Overview
During the third day (the first part of the Derivative phase) of Creation Week about 6,000 years ago, God created the first landmass, a supercontinent (currently referred to as Rodinia, which is Russian for "motherland") much larger than anything we see today, and upon it he brought forth the first organic life in form of plants (some of which are today presumed extinct) that spread across this new world. Surrounding this continent would have been the massive ocean of Mirovia (Russian for "global").
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Genesis 1:9-13 states:
9 Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 13 So the evening and the morning were the third day.
9 Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 13 So the evening and the morning were the third day.
Geology and biology
By this time, abundant geologic work would surely have been accomplished, and the main type of rock that we would expect to find from this time are igneous rocks (that is volcanic) such as granite, or basement rock as it is also called. We would expect that as magma or lava reached the surface waters it would rapidly cool down. During this day, as the continent rose from the water, there would definitely have been sedimentary rock beginning to form as the waters rushing off the continent would have created several layers of sand and ultimately beaches.
This sand and fragmentary rock material would have been spread across the land and along the coasts, and would soon afterwards be subject to several kinds of plants arising from the ground. However, this loose material would eventually be disturbed and destroyed in the few following millennia by natural forces as well as the activity of organisms, and certainly during the Genesis Flood about 4,300 years ago - leaving only the original basement rocks relatively intact.
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