15 UNREAL Geological Oddities and Strange Rock Formations

Nature is capable of creating some pretty odd things! Today we're taking a look at some pretty unreal geological oddities and strange rock formations.
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[@alexspareone3872]

I was taken to see the Three Sisters when I was a tenager. It didnt make much of an impression on me. I was far more impressed after nightfall when the incredibly clear sky presented a view of stars such as I had never seen before.

[@bethwiegand2957]

Amazing!!! The presentation is so consistent and focused. I subscribed straight away.

[@chrislong3938]

They could've included the Crystal Cave in Mexico but I guess since a) it was extremely hot to go into and one could not be in it for longer than ten minutes or so, or b) It has since been re-flooded and thus unavailable to visit. Still though, nothing like it has ever been seen before or since!

[@zunnymartinez3226]

What a beautiful video! There is so much beauty in this world that it is amazing. Love it 😍 Thank you for sharing your beautiful video, it is gorgeous and I truly enjoyed it. 👌👌👌🔥🔥🔥🙌🙌🙌👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@elsainnamorato2231]

Finally a video you made that I really liked. HD loved it

[@woodsmn8047]

The silent city of rocks in Southern Idaho could have also been included ..along with about a million others ..the world is a beautiful place ...!

[@TheWhitefisher]

Represent Saskatchewan! Each of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba have more geology than just the great plains--the Laurentide ice sheet dropped off plenty of neat gifts 10 000 years ago :)

[@traog]

@Xaviar 77versus99 I recognise all those words, but that makes no sense as a sentence.

[@evelynhenri6982]

thank you very interesting ..love all the videos

[@s.schmidt6115]

These are nice and amazing features, thanks for highlighting them! For some parts I would like to add the following: Top 7: the earths mantle can be visited at several locations in the world, e.g. the central European Alps or Oman. Top 4: its a carstic landscape not a "carst deposit" (there is no such thing as "carst deposits"). These are carbonates affected by weathering. Top 1: seriously, a human misplanning is Top1 of the geological oddities?? How about the formation shown in the title picture? An amazing result of temperature cracking!

[@xploration1437]

Karst, not carst.

[@PercyjacksonandMhaislife]

I was assigned this by my science teacher. I love this!

[@gloria88246]

I love your channel content and narration thanks for the time you and your team put into these videos!!!💯💯💯

[@dawsonhadley729]

20 minute videos about Rocks. Yes God.

[@DragonSlayer-ho4mi]

But, what were they smoking? Those stories. I mean, I appreciate history, but pillar sisters..... 😂

[@timed3618]

Waited for the split rock, which was my reason for watching, but hit the 'Don't recommend this channel' button instead. It never delivers what it says on the tin and uses harvested footage, often unrelated.

[@briantones5993]

I live in New Zealand about an Hour and half drive from the split rock, amazing sight to see.

[@bronrobinson888]

Oh sad. That's why I clicked on it too. We live in New Zealand near Split Apple Rock (the split rock featured) was excited that we'd made it onto the top 15 🤣

[@53adonis]

Thank you so very much for saving me the time of watching this and also avoiding the anger that I would have felt. Do we call this misleading or an out right lie? Either way it doesn’t make me feel good.

[@jimmstimms8660]

Lol so did i

[@jimmstimms8660]

@@briantones5993 where bouts in nz is this rock

[@winddancer8516]

~ * *TOP FIVES* * ~ You have kept me, *AMAZED & DAZED* ! Though, I would never, be able too visit, any of these places. I would like to, *THANK YOU*, for all the hard, professional , work, making these AMAZING VIDEO'S.! Allowing me to take a trip, and never leave the farm ! ~peace~

[@jampasurprenant1794]

That's was awesome looking rock formations .

[@lindalee7322]

Wonderful!!!!

[@davidpaylor5666]

If you like a balanced rock check out Brimham Rocks in Yorkshire, England. Spectacular geology and a lovely place for a walk.

[@barrymccarty4222]

Anyone knocking over those balancing rocks should go over the side with the rocks they knocked over.

[@mikehoncho9344]

A small bottle jack would undo millions of years work

[@markdurham5062]

Nothing beats a ice cold PBR

[@philipmartin708]

Excellent sounding narrator and very well written script.

[@musicisajourney]

The Great Sand Hills and Mt. Thor!! Great!

[@kenfinfrock8017]

nicest i have seen beautiful

[@tdl487]

$3000 to see a unique self-sustaining ecosystem in the world's largest natural cave... ngl if I had the money I would do it.

[@katiekane5247]

Same!

[@etsugradlib]

That’s how caves get ruined…by tourism. Best we all leave it.

