Past Oak Island drill results?

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Dig back further. There are glacial sinkholes of 400 to 800 ft deep, or even 300M (1,000 ft), in the karsk around the glacial edge - including the Nova Scotia area. 200 ft deep is just a walk in the ice-age park.

http://www.glaciologia.it/wp-conten...Q_III_4_FullText/1_SGFDQ_III_4_Ford_11_19.pdf
Karst Landform - The Canadian Encyclopedia
Sinkholes in glacial drift underlain by gypsum in Nova Scotia, Canada - Springer

"Bedrock" Showing softer shale plates uplifted at 80° angles in Nova Scotia.
http://novascotia.ca/natr/meb/data/pubs/01egs01/01egs01.pdf


Thanks for the clarification on the sink holes in regards to the clay. But that doesn't explain the stratified rocks, and it certainly can't explain the brass. Maybe past searchers were stupid enough to plant brass instead of gold on their drill bits? I doubt that in the extreme.
 

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Brass? Didn't see that listed as having been produced on the catalog of the finds. Was that in the pit proper or the "Borehole 10x" or the other 9 boreholes up to that one? There have been so many borings done they're probably finding contamination from previous borings, backfills and excavations. In 1861 the excavation collapsed into a "deep void" and whatever crud was in the excavation pit went down.

And I'm not familiar with stratified rock that needed to be explained. The geology is what nature made it over 450 million years ago and what glaciers and upheavals have produced since. The strata is on it's ear near Halifax, Nova Scotia with perpendicular shale layers.

http://www.novascotia.ca/natr/meb/data/pubs/04ofr03/04ofr03.pdf

Even the Templars couldn't change that.
 

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Brass? Didn't see that listed as having been produced on the catalog of the finds. Was that in the pit proper or the "Borehole 10x" or the other 9 boreholes up to that one? There have been so many borings done they're probably finding contamination from previous borings, backfills and excavations. In 1861 the excavation collapsed into a "deep void" and whatever crud was in the excavation pit went down.

And I'm not familiar with stratified rock that needed to be explained. The geology is what nature made it over 450 million years ago and what glaciers and upheavals have produced since. The strata is on it's ear near Halifax, Nova Scotia with perpendicular shale layers.

http://www.novascotia.ca/natr/meb/data/pubs/04ofr03/04ofr03.pdf

Even the Templars couldn't change that.


The stratification was in the clay. Every 18 inches there was another layer, somehow poured on top of the previous layer. They figured this out because small stones in the liquidy clay sank to the bottom of each new poured in layer, and the stones settled at the top of the previous layer which had hardened enough to keep the stones from sinking further. When they drilled through the 30 feet of clay they were hitting these small stones every 18 inches. This is very difficult to explain off as natural or as something that fell into a void and landed that way naturally.
 

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The stratification was in the clay. Every 18 inches there was another layer, somehow poured on top of the previous layer. They figured this out because small stones in the liquidy clay sank to the bottom of each new poured in layer, and the stones settled at the top of the previous layer which had hardened enough to keep the stones from sinking further.

Sounds more and more like natural siltification. 100 year flood cycle over 11,000 years since the glaciers receded. I work at a water treatment plant and we get a nice "sandbar" of river mud and silt at our outflow channel that has to be mechanically removed every five years. (And the paperwork weighs more than the thousands of tons of silt).
 

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