A Mega-Tsunami Deposit at the KT Boundary

[@kimberleywilliams5228]

Hi there Donald Barry , I lived on Gold Coast for some time - During the digging for development in Coomera along Foxwell rd I found the top earth deposit about a foot thick then mud - reddish about 12 feet thick followed by another earth deposit below that - At that level were large worked jars of clay - they had big rounded edges that had been crushed up by diggers etc - I took pics of them on put on fcebk reel - barely any interest Something or someone made them on ground back then - I noted that they were sun baked vessels not fire baked - no glaze but very smooth ! This was a time from before mt warning eruption .. could easily see the land before covers in mud flow -Coomera parallel to oriellys plateau is location found vessel tops and clay fragments - there were many

[@OutThereLearning]

Sounds amazing - I know nothing about that area

[@matthewmorgan7106]

The Gold Coast University Hospital is not far from you. I hope you've paid them a visit by now

[@GedMaybury23]

Always interesting, my good sir! And this a particularly good find. I'm privileged to be in your camera bag, so to speak, as this gets revealed. I recall the thrall I felt on first reading about the discoveries of Robert DePalma in North Dakota: the chaotic mass-deposit from a lake-wave that was a literal snap-shot of the end of the Cretaceous. The actual final minute! Call me a Nerd. I'll wear it with pride!

[@OutThereLearning]

Thanks for your appreciative and interesting comments

[@Afro408]

I’m always amazed by the folded and bent strata in these exposed outcrops. Unimaginable forces involved. 😅😅

[@tutekohe1361]

I know that spot well, I was there last weekend, although I was unaware of the significance. You are lucky to be there on a day when there was not a huge Swell!

[@OutThereLearning]

Great that you were nearby!

[@jbennett3578]

Very interesting discovery. I've only see the K-t (or K-Pg) boundary in southern Colorado, and it looks very different there. Coal below, then the K-Pg layer. Above that, there's a thin layer of the coal, a thin layer of mudstone, and then a thick layer of sandstone. Since the K-T impact happened while the Rocky Mountains were being formed, I guess the land was too high for any tsunami deposits.

[@OutThereLearning]

Thanks, that's interesting to get the perspective from another location

[@jerryvanderwier2310]

I suppose it depends on where in southern Colorado you were. I believe much of eastern colorado and some of central Colorado was still submerged by a shallow inland sea at this time. Since the seafloor there was fairly flat and wasn't on the edge of a deep tectonic plate, such as the New Zealand Kerdmac Trench, then there was little chance of large amounts of debris collecting in one place. It wasn't that there wasn't debris, only that the tsunami wave sloshed back and forth across much of the area of Colorado at no more than 9-20 meters high [Chicxulub Tsunami.mov]. Consider that the 2011 Japan earthquake caused tsunami had a 40 meter high wave and had no material impacts to the New Zealand coast and it was also much closer. The Laramide Orogeny process probably also disturbed any subtle Colorado tsunami evidence. I am more than a little skeptical of this theroy. I believe there are more likely reasons and one of them may be significant underwater landslides and resulting tsunami's created by localized earthquakes from the Chicxalub asteroid antipode or any normal submarine landslide. Chixalub certainly had global impacts, but I am very doubtful it created a tsunami so large that could cause this much evidence on the opposite side of the planet. Localized tsunami's created by landslides, however, can generate much higher local waves. Take for example the 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami vs the potential of global impacting megatsunami such as the threat from the US east coast from a La Palma collapse generated tsunami, which is projected to be larger than the Chixalub tsunami. Interesting findings though.

[@robertkelly5025]

Would you be able to give a location of the KT boundary in Colorado? I'm moving there soon and would love to bring my 12 and 10 year old to see it. We've travel large distances to see some of the sites of the great unconformity so this is right up our alley.

