@@cacogenicist Oh yes, given the evidence provided it looks to be true. I only mention "hope this gets verified" because this is the internet and people can forge evidence (lord knows people have done this with fossils). If literally anyone else goes there and independently confirms the presence of said materials, then this is truly the real deal in my book. :)
@@richardgrier8968 - "whatnot" = a circular feature, with a raised crater rim, and so forth 🙂 -- landform features entirely consistent with an impact crater.
Just the fact that a fifteen-year-old has such a passion for the science of Geology is amazing! I wish the little Toonsi-guy all the best for his future and I'm glad the upcoming reveal came from our favorite channel!
Even as we wait for the confirmation of this crater, Abdulrahman Toonsi is an inspiration for others. He even went out into the scorching desert to prove the possible identity!
@@afl6786 It's in the exact region where the Meteorite was said to have fallen, it seems to be at the right time, though dating might give it a earlier date.
I love when 'citizen scientists' make a big find, and for it to be someone so young is even better... congrats Mr Toonsi! 👍 Hope you'll keep us posted on the scientific verification process for this one, I'm looking forward to reading what the local geologists & astronomers might find is associated with this impact.
Would be nice to have an interview with Toonsi, I realise it's not your usualy format but an interview with a 15 year old with such passion for the subject would be inspiring.
And it’s nice that it’s such a positive event for him to find this considering how much this part of the world is in such turmoil at times, keep up the good work representing the best of the young people of your country! Hope it the discovery gets its official designation with your name ASAP! 🙂
Way to go Abdulrahman Toonsi! You're on the map now. I think you deserve an award from the kingdom. A good scholarship and and long range 4 wheel vehicle for exploring with team to help would be nice. Some drones would help for documenting.
There are a series of impact craters in the middle of the Rub' al-Khali (the Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia) that are poorly known (I was unable to find a reference to them in a quick search on Wikipedia; perhaps one of your other viewers can supply a reference.). When I was teaching at King Faisal University back in the early 1980s, a group of us tried to drive to them over an academic holiday. We were unsuccessful (we couldn't carry enough gasoline, and there was next to no permanent track through the dunes), but I've always regretted not being able to get there. I wonder if this new impact crater is related to the Rub' al-Khali craters.
It sounds like what you're describing are the Wabar craters - they are known to be very young, probably only a couple of centuries old. We have seen them noticeably erode over time, which would be very odd if they were 4-6 million years old. So, they seem probably unrelated other than being in the same country.
Absolutely mind-blowing that this impact crater has not been identified by previous geological surveys. It so much more well-preserved and exposed then other impact structures identified in other settings. Kudos to Abdulrahman if it indeed turns out to be an impact structure and it goes to show how much more geological work is necessary in neglected regions like Saudi Arabia.
because maybe it's from a nuke. It's ludicrous to assume they simply have never happened in saudi arabia. If any country in the world would have a secret sweetheart deal with global powers to have nukes and no one know about it publicly it'd be saudi arabia.
When i took geology in college about 18 years ago, it was stressed how much discovery there is still to be made in geology. Congrats to Abdulrahman for this incredible discovery! Keep up the great work!
Pre-print available on earth arXiv titled: Discovery of a 15-kilometer-wide comet impact crater candidate in western SaudiArabia. Comments are more than welcome..
Amateur discoveries like this make me very happy, especially since the kid's only 15 years old. He's got a bright future head of him! Outstanding work!
Brilliant! I would like to thank you student/master. Saudi Arabia has gotten very fortunate to have you as one of their own. Love Geology Hub, and you always do such great stuff! Love, David
Finding a possible crater from satellite photo is some thing, but it impresses me more that he did the legwork to verify the finding as well. Congrats Toonsi! I love how it so cleanly carved a circular hole in the lava deposit.
It's possible that it has been reported in the past but not followed up to verify but well done to the lad for the find and I hope he can get it verified and named.
Guaranteed first place at the science fair for sure! Congratulations Abdulrahman, I hope you continue to take interest in science and I wish you a great future!
I remember finding this on google maps awhile back and trying to find out information on if it was an impact crater or not. I had no idea that it was literally just unrecorded or verified at the time. This is so amazing and I'm so stoked that someone took the time to go visit and verify this site, especially someone so young! This might be one of my favorite videos of yours just because of how exciting the find is.
Its one thing to find something that looks like a crater but its on another level when you visit the location and do scientific field work to confirm your hypothesis. Very impressive and a proud achievement, congratulations Toonsi!