[@tdl487]

@@etsugradlib they have strict regulations and have a lengthy wait list due to the restrictions on how many visits can be done per year in order to not disrupt the ecosystem. Plus even stricter rules on what tourist can do/go/have/take and guides that watch you like a hawk so I doubt it get overrun or ruined any time soon.

[@tebogodlamini4248]

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[@dreamlifetravel5764]

Wow...these rocks are absolutely natural wonders. I visited Garden of the Gods , Colorado, USA...a National Natural Landmark of US....these are also beautiful spectacular vertical formations of red rocks forms millions of years ago due to Rocky Mountain formation....these rocks have also taken unique shapes..like sleeping Giant, Steam Boat, and Balanced Rock..

[@ire.kasidikasidiss8099]

Thank you for sharing this amazing video great job 👏. Greeting from Indonesia

[@andrew_owens7680]

Mount Asgard which is near Mount Thor has been on my bucket list for decades. I once had a dream that I was there. But it is ridiculously expensive and hard to get to.

[@lindapage5721]

Beautiful stories. 😍 💘

[@stephaniehand503]

Thank you

[@oceanborn21]

once again, Meteora-Greece is left out! 🙄

[@TravelonlineWalk]

Beautiful video

[@madhavsomaiya3572]

5:52 when you realise the entirety of Antarctica is a desert 6:27 this is a picture of the Deccan traps in India, specifically this is taken from Arthur's seat point in Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra, near Mumbai/Pune, though also formed similarly, please make sure you use the correct places for the pictures :)

[@pfridell8424]

i like the PBRs. that's fascinating.

[@matthewwitt3683]

I'd like to visit every one of these places just to see the beauty of each.

[@Thecuriousmind2]

Every one who lived before, who live now, are built in layers :D

[@traog]

Saskatchewan is not just a flat plain, the main highway may go through that area giving the impression that it is, but much of the north is Canadian Shield, forested and rocky. There is also another desert in the north of Alberta and Saskatchewan called the Athabaska sand dunes, with indemic species, hard to get to, mostly by air or boat, being on the edge of Lake Athabaska.

[@mandybutler8880]

Thank you so much. I've now discovered Spanish Pensacola. My Florida town that I ❤

[@willbegaming2455]

Son doong cave is my favorite, I would love to see, it reminds me of the book, center of the earth

[@chrismccabe1795]

5:50 it is not just Antarctica driest place, it is the driest place in the world.

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

“Traps” or “trap rock” are informal names for extensive regional basaltic flows. Every continent has some, if they are not necessarily called by these non-scientific terms. Especially those of Tertiary Age, eruptions of them were very widespread then.

[@shamefull7501]

My Samurai instinct is tingling

[@DianePolonsky]

Bryce Canyon is a good one for this list

[@sparky9c22]

Have FAITH, not fear!

[@philipwatters660]

In 1976 a Sydney audience I was in, corrected John Denver from singing "Port Maquairy" to the correct Port Maquarry" The same applies to Macquarie Island. Pronounced as in quarry. Named after this man. The island is an Australian external territory. Lachlan Macquarie - Wikipedia

[@chrisorchard8473]

Good video, but what about volcano mountain in NWT Canada?

[@gsb1616]

I get to stay in the Stanley Hotel next May 2021!

[@shanesimmons3784]

You left out the Devil's Tower... I think it's pretty significant.

[@cindywilliamson1044]

Mudd Fossils..Roger Spurr

[@asadmarji4287]

All the "Gates Of Hell" in Turkmenistan needs, is a way for folks to get out there! Add a rail line, or tour buses from the closest city. Heck, put in a few hotels out there too!

[@bugzyhardrada3168]

If you like the devils tower then i highly suggest you take a quick look at Zuma Rock in Nigeria.....just saying

[@topfives]

Hope you guys enjoy! We have a (really) strange video tomorrow. Stay tuned.

[@lalruatdikavarte7943]

Nice video keep up the good videos.

[@moviemad56]

Thanks, very interesting, but the name 'Macquarie' is mispronounced: the second A should sound like an O as in the word 'quarry'. Macquarie Island was named for Colonel Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821.

[@VikaShylenga]

Love your videos! 👍🏼

[@tigris961]

It really sounds like it is Charlie Sheen speaking in this video, is it? Great video!😉👍🏼

[@somnathsingh2230]

​@@lalruatdikavarte7943. .,😅gz,ffd

[@cliffknighton240]

Glad you didn’t use loud obnoxious music, thank you.

[@alquintero4205]

Summit Block. On The Monolith at Pinnacles National Park USA. Example of a balancing rock I've been on. Cool geocache on top

[@wynethwelsh144]

Very informative. Thank you. You missed the Moeraki boulders located in south island New Zealand.

