I discovered a Geologic Anomaly on Google Earth
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Since the first time I discovered this unusual structure on Google Earth, I have wondered if it was an ancient ruin, a rock formation, or maybe something else..?
Well, I couldn't wonder for much longer, so I took off for the desert and hiked into the middle of nowhere just to look at this thing.
I was not disappointed....
Thanks for watching this video, and if anyone has any sort of expertise that can help me understand how this thing came to be created, I would love to hear from you in the comments.
Stay tuned for a lot more like this!
#googleearth #hiking #exploring #ancientdiscoveries #geology
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What a fantastic discovery 🌎
Thanks Googs. Couldnt have done it without ya 😘
@@the_pov_channeldoes Google do that when they're tagged in the title? Lol
Pretty neat
Why’s there only 51 likes when it’s google?!
@@ArcaneMajesty I find it quite cool as well 🙂
I wonder how many people run the commenting and stuff like that 😇
Dont blur it out like you do with the rest of discovered anomalies.😊
Botryoidal Formation - A botryoidal texture or mineral habit, is one in which the mineral has an external form composed of many rounded segments, named for the Ancient Greek βότρυς, meaning "a bunch of grapes". This is a common form for many minerals, particularly hematite and malachite, which are known for frequently forming botryoidal masses.
I wanna see what's inside some of those bubbles.
Now can you say that again in English please?
Yes, looks like an ancient tree that stood in brackish waters a very long time, and became mineralized, looks like by barite (Ba)
Thanks, I was thinking it was that, but I didn’t know the name for it.
@hacks9099 So if you break one open it would be colorful?
It looks to me that you are in the Navajo/Aztec sandstone of Arizona. These were ancient sand dunes dating way back to Jurassic times when this part of the world was perhaps the largest desert dune field the world has ever known. Since the bedding under your structure appears undisturbed, I am reasonably sure that this is the remains of an ancient oasis. Within these extensive dunes, there were oasis where ground water came up to the surface and created pools. In these oasis, the water was highly mineralized with calcium carbonate (AKA calcite, AKA limestone) which is also the mineral that holds the sand grains together elsewhere. Over the centuries, while this oasis existed, the calcite would deposit in the waters and in the mud of this pool and slowly build up rounded concretions of limestone. This limestone deposit was and is more resistant to erosion than the surrounding sandstone and so while the sandstone eroded away, the oasis deposits stand out. The Aztec sandstone, formed as it did in a harsh desert, contains very, very few fossils, but algae and sometimes animal fossils can be found in these ancient oasis formations.
Without being there myself and testing the minerals that are there, this is my best guess based on similar structures I have examined in Utah.
Great answer! Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
Is that the remnant of a geyser?
@@the_pov_channel Thank you for producing this interesting video. Can you give us the geographic (gps) coordinates of this formation? If you didn't take a gps reading, can you get the coordinates from Google Earth? Thanks.
And that is a giant tree stump turned petrified in that oasis
came here to suggest Tufa tower/ spring as well.
First time viewer. Gotta say how grateful I am, that you treat this incredible earth with such respect. You aren't poking everything and causing breakage. Bless you ❤
I wasnt sure until you started walking around the dry riverbed, but I’m 90% that’s an old spring of some kind. An outlet for an underground aquifer that dried up a long, long time ago. The “bubbles” would basically be sand and rock pearls, made of the same stuff that gradually layered the walls as it was running. I don’t know why this one didn’t erode away as fast as the rest of the rock around it, maybe there’s different rock where the water originally came from. That’s also why the tube has a water-like texture; that’s how the water eroded the stone that used to be around it before the different rock started coming up and sticking to the walls.
🤯 Yes, this makes so much sense. Thank you for the observations. Need to find more
I was thinking it could be an ancient sand boil, but i think your explanation seems more apt.
You can also see that the top layer of rock, which must be a tougher rock, seems parallel with the flat terrain on the opposite side of the canyon. Presumably, that was an ancient river bed, and over millennia the river eroded the sandstone away to form the canyon. However, the spring was able to resist erosion and so it remains standing.
If I had to guess, I'd presume this was due to minerals that the spring carried up from deep in the earth. The minerals likely bonded to the sandstone around the well, creating the bubble shapes as it was deposited and strengthening the rock to be able to resist the water's erosion.
I'm not a geologist, but that's my best guess.
Great theory (i think idk)
Moreover, a lot of that rock looks like travertine, which is deposited by mineral springs.
The pile of stones at 1:27 is called a cairn. They are common on the wilderness hiking trails in Minnesota. Someone built that as a trail marker so they could find their way back to some spot.
hikers do it all the time in the mountains next time add one :D
They make cairns here in Scotland a lot, too. Mostly for fun nowadays, but they used to make them to remember where good places to moor or set off boats were.
My source: half-decade-old memory (college of dudetrustme)
we actually have a problem with tourists building cairns in Iceland.
Because so many people want to build them the amount of rocks that are displaced leaves scars on the land.
Also most people don't actually know their purpose and don't realize that adding cairns on an already established hiking trail can legitimately be lethal to hikers trying to find their way out of a storm, take the "fimmvörðuháls" as example, it translates into "five cairn pass", and some hundred years ago they used those cairns to find their way through the mountains and between the glaciers, now the rangers in the area are struggling to disassemble all the cairns that aren't supposed to be there.
Yeah same in most american national forests. before entering there will be signs that specifically state to not build them along the trail and to demolish any you find that arent supposed to be there. ones that are belonging will be tagged and marked. @@Old-Mango
@@Old-Mango that's a problem, perhaps they could add a few signs saying "DO NOT BUILD CAIRNS PAST THIS POINT" and maybe a punishment for those who do, it wont prevent it completely but it may lower the chances of it happening.
