Balanced Rock Hoodoos Explained: The Toadstools of Southern Utah

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  • Опубликовано: 5 янв 2025

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  • @shawnwillsey
    @shawnwillsey  2 дня назад +5

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  • @michaelmckeag960
    @michaelmckeag960 День назад +5

    During the 2023 Nightscaper Conference in Kanab several of us went out to the hoodoos one evening to use the formations as foregrounds for night sky photographs. Despite recording a GPS track log on the way in, on the way out in the dark we discovered that at some point we got turned around and had followed our track right back to the hoodoos. Our second attempt at an exit was more successful. The texture of that landscape creates a confounding labyrinth, especially in the dark.

  • @oscarmedina1303
    @oscarmedina1303 2 дня назад +6

    Thank you Shawn. What an interesting area to explore.

  • @jasonlemon4491
    @jasonlemon4491 2 дня назад +4

    OMG I was stationed on the Kaibab plateau and one day i just decided on my way to Page iw would pull over and go for a hike and i found this exact spot! Awesome!

  • @professorsogol5824
    @professorsogol5824 2 дня назад +9

    Similar structures can be found on glaciers where a rock lands on the ice. The rock is of course much harder and more resistant than the ice so the ice melt away leaving the rock perched on a pilar of ice. Perhaps more often seen at higher elevations where the ice does not so much melt as sublime, going directly from solid to gas without a liquid phase in between.

  • @EPiXNiCROS
    @EPiXNiCROS 2 дня назад +5

    There's a canyon in Zion National Park in the Kolob Canyons area where I came across dozens of Basalt Hoodoos. It was so strange. I've gone back a few times to find the spot again but haven't been able to.

    • @JeannetteReed
      @JeannetteReed 2 дня назад +1

      Some of "Galaxy Quest", was filmed in Utah's hoo doo's. I've Never! Back then I had to read the credits, they were That fake. Utah has The wondrous weird in spades. P.s. G Quest, is a near perfect movie. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

  • @marionnadeau8457
    @marionnadeau8457 2 дня назад +3

    Thanks, Shawn! After watching this video, I finally understand how cap rocks protect the underlying structure!

  • @DJDouglasWarden
    @DJDouglasWarden 2 дня назад +2

    Beautiful! Thank you.
    I haven't been out west since 2011 and I really need to get back.

  • @marionnadeau8457
    @marionnadeau8457 2 дня назад +1

    Thanks!

  • @JeannetteReed
    @JeannetteReed 2 дня назад +1

    A precise alignment of the cap rock, by chance over a inner grain of the softer base that is advantageous and time, like I have trouble grasping, baaam, a tall one! Ur'e always a fun guy! 🎉

  • @John-c4r1o
    @John-c4r1o День назад +1

    The two at the end look like they've got faces under rocks that look like hats. I call that end picture, the two amigos...😊

  • @xwiick
    @xwiick 2 дня назад +4

    Thanks for all the hard work on these videos!

  • @pamelamorgan7354
    @pamelamorgan7354 2 дня назад +1

    This trail is one featured on my treadmill walk! Thank you for featuring it today!

  • @jokerace8227
    @jokerace8227 День назад +1

    Hopefully everyone who goes there can manage to not disturb those formations. Sort of reminds me of the Martian rover adventures. I'd listen to you talk about anything you may find interesting about that subject.

  • @KyleWessels-c8z
    @KyleWessels-c8z 2 дня назад +1

    We're so lucky to live in western North America. Really love the four corners. Thanks for sharing these amazing places and their geology.

  • @utahrockhoundingcouple
    @utahrockhoundingcouple День назад +1

    This was such an informative video! We are always trying to learn more about the geology of the places we explore. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

  • @Skank_and_Gutterboy
    @Skank_and_Gutterboy 2 дня назад +1

    It's a great little hike.

