The Geologic Oddity in Namibia; Brukkaros Mountain

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What you are looking at is a massive circular feature within Namibia. Known as Brukkaros Mountain, it is neither a volcanic caldera or an impact crater. Instead, it is something completely different, forming due to a series of geologic events 77 million years ago. This video will discuss this spectacular feature and describe how it formed in a tale which involves carbonatites.
Thumbnail Photo Credit: Google Earth, Image © 2023 Airbus. This image was then overlaid with text, and then overlaid with GeologyHub made graphics (the image border and the GeologyHub logo).
Author's note: Although I have no direct proof that the carbonatites which formed Brukkaros Mountain are rare earth element enriched, I suggest that a portion of them might be. Simply put, this complex looks unusually similar to certain rare earth element deposit localities I have familiarized myself with some aspects of, with aspects of the carbonatites surrounding Brukkaros Mountain looking somewhat similar to the Petyayan Vara carbonatite (rare earth element deposit) in Russia. I suspect that rare earth elements might be found around Brukkaros Mountain if additional studies are performed, emphasizing carbonatite dikes adjacent to barite deposits. For now, no rare earth elements are confirmed at Brukkaros Mountain and its surrounding dikes, as only niobium rich brookite has been found, and niobium is not a rare earth element.
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[1] Lorenz, V., Stachel, T., & Kurszlaukis, S. (2000). Volcanology of the Gross Brukkaros Field, southern Namibia.
[2] Walter, Benjamin & Giebel, R. Johannes & Siegfried, Pete & Gudelius, Dominik & Kolb, Jochen. (2023). The eruption interface between carbonatitic dykes and diatremes - The Gross Brukkaros volcanic field Namibia. Chemical Geology. 621. 121344. 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2023.121344.
[3] Schneider, G. (2004). The roadside geology of Namibia. www.amazon.com/The-Roadside-G...
[4] Lorenz, Volker et al. “Volcanology of the Gross Brukkaros Field, southern Namibia.” (2000).
0:00 A Geologic Oddity
1:20 Rare Earth Elements
2:28 Carbonatite Dikes
3:16 Carbonatite Formation
3:51 Tuff Ring Formation
4:34 Conclusion

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@StuffandThings_ 10 месяцев назад

Could you talk about the fossil fjords of Namibia (and if any exist elsewhere)? They're remarkably intact, and its crazy to think that fjords from hundreds of millions of years ago are still recognizable and now exist nowhere near the poles!

@CodyosVladimiros 10 месяцев назад

Wait, there's fossil fjords in Namibia? Tell me more.

@aldenconsolver3428 10 месяцев назад

I would like to know more about this also.

@thomashenebry8269 9 месяцев назад

Effort is wasted on some people. Are you going to pay the company's way so they can make it?

@BackYardScience2000 9 месяцев назад

@@thomashenebry8269the hell are you talking about? He doesn't have to go to Namibia to make a video about it. He gets almost all of his pictures for these videos from Google. He could make a video about it in under a few hours. Some things are lost on some people, like you say. Though you misrepresent your place in that statement....

@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx 10 месяцев назад

Thanks! I have never seen thatl large of a tuff ring before! It truly represents how voluminous plinian eruptions can be! We all know this, but today (or yesterday, depending on your time zone) is the day in 1883 that Krakatau (or Krakatoa)'s climactic eruption phase began. The volcano had been erupting since May of that year.

@sigisoltau6073 10 месяцев назад

Cool. It's nice to see a video on one of the geological features of my home country.

@bassangler73 10 месяцев назад

Geology is fascinating

@deborahferguson1163 10 месяцев назад

It sure is!

@GregInEastTennessee 10 месяцев назад

I visited two tuff volcanoes in Idsho the other day. Nothing like this, but still very interesting.

@retropipes8863 10 месяцев назад

Cool! Thanks for sharing as always!

@billmiller4972 10 месяцев назад

Talking about rare earth metals, maybe you could make a video about the Ytterby-mine?

