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SD- Land & Sea Anomalies
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A collection of image anomalies of unexplored and unknown areas that may contain undiscovered archeaological sites. I've been searching for over 7 years via NASA and USGS.
This has become a work in progress and I hope some of you will contribute to the research.
The first collection/placemark Tour includes 13 anomalous areas in Florida and the Bahamas.
A.M.
Satellite Discoveries
News Blog
SD Yahoo Group
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| 12/08/05 09:59 AM |
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SD- Cay Sal Bank Gridded Anomaly
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Would like to see some high res imagery of this area. NASA imagery reveals a large gridded anomaly. There are supposedly features here similar to the Bimini Road area. You can see them here:
SD- Gridded Anomaly Cay Sal Bank
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| 12/08/05 10:02 AM |
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SD- Greece Underwater Anomaly
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Not sure what this could be but it does appear a bit odd. There seems to be a ring around one side of this area after enhancing the image.
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| 12/08/05 10:04 AM |
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SD- Greece Underwater Patterns
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More strange patterns that appear on the nearby land. Image enhancement reveals this area could contain artificial anomalies.
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| 12/08/05 10:08 AM |
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SD- Ancient Buried Walls?
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The darker areas in this field may be a ruin foundation. Any comments?
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| 12/08/05 12:18 PM |
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SD- Belize, Hole Mystery and Patterns
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This area is one big underwater cave formation that Jacques Costeau made famous. There are many scientific theoriesfor the formation of this cave system. From space the area seems almost ordered in appearance. This is one of the least explored cave systems on planet Earth. The Blue Hole is one example of an almost perfect circle.
More Belize Images
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| 12/08/05 02:12 PM |
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SD- Chaco Canyon Circle
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This one may be unexcavated. Looks to be in line with some of the other circles.
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| 12/08/05 03:27 PM |
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SD- Chaco Canyon Squares
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Some type of irrigation? The squares are everywhere.
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| 12/12/05 10:08 AM |
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SD- Topographic Anomalies- Viewer Discoveries
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3 mountains on Topo map- confirmed on NOAA topo data. Sent to me by Keith.
The mountains are equal distance apart and may be a part of this anomalous Network of Underwater lines that has been found on NOAA topographic data. There was an article in 'Atlantis Rising' magazine back in the July/August issue #34 in 2002. You can get back issues here:
http://www.atlantisrising.com/
Read more info about the lines here:
http://www.satellitediscoveries.com/discoveries/line_network/main.html
A smaller series of lines has been spotted on NASA Landsat imagery in the Bahamas. See the info here:
http://www.satellitediscoveries.com/discoveries/land_sea_coast_structures/bahamas/baha_3.html
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| 12/12/05 10:14 AM |
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SD- Topo- Mountains in a Row near Scotland
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This area has been confirmed on the NOAA Topographic map and it seems to be a part of the larger NOAA Underwater line Network spotted back in 2002. Read more here:
http://www.satellitediscoveries.com/discoveries/line_network/main.html
NOAA topo link:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/2minrelief.html
Similar lines have been seen on a smaller scale in the Bahamas.
http://www.satellitediscoveries.com/discoveries/land_sea_coast_structures/bahamas/baha_3.html
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SD- Topo Linear Bermuda Anomaly *DELETED*
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| 12/12/05 11:06 AM |
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SD- Topo Bermuda Lines
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Truly worthy of more investigation from Bermuda triangle researchers. Strange lines on the ocean floor that intersect at this placemark. It is uncertain what the lines could be. The lines were originally found on the NOAA topographic image map:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/2minrelief.html
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| 12/15/05 08:42 PM |
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SD- Wyoming Land Anomalies ** Tour
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A collection of 12 placemarks of a strange dot area in Wyoming. Anyone have any ideas as to what has caused these features, please leave a reply.
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| 12/16/05 03:55 PM |
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SD- Topographic Network of Lines & Oddities **Tour
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A collection of 24 placemarks of an unusual network of lines found on the NOAA topographic data and on Google Earth. It is uncertain what the lines could be.
