dt3mfc@aol.com (Mike Rodelli) wrote in message news:<ae79afb8.0307160336.5dc35cde@posting.google.com>...
> parry@perfectmail.com (Parry) wrote in message >
> > > > > > * And Oak Island, my favourite buried treasure story:
> > > > > > http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/Nova_Scotia/oakisland.htm
> > > > >
> > > > > It is an interesting story, but probably there never was any treasure.
> > > >
> > > > That sort question mark makes the story interesting. But the so-called
> > > > "Money Pit" is such an elaborate and sophisticated engineering feat it
> > > > presumably was constructed in the service of something deemed
> > > > important.
> > >
> > > ....
> > >
> > > I've probably read most of the same material you have but I'm inclined
> > > to doubt nearly all of the early stories. I think the "water trap",
> > > being that it occurs below the water level, is a natural phenomenon.
> >
> > If the water trap were artificial, it would still occur below water
> > level, otherwise there would be needed a pumping system to draw the
> > water up.
> >
> > > It looks to me like a long game of "telephone"... distortion on top of
> > > exaggeration on top of lie with an overlay of fervent hope.
> >
> > I'm not predisposed to either side, as both theories produce a set of
> > riddles. So I suspend an opinion for now, except to say the basic
> > fantasy of the "booby-trap" isn't very sensible. Why would anyone
> > guard a treasure with a mechanism that makes the treasure utterly
> > irretrievable? It would be like Fort Knox having a trigger to destroy
> > its gold if its security is breached.
> >
> > > This Skeptical Inquirer article goes some way towards debunking the
> > > mystery.
> > >
> > > http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-03/i-files.html
> >
> > The Oak Island system could well be all natural phenomena and the
> > story a great case of people seeing what they wish to see, but
> > Nickell's article does little to sway the argument, I thought. The
> > most interesting bits, those that argue the site was produced by
> > natural phenomena, all seem to have been copped from a Smithsonian
> > article by Douglas Preston. Basically Preston is saying that
> > sink-holes sucked man-made materials deep into the earth, and dragged
> > down and buried trees to create the illusions of platforms.
>
>
>
> >>>Hi Parry-
>
> I was wondering if you know anything about the geology of Oak Island,
> or if this subject is covered in the Smithsonian article (citation?).
> Sinkholes typically occur in places like Florida and Pennsylvania,
> where there are large deposits of limestone bedrock, which is easily
> eroded by the action of water. Seems to me that Oak Island would be
> composed of metamorphic or igneous rock, which would not lend itself
> to sinkhole formation.
>
> Mike
>
>
> >
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/special/irak/14513/1.html
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