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Grrrrrrr. The Crater Theory, due to climate changed was debunked the same day it was discovered. these are called Thermokarst's and they show up in permafrost everywhere. No explosions, no Methane just plain old frost heave and subsidence over a period of time with the the spring thaw and winter freeze. In warmer climates we call them pot holes. A large portion of Canada's northern lakes are in-fact Thermokarst's that have flooded.
@@terrykesteloot9176 that seems reasonable but what about the observed flames? Also, I wonder if this, or maybe plates rotating against each other, is what caused the nice clean circle in Hudson Bay
Good thought, rodents need a vantage point to watch out for predators. Nick Zentner, who lives in that area has a lot to say about Mima Mounds. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7-0d-Go4iSw.html
@@glasshalffull8625 I prefer the brutal honesty of the Geologists. Nothing wrong with simply saying "I don't know" or I'm not certain but I believe it is like this". I'm a chemist and we are taught that there's always an exception to the rule.
My asto teacher...the closer to being a fundamental rule of phisics the closer you are to fundamental ly knowing nothing . ( See neutrinos et.al. )...God's have all ways been tricky...
I love anomalies! Those are the signals that tell us it's time to revise our model or think in a different way. I think they're also an indication for science becoming stuck. Great episode. Thanks 😊
@@miguelupload555 Sometimes you weren't quite paying attention and want to rewatch a segment, and it'd be nice to not have to scrub through finding where you left off.
I have recently just finished taking a geography course at my university and the mima mounds (5) are similar to the patterns we studied. Patterns like COULD be caused by freezing and thawing events, as when freezing happens it expands the material and then settles when it thaws. Moving the material, not sure why the patterns occur but it could provide an explanation other than burrowing animals.
I know it's 3 years later, but this wouldn't explain why these mounds are all over the coastal terraces in southern california... well, WERE there before development. Still some pockets left...
Shortly after visiting the Mima Mounds, I was operating a heavy piece of machinery with a thick steel plate drilling deck. This deck was covered with a about an half inch layer of dust. When the down hole bit contacted an irregularity, there was about 3 or 4 very strong vibrations in less than 2 seconds. These vibrations piled up the dust in neat little mounds that had the same pattern as the ones I saw. Earthquake?
That's a really neat observation and comparison. I was actually picturing it as you were explaining it and it made sense in my head. Thanks Sir Bambeur for teaching me one more thing today even if it's was just about dust and it's formation under vibrations. :)
Firstly, I'm not a geologist. I live close to the Mima mounds area and I know that that area of the state has lots of glacial drift from the forward edge of ice age glacial sheets. We are also not a stranger to earthquakes. The working theories of fluid dynamics or tectonic activity seem likely. We also have LOTS of gophers although the one that was pictured is a protected species at this time.
I'm kind of surprised that they didn't talk about the moving mud puddle in California. For me, that was a big, scary, and cool geological mystery to find out about!
I used to wonder about the Mima Mounds in Eastern Oregon where I grew up. That was until I got my first real dirt bike at age 14. It was a Hodaka ace 100 B+ and after that they were just jumps, endless jumps that put an eternal smile on my face. I'm smiling just thinking about it!
I saw hundreds of those Mima Mounds @ 8:48, next to the road while on a winter camping trip to Mt Lassen ~ 25 yrs ago. It was so unusual it was one of the few things from that trip that stood out in my memory.
Anecdotal support for gopher theory: I have a pet ground squirrel and I *thought* she piled up dirt just to irritate me, but apparently she's making mima mounds.
This is a million times better than all those 'mystery list' videos that just present you with list of things that appear superficially mysterious, but never actually give you any more information.
I love learning about stuff like this! It's inspiring to highlight the mysteries in a world that's frequently presented or treated as being already solved.
