Fascinating mysterious wonders of the world. I would love to visit his park someday.Thank you for elaborating more on this topic to my understand of Devils Tower. It's such a beautiful place!
You had to hum the music. Now I have a craving to play with mashed potatoes ;) Your explanation makes a lot of sense. What an incredible site to visit. I've always wanted to go there and I will some day. Thanks for posting this and sharing your experience.
*Hey my geo friend. I am going there in a few weeks. I cannot wait. I have never been. I am hoping to do some 360 and drone videos. I am so glad I watched this before going. I like Blackie, your side kick. I love all your great work. It is just wonderful. Thank you for your continual support of our channel. Your friendship means the world. oxoxox CM*
Does devil's towers composition mirror petrification ? Could the different compositions of rock from top to bottom result from different minerals leeching into the burried tree stump? I'm just saying what if this was a huge tree stump burried or partially burried then mineral rich waters occluded into the cell membranes of this stump? Just wondering if petrified wood shares the same mineral composition as this Devils tower does.
derpfrog no. The rock that makes up devils tower is called a phonolite. It is an igneous rock. Petrified wood always retains some of the structure of the tree. Devils tower has no such structures. The columns are columnar jointing which forms only in igneous rock that cools fast enough to shrink and form the columns.
The diatreme hypothesis fits really well with columnar jointing pattern formation, unlike volcanic plugs. Heck. Who knows. They could all be wrong or maybe we can get that pattern parallel to flow and we aren’t aware of the mechanics. I do find it odd that this pattern even formed in such a phenocryst rich magma with a matrix that arguably isn’t aphanitic. We usually see this pattern in mafic rich micritic rocks like basalt. This rock is not only on the opposite side of the QAPF plot, but it’s on the bottom part of the chart.
Some ideas for videos: 1) Everyone understands that the Badlands in South Dakota are formed by erosion but is there also sometimes deposition inside underground water pathways and chambers that are inside those buttes, the high areas? What about some of those areas on Rt 90 between Gillette and Buffalo Wyoming, (pretty sure its the area I remember) isn't that the same type of hard clay type rock as the badlands with a lot of complicated maze like water activity underground sometimes coming to the surface to create those same puddles of water with clay permanently in colloidal suspension like you see in the Badlands? 2) How is it that all the petroleum is said to be fossil fuels from former living plant matter when on other planets there are mass amounts of methane? What is the proof? Last time I looked it up this whole subject was not being handled and argued in a scientific manner. 3) I need to know exactly what happened in Southern Illinois with the glaciations and when and where the cut off line is from Makanda north to Carbondale and beyond. I once heard that the glaciers stopped north of Carbondale. But if so then all the way down through the north half of Carbondale was covered in mud and deposits, right? South of Carbondale in the hills around Makanda is undisturbed, correct? Would I recognize the same hill shapes 100,000 years ago?
Losif Crumb 2 and 3 are off topic but here we go. 1) geophysical analysis of the Black Hills area indicates there are no present magma chambers underground. All caverns are near surface carbonate rock caverns. Devils tower is comprised of igneous non carbonate rock. Two totally different environments. You can’t precipitate trachyte rock out of groundwater. That’s a falsified concept known as neptunism. 2) I’m not a petroleum geologist. I do know we can get hydrocarbons from some inorganic processes. The Nonesuch shale is Precambrian and has some hydrocarbons. I also know fossil pollens and other fossils have occasionally been pulled from such deposits. Organic compounds are common in the solar system. They aren’t living. Things like liquid methane aren’t stable in our atmosphere and neither are many others. You need a cold world for that. Earth is too warm and too full of O2 and liquid water. I hope that helps. Like I said, petroleum geology isn’t my thing. 3) Do you want to know how far south the Quaternary glaciers ever got, or just the most recent ones? Well. It’s not a straight latitude line. The Preillinois glacial evidence is mostly either buried or eroded and we still debate that limit. The illinois glaciers likely got as far south as the Ohio River. The Ohio and Missouri are what we call ice marginal rivers. They don’t perfectly outline it but they are somewhat close. Loess and outwash have reached further than the ice. The Wisconsin glaciers barely reached Shelby County. The furthest southern mapped glacial till deposits are Illinois in age and reach the southern limit of Williamson County near the I-24/57 split in Illinois, although there are some erratics south of that. The Illinois State Geological Survey has much free information and maps on the subject.
