The Rocks Under Wellington 

Thanks for that great presentation Matt. Comprehensive & very informative, not to mention so soothing on the ears.

Taupo... it gets everywhere. I kind of love that we can draw a line in the sand (and soil, and rock) and say "this was a really exciting time"

Amazing video, we hear a lot about the Oruanui eruption, but not the Whakamaru eruption. we can only imagine the effect another VEi8 would have had

Nice to see you got Matt involved Julian!

As a Wellingtonian, eye have found this Deeply! informive.. . Thank you for this information 😎🙏

Superb programming… who would have known! And well done the creative idea, ‘let’s do a series about our geology.’

Incredibly interesting. I somehow thought that given all the faulting in Wellington and the “rotten” rock that you see in earth works that the ground would be more of a soup than these amazingly distinct layers. Where exactly was the core taken ?

Watching from Fiji! Really, really interesting videos and informative! Thank you.

Another great presentation by out there learning. Too bad Geoscience Australia are not on par with our New Zealand cousins. Looking forward to your next episode of knowledge. Cheers and best wishes from Australia. 🇭🇲😀👍🍻🍻

I watched this whole video. Great job presenting this material. You made dirt very interesting. 👍🏽

The Taupo eruptions spread , was a bit of a surprise - I've often wondered how tall it was before that eruption considering most roads into or out of Taupo , to anywhere but NE , tend to be quite decent drops over the heavy material to the vent . The other findings , make much sense , considering the city's topography these days - most folks only see the Hutt River , as the 'fresh water' flowing into the harbour , yet fail to realize the number of springs , collecting as tributary s , at various points around most of the harbour , via the storm water system , except the Kaiwharawhara stream and it's tributarys , would be one of the few open streams into the harbour . Noticed on the tracks in the Bush reserves , many while 'stoney' , have a large amount of soft material around a lot of the rocks which the city's built on . Would these sediments at altitude , have at a distant historic time , have been part of those lakes etc you mentioned ? .

Wot the heck have I been missing for 2yrs . Binge watch my only medicine . Thanks.

We had a earthquake last night, with a few after quakes, 😠. Lake Taupo.

Really interesting and very well presented. Thank you.

Clear presentation easily understood. Thanks Matt

Great production on this one.

This might be the first time I learned about rocks under welly that wasn't just my dad sorting the hangi pit

it must be so exciting when these come out of the ground!

It’s amazing how staff just goes under ground

Got to see more videos like this. A good explanation of how the earth formed. Thanks!

Another great vid, thanks :)

Amazing channel!

great one!! thank you

Awesome video.

Awesome video

Interesting thanks.

Thank you.

I keep waiting for the deadpan satire that that moustache demands....

thank you

Very interesting! I’m curious to know what kind of rocks and sediments you find in the region - any tips for finding clay? Or feldspars?

This is such a brilliant explanation of the processes of the earth. I really want to study Geosciences in NZ! Is Wellington a good place for this?

This would make a good book on pre-human Wellington.

I have a question about the time frames. There is a large layer holding those glass particles and I think you said it covered a huge time, but if it was from a volcanic eruption wouldn't that take just a few years to deposit? Are layers generally slow building or is it more common to have fast layer deposition followed by long boring bits where nothing much happens? I remember an old Landmark TV series that suggested NZ geology was the latter - extreme events separated by nothing much.

Wow I live in Wellington and I did not know that wow!!!!

Hey brother how's it going ? I remember you from the Upper Hutt pools, do you still use the sauna there ?

Very interesting, must be pretty exciting getting all this succession of sediments just waiting to be examined . I see you were about 70 metres down when you found the Basement rocks, I wonder what type of rock that might be ?

Thanks for this, really informative. Where was the earlier eruption? I didn't recognise the name. Cheers.

Next time could you include the location of your bore site , surrounding terrain so we get a better sense of scale? Thank you

What causes the time-break? It seems like its quite a sudden line, missing millions of years.

Helllllo Matt Ryan.

Would love to see a video at White Island

So does this show that the planet naturally goes through heating and cooling cycles of your to 5-6 degrees?

Wellington Rocks !

Interesting! That time-gap of 150-200 million years or so in the core - what could have caused that? It seems very odd for a sediment core to have a gap of 150 million years or so with no deposition! Very keen to hear the reason for that.

Is this the core from 1WS?

Would that finer sediment lend itself to liquefaction during a strong earthquake?

Lake Taupõ, say like Toe-pour , not Taw-poe. Cool vid 😎

What is that basement rock??

Your estimation of time from what i have seen from creation scientist is way different no mention of globel flood .Taupo erupition i think was recorded by Chinese 4000 or 5000 years ago.

Well you haven't answered the questions about building those buildings. How deep and what kind of footings, seismic engineering, materials, height restrictions, etc.?

Wow, really missing good solid bedrock

Look Matt, as an Aussie, I apologise that Australia is faulting Wellington. We don't mean it. Certainly not over here in Fremantle.

ah these rocks are from lower hutt if not they would be from above the hutt

These cores are now exposed to the air: oxygen and bacteria. Doesnt that contaminate them and distort the information?

I have to call bullshit on your time-scales here. Roman roads in england from 2000 years ago are 12 foot or more underground now so 12 I would say you dont have more than 8000 years total in those core samples.

So one good earthquake and it's bye bye Welly

So this is similar all over the world as there was a flood.

Very interesting. If you discard the incorrect dating, you have a record of very rapid sedimentary formation and volcanism, which matches perfectly with the Genesis global flood sequencing.

Please improve your Te Reo pronunciation :)

I am sorry i just hate to hear the first thing that come out of geologists mouths are millions of years old.

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My interest is more about gold geological mineralisation in Victoria Australia & this video has been beneficial as an educational awareness 😃 Awesome 👌