Cart Ruts, Malta - Naxxar Gap on the Victoria Lines

The Cart Ruts on the Naxxar Gap (San Pawl tat-Targa) are spectacular when combined with the geology of the area. Located on the Great Fault line the ruts themselves can be very narrow but still deep. They curve down the slope and there is also a lot of very puzzling "doubling" effect.

Round the bend

Curving Cart Ruts down the escarpment but as you can see in the photo above straight shallow Cart Track indentations can go across the curling Cart Rut.

The most stunning of the curving Cart Ruts are nearer the western side closer to the Globigerina Limestone Quarry. The Naxxar Gap Cart Ruts, also known as the San Pawl tat-Targa Cart Ruts, are located along the Victoria Lines.

Double Entry

On the Naxxar (Targa) Gap many of the Cart Ruts display the strange double rut or central reservation. If the Cart Ruts are man made and created by wear and tear these are puzzling. Either they were deliberately created for a reason in the hard rock or the rock/landscape was of a different composition back in the day.

Low gear hill

The steepness of the slope is shown by the road beside the Cart Ruts. This curves down the Great Fault Line scarp. You can walk beside the Cart Ruts site down the stairs.

The Cart Ruts go down steep mini scarp sections. These and the slope would indicate, if they are man made by vehicles, that whatever vehicle created them went downhill. The only evidence of wear and tear is the Cart Ruts themselves with no other sign of human or animal tracks surrounding the Cart Ruts. This is especially shown by the Clapham Junction Triangle.

Form guide

How are these strange geological features (Electroblemes?) formed around the Cart Ruts? How were the Cart Ruts created? Does it have anything to do with the Electric Universe? For ideas, discussion and, maybe you providing the key idea, chat or look at the "form guide" in the forum.

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Site Map and Car Parking

Site Map of the Naxxar Gap (Targa Gap or San Pawl tat-Targa) Cart Ruts located near Mosta. They are situated on the Great Fault scarp, along the Victoria Lines.

There is car parking space at the bottom of the road (Triq Is-Salina) down the escarpment slope, where the catholic shrine is found. This shrine has a cave beneath it.

Larger map of Cart Ruts in Malta - Naxxar Gap
(San Pawl tat-Targa on the Victoria Lines), near Mosta