I grew up near the Mima Mounds. In fact, some of the mounds were on my fathers farm at there northern end. The area is the southern most extreme of the Olympic Peninsula. It is glacial till up to forty feet deep sitting on a plate of basalt. There is a mirror prairie, on the other side of the valley, 10 miles to the east just north of the town of Tenino WA where the mounds are also evident. The best explanation that I have ever seen for these mounds was when a geologist laid a sheet of plywood on a pair of sawhorses and covered it with sand. He proceeded to smack the plywood with a hammer. the sand sorted itself out into mounds on the plywood. These are called resonant nodes and anyone can do this do this simple experiment. In the case of the geology of the area, the basalt plate is like the plywood and the glacial till is like the sand. The hammer is the subduction earthquakes that the area is subject to every 3 to 6 hundred years which liquefies the till.
Very familiar with the area also. I do like the analysis on that. I woke up just before the Nisqually earth quake. It was coming at me like rolling waves. People that saw it from higher said the same thing.
Another comment mentioned witnessing this phenomenon on a piece of equipment. However, it could be the gophers built the mounds for religious purposes ( anthropologist's go to reason for everything)
When I was a little kid, like, 5 or 6, I thought that semi-circle in Hudson's Bay was left by the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Fast-forward to when I was 12 or 13, and I'm learning about Thea, the Mars-sized planet that crashed into Earth, possibly creating the Moon. Fast-forward to now, and I think it just looks like a really nice semi-circle. Maybe a bit thicc.
The Nastapoka Arc really does look like an impact crater. And the jury isn't in on this one. It does seem strange that a plate boundary would form a nice semi-circle.
At my age of 12 y.o. I had a comet impact hypothesis - "remains just evaporated and the shockwave could be still seen"... Now I'm 49 and have no particular interest but daughter's physics-math education. ;)
I live in the Mima mounds area and thank you for pronouncing Mima correctly. The coolest part about them is not the mounds themselves but all the crazy species of moss and lichen. There are also some pretty large owls out here that few have witnessed. I personally have found an owl pellet (the bits of fur and bone from and owls gizzard) with an un-crushed ravens skull in it, that's one big owl. To put that in perspective great horned owls in the bird sanctuary about 25 miles away produce pellets with an average size of a flattened golf ball, the one containing the ravens skull was the size of a soda can. Another thing about the mounds themselves is that if you bulldoze one flat, add topsoil and plant grass there will be a clear 'ring' that burns through where it once was. :)
WOW, thank you very much for sharing that story. Owls are a humbling creature at any size, but THAT big of one is rather terrifying and also makes this heart happy because I love hearing reasons to believe in legends. Things only witnessed by persons who must bear the burden of being disbelieved... when they have the MOST interesting stuff to say! Although there will always light be fakes and mistakes there are abundant examples in this world of things stranger, more wonderful and far more frightening than fiction 😬🫣😅) I hope I dream of a gigantic Owl tonight.✨🦉🪶 ( Or better yet, dream of BEING the owl)❤✨
One of my favorite geology mysteries is the Andesite Paradox. Basically, Andesite in order for it to form it needs to come from a rock that forms from Andesite. It's a weird chicken or the egg scenario.
Gophers: "No! No! Dig UP, stupid!" Also, large amounts of long-trapped methane being injected into the atmosphere in a short timespan? Never an attractive proposition.
Hank: Turns out you've been looking at a near perfect circle... every time you look at a map of the world. Flat Earther: Yes! Thank you, we've been saying that for years! Hank: It's called the Nastapoka Arc. Flat Earther: Oh... nevermind...
Suggestion for another episode on geology weirdness: 1) There is the Baja-BC controversy which posits that much of Western WA and Vancouver Island started out 200Mya in Baja California and through the miracle of plate tectonics and rifting of Rodinia that shuffled the current continents’ locations. 2) The ‘slow slip’ phenomena around the Cascadia Subduction Zone in which most of Oregon, Washington and N Cal is rotating around Pendleton OR at 4mm/year, except every 15 months when it reverses.
Huh. So there's actually something interesting about Pendleton. Wild. (I kid, my town in the Willamette Valley's biggest claim to fame is being next door to a city people actually care about.)
Dude, the Cascadia geology is amazing...and kind of terrifying for fragile surface dwellers like me to contemplate. 😬😜 I hope they do a video about both of your proposed topics. Geology is so much more than just pretty rock formations, although I do like a pretty rock formation!
