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Also known sometimes as Dendritic Ridges
 Let's look at the flows here.
From the southeast the prevailing plasma storm wind was blowing barely sub sonic across from left to right. In a kind of venturi effect material in the two coliding flows precipitates out at the top of the bluff to be the runnels of melted stone we see here.
 The plasma storm was in full swing here. We can see by the formations that the upper surface was in a semi molten state as the plasma wind was blowing over the ridges at more than huricane force from the south, (Left to right) ablating them and carrying some of the surface material along with the wind.
 This mountain solidified almost instantly as the last gust of plasma died down. And It became a permanant record of the last moments of the storm. When you see whole mountain tops melted and blown sideways with the wind like waves in an angry sea. Believe your eyes the stone never lies. And the rock of this mountain tells a different story than that of the text books, or old geologic maps.
It is a story of inconcievable violence only a few thousand years ago.
 The runnels of melt you see to the right were first driven up the far slope before going over the edge to become the formation they are today. It's not clear from this picture but it is a steep slope. Think of the runnels of melted wax on the sides of a candle. We can expect that, like the ones on the candle, these aren't really attached to the rock except along the top edge.
Having no attachment but along it's upper edge it is not possible that this formation has the structural integrity to survive even one ice age. And there is no talus pile of chunks below that have weathered away, or broken off of the formation. And this location would be filled up to the rim in an ice age. After the next one you will find the material in these runnels in a glacial morraine somewhere way down slope. They weren't there untill after the end of the last ice. And that means the formation can not possibly be more than 15,000 years old.
The last volcanic eruption in the area may have been millions of years ago. But the event that melted that stone and drove it up and over the edge like that was no volcano. And it happened some time after the last ice age.
 And these are even prettier still. You see no fracturing in the melt runnels. And the unmelted talus slopes below them have never been scoured by a glacier since they were deposited. And the melting event that leveled the mountaintop as smooth and level as a parking lot happened last.
We are expected to believe that the intricate details of these melt runnels have survived 28 million years of repeated ice ages without a single piece crumbling and falling to the valley below. And that multiple ice ages have come and gone. And have left them, and the valley below, perfectly unscathed.
Formations like the one on the right never could survive an ice age without being ground down to rubble and deposited in a glacial moraine down slope somewhere.
 Anyone who has any experience at all in studying glacial errosion will agree that the loose material and the intricate details in these melt runnels above 12,000 ft. could not have survived even one ice age without being ground to rubble and deposited in a terminal moraine somewhere downslope.
It's the structure of them I have a problem with. You can see clearly that the melted stone was pushed by a tremendous source of heat, and pressure a thousand feet or more up and over the top of the ridges before flowing down the near side you see. There is none of the exfoliation and decomposion in the rock formations we should expect to see. In fact in spite of repeated freezing and thawing every winter these rock formations show less weathering than the great pyramids of Egypt..
 We know that the last ice age ended only 15,000 years ago.
We also know that it is obviously not possible that these inticate melt formations have been through even one period of glaciation. They simply can not be any older than that.
And to say that they are a product of an ancient volcanic eruption 28 million years ago. And have survived the crushing, grinding, and polishing of repeated glaciations is a direct frontal assualt insult on the inteligence of anyone who's ever hiked in glacier contry.
 I like the little final slpashes at the top. They look like paint on the edge of a can, don't they?
But it has much more in common with a slag heap.
 It's true that the Valles Marineris and the grand canyon share a similar formation process. But it wasn't flowing water. They are both the product of a hydrthermal explosion caused by a thermal impact.
. In the Valles Marineris it was the permafrost that exploded when hit by a themal impact, or series of them.
 As in the Grand canyon we see the typical smooth upper plateau with runnels flowing over the edge.
The Valles Marineris wasn't gouged by eons of flowing water some time in the planet's past. It was a thermal explosive event. And it wasn;t long ago
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