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It's a beautiful area, and there's a lot of amazing rocks in the area... If you know where to look.

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@@GemstoneJournalist has you seen any of that black material cabbed? I bet its nice.

The earth is definitely full of surprises! I've found several examples of silica cast fossils and imprints of aquatic life in chalcedonic quartz (jasper, agate, chert ,etc.) in a few different places in the United States. It would shock some people to know how frequently these things occur around the world. Somewhere in Washington for example, I've heard of agatized clam shells with enhydros (water bubbles) inside of them. Always cool to find things like that.

You're very welcome, and thank you for watching! I may remake this and some of my other videos when I have my upgraded camera and equipment. What would you like to know more about? I will do my best to include some more information if I manage to redo this video.

I purchased this flute from someone I met years ago as a vendor in Quartzite, Arizona. He makes these flutes in the traditional way by curing the bamboo for up to 2 years under a (elm?) tree. I don't know exactly how he tunes them, but I do know that they are supposed to be 1 foot and 6 inches long, and the exact shape of the mouthpiece has a big effect on the tone. To understand how to play it, think of how you would make a sound from blowing into a bottle. The main difference is that the breath must be channeled into a finer point with a sustained but very gentle projection. Too hard and it will sound raspy, and too light and you won't get any sound. Nonetheless, it's a very controlled breathing technique that requires a great deal of focus on your posture, finger placement, and breathing, while trying to compose harmonious tones. Unlike other flutes, the shakuhatchi has a high and low pitch for each finger position with a range of tones in between. As far as wind instruments go, this instrument has a comparable range to that of the human voice, but it takes a lot of skill to take advantage of the full range.

Thanks for sharing this wonderful instrument. I have been pretty much non-stop into this flute since seeing your video. Ohh, as a side note! I have been experimenting with making the flute. I'm using pvc to learn on. I have made 13 playable flutes in different lengths so far. Much easier to make than play! Anyway, thanks for introducing me to your flute, I'm going to keep working on it. Some day maybe I'll play like you. I find it like an extension of a breath, almost like it's part of you. Very cool!

That's awesome man! I mean, really. I'm glad that these videos introduced you to something new that you've found passion in. That is all I really wanted from these videos, so I'm really glad to read this comment!

It is very much an extension of the self and the breath. Just as when it is used as a martial tool, it becomes an extension of the arm. It is all a matter of connecting mind and body and letting things flow. It's much harder to play than many people might think. It's a meditation of sorts, and for me, it requires my entire focus, which is exactly what I love about it. It really helps to sit or stand with an upright posture, arms tucked in (for stability), and your head upright, and be well hydrated.. It's almost impossible to play when you have cotton mouth or dry lips. It's a remarkable instrument when you get into "the zone". Really good to just freestyle with a drum circle.

Ahh so cool. Thanks for the advice, the braced elbows when you sit really helps. I'm done making the pvc flutes. I learned a lot with them and now moving on to bamboo. I could make one out of bamboo easy enough, but, I can't find the right bamboo cheap. I have a bamboo flute ordered from Japan and am hoping for the best with it. Keep up the. Videos if you can. I'll be curious to see what you come up with next. Ohh, I found the blue quartz and a few rattle snakes up under those cliffs, didn't see them, just heard them, that got me jumpy! I went above the cliffs to avoid the snakes, and that blue quartz kept on showing up but not a lot. I found 4 really nice solid blue decent size on the half day hike (good solid blue pieces with any size were really hard to find). I got home and made a stack display. They can look so blue at times. I feel fortunate to have them. They are maybe my favorite rocks. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks so much! I'm glad you got something out of this video and enjoyed learning about the rocks!

I really appreciate the positive feedback, and very grateful that you have enjoyed my videos so far, and for the encouragement to keep going. Lake Bonneville has receded and grown on multiple occasions, and it is commonly believed to have mostly dried up (and/or drained) between 30,000 and 13,000 years ago. Salt was a highly valued commodity as long as humans have walked the planet, and it is well documented that some tribes have mined salt, bentonite, and chert here for a very long time. Some of the oldest agricultural settlements of the Americas exist not too far from here as well.

Thank you for this. I worry most people will spend their entire lives without realizing what makes them happy and fulfilled in life. Many leaps of faith are required, but that is part of what makes each experience beautiful and meaningful. I appreciate you Mary!

Thank you so much for watching and your positive response!

Thank you for watching and for the appreciation!

Thank you for watching! The heart of Utah is a truly remarkable part of our planet.

What would you call this rock? I'm not saying there isn't gold in it, but I'm not particularly interested in gold prospecting this location. Some later videos, I will very likely be doing some gold mining and prospecting, but that wasn't the purpose of this video. I don't particularly think there is much gold to be found here because it lacks in strong secondary mineralization. The agate may contain trace elements, but the presence of native gold is highly unlikely. The more interesting characteristics of this spot are the presence of agates that appear to be aquatic life casts. They might not even be that, but they are interesting nonetheless. The banded black and blue agate, the green opal, the unusual botryoidals, and the unique shapes make this a fun spot to dig into.

Looks like volcanic ash flow tuff in contact with the crazy hollow formation and the Aurora. The botryoidal nodules are black chert, and you are correct about the generalized environment with silicified marine beds. I too often speculate about the origin of rocks when they resemble ancient species. I see dinosaurs, sea turtles, and worms all the time... or is it just my imagination???