I love these kinds of POV videos coming from smaller channels, no over the top editing, or anything that I've seen a million times, simply a short setup and a dude with his camera, thanks for making this.
Thanks, that's the only kind of videos I watch myself.
Hello my friend. I just did a video on your request to explain what you saw. Here is a link and I am interested in Your Comments please. th-cam.com/video/eqwvyaI6rT8/w-d-xo.html
@@the_pov_channellooks like where a lake used to be. Waters as deep as 200m.
All geology is biology mineralized. All that looks like … muscles.🧐😏
@@gilbertodotticesa2141it looks like a mud flow
It reminded me of a hollowed out tree stump. Like the petrified forest. Great video!
It is PETRIFIED THREES
@@tutnetam It looks more like the PETRIFIED BRAINS of FE shills...
Came to comment that it looks like a big ole petrified tree, so cool! Beat me to it
It is in fact a mud fossil tree, but they wont tell you that.
There are a few people like this on TH-cam it really makes me happy that other people younger people are into any type of cartography and exploration and outdoorsman ship good job on all of you and thanks for posting it’s fun to go along I’m old I did a lot but it’s still fun to go along. Thank you everybody
You can’t forget about all of the ones who don’t post anything and just go to see it for themselves
I am 18 and I know many people interested in this sort of thing. Interest in the world never ceases to exist!!
No propaganda, hence we don’t hear about 18 year olds, unless they get weird or break the law. Whatta shame.
Thanks for reminding us.
Loving this! I turn 57 this year. After 2 surgeries & rad, I am feeling old just when I was going to be able to go do stuff. I am glad for TH-cam makingbit possible for people to make lives doing life instead of being trapped. This is so cool, so beautiful, and the geologist responses very informative.
Totally agree. Sorry to hear that- I am planning on making a video describing how I have overcame some pretty serious knee injuries. Keep on moving!
Me too
That is exactly my situation. I have to live through other people’s adventures and I’m so happy to find these. Exactly what I wish I was doing. Thanks so much for posting it.
To you, kisses!
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im always ask me ,,,why ppl here in you tube have to let the others.. know that they are old sick injuries surgeries..and many others....whats the point many others videos the same ppl say that hey are old and bla bla...
This of crystal habit is called "Botryoidal" taken from ancient Greek meaning "a bunch of grapes." It is problematic to say precisely what mineral may be causing this grape-like or globular formation from just a photo. That said, very similar botryoidal features are found in carbonate rocks (limestone) from the Dengying Formation, Sichuan Basin, China. If this rock formation is limestone - and it looks like it could be - the botryoidal structures could be composed of fibrous dolomite or aragonite. How did these features form? Quite difficult to say from a photo but my best guess is precipitation cementation from insitu chemical or biochemical reactions. Retired mineralogist & Sr. Oil Exploration Geologist with British Petroleum.
this should be top comment. youre the only one that gave an actual answer.
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Thank you, I was hoping to find this here....well said...
op should pin this
Looks more moki than botryoidal to me
I was thinking Geode.
I was thinking more like an abandoned an eroded toilet of da God's
As a woman I would be scared to hike alone so I love to watch videos of people doing this! I love to see the beauty of the canyons!
Based on the image at 3:12, this is an injection/injectite feature. They provide a preferential fluid flow pathway that often causes the sediment immediately surrounding it to cement more than the other rock in the area which inhibits erosion. These are very common in the red rocks regions of NM, AZ, UT, and CO. I did my thesis on these out in the area around Canyonlands NP.
4:02 the round balls look a lot like the rocks that GeoGirl (?) recently covered on her channel, but smaller. Geo Girl video is th-cam.com/video/Pn0qtseed1E/w-d-xo.htmlsi=WWKvm7GPwxC7M8FL Apparently they’re formed by wave motion as a grain accumulates materials in a very spherical shape being gently rocked back and forth on a lake or sea floor. I’d guess that after that the area became sedimented which caused them to be trapped, followed by water erosion which shaped the sandstone into gullies and such. If I understood your post correctly, this hoodoo as you’ve suggested is likely due to the intrusive rock being slightly harder and resisting erosion more than the surrounding rocks.
Awesome video, I love this kind of desert area, have visited Valley of Fire in AZ several times when I’ve gone to Vegas. Honestly I enjoy the desert hikes more than the city.
Any paper references on that? This is a fascinating formation.
@@kmacksb If you want to read on Injectite Pipes, Hurst and Cartwright out of the UK have done a ton of work.... If you put Hurst and Cartwright and Injectite into google scholar a long list of papers comes up...scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=hurst+and+cartwright+injectite&btnG=
@@sjsomething4936 GENTLY? Hardly
it could easily be where the 5000 ft tsunami bowled over North America from the Chixalub meteor impact.
one hell of a grinding wall of boulders, rocks and water,
ever tumble rocks?
Cool
One word of caution in the slot canyons! Don’t step on boulders stuck between the walls lest you end up being stuck like Aron from the story and movie 127 Hours. Also, ensure there’s no rain anywhere at a higher elevation that would empty into the slot canyon as some become raging torrents really quickly. Amazing scenery, thanks for the video.
That's what I was thinking when i saw him walking in the canyon!
Thought the Same…Looks like flashfoodyperfect
looks like a tree stump
lava flows
I'd be careful about water and flash flooding in that canyon.
Back in 94 or 95, we had a flash flood rip through that canyon near Paige that the movie studios like to shoot films in.
They did a sequence with Indiana Jones riding a horse through the canyon and now everyone wants to go there.
