The Ancient Volcano in Wyoming; Devils Tower
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- One of the most impressive features within Wyoming is a towering volcanic edifice called Devils Tower. This ancient mass of rock contains hexagon shaped columns which rise 867 feet above the surrounding landscape. It is part of an ancient volcano, whose origin was debated until quite recently. This video will discuss a new theory on how Devils Tower formed, and mention some nearby related geologic features.
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Today, Devils Tower can be visited within Devils Tower National Monument. I went to the area several years ago, and would recommend the experience.
I went there several years ago too, it was quite impressive. The geology is fascinating, it almost hurts knowing some people actually think it's an ancient tree stump.
Devils postpile in California has similar hexagonal features and is in a beautiful area
how in what area of fluid study does a fluid form a hexagon shape and if it did hold that Shape long enough to solidify. Not just once but several hundred times going upward against gravity.
If you can duplicate that I will believe it is a volcano lava flow of some kind.
If you think that was ever a volcano you have lost your mind. But you’ll say it was millions of years ago, that is deep under the ocean under thousands of feet of water and none could ever see it happening Do some homework. There are other theories with better resolution than that. Open your minds people. This exists in other places on Earth with different strata and ridiculous explanations why each is exactly the same but different. Which lie to believe.
its a big tree stump!...lol biology buddy you are in the wrong field
This looks like a giant petrified tree base to me. Truly magnificent!
@@BelieveOnJesus z
God is going to make a new Heavens and a new Earth.
Thats the myth according to some native tribes in the area. It raised the children up away from giant bears. Look it up. Its a beautiful story.
@@danielmconnolly7 What is he going to do with the old heaven?
No
You see their is a big issue with that. Not even going into the fact its volcanic but looking at it from the perspective it may be a tree. Life as we know it is made to reproduce. Devils Tower is 867ft tall right now. The tallest tree in the world right now Hyperion stands 379.7ft. What makes this potential tree so special that its a one of a kind? Twice as tall as the largest tree discovered right now, and dont even get me started on width. I'm sure you have seen many trees in your life and know that none of them are anywhere near as wide as devils tower.
What's really cool is that you can make a perfect replica of this iconic landmark in your own home just from the use of a plate of mashed potatoes and a fork. Thanks Steven!
Lol
Forks make good tools to replicate the gaps where eroded columns used to be
LOL
Doo-doo-doo - BOM-BAAAA!! ❤❤
@@ugottabkidding...9942
👽🎶😳😂
"I know what this is!"
I've been to Devil's Tower. It's even more impressive in context because the landscape surrounding it is mostly rolling plains. So you're driving along and crest a hill and suddenly there's this THING in the middle of the countryside. It's considered sacred by the local Indian tribes, and although it is not illegal to climb it, the tribes ask people not to.
They know something, don't they? And like Dave Paulides says, any geographic feature named 'Devil...' is suspicious and sinister.
I had a very similar reaction to seeing it. It's just so sudden, stark, and... unnatural. Like it has absolutely no earthly business being there.
Scott: I believe it's considered a "Power Center" as are many places around the world, Egypt's pyramids, Stonehenge, etc... It's Devil's Tower after all. Names can carry something of a curse...many of us believe...
@@deanstackhouse8775Well, the Indians don't call it Devil's Tower. The Indians call it Mato Tipila, which translates roughly as "Bear Lodge". Although the deity in question (the bear) is not considered a nice one.
@@annehaight9963 Thanks Anne, for the info and response. I'd have to agree that bear is likely an angry one cuz when I broke down there at about 110° F. with a cat and dog on board, forest fires burning all around us (I was blessed with the breakdown having occurred where I was able to coast to the shade of the only tree for miles) to begin a year and a half homeless adventure. I am a bit surprised one of the townsfolk did not relay your useful trivia... Fare well Anne...
My family and I went to Devils Tower a few years ago. Devils Tower is in a pretty isolated location, but it’s well worth the drive. I would highly recommend hiking the trail that circles the base of the tower. It’s a beautiful and very impressive hike.
It’s pretty remarkable driving up to Devils Tower. It’s mostly flat around the area and you can see it from about 20 miles away and it feels like it’s not supposed to be there.
Which is why Steven Spielberg chose it to film his epic, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". It seems alien, just as you say.
@@marktwain368 It also appears in the comic si fi movie entitled Paul.
