Steve Clayton Wrote:
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> It's clear there are area with standing water, and
> they are not man made.  I have enough background
> in Geology to see that. Again, you are ignoring
> the fact that they well up with water, and drain.
> There could have been more than one source. They
> may have feed numerous water deposits into one
> channel. I read those water deposits are feed by
> fractures in the rock, and that sometimes they
> stop filling, when the body of water becomes
> greater in pressure, that the inlet feeding
> it. Mineralization in the water can also
> contribute to shutting off the fissure. A study in
> Fossil Water. It's not static. It's always
> changing. 
>
> The Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System is the largest
> known fossil water aquifer in the world.
> Spanning more than 2 million square kilometers
> across Sudan, Chad, Libya, and Egypt, it contains
> more than 150,000 cubic kilometers of
> groundwater—more water than the Nile River
> discharges in 500 years.
>
> As I said, there is plenty of water back behind
> the Pyramids. Yes, man took advantage of these
> water deposits, placing building in and around
> them. Once they exhausted the water, pumping took
> over.
>
> The Nile is running out of water. A known fact.
> Libya has massive pumping operations, reaching
> deep into the desert, bleeding their aquifers.

I don't disagree at all.

But the presence of water at sufficient elevation is not proof or evidence it was used to build pyramids. If you could design a system that could utilize that water and wouldn't be expected to leave evidence then that would be a pretty good indication you might have found THE water source.

My understanding is the flow from the Blue Nile has been a little weak for years now and, of course, the Aswan Dam is preventing the large downstream floods. Ethiopia and the Sudan are pumping some water but I doubt it's sufficient yet to have a large impact. Since so much of the water in the Nile comes from this source it's not surprising if levels are decreasing. Above the Blue Nile the river to my knowledge carries as much water as in the recent geologic past. Before about 10,000 years ago it also carried all the water from Lake Kivu and its catchment area but mountains arose and cut off this flow. Today there are numerous CO2 vents in these mountains and Lake Kivu itself is carbonated and contains high levels of methane and hydrogen sulphide. The CO2 levels are dangerously high and threaten the millions who live around the lake. It can come out of solution explosively like soda pop from a shaken can if levels reach too high a level. Effectively it becomes a cascade event just like a CO2 geyser and the the CO2 suffocates people at elevations below the air level.

Sometimes even "tiptoeing" just isn't enough.




Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 21-Mar-20 23:04 by cladking.