The Geologic Oddity in New Zealand; Moeraki Boulders

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Within southern New Zealand is an unusual geologic oddity. Along a popular beach are a series of several hundred large near perfectly circular boulders. These boulders each measures about 2 meters or 6.6 feet wide, which stand out against the finely grained sand in the landscape. Even more interesting is what becomes visible from groups of boulders which were cracked open by nature. Inside, some of these boulders contain a colorful bright orange core, much like seen in this example. These boulders are referred to as the Moeraki Boulders, and have an unusual geologic origin. So, how did these form? This video will discuss this geologic oddity and how they formed.
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@Rangifulla 2 года назад

In the Kaikoura earthquake in 2016 the seabed was raised a few meters, now these boulders are appearing all along the east coast.

@saintphilis 2 года назад

amazing

@toni4729 2 года назад

Do you ever wonder when they'll hatch?

@saintphilis 2 года назад

@@toni4729 no never their rocks.

@toni4729 2 года назад

@@saintphilis Honest?😂

@saintphilis 2 года назад

@@toni4729 I don't have fantasy or believe in comics

@GeologyHub 2 года назад

This location is one of my favorite memories while on vacation in the South Island of New Zealand. There is a much younger me in many of the photos shown in this video.

@MinogFarted 2 года назад

Very cool GeologyHub guy dude man idk what word to use but still very cool

@gd2234_ 2 года назад

When I was much younger, aunt told me they were ancient dragon eggs that never hatched. I totally believed it because they kind of do look like them! Also, Dunedin is pronounced Dun-ee-din! Thank you for another video on the amazing geologic oddities New Zealand holds!

@tthappyrock368 2 года назад

Fascinating! Had no idea these exist!

@maryluharmon3267 2 года назад

Awesome!

@maryluharmon3267 2 года назад

Concretions are intriguing! Thank you for this video. However, all your videos are awesome!

@opalglass8101 2 года назад

I want to show this to my dad. He's from New Zealand, and he's seen them and wondered what they were. And since the concretions only take a few years to form, then there could be new ones forming somewhere right now. So cool. My grandfather lived in Dunedin up until he died, so it's neat to hear it referenced.

@stephanieyee9784 2 года назад

I love Dunedin. It's a small city but a lovely one. Mum and I were lucky enough to visit the Cadbury's factory before it closed down. I hope to cruise to NZ again in 2023 and hope to see the Moeraki Boulders then.

@carmineredd1198 2 года назад

i found some after a landslide, i called them pre-rock forms because i figured in a trillion years they would have dried out and became rocks

@timgooding2448 2 года назад

Now this was interesting. Thank you for the chemical equations. This helps he understand the process a lot easier. Very cool.

@ariannasv22 2 года назад

When you mentioned the organic matter I looked at them and thought "huh, they kinda look like big eggs, dragon eggs even"

@catblacksuperstar 2 года назад

me too...

@marlies220 2 года назад

Very interesting history of forming. Astonishing it took just 'some' years. Thank you for the lesson I learned.

@matthewsenay 2 года назад

Just so this will be near the top: Doo-nee-din. The Kiwis would say "where?" to your version.

@BobMusicSnob 2 года назад

you are a brainwashed minion if you believe this "explanation"

@marlies220 2 года назад

@@BobMusicSnob do you have any other facts? Please post them here.

@banjopete 2 года назад

@@BobMusicSnob giant alien cannonballs?

@hpqzhpqz9688 2 года назад

@@BobMusicSnob : Please explain the absence of the "alternative facts" i assume would serve as a correction and save us from being duped. Better still, why not post your "explanation" and enlighten us.

@vif3182 2 года назад

Whatever this man is doing, it is a necessary service that I never realized I really needed in my life. Keep em' coming! The world is for sure a big place, but if you keep this pace up you might not leave a single stone unturned.

@ginadelsasso288 2 года назад

This is quickly becoming my new favorite channel.

@stephenrickstrew7237 2 года назад

Manganese nodules have always been a subject of great personal interest… would they be episode worthy…?