[@jbennett3578]

@@robertkelly5025 The sites I know of are near Trinidad in southern Colorado. You can see the layer just south of town from the frontage road on the east side of I-25. Private land there, so you can't climb up to it, but you can see it. There's a cleaner exposure west of Trinidad on the south side of Trinidad Lake State Park that's marked on Google Maps, right beside one of the park roads. About 10 miles off the freeway. You can climb up to it, but there's a big sandstone overhang left where people have dug out pieces of the layer.

[@jbennett3578]

​@@robertkelly5025 There are a couple of places near Trinidad, CO where you can see the K-Pg boundary. One is in Trinidad Lake State Park, and it's marked on Google maps. You can see some more of the boundary just south of Trinidad and east of the freeway. Looks like private land though, so you can't walk up to it like you can in the park.

[@MamaPinks]

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[@OutThereLearning]

Thank you for your appreciation!

[@stoopkid7134]

I studied the KT boundary in Italy during my geology undergrad with one of the professors that worked on the original asteroid theory with Walter Alvarez. We hoped across the Adriatic to Croatia and spent a bit of time looking at what he preliminaries thought may be tsunamiite on the KT boundary. Not sure what ever came of that but potentially some in Croatia too!

[@OutThereLearning]

@@stoopkid7134 very interesting!

[@DonzLockz]

100 metre tsunami, thats incomprehensible!😮👍

[@OutThereLearning]

Yup and some estimates are that it was nearly a mile high (1.5km)!

[@chrishollis6906]

@@OutThereLearning - bear in mind that is at source. Not that surprising when you consider a meteorite the size of Wellington harbour crashing into the sea off Mexico. About 10 m high when it reached NZ.

[@williamchamberlain2263]

@@chrishollis6906 mind you it'd be a really long 10m swell, and it'd build up some height again as it got funnelled into bays and estuaries.

[@snoopythedog3266]

Noah's Ark stuff

[@snoopythedog3266]

@@OutThereLearning think a mile is nearer 1600m .. Terrifying as it's a wall of water not a wave

[@davebroad642]

I was down there on that Tora outcrop yesterday, tide was out. Took some amazing photos of the numerous sedimentary layers. The area was appears to have been heavily forested in the past as well. Incredible geological record. Wasn't able to view anything that I'd recognize as these tsunami fragments, although I did see one layer where a geologist may have been digging around! Maybe that was it. In my view this is still just a theory however, but I'm not doubting actual Yucatan event of course.

[@jamesfowler415]

Excellent video. Would live to see a slow mo animation of the tsunami coming in and ripping up the rocks to make the deposits we see in the video

[@OutThereLearning]

Me too! - any graphic animators out there?

[@richardcarter5314]

@@OutThereLearning Don't worry, next time we will be ready and waiting!

[@ToddWight]

This is fascinating. I'm curious - how did this layer come to be exposed and not buried by more sediment over the millions of years since the extinction event? If it was previously covered and was eroded away by some other process, how did they come to be exposed right now in time for us to find it before more erosion occurred?

[@OutThereLearning]

It was buried by other sediments and then uplifted and exposed in places just like the other sedimentary rocks anywhere. Because the layers are folded and faulted, it is very up to chance where random layers get exposed / eroded away or remain covered over and out of sight. This location is just a very small exposure of the total original extent of this particular layer.Hope that makes sense, Cheers

[@ToddWight]

@@OutThereLearning that's pretty fortunate then, and pretty cool that this was exposed so that we can learn this!!

[@malcolmanon4762]

Interesting stuff, has any work been done on the gravels / rocks to see if they can be matched to known source areas? Also dumb question time - was New Zealand above sea level then, or would the source be from elsewhere?

[@OutThereLearning]

Good questions - the gravels haven't been studied in that much detail as yet. 'New Zealand' didn't actually exist as we think of it today. The landmass of Zealandia (ancient New Zealand) was gradually sinking under the ocean as it separated from Gondwana at that time.

