Oct 29, 2007
Stone Monoliths - Part Two
Colossal stones, some
as large as mountains, could be physical evidence for
interplanetary lightning bolts on Earth.
In our
last installment
about the immense solitary stones that can be found on
Earth, we identified several of them in
Australia
and Europe that could be the remains of tremendous electric
arcs. The magnetic fields created from such forces may have
lifted the sediments and other materials from the
surrounding landscape, crushed it in compression zones
capable of squeezing sand into stone, and left behind a
solidified mass. Some extraordinary formations are located
in areas where there is nothing but flat desert for
thousands of square kilometers.
Sometimes they are made from several minerals that are
actually melted together into a solid, although the various
crystals retain their shapes. Granite is an example of
different minerals that have been fused into a single stone
and then laid down in enormous beds - although there are
almost as many different
kinds of granite
as there are deposits.
Granite
is composed of feldspar and quartz, but usually contains
mica and hornblende as well, providing a characteristic
sparkle. Granite decomposes into soils that are well drained
and high in mineral nutrients, making places like California
ideal for agriculture. Since the Sierra Nevada mountains are
granite uplifts, the erosion of the peaks has supposedly
washed down the rivers over millions of years, forming the
sediments in the Central Valley, "America's breadbasket."
Two of the most recognizable formations in
North America can be found in the
Sierra Nevada
mountains. El Capitan, along with its opposite number,
Half Dome,
are Yosemite National Park's famous stones. Both are solid
granite monoliths that rise a thousand meters above the
valley floor. According to conventional geological theories,
they are magma intrusions that formed deep underground
millions of years ago. The magma did not erupt but instead
hardened into granite. The intrusions were exposed after
millennia of weathering. During the last ice age, glaciers
supposedly slid down into the valley, eventually slicing the
faces of
El Capitan
and Half Dome into their present shapes and creating the
Yosemite valley.
Another example of an anomalous,
mountain-sized uplift is
Stone Mountain, Georgia.
Once again, the standard explanation sees Stone Mountain as
the remains of a granitic magma intrusion into softer
limestone sediments that subsequently wore away, uncovering
the dome-shaped pluton after millions of years.
Some other figures of this kind are
Dellenbaugh Butte,
Stone Mountain in
North Carolina
and another "El Capitan" in the
Guadalupe Mountains
of Texas.
"Overlying rock
strata" is a theory similar to "dark matter". It was
invented so that the theory would work and not because of
observational data. Long eons of geologic time and the slow
course of wind and water picking single grains off the face
of a granite colossus until it resembles Half Dome is a
theory whose time has passed. Ice has never been
demonstrated to break and crush mountains into spires and
mounds. Wind and rain dash themselves against the formations
like bugs on a windshield, but that doesn't mean weather or
insects created the shapes. Instead of eroding
down,
they could have been electrically pinched
up.
As
previous Thunderbolts Picture of the Day articles have
noted, however, in every place we look on Earth and the rest
of the solar system there are mountains, valleys and basins
where highly energetic plasma discharges may have blasted
the terrain. The stony mountains with sharp peaks and steep
slopes that exhibit no debris from erosion and the vast
fields of "dunes" that look more like hardened ridges than
wind-blown sand are possible results of those impacts. Stone
monoliths provide more clues to that potentially violent and
relatively recent past.
By Stephen Smith
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