@GeologyHub 2 года назад

Manganese nodules are still rather mysterious. We aren’t truly sure why they form. If I manage to create a working theory, I’ll create a video on them

@Dragrath1 2 года назад

As others have pointed out they are quite mysterious with many proposed origins from geothermal settings to perhaps what I think might be the most interesting proposal for manganese nodule formation is chemosynthetic metabolism as the metals involved are known to be biologically precipitated and serve as a source of corrosion on wires and pipes. This would also possibly explain why they serve as biodiversity hotspots for abyssal fauna and might allow them to form faster (in geologic time) than estimated (though for context still extremely long time relative to humans as the timescale estimates for these things are longer than our genus Homo has existed ). At this point it is speculation and there are lots of possible ways this kind of precipitation could potentially unfold many of which carry further implications about the consequences of trying to harvest these things. I'm personally quite worried about the potential impacts to deep sea communities after all the deep sea has been a critical refuge for species through the various mass extinctions.

@stephenrickstrew7237 2 года назад

@@Dragrath1 excellent points thank you … when I was a kid there was a lot of talk about mining them .. also it was a cover story for the Secret Soviet Sub Recovery project … but I agree completely … leave them where there at … Thanks very much ..!

@stephenrickstrew7237 2 года назад

@@GeologyHub Thank you very much …. You brought up the great oxidation event in the Sudbury video …… another fascinating subject … Great Answers seem too lead to a greater number of questions … the joy of geo science

@marshr32 2 года назад

Ok, second time I've heard you say this..... Dunedin is pronounced like "done Eden" not "duna din"

@SCW1060 2 года назад

I'm really enjoying your channel. As you might guess I really have a love for Geology

@thisguy317 2 года назад

Every single one of your videos is fascinating. Love it

@briantresick3436 2 года назад

Thank you for all your educational videos. Highly appreciated

@geosophik9369 2 года назад

Wow. So amazing. They remind me the rounds stones of Costa Rica. First time I see about round stones in New Zealand. Thanks for uploading such an interesting video!

@MervynPartin 2 года назад

Very interesting and informative- Enjoyed your description of their formation. With limited time in the South Island, and having crossed the Southern Alps to the west coast, we were unable to see these boulders. We did however see the Punakaiki pancake rocks which are another fascinating geological feature of that beautiful country.

@thedonof1 2 года назад

Very good explainer and puts to rest some way out alternative theories out there. One thing you should have added is that those concreations are found world wide.

@steventhompson399 2 года назад

I wonder, are the weird spheres in Costa Rica another example of these? I heard about them years ago but don't remember what they're made of but they looked similar to these

@Paladiea 2 года назад

Cool. It's been said that a concretion was what preserved the borealopelta that was found in Alberta!

@shannongolden 2 года назад

Great video, great information. I love rocks and geodes so, I appreciate the video.

@1.4142 2 года назад

Are the fossils inside still preserved?

@Dragrath1 2 года назад

Unless something destroyed them yes in fact some of the best preserved fossils in the world have come from concretions.

@1.4142 2 года назад

@@Dragrath1 there is a channel called yorkshire fossils where they find fossils in concretions. However, these are much bigger and possibly different.

@blackpanda7298 2 года назад

Very intriguing 🤓

@aprilsmith3683 2 года назад

I thoroughly enjoyed this video... Never knew about these NZ "treasures" before today... Won't forget about them... Thank you...🇿🇦

@waterspiritsleepandmeditat414 2 года назад

I have one in my loungeroom that i found on a beach in Barwon Heads Australia. It is much smaller, about the size of a large bowling ball. Same rock, same shape

@ctakitimu 2 года назад

I've seen these boulders and climbed on a few too. It's amazing to see them in person!

@headlessspaceman5681 2 года назад

Oh man thanks for finally explaining this! I've only ever heard people talk about these rocks in the context of "can't be explained." On the other hand, I find septarian nodules all the time when out rockhounding, and it makes total sense that there would be gigantic septarian nodules somewhere in the world.

@patseals3973 2 года назад

Had a lovely photo taken way back in 1998 sitting on one of the boulders, a very interesting area

@davidc6510 2 года назад

Fascinating. Thank you for sharing

@sitaroutreachministry6289 2 года назад

Love your content! Please talk more about early (Cambrian/Pre-Cambrian) fossils and geology!