[@malcolmanon4762]

@@OutThereLearning As always thank you for taking the time to answer the questions I drop on you :)

[@outthere9370]

I would assume that if the travels were rounded that they then would come from terraine above sea level which was exposed to running water systems.

[@JimSmith431]

The K-T boundary refers to the boundary between two geologic periods, Cretaceous and Tertiary. However, several years ago the Tertiary period was renamed to Paleogene, so that boundary is now referred to as the K-P boundary.

[@Shockwave-ob2tx]

I’ve never understood the renaming…. “Let’s rename this!” “Why?” “Ummmm, it sounds cooler?”🫤

[@kimberleywilliams5228]

Atop of MT Tamborine looking into the hinterland - if you look about and dig a little you will find shell fish , mussels etc - the whole range was inundated by massive tsunami in distant past - The high peaks of Hawaii plunge into depths of ocean and when parts slipped away it caused tsunami that travelled across pacific and smashed into eastern sea board of Australia - Aerial pics of the gold coast show evidence to this day of the impact.

[@iancurtis1152]

So this a reason for largely rock beaches on the East coast and sand beaches on the West coasts of NZ?

[@danjo8673]

Those round stones are Accretionary lapilli formed by a process of wet ash aggregation due to moisture in volcanic clouds (in this case it would be a meteor strike cloud) that sticks the particles together, with the ash nucleating on some object and then accreting to it in layers before the accretionary lapillus falls from the cloud. If you cut those round stones in half you will see that they have individual layers like an onion, and they were deposited there by the tsunami. Great video, thank you!

[@OutThereLearning]

Interesting thought - thanks!

[@paulthomson2288]

is there any chance of finding corresponding debris in non marine environments at the KT boundary which were washed inland by the tsunami?

[@OutThereLearning]

Good question, and so far not discovered in NZ

[@johnchen9930]

When I was a student at UT El Paso, TX, in 1971-1974, I used to drive my 4x4 Jeep Wagoneer into the raw desert just west of the city. I sometimes found fossils such a ammonite shells. I took the samples to the UTEP Natural Museum where the staff geologists identified these are the ammonites very commonly found in the 65,000,000 yr old rock formations near SW Texas. This was before the discovery of K-T boundary by Dr. Averaz and son in the 1980s, the K-T event tsunami was not mentioned yet. The ammonites went extinct after the K-T event. El Paso is 2000 miles from the K-T impact site, it has risen 1500 ft+ since 66,000,000 yr ago to current elevation of 3000 ft. Could it be possible the K-T tsunami swept the sea bottom ammonites across 1000 miles then deposited at the El Paso mesa ?? If so, then the K-T tsunami must have been 2000+ ft high, at east Texas coast. 😎

[@OutThereLearning]

Thanks for sharing!

[@skog44]

Where was NZ in relation to the asteroid impact 66 million years ago? It was shown to be where it is currently located.

[@OutThereLearning]

Across the Pacific as it is today , moving away from Australia/ Antarctica

[@WATsunami]

It was further south and a little closer to Australia. In my introduction video I have a simulation of the formation of the Indian Ocean and the position of New Zealand can be seen in the video.

[@murrayelliott6828]

You see this on the west Australian coast too, Wagoe (Kalbarri)

[@WATsunami]

Is this sand or rock deposits? If it is sand, it is more likely to be from the Indian Ocean event 500 years ago. I am hoping to get to this area in the next year or two to document some evidence on the ground.

[@robertkelly5025]

To validate the concept of "a little knowledge can be dangerous", I've read that the KT boundary is usually marked by a layer of iridium. Was there evidence here even though it was deep under the ocean?

[@OutThereLearning]

Great question - This layer hasn't been tested, but I suspect not as it's a very mixed up deposit- but in other deep sea KT boundary sections in NZ such as Woodside Creek there is an iridium spike. Cheers

[@si_vis_amari_ama]

How interesting! The power of a 100m tsunami must be phenomenal. I noted the shape of the wave accords with the shape of the Gulf of Mexico, I wonder if it partly formed the Gulf?

