Hi, everyone.

Just for the fun of it, I went to Google and typed in:

+"roman aqueduct" +weathering

I didn't actually get much, but among the listings are:

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http://www.cosmosm.com/success/civilengineering1.htm

> Overview
>
> Determine how the ancient Roman Aqueduct at Acqui Termi, Italy,
> was built to last for more than 2000 years, despite severe
> weathering and flooding.

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http://wc.pima.edu/~geology/turkeytrip/turkeyreport-1.html

Has a picture of the "Aqueduct of Valens," built sometime between
A.D. 364 and 378.

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http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~kazukouy/nsl04/others04.html

> The pavement of the upper gallery of the "Pont du Gard", the roman
> aqueduct of Nimes (19 AD). In the porous miocenic molasse
> limestone, many grooves and bowls show a mean lowering of 8-10cm.

What, only 10 centimeters (4 inches) in 2,000 years?!?!

Gary Smith, like all other YECs, tries to pretend that the Earth
impact craters such as the Panther Mountain Crater and the
Manicouagan Crater (not to mention a myriad of other geological
features) could be eroded, have hundreds of feet of deposition of
sediment, have this sediment lithify (become rock), then have
*hundreds of feet* of this sedimentary rock over the original crater
erode (weather), all in a time span of about 4,200 years. Yet the
observed weathering of the rock of the Roman aqueducts in about 2,000
years is on the order of *a few inches*.

And YECs wonder why geologists don't take them seriously.

Regards,
Todd S. Greene
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/7755/