Re: Kensington Runestone - Nielsen and Wolters.

Eric Stevens wrote:
> "Peter Alaca" wrote:
Eric Stevens wrote:
"Peter Alaca" wrote:
Daryl Krupa wrote: 

 If anthropogenic acids have been responsible for at least some of
the weathering of the Maine tombstones, and have been responsible
for their appearance of great age, then perhaps those acids are
also responsible for the appearance of great age of some of the
surfaces of the KRS.


How about this:
[...]


Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt (2002), "Work and Worship -
Laser Scanner Analysis of Viking Age Rune Stones"
page 21

Apart from the fact that the quoted text is very general in nature 
...

You mean that Arrhenius and Trotzig
say nothing about the KRS?


... and applies to rune-texts carved in rock significantly
different from that of the KRS, ...

Are you sure?

Granite for the most part. 

   "Rune stones were made primarily from
    crystalline rocks (i.e. granite and gneiss),
    until the end of the 11th century when
    sandstone rune stones become common."
[Åhfeldt (2002), page 21]

And since you stated in another recent reply
to Steve Marcus that
   "The question is not weathering of stone
    in general but the weathering of biotite in
    particular. Biotite is common to both the
    KRS and the tombstones."
you must be aware of the fact that biotite is
common in granite and gneiss.
So, what is that significant difference between
the KRS and Scandinavian runestones as far as
natural and artificial weathering is concerned?

... all the described phenomena can be detected by modern
laboratory examination.

And, /are/ they detected?

I haven't the faintest idea. Do you know if anyone has looked? 

/You/ said it can be detected, not me.
How do you know that it can be done
if you don't know if it has been done?

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