It has come to my attention that several of my viewers have been illegally collecting at this site. DO NOT COLLECT HERE! Buell Park is PRIVATELY OWNED by a few land owners on Navajo Nation Land, and they DO NOT WANT trespassers. I merely posted about this feature because I found it interesting and DO NOT want people to collect here. Much like how I have mentioned active mining operations (and some inactive operations, with Buell Park not being a mining operation) in the past along with their minerals, it should be self-explanatory that you do not trespass on a location just because I mentioned where it is located. Land ownership laws exist around the world, and these needs to be respected. I am posting this because I was contacted by a land owner regarding several repeated incidents of people trespassing who cited my video. Please, only view this unusual geologic feature from my video, and NOT in person.
The land and how and why it formed the way it did has always fascinated me. And the interesting information you bring up is always amazing and mind boggling to me. Thanks for even another great episode!
For everybody who appreciates beautiful things for their beauty and not for how expensive they are, there are a lot of gemstones more beautiful than diamonds.
Oh yeah!!! And the market is full of them. I love Citrine! Carnelian, even altered quartz can have its beauty. I never knew I could afford Rubies until I looked around!!! ❤️
I'm ashamed to admit, I've been rebooting my years past of geology studies, by piggy-backing my blurred memories with your great site. Just subscribed, great content, superb visuals. Best informative 4 minute geology lesson I've ever experienced!
The presence of kimberlites does not always imply that diamonds are present. Or, if diamonds are present, they are typically not gem grade. For example, I prospected at several remote kimberlites in the upper peninsula of Michigan. Those kimberlites only contained infrequent microscopic industrial grade diamonds. However, the rocks did contain red garnets and olivine crystals.
Can diamonds be brought to the surface and not be in a kimberlite deposits? Small diamonds were found in the stream bed near Ramona, California yet no kimberlite deposits are nearby. The source of the creek is near the gold mines in Julian, Ca.
WOW !!!! This was most interesting and I instantly had to subscribe . My father was a geologist in Australia before I was born. When he came back and I was born here in New Zealand as soon as I could go safely with him I was there always !!!! Some of the most beautiful memories I have with my dad were formed out there in the ruggard mountainous southern Alp's. I still hold dearly his geologist's hammer which was also his father's... You have inspired me and givin me gold fever again as after he passed away recently every thing was up in the air... Thank you for posting this most interesting content. You earned a subscriber. Great narrator, very inspiring, thank you from me way down under here in New Zealand 💌✨
Coming from Scotland UK ,I love the area around Page ,the geology, the Navajo culture , Glen canyon ,lake Powell ,beautiful scenery! If I could live there I would !
This geologist has always been fascinated by Kimberlite pipes. The speed of the magma movement from the upper mantle to near surface or surface is astonishing. That’s what preserves the high-pressure forms of these minerals like diamond and the eclogite facies minerals, garnet and omphacite. Omphacite is named for the Greek word for navel, omphalos, as indeed these rocks originate from deep in the earth.
This geologist sometimes wonders if they're not just making some of this 5HIT up. Do they truly know the speed of the magma? Do they really know the age of the rocks? Reminds me of a guy that told me they use carbon dating on the rocks. Then he insulted me and called me stupid. When I told him carbon dating only works on organic and living material, he shifted his ignorance by saying, "well they know how old the rocks are. Maybe it's a special kind of carbon dating?" Would it do any good to explain the 3 kinds of rocks in the rock cycle?
@@kevindouglas8768 Carbon dating also only works for relatively recent stuff. Basically human history timeframe. Not far enough back to be all that relevant for geology. Although radioactive elements can be used for dating rock formations, assuming any are present in the area.
With the knowledge I've gathered I wonder in parallel alot of things. Like when crude oil is boiled, it separates up a pipe into different components. Kerosene, diesels, gasses of various levels and qualities. I thought that when the magma vents were open to air exchange, like steam, they began to collect elements growing ,pressuring and separating everything like gold ,silver ,diamonds. Nice to learn the diamonds were deep and flowed up. Like all the elements the key player is water and pressure and aa place to release was my compression. So I appreciate epiphanies
The first time I went to Arizona in the early 90s I was amazed by the landscape. Down around the San Carlos area, It looked prehistoric, Very beautiful yet empty, void of life. You could imagine dinosaurs roaming. I am from the East by the way and have never seen anything like that
That is huge, I've been researching a small volcano with several little hills that were built by volcanic action around the rim. However it's not on the list of extinct volcanoes. One of those little hills on the rim I believe was a kimberlite pipe. I haven't found anything like gemstones yet but I haven't really inspected that part thoroughly
Here is a topic for you. When the Mississippi river flowed backwards following the great New Madrid quake, where did that water go? How far back did the water flow? Did go underground somewhere near New Madrid? Have geologists found any massive submersed cave systems connected to the Mississippi river? Thank you for your wonderful content and great work!
A lot of land in the New Madrid area dropped in elevation to the point where there are swamps even today where none existed before. Some of the backflow water remained in these areas. But your assumption that some entered and remained underground in new crevasses and caves also may be true. In either case once these areas were full the water reversed back to normal flow in a surge much like a tide reversing.
@@xenon54 Thank you so much! Do you know anything about the salinity of these swamps, or even better, their salinity changes over time? Do you know and good resources on the topic?
@@garbleduser I don't know if Gulf of Mexico waters made it that far north. The Mississippi River south of the New Madrid fault has a vast volume that could more than able fill in the New Madrid quake deformations. But if not, the natural fresh water dispersion in a short amount of time would have "washed away" the salts. What salt water that may have entered the area wasn't left isolated to dry up and leave salt deposits like those found in the Mediterranean basin. The Mediterranean never had the option for fresh water to flush out its salts. Instead it dried up several times in episodes (known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis) for previous millions of years. These drying up periods caused vast salt deposits to accumulate. These deposit layers are with us to this day. But who knows. Perhaps a exploratory drill site in the New Madrid fault area may find saline water that was trapped and isolated from the Gulf of Mexico during the quakes of 1811-1812.
PLEASE look into the huge circular feature in North Klamath County Oregon, it is South of Newberry Crater, slightly NE of Crater Lake and West of Hole in the Ground which it dwarfs. Look at Google Earth at the right elevation and it is clear as day and dwarfs Crater Lake. What is it? I do not believe it is some super volcano crater, I suspect it is actually a slight rise instead? but on a massive and almost perfect circular form.
That’s Yamsay Mountain. It’s a shield volcano and the circular thing north of the main mountain looks like a combination of a lava flow and cinder cone activity. I can see 2 cinder cones in the circular area.
There are TONS of obscure, ancient (although still Cenozoic) calderas around eastern Oregon. An old rockhound showed me one of 'em on a map, you'd never know it was there otherwise. Not sure what caused all of that and they always seem to be rather forgotten about. Might be related to the Columbia Flood Basalts, as those had an effect on northeastern Oregon and were markedly different than the main bit over in Washington. Either way I'm almost certain the high volumes of caldera volcanism there are responsible for the unusually high concentrations of thundereggs in the region. Shame that nobody ever bothers with them though.
A good and precise explanation of this phenomenon. The term "kimberlite" comes from the town of Kimberley, South Africa where diamonds were found in an arena of decayed kimberlite first, then in solid rock. According to geologists, diamonds would be pre-existing in the magma chamber. Thank you for this video!