@melodyscamman244 10 месяцев назад

Thank you 🙏👍👍❤️

@sherylschroer6610 10 месяцев назад

So interesting. Thank you for sharing such fascinating information. Love it.

@headlessspaceman5681 10 месяцев назад

Never seen this one before! Really fascinating, thanks for this one!

@rogermestler1753 10 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@jcim6438 10 месяцев назад

Thanks.

@raideurng2508 10 месяцев назад

I came on this object a few days ago on google maps and was convinced it was volcanic in origin, despite no similar calderas around it. Strange that this seems like a one off event.

@jesusslord 10 месяцев назад

It's not volcanic. It was cause by water eruption as close 6000 years ago. There is no evidence volcanic eruption there.

@jameslewis1605 9 месяцев назад

Awesome

@TheSpiritombsableye 10 месяцев назад

This is one I didn't know of. Nice.

@Tres-sSs 10 месяцев назад

thanks for the awesome videos! and i have a question! there are massiv chucks on the seafloor south of iceland, streching south-west from faroe islands - scotland all the way down to ireland. all together i would say its near the size of the UK. is that a natural feature or the remains of a massive underwater landslide?

@00Mandy00 10 месяцев назад

Do moon geology. I feel like there is going to be a rush to strip mine the moon for rare earths, although I don’t expect I’ll live long enough for the pits to be readily visible.

@Falkaroa 10 месяцев назад

Hi again, Mr. GeologyHub! I have found this strange feature just south south east of the Waw A Namus volcano, consisting of a few circular domes of fractured rocks. Are these lava domes or something else like a salt glacier?

@Falkaroa 10 месяцев назад

24°35'29.77"N 18° 3'32.09"E

@cohomologygroup 10 месяцев назад

"Brukkaros: We've Got The Right Tuff!"

@TheDuckseason 10 месяцев назад

SIr , Could you do a show on the inversion of the poles and its efects on the plates and so on.

@Yezpahr 8 месяцев назад

Mining such a majestic Earthly structure would be a truly sad sight. This site should be preserved, not leeched and excavated. But of course, we will have to exploit this resource eventually, ''that's just how humans do''. (to quote Ze Frank)

@floffycatto6475 10 месяцев назад

Funny to think of an ancient volcanic region as a one hit wonder

@grokeffer6226 10 месяцев назад

👍👍👍

@79sammyboy 10 месяцев назад

Looks like a welding rod touched the surface.

@ACHistory 10 месяцев назад

Can you cover the MAPCIS crater? Its a proposed impact crater basically the size of Australia

@aldenconsolver3428 10 месяцев назад

Very interesting and surprising that nobody is working it. Perhaps economic and political reasons?

@asusmctablet9180 10 месяцев назад

I'm sure exploration geologists have already drilled it looking for REEs. Namibia has seen a lot of exploration, and it's a safe jurisdiction with favourable geology. Basically everything in the world has been drilled already, except Antarctica, Afghanistan, Iran and areas with heavy jungle soil cover.

@Techno_Idioto 9 месяцев назад

It's best to leave the jungles and Antarctica undrilled.

@zacharyarons6950 10 месяцев назад

So has Brukkaros Mountain only erupted once or has there been subsequent eruptions over the timespan of a few thousand to a few million years before finally going extinct?

@Dragrath1 10 месяцев назад

To my knowledge tuff rings themselves like cinder cones and maars are monogenic vents meaning that an individual vent only erupts once. However monogenic vents are often part of volcanic complexes which have experienced multiple monogenic and even sustained longer lived repeat eruptive vents though if this was the case it generally wouldn't include this mountain per say. I don't think this involved other significant eruptive events though its possible there may have been smaller eruptions associated with this.

@matthewk8379 10 месяцев назад

Hello. I was wondering if you could do a video of the potential super volcano or the volcanoes in Maine? Thanks.😊

@BikerDash 10 месяцев назад

While I suspect that there ain't any current volcanic activity to be found here in Maine, there is one geological feature here in Maine that is volcanic in origin I hear; plutons. I suspect there is two here in Maine. One fairly deep underground, and one named Janet sitting right now in the Blaine House.

