Thanks for this video, your explanation of cross-bedding clarified something that has been perplexing me for years. I once discovered a place like this, & I couldn't work out how the different walls had different bandings at different angles. I now understand what I was seeing. I was diving for marine diamonds on the South African West coast. I put a 90 degree pipe on the prop of my boat & blew away 20 ft of sand to reveal a system of gullies that look just like this. My gullies were 5 -20' wide & 5 - 20' deep winding for 200 yds by 200 yds. My gullies were beautifully smooth - water-worn, & I wondered what water flow would create these humps & bumps. I now know I had discovered a fossil dune field. Our banding was usually broad bands, more than 6" but every so often there were beautiful fine bands. If it was on land it would be a tourist attraction, but it is now back under the sand. I was most fortunate to be one of the 8 - 10 people in the world to see our "Skate Board Park". Thanks for filling in my knowledge gap.
I would really love it if you did a more in depth geological history of Maple Canyon in the San Pitch Mountains in Central Utah. It has a really complex history but most information leaves off at they were formed during the Cretaceous period. I would really like to see where the grains of sand came from that made the sandstone that became quartzsite that became cobble that then became conglomerate the eroded away to form the canyon.
Another vote for this one! The vertical cliffs of maple canyon look and feel like a river bed, except it it vertical. Very popular with rock climbers and a wild experience.
@@TysClay1 That's the biggest reason I want to know more about its history. I used to climb there ALL the time. They basically were river beds from the eroding Sevier Mountains millions of years ago.
Just went to AZ, landed in Phoenix, stayed in Tucson and Flagstaff, visited Sedona for a day and went to one of the little Gorge Creeks. I had your narration voice going half of the time.
Since it's fragile, Arizona should take pictures/video of it by drone, and sell the videos/pictures to tourists. To me that's the best way to see this natural wonder without damaging it.
That entire area is just fascinating. Everything from the Las Vegas area all the way to New Mexico with all it's red rock formations is stunning. Would love to see a more in depth analysis of that entire region and the red rocks formations.
I'd be curious to hear about the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland and how it formed. Since it seemingly involves volcanism, it's perfect for this channel.
I think he has done an old video on it before? Regardless that is a piece of the much larger and now much more widely distributed North Atlantic Large Igneous Province which formed in the late Paleocene and is now understood to have played an instrumental role in causing the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum. This LIP was associated with the Icelandic hotspot and ultimately involved the formation of the newer northern extension of the Atlantic ocean which ultimately severed Greenland from Ireland and Brittan (the latter two islands which are effectively divided by a failed rift) and the coast of Norway. Other fragments of the Lip include the Faroe islands and some older bits of Iceland. (The hotspot appears to be slowly creeping south, so the older sections are to the North)
Hi, I have a topic request. I recently found out that the largest mountain in Wales is an extinct volanco and would love to learn more about it. I took a route up there the other day which apparently follows the rim of an ancient caldera and from up there it looked like there may have been several large calderas in the vicinity of what is now the summit of Eryri. Please consider doing a video on this, I think it may be an interesting topic to explore.
As population and the number of people who want to vidit fragile landscapes increase expect more of the lottery type tickets. Or those pla 3s being limited to the pruviledged few.
Could you do a breakdown of the entire tectonic history of the Earth's landmass as geologist understand it today (ie how they oscillate between separate continents and super-continents over and over again)? For example, I'm aware of Pangaea, but I'm pretty in the dark about the Gondwana and Laurasia super-continents that preceded it, and the tectonic period inbetween. I know even less about the periods before that, such as the Kenorland and Columbia super-continents.
