Its quite interesting to think that in the entire time than a volcanic island grew, rose above the waves, died, and eroded into a sea stack, Mt Cameroon has been erupting as it always has for the past 30 million years. The timespan of volcanoes is so weird.
That is impressive. I climbed Mt Cameroon some 25 years ago. It was a tough climb as it rises from sea level to over 4,000 metres much like the volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii.
@@jimsmith3715 If you mean hundreds of kilometers down in the mantle that all volcanoes derive their magma from (well, even then that's a bit of a stretch considering deep mantle plumes originating from the core mantle boundary) then I suppose, yes, they are all kind of connected to roughly the same origin of magma. If you're talking about that wacky pseudoscience quackery that some channels like to peddle... then absolutely not.
Balls Pyramid is the last refuge of the Lord Howe island stick insect. The stick insect is endemic to Balls Pyramid and Lord Howe island, it was extirpated by introduced feral predators on Lord Howe island but survives on Balls Pyramid. I think there's a breeding program ongoing.
Been there!!!....or at least sailed past on an Australian Navy Patrol Boat, HMAS Ardent.....an impressive sight indeed! Thank you for this episode Sir!
I sailed to Lord Howe Island from Port Stephens on the mainland and anchored 10 days in the Lord Howe Island lagoon. Took us 3 days and we had to navigate around some of the underwater seamounts. The seamounts rise close to the surface and have a reputation for producing rough/confused seas due to the way they interact with the ocean currents. One day we did a day sail around the base of Ball's Pyramid. Both islands are magnificent.
I sailed to Lord Howe Island from Auckland NZ , then Norfolk Island, then Lord Howe Island, then Sydney on the Bounty replica (the one from Mel Gibson movie). It was the first time the Bounty had visited Norfolk Island since the original, and we were treated as royalty. I went scuba diving there with Fletcher Christian's Great Grandson. We visited Ball's Pyramid in the ship's Zodiak.
I love seeing these geological oddities, as they make excellent inspiration for fantasy-gaming interesting settings (and proof that such a thing can exist purely naturally). On a more mundane scale, I'd be interested in learning about the state of volcanism giving rise to the many hot springs up and down the Sierra Nevada of California and the Great Basin. Mammoth Lakes and the Long Valley caldera are of course well-covered here already, but there are many, many more indicators of geothermal activity along the eastern face of the Sierra Nevada and points farther eastward within Nevada. I'd love to know how all of this ties together and whether these hot springs are just a remnant, or an indIcator of ongoing activity. Thanks!
There's a fantastic video of Jeb Corliss doing a Wingsuit Fly by of Balls Pyramid, it is truly amazing and gives the best possible view of this magnificent feature! - ruclips.net/video/cqQrWWpcT0I/видео.html
I recommend looking up the Sierra Nevada Microplate and or the Sierra Nevada Great valley block(different names for the same thing). In essence the block is a region of crust which unlike the rest of California south of the Cascades and or the Basin and Range is deforming as a rigid body under the clockwise rotation. As a consequence this block bordered by the Garlock fault to the south the San Andreas to the west and the Walker lane region with the prominent volcanoes of the Mono-Inyo chain Mammoth mountain and Long Valley Caldera all along its eastern border where it's getting torn off of North America much like the San Andreas was millions of years ago. Given that the ongoing clockwise plate rotation movement relative to North America suggests the rate of separation continues to grow throughout this region this definitely doesn't look to be a remnant but rather an ongoing sustained process. You might want to check out Nick Zentner's A to Z Baja BC controversy as some of that is relevant to understanding what is going on in California.
Mt Warning is a similar volcanic core, and it sits in one of those hotspot trails just behind the Gold Coast and Tweed Valley. I’d bet that the Glasshouse Mountains further north are made the same way, on that same hotspot.