@@Siluetae I believe you are right about the contact with the Crazy Hollow Formation (much of the surrounding red - gray hills are an example of it), and like much of the region, there is significant ash and mud flow deposits with clasts of volcanic rock and black chert, but this particular outcropping I have not seen any examples of black chert like I have typically found in the surrounding areas. This region is extremely difficult to read because of the extreme deformation of the landscape caused by the Sevier Orogeny, the collapse of underground salt formations, and the intrusion of multiple volcanic structures. Carter Peak, just to the north, is one such example of local volcanic intrusion. The mafic rock seen at this locale seems largely continuous, although deeply brecciated, and contains seams with mud and ash sediments. The lacking presence of black chert nodules on this outcropping leads me to think that the outcropping may have been above the valley fill when the unconformity of the Aurora was taking place (that's a theory, but the black chert is very prominent elsewhere, especially going north from this location towards the Redmond Hills). This outcropping seems largely unaffected by much of the unconformity of the surrounding valley, although fault activity has obviously deeply disturbed this outcropping, and further hydrothermal activities have sprung up through this outcropping creating the silica deposits seen here. Piecing together the series of events is difficult even for the USGS, but it is definitely fun to think about.

I've heard Costco has good hotdogs, but I'm swearing off all hotdogs for a while! Haha I'll admit, I could have done a better job planning this video, but it was moreso a sidequest than the main destination, and I didn't have much energy to give to the thought. I probably should have mentioned that I was in Utah. I'll update the title at least. I may be spending more time in this area this summer, so I'll try to make a better video for the Crater Lakes if I can get around to it. I'm definitely familiar with strata volcanos and their explosive nature. I wasn't around for St. Helens (born a few years later), but I've lived in the middle of an extinct strata volcano on and off for the last 12 years, and have been slowly piecing together the magnitude of it. There is a little resort in the middle of the mountain valley that is built on top of an andesite flow that was clearly a dome that formed after the mountain blew it's cap. By my estimations, the mountain I'm speaking of would have been no less than a mile taller than what it is today. There's also a number of strata volcanos along the Pacific Coast that are only noticeable by tiny remaining outcroppings, but it's believed that many mountains have completely destroyed themselves in this fashion, leaving, in some cases, virtually no evidence they ever existed.

Do you live in Cuba NM? I'm very familiar with Valle Caldera. I went to UNM a long time ago, spent a lot of time at Jemez Springs. My geology teacher at the time said it through rocks the size of a semi truck as far away as central Kansas! The tsunami that tore into China returned (like pinballs do, not straight back, but whatever angle dictated by Earth's axial orientation, and its vector around Sol) filled the Big Valley of California, I expect, where it sat for a long time, eventually settling into the ground. I remember being impressed, as a child, by the volcanic field north of Flagstaff, but I've seen quite a few, since. I was in WA, when Mt Baker was threatening to do what Mt St Helens did, 3 years later. I was in Portland, in July, 1980, when St Helens popped off five times one day. One of these eruptions caught some friends, as they were flying in. The pilot was telling passengers about the eruption, and had just said, "We'll fly over, so you can see most of it", when the mountain let off a blast that went straight up to 25,000 ft! The plane, on approach to Portland Airport, bopped sideways, as the pilot let off a string of curse words. My friends were telling the story in the bar at hotel, laughing about it, but they'd already told me they'd had to change their underwear. In 1986, I took my wife and son to Expo '86. I was telling my wife about the mountain, and the eruptions, saying, "It should be around here, somewhere, I don't recognize this desert", when I realized we were flying over the destruction left by the eruption. I've flown over it more'n a half-dozen times, since, but I know what to expect, and the land is beginning to recover. It rains a lot, in WA, and OR, so that helps. Yeah, Costco sells a hot dog and drink for a buck fifty, although the "drink" is a soda head set to pour as thin a stream of syrup as possible. The hotdog is pretty good, though, and I've never had a bad reaction.

To see St. Helens in action would have been terrifying, I'm sure. It's only a small glimpse of the energy our planet could unleash at any given moment... Kind of like my guts after eating maverick hotdogs! Ha! The mountain I'm speaking of is in Arizona about 100 miles west of Flagstaff on the east edge of the Mojave Desert. A smaller sky island when compared to San Francisco Peaks or Mt. Lemmon, but it certainly makes a spectacle on the skyline, and is host to a unique microclimate and ecology. I'm talking about the Hualapai Mountains of course. The Grand Wash, Meadview, the Red Lake Playa, etc just to the north.

I have to admit, it was impressive, and I saw it two months after the big one! Over by Crookton, or Seligman?

@@TheAnarchitek between Kingman and Seligman. Sorry for the short responses. My grandma just passed away this morning. A lot of family coming and going. Heavy heart today.

I have thought about this a bit myself, and I tend to assume that they did use native copper for certain things, and was part of why the copper-aluminum sulphate "turquoise" was such an integrated part of their culture. They would mine artisanally in hopes of finding small pieces of native metal, but as a byproduct, they would regularly produce turquoise and other copper minerals for jewelry and ceremonies. Copper, as a pure element, also corrodes or oxidizes rapidly, and if much of their territory was under water for long periods, and otherwise resting in salty, alkaline environments, it's possible the evidence has mostly disappeared. Without the knowledge of metallurgy and making of alloys, it is difficult to make a lasting tool, and furthermore, perhaps the use of stone instead of metal was a matter of sustainable practice, and perhaps these cultures understood the balance of nature and the destruction caused by large scale mining, especially of sulphide deposits. Even to this day, the best "surgical-grade" blades are made of stone (more specifically volcanic glass/obsidian). Perhaps there was something more practical about it, and so they simply stuck to what works and didn't intend to reinvent the wheel. A statement that has stuck with me for many years now is that, "the absence of evidence does not mean an evidence of absence."

