I have pictures of the "Natural Wall" from the 1960's. This property was in my Grandmother's family (who was born on the homestead/farm there). This video brings back great memories when I visited back then. Thanks.
@@rodneycaupp5962 can you please tell me how to get to the Michigan one? I have a deep connection to the serpent. I need to visit them. Anything else you know about any of them, I would love to know. Thank you.
Wish i could have helped tell you more about this area! I go to tech and i worked for 2 years doing a geological study on the Keweenaw fault. I spent about 2 weeks alone in that very ravine. Some very complicated structures there. Walk upstream about 200 yards and you go from sandstone to basalt, then plv conglomerate, then ryolitic tuff. Very cool cross faulting as well.
I'm no geologist, but I did visit the Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota a few years back and found myself walking inside a strange rectangular environment with elements similar to those shown in this video. This was limestone, rather than sandstone, but the "boxwork" formations on the walls and ceilings made things seem like a cubist artwork.
Midland, Saginaw, Bay, Ogemaw... Kettles are everywhere, north of the BUCKEYE State. All impacts from comet fragments very recent in the "Geological Column" ,only it almost ended life on Earth. The Older and Younger Dryas impacts. CATSTROPHISM is back in vogue with geologists. look at the Kettles in Oscoda, Hudson Bay... on and on
You are the real Deal. I have lived in this massive Quaternary impact in Ohio for 5 years now. There are so many millions of body parts of creatures turned to stone by Fire and Flood, immediately post impact. Many from West Branch up there. Now many from a west branch of the Little Miami. Don't bother looking in text books. Two Big Human Hearts and a left lung, all 3 undistorted by Fire. One heart without pericardial sack. Atria and ventricles apparent.
Say what you want about the terrors of the internet but the fact that when I grew up we had 3 tv channels, and now I can watch and learn about this and so much more at the touch of my finger is miraculous.
Holy crap! I wonder how much more of that "wall" is buried underground. And the sheer scale the earth operates on, across time and it's own surface, is honestly more than a little humbling...
It's humorous listening to clueless ramblin'. This Earth is an enclosed terrarium, it has a CREATOR and within it, CREATURES. All CREATED for SPIRITS to breifly inhabit bodies. Like an aquarium it needs cleaned or "reset". Ancient scripture says "Virtually no flesh survives the rests". That is a hand laid wall by beings much larger than our current bodies. The next reset is near.
It's humorous listening to clueless ramblin'. This Earth is an enclosed terrarium, it has a CREATOR and within it, CREATURES. All CREATED for SPIRITS to briefly inhabit bodies. The only thing "Evolving" here is our SOULS and like an aquarium it needs cleaned or "reset" periodically. Ancient scripture says "Virtually no flesh survives the resets" but the rebirth of flora and fauna is spectacular on every level. That wall is indeed a hand laid wall but by beings much larger than our current bodies. The next reset is near.
The Keweenaw is one of the most incredible places in Michigan. I love that place. Chose to go to school there. I go back fairly often and am making plans on returning next fall for a week. I have been going there for nearly 50 years.
That's really cool... there is an old Ojibwa story about a sandstone castle with a waterfall flowing threw it I wonder if this kind of formation is the source.
Well that's definitely unique! Thanks for not disclosing the location, I can imagine some idiots...... I don't need to finish. How you find these places and special formations must be some special gift, I hope you keep it up! Take care!
Wow, thanks for sharing this fascinating relic of geography with us. I'm glad you're keeping that location secret, it would be a shame for that wall to get tagged by graffiti artists. If someone had told me that was man- made, I'd have very likely believed them, but scale alone says it's not. So impressive though.
Been there a few times myself a number of years ago. Very cool geological spot. There is more of the sandstone rock wall layer directly on the opposite side of the ravine, but its been worn away down to the level of the rest of the steep ravine hillside. That visible ground level rock layer looks to be buried under the freshly fallen fall leaves from what I can see in the video so maybe you missed seeing that? And no, I wont disclose the location either so nobody ask, lol. 😉😁😆
I found out about this wall in the late 90's... a few years after I left Michigan Tech. (I even have a pin in Google Earth where it's located.) Really wish I would have learned about it before I left school. Looks amazing! I didn't realize it was on private land though.
