JOURNAL OF CREATION 20(2) 2006 113 Papers

Traces of organisms ’ burrowing movements in the once-soft sediment are most commonly manifested as disturbances of laminae in sedimentary rocks (figure 1). They also occur as discrete individual trace fossils.1 Many pictures of ichnofossils (individual trace fossils) are available online.2 Figures 2 and 3 provide examples collected by the author. Owing to the ubiquity of ichnofossils throughout Phanerozoic sedimentary rock, combined with the inferred spans of time necessary for the construction of each burrowed layer or individual ichnofossil (supposedly at one stratigraphic horizon at a time), trace fossils have sometimes been perceived as an insurmountable challenge to Flood geology. Although ichnofossils have been considered in detail in previous creationist geologic studies,3,4 they have never been systematically analyzed in the light of the creationist-diluvialist paradigm