How much do we know about Stonehenge? Less than we think. And what has Stonehenge got to do with the Ice Age? More than we might think. This blog is mostly devoted to the problems of where the Stonehenge bluestones came from, and how they got from their source areas to the monument. Now and then I will muse on related Stonehenge topics which have an Ice Age dimension...
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Thursday, 25 January 2024
Tor survival under cold ice
This is reproduced from the QRA members circular -- worth reproducing because it's a great photo and a tidy summary of cosmic bombardment and the dating method.
The photo won 1st prize in the 2020 photography competition run by the QRA.
2 comments:
Tony Hinchliffe
said...
Derek Gabel was supposedly involved in similar investigations at Craig Rosyfelin, but any results have never been provided.
You mean Derek Fabel. I never did get to the bottom of what happened. But I gather that there never was a proper sampling programme there, designed to answer key questions -- and that the "big slab" was the only thing sampled. There was a rumour that the rhyolite was "not suitable" for the method proposed, so it was then assumed that any results would be unreliable. Very convenient......
2 comments:
Derek Gabel was supposedly involved in similar investigations at Craig Rosyfelin, but any results have never been provided.
You mean Derek Fabel. I never did get to the bottom of what happened. But I gather that there never was a proper sampling programme there, designed to answer key questions -- and that the "big slab" was the only thing sampled. There was a rumour that the rhyolite was "not suitable" for the method proposed, so it was then assumed that any results would be unreliable. Very convenient......
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