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2025-04-06 Science & Technology
Massive Stone Wall, Believed By Some To Be An Ancient Megastructure, Discovered in Montana, USA
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Posted by Old Salty 2025-04-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11148 views ]  Top

#1 What’s the history of Rockwall’s ancient rock wall?
Posted by Skidmark 2025-04-06 01:09||   2025-04-06 01:09|| Front Page Top

#2 However, some experts argue it is a natural formation resulting from volcanic and tectonic activities.

Bingo.
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-04-06 01:47||   2025-04-06 01:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Japan's ancient underwater 'pyramid' remains one of the world’s great mysteries
Posted by Skidmark 2025-04-06 03:03||   2025-04-06 03:03|| Front Page Top

#4 
Posted by Mullah Richard 2025-04-06 08:12||   2025-04-06 08:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Sorry...my take is that it's not a natural formation.

Single outcropping aligned with the Winter Solstice. What are the odds?

Perfectly circular and geometric carvings in the granite with no hint of intrusion zones responsible if it were naturally occurring.

My NW Wyoming field area in grad school had many areas of Andesite (Granite-like) arrayed in columnar jointing - like Devil's Tower but nothing like this.

Assuming man-made, you could get a more accurate date in that the North Pole is not fixed over time. You could posit a timeline using computer modelling to determine when this site accurately pointed toward the Solstice. This would be done based on the work by Carlotto (2020) and Hapgood (1960's).

They did it on ancient temple sites usually aligned to the cardinal axis but might be applicable here. 
Worth a look...

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/af4e/6caa618bf47c67c0f7400aab2d5044880fa7.pdf
Posted by Warthog 2025-04-06 08:39||   2025-04-06 08:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Looking at the video, the stones seem to be unusually orthogonal for igneous rock. I've seen columnar joints in Madeira and Ireland, and lotsa photographs, but it's been a long time since I studied geology.

I did have to look up 'orthogonal' to be sure my memory hadn't failed again. It's a 90-degree orientation.
Posted by Bobby 2025-04-06 08:46||   2025-04-06 08:46|| Front Page Top

#7 I bow to Warthog's knowledge!
Posted by Bobby 2025-04-06 09:18||   2025-04-06 09:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Orthogonal: up (or down) the Z axis on an X-Y plane. It’s my favourite axis. :-)
Posted by trailing wife 2025-04-06 11:39||   2025-04-06 11:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Excavation might reveal even more.
Posted by Black Bart Elmineng4757 2025-04-06 12:14||   2025-04-06 12:14|| Front Page Top

#10 The odds are actually 1:180 if totally random. Much less than that based on local factors like general orientation of tectonic features, potentially.

Not saying high odds, but not astronomically low necessarily either. YMMV.
Posted by no mo uro 2025-04-06 12:42||   2025-04-06 12:42|| Front Page Top

#11 its not out of place, you see small ones deep in the sawtooth mtns
Posted by 746 2025-04-06 17:28||   2025-04-06 17:28|| Front Page Top

#12 I've been there. If you climb over to the back side and up the valley a bit, it looks pretty natural.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2025-04-06 17:41||   2025-04-06 17:41|| Front Page Top

#13 similar formations exist elsewhere in the world although the Montana stone wall is exceptional
Posted by Lord Garth 2025-04-06 19:44||   2025-04-06 19:44|| Front Page Top

#14 In Montana, tall radiant pines
All rise up from the ground in straight lines!
Did the aliens teach
Ancient trees how to reach
For the stars?
[and the Sun shyly shines]
Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2025-04-06 23:57||   2025-04-06 23:57|| Front Page Top

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