Wow! Early Congratulations to Abdulraman Toonsi! That is good science he did there and an amazing discovery. 🪨✊ Watching the video, I didn't realize the size of the crater until you started talking about the scaile of the impact. Good grief! That impact was large enough to cause some significant geological and climatalogical changes. I hope our young scientist gets to participate in more research pertaining to his discovery. This devotion to science is one if the things that sets you apart on YT, airing a young unknown's discovery is not something everyone would do. Much respect & appreciation!💜🌎✌️😎🍀
They probably assumed it was a Maar, remember that extraterrestrial impacts were only confirmed to exist relatively recently in large part to the work studying nuclear blast tests and the extreme conditions that they produce. Before that while some people had suggested that some features such as Barringer crater might be evidence of impacts the standard accepted explanation was they were volcanic in origin. It took the advent of shock metamorphism studies to finally verify that many such features were impact structures typically starting with those which were isolated from known volcanic features and thus were unlikely to be Maars. Scientists are generally greatly constrained by stingy funding meaning that there are still huge amounts of low hanging fruit that have been neglected or missed both from the lack of funding and the lack of researchers to investigate such things. For example we are still at the point where most microorganisms and even small animals which live in the soil or caverns etc. are still poorly documented if documented at all by science (99.9+% of life on Earth is "microbial dark matter" undocumented by science largely due to most organisms not being able to be isolated from the environment and grown in lab cultures fed bovine serum) such that people can still go out in their backyards and potentially discover species undocumented by science (particularly organisms with low dispersal rates which are small and hard to notice). Myriapods springtails mites even insects are still being discovered in areas like major metropolitan areas or college campuses yet alone actual exotic environments. In geology many volcanic fields have never actually been studied in detail which is a big part why the models behind the geology of the western US are currently undergoing radical revision as the evidence such as the dating of volcanic and igneous rocks, largely fueled by renewed economic interest in searching for minerals in the US and Canada by their respective geological services is inconsistent with the standard explanation of the last half century. Astrophysics, Atmospheric sciences/fluid dynamics, Biology, Cosmology, Ecology, Geology, if you look at the literature you will find that most of what we know is extrapolations based on limited survey samples because unless something is economically interesting, funding agencies will not fund most proposals to study or follow up on preliminary work done in many cases 50 to 70+ years ago. Sure some lucky researchers particularly those with strong existing connections can get this kind of study approved by funding agencies but there are always more researchers with proposals looking for funding than there is money in the pot for basic science to go around. Welcome to neoliberal capitalism, the political-economic ideology where governments are run like private corporations existing to make the richest 1% of the 1% richer at the expense of anything and everything else by cutting corners everywhere and viewing human lives as little more than disposable resources and anything that is not immediately profitable is viewed as nothing more than charity work. Its basically why if you account for population growth and inflation the rate of new discoveries has dropped off and the amount of funding to science has drastically declined since the 1970's respectively.
Oh my gosh! My old man spent a bunch of time in Arabia with the British Army many decades ago, and collected some crystals that, as far as I can remember, were similar to those shown! He loved the desert!
Amazing work, Mr. Toonsi. Keep up the work you do with the passion you currently hold and I have no doubt you'll accomplish phenomenal things in whatever you pursue.
I wrote two emails and mowed the lawn yesterday and felt like I got stuff done, meanwhile this 15 yo kid is out there doing geology and discovering impact craters.
Good job Abdulrahman Toonsi. I hope your crater gets confirmed without a lot of hassle. It would be very cool to have something like that to your credit already, should you go to university.
You know the Lil man feels good about himself for discovering it but.....Imagine how proud his parents are!!!! Both of them telling each side of thier family! All their friends at work,church clubs and many more people on the web!! He should and everyone should be proud! Amazing!!! Almost forgot all those at Geology Hub!!!
wonderful find so we have the shocked quartz, the brachiated rock and the physical evidence of a circular rim it looks plausible. is there any other material platinum traces or other particle evidence of the original bolide or is the research ongoing? i do hope this site proves out and the young man gets his wish of a named crater.
very interesting video of a discovery of an impact crater 16 km wide .... must have made a very big bang , we are lucky this was 4 million years ago .... thank you for posting ❤
It is always an achievement when an amateur or beginner discovers something.
Hancock effect
Astronomy for example relies heavily on amateur astronomy for many discoveries.
@@brunnomenxaVery true, which is why I love the field so much!
That's all I'm am but I study and watch lectures on geology all the time
Yes. And especially when they are only 15 years old - a very impressive piece of work indeed, Abdulrahman Toonsi!
This is so cool, I hope this gets verified as a genuine crater. Congratulations Toonsi, I bet you have a promising career in science ahead of you!
