Splatter Rock on Chatham Island

Splatter Rock on the north coast of Chatham Island is made of basalt that was erupted under the sea as pillow lava about 5 million years ago. Hamish Campbell gives us a close-up look.
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[@GeologyNick]

Very impressed with what you're doing here. Thanks for the high production values and the interesting geology.

[@OutThereLearning]

Thanks Nick!

[@rabidbigdog]

@@OutThereLearning A visit from Nick - doesn't get much better!

[@paulhoskin5353]

Hamish is a top bloke. A friend of mine. Like you. You two would hit it off! I would love to be a fly on the wall listening to you and Hamish just shooting the breeze.

[@tysonsmudfossiladventures3468]

Explain this with mans mundane science, because this is who you are, and your not here by chance and a big bang. You don't understand the 7th dimension at all! This is who every earthman born of a water birth is, even you. EXPLAIN IT? and if you cant, you better wake up! This is not a game or a Joke, this is very serious. THIS IS WHO YOU ARE. The Body of the Earthman Operates in the realms of the gross material power "Physical power" within the physical system of reality. The human Soul operates in the realms of subtle power within the mind's metaphysical system of reality. The Soul, to this end, encapsulated the mind, the dream-body and other related subtle bodies. While the human spirit operates in the essence of multidimensional Power within the spiritual system of reality. Our soul is the Core of our Spirit.

[@lindacarruthers3423]

What a lovely man . His explanations are easily understood and one gets the feeling he’d be a great chap to socialize with .So very pleasant and interesting.

[@OutThereLearning]

Thanks for your very accurate appreciation of Hamish!

[@riverAmazonNZ]

Those xenoliths are wonderful, so decorative. I can’t believe I’ve never heard of splatter rock. We don’t hear much about the Chathams. Thanks for the info!

[@OutThereLearning]

Thanks for your comment!

[@complimentary_voucher]

Same! That rock deserves its own show.

[@anttikarttunen1126]

Yes! Question: Is that Hornblende also a xenolith, or how it has come embedded into the lava?

[@GeologyUpSkill]

Great work. At last we are starting to see a few geologists getting out there on KZbin to bring the amazing world of rocks to the world.

[@OutThereLearning]

Thanks for you comment!

[@Itssmial_Ova]

I love this channel and really appreciate these videos. Thanks a bunch.

[@OutThereLearning]

Much appreciated, thank you

[@luzr6613]

I wasn't sure you'd top 'blop, blop, blop', but the 'standing on a tube of toothpaste' analogy - generated on the fly - runs it close. Fabulous site that i'm feeling increasingly drawn to visiting. Thank you for your work!

[@OutThereLearning]

:-)

[@ianhogarth4214]

Spent quite a long time on the Chathams and outliers over the years actually working for the Wildlife service. Stayed at the wharekauri station for a week or so doing wildlife surveys along the beaches recall seeing the formations but did not register how unique they were> well done took me back 50 years!

[@OutThereLearning]

What a wonderful job that must have been!

[@GrantHodgsonWnNZ]

Excellent sound effects there, Hamish!

[@OutThereLearning]

Haha true!

[@katthompson3852]

That was really cool... I've put this on my bucket list. I love geology and guys like you with your enthusiasm make it groovy... cheers!

[@OutThereLearning]

Thanks!

[@fieldo85]

The audio quality is next level! Superb for a beachside recording. Thanks for the videos.

[@OutThereLearning]

Thank you!

[@wordreet]

That Splatter Rock is absolutely amazing! I've only visited Chatham a couple of times, and, sadly, that Chatham was the Chatham in SE England! 😞 It does have an Historic Dockyard but that's about all.

[@OutThereLearning]

😀

[@edwardbishop1176]

Hi from John Bishop retired in Phuket. Enjoyed the video

[@OutThereLearning]

Hi John, cheers!

[@Geolsoc07]

Love the video. Great passion Hamish. Love the toothpadte analogy 👌. Will have to go back to the Chathams and see it sometime.

[@OutThereLearning]

Thanks Matt!

[@johnnylingo4686]

Fantastic video, I must read up more on the Chatham Islands. Thanks.

[@OutThereLearning]

Thanks, glad you liked it

[@malcolmanon4762]

Another informative vlog - thanks for posting it - any recommends for undergrad level reading on these Chatham Island basalts? Also Inotice a comment from Nick, another great geology communicator.