That's amazing. Such a spectacular structure. I was sailing from French Polynesia to Samoa last year in a very remote part of the Pacific when I popped my head up from down below and saw a very intense meteor light up the sky for a few seconds. An eerie experience as we were hundreds of miles from any land.
i'm glad u added the final note. I saw a video recently that talked about NZ and active volcanoes where it included the two in the south island. I wrote a comment on it saying they were extinct, and someone replied saying no they were dormant. I had to add that as they hadn't erupted in more than 10 and 16 milliion years, and otago was really unrecognisable as a volcano, they were actually extinct.
Fun little fact about Ball's Pyramid: it was a safe haven for the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect. The species was believed to have gone extinct on the main island in the 1920's, but in 2001 they found a population living on the pyramid. There's now a plan to reintroduce them to Lord Howe Island. Also some future Australian geology video ideas: - The Warrumbungles, an eroded shield volcano that has left behind some cool structures - Finke River, often claimed to be the oldest river in the world - Devil's Marbles, large balancing boulders - The Pinnacles Desert, a small desert of limestone peaks that are so mysterious even local Indigenous tribes didn't know they existed
I would like you to take a look at nearby 'Mount Warning' located on the NSW / Queensland boarder and explan its origins. Was this once related to the same hotspot?
Camped up there 30 years ago. First point to see the sun . What a great memory. The natural arch is incredible too. Same all the way up thru Hawaiian islands chain. It's all volcanic plates
@@bobbafeit8389 Hold that memory, it's shut to all visitors now. I used to climb Mt Warning barefoot every time I was in the area. I love that spot too. It's super magical. The crystal core from the top My Warning spreads underneath Byron Bay as a crystal. Sheet.
A very interesting video, I never really considered the history of this sea stack. Could you do a video on Volcán Barú? It’s a 3500m tall volcano in Panamá and it has had some massive landslides from the shape. It erupted a few hundred years ago and I’d like to know what you think about it’s risks
There's a fantastic video of Jeb Corliss doing a Wingsuit Fly by of Balls Pyramid, it is truly amazing and gives the best possible view of this magnificent feature! - ruclips.net/video/cqQrWWpcT0I/видео.html
When Dick Smith was a kid his Boy Scout Troop climbed that, with the same sense of adventure that later had him flying right around the planet in his helicopter. Awesome.
I can only imagine what it must feel like seeing this huge 550 meter spike in the distance when sailing between NZ and AUS on a clear day. To put this into perspective, Ball's Pyramid is over 1.5 times higher than the eiffel tower!
Hi. This makes me wonder about some islands at Manila Bay's entrance, La Monja Island and El Fraile Island. These from part of the chain of volcanoes at Bataan, with Corregidor and Carballo Island being the tops of a now submerged volcano. I wonder if La Monja and El Fraile Islands are similar to Ball's Pyramid. El Fraile has since been ground down to become the "unsinkable battleship" Fort Drum. Old photos of El Fraile show that it was like La Monja. La Monja itself was also planned to be turned into a similar fortification but that didn't pan out. Could you cover the chain of volcanoes along the Bataan Peninsula? I have always been intrigued about that chain of volcanoes and if it has any relation to Pinatubo as the northern end of that chain. Great video as always!
Middleton and Elizabeth reefs to the north of Lord Howe, are old volcanic mounts that are now beautiful diving locations. I've been lucky to visit them all.
The graphic @1:10 showing 5 concurrent mantle plume tracks is very interesting. Are hot spots random geographically, or are there patterns or some level of predictability to them? Are they cyclical, consistent, or trending over time (i.e., do their numbers & activity wax and wane over geological time frames, or are there pretty much always a similar active number at any given time in the planet's history, or are they maybe becoming less common as the Earth gradually cools)??
