I did a Google search of the Answers in Genesis website and came up with a video of Ken Ham interviewing Andrew Snelling about his research:
A couple of interesting points to note. First is that the rock formation that he is discussing was, indeed, the one that he showcases on their “ten best evidences for a young earth” that we discussed here:
His description of how he had to get up to the rock formation is particularly noteworthy. He said that he had to climb up a scree slope and past a waterfall, and that he fell and broke his thumb in the process. This provides weight to the view that the placement of the people in the photograph – in front of the fractures in the rock – was intentional.
The other point though is the lawsuit. A while ago I came across the legal documents concerning the case, including the peer review reports, and to be fair I think that he did have a case. The reports made heavy weather of his research being religion, not science, and criticised it only for the fact that it was creationism. I didn’t see much about the actual technical merits (or otherwise) of his proposal. This is exactly the thing I was talking about here:
I am firmly of the opinion that we should be very careful not to criticise young-earth creationism just because it is creationism. Instead, our response to them should be nothing more nor less than a demand that they meet the same standards of honesty, factual accuracy, technical rigour and quality control as everybody else. Because any criticism that goes over and above that is religion, not science, itself as well.
In the end of the day, you only need to look at the photographs, with the clear evidence of fracturing that they show, to see that his research wasn’t going to go anywhere. He talks about having received some favourable preliminary results, but I suspect that the final results weren’t as favourable as he initially thought. The video is about a year old, and came out only a couple of months after his research, so I’d have thought that he’d have released at least something by now if that weren’t the case.
Finally, I don’t know if that specific rock outcrop has a name or not, but if it doesn’t, I propose calling it Snelling Bend in honour of our good friend Dr S.