Aug 10, 2007
Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria may be among the largest
electrical formations on Earth. Surrounding the lake are
several circular structures and other features similar to
those found on other planets and moons.
The geography in this area (and the rest of Africa) strongly
suggests electrical influence. In other
Thunderbolts Picture of the Day
articles, evidence was presented indicating that
many features
in Africa are the result of plasma arcs excavating the
surface and forming what we see today. The Brandberg Massif,
Kebira Crater, the
Richat Structure
and others could very well be the scars from electric
discharge machining (EDM) in an earlier, electrically active
phase of solar system history. As we have investigated these
formations more closely, it appears that the same kind of
power may have helped to create Lake Victoria, as well.
In conventional geological theory of
plate tectonics,
the continents are floating on a layer of molten rock
several miles beneath the Earth's crust. The higher density
of the magma and the lower density of the continental rock
makes them able to move around on the face of the planet,
sometimes colliding and sometimes pulling apart. Huge areas
called, "subduction zones" pull vast blocks of sedimentary
rock down into the hot interior where they melt into the
magma. As the crustal blocks above the melt zones heat up,
volcanoes form and erupt the subducted seafloor sediments
out onto the land in the form of lava, creating a cycle of
destruction and reformation.
The prevailing theory claims that the
Great Rift
arose because the same force that causes subduction is also
causing the ocean bottom and other areas around the planet
to crack and spread apart, forming new crust. Because of
huge convection currents in the thermal balance of the
magma, the continental masses move apart as well as crash
together
In and around the Rift Valley vicinity are the largest
volcanoes in Africa and the world, including
Mt. Kenya
and
Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Some are extinct and the majority have not erupted for
hundreds of years. All of them represent what geologists
call,
"shield
volcanoes"
that occur over spots that are particularly hot, with magma
unusually close to the surface. Mt. Kilimanjaro and the
others are really multiple volcanoes that have merged
together into larger structures. There are very large
fractures beneath the peaks from which the original
eruptions took place, similar to the long fracture volcanoes
in Hawaii. Those African peaks include Mt. Kilimanjaro,
Mt. Elgon,
Mt. Meru
and many others. They are all located on top of a
dual-ridge fault
that circles Lake Victoria. One very interesting aspect of
the fault is that it begins as a bifurcation in the
Afar Depression,
loops back on itself as the
Western Rift Valley,
forms Lake Victoria and then travels to the south, where
Lake Malawi
fills-in the huge crack.
Near
Mt. Meru
are sharply cut dendritic ridge or "Lichtenberg" figures
that cover hundreds of square miles.
Mt. Meru,
itself is very unusual in that is a half crater with a
sharply pointed central peak. In the
Mountains of Patagonia
article, such formations were presented as forming from
large electric arc discharges, since no volcanic eruption
would ever leave a needle-sharp peak in the blasted remains
of a half-crater. Certainly Mt. St. Helens did not leave any
such basalt monolith behind.
Because Lake
Victoria is a circular feature in the midst of a
kilometer-deep trench, surrounded by the largest volcanoes
in the world, with what appear to be city-wide lightning
trackways carved into the rocks in many places. it seems
more reasonable to conclude that electrical forces created
the Lake and the Rift Valley, just as they produced many
other large circular features we have previously described.
By Stephen Smith
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