While grazing on youtube looking for lectures and
checking URLs that I have seen on Wikipedia, I came
across pseudoscience weirder than the ubiquitous
Young Earth creationist apologetics.

It seems that a number of people have difficulty with
concretions being geological in origin. For example,
Menzies and Sam Osmanagich argue that cannonball
concretions are manmade artifacts and various
Russians and Chinese try to connect them to UFOs.
I thought that I had seen it all until I found
Mud Fossil University. Some examples:

Giant Stone Ball mystery solved - Mudfossil University
[www.youtube.com]
[www.youtube.com]

Giant Stone Balls are Biology - Mudfossil University
[www.youtube.com]

All I can hope is that I have been duped in by either
Internet satire or a Russian / Chinese troll factory.

Then, while trying to find new lectures or findings
about Libyan Desert Glass, I came across what to what
appears to be quite obviously man-made glass that has
been misidentified as a Chinese impactite, the
"Shui Jing glass," as featured in the below
youtube videos.

Exploring the mysteries of China's unique natural glass
[www.youtube.com]

Hongshan Culture & the mystery of China's unique natural glass2
[www.youtube.com]

Hongshan Culture & the mystery of China's unique natural glass2
[www.youtube.com]

This material reminds me of the tables covered with
varicolored slag / cullet glass blocks that I saw out in
front of Arkansas rocks shops when I went fossil and rock
collecting decades ago. Pictures of slag glass can be seen
in "I stopped at an Arkansas Rock Shop," September 3, 2015
By Talya Tate Boerner at:
[www.gracegritsgarden.com]

and "Hot Springs Rocks," September 21, 2015 by Brodie Brown
[brodiejodi.com]

For more pictures, search for either “slag glass rock shops”
or “cullet glass rock shops” on Google Image Search.
[images.google.com]

There is the below abstract:

A crackpot ejection theory about China's unique natural glass
Endocrine Abstracts (2015) 38 SE1.4 DOI:10.1530/endoabs.38.SE1.4
(Society for Endocrinology, British Endocrine Societies)
[www.endocrine-abstracts.org]
[pdfs.semanticscholar.org]

"I shall present evidence from the carvings that points to a
unique post-impact lateral ejection of molten glass; and
that this was later carved by grinding using impact diamond
sand."

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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