Cracking in fossilized cold fluidolith outcrops

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

To put it simply, the article will present analogies of the formation of fracturing in petrified masses of mud, natural geo-concrete and in outlier rocks, which supposedly have a magmatic formation, for these are granites and syenites.

Those who are interested in the mysterious types of granite and syenite outliers admire their unusual shapes in the form of walls, pillars and their strange structure, either cracks or seams between the massifs. They ask questions: how could such strange in geometry "blocks", "crumpled stones", walls of them have formed. Indeed, at first glance, it seems that they were molded block-wise by some hand of reason.

The author of these lines also found paradoxical moments in their structure. For example, the plane of conjugation of individual syenite massifs. It is the adhesion of the masses, not the fracturing in them. Lying on top of each other like pancakes rushes, etc. And except for the answer that this is all the result of intelligent forces, the plan of which we now do not understand - nothing came to mind.

Sometimes you have to look elsewhere for answers. It happens that you come across an analogy that can shed light on at least some of the issues. This happened this time too: I drew attention to the blocks of stones located on the coast of the Gulf of Thailand. I decided to share my observations from the analogies I saw.

Here's what I saw when I looked at the stone massifs in new places for myself:

Outcrops of fossilized masses from the water in the coastal zone of the Gulf of Thailand. Chanthaburi Province, Thailand.

It looks nothing special, a common sight, especially from afar. But I am always interested in details and analogies in them. This observation, even on vacation, does not leave me. Here's what I noticed:

1. The photo does not convey well that it looks like raised plastic masses that were previously deposited at the bottom. Their appearance is very similar to the Siberian outlier rocks.

2. At the very coastline there are such stones with strange erosion.

3. This is a small stone, about 2mx0.5m in size. There is no doubt that this is precisely petrified sea silt. Its structure contains fine sand. But all the same cracks filled with foreign rock are visible on it.

If you zoom in, you can see a grid of random cracks filled with some other rock, which is less susceptible to destruction by the sea.

In places it flakes off like plaster. Some parts of the breed are kind of bloated. Perhaps this indicates the process of increasing mass during fossilization. I described the version with such a mechanism here

The composition, most likely, contains compounds that are contained in bentonite clays - upon contact with a large amount of water, they begin to swell.

Here is what was previously encountered in their native lands:

1. This is an internal corner formed in the massifs on the Krasnoyarsk pillars.

2. Plaster on syenite massifs. There, on the Krasnoyarsk pillars. How it was formed - geology does not really explain. But it is very similar to the filling of cracks or junctions of individual masses with some kind of rock - as in the stones by the sea.

At first glance, this example is not explained by fracturing, but precisely by the adjoining with the formation of a kind of finer-dispersed "crust" between the masses, which exfoliates like plaster. Unfortunately, photography does not convey well.

What is this process of filling cracks in the rock and what kind of mineral is formed - a question for geology.

1. Isn't it a miniature megalithic remnant rock? The same chaotic seams, cracks, rock influx.

2. Compare with a similar example from the Krasnoyarsk pillars. If you do not know which photos are from, you can get confused. The photographs convey an almost identical picture. But in fact - the size of the stone massifs differ by tens of meters!

3. Koiskoe Belogorie. A high outlier with a height of tens of meters. Shooting from a height from a quadcopter.

4. Part of this stone with magnification. Pseudo-layout, the influx of one "block" to another, fracturing, giving this whole picture a mystery. Although the size of a part of this stone in this photo: 0.5x0.5m

Let's continue to consider the structure of arrays by the sea:

1. Another small stone massif near the coast. Scale it up to the scale of the Krasnoyarsk pillars - the analogy is very similar. The impression that the stone mass increased in size, finding itself on the surface of the earth.

2. Far from the coast, in the park of a hotel, I discovered a piece of marble with veins, which decays very quickly in a maritime climate.

It collapses separately with the formation of some chaotic form of segments. The cracks are also filled with a rock different from marble in color. A mesh of cracks is visible.

Most likely, in 10-20 years, this piece of marble will collapse on them separately. Metamorphism, as geologists say. But the process is very similar, as in photographs from the coastline, only this happened without increasing the volume of the rock itself.

What conclusion can be drawn from these analogies? I think the processes in the miniature of individual stones and in the macro-objects of entire rocky outcrops are the same. The mechanism of cracking, metamorphism works in the same way in the polycrystalline structure of similar rocks. Sometimes other minerals form in the cracks, veins, as they say.

Perhaps this is the mechanism of crystal growth, maybe the cracks are filled with moisture and the processes of the release of elements from the donor rock are already beginning in it. The question is interesting and requires deep study. But, unfortunately, geology is content only with the fact that in its ideas it was formed supposedly millions of years ago, gives a name to minerals, rocks and puts an end to this. Although, it is too early to put an end to even the concepts of nature in this very conservative science.

