The Geologic Oddity in Namibia; Brukkaros Mountain

[@StuffandThings_]

Could you talk about the fossil fjords of Namibia (and if any exist elsewhere)? They're remarkably intact, and its crazy to think that fjords from hundreds of millions of years ago are still recognizable and now exist nowhere near the poles!

[@CodyosVladimiros]

Wait, there's fossil fjords in Namibia? Tell me more.

[@aldenconsolver3428]

I would like to know more about this also.

[@thomashenebry8269]

Effort is wasted on some people. Are you going to pay the company's way so they can make it?

[@BackYardScience2000]

​@@thomashenebry8269the hell are you talking about? He doesn't have to go to Namibia to make a video about it. He gets almost all of his pictures for these videos from Google. He could make a video about it in under a few hours. Some things are lost on some people, like you say. Though you misrepresent your place in that statement....

[@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx]

Thanks! I have never seen thatl large of a tuff ring before! It truly represents how voluminous plinian eruptions can be! We all know this, but today (or yesterday, depending on your time zone) is the day in 1883 that Krakatau (or Krakatoa)'s climactic eruption phase began. The volcano had been erupting since May of that year.

[@retropipes8863]

Cool! Thanks for sharing as always!

[@melodyscamman244]

Thank you 🙏👍👍❤️

[@sherylschroer6610]

So interesting. Thank you for sharing such fascinating information. Love it.

[@sigisoltau6073]

Cool. It's nice to see a video on one of the geological features of my home country.

[@rogermestler1753]

Thanks!

[@TheSpiritombsableye]

This is one I didn't know of. Nice.

[@headlessspaceman5681]

Never seen this one before! Really fascinating, thanks for this one!

[@billmiller4972]

Talking about rare earth metals, maybe you could make a video about the Ytterby-mine?

[@bassangler73]

Geology is fascinating

[@deborahferguson1163]

It sure is!

[@jcim6438]

Thanks.

[@GregInEastTennessee]

I visited two tuff volcanoes in Idsho the other day. Nothing like this, but still very interesting.

[@jameslewis1605]

Awesome

[@Falkaroa]

Hi again, Mr. GeologyHub! I have found this strange feature just south south east of the Waw A Namus volcano, consisting of a few circular domes of fractured rocks. Are these lava domes or something else like a salt glacier?

[@Falkaroa]

24°35'29.77"N 18° 3'32.09"E

[@Tres-sSs]

thanks for the awesome videos! and i have a question! there are massiv chucks on the seafloor south of iceland, streching south-west from faroe islands - scotland all the way down to ireland. all together i would say its near the size of the UK. is that a natural feature or the remains of a massive underwater landslide?

[@TheDuckseason]

SIr , Could you do a show on the inversion of the poles and its efects on the plates and so on.

[@raideurng2508]

I came on this object a few days ago on google maps and was convinced it was volcanic in origin, despite no similar calderas around it. Strange that this seems like a one off event.

[@jesusslord]

It's not volcanic. It was cause by water eruption as close 6000 years ago. There is no evidence volcanic eruption there.

[@ACHistory]

Can you cover the MAPCIS crater? Its a proposed impact crater basically the size of Australia

[@cohomologygroup]

"Brukkaros: We've Got The Right Tuff!"

[@00Mandy00]

Do moon geology. I feel like there is going to be a rush to strip mine the moon for rare earths, although I don’t expect I’ll live long enough for the pits to be readily visible.

[@Yezpahr]

Mining such a majestic Earthly structure would be a truly sad sight. This site should be preserved, not leeched and excavated. But of course, we will have to exploit this resource eventually, ''that's just how humans do''. (to quote Ze Frank)

[@grokeffer6226]

👍👍👍

[@matthewk8379]

Hello. I was wondering if you could do a video of the potential super volcano or the volcanoes in Maine? Thanks.😊

[@BikerDash]

While I suspect that there ain't any current volcanic activity to be found here in Maine, there is one geological feature here in Maine that is volcanic in origin I hear; plutons. I suspect there is two here in Maine. One fairly deep underground, and one named Janet sitting right now in the Blaine House.

