Ancient and modern careers. Part 2

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

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Some material has accumulated. It can hardly be called secondary, in this topic every fact and photograph is worth its weight in gold. But for a separate article, each example does not pull, so I am posting such a selection.

Antarctica But let's start with the video: Many people send me this video, a web story based on the article wakeuphuman. Look, maybe someone hasn't seen or even read his article:

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Thanks to wakeuphuman for showing this fact

Onshore limestone quarries

Chalk is mined near the seashore. Construction and metallurgy require a lot of lime and chalk. And transportation is the cheapest, by water And then they tell us that this sea ate the coast like that:

Cliffs of Dover, England

The White Cliffs of Dover are the cliffs that flank the English coastline of the Pas-de-Calais. They are part of the North Downs Upland. The slope of the rock reaches 107 meters in height.

You can even see the straightness in the development here.

Do you think the sea ate it all?

The cliff is sprinkled. The scattered part will remain, transforming the cliffs into a gentler slope.

I never found any information that chalk was mined here. But the analogy is obvious.

Sound like mesas in Arizona? This is just a chalk pit "White Well" in the Voronezh region

Sharp chalk-clay boundary. The landscape will soon be completely natural

It is difficult to imagine that the entire volume on the left in the photo was worked out. As it is difficult to imagine that the mesas in Arizona are remnants of the original surface.

This stone looks like a paste thickening tailings from beneficiation or just concrete. But whether he is modern.

A source

SomaÏr. Uranium mining in Nigeria. Looks like a future canyon?

A canyon emerges from the quarry

View from above. If they continue to develop in this style, there will be a canyon

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Ancient careers?

Kings Canyon. Australia. Very flat and smooth, like a plastered vertical roadway. As if they had crashed into clay, which then turned to stone. It turned out that the layers were smoothed out. And now this smoothed rock is crumbling like plaster.

Erosion will not leave such smooth walls. Conclusion - this is not a canyon.

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Argentina. Talampaya National Park.

Antarctica Quarries?

This topic was raised by many authors, and photographs were shown. Most likely, some of them will be duplicated here.

Many photographs are named Transantarctic Mountains. The system of quarries in Antarctica

Map link

Of course, this can be explained by the term "circuses", when glaciers melt and melt waters wash away the rock on the northern slope of the mountain. But here we see the eaten mountain along the entire perimeter. And the melting of glaciers in Antarctica is nonsense.

A very informative lecture from Evgeny Gavrikov, where he mentions the careers in Antarctica:

Dumps near Damshahr, Iran

Map link

100% dumps. From the west, they are younger. Apparently, the extraction of something here was carried out for a very long time - erosion turned them into hills, but this young site betrays this activity.

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