Excellent points, and this is just one of countless other complex geologic settings around the world which fly in the face of YE/Flood Geology. Besides the problematic fossils, many indicate long periods of slow or low-energy deposition. Perhaps the most poignant examples are vast dinosaur trackways and nesting sites (which I love to study), which occur in Mesozoic sediments claimed by most YECs to be mid-Flood. Over 230 such nesting sites are known around the world. Even if it could be explained how the dinosaurs survived for many weeks or more of raging flood waters (that’s a long time to tread water or survive on floating vegetation mats, especially without fresh water to drink or any normal food), one would have to explain how they managed to find many others of their species, then mate, build scores of nests, lay eggs, incubate and hatch the eggs (some have baby tracks around the nests), without their normal habitats, provisions, or nesting materials, all while the Food was not only still raging, but supposedly at or near it’s peak. Supposed “lulls” in the Flood don’t begin to explain these things, besides not being mentioned in the Genesis account. Making mattes worse, in some places there are successive layers of nesting sites on top each other, with scores or even hundreds of nests on each. Grasping at straws, some YECs such as Walter Barnhart have even suggested that the eggs might have been laid underwater, which is not only ludicrous, but doesn’t begin to answer the other questions, or radiometric dating data, or the major patterns of fossil succession. Indeed, they have no explanation for why none of these sites have any tracks or remains of any large modern mammals. Even the few alleged exceptions (Paluxy “man tracks” and such have been well refuted