The water blasted through the canyon and shot large rocks through the gaps in what is normally a very beautiful spot.
A husband and wife from France were killed in the flood and the police had to go on the local radio to find an interpreter to tell their kids what happened.
The kids had stayed behind with friends at a hotel pool for the day.
The rain can be miles away and the water sneaks up on you very fast.
Sad. Always watching out for any trace of water in your watershed. See my last video
@@the_pov_channel It's scary that the rain can fall 50 miles away, it's clear blue skies where you are, and then BAM! Flash flood. I'd probably have a heart attack before it even hit me.
I found Desert Drifter and now you. This is an area of the country I've not spent any time in and I love travelling through you, two guys! The bubble rocks, what a trip! All of it!
My new favorite channels these days, too. So good, both of them!
Remnants of a spring. It was built up over geologic time by minerals being deposited. Very cool find
The little spheroids are chemical accretion that occurs from hot ground water being forced back up to the surface bringing dissolved minerals.
An example of mineral accretion is the geology surrounding the hot springs at Yellowstone national park.
@peterresetz1960 Yep. The remnants of an ancient thermal vent.
That's exactly what it is. An ancient hot spring
25 years geologist here. I agree. Clues are:
The bedding is the same angle as the surroundings, so whatever it is happened in place.
The spherical things are where some mineral formed from the influx of mineral-rich waters, growing radially from a central point, and cementing the sand into those spheroids..
Soft unaltered rock was eroded away, leaving the skeleton of the whole system.
I wonder if there is any gold in it?
History Channel at 3AM: "This strange rock formation is not what it seems, experts say it could be the remnants of an ancient civilizations of giants, and this, was their king's throne"
It looks like it or remnants of a pillar or tower
😂😂😂
😅😅
It’s a giant toilet
Also History Channel: "Alien landing site"
1:22 the trek planner! I absolutely love watching his adventures. Not only is he extremely respectful of the places he adventures to, but he also has knowledge and keeps people engaged. I think if more did what y’all are doing, with respect of course, people wouldn’t forget history and how deep those roots actually are.
I think his videos have shown that exploring history using modern technology is absolutely fascinating. He's crushing it!! And yes, leaving a place better than you found it is more important than anything.
It is not about erosionary forces creating the bubble rock, think of it more as the forces of erosion revealing the bubble rock underneath. All that "normal" smooth rock flow around it in that canyon is hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of year old sand and mud flow through the area that has dried for all those years. Rainfall through those years breaks down the sandstone over time to sometimes reveal what was trapped beneath. It is possible that one of 2 types of events occurred there. The ancient mud-flow wrapped around some form such as an ancient tube formed through very old seismic activity (less likely due to the geology of the area) or probably more likely- a large tree, that then hardened. That tree dying and decaying away, opening pockets of airflow, and later mud-flows pushing air through creating gaseous bubbles of hollow-spaces, the mud hardens, then later activity filling in those areas, that mud hardens. All being covered up, then revealed again. It is sometimes hard for our human mind to wrap around what is possible with millions of years of climate cycles.
This reminds me of a super ancient petrified tree... like the stump is eroded out but the outer shell stayed there over time. The bubbles remind me of how the sap will bubble up under a pine tree wound.
that was my impression as well, thought more of petrified mushrooms, but sap could be possible as well.
very nice are to explore indeed, would be nice to go there with some climbing equipment....
@@Adeptus77 No.....that just.....no
It's more than just the simple or complicated answer of: It's just a rock.
That's my instinct. Looks like a tree and the bubble rock look like sap. I grew up surrounded by forest, and I've seen tress with sap oozing out that looks the same.
Yeah like it was a hollowed out rotted tree that got buried in mud and fossilized😮
Wow, where to begin. First off- This is by far the smartest TH-cam comment section I have ever seen. The depth of expertise / passion of geology on TH-cam is incredible. Secondly, thank you all for the amazing feedback- I hope to get around to answering all your comments. Lastly, there's quite a lot of different ideas as to what this could be... keep em coming. The "ancient mud spring" theory I read a couple times (imagine a dried up Yellowstone Caldera) Seems to hold a lot of weight. To the person who said its a coral reef... Love the imagination. Never change.
The round "bubble rocks" are called Moqui Marbles. The state of Utah Geology website has an article about them. They are found in a lot of places from Moab down to Arizona. Cool video.
I feel like the Moqui Marbles I have seen in other places usually are darker and look to be made more of iron.. these seemed to be pure sandstone. Maybe there is no difference, I'll have to look it up. They are super cool either way.
Moqui marbles are iron concretions, loads in calf creek canyon UT
@@the_pov_channel Yea! New follow! I'm no geologist but it looks like caviar. :) :)
Nothing 'diatreme'? (This comment is for round table top!).
oooh, Moab's Dibs >.>
NOLAN...EVERYTHING YOU DISCOVER IS SO IMPORTANT...THANK YOU FOR HAVING SUCH AWESOME TALENT AND COURAGE...YOUR EFFORTS NEED SUPPORT...GONNA SEE WHAT CAN BE DONE..
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9:11 this part is just amazing. That little canyon is gorgeous, look how smooth the walls are and how it snakes back n forth. Ah man, nature is so damn cool.
Been watching Trek Planner and have enjoyed his show. Now I look forward to watching your channel grow. I would suggest delving into the geology of the area you plan to work. There are a few geologists doing great field geology videos. The more information you can provide your viewers the more followers you’ll receive. Great work. Keep it up. I didn’t do enough exploration when my legs would work right. Get out and do it or you’ll regret it someday.
