ANCIENT  ROCK  POSES  A  MYSTERY

Robin Collyns

2 pages, 2 photographs, 1 scheme.
Here are some excerpts  from the paper and an illustration.
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Fig. 3.

        Towards the end of 1978 two boys found an unusual piece of sandstone on a rock-strewn beach in East Auckland, New Zealand.

        They gave me the rock for examination and safekeeping. The rock is very hard, light-grey and seaworn. Its grey coloration is due to the presence of calcite (calcium carbonate). The rock measures 85 x 40 x 25 millimeters and weighs 85.05 grams. According to geologists at the University of Auckland some 20 million years ago volcanoes in the Waitakere Range a few kilometers inland ejected sand which washed down to the seashore millions of years ago where it hardened into sandstone.

        What appears to be remarkable is what looks like the rust residue of a precision-made artificial metal disc embedded in the rock. Also, part of the sandstone which measures 15 x 9 millimeters covers part of the disc, which indicates that like the sandstone the "disc" is also millions of years old.

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        The disc does not lie flat but is crimped at a 30-degree angle, indicating that it may have been bent by geological pressures or possibly even trodden underfoot and pressed into wet sand thereby partially reducing the effects of oxidization. The disc is folded over the edge of the rock with exactly 180 degrees of the disc embedded on one side of the rock and the remaining arc embedded on the other side. This may indicate that the disc was precisely folded by intelligence. The exact symmetry of the disc continues from one side of the rock to the other.

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