The longer I live in Michigan, the more I discover I will probably never know all the things there are to know about it...thanks for showing off a new formation I've never heard of! I'm just sad I can't immediately go see it!!
my grandfather grew right up on that hill above Hubbell on oneco road, walking the train bridges on his paper route, he took me there many times, and his stories are probably what started my love of history. If you have any questions about the area I can ask him and see what he remembers from his youth 1940s-1950s (he still lives in Dollar Bay)
Exactly where is the rock wall, and how to get to it, I am from Gwinn and would like to visit it. Been super intrigued by the geological and human history of the copper country area since I was a child. Mike miljour.thank you
Lived in the Keweenaw peninsula when I was younger now I live in the south but I still have a lot of feelings for it and always watch anything I see about it on line
First, I just have to say, what a super engaging production! "the medium is the message" eh? You are so engaging in your delivery, and the graphics and shooting is great. As a freelance video creator, I'm envious! :-) Sure, content reigns supreme. But your delivery of said content is so engaging! It's the "medium" that just speaks of curiosity, enthusiasm, wonder....joy. And very articulate. Now on the wall. Wow! I would have likely never believed it was natural had you not so eloquently explained the phenomenon. thanks!
Amazing looking rocks. Don't appreciate your explanation as to how they formed in brilliant brick stacked formation and the age guesstimates but love their look. thank you.
I see there is a name carved in the rock there, "Wilfred Hendrickson". I wonder... there is a Wilfred Hendrickson buried in the Chassell cemetery who died in 1931 at the age of 14. I believe he was from Portage Entry. Just imagine a teen carving their name into the stone 100 years ago...
Does tessilation really occur in in opposing layers in opposing directions, like bricks, with unbroken stone in between? And then upturned, in soft soil, without falling apart? Quite a few questions for this phenomenon. You'd think geologists would be lined up to write papers and solve the mystery, wouldn't you.
You would have loved my college geology professor, Dr. Davidson! I am a Michigan girl, but went for my undergrad in the Ozarks. Everyday class was a field trip somewhere to experience the geology first hand. Not many people truly appreciate the many unique geological features/processes that formed this beautiful state. And you are amazing at inspiring people to be curious about them. 😊
It was me. I created the wall. I bought uncle Rico's time machine and went back in time and conjured up the very notion of a wall. Pink Floyd was present asking all kinds of questions about this detail here and that brick there and I told them: "it's just another brick in the wall." They said: "ooo we like that!" And history was made.
Wow the wonders in the UP never cease! At first glance I thought it might be a wall at the Cliff Mine. Another great video, thanks again for doing what you do.
The "graffitied" inscription reads" WILFRED HENDRICKSON" at 2:15. After research can only find " Poem titled "A Trip Through Keweenaw" by Wilfred Hendrickson, of Calumet. undated on page 37 of the Roy Drier Collection. ( Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections 2014,1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, Michigan, 49931)[Physical Storage Information, Box: 35, Folder: 6, item: 3377 (Mixed Materials)] Can't find actual poem online. All material seems to be 1800's.
I have no degree or anything like this but I don't know if your buddy is right, and most rocks are billions or millions of years old unless they are volcanic in nature. I believe that tectonic tensions even in Michigan would have toppled the wall fairly soon. I will give you that I'm not an expert but maybe just as good as "a friend of mine". It is an interesting formation and the video was well shot.
Thank you. What an amazing place. I've seen lots of locations where the geological strata have become distorted and crumpled by tectonic activity over vast periods of time, but this has to be one of the best examples. Shame it is on private land, would be great for teaching schoolkids about the history of the Earth.
I don't doubt that structures can be nature made in amazing ways, but I'm curious what your explanation of the lettering carved into it at the top middle at 2:46 is? It looks to be German, maybe?
Very interesting! I learned something new today, thank you! Your videos always take us to cool places, show us interesting things, and teach us something.
Like Seneca Rocks in West Virginia, it was most likely sandwiched between layers of "softer" rock when the segment in question was tipped on edge. At that point the mere weight of the wall itself would help keep it together even after the other layers fell away.
Great video! I've always wanted to see this odd land feature. My grandpa, who later moved down to N Wisconsin back in the '30s, helped build this wall. I remember him saying the worst part of the whole project was hauling the lumber in to build the scaffolding.
@@Bluebloods7 Umm, you said unimaginable amounts of erosion and time. I agree with that. The last glacier recession was about the same time humans started farming, so that was not so long ago. That wall has been uncovered many many moons before that if my uneducated eye does not deceive me. That was why I asked why the glaciers did not impact it. Lets wait for Alexis to give us an educated answer.