Asia Streets we don’t know for sure. No deep seismic study has ever been done, as far as I know. The problem with national parks (I speak from experience) is that it’s nearly impossible to get a permit to do anything. Our models and the base of the tower strongly suggest that it does not go straight down.
This is so interesting I am still watching at the moment but I am no where near an expert in this area but I did a video a while back about Lake Titicaca and I learned about these things called Chupa Towers and explored some theories about them and had my own theory that they may have been made to try to contain some sort of Lava I would love love love to hear your take on Chuppa Towers (I hope I am spelling that right).
Wow the texture of it is really, really Peculiar looking. I just hope I am understanding it right. I know very little about this sort of thing at all. . Hmm that is so interesting it formed under ground and then an explosion exposed it and formed a lake of lave? But it is so interesting
@@stevenbaumann8692, one summer I climbed it 32 times. I wanted to be better at climbing columnar jointing. I put the time in and got rather proficient. Great video, BTW.
Great explanation of how it formed, really interesting looking formation...cool people climb it...I'd think the people climbing would be in danger of the Falcon's...
Fernando Ramalho the term is called “columnar jointing”. It happens in aphanitic igneous rocks all over the world from Ireland to the upper peninsula of Michigan, not just at devils tower. It generally forms perpendicular to lava flow in rocks. There’s dozens of papers and internet sources on the topic. Also, the term “volcanic lava” is redundant.
Making testable hypotheses off of the available data and previous work isn’t mental gymnastics. Looking at a photo and declaring the improbable, with no understanding of the information and data while drawing a conclusion on a place you’ve never even been to, is mental gymnastics.
Is it possible the tower is a image of a meteorite that traveled THROUGH the planet and push up a image of meteorite .last extinction?????is there a impact creater opposite this tower,other side of planet??
Interesting idea. As I’m sure large impacts can affect volcanism. I’m not sure which impact craters you’re referring to or it’s age. We know the age of Devils Tower. It’s about Ma. So the plates have moved significantly since it’s formation. It was likely formed during the Laramide Orogeny, as most things in the area were.
@@stevenbaumann8692 wow that was a year ago . lets see . ive since discovered the possibility of instant transmutation. we can reproduce it in the lab and industry. surface igneous rock my have been formed this way ??? sorry its early and im trying to remember the video. but fascinating.
@@cokemachine5510 someone commented on this video for the first time in forever and I saw I never responded. I try to respond if I can. Unless it’s like 3 years old.
Great information. Could you improve the acoustics a little or get a better microphone in try this again please? Who is a definite echo. I didn't want to miss any details.
Marimilitarybrat you aren’t the first one to say that. This was recorded after that room was emptied. I thought it would be ok, but it wasn’t. I cleaned it up the best I could.
I never imagined it was the remaining of an horizontal lava flow. Its vertical shape & pattern always biased me to think about some slow vertical crystallization process. Do you know Matty Lawrence use it as "the pillars of Earth"? Some crazy shit about Earth's crust shrinking except for the pillars. I can paste the link later.
Nice presentation, always wondered about the texture and almost symmetrical shape of this thingy. [Audio is a tiny bit echoey] There's several plastic things that you can sit on that look like that at Loch Ness. When i was a kid and saw that movie, I didn't realise that it was a real place! ;●) England Then, I guessed it was something to do with a volcanic occurrence and then erosion whatsnames, very scientific.? I did math at uni and my geological knowledge is around the "Best guess" level!!!
misterjohn john I’m glad you liked it! It was echoey because the room was empty 😞 I actually did record video on the math involved in the modeling. I didn’t add it because of the length. Ppl never watch my math videos 😞
Steven Baumann I like watching mathematics! There's a couple of big channels devoted to maths. Perhaps you could cure the echo problem with more cats, or using several species of small furry animals gathered together :◎)
I guess it just proves everything moves forward with upgrades in technology. People long ago had to do a lot of wild guessing. These days guys like you have a lot of trial and error to learn from and make more accurate guesses. lol
Pretty unique analysis......thank you!
That is a mighty fine house panther you have! I have one that is a little smaller.
Thanks! He’s a big boi
Great video. Love geology and almost double majored in it.
You now how have a new subscriber
Thank you!
Looks like to me that it was a lava flow that was underground that had cooled somewhat before being pushed up out of the ground.
