Originally Posted by timb

Strange how topics seem to come in spurts. In the ITWire: according to an Australian ancient-earth researcher, about two to three billion years ago most of the Earth was buried under six to nine miles (10 to 15 kilometers) of lava from a series of volcanic explosions. The abstract of the article they cite doesn't directly support their lead-in, and parts of the ITWire article don't inspire confidence in their scientific literacy ("the volcanoes went dormant but eventually repeated the cycle after about 100,000 to 150,000 million years" ).