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Originally Posted by Ea
Just remembered something that really irritated me: In George R. R. Martin's "Song of Fire and Ice" there's these flint mountains, and AFAIK it's a geological impossibility. It just kept taking me out of the story and I never got futher than the first book.
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Mountains made of
flint? Yep, that'd pull me up quite sharply too. Flint occurs in layers of lumpy nodules in chalk, and sometimes in almost complete sheets. But a mountain of flint just can't happen.
There's a neolithic flint mine near me - great site - one of the mines has been excavated, and you can go down the main shaft.
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/s...hosenImageId/2