Examples of great age of parts of the Earth from the book "Creation & Evolution" by Alan Hayward

River Mouth Deposits
page 83: "In regions around the delta [mouth] of the Mississippi geologists working for oil companies have measured the thickness of the sedimentary covering as more than seven miles [deep]. Other measurements have shown that in this area the crust is slowly sinking at a rate of about an inch a year - presumably under the weight of the two million tons of sediment per day that the river deposits there. It is rather obvious that this enormous stack of sediment could not possibly have been laid down by the Mississippi in a few thousand years." [7 miles = 36,960 feet = 443,520 inches which equates to 443,520 years of delta sedimentation at the present rate of one inch per year although each previous year had less depth of sedimentation which means less weight and a lesser rate of deepening per year which means this delta is even older than 443,520 years old.]

Coral Reefs
page 84: "A coral reef is an enormous underwater structure built by countless generations of a strange kind of shellfish, the coral polyp. Instead of building himself a detached house like a normal shellfish the coral prefers to live in a huge apartment block. So he builds his tube-shaped house of calcium carbonate firmly upwards. And so the reef grows and grows. Nature imposes strict limits on the growth rate of a reef. The coral polyp has to extract his building materials from the sea, and since there is only a very little calcium carbonate in seawater it is a slow process. The hollow branching tubes of coral built by the former occupants are quite brittle, and so the lower levels of the reef have to turn into solid hard limestone before they can support the weight of the new growth above. This means that a great deal more calcium carbonate has to precipitate from the seawater and cement everything into a solid mass - another slow process. Holes drilled in the Eniwetok reef in the Pacific have revealed a depth of 4,600 feet. Now if the world is only 10,000 years old, and that reef began growing on Creation Day 5, it would have had to develop at an average rate of 5 and a half inches a year. But a great deal of research has been done on the growth rates of coral reefs, and such rates have been shown to be quite impossible. Under ideal conditions a growth rate of about half an inch a year would be good going." [4,600 feet = 55,200 inches = 110,400 half inches which equates to 110,400 years of growth for that reef]

Shale Deposits
page 87: "Shale and claystone are rocks which were formed from clay, deposited on the bottom of some ancient lake or sea. In some places these rocks are made up of many thin layers, which sometimes alternate between lighter and darker color. The English name for these alternating bands is 'varves', which comes from a Swedish word meaning 'layers'. Varves, like tree rings, are annual growth bands. When geologists in the nineteenth century studied the clay settling to the beds of lakes, they found that often it was one color in summer, and another in winter. This led them to conclude that varves were yearly growth layers. Were they right? Modern studies of microfossils in varves, and especially of the fossil pollen which is found in the summer layers but not the winter ones, have shown that they undoubtedly were. This means that we can tell how long it took a varved deposit to form in just the same way as we can tell the age of a cut-down tree - by counting the total number of growth bands. The current world record is held by the Green River shale deposits in Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, where there are up to several million of successive bands. Once again we have an indication of great age that simply cannot be explained away.