Read more in the Atlantis Rising 2002 Issue #34.
NOAA Network of Topo Lines
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| 12/17/05 05:50 PM |
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SD- Chaco Canyon Irrigation Works **Tour
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A collection of 13 placemarks that includes: linear areas South of Chaco Canyon that appear to be dams, square cistern/well features that are aligned in straight lines, a very large circle similar to those of Pueblo Bonito and more white dots similar to those in Wyoming.
Any comments on the features?
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| 12/17/05 06:03 PM |
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SD- California Circles Ancient City? **Tour
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This image collection includes 17 placemarks of interesting circular areas in the Modoc National Forest in Northern California. The circular areas all appear to be around 60 feet in diameter. Petroglyph circles have been found on many rocks in the surrounding areas that appear to be similar to the circles seen from the air in the Modoc National Forest. Petroglyphs, Topo Maps and the Network of Lines
| SatAM17 |
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| 01/05/06 06:48 PM |
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SD- Bahamas Linear Feature
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Linear features are similar to the linear anomalies found on NASA images just a bit North of the line presented here.
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| 03/19/06 03:43 AM |
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Re: SD- Land & Sea Anomalies
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i loved your posts!
i cannot help you -as you have made great job-, but maybe you can help me.
i have been searching for sea-bed-surface imagery for a long time, with no results so far...
i am interested in sonar imagery the best, but any issues would meet my wishes!
thx in advance:
syzygy
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Re: SD- California Circles Ancient City **Tour
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MORE WATERFOWL NESTING ISLANDS (DUCK MOUNDS) BUILT FOR A PLACE FOR WATERFOWL TO NEST. HOW DO I KNOW THIS? I WAS THERE WHEN MANY OF THEM WERE BUILT. THANKS DUCKS UNLIMITED
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Re: SD- California Circles Ancient City **Tour
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MORE DUCK MOUNDS BUILT WITH A D-7 CAT SEE OTHER POSTS
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| 03/23/06 11:41 AM |
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THESE ARE JUNIPER TREES --ROOTS HOLD THE SOIL AND SHEET EROSION REMOVES THE INTERMOUNDS OVER TIME CREATING THE MOUND APPEARANCE. THE DEVILS GARDEN HAS VERY CLAYEY SOILS WATER RUNS ARCOSS THERE IN THE SPRING WITH LITTLE PERCOLATING DOWN. PAST GRAZING PERMITTES AND USFS FOLS DAMED SWALES AND FLATS TO CAPTURE WATER FOR LIVESTOCK AND WATERFOWL HABITAT
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Re: SD- California Circles Ancient City **Tour
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Re Fairchild Swamp bird nesting islands:
http://www.pitriveralliance.net/ijourney/warmsprg/fairchcb.html
Re Boles Meadow bird nesting islands:
http://wwwnotes.fs.fed.us:81/r4/payments...3e?OpenDocument
As for other circular features in this set of placemarks, they are entirely consistent with mima mounds, a common natural feature of prairies in the western US.
Methinks the original poster is too credulous by half...
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| 04/03/06 11:34 AM |
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Re: SD- California Circles Ancient City **Tour
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So.. duck mounds, juniper trees, etc... Most of you feel these circles are completely natural?
There have been sightings of similar circles just north of Mt. Shasta at a rest stop that appear to be of an artificial origin. Please see:
Mound Formations near Mt. Shasta
The circular features appear almost identical in size to the circles in the Modoc National forest. There are reports of a sign at a rest stop nearby that concludes the circles are of ancient man made origins.
The rock art in the Modoc forest appears to show circular patterns that suggest these circles could be more than natural features, plus they are not far from the Mt. Shasta circles of unknown origin.
You never really truly know unless you go.
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| 04/03/06 11:39 AM |
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Re: SD- Land & Sea Anomalies
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Try contacting USGS. They have several 800 numbers and the operators are very friendly and try to call you back if you have a question they can't answer. I have not seen sonar maps free to the public on the web yet.
