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The Great Sphinx: A New View on the Erosion Enigma
Robert Adam Schneiker, 2025. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 57(6), paper 63-6, GSA Connects 2025, San Antonio, 19 October 2025.
A poster abstract arguing that the Sphinx shows little true erosion: the rough body was pounded back during construction and faced with a limestone veneer, sand protected it, and looting of the veneer exposed the core now read as weathering.
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The 2025 reading; an abstract only, no paper located.
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Schneiker, R. A. (2025). The Great Sphinx: A New View on the Erosion Enigma. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 57(6), paper 63-6, GSA Connects 2025, San Antonio, 19 October 2025. https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2025AM-9176
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Schneiker, Robert Adam. “The Great Sphinx: A New View on the Erosion Enigma.” Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 57(6), paper 63-6, GSA Connects 2025, San Antonio, 19 October 2025 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2025AM-9176.