But the largest Diamond bearing kimberlites are possibly the ones situated in the FalC Kimberlite Field in the Fort á la Corne forest in central Saskatchewan, Canada! The main kimberlite field is approximately 30 kilometers long with the primary kimberlite pipes ranging in size from about 1 kilometer wide to approximately 3 kilometers wide at the surface!
If the ascent of kimberlite magma takes a few hours, would it make these systems particularly dangerous as we haven't seen such an event in historical times?
This is correct. Also, we wouldn’t really be able to order and carry out an evacuation in that short timespan. Kimberlite eruptions would be deadly and are always plinian
@@KS-hj6xn Not really connected to kimberlites at least not directly but yeah flood basalt eruptions aren't called that for nothing. And in reality the Columbia river flood basalts are relatively tiny compared to typical flood basalts This oddity probably is due to the Columbia river flood basalts originating not from the main plume head but from material trapped beneath the former crust of the underlying Farallon plate and piling up beneath the magmatically uplifted slab for well over 20 million years before it finally burst through. The resulting tear in the Farallon slab is still visible with seismic tomography giving weight to this hypothesis or something similar
I have been curious about this formation for years and I'm so happy to see your video about it :-) I was looking around the area on Google Earth and thought that's the weirdest looking crater or volcano and I wonder what it really is and you answered my question thank you so much :-)
Question: how did the shallow subduction of the Farallon plate lead to a kimberlite pipe? The shallow subduction and proposed roll-back of the Farallon plate is the assigned cause of so many of the features we find in the western US. It's always confused me as to how deeper mantle material could have erupted if the Farallon plate was situated between the North American plate and the upper mantle material. The rollback is invoked to allow hotter material to cause volcanic activity, however this video does _not_ show the rollback. (Prior videos have shown the rollback to explain some of the volcanic activity in the western US.)
Wishbi had answer but after watching nick zenter an guessing roll back sucks deep mantle in to void above lower plate and moisture from lower plate catalyzed mantle into magma that then quickly burned its way through contental plate with out picking up much silica from remelt crust
I personally think the "flat subduction" idea is bunk. What makes more sense to me is the idea that large land masses tend to insulate the magma underneath them, and eventually the heat just starts melting the crust. Consider the break up of Pangea, and the Atlantic ridge (the rift). I think the Rockies had the potential to be a continental rift, but either could not get hot enough, or the stresses on the NA plate changed. The Rockies did experience uplift followed by spreading after all, and Karen Sigloch has imaged the subducted plates sinking in the mantle.
This looks like an electrical discharge event caused these features. Because we haven’t captured one in the history books and because of how much it would unravel of what we’re teaching in mainstream science, it’s not even considered and investigated. It can easily explain some of the features and issues people are recognising here. It even includes the transmutation of elements, I.e. the creation of different elements and compounds that were not previous present. We think we’re so smart now that we can’t be repeating mistakes of the geocentric past. th-cam.com/video/HdfBGqWpW5w/w-d-xo.html
I've lived in Arizona most of my life but I've also seen a great deal of the world while I was in the NAVY but Arizona has always been the best place that I've ever lived in!!!
A suggestion for a video. I'm a retired geologist and was traveling Newfoundland a few years ago. At Gros Morne National Park, on the west side of Newfoundland, is an area known as the "Tablelands". It is described as one of only two places on earth (and the only place in North America) one can "walk on the earth's mantle." It is a weird, weird place. Serpentinite all over the surface. But for a few scrubby carnivorous plants feeding on black flies, it looks like the terrain the Mars Rover photographs. Tectonics was never my geologic focus, and the park person did not impress me with her explanation.
I am a novice science hobby person Pa NJ border. Going to visit the Ben Franklin geo science center in NJ maybe this week. I don't envy those folks being a geologist here. 3000 variations of 1 type is fibbing. I need a Spectro, all software. This old fashioned way needs to tech up. And keep some people quiet.
I viewed a video on the Bay of Islands Ophiolite exposed in Gros Morne National Park yesterday that was well done in terms of the photography, but the geology was wrong on several points. The dominant mantle rock is peridotite and peridotites contain more much magnesium than iron as a rule. Crustal igneous and metamorphic rocks contain more iron than magnesium. The major error in the Tablelands video is that there over twenty-five places on Earth where the oceanic mantle is exposed. I listed the mantle exposures below, but I did not include all of the many ophiolites in Tibet and China and I did not did not distinguish between the two ophiolites in the Coast Range in California. To say that the mantle exposure in the Gros Morne National Park is the only place on Earth where anyone can "walk on the Earth's mantle" is a fundamental error. Nineteen of the exposed mantle sections or ophiolites are: 1) Coast Range, California, USA, 2) Ultramafic rock sections near Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 3) Central Andes, Argentina, 4) Bay of Islands, Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland, 5) Lizard Complex, Cornwall, Great Britain, 6) Northern Apennine, Italy, 7) Troodos, Cyprus, 7) Central Eastern Desert, Egypt, 8) Semail, Oman and United Arab Emirates, 9) Naga Hills and Andaman, India, 10) Kohistan Arc, Pakistan, 11) Dangqiong, Tibet, 12) Zhongcang, Tibet, 13) Dongwanzi, China, 14) Macquarie Island, Tasmania, Australia, 15) Yakuno, Japan, 16) Horokanai, Japan, 17) Poroshiri, Japan, 18) Zambales, Luzon, Philippines, and 19) Dun Mountain, South Island, New Zealand.
@@alexriter278 Interesting comments. They are appreciated. I'm aware (though have not personally seen) what have been described as ophiolites as part of the exotic terranes of the Pacific Northwest and extending into SW British Columbia. Part of the "Baja BC" area first described in the early 70's if you are familiar with that. Odd thing, since I retired in 2014, I'm enjoying geology more than ever though it isn't nearly as profitable as "back in the day". Thanks again for the information.
@@alexriter278 Wow you sure know what your talking about. I live along pa nj border in a complex zone not discussed much. I find plenty of many desirable specimens then some.
I had just a few days in Arizona and was totally amazed at what I saw. I never knew it has forests, and volcanos! We spent one night in the Trading Post in Cameron, which was fabulous! We also spent one night in the Hualapai Lodge in Peach Springs, and that was also fabulous!
Love these videos, really informative and Geology Hub is my favourite. What do the various types of lava tell us about the source of the magma? Is it homogeneous but modified through its transition through the crust, or are the ‘clouds’ of magma deep below the crust that have different compositions?
I don't think the kimberlite magma originated deep enough in the mantle to bring up diamonds. From your video it seems that upper mantle minerals are the primary makeup of the kimberlite. If it had originated from a deep mantle plume, then it could have carried diamonds up with it. In any case, it's fascinating to get a glimpse of the upper mantle make up.
Not ready made diam9 or cristal in a molten format only the diamond forming atoms came up forming diamonds as the magma cooled of slowly, only then the atoms can arrange themselves to forming diamonds 💎
I would like to know more about the "River of Stone" on the Northland Loop Trail of Dolly Sods Wilderness Area In West Virginia. I hiked it and have been fascinated by it ever since.
