Barbelo Wrote:
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> A careful viewing of the following video on the
> "ruts" in Turkey produces a number of anomalies
> when considering if these depressions are man made
> or not.
>
> [www.youtube.com]

Thanks for that link, Barbelo!

Some of these anomalies are in other videos, but at 1080p this video shows them more vividly. Some comments:

0:39, 8:02 - artifact "routered" into the side walls.

1:18 - great aerial view showing an apparent terminus in the lower right corner of the FOV.

2:28, 9:10 - If the depth of the tracks was due to the weight of a "vehicle", then we would expect the tracks to parallel the upward contour of those humps rather than maintain a relatively level course that cuts deep through those humps.

3:03, 3:23, 5:26 - nice closeups inside a track, but I wish there was more macrophotography of the surface within those tracks so we can better characterize the texture of the track surfaces.

3:58 - Is the rock formation on that hill natural or manmade?

5:14 - If the majority of the tracks are in 12 million year old rock, then how old is the rock in this photo?

6:38 - The vast majority of tracks in this photo do not seem to run in pairs. Very few are strictly parallel. Each one seems to have a mind of its own.

8:28 - Ruler shows scale of track.

12:55 - Not only are the tracks sharply delineated into the rock, note the linear artifacts in the left bank as well as in the center hump between the tracks.

15:45 - I'm disappointed that he chose a traditional 4-wheel vehicle as the proposed suspect.