@Necrophite78 2 года назад

Waiting for the La Cumbra Veja update video ^^, gonna be so interesting!

@darrylnorth9632 2 года назад

Wow New information! Thank you!

@nebsun 2 года назад

I have been there, and inside some of the cracked open ones were gigantic clusters of pale yellow / yellow crystals (maybe sulphur crystals?)

@roddwayne8792 2 года назад

Your knowledge and research constantly amazes me. I think you would be a pretty cool guy to hang around with. LOL Stay safe eh:)

@davidhugill4668 2 года назад

For anyone visiting, there’s a sign to a car park and gift shop. There you’ll be able to access the beach for a fee. But it’s a public beach and the fee is really to use their steps. There’s another, public, car park (don’t turn at that sign) and you can get onto the beach for free.

@Nathan-kq9uv 2 года назад

I imagine Bowling Ball Beach near Point Arena California is a similar process? Anyone know of other beaches with boulders like this!?

@edfrawley4356 2 года назад

There are some similar concretions on the southern shore of Lake Huron in Ontario. There they are called kettle stones and the area is called Kettle Point. The biggest difference is they are not in a sandy area but the beach is black shale.

@jimmydill474 2 года назад

At 1:20 I've seen this in limestone in Cherokee County, Oklahoma.

@n3onize 2 года назад

I've personally seen these as they are only a few hours drive from where I live, but I have learned more from this video than from seeing them personally 😁. 👍

@tattoo62 2 года назад

Very interresting. I dug a hand dug well . Down 30 to 40 feet i found something like that 1.5" in diam. I live n northwest kansas. I love that stuff thank u

@gracejohnston7561 2 года назад

Excellent stuff!👍🇨🇦🥰

@DavidOfWhitehills 2 года назад

Grew like pearls then? From an initial central annoyance. So where's the shells? This is not a serious post.

@darrellcook8253 2 года назад

The way they formed from a central irritation reminded me of of pearls too. The cliffs are the shells. You have to see them from the right direction. This is not a serious post either. They got ground down into beach sand?

@gixellia8455 2 года назад

Thank you! Excellent!

@sharonolsen6579 2 года назад

Now THIS was fascinating .. !

@drewdam8871 2 года назад

There are round stones in Costa Rica and many other places, quite a few are known for their large size. I would ask you please to consider making a video to cover their origin. Thank you.

@jeffarcher400 2 года назад

I was going to mention the Costa Rica spheres. Those were thought to be man made but when see them laying around the jungle they sure look like they could be related.

@drewdam8871 2 года назад

@@jeffarcher400 Hi Jeff, related to who? I have an understanding that the Ancients who left those spheres for us to find wished to emphasise that their balls are bigger than ours! Were they giants just playing with marbles or are the spheres somehow a natural phenomenon. If there is a straightforward answer to this global question I would dearly like to know what it is.

@karenmcneill2602 2 года назад

My Dad thought these were not worth visiting lol! I love them and so did my sister. I really want to have one in my yard!

@jamesruddy9264 2 года назад

I find the same kind, only much smaller, eroding out of Pierre Shale formations in South Dakota. some have the same yellow calcite crystals inside and many have fossils like ammonites, baculites, or clams of various types in them as well.

@darrellcook8253 2 года назад

Wow! That's cool. How big are they? And how intact are they? And with fossils inside too. Bonus find!

@jamesruddy9264 2 года назад

@@darrellcook8253 ...various sizes. Most around soccer to basketball size, some bigger some smaller. Some intact and others broken from rolling down into the creek bed and hitting the rocks laying down there. The best place is along Sage Creek Rd., in the Badlands Natl. Park, but of course you can't collect them, though you can look for and photograph them.

@minarooda Год назад

Thanks for the video!! I've heard them mentioned only as meteorites.

@joshz6975 2 года назад

Could you talk about Elephant Rocks? A weird granite anomaly in Missouri, among sandstone and limestone.

@Dranzerk8908 2 года назад

I love Elephant Rocks. It never really occurred to me that place was so weird compared to rest of Missouri, most of what we got is limestone/sandstone.