Yeah. Why are they marketing only to optimists? Will they refuse service to pessimists? Isn't that discriminatory? I know, this is 2021. EVERYTHING is discriminatory.
In Trantor, the city planet capital of the Galactic Empire in Asimov's Foundation novels, they ate only funghi, they had inmense caves to grow it, it was the only possibility to feed trillions of people.
I was optimistic until I looked at the website, but now I'm pessimistic about the endeavor because it seems like their production is not up to scale to be doing this type of advertising 🤔
I'm surprised the "underground mountains" weren't mentioned. Some scientists were doing scans of seismic graphs n found sort of upside down mountain ranges beneath the Earth's crust. They called it the transition zone I believe
It's not too difficult to imagine how that would form. As plates smash into each other and fold and bunch up, you get areas where the plates are thicker than in other places. Much like how a taller boat has a deeper keel, you'd see a vaguely symmetrical mountain range form on the underside of a plate as on top
"there is this rock that simply should not be there" me: "are you questioning the immigration policy of the country?" Are you against immigration of rocks? I am beginning to sense of some anger towards some rocks, have they ever acted violent towards you that warrented the question of the immigration practices of rocks? What would The Rock say about your hostilities against Rocks
Hank, your mention of poking, made me laugh. Up in a canyon, I found a dead horse, that had sadly fallen and was killed. Dead animals can blow up like balloons. And of course as any kid would do, I poked the ballooning gut. It was worse than getting hit by a skunk. I was certainly as lonely, as if I was hit by a skunk.
Our dogs chased a skunk thru the house and under my bed in second grade ,I know that banishment..but hey it was the only time the bullies let me not only sit in the back of the bus but had the back 6 seats to myself .needles to say it got worse when the magic skunk juice wore off . Lol.
I learned about this in ecology a few years back, except I was presented with an explanation described as more definitive :o Basically what was mentioned, OM from turf accumulated over centuries, and how there are identified massive pockets of methane which would release into the atmosphere if this permafrost melts, further contributing to global warming. Guess its time to refresh on that haha
The Mima Mounds confuse me the most... Would a Gopher really spend its whole life making useless mounds? Gopher: I'll see you in 500 years when I finish making my useless mounds 😂 Me: wut is rong wif u gofer 😂😂😂
I too think that animals (or plants?) are a good guess. The moles we have in Germany build such soil "vulcanoes" too but they don't build such big piles either.
No they're not. The antipode of Hudson Bay is near Antarctica... The Indian Ocean anomaly is directly below South India and nowhere near the antipode of Hudson Bay...
I wonder if some sort of really enormous impact caused continental drift to begin with. And it's still going due to the lingering inertia from the shock. If it was big enough I don't see why that couldn't be the case.
@@rockybalboa5743 If you look at the size of the Indian ocean anomaly it is not all that far off considering. I did not say it was a perfect antipode, but it isn't that far off.
Zealo90 yes. The entire Pacific Ocean. I always sink in the ocean and never float. Or so I believe... I never went in the Pacific but it must be the same as any other ocean I gues... And I always sink in it.
I talked about this more than ten years ago but I didn't have evidence or production or $ to investigate so... it was just a thought. Thank you for existing.
I have a robust hypothesis to explain all of these mysteries; A wizard did it, except the Indian ocean one I have it on good authority that is definitely Cthulhu. In my syentific opinion, that Nature's Fynd thing has Day of the Triffids written all over it. Or as a more contemporary reference The Last Of Us.
@@CosmoPhiloPharmaco of course! How could I have been so blind. After incomprehensive research I have discovered for definite the methane blasts are the fairies secretly testing their new WMDs but I am yet to discern their target. If I had to say for definite I'd say slenderman, santa or god.
As John Locke said on LOST, "I think we're going to have to watch that again." I definitely need to watch this again - another fascinating video. Thanks!
I used to take Amtrak through Washington fairly frequently, and so many times that we passed them, the conductor would use the PA system to announce, "And if you look out the window, you can see the *Mysterious Mima Mounds*!" And I can't say it without that exact cadence anymore.
