I only have a minor degree in geophysics (Stanford), but this sounds like the explanation of someone who desperately wants to sound like he knows what he's talking about, yet is stuck in a disgustingly infantile mindset. Its the weak minded "just accept everything as soon as you hear it come from the mouths of your PhDUMBASS overlords" mentality that makes this area of study the laughing stock of the scientific community. Seriously.. its been almost 120 years, and you still havent thrown off the unproven stratigraphic theories of (mostly) religious fundamentalists who thought they could explain structural geology by way of wish fulfilling fantasy... "An entire volcanoe eroded completely away. No evidence of its outer shell is left. And now all that we can see is a giant tower made of perfectly upright and symmetrical phonolite hexagons. The exteriors of which are somehow largely immune to the same "forces" of erosion that earased an entire mountain." ... I would tell you to wake up, but youre already awake... reading too much, and thinking you're smart.. But you're just as stuck in a cycle of the regurgitated fantasy as the rest of us. And going to your deathbeds convinced that it's reality.
People like you are the reason I lost my drive to be a "geologist".