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27 Oct 09, 23:32
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Colorado Rocky Mts, USA
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Originally Posted by The Doctor
You can't "saw through a block of solid limestone and show" me mineralogy and geochemistry that don't exist in limestone... Anywhere in the world.
Once again... From one of the actual peer-reviewed scientific publications... "The pyramid samples contained microconstituents (μc's) with appreciable amounts of Si in combination with elements, such as Ca and Mg, in ratios that do not exist in any of the potential limestone sources. The intimate proximity of the μc's suggests that at some time these elements had been together in a solution. Furthermore, between the natural limestone aggregates, the μc's with chemistries reminiscent of calcite and dolomite—not known to hydrate in nature—were hydrated. The ubiquity of Si and the presence of submicron silica-based spheres in some of the micrographs strongly suggest that the solution was basic. Transmission electron microscope confirmed that some of these Si-containing μc's were either amorphous or nanocrystalline, which is consistent with a relatively rapid precipitation reaction."
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Right here in Colorado...and yes, I damned well can. Colorado is loaded with the stuff, complete with inclusions - which you call "aggregate."
Stop trying to be such a know-it-all. 
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