I primarily work with the free info on the web that has been declassified.
From what I have researched this NOAA map is the best topography data out there now. Someone please correct me and send me a good link if I'm wrong..
Surface of the Earth 2 minute relief map
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| 04/05/06 04:22 PM |
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Re: SD- California Circles Ancient City **Tour
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Not sure were those are although I live near there. In addition to Junper Trees and duck islands, There are some natural features that give that appearance in this part of the state. The high clay soils a prone to freezing and thawing and over time they develope a mound appearance with surface rock accumulating around the mound perimiter. There is a discussion of this in Ca bureau of mines publication on the geology of the Macdoel quadrangle 1949. Look approximately 4 miles SE of the intersection of the Tennant Rd. and Highway 97.
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Re: SD- Wyoming Land Anomalies ** Tour
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These Land Anomalies, are probably seismic test holes for oil & gas development within the region. The reason they are aligned on perfect north and west alignments (and occassionally northwest southeast) is due to geophysics being more easily read by technicians who analyze what is underneath the earth to see where pockets of oil and natural gas are located in the Wyoming Thrustbelt. If you notice in surrounding areas of Wyoming, oil and gas roads dot the landscape.
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| 04/14/06 09:32 AM |
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First of all, the satellite photo is so dark it's a strain to look at, but beyond that everything there is perfectly explainable without referring to anything exotic. The small dark dots that cover most of the area are vegetation, probably Great Basin Sage (Artemesia tridentata) in this area. The light evenly spaced dots are in all probability Prairie Dog burrows - see this post.. The larger oval feature looks like a dried up seasonal pond. The evenly spaced dash-shaped are likely from seismic surveys searching for natural gas. The longer trenches are also some sort of survey activity probably. And the "underlying pattern" is slightly rolling terrain. Nothing too mysterious.
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SD- Cuba Linear Anomalies
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A collection of 4 anomalous, linear areas off the coast of Cuba. The linear features are underwater and seem to be close to areas that may have sub-surface anomalies.
The anomalies also show up on NASA World Wind images.
Cuba Underwater Linear Anomalies
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READ THIS FIRST
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Unfortunately many of the Land & Sea Anomalies collection have been obliterated with the switching to a new service provider TruEarth. Many of the markers in this collection and around the Cuba area are over low-resolution imagery now since the switch to the new service provider and I really hate that. My hope is they will get better resolution of the Bahamas in the future.
If you would like to see some of the Bahamas anomalies they have been documented at the SD website at this link.
We do appreciate the fact that Google Earth exists but it is a bit distressing when images disappear when we want more to be added, not taken away.
Eye in the Sky news blog- SEE MORE ANOMALIES
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| 04/17/06 08:18 PM |
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Re: SD- Wyoming Land Anomalies ** Tour
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Thanks for your response.
The area in Wyoming goes for many miles, that's one reason why I did not suspect this was any type of scientific testing residue.
Hmmm...
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| 04/27/06 11:32 PM |
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Re: SD- California Circles Ancient City **Tour
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These are manmade, but they were created in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s for waterfowl. they are mounded earth, brush, and trees that serve as islands for geese to lay eggs and raise their young relatively free from coyotes and other predators. As the previous poster said, they were a joint project between Ducks Unlimited and the federal government that has been a resounding success. In fact, most of the water features on the Devil's Garden have been built for waterfowl habitat. It's one of the most productive areas for breeding on the continent.
The mounds at the Grass Lake rest area on us-97 are the same things.
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Re: SD- Wyoming Land Anomalies ** Tour
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PS. The dots are layed out in a linear fashion from East to West. Some dots are bigger than others but are always aligned.
That's another reason why I ruled out ant hills. Does anyone know of anytype of geo testing in the area or surveying of any kind?
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| 05/02/06 08:04 AM |
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Re: SD- Wyoming Land Anomalies ** Tour
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Greetings:
Reviewing your Wyoming anomolies, I find it interesting and suggestive that they all line up directly underneath a proposed filght line of ejecta lofted from the Bigh Horn Basin into the High Plains Playas of Texas and New Mexico.
