The White Stuff:
The White Quartz:
A hard white substance is found on the surface of some rocks. To identify it, samples of this substance were tested by Attard Minerals and found to be amorphous quartz glass. This means the quartz was liquefied at high temperature and cooled very quickly preventing the formation of crystals, this is by definition a glass.
Glass such as obsidian is formed when hot magma moves from the interior of the planet to the surface and is cooled very quickly, often in a body of water. There is no geological process at the planet's surface that produces enough heat to melt rock into a liquid. So the basic rules are that rock melts inside the planet and cools on or near the surface. Intrusive magma has cooled slowly within the earth's crust cools slower allowing larger crys
There are many instances where single unbroken marking of white quartz glass
that covers areas of adjacent rocks, There is no natural process on the surface of the planet which can produce near the 3,000°+/- temperature needed to liquefy quartz.
The quartz glass has been found on the surface of different types of base rock including basalt, andesite, granite, sandstone and limestone. In all cases the quartz glass is on the surface of the rock and no veins of quartz are found in the base rock. The source of the quartz is not the base rock and the quartz glass is a distinct and separate surface layer formed after the base rock was formed.
The locations and the physical appearance of the quartz glass in situ eliminates any chance of it being formed as a vein or an accretion deposited by ultra hot water. In none of the photographs accompanying this section is there no sign of a vein of quartz in any of these rocks. No glass markers are associated with any veins and no glass markers have base rock on more than one side. This is not being selective, with one possible exception no quartz veins have been found in any of the base rocks. Interestingly the possible exception is the limestone rock that makes up Peacemaker Rock, further work and testing is needed. As for the volcanic rock formations of the Shasta Valley, still nil after examining hundreds of quartz glass markings.
There are areas of
quartz glass in which a single marking spans gaps over two or more rocks, indicating it was applied on site,
an interesting feat to say the least. To achieve a similar product,
fused quartz, our technology requires
heating high grade quartz to about 2,000°C (3,600°F) in electric
furnaces.
On the Earth's surface there is no known natural process which produces anything
near
these temperatures. This is a simple argument - the physical evidence
shows the quartz was liquefied on the
surface of the planet and placed on existing rock. Based on the physical evidence
there is no plausible natural explanation for the white quartz glass
to be on the surface of these rocks, nothing is even close.
Also as is shown in the photographs many of these markings are found in inaccessible locations.
There does not appear to be any other explanation other than the white quartz glass has been placed artificially. This would require a technology that could liquefy quartz and mold the liquefied mixture on the surface of existing rock.
There are hundreds of rock stacks in the Shasta Valley and on these stacks there are thousands of white quartz glass markings on these stacks. The number of markings on a stack most often depends on size of the rock stack, with the largest and the most prominent stacks possibly having a hundred or more of these markings. There are distinct patterns to the placement of the quartz glass markings and they reflect light better than any other substance in the rock stacks. A common location of quartz markings are on the points of rocks, commonly pointed upwards. It is also common to find one white rock at or near the top of the rock stacks.
This tested sample was on andesite which contained about 20% quartz in crystalline form, many of these quartz crystals in the base rock are contiguous to the quartz glass coating but show no signs of re-melting.
The photo below is a piece of quartz glass chipped off the andesite. There is a piece of andesite still adhering to the underside of the white quartz glass indicating A) the white quartz was stronger than the bond between the quartz glass and the base rock and B) the bond was stronger than the andesite. The crude method of using a hammer and chisel to remove the white quartz may be part of the reason for this, but all pieces chipped off were similar and the white quartz is was very difficult to remove even a tiny piece of quartz from the andesite.
Shasta Valley Examples:
Close ups:
On Structures:
Photos by Alyssa Alexandria:
From the Lake Shastina area.
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Sutter Buttes:
The white substance in these photos is assumed to be the white quartz because a) it is white, b) it is in identical type of locations, c) reflects light in the same manner and d) it appears to very similar to the markers documented in the Shasta Valley. If a sample can be obtained and tested it will be.
The Indians Examples:
At the Indians area there exist slabs of this white quartz about two and a half feet in diameter and one to two inches thick mounted on sandstone protrusions. The black surface is lichen, underneath it there is a slab of a white substance which looks like the tested samples of quartz. The white slab is about 3 feet across. Photos are by Byron Macconnell.
The standing rock below is sandstone about 6 to 7 feet tall and certainly appears artificially placed.
A sample taken from this area was tested and the result was 89% pure quartz.
The Other White Stuff:
A second type of artificial white coating has been found in the Shasta Valley, seemingly uncommon but it does react to hcl.
At Hickinson Pass rock structures also had a white substance applied in a similar manner and it tested out to be a a mixture of calcite and sal ammoniac. The type(s) of processes which could create such a mixture has never been explored here.