@stevejohnson3357 10 месяцев назад

Sounds like a nice vinaigrette.. What would it take to turn it into a sauce bearnaise?

@AndrewLale 9 месяцев назад

Excuse me, I just have to rush off to Namibia to start a mining company...

@USA_27 10 месяцев назад

What is cause about the earthquakes happening in different surface terrains like continents lang forms & oceanic land forms ?

@alexdrockhound9497 10 месяцев назад

i love carbonatites

@Iambrendanjames 10 месяцев назад

Yea a tuff ring is the only way to explain it because there is no rock type that could really support such a huge edifice and then just leave a perfectly round ring. and no hummocks. There's at least one formation in southern Argentina I've seen that was obviously volcanic, but would require an isolated volcanic edifice that would have poked the stratosphere in order to create such a round shape.

@ianinthewest 10 месяцев назад

Spanish Peaks in Colorado

@chadsimmons6347 10 месяцев назад

I wonder if locals would sell some specimens of that particular weird caldera? I would like to have a 100-gram hunk,

@clover5172 10 месяцев назад

I want to know what Vei that Eruption was A Plinean Tuff Ring forming Eruption That is interesting

@colinclavel4393 10 месяцев назад

carbonatite!

@johnfurey936 10 месяцев назад

Looks like a lightning blister?

@skybluskyblueify 10 месяцев назад

The same kind of tuff that is in Mono Lake California?

@headlessspaceman5681 10 месяцев назад

The formations in Mono lake are condensed water-borne mineral precipitates, not tuff. Tuff is a solidified ash flow.

@efdangotu 3 месяца назад

This looks like a electric scar blister.

@stevenwiebe-jo3cy 10 месяцев назад

Speaking of Africa & geology, one often hears that "Africa is splitting apart" & this is accompanied by dramatic picture showing cracks in the Earth. Are there any real pictures, unfaked of recent African splitting? Is there any evidence that this rifting is accelerating?

@headlessspaceman5681 10 месяцев назад

Pretty sure it's called The Rift Valley. Not sure why it's called that though. Maybe it's named after Sebastian Lewis Rift, the noted proctologist.

@StuffandThings_ 10 месяцев назад

Why does Africa in particular seem to have so many carbonatites? It seems like many carbonatites, both within the recent past (past few millions of years) and even deep past come from that continent. Is it just some bias in the data or in the remarkable preservation of some of the geology there, or is there an actual trend? It just always strikes me how ridiculously geologically diverse Africa is, especially with unusual magma compositions.

@SevenPr1me 10 месяцев назад

Africa is the oldest and largest continent

@StuffandThings_ 10 месяцев назад

@@SevenPr1me It can be argued that North America and Australia are both good contenders for "oldest" and even without Europe included as Eurasia, Asia is the largest.

@jonathangandy9271 10 месяцев назад

Where in Namibia, am searching for it?

@sigisoltau6073 10 месяцев назад

Northwest of the town of Keetmanshoop, roughly 30 miles or 50 kilometers.

@FlywithDries 9 месяцев назад

Close to a village called Berseba. I tried flying my small drone there, but the wind was way too strong.

@dleetr 9 месяцев назад

Plasma discharge?

@LuisAldamiz 10 месяцев назад

What happens when you mix vinager and oil other than a salad? Wouldn't you mean vinager and soda powder (acid + base)?

@b.a.erlebacher1139 10 месяцев назад

He means that the oil floats on top of the vinegar - the two liquids don't mix.

@Dragrath1 10 месяцев назад

No he was using an example of a fluid mixture that if mixed will subsequently separate out by density you will often see this with certain salad dressings which contain both kinds of polar/charged and nonpolar components. The scientific term for such fluids is immiscible fluids. Oil and Vinegar are immiscible fluids just as phonolite and natrocarbonotite are immiscible fluids. Other examples of such fluids include any oils(nonpolar molecular fluids) and water, Here is a chart I found via googling(came from a physics stack exchange post specifically chemistry.kenyon.edu/getzler/Research%20files/miscibility_elutropicity.pdf

@LuisAldamiz 10 месяцев назад

@@b.a.erlebacher1139 - Ah, OK. I'm more familiar with that analogy being "oil and water". But once explained makes sense. TY.