[@billrobbins5874]

Fossils by any chance? Hard to believe it travelled from Gul of Mexico to New Zealand. Terrific force for sure. Appreciate your knowledge. Tsunami meaning.

[@paulcarter7445]

Recent studies of the 2011 Japanese tsunamis have indicated the possibility of 'silent tsunamis' that are caused by additional movement of material down undersea slopes. The 'silent tsunami' theory helps explain why some of the tsunamis were higher well north of the coast that was closest to the epicentre. Many hundreds of such undersea slips have been located around Japan. Perhaps the ground movement from the asteroid invoked 'silent tsunamis' around New Zealand.

[@OutThereLearning]

Thanks for your comment. Interesting idea

[@allangibson8494]

The Japanese have also experienced Tsunamis from earthquakes on the other side of the pacific. The January 26, 1700 Oregon / Washington earthquake produced a significant tsunami in Japan. That was a 1000km slip of 20m horizontal movement. That fault produces a significant earthquake about every 580 years with an associated 20m tsunami on the US West Coast.

[@lynnmitzy1643]

Love your content, thank you. Wonderful history.

[@OutThereLearning]

Thank you, appreciated

[@pat8988]

Interesting, but 66 million years ago the earth didn't look like the map that was shown...

[@OutThereLearning]

You are absolutely right. This map was just for illustration, but not the situation at that time.

[@LotsofStuffYT]

Weren't the continents shaped different and in different locations when this happened? Can't really use a model of the present day continents if this is the case.

[@dawggonevidz9140]

They were, but not very. 60 million years ago south America and Central America were separated by a channel about 200 miles across, where the pacific met the atlantic. You can do a search for continents 60 million years ago which will link you to plenty of good animations of continental drift to the present day

[@kirklaird8345]

Hard for me to imagine how a tsunami, generated in the Gulf of Mexico, would travel across solid land in Central America and propagate across the Pacific. I suppose the magnitude 12 impact might have possibly caused enough land movement to generate a wave initiating a tsunami from the west coast of Central America. More likely I would think is another meteorite impact in the Pacific at the same time as the one that hit the Yucatan.

[@OutThereLearning]

Modem day earthquakes in South America can send big tsunamis this far across the Pacific

[@kirklaird8345]

@@OutThereLearning Sure, but those are on the west coast of the continent of South America - not the east coast. And they aren't very big .

[@dawggonevidz9140]

If you search for animations of continental drift you'll see there's a channel about 200 miles wide between modern day Central and South America around 60 million years ago. The asteroid struck on the northern shore of that channel which at the time linked the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. It's easy to see how a wave would have travelled out of that channel and into the pacific.

[@kirklaird8345]

@@dawggonevidz9140 Good point. I forgot about the possibility of tectonic changes over 66 million years. However, unless the channel was hundreds of miles wide and thousands of feet deep it still wouldn't have been possible to generate a mega-tsunami that would travel across the Pacific. Similar to trying to force a thunderstorm through a keyhole - just can't transmit enough volume or energy through something that small.

[@gfreeman9843]

The massive pulse of energy is what travels,causing tsunami.

[@andrewdillon7837]

Hey dudes ,, Love your stuff ,,Did Phys geo at Massey uni early 80s, im a drainlayer ,,have dug dirt all over auckland ,,i sometimes show the guys stuff,,(i make it look like i already know,,,,of course),,Up in Whangaparaoa i dug through a concretion about 2m wide ,,showed the labourers the circles etc,,Same when breaking rock in penrose ,,Only 200k old,,I ve dug through Waitamata series too ,,came from Gondwana when india and Antarctica was hooked up ,,

[@futurescalling]

Really interesting ... Wouldn't there be other similar sites up and down the east coast of NZ? At least in North Island?

[@KK-qd6ro]

You would think so,, if this theroy was true.

