Dec 05,
2006
The Dendritic Ridges of Valles Marineris
Close-up images of Valles Marineris reveal the same
dendritic ridge pattern we have observed on Olympus Mons.
NASA spokesmen call it “the most spectacular
hole in the ground anywhere.” On Earth, it would stretch
from San Francisco to New York. For years, many scientists
called it a channel produced by torrential flooding. Then,
when higher resolution images removed that possibility,
geologists began calling it “the great Martian rift valley.”
But if it is a rift, one looks in vain for signs of the
stupendous geologic displacement required, not to mention
the unresolved issue posed by a body smaller than the earth
generating the imagined tectonic forces to create a “rift”
hundreds of times larger than the Grand Canyon. Furthermore,
a “rift” is typically deeper than it is wide, but Valles
Marineris, though up to several miles deep, is vastly wider
than deep at its midsection. It’s hard to imagine anyone
looking at Valles Marineris and supposing that surface
material a few miles deep miraculously spread apart to
create a valley up to 370 miles wide!
The picture above is just a small portion of Candor Chasma,
a giant alcove of Valles Marineris. Up to this point, we
have been unable to find any reference by the THEMIS team to
a hugely enigmatic feature—the dendritic ridges that
virtually define the scalloped cliffs of the entire region.
To gain a sense of the enigma posed, we urge the reader to
consider the full image
here. And bear in mind that this is not the only portion
of Valles Marineris revealing the implausible—or should we
say “impossible”—ridge branching.
We have already noted remarkably similar branching patterns
both on the “caldera” walls and the steep escarpment of
Olympus Mons. It is interesting to note that conventional
theory ascribes two completely different geologic processes
to Olympus Mons and Valles Marineris. In neither case is a
plausible explanation given for the dendritic ridge
patterns. Hence the contrast with the predictive ability of
the electrical interpretation is inescapable.
In the image above, the color scheme represents the hardness
of the surface material. The warm to red colors denote the
harder material, while the green and blue represent looser,
sandier, or dustier material. So it is significant that the
warmest colors (hardest materials) are associated with the
ridges. The electric model identifies dendritic ridges as
aeolian sedimentary material fused into rock by an electric
arc. And for this reason, the unique correspondence to the
Lichtenberg figure is key to resolving the mystery.
As a rule, geologists will discuss regions of loose material
as sediment laid down by bodies of water, volcanic ash, or
landslide debris. But in the electrical interpretation of
Martian topography, a new principle is required. On the red
planet as a whole, nothing is more apparent than the
excavation of material from defined regions, and distributed
over large areas as new strata. We can find nothing in any
image of Valles Marineris to contradict the electrical
hypothesis. And the dendritic ridge pattern stands as a
witness to forces not yet even imagined by conventional
schools. It requires us to reexamine our assumptions about
the origin of similar features on Earth. And it requires
that we not simply apply those assumption to features
observed on other planets.
It is worth remembering that a cosmic thunderbolt of
sufficient power to carve Valles Marineris would not just
distribute pulverized debris around the planet, but launch
great volumes of rocky and dusty debris into space. This
could include both the red dust that has fallen historically
upon our own planet and the meteorites that have been
definitively identified as Martian in origin. Hence the
unexplained dendritic ridges on Valles Marineris and Olympus
Mons (and in fact, occurring repeatedly on Mars, as we shall
observe in future TPODs) are crucial pointers to a history
of the Red Planet far more dramatic than traditional theory
has ever allowed.
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