@blacksheepministry 10 месяцев назад

Looks like an impact crater to me.

@headlessspaceman5681 10 месяцев назад

It does not look like an impact crater to me. It's irregular and oblong but an impact crater should remain perfectly circular in a region like this without significant subsequent stretching or deformation of the continental crust. It stands 2000 ft above the surrounding terrain! Craters tend to descend below the surrounding terrain, by definition. There is no visual indication here of the country rock being in a state of upheaval away from a central point or away from anything. And finally an impact crater this size would definitely have a central peak which is absent here, instead we see internal peaks in peripheral locations that would preclude a massive central detonation.

@thomaspoczontek7731 10 месяцев назад

First comment

@Paulftate 10 месяцев назад

well,, spit it out before you choke to death

@vickilindberg6336 9 месяцев назад

Do the Chinese hhave a contract to mkne this yet? If not, there's a good reason. The Chinese would not have just missed this.

@BikerDash 10 месяцев назад

I can see it now... Namibia will quickly profit from all this, and then tear itself apart as numerous factions fight for control of the riches.

@user-tk1rk7fi7b 10 месяцев назад

TOPIC: RARE KOROIT NUT OPALS I WOULD VERY MUCH APPRECIATE A VIDEO ON THIS TOPIC AS THIS TYPE OF OPAL IS VERY RARE AND CAN FETCH AS MUCH AS $50K😊

@alanh1406 10 месяцев назад

In 100 -150 years most of what you showed will be stripped mined to oblivion.

@sephrus7784 10 месяцев назад

In a shocking turn of events the US government just discovered an ISIS terrorist base inside the tuff ring and had to send in troops to secure it.

@LuisAldamiz 10 месяцев назад

In a shocking turn of events Evgeny Prigozhin just came out from Hell in Namibia using the carbonatite tunnel. The USA called ECOWAS to do something but Tinubu said that he's too busy trafficking drugs to care. Turns of events can be dizzying, really. 😅

@ObsidianRadio 10 месяцев назад

At 00:03 That is not a circle. That's a stretched-out Hexagon. We clearly see Striations, Lichtenberg figures, polygonal angles, very shallow basin, etc. All signs that this feature is indeed a formation from some type of electro machining on the planet. Ancient gigantic lightning bolts and Continental firestorms are what formed these beautiful features. I know many will scoff at what I say but eventually more people will become aware and open to the reality of electro-geology. Have great day everyone! And thanx again GeologyHub. 🙂

@alexdrockhound9497 10 месяцев назад

the electric universe theory is the most absurd nonsense ive ever heard.

@StuffandThings_ 10 месяцев назад

This might just be the biggest joke since scientology

@headlessspaceman5681 10 месяцев назад

You dummy he just explained what it is and what it is not. How does lightning and/or wildfire build a mountain or create a plateau or an uplift?

@ObsidianRadio 10 месяцев назад

@@StuffandThings_ Why do you say that?

@kathysmith6413 10 месяцев назад

now that this is becoming a more public knowldge, give it 5 minutes and the mining corps will be in there like dirty shirts. let's hope they are ethical and not the slave or near slave based companies that have found Africa THE place to go.

@headlessspaceman5681 10 месяцев назад

Ethical mining corporations? Now there's an oxymoron.

@kathysmith6413 10 месяцев назад

@@headlessspaceman5681maybe, but i have been living in hope that ethics and morals would make an appearance at the corporate level for the last 75 years and i am not giving up now. i will admit, however, that the hope part i dwindled significantly from when i was a kid under 20.

@jesusslord 10 месяцев назад

😂there are no evidence of volcanic rock and typical surface resemblance of volcanic aftermath within the syb-layers. There similar craters with identical characteristics all over the world.