Volcanic Basalt Columns in Kelowna
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ม.ค. 2025
- I explore geological phenomenon of volcanic basalt columns which formed just outside of Kelowna, British Columbia. These structures are identical to the Aberdeen Columns just outside of Vernon, British Columbia, which I explored in a previous video. I outline the exact location of these incredible structures in the last few seconds of the video.
The columns are located 4.2 km up West Side Road from Highway 97 in Kelowna. They are directly across from Raymer Bay. There is a water stream source where people fill jugs of water, right at the base. The area is incredible for hiking.
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Excellent video. Top notch.
Basalt cools quickly, it is an extrusive rock type. Outside the earth. The way it cools is so beautiful. The fracturing of the stone is where the minerals were releasing the heat. Like Mud drying in the Sun but on a larger scale. The vertical shape is indicative of basalt. Because it dries in this shape. Notice you do not see crystal in this rock, this is because they did not have time to BAKE. Like cake in an oven. This cooking time is how rock is first made. This rock than erodes into mud or sand and makes a sedimentary stone. Think oven and cooking time. Or cooling time. When rock does not have crystal that are visible, they cooled quickly and outside the earth's oven.
Thank you so much for this explanation. A total newb walking around these things starts assuming some really silly things as it doesn’t make sense on first observation. The Aberdeen Columns had the same incredible effect on me.
Has anyone ever been able to replicate this? I've seen some of these columns all over the world and some of them don't look like natural geological formations at all
I’ve thought the same thing but then someone with some knowledge of this stuff gives a very viable explanation. Fascinating to me that there are major megalithic structures near several of these column sites as well. Gunung Padang pyramids in Indo for example have these columns all around them. Love to know any co-relation.
@@iwillwander but why isn't it obvious that those ”basalt columns" are actually plant fibers? It's mind boggling how ppl don't see it.
Why wouldn’t the ancient Egyptians use these to build
The pyramids. Would have saved a lot of quarry time.
@FoMaHun on Twitter gives very convincing arguments that the rock stone materials used to build the pyramids were all formed on site. Nobody shipped stones halfway across the earth or heated them to thousands of degrees to get the melting effect we see in places. They mixed it all like concrete and formed it on site.
Look at the way this Basalt dried in columns as oppose to Hawaii. Your looking at the centre of a volcano, this rock cooled over thousands of years in place. If it cooled quickly, it would be glass, with no crystal. Happens all the time in Hawaii. If it cooled over millions of years it would be a harder and denser rock called Gabro, which cooled down slowly deep down in the crust. Does the Basalt have holes from gas in it? If so, than it likely is from the top of a Magma pocket. Notice in the Basalt, there is no visible crystals. That is because it cooled quickly. Like a couple thousand years as oppose to the same minerals ( baking incredients), that would have crystals if it baked for millions of years. Think in Millions for crystals. Make more videos of the area please. Im a stone mason, and look for Square rocks. Do you know any old quarries, Im looking for Sand stone? Just for fun.
Thanks for the insights. I will certainly be back to that area at some point and will do my dancing bear routine on camera while I’m there. I don’t know of any quarries.
We will change your name to Big Bear. You are now a Native Indian. BIG BEAR. Not. Big Beer. lol You should go check out the old Coastline of Australia. Cache Creek. Australia used to be attached to this area. More video please.