You like it when they tell you lies, the truth is , they are not telling you the truth but you don't know anything different so you accept it as truth. Most can't handle the truth Academia has lied about our past to keep things in working order for the controllers to stay in control of humanity. The original inhibitor of this world will blow your mind and make you see that world very different from your perspective now. The truth hurts to accept
That was awesome I never knew anything about that volcanic eruption in Arizona keep up the great work love your videos thank you for doing my requested episode on gemstones thank you I never knew about that kimberlite explosion in Arizona very interesting good job peace out
You never heard of volcano eruptions in Arizona because it's not from any volcano, they are just filling the void with lies that are easily believed. Anytime academia diverts from the truth, it's always replaced with "volcano" . The truth is, people can't handle the truth about this planet before you and I, you are not allowed to know the truth. I don't want to tell you about the truth because you are not ready for it, it'll change your entire perspective of the world. Mind blowing at least
Hey. Recently I real an article saying that the Tonga explosives eruption reached a 6 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index. If this IS factual. Would you make a video explaining how scientists determined this measurement on this unique eruption type.
I was wondering if you could explain where the Pagosa Springs Colorado hot springs come from and what is its source for the heating of the hot springs.
Love the video. However - if the plate is subducting at a shallow angle with the melted material forming volcanos - then how can magma from deep in the mantle get involved?
I've been to the Meteor Crater. It is impressive. You feel so small. Especially when you realize how small this Crater is compared to other Earth based craters and ones on the Moon and Mars.
Thank you: interesting and informative! Have you made any videos about other gemstones or semi-precious stones? I’m thinking of the Navajo fondness for turquoise.
My research on kimberlite pipes is that only one out of 100 approximately will carry gem quality stones and they preferred colors. Also most of the kimberlite pipes are buried 15 to like 35 ft below the surface. So that means after all the volcanic action happened on Earth enough years of gone by to have overburdened in that depth.
I'm an exploration geophysicist I work in airborne geophysical surveys and have done so for over 20 years, I've worked on several kimberlite projects and on one of them, for the world's biggest and most well known diamond mining company, the chief geophysicist for the company told me that approximately 1 in 100 kimberlites is diamondiferous, and then approximately 1 in 100 diamondiferous kimberlites will eventually prove to be economically viable and worth mining, he actually said to me, "its a numbers game, you have to get through the 9,999 duds to get to the winner". Diamond/kimberlite exploration geoscientists are a strange breed it's like an obsession, personally I don't really enjoy being involved with kimberlite projects.
@@ats-3693 there's diamonds here in Josephine county oregon. And nobody's exploring it for diamonds. I know where a lot of the outcroppings are but they're hard to get to. I know because of the one I explored and other locations showing a similar geological formations. That's the first time I heard that it takes 9 8 duds. Someone who's discovered multiple locations of diamonds who is a geologist States it's about 1 in 100. So who should I believe? In my area I think it's more like three and 100 or better because of the diamonds found in the rivers. Different Rivers or streams. But anyway I'm not a geologist I'm just going by the things I've learned over the last 20 years as an armchair prospector. I've actually gotten out in the field and discovered some of these things on my own before I even knew what they were. I did research and more research until I got answers. One location had square diamonds which I understand are quite rare. Unfortunately my so-called mining partner at that time told me there was no such thing as diamonds in the area and went back and took it all that was easily accessible. Afterwards I did more research and discovered that diamonds can be square, and I went back to that site to find it missing. Other indicators told me it was him. But then I located kimberlite pipes nearby. What I had originally discovered was an envelope or a small vein of volcanic material containing diamonds and peridot stones. Why you're bored or don't like the subject, is beyond me, but to me every geologist should be able to go out and find millions of dollars worth of precious minerals or gemstones and be wealthy the rest of their lives. Instead of just going out and getting jobs and being bored with it. But what do I know LOL
@@1topskyrocket I just get no satisfaction from being involved with diamond exploration and mining companies, they serve no purpose other than to make a small group of individuals extremely wealthy by controlling the supply of little stones that have no purpose or value other than being trinkets. Mining operations put a huge strain on the environment and use massive amounts of other resources, in my opinion large scale mining should only be done to recover resources that are needed by all of us. I'm a lucky person I guess I absolutely love the work that I do, I worked in the field traveling the world for many years I've seen the most amazing and awful places you can imagine, I work for myself from home as a consultant I process geophysical data and oversee projects all over the world for various survey companies, right now as I write this I'm processing airborne electromagnetic survey data from a project in Morocco I'm overseeing, and an airborne magnetic survey in Sudan. I'm also part of a group of guys who have been developing drone geophysical survey systems for the last few years we are now in production after lots of R&D and hard work, we pull in about $50k for a weeks survey work with our drone system.....
@@ats-3693 that sounds interesting about the magnetic survey process. I wish I could get something like done in the area I'm working. But I don't want to tell where it is lol. I'll figure it out on my own with my backpack cord roller hopefully by the end of the summer. I also figured out how to figure figure where caverns are. I've been accumulating all these different things about different locations and what they contain until I could afford to buy a backpack core driller sampler. Now that I have it I need to put together a way to get there without causing a fire hazard. There was one guy I met here in town but I guess they went out of business, they were going to send me little packets that you hang inside of the core drilling hole. And that would give them ideas whether or not there was precious oil in the ground I believe that's what they said. I would have loved to have done that with this now but they're closed down I guess. I know where shale oil is here without a doubt. I'm going to be looking for unnecessary precious minerals like gold silver platinum and copper over the summer time using the information I learned from a book written in the 1500s about mining. It talks about it for one sentence how the trees are indicators of veins below. But it doesn't say what kind of metals LOL so I'll be finding that out for my own personal cash of knowledge. If it turns out to be true I'll be one of the most knowledgeable people about reading the trees and bushes and plants showing me where precious minerals are. I'm doing three things this summer, I'm going to see if I'm right about the caverns, and I'm going to see if I'm right about the kimberlite pipes close to where I originally discovered diamonds, and I'm going to find out if the trees are telling the truth. It should be an eventful summer. I'm just a junior prospector and I do it for a hobby at this point. But I'm kind of set up ready to go if I find some good hard Rock sources. I have a 5:10 per hour crusher and Hammer Mill, and I'm going to build my own impact mail to reduce it down to 100 -. Then I'm just going to run it through a sluice box to recover the heavy metals. Eventually I'll get a Shaker table.
@@1topskyrocket you can rent a handheld magnetometer and walk your own ground magnetic survey, kimberlites and diamonds are tricky with mag surveys though, to contain diamonds the kimberlite must pop up and cool very quickly so the diamonds are preserved, but this also means the magnetic domains in the kimberlite don't get a chance to align with the earths magnetic field, the rock freezes with the magnetic domains randomly orientated their net magnetic field = zero and the rock also has a low magnetic susceptibility and won't get a second hand induced magnetism from the earths field, and if the kimberlite came up and cooled very slowly it would end up with a strong magnetic signature that can be imaged in a mag survey but it has no diamonds because they were able to revert to graphite in the slowly cooling kimberlite magma
I just read about a volcanic park getting destroyed by a fire in Arizona. The article was called tunnel fire destroys volcanic park which confused me until I read it and it said it was called the tunnel fire, not in a tunnel under a volcano. I hope you're far from that fire and safe!
The fire is in the San Francisco Peaks area of Arizona. The Tunnel fire started on the north side of the Peaks but spread north and east, eventually affecting Sunset Crater to the east. If anybody knows why it is named "Tunnel Fire" I haven't heard it.
Listen to what you are saying, a fire can destroy something that was created by supposedly volcano that is thousands of time hotter than fire ??? Amazing You must not believe that a volcano ever existed in that area, where is the volcano now ??? Volcanoes don't just disappear, just like the Pyramids, they never disappeared. Please, find the Volcanoes in Arizona and if you can't then you are believing what ever you are told and that is miserable way of gaining knowledge. Academia and science are one and the same, they can't tell you the truth about this planet or they would be fired. They don't believe in God but you believe everything that they say, Whhyyyy ???