It's hard to see much of any room for doubt. There's a clear crater rim, and unambiguous shocked quartz, and whatnot.
@@cacogenicist Oh yes, given the evidence provided it looks to be true. I only mention "hope this gets verified" because this is the internet and people can forge evidence (lord knows people have done this with fossils). If literally anyone else goes there and independently confirms the presence of said materials, then this is truly the real deal in my book. :)
If you check you can find information about it in the Quran.
@@cacogenicist Yep, the presence of whatnot is irrefutable evidence.
@@richardgrier8968 - "whatnot" = a circular feature, with a raised crater rim, and so forth 🙂 -- landform features entirely consistent with an impact crater.
Just the fact that a fifteen-year-old has such a passion for the science of Geology is amazing! I wish the little Toonsi-guy all the best for his future and I'm glad the upcoming reveal came from our favorite channel!
I agree. I hope his career in geology turns out well. He sort of reminds me of myself at a younger age.
Even as we wait for the confirmation of this crater, Abdulrahman Toonsi is an inspiration for others. He even went out into the scorching desert to prove the possible identity!
THE Rock that made the Impact is in the KaBa.
@@apusupa738 Just pointing out the Kaba contains a Meteorite, that was said to have fallen in that area.
@@carrollsanders9376 oke that true,
But it not the right time to comment about that
@@afl6786 It's in the exact region where the Meteorite was said to have fallen, it seems to be at the right time, though dating might give it a earlier date.
What a cool guy
Hah, It's already labeled as Toonsi Impact crater on google maps with a link to this video. Bravo.
Thanks!
No, thank you!
Way to go, Abdulrahman! 👍! We have no age restriction for science. And we know you're smart, because you follow this channel! 😊
I love when 'citizen scientists' make a big find, and for it to be someone so young is even better... congrats Mr Toonsi! 👍 Hope you'll keep us posted on the scientific verification process for this one, I'm looking forward to reading what the local geologists & astronomers might find is associated with this impact.
Bravo Mr. Toonsi !
Would be nice to have an interview with Toonsi, I realise it's not your usualy format but an interview with a 15 year old with such passion for the subject would be inspiring.
And it’s nice that it’s such a positive event for him to find this considering how much this part of the world is in such turmoil at times, keep up the good work representing the best of the young people of your country! Hope it the discovery gets its official designation with your name ASAP! 🙂
Way to go Abdulrahman Toonsi! You're on the map now. I think you deserve an award from the kingdom. A good scholarship and and long range 4 wheel vehicle for exploring with team to help would be nice. Some drones would help for documenting.
Actually, the kingdom gives out scholarships to anybody who gets accepted into one of the top 200 universities globally.
There are a series of impact craters in the middle of the Rub' al-Khali (the Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia) that are poorly known (I was unable to find a reference to them in a quick search on Wikipedia; perhaps one of your other viewers can supply a reference.). When I was teaching at King Faisal University back in the early 1980s, a group of us tried to drive to them over an academic holiday. We were unsuccessful (we couldn't carry enough gasoline, and there was next to no permanent track through the dunes), but I've always regretted not being able to get there. I wonder if this new impact crater is related to the Rub' al-Khali craters.
It sounds like what you're describing are the Wabar craters - they are known to be very young, probably only a couple of centuries old. We have seen them noticeably erode over time, which would be very odd if they were 4-6 million years old. So, they seem probably unrelated other than being in the same country.
Wabar
What's the chance of locating large meteorites within the crater?
Bet that was an awesome trip, even if you didn’t reach the craters
@@AndrewSRappalmost zero, large impact craters never leave behind actual meteorites.
Absolutely mind-blowing that this impact crater has not been identified by previous geological surveys. It so much more well-preserved and exposed then other impact structures identified in other settings. Kudos to Abdulrahman if it indeed turns out to be an impact structure and it goes to show how much more geological work is necessary in neglected regions like Saudi Arabia.
because maybe it's from a nuke. It's ludicrous to assume they simply have never happened in saudi arabia. If any country in the world would have a secret sweetheart deal with global powers to have nukes and no one know about it publicly it'd be saudi arabia.
When i took geology in college about 18 years ago, it was stressed how much discovery there is still to be made in geology. Congrats to Abdulrahman for this incredible discovery! Keep up the great work!
This work is so good that it's hard to call it amateur. Is there a chance this will be published?
Pre-print available on earth arXiv titled:
Discovery of a 15-kilometer-wide comet impact crater candidate in western SaudiArabia.
Comments are more than welcome..
Amateur discoveries like this make me very happy, especially since the kid's only 15 years old. He's got a bright future head of him! Outstanding work!