I've also heard on multiple occasions that the Pueblo are the Anasazi, or more specifically that the Anasazi became integrated into the Pueblo tribe. I struggle to see through the varied stories to find a common truth, however, and it seems to me like the Anasazi were their own tribe of people that were not related to any of the other tribes of this land. Even more fascinating is stories that the Anasazi were actually Martians, and I've heard this from tribal people of the Paiute (Navajo) culture who also called them "Anasazi", translating to "Ancient enemy" (depending on who you ask).

Very true! I suspect a lot of "evidence" was lost to heat, to water, and to time. We are fortunate to have what we do, and the isolation of the canyon ruins has helped. The prevalence of motorcycles, ORVs and quads has seriously endangered those ruins, a threat caused by idiots who desecrate them for "fun", as well as all the You-Tubers who make videos about them, by tramping through them. I have wondered about the prevalence of gold, in the ancient world. Tut's face mask has 34 pounds of gold, a stunning amount, but not the only use. The global gymnastics I've spoken of must have exposed seams of gold, and other materials, especially in the Mediterranean region, where it seems to have been used extensively, for quite some time. The Fremont/Anasazi would certainly have found copper, and gold, as well as turquoise. They might have fashioned items out of the metals, keeping them, when they moved. The items might have been misattributed to other sources, when found, centuries later, far from the Southwest. Other gems are less common in the US, speaking to its assembly from unrelated pieces, but the methodology of the dispersal of elements, crystals, and rare-earth materials was somewhat haphazard. The water that covered the area, in the early centuries of the 3rd Millennium BC, was shallow, sometimes fetid, probably, as standing water does. The arriving water, circa 2164BC, scoured the landscape, down to rock, gouged out channels, and sat, in deep pools, for nearly 3,000 years. Water acts on rock, in its thermal range, and in its weight. Any shifting underneath, is multiplied exponentially, because water just abides, so the force is deflected. That idea is what is so critical about the reactions of water, when the events I discuss occurred. Tsunamis move through the water at about 500 mph. It isn't so much the water moving, but the force moving through it, by a form of telekinesis. This means a tsunami crossed the Pacific, from off Chile, to China, in about 18 hours. If the "rising Sun" was swallowed by the sea monster, 18 hours later would be near midnight, when the civilian population was abed, and least expecting a catastrophe to come out of the night. Lake Bonneville would have been very salty, and its progenitor, the Great Western Sea (for want of a better name), that had surrounded the ancient ice cap I believe sat northwest of Navajo Mountain, was reduced to Lakes Lahontan and Anasazi, when it solved the blockage in southern California, enabling it to drain away to the Gulf of Baja California. The water that was trapped in the basin I call Lake Anasazi, was a soupier mix of chemicals, some of which may have arrived long after the water. This body of water would not begin to drain away until the first centuries of the modern era. The Petrified Forest was such a site, with silica, and other enabling chemicals, to work on the (probably) millions of logs pushed ahead of the raging waters. These bodies may help to explain the salinity of the oceans, today, because they are higher. I believe the "seas" of the world before all this started, were cleaner water, less saline, and far less polluted. The seas had been shallower, connected by "rivers", that circulated the water to keep it fresh. The addition of uncountable levels of water, mixed with all manner of contaminants, altered that scenario. The amount of fresh water available on the planet, today, is scary small. Getting "salt" out of seawater is not as easy as it sounds. Libya recently discovered three massive pools of potable water in its northeast, southeast, and southwestern quadrants, water enough to change the nation's course. A watercourse crossed Libya, perhaps contemporaneously with the events I mention, emptying into the Gulf of Guinea, between the eastern and western pools. Another water course crossed Algeria, emptying into the (present-day) Atlantic (might have been another "water course", at the time). Algeria, and Mauretania might be advised to look for the same conditions Libya found. Very appropriate closer, too. It is a logical conclusion, one that seems to miss a lot of people completely. The fact that we cannot explain where our forebears came from, for the most part, has more to do with how they were "erased", than it does to who they were. There were peoples who've disappeared, since, who built Machu Picchu, and great cities now covered with vegetation, in the Amazon. These people, too, "walked away", without explanation. I'd say, "My city suddenly being elevated by 10,000 feet vertically (or buried beneath a wall of mud a hundred feet high) is all the reason I need to relocate to sunnier climes!" I've wandered far afield, in my response, but I see it as a connected whole, a sequence of events that blew people's minds, disrupted their lives beyond description, and altered the world, into the one we know, assumed by one and all to have "always looked this way" (unless it was "millions of years ago"). It is a magnificent tale, marred by human indulgence, of all our many syndromes and phobias, and, I hope, it is not over with, yet. I think we need to go to the stars. Not us, but our very distant descendants. We have to overcome our (often contradictory) beliefs generated by the events I drone on about, first, in order to develop. Perhaps, an ancient civilization before us reached this point, and took the wrong path, to more, and worse, wars.