@darrellcook8253 2 года назад

I've had that on my bucket list for years now as one of the anomalies I wanted to see. Odd place for granite to be. Meteor strike debris tossed for hundreds of miles? Embedded by the impact? It would be a very interesting subject. Odd rock formations in places where they seemingly don't belong fascinate me.

@joshz6975 2 года назад

@@darrellcook8253 all related to the ancient St Francois mountains, just exposed in an interesting way

@caralinehowden2951 2 года назад

There are Elephant Rocks on the way to Mt Cook, we here in NZ have lots of weird but wonderful things.

@kathryncarter6143 2 года назад

How incredibly interesting. This is the first I've ever heard of these things.

@brerfox345 2 года назад

Fascinating!

@mariejanes7207 2 года назад

Wow, this is one of the coolest things I’ve ever heard.

@jacobdrj101 2 года назад

Excellent!

@333ivan333 2 года назад

Very cool! Reminded me of the Trovanţilor in Romania, you might want to check out the "trovantilor" or "muzeul trovantilor" (the name of the little park), another geological oddity. Been there, it's incredible.

@rhobot75 2 года назад

Very cool!

@karlashdown5228 2 года назад

I visited the beach once many years ago but never had an understanding of their formation or composition until now, there are however a lot of examples to be found in NZ of Volcanic spheres similar in size all over the North Island great piece though so i thank you.

@genehasenbuhler2594 2 года назад

Gigantic cave pearls!😁

@ericchapman399 2 года назад

Smaller round boulders are also at Mahanga Beach and Waikokopu on the Mahia Peninsula. Also south of Waimarama Beach access at low tide to see various size round boulders and smaller rocks

@mybuckhead 2 года назад

Where Grapevine Mall is in Grapevine, Texas was a creek that had rocks similar to what you are showing. These look to be sand rock. I also have a small one.

@Islander2112 2 года назад

I like that your narration sounds like a bot, but it's not. Great content!

@daviddalby9699 2 года назад

I enjoyed it thanks

@deepsnows1421 2 года назад

Cool! These are like the earth’s enteroliths. I removed many large enteroliths from horses. These remind me of them.

@darrellcook8253 2 года назад

What's that? Enteroliths ? I'm unfamiliar with those. Sounds like some kind of kidney stone or intestinal tract accumulation. Hoof lumps? Humongous zits? Hmmmm.

@TheAverageGuy12 2 года назад

We have two spheres in my hometown's main mall in the centre of Adelaide. The 'malls balls' are a landmark.

@sixthsenseamelia4695 2 года назад

Waihi NZ. Has a monument made out of the steel balls used at Martha gold mine. The inscription - Our town has balls of steel 😂

@darrellcook8253 2 года назад

That's some stones ya got there, I nean those are big balls. Your town has big balls. Be proud! Don't try to polish them up though, an evil genie might be unleashed on you. Or really old eggs that hatch poo gas like giant smokebombs.

@darrellcook8253 2 года назад

@@sixthsenseamelia4695 Now that's cool! Big steel balls. Something to aspire to have. Great motto too. What's the town like?

@sixthsenseamelia4695 2 года назад

@@darrellcook8253 Hello Darrell. Waihi & Waihi Beach is a beautiful place. Couple of volcanic islands etc there that are well worth having a look at. However, an open cast pit gold mine smack bang in the middle of the town & residential area isn't exactly a neighbour that you'd appreciate. When I lived there, the ground collapsed & swallowed houses whole. Entire areas were deemed unsafe and uninhabitable. A sordid story.

@einienj3281 9 месяцев назад

So cool. I want one 🥺💚

@popstone116 2 года назад

OUTSTANDING

@riverAmazonNZ 2 года назад

According to Maori story, a legendary canoe sank, and the cargo (baskets of sweet potatoes) washed ashore and turned to stone, and that’s where they came from. When you’re there you can see one or two boulders emerging from the cliff, which kind of contradicts the story. Erosion exposes them over time.

@sixthsenseamelia4695 2 года назад

Its metaphoric. The waka (canoe) and kite (basket) aren't nessecarily literal. The legend of Maui - a Great upheaval & then his "brothers" who battered the land - earthquakes & eruptions. Taupo caldera + eruptions..... etc.