Note that there are a number of un resolved questions and or controversies in the nuances and details so that is a trickier request than you might think. Laurasia wasn't really the same thing as the northern minor "supercontinent" that preceded the formation of Pangaea which gets either called Euromerica or Laurussia and was a much looser association of recently collided landmasses including 3 major paleocontinents Laurentia Baltica and Siberia and a number of volcanic arcs including several major volcanic arc complexes like Avalonia and Kazakhstania (basically paleo analogs of Indonesia). It really only finished forming after smashing into Gondwana. I'm not sure if their ever was a true single contiguous continental landmass as much of its low lying regions were inundated with water and thus formed interior seaways not to mention the presence of several failed rift scars that formed the early Atlantic and likely prestaged its eventual break up in the Early Cenozoic so even though it was a minor supercontinent it never had the same level of continuous dry land. The break up of Laurasia as alluded to in the last sentence didn't occur until around 58 to 56 Ma (depending on when you start counting) as a consequence of the North Atlantic Large Igneous Province which split Greenland from Eurasia forming the North Atlantic ocean in the process. In contrast Gondwana was persistent over a much longer interval of time having formed in the late Ediacaran ~600 Ma and remained relatively intact prior to its break up during the Jurassic and Cretaceous which was quite dramatic in comparison. Even then its not been entirely the same for example as the major collision with Euromerica/Laurussia really got to building Pangaea a section of Gondwana actually started to rift away doing their own thing . The two major paleocontinents/cratons involved were the North and south China blocks which today largely make up the Amur and Yangtze plates of which the Amur plate is currently rifting away from Eurasia resulting in the Baikal riftzone/valley most famous for the vast namesake rift lake Lake Baikal. Rift lakes are for all intents and purposes the seeds of oceans however of course note that not all rift lakes will become oceans, i.e. if the rift fails. A good example was the origin of the great lakes of North America when they first formed 1.1 billion years ago. When the rift died they were infilled with many layers of sedimentary rock before during the modern ice age they were ultimately re-excavated during the last few glacial maximums as the softer sedimentary layers which had infilled them were much easier for the glaciers to carve away than the underlying volcanic rocks. That failed break up was notably part of the very complex and still not entirely understood reshuffling of the supercontinent Nuna/Columbia into the supercontinent Rodinia the two continents never truly separated rather the section that started to break away seems to have rotated around an axis of sorts folding the former coastline into its interior. Geologists still argue about the details here though we know some stuff pretty well such as how NA was once connected to Australia thanks to paleo sedimentology of zircon grains showing rivers flowed from NA into Australia other details remain murky as this was very complicated. There are arguments for and against earlier supercontinents, which if you want to call them that would have been relatively puny in comparison as they would have been about the size of Australia at most. The old Archean craton crust was odd different from younger Paleoproterozoic and younger crust with some recent work having show that these oldest cratons had isotopic ratios chemically distinct from Earth's mantle composition suggesting they likely had extraterrestrial origins. This is still a bit controversial as prior to the isotopic analysis others had criticized the impact origin hypothesis base don estimated pressure and temperature conditions of rock formation as no shocked quartz was found. Of course as has been pointed out since that a carter of the size in question would have been too large and energetic for any solid mineral grains to survive impact to be shocked so yeah. (Technically such a crater would be called a basin rather than a crater Also I can't help but notice that the paleomagnetic placements of these oldest cratons appears to loosely form a giant ring with the formation timing occurring during the so called late heavy bombardment period. Sure those are still just as far as we can tell coincidences but compiling with the properties of the earliest cratons it seems to paint a pretty compelling picture though sadly we will probably never know for sure. This is all barely even a fraction of the tip of the iceberg Earth has been around for over 4 and a half billion years a lot has happened. Addressing *why* things happen in Earth's plate tectonics cycles is a whole other can of worms there is a reason this tends to get brushed away or handwaved because it involves lots of unresolved questions with the recent and ongoing seismic tomography revolution showing us that many of geologists assumptions were quite frankly plain wrong to the point we may need to revisit some basic underlying assumptions. We are tiptoeing into an academic minefield so watch your steps!
thanks for the video! I am always impressed at the level of background you go into to frame the formations in context. I aspire to someday become an earth science and/or biology teacher for middle school or high school. this reminds me of a geomorphology field trip that I took when I was a sophomore in college. We went to the sand dunes in lake michigan when the waters were at a record level low. We were tasked with creating a lesson that explained the cross-bedding that was visible in the wave-cut cliffs of the dunes. I remember reading articles about the OSL of sand grains and rebuilding the history of the coastline. I would love to see a video detailing the huge sand dunes along lake michigan...
IMHO, in these days of the internet and RUclips, the best way to preserve The Wave and still let people enjoy it would be to put a video walking tour on the internet. It probably has been done.
A recommendation for a topic would be the series of Mag 7+ earthquakes going on presently around the Loyalty Islands. That's a lot of energy going off right now.
