They're Drilling the Boat Shape Near Ararat. Geologists Called It a Ridge | 10/2/26

Podcast: Pat Gray Unleashed · S B

Opublikowano: 2026-10-02

Core drilling just started on the boat-shaped ridge in eastern Turkey that some people have called Noah’s Ark since a Turkish Army captain spotted it from the air in 1959. The Durupinar formation sits in the Tendurek Mountains near Mount Ararat, about 164 meters long — close to the 300-cubit length in Genesis. Modern geologists have treated it for decades as limestone and volcanic clay carved by erosion. David Fasold measured it in the 1980s, called it a fossilized deck, then later dismissed the ark theory himself. Now a Sivas Cumhuriyet University team, with Turkish government approval, has run the first real core...