1:00 "The big Hole" is in the city of Kimberly in South Africa hence the name kimberlite. The "Big Hole" was dug by hand and is said to be the largest hole on Earth dug that way.
A curious apparent contradiction, is that between the "shallow angle" of subduction, versus the "deep in the mantle" origin of the kimberite. The actual sequence of events was probably more complex.
I seem to recall a town in Europe, Germany possibly, that the buildings are all built of cut quarried nearby that is full of small diamonds. Are you familiar with this town and is the rock possibly from a Kimberlite Pipe? Nordlingen, Germany.
Wasn't it two women geologists that discovered that kimberlite pipe, containing gem-quality diamonds? The actual pipe was narrowed-down as being under a lake - this by core samples drilled from a barge. A dike was built across the lake and half the lake was drained and then an open-pit mine was started. There is a book out about that find - a fascinating story.
I had found some kimberlite over 120 miles away near Barranger crater on one of my non- Barranger Meteorite hunts could it have come from this site or another ?
Ive collected numerous peridot and the areas South if there in Fort Defiance also have an abundance of peridot or the red variety. Both of these areas are heavily populated. Buell Park has multiple homesites within the crater and they do not take kindly to visitors. I usually would gather up pieces of peridot on the road up to Buell Park. Pieces range in size from smaller than 8mm to upwards of 2 inches in size, free of any rock. Presumably tumbled and eroded from the parent material. The area has several volcanic dikes and a large mountain to the east of Buell park is presumably from the same or later eruptions. Fuzzy Mountain was mined heavily for gravel in the past. Again....not an area with easy access as all areas are homesites for tribal members. The peridot are at gem grade with few to no inclusions. Generally light green in color to almost clear. Ive never found any diamonds though. Theres a large outcropping of what a few miners and engineers i worked with on visit and doing consultant work for the tribe from South Africa, who spotted a large green outcropping of what they identified as Kimberlite of the variety diamonds are found in. Just to the Northeast of Buell Park, right off the main highway. Again. The area is inhabited and fenced. But enough is in the highway right of way to look thru. I personally never have looked there though.
The first thing I noticed as the video zoomed in was the faces that I could see. At 0:37 look to the upper left of the caldera and see a nose and eyes looking to the left. Then at the same time look at the overall caldera and see a face looking to the right with the ring wall as the mouth and the nose defined by the small "nostril" just to the upper right of the green triangle and a hint of another just to the right of that one. The eyes are a bit vague but if you use your imagination you can see it. The face has a right eye that has received a punch and is a black eye and the left is squinting at something.
I have a question. You said that kimberlites form from deep in the mantle right? But then you said the video's kimberlite pipe originated from the Farallon Plate, the magmas from subduction don't come from so deep and they originate directly from the subducting plate, not from material from deep below. And more, the Farallon Plate was subducting in a very shallow manner, which makes things even more confusing
often wondered about this feature whether meteoric or volcanic!! Shiprock is a notable feature of this volcanic region. have driven past it but never any idea!!
Thank u from northern Arizona not far from the site say 50miles! I'm an ametuer rockhounder (sad, I know!) but I've always wondered what that green crystal was. It's all over the place in volcanic rock in east flagstaff forest.
can you please do a video on the volcanic and geologic are of upstate NY known as the Adirondaks? i love the geology here and Im an amateur rock hound but ive got a fair collection of Garnets, Quarts and pyrites
Thank goodness the Farallon plate didn't carry a lot of carbon. It would be the case of another reservation having precious metal or gemstones, (diamond). What this reminds me of is the field in Arkansas. Surprised a large company has not started mining this field with big equipment, and digging a massive hole to the center of the earth like in South Africa. I do know in Wenatchee Washington a large volume of gold was discovered under the city and was drilled to find a large formation but was nixed by the local inhabitants not wanting their entire lives disrupted. If Mariupol happened in Wenatchee I can see mining in earnest start immediately. But the local people would have to benefit not some Wall Street conglomerate not helping the local economy at all.
It has come to my attention that several of my viewers have been illegally collecting at this site. DO NOT COLLECT HERE! Buell Park is PRIVATELY OWNED by a few land owners on Navajo Nation Land, and they DO NOT WANT trespassers. I merely posted about this feature because I found it interesting and DO NOT want people to collect here. Much like how I have mentioned active mining operations (and some inactive operations, with Buell Park not being a mining operation) in the past along with their minerals, it should be self-explanatory that you do not trespass on a location just because I mentioned where it is located. Land ownership laws exist around the world, and these needs to be respected. I am posting this because I was contacted by a land owner regarding several repeated incidents of people trespassing who cited my video. Please, only view this unusual geologic feature from my video, and NOT in person.
I guess they ignored the “if you have permission” part of the video. People have such disrespect for private land.
Any time You Tubers promote and talk about places like this is bound to be seen by these idiots.
RULES AND LAWS HAVE NO MEAING NOW!!!! FROM THE PRESIDENT DOWN TO THE LOWEST PRIVATE--MORALS, INTEGRITY, ETHICS HAVE ALL BEEN ABANDONED
1. Tells the world where a possible diamond mine is.
2. Evades responsibility for doing this.
@LeydenAigg how to say you never take responsibility without saying you never take responsibility.
These videos are the gems in the magma of the internet.
industrial grade :)
The real gems are the friends we dig up along the way
The land and how and why it formed the way it did has always fascinated me. And the interesting information you bring up is always amazing and mind boggling to me. Thanks for even another great episode!
Well worded. I vibe with that hard.
@@ronfullerton3162 I’m glad that you enjoyed this episode. :)
For everybody who appreciates beautiful things for their beauty and not for how expensive they are, there are a lot of gemstones more beautiful than diamonds.
Agate😊
So true.
Diamonds are great for tools to cut real gems.
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Oh yeah!!! And the market is full of them. I love Citrine! Carnelian, even altered quartz can have its beauty. I never knew I could afford Rubies until I looked around!!! ❤️
I'm an Arizona native, and never knew about that pipe up in the Four Corners region of the state. Fascinating! Thanks for all you do!
Also grew up in AZ and lived in and around Flagstaff/Sedona and never knew about it. Great clip!
typical
most don't have the skills for independent research.
there are doers, and lazy followers
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@@dr.floridaman4805 who are you ranting about?
Same. Phx born, raised and still residing. Never knew this existed here xD
Maybe Alan Palmer of YT channel "The Farm on Route 66" will take us video rock hounding one day . 😊
I'm ashamed to admit, I've been rebooting my years past of geology studies, by piggy-backing my blurred memories with your great site. Just subscribed, great content, superb visuals. Best informative 4 minute geology lesson I've ever experienced!
The presence of kimberlites does not always imply that diamonds are present. Or, if diamonds are present, they are typically not gem grade. For example, I prospected at several remote kimberlites in the upper peninsula of Michigan. Those kimberlites only contained infrequent microscopic industrial grade diamonds. However, the rocks did contain red garnets and olivine crystals.
Can you do pico de orizaba?
Could you make a video about Meteora ? I think it a very interesting geological oddity.
Can diamonds be brought to the surface and not be in a kimberlite deposits? Small diamonds were found in the stream bed near Ramona, California yet no kimberlite deposits are nearby. The source of the creek is near the gold mines in Julian, Ca.
Plz do pico de orizaba
@@oscarmedina1303 placer diamonds?
Arizona is an amazing place, stuff's always happening there. Hang out there for 100 million years and you're bound to see something interesting!
