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Stone Circle, Mammary Meadows
14th August, 2009
I have long been fascinated by a stone circle on the tundra immediately above the Mammary Meadows.
You can see it in the bottom left quarter of this picture.
It is 40 metres across and is perfectly visible on Google Earth,
52 degrees 04' 13.60" N,
125 degrees 33' 51.75" W.
The really interesting thing is that the rocks that compose the circle
are smaller-grained and sharper-edged than the rocks either inside or outside.
There are many other white rocks in the area, but none have the same composition.
My brother, Michael (on the right) who teaches geology at the open university of England,
and Andrew Okulich, professor emeritus in geology at UBC, hiked up to have a look.
The theory was that the rocks were moved up and out by a freezing and thawing cycle,
in which case there would be similar bedrock underneath.But when they dug down, they found only soil.
So now they are completely mystified as to what should have created it.
(Perhaps it was a UFO after all.)The day was by no means wasted:
the flowers were lovely!
When we returned home, my brother drew this in the guest book:
Underneath it he wrote:
Translation: We've given them 5,000 years and they still haven't got the airport right.
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