Geologic history ... plate tectonics was 'discovered' in the 60s, took some time to get a hold, and at that time Hawaii was the only 'hot spot' recorded. It's easy to see an explanation for the Hawaiian islands if you assume the Pacific plate is moving over a 'hot spot' or mantle plume. Since then, though, many more hot spots have been recorded. The Australian ones are interesting because for some long time the land has been presumed stable and with out volcanic action. Good recording and the hot spot theory does explain the mounts that are visible, but it's a new theme. The same hot spots have previously been thought to be orogenic in nature as with subduction zones once the overlying mantle reaches the interior the melted rock rises to create a line of mountains, some volcanic. The number and type of activity depends on the thickness of the overlying rock and the strength of the underlying plume.
@@ValeriePallaoro Interesting. Wonder if something like the parallel 'scratch marks' could be due to subduction of a plate that had a significant mountainous region near its edge (e.g., if far into the future the US pacific NW with the Cascade Range just a bit inland) went under another plate. There would be a bit of a 'speed bump' when that meatier part of the subducting plate went under, presumably resulting in greater T & P but also greater stress an deformation of the overlying plate as the sinking mountains 'scraped' the underside of the lithosphere above. All of which together might result in what on the surface would look like a short-term (geologically speaking) series of parallel hotspot activity that began and ended without evidence of a permanent plume in that part of the mantle... 🤔
Hey geology hub can you do a video on the Palliser islands and explain why they are all atolls? How did they become that way also? Every single island is like that. Obviously they look like a hotspot location. I’m just curious why they are like that
Awesome, can you do a video explaining the origin of all the giant boulders on the coast of California and Oregon and Washington. You can see examples in my video of the Tonga volcano tsunami hitting California because we were on one of the rocks and you can see others.
While politically part of Australia, from a geological perspective I would suggest Lord Howe and Balls Pyramid are properly located as part of Zealandia.
Since *_hot spots-* are relatively immobile, being fixed over locations in the upper core where heat is dissipated upward, I would prefer seeing the motion of the crust rather than a line of volcanoes which punctuate the lithosphere and the crust, as if the crust was fixed.
Is this a similar case with the pillars found in the island of 'Ua Pou? or is that a different case. From the explanation, the pillars in 'ua pou looks like they are in the stage where the island is eroding and the hard volcanic rock is appearing.
Is there a reason you keep referring to the Indo Australian plate despite the evidence that the Indo Australian plate finished fragmenting apart around a million years ago due to the strain of the Himalayas?
The evolution of Ball's Pyramid into its present form may be compared to the better known islands of the Hawaiian chain; their evolution is very similar. Someday, some of the Hawaiian islands probably will look much like Ball's Pyramid does now, the former shield volcanoes stripped down to their cores; Puhahonu is a present example. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardner_Pinnacles
There's a fantastic video of Jeb Corliss doing a Wingsuit Fly by of Balls Pyramid, it is truly amazing and gives the best possible view of this magnificent feature! - ruclips.net/video/cqQrWWpcT0I/видео.html
@@williamlloyd3769 Yeah, I know people who love Geology will be fascinated by it! I feel like I'm evangelising it sometimes! 😂The first time I saw it it blew me away, the music is amazing too!
Ball's Pyramid was the last natural refuge of the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect aka tree lobster because there are no rats there which have obliterated other populations on the island proper. I say "was" not because they are now gone but because they are being captively bred to go back into areas where rats have been eradicated.
The pyramid is named after Royal Navy Lieutenant Henry Lidgbird Ball, who reported discovering it in 1788. On the same voyage, Ball also reported discovering Lord Howe Island.
I flew over it in a plane in 2016. Didn’t know what it was until I landed and googled it. When I saw it I was like, “wtf is that! It’s in the middle of the no where!” 😂
You mention in your final notes that you believe the hotspots under the Australian mainland haven't erupted in over a million years and are extinct. Mount Gambier (part of the Newer Volcanics Province and associated East Australia Hotspot) in South Australia last erupted around 6,000 years ago. It is part pf the Mount Burr Range (Mount Burr, Mount Gambier, Mount Schank and Mount Muirhead) and are some of the youngest volcanoes in Australia. Other volcanoes in Australia have erupted in the last 30,000 years. The Mount Burr Ranges are considered dormant, not extinct. Have I misinterpreted your notes?