The story is as garbled as the stories in the opening chapters of Genesis, a bit of truth, a lot of interpretation, too much human interference. The Puebloans are "related" to the Anasazi, but they're also related to the Aztecs, and the other desert tribes, in the same way. When it gets down to it, we are all related, even if we don't act like it. I have a complete story of the Anasazi-to-Pueblo transition, but I hesitate to state it here. Suffice to say, it is a continuation of the original saga, this time completely on the American continent. They interacted, and interbred, with peoples who may have been the Atlanteans (though never called that), of Plato's Republic, before returning to the desert Southwest. The entire tale explains the appearance of pyramids on North and South America (although many were probably built before this time, but none after), underscoring my assertion the world was vastly different than we know, or are told, not all that long ago. There were a lot of people, from time to time (Sennacherib lost 185 THOUSAND, "in the night", circa I did a quick calculation, about the PIE people, who "emerged" on the Russian steppes, thousands of miles from their origination point, in the 3rd Millennium BC. If say, 2,000 survived, within 250 years, there would have been 3.5 million, at a birth rate comparable to what the world has experienced, over the last 250 years.

@@TheAnarchitek I'd be interested in hearing more about the Anasazi-Pueblo transition, as you put it. If you feel inclined, please send me an email (check my channel description for address). You've had my mind reeling for a few days now, and I'd really like to understand the perspective fully.

Thanks so much for watching! I'm glad you enjoyed the trail!

Unfortunately, the camera can only do it so much justice.

I concur! Thanks for watching!

Makes me think a lot about the large potash deposits found specifically in this region of the world. Do you think these deposits could have been created by the process you're talking about? I believe these potash deposits are found in relatively young rock formations, but the scale of the deposits are insurmountably massive. These are located in the lower parts of the state of Utah, likely in the area you are referring to as "Anasazi Lake". Similarly, the southern portion of the state is loaded with petrified wood and coal, including along the reefs of the Swell and surrounding areas, all the way into the Grand Canyon around the Dirty Devil River. Huge logs sticking out of the ground and pieces of branches and twigs littering every square foot of the ground in some places. Noone has had the amount of time to test this theory, but can we be sure that wood cannot be petrified in a matter of a few thousand or a few hundred years? In a highly alkaline, carbonate rich environment under water (anaerobic), I don't think it would necessarily take millions of years. You got my wheels spinning, so thank you!

Funny you should mention! I do, although I believe the deposits could have been the results of "asteroids". These would have been part of the debris field accompanying the BDR. I think many of our rarest elements are here because they were cast off in ancient supernovas, captured by some other body, and transported over unimaginable lengths of time, to Earth. One such event may have happened near Sol, millions of years ago (up to 20). I've read several pieces about Sol having had a "twin", or "companion" star. The BDR probably arrived pulling a "cloud" of that sort of debris, some that was "rained" down on Earth, during its close approaches, some scattered across the ecliptic, for Earth to "bowl" through, year after year, for thousands of years, still providing excellent "light shows". I wrote an excellent piece about 4 hours ago, on silica at work in the petrified forests (I've found petrified wood from Texas to Montana, Colorado to California), and other deposits, but my grandson wiped it out, just as I was about to copy it, and post it. I'm still working my back to rewrite it. I don't bounce back the way I used to, and it drives me nuts how flimsy You Tubes comment platform is. I've lost tens of thousands of words, because almost anything can clear it. I think the process probably took a thousand years, but the time differential between the first movement of the CP, and the final draining of the "lake" was almost 3 millennia, plenty of time for silica to "infuse" the wood, and, in the drying out process, take whatever organic material made it a "tree". At the end, the logs sat half-covered by the solution, and because it wasn't just water, it didn't "dry out" the way water would have. I think the final straw was the 800 years of (modern) temperatures. I have this weird idea about not only the PF, but the (original) Mayans, both victims of "climate change" they had no control over. I think it took centuries for weather patterns to begin to stabilize, then centuries for them to set in, and begin having long-term effects. If so, the Mayans building those pyramids and temples, in excess, makes sense. When the weather began to change to what is known, now, they left. Well, most of them did--there are always "sticks-in-the-mud, people who will not leave, no matter how bad things got. We see the same things with the dispersal of the PIE people. Some stayed, wherever they were, and became that nationality, or tribe. Others went on, becoming other peoples, despite being "related" to the original band. Then, there were the people who found an area that so suited them, not only did they not leave, they discouraged others from coming in, like the Magyars, the Finns, and the Albanians.

