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To: mysterio
They look like petrified wood planks ...

Looks like an outcropping of shale to me.


33 posted on 07/07/2006 11:38:52 PM PDT by orionblamblam (I'm interested in science and preventing its corruption, so here I am.)
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To: orionblamblam
I don't know. I'd have to see it for myself. But it looks like wood planks to me from these two pics:




35 posted on 07/07/2006 11:43:35 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: orionblamblam

I agree absolutely. It looks like a very ordinary sedimentary outcrop, with natural joints and fractures, like those you could find in many mountain ranges. The bedding is entirely concordant with the topography, which is typical in geology. One would think a stranded boat would be unlikely to perch in perfect conformity like that.


148 posted on 07/08/2006 5:37:10 AM PDT by hellbender
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To: orionblamblam

Yup, that's shale. Pretty common stuff on mountains, and the angle of the bedding demonstrates the uplifting of the mountain, many millions of years ago.

Silliness.


157 posted on 07/08/2006 6:37:06 AM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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