Future topics: 1. How exactly did all the water get to and/or form here upon this Earth? (Some say by icy comets, 'yea I don't believe so'). 2. While Hydrogen is the most abundant element in this universe, where exactly did the oxygen atoms come from and/or how did they form here upon this Earth? (Currently, it is believed that oxygen can only be created in the core of stars, and yet there are a lot of oxygen atoms here upon this Earth. How did the oxygen atoms get from the core of stars to here upon this Earth in such massive quantities? And 'if' by a periodic nova of the Sun, when is the next nova of our Sun?)
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Ball’s Pyramid is also home to the Lord Howe Island stick insect, which is one of the rarest insects on Earth.
🤓Ackshually the most “known” rarest insect
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryococelus_australis
Ha. Came here to say the same thing! Go the bug!
balls+ stick= dick
Glad to see an educated fellow acknowledging the endangered treasure of the LH Stick Insect
I've seen both Ball's pyramid and Lord Howe island in person. Both are quite spectacular.
Did u go with Capt. Jack S?
Can you climb them?
@@jordannedkov not my balls...
@@jordannedkov you can climb anything if you put your mind to it
I'm going to Lord Howe Island soon
Its quite interesting to think that in the entire time than a volcanic island grew, rose above the waves, died, and eroded into a sea stack, Mt Cameroon has been erupting as it always has for the past 30 million years. The timespan of volcanoes is so weird.
That is impressive. I climbed Mt Cameroon some 25 years ago. It was a tough climb as it rises from sea level to over 4,000 metres much like the volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii.
It's also really weird when you start thinking about how all the volcanos are kind of connected
@@jimsmith3715 If you mean hundreds of kilometers down in the mantle that all volcanoes derive their magma from (well, even then that's a bit of a stretch considering deep mantle plumes originating from the core mantle boundary) then I suppose, yes, they are all kind of connected to roughly the same origin of magma. If you're talking about that wacky pseudoscience quackery that some channels like to peddle... then absolutely not.
Balls Pyramid is the last refuge of the Lord Howe island stick insect. The stick insect is endemic to Balls Pyramid and Lord Howe island, it was extirpated by introduced feral predators on Lord Howe island but survives on Balls Pyramid. I think there's a breeding program ongoing.
Been around the pyramid on a boat a couple times, its an absolutely amazing sight. Also a great spot for diving as well!
Been there!!!....or at least sailed past on an Australian Navy Patrol Boat, HMAS Ardent.....an impressive sight indeed!
Thank you for this episode Sir!
I sailed to Lord Howe Island from Port Stephens on the mainland and anchored 10 days in the Lord Howe Island lagoon. Took us 3 days and we had to navigate around some of the underwater seamounts. The seamounts rise close to the surface and have a reputation for producing rough/confused seas due to the way they interact with the ocean currents. One day we did a day sail around the base of Ball's Pyramid. Both islands are magnificent.
I sailed to Lord Howe Island from Auckland NZ , then Norfolk Island, then Lord Howe Island, then Sydney on the Bounty replica (the one from Mel Gibson movie). It was the first time the Bounty had visited Norfolk Island since the original, and we were treated as royalty. I went scuba diving there with Fletcher Christian's Great Grandson. We visited Ball's Pyramid in the ship's Zodiak.
I love seeing these geological oddities, as they make excellent inspiration for fantasy-gaming interesting settings (and proof that such a thing can exist purely naturally).
On a more mundane scale, I'd be interested in learning about the state of volcanism giving rise to the many hot springs up and down the Sierra Nevada of California and the Great Basin. Mammoth Lakes and the Long Valley caldera are of course well-covered here already, but there are many, many more indicators of geothermal activity along the eastern face of the Sierra Nevada and points farther eastward within Nevada. I'd love to know how all of this ties together and whether these hot springs are just a remnant, or an indIcator of ongoing activity. Thanks!