I am attaching a Keyhole file showing the hypothetical Big Horn Crater, the flight line and a collection of aligned landforms in the Clovis area.
The Big Horn Crater is being proposed as a possible solution to the Heart Mountain Geologic Enigma.
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| 05/02/06 11:18 AM |
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I sent Angie a message on these.
These are "goose islands" that are built recently to provide nesting habitat for waterfowl.
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| 05/02/06 03:44 PM |
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Re: SD- Wyoming Land Anomalies ** Tour
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I appreciate your response.
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| 05/03/06 04:38 AM |
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Re: SD- Wyoming Land Anomalies ** Tour
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Greetings SatAM17 :
Reviewing the "Wyoming Land Anomalies " again, it is apparent that one of the primary drivers of the "area" in question is the higher resolution GE images available along that N-S corridor. Many of the landforms continue to be suggestive to me of being ejecta, but others - the "linear features" are not.
The "Dots close to a Water" point to the Tear Drop lake I have placemarked in the attached KMZ file. That lake is aligned towards the PZ Big Horn Basin Crater immediately to the NNW.
The randomly distributed "dots" remind me of "Mima Mounds " or "pimple mounds"
My educated guess is that some of the linear & equally-spaced "dots" are electric transmission towers and their bases.
The "Rectiliniar Features" and "More Strange Features" are all about 100 ft long, and may be trenches cut for minearal exploration exposures.
As for other oriented landforms in the Chaco Canyon area, I concur that these are irrigation features.
Please note that my earlier keyhole file only contained a very small sample of the aligned High Plains Playa Lakes I have identified in another BBS post, US Southwest Playas: oriented Carolina bays?. These lakes have never been discribed as man made, nor do they have any linear geometric characteristics, but are oval and tear-dropped shaped similar to the Carolina bays. They are universally aligned to a NNW, SSE axis.
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Yes, those Mima mounds are very interesting and are similar to the mounds North of Mount Shasta. thanks for posting the link!
Mound Formations Near Mt. Shasta, California They appear to be the same size as those in the Modoc National forest and that's the reason I posted the Modoc circles since they do appear to be similar to the Shasta unexplained mounds.
There are more of these strange mounds near Serpent Mound in Ohio on the same page above.
If you are interested, sign up for the Yahoo Group and you will be sent an e-mail each time the site is updated. I plan on posting those Shasta circles at the site for future reference and I will include more images.
Thanks for that link, very interesting. The mounds near Mt. Shasta are near a rest stop and I was told by someone who has seen them that they are considered unexplained and there is a sign near the mounds that explains this. However, the person who contacted me about them said there seemed to be a wall like feature around each one of them which did suggest artificiality.
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Re: SD- California Circles Ancient City **Tour
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Looks like these Wyoming sites are not the phenomenon called 'mima mounds' but are potential modern day survey signs.
Thanks for all the input.
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| 05/04/06 03:26 PM |
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Re: SD- Topographic Network of Lines & Oddities **Tour
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This is where they hold the Burning Man Festival. There is a placemark there for that.
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| 05/08/06 09:55 AM |
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Re: SD- Topo- Mountains in a Row near Scotland
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This looks to me like a string of impact craters from a fractured comet or meteorite. Take a look at this image of the Davy crater system from the moon. Looks pretty similar to me.
ProfFrink
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| 05/22/06 02:55 PM |
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Migrating Mountain!
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In his recent post, Cintos makes reference to the Heart Mountain Geologic Enigma. Phenomenon has also been noted at Google Earth Hacks! Additional information has surfaced!
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"Moving mountains" has come to mean doing the impossible. Yet at least once in the past, one mountain relocated a fair distance away. This feat took place around 50 million years ago, in the area of the present-day border between Montana and Wyoming. Heart Mountain was part of a larger mountain range when the 100 km (62 mile) long ridge somehow became detached from its position and shifted about 100 km to the southwest. This 'migrating mountain' has garnered interest from geologists and geophysicists around the world who have tried to solve the mystery behind the largest known instance of land movement on the face of any continent.