[@stevejohnson3357]

Sounds like a nice vinaigrette.. What would it take to turn it into a sauce bearnaise?

[@zacharyarons6950]

So has Brukkaros Mountain only erupted once or has there been subsequent eruptions over the timespan of a few thousand to a few million years before finally going extinct?

[@Dragrath1]

To my knowledge tuff rings themselves like cinder cones and maars are monogenic vents meaning that an individual vent only erupts once. However monogenic vents are often part of volcanic complexes which have experienced multiple monogenic and even sustained longer lived repeat eruptive vents though if this was the case it generally wouldn't include this mountain per say. I don't think this involved other significant eruptive events though its possible there may have been smaller eruptions associated with this.

[@floffycatto6475]

Funny to think of an ancient volcanic region as a one hit wonder

[@asusmctablet9180]

I'm sure exploration geologists have already drilled it looking for REEs. Namibia has seen a lot of exploration, and it's a safe jurisdiction with favourable geology. Basically everything in the world has been drilled already, except Antarctica, Afghanistan, Iran and areas with heavy jungle soil cover.

[@Techno_Idioto]

It's best to leave the jungles and Antarctica undrilled.

[@aldenconsolver3428]

Very interesting and surprising that nobody is working it. Perhaps economic and political reasons?

[@USA_27]

What is cause about the earthquakes happening in different surface terrains like continents lang forms & oceanic land forms ?

[@Iambrendanjames]

Yea a tuff ring is the only way to explain it because there is no rock type that could really support such a huge edifice and then just leave a perfectly round ring. and no hummocks. There's at least one formation in southern Argentina I've seen that was obviously volcanic, but would require an isolated volcanic edifice that would have poked the stratosphere in order to create such a round shape.

[@johnfurey936]

Looks like a lightning blister?

[@skybluskyblueify]

The same kind of tuff that is in Mono Lake California?

[@headlessspaceman5681]

The formations in Mono lake are condensed water-borne mineral precipitates, not tuff. Tuff is a solidified ash flow.

[@Salvador_but_he_plays_gd]

I want to know what Vei that Eruption was A Plinean Tuff Ring forming Eruption That is interesting

[@stevenwiebe-jo3cy]

Speaking of Africa & geology, one often hears that "Africa is splitting apart" & this is accompanied by dramatic picture showing cracks in the Earth. Are there any real pictures, unfaked of recent African splitting? Is there any evidence that this rifting is accelerating?

[@headlessspaceman5681]

Pretty sure it's called The Rift Valley. Not sure why it's called that though. Maybe it's named after Sebastian Lewis Rift, the noted proctologist.

[@AndrewLale]

Excuse me, I just have to rush off to Namibia to start a mining company...

[@chadsimmons6347]

I wonder if locals would sell some specimens of that particular weird caldera? I would like to have a 100-gram hunk,

[@StuffandThings_]

Why does Africa in particular seem to have so many carbonatites? It seems like many carbonatites, both within the recent past (past few millions of years) and even deep past come from that continent. Is it just some bias in the data or in the remarkable preservation of some of the geology there, or is there an actual trend? It just always strikes me how ridiculously geologically diverse Africa is, especially with unusual magma compositions.

[@SevenPr1me]

Africa is the oldest and largest continent

[@StuffandThings_]

@@SevenPr1me It can be argued that North America and Australia are both good contenders for "oldest" and even without Europe included as Eurasia, Asia is the largest.

[@LuisAldamiz]

What happens when you mix vinager and oil other than a salad? Wouldn't you mean vinager and soda powder (acid + base)?

[@b.a.erlebacher1139]

He means that the oil floats on top of the vinegar - the two liquids don't mix.