@darrellcook8253 2 года назад

Think abou how many are still buried. Ground penetrating radar analysis of the area would no doubt be eye opening. Now if someone could saw one up into slabs to get to the core and see what exactly caused it. Critterbits or plant? Fecal matter from some wandering abomination? I'm curious.

@sixthsenseamelia4695 2 года назад

@@darrellcook8253 Moeraki Boulders. Out there learning. 👍 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m3oBWhHW4Lk.html

@NuisanceMan 2 года назад

The boulders emerging from the cliff are sweet potatoes that got stuck in the cliff and are worming their way out.

@PlayNowWorkLater 3 месяца назад

Would be great if you did something on the Kaimanawa Wall in New Zealand as well.

@poosaecat7876 2 года назад

La Palma is erupting the eruption seems small tho what do you think will happen next?

@stephanieyee9784 2 года назад

Thanks for this video. I hope to visit NZ again in 2023 and as I'll be spending a day in Dunedin I will go to see the Moeraki Boulders.

@eddie5z518 2 года назад

So does that mean many of the Boulders are still under the ground and haven't surfaced yet?

@darrellcook8253 2 года назад

Probably a lot more. Wonder if surface penetrating radar analysis of the area would work finding others still buried. What's exposed could be a tiny fraction of what's there.

@wetbobspongepants 2 года назад

These same type of stones can be found at Kettle Point in Ontario, Canada. Usually not orange inside. Their formation is originally bacterial in nature and they are thus remnants of the once-living biota, 375 million yrs. ago. They are Concretions and are found in the Shale Deposits along Lake Huron.

@ravingcyclist624 2 года назад

A similar phenomenon and a good video subject are Mima Mounds.

@maryseeker7590 2 года назад

I found softball sized concretions right on a portion of the San Andres Fault near Mecca, California. They were very hard and some contained stones inside.

@just1689 2 года назад

These are literally all over this planet.

@DomingoDeSantaClara 2 года назад

I used to holiday in Moeraki when I was a kid,I remember getting dragged along that beach on a sack towed by a land rover....not around the boulders, just a bit further along. Funny how you pronounced the Maori name perfectly but destroyed Dunedin....just remember Eden Done!

@medea27 Год назад

'Eden Done'... I haven't heard that before but it's the perfect way to explain how to pronounce Dunedin! 👍 I think he got the Maori name right because he said in another comment that he's actually been to the beach (some of the photos are of him on a family trip). I haven't made it to that particular beach, but the thought of being dragged behind a 4WD on a sack on the pebbly beaches I _have_ visited on the South Island is making me wince! LOL

@DomingoDeSantaClara Год назад

@@medea27 Southern East Coast beaches are mostly white sand, it was a lot of fun for the local kids. The Eden,Done isn't my original I'm afraid, I believe it was suggested sometime in the 80s when the city was looking for a new tourist slogan, I think they ended up with "its all right here" which to my ears seemed pretty lame.

@Sqk. Год назад

the way he pronounced moeraki was nothing near perfect

@marcbolland6992 2 года назад

Are these the same type of boulders seen at 3 sisters on the west coast, north takanaki. Still in the cliffs being eroded away

@robthetraveler1099 2 года назад

The process you describe by which the boulders were formed sounds pretty straightforward/commonplace. But then why don't we see boulders like this all over the place? I mean I know you showed the example from Montana, but it's not like they're common.

@medea27 Год назад

There are concretions all over the world, just formed with different minerals & in different weathering contexts. Keep in mind that the ones in NZ are still in the process of being exposed from the sediment that's been protecting them for thousands of years, and as they are exposed to the wind & waves they are also breaking apart & eroding away. So in many other places that concretion boulders like these might have existed they have probably already been destroyed by local weather over hundreds of thousands of years.

@lancevandervelde5496 2 года назад

What can you tell us about the geology of the Mariana Islands and the Marianas trench?

@daos3300 2 года назад

very cool. new zealand has incredible geology, once you start you may never be able to leave.

@YouAskedForThis563 2 года назад

Cape Town and Jacobsbay also has plenty of rounded boulders.

@bigjack5426 2 года назад

Do we have any idea what the organic matter originally was?