If the devil Tower is not made out of lava then i want to be the first one to give the devil tower a new name.
Fascinating mysterious wonders of the world. I would love to visit his park someday.Thank you for elaborating more on this topic to my understand of Devils Tower. It's such a beautiful place!
It really is!
I always thought it was a giant, petrified, tree. Cool rock no matter what it is.
This is great. I've always been fascinated by Devil's Tower.
Thanks
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Oh hey, nice! I just posted my Devils Tower vlog a week or so ago! I'll have to watch this in its entirety later today.
Geoscience Imaging thanks man! I saw yours. It was sweet. BTW, great video on the geodes!
You had to hum the music. Now I have a craving to play with mashed potatoes ;)
Your explanation makes a lot of sense. What an incredible site to visit. I've always wanted to go there and I will some day. Thanks for posting this and sharing your experience.
Jamie Eckles thanks bud! You should go!
I loved that reference to Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind... well done!
*Hey my geo friend. I am going there in a few weeks. I cannot wait. I have never been. I am hoping to do some 360 and drone videos. I am so glad I watched this before going. I like Blackie, your side kick. I love all your great work. It is just wonderful. Thank you for your continual support of our channel. Your friendship means the world. oxoxox CM*
Colorado Martini I’m so excited to see those! Blackie was feral. He came to me so I took him I. He has FIV but he’s a great cat.
Does devil's towers composition mirror petrification ? Could the different compositions of rock from top to bottom result from different minerals leeching into the burried tree stump? I'm just saying what if this was a huge tree stump burried or partially burried then mineral rich waters occluded into the cell membranes of this stump? Just wondering if petrified wood shares the same mineral composition as this Devils tower does.
derpfrog no. The rock that makes up devils tower is called a phonolite. It is an igneous rock. Petrified wood always retains some of the structure of the tree. Devils tower has no such structures. The columns are columnar jointing which forms only in igneous rock that cools fast enough to shrink and form the columns.
Nice video. Thanks. A little different than I was taught, but I finished my Geology degree in 1991.
The diatreme hypothesis fits really well with columnar jointing pattern formation, unlike volcanic plugs. Heck. Who knows. They could all be wrong or maybe we can get that pattern parallel to flow and we aren’t aware of the mechanics. I do find it odd that this pattern even formed in such a phenocryst rich magma with a matrix that arguably isn’t aphanitic. We usually see this pattern in mafic rich micritic rocks like basalt. This rock is not only on the opposite side of the QAPF plot, but it’s on the bottom part of the chart.
Some ideas for videos: 1) Everyone understands that the Badlands in South Dakota are formed by erosion but is there also sometimes deposition inside underground water pathways and chambers that are inside those buttes, the high areas? What about some of those areas on Rt 90 between Gillette and Buffalo Wyoming, (pretty sure its the area I remember) isn't that the same type of hard clay type rock as the badlands with a lot of complicated maze like water activity underground sometimes coming to the surface to create those same puddles of water with clay permanently in colloidal suspension like you see in the Badlands? 2) How is it that all the petroleum is said to be fossil fuels from former living plant matter when on other planets there are mass amounts of methane? What is the proof? Last time I looked it up this whole subject was not being handled and argued in a scientific manner. 3) I need to know exactly what happened in Southern Illinois with the glaciations and when and where the cut off line is from Makanda north to Carbondale and beyond. I once heard that the glaciers stopped north of Carbondale. But if so then all the way down through the north half of Carbondale was covered in mud and deposits, right? South of Carbondale in the hills around Makanda is undisturbed, correct? Would I recognize the same hill shapes 100,000 years ago?
Losif Crumb 2 and 3 are off topic but here we go. 1) geophysical analysis of the Black Hills area indicates there are no present magma chambers underground. All caverns are near surface carbonate rock caverns. Devils tower is comprised of igneous non carbonate rock. Two totally different environments. You can’t precipitate trachyte rock out of groundwater. That’s a falsified concept known as neptunism.
2) I’m not a petroleum geologist. I do know we can get hydrocarbons from some inorganic processes. The Nonesuch shale is Precambrian and has some hydrocarbons. I also know fossil pollens and other fossils have occasionally been pulled from such deposits. Organic compounds are common in the solar system. They aren’t living. Things like liquid methane aren’t stable in our atmosphere and neither are many others. You need a cold world for that. Earth is too warm and too full of O2 and liquid water. I hope that helps. Like I said, petroleum geology isn’t my thing.