There's some nice crossbedding in the Black Hand Sandstone in Hocking Hills. Not as colorful as the wave, but the cathedral like vaulting of the rock shelters and waterfalls make the area very pretty.
The Wave is one bucket list item that I will probably never get to see in person. I've had my name on that list for about a decade. Now, due to declining health and mobility, even if I won the chance to see it, I couldn't actually make the trek. It's sad that a place has to be so protected from the human species, but understandable in that the only thing the human species knows is destruction. c'est la vie
Thank you for my daily "multi-mineral" supplement. I'll never get to see this in person but now I have a little more understanding of the wonderful rock we live on. Thank you.
Billion years ago during the very beginning of the Jurassic. By the way, I have difficulty communicating because I had a stroke in Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls speech. 2/8/2021 but I lived again. (My wife helped me compose this.)
That was really interesting, thanks! I never knew this existed before your video. It's a shame so few can see it firsthand, but I'm glad they're working to protect and preserve the area. Did that cauliflower shaped rock form the same way as the banded rock?
Thank you for your interesting videos, Geology Hub! Could you do a video on the causes and history of the large area in eastern Colorado where massive amounts of petrified wood have been found scattered all over? Thank you!
Thanks for the explanation. Always excited to know about the geological history of certain places. Just wondering, can you make a video about the Bantimala Complex? I'm glad if you make one 🙏🏻
I lived in southern Utah for a whiiiile, red rock is normal to me, it can not be underestimated how /*RED*/ it is there. Ig it's the contrast, knowing park ranger helps on getting access 😎
Any recent news on the Popocatépetl volcano in mexico? Got a buddy who lives about 2 miles away from the volcano and he saying its pretty active right now
Hmm given what I have learned from Nick Zentner's recent A to Z livestream series unveiling what we do or no not know and what we assume based on studied subsets I would not be surprised to learn that this picture is incomplete and or more nuanced. After all this region encompasses a number of areas which have questionable long term affinity with North America and or their current positions. There has been major compression, extension uplift and translation out west and it seems that a number of what had previously been assumed to be the same rock formations have turned out to not be the same rock formations(though the example that comes to mind from a geology guest lecture/colloquium presentation was in Washington state many of the underlying principals could still apply).
📍 St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. Dry Caribbean continental plate. Not volcanic like the rest of the Caribbean… not even the neighboring island of St. Croix. Between the two islands is the Puerto Rican trench… 2.5 miles deep. St. Croix also has an underwater waterfall from the last ice ace off of salt river at the north of the island.
Its still arc derived terrain a mix of volcanic basement accreted terrane and carbonate reefs. The larger context based on recent work seems to indicate the Caribbean islands may be the last remnants of a formerly much larger mature oceanic volcanic arc complex which North America smashed into the northern extent during the Jurassic to Paleogene ultimately providing a much more satisfactory explanation for how the Rocky Mountains formed and South America has subsequently hit its southern extent during the Oligocene and Miocene with the arcs having become largely smashed up into the Andes. Thanks to Seismic tomography we can reconstruct the locations of Earth's ocean trenches going back at least to the late Triassic as the subducted slabs are still down there in the mantle steadily sinking towards the core mantle boundary.
It would be a one-time thing and heavily wasteful, as the stone is so brittle it would just leave skit marks or chips wherever the wheels rolled or wherever the brake was initiated. I know it's just a joke, but you know somebody is gonna try to go skateboarding on this unique sandstone dating back to the age of Pangea just for no good reason at all .... 🤦♂Luckily they limit tourism and they probably banned skateboards.
If they can make a replica of Lascaux so IT doesn't get wrecked, then maybe someone will make a replica of part of this for recreational use. One never knows.
25 years ago I discovered a small-scale underwater version of this off the South African West coast A 200m sq area of gullies that looked just like this, but our rocks were water-worn & smooth. This video explained that I had discovered the tops of a fossil sand-dune field, which had then been smoothed by a later water flow, & left a network of interconnected gullies from 3 - 10m deep & from 1 - 10m wide, humps, bumps 200m flows on different routes - we called it the Skateboard Park. If it was on land it would be the world's best. But it's on the bottom of the sea. It's also under 6m of sand, which we had to blow away to expose the sea bed to recover diamonds, & then the sand covered it up again, so only 8 of us divers got to see it. 6 of them were surfers & skateboarders so there was informed opinion - if this was on the land the skate-boarding world would come.