Dr. Einat Aharonov of the Weizmann Institute’s Environmental Sciences and Energy Research Department, working in collaboration with Dr. Mark Anders of Columbia University in New York, recently published a paper in the scientific journal Geology that offers an explanation for the phenomenon.
Aharonov and Ander’s explanation is based on dikes – vertical cracks in the rock that fill with hot lava boiling up from deep in the earth. In Heart Mountain, these dikes formed a passage for the lava, three kilometers deep, through the limestone aquifer (a porous, water-soaked layer). There, the sizzling lava would have heated the water to extreme temperatures, causing tremendous fluid pressures.
The scientists developed a mathematical model (based on the number of dikes in the mountain and their structure) that allowed them to calculate the temperatures and pressures that would have been created deep within the base of the mountain. The results showed that the infiltrating hot lava would have turned the water in the aquifer layer into a sort of giant pressure cooker, releasing enough force to move Heart Mountain from its original spot to its present site.•
(Terrain,and Geographic Features "On" Please)
•From Science Daily
Heart Mountain has a more "human" history. noted in an earlier post!
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Re: SD- Wyoming Land Anomalies ** Tour
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Regarding "large dots in a line".
I haven't actually driven out to check these items, but they are almost certainly modern and related to energy development. Since they are regular and laid out on a grid, I suspect that they are:
1. Uranium exploration boreholes drilled by water-well sized rigs in the 1960-70's, or
2. Shot holes for seismic exploration for natural gas within the last 10-20 years.
3. Unlikely, geochemical test borings for natural gas or sodium carbonate (trona) exploration.
4. Unlikely, rock cairns built by land surveyors to mark section corners during the early Government Land Office cadastral land surveys in the late 19th century.
This area has been extensively covered by archaeologists as required by the Bureau of Land Management prior to energy development. The nearly-rectangular areas of disturbed earth to the north and east of the tags are natural gas well locations. Given the amount of energy activity in this area for the last 30 years, it is extremely unlikely that archaeologists would miss any prehistoric traces.
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Regarding the randomly scattered little dots...
... I think you've identified prairie dog burrows. The spacing (40-60 feet) looks about right. In a well-used area, most of the burrows are probably abandoned, so the animal population isn't nearly as big as the photos imply.
Photographic artifacts like the ones you identified can visibly persist in this arid climate for quite some time because vegetation takes a long time to recover. You should still be able to see remnants of the Immigrant Trails (Oregon, Mormon, etc), to the south and east of these sites. One possible section (right location, but might have been improved at some point) is visible at 42 degrees, 35' 18.19" North, 106 degrees, 59' 24.90" West.
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Finally, regarding the black "dots close to a water area"... those are undoubtedly cattle.
If I have the occasion to drive out there later this summer, I'll look around and try to take some digital photos to post.
Dave - Casper, WY.
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Re: SD- Topo- Mountains in a Row near Scotland
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Thanks for the reply. It could be crater marks and I wouldn't rule that out as impossible although these features appear to be protruding instead of recessed.
There's also another area off the coast of VA that is a similar size as the Scotland chain. I can get you those coordinates if your interested in taking a look.
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Thanks for your information. I have updated the website and I'll probably be pulling the Wyoming image area since most people have responded that the features are either modern or natural.
Any more comments out there?
Thanks to everyone for helping with the research. I have many more sites to add, but not much time to do this lately.
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I worked in WY for a few years for the US gov't. Others who have responded are correct that these features are remnants of resource development. Specifically, many of the regularly spaced round features are what is left after an exploration company does what is called a "2D or 3D seismic survey". The difference between the two is that the 3D gives a more complete view of underground features. When you see a bunch of "dots" in a row, it was a 2D survey, when there is a grid, it was a 3D. And a previous poster was right, the actual holes are called "shot holes." That is when a sonic vibration (a small explosion) is sent into the ground and equipment on the surface records the vibration off of different densities of rock/soil in the ground.