This is a great find. Using the known age of the lava fields to help date it is uber cool.
Very cool for the young Mr Toonsi. Also very cool of you to support him like that. Cheers!
Brilliant! I would like to thank you student/master. Saudi Arabia has gotten very fortunate to have you as one of their own. Love Geology Hub, and you always do such great stuff!
Love,
David
Finding a possible crater from satellite photo is some thing, but it impresses me more that he did the legwork to verify the finding as well. Congrats Toonsi!
I love how it so cleanly carved a circular hole in the lava deposit.
Congratulations to your young viewer! How exciting it must be for him.
Good job, Abdulrahman Toonsi! You're off and running in your planetary geologist career.
Great work, Abdulrahman! Congratulations on what I hope will be a rapid confirmation of your find!
Impressive work from Toonsi. I hope his work is given the respect it deserves, as this is an incredible start for his future!
Congratulations Abdulrahman!! - Amazing!!
Congratulation Abdulrahman! Excellent work. 👍🏻
You did your friend proud. One of your best presentations!
Crazy how a 15 year old found a undiscovered and new crater
the desert hides many things.
Put knowledge and technology in the hands of the people and they will find a way 💪
It's possible that it has been reported in the past but not followed up to verify but well done to the lad for the find and I hope he can get it verified and named.
Guaranteed first place at the science fair for sure! Congratulations Abdulrahman, I hope you continue to take interest in science and I wish you a great future!
Well done young mister Toonsi!
Nice find Mr. Toonsi
Congratulations Abdulrahman, you have a bright future ahead of you 👍
Congrats Abdulrahman !
I remember finding this on google maps awhile back and trying to find out information on if it was an impact crater or not. I had no idea that it was literally just unrecorded or verified at the time. This is so amazing and I'm so stoked that someone took the time to go visit and verify this site, especially someone so young! This might be one of my favorite videos of yours just because of how exciting the find is.
Its one thing to find something that looks like a crater but its on another level when you visit the location and do scientific field work to confirm your hypothesis. Very impressive and a proud achievement, congratulations Toonsi!
Yup. Toonsi Crater...IT SINGS! Name it!
Toonsi Crater I hope it ill be, very impressive, well done lad 👍
Great job Toonsi!
Congrats on your find. Toonsi ftw.
Wonderful! I hope young Mr. Toonsi’s discovery is authenticated and he gets accolades. Makes us proud. Great video, by the way.
And thus I lift a can to Toonsi Crater! Good on you young Abdul!
thank you Abdulrahman Toonsi
Good job Mr. Toonsi!
Congratulations Mr Toonsi
Congratulations to young Mr Toonsie. I hope he pursues a career in geology and finds great further success !
Good job, Toonsi!
Massive congrats to this young man. Excellent work. And, great video too.
go toonsi, you got a good future ahead of you
Congrats, Abdulrahman!!! That's amazing!!! Keep up the excellent science!
Nice one Abdulrahman!
Wow! Early Congratulations to Abdulraman Toonsi! That is good science he did there and an amazing discovery. 🪨✊
Watching the video, I didn't realize the size of the crater until you started talking about the scaile of the impact. Good grief! That impact was large enough to cause some significant geological and climatalogical changes. I hope our young scientist gets to participate in more research pertaining to his discovery.
This devotion to science is one if the things that sets you apart on YT, airing a young unknown's discovery is not something everyone would do.
Much respect & appreciation!💜🌎✌️😎🍀
i have to wonder what else is hidden in the sahara and other deserts in the middle east
congratulations mr toonsi and keep up the good work
It amazes me that professional geologists missed that crater when they studied those volcanoes nearby. Congratulation kid.
They probably assumed it was a Maar, remember that extraterrestrial impacts were only confirmed to exist relatively recently in large part to the work studying nuclear blast tests and the extreme conditions that they produce. Before that while some people had suggested that some features such as Barringer crater might be evidence of impacts the standard accepted explanation was they were volcanic in origin. It took the advent of shock metamorphism studies to finally verify that many such features were impact structures typically starting with those which were isolated from known volcanic features and thus were unlikely to be Maars.
Scientists are generally greatly constrained by stingy funding meaning that there are still huge amounts of low hanging fruit that have been neglected or missed both from the lack of funding and the lack of researchers to investigate such things.
For example we are still at the point where most microorganisms and even small animals which live in the soil or caverns etc. are still poorly documented if documented at all by science (99.9+% of life on Earth is "microbial dark matter" undocumented by science largely due to most organisms not being able to be isolated from the environment and grown in lab cultures fed bovine serum) such that people can still go out in their backyards and potentially discover species undocumented by science (particularly organisms with low dispersal rates which are small and hard to notice). Myriapods springtails mites even insects are still being discovered in areas like major metropolitan areas or college campuses yet alone actual exotic environments.
