Giant foot print 200 million yrs. old found in South Africa

[Denis]

Whatever the case is with this "giant footprint"/carving we simply cannot estimate its age. And according to the video's description (obviously it had been expanded by Mr. Tellinger since my 1st post here in this thread) it says:

Michael Tellinger shows off what could be one of the best pieces of evidence that there were giants on Earth a long, long time ago. Geologists have marvelled at this giant foot print in rough granite, about 4 feet long. Some still say that it is a natural erosion pattern.
Personally I find that suggestion highly improbable for various reasons that I will not go into here. Prof. Pieter Wagener from UPE, suggests that "there is a higher probability of little green men arriving from space and licking it out with their tongues, than being created by natural erosion".
It is located in South Africa, near the town of Mpaluzi, close to the Swaziland border. It is estimated to be between 200 million and 3 Billion years old because of our current understanding of the formation of granites in Earth's history. This dating immediately causes great debate and argument - so I urge you to keep your mind open and focused on the evidence.
This amazing footprint in granite was discovered in 1912 by a hunter called Stoffel Coetzee, while hunting in the remote area. At the time this was a deeply remote part of South Africa known as the Eastern Transvaal, teeming with wild life, including antelope and lions. It remains in the same condition as it was when first discovered and the possibility that this was a carved hoax is extremely low because of its remote location. Even today, it is difficult to find.
The real mystery is how this amazing phenomenon occured - I have no idea - but here it is and we cannot wish it away.
YES - It is granite - it is a well recognised geological part of South Africa and recorded on all geological maps - that is why this footprint is such an incredible mystery. It can be desribed as a "phenocrystic" granite, OR coarse porphyritic granite, that underwent several different stages of cooling. The result being an interesting mixture of large and small granules. This is why granite companies are keen to mine this area for granite because it will look really "pretty" when polished. In the official Geology Of South Africa, this outcrop is called Mpuluzi Batholith (Granite) and the official dating of this rock produced dates of around 3,1 billion years.
A real mystery that needs close scientific examination.

The local African people commonly refer to this as a highly revered and sacred site. They claim that the footprint belonged to a woman (why they believe that this is a woman's footprint, now that I don't know). Pointing to the probability of this being a female human-
like species' foot, proportionally the two-legged being would need to be some 30 feet tall!

Carving or not, this "feature" in the rock raises more questions than it gives answers.

 

[Laura]

Actually, the main questions it raises is why so many people are taken in by nonsense.

 

[Denis]

Actually, the main questions it raises is why so many people are taken in by nonsense.

Maybe--- it's because they don't perceive it as nonsense? But you are right, there's nothing else worth mentioning here about this issue, I posted it here to read other members' perspectives since I didn't know what to think about it and I thought it would be interesting if I shared this with others to see what kind of feedback this subject will provoke.

I think I'm done with this topic since I don't have anything valuable to add here, at least for the time being.

In Lak'ech :)

 

[Esote]

I won't say definitively that it is not a footprint, but it could easily be a natural formation that has been enhanced in the past.

Probably so. If the rock is really granite it would have been very hot, molten when the giant stepped in it. Granite is an igneous rock formed in great heat. Likely, some ancients thought it looked like a foot, so carved it out to complete the effect.

Mac

And if granite is an igneous rock formed in great heat, it comes very slowly to the surface, where it's solid and cold once in the open. At least that's what I know from classical geology. There are lots of strange figures in nature, that can be interpreted as one's imagination wishes...
This picture is from a mountain called Tête Noire (Black Head). Can you see in the upper left-center the eye, nose, mouth and the hairs or hat?
Could it be a Giant also? ;)

 

[Cosmos]

Tellinger and Dona taking a closer look at the "Footprint"

Giant Footprint with Michael Tellinger & Klaus Dona - Jan 2012.avi :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7qZnieFvNs