Writing In My Journal/ A Million Years Ago
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I have been wondering for awhile now about these holes in the rocks down on the James River. It seems to me that they must have been made by water swirling around. And the water must have been a lot higher than it is now to do such a thing. The river must have been a lot wider too. How much wider? Well there are major hills on either side of the river that go up hundreds of feet. So what does that tell you? And how long ago must something like this have happened?
I wish I knew. If anybody comes by here who knows about this stuff I hope they will leave a comment. Or maybe ask somebody they know to come by and leave a comment. I wonder if there are any maps that take a stab at mapping the east coast of the US when the James River was hundreds of feet deep? If it was hundreds of feet deep. Do you have places near where you live that show evidence of what it must have been like a million years ago?
It makes our whole human history seem relatively insignificant
when put in this perspective. Maybe there were other civiliations on earth a hundred thousand years ago that we don’t even know about. When we were snorkeling down in the Bahamas we went to this place where there was a huge stone pathway built in the bottom of the ocean! You could float around and look down at it. It wasn’t that deep.
But a million years ago?
That’s ten times as long. I think we often just assume that that for thousands of years there were no civilizations on earth. Because we have all this evidence of prehistoric man. But what if we went back before prehistoric man? Maybe there was a more advanced civilization that lost and went away. And then mankind had to start over again. Just rambling along with more questions than answers.
That’s what we love
to do as we sit here in the warm breeze of a Virginia afternoon. Feeling sorry for all you ice bound folks on the other side of the mountains!
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