In geology many volcanic fields have never actually been studied in detail which is a big part why the models behind the geology of the western US are currently undergoing radical revision as the evidence such as the dating of volcanic and igneous rocks, largely fueled by renewed economic interest in searching for minerals in the US and Canada by their respective geological services is inconsistent with the standard explanation of the last half century.
Astrophysics, Atmospheric sciences/fluid dynamics, Biology, Cosmology, Ecology, Geology, if you look at the literature you will find that most of what we know is extrapolations based on limited survey samples because unless something is economically interesting, funding agencies will not fund most proposals to study or follow up on preliminary work done in many cases 50 to 70+ years ago. Sure some lucky researchers particularly those with strong existing connections can get this kind of study approved by funding agencies but there are always more researchers with proposals looking for funding than there is money in the pot for basic science to go around. Welcome to neoliberal capitalism, the political-economic ideology where governments are run like private corporations existing to make the richest 1% of the 1% richer at the expense of anything and everything else by cutting corners everywhere and viewing human lives as little more than disposable resources and anything that is not immediately profitable is viewed as nothing more than charity work.
Its basically why if you account for population growth and inflation the rate of new discoveries has dropped off and the amount of funding to science has drastically declined since the 1970's respectively.
GH is always a treat to watch.
Please give us an update in the future if it is definitively confirmd to be an impact crater
well done toonsi
Well spotted Toonsi!
Congrats, Mr. Toonsi.
Way to go Toonsi!😊
Toonsi for the win ❤
Oh my gosh! My old man spent a bunch of time in Arabia with the British Army many decades ago, and collected some crystals that, as far as I can remember, were similar to those shown! He loved the desert!
Way to go, Mr. Toonsi! Thanks for a great share!
This is really cool! Congratulations, kid!
Congratulations!
Very cool toonsi
Well bloody done Tootsi!
Amazing work, Mr. Toonsi. Keep up the work you do with the passion you currently hold and I have no doubt you'll accomplish phenomenal things in whatever you pursue.
That is really cool! Not only to find something like this, but one so large
Congratulations to young Mr Toonsi! What a great find!
Great DISCOVERY KID!!!!
CONGRATS
What a great video. Excellent information and I'm happy for the Toonsi family.
That is wicked awesome
Congratulations! Shows what is now possible when knowledge is shared like this.
Well done young man!
Outstanding find!
Good work Mr. Toonsi! I really hope the crater is named after you, you deserve it.
This is really nice and awesome. I hope that kid really get to have his name on that crater and hope he becomes a geologist.
I wrote two emails and mowed the lawn yesterday and felt like I got stuff done, meanwhile this 15 yo kid is out there doing geology and discovering impact craters.
Congrats to that kid! May he discover many more geologic features.
Good job Abdulrahman Toonsi. I hope your crater gets confirmed without a lot of hassle. It would be very cool to have something like that to your credit already, should you go to university.
That’s so great you’re supporting Toonsi. Great name as well for the creator. Congrats Toonsi!
Super cool find! Great job Mr Toonsi!
Excellent work, Mr. Toonsi!!!
Thanks to you and Master Toonsi
Good on ya Toonsi!
Well done
Fantastic
Wow. Great find. Congratulations, Toomsi.
You know the Lil man feels good about himself for discovering it but.....Imagine how proud his parents are!!!!
Both of them telling each side of thier family! All their friends at work,church clubs and many more people on the web!! He should and everyone should be proud! Amazing!!! Almost forgot all those at Geology Hub!!!
Compliments, Abdulrahman Toonsi! Sharp eyes! 💥☄ 😎
wonderful find so we have the shocked quartz, the brachiated rock and the physical evidence of a circular rim it looks plausible. is there any other material platinum traces or other particle evidence of the original bolide or is the research ongoing? i do hope this site proves out and the young man gets his wish of a named crater.
brecciated
@marclouisb indeed that was autocorrect and its attempt was better than mine!
Wow how cool to be among the first hear about the discovery of the Toonsi Crater! 🎉🤩
very interesting video of
a discovery of an impact
crater 16 km wide ....
must have made a very
big bang , we are lucky
this was 4 million years
ago ....
thank you for posting ❤
Greetings from Sweden!
Awesome!
Congratz!!!
I love this so much! Great job, Abdulrahman! ♥
This is wonderful. Go Toosi!
Excellent.
Wow! How cool!
Congratulations to him.
Congrats to that 15 year old! Well done kiddo!!!