In one of the videos (which is posted at the end of the article), the author showed an interesting place from the point of view of geology. It is located in the USA, Utah. The place is called: Lower Sand Cove (Lower Sand Cove, if the translation is correct). The link in google maps is also at the end of the article.
A desert place with rocky outcrops smoothed by erosion. In the center of the massif there is some kind of funnel. Nothing out of the ordinary until you start looking at the details, including photographs taken at the site by tourists.
Stone exits in this place cracked in shape, resembling blocks resembling polygonal masonry. It's just that the stone mass does not crack. Rather, its surface layers are cracking from temperature and water erosion. And here the impression is that the masses were plastic or liquid and cracked when they gained strength, This large-scale picture of cracking into a polygonal masonry pattern appears in photographs, there are many of them from this place:
Apparently it is the mouth of a mud volcano. And it is not one in this array. But streams of water and mud from this vent no longer come out. The exit stopped quite recently. I will explain the opinion below.
Promotional video:
Sandstone color. A volcano cone is visible in the background. Magmatic volcano (according to Google map - black basalt spills around the cone). This suggests that this area was once geologically active.
Rainwater is collected in one of the calderas, or water replenishment continues to flow from the depths.
But from another place in the massif, water still comes out and flows into the river flowing nearby. The water in the stream in the photo is a residual process. At the time of that geotectonic catastrophe, when these outlets were formed, everything resembled a seething flood.
Fissures in the rock resemble a pseudo-layout of bloated blocks - as in Cusco and Sacsayhuaman in Peru. In my hypothesis, the Maya used a similar geo-concrete for their buildings. It also increased in size - like here, "plump" blocks formed. I suppose it is due to the bentonite clays in the composition of the rock. They can increase in size at times in their original volume.
It can be seen that these masses were once liquid and came out of the depths. At the end of the process - they turned to stone, leaving these stone tongues.
Numerous layers from the process of flowing off the masses. The petrification took place quickly, because the layers did not wash away the rains.
A short video taken by one of the tourists - in order to understand the scale of the stone exits and their bizarre views:
In the second half of the video - shooting from a height, from a quadcopter: a scale for assessing the once liquid masses.
Of course, it can be assumed that erosion in the crack area is faster and this has led to this type of stones. But it can also be argued that the massif cracked, but the stones themselves continued to increase in size.
The dry caldera of a mud volcano. The bottom from where the masses came out was also petrified.
Caldera walls. Like everything else in this place, they also cracked apart, resembling polygonal masonry.
There are many photos of this interesting place. You can see them in google maps here
How old could this petrified exit be? Judging by the fact that there are no erosion products in the mouth of the mud volcano - a very young age, literally 100-200 years or a little more. There is also confirmation of this version: the Oregon Trail from the times of the Wild West. A track squeezed into stone
These stone masses were plastic some 150 years ago. And they left the traces of the emigrant carts. And, therefore, they also poured out not so long ago. That is why there are no large-scale traces of erosion and the accumulation of products of this erosion. If these massifs are hundreds of thousands or millions of years old, as geology suggests, then the mouth of the mud volcano would be covered with multi-meter deposits, and vegetation would grow.
I have no doubt that these are the fossilized masses of a mud volcano. The forms and blocks that remain during cracking of the rock in this place can be compared in similar places in Siberia, which are called megaliths, outliers, walls. One of the most famous places among the Siberian outlier rocks is the Krasnoyarsk Pillars. But there are thousands of such places. They are marked on geophysical maps. The process of their formation is similar. The only difference is in the breed, which was formed as a result of that broth there and with us.
Remains in Utah. Agree, the view is very similar to the megalithic remnant walls in our territory. The formation of cracks, and then detachments. Only Siberian outliers are syenites and granites. These polycrystalline rocks were also liquid. In them, the process was not just gaining strength, but with the crystallization of minerals. I had articles on this topic.
As reported at the beginning of the article, I am citing a video where the author shows many other interesting observations in this place. For example, lava fields without a visible volcano cone and places with other rock outcrops:
Because most of the North American continent is without vegetation - these are deserts and semi-deserts, then the entire scale of the geotectonic catastrophe of the recent past is visible:
On ancient maps, the central and northwestern parts of the continent are unknown to cartographers. It is possible that at this time geotectonic processes continued here and no one could penetrate these territories - water and mud masses were still coming out. Whereas in South America on the same map (with which the screen was made) - all rivers are marked and cities are known.
Author: sibved