Used to be at the bottom of a shallow ocean that went across the United States. Few million years it won't be there. It crumbles quite a bit actually.
I once saw a pile of mashed potatoes on a plate that looked just like this.
Hahaha
damn you got that in before i did lolol 🤣😂
Is your alternate name Roy Neary? 🥴
came here for this
It must mean something....like YOU HAVE TOO MUCH MASH POTATOES.... Whatever you do do NOT BUILD IT UP in your living room.
Fascinating! I’ve had quite the interest in Devil’s Tower since I first saw Close Encounters in 1978 when I was 11 or 12. I even made a model of it out of chicken wire, papier-mâché, and modeling clay as a science fair project in middle school. I believe my diagrams of it were terribly wrong, just showing the magma column cooling inside a shield volcano that then eroded away. I’m glad to hear more accurate ideas about its formation!
I always found his obsession with the tower and it's shape fascinating in this movie. Especially him finally building a huge replica in his living room. It made even more of an impression on me as a kid than all the special effects in the movie combined. And the special effects were out of this world, so that's saying something. How cool that you made a model too.
“Close Encounters” is an iconic classic film and one of my all-time personal favorites as well, but considering the actual size and shape of this geological formation, it would be completely impossible for the characters to climb Devil’s Tower and pop witness the landing of the Star Visitors!👽🛸✨
There is a similar Rock "Tower" in Germany called the "Hohentwiel". In the medieval ages people even built a castle on top. It's said the mountain was eroded by a glacier however.
Devils causeway in Ireland, these silicon trees are everywhere.
I can't look at the images without hearing the five tones.
G, A, F, (octave lower) F, C
Lol, now I've read it 🤣I can hear it! So I'll have to go watch it again 🙄
Ray bloody Purchase!!!
You must use the Force
@@ahuman8657 Is that you, Clem?
(Anybody confused should search TH-cam for "Ray bloody Purchase".)
I'm a 68 year old American man living in Iowa. About twenty years ago I rode out to this Sacred Monument on my motorcycle. I appreciate knowing more about how it was likely formed.
It's a tree not a volcano
@@Angel-Azraelit's a volcano no a tree.
Stop that ridiculous B's 🙈
@@ax.f-1256 respect the opinions of others.
@@Angel-Azrael nope. Not if it's a lie.
It's no opinion, that is called *A LIE* plain and simple.
@@ax.f-1256 dude, volcanos don't appear out of nowhere, they form with molten rock aka lava and ash and other debris. There's no lava flow or bubble or any volcano caldera underneath or close by.
Devils Tower is so cool! It almost looks like some gigantic ancient tree that was cut long ago! Awesome
Please DON’T say that. There are already too many halfwits out there that are convinced it’s a tree instead of volcanic rock.
Back in the late 80's we camped at the KOA there near Devil's tower. (Not sure it's still there though). Just as the sun started going down they showed Close Encounters of the 3rd kind on a wall of the building outside with the tower visible just to the right of the building. It was a very unique experience.
Been to the same KOA in the early 2000's
I was there last week nice place great location. No campfires allowed because of the burn bans. Stayed in a camping cabin in the corner of the park next to the river. Lots of wild life, deer, elk, birds, and to,s of stars at night.
Have done this twice. Kinda cool to see it on screen, turn your head slightly left, and see it in the background. Nice clean campground too 😉
We were at a drive-in theater watching twister and there was lightning coming up behind us.
Been there, done that and would do it again. It really is a site to behold. We watched climbers go right up that thing when we were there. Do know if they still let people do that.
I camped there one cold winter night about 18 years ago. Got up early and walked around the base before anyone else was around. It's a wonderful geologic formation to behold....
We went and checked this out a number of years back on our three week western tour road trip with the kids, one of our most memorable and fun three weeks of our lives.
nice
Immediately recognized it from Close encounters of the third kind! Great movie. 👍
The fact that the top of devils tower was once a ground level is terrifying.
Agreed! Erosion has stripped away much of the planet, making areas far lower in elevation than they once were.
GeologyHub And apparently buried other places lol (Egypt)
silly theory
@@bakarangerpinku It's almost like there is limited matter on earth.
Some places get buried. While others erode.
This will happen to the Himalayas one day, once they move away from the tectonic plates that are pushing them up
Anyone else unavoidably hear that tune from close encounters every time they see devil's tower?
I think of how hot Terry Gar was.....
I hear AirWolf too.
