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Dikes, Conglomerates & Ancient Mining Dumps with David Stig Hansen — Part 1 of 3 | Classics Rotation
Researcher David Stig Hansen returns a day after his previous conversation with the host to ask whether the long, wall-like "volcanic dikes" of the American Southwest and Africa are really natural geology. If you enjoy hearing mainstream geology questioned with satellite imagery and on-the-ground photos, this opening part sets up his idea that some of these features are traces of ancient, large-scale mining.
The host opens with her own frustration with the geology she studied: how little of the Earth's interior has actually been reached, and how dating methods rest on the assumption that…
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