Linkto an article on Yandex Zen. Anyone who is comfortable - you can comment there.

What are cold fluidolites from the point of view of modern geology - read here

The next place with similar observations: Samet Island in the north of the Gulf of Thailand

This material can be said to be an addition to the information above. And also it is that my hypotheses about the outcrops of cold fluidolites are confirmed in other places of this region.

Often, when you visit the same place several times, you see many objects of this place differently each time. This happened during the next visit to the island of Samet in the Gulf of Thailand near the coastline of Thailand.

Several years ago, I considered hills, rocky outcrops and the like from the position of the version about traces of intelligent activity in the distant past of the planet (former civilizations or flight attendants): quarries, waste heaps, etc. Now the eyes were catching pictures and the brain was trying to analyze everything from the point of view of the consequences of catastrophic forces during a global cataclysm from the times of large-scale extinctions of flora and fauna, rapid mountain building, outflows of fluidolites (water-mud flows), etc. The starting point has changed.

Samet Island off the coast of Thailand in the Gulf of Thailand (its northern part) is, one might say, a ridge of hills that rose from the sea. Shell-like stone layers are visible. It is very likely that this is squeezing rock out of the bowels through a fault.

My opinion is that this island was formed by heaving of sea layers rising to the surface either magmatic or cold fluids. Perhaps in the resulting fault. Whether they escaped to the surface or not is hard to say now. But the fact that the rock layers were raised in the form of hills is clearly visible.

Part of the coastline of the island is not only picturesque beaches with white sand and clear sea water, but rather rocky outcrops. I once examined a couple of such places and noticed these details:

1. Part of the coastline with rocky outcrops. The impression that at that time plastic or liquid stone masses were raised from the bottom or flowed down from the high regions of the island.

2. Stone exits are dotted with many cracks. They are very reminiscent of cracks in Siberian outlier rocks: Krasnoyarsk pillars, Koiskoe, Kuturchinskoe belogorie, etc.

3. The photograph will not convey the structure of the rock, but the appearance and strength of the rock is similar to quartzite.

4. In places the breed has a layered structure, like a stack of pancakes.

Compare with a photo from one of the places of the Koysky Belogorie in the Krasnoyarsk Territory:

1. Koiskoe Belogorie. Also layered structure. The breed is syenite. But, I think, the processes leading to the formation of both are the same.

2. Cracks are filled with another rock - quartz. The process is interesting: why does quartz begin to grow in the formed cracks?

3. Sometimes quartz veins are several centimeters thick

4. Photo for comparison - Krasnoyarsk pillars. Finely dispersed syenite filling a crack on one of the outliers on the Krasnoyarsk pillars

1. Triangular breakaway stone with smooth edges on Samet Island

2. Apparently, it was previously a part of just such a structure - in the same place on Samet Island

3. Koiskoe Belogorie - also triangular "blocks", but rounded by erosion.

I got the impression that these quartzite outcrops were formerly plastic layers, but somewhere in the depths. They were quickly squeezed to the surface and petrified. Erosion along cracks destroys these masses quickly enough. Isn't it a miniature megalithic remnant?

Isn't it Siberian outlier rocks in miniature? Look at the photos on the web - they are very similar despite the different scales. The fact that the rock was not initially solid, and the layers had plasticity - says photo # 4. During the uplift of this territory, the rise was uneven and some parts of the masses turned out to be higher, the plastic layers were bent.

The cracks formed and the bedding of the rock are also visible here. Everything is like in Siberian outlier rocks. The analogy is obvious. Only these stone exits are as if in miniature. But the processes in nature are the same.

1. Where the rock was more porous, caverns formed in it.

2. There is something similar on the Krasnoyarsk pillars.

3. I even got into the frame of the "bowls" in the rock of these sea remnants

4. Similar formations, depressions are located practically on the tops of any outlier rocks. Kuturchinskoe Belogorie

I would like to share one more interesting observation. In the depths of the island, the surface consists of loose soil - sandy loam. Chernozem, fertile layer, grass turf are absent. When it rains heavily, the water erodes the rock and such miniature stone "mushrooms" are formed:

But the second photo is a cut of the soil along the road. Sandy loam with inclusions from stones. Humus, black soil is absent.

One of the explanations is that it is washed out by rains. But in this case, the sandy loam itself should be washed out. Perhaps this is happening. Erosion - decreases the height of the hills, but the slow rise compensates for this process and the hills remain at about the same level above the water.

My conclusion is the same as in the previous article on this topic of comparisons of stone formations and cracks in their rocks on the sea coast with comparisons of cracks and "blocks" in granite and syenite rocks of Siberia and other places. All this is of natural, albeit catastrophic, origin.