Those of us who grew up around there were and are much more attached to the story about it’s part in the creation of the Pleiades. Hollywood can’t touch that 😎
Okay, boomer
Can you expand on the geologic formation of the Black Hills (technically mountains) in South Dakota, which the Devils Tower is part of? I briefly learned about it when I was there, and I think it's super interesting, especially considering how it's like a isolated region in the middle of prairie land.
Went in 2020 & stayed at the campground beside the tower. It is ridiculous. Absolutely amazing 🤩
This was the thing built for the movie Close Encounters of the First Kind back in 1977. It has held up really good.
🤣
It is a strange thing to see in real life. I've passed by it a few times over the years and it's hard to take your eyes off of it. Fascinating.
Like aliens are about to land there and the government or secret private organization meet the aliens as ambassadors?
@@okamijubei exactly. And then Dwayne is gonna have to take two kids up their that have superpowers
I love the way you use google earth so that we can not only hear things but we can see things ourselves.
This place is on my traveling bucket list.. I would love to see it in person one of these days..
Seeing the beautiful pictures at 1:00 - 1:15 makes me look closely for discarded shipping cartons marked "ACME"...
Meep, meep!
😋
And falling coyotes.
I visited Devil's Tower several years ago and you really can't imagine how magnificent this thing really is until you're standing at the bottom of it. Pictures and video do it absolutely no justice. Tons of rock climbers were scaling it and many of them had hammocks set up, literally hanging off the side of it hundreds of feet up from the base. While seeing people hang from this enormous tower in flimsy little hammocks was a bit hard to stomach, it was definitely a great experience.
I e been to every national park in the country devil’s tower and yellow stone were my favorite
@@mariestevenson1630 I haven't been to many but Yellowstone is definitely on the top of my priority list of parks to visit.
@@jus10lewissr It is a good choice for top priority, there are several excellent nat. parks, but Yellowstone is my favorite, have been there four times over the years, and it never disappoints. The geyser fields are just a small part of all there is to enjoy there... I have seen bison herds fording the river, a huge elk wandering through Madison campground at dawn, a herd of elk grazing at Mammoth springs, and just lazing around on the lawns right in the town. You can swim in the Firehole River, see Yellowstone lake, one of the grandest mountain lakes to be found, the picturesque "Grand Canyon" and waterfalls of the Yellowstone River... the list goes on and on, if you enjoy the wonders of nature.
btw If you get there and have the time to take the long way in, I definitely recommend the northeast entrance through Red Lodge Montana, it's a beautiful drive through the mountains, far more scenic than the other more traveled entries
@@NondescriptMammal I'd seriously love to experience it!
Something so unique, I definitely took it for granted growing up. Lived about 6 miles east of here!
WOW! Lucky you.
I've wanted to see Devils Tower since I was a kid after I watched ''Close Encounters of The Third Kind'..., I want to see it with my own eyes. When I went to the Grand Canyon years ago I was blown away and speechless..., some things in nature are a wonder to behold. 👍🙂
Close encounters of the third kind
I knew this joke would come up :D. It was a good science fiction film.
@@GeologyHub haha. One of my all time favorites
Suddenly I feel the need to make miniature model of devil's tower in the middle of my house
Who else was drawing Devil's Tower before they ever saw Close Encounters?
The soundtrack was up for an Academy Award. John Williams 1977 Star Wars 🏆
Every 10,000 years or so one of the hexagonal columns drop away from the tower. You can see them at the base. There are also named climbing paths up the groves between the columns with remnants of old wooden ladders in some areas. The top has it's own mini ecosystem. There are hundreds of prairie dogs at the entrance. There is a place between there and Gillette where you can find fossilized sharks teeth where the giant ant mounds are. And there is another volcano remnant not near as big and symmetrical in the SW corner of WY called Boars Tusk. Yes, it kind of looks like one. Plus you have Yellowstone in the NW corner which is a must see.
Where should one stay if they want to come see this!
YOU SHOULD BE MY TOUR GUIDE.
I'd also add the Bighorns. Some of the most beautiful mountains I've driven through and terribly underrated.
I don't believe the hubbub about the Devils tower being volcanic. It's a petrified tree. Volcanoes don't look like that at all. It is factual to say that the entire Earth once had a completely different weather system. Axel heiberg island in the arctic circle still has unpetrified redwood trees which were frozen. Yet absolutely nothing grows there today. Look it up. Truth is stranger than fiction.
