[SunkenCiv]

Farouk Al Baz, a veteran of the Apollo Programme, and Research Professor and Director of the Centre for Remote Sensing at Boston University.

[SunkenCiv]

Farouk Al Baz originated the idea that the Great Sphinx at Giza began as a yardang.

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[NonValueAdded]

Stilgar, they’re on to us; take all precautions. Maud’ Dib sends.

[blam]

" Apparently fresh water has been found to seep out off the coast of Oman in the ocean. "Pearl divers who knew their environment very well knew this and would dive with jugs to collect freshwater to have enough to drink during long months at sea," he said."

I read about this before from other sources. Apparently it's true.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Well, the Comic Sans font is appropriate for this article.

[ClearCase_guy]

I suggest that we send some drilling rigs to the Middle East. If we sink a few wells, we might hit something good.

[SunkenCiv]

“El-Baz has long promulgated his notion that the Great Sphinx of Giza is nothing more than a yardang (an aerodynamically stable natural erosional landform-essentially a wind-shaped hill) that was merely ‘dressed up’ by the Old Kingdom Egyptians to look like a sphinx (F. El-Baz, ‘Desert builders knew a good thing when they saw it,’ Smithsonian [April 1981],116-121; F. El-Baz, ‘Egypt’s desert of promise,’ National Geographic [February 1982], 190-221). Thus, El-Baz believes that the Old Kingdom architects and sculptors incorporated very ancient (pre-Old Kingdom) erosional features found on a natural hill into their sculpting of the Sphinx.”

http://www.robertschoch.net/Redating%20the%20Great%20Sphinx%20of%20Giza.htm

a bit more:

http://www.antiquityofman.com/Schoch_Omni.html

related (even less interest than my bison topic):

The Yardangs of Mars
Geological Society (UK) | July 24, 2004 | staff
Posted on 01/01/2005 2:18:55 PM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1312117/posts

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