Kris, amazing feedback, thank you. I have a couple books on Geology collecting dust, maybe it's time I change that. Many more journeys to come. Im glad to have you along for the ride.
@@the_pov_channelRoger Spurr will help you with it!
Thank you for sharing this! I would strongly recommend that you consider taking an Introduction to Geology type class at your local university. It would make y9our excursions even richer! Also, geologists love to do the things you do - head out into the wilds to look at rock formations. Bet you'd have a blast. :)
I agree, I have started going to the coast and other natural spots to hike! I began collecting rocks though and it's become something I love! So now I am looking at what the rocks are made of. Now it means so much more to me!
Sometimes you can find a tiny crystal cave inside those “Bubble Rocks”… Another Amazing find, Good Job!! Love your channel!! 🌎
It kind of looks like an old tree trunk but maybe petrified period. That is so unique. Thank you for your video and the drone footage. 🙏🏻💕
Ur Right!!! Wow…. Quite Interesting….
I don't know why my first thought was a very very very ancient bristlecone tree trunk that was either cut that way by humans or broken by a sudden violent torrent.
I thought the same when I saw it
I am not expert but fossilized trees kinda look like that. If that's what it is, that is nothing left of the original tree. It's just rocks that over time crystalized in it and took the shape.
It kind of looks like melting. Mudflood type scenario, maybe?
Myron Cook is a geology professor and he has a video explaining how these type of formations form. Thanks for your video and look forward to seeing more from you.
His stuff is really eye-opening. He will tell you what something is not by evidence he finds so he deduces his findings based solely on factual data.
Yes, I have watched that video too and I am happy to say that I have met and traveled with Myron. Myron explained his circular features by liquefaction of the sediments that created a "sand volcano" the throat of which created the features. Myron buttressed his explanation with evidence that we don't see here and there are features (such as the concretions) that aren't seen in his formations. If I'm correct and this is Aztec Sandstone, the Aztec was wind deposited in a very harsh and dry desert not in a water saturated environment. Now, having said all this, I'd have to examine this structure myself and do a little testing with an acid bottle.
Thanks Pat- more to come. I love his videos as well. Cool dude
Appears to be the ancient remains of a hot spring or geyser. Other possibility is that it was a cave formation, but being that you are in sandstone and not limestone country, I lean toward the idea of a thermal water formation.
I am going with hot spring. The hardened 'husk' would have been the boundary of minerals that solidified. The sandstones over the top suggests that perhaps it was snuffed out by water? Super cool. I'd love to see something like that in person.
Perhaps that geyser formation was also partially responsible for the erosion / creation of the canyons it leads into...
Yep, I think that's it.
River pothole. Dig out the dirt in the middle and you’ll find a pothole stone.
That greyish rock looks like limestone to me. So ancient sea bed turned into a desert with sandstone on top. I think its an extremely eroded flowstone from a collapsed cave.
I just discovered your channel. I love how you film and edit. This was such an interesting find! Thank you for taking all the drone footage and showing so much of it. Too often, I see creators show only a few seconds of something! I love that you take the time to show us so much video and drone shots. I enjoyed this very much!
I’m from Arizona and hike many canyons in the area….. for those of you unaware, summer monsoon season in the Sonoran desert creates flash floods, which are extremely dangerous… you can literally have a rainstorm a hundred miles away that will flood these type of canyons in minutes, trapping hikers, who have no way out🙏🏽
Looks like a whirlpool did it when there was water over it? I see a lot of circular formations all through the Grand Canyon…..in very large scale. There was a lot of water spinning at some point in those canyons…..
Yep. Anyone who's thinking about going into a slot canyon needs to understand how dangerous they are. Perhaps I will put together a video in the future to help mitigate risk for people who don't know.
I am pretty sure I can explain as you asked. I am doing a video on it now referencing your question on this feature. Thank you my Good Friend. It is biology.
No doubt what-so-ever that it is biological in origin - as is the surrounding „landscape“.
I went with “tree” in my comment but I see your observation as true. Been watching you forever. Biology not geology!
I like that you give some credit to the trek planner. He is super respectful to the sites & you seem to be too. Looking forward to more.
I was watching trek planner when I was led to POV channel. Happy to find it.
Huge props to that guy. He crushes it and teaches lessons through entertainment. What a great service he provides.
@@wassahapening neato
Desert Drifter is another adventurer to watch, also Trek Planner, POV is great also. They are different in their own ways. Grateful for these channels, we would never be able to see all of the beauty on our planet!!
Have you investigated the bubble rock to see if there are geodes? Like cut one open? Great exploration. That might be a volcanic pipe.
It looks like the remnants of a mud volcano. Eroded over millennia of time. You can see the mud flow patterns running out one of the sides and that would also explain the round shape of the structure. Hope that helps.
You are a special kind of stupid if you actually believe that mud flood trash.
Please go get a basic education.
It would serve you well.
Why didn't that mud erode just the same as all the other mud around it?
@@jonumpierre4186sometimes different layers of rock have different compositions, and erode differently, like the amazing 'stone chimneys' in Cappadocia IE, the softer rock washes away over time, leaving harder rock in odd formations
I agree. I think the volcano formed first. Then the landscape eroded away leaving the shaft material in the center and the spherules and other outer material that adhered to it. Finally, some of the shaft washed away faster than most of that outer material leaving the circular center.
Yeah has to be something like that. Maybe also was formerly a crack/cave and the remaining structure was deposited like a stalactite type structure. That would explain the little balls. Then the whole surrounding rock was eroded and the stronger former interior of the cave became exposed.
That’s just plain crazy, I sure hope you don’t trip around these places completely alone, should always have someone in case you need them if your ever in a pickle. Safety first!