A similar (but smaller) formation made of basalt can be seen at Mammoth, CA. It is called the Devil's Postpiles and they have the same hexagonal shape. Very interesting.
Might not be known to most. But there is a similar hill formation that is present in Mumbai, India. Smack bang in the middle of the city surrounded by buildings. Roughly 66 million years old
We have similar columnar basalt formations in Carlsbad, California, at the Calavera Hills volcano.
Thank you very much! Very detailed. I especially liked that!
I like the native story the best. IT IS THE PETRIFIED TRUNK OF A GIANT TREE.
The native story told that it was low but some god pulled it up so some girls could escape from bears, idk where you got that from
That's because it is!!!!
Agreed it’s a petrified stump
Nosense
The actual formations are a whole lot more interesting.
The island of Staffa, SW Scotland, has a similar form but rising from the sea and still retaining a cap of other rocks. The giant's causeway, Antrim Northern Ireland is linked to it and both have the same hexagonal construction.
There's a place in California called Devils Postpile that also has the hexagonal pilings.
@@fixpacifica devils postpile is related to the long valley supervolcano :)
Columnar basalt
@Andrew Hardingham Your not a geologist mate unlike him so hes know what hes doing cause he went to college just to be a geologist
@Andrew Hardingham First im not gonna bother
2 its debunked the tower is in fact made of phonolite
Your claims have no merit
Amazing! It is much more beautiful than I remembered, I saw Devils Tower in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind and I fell in love…
Those hexagonal shapes are theeeeee coolest part! May the architects of the world take notes on the success of building with this shape!
Walked around the base trail and enjoyed it immensely. Top spot!
This is BS everyone knows Richard Dreyfuss made it out of mashed potatoes
No, he made it out of chicken wire and dirt. Lol
This makes me laugh, He does not know how this happened.
What the earth gets a pimple and its major news. A skin tag
It's *SEXIST!!!* to say BS when she cows also go poopoo.
I've been there lol
I love learning geography. Bravo, thank you for this video!
Unrelated, but do you realize that you sound very similar to Prof. Hawkins' speech app.? 😊
Very interesting, I had gleaned that the Devil's tower was what was left of the core of a volcano, but this explains much more, thanking you for the knowledge. 👍🏻
I spent a day at the tower a while back. One of the highlight of my western road trip.
Those hexagon formations are phenomenal.
So is your sister
This is really cool, thank you!
“Close Encounters of the Third kind” - Richard Dreyfuss.
“It started cooling from the top down so it created hexagon shapes” like what sense does that make? At least explain why. Lol
When a small segment of the lava flow begins to cool from the inside, it contracts, and it fractures as it does so. When cooling rates are fairly uniform, with the heat from the lava escaping at regular intervals, it contracts and fractures fairly evenly, leading to tall, well-developed, generally hexagonal basalt columns. The process of hexagons or other shapes is determined by the chemical compounds in the rock, finding the weakest molecular bond to break first.
And now you know.
@@pizzafrenzyman did you just make that up? Are you a Democrat?😆🇺🇸
@@antoniocobb9648 No need for insults. I was there on the construction crew, and I had several conversations with the engineers during the project.
litterally all volcanos cool from top down ... but not many volcanos look like a tree stump and that doesnt change from how far or close you look at it.
There's a ancient volcano in Australia called the Cerberean Caldera which underwent a super eruption 374 Mya, which in turn contributed to the Late Devonian Extinction event . Please do a video on this volcano I want to find out more about it .
Cmon man all you need is a five second youtube search; th-cam.com/users/results?search_query=cerberean+caldera+australia
@Martin Mcgimopsey Yes it was widest wildest tallest veggie left over from the ancient LAND OF THE GIANTS quadrillion years ago.
@@trafficjon400 I think it was 50 bazillion quintillion fricken pfizillion years ago man.
@@binderdundit228 Oh Man longer may be a month ya think ? well may 2 months longer than 🤔WHAT WAS THAT😆
@@binderdundit228 pfizillion is that a high number?😂
I was always told that it was a Batholith, which is a huge bubble of magma that is thrust to the surface and then when it hits the air it is rapidly cooled causing the squared off rock formations.
Great Job !
The Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland has the same hexagon shaped columns.
Columnar basalt is best basalt.
yea it does, thats interesting.
