Incredible Natural Formations that Look Artificial

over the roughly four billion years that our planet has existed the service has gone through constant change through the movements that the tectonic plates water erosion volcanic eruptions and much much more the Earth is positively brimming with natural wonders some of which are so incredible that they've captivated Mankind's attention for thousands of years and Scattered among these Majestic mountains deserts and jungles uh some specific natural formations that are so peculiar you wouldn't be alone in thinking that they were not made by nature but by humans today we're going to explore four of the world's natural formations that are so extraordinary that they almost look man-made foreign [Music] asteroids aliens and Atlantis all of these are constantly thrown around as an explanation of one of the world's strangest sides the rich hat structure also known as the eye of the Zara it's easy to see how he got its name and it's also easy to see how this giant circular formation in Mauritania is the subject of so many conspiracy theories not only are the concentric circles an odd sight on their own oddly similar to a crash Flying Saucer but the thing is also absolutely massive with a diameter of 40 kilometers that's 25 miles so big that you can see it clearly from low earth orbit this circularity is what made scientists first guess that an asteroid impact had created the rich hat structure but in the 1950s further analysis by geologists found no evidence for an extraterrestrial impact meaning it was more likely to have been created within the Earth itself currently Sardis pretty certain that the eye of the Sahara is what's known as a geologic Dome essentially oh what happened is the Earth's crust weakened hundreds of millions of years ago allowing a dome of molten rock and metal from the Earth's mantle to rise upward over millions more years layers of this magma pushed through the crust and cooled with the most recent cooling finishing up about 100 million years ago what makes the richat structure even more fascinating is the presence of something called brescia a type of rock that looks like tons of different fragments all cemented together here the pieces of it are so big that they're called Mega bracier and they're incredibly rich in silicon dioxide the 2011 analysis found that salts within this rock were likely created by low temperature hydrothermal activity adding another layer of complexity to the structure's history not only does it attract the attention of geologists but also of archaeologists as the outer rings of the eye are rich with artifacts from early humans Neolithic spear points small ax heads and more have all been found indicating that many thousands of years ago people use the quartz outcrops on the rich hat structure to make primitive tools now look I mentioned if they are the Zara would have been complete without mentioning Atlantis because Omar most of us think that it surely does look a bit man-made many Atlantean enthusiasts are convinced that it is evidence Left Behind of the famous law civilization fans of this Theory point out supposed coincidences in ancient Egyptian and Greek Tales of Atlantis being in this general area Plato's description of Atlantis describing it as rings of land and sea supposed old maps showing its location and of course modern government cover-ups because what would a good conspiracy theory be without those that we all know there's a bunch but hey the more you know foreign [Music] takes us to South Western turkey to a place known as pamakale pamacale which means cotton Castle in Turkish is a site covered in Snow White Rock with bright blue pools scattered throughout giving it the look of a fancy hotel spa instead of a natural formation local tradition says that it was formed when Ancient Giants left cotton out to dry but there's a much more down-to-earth explanation the area has about 17 major Hot Springs which range in temperature from 35 degrees Celsius or 95 Fahrenheit all the way to boiling point for thousands of years this mineral water has carried sediments up to the surface most notably calcium carbonate water from the Springs drips down the Mountainside and slowly deposits this calcium carbonate which cools and hardens eventually crystallizing and becoming a type of limestone known as travertine which formed the iconic white Terraces the waters here have been the subject of myth for thousands of years supposedly having healing properties capable of curing various ailments like arthritis and right next to pamacale is a city founded sometime in the 7th Century BC by the phrygian people the city would later become known as heropolis and oh would be a religious and Cultural Center for many generations housing the tombs of great figures like Philip the Apostle theropolis also features an interesting cave which is filled with suffocated carbon dioxide a byproduct of geothermal reactions below the Rocks anything left in this cave is met oh with certain death so ancient inhabitants of the region believed it to be the gateway to the Underworld for a good chunk of history there were nearby merchants selling small birds which you could throw into the cave to test its powers if you're curiosity got the best of you in 1988 both the city heropolis and the Limestone Terraces of Palmer Carlo were added as UNESCO world heritage sites and the city's popular tourist attraction to this very day if you can't make it to Turkey there are several similar sites around the world such as the massive Hua long pools in China or the colorful badab sought in Iran which features red Limestone due to the presence of iron foreign [Music] if you were one of the first humans to lay eyes on what is today known as the Giant's Causeway you probably would have assumed that someone had been hard at work there with a hammer and chisel for many many years that's because this stretch of Coastline in Northern Ireland has some of the strangest rock formations on Earth more than 40 000 Basalt columns