Colette Wrote:
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> Do you understand well about the sunspot limestone
> ???? I went to that link you offered and I saw the
> one "Terraced Travertine Formations at Minerva
> Terrace, Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National
> Park." Is that what you are referring to or can
> you explain? Are you saying the limestone in the
> Sphinx enclosure resembles that or the GP was an
> outcropping of such and just added on to? Or the
> blocks were cut from travertine grade rock? Thank
> you,
> C

Limestone is deposited at very low rates normally so annual depositions will be invisible. There will be changes seen but these are usually caused by more massive and long term events like changes in ocean currents or temperature. A river changing course nearby might show a dramatic change in stone appearance.

Almost anything that shows the sunspot cycle is usually something that changes rapidly over brief periods of time. The usual example are tree rings. Most areas are prone to drought during solar maximums which occur every eleventh year so tree rings show a very thin ring during these years. Every 8th solar maximum is an even greater increase in sunspot activity, so it's an 88 year cycle overlain on an eleven year cycle.

Travertine is an inapproprite building material due to its very poor strenght. It is deposited by hot springs and hot water geysers. The point of the picture is to show how it terraces and is easily quarried in varying thicknesses determined by water flow and thermal activity.

Cold water geysers contain carbonic acid which normally doesn't create these "stone seats" but they are so rare that, perhaps, they can dissolve a lot of limestone under specific conditions and deposit it at their vents. I'm suggesting if they can't tell if it's stone or concrete that it might be neither.

The thickness of the pyramid layers closely resembles the sunspot cycle and the inundation should also have been heavily influenced by sunspots.

> OH, I just posted a pic of the GP's North to East
> face corner all of the way up to the top (the
> North face is to the right of the photograph) . It
> shows the various blocks and base, but hard to see
> all of the way up as the photograph was resized.
> You can see though repairs and different quality
> of stones used at the base and up the faces.

> It is on the frontpage of CT- scroll down a bit
> and it is there. Can you see any of what you are
> talking about? Please let me know and point it out
> if you can......please, pretty please..........

There was a great thread here with the thicknesses of the pyramid layers all plotted out but the image in it is gone. Petrie has it in Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh. The book is available on the net and the thicknesses are displayed in table format.

For some reason I can't send a private message. I don't know if I can still get one either. Edited to add that I might be able to answer one of your earlier questions but am not ready to "publish" it.





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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/09/2007 12:00AM by cladking.