[@gunnargronvall9385]

It would be interesting to find out if this also can be found in Australia!

[@OutThereLearning]

It would!

[@danielsmithme]

Good diving there. Great place.

[@marcusrichards698]

Hi Julian, have these determinations by Chris been published? If so what is the paper title?

[@OutThereLearning]

In process I believe

[@chrishollis6906]

The sediment record at Tora has yet to be analysed in detail but the modelling of the megatsunami has been completed and the paper just submitted for publication. Look out for "The Chicxulub Impact Produced a Powerful Global Tsunami" by Molly Range et al.

[@jcwarlock]

I wonder, those rocks may have been underwater, then during an expansion event, along all major faults, increased earths volume and changing the location of the equatorial bulge, some land was lifted from sea and other land was sunken and a couple of 15 degree changes in lateral tilt along the latitude of greenland/mid atlantic ridge. Maybe not so much a tilt but a change in center of mass and changing rotation orientation

[@aranha9365]

I see similar stuff on many places at south island, such as Jackson bay, Milford Sound, Manapouri lake...

[@jackieking1522]

That far out, the asteroid would not have been trailing an incandescent trail.

[@OutThereLearning]

Haha - true - but it was the best I could do at the time. Well spotted :-)

[@tmeister8870]

I'm a kiwi & I'm going to check this site out.

[@tracyrogers3620]

I want to show some of the same rock formation I found in Oklahoma, Fort Gibson lake recently... I'm not sure if it's a match but wow!!

[@rotoehu9266]

What did ‘NZ’ look like 66MYA? Some configuration of the Zealandia continent?

[@OutThereLearning]

Great question. 'NZ' was configured completely differently as it had yet to be shunted around by the modern plate boundary. It was basically a part of the Zealandia continent that was gradually sinking as it moved away from Gondwana, due to the Tasman sea opening up.

[@PeterAtWork430]

@@OutThereLearningIs there an animation of this covering the impact time ?

[@Cooliemasteroz]

Apparently there is a regular tsunami that hits the east coast of Australia. It has also washed over the great dividing range and some evidence of this is un fossilised sea shell found west of the mountains. I once heard that this was caused by erosion under the continental shelf which eventually causes a massive piece to fall off, I don’t know if that part is true or not but I have no doubt about the enormous tsunami and it’s even in aboriginal legend.

[@MistaMickle]

when i was younger i was over the mountains in hunter valley nsw at a friend house. getting a pool dug and they had hundreds of big sea fossils. i am nearly 100% sure since i am older that they washed over that mountain

[@Jack-r2v9b]

@@MistaMickle the gulf went right through the country and cut the country in 2 a long time ago

[@WATsunami]

I think this area was once low lying and covered by a shallow sea, and was then tectonically uplifted to current level, which would explain fossilised shells.

[@JUSTME-mb6lg]

The Asteroid wouldn't have had a fiery tale until it entered the Earths Atmosphere, just saying.

[@OutThereLearning]

Shhhhhh!

[@reneharkamp4309]

or fell apart, In more pieces than one Like ,,the string of pearls,,

[@Poppa_Capinyoaz]

*tail. Just saying.

[@AHD2105]

Hope we don't get another or it could be a very sad tale😢

[@deborahtheredbrickchick468]

To me it looks like damaged red brick buildings from an extreme heat event not so long ago

[@acanadianfarmgirl2667]

As another theory, have you considered a solar eruption? (Know as a kill shot from the sun)

[@grip2617]

Even Justin Trudeau can be included in the series of disasters.

[@TheRassyClan.]

Out of curiosity we were attached to Australia and Antarctica then would we have been in the firing line ?

[@OutThereLearning]

Yep, we were off the coast of Gondwana, with the Tasman Sea opening up

[@mrivantchernegovski3869]

KT boundary is when earth burnt for years with nearly all life was wiped out on earth ,Africa was not so effected hence they still have large mammals

[@OutThereLearning]

Actually all those large mammals evolved later from very small mammals that were living at the time of the mass extinction. The big creatures at that time were the dinosaurs, marine reptiles and pterosaurs

[@poobum9857]

did the wave pass coast to coast across the whole of NZ then hitting Australia ?