I imagine an ancient river flowing out of modern day Mozambique could easily be the culprit to the placing of Quartzite on Anjouan. Some tectonic shifting, coupled with the hotspot growing around the deposit of Quartzite that would have then shifted North-Eastward whilst subaquatic, and up pops a new Quartzite-covered island. Geology is one of my favorite Ologies 😎
Regarding the theory of a possible asteroid impact, has anyone thought about trying to find traces of iridium ? That's usually considered evidence of an asteroid strike
I believe the Mima mounds mystery is solved. There are new ones forming now in siberia, and its happening quickly. Permafrost is melting, and previously flat areas now look just like Mima mounds.
One frustrating aspect about these mounds is that many of the theories would have the same end effects. It's entirely possible (actually probable) that the features we label as Mima Mounds actually represent several different geological types of terrain, but they all look almost identical. So what formed THE Mima Mounds outside of Olympia WA may not be the same thing that formed all of them around the planet.
@@zacharymoran7596 yes, for example, similarly shaped (but smaller) mounds can be found in French Guyana. Researchers concluded that they had been made by native farmers centuries ago to provide a drier environment for their plants (it's a very damp area), and that in the centuries after they were abandoned, the grass and microfauna had kept them in shape.
The Mima Mounds of Washington state were created by steroid using body building gophers. Warning- don’t make snide remarks if you take a tour of the site. These gophers are mean SOB’s.
I live down the road from the Mima mounds! They're pretty cool. I thought it was widely accepted that they were deposits from glaciers? The pocket gopher idea seems unlikely since theres a bug group just outside of Tumwater near the Olympia Airport in a chunk of land that hasn't really been touched in decades since it's a protected area and there arent any mounds despite being untouched for decades (according to my parents the lands been untouched since at least the 70s but might have been last worked on during WW2 when the area was originally fenced offsicne it's part of the airports land)
Nastapoka arc correction: there are MANY examples of colliding tectonic plates forming arcs. Starting in the west Pacific on the ocean floor, there are numerous arcs stair stepped on each other, building up to the Himalayas, and then diminishing into the middle east.
The semicircle could have been an impact on top of the ice shelf that made the impression under the ice, and when the ice melted, it took all of the leftovers with it. It could also have been a "closer than Tunguska" airburst pushing the ice down in that pattern. Orrrrrrrrrr, someone took all the rocks from the collision in the lake and took them to an island off the coast of Africa to throw us off. :D
Decidedly _unscientific_ explanations I just came up with: 1: The Tunguska Event was caused by a mother. These are its children. You do NOT want to be around when the father shows up. 2: It’s not a perfect circle-it’s a bite mark. 3: The antigravity drive of a starship that was buried millions of years ago, on the last gasps of its nuclear battery. 4: The rocks didn’t form there-they were placed. 5: Gophers have a multi-generational hive-mind, and given enough time they’ll finally build a message that can be seen through the telescopes of their home planet. 6: The Earth is an egg. We’re hearing the heartbeat of the developing creature hidden at the core.
I am so Happy to learn the Earth has a 26 second clock built in... may change in the future, but really cool we know about it now until we figure it out.
Until I realized it’s sheer size, I thought that picture of the Nastapoka Arc was the result of one of those mesmerizing ice disks that sometimes form along slow moving rivers. Basically a sheet of ice above a bend in the river will break off and float on the surface, but the surrounding ice and currents don’t allow it to drift away. So what can sometimes happen instead is that it will begin moving back and forth from the force of the water moving past it, gradually grinding and refreezing until it finds the path of least resistance and turns into a perfectly round disk of ice that rotates with the current. The whole thing looks like someone took a saw and cut it out of the ice around it.
Mima mounds resemble the same phenomenon that sand does at the bottom of the ocean. Could be a remnant of the young dryas flooding events, also wouldn’t affect the Antarctic for obvious reasons concerning this theory
I think numbers 5 and 6 could be related. like if you had sand on a hard surface above a speaker and played noises to make shapes. im sure magnetic field has something to do with it too
Very good presentation - as always. Complicated topics made clear and managebel even for us without higher education in sciency-chemistry-physicsy-math-ish things. Thank You.