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originally posted by: bluesfreak
I was talking about the Sphinx enclosure and the associated temple next to it that was made from the quarried stone from the enclosure .
It’s the temple next to it that was re-clad in dynastic times with granite . The inner limestone blocks quarried from around the Sphinx show the same erosional features as the enclosure and Sphinx body.
Here’s a paper that shows just how confusing and mixed up the data is regarding culture, population spread,DNA , sediment data, super arid climate, along the Nile up to the end of the last ice age .
Both the abstract and conclusion state that conflicting data needs more of a multi disciplinary approach to reach a better conclusion.
This is just an example of how conflicting data is rife in this area of study , and that by no means is any science ‘settled’ despite what trainee gatekeeper Andy Mayhew would try to make you believe .
But ssshhh, that’s geology ….
The Main Nile Valley at the End of the Pleistocene (28–15 ka): Dispersal Corridor or Environmental Refugium
a reply to: JamesChessman
originally posted by: JamesChessman
originally posted by: AndyMayhew
originally posted by: JamesChessman
You pretended to not understand that there are salt deposits, after saltwater evaporates? Right?
In theory, a marine incursion which was then disconnected from the ocean, and evapourated, would leave salt deposits. But no such incursion has occurred in Egypt in recent geological times.
Most salt deposits in the Sahara - as in N America, and elsewhere in the world - are actually from freshwater lakes drying up.
en.wikipedia.org...
This is all totally irrelevant to the age of the Sphinx.
Actually I think you’re irrelevant to the thread because every post is saying crazy things that you never follow up.
Here you are misrepresenting the entire conversation.
We are discussing ancient times and your argument is that saltwater hasn’t been there in RECENT times. Well good thing we were discussing ANCIENT times.
I think you couldn’t be more blatantly obvious that you’re just fabricating nonsense and fabricating confusion for readers that aren’t quite keeping up with the substance of the thread.
originally posted by: Harte
originally posted by: JamesChessman
originally posted by: AndyMayhew
originally posted by: JamesChessman
You pretended to not understand that there are salt deposits, after saltwater evaporates? Right?
In theory, a marine incursion which was then disconnected from the ocean, and evapourated, would leave salt deposits. But no such incursion has occurred in Egypt in recent geological times.
Most salt deposits in the Sahara - as in N America, and elsewhere in the world - are actually from freshwater lakes drying up.
en.wikipedia.org...
This is all totally irrelevant to the age of the Sphinx.
Actually I think you’re irrelevant to the thread because every post is saying crazy things that you never follow up.
Here you are misrepresenting the entire conversation.
We are discussing ancient times and your argument is that saltwater hasn’t been there in RECENT times. Well good thing we were discussing ANCIENT times.
I think you couldn’t be more blatantly obvious that you’re just fabricating nonsense and fabricating confusion for readers that aren’t quite keeping up with the substance of the thread.
No, what you are calling "ancient times" is recent compared to the last time there was ocean water at Giza.
Harte
originally posted by: bluesfreak
I was talking about the Sphinx enclosure and the associated temple next to it that was made from the quarried stone from the enclosure .
It’s the temple next to it that was re-clad in dynastic times with granite . The inner limestone blocks quarried from around the Sphinx show the same erosional features as the enclosure and Sphinx body.
Here’s a paper that shows just how confusing and mixed up the data is regarding culture, population spread,DNA , sediment data, super arid climate, along the Nile up to the end of the last ice age .
Both the abstract and conclusion state that conflicting data needs more of a multi disciplinary approach to reach a better conclusion.
This is just an example of how conflicting data is rife in this area of study , and that by no means is any science ‘settled’ despite what trainee gatekeeper Andy Mayhew would try to make you believe .
But ssshhh, that’s geology ….
The Main Nile Valley at the End of the Pleistocene (28–15 ka): Dispersal Corridor or Environmental Refugium
a reply to: JamesChessman
originally posted by: AndyMayhew
originally posted by: JamesChessman
originally posted by: AndyMayhew
originally posted by: JamesChessman
You pretended to not understand that there are salt deposits, after saltwater evaporates? Right?
In theory, a marine incursion which was then disconnected from the ocean, and evapourated, would leave salt deposits. But no such incursion has occurred in Egypt in recent geological times.
Most salt deposits in the Sahara - as in N America, and elsewhere in the world - are actually from freshwater lakes drying up.
en.wikipedia.org...
This is all totally irrelevant to the age of the Sphinx.
Actually I think you’re irrelevant to the thread because every post is saying crazy things that you never follow up.
Here you are misrepresenting the entire conversation.
We are discussing ancient times and your argument is that saltwater hasn’t been there in RECENT times. Well good thing we were discussing ANCIENT times.
I think you couldn’t be more blatantly obvious that you’re just fabricating nonsense and fabricating confusion for readers that aren’t quite keeping up with the substance of the thread.
I said recent geological times. ie the last few hundred thousand years or so.
But if you think that's not the case, please do present your geological evidence to the contrary. Rather than just making unfounded assertions.
originally posted by: BenSchillin
Didn't the Greeks rebuild the Sphinx when they moved to Egypt and did all the cosplaying? Or is my memory affected by massive amounts of Marijuana?