by Graham8164 » Tue Oct 10, 2017 2:36 pm
I live under Table Mountain and have just started to learn the geology and it is simply not right. Darwin sat here on the Sea point rocks and came up with technonic plates. It is a fair assumption to make and a hell of a leap. Now I look at them and ask ( as did Micheal Steinbecher ) why is there basalt here in distressed forms when the nearest volcanic activity is a gazzilion miles away ( not a factor ). I then started to look at the physical geology and I am sorry but Granite was not pushed up over millions of years, that stuff looks like weld debris if you stretch the mind to the type of material that was being acted upon at the time. Table Mountain seems to form a circle as does the False bay area with a broken path due to water. The ancient Xhosa legends tell of the great sea serpent that destroyed the world and then the giants built the four pillars one of them being Table Mountain. I asked my god children what they saw and they described an ice cream with it dripping down the side ( Lions Head )....I like that. A tornado of material being swirled into an ice cream shape...nice, don't forget to throw in the shockwaves. Then you can add some weathering but I cannot see Table Mountain going anywhere anytime soon so I think it is not a factor either. According to mainstream stuff, Table Mountain and surrounds was at least 3000ft higher but as usual this theory has no basis in fact. It is nice to be able to look at stuff and look for a smoking gun. There are lots of them. Please understand I have no formal academia but I am an electrician and have always asked the much bigger question what is the simple answer, now we know that, its time for the hard work.