Alexis you did a great job explaining and the diagrams really helped get a picture of what went on to form the cool Tessellations . You make something that appears to be blah ....very exciting & interesting!!
I appreciate the video 😊. I don't know what to think of this wall. There are a lot of ancient built walls in Michigan. The more recent ones from the rock mound builders are usually "L" shaped, hundreds of feet long, and have graves on the inside of the "L" shape, and not as tall.
There is a city in Texas called Rockwall that has a mysterious underground wall. The program that I saw on that postulated that a fissure had opened and sand was washed into it, eventually hardening into rock.
And again - the wall is broken into rectangular solids like this one with a stagered structure, similar to a constructed wall. Like the one down 1 more entry. How did the glaciers 'jump' this valley and leave a perfectly intact sandstone structure?
I love your videos. It's so cool learning all of the history and geological facts about Michigan. I would love to spend a summer with you going around researching these magnificent places. How do you find these places? I really like how you're able to work with so many geologists and scientists and provide so much real truth knowledge on the places to go to. Thank you for another great video❤
Another fantastic video, Alexis! From the thumbnail alone, I would've thought it was from a long destroyed dam or building. I had no idea what is effectively natural masonry existed!
There’s no way that fault was 5-6 miles deep as the graphic suggests. That’s more than twice the average depth of the ocean! Are you sure you didn’t mean 5-6 miles wide? Also - fellow Michigander here. You’ve got a fan for life!
Faults can and do extend more that 5 to 6 miles deep. This is well known from some of the deep rift basins in the world and verified by seismic imaging. I know, because I have seen the imaging myself. Mount Everest in the Himalayas is 5.49 miles high and still rising. As a geologist, seeing these sorts of spectacular displacements is not commonplace but they do crop up every so often.
Hi Alxis! wow, that wall has a human kind of look to it. Amazing what Mother Nature can do on her own! Thanks for sharing. Love your videos. Cheers from Michigan.
It is hard to believe because it is not natural. Look at the surrounding hills and whatnot, not natural. It can happen naturally, though it is extremely rare, but there would be a lot more seen in the area aside from that wall to point to this and there isn't.
A billion year old vertical tessellated rock wall is such a rare find. Amazing how it looks man-made, appearing as almost perfectly vertical stacked blocks. Surprising such a wall could be twisted to stand vertically by purely geological forces moving the earth without breaking the sheet into many sections. Is it possible the blocks were held in place by layers of sandstone sandwiching them, and they later eroded away after being stood vertically? How did you hear of such a rare formation?
There is a gigantic broken “wall" around the corner where I live at! Which is located in Iron Gate, Virginia! If course a river runs through this broken up wall and it’s groove! I believe before the river and the wall there was one a single mountain and held back an prehistoric sea bay. Over time this area broke loose and created the river and the two separate mountains which today you can see the broke up “wall"
I have pictures of the "Natural Wall" from the 1960's. This property was in my Grandmother's family (who was born on the homestead/farm there). This video brings back great memories when I visited back then. Thanks.
incredible!
Where are you from? I think I know this site as well.
@@rodneycaupp5962 can you please tell me how to get to the Michigan one? I have a deep connection to the serpent. I need to visit them. Anything else you know about any of them, I would love to know. Thank you.
Wish i could have helped tell you more about this area! I go to tech and i worked for 2 years doing a geological study on the Keweenaw fault. I spent about 2 weeks alone in that very ravine. Some very complicated structures there. Walk upstream about 200 yards and you go from sandstone to basalt, then plv conglomerate, then ryolitic tuff. Very cool cross faulting as well.
I'm no geologist, but I did visit the Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota a few years back and found myself walking inside a strange rectangular environment with elements similar to those shown in this video. This was limestone, rather than sandstone, but the "boxwork" formations on the walls and ceilings made things seem like a cubist artwork.
Midland, Saginaw, Bay, Ogemaw... Kettles are everywhere, north of the BUCKEYE State. All impacts from comet fragments very recent in the "Geological Column" ,only it almost ended life on Earth. The Older and Younger Dryas impacts. CATSTROPHISM is back in vogue with geologists. look at the Kettles in Oscoda, Hudson Bay... on and on
You are the real Deal. I have lived in this massive Quaternary impact in Ohio for 5 years now. There are so many millions of body parts of creatures turned to stone by Fire and Flood, immediately post impact. Many from West Branch up there. Now many from a west branch of the Little Miami. Don't bother looking in text books. Two Big Human Hearts and a left lung, all 3 undistorted by Fire. One heart without pericardial sack. Atria and ventricles apparent.