[@BinkyTheElf1]

Humans have been on super-dangerous New Zealand for a very short time, geologically speaking. Super volcano, mega-tsunami, earthquakes on a subduction zone. Yikes.

[@OutThereLearning]

Yes - and also in many other countries around the Pacific Ring of Fire too!

[@orion2250]

My part of Texas was under shallow water and if im not mistaken the tsunami would only have been 3-5 meters or so. The inland seas of the time precluded the 1000 ft high popular conception of the wave. I think there were multiple impacts eg the jupiter impacts caught a few years ago. But..i have a good imagination!

[@stevemiller1517]

Multiple impacts world wide with continental sprint motion of the crust in relation to the mantle.

[@kimberleywilliams5228]

Yes - when Hawaii collapsed into ocean caused huge tsunami that travelled across pacific and smashed into east coast of Australia - it cleared the top of mt Tamborine qld and filled inland Australia into a massive sea .. Could that also be what you are seeing evidence of on n. Z beaches ?

[@Srekwah]

When was this?

[@donaldbarry5074]

I wonder if you could provide your source for this tsunami from Hawaii as I know Mt Tamborine well and am a bit sceptical. Any tsunami clearing Mt T would have to clear the much higher Main Dividing range some distance to the west and the travel thousands of km further to form an inland sea. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. Further, the timing of this tsunami and the relative position of the continents is critical. So would you please provide your source, the approx time etc to support your assertion. Online I could only find a reference to a date, from memory, within the span that Australian aborigines already inhabited the country - maybe their oral history is a source?

[@kermittheflog763]

500ft tsunami hit the east coast of AUSTRALIA

[@brentritchie6199]

Amazing how smart these scientists are great vid thanks

[@OutThereLearning]

They are!

[@consciuosnesssoul]

May your community love your merch as I do!

[@OutThereLearning]

:-)

[@joehowells3244]

Thanks for sharing this - a truly amazing story - and well worth more folk understanding - I am grateful to the scientists for all the hard work that leads us to better understanding the past of our little "blue dot"

[@OutThereLearning]

Thank you for your appreciation

[@grip2617]

This "better understanding" has not made our little "blue dot" a happier place.

[@yeetyertbruvvvv]

Mind blowing.

[@OutThereLearning]

Indeed !

[@johnnylingo4686]

Thanks outstanding video

[@OutThereLearning]

Glad you liked it

[@Hardrock1a]

I don’t see how the asteroid impact tsunami would reach the Pacific. Even a 1000 meter wave would have a hard time crossing Mexico, which reaches a mile in elevation along the path towards New Zealand. Even if it did, the power would be significantly diminished.

[@OutThereLearning]

Good question. There was a wide seaway between N and S America at the time

[@Hardrock1a]

@@OutThereLearning Yeah, don’t buy it, none of the models I have seen open the pathway. Impact happened well away from plate boundaries.

[@OutThereLearning]

@@Hardrock1a nothing needed to be opened. There was sea, not land

[@Hardrock1a]

@@OutThereLearning What I am saying is that the tectonic plate models do not show that there would be a seaway opening between the Chixalub impact point and the Pacific. I am just stating what the models show. No seaway.

[@WATsunami]

I think at the time the Caribbean tectonic plate was further to the west in relation to where it is now, and there was a sea between North America and South America that would allow waves to propagate in to the Pacific.

[@stevehartsell4123]

Uhem... so the layer of soot traveled faster and settled to the bottom of see channel BEFORE the tsunami hit and washed debris into same area?

[@alistairclarke6726]

Sea levels were about 150m lower at the time of the impact...?