I wrote a lengthy response (as usual), but my grandson wiped it out, just as I was about to post it. I have to give it some thought, before I rewrite it, because I've already touched on some of the topics in other replies. In a word, "Yes!" I know where they are, know the Moab area very well, from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and late 2000s (I haven't been back since 2007). The terrain screams "mineral deposits in large quantities", on Google Earth. My granddad staked a Uranium claim, in the late '40s/early 1950s, sold it for a pile of money in the late '50s, not that it did us any good. Potash is a strategic mineral, not often found, and very important in industry. I had been thinking the meteor that killed the dinosaurs threw up so much mud, they'd been buried in the mud, and time wore down the covering until people could find them. However, I believe now that water was the culprit, washing away top soils to such an extent ancient strata were uncovered, in the Badlands, especially, where a lot of water flowed for a fairly long time (technical terms, of course). The soils maps of the Midwest, from the western slopes of the Appalachians, to the foothills of the Front Range, show admixture I believe is the result of massive amounts of water flowing over, repeatedly. Not constant, but repeated surges of water that carried away topsoils to redistribute elsewhere. Some of that would have been the water course that flowed from (present-day) Arctic Ocean, to the Atlantic (the southern states, Cuba, the Gulf, were not there, yet. After the events I've descried elsewhere, that waterway was elevated above the sea levels existing at the time, the water now desperate to find an outlet to the sea! Some of that water raced westward in a giant tsunami, some coursed southerly, spilling out over a thirsty "desert" (used-to-be sea bottom) that allowed some to pass, while "banking" others (the Oglala Aquifer, and the "Artesian" wells near Roswell, and south), in "water tables" far below the surface. It is also significant there was a lot of oil and gas trapped in that region, from southern Wyoming down to central Texas.

Man, you are completely blowing my mind right now. I've had a lot of thoughts on these exact topics, but you have done a lot to help piece together a few missing pieces to the puzzle. And for the record, I believe what you are saying is true. In regards to ancient civilizations (particularly that of the Anasazi with their ruins stranded high on inaccessible cliffs), it would make a lot more sense how they could have built some of their settlements, and would have connected a much larger area with easier routes connected by water. Your comment would also explain the destruction I see from the Grand Wash well into Mexico as you have mentioned (I've taken strong note of this path of destruction and observed many convincing pieces of evidence for it in person). The bathtub ring is evident in a number of places throughout the southwest, and just as well, playas and sand dunes that all suggest large volumes of water were present within a relative short time ago. No more astounding is the presence of mini bus sized rocks that are rounded like they traveled down a flood path and deposited well above the current river levels, the likes of nothing we have ever seen. I would like to ask more about your thoughts on the Anasazi. I'm deeply interested in their history and knowing who they really are. I've visited a number of sacred Anasazi sites and have been absolutely bewildered by the things that I'm seeing, and even more baffled by some of the stories I've heard. I'm always open to hearing well thought out theories, and more importantly, facts about this place and it's historical context. Thanks so much for your detailed comments. It's really good stuff, and I can tell you have been studying and observing these things for a long time. It's really great insight!