What an amazing place and adventure. So much to explore in the world, places I’d never see if it wasn’t for your awesome video. Now I’m speechless.
Something to consider for sure. Here in Northern Ontario there was a lad who went into the bush on his own. Not a stranger to it, he'd been there a thousand times before and was an avid outdoorsman. It's thought that he fell, hit his head, became confused, and instead of heading back to his car, headed deeper and deeper into the wilderness, got lost, until eventually he collapsed and died, probably from exhaustion. His body was found years later with trauma to his skull.
Going out into the wilderness like this alone leaves you extremely vulnerable to the unexpected. Good idea to have somebody along with you or have some sort of satellite GPS device and have somebody with access to the location keeping in touch.
You don't need someone with you as such - IMO better fun alone! - but you do need either an emergency satellite beacon or to fix for searches if you don't make pre-determined rendezvous. But I'm sure this guy has got that sorted!
I’m an artist and not a geologist and here’s what I see. This is a massive tree from millions of years ago that has petrified. The surroundings have eroded. The bubbles are tree sap/resin that bubbled out during the petrification and are now eroding..
that’s my truth❤ it’s beautiful
watching a couple of exploration channels. they are much more interesting when it's 1 or 2 people making the effort to check it out alone. it seems much more personal and when something amazing gets found, the excitement is more believable and we're able to share in it. keep up the good work, we're with ya!
What are some other channels you watch? Im always trying to find more. Thank you!
It’s also wise from a safety standpoint, last thing your audience would want is to hear of you encountering a mishap during your hikes!
What you have discovered is a old cave system and this is all that's left. When you look at it from above you can see that at one time in it's past it was a sink hole that collapsed into the cave system. The other clue is the bubble rocks which are only found in cave systems. They occur from the dissolved minerals in the water dripping from the caves ceiling.
Ok I thought I had it figured out, but you have made me re-evaluate. Perhaps it was a flooded cave system.? The sandstone here doesn't seem to be conducive for cave formation, although I may be wrong.
i think it's a fossilized thermal mud vent. there are others that appear all over the deserts of Utah, New mexico Nevada and parts of texas that also have that curcular formation with natural eroded walls
Kimberlite,natural concrete.
@@bradleysmith5883aren't kimberlite pipes where diamonds are found?
You mud flood idiots are seriously somethin else....
And Colorado
Thanks Galactic Muffin I think this is a solid explanation. I am excited to see more of these these things
Just want to say thank you for sharing. I'm like 10 videos in now. I'm stuck in Ohio. I've always dreamed of the desert . You are doing a great service. Stay awesome.
I am not an archeologists. I have seen round holes like that in a creek where I grew up. The creek would be swiling around in the holes all the time. The holes would be 3 to 10" in diameter, one hole was over 20ft diameter. After 3,4 or 5 years the small holes would grow a couple inches in diameter. It looks to me like after the hole you found was formed the rock around it eroded away. All the round rocks you see where probably swirling around inside that hole and over time they all became petrified into one large rock. Very cool find. This is my uneducated - guestement, of your find.
I believe the oasis idea is correct but also, if you have ever been spelunking, “cave coral” forms and looks exactly like those bubbles you’re seeing. If over the years the sand shifts and then more cave coral forms, it could also explain the stack of round crumbling rock. This might have been part of a cave system. Where standing water was largely undisturbed for a long long time. The cave coral is definitely at the base of your formation find.
Indeed! This is for sure the work of water in an open space underground. The harder question is if this was a sinkhole or a spring. Could have easily been either. Maybe even a small blue hole at one point.
@@haroldsaxon1075 so do u think volcanic activity happened before during or after it was underwater/ground? Those big rounded sloped bits are volcanic right? The features just seem really different so I wondered if they happened at the same time. Also the chips he stepped on towards the end sounded like clay do u know what mineral the reddish brown rocks that he was climbing through at the end were?
@leafloaf3232 the red stone at the end is red sandstone. Most of the area is sandstone. In the past, it was all sand as far as the eye could see. Over time the sand became cemented together into a solid mass, then carved away into the shapes you see by water, like the grand canyon was carved out. Harder types of stone are more resistant to erosion, while softer areas are more easily washed away, creating the unusual scenery in this video.
Great video. Subbed! No annoying dialogue, nice and to the point. In a busy world where we all don't have time to see as much as we'd like its appreciated when you share great hikes like this. Also great drone work brings the formations details to us.
Seconded
I'm not a geologist but to answer your question of how the "round rocks" form, it all started a long long long time ago when the ice from the ice age was melting and moving, the ice and the waters from the ice melting picked up and moved rocks along the ground causing them to become round. Some rocks that were a harder material than the ground got caught in a little divit or hole sat there and spun around in circles and cut out potholes as the water and ice melted and rushed past. As things begin to dry those rocks that were rounded off and caught in mud dried and got stuck in sediment that became a softer rock and over the millions of years between then and now the softer rock has been worn away by little pieces of sand in the wind or water from the rain and has removed the softer rock exposing the harder "round rocks"
I appreciate you actually going out there and looking at these thing's instead of making guesses from your computer like a lot of people do. Thank you.
It looks like an ancient river bed that had a softer stone outcropping that was worn away. The small round rocks could be rocks that were worn smooth over centuries of water wearing it down. The arc shape may have been formed by rocks swirling in a current.
Fascinating find! Thanks for taking us along.