There's a fantastic video of Jeb Corliss doing a Wingsuit Fly by of Balls Pyramid, it is truly amazing and gives the best possible view of this magnificent feature! - ruclips.net/video/cqQrWWpcT0I/видео.html
I recommend looking up the Sierra Nevada Microplate and or the Sierra Nevada Great valley block(different names for the same thing). In essence the block is a region of crust which unlike the rest of California south of the Cascades and or the Basin and Range is deforming as a rigid body under the clockwise rotation. As a consequence this block bordered by the Garlock fault to the south the San Andreas to the west and the Walker lane region with the prominent volcanoes of the Mono-Inyo chain Mammoth mountain and Long Valley Caldera all along its eastern border where it's getting torn off of North America much like the San Andreas was millions of years ago. Given that the ongoing clockwise plate rotation movement relative to North America suggests the rate of separation continues to grow throughout this region this definitely doesn't look to be a remnant but rather an ongoing sustained process.
You might want to check out Nick Zentner's A to Z Baja BC controversy as some of that is relevant to understanding what is going on in California.
Great comment ❤
Mt Warning is a similar volcanic core, and it sits in one of those hotspot trails just behind the Gold Coast and Tweed Valley. I’d bet that the Glasshouse Mountains further north are made the same way, on that same hotspot.
Well explained with all of the comparisons you've made. Thank you :)
Fun fact: the pyramid was the last refuge of the Howe stick insect
So glad it got saved, what an amazing looking beastie!
Oh, that sent me off to Wikipedia. Quite amazing.
Thanks for sharing!
The islanders recently exterminated all the rats from Lord Howe Island and I believe they're going to reintroduce them there.
@@budawang77 Reintroduce the rats?
They feature in an episode of the kid's cartoon, Octonauts.
Sailing by Balls Pyramid has been on my bucket list for decades. Surreal place.
Great video mate! Love this place!
I saw a very large green meteor(??) fall towards Balls Pyramid, at dusk from a friends little sailboat, it was a spectacular experience.
That's amazing. Such a spectacular structure. I was sailing from French Polynesia to Samoa last year in a very remote part of the Pacific when I popped my head up from down below and saw a very intense meteor light up the sky for a few seconds. An eerie experience as we were hundreds of miles from any land.
Thats awesome, and what a fabulous sail that would have been!
i'm glad u added the final note. I saw a video recently that talked about NZ and active volcanoes where it included the two in the south island. I wrote a comment on it saying they were extinct, and someone replied saying no they were dormant. I had to add that as they hadn't erupted in more than 10 and 16 milliion years, and otago was really unrecognisable as a volcano, they were actually extinct.
Fun little fact about Ball's Pyramid: it was a safe haven for the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect. The species was believed to have gone extinct on the main island in the 1920's, but in 2001 they found a population living on the pyramid. There's now a plan to reintroduce them to Lord Howe Island.
Also some future Australian geology video ideas:
- The Warrumbungles, an eroded shield volcano that has left behind some cool structures
- Finke River, often claimed to be the oldest river in the world
- Devil's Marbles, large balancing boulders
- The Pinnacles Desert, a small desert of limestone peaks that are so mysterious even local Indigenous tribes didn't know they existed
Thanks for doing my request for a video! 👍
I would like you to take a look at nearby 'Mount Warning' located on the NSW / Queensland boarder and explan its origins. Was this once related to the same hotspot?
Camped up there 30 years ago. First point to see the sun . What a great memory. The natural arch is incredible too. Same all the way up thru Hawaiian islands chain. It's all volcanic plates
@@bobbafeit8389 Hold that memory, it's shut to all visitors now. I used to climb Mt Warning barefoot every time I was in the area. I love that spot too. It's super magical. The crystal core from the top My Warning spreads underneath Byron Bay as a crystal. Sheet.