Say what you want about the terrors of the internet but the fact that when I grew up we had 3 tv channels, and now I can watch and learn about this and so much more at the touch of my finger is miraculous.
HAY, we had 3 TV channels too, when I grew up... !
Just goes to prove the theory that we used to hold, that People were stupid due to lack of information, was completely wrong... ;)
Holy crap! I wonder how much more of that "wall" is buried underground. And the sheer scale the earth operates on, across time and it's own surface, is honestly more than a little humbling...
It's truly so wild, how slowly some things happen. The story of the Earth is (in some ways) so much bigger than our stories!
It's humorous listening to clueless ramblin'.
This Earth is an enclosed terrarium, it has a CREATOR and within it,
CREATURES. All CREATED for SPIRITS to breifly inhabit bodies. Like an aquarium it needs cleaned or "reset".
Ancient scripture says "Virtually no flesh survives the rests". That is a hand laid wall by beings much larger than our current bodies. The next reset is near.
It's humorous listening to clueless ramblin'.
This Earth is an enclosed terrarium, it has a CREATOR and within it,
CREATURES. All CREATED for SPIRITS to briefly inhabit bodies. The only thing "Evolving" here is our SOULS and like an aquarium it needs cleaned or "reset" periodically.
Ancient scripture says "Virtually no flesh survives the resets" but the rebirth of flora and fauna is spectacular on every level.
That wall is indeed a hand laid wall but by beings much larger than our current bodies.
The next reset is near.
I was thinking the exact same thing! Imagine all the buried structures there to find!!!
@@danielwarpaint1963 Speaking of humorous, your opinion is the epitome of that.
That is really cool! I love the content you come up with about about Michigan, and your enthusiasm is infectious, Thanks for another trip.👍🏻
The Keweenaw is one of the most incredible places in Michigan. I love that place. Chose to go to school there. I go back fairly often and am making plans on returning next fall for a week. I have been going there for nearly 50 years.
That's really cool... there is an old Ojibwa story about a sandstone castle with a waterfall flowing threw it I wonder if this kind of formation is the source.
Well that's definitely unique!
Thanks for not disclosing the location, I can imagine some idiots...... I don't need to finish.
How you find these places and special formations must be some special gift, I hope you keep it up!
Take care!
I grew up near there and visited the wall as a kid. Thanks for the background on its formation. Also, for doing a good job with the photography.
Wow, thanks for sharing this fascinating relic of geography with us.
I'm glad you're keeping that location secret, it would be a shame for that wall to get tagged by graffiti artists.
If someone had told me that was man- made, I'd have very likely believed them, but scale alone says it's not.
So impressive though.
Graffiti artists, you meant to say vandals.
Been there a few times myself a number of years ago. Very cool geological spot. There is more of the sandstone rock wall layer directly on the opposite side of the ravine, but its been worn away down to the level of the rest of the steep ravine hillside. That visible ground level rock layer looks to be buried under the freshly fallen fall leaves from what I can see in the video so maybe you missed seeing that? And no, I wont disclose the location either so nobody ask, lol. 😉😁😆
tell us
If I seen that I would start digging try to see where that thing goes.
@@raymondjackand that's exactly why no one wants to tell people where it is, because people like you would destroy it.
Fascinating. Thanks Alexis. Your enthusiasm always makes me smile, and it's always a pleasure seeing a new video from you arrive in my stream..
Alexis: Really enjoy your videos. Informative, interesting, and your positive, sunny delivery makes them fun to watch!
I found out about this wall in the late 90's... a few years after I left Michigan Tech. (I even have a pin in Google Earth where it's located.) Really wish I would have learned about it before I left school. Looks amazing! I didn't realize it was on private land though.
The longer I live in Michigan, the more I discover I will probably never know all the things there are to know about it...thanks for showing off a new formation I've never heard of! I'm just sad I can't immediately go see it!!
my grandfather grew right up on that hill above Hubbell on oneco road, walking the train bridges on his paper route, he took me there many times, and his stories are probably what started my love of history. If you have any questions about the area I can ask him and see what he remembers from his youth 1940s-1950s (he still lives in Dollar Bay)
I used to walk the ridges back towards Hungarian falls back when the railroad bridge was still in place.