That's immediately what I thought of when they showed the hexagon columns.
erosion lol
Yeah ... I don't believe this stupid "Theory" - I bet this was caused by some giants or somfing chucking rocks at each other - like in the "Giants Causeway" in Ireland !!
It really does look like a prehistoric tree stump, how cool!
Eh, it kinda looks like a tree stump, but it's not.
This is from electrical discharge,.. NOT a volcano
th-cam.com/video/ZZB4-JEU-eQ/w-d-xo.html
Mud fossils University says it's a Giants foot. I think it's a tree as well, but I ain't Roger and have no data or expertise.
@@unclefido6484 it's not a tree
@@unclefido6484 This is from electrical discharge,.. NOT a volcano
th-cam.com/video/ZZB4-JEU-eQ/w-d-xo.html
It amazes me that science can get and understand the information going back for so many, many years. Thank you for your explanation. This is one of the wonders in our country I would love to visit!
This was awesome!!! I’m from New Mexico, we have a lot of different flows here, videos about those would be very cool!
New Mexico has some cool lava flows and tubes I’d like to see. I live in AZ we got lots of neat volcanoes, lava flows etc
That is most interesting how a volcano can create a stone hexagon and a bee hive makes a similar shaped honeycomb one. It looks like a monolithic supersized redwood tree base.
It looks like a monolithic super sized tree because it actually is....Volcanos don't look like this...EVER!
@@johncampbell829 ,says the expert in vulcanos........explain then the vulcanic rocks.....
@@johncampbell829 very true sir
@@RST-R-MODS do some research, you'll be surprise.
@@johncampbell829, it was a vulcano, deal whit kid...
Makes me feel like eating mashed potatoes.
A spectacular cousin to the Giant’s Causeway in Ireland and Fingal’s Cave in Scotland. Beautiful formation!
That's amazing information and it makes sense😎👍
Same as the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland and Fingals Cave on the Isle of Staffa...
Remember "close encounters of the 3rd kind" some conspiracy theories call it a tree stump, um okay but it doesn't have tree rings, it's really cool there.
Have you looked from an aerial perspective?
@@elizabethmorlan3972 I've seen Mt St Helen's from above.
@@elizabethmorlan3972 there are photos and video online from above it.
Every time I see this mountain that melody comes to my mind.
BEEN HERE TWICE, LAST WAS 2014.
GREAT AREA TO VISIT, AND THE LANDSCAPE WAS VERY SCENIC.
Thank you. Oh, in the early 70’s I climbed it. What a view from on top…..
Are you sure you werent "left" there atop it? 🤣
@@jellojiggle1 my wife said I should have stayed.. ha….
Did you find rings on top?
@@briangraham367 nope old tin cans…..
Did you make it back down? Were there dinosaurs living on top of it? They don't tell us everything, you know.
Geology/Rock Collecting has always been a fascination for me since I was a kid. I always thought the Devils Tower was a Volcanic Plug of some sort, but I did not know how it formed compared to others. Glad to hear your theory on how. Has this phenomenon with the hexagon shaped rock occurred elsewhere, it appears familiar? Thank you for the video, always interesting.
There are hexagonal columns in lava flows on the North Shore of Lake Superior.
Giants Causeway in Ireland? has the same hexagonal columns..
It's all over the place. It happens when basalt cools slowly forming the hexagon shaped patterns. It's called columnar basalt. It's rare to find it in a giant pile like this, but it's very common in areas with intrusive basalt formations that get exposed.
It can't be related as Pennsylvania hasn't ha volcanic activity in hundreds of millions of years fsr as I know. But in Eastern center state, on the plateau part of the Appalachian. There are small areas just like this except they are only like 100ftx,50ft in area at the biggest. Sometimes you just find like a dozen of these. Some spots they are protruding from the bottom of a cliffface. I wonder if they ate buried remnants of eruptions magnitudes older than here.
More hexagonal basalt can be found near Mamouth, CA
Great video, thanks.
First time I ever heard of this place was Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind in theaters and have never forgotten it.
Just how big was the lumberjack that cut down that stump?
Its the foot of a giant. Watch mudfossil university on yt
Probably two lumberjacks about 1200 feet tall using a two-man lumberjack saw close to 1000 feet long. :-)
big... angels are big
Yeah..back then, everything was BIG..
Giants did exist, they have skulls and remains of them
Another fascinating discussion of America's geological wonders. Thanks for this!