@@Yezpahr I was only saying it in thought I know that it's brittle but it's so perfect for that. You might want to reread that, and see that I was using my imagination it seems you don't have any.
1/16th of a millimeter? Seems kind of pointless making a fraction like that in the metric system. Why not make the cut at 1/10 or 1/20 millimeter? Hmmmm. Is it because the 1/16 millimeter corresponds to a sieve size, like 400? I can't recall the sieve definition of sand from my sedimentology class from 40 years ago (I never worked in geology, went into optical science of all things).
Considering that there's layer's below and it is a erosional feature. With the high demand don't you think that they could figure out how to get the public more access? I mean we're paying for it! Seems that it would not take much to make a walkway for visitors to travel upon
what are you suggesting? Pave the three miles from the nearest road to the feature through the beautiful surrounding landscape and put a glass walkway over it? it's fine the way it is, in fact in should probably be more protected than it is now
@@primarytrainer1 that's nonsense. This is a geological time capsule that would bring larger knowledge to human. There's many that I'm sure you're not interested in knowledge of. So go lay down and get woker
Actually it’s a bit of a rugged hike to even get there from the trail head. And driving to the trail head is difficult, almost takes a 4 wheel drive high clearance vehicle. And you have to be lucky enough to win a lottery for the few people they allow to access each day. There are several locations nearby that are very similar, but nothing easy to access.
@@gregchapek969 I've been watching things get closed down and managed to the point that there's nothing to do. Many park's closing, reservations needed for other's. Seems this growth thing is getting out of hand. More people with less privileges. I'm pretty old so I've wached it happen. The rich people get to do what they want and the rest of the masses are treated like sheep. No offense intended. I'm just worried about my children's children. Peace out.
It is so beautiful and amazing. A place I'll never get to visit. Maybe one day in years to come. But so much guessing how this was made? You have theories but no real explanation's. So I'll watch the videos but not believe what you say.
@@NorthForkFisherman That is an excellent question. Why don't you spend a little time doing some of your own thinking for a few days, and come back if you still cannot figure it out. How about that? Basically, I am tired of doing the homework of lazy God haters. Do a little thinking on your own before you mindlessly spit out the latest fad in stupidity.
This place is definitely in my top favorite geological sites. I might not ever go here myself, but I'm happy it exists.
If you go, get your ticket first!
Thanks for this video, your explanation of cross-bedding clarified something that has been perplexing me for years. I once discovered a place like this, & I couldn't work out how the different walls had different bandings at different angles. I now understand what I was seeing.
I was diving for marine diamonds on the South African West coast. I put a 90 degree pipe on the prop of my boat & blew away 20 ft of sand to reveal a system of gullies that look just like this. My gullies were 5 -20' wide & 5 - 20' deep winding for 200 yds by 200 yds. My gullies were beautifully smooth - water-worn, & I wondered what water flow would create these humps & bumps. I now know I had discovered a fossil dune field. Our banding was usually broad bands, more than 6" but every so often there were beautiful fine bands. If it was on land it would be a tourist attraction, but it is now back under the sand. I was most fortunate to be one of the 8 - 10 people in the world to see our "Skate Board Park". Thanks for filling in my knowledge gap.
I would really love it if you did a more in depth geological history of Maple Canyon in the San Pitch Mountains in Central Utah. It has a really complex history but most information leaves off at they were formed during the Cretaceous period. I would really like to see where the grains of sand came from that made the sandstone that became quartzsite that became cobble that then became conglomerate the eroded away to form the canyon.
Another vote for this one! The vertical cliffs of maple canyon look and feel like a river bed, except it it vertical. Very popular with rock climbers and a wild experience.
@@TysClay1 That's the biggest reason I want to know more about its history. I used to climb there ALL the time. They basically were river beds from the eroding Sevier Mountains millions of years ago.
Just went to AZ, landed in Phoenix, stayed in Tucson and Flagstaff, visited Sedona for a day and went to one of the little Gorge Creeks. I had your narration voice going half of the time.
Since it's fragile, Arizona should take pictures/video of it by drone, and sell the videos/pictures to tourists.
To me that's the best way to see this natural wonder without damaging it.
Geology is continually even stranger and more marvelous than one thought it was.
Been twice in the last year and a half. Its quite spectacular as is the surrounding area.
