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I have been looking at Episode 1, Gunung Padang, and Episode 4, Bimini Road. Both are rather long on rhetoric and short on evidence. (Which is no surprise.) In the Gunung Padang episode, the images of excavation pit / trenches at excavation, (9:15-9:20) which I presume are of the alleged "cultural layers," show remarkably clear examples of spheroidally weathered bedrock with corestones. Looks like a fine example of residuum with corestones of weathering Zone II of Ruxton (1957). In this zone, corestones are subordinate, rounded and free and solid rock is less than 50 percent of the weathered former bedrock. Basalt weathers spheroidally very much like granite, despite the difference in composition. At about 9:00, the episode shows one of these corestones for reasons I am not sure of. It would be quite bizarre, if someone actually believes it is an artifact. This is quite unbelievable for someone to excavate that deep into highly weathered bedrock.
Reference (paywalled) cited:
Ruxton, B.P. and Berry, L., 1957. Weathering of granite and associated erosional features in
Hong Kong. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 68(10), pp.1263-1292.
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Yours
Paul H.
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)
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