@@onemanfunkband5545 walking on trails that are hidden behind cascading waterfalls. It is a magical area my fellow barefoot friend
I ❤️ this stack. Just to see it would be amazing🤙🏼🌴
Have you by any chance done a video about the volcano at Coonabarabran in New South Wales ? Thank you
Oh wow...im Australian, but I've never heard of this island. Learn something new everyday ❤
A very interesting video, I never really considered the history of this sea stack.
Could you do a video on Volcán Barú? It’s a 3500m tall volcano in Panamá and it has had some massive landslides from the shape.
It erupted a few hundred years ago and I’d like to know what you think about it’s risks
Great explanation of an epic feature. It's like seeing the inside of a volcano.
There's a fantastic video of Jeb Corliss doing a Wingsuit Fly by of Balls Pyramid, it is truly amazing and gives the best possible view of this magnificent feature! - ruclips.net/video/cqQrWWpcT0I/видео.html
@@S-T-E-V-E I'll check it out, thanks!
When Dick Smith was a kid his Boy Scout Troop climbed that, with the same sense of adventure that later had him flying right around the planet in his helicopter. Awesome.
I used to have a wallpaper showcasing Ball's Pyramid. Very cool feature
I can only imagine what it must feel like seeing this huge 550 meter spike in the distance when sailing between NZ and AUS on a clear day. To put this into perspective, Ball's Pyramid is over 1.5 times higher than the eiffel tower!
It is not directly between NZ & AU. It is 600 km due east of Port Macquarie, whist is about 600 km north of Sydney. That is a long way from NZ.
Hi. This makes me wonder about some islands at Manila Bay's entrance, La Monja Island and El Fraile Island. These from part of the chain of volcanoes at Bataan, with Corregidor and Carballo Island being the tops of a now submerged volcano.
I wonder if La Monja and El Fraile Islands are similar to Ball's Pyramid. El Fraile has since been ground down to become the "unsinkable battleship" Fort Drum. Old photos of El Fraile show that it was like La Monja. La Monja itself was also planned to be turned into a similar fortification but that didn't pan out.
Could you cover the chain of volcanoes along the Bataan Peninsula? I have always been intrigued about that chain of volcanoes and if it has any relation to Pinatubo as the northern end of that chain.
Great video as always!
Middleton and Elizabeth reefs to the north of Lord Howe, are old volcanic mounts that are now beautiful diving locations. I've been lucky to visit them all.
I was literally there about 2 months ago.
Insanely spectacular up close.
Great story! Never knew such a geological structure existed.
Awesome, thanks for the video!
Lol balls pyramid
Ballz
@@AB-tc8lxdeez nuts
Big balls island.🌴🌴
This made me laugh unnecessary long
@@AB-tc8lx balls balls balls BALLS OF STEEL
Very amazing we sailed past it when we left Lord Howe
Amazing site!!!! And amazing geology.
Could you discuss the four large canyons located in Nahanni National Park within the Mackenzie Mountains in Canada’s Northwest Territories
The graphic @1:10 showing 5 concurrent mantle plume tracks is very interesting. Are hot spots random geographically, or are there patterns or some level of predictability to them? Are they cyclical, consistent, or trending over time (i.e., do their numbers & activity wax and wane over geological time frames, or are there pretty much always a similar active number at any given time in the planet's history, or are they maybe becoming less common as the Earth gradually cools)??
Geologic history ... plate tectonics was 'discovered' in the 60s, took some time to get a hold, and at that time Hawaii was the only 'hot spot' recorded. It's easy to see an explanation for the Hawaiian islands if you assume the Pacific plate is moving over a 'hot spot' or mantle plume. Since then, though, many more hot spots have been recorded. The Australian ones are interesting because for some long time the land has been presumed stable and with out volcanic action. Good recording and the hot spot theory does explain the mounts that are visible, but it's a new theme. The same hot spots have previously been thought to be orogenic in nature as with subduction zones once the overlying mantle reaches the interior the melted rock rises to create a line of mountains, some volcanic. The number and type of activity depends on the thickness of the overlying rock and the strength of the underlying plume.