I really needed this in my life to interrupt the flow of news. Thank you.
WOW !!!! This was most interesting and I instantly had to subscribe . My father was a geologist in Australia before I was born. When he came back and I was born here in New Zealand as soon as I could go safely with him I was there always !!!! Some of the most beautiful memories I have with my dad were formed out there in the ruggard mountainous southern Alp's. I still hold dearly his geologist's hammer which was also his father's... You have inspired me and givin me gold fever again as after he passed away recently every thing was up in the air... Thank you for posting this most interesting content. You earned a subscriber. Great narrator, very inspiring, thank you from me way down under here in New Zealand 💌✨
Arizona has some real wonder's of the earth and the Navajo are a great nation.
Coming from Scotland UK ,I love the area around Page ,the geology, the Navajo culture , Glen canyon ,lake Powell ,beautiful scenery! If I could live there I would !
This geologist has always been fascinated by Kimberlite pipes. The speed of the magma movement from the upper mantle to near surface or surface is astonishing. That’s what preserves the high-pressure forms of these minerals like diamond and the eclogite facies minerals, garnet and omphacite. Omphacite is named for the Greek word for navel, omphalos, as indeed these rocks originate from deep in the earth.
This geologist sometimes wonders if they're not just making some of this 5HIT up. Do they truly know the speed of the magma? Do they really know the age of the rocks?
Reminds me of a guy that told me they use carbon dating on the rocks. Then he insulted me and called me stupid. When I told him carbon dating only works on organic and living material, he shifted his ignorance by saying, "well they know how old the rocks are. Maybe it's a special kind of carbon dating?"
Would it do any good to explain the 3 kinds of rocks in the rock cycle?
@@kevindouglas8768 Carbon dating also only works for relatively recent stuff. Basically human history timeframe. Not far enough back to be all that relevant for geology. Although radioactive elements can be used for dating rock formations, assuming any are present in the area.
With the knowledge I've gathered I wonder in parallel alot of things. Like when crude oil is boiled, it separates up a pipe into different components. Kerosene, diesels, gasses of various levels and qualities. I thought that when the magma vents were open to air exchange, like steam, they began to collect elements growing ,pressuring and separating everything like gold ,silver ,diamonds. Nice to learn the diamonds were deep and flowed up. Like all the elements the key player is water and pressure and aa place to release was my compression. So I appreciate epiphanies
So much easily digestible neat info in your videos, thanks
The first time I went to Arizona in the early 90s I was amazed by the landscape. Down around the San Carlos area, It looked prehistoric, Very beautiful yet empty, void of life. You could imagine dinosaurs roaming. I am from the East by the way and have never seen anything like that
I live in Az, but you should try exploring southern Utah!!! Incredible.
That is huge, I've been researching a small volcano with several little hills that were built by volcanic action around the rim. However it's not on the list of extinct volcanoes. One of those little hills on the rim I believe was a kimberlite pipe. I haven't found anything like gemstones yet but I haven't really inspected that part thoroughly
Here is a topic for you. When the Mississippi river flowed backwards following the great New Madrid quake, where did that water go? How far back did the water flow? Did go underground somewhere near New Madrid? Have geologists found any massive submersed cave systems connected to the Mississippi river?
Thank you for your wonderful content and great work!
A lot of land in the New Madrid area dropped in elevation to the point where there are swamps even today where none existed before. Some of the backflow water remained in these areas. But your assumption that some entered and remained underground in new crevasses and caves also may be true. In either case once these areas were full the water reversed back to normal flow in a surge much like a tide reversing.
@@xenon54 Thank you so much! Do you know anything about the salinity of these swamps, or even better, their salinity changes over time? Do you know and good resources on the topic?
@@garbleduser I don't know if Gulf of Mexico waters made it that far north. The Mississippi River south of the New Madrid fault has a vast volume that could more than able fill in the New Madrid quake deformations.
But if not, the natural fresh water dispersion in a short amount of time would have "washed away" the salts.
What salt water that may have entered the area wasn't left isolated to dry up and leave salt deposits like those found in the Mediterranean basin. The Mediterranean never had the option for fresh water to flush out its salts. Instead it dried up several times in episodes (known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis) for previous millions of years. These drying up periods caused vast salt deposits to accumulate. These deposit layers are with us to this day.
But who knows. Perhaps a exploratory drill site in the New Madrid fault area may find saline water that was trapped and isolated from the Gulf of Mexico during the quakes of 1811-1812.
excellent question
I would say, yes, some caves were filled with Missippi mud. They may create sinkholes if not already but in the future.
PLEASE look into the huge circular feature in North Klamath County Oregon, it is South of Newberry Crater, slightly NE of Crater Lake and West of Hole in the Ground which it dwarfs. Look at Google Earth at the right elevation and it is clear as day and dwarfs Crater Lake. What is it? I do not believe it is some super volcano crater, I suspect it is actually a slight rise instead? but on a massive and almost perfect circular form.
That’s Yamsay Mountain. It’s a shield volcano and the circular thing north of the main mountain looks like a combination of a lava flow and cinder cone activity. I can see 2 cinder cones in the circular area.
There are TONS of obscure, ancient (although still Cenozoic) calderas around eastern Oregon. An old rockhound showed me one of 'em on a map, you'd never know it was there otherwise. Not sure what caused all of that and they always seem to be rather forgotten about. Might be related to the Columbia Flood Basalts, as those had an effect on northeastern Oregon and were markedly different than the main bit over in Washington. Either way I'm almost certain the high volumes of caldera volcanism there are responsible for the unusually high concentrations of thundereggs in the region. Shame that nobody ever bothers with them though.
A good and precise explanation of this phenomenon. The term "kimberlite" comes from the town of Kimberley, South Africa where diamonds were found in an arena of decayed kimberlite first, then in solid rock. According to geologists, diamonds would be pre-existing in the magma chamber. Thank you for this video!
i find more and more reasons every day to be grateful that i’m a geology student in arizona
Awesome geology !
Thank you for taking the time to share this info with us .
Learned a bit more today, again many thanks and another like for you !
But the largest Diamond bearing kimberlites are possibly the ones situated in the FalC Kimberlite Field in the Fort á la Corne forest in central Saskatchewan, Canada! The main kimberlite field is approximately 30 kilometers long with the primary kimberlite pipes ranging in size from about 1 kilometer wide to approximately 3 kilometers wide at the surface!
I lived in Arizona for many years before moving to the Philippines and wasn't aware of this Kimberlite Pipe. Thanks for what you do.
Nice info, Thanks Geology hub
If the ascent of kimberlite magma takes a few hours, would it make these systems particularly dangerous as we haven't seen such an event in historical times?
This is correct. Also, we wouldn’t really be able to order and carry out an evacuation in that short timespan. Kimberlite eruptions would be deadly and are always plinian
What is last word you used geohub " pinolan "
Plinian
The flood basalts of eastern WA are massive. Burried nearly half the state.