3) Do you want to know how far south the Quaternary glaciers ever got, or just the most recent ones? Well. It’s not a straight latitude line. The Preillinois glacial evidence is mostly either buried or eroded and we still debate that limit. The illinois glaciers likely got as far south as the Ohio River. The Ohio and Missouri are what we call ice marginal rivers. They don’t perfectly outline it but they are somewhat close. Loess and outwash have reached further than the ice. The Wisconsin glaciers barely reached Shelby County. The furthest southern mapped glacial till deposits are Illinois in age and reach the southern limit of Williamson County near the I-24/57 split in Illinois, although there are some erratics south of that. The Illinois State Geological Survey has much free information and maps on the subject.
Love the cat, he fits.
Thanks!
I love this kind of material, keep it coming man
Rudy Borkovic thanks!
Thank you for sharing this. This is fascinating.
How does it looks under it? Does the "plugg" continue straight down?
Asia Streets we don’t know for sure. No deep seismic study has ever been done, as far as I know. The problem with national parks (I speak from experience) is that it’s nearly impossible to get a permit to do anything.
Our models and the base of the tower strongly suggest that it does not go straight down.
@@stevenbaumann8692 Tanks for the answer, however very interesting. So we can say "Only God knows"...
Asia Streets until some dismissed survey is done we can’t know for sure. All we can do is hypothesize based on surface evidence.
@@stevenbaumann8692 You have to dig at nights 😁
Asia Streets ha!
It cannot be a tree stump or tell me how it petrified while I was standing up and how did it not rot away.
Love the content! But please improve your audio. The echoey quality interacts with my hearing in very incomprehensible ways.
Dave Caswell yeah the room was echoey we had emptied it. Moved a cat upstairs.
This is so interesting I am still watching at the moment but I am no where near an expert in this area but I did a video a while back about Lake Titicaca and I learned about these things called Chupa Towers and explored some theories about them and had my own theory that they may have been made to try to contain some sort of Lava I would love love love to hear your take on Chuppa Towers (I hope I am spelling that right).
Lilith Nova I will look those up!
Wow the texture of it is really, really Peculiar looking. I just hope I am understanding it right. I know very little about this sort of thing at all. . Hmm that is so interesting it formed under ground and then an explosion exposed it and formed a lake of lave? But it is so interesting
Lilith Nova yep. That’s pretty much what we think happened 😊
Very interesting stuff. Thank you. Never heard about it.
Anja Teich thanks for watching!
Really interesting stuff! Last time I was there was before I knew anything about geology. Now I have to go back!
Luke Weidner thanks! You should!
Awesome information my friend thank you for taking the time to share!
Interp66 thanks bud! Keep the pond up.
Steven Baumann I’m trying Buddy thank you!
The noise at circa 17minutes sound like cicadas
Unfortunately it isn’t. That would have been cool.
I guess the noise are cicada 🤔
I've been to the top many times. You can see hexagonal patterns in some areas at the top. I like climbing columnar jointing. 😁
Flat Out did you climb it? 😳 That’s too much like heights for me. You can see them on google earth too.
@@stevenbaumann8692, one summer I climbed it 32 times. I wanted to be better at climbing columnar jointing. I put the time in and got rather proficient.
Great video, BTW.
Flat Out only 32? Weeeeeak! Why not 42?
@@stevenbaumann8692, hahaha.
Great explanation of how it formed, really interesting looking formation...cool people climb it...I'd think the people climbing would be in danger of the Falcon's...
Reviewing Playing & More RPM thanks! 😊👍🏻
awesome video thanks for sharing
prove me that volcanic lava, geometric hexagon shape!
Fernando Ramalho the term is called “columnar jointing”. It happens in aphanitic igneous rocks all over the world from Ireland to the upper peninsula of Michigan, not just at devils tower. It generally forms perpendicular to lava flow in rocks. There’s dozens of papers and internet sources on the topic. Also, the term “volcanic lava” is redundant.
Geometrical rock forming shapes is a common thing among lava. Mars has great examples for this.
Great video showing the mental gymnastics one takes to get reality to follow the narrative they want to be right. Very cute. Keep them coming. 🤙💗🙏♾
You lack self awareness.