@@ValeriePallaoro Interesting. Wonder if something like the parallel 'scratch marks' could be due to subduction of a plate that had a significant mountainous region near its edge (e.g., if far into the future the US pacific NW with the Cascade Range just a bit inland) went under another plate. There would be a bit of a 'speed bump' when that meatier part of the subducting plate went under, presumably resulting in greater T & P but also greater stress an deformation of the overlying plate as the sinking mountains 'scraped' the underside of the lithosphere above. All of which together might result in what on the surface would look like a short-term (geologically speaking) series of parallel hotspot activity that began and ended without evidence of a permanent plume in that part of the mantle... 🤔
We also have another geological oddity in Australia that is 1800 feet below sea level.
It's called Balls Deep.
Hey geology hub can you do a video on the Palliser islands and explain why they are all atolls? How did they become that way also? Every single island is like that. Obviously they look like a hotspot location. I’m just curious why they are like that
how deep is the water there.. how deep is the surrounding area of the old island
Awesome, can you do a video explaining the origin of all the giant boulders on the coast of California and Oregon and Washington. You can see examples in my video of the Tonga volcano tsunami hitting California because we were on one of the rocks and you can see others.
Always been curious about this one.
Can you please do the history of Dakataua volcano in paupa new Guinea, looks like that would have been massive.
Why were there so many matle plumes/hotspots all nearby to each other?
I really wish time travel happened. I really would love to watch these type of things evolve
Thanks..Nice video
Very interesting 👍
It looks even more unusual when viewed from the side because it's so thin
572m above sea level is insane! That's a tall rock. Pictures near it don't do justice.
In regard to your ending note, mt gambier in south Australia is believed to have last erupted only about 6000 years ago.
The ending note specified off the eastern coast rather than on the mainland.
Would you be willing to do a vid on New Zealand's Bounty Islands?
I climbed Balls Pyramid in 1976 collecting plant specimens for the National Herbarium and searching for Phasmyds for Australian museum😊.
Do one on the Peña de Bernal in Mexico!
While politically part of Australia, from a geological perspective I would suggest Lord Howe and Balls Pyramid are properly located as part of Zealandia.
first american on the internet with more geology/geography knowledge about australian techtonics than the average australian
Wow, the volcanic neck!!
most have had some interesting island fauna
So what happened to the hot spot? There doesn’t seem to be any more new islands in that chain, like Hawaii
can you do a video about the appenine mountains
Mt Fox North-Queensland Australia is a good one, cinder cone. Quite explosive eruptions
Would love to see it irl some time ❤
So would there be a vertical hollow tube inside the pyramid where the lava used to climb through?
My grandpa was a part of the first expedition to climb it there’s a photo of him with a tripod and recording equipment on the side of a cliff
Near Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, there are 3 volcanoes that can be seen that we call the 3 dead sisters. I would love to know the history of those.
I wonder though. Is that Magma chamber now a solid mass? Or is it empty/hollow.
Is it for sale?
It looks like a great geologically stable foundation rock to build a super tall structure on top of life like a space elevator tether
It's like Devils Tower, but on the sea!
When you say the hotspot chain is "extinct" do we know if that means that the extra hot bit of the mantle has cooled or subsided in some way?
You might note that Nihoa is in the Hawaiian Islands, west of Kauai and Ni'ihau.
Since *_hot spots-* are relatively immobile, being fixed over locations in the upper core where heat is dissipated upward, I would prefer seeing the motion of the crust rather than a line of volcanoes which punctuate the lithosphere and the crust, as if the crust was fixed.
I wanna go to that place so much.
Is this a similar case with the pillars found in the island of 'Ua Pou? or is that a different case. From the explanation, the pillars in 'ua pou looks like they are in the stage where the island is eroding and the hard volcanic rock is appearing.
