Here's the puzzle: Turkey's ruts stay perfectly level while the surrounding tuff rises and falls. Multiple sets overlay each other in the same spots, some with sharp lip-like upper edges. The area between paired ruts is worn smooth and rounded. Tracks cross, merge, and split in complex patterns — all at consistent depth and style. 🤔
Turkey cart ruts maintain constant depth across undulating volcanic tuff surface
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📍 Cwm Era Slate Quarry, Dulas Valley;Fronfelin; Fronfelin Slate Quarry🌍 Show on the globe
Key facts
- Ground-level footage shows rut bottoms remain level while the surrounding tuff surface rises and falls
- Multiple sets of ruts are overlaid on top of each other in the same locations
- Some ruts display sharp upper edges forming distinct lips along the margins
- Diverging tracks appear at the same depth as the main tracks, unexplained by sequential cart use
- Ruts appear contemporaneous based on consistent style and depth across the site
- The center area between paired ruts is worn down to a regular, rounded profile
- Tracks cross each other, merge, and split apart in complex patterns
Sources
The Mysterious Cart Tracks of Phrygia Valley | Amusing Planetamusingplanet.com
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What about - Cart-rutscartruts.de
In Spain and in Cappadocia (Turkey), cart ruts can be observed that, due to significant differences in erosion, must originate from clearly different periods.
Enigma of ancient cart-ruts and their traces in Azerbaijan and Turkeyacademia.edu
Cart-ruts are a phenomenor characterized by long, parallel tracks or grooves cut into the surface of rocky terrain. These groove: typically follow a straight or ...
A new hypothesis about Cart Ruts - ResearchGateresearchgate.net
In Turkey, in the Phrygian Valley, the cart ruts are found in sedimentary limestone and tuff rock
KÜLTEPE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE - Müze Kartmuze.gov.tr
The Kültepe archaeological site is situated 20 km northeast of Kayseri, at the base of Mount Erciyes (Ashkashipa or Argeus), in the midst of a fertile plain.
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