I always wondered why they only ever showed that one angle so it was cool to see some other sides to it. I may have to Google Earth it for a closer view now. :)
Been learning about the Challis Lava formations, which formed quite differently than subduction arc volcanoes and hotspot derived volcanic vents. Devil’s tower is apparently pet of multiple volcanoes referred as part of the Challis formation. Apparently their geochemical signature is quite unique. Very interesting your theory about it being initiated by groundwater interacting with shallow magma
There is similar towering columnar formation close to the "Chaine des Puys" volcanics complex in France and I was lucky to see massives collumnar basalts in Abitibi ( 2,677 Ma) and in Nunavik (1870 Ma ), all in Quebec, Canada. Still don't understand why peoples think that these are trees... You clearly can see that this is volcanics rocks.
Of course, most columnar jointing is propagated cooling of basalt. Typically there isn’t a complex related maar in the area. As for Chaine des Puys, that’s a volcanic system which is still active!
hi, could you be more specific as to where those columnar formations are? i visited the area once, loved it very much and plan to go back one day, i'm from belgium so the trip is only a 7-8 hour drive.. and yeah funny to realize folks think devils tower was a huge tree, lot's of fantasy going on in their heads i guess..
Thomas Deb, you didn't understand why ppl think it is a tree stupm.. If some one have peanut size consciousness he or she will have peanut size understanding...
Dammit! I know this. I know what this is! This means something. This is important.
What?
@X-OR Nice! Lol 😆
👍🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵
It means you need to buy some mash potato
Hey man that was interesting thanks
Near Melbourne, Australia, there is a an area called the Organ Pipes National Park, which has a large outcropping of hexagonal lava.
It's just off the Calder Highway, and is a site I often visited in the past :)
Visiting Devil's Tower some years ago I noticed several similar, but smaller "towers" before we got to Devi's Tower itself.
Old trees my friend. Be safe
@@briangraham367 lol.
Other fossils trees. 😊
Ffs, they're not trees, you absolute nitwits. When you see a cloud that looks like a lizard, do you point at it and say, omigod there are lizards in the sky? If you've spent time exploring basalt fields, you'll clearly identify the tower's composition.
@@briangraham367 I've been there and climbed it. Its not a tree.
Everyone knows that Devils Tower isn't a Volcano but a giant tree stump!
its yggdrasil.... cmon dude... we are midgard after all
@@jointedlimb there are bigger treestumps than that.
🤦♂️. And the earth is flat too right? Go back to elementary school. It’s not a fuckin tree stump.
@@MatanuskaHIGH it is. Don't fall for "science" and their lies
@@MatanuskaHIGH Is it a personal thing for you? Or why does it make you so aggressive?
Thanks planning a trip there this year.
My wife and I visited Devils Tower on the motorcycle this last Labor Day weekend (Friday/Saturday). First time for both of us. Very impressive! I wasn’t sure what to expect, wondering if it was smaller than how it might have been presented in media (i.e., CEotTK). From a distance, it does seem kind of like it could be a little smaller than it actually is, but it’s all perspective. The closer you get, it becomes obvious just how massive it really is, especially when you hike right up to its base, well into the scree. It’s HUGE! As others mentioned, we were riding along through rolling hills, expecting to see it soon, then suddenly, there it is. It stands out so wildly different than the surrounding countryside. Definitely a bucket-list item!
One thing to note: if you go there on a holiday weekend, be sure to get there absolutely as early as possible. Skip breakfast (or have it already prepared and bring it with you), do what you have to do, but get there early. We got there late afternoon on Friday, visited the upper parking area (as close as you can drive to it) for a while, then headed to the Best Western we’d booked just a few miles away. Then, early that Saturday (maybe 8AM?), we rode to the upper parking area again without any trouble.
After hiking to the base, and coming back out, the upper parking area was completely full. We rode back down, and after about a mile or so, we saw where the rangers had stopped traffic and were letting cars go up only as others came back out. The line of vehicles behind that was over a mile long, back past the entrance to the park.
There was also a very long line of cars stopped on the way out, as the park collected fees when exiting, rather than upon entrance. Being on a motorcycle, we quickly rode past the whole line on the shoulder after I held up my National Parks Pass and the ranger on foot near the start of that line just waved us on through to take the shoulder. If you have a Pass, keep it handy. That saved us a lot of time.
Would that process be similar to how "Giant's Causeway" was formed?.
The coloms, when sliced across, would make excellent pavers, or, well fitting pieces of a stone wall, laid horozontaly.
