🧵 How?
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Jun 2024 06:08:55 UTC No. 16245162
What theory can you come up with for the origin of this rocks? Any geologist around with an explanation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lng
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Jun 2024 07:28:01 UTC No. 16245224
>>16245162
The formation is absolutely incredible, recommend checking it out in google earth to look how massive the entire formation is. Didn't watch the video since it started with some solar eclipse stuff so seemed too schizo for my taste so don't know if they explain it, but it's basically a sedimentary rock (should be sandstone). It has layers because it's a sediment, which then is cracked by pressures and deforming of the layer. It's not all that uncommon for things like this to form. Usually a given type of stone has a favorite angle it likes to fracture along, for lot of stones that's 90 degrees so when there's already a top and bottom layer, and cracks to one direction the final cracks form quite easily resulting in these sorts of cubes and rectangles.
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Jun 2024 07:44:09 UTC No. 16245228
>>16245162
>drill holes with copper bits+sand
>thread rope trough hole
>keep pulling rope while adding water and sand
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Jun 2024 07:45:23 UTC No. 16245230
>>16245162
those are just joint sets. Under certain conditions, they form in very regular ways, and in under certain erosion conditions, like a desert, they get exposed and erode very nicely like that. It's quite common in the desert. I used to see it all over in SE Utah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:25:15 UTC No. 16246105
>>16245162
>the origin of this rocks?
it came from earth
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:45:22 UTC No. 16246138
>>16245162
Looks like butterscotch brownies
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Jun 2024 21:08:38 UTC No. 16246241
>>16245230
How do you go into a desert? I figure you went INTO it and not just crossed across it in your car in a highway
How do you get off a highway?
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Jun 2024 21:24:13 UTC No. 16246257
Makes me want fudge
🗑️ Barkon at Fri, 21 Jun 2024 21:33:39 UTC No. 16246272
Champion of the impotent at Fri, 21 Jun 2024 21:37:41 UTC No. 16246276
>>16245162
Who knows it was probably a quarry as anon mentioned and they preshaped the rocks to crack or it's an ancient made formation living things been around for long enough, rock and mud architecture is common in hominids and social bugs
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Jun 2024 21:48:09 UTC No. 16246290
>>16246241
>How do you go into a desert?
You park the the car and go for a day-long hike, for example. If you feel more adventurous, you can get a wilderness camping permit or something like that and do a multi-day hike, or a deep drive with a 4x4.
I myself did my thesis at Arches National Park so I know that place back and forth.
But what does it matter? that's off-topic.
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Jun 2024 21:52:07 UTC No. 16246297
>>16246276
See:
>>16245230
The softer and more easily eroded rock layers below the massive sandstone are eaten away by rainwater and winds, while the sandstone above is more resilient to the erosion. Eventually the blocks of the sandstone above lose support from the erosion happening underneath them, and become unbalanced. They go out of plumb, and can even tumble.
Pic is just some nice regular jointing.
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Jun 2024 21:56:20 UTC No. 16246299
>>16245230
>I used to see it all over in SE Utah
Not OP, but I was going to say something like that.
Literally know nothing about geology, so I have no idea how this process works, but I live in a semi-arid area and had both seen that type of rock before, but more importantly: vernal/ephemeral pools, and know from experience that water will aggressively pool in any ident available to it and in turn wear down the stone over generations.