@rrich52806 2 года назад

There are three clusters of large spherical boulders. in Rock City, Kansas. USA

@Sunshine-so2tu 2 года назад

South of pt arena ca called bowling ball beach. Low tide time.

@Brianrockrailfan 2 года назад

liked video

@donchilders226 2 года назад

How about bowling ball beach in California what is going on there.??

@iviewthetube 2 года назад

Topic: Are the differences in magma compositions around the Earth in part due to bombardment of different asteroids?

@darrellcook8253 2 года назад

????? Oh yeah the different levels of silica and resultant viscosity. And sulphur content. Different flavors of magma are probably caused by the local area melting by a hotter heat source underneath it. There are strange things drifting around in the deeper magma, rivers of chemically different magma and temperature bubbles.

@b.a.erlebacher1139 2 года назад

Magma often derives from crustal material that was subducted, melted and rose towards the surface. So the composition is influenced by the composition of the subducted plate. Also, as magma slowly rises it not only differentiates, with lighter material rising faster, but melts the rock around it and exchanges and incorporates materials from it. This process continues in magma chambers. Note that the same volcano can produce lava of different composition at different times, and even during a single eruption. Meteors large enough to produce a significant crater are usually vaporized by the energy of the impact.

@goldenbuglab 2 года назад

아.. 여기 여행갔던 기억이 떠오르네요. 너무 시간을 짧게 잡아서 아쉬움이 남았습니다.

@cyankirkpatrick5194 2 года назад

Not quite like the spheres of Costa Rica but a close second well to me that is.

@darrellcook8253 2 года назад

How were the spheres of Costa Rica formed? By man or nature? And either way, how?

@paulbasaur 2 года назад

cool!

@esparka 2 года назад

What exactly are they more rocky than?

@JungleJargon 2 года назад

There are some in Kansas too!

@jflow5601 2 года назад

New Zealand is gorgeous.

@GoingtoHecq 2 года назад

They are clearly fossilized eggs from a very unfortunate ancestor of the modern kiwi.

@TheHillbillyEngineer 2 года назад

I was thinking Prehistoric Turtle Eggs buried in the sandy beach

@chiisuigintou 2 года назад

No way, they are abandoned duragon eggs, from Tohru! 🤣

@carlcushmanhybels8159 2 года назад

Yes, the giant Dinosaur Kiwi. Observe the rounded butts on both Kiwis and the boulders. Some eggs started hatching: see cracked shells and orange yolks. Maori stories may tell of Stone birds who sat, incubating several, hoping to hatch more Stone birds. Dinosaur Kiwis towering 60 feet or 18 meters roamed the beach, defending their eggs and young.

@rosekay5031 2 года назад

LOL 😂😂

@richhudnut5110 2 года назад

We have the same thing in Northern California just below Pt arena.

@markvanleeuwen6678 2 года назад

Lots of those here in Encinitas California. Just smaller.

@1111xyz 2 года назад

Could a similar process be responsible for the other round boulders seen worldwide?

@scottbogfoot 2 года назад

How are these not the same as the ones associated with the ulmecs?

@MelissaThompson432 2 года назад

Sort of a reverse pearl, then....

@keepmoving1185 2 года назад

I’ve been here!!! Great job! Dunedin is pronounced Doo dee din by the way 🤓🤩

@junglie 2 года назад

no it isn't

@kandkob 2 года назад

What the!

@TomPauls007 2 года назад

@@junglie right - rather: DUH-nee-den

@PondScummer 2 года назад

doo dee din? in what world

@caralinehowden2951 2 года назад

@@PondScummer yea what would is it called that? Duh nee dn is pretty close to correct.

@OutThereLearning Год назад

BTW Dunedin is pronounced "Dun-ee-din". Thanks for the video

@marschlosser4540 2 года назад

Rockin'!

@ironwolfF1 2 года назад

It would have been cooler if they were fossilized kaiju eggs, but I'll settle for the vanilla explanation. 😉

@darrellcook8253 2 года назад

Our expectations turned into pudding. Flavorless pudding. Science is the meat that comes before the pudding. And drowns out our expectations. So we settle for what's left. Meatpudding. Used meatpudding. Eww.