I've written quite a bit about the Anasazi, taking a long detour through their era starting in 2021 (I began my "studies" in 1954, the first time I was turned loose on Aztec Ruins). I think I've figured out most of the story, from the distant past to modern times, although I can only substantiate some of it. They were not a people, then, or now, to commit memories to paper, or other formats, about their past. Their social taboos about the dead, and similar topics, short-circuit any discussion. I started playing on Anasazi ruins as a small child, in the mid-'Fifties. My Dad's idea of "weekend fun" was to drive around, looking at the landscape. We did this from Las Cruces, first, and later out of Grand Junction, so I am very familiar with New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado. We traveled to Yellowstone, when I was 9, and across southern Idaho, the first time. By age 17, when I left home for the Army, I had about 250,000 miles under my belt, maybe more. To me, the 9,000+ mile journey from the Russian steppes to Chaco, and the 1,500 mile journey some of them continued, from there, and back, mostly, stands as one of the greatest epics in human history. The lesson to learn, I fear, is that we have no idea how the future will turn out. Something came out of the darkness, literally. Noah, or whomever he was, was probably someone who watched the skies, caught a glimpse of something that worried him, and kept watching. In a related side note, NASA released a report last Summer, saying rogue planets" are more common than stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. There is no way of knowing what life was like, before the Sumerians and the Egyptians began to assemble into city-states, or whatever form of social structure existed. Something had closed the door on the human past, ubefore them, despite the fact the species has been around for close to 300 thousand years. I am highly suspicious of any theory that claims humans would have been content eating nuts and berries, hunting and grazing for 295 thousand years! Humans are too obstreperous, nervous, and easily-distracted, for a tenth of that much time. I have a dozen papers I've written about the Anasazi, how they arrived, where they went, and why they left (the easiest question of all), and another dozen on the events that shaped the western United States, because those were the stories that interested me most. I calculated a tsunami a half-mile high washed west, across southern Wyoming, and northern Colorado, lapping against the distance Cascades and Sierra Nevadas, before turning southerly, to pool in the Great Basin. However, a significant amount of water, as much as 50 billion acre-feet of water plowed across eastern Utah, through the saddle north of Green River, puddling in what I believe is an ancient polar cap depression. I've found at least a half-dozen of these relics around the world, and noticed similarities to the region around the current North Pole, convincing me of my conclusion. There are other mysteries, besides these, too many to list here, but they add up to something titanic occurring not too long ago. My aggravation with Geologists stems from that conundrum, and from the idea that everything happened "millions of years ago", as I've said. I asked one about the ages of mountains, and how they arrived at a number. He told me, "by dating the stones". That's fine, if you want to know the age of a rock, but falls short, if you want to know when it was thrust into the sky! I have come to believe the only "ancient" mountain range on North America is the Appalachians, and, maybe, the Sierras (I'm still not quite convinced). Grand Wash seems to me an exit point, where overflow ran off from what I term Lake Anasazi, at the point where it could hold no more water. Places around the perimeter show the escape of water, as "streams" (or rivers, to start), like south of Cameron AZ, or west of Grants NM, northeast of Mount Taylor, etc. Grand Wash looks like a whole lotta water (a technical term) came crashing over the north side of a small rift, filled the crevasse, but couldn't get high enough to escape over the southern rim. The water eventually found a path for a river, probably taking centuries to drain the wash itself. There is another, wider, wash, not as photogenic, on the east side of Capitol Reef, that drained off the last of the water captured on the higher plateau where Canyonlands and Arches sit, today. I was reading about Lake Superior a few weeks ago, when I stumbled on an interesting factoid. The lake is the largest body of water on North America (10% of all fresh water on the planet), holding three quadrillion gallons, or about 9,206,649,832 acre-feet of water. I believe Lake Anasazi was more than twice the area of Lake Superior, and a thousand feet deeper, at its deepest. If I am right, it would have taken more than a millennium to drain (Superior would take 191 years). The arrival of the Fremont People, who became the Anasazi, and their descendants "disappearance" speak to its existence for close to three millennia, plenty of time to do all the damage we see (and much we don't), and for the water to find a way, as water does, to escape. The first question I started asking Geologists, long, long ago, was "Why does an area with annual rainfall measured in a few inches show signs of erosion by large amounts of water over so much of it?" I was pretty young, when I began asking, so I was dismissed, and told to run along, but I've kept at it, because I am certain there are other lessons to be learned, and, today, I have a working theory that accounts not only for the known issues, but many of the more subtle issues, as well. My research pointed me at a theory for oil and natural gas deposits, and, on a very different note, the prevalence of gold, in the ancient world of our common ancestors. I mean, 34 pounds of gold in Tut's face mask, alone? We should talk, whenever you have time. Where are you? What we (I) have talked about is only the surface stuff. There is a great deal more, beyond that. Religion was born, shaped, codified, and implanted. Tribalism came out of it, along with xenophobia, and its most virulent form, racism. What happened could happen again (the Solar System itself suggests it happened several times, at least, before the most destructive time). Imagine, for a moment, you are one of a handful of survivors, scattered over a hundred square miles (not unreasonable). You meet a female survivor, and decide to spin the wheel, have a child. You do your best to describe the world gone, knowing it will take dozens of generations to get back to a shadow of what exists, today. You have to edit what you're going to tell your children, mostly because so much of what we take for granted, in the modern world, would seem like "magic" to the uninitiated. Even after that, it is important to remember, no one learns perfectly, except by long practice, so your children would pass on a different version of events, and reality, than you told them. This would continue to happen, until all semblance to the originals would be lost. The Jews overcame this, with their religion, enforcing a memorization program of word-for-word rote. Not infallible, but better than nothing. This is the problem we face, trying to decode the past of more than 100 generations back, just to the end of the era. The era spanned some 60 generations, and before that, as I mentioned, something else reduced the population significantly, even if we don't know how. This is part of the reason "scientists" snub anecdotal evidence. It can be unreliable, given the involvement of humans. However, these were not normal events, not run-or-the-mill occurrences, but overwhelming, titanic events that scared the living crap out of those fortunate enough to survive! When they were done, people wanted to forget. Thankfully, Jews had other ideas, for what were probably the wrong reasons. Myths and legends did not vary from their original story lines as much, because they were stories about people who not only survived, but overcame large obstacles in the doing. Those kinds of stories don't vary far from the message that inspired them, because they are specific to the times, the peoples, and the events. We may not recognize Circe, Medusa, or the Sphinx (riddler), but we recognize the Everyman who faces them. Jung agreed, in theory, and Joseph Campbell even more so, in importance. Whether God was present, active, or extant, is less important than the story of Man's endurance against great odds, as it ever was.

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Yes, it's pretty amazing stuff. This is on Bureau of Land Management lands, and as I mentioned in the video, it is publicly accessible, but I'm hoping I left just enough clues for you to find it on your own. Edit and to clarify: always check land management and mineral claims status to avoid trespassing or mineral trespassing.*

Oolite is the white chalky stone found on the Manti Temple it comes from skyline dr. Ontop of mountain down to the query at the Temple sight. I have seen it as you described it.

I like ya didn't exactly tell where u were but should be really easy enough to find .. all but the multiple washes to choose from.. but that's the entire part of tromping round ..to see what ya can find .. wish in the area I'd check it out .. but we got rocks here .

@@cnone3785 truth be told, if you ended up in the wrong wash, you'd still likely find something interesting. This area is saturated with interesting agates. But ultimately, yes, it's about the adventure moreso than what you can find. If you follow the clues in the video, it's pretty easy to find this spot though. Best of luck!

@@aspenglow13 I recall hearing that, but haven't seen it up close myself. In some cases, Oolite can be found in limestone and marble, and I believe they are commonly found with diatoms (in diatomaceous earth deposits).

I fully understand your point. To be fair, I'm not very well equipped on this trip (no tripod, just my phone), but I ordered some top notch camera equipment right before I left, and I'm going to be picking up my camera and equipment in the next few days. I hope you will continue to watch my videos as I aim to improve with each upload.

@GemstoneJournalist I will keep watching. You are talking about things I'm interested in. Rocks. I hope your camera does a great job for you.

@@lorikendrick5076 I will be taking some strong steps to get better captures and less movement of the camera. I hope I can amaze you with my future videos. Thank you so much for the constructive feedback!

Could you take a course in camera techniques? I have to give up at 05:35.