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| 06/26/06 05:56 PM |
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SD- NC linear Anomalies
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A set of 16 placemarks of high albedo linear features off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC.
Would love to hear any feedback for these linear areas. Could be wave action, but I would like to fly over that area to get a bird's eye view.
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At first I thought these areas could have been caused by wave activity. I'm still not absolutely positive they aren't caused by waves, however it's always helpful to hear the replies on this board and it's so much fun to look for anomalies.
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The area is a place where opposing currents meet. I'm sure mariners have a name for the phenomenon, but I don't know what it is. As two currents meet debris and foam are trapped along a line where one current dives beneath, or is forced to run alongside, another. The linear features persist until tide changes or wind changes no longer force the currents to strongly oppose each other.
Below is a phenomenon that matches what I an trying to describe. Water is flowing in from the sides of the man-made rapids, as well as flowing down-stream. Where the currents meet, the foam and debris caused by turbulence forms a linear pattern reaching off downstream.
| SatAM17 |
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| 06/28/06 03:28 PM |
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Could be possible, however I don't see any areas that look like your image. Most of the areas I've bookmarked are linear features that continue for fairly long distances and they don't seem to be parallel to the shoreline which would indicate that the waves caused them. In fact, many of the lines are perpendicular to the shore line.
I'm not ruling out a natural cause, just looking at the image evidence and I thank you for replying.
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| 06/28/06 03:37 PM |
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Thanks for your reply. I'm going to be removing that image study from the SD site since so many people agree they are caused by modern man.
If anyone disagrees, now is the time to speak up.
| SatAM17 |
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| 07/02/06 02:20 PM |
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SD- Rennes-le-Chateau, Megalithic Ruin areas
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A collection of 8 placemarks of megalithic ruin areas, Templar ruins and mysterious mountains that inspired the books 'Journey to the Center of the Earth' by Jules Verne and 'Templar Gold' by Patrick Byrne. See the unusual, megalithic 'wall' feature that can be seen on the road from Rennes-le-Chateau to Rennes-le-Bains. The 'wall' contains masonry signs similar to those found at Stonehenge with some unusual masonry marks that remain unexplained. The 'wall' remains unexcavated with more ruins still covered by dirt in the shape of a natural mountain ridge-line.
See more about the 'wall':
France- 'Step of the Rock', Pas de la Roque, near Rennes le Chateau
Rennes-le-Château, France- Megalithic 'wall' feature and the'Gates of Atlantis'
View video footage of the megalithic 'wall' area, now available at Amazon.com:
DVD- The French Megaliths, Blue Apples
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| 07/08/06 09:09 AM |
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SD- Giza, Peculiar mounds
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A collection of 10 Google Placemarks of a series of small mounds around the Giza Plateau. I think they are mining activity but I'm not positive. Does anyone know for sure? Thanks for any reply.
Images of a rose colored area on the Giza Plateau
Satellite Discoveries
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Re: SD- California Circles Ancient City **Tour
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Added to the website:
"Many of the circles are modern day artificial islands that have been created by the California Department of Fish and Game. Although this doesn't explain all the circles in the forest it does explain the areas near Fairchild Swamp."
"Fairchild Swamp is a 2000 acre wetland on the Devil’s Garden plateau. This area has been developed to provide spring migration and nesting habitat for waterfowl and shorebirds on the Pacific Flyway. This has been a cooperative effort between Ducks Unlimited, California Waterfowl Association, California Department of Fish and Game, and the Modoc National Forest. There are currently over 180 nesting islands and 4 & 1/2 miles of dike, and 6 water control structures in this project."
Does anyone know how many modern nesting islands were created? The areas in the tour cover a very large distance and there are thousands in the Modoc National forest. I will update the placemark tour with the anomalous circular formations and remove the modern nesting mounds.