[@onnythomson2663]

Stunning

[@OutThereLearning]

Thanks :-)

[@MrThartofwar]

i think I've seen this layer along the banks of the Waikato river, towards the port Waikato end...there is a mysterious crater that is a about a kilometres wide, less then 100 meters away. Not sure if its from the same event though as multiple layers in the cliff face, i need to take more notice next time i go down there, take some pictures white baiting, have a family batch along there :)

[@steveray4708]

How many extinction events where there ... ? I think the latest thoughts are 5 plus ! I love discovering new thoughts on these things .. However following your thoughts on this theory sort of contradicts ... other geologists working at different angles ! You mite not read this as I'm just an old sceptic man and l kno my opinion is somewhat Useless . But l would really appreciate a combined view from a heap of you studied gentlemen to present , as it were , a united analysis of all the theories ... mate lm a Kiwi and l love this stuff .. thank you

[@masonsilver5980]

So the tuatara just survived cuz they were ontop of big hills?

[@OutThereLearning]

I suppose so!

[@patrick247two]

Thank you.

[@OutThereLearning]

Cheers!

[@baraskparas9559]

Great presentation. Thanks.

[@OutThereLearning]

Thank you!

[@mbvoelker8448]

Wow. Simply amazing.

[@OutThereLearning]

Great that you think so!

[@crystalroseblue6760]

There might be some on the rocky shore line of Australia also???

[@jonshaffer6552]

Something weird is going on you mean it's been wrapped in dirt and rolled around a long time that that's what made him round wow that's really weird

[@OutThereLearning]

Thanks for watching!

[@glennmacpherson1923]

Amazing stuff .

[@OutThereLearning]

Cheers!

[@K1VV1939]

Can you show evidence of the fire storms that are alleged to hit the top of the North Island? What flattered the top of the North Island and assuming I'm not talking about 50 time when did that happen? Dates? I'm kinda interested in the top of the north island bro cause there's stuff on the beaches that shouldn't be here so do you have any history of what the hell hit northland and when and who apart from the Chinese were here ?

[@OutThereLearning]

Sorry - not fully sure of your question, but pretty sure I don't know the answer!

[@academyofnaturaljustice8939]

Wow, thanks to this show i was able to solve a mystery about one of my dinosaur eggs, it's encased in tsunami deposits, bingo!

[@tigersharkzh]

So those critters on the sea floor got stoned after the K-T impact.

[@OutThereLearning]

:-)

[@SafariNZ]

Could this also be the result of an avalanche on the coast, or due or a collapsed the coastal area due to a large earthquake?

[@OutThereLearning]

Possibly, but the rounded nature of the pebbles suggests specifically reworked coastal or river deposits rather than freshly broken (angular) bedrock from a deep landslide.

[@donaldbarry5074]

I’d like to see replies to: The Hawaii source mentioned above as tsunami source such as feasibility in time - ie - KT Boundary; also, a comparison of continental dispositions at this time; also, evidence of impact on contemporary, nearby lands - e.g. Australia, PNG and Indonesia?

[@stephenhoward7454]

Nelson sea wall at boulder bank. Split Apple Rock. Kaimanawa "wall" ? The paradigm needs upsetting. 1st civilisation was in NZ.

[@SalvableRuin]

1. Anyone who understands radiometric "dating" knows that you CANNOT calculate the actual age of rocks. They aren't 66 million years old. 2. Rocks that should be on land are suddenly covered by thousands of metres of water at the SAME TIME they buried the dinosaurs = It was Noah’s flood.

[@davidhoward4715]

Stick to your Jesus magic. Leave the thinking to the adults.

[@reneharkamp4309]

Maybe the BIG ONE fell apart in more pieces THAN we realize

[@SteveSmith-zz4ih]

What about the Earth tilting in time gone by the weakening Magnetic field? There are papers published but not many seem to talk about it, even as our present Magnetic poles are shifting at a faster rate!