[@Dragrath1]

No he was using an example of a fluid mixture that if mixed will subsequently separate out by density you will often see this with certain salad dressings which contain both kinds of polar/charged and nonpolar components. The scientific term for such fluids is immiscible fluids. Oil and Vinegar are immiscible fluids just as phonolite and natrocarbonotite are immiscible fluids. Other examples of such fluids include any oils(nonpolar molecular fluids) and water, Here is a chart I found via googling(came from a physics stack exchange post specifically chemistry.kenyon.edu/getzler/Research%20files/miscibility_elutropicity.pdf

[@LuisAldamiz]

@@b.a.erlebacher1139 - Ah, OK. I'm more familiar with that analogy being "oil and water". But once explained makes sense. TY.

[@jonathangandy9271]

Where in Namibia, am searching for it?

[@sigisoltau6073]

Northwest of the town of Keetmanshoop, roughly 30 miles or 50 kilometers.

[@FlywithDries]

Close to a village called Berseba. I tried flying my small drone there, but the wind was way too strong.

[@alexdrockhound9497]

i love carbonatites

[@ianinthewest]

Spanish Peaks in Colorado

[@dleetr]

Plasma discharge?

[@colinclavel4393]

carbonatite!

[@efdangotu]

This looks like a electric scar blister.

[@thomaspoczontek7731]

First comment

[@Paulftate]

well,, spit it out before you choke to death

[@BikerDash]

I can see it now... Namibia will quickly profit from all this, and then tear itself apart as numerous factions fight for control of the riches.

[@vickilindberg6336]

Do the Chinese hhave a contract to mkne this yet? If not, there's a good reason. The Chinese would not have just missed this.

[@sephrus7784]

In a shocking turn of events the US government just discovered an ISIS terrorist base inside the tuff ring and had to send in troops to secure it.

[@LuisAldamiz]

In a shocking turn of events Evgeny Prigozhin just came out from Hell in Namibia using the carbonatite tunnel. The USA called ECOWAS to do something but Tinubu said that he's too busy trafficking drugs to care. Turns of events can be dizzying, really. 😅

[@alanh1406]

In 100 -150 years most of what you showed will be stripped mined to oblivion.

[@David-f2p5m]

TOPIC: RARE KOROIT NUT OPALS I WOULD VERY MUCH APPRECIATE A VIDEO ON THIS TOPIC AS THIS TYPE OF OPAL IS VERY RARE AND CAN FETCH AS MUCH AS $50K😊

[@kathysmith6413]

now that this is becoming a more public knowldge, give it 5 minutes and the mining corps will be in there like dirty shirts. let's hope they are ethical and not the slave or near slave based companies that have found Africa THE place to go.

[@headlessspaceman5681]

Ethical mining corporations? Now there's an oxymoron.

[@kathysmith6413]

@@headlessspaceman5681maybe, but i have been living in hope that ethics and morals would make an appearance at the corporate level for the last 75 years and i am not giving up now. i will admit, however, that the hope part i dwindled significantly from when i was a kid under 20.

[@jesusslord]

😂there are no evidence of volcanic rock and typical surface resemblance of volcanic aftermath within the syb-layers. There similar craters with identical characteristics all over the world.

[@ObsidianRadio]

At 00:03 That is not a circle. That's a stretched-out Hexagon. We clearly see Striations, Lichtenberg figures, polygonal angles, very shallow basin, etc. All signs that this feature is indeed a formation from some type of electro machining on the planet. Ancient gigantic lightning bolts and Continental firestorms are what formed these beautiful features. I know many will scoff at what I say but eventually more people will become aware and open to the reality of electro-geology. Have great day everyone! And thanx again GeologyHub. 🙂

[@alexdrockhound9497]

the electric universe theory is the most absurd nonsense ive ever heard.

[@StuffandThings_]

This might just be the biggest joke since scientology

[@headlessspaceman5681]

You dummy he just explained what it is and what it is not. How does lightning and/or wildfire build a mountain or create a plateau or an uplift?

[@ObsidianRadio]

@@StuffandThings_ Why do you say that?