@@KS-hj6xn Not really connected to kimberlites at least not directly but yeah flood basalt eruptions aren't called that for nothing. And in reality the Columbia river flood basalts are relatively tiny compared to typical flood basalts
This oddity probably is due to the Columbia river flood basalts originating not from the main plume head but from material trapped beneath the former crust of the underlying Farallon plate and piling up beneath the magmatically uplifted slab for well over 20 million years before it finally burst through. The resulting tear in the Farallon slab is still visible with seismic tomography giving weight to this hypothesis or something similar
I just love your work. This is one of my favorite channels 🏆
I have been curious about this formation for years and I'm so happy to see your video about it :-) I was looking around the area on Google Earth and thought that's the weirdest looking crater or volcano and I wonder what it really is and you answered my question thank you so much :-)
Question: how did the shallow subduction of the Farallon plate lead to a kimberlite pipe? The shallow subduction and proposed roll-back of the Farallon plate is the assigned cause of so many of the features we find in the western US. It's always confused me as to how deeper mantle material could have erupted if the Farallon plate was situated between the North American plate and the upper mantle material. The rollback is invoked to allow hotter material to cause volcanic activity, however this video does _not_ show the rollback. (Prior videos have shown the rollback to explain some of the volcanic activity in the western US.)
Wishbi had answer but after watching nick zenter an guessing roll back sucks deep mantle in to void above lower plate and moisture from lower plate catalyzed mantle into magma that then quickly burned its way through contental plate with out picking up much silica from remelt crust
I personally think the "flat subduction" idea is bunk. What makes more sense to me is the idea that large land masses tend to insulate the magma underneath them, and eventually the heat just starts melting the crust. Consider the break up of Pangea, and the Atlantic ridge (the rift). I think the Rockies had the potential to be a continental rift, but either could not get hot enough, or the stresses on the NA plate changed. The Rockies did experience uplift followed by spreading after all, and Karen Sigloch has imaged the subducted plates sinking in the mantle.
in your opinion, how did the rockies got uplifted and how do you explain folds with west-east compression found in western US?
Mantle plumes
This looks like an electrical discharge event caused these features. Because we haven’t captured one in the history books and because of how much it would unravel of what we’re teaching in mainstream science, it’s not even considered and investigated. It can easily explain some of the features and issues people are recognising here. It even includes the transmutation of elements, I.e. the creation of different elements and compounds that were not previous present. We think we’re so smart now that we can’t be repeating mistakes of the geocentric past. th-cam.com/video/HdfBGqWpW5w/w-d-xo.html
Yes yes yes , cool video !!! Kimberlite tubes ,, are the coolest.
Thanks!
I've lived in Arizona most of my life but I've also seen a great deal of the world while I was in the NAVY but Arizona has always been the best place that I've ever lived in!!!
Same with my husband, and he lived Arizona too. We live in York PA now and our house is full of amazing treasures he found there!
I'll drink to that.....
I didn't know any of this - thanks for always bringing us new things to learn!
Could you do a video on castle rock in Scotland which is in Edinburgh Castle the rock it sits on is a volcanic plug
Just imagine if the Devils Tower Wyoming was kimberlite. There would be nothing left in search of super compressed carbon crystals.
but it was just a tree...
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, great video. So factual and to the point. Thanks.
A suggestion for a video. I'm a retired geologist and was traveling Newfoundland a few years ago. At Gros Morne National Park, on the west side of Newfoundland, is an area known as the "Tablelands". It is described as one of only two places on earth (and the only place in North America) one can "walk on the earth's mantle." It is a weird, weird place. Serpentinite all over the surface. But for a few scrubby carnivorous plants feeding on black flies, it looks like the terrain the Mars Rover photographs. Tectonics was never my geologic focus, and the park person did not impress me with her explanation.
I am a novice science hobby person Pa NJ border. Going to visit the Ben Franklin geo science center in NJ maybe this week. I don't envy those folks being a geologist here. 3000 variations of 1 type is fibbing. I need a Spectro, all software. This old fashioned way needs to tech up. And keep some people quiet.
I viewed a video on the Bay of Islands Ophiolite exposed in Gros Morne National Park yesterday that was well done in terms of the photography, but the geology was wrong on several points. The dominant mantle rock is peridotite and peridotites contain more much magnesium than iron as a rule. Crustal igneous and metamorphic rocks contain more iron than magnesium.
The major error in the Tablelands video is that there over twenty-five places on Earth where the oceanic mantle is exposed. I listed the mantle exposures below, but I did not include all of the many ophiolites in Tibet and China and I did not did not distinguish between the two ophiolites in the Coast Range in California. To say that the mantle exposure in the Gros Morne National Park is the only place on Earth where anyone can "walk on the Earth's mantle" is a fundamental error.
Nineteen of the exposed mantle sections or ophiolites are: 1) Coast Range, California, USA, 2) Ultramafic rock sections near Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 3) Central Andes, Argentina, 4) Bay of Islands, Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland, 5) Lizard Complex, Cornwall, Great Britain, 6) Northern Apennine, Italy, 7) Troodos, Cyprus, 7) Central Eastern Desert, Egypt, 8) Semail, Oman and United Arab Emirates, 9) Naga Hills and Andaman, India, 10) Kohistan Arc, Pakistan, 11) Dangqiong, Tibet, 12) Zhongcang, Tibet, 13) Dongwanzi, China, 14) Macquarie Island, Tasmania, Australia, 15) Yakuno, Japan, 16) Horokanai, Japan, 17) Poroshiri, Japan, 18) Zambales, Luzon, Philippines, and 19) Dun Mountain, South Island, New Zealand.
@@alexriter278 Interesting comments. They are appreciated. I'm aware (though have not personally seen) what have been described as ophiolites as part of the exotic terranes of the Pacific Northwest and extending into SW British Columbia. Part of the "Baja BC" area first described in the early 70's if you are familiar with that. Odd thing, since I retired in 2014, I'm enjoying geology more than ever though it isn't nearly as profitable as "back in the day". Thanks again for the information.
@@alexriter278 Wow you sure know what your talking about. I live along pa nj border in a complex zone not discussed much. I find plenty of many desirable specimens then some.
Thank you for your clear presentation. Good graphics.
I had just a few days in Arizona and was totally amazed at what I saw. I never knew it has forests, and volcanos! We spent one night in the Trading Post in Cameron, which was fabulous! We also spent one night in the Hualapai Lodge in Peach Springs, and that was also fabulous!
Nerds be liking this fast. Amazin’.
Love these videos, really informative and Geology Hub is my favourite. What do the various types of lava tell us about the source of the magma? Is it homogeneous but modified through its transition through the crust, or are the ‘clouds’ of magma deep below the crust that have different compositions?
Been binging your channel. Volcanoes and geology are fascinating to me and I love your content.
Also I might be visiting pacaya in Guatemala next year
how do you "bing" a channel ???
Back in the 1980s, I did magnetic and gravity work on Pacaya. It's beautiful there!
@@craiglachman1379 that's incredible! I'd love to hear more about it
@@rhuephus think “binge” instead…
I started watching this video and was pleasantly surprised to see an arial photo of the open pit mine in which I work, thanks!
I don't think the kimberlite magma originated deep enough in the mantle to bring up diamonds. From your video it seems that upper mantle minerals are the primary makeup of the kimberlite. If it had originated from a deep mantle plume, then it could have carried diamonds up with it.
In any case, it's fascinating to get a glimpse of the upper mantle make up.
Not ready made diam9 or cristal in a molten format only the diamond forming atoms came up forming diamonds as the magma cooled of slowly, only then the atoms can arrange themselves to forming diamonds 💎
@@josemeza7128 if diamonds formed closer to the surface (in cooling magma) the pressure wouldn't be sufficient and you'd just get graphite.
@@josemeza7128 pressure makes diamonds, no pressure no diamonds
Simple straight forward presentation, thank you?
Those peridots are freakin' huge!
Mahma that rose that fast must have depressurised so fast, it would have been fizzing!
