Jammer Wrote:
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> Cladking,
>
> You've mentioned this "cold water geyser" several
> times before, enough to interest me enough to
> research.
>
>
>
> The problem as I see it is twofold;
> 1) There is no evidence of these in the past in
> the area. Since they are not tetonic activity
> driven, how would you explain their "shut down"?
> If from changes in the deep aquifer, what
> changes?
>
> 2) Such geysers tend to deposit broad swaths of
> what's called "Geyserite", minerals released in a
> precipitate. I've never seen records of such
> deposits in Egypt. How do you account for the lack
> of precipitate that should be left as an event
> record?
>
> Your idea is interesting, but, at best, I would
> classify it as dubious unless you can demonstrate
> the above effects are there; merely overlooked.
>
> Jammer

Giza is very near a transform plate boundary but the geologists tell me that there is very minimal chance that there were ever any hot water geysers in the area since there are no active nor extinct volcanos in the area. There are, however, a couple of volcanos adjacent to the Nile in Northern Sudan which have erupted within the last 12,000 years. Their eruptions are not recorded so they were probably before 3500 BC. There is a vast amount of water stored in a series of underground basins extending from this area to Giza. If this water were able to absorb vast amounts of carbon dioxide in an eruption it could stay "charged" for centuries, perhaps. Eventually geysers would weaken and fail.

Geyserite and travertine are pretty similar and are deposited by hot water geysers. I can find very little on the properties of the stone deposited by cold water geysers but would guess that since it is dissolved by carbonic acid it might have a much wider range of properties than normal geyserite.

It is entirely possible that the bulk of this material was actually used to build the pyramids. If it were deposited in beds like travertine, it would explain the variable thicknesses of the stones in the pyramid.

I might agree that geysers are not highly probable but find it fascinating that they would explain so many of the known facts. It's also fascinating the some of the Pyramid Texts (and Book of the Dead) seem to come alive when viewed this way. Truly, the entire Giza Plateau seems to come alive when it's assumed there were such geysers.

I believe they had water under pressure from some source even if this isn't it.






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