My only objection to these videos is that you keep making my bucket list longer!! 😂💖
That entire area is just fascinating. Everything from the Las Vegas area all the way to New Mexico with all it's red rock formations is stunning. Would love to see a more in depth analysis of that entire region and the red rocks formations.
Shawn Willsey is a geology professor with some videos covering this area while he hikes and does some climbing.
I'd be curious to hear about the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland and how it formed. Since it seemingly involves volcanism, it's perfect for this channel.
I think he has done an old video on it before?
Regardless that is a piece of the much larger and now much more widely distributed North Atlantic Large Igneous Province which formed in the late Paleocene and is now understood to have played an instrumental role in causing the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum. This LIP was associated with the Icelandic hotspot and ultimately involved the formation of the newer northern extension of the Atlantic ocean which ultimately severed Greenland from Ireland and Brittan (the latter two islands which are effectively divided by a failed rift) and the coast of Norway. Other fragments of the Lip include the Faroe islands and some older bits of Iceland. (The hotspot appears to be slowly creeping south, so the older sections are to the North)
Hi, I have a topic request. I recently found out that the largest mountain in Wales is an extinct volanco and would love to learn more about it. I took a route up there the other day which apparently follows the rim of an ancient caldera and from up there it looked like there may have been several large calderas in the vicinity of what is now the summit of Eryri. Please consider doing a video on this, I think it may be an interesting topic to explore.
I really enjoy your presentations! Thank you for your fine efforts.
I would really like to see a story regarding the Superstition Mountains in AZ.
More USA geological sites please!
As population and the number of people who want to vidit fragile landscapes increase expect more of the lottery type tickets. Or those pla 3s being limited to the pruviledged few.
It looks beautiful I wish I could go there!
Just excellent video. All that information, explained perfectly. SO interesting. Thank you from England.
I keep trying to get there. If I keep failing with the lottery, I'm just going.
Love your work, this was an excellent short, thanks
Fresh erosion, risk of flash floods
Could you do a breakdown of the entire tectonic history of the Earth's landmass as geologist understand it today (ie how they oscillate between separate continents and super-continents over and over again)? For example, I'm aware of Pangaea, but I'm pretty in the dark about the Gondwana and Laurasia super-continents that preceded it, and the tectonic period inbetween. I know even less about the periods before that, such as the Kenorland and Columbia super-continents.
Note that there are a number of un resolved questions and or controversies in the nuances and details so that is a trickier request than you might think.
Laurasia wasn't really the same thing as the northern minor "supercontinent" that preceded the formation of Pangaea which gets either called Euromerica or Laurussia and was a much looser association of recently collided landmasses including 3 major paleocontinents Laurentia Baltica and Siberia and a number of volcanic arcs including several major volcanic arc complexes like Avalonia and Kazakhstania (basically paleo analogs of Indonesia). It really only finished forming after smashing into Gondwana.
I'm not sure if their ever was a true single contiguous continental landmass as much of its low lying regions were inundated with water and thus formed interior seaways not to mention the presence of several failed rift scars that formed the early Atlantic and likely prestaged its eventual break up in the Early Cenozoic so even though it was a minor supercontinent it never had the same level of continuous dry land.
The break up of Laurasia as alluded to in the last sentence didn't occur until around 58 to 56 Ma (depending on when you start counting) as a consequence of the North Atlantic Large Igneous Province which split Greenland from Eurasia forming the North Atlantic ocean in the process.
In contrast Gondwana was persistent over a much longer interval of time having formed in the late Ediacaran ~600 Ma and remained relatively intact prior to its break up during the Jurassic and Cretaceous which was quite dramatic in comparison. Even then its not been entirely the same for example as the major collision with Euromerica/Laurussia really got to building Pangaea a section of Gondwana actually started to rift away doing their own thing . The two major paleocontinents/cratons involved were the North and south China blocks which today largely make up the Amur and Yangtze plates of which the Amur plate is currently rifting away from Eurasia resulting in the Baikal riftzone/valley most famous for the vast namesake rift lake Lake Baikal.
Rift lakes are for all intents and purposes the seeds of oceans however of course note that not all rift lakes will become oceans, i.e. if the rift fails. A good example was the origin of the great lakes of North America when they first formed 1.1 billion years ago. When the rift died they were infilled with many layers of sedimentary rock before during the modern ice age they were ultimately re-excavated during the last few glacial maximums as the softer sedimentary layers which had infilled them were much easier for the glaciers to carve away than the underlying volcanic rocks.