[@amacuro]

Wow those are some unbelievable hornblende crystals! Not often do you see that size of crystal in basaltic lava!

[@OutThereLearning]

Thanks for watching and glad you liked the crystals! 😀

[@muzikhed]

Nice formation, enjoyed seeing and hearing about those inclusions. Really interesting video. Cheers

[@OutThereLearning]

Thanks!

[@tallmikbcroft6937]

LoL was that a technical term of the sound coming from toothpaste? Blap.. bloop. Lol I enjoyed your video.. thanks

[@debradickson9462]

Yes loving learning on line great tool now i can confirm what I see

[@jbennett3578]

New Zealand to me is a lot like Iceland. One of the places I'd like to visit just for the fascinating geology. Liked and subscribed.

[@OutThereLearning]

It's definitely a great place to visit. You want to allow plenty of time to fully explore!

[@johnvanpomeren9254]

It's a very friendly and diverse country with outstanding scenery. . You'll love it (but then I am biased; I live here in NZ). Give the place plenty of your time (lots to see / do). February and March are the best months.

[@christinedaly2694]

Thank you enjoyed your video great and very informative

[@alanharwood1636]

I've watched a couple of your vids on the Chathams, and what a fascinating place. I'd love to visit, just a pity it's at the other end of the planet. Still, this excellent vid was a treat and very informative. Thanks for your efforts.

[@OutThereLearning]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it

[@janmccann8081]

Very interesting. Great explanation. Wish I could visit! Thanks.

[@OutThereLearning]

Thanks for your kind comment!

[@sixgilled]

Thanks for showing us!

[@OutThereLearning]

Pleasure!

[@AllanAlach]

Very interesting as usual

[@OutThereLearning]

Cheers!

[@earljohnson2676]

Cool watched a video describing pillow larva very cool it’s a thick like batch of mortar very interesting

[@OutThereLearning]

Cheers!

[@vankuipland]

Fascinating !

[@OutThereLearning]

Thanks!

[@oguhigashi7080]

So interesting and fascinating. Thank you!

[@OutThereLearning]

Cheers!

[@jeffparryncc1701]

Australia might get something like this wonderful series of videos in 20 years or longer, but I'm not holding my breath :)

[@OutThereLearning]

Sounds like I should come over for a big tour! 😏

[@adelarsen9776]

As interesting as Hornblend and Xenoliths are, I'd like to know what the fishing is like.

[@OutThereLearning]

:-)

[@naysneedle5707]

Wow what a cool place. I found a rock with weird holes in it on a beach recently, I had no idea what made the holes but actually it looks very similar to the rock at 1:05. Now I know, I guess!

[@OutThereLearning]

Great!

[@davidarundel6187]

Splatter Rock and the accompanying pillow lavas are very interesting - it would be worth while carbon dating some of the embedded materials .

[@OutThereLearning]

Too old for carbon dating this one

[@DrewWithington]

One of the biggest bowel movements I've ever seen.

[@OutThereLearning]

:-)

[@georgiewalker1069]

Gosh how unusual and interesting. Thank you

[@OutThereLearning]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@jackieking1522]

That alone would make a trip to the Chathams worth it... and I'm sure theres lots more.

[@OutThereLearning]

Yep!

[@bettyprussia9777]

New to your videos great job!

[@OutThereLearning]

Thank you

[@janinekaretai4306]

Extraordinary

[@OutThereLearning]

Yep!

[@pistoleroshooter2575]

Have an unusual (I think) geological feature here at Fortrose I'd like to be able to identify. Between the high and low tide lines on a sandy beach (in the estuary) are some low mounds of a soft clay like substance that looks a lot like your pillow lava. Except it's soft, doesn't change from day to day, doesn't erode away, sort of like plasticine. It covers an area about 100 meters long and 20 meters wide, sort of lumpy, sort of smooth, sort of malleable. Any ideas? I can send some pics if I know where to send them.

[@OutThereLearning]

Thanks for your comment. Sorry I am not aware of that feature

[@leoandeliadventuresNZ]

Loved the video...

[@OutThereLearning]

Thanks, glad you liked it

[@reverseuniverse2559]

Good opening where are you exactly? lol

[@sixthsenseamelia4695]

Blimmin Ruaumoko, left the toothpaste lid off...... again.

[@OutThereLearning]

:-)

[@lindaj5492]

Another great video, thank you! And keeping them short is a good idea; I feel less guilty watching for five minutes ‘cos I couldn’t justify spending 20 minutes watching a guy on a beach talking about rocks 😊 Edit: But then I binge-watch several videos ….