  • @samuelschult985
    @samuelschult985 2 дня назад +3

    Very cool video 👍

  • @jennifershipp2599
    @jennifershipp2599 2 дня назад +3

    Fun info. Thank you

  • @eddeeotero786
    @eddeeotero786 2 дня назад +3

    That is cool, thank you,,,

  • @garz75
    @garz75 2 дня назад +6

    Now we know where the drawing from your new logo comes from :-)

  • @mirandamom1346
    @mirandamom1346 2 дня назад +2

    I’m familiar with Goblin Valley and Devil’s Garden near Escalante, but this area is new to me. Thanks for the tip, and for the explanation of the mechanism involved!

  • @hankhulator5007
    @hankhulator5007 2 дня назад +4

    Hi, Jurassic stones and not even the smallest of a T-Rex attack on video… I'm sooo disappointed.😋
    Beautiful landscape.

  • @shonaguthrie848
    @shonaguthrie848 2 дня назад +5

    Thanks! Is this similar to the how the hoodoo formations near Drumheller Alberta were formed? And also The Pinnacles in Nambung Western Australia? I love the uniqueness of both of these places and have spent hours exploring the areas.

  • @MrAttyjones
    @MrAttyjones День назад +1

    Great stuff. Easily accessible. Appreciate the videos.

  • @garyb6219
    @garyb6219 День назад +1

    1:37 would those dimples be from raindrops when the surface was wet and soft during a rainstorm?

  • @garyb6219
    @garyb6219 11 часов назад

    Thanks for posting this. I will be passing along that way soon and will now take a little detour to check it out in person.

  • @pizzafrenzyman
    @pizzafrenzyman 2 дня назад +2

    Those bluffs remind me of the Rock Monster scene in Galaxy Quest

  • @williamsohveymah5550
    @williamsohveymah5550 2 дня назад +1

    Coolio. Another awesome video.👍 Do we have another video explaining bryce formations? Fyi, Charleston Heston dealt with english speaking apes near that area. 😂 re... lake powell, pageAz.

  • @lilysceeliljeaniemoonlight
    @lilysceeliljeaniemoonlight День назад

    Yeah! Geology. Happy New Year Professor Shawn Willsey!

  • @printface4935
    @printface4935 2 дня назад +1

    I saw similar formations in Turkey in the Cappadocia region, they called them Peribacalar or "fairy chimneys". Did they form in the same way as these? By they way, thanks for another great video.

  • @sandy_sd10
    @sandy_sd10 2 дня назад +2

    Have you done any videos on the Badlands of South Dakota?

    • @shawnwillsey
      @shawnwillsey  2 дня назад +1

      ruclips.net/video/ncMCcvkn-tg/видео.htmlfeature=shared

    • @sandy_sd10
      @sandy_sd10 День назад

      @shawnwillsey thanks so much

  • @Joe-Przybranowski
    @Joe-Przybranowski День назад +1

    I have these near my home in the painted desert.
    Someone hit one in the dark with their truck and knocked it over

  • @hestheMaster
    @hestheMaster 2 дня назад +1

    Awesome 50 plus millions of years of erosional activity leaving a weird dynamic of shapes that will one day far in the
    future no longer exist. All in the grandeur of the Colorado Plateau.

  • @susansmart8086
    @susansmart8086 День назад +1

    What is the type of rock forming the white “scribbles” in the red stems? They almost look like they form in clusters of layers.

  • @dottier3145
    @dottier3145 2 дня назад +2

    Looks like chimneys, and a rock was placed on top.

  • @jajphotog77
    @jajphotog77 2 дня назад +2

    what is cryptobiotic soil?

    • @hestheMaster
      @hestheMaster 2 дня назад +2

      Think lichen on rocks. Humans walking on it destroy the fragile life growing on the soils there in a dry arid climate.

    • @jajphotog77
      @jajphotog77 2 дня назад +1

      @@hestheMaster Thanks! That will be my word of the day!

  • @Laura-i2g1j
    @Laura-i2g1j 2 дня назад +1

    ❤❤

  • @davec9244
    @davec9244 День назад

    Hoodoos you love? thank you

  • @patmayer7222
    @patmayer7222 2 дня назад

    ....tnx,,,for this new post = = ,,,didn't, star trek film there ?????...