Good idea! By they way…. It’s spelled Columns.
They are much bigger than you think
My mom lived about 10-15 minutes away as the crow flies. It’s even more incredible looking up close.
Very interesting. Thanks for the education. 😀
Always been intrigued by this formation - thank you !!
Interesting, thank you. We have similar hexagon shaped rocks in Scotland, at Fingals Cave, and of course over in Northern Ireland, at the giants causeway. Not a tower like this, but similar rock hexagons.
Wow, yes.
WHICH ALSO, ARE JUST THE REMAINS OF TREES...Volcanos are common all through this realm...funny how this pattern is only found in a few places and then attributed to volcanos.
I think I read that the columns of the Giant's Causeway and Fingal Cave are actually connected beneath the water of the North Channel, with hundreds or thousands more columns under the water. Does that sound correct to you?
@@johncampbell829 Funny how they are all made of VOLCANIC ROCK
Fascinating thank you
While moving across the country last summer my family took the time for a nice roadtrip. We drove two hours out of our way to see Devil’s Tower and Mt Rushmore.
Lucky us it was fogged in. Like HEAVY fog. We walked around Devil’s tower and could only see abotut 50 ft up.
It kind of looks like an ancient space elevator where is was cut off later.
In Québec, Canada, there is a series of small mountains that were formed by lava. A good example is 《Mont Royal》, witch sits in the middle of the city of Montreal.
It was a volcano active 125 million years ago
@@GeologyHub There is still no consensus about Mount Royal and other Monteregian Hill that is was a volcano but there is a couples diatrems pipes with sedimentary enclaves and xenoliths that where at least 1 kilometer and more into the sedimentary sequence, so there was explosive water-magma interaction (for me, I think it's was probably a volcanic complex). There is a lot of strange magmas in the Monteregian Hills. There is some very undersaturated nepheline and 2 carbonatites complex that are very rich in uranium and REE. That prelude a low partial melting at depth. There is a couples of orangeite intrusions and you can follow the hotspot all the way to the atlantic ocean. That could make a good video if you run out of volcanoes (with ... you will not in the short term that sure)
Outstanding
There’s a KOA located right near the base of Devils Tower and you can chill at your campsite and have a perfect view of people climbing it during the day
it was a good hike around.
Que all the TH-cam University grads with the “it’s a tree stump” comments
Funny you should say that the comment below yours says something like that
its a tree stump morons!!
Aliens want us to believe it’s a tree stump.
I enjoyed the video very educational
I notice that the top one quarter of Devil's Tower looks far more eroded and weathered than the lower three quarters of the tower. There is a clear line that distinguishes this division. I am guessing that this portion was above ground level for a significant amount of time while the rest was still below ground level. It also seems that the lower three quarter area of the tower has the same amount of erosion all the way down to the current ground level. That would seem to mean that the ground level area around the tower eroded away fairly rapidly.
“Devil’s”? “Hexagon”? Mephisto confirmed!!
That should be scarlet witches hide out lol
The fact that nearly a kilometer of sediment eroded away in that time is mind boggling.
Noah seen it happen.
Earth is always changing , mountains crumble to the sea and places like Hawaii are growing bigger .
The Himalayans rose to what they are today in under 50 million years; the earth can change rapidly given the proper conditions.
it really is such an awe inspiring location all around. what most don't know without visiting is that there is also a beautiful canyon alongside the road you take to get there, as well as prairie dog fields right next to the tower itself. the trail around it gives an amazing view of the landscape as it is much higher than the surrounding plains, and on the north side (i believe) there is an amazing bunch of trees with native american prayer cloths tied to them. natives are against climbing the tower, and out of respect doing so is not permitted in june.
Just another incredible monument that I don’t think I’ve ever seen before America really is such a magnificent place I must see it for myself one day
I am from Mississippi and have read we have an extinct volcano under Jackson. Can you do a video on it?
Thank you for your content. Would love to see an episode on Table Rock in Oregon
I live near there and will be shooting a video on how they are tree stumps
If I understood: from 50 mya to 5 mya much of the surrounding sedimentary rock eroded away? Wow! That blows my mind. Thank you for sharing this content.
Went there in 1993. Had to when in that part od America after seeing 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'.
We were no disappointed! Amazing! There were about ten people visiting and three or four climbing the edifice.
Today, I suppose you could multiply that by 100!