You want facts?
It is a fact that there are no new experimental results in the Russian papers. Error: an experimental program is currently in progress
It is a fact that his Chinese and Russian papers are unpublishable in Western high-impact journals – they are indeed codswallop:
The suggestion that the Russian Academy of Sciences publishes “codswallop” is libellous
It is a fact that he was not the first to do flume studies to investigate deposition of sediments:
He has never said he was. In fact he used the CSU laboratory because it was fully equipped for such experiments done in the past.
It is a fact that when he published in the 1980s and 1990s it was already well known by geologists that certain kinds of sedimentation can happen rapidly. ** He is fully aware of this. Flash floods for instance? He even uses these as examples. See the reports of his experiments. **
It is a fact that Berthault has attempted to extrapolate experiments in water a few inches deep to explain the deposition of hundreds of meters of sediment. **This is your opinion. It is not a fact./**COLOR]
It is a fact that there are features in the Tonto Group which preclude the possibility that it was deposited in a single violent flood.
This an interpretation of an observation, based ‘inter alia’ upon the principle of superposition invalidated by experment.
etc. etc
None of these facts address the Berthault experiments because they are unsupported by experimental evidence. None demonstrate an error in his peer-reviewed results published by the French Academy of Science and Geological Society, and the Russian Academy of Sciences. The experiments challenge the principles of stratigraphy. The logical way of refuting the results of experiments that conflict with your ideas is by producing experiments proving you are right. A simple way of ending the discussion is to show experimentally how sedimentary deposits transported by a water current superpose successively. Berthault has shown by empirical laboratory evidence that the opposite is the case.
Peter