Look into randall carlson. He studies geological formations. He has a theory many of the crazy features we see in North America were formed by unimaginably large floods due to the melting of the ice caps that used to cover Canada and much of Northern America (possibly melting from large asteroid impacts during the Younger Dryas era). What's interesting is some of those "bubble rocks" you showed do kind of look like formations of minerals that you sometimes see in caves. Pretty interesting stuff man, thanks for hiking all the way out there and sharing this with us.
Check out stellium7 and Paul cook too!
Big fan of Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock. Very interested in the Younger Dryas impact theory
Graham Hancock is a great sleuth & explorer. He keeps going through all the ridicule & abuse. Going to check out Randall Carlson, thanks. The Younger Dryas floods didn’t reach as far as Arizona from Canadian glaciers, did they? If only I could live in Arizona, I love it there.
Also the Electric Universe model has some... interesting perspectives and theories.
Diehold foundation. It might interest you
You see all the layers in the rock of the surrounding hills. It makes my heart leap to see the layers that were deposited by the tsunamis of the great flood, then see how the landscape was carved and molded by the force of the receding waters.
From the drone footage, I would agree that it resembles the foundation of a pre-flood tower-like structure, that though the structure was destroyed, its possible location and weight of its foundation prevented the soil below it from being eroded away. It didn’t rise up, the land around it was washed away, down to bedrock.
The balls are neat…it’d be nice to know what they’re made of and if they in fact helped stabilize the structure.
You might already know this from living in the desert, but whenever you find a random stone cairn like that, check in the holes for a metal box. It was for some reason, common for miners to put their land claim in a box inside stone piles. I'm guessing it's so other people would know it was claimed? Anyhow, I've seen a number of explorers find these in the rock piles. Great video!!
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I'd call it the Throne. I'd speculate a lava tube that rose vertically. Those pearls look like cave crystals that have come to the surface. What a stunning landscape! subbed
Thanks friend. Perhaps a Dune worm was involved in the making of it.
I'm fairly certain those bubble rock formations were always "bubbly" and then erosion removed the non-bubbly rock around it.
I agree. But, I'm thinking that the original formation was a hot spring or seep that was active for thousands of years. The bubbling may be how the minerals formed from the mineralized water. The formation may have been covered millions of years ago and the outer less resistant rock eroded away.
Yes sweetie! That's quite obvious ... but ... what caused it?
My guess is ancient volcanic cone ... but ... a geologist might know better than the two of us guessers?
Underwater hydrothermal vent. The crumbling botryoidal formation earlier in the video was likely one as well
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There are several different minerals that sometimes crystallize into spherical nodules that look very much like those. It would be instructive to break one open & see whether there's a radial symmetry to the interior material.
I’m not a professional geologist or anything but man that is intriguing. Only way I can imagine that natural occurring would be by high force of large quantities of water moving at rapid a rapid pace. I wonder if there’s been any evidence suggesting that maybe at one point there has been water in that area that has since vanished, dried up, or washed away?
The botroidal structures look like formations you can find in many caves. These structures typically develop in underground environments where mineral-rich water percolates through porous rock formations. As the water seeps into the cave, it carries dissolved minerals such as calcite. Under specific conditions, these minerals precipitate out of the solution and accumulate in rounded, grape-like clusters known as botryoidal structures. Maybe what is now an outcropping was once the waa of a cavity that eroded away
I agree with this.
Nolan those were some really cool formations that you stumbled across, I wish I had the time to look for stuff like that! It really looks like a lot of fun! The final Caverns you were walking through were absolutely awesome, that was really some nice footage, outstanding!
You often see those bubble formations in caves, like cave pearls. I'd guess parts of this were once underground, and the nodules formed through accumulation of minerals from dripping, or flowing water, or crystal formation.
Cave pearls form by accretion, but round rocks are also formed by erosion in streams and tide pools which is what I expect here.
I would have guessed concretions. You see similar things from fossil hunters.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concretion
Oh right! I hadnt even made that connection. I have seen several caving videos where they find huge cave pearls of a similar size. The same process that creates those may also apply for sandstone bubbles. Neat.
I actually believe the "cave popcorn", and the bubbles were crystal formations, sublimated by flow stone. If you've watched the caving videos, look at the cruciferous, and bubble formations... Many are "covered" in flow stone, and sorta "petrified", making a whole new "stone." These formations were made underground, then weathered for "Who-knows-how-many" eons ABOVE the ground after.@@the_pov_channel
@@the_pov_channel I too, was thinking cave pearls. If there was any scalloping, the I would say that area was an underground water passage that deteriorated over the years. Scallops are dips in the rock layer that can determine the flow of the water. This is a cool find especially the location. I would certainly look back around the Devonian time period. Good luck!
Where you are walking has at some point been an ocean floor. The sandstone around you has eroded exposing the shale which is formed from mud. Looks like water erosion.
These balls are not from botryoidal formation. These spheres are called concreations. The concreations are harder than the surrounding rock so they withstand natural weathering better. Maybe that whole slab has resisted erosion better than the missing, surrounding area.
Something interesting has happened there I'm sure.🙂
Great detective work! Very interesting geology and excellent drone photography! We need Time Machines to roll history back and see what geologic forces created the formations.. very well done!
Nice find, the botryoidal formation is most likely Goethite. To test, grab a cluster next time and look at it under UV light, it will glow green.
Looking at the terrain, it appears sandstone, stacked upon a basaltic dike. Erosion over time as water remained cutting through the basalt layer and then broke path during wetter periods, last ice age, created the pillar you found. The Earth is an amazing place in the universe.
I would definitely go back and collect a sample, hammer and chisel, break off a cluster with the most dense and defined structure. Look for secondary minerals for a better looking sample. Be careful, you may end up catching the rockhounding fever and it never goes away!!