[@romeyjondorf]

Just appreciate it man

[@nftacitzakyeart1698]

Wow interesting nature wonderful nature nice view yeahhhh 😎😊😁😉😲✌️ hopefully my opensea pictures can be sold yeahhh 🙈😊✌️

[@stevenbaumann8692]

Pretty good episode. Just one thing. The part about the mantle (specifically the lower lithosphere) in Antarctica is something called an “ophiolite”. They actually occur globally in many places. I have a chunk of serpentintized peridotite. Likely from the upper mantle. It’s from northeastern Wisconsin. There’s an ophiolite preserved there from a 1.85 billion year old orogeny called the Penokean. The point is, you don’t have to go to Antarctica to see mantle at the surface.

[@geologyjoerocks]

Yes, there are ophiolitic rocks along the California Coast as well

[@saharshmishra9982]

In India also we have many ophiolitic exposers in our North-east Indian Himalayas.

[@justinalias2279]

Yeah you're right, this part is totally wrong. There is a place called "the table lands" in grosemorne provincial park in Newfoundland, Canada that you can also see the mantle.

[@joaofabio5927]

I missed the "lençois maranhenses" in Brazil

[@robbieallan6522]

loved the huge cave where a boeing could fly through without its wings getting close to the cave walls it must feel like your as big as an ant in such a huge natural wonder, nature is a beautiful creature

[@johnmcintosh7784]

I witnessed a pbr in Vanua Levu in Fiji. The "Federation" tried to bring it down but it was too big.

[@donaldmichaellumsden2714]

The edge of the world is in Newfoundland Canada . Situated in the Provincial Park there .( Mons Grampian. ) .

[@alanseymour1252]

It's such a pity to see so few (no) maps detailing the location of these features. Bummer!

[@malakadil]

Thr r two big round rocks on a thin limestone pillar in Swat Pakistan .

[@bayouflier6641]

The Bufador de "Pensacola". I'm still laughing my ass off.

[@titania145]

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[@sonajero25]

De pepsicola jaja

[@meacadwell]

I cringed each time he said it too.

[@meacadwell]

@@titania145 The narrator kept saying Pensacola instead of the accurate Peniscola

[@mybackyardyukon8436]

We have a similar story about three sisters but it is three brothers instead of 3 sisters that turn into stone in Northern BC

[@stevenhoy2602]

14:53 one in middle looks like a pharaoh. One at the end looks like yota lol.

[@tapsweetTop10]

"Son Doong " Cave is so fun to say... lol I bet the voice over had trouble with that at first!

[@ChrisKane-]

Indeed I did! I had to do a bit of research and ask some people for a little guidance on that. But still not as hard as some of the Icelandic words 😋

[@gaelicwarrior5064]

11:30 "Most likely" fictional?!?!

[@tysonhastriter2331]

You should do craters of the moon

[@kmorris180]

I'm surprised y'all didn't put the underground river on Palawan Philippines in your list.

[@tanatekii2460]

Where was the split Apple rock , location , NZ , golden bay , top of the south island. Your first photo of this program????..... Perth Australia

[@tartytube]

Thanks for the info. That was the only reason I watched. Now I can search it up.

[@rcw5788]

You keep saying millions of years. You must have been been brainwashed. I won't subscribe.

[@chasesilvier8535]

PRAISE GOD, to his Wonderful creation God blessed us all..

[@snowmiaow]

I clicked to see the split rock, and didn't see it in the video.

[@ernestmaas8892]

🇺🇸Video was 👍👍

[@jimmyjoe64]

7:39 Mispronunciation of McQuarie aside (think rock quarry). This is not the only place on earth where the mantle is above the earth’s crust. The Tablelands in western Newfoundland is the heart of Gros Morne National Park and it has the distinction of being the only example of Mantle material above the crust that is easily accessible to all that want to experience this fascinating phenomenon. Hiking the Tablelands one might think they are standing on the surface of Mars.

[@lorileethomasart]

Just came on to write this too, as I live here in Gros Morne. Lol It's also a UNESCO World Heritage site.

[@jimmyjoe64]

Lori-lee Thomas -most beautiful part of the world. Are you in Woody Point?

[@lorileethomasart]

@@jimmyjoe64 Rocky Harbour! 😊

[@blacksorrento4719]

Jeff Thomson Yes it grated on me too. “Mac” as in Macdonalds. plus as you said “quarry” as in harvesting stone. I am an Australian, we as a nation 🇦🇺 have many things to thank our early colonial Governor Lachlan Macquarie for, including Macquarie Island, as a result many places and things are named after him. I highly doubt there would be an Australian (yes we are very multicultural) who doesn’t know how to pronounce Macquarie.......Nor a Scot for that matter. You would only pronounce it incorrectly once, before being told.

