At 7:15 on the morning of June 30, 1908, something happened in the sky above the Stony Tunguska (Podkamennaya Tunguska) river in Siberia. Many thousand people in a radius of 900 miles observed the Tunguska event and more than 700 accounts were collected
later. The reports describe a fireball in the sky, larger or similar to
the size of the sun, a series of explosions “with a frightful sound”,
followed by shaking of the ground as “the earth seemed to get opened
wide and everything would fall in the abyss. Terrible strokes were heard
from somewhere, which shook the air [].” The indigenous Evenks and
Yakuts believed a god or shaman had sent the fireball to destroy the
world. Various meteorological stations in Europe recorded both seismic
and atmospheric waves. Days later strange phenomena were observed in the
sky of Russia and Europe, such as glowing clouds, colorful sunsets and a
strange luminescence in the night.
Since the beginning of May 2018, the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii has been erupting. First a cloud of fragmented older lava, volcanic ash and vapor rose from the Pu‘u ‘O‘o crater on the summit, magma then migrated to the flanks, opening a series of fissures from where now lava is pouring out.
In April 1941 Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler established the 'SS-Wehrgeologen Battalion 500', the Schutz-Staffel unit of military geologists. Members were recruited from other SS units, including the 'Ahnenerbe", a unit dedicated in part to pseudo-scientific tasks, but also real exploration, including caves. The unit included mostly academics, like captain Erich Marquardt, archaeologist, captain Karl Heinzelmann, geologist, who had worked on tectonics and Joachim Schlorf, who studied the toxic effects of Vanadium-minerals on animals. The unit was commanded by Rolf Hohne, archaeologist, and geologist.
The official tasks of the Wehrgeologenkorps included all aspects of military geology: exploration for water, oil, gas and other valuable resources during field campaigns, surveys for construction and fortification, and support during construction work in underground mines and galleries. One project included mapping the route for a planned Autobahn (highway) between Berlin and the Krim-peninsula (never realized). However, more esoteric tasks also included archaeological digs to prove the superiority of the Arian race.
In France and the Netherlands, the geologists studied the best location to build the launch pads for the secret rocket project of the Reich. The ground had to be stable enough to adsorb the vibrations caused by the launch of the Vergeltungswaffe, the V-1 and V-2.
In 1943-1945, when the impending defeat of the Third Reich became obvious, the SS geologists were sent to southern France and Italy, to work on the Blue Line. Blu line was a system of fortifications, to be built in the Prealps, to stop the allies, invading at the time Sicily during 'Operation Husky.' An even more ambitious plan included the idea to use the mountains as the Alpenfestung, the Alps-fortress, as a last refugium for the Nazis. At this time the unit comprised more than 600 men, including geologists and soldiers. In the Italian city of Trieste, the Wehrgeologen helped in the construction of 'Small Berlin', a system of underground bunkers. During this operation, the geologists explored also caves and ancient mines, in part for minerals and resources, but also searching for the mythical entrance to a supposed ancient underground reign. Supposedly, strange galleries of unknown origin were discovered. At least some members also studied supposed earth-force-fields. Wilhelm Teudt and Josef Heinsch, both researchers at the Ahnenerbe, believed that streams of energy, following Ley-Lines, crossed beneath the city of Trieste.
Today, Nazi geologists searching the entrance to the Hollow Earth sounds like the plot for a bad movie. This should not hide the cruel reality of the war and the regime. The SS Wehrgeologen were also involved in war crimes. In the village of Laita various civilians were executed by the bataillon 500. The villages of Pedescala and Settecà , in the province of Trentino, were both burned to the ground and 83 civilians killed. This happened during the withdraw of the German troops in the last days of World War II, an involvement of the SS geologists seems also possible in this case.
Engineer Nikola Tesla is today famous for his work on electricity and energy. The alternating current electrical system, on which our modern civilization runs, is mostly his invention. He was a brilliant thinker, but also with very eccentric ideas, including a belief in aliens. Maybe the more enigmatic parts of his personality make him such an interesting subject for conspiracists. Tesla is credited to have worked on unknown energy-sources, UFOs, caused the Tunguska explosion by a death-ray, and even worked on an earthquake-generator. In 1896 Tesla was working on waves and resonance to be used for energy transfer. The idea was to create a mechanical oscillator, able to create various frequencies, until matching the resonance frequency of the desired object. In 1897 the device was ready and in 1898 he supposedly managed to oscillate his laboratory at 48 E. Houston St., New York, enough, that alarmed neighbors called the police and ambulance, fearing an earthquake happening. Tesla later explained this principle to reporter Allan L. Besnson, who published in February 1912 an article about Tesla's resonator in The World Today magazine:
'He put his little vibrator in his coat-pocket and went out to hunt a half-erected steel building. Down in the Wall Street district, he found one, ten stories of steel framework without a brick or a stone laid around it. He clamped the vibrator to one of the beams, and fussed with the adjustment until he got it.
Tesla said finally the structure began to creak and weave and the steel-workers came to the ground panic-stricken, believing that there had been an earthquake. Police was called out. Tesla put the vibrator in his pocket and went away. Ten minutes more and he could have laid the building in the street. And, with the same vibrator, he could have dropped the Brooklyn Bridge into the East River in less than an hour.'
Tesla's steam-powered electric generator or oscillator. The device was intended to produce electric energy but could be also modified to generate mechanical vibrations.