@@ikestoddard2458 kind sir, I'm sorry you didn't like watching the video. I appreciate your engagement though. I do realize everyone is a critic, but I make these videos because it makes me happy and I enjoy teaching. I will be making serious efforts to improve my video quality, but I would rather post a crappy video than no video at all.

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If you watch some of my other videos, you'll know that I'm knowledgeable about certain things, and rusty on others because frankly, I'm human and like other humans can only study geology and history to the extent at which I can observe and study things. I made this video on the fly with the intention of simply giving a perspective with boots on the ground and allowing you to make your own conclusions. I could draw my own conclusions, and say that it is part of the Western Interior Seaway, which, call it what you will, is an ocean by its own right, as far as I'm concerned. I could assume that, just like you can assume the earth didn't have oceans until recent history. A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet, is all I'm trying to say. Anyway, I do appreciate the comment. I hope you'll look past the fact that I'm not National Geographic channel and consider watching more of my videos to understand my reason for making them.

@@GemstoneJournalist I used the terms to distinguish oceans and seas by depths, not widths. The "interior sea way" probably as shallow as 2,500-3,000 feet, occurred during a time when water was everywhere, the areas that would become "continents" desperately trying to shed the accumulation. It may have stretched across a thousand miles of the Great Plains (and part of the Colorado Plateau, no doubt), but it was probably never very deep. Still, that much water can make an impressive tsunami, if something happened to disturb Earth's equilibrium, and I am certain something did, not all that long ago. There is no way to be sure, because "conventional wisdom" says otherwise. The landscapes around the world show signs of massive amounts of rapidly-flowing water, so my question becomes, "Where did it go?" The obvious answer is into the common areas adjacent to the Pacific and Atlantic basins, in the process redesigning coastlines, islands, and low-lying areas. At some later point, even more water was added, raising sea levels above the continental shelves, many of which show signs of water pouring off them for extended periods. If I were a betting man, I'd wager the ancient Earth (more than 10,000 years ago) was flatter, with only (relatively shallow) seas and large lakes. The Atlantic could easily have been a series of seas that flowed one into another. I suspect Earth "bobbled around" for the better part of a millennium, trying to recover its balance. Earthquakes would have been more common, more pronounced, and "slippage" would have played greater roles in many places, as the plates struggled to hold in magma and keep out water. Plates would have ground against one another, motivated by the immense weight of water on them (one cubic foot of water weighs 62.4 pounds). The deepest parts of the Pacific have more than 1,000 tons per square foot resting on them. Well, water doesn't really "rest", so it becomes a dynamic load. During the time "oceans" developed, the Pacific Plate was depressed sufficiently to reach an average depth of 12,000 feet, and the Atlantic, 8,000 feet. An early map of the plates shows the Pacific Plate to be a relatively tiny piece in the middle of the region now associated with the term, surrounded by plates that have been fused onto it, covered by a thick blanket of water. Sea levels rose almost nine inches, due to Climate Change, in the last 150 years, with half of that amount in the last 15 years. With a surface area of 139,382,879 sq miles, that represents an additional 104,537,159 cubic feet of water, or 6.5 billion pounds, or 3.3 million tons. How much higher will sea level rise, given the resistance necessary changes have been greeted with, and how long, once we do start, will the rise continue? To be honest, at this point, water seems like a weapon of mass destruction we have our fingers on the button of, a dagger poised at the planet's most vulnerable locations. What would happen, if the 1,130 tons/sq ft bearing on the Pacific Plate were to break through the crust at the Marianas Trench, reaching the magma underneath? I suspect the resulting explosions could dwarf all known "catastrophes", threatening continued life on the planet. Maybe not. Maybe Earth is adapting to that, too, but water plays a vital role in everything terran, from weather cycles, to tides, and everything in between. Fire, Water, Air, and Earth are "elements", immutable forces that exist in their own right, independent of Man's puny influence. We know these facts, whether "water pressure", "air pressure", volcanic actions, and the massive forest fires that take everything we can throw at them, then still require an assist from the weather, to bring them to heel, and earthquakes, movements that topple the works of men, as if they were a child's toys. What fresh hell is in store for future humans who inherit our excessive consumption of "fossil" fuels? They are probably not "from" fossils, but indelibly associated with water. I directed my original comment at the idea "oceans" are not "original equipment" for Planet Earth, but a later acquisition, like many exotic minerals and elements. Our ancient past, starting about 2,750 years ago, testifies to the accumulation of massive amounts of water, pooh-poohed by "scientists" who ignore "anecdotal evidence", because it doesn't conform to the "scientific method" (there still is no time machine), and all the accounts were written long after the times when it occurred. It's no surprise, because the world was probably spinning erratically, performing impossible maneuvers, while engaged with the source. I'm a VietNam combat veteran, but I never wrote a word in a firefight. I've written a fair amount, in the 56 years since then, but my memories are colored by the passage of time. In moments of extreme danger, the mind does not go to, "I should record the sequence of events, in case someone later wants to know!" It goes directly to "What do I do to survive?" After, it's occupied with the minutia of restoring equilibrium, sanctuary, and essential needs. It is only long after the fact the mind returns to impressions of the experience. Fortunately, for us, Earth testifies in absence of our rational minds, displaying scars, and consequences, of massive changes. Thank you for commenting. My remarks were not meant as insult, although in my own experience, "geology" has much to answer for, from Ice Ages to the Grand Canyon being "millions of years old". I've been studying the topic since I was young, although my beginnings were not in the classroom, but in the field, playing on Anasazi ruins, clambering over volcanic cones in New Mexico and Arizona, and generally seeing the West, up close and personal, long before Interstates, fences, and hordes of people. By the age of 10, I'd been to every state in the West, only missing Glacier NP, in far Montana, and Olympic NP, on the Olympic Peninsula, in Washington. I've been to, and through, Grand Canyon more than a hundred times, the last time a trip to the North Rim, in 2007. I'm due for another visit! I've traveled Mexico-to-Canada border to border along four different routes (PCH along the coast, Hwy 395 Victorville-Salmo, Hwy 95 Yuma-to-Creston, and Las Cruces-to-Grand-Junction-to-Rock-Springs-to-Gardner-to-Missoula-to-Roosville). By age 10, I had more than 100,000 miles under my belt, and by age 17, when I entered the Army, about 250,000 miles! Along the way, I began watching the landscape. Blessed with an amazing memory, I started noting changes, as man, and time, worked their magic. I returned to the road, at 20-22, making another great circle of the West, before setting out for Florida. Since that time, I've added to my roster, making "great circles" in 1988, 1989, and 2001, each about 5,500 miles, plus cross-country trips, weekend excursions, and . I've driven, hiked, rafted, flown, hang-glided, ultra-lighted, and parachuted all over the West, in my 75 years. I've been to all the states, excepting the extreme northeastern states, north of New York, and Alaska. I've also been to four continents, North America, Europe, Africa (well, Morocco), and Asia. I incorporate all this in my theories, trying to look past the obvious, for the traces left by long-ago events, like the "interior seaways" that crossed Africa, in two places, and across the Provence, in southeastern France. Something of that sort exploded out of the Bosporus/Dardenalles, flooding across the Turkish peninsula, creating the Grecian archipelago, and the deep end of the Mediterranean Sea, perhaps the cause of those "seaways". Where did the water come from, where did it go? There are signs all around us, still (it hasn't been that long, "geologically"), of massive amounts of water passing over, through, around, landmarks everywhere. Ancient shelters were built to withstand unimaginable storms. Weather patterns were altered for as long as a millennium, contributing to the chaos and destruction. The Proto-Indo-European language, root language for much of Western Culture (and some others), had no word for "ocean". That in itself suggests a null set, "there were no oceans", or, if there was one, it was far, far away from those people. Earth had water, before, clearly, because water was, and is, essential, for life to emerge. It just didn't have nearly as much as it does, today. Those lucky enough to survive emerged into an unfamiliar "new" world, where directions were different from known (an ancient Chinese emperor sent out parties to "locate the four corners of the world", ie, the directions). We have countless stories that address this problem, ignored by "scientists", because the theories they suggest cannot be tested, replicated, or verified.