most of which have a peculiar hexagonal shape local Legend says that the columns were built by a giant fion Mac kumhar also known as Finn McCool who was challenged to fight the Scottish giant Bennett honor he accepted the challenge and built the causeway across the northern channel so that he could meet his phone however when he realized that his Scottish opponent was much bigger than anticipated Finn runs and his wife disguises him as a baby when the Scottish jard sees the size of this baby he assumes that its dad must be even larger and he runs for his life as he runs back across the northern Channel he destroyed the causeway to prevent anyone from chasing him and now only the remnants are left on the coast of Northern Ireland and a small section on the coast of Scotland but how did these pillars actually form well for a while it was actually a bit of a mystery scientists knew that it was the result of lava cracking as it cooled but details were a bit lacking in 2015 Sardis from The Dresden University of Technology made a bit of a breakthrough finding that as lava cooled the surface contracts more quickly than the lava underneath and this stress from the shrinking is released by the formation of cracks no surprises there what they found however was that in the first phase of cooling cracks intersecting each other at 90 degree angles were the most efficient way to release this energy and as the cooling continues this ideal angle approaches 120 degrees the same interior angles found in regular hexagons basically these hexagonal cracks just turn out to be the most efficient way to relieve the pressure caused from the cooling however this is only true at certain apertures which are found by researchers at the University of Liverpool to be around 850 degrees Celsius after they experimented with lava samples from a volcano in Iceland other famous examples of these spectacular hexagonal columns can be found around the world such as the basaltic prisons of Santa Maria regular in Mexico Sparta bought in Iceland or hexagon pool in Israel foreign [Music] we're heading to the least populated state in the United States Wyoming Wyoming has no shortage of natural wonders like Yellowstone National Park or the Grand Tetons but there's one in particular that fits this list quite well and that's Devil's Tower Devil's Tower is a massive igneous Butte that protrudes straight up out of the ground seemingly in the middle of nowhere from the base to the top it has a height of 265 meters or 867 feet making it stand out like a sore thumb from the surrounding prairies and smaller Hills Native Americans have revered the site as sacred for hundreds or even thousands of years and various native names for the tower include Bears Lodge tree Rock and brown buffalo horn according to the kyowa and Lakota peoples The Tao was created when the great spirit lifted up a rock to save two young girls from a bear in the Sioux version the bear is massive and Claws the side of the raw giving it the lines that you see today geologists however tell a rather different story without any bears the current consensus is that the Obelisk is formed from cooled mag that was lifted up through the surface of the Earth around 50 to 60 million years ago the same time that the Rocky Mountains were uplifted as well but other than this not much is certain and it isn't known if the rock cooled while it was still below the surface or after it had risen above it many of the columns along the side of the tower will look familiar often hexagonally shaped just like the pillars at Giant's Causeway these formed in a similar way but the rock they're made of is actually quite uncommon known as fonolite porphery if you're curious and much of it is reddened over the years due to oxidation of the iron content in the stone these pillars are constantly breaking off and falling and judging by the amount of scattered rock at the base of Devil's Tower we can assume that it was once wider than it is today perhaps the craziest thing about Devil's Tower is the fact that thousands of people climb it every year this was originally done using wooden pegs that were hammered into the rock face but more sophisticated equipment has been set up since though some daring visitors still prefer to free climate there is a bit of controversy surrounding the climb as we stated before that the site is safe to several tribes in the area and they don't appreciate people climbing on it but a compromise was made and now the park requests that people don't scale the tower in June this is the month when the tribes perform their ceremonies in the area and the majority of people respect this request which is nice to hear what we definitely don't recommend is the attempt by an absolute mad lad named George Hawkins to parachute onto the tower which he did in 1941. George wanted to prove that parachuters could land on a relatively small Target which is what he did prove when he landed on top of the tower without issue but his second parachute dropped out of the plane behind him and carrying his ropes and anchors didn't land on the mark and slid off the top before he could save them without his ropes George had no way to descend the tower and was stuck on the very top while the National Park Service brainstorm ways to save him they dropped him food and water from an airplane but he still had to deal with the rain cold and wind for six whole days eventually Jack Durance arrived a man who had scaled the tower just a few years earlier Darren made his way to the top and helped George descend by the end of the ordeal George was surprisingly in great spirits when the United States entered World War II a few months later his experience proved to be useful when he trained new Airborne infantry divisions on how to safely use a parachute [Music]

Channel: Sideprojects

Views: 108,663

Keywords: megaprojects, construction, engineering, projects, sideprojects, devotional videos

Id: hGpxR0F4DfU

Length: 10min 52sec (652 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 31 2023