That failed break up was notably part of the very complex and still not entirely understood reshuffling of the supercontinent Nuna/Columbia into the supercontinent Rodinia the two continents never truly separated rather the section that started to break away seems to have rotated around an axis of sorts folding the former coastline into its interior. Geologists still argue about the details here though we know some stuff pretty well such as how NA was once connected to Australia thanks to paleo sedimentology of zircon grains showing rivers flowed from NA into Australia other details remain murky as this was very complicated.
There are arguments for and against earlier supercontinents, which if you want to call them that would have been relatively puny in comparison as they would have been about the size of Australia at most. The old Archean craton crust was odd different from younger Paleoproterozoic and younger crust with some recent work having show that these oldest cratons had isotopic ratios chemically distinct from Earth's mantle composition suggesting they likely had extraterrestrial origins. This is still a bit controversial as prior to the isotopic analysis others had criticized the impact origin hypothesis base don estimated pressure and temperature conditions of rock formation as no shocked quartz was found. Of course as has been pointed out since that a carter of the size in question would have been too large and energetic for any solid mineral grains to survive impact to be shocked so yeah. (Technically such a crater would be called a basin rather than a crater
Also I can't help but notice that the paleomagnetic placements of these oldest cratons appears to loosely form a giant ring with the formation timing occurring during the so called late heavy bombardment period. Sure those are still just as far as we can tell coincidences but compiling with the properties of the earliest cratons it seems to paint a pretty compelling picture though sadly we will probably never know for sure.
This is all barely even a fraction of the tip of the iceberg Earth has been around for over 4 and a half billion years a lot has happened.
Addressing *why* things happen in Earth's plate tectonics cycles is a whole other can of worms there is a reason this tends to get brushed away or handwaved because it involves lots of unresolved questions with the recent and ongoing seismic tomography revolution showing us that many of geologists assumptions were quite frankly plain wrong to the point we may need to revisit some basic underlying assumptions. We are tiptoeing into an academic minefield so watch your steps!
This is WILD! Petrified sand dune mini-avalanches. Incredible.
thanks for the video! I am always impressed at the level of background you go into to frame the formations in context. I aspire to someday become an earth science and/or biology teacher for middle school or high school. this reminds me of a geomorphology field trip that I took when I was a sophomore in college. We went to the sand dunes in lake michigan when the waters were at a record level low. We were tasked with creating a lesson that explained the cross-bedding that was visible in the wave-cut cliffs of the dunes. I remember reading articles about the OSL of sand grains and rebuilding the history of the coastline. I would love to see a video detailing the huge sand dunes along lake michigan...
IMHO, in these days of the internet and RUclips, the best way to preserve The Wave and still let people enjoy it would be to put a video walking tour on the internet.
It probably has been done.
If it hasn't, it needs to be.
A recommendation for a topic would be the series of Mag 7+ earthquakes going on presently around the Loyalty Islands. That's a lot of energy going off right now.
The sandstone looks like strips of bacon. Mmmmm bacon (in Homer Simpson voice)
The "Valley of Fire" outside of Vegas has similar formations at the Fire Wave, no lottery to visit!
There's some nice crossbedding in the Black Hand Sandstone in Hocking Hills. Not as colorful as the wave, but the cathedral like vaulting of the rock shelters and waterfalls make the area very pretty.
The Wave is one bucket list item that I will probably never get to see in person. I've had my name on that list for about a decade. Now, due to declining health and mobility, even if I won the chance to see it, I couldn't actually make the trek. It's sad that a place has to be so protected from the human species, but understandable in that the only thing the human species knows is destruction. c'est la vie
Reminds me of some similarly beautiful banded rock formations we've seen at Red Rocks (near Las Vegas), Death Valley, and Bryce Canyon Utah.
Panther mountain in NY, an inverse relief impact structure.
Geology is completely captivating. This is beautiful. Thank you
Your analysis of this feature is astounding!
I am lucky enough to have been able to visit several years ago. It is truly an incredible place, and I am glad to get this explanation of its origins.
