Antediluvian road?

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

In the Tarasovsky District of the Rostov Region, there is an interesting place with stone slabs located under layers of sand … A road paved with rectangular stone slabs runs across a small sand pit … Moreover, the slabs were so well fitted together that a penknife did not creep into the seams. In addition, some joints could not be explained by anything other than the deliberate adjustment of the plates to each other …

A local bulldozer driver told about this place, who told the authors of the photographs that nearby, in a sandy quarry, there are some strange stone slabs.

Quarry where the slabs were excavated

Slab material - quartz sandstone, top covered with deposits of sand and loam

The landscape of the surroundings where the find was made

Almost uniform slab thickness

Scratches or "patterns" on slabs

8 m straight crack. Or a seam?

There are other chips along smooth, curved lines, but most are at right angles. And the patterns are interesting … In the opinion of the authors of these photographs: the patterns are in the upper layer, they cannot be attributed to some later influences - several slabs were specially excavated, located away from the developed section of the quarry - the same parallel grooves, sometimes crossed out with the same … The lateral surfaces of the slabs are the same everywhere, shiny quartzite sandstone, heterogeneous in depth - it starts from a surface with patterns; this surface layer takes four centimeters and then smoothly turns into a homogeneous drain sandstone. At the bottom, on some slabs, the sandstone transforms into an almost homogeneous gray quartzite …

Under the slabs, a few centimeters of orange, ferruginous sand, and the opoka-like rock begins. Someone from the team (in the photographs) is joking - they say that the ancient builders of the road did everything right, put the slabs on a sand pillow.

Photos 1992

You can discuss, as usual, two versions: natural and artificial origin of the slabs.

1. Natural.

Plates can be fossilized silt sediments of the ancient sea (but why so locally?), Or fossilized layers from the flood water that stood here for a long time.

The second version of natural origin - fluidolites, manifestations of mud volcanoes. Those. This is a mud mass spread over the surface, petrified later. And the area with sand itself is the volume of a gigantic water-mud show, which was one of the "centers" for the outlets of water and mud masses of the flood. The absence of forests, trees is also some kind of proof. Round lakes may have been similar sources in the past.

2. Artificial.

There is no clear evidence, except for some grooves on the slabs, the joints of the slabs and their approximately the same thickness. This version requires a more thorough study of the site and ground surveys.

Something similar was found in Khakassia: PLATES OF LAKE SHIRA