I would like to know more about the "River of Stone" on the Northland Loop Trail of Dolly Sods Wilderness Area In West Virginia. I hiked it and have been fascinated by it ever since.
I cannot seem to locate the feature you are referring to. Instead I get results for a steakhouse
Well done, fries instead of baked, a icy corona
Great information 👍
Thanks
I like when you teach us about the origins of the gems 💎😺💎
You like it when they tell you lies, the truth is , they are not telling you the truth but you don't know anything different so you accept it as truth.
Most can't handle the truth
Academia has lied about our past to keep things in working order for the controllers to stay in control of humanity.
The original inhibitor of this world will blow your mind and make you see that world very different from your perspective now.
The truth hurts to accept
Fantastic Scenery & a very interesting Video 👍
I’m glad that you enjoyed it! This kimberlite is one of the lesser known geologic oddities in the state
Absolutely fascinating I always wondered about garnet stones Thank you for this video and I can't wait til the next one
That was awesome I never knew anything about that volcanic eruption in Arizona keep up the great work love your videos thank you for doing my requested episode on gemstones thank you I never knew about that kimberlite explosion in Arizona very interesting good job peace out
You never heard of volcano eruptions in Arizona because it's not from any volcano, they are just filling the void with lies that are easily believed.
Anytime academia diverts from the truth, it's always replaced with "volcano" .
The truth is, people can't handle the truth about this planet before you and I, you are not allowed to know the truth.
I don't want to tell you about the truth because you are not ready for it, it'll change your entire perspective of the world.
Mind blowing at least
Hey. Recently I real an article saying that the Tonga explosives eruption reached a 6 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index. If this IS factual. Would you make a video explaining how scientists determined this measurement on this unique eruption type.
That is amazing!
Thank you! I am a Native Arizonan and a rock hound. Yet I knew it nothing about this site. So cool! 😁☺️💎
Fascinating thank you
Anyone else find these videos therapeutic?
Might be lucky no diamonds were found. Saved the Navajo from another Black Hills disaster.
Let's do the Patomskiy crater. What's up with that thing?
I was wondering if you could explain where the Pagosa Springs Colorado hot springs come from and what is its source for the heating of the hot springs.
Very interesting discussion. I had always thought that kimberlite pipes were all Precambrian in age.
Great work, thank you.
I am obsessed with mantle xenoliths. Such a beauty.
Love the video. However - if the plate is subducting at a shallow angle with the melted material forming volcanos - then how can magma from deep in the mantle get involved?
The graphic illustration is not accurate. Kimberlites form at much greater depths so they would have to blast through the subduction plate.
I've been to the Meteor Crater. It is impressive. You feel so small. Especially when you realize how small this Crater is compared to other Earth based craters and ones on the Moon and Mars.
Anyone noticed a smirk face on the thumbnail?
Yeah first thing I saw xD
Thank you: interesting and informative! Have you made any videos about other gemstones or semi-precious stones? I’m thinking of the Navajo fondness for turquoise.
In the early 1980’s, my geology professor was a kimberlite specialist.
My research on kimberlite pipes is that only one out of 100 approximately will carry gem quality stones and they preferred colors. Also most of the kimberlite pipes are buried 15 to like 35 ft below the surface. So that means after all the volcanic action happened on Earth enough years of gone by to have overburdened in that depth.
I'm an exploration geophysicist I work in airborne geophysical surveys and have done so for over 20 years, I've worked on several kimberlite projects and on one of them, for the world's biggest and most well known diamond mining company, the chief geophysicist for the company told me that approximately 1 in 100 kimberlites is diamondiferous, and then approximately 1 in 100 diamondiferous kimberlites will eventually prove to be economically viable and worth mining, he actually said to me, "its a numbers game, you have to get through the 9,999 duds to get to the winner".
Diamond/kimberlite exploration geoscientists are a strange breed it's like an obsession, personally I don't really enjoy being involved with kimberlite projects.
@@ats-3693 there's diamonds here in Josephine county oregon. And nobody's exploring it for diamonds. I know where a lot of the outcroppings are but they're hard to get to. I know because of the one I explored and other locations showing a similar geological formations. That's the first time I heard that it takes 9 8 duds. Someone who's discovered multiple locations of diamonds who is a geologist States it's about 1 in 100.
So who should I believe? In my area I think it's more like three and 100 or better because of the diamonds found in the rivers. Different Rivers or streams. But anyway I'm not a geologist I'm just going by the things I've learned over the last 20 years as an armchair prospector. I've actually gotten out in the field and discovered some of these things on my own before I even knew what they were. I did research and more research until I got answers. One location had square diamonds which I understand are quite rare. Unfortunately my so-called mining partner at that time told me there was no such thing as diamonds in the area and went back and took it all that was easily accessible. Afterwards I did more research and discovered that diamonds can be square, and I went back to that site to find it missing. Other indicators told me it was him. But then I located kimberlite pipes nearby. What I had originally discovered was an envelope or a small vein of volcanic material containing diamonds and peridot stones.
Why you're bored or don't like the subject, is beyond me, but to me every geologist should be able to go out and find millions of dollars worth of precious minerals or gemstones and be wealthy the rest of their lives. Instead of just going out and getting jobs and being bored with it. But what do I know LOL
@@1topskyrocket I just get no satisfaction from being involved with diamond exploration and mining companies, they serve no purpose other than to make a small group of individuals extremely wealthy by controlling the supply of little stones that have no purpose or value other than being trinkets. Mining operations put a huge strain on the environment and use massive amounts of other resources, in my opinion large scale mining should only be done to recover resources that are needed by all of us. I'm a lucky person I guess I absolutely love the work that I do, I worked in the field traveling the world for many years I've seen the most amazing and awful places you can imagine, I work for myself from home as a consultant I process geophysical data and oversee projects all over the world for various survey companies, right now as I write this I'm processing airborne electromagnetic survey data from a project in Morocco I'm overseeing, and an airborne magnetic survey in Sudan. I'm also part of a group of guys who have been developing drone geophysical survey systems for the last few years we are now in production after lots of R&D and hard work, we pull in about $50k for a weeks survey work with our drone system.....
@@ats-3693 that sounds interesting about the magnetic survey process. I wish I could get something like done in the area I'm working. But I don't want to tell where it is lol. I'll figure it out on my own with my backpack cord roller hopefully by the end of the summer. I also figured out how to figure figure where caverns are. I've been accumulating all these different things about different locations and what they contain until I could afford to buy a backpack core driller sampler. Now that I have it I need to put together a way to get there without causing a fire hazard. There was one guy I met here in town but I guess they went out of business, they were going to send me little packets that you hang inside of the core drilling hole. And that would give them ideas whether or not there was precious oil in the ground I believe that's what they said. I would have loved to have done that with this now but they're closed down I guess. I know where shale oil is here without a doubt. I'm going to be looking for unnecessary precious minerals like gold silver platinum and copper over the summer time using the information I learned from a book written in the 1500s about mining. It talks about it for one sentence how the trees are indicators of veins below. But it doesn't say what kind of metals LOL so I'll be finding that out for my own personal cash of knowledge. If it turns out to be true I'll be one of the most knowledgeable people about reading the trees and bushes and plants showing me where precious minerals are. I'm doing three things this summer, I'm going to see if I'm right about the caverns, and I'm going to see if I'm right about the kimberlite pipes close to where I originally discovered diamonds, and I'm going to find out if the trees are telling the truth. It should be an eventful summer. I'm just a junior prospector and I do it for a hobby at this point. But I'm kind of set up ready to go if I find some good hard Rock sources. I have a 5:10 per hour crusher and Hammer Mill, and I'm going to build my own impact mail to reduce it down to 100 -. Then I'm just going to run it through a sluice box to recover the heavy metals. Eventually I'll get a Shaker table.