[@OutThereLearning]

Magnetic reversals are a well studied topic that geologists use to help with dating rocks. Cheers!

[@SteveSmith-zz4ih]

@@OutThereLearning Thanks i get shot down on some other Geology video's by individuals!

[@kidcreole6749]

The planet tilting due to our magnetic field?? How does that work ...??

[@AustraliaFootball]

The best youtube channel

[@OutThereLearning]

😊 thanks!

[@barron204]

Very interesting video.

[@OutThereLearning]

Thank you

[@michaelscurr9046]

Theres rock formations like this in tasmania

[@danielmaguire8007]

Same thing at bottom southland fortrose

[@michaeld5888]

Whilst the graphics show a very large atmosphere with the meteor lighting up far out I do wonder if a chunk of the earths atmosphere was lost in the process of this event. When you look at the weight of animals that got up in the air against now and the lush vegetation of the past compared to the the rather frugal world even before man it does make me think. Probably does not bear analysis but life looks very thin, struggling and never having truly recovered after this event. In fact the evolution of man could be an innovative evolutionary response to a stressed struggling environment in thin air. I wonder if man putting the carbon locked away in the carboniferous era and oil back in to circulation is doing nature a favour in the long run. You have to sometimes wonder if the CO2 panic is more about the imminent drowning of our cities than any real concern for Gaia. Interesting times and difficult to see how things will work out and who to believe.

[@OutThereLearning]

Interesting thoughts from a different perspective

[@chrissy7033]

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[@micmalawi]

Check for iridium.

[@OutThereLearning]

Would have been too mixed up by the tsunami I would guess, but interesting idea

[@geneticdisorder1900]

How much does staring at rocks pay ??

[@OutThereLearning]

Interestingly put question. Depends who is doing the staring I guess.

[@randomguyodst46]

This is basically science fiction. I don’t know where he’s getting this from but he doesn’t know what’s he’s talking about when observing an enormous dead creatures petrified corpse. Mudfossils never ceases to amaze me.

[@lightfoot.2000]

FACTS!

[@davidbeazley1958]

As far as I know, there's no place on the East coast of the North Island of New Zealand called "Tora"... 🙄

[@OutThereLearning]

Look again!

[@davidbeazley1958]

@@OutThereLearning barely on the east coast... 🙄

[@ApacheMagic]

@@davidbeazley1958 that’s funny because I lived there 30 years ago. The Wairarapa is on the east coast too you know!

[@kiwioleskool9438]

66 hundred years?

[@colinsmith2005]

Great guess.

[@robertmccabe8632]

It was in the deep sea ....... and then it popped up. Sea level ( not curve) The days of Pelag.

[@tm13tube]

A quick glance and it looks like 3-D printed walls.

[@evangelist6277]

My pet rock is stoned what should I do?

[@tarugardiner4287]

Let's hope this doesn't happen again .

[@OutThereLearning]

indeed!

[@acanadianfarmgirl2667]

It will

[@markdoherty754]

Or a worldwide flood event .

[@sfgrovessr]

The Sun... Every 12,000 years.

[@StephenElsworth]

A suspicious observer. Well hello there.

[@DJPurpleOne17]

Hopefully I'll be dead before it happens lol

[@darrelleaf]

Looks like concrete

[@OutThereLearning]

Yep - but it isn't!

[@boboften9952]

Wow Peebles shows the effect , Bam Bam was the cause .

[@chloewinkworthartist]

how did he date the rock?

[@robertlee3]

Theories are not science.

[@OutThereLearning]

...but science does include theories within its pursuit of understanding the world :-)

[@robertlee3]

@@OutThereLearning NO. Science is NOT a theory. It is universal and demonstrable, based on objective observation and can be measured by universal standards. Where is your control planet?

[@michaelfuchs]

Consider looking up "scientific theory". Wikipedia has a good article.

[@justinsmith4562]

Its always just theory.

[@luzr6613]

Some theory is backed by evidence.