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The Sphinx Controversy: Another Look at the Geological Evidence
James A. Harrell, 1994. KMT 5(2), Summer 1994: 70-74.
Argues that wet-sand burial, clay swelling, salt and repeated Nile flooding of an enclosure floor at about 20 m above sea level explain the deep weathering within the Old Kingdom date, and that Schoch's seismic velocities are internally inconsistent.
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The geological reply on process; source for the flooding and wet-sand mechanism.
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Harrell, J. A. (1994). The Sphinx Controversy: Another Look at the Geological Evidence. KMT 5(2), Summer 1994: 70-74. https://www.hallofmaat.com/?p=3243
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Harrell, James A.. “The Sphinx Controversy: Another Look at the Geological Evidence.” KMT 5(2), Summer 1994: 70-74 (1994).