Stop by for a read of the creation model on my web site. The first 4 chapters of the online book.

Not only have they been able to petrify things in a very short time in the lab but they also have been able to create coal out of wood chips in around 30 days. If it had never dawned on you coal is nothing more than all the pre-flood vegetation morphed into carbon material. They find tons of identifiable tree logs and stumps in layers of coal and through more than one layer of coal all the time. Water transport and the right conditions voila, coal.

Of course the atheists have come up with their own fanciful explanations for public consumption.

You only need the right conditions and I think an internal meltdown of the earth at Noah's flood provides the right conditions.

There are lots of good creation web sites that provide further opportunities to study. The Institute for Creation Research, Answers in Genesis, Creation Science Evangelism, NWCreation dot net etc. I like Carl Baugh's creation model in his book Panorama of Creation and Walter Brown's book In The Beginning and The Genesis Flood by Henry Morris.

Of course not all creation scientists agree on every detail of the creation model since they weren't there so we have to allow some latitude in the model.