@@1topskyrocket you can rent a handheld magnetometer and walk your own ground magnetic survey, kimberlites and diamonds are tricky with mag surveys though, to contain diamonds the kimberlite must pop up and cool very quickly so the diamonds are preserved, but this also means the magnetic domains in the kimberlite don't get a chance to align with the earths magnetic field, the rock freezes with the magnetic domains randomly orientated their net magnetic field = zero and the rock also has a low magnetic susceptibility and won't get a second hand induced magnetism from the earths field, and if the kimberlite came up and cooled very slowly it would end up with a strong magnetic signature that can be imaged in a mag survey but it has no diamonds because they were able to revert to graphite in the slowly cooling kimberlite magma
Fascinating, thank you so much for informing me of this.
Thanks again. What about Black Mesa? I flew over it years ago and it appeared remarkable. I think it is special to the Navajo.
I just read about a volcanic park getting destroyed by a fire in Arizona. The article was called tunnel fire destroys volcanic park which confused me until I read it and it said it was called the tunnel fire, not in a tunnel under a volcano. I hope you're far from that fire and safe!
The fire is in the San Francisco Peaks area of Arizona. The Tunnel fire started on the north side of the Peaks but spread north and east, eventually affecting Sunset Crater to the east. If anybody knows why it is named "Tunnel Fire" I haven't heard it.
Listen to what you are saying, a fire can destroy something that was created by supposedly volcano that is thousands of time hotter than fire ??? Amazing
You must not believe that a volcano ever existed in that area, where is the volcano now ???
Volcanoes don't just disappear, just like the Pyramids, they never disappeared.
Please, find the Volcanoes in Arizona and if you can't then you are believing what ever you are told and that is miserable way of gaining knowledge.
Academia and science are one and the same, they can't tell you the truth about this planet or they would be fired.
They don't believe in God but you believe everything that they say, Whhyyyy ???
@@NOTTHASAME No, that is not what I was saying.
From an infrared spectroscopy standpoint, South African kimberlite is serpentine.
1:00 "The big Hole" is in the city of Kimberly in South Africa hence the name kimberlite. The "Big Hole" was dug by hand and is said to be the largest hole on Earth dug that way.
I hope the Navajo are exploiting this to the fullest.
A curious apparent contradiction, is that between the "shallow angle" of subduction, versus the "deep in the mantle" origin of the kimberite. The actual sequence of events was probably more complex.
Have you ever done a video on the kiberlite pipes in northern Canada such as the mine at Diavik?
Would watch that one for sure!
I seem to recall a town in Europe, Germany possibly, that the buildings are all built of cut quarried nearby that is full of small diamonds. Are you familiar with this town and is the rock possibly from a Kimberlite Pipe? Nordlingen, Germany.
Wow. Just a few hours to reach the surface. I wonder why and how it could get in such a rush?
Diamonds diamonds 💎 lol. That's so awesome yes we have them here at Akati mines. I'm always amazed at your videos love them Thank you
Wasn't it two women geologists that discovered that kimberlite pipe, containing gem-quality diamonds?
The actual pipe was narrowed-down as being under a lake - this by core samples drilled from a barge. A dike was built across the lake and half the lake was drained and then an open-pit mine was started. There is a book out about that find - a fascinating story.
I live in Minnesota in the Iron range, I'd love to hear more about the formation of the Masabi Trail.
I see a serene and gracious face in the screenshot photo- spirit of the Kimberlite pipe, perhaps?
Never knew this feature existed in my state.
Interesting, didn't know about this one.
Also not very well known are several kimberlite pipes in Kansas. (All on private land)
I had found some kimberlite over 120 miles away near Barranger crater on one of my non- Barranger Meteorite hunts could it have come from this site or another
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Ive collected numerous peridot and the areas South if there in Fort Defiance also have an abundance of peridot or the red variety.
Both of these areas are heavily populated. Buell Park has multiple homesites within the crater and they do not take kindly to visitors.
I usually would gather up pieces of peridot on the road up to Buell Park. Pieces range in size from smaller than 8mm to upwards of 2 inches in size, free of any rock. Presumably tumbled and eroded from the parent material.
The area has several volcanic dikes and a large mountain to the east of Buell park is presumably from the same or later eruptions. Fuzzy Mountain was mined heavily for gravel in the past. Again....not an area with easy access as all areas are homesites for tribal members.
The peridot are at gem grade with few to no inclusions. Generally light green in color to almost clear.
Ive never found any diamonds though.
Theres a large outcropping of what a few miners and engineers i worked with on visit and doing consultant work for the tribe from South Africa, who spotted a large green outcropping of what they identified as Kimberlite of the variety diamonds are found in. Just to the Northeast of Buell Park, right off the main highway. Again. The area is inhabited and fenced. But enough is in the highway right of way to look thru. I personally never have looked there though.
Interesting info👍
Great video thank you
The first thing I noticed as the video zoomed in was the faces that I could see. At 0:37 look to the upper left of the caldera and see a nose and eyes looking to the left. Then at the same time look at the overall caldera and see a face looking to the right with the ring wall as the mouth and the nose defined by the small "nostril" just to the upper right of the green triangle and a hint of another just to the right of that one. The eyes are a bit vague but if you use your imagination you can see it. The face has a right eye that has received a punch and is a black eye and the left is squinting at something.
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Well done!
I have a question. You said that kimberlites form from deep in the mantle right? But then you said the video's kimberlite pipe originated from the Farallon Plate, the magmas from subduction don't come from so deep and they originate directly from the subducting plate, not from material from deep below. And more, the Farallon Plate was subducting in a very shallow manner, which makes things even more confusing
You pointed out some obvious errors.
often wondered about this feature whether meteoric or volcanic!! Shiprock is a notable feature of this volcanic region. have driven
past it but never any idea!!
Amazing how these gems are formed . 🦉💛🧡💜
Geologic oddity: Stone Mountain, GA. Please!
Without the hideous carving that the racist 🤬 person carved on it that made Mount Rushmore
Thank u from northern Arizona not far from the site say 50miles! I'm an ametuer rockhounder (sad, I know!) but I've always wondered what that green crystal was. It's all over the place in volcanic rock in east flagstaff forest.
Rodger from Muddfossil University would be all over this explaining exactly what it is!
Because it’s Navajo land trust me you don’t have permission
can you please do a video on the volcanic and geologic are of upstate NY known as the Adirondaks? i love the geology here and Im an amateur rock hound but ive got a fair collection of Garnets, Quarts and pyrites
Fascinating.
Outstanding work my friend. I wish to take one for the team and mention how it looks like a smiley face emoji.😉
Thank goodness the Farallon plate didn't carry a lot of carbon. It would be the case of another reservation having precious metal or gemstones, (diamond). What this reminds me of is the field in Arkansas. Surprised a large company has not started mining this field with big equipment, and digging a massive hole to the center of the earth like in South Africa. I do know in Wenatchee Washington a large volume of gold was discovered under the city and was drilled to find a large formation but was nixed by the local inhabitants not wanting their entire lives disrupted. If Mariupol happened in Wenatchee I can see mining in earnest start immediately. But the local people would have to benefit not some Wall Street conglomerate not helping the local economy at all.
Navajo will not allow it ever.