*hides rock pick* Rockhound fever? Not me! I was looking for my contact…here…on this road cut in eastern TN…
Bizzzzarrre! That thing looks like an ancient section of a castle that's left after melting and water
I found some very strange anomalies in a multitude of rock formations in this video. Anomalies I've yet to figure out. Very cool but a bit unsettling.
What were they if you don't mind sharing?
O my Good, I just discover your channel.
This is old petrified three or three stump, and little round rock is petrified mushrooms.
Your videos is amazing. Love from Croatia ❤!
First time watching one of you videos. I appreciate your respect of these structures and that you don't try to climb them, potentially damaging them in the process, and potentially yourself as well, simply sticking to warn paths. One of my least favorite things to see backpacking is stone stacking. I go on those hikes to appreciate the natural beauty....not a glaring reminder that people where there and couldn't stand to leave it be. Cool video, gotta download Google Earth now and do this for my home state!
To be fair, cairn (stone stacking) building dates back to ancient times as a means to mark a path or significant area. I'd much rather someone mark a path/trail with indigenous rocks than by using some other synthetic means.
@mhicaoidh1 very aware of that practice. I am speaking on the ones that are clearly some "art" people feel compelled to do.
Google Earth is VERY INTERESTING!!! I have found soooooo many places that I wanna look at in person bcuz of GE… anyway, I could spend all day looking at everything here in FL… I also wish we could zoom in farther than as far as it goes… lol… well anyway, have fun exploring on GE
@@triggerbunnyI ove it and will continue doing it.
it’s an indigenous tradition.
Thanks for filming your walk....I felt like I was there with you, and feeling excited as to what is going to appear😊
of course! Thats why its called the POV channel
What a fantastic find ! Thanks for the video ! Really great looks of the formation in context .
Thanks modern technology!
Nice video! Great shots and editing. Love that you have such a respect for the Earth and a curious mind.
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I agree that the round features where formed by water. But the top appears to look like a tree trunk formation that filled the water pool (round circle) filling it in and laying down layers of sand in a swirl pattern. Overtime, the wind and water have eroded it into the shape you saw! Thanks for the great videos and the concept of starting with google earth and then exploring! Awesome!
You should contact Myron Cook, a geologist from Wyoming who is very interested in your area. Myron has a TH-cam channel and I'm sure he could answer many questions and perhaps learn more himself. Thanks for sharing your experience. You should get a 3D camera so we could watch your videos in virtual reality, not that your videos aren't scary enough.
That formation seems to me like a petrified ancient tree trunk. It’s very interesting and brave what you do. Be safe! Enjoy! Thank you for sharing your experience. Blessings. ❤
That's exactly what I was thinking too.
Agreed! The aerial shot from the drone sold it for me. That's definitely a tree🙂
That's exactly what came into my mind too and for the "bubbles" around it i would say petrified vegetal moss. I also feel that a part of the ground around is solidified lava. And of course there was water.
There were never any trees that large, though. People misunderstand that when “everything was bigger” in Jurassic times, most plants were not that much larger, just much more plentiful.
@@iroboskelly4421There are still trees that large though. Have you ever been to Sepuoia national Park, or the Redwoods? Some of the trees are way bigger than this.
Mineral water / thermal water vent is creates things like that. It was created under the ground and exposed by erosion much later on. Great find ❤
So beautiful! I was raised in northern Ontario, Canada. When we hike, we see trees - not that our vistas aren't beautiful, but these views of the desert are like a fantasy land carved into the rock! I follow The Trek Planner as well. I look forward to your videos! Stay safe!
I'm from the southwest and west coast USA, but now live in NW Ontario. I miss my desert! Fun formation
It is an ancient underground mud volcano that has solidified
this is what i thought also, not sure tho . nice video hook up with ttek planner sometime
Wow, what an amazing place, and so good that it appears to be virtually unvisited. That mysterious object looks SO much like a giant's throne. Thanks for this ... I'm going to go and see what else you've done ...
Thank you for this adventure. You walked through the remainings of an very old volcano. Great landscape !
Great discovery, drone footage and the song. The slot canyon at the end looked awesome! Great video!
Below the rock in question is probably a fissure and molten material was pushed up and formed it while taking other material with it not yet liquified. Was probably a lot bigger at times passed but eroded and the hardest part of it, what you see that is left is a lot harder. I hope you took a sample of a bubble rock and other small samples of different areas of the round formation to have it tested. VERY INTERESTING! Thanks for the views.
Hey 👋. The top of that rock is the height of the land that eroded around it, it was a fresh water well, lined with the large rocks that form a circle,or what's left of it, the smaller round stones were used behind the larger stones that used to form a circle, as a form of arrogant, back fill.
That well structure was stronger than the land around it and when the land was washed away, the well structure remained. How cool 😎 is that!!
Great documentation, fun to follow along! Thanks to people explaining you discovery too ❤
Those strange formations are typically found inside caves. That means that this was once an under ground cave system and eventually the ground above eroded & collapsed then washed away leaving what you now see!
Loved your video, but you gotta be a lot more careful in those water carved canyons and slots. Everybody else who warned about floodwater is exactly right. Years ago I was a reporter in Phoenix and did more than a few stories about victims trapped and even killed by sudden, unexpected floods while it was dry all around a particular canyon.
I edited out a section in this video where I talked about this very thing.... Yes, very careful in slot canyons always and always checking the weather. I have backpacked the deepest one in the world when it was at flood stage, see my Paria Canyon video.
The feature has a very hard sandstone cap that will be related to a bed on the cliffs to the left. The surrounding slightly softer sandstone has been eroded more quickly leaving this hoodoo type structure
I noticed that too. The top of the formation correlates to the level of the sides of the same canyon with the softer sandstone eroded around it.
