[meteorite-list] Tektites and "Fused Glass" in Israel ???

[Mark Ford]

Hi Paul,

Lots of hokum pokem around about this subject, but I do remember (a
serious) documentary some time back on UK television ('Horizon' I
think), they [horizon] where basically referring to sulphur type
spherules (the mythical Brimstone) deposits that where found around the
area. I believe by triangulation of deposits they where arguing a case
for the remains of Sodom and G. being out in the middle of the sea.

.. Lots of ancient volcanic activity in that area, so could be lots of
things I guess, (though the recent alleged reports of elevated iridium
are a little 'trickier' to explain away... )

Best,
Mark Ford



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Subject: [meteorite-list] Tektites and "Fused Glass" in Israel ???

In sci.archaeology USENET discussion, The following 
statement was made:

"There is an area in Israel where Sodom and Gomorrah 
are believed by most historians to have once been. 
The plain is littered with spherules of fused glass, 
which only forms when very high heat is combined with 
great pressure. ..."

This claim was allegedly made on a PBS show in the 
mid-1990s according to a post in the thread "Re: Nobel 
Laureates v  Creationists", Message-ID: 
<iojbj0ledno57l9u4f19i9k7mndatv28ac at 4ax.com>, 
by "Scotius" at:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics/browse_thread/thread/13ce10f
b77d1fc61/54edd76022891b71?lnk=st&q=%22fused+glass%22+%22Sodom+and+Gomor
rah%22#54edd76022891b71

Does anyone on this list either know what PBS special 
is being referred to by this comment or primary 
literature that documents the occurrence of "spherules 
of fused glass, which only forms when very high heat 
is combined with great pressure " within any part of 
Israel? Is this claim about "spherules of fused glass"
having been found in Israel being mentioned in a 
mid-1990s PBS Special a figment of "Scotius" 
imagination?

While trying finding out about the occurrence of "fused 
glass" in Israel, my web search found reference to 
"tektites" having been found in articles by written 
pseudoscientific alternative archaeologists including:

1. THE ATLANTEANS Tutors  or Tyrants?  
http://www.burlingtonnews.net/atlanteans.html

2. ATLANTIS 2012 AND THE AGE OF REVEALING
The High Window Articles by Michael Tsarion.
http://taroscopes.com/highwindowsarticles/2012.age.reckoning.html

Both of the above web pages stated:

"Why are radioactive tektites and isotopes found all over 
the Dead Sea basin and at the very location posited for the 
ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah?"

and 3. Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation - 06'
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/atlantida_mu/atlantis_alienvisitation/
atlantis_alienvisitation06.htm

"How does the detractor explain the presence of 
radioactive tektites and isotopes at the very 
sites now known to be the Biblical Sodom and 
Gomorrah and Jericho?"

None of these web pages provide any source for tektites 
being found in Israel.

Has any credible source reported anything about tektites
being found in Israel? Or is this usual claptrap that alternative
archaeologists post to the Internet?

Best Regards,

Paul H.





 
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