[@romeyjondorf]

@@blacksorrento4719 My God man stop being so much of a pedant

[@mushinman1]

Check out Gros Morne National Park table lands, Newfounland Canada. It also has old mantle rock, the oldest in the world!

[@JustForfun-ok4ed]

Once my brother broke a rock in which he found a live frog and the fossil of the frog was already formed. Internet was not yet developed then otherwise we would have filmed it. I wonder 🤔 does that mean there's oxygen trapped in the rock. Edit : Imagine how much suffering he had been through all those many years poor guy was trapped in it.

[@sophierobinson2738]

Frogs of that type can go into a deep hibernation until conditions get better. The frog is lucky that your brother broke the rock.

[@456erty789]

mescaline

[@goodnightspacekid2353]

This is likely a form of cast and mold type fossil and can be formed simply as sediments dry out! The frog probably just went in for hibernation and the sediment got too dry to easily break through

[@dat2ra]

Nope. Sorry. Not a live frog and it's fossil.

[@johnny280zx5]

PBR - Check Peito do Pombo in Sana in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Awesome PBR.

[@BarbieVoiceofTruth]

Soviets making trouble as always, didn't expect they are the one who started the gate of hell

[@toishingao176]

No.12 is not the only Bufadora, there is one bigger and I would say better/powerful in Ensenada Baja California Mexico.

[@Candidpiet]

I've sat in the split apple, used to live nearby, abel tasman.

[@ivymoon1779]

Elephant rock state park should be on this list.

[@ellenamontana1352]

I bet some of these are muddfossils. Ask Roger, his channel is muddfossil university. Fascinating stuff!

[@dat2ra]

Yawn. Take a Geology class FFS.

[@saaamember97]

All the "Gates Of Hell" in Turkmenistan needs, is a way for folks to get out there! Add a rail line, or tour buses from the closest city. Heck, put in a few hotels out there too!

[@zaynabharakeh6373]

The cave!!!

[@martinemartin4779]

Where's the rock formation from the thumbnail? I couldn't find it, even though I've been there... It's called Tokangawhā or Split Apple rock and was probably worth a mention

[@randylplampin1326]

The is a series of stone formations in southern Brazil in the state of Paraná called "Vila Velha."

[@hazeluzzell]

I could see the 3 sisters from my bedroom window when I lived in Oz. I’ve also visited Cappadocia.

[@lacrosseguy108]

A few hours from me is a town called tobermory. it has an island about a 45 min boat ride away called flowerpot islands. theres 2 large rock formations that look kinda like flowerpots! they naturally formed over years and years of erosion. its a big attraction to the area as well as other things! this is in ontario canada too, not far from toronto!

[@williammaxwell1919]

The Sidoarjo mud flow in Indonesian (locally known as Lumpur Lapindo) could also be added to this list

[@traycwilson945]

Just a little note, I'm from the USA is there any way you could put stuff in feet inches and miles? That'd be great thank you.

[@FusRoDarshinae]

Is there any way you could learn the metric system?

[@scottamu7816]

The largest known glacial erratic in North America is in Madison, NH. Check it out.

[@GrumpyYank26]

Yes, the earths mantel is also visible in western Newfoundland.

[@katarzynabatory5577]

To się mi podoba

[@Squeeko639]

Glad to see Riyadh made it on the list!

[@carolbuzelim]

I agree with the limits of visitors and cust of the cave, need to be protected

[@pangksanos63200]

I'm lucky ..I'm visited already one them which is edge of the world

[@falldogg8606]

👍👍👍

[@rogerdudra178]

Earth appears to be filled with cool uniformatrianist attractions to counter catastrophic events occurring.

[@user-fc3pg8vg9c]

Yeh...yeh...Nature... Yeh. Right. Especially if they have the OBVIOUS SIGNS of the machines on them.

[@rockroll9761]

Lolol u said mill of years..lolol

[@edwardbakadingo4261]

um maybe 15 good ones but i am certain their are plenty others you missed, Even though I am Australian I am not certain that the three sisters is 'odd' enough to make such a list, Ayres rock, wave rock, olgas, Pinnacles, 12 apostles (well there were never 12, but thats what they were named) would probably be better Australian options

[@ludlowbailey1226]

The cave in Vietnam is my favorite

[@dannoh106]

2:45 Peñiscola? Lol

[@tonymarselle8812]

That fire pit should be turned into a power station.

[@profsakharov1191]

As a cave is basically a hole, an absence of mass, no matter how voluminous it is, it can not be accurately described as "massive". Describing a tale of a girl who somehow became a very large rock formation as "possibly fiction" does not concur with rational thought. .

[@profsakharov1191]

@Todd Bardell If you change "people in 1,000 years" to 'intelligent aliens picking up TV signals", you have the plot of the Tim Allen movie "Galaxy Quest". .