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Stonehenge

Analysis of zircon crystals

Littlestone L
Littlestone May 15, 2011 18:25:17
Replying to Sanctuary

Sanctuary wrote:
Littlestone wrote:
Yup. Logic dictates that if you can move a 40 ton stone from A to B you can certainly move a 4 ton stone from A to C - provided there is no insurmountable obstacle preventing you from doing so. In this case there isn’t, so the only difference will be the time (and available resources) required to do so.
Fred Flintstone with his dinosaur powered JCB would have that done in minutes no problem. Can't understand why nobody has thought of that before! :D
That should've been a Yip...

N nigelswift
nigelswift May 16, 2011 06:45:39
Replying to Littlestone

Remember this story 5 years ago? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/5072664.stm

OU geologists saying they'd analysed bluestone axe heads found at Stonehenge and found they'd come from different locations in the Presellis ergo backing up their earlier work on the bluestones themselves and pointing at glaciation.

Not sure why the origin of the bluestones and the origin of the axes are necessarily connected. Nor actually why "different locations" automatically indicates glaciation. Doesn't WKLB have "foreign" stone incorporated into it?

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