This is an ongoing research project to help find potential archaeology sites. Your input is greatly appreciated. I don't have time to research all the areas so this forum is great input for the ongoing work at the site. It's a work in progress...
This is just one of the areas I'm referring to that appear to be more eroded than the modern nesting mounds and they dont' seem to be layed out in a particular order.
Latitude: 41° 38'41.22"N Longitude: 120° 38'14.77"
Certain mounds are referred to as Mima mounds and I'm wondering if that's the case here?
Read more:
Mounds of Mystery
Mima Mounds In The Kenya Highlands
| brgstrm |
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| 09/22/06 10:11 AM |
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Re: SD- Wyoming Land Anomalies ** Tour
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The dots are not man-made. They are either prairie dog burrows or red ant hill disturbances. I have seen the area around red ant hills completely scoured free of any vegetation of up to 10 meters in diameter.
The area coverage of ant hills and prairie dog towns can be quite prolific.
| mallarina |
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| 10/22/06 09:55 PM |
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Re: SD- NC linear Anomalies
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That is around the Diamond Shoals area (a.k.a. The Graveyard of the Atlantic), so perhaps it has something to do with sunken ships around there?
| SAYoungWS |
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| 10/25/06 05:50 PM |
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Re: SD- Chaco Canyon Irrigation Works **Tour
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Any answers on what this is????
| Space_Voyeur |
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| 11/08/06 04:46 AM |
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Re: SD- Topographic Network of Lines & Oddities **
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Google Earth Bathymetry comes from Etopo global relief grids. They are made from satellite altimetry that measures the deformation of sea surface due to the gravity attraction with sea floor. This is not very accurate, but is the only way to obtain information there where no surveys have been made. Smith and Sandwell are the scientists who developed this methodology.
Where echo sounder data is available (Tracks and surveys) they use that data for interpolation in addition to coarse satellite data. http://topex.ucsd.edu/WWW_html/mar_topo.html
With this data they interpolate to 2 minutes grid (Etopo 2 ) this is about 2 nautical miles; 3.7 km. So square tiles of almost 4 x 4 km make the digital terrain model that you can see like a continuous surface.
When you interpolate dense, accurate, real (not so real, but that is little bit difficult to explain) echo sounder data, merged with coarse satellite data, that linear artefacts appear.
Smith and Sandwell are the main scientists in the development of this methodology.
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/online_delivery/gebco/documents/gridhelp.pdf
Of course not all lines are artefacts, as you can see, all ocean ridges are crossed by transform faults and many other linear features associated with tectonic margins http://seismic.cbsnews.google.neopolitan.com/cbs/earthquake_public.kml ). Hawaiian islands are in a line due to a hot spot beneath them etc. But when you see all that radius lines around an important harbour... those are artefacts.
So those lines are just an error in the model. It is not very suggesting but if you look it from another point of view, you will realize that is more mysterious in the sea bed morphology that even in Mars surface.
Thousands of people have been in the Everest, more than a thousand in the space but only 2 men (Piccard & Walsh) have been close to the deepest place on Earth. They stayed just for 20 minutes and they were far from putting their feet on there.
| Space_Voyeur |
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| 11/08/06 05:32 AM |
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Re: SD- NC linear Anomalies
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This change of colour is due to the presence of major quantity of suspension particles in the least blue side and less concentration in the blue side. It can be because in this point the wave "feels bottom" (depth is sallower than L/2 where L is the wave length) and suspend the sediment, or because a current exists with contribution of sediments that come from another erosion zone.
http://mgg.rsmas.miami.edu/groups/msc101/presentations/Ocean%20Waves.pdf
Lines parallel to wind direction, perpendicular to wave front (not always) They are normally because Langmuir cells.
http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~chinwu/CE...lkins/Main.html
And rhomboid structures commonly are due to “clapotis gaufre” effect, due to refraction, reflection, or diffraction.
http://www2.sese.uwa.edu.au/~pattiara/envt4604oe/envt4604_waves_refraction.pdf
I hope this helps.