@@GemstoneJournalist I did look at your other videos, but most seem to deal with rocks, a very different subject! Rocks WERE "made" long, long ago. How they were shaped, and sometimes, how they were admixed with other elements and/or compounds, not so much.

​​@@TheAnarchitek ​​ I actually appreciate much of what you are saying and implying about Earth's history. Believe me, I have many unconventional beliefs about Earth's history, and I'd love to dive into some of those theories at some point, but need to establish my own credibility before I make any hard reaches for it. Like many modern geologists, I can only verify things by strong observation, and even still, the earth is a very complex puzzle. One such theory is that the Grand Canyon is not very old at all. The rocks and strata may be ancient, but the canyon and the desert from which it was carved might not be as old as we could assume. Geologist widely accept that the canyon formed after a massive fresh water lake broke through the mountains that contained it, and within a matter of a few weeks, the canyon was born. I've seen plenty of evidence for this around Mohave County, AZ where massive deposition of rock and dirt have been deposited across much of the Mojave Desert, more specifically along the Colorado River. In these deposits, you can find massive, rounded boulders, some of which sit high on top of hilltops that have clearly eroded down to what they are today. If we look at the Great Basin (Basin and Range province) to the West/Northwest, we can see a very different ecosystem where Bristlecone pines as old as 5000 years are found, but this stretch along the Colorado River's flood path seems devoid of any plant life that is anywhere near this age. With the exceptional amount of sedimentary deposition and the geological tales of the Grand Canyon formation, it doesn't sound entirely improbable. Also looking at some of the first maps of the Western United States, California was an island or peninsula, and the Mojave Desert was essentially a seaway. I can't say for certain that any of that is true, but perhaps something catastrophic had occurred here within the last 500-600 years that backfilled the seaway and created the open expanse of desert we see today. I appreciate your thoughts and insights, and believe me, I don't find your theories to be outrageous. I also have my thoughts about ancient monolithic civilizations and pyramid builders in North America, and have some strong thoughts on certain mountain structures found throughout the Western US. It's really exciting to think about, even if it is theoretical. Modern geology is generally expressing theories more often than proven/validated facts, so we can only take things with a grain of salt. I hope you'll continue watching my videos, and perhaps someday soon I'll get into some of these more profound theories. In the meantime, I'd like to leave things open to your own speculations. I'm not here to rewrite the understanding of history, but I do love when people can discuss things with an open mind. Sorry it took me a bit to respond. I came down with some bad food poisoning from a gas station hot dog and am just barely feeling better.

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