The Geologic Oddity in the Philippines; The Chocolate Hills 

Olá geólogo, boa tarde. Quando tiver tempo, você poderia falar sobre o lago peigneur ou sobre vulkan krenitsyna. Este vulcão parece ter sido formado da mesma maneira que o lago taal.

As a geology student, this channel is very important to me. I love every video you drop here.

Can you do a video on the Rocky Mountain Trench?

@@MrZics could you show a map of the trench and why it's interesting? Thanks.

There are similar formations in the Guinobatan and Ligao, Albay, around 20kms southwest of Mayon. It represents an earlier stage of erosion since there are still no flat lands between the hills yet. In the gmaps, it's labeled Tigbao Highlands.

Lovely tale . 💙👍

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That's quite a wholesome tale

Yeah or the feces of those giants.... 😁😅😂. Some chocolate hills legend story tellers really said that. That those chocolate hills are the hardened poop 💩 of the giants who lived in Bohol a long long time ago.💩🥵

@@overlordbrandon They were fighting over a girl named Carmen, which is why the town is named as such.

Ahahaha same

Dont let it stop u

Same XD

Lol same

You aren’t alone lmao

You should open a law firm ! Attorney Sue !

Nope! All those mentioned in the video are simply theories and not a proven event

@@jonathanturek5846 lmao

Lol you’ve been thinking this for a long time, and yet never bothered to google it.

@@jamesbizs lol I've searched for it but this video showed more details about the formation of the chocolate hills! This video is more interesting than searching the topic on google😏 right?

Should've called it "bo-hole" then. 🧐

@@Fabonikazell "get off the stage!"

@@Fabonikazell Booooooooooooo

@@Fabonikazell what a knee-slapper!

@@Fabonikazell no just *no*

Eh d umalis ka sa bohol ma.amaze ka sa foreign destination,, di ka marunong mg.appreciate sa sariling atin,, layas

madami daw po aswang sa bohol?

@@arielcajes2698 in what world did i not appreciate yung chocolate hills? sana po binasa mo ng maigi yung kinocomment ko.

@@arielcajes2698 reading comprehension mo💀

@@arielcajes2698 rip reading comprehension

That is very much related to one of the reasons I am interested in geology. That being; how you can see different stages of the same effect in different places in the world, if you know what to look for. I come at geology in a manner more akin to archaeology. As a story. With geology being not a story of the people who lived on a land, but the story of the land itself.

Good stuff and this video was well done.

Geology is a joke. Watch Mudfossil university .please

Yeah I'm not 100% percent convinced about what's said might to them in the future I'm extremely skeptical, their are many flaws, and lack of knowledge in geology still

So, (slightly acidic) water dissolves limestone, yet we are expected to believe that limestone formed under water where there was a 'supersaturated solution' for millions of years. I don't 'buy' the origins theory.

There's no sinkhole in chocolate hills. It's different from Florida.

@@noncompliant4316 it's more conplicated than that, remember that the limestone is a 'sedimentary rock' that means that it was forming under the ocean and that process takes millions of years cape after cape.

It’s because when any substance is in a super-saturated solution it is incapable of dissolving. There’s an equilibrium between when a substance (such as calcium carbonate) dissolves and when it will become a precipitate when the water is highly saturated.

nah in florida, its because the entire state has shit tier dirt thats mixed with sand which leaves it very susceptible to erosion. and its like THAT because the entire state is a giant swamp that got filled in with sand to make it somewhat habitable.

Where in San Diego?

@@Liz-sc3np They are in the East county. Do a search for "mima mounds san diego' for detailed instructions on finding them.

@@oscarmedina1303 Mima mounds looks like a child version of chocolate hills

Farmers are going to have a hard time plowing over these mounds though. :P Honestly I really can see why you would think that. They really do look like massive burial mounds. fun fact: the proper name for those burial mounds is "tumulus" and "tumuli" for the plural.

In karst terrain there may be very little topsoil and rainwater sinks down through the limestone, so it can be hard for trees to take root and to get sufficient nourishment and water from the material they are trying to grow in. There's a lot of karst in the western part of what used to be Yugoslavia--in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina--that I've seen. You see farms where "fields" have been cleared of the larger rocks, which are piled into walls around the "field," in the middle of which there's one little gnarled olive tree, about the only thing that will grow. I believe this landscape exists in parts of Greece, too. There were more trees in the past, but deforestation took place and then what soil there was could get blown away or wash down into valleys. A lot of the Mediterranean area is a degraded or destroyed environment.