Thank you for my daily "multi-mineral" supplement. I'll never get to see this in person but now I have a little more understanding of the wonderful rock we live on. Thank you.
Oh yes! As I remarked on a previous video, The Wave looks like the wavy interior of a blood vessel!
Anything and everything about my beloved Arizona is always welcome!
The colours of those rocks resemble Australian deposits!
What caused the cauliflower rocks?
Billion years ago during the very beginning of the Jurassic. By the way, I have difficulty communicating because I had a stroke in Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls speech. 2/8/2021 but I lived again. (My wife helped me compose this.)
That was really interesting, thanks! I never knew this existed before your video. It's a shame so few can see it firsthand, but I'm glad they're working to protect and preserve the area. Did that cauliflower shaped rock form the same way as the banded rock?
There's a similar place in China but it's more vibrant, because I used it on my old laptop as a background for my email section.
Thank you for your interesting videos, Geology Hub!
Could you do a video on the causes and history of the large area in eastern Colorado where massive amounts of petrified wood have been found scattered all over? Thank you!
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A lot like Sedona. Beautiful!
📍 drift-less zone of Wisconsin. The place where the glacier didn’t intrude.
BEAUTIFUL ❤
Thank you very much 👍🏻
Thanks for the explanation. Always excited to know about the geological history of certain places. Just wondering, can you make a video about the Bantimala Complex? I'm glad if you make one 🙏🏻
Another place with a similar formation is Antelope Canyon, also outside Page and on the Navajo Reservation.
I lived in southern Utah for a whiiiile, red rock is normal to me, it can not be underestimated how /*RED*/ it is there. Ig it's the contrast, knowing park ranger helps on getting access 😎
Any recent news on the Popocatépetl volcano in mexico? Got a buddy who lives about 2 miles away from the volcano and he saying its pretty active right now
Hmm given what I have learned from Nick Zentner's recent A to Z livestream series unveiling what we do or no not know and what we assume based on studied subsets I would not be surprised to learn that this picture is incomplete and or more nuanced. After all this region encompasses a number of areas which have questionable long term affinity with North America and or their current positions.
There has been major compression, extension uplift and translation out west and it seems that a number of what had previously been assumed to be the same rock formations have turned out to not be the same rock formations(though the example that comes to mind from a geology guest lecture/colloquium presentation was in Washington state many of the underlying principals could still apply).
Looks exactly like muscle fiber on humans except these were only part human
That's petrified mussel from the giants that used to inhabit earth.
I would love to see one on boars tusk and killpecker sand dunes in Wyoming, and maybe some other features from Wyoming’s red Desert.
There's some beds that are similar in the Gold Buttes Park in Nevada.
Night strombolian eruption at Popocatepetl
That is so beautiful. I’ve said it once many times. God is the greatest of artists.
Fantastic journey through time!
Put a temporary paths in to protect the rocks from instagramers...
Very interesting; it's nice to see some soft-rock content on your hub.
The Germans love this place
📍 St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. Dry Caribbean continental plate. Not volcanic like the rest of the Caribbean… not even the neighboring island of St. Croix. Between the two islands is the Puerto Rican trench… 2.5 miles deep. St. Croix also has an underwater waterfall from the last ice ace off of salt river at the north of the island.
Its still arc derived terrain a mix of volcanic basement accreted terrane and carbonate reefs. The larger context based on recent work seems to indicate the Caribbean islands may be the last remnants of a formerly much larger mature oceanic volcanic arc complex which North America smashed into the northern extent during the Jurassic to Paleogene ultimately providing a much more satisfactory explanation for how the Rocky Mountains formed and South America has subsequently hit its southern extent during the Oligocene and Miocene with the arcs having become largely smashed up into the Andes. Thanks to Seismic tomography we can reconstruct the locations of Earth's ocean trenches going back at least to the late Triassic as the subducted slabs are still down there in the mantle steadily sinking towards the core mantle boundary.
It's a massive corps and your looking at a hudge muscle. Biology that formed Geology
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Wonderful stuff.
*Let the Sunshine In ...*
I can explain this, but you would not like it! ;)
Thanks.
Nice
Thankfully they limit the number of people who can go there
There are interesting areas in the US, but the entite country is on my "never-ever" list.
I live here and I cannot blame you in the least.
We're working it.
Just imagine if Tony Hawk could skateboard through this amazing place.