Making testable hypotheses off of the available data and previous work isn’t mental gymnastics.
Looking at a photo and declaring the improbable, with no understanding of the information and data while drawing a conclusion on a place you’ve never even been to, is mental gymnastics.
YOU SHOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE ACOUSTICS in the room you sound like your inside of a giant steel drum or something
Is it possible the tower is a image of a meteorite that traveled THROUGH the planet and push up a image of meteorite .last extinction?????is there a impact creater opposite this tower,other side of planet??
Interesting idea. As I’m sure large impacts can affect volcanism. I’m not sure which impact craters you’re referring to or it’s age. We know the age of Devils Tower. It’s about Ma. So the plates have moved significantly since it’s formation. It was likely formed during the Laramide Orogeny, as most things in the area were.
how about a petrified tree ?
When you look at the rock it’s clearly igneous. It’s what we call a phonolite. It even has phenocrysts.
@@stevenbaumann8692 wow that was a year ago .
lets see . ive since discovered the possibility of instant transmutation. we can reproduce it in the lab and industry. surface igneous rock my have been formed this way ??? sorry its early and im trying to remember the video. but fascinating.
@@cokemachine5510 someone commented on this video for the first time in forever and I saw I never responded. I try to respond if I can. Unless it’s like 3 years old.
….so it’s not an ancient petrified tree stump?
Great information. Could you improve the acoustics a little or get a better microphone in try this again please? Who is a definite echo. I didn't want to miss any details.
Marimilitarybrat you aren’t the first one to say that. This was recorded after that room was emptied. I thought it would be ok, but it wasn’t. I cleaned it up the best I could.
I never imagined it was the remaining of an horizontal lava flow. Its vertical shape & pattern always biased me to think about some slow vertical crystallization process.
Do you know Matty Lawrence use it as "the pillars of Earth"? Some crazy shit about Earth's crust shrinking except for the pillars. I can paste the link later.
Marc Castells I use to think something similar but that columnar jointing always made me scratch my head.
I haven't watched this video but can tell you right off that's a giant tree stump, obviously.
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I can't believe THEY have you under their control!
The ever ominous and unknowing THEY are plotting the next attempt to decieve us all
I was looking for this comment! 😂😂😂
The only thing to find now is the giant chainsaw.
Nice presentation, always wondered about the texture and almost symmetrical shape of this thingy.
[Audio is a tiny bit echoey]
There's several plastic things that you can sit on that look like that at Loch Ness.
When i was a kid and saw that movie, I didn't realise that it was a real place!
;●) England
Then, I guessed it was something to do with a volcanic occurrence and then erosion whatsnames, very scientific.?
I did math at uni and my geological knowledge is around the "Best guess" level!!!
misterjohn john I’m glad you liked it! It was echoey because the room was empty 😞 I actually did record video on the math involved in the modeling. I didn’t add it because of the length. Ppl never watch my math videos 😞
Steven Baumann
I like watching mathematics! There's a couple of big channels devoted to maths.
Perhaps you could cure the echo problem with more cats, or using
several species of small furry animals gathered together
:◎)
misterjohn john ha! My astronomical videos usually do contain math. One video I actually had some fun with Newton. More cats is always the answer!
Dude, it's a tree.
I assume you’re being sarcastic.
Tree gang
Tree stumps
Its all thats left of a small mountain after Nohas flood eroded it away
Um, no! Noah’s Flood is an impossibility . The earth would be a barren with a melted surface if that had really occurred.
Nah tree
What?
This isn't about Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Boooh Booh ! :-p
Jim B well. I did do the tune. I couldn’t help myself!
why do some ppl say it was a Tree ?
Pareidolia. They see something that caught reminds them of a tree sump and they jump straight to that without actually looking at the rock.
Steven Baumann thanks for the response. Very informative video . Peace
prove me that volcanic lava, geometric hexagon shape!
I guess it just proves everything moves forward with upgrades in technology. People long ago had to do a lot of wild guessing. These days guys like you have a lot of trial and error to learn from and make more accurate guesses. lol
Casual Carolina Fishing well. That’s really all science is. Our best guess that fits the data.
It’s a foot.
Your cat's name is racist but i like it!
He’s named after Boston Blackie. It’s a character. The person who named him is now dead so I kept the name.