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PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 10:19 am    Post subject: An Ancient Floor in Colorado Reply with quote

An ancient floor near Grand Junction Colorado has been excavated and declared a natural formation by archaeologists and geologists from Mesa University. This was discovered in 1937 by a rancher digging an outhouse. When he found the strange tiled floor he expanded his original project to a cellar. It is remarkably similar to Rockwall in the cemented blocks which exhibit a high degree of polish. The history of this investigation is also eerily reminiscent of Rockwall. An egyptologist from London was called in back in the 30's and he said it was natural, unlike Count Byron de Prorok who visited Rockwall in 1925 on two occasions and said they were like the walls he had excavated in North Africa. The site, like the recent excavation at Rockwall has been backfilled.
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2005/08/15/8_15_1A_tiled_floor_natural_WWW.html
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:54 am    Post subject: An Ancient Floor in Oklahoma Reply with quote

Cliff Rogers sent me this some time ago and I should have reposted it here when the Colorado story broke. There seems to be a cluster of these pavements in Oklahoma, Arkansas and reportedly Kansas. The cement and blocking mentioned in this article are explained as extrusions of underlying unconsolidated sand from formations such as the Mowry Sandstone in Colorado. The formation is generally considered to have taken place sometime during the Laramide Orogeny which formed the rapidly upthrust Rocky Mountains. While the geologist in the following article gives a date of 200,000 years for the Oklahoma pavement, this is millions of years out of synch with the dates proposed by current geologists for these pavements if they are natural occurences. If they are artificial, 200,000 years gets into the extreme as well, such as the dates claimed for Calico and Lake Mannix in California and Hueyatlaco in Mexico. What I find peculiar in the Oklahoma pavement is the fact that other similar anomalous discoveries are reported in Wilburton and Heavener in relation to coal mining operations. The report of a similar pavement in Wilburton also mentioned a silver barrel shaped object but what happened to it is not mentioned in the brief citations by Michael Cremo and Brad Steiger which gave the discovery date as 1928. There is a mining museum in Wilburton which may have such anomalies on display but I have not been able to locate any mention of them. If any of you have any further information, please post it here.

"On June 27,1969, workmen cutting into a rock shelf situated on the Broadway
Extension of 122nd Street, between Edmond and Oklahoma City, came upon a
find that was to create much controversy among the experts. The find was an
inlaid tile floor, found 3 feet below the surface, and covering several
thousand square feet. Durwood Pate, an Oklahoma City geologist, commented on
the floor in the Edmond Booster of July 3, 1969:

"I am sure this was man-made because the stones are placed in perfect sets
of parallel lines which intersect to form a diamond shape, all pointing to
the east. We found post holes which measure a perfect two rods from the
other two. The top of the stone is very smooth, and if you lift one of them,
you will find it is very jagged, which indicates wear on the surface.
Everything is too well placed to be a natural formation."

Pate also discovered a form of mortar between the tiles. He believes now
that the tile surface served as a common floor for several human shelters
over a wide area. Delbert Smith, a geologist and president of the Oklahoma
Seismograph Company, summed up the mystery concerning the tile floor in the
Tulsa World of June 29, 1969: "There is no question about it. It had been
laid there, but I have no idea by whom." Yet another facet of the mystery
involved the question of age. There are some differing opinions as to the
geology involved, but the best estimate places the tiles at 200,000 years
old."

Thanks again to Cliff Rogers for the above article.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 11:03 am    Post subject: Paleogeological Maps of North America Reply with quote

Here is a link to paleogeological maps which can better aid you in visualizing the land masses above water during various epochs. I was particularly interested in the maps of the Cretaceous which show North Texas. For most of the period which concerns Rockwall and my own area which is geologically tied to Rockwall, that is, the Cretaceous, it appears to have been above the sea levels of the Cretaceous seas. The duckbill dinosaur fossils found on the North Sulphur River and the Trinity River in Dallas County led me to believe that at least sections of the area had remained above water due to the fact that duckbills were not marine dinosaurs but rather swamp dwellers. This may seem a minor point, but it confirms what John Lindsey told me early on; Rockwall was part of an atoll during the time 80 million years ago. The shark teeth embedded in the walls indicate that it was right at the water's edge and the unfossilized sand dollars demonstrate that at one point the upper sections were part of an ancient beach. Bear in mind that these maps are simulations and there is a great margin for error both ways. Likewise the scale of the maps is not as precise as I would like but they are the best so far I have seen.
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/nam.html
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:43 am    Post subject: Source of Libyan Glass? Reply with quote

Farouk El Baz has announced the discovery of the largest impact crater yet found in the Sahara. A little over 30 kilometers in diameter, the crater dubbed Kebira, is thought to have impacted around 100 million years ago. That would place it in the Cretaceous before the Chicxulub Impact which has been thought to have caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs around 65 million years ago. The nodules of Libyan Glass found over large sections of southwestern Egypt have the isotopic signature of a meteorite impact but until now no source had been found.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/311/5765/1223c
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 3:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My idea that Rockwall was not submerged completely but rather that it existed as an atoll in the late Cretaceous was confirmed recently when paleontologists excavated the rich fossil beds near Arlington, Texas, which lies quite close to one of the western "forks" of the Trinity. These yielded duckbills (formerly known as hadrosaurus), crocodiles, turtles and various forms of semi-aquatic plantlife. The paleontologists involved said that it represented a swampy environment which extended throughout North Texas 90 million years ago.

Additionally, a more careful reading of correspondence from Wulf Goss, the paleomagnetic expert from UTA who did the survey in 1999 at Rockwall, indicated that the walls had been formed 50-55 million years ago, not 80 as previously reported by geologists. This places Rockwall's origin within the Eocene. Recent discoveries in the Diablo Formation near Laredo, Texas have produced at least three new species of primates from the Eocene and similar discoveries were also made in Mississippi, along with rich faunal deposits in Louisiana from the Miocene. Additionally new discoveries of mammals which preyed upon small dinosaurs before the K/T Extinction event add a whole new wrinkle to the Rockwall enigma. I'm not certain what that wrinkle will imply. For the record, I am not of the Young Earth Creationist/Anti-evolutionist persuasion, so I am not taking that avenue of approach, though others may choose to do so.
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