@@elainechubb971 That reminds me a bit of the land here in southern New England. Not the karst bit, but the way you described fields. The soil here is incredibly rocky due to the advance and retreat of the glaciers during the last glaciation. So people had to clear the soil for farming, resulting in walls around the fields made from the rocks taken from the soil, just piled up. It makes a lot of sense as to why you would just pile the rocks over on the side. But it is also quite interesting to hear about other places where similar practices occurred. At least to me it is quite interesting. Though today trees have retaken their place on lots of fields, since there isn't as much farming here as there used to be. So you can find these rock walls in the middle of the woods at times. While hiking I have pointed these out to friends and some of my friends were very perplexed as to what a stone wall was doing in the middle of the woods. Not realizing that we were on old farmland. It is also interesting to note how differently these environments ended up. You speak of environments that have been radically altered, while I speak of ones that have been reclaimed by the same environment they were taken from. Though the area you speak of is far more mountainous than the area I speak of and I bet that has a lot to do with it. Anyways, enough rambling, thanks for that bit of insight into an area I have never seen. addendum: from what I have seen of the walls around here, the smallest that people would clear from the fields are around 15-20 cm or so. Though it is entirely possible that smaller ones were used for various other purposes and did not end up in the walls.

@@whyjnot420 Thank you for your most interesting response. I haven't seen the deep woods of New England--have mostly toured on main roads! Yes, glaciated areas have had the soil scraped away by glaciers. You can see this in Scotland, too, and I am sure in Scandinavia I now live in Oregon, where the series of floods caused by the breaking of ice dams on prehistoric Lake Missoula in western Montana in the Ice Ages scoured the area of eastern Washington now known as the scablands and swept the soil down the Columbia and up the Willamette and other rivers. The wonderful soil in the Willamette Valley mostly came down from eastern Washington State! There are good RU-vid videos on this. And back in the Adriatic: and the Balkans: Greece used to be well forested but trees were cut for construction and boat building and firewood. On the eastern Adriatic shores, Venice cut trees for the pilings on which the city was built. And then the topsoil was lost. So when you see video or photos of the glorious palaces along the Grand Canal, remember that their foundations are the trees from the shores of the Adriatic.(Reminiscent of Easter Island.)

@@elainechubb971 The channeled scablands are very high on the list of places I hope to see one of these days. It is simply a remarkable landscape. And the lectures of Nick Zentner have only made me want to go there even more. Much more interesting landscape than the western parts of Oregon imo. Big mountains are big mountains to me. Pretty but nowhere near as interesting as those areas that are carved out by water one way or another. (granted the glaciers in the Cascades are fairly interesting in and of themselves) Places like the Snake River and the channeled scablands hold far more interest to me. I know that by the time of the Peloponnesian war in the later 400s BCE, Athens was getting a lot of her timber from up north in Macedon. To the point where Macedon used it as leverage when dealing with Athens. Given that Athens had a couple hundred triremes at any one time then, that had to be a massive amount of timber. This speaks volumes about how little forest was left in the southern areas of Greece, all the way back 2400 years ago. Also to note when talking about the Mediterranean world is the deforestation of Lebanon. Once famous for its cedars. I don't think I need to say much more here. Though on this note whenever you think of pyramids, remember the cedars of Lebanon, as you can still find them in the Bent Pyramid (look up pictures of the inside of the Bent Pyramid, these timbers are massive). They would have made up the roof of the palace at Persepolis as well. btw fun fact: The ground level of what is now Venice at the time of the Roman Empire is something like 6 feet below sea level now. Granted that area was just a big marsh 2k years ago, but still, it is an interesting fact.

What are they called?

@@blp5840 Vieng Xay Province, "Hidden City" Caves plus many more. The country is loaded with them.

@@randmayfield5695 wow I want to go there

@@blp5840 I don't know what your status is but if you haven't been to Southeast Asia you really should go. I've been going over since 2004 for three months a year. It's one of the easiest places in the world to travel. You can spend as much or as little money as you want. Start with Thailand just to acclimate then move into Laos, then Angkor Wat in Cambodia then Vietnam. Or just pick a place like Phnom Penh and explore it. If your serious, get a used copy of Lonely Planet and plan your trip. Getting around is super easy and cheap. The foods great and the people are even better. Don't go unless you have four weeks because the flight over, at least from western US is 21.5 hours. Again, get the book, use the internet, and plan a trip. Go backpack style. If you need more info there's plenty out there. Go low season from may to September. Anyway, think about.

@rand mayfield there are also many limestones formations in the Philippines. Some of them are Osmeña peak, Casino peak, El Nido, Coron, Linapacan, Sohoton Cove, and many more 😍

These can actually be the burial mounds of Giants from the Ancient continent of MU or prehistoric mining remnants, hundreds of thousands of years ago, from the Antediluvian period that pre-dates the earliest recorded human civilization, the Sumerians... The claim that these hills were naturally formed is only a cover-up, to downgrade the true history of giants and extraterrestrials into mere folklores and myths... The Gov't never allowed researchers to really look deeply in to these mounds, when locals find evidences that these mounds are not natural and consists of ancient bricks and caverns, its not investigated further and got quickly dismissed. There was always a cover-up so the truth about the Earth giant species (Nephilims) won't be revealed to the masses and the entire world...("they" or "the controllers" refuse to disclose such crucial information, so that this cannot disrupt or alter the timeline/history that "they" manufactured since the beginning) Hopefully more Filipinos and the rest of the world Awaken Now to these ancient facts and rediscover the *Lemuria* and *Mu* origins of the Philippines and other Pacific islands. We are ALL connected...As Above, So Below Love&Light 🙌💫

It's AN explanation.

