust as the crust broke and violently faulted upward? Were dinosaurs stampeding away from the sight?

The San Rafael Swell in southeastern Utah did just that. Driving west of Arches National Park, on I-70 you can see the gigantic tilted and broken sections of Earth’s crust that extend as far as the eye can see. 

Did the event happen all at once like the super volcano of Yellowstone or was it a slow process that creaked and cracked and groaned over millions of years? Any way it happened, the scenery left behind is pretty awesome to view and hard to imagine.


If you could travel back through time, would you want to go back to witness an extraordinary event like this? While traveling, we have seen many sights that leave us feeling like tiny grains of sand in a huge desert. Humans can do their part to conserve the land, but they cannot stop the forces of nature no matter how hard they try. Only God has that mighty power!



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  1. LoriMay 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM

    I believe the fountains of the deep came up and the power of the water from the Biblical flood changed the entire earth. I see this evidence everywhere I go

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