| bridger54 |
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| 11/12/06 12:20 AM |
Re: SD- California Circles Ancient City? **Tour
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OK Guys. Here's the deal. Those are man-made goose nesting sites. Back when we constructed the OTH-B sites, the Dept of the interior required the sites be built as we were disturbing their historic and natural environment. Cost an arm and a leg, don't think the geese tought much of it. During the rainey periods they keep the nesting areas above water and isolated from predators. Sorry, no indians, aliens or prehistoric time portal transfer switches. The rocks had to be be just so,, not too big, not too small. Thanks for the tax money.
| Lonnie_s |
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| 11/28/06 09:19 AM |
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Re: SD- NC linear Anomalies
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It's foam, created by waves and blown by the wind and/or moved by currents. It's very common.
| Bobdown |
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| 12/11/06 07:12 AM |
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Re: SD- Giza, Peculiar mounds
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These are mounds of building rubble and unwanted truck loads of fill dumped in the desert
| Bobdown |
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| 12/11/06 07:38 AM |
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Re: SD- Giza, Peculiar mounds
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Just wast stuff dumped in the desert
| Axeman89 |
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| 03/03/07 06:47 AM |
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3 mountains in a row
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The three mountains between the Faeroe Islands and the Outer Hebrides could be the remains of a hotspot, like the one is forming the Hawaiian Islands.
| KeithPickering |
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| 03/19/07 03:06 PM |
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Re: SD- Cay Sal Bank Gridded Anomaly
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Medium res (30m) imagery of parts of the Cay Sal bank are now available in the Bahamas small islands overlay package.
| KeithPickering |
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| 03/19/07 03:08 PM |
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Re: SD- Land & Sea Anomalies
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Parts of the Cay Sal bank and Grand Bahama Bank are now available in medium res (30m) as part of the Bahamas small islands overlay package.
| rigup |
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| 04/21/07 07:56 AM |
Re: SD- Wyoming Land Anomalies ** Tour
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the dots you are seeing on the landscape are from oil well reserve pits the oil and gas wells have been drilled but the pits with water and drilling mud have not yet been reclaimed. that is what they call the frenchie draw oilfield
| mobius0001 |
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| 12/07/07 04:09 PM |
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Re: SD- Wyoming Land Anomalies ** Tour
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i do bleave those dots by "SD- More Dots" are just the biger clumps of sage brush
| Spysat |
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| 02/22/08 11:13 AM |
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Re: SD- NC linear Anomalies
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Perhaps it is an old river course when that land was aboce water.
| growler63 |
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| 03/04/08 04:04 PM |
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Re: SD- Wyoming Land Anomalies ** Tour
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I've lived in Wyoming my entire life, and can assure you these lighter colored 'dots' are indeed ant colonies. If you like, i could arrange an actuall photo sometime in the near future (as soon as today's snow melts off...lol). I agree its odd, but they do indeed end up showing in a grid pattern now and then. What strikes me as really odd is mans' difficulty in accepting that nature is capable of creating patterns from randomness. It's easier for me to visualize a grid pattern emerging from the ants in the area you have chosen to veiw simply because of the near constant winds in that area (the new queens are subject to the prevailing wind at the time of emergance). If you look again, you'll realize there is more randomness in the patterns than you first noticed. The variance in sizes you mentioned is subject to the size of the specific colonies. You'll find these things statewide, 'specially in the more barren, wide open spaces. Prairie dog colonies are much more messy and random than the overly organized ants, and you'll be able to just make out little trails between the colonies (if the resolution is high enough....)
Jesse
Powell, Wyoming
| Rich_Wooten |
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| 07/03/08 09:46 AM |
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Re: SD- Chaco Canyon Irrigation Works **Tour
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Because the Chaco area is in the semi-arid desert, although high altitude, the Navajos have to be very creative in collecting water. Throughout the area you will see these structures. The are usually created by a Cat. It is an artificially created depression to gather any runoff that occurs. It is not part of any ancient irrigation system.