Vey interesting thank you
One of my fav subjects Australian volcanos
Is there a reason you keep referring to the Indo Australian plate despite the evidence that the Indo Australian plate finished fragmenting apart around a million years ago due to the strain of the Himalayas?
It's lesser known oceanic cousin is the trench known as "Ball's Deep".
Please please do the Avon Gorge in Bristol England
How haven’t I known of this
Ignorance has NO boundaries 🤐
The evolution of Ball's Pyramid into its present form may be compared to the better known islands of the Hawaiian chain; their evolution is very similar. Someday, some of the Hawaiian islands probably will look much like Ball's Pyramid does now, the former shield volcanoes stripped down to their cores; Puhahonu is a present example.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardner_Pinnacles
I remember that particular shield volcano was designated as being larger than Mauna Loa.
@@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx Yes. That's talked about in the article I linked.
Is that the one with those stick bugs on it
Not millions of years old. 6k years old at best. 0:20
What is it made of... diabase?
There's a fantastic video of Jeb Corliss doing a Wingsuit Fly by of Balls Pyramid, it is truly amazing and gives the best possible view of this magnificent feature! - ruclips.net/video/cqQrWWpcT0I/видео.html
Spectacular video! Well worth a viewing. Thanks for recommendation.
@@williamlloyd3769 Yeah, I know people who love Geology will be fascinated by it! I feel like I'm evangelising it sometimes! 😂The first time I saw it it blew me away, the music is amazing too!
Are those four hotspots related in a certain way to the series of ~30 million year-old impact craters?
That's some hard rock. How do different types of volcanic rocks' hardness stack up against each other? (pun totally intended)
Thanks
Driving from San Luis Obispo north to Moro Bay there's a whole line of volcanic neck remnents.
Ball's Pyramid was the last natural refuge of the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect aka tree lobster because there are no rats there which have obliterated other populations on the island proper. I say "was" not because they are now gone but because they are being captively bred to go back into areas where rats have been eradicated.
Where did it get it’s name Balls Pyramid?
The pyramid is named after Royal Navy Lieutenant Henry Lidgbird Ball, who reported discovering it in 1788. On the same voyage, Ball also reported discovering Lord Howe Island.
Ah hah, I knew this name sounded familiar. This is the island where they found the Lord Howe stick insect, a species that was thought to be extinct.
I flew over it in a plane in 2016. Didn’t know what it was until I landed and googled it.
When I saw it I was like, “wtf is that! It’s in the middle of the no where!” 😂
How about looking into a geologic oddity Called Ringing Rocks. There are several sites around the world that they can be found.
You mention in your final notes that you believe the hotspots under the Australian mainland haven't erupted in over a million years and are extinct. Mount Gambier (part of the Newer Volcanics Province and associated East Australia Hotspot) in South Australia last erupted around 6,000 years ago. It is part pf the Mount Burr Range (Mount Burr, Mount Gambier, Mount Schank and Mount Muirhead) and are some of the youngest volcanoes in Australia. Other volcanoes in Australia have erupted in the last 30,000 years. The Mount Burr Ranges are considered dormant, not extinct. Have I misinterpreted your notes?
I went there. Was cool.
can you legally climb it?
I've flown over it👍
I am fascinated by how tall it is. Considering its size, it could make a good photo for r/megalophobia!
It's the tallest sea stack in the world.
Anything named a pyramid should be questioned as such?
Friends of mine who are next level professional rock climbers, climbed it back in the day before the Fun Police became involved
Future topics:
1. How exactly did all the water get to and/or form here upon this Earth? (Some say by icy comets, 'yea I don't believe so').
2. While Hydrogen is the most abundant element in this universe, where exactly did the oxygen atoms come from and/or how did they form here upon this Earth? (Currently, it is believed that oxygen can only be created in the core of stars, and yet there are a lot of oxygen atoms here upon this Earth. How did the oxygen atoms get from the core of stars to here upon this Earth in such massive quantities? And 'if' by a periodic nova of the Sun, when is the next nova of our Sun?)