Tesla imagined using the waves generated by his device for more peaceful applications, like to transport energy inside Earth. One device would transform electricity into vibrations and send it into Earth, another device would pick up the vibrations and transform the waves back into electricity, to be used locally. In fact, so Tesla, the device, consisting of a piston vibrating in a cylinder, was already powerful enough to vibrate an entire building. Just one precaution was necessary, if powerful enough, so Tesla, his machine could make resonate earth, causing even earthquakes. However, the 'telegeodynamics' system never managed to get beyond the prototype, even if Tesla got a patent on his design. Still, in the 1930s, Tesla imagined using smaller devices to relieve stress from Earth, so to prevent earthquakes, or use the vibrations to prospect the underground. Modern seismology, in fact, uses vibrations, generated by controlled explosions or mechanical pistons, as sort of underground echo sounding, to prospect. However, nobody still to this date possesses an earthquake machine...
In a depth of 1,800 miles, mysterious 'mountains' float along the D''-core-mantle boundary since the birth of Earth.
How seismic waves are reflected or scattered inside Earth has long shown that the planet's interior is not uniform, but can be subdivided into various layers. Earth's crust is composed of less dense crystalline rocks, like granite and gabbro. Earth's mantle is composed of magnesium, iron, and silicon dioxide and it's estimated to make up 38% of Earth's volume. The outer core is liquid, composed of very dense elements, like iron, nickel, with traces of sulfur and oxygen. The inner core is solid, almost a pure iron-nickel alloy, maybe even with a crystalline structure (making it possibly Earth's largest crystal).
Seismic waves have also shown that along the boundary layer between mantle and core, strange blobs or plumes, rise up for many thousands of miles. One hypothesis explains the blobs as remains of partially molten tectonic plates, sinking from Earth's surface into the mantle. The melting plates can´t sink into the much more dense core. Melting completely along the boundary, the remains of the plates form blobs of material, slowly floating back to the surface and driving there the motion of Earth's tectonic plates.
Another, more recent, hypothesis explains the blobs as remains of Earth's primordial crust. During Earth's formation a first, primitive crust developed on the cooling surface. Parts of this crust sunk into the mantle, too dense to rise, the material boils slowly there since Earth´s formation. Computer simulations presented during the European Geosciences Union conference in Vienna suggest that the plumes are composed of crystallized material, as the long permanence of the material under high pressure and temperature makes it possible to grow grains of minerals, some inch in diameter. As mineral grains form rocks, the plumes are composed of rocks, making them miles-high 'mountains' (sort of...), even if at a temperature of 5,000°C.
The now presented simulations show the distribution of temperature and grain size, with the hotter (yellow to white), coarse-grained (yellow-red), plumes floating along the core and rising into the mantle:
According to ancient historians, gold in the kingdom of Egypt was as common as is sand in the desert. It´s true that Egypt exported for centuries large quantities, and even the Romans mined gold in Egypt (last attempts for gold mining were done in the 1950s). However, where the ancient mines were once located became forgotten over time.
Archaeologist Rosemarie and Dietrich Klemm discovered in the 1980s the lost mines following an ancient "geological" map. Discovered near modern Luxor (ancient Thebes) between 1814 and 1821, the papyrus/map was brought to Italy and is today hosted in the collection of the Museum of Egyptian History in Turin. The Turin papyrus dates back to 1,150 BC and was prepared for an expedition led by Ramesses IV.
Reconstructed map of the Turin papyrus, image source. Pinkish-red= gold-bearing rocks, dark-green= rocks for construction.
Modern interpretation of geology , red=Hammamat-fm sandstone and volcanics, blue= Atalla-Serpentinite, yellow & green= Fawakhir-Granite.
The map shows the landscape around an unknown oasis. Inscriptions describe the "Mountain of the Gold”, the “Mountain of the Silver”, but also the location of the “Village of the Miners”, the "Temple of Amun", the streets to the (Red-) Sea and a street to Ta-menti (an unknown locality). The different colors of the map are inspired by the real colors of the rocks, reddish feldspar-granite (Fawakhir-Granite), dark Atalla-Serpentinite and Hammamat-Formation, and yellow for the sand of the desert. A dry river runs down the entire valley, eroding and transprting the rocks, as shown by the pebbles in different colors. A quarry of bekhen stone, a blue-green sandstone used to carve statues, is shown, as are many mines for gold. The most important indication was the location of a well near the village. Thanks to this well, archaeologists identified the area shown on the map. The ancient mountains of gold and silver are situated in the Wadi Hammamat, near Bir-Um-Fawakhir, an ancient miner settlement, almost 100km east of Luxor. Following the indications of the map into the field, the archaeologist discovered ancient signs of mining, like 50m long tunnels following quartz veins. The important veins are shown as lines in the Turin map. The gold is found as tiny fragments in the massive quartz, almost invisible to the naked eye. That ancient Egyptians found it, is a impressive evidence for their (emprical) geological knowledge. Already in 3,200 BC professional geological prospectors, called “sementi“, searched for deposits and veins of gold, to meet the demand of the divine pharao. Tutankhamun’s tomb alone was filled with more than 500 items, many made of
pure gold. Following the veins into the mountain, the miners extracted the rock, crushing it, and washing the heavy gold out. Large deposits of quartz sand, the remains of the crushed rocks, still today testimony the hard work done by the ancient miners.