It would be a one-time thing and heavily wasteful, as the stone is so brittle it would just leave skit marks or chips wherever the wheels rolled or wherever the brake was initiated.
I know it's just a joke, but you know somebody is gonna try to go skateboarding on this unique sandstone dating back to the age of Pangea just for no good reason at all .... 🤦♂Luckily they limit tourism and they probably banned skateboards.
Pity there's no billionaire that could stump up a few hundred thousand to let some people make a copy out of fiberglass that you could skate on.
If they can make a replica of Lascaux so IT doesn't get wrecked, then maybe someone will make a replica of part of this for recreational use. One never knows.
25 years ago I discovered a small-scale underwater version of this off the South African West coast A 200m sq area of gullies that looked just like this, but our rocks were water-worn & smooth. This video explained that I had discovered the tops of a fossil sand-dune field, which had then been smoothed by a later water flow, & left a network of interconnected gullies from 3 - 10m deep & from 1 - 10m wide, humps, bumps 200m flows on different routes - we called it the Skateboard Park. If it was on land it would be the world's best. But it's on the bottom of the sea. It's also under 6m of sand, which we had to blow away to expose the sea bed to recover diamonds, & then the sand covered it up again, so only 8 of us divers got to see it. 6 of them were surfers & skateboarders so there was informed opinion - if this was on the land the skate-boarding world would come.
@@Yezpahr I was only saying it in thought I know that it's brittle but it's so perfect for that. You might want to reread that, and see that I was using my imagination it seems you don't have any.
1/16th of a millimeter? Seems kind of pointless making a fraction like that in the metric system. Why not make the cut at 1/10 or 1/20 millimeter?
Hmmmm. Is it because the 1/16 millimeter corresponds to a sieve size, like 400? I can't recall the sieve definition of sand from my sedimentology class from 40 years ago (I never worked in geology, went into optical science of all things).
Considering that there's layer's below and it is a erosional feature.
With the high demand don't you think that they could figure out how to get the public more access?
I mean we're paying for it!
Seems that it would not take much to make a walkway for visitors to travel upon
what are you suggesting? Pave the three miles from the nearest road to the feature through the beautiful surrounding landscape and put a glass walkway over it? it's fine the way it is, in fact in should probably be more protected than it is now
@@primarytrainer1 that's nonsense.
This is a geological time capsule that would bring larger knowledge to human.
There's many that I'm sure you're not interested in knowledge of.
So go lay down and get woker
And by the way you seem too interested in messing up other's opinions? ???
Are you that guy???
Actually it’s a bit of a rugged hike to even get there from the trail head. And driving to the trail head is difficult, almost takes a 4 wheel drive high clearance vehicle. And you have to be lucky enough to win a lottery for the few people they allow to access each day. There are several locations nearby that are very similar, but nothing easy to access.
@@gregchapek969 I've been watching things get closed down and managed to the point that there's nothing to do.
Many park's closing, reservations needed for other's.
Seems this growth thing is getting out of hand.
More people with less privileges.
I'm pretty old so I've wached it happen.
The rich people get to do what they want and the rest of the masses are treated like sheep.
No offense intended. I'm just worried about my children's children.
Peace out.
It is so beautiful and amazing. A place I'll never get to visit. Maybe one day in years to come. But so much guessing how this was made? You have theories but no real explanation's. So I'll watch the videos but not believe what you say.
No proof of Pangea.
Too much feedback on new mic... can hear all the wetness in your mouth and makes it unlistenable.
Actually, what you are seeing is hydrologically formed by the Flood, appx 4600 years ago. It is amazing how much stupidity comes from hating God.
How was violating Stokes Law avoided then?
@@NorthForkFisherman That is an excellent question. Why don't you spend a little time doing some of your own thinking for a few days, and come back if you still cannot figure it out. How about that?
Basically, I am tired of doing the homework of lazy God haters. Do a little thinking on your own before you mindlessly spit out the latest fad in stupidity.
can you do a video on Changbai Mountain pls
It’s sucks we have to heavily monitor places like this because sooner or later some prick will come and deface them
It's not just that, thousands of visitors every year would erode it away simply by walking on it
Graffiti today....
A hundred years from now
Same writing....
Hieroglyphs......??✌️
Have you read about the wave in Western Australia, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_Rock
I'll never complain about 121℉ again...