Geology on the Joe Rogan Experience
3 fact-checked claims across 3 episodes · Apr 2024 to May 2025
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- Graham Hancock (2)
- Zahi Hawass (1)
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“He came to the Sphinx and he worked with us for a season. And he came and we published many articles that the erosion that you see outside and inside the Sphin…”
Hawass claims a geologist studied the Sphinx and published articles concluding the erosion is from wind rather than water, contradicting Robert Schoch's water-erosion theory.
“result of heavy rainfall, exposure to heavy rainfall for thousands of years. And you have to go back to the younger dryers to get that kind of heavy rainfall i…”
Geologist Robert Schoch attributed the weathering of the Sphinx to thousands of years of heavy rainfall, implying it is more than 12,000 years old.
“The evidence for the Younger Dryas impact is found in what are called impact proxies and that's iridium, nanodiamonds, platinum, melt glass like trinitite, fou…”
Hancock claims Younger Dryas impact proxies such as iridium, nanodiamonds, platinum and melt glass are found across more than 50 million square kilometers of the Earth's surface.