From what I have found formations like this tend to be remnants of an ancient spring. The minerals and everything getting pulled up is left in the mud resulting in a more durable rock than it's surrounding.
WOW!! That formation is incredible!! Thank you for filming this!
That was fun. Thank you for taking us on this incredible journey. I look forward to seeing the answers to your questions about this site.
Me as well. I am blown away by how many answers we have received on here 🤯
I'm glad Trek Planner inspired you!
You have one of the coolest channels on TH-cam & you utilize the tools of the internet so well. You’re the remnant discoverer of the new age.
I have seen similar formations in coal but on a much smaller scale, theyre most likely mineral concretions made even more sperical by bacteria...though I have no idea what sort. It also reminds me of ancient sea bed and coral activity
In ancient plant rich boglands deep carbondioxide rich springs held large concentrations of iron loving bacteria that through anearobic action formed spheres of iron 2 which is easy for plants to use in photosynthesis after the spring is buried the iron gradually oxidises into iron 3 and leaving small balls of rust in the coal that has formed since....evidence of 350million year old germs
thanks for sharing this that stack is very cool
Cool video and love the anomaly. Not a geologist but my guess is it was once a thermal vent as the area was all at the bottom of an ocean millions of years ago. Those bubble rocks (great term!) were probably formed by stuff like gases and lava and mud just basically instantly fossilizing them, Thermal vent would also explain the perfectly round shape and now-crumbling walls around it. Everything seems so crumbly because it's mostly sandstone, and rocks tat aren't would just fall off as the sandstone erodes. Just a guess. Keep up the good work! Definitely not a petrified tree trunk as others suggest though.
This was my theory as well!
Even though, it's funny to imagine that could be a petrified tree. For someone who doesn't know a lot about geology, the form could resemble the body of a large tree that petrified long ago and those are the remains.
Someone up said it could be a botryoidal formation too.
Agree with you. Also thought about corals.
The rocks nearby look melted at some point and then worn away. You might have found a site of previous volcanic activity that was then worn away by rain water over a long period of time. If it's softer, it might mud or something. Alternatively, it might have been man-made at one point but worn down over a very long time. Perhaps some failed attempt at building a house out of materials that reacted with rain water to form superheated mud? I know people have tried to build homes out of the wrong materials before.
Definitely mud related.
Drone footage was amazing!!!
Please create a 2-3 hrs video like that with the same type of music!! It was extremely relaxing to my brain and soul
What a fascinating place. Well done for not climbing on the delicate structure. Loved the slot canyon. At times it looked like you were climbing into a giant ear :)
Thanks for your time sharing this cool spot.
I'm in Europe and these discoveries are always so interesting! The landscapes are always so beautiful with all the different shapes and colours.
BTW, what was the music you had playing when you sent the drone up? Very nice :)
Thank you & stay safe!
Nice video. The structure you found is probably the remains of a petrified tree trunk. It probably grew out of the mud layer when it was still soft a long time ago. Then subsequent floods added new layers of mud over it that created the sandstone that you see in that area. A clue that this area has seen a lot of ancient flooding is that rock you found early in the video which was a conglomerate of sandstone and polished river stones. This kind of conglomerate is formed during massive flood events. The flood waters pick up a lot of mud and stones from the mountains they erode. When the waters retreat, they deposit the mud which has rounded river stones in it. In time the mud petrifies and it becomes this conglomerate of sandstone with river stones in it.
And finally the "bubble rocks" are also mud deposits from floods. When the mud dries up in dry heat conditions, the quickly evaporating water from it forms these bubbles. Then the mud is baked in the sun and starts to petrify. This is how those bubbles are formed.
Most of central NA is formed from multiple layers of world flood mud deposits which petrify and become sandstone. Then rainfall and rivers start to erode it slowly and create the canyons and ravines we know today.
LOVED this video! It was amazing to go along with you as you explored something at caught your interest! Be safe and I look forward to exploring through you fro home in Central PA!!
First, everything you see out there is an erosional remnant, i.e., what's left after erosional processes (wind, water, snow, ice, sunlight, etc.) have removed everything else and that's what's left. As far as the feature itself, notice the parallel planes indicating the dip of the sedimentary rock (Let's assume it's a sandstone.) What you're seeing appears to be the remnants of the overlying sedimentary formation. Check the cliff in the background. Is it at the same elevation? It might be the same formation. As far as the nodules, they are probably some type of concretion (clay?) It looks really cool. Just walking around there would be cool.
Sedimentary rocks are always doing strange things... I am assuming this is all sandstone. I think the cliff in the background was significantly higher elevation. Yeah neat place. There's something special about walking over smooth rock surfaces.
Hey thanks for sharing your journey & adventure. Really fun to see the footage you captured. What a fascinating place!
I climbed to the top of a 900 ft (privately owned) belly button mesa. What you found was a much smaller version of the one I hiked across.
On one end of the top was a wall that curved around like a semi circle - 3 people could stand it in- was hollow. we walked into it through an opening like a mini slot canyon. On the wall were 'hand' petroglyphs. It also had bubble rock and it had a lot of quart crystal- like a river of white sand coming from the circular half wall extension. There was also a field of petrified wood that was filled with quartz crystals, and dinosaur tracks.
It was explained to me that the curved half wall was formerly a volcanic 'tube' that was harder than the surrounding sandstone. It was like molten and solidified glass.
The bubbles are pyroclastic rocks, more than likely, from the same volcanic activity that formed the tube and wall. Next time bring a magnet and see how magnetized it is.