The deserts of the Earth are shrouded in great mysteries

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Tons of sand, occupying vast territories and destroying all vegetation, are the result of the destruction of solid rocks. In most cases, each grain of sand is a tiny piece of quartz, but millions of such pieces form destructive sands, under which rivers, lakes and entire cities perish.

Flood and then desert?

A close examination of the old maps reveals many interesting inconsistencies. For example, according to radiocarbon analysis, the Aral Sea was formed 20-24,000 years ago.

And now let's look at the map of 1578 with a fragment of Central Asia.

It is noticeable that the shape of the Caspian Sea differs from the modern one, and the Aral Sea is completely absent. And this is not a cartographer's mistake, because the Caspian Sea has an oval shape on many ancient maps. Looking at the old map, you can see that the territory near the Caspian Sea is densely populated, but in those places where unfamiliar cities and rivers are indicated, there are now the Kyzyl-Kum and Kara-Kum deserts. The ancient cartographers did not designate the Gobi or Taklamakan deserts either. Not because they did not know about them, but because they did not exist, and in their place were fertile lands and rivers flowed. What happened? Another old map, which says: "Caspian region after the flood", may become a clue.

It is noticeable that there have been significant changes in the geography of the Caspian territory. It turns out that the flood caused the deposition of huge layers of sand and silt, which turned the Caspian lands into steppes and deserts. And this event happened about two centuries ago, but that's why there is no mention of it in history?

An indirect proof of the flooding is the fact that in many territories of Russia (in particular, in Siberia or the Perm Territory) there are no trees older than 200 years. It has been theorized that they were killed by a massive fire. But in this case, there would be ashes. But if the plants are covered with sand or soil, they will die, and so will the trees. A study of the width of the annual rings showed that the trees experienced particularly unfavorable periods in 1698, 1742 and 1815. That is, old trees died relatively recently.

In old photographs, you can see that there are no mature trees even where the most favorable conditions seem to have been created for them.

On the left - photographs from different places in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century, on the right - the same places in the 21st century.

Maybe "strangers" are to blame?

An interesting version of the appearance of colossal amounts of sand on the earth's surface was put forward by the researcher V. P. Kondratov. He suggested that a certain race that lives under water coexists with us on the planet. In the course of the development of new territories and the extraction of minerals, they throw unnecessary sand onto the surface of the earth through a special pipeline. Images taken from space are cited as evidence.

In the photographs taken by the satellite above the surface of the water, you can see areas that are very reminiscent of open pit mines. For example, in the photo below, an almost rectangular area is clearly visible.

And here is an enlarged image of the previous photo. Similar to excavating (especially noticeable around the edges).

Theories that people came out of the aquatic environment have been expressed for a long time. Eyewitness accounts of encounters with humanoid creatures in the water or near the water have been found in literary sources since ancient times. Therefore, the version of V. P. Kondratov's may well have a real basis.

Secrets of the Sahara Desert

The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, has been little studied due to its insidious nature. The scorching sun and sands for thousands of kilometers create serious obstacles for researchers. Nevertheless, scientific expeditions continue to collect material about the Great Desert, literally bit by bit. A scientific group from Russia, which included the historian and orientalist N. Sologubovsky, brought interesting materials from the last trip to the Sahara.

One of the objects of interest of scientists has become petroglyphs - huge drawings carved on rocks and walls of caves. Some of the drawings are about 14,000 years old. N. Solgubovsky notes that there are many such petroglyphs in the southern part of Libya, in the town of Wadi Matkhandush. Here, on the rocks along the dry river bed, there is an amazing ensemble of drawings 60 km long.

In addition to images of ordinary animals and everyday scenes, there are interesting petroglyphs depicting creatures with hypertrophied reproductive organs, on whose heads they have masks (like a spacesuit). Locals give a simple explanation for such drawings: they are genies. There are also people very similar to bears in the engravings, and in some drawings there are elephants and even penguins (which are not even mentioned in Africa).

Here, in Libya, there are places that the locals do not go to. One of these places, a high plateau, is located near the city of Garama. It is believed that evil genies live there.

Another "bad" place is the Vau-an-Namus volcano. It is not a mountain, but a huge crater (12 km in diameter), 200 m deep. At the bottom of the funnel there are three lakes: green, blue and red. When the expedition members decided to spend the night at one of the lakes, the guides were categorically against it, they argued that a monster lived in the lake. As a result, the guides spent the night upstairs, while the researchers stayed by the lake. The night was really hectic for them: inside the volcano there was a rumble, strange and frightening sounds and groans. And once on the water surface, large circles suddenly began to scatter. Maybe some kind of monster really lives in the lake?

Perhaps, under a thick layer of desert sands there are entire cities of ancient civilizations. The result of one of the remote sensing of the Earth by a spacecraft showed that in the sands of the Sahara at a depth of 100-150 m, a structure resembling a city is determined. However, this information only passed in passing in media sources, more accurate data could not be found. The "object" was probably classified. In this regard, N. Sologubovsky put forward an interesting hypothesis that the disappeared Atlantis could well have been swallowed up not by the ocean, but by tons of sand.

Unusual properties of sands

It turns out that the sands can sing. For example, the loudest "singing" dune is located in Kazakhstan, on the territory of the Altyn - Emel National Park. When the sand is dry and moving, the dune makes humming and vibrating sounds, but wet sand is always silent.

Scientists suggest that "singing" occurs as a result of the movement of air between grains of sand. The grains of sand become electrified, emit a charge of current and thus "give a voice". Locals say that if you bring the singing sand home in a box, it will sing there too.

The singing dune is also unusual because it differs in a pale yellow color from the surrounding brown and purple ridges. The musical dune consists of fine quartz sand - and this is another mystery, because the version that the wind brought this pile of sand to the desert is very unlikely. The size of the dune is about 3 km long and 140 m high, it is difficult to imagine that the wind (by the way, almost always blowing from the river) could bring such a whopper.

"Sand" technologies

Back in the USSR period, our scientists made an interesting discovery - metals converted into colloidal form dissolve in water. The list of such metals also includes gold, silver, platinum, titanium, palladium and others. Moreover, the most promising source of their extraction is sand. After all, every grain of sand was once part of the rock.

Therefore, sand can be a real treasure of metals and minerals. It is known that Novosibirsk scientists have developed a technology for grinding sand into sand into powder, from which the required concentrates are then isolated. This development is economically very profitable, but, unfortunately, at the moment this project (like many other alternative programs) has no financial support.

In conclusion, we can say that, like ice, the sands are fraught with many mysteries, and it is difficult to predict what surprises they will once again amaze researchers.