Instead of futilely squeezing time from the uniformitarian geologic column, creationists should allow biblical presuppositions about natural history to revolutionize stratigraphy. This type of approach is tested at the Palo Duro Basin, a cratonic sedimentary basin located in the Texas Panhandle. An assessment of the basin fill allows revision of strata out of the uniformitarian framework and into genetic units that reflect depositional and tectonic episodes. These in turn can be interpreted within the framework of the Genesis Flood, and the genetic units assigned a tentative position along a geologic energy curve as a basis for regional correlation based upon Flood stage rather than time. In this framework, the Palo Duro Basin’s history provides several clues to the nature of the Flood in central North America.