Andes Mountains Are Older Than Previously Believed

ScienceDaily ^ | Sunday, May 17, 2009 | Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, via EurekAlert!

[TigersEye]

If geologists can’t tell the difference between native stone and a man made aggregate they can hardly have any credibility regarding the age of the mountains can they?

[Fred Nerks]

Maltese concrete (Torba)

Ggantija, Malta - The temples on Malta are claimed to be some of the oldest free-standing temples in the world. A. Service (6), mentions the 'contemporary cement of the floor' in the pavement of the Ggantija temple on Gozo, Malta (see left), and although the idea was not accepted for a long time, Maltese archaeologists are now of the opinion that Torba (as it is called on Malta), was formed by compacting crumbled rock and rock dust then adding water (7), creating a tough and durable rock-like material on-par with the best and strongest concrete used today.

ANCIENT CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES link

[Texas Eagle]

Well at least these “researchers”, as in scientiests, know where the 6000 year time line is located in a 25 million year old deposit of sediment.

Do they now? How are they coming on that whole Pluto-is-a-planet/Pluto-is-not-a-planet thing?

[Texas Eagle]

Is everyone in Texas an idiot or just you?

There are idiots in every state. Seeing as how I live in California, it would be hard for me to speculate the idiot to non-idiot ratio in Texas.

I know here in California the idiots seem to have us vastly outnumbered.

That being said, I'll take your answer as a, "Yes. These researchers are scientists."

I congratulate them on their ability to admit what they've thought about the age of the Andes was wrong.

It'll take some time, but I'm sure they'll come to the same conclusion about evolution, global warming, Pluto, etc.

[TigersEye]

That is an interesting theory for the temple floor in Malta and the limestone blocks of the pyramids of Egypt. But the stones found in Puma Punku are granite and diorite. Being the hardest two types of stone next to diamond it would be a little difficult to pulverize it and then concretize it into something as dense as the original.

[Fred Nerks]

Being the hardest two types of stone next to diamond it would be a little difficult to pulverize it and then concretize it into something as dense as the original.

Right you are. All the more reason to ask, why and how were these multi-faceted shapes created?

[TigersEye]

There was some weird stuff going on in the past. It seems that building and sculpting with huge stones was popular all over the world some thousands of years ago. And then it all petered out all over the world.