Meso- means middle. Clearly something is different about Mesozoic sediment compared to Paleozoic and Cenozoic. Paleozoic was the deluge. Mesozoic was the period of time when the water remained high on the Earth.
The Timeline for Noah’s Flood
The timeline for Noah's flood comes directly from scripture and this is the framework that we use to interpret evidence from the stratigraphic column.
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Noah's flood was not only a world-wide catastrophe, it was also a process which involved several stages. It gives us a way to account for the stratigraphic column, Cambrian through Quaternary.