[@OutThereLearning]

🤣🤣

[@Simonjose7258]

Wow!

[@veramae4098]

I'm sure the beach wasn't there at the time the lava was laid down. What was there?

[@OutThereLearning]

The sea floor

[@davidpearson8954]

cool. would like to see that in person one day.

[@OutThereLearning]

Go for it!

[@lesdrinkwater490]

Interesting video. thanks

[@OutThereLearning]

Glad you like it, thanks

[@2l84t]

Interesting , a thought perhaps adding NZ to the title or description. Cheers

[@OutThereLearning]

Thanks for your feedback!

[@christianchatel8387]

Very interesting. I had to guess from your accent that it's located in England.

[@OutThereLearning]

Chatham Island, NZ

[@gaius_enceladus]

Awesome! I had no idea that the Chathams were so interesting geologically!

[@OutThereLearning]

They are indeed!

[@orange42]

Superb!

[@OutThereLearning]

It is!

[@masgim8160]

Super....

[@bazza945]

I don't recollect hearing about this formation when I lived on Chathams in 1968.

[@OutThereLearning]

It will still be there if you ever go back!

[@bazza945]

True. By The Bristol Freighters are all all gone, though.

[@paulchrystie5460]

mE TOO just love this chanel

[@OutThereLearning]

That's great!

[@karengayehammat4199]

A video by the seal saviours shows a rock broken half in a man made break water or marina dock of bright blue colour if anybody cared it would be perfect for jewellery stone making

[@saba5774]

In 100% of the cases where the date of the rock can be historically dated, radiometric dating is off by orders of magnitude. What you don’t see is 5 million years of erosion on the rock.

[@OutThereLearning]

Good suggestion. The hillslope further south (to the left) has been modified and there are no obvious signs of older stream beds that I could see

[@SubTroppo]

How does it go again? Blop, blop?

[@OutThereLearning]

:-)

[@b_uppy]

The first rock looks like a sedimentary rock carved by clams..

[@lloydm5562]

What the hell sort of toothpaste are you using?

[@OutThereLearning]

:-)

[@tims728]

You say that, but my wife just purchased charcoal infused toothpaste, the black lines could be Chatam inspired methinks, haha.

[@lorrainewade6956]

Good for hangi (ground cooking

[@cookiekitty8122]

Holy makeral!!!!

[@OutThereLearning]

:-)

[@complimentary_voucher]

Radial lobate. Like a lot of us after lockdown 😔

[@OutThereLearning]

Lol!

[@zaney1956]

Bought to the surface in the great world wide flood when the great deeps opened up and flooded the earth!

[@randomguyodst46]

The dead wyvern dragons petrified flesh. I feel sorry the beast.

[@atomipi]

choice channel bro :)

[@OutThereLearning]

Ta!

[@michaelnovak9766]

The first stone he held up... Looks just like the supposed claimed astroid some guys recently claimed they found buried in the sand.after it's apparent great trip through space. ...can't remember where. Lesson here is....if one is going to stage a piece of discovered astroid remains, a ....fear dinkum astroid ! Choose something rarer .....so people like the host here. Don't absent mindedly give the game away !

[@michaelmacdonald3408]

You know you geologists are all the same when it comes to age of rocks and fossils.A young girl asked a professor how do you know the age of rocks by the fossils then she asked how do you know the age of fossils by the rocks sounds it like contradiction.

[@OutThereLearning]

Fossils are used for relative dating. Other methods are used for absolute dating, eg to find out how old particular fossils are. Cheers

[@christophersallee376]

Want facts. MUDFOSSIL UNIVERSITY

[@michaelmacdonald3408]

Your 5 million years i would say is less than 200 years.

[@OutThereLearning]

Thanks for watching!

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Coprolites! Teach the controversy

[@umvhu]

So long as the definitely unscientific evolution principle is followed, unscientific opinion will continue to evolve, lacking and good founding in truth.

[@Fossilsunleashed]

i ask people like you do you believe in god this answer alone tells me how smart you are ,because if you dont believe in god you have no clue what you are looking at especially if you dont believe in giants and their bodies that litter the earth

[@bodybalanceU2]

and you are just rambling incoherantly

[@milkismurder]

I love this channel so much

[@OutThereLearning]

Thank you!

[@manuelmoreno6939]

It's not geology it's biology