The Mysterious Cart Ruts of Malta - Snake Bros

The ruts not rising and falling but remaining relatively level does to some extent follow the logic of ruts in mud of varying depths atop a firmer material, a heavy load cuts through any banked soft material, its mass resists rising up if it can remain level due to gravity, obviously. This being soft material doesn't really make sense however as a rut in mud creates banks either side from the displaced material, these are too 'clean cut' for that, implying the material, if soft, is compressing, like a dust, rather than being pushed away as with mud. Regarding the mundane explantion, rather than wheels creating the ruts, dragged 'sleds' off the back of a horse/ox etc. are going to be much more abrasive. By sled I mean two long beams lifted at the front to hitch onto the girth of the animal, like a cart, but the beams just run down to drag along the ground maybe 10' behind the horse, you then put planks across them creating a sloped bed. A wall at the rear can be added if needed to stop things slipping off. This is a very simple way of pulling a load with a horse/oxen etc. and is seen in use. But... Pff, there's a lot of confounding characteristics there, the ruts splitting says the entire idea that these are ruts from a vehicle with parallel wheels on an axel is incorrect. ...So I think we're talking Mr and Mrs giant on huge bicycles going for a ride out together. That's the most logical explanation. Glad that's sorted, moving on...

MALTA, THE AZORES, SPAIN, ITALY, FRANCE, SARDINIA... THE LIST GOES ON AND ON AND ON... IN THE AZORES THEY ARE IN HARD BASALT..

There’s some in the Pilbara & Kimberly in Western Australia. They’re perfectly spaced, but only visible via satellite. They’re too large & spread apart to be seen on land, & they cross hundreds of kilometres. I thought maybe they were grooves made by icebergs, but the lines are just too evenly spaced, they’re too perfect. Google yourself & keep zooming in until you find them & then if anyone has a logical explanation please share. Western Australia is one of the richest sites of iron, gold, & diamonds in the world. Maybe this was also known by an ancient civilisation? There’s proof of ancient mines in South Africa. Why not Australia too? It’s also the oldest piece of dirt on the planet.

These things keep me up at night. Great interview btw!

It looks like the marks left by the keel and rudder of a fleet of sailing ships...

Could the ruts be the tracks left by ancient boats/ships in an area of seabed that had freshly-formed volcanic rock raising the seabed and causing them to run aground? I'm imagining the shape of a Viking Longship, slender with a single or double rib running the length of the hull. If such craft ploughed through fresh (soft) volcanic tuff, for a short while, before the rock hardened, it seems the patterns they would have left would be identical to what we see. It's in volcanic tuff, an explanation for the sudden surprise rise in seabed causing unaware boat pilots to all ground themselves in a short period of time before they learned to avoid the area. If the tuff were soft enough, any boat (of sufficient power) running aground, would just plough on through, with the "rock" not causing any to be scuttled. If the rock were hard enough to sink a boat which ran aground, there would be no evidence of the ruts left for us to find. Perhaps a sounder explanation is that the tracks are evidence of an ancient dredging operation on a seabed; perhaps an apparatus similar to a "travois": two poles traditionally dragged behind a pack animal, on which a load is attached, but in the context of a fishing or dredging operation. If such an apparatus were towed behind boats used to dredge a seabed to extract resources, and such an operation were to encounter freshly-formed volcanic tuff, it might be soft enough to plough tracks through for minutes or hours, then solidify enough to retain those fresh tracks very quickly, with lithification taking as few as decades to hundreds of years after that. This would explain the seemingly random criss-cross nature of the tracks, their uniform gauge, the way they head to the edges of cliffs, and the fact that these sorts of tracks are nearly exclusively found in volcanic tuff.

Volcanic ash maybe?

They are ruts for carts it’s a foundation for an ancient transportation system like a train. They were way more advanced than we give them credit for.

Trawled fishing nets leave same ruts so they would have been under water a very long time ago ,soft and became stone .

Unfortunately, these are one of those mysteries that will probably never be definitively solved. 😊