Thank you for the suggestion! Who would've thought that it would answer questions about other areas I had questions about, similar to the formations at the end. ✌️😎

Wow you travel more than the locals. We have plenty of mountains and hills there. My backyard has a ricefields and mountain ranges. I used to lay down in the grass and wonder what if one of those mountains is a volcano? One of my family members built a resort on top of mountains near a volcano 🌋. Very interesting ya? I told him to be careful for landslide and volcano eruptions but he said he had it checked with the geologists. You should see he built like 10 swimming pools and tall buildings on top of a mountain. So far nothing happened yet.😁

@@suskagusip1036 it's very unlikely that your yard has a volcano. If one exists there, geologists and volcanologists will usually seal it off for research or the provincial government will just turn it into a nature park of some sorts. Anyway, Bicol is probably my favorite place in the Philippines because of the variety of geological features. The best place there is within the plains of Albay, which is actually the Oas Graben caused by the Legazpi lineament(s), where you can see all 5 volcanoes that dominate the Bicol landscape (Isarog, Asog/Iriga, Malinao, Masaraga and Mayon). While on the other side you can see the Horst of the fault line which raises the normally small Tigbao/Ligao hills and mounds up to 400-500 meters, which makes them look like Chocolate hills on top of a mountain from afar. Another favorite place of mine is the Irosin caldera, the heartland of Sorsogon, a small valley surrounded by mountains most notably the Bulusan volcano

@@EirinYagokoro Are you a Geologist? I grew up in the mountains not too far from Boracay. They call it Baclayan mountains( Barotac Viejo and San Rafael)north of Iloilo City. We're surrounded by mountains and hills.

@@suskagusip1036 and active volcano?

@@randomnobody8713 Near Mt. Taal and Mt. Makiling.

Same, they’re something worth seeing in real life!

there's also floating restaurant by the rivers there and fireflies at night

Yahooo, wooohooo, letsago

Lmao

Na that's Imelda Marcos, but I can see how you could easily get them confused

@@crowningchristopher8273 ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

itsmemario. name mario in the Philippines are common maybe mario comes from Philippines 😆

Look into burial mounds. Many were discovered here in America

@@ca8547 no, these are outcrops of Granite.

Karsts look like the environments in strange planets you see/read about in science fiction because they're just so elegantly formed! And the best part is that they're not fiction, they're real!

Could you recommend any other channels that produce content like this? I love his volcano vids, but I'm itching for educational videos that go further into a wide variety of structural geology, mineralogy/petrology, sedimentology and geochemistry.

@@Matt_M_again While studying meteorology in my university times, long ago, I also studied geography and geophysics. That's why I'm interested in volcanoes and earthquakes. So I was happy finding our host in RU-vid not long ago. I still didn't search for the topics that you mentioned. So I don't know channels who discuss your topics. Nevertheless I'm sure, that there might be some. Perhaps it's better to ask our host about what you want to watch and if he can recommend a channel. If I accidentally find any channel like this, I will mention it here in the future. Have a nice day 🖐👴

@@OpaSpielt thanks for the response! My undergrad was in geology, though it was 10 years ago and these days I work in groundwater and remediation so real geologic sciences has become a thing of the past. I've done some searching for vids like this one, but most are very dry and hardly edutainment... I feel like there's a huge untapped market for short videos like this! Anyway hope ya have a good one!

@@Matt_M_again I just found a playlist "Geology" in the channel "Professor Dave Explains" by a RU-vid recommendation. I dont know if it's something for you. 🖐👴

Do tell!..

Had not heard about that. Will have to look it up.

did you eat it tho?

@@AbrahamLincoln4 it tastes of dirt and limestone

Lol

Put some chocolate syrup and put it in a fridge

I do believe ancient man made them after digging out something there in mines. Probablem is it was so long ago, nobody knows that anymore. Maybe pre-Flood civilization. There's no way I believe they are natural.

Yes, all along MIssissippi river there are old "Indian Mounds" and often it seems the most obvious reason for their existence escapes those who study them. That river used to flood plains all along it's banks every spring, and I suspect the main reason the mounds appear there were to escape those spring floods. Places like Bangladesh should consider making raised large mounds for the same reason, to escape onto for monsoon flood season.

"Any hole is a goal" _Internet Proverbs_

Those are words I didn't expect to see together in a good way

Nature is not your personal amusement park. Respect.

@@stonew1927 Like you know of nature.. Humans are animals and animals do things for fun. Plenty of animals enjoy sliding down hills.

Fossils?

@@user-fl7zn2tn9q PH is a volcanic island. Meaning PH came from sea and the land that we see now came from magma. It's obvious that we will find fossils of sea creatures. Try to check shale formation around PH, they mostly consist of shells

ah yes, giants throwing mud is more realistic than natural geological processes we've observed before

All they need is the paper tag! That's a fun idea for an art installation!

Nah it's Alien burial mounds. :). J/K. :). Best Regards!

every hills and everything are originally unnamed tho

source?

Brings a second meaning to the name...