Exactly where is the rock wall, and how to get to it, I am from Gwinn and would like to visit it. Been super intrigued by the geological and human history of the copper country area since I was a child. Mike miljour.thank you
What is interesting is that copper from the area is found in the terra cotta warriors in China and some Tomas in Egypt
Tombs
Lived in the Keweenaw peninsula when I was younger now I live in the south but I still have a lot of feelings for it and always watch anything I see about it on line
Good job explaining faults and faulting, Alexa. Well done. Your enthusiasm is quite infectious. Keep up the good work!
First, I just have to say, what a super engaging production! "the medium is the message" eh? You are so engaging in your delivery, and the graphics and shooting is great. As a freelance video creator, I'm envious! :-) Sure, content reigns supreme. But your delivery of said content is so engaging! It's the "medium" that just speaks of curiosity, enthusiasm, wonder....joy. And very articulate.
Now on the wall. Wow! I would have likely never believed it was natural had you not so eloquently explained the phenomenon. thanks!
Amazing looking rocks. Don't appreciate your explanation as to how they formed in brilliant brick stacked formation and the age guesstimates but love their look. thank you.
You're very polite.
I agree w/you.. thats a wall
I totally love your enthusiasm for geology.
My logical mind says No, Not natural
I see there is a name carved in the rock there, "Wilfred Hendrickson". I wonder... there is a Wilfred Hendrickson buried in the Chassell cemetery who died in 1931 at the age of 14. I believe he was from Portage Entry. Just imagine a teen carving their name into the stone 100 years ago...
Thank you for sharing that bit of history. I was wondering who that individual was, too.
The engraved name is visible at 2:14 + and at 2:42 on the third row of rock below the row that overhangs. Best seen in full-screen mode.
Looks like the ruins of a dam across a rivine
Watching this, I got a picture in my mind of a velociraptor running into that wall a few million years ago. Thanks for including your sources.
At 2:42 it looks like something is etched into the wall.
Does tessilation really occur in in opposing layers in opposing directions, like bricks, with unbroken stone in between? And then upturned, in soft soil, without falling apart?
Quite a few questions for this phenomenon. You'd think geologists would be lined up to write papers and solve the mystery, wouldn't you.
Looks like a made wall to me, and I'm a bricklayer and stonemason for 50 years, but I could be wrong, just saying.
@@bungarraoz254 It always seems that the more obvious something is the more it gets denied.
Definitely. what I can't figure out, is why they cover these things up, and won't tell us the truth, seems nefarious.@@JoeSmith-cy9wj
Man made geopolymer blocks, which is also the answer to how the pyramids in Giza were made.
Also in Texas and Montana and at similar latitudes as Gornaya Shoria
You would have loved my college geology professor, Dr. Davidson! I am a Michigan girl, but went for my undergrad in the Ozarks. Everyday class was a field trip somewhere to experience the geology first hand. Not many people truly appreciate the many unique geological features/processes that formed this beautiful state. And you are amazing at inspiring people to be curious about them. 😊
It was me. I created the wall. I bought uncle Rico's time machine and went back in time and conjured up the very notion of a wall. Pink Floyd was present asking all kinds of questions about this detail here and that brick there and I told them: "it's just another brick in the wall." They said: "ooo we like that!" And history was made.
Look at the right angles!!! That was quarried and cut into blocks! A billion years? That is one of the most outlandish explanations I've ever heard!!!
Geopolymer blocks is the logical answer.
Lol
@@Mr.Grimsdale Looks pretty obvious.
Wow the wonders in the UP never cease! At first glance I thought it might be a wall at the Cliff Mine. Another great video, thanks again for doing what you do.
The "graffitied" inscription reads" WILFRED HENDRICKSON" at 2:15. After research can only find " Poem titled "A Trip Through Keweenaw" by Wilfred
Hendrickson, of Calumet. undated on page 37 of the Roy Drier Collection. ( Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
2014,1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, Michigan, 49931)[Physical Storage Information, Box: 35, Folder: 6, item: 3377 (Mixed Materials)] Can't find actual poem online. All material seems to be 1800's.
I remember reading about a natural wall in Texas I believe. They were fighting over weather it was an ancient culture or not.
Except that wall has rectangular windows in it hence why they're arguing
Are you sure the rocks are in their FINAL position or are they just in there current position?
Nothing is final - they’ll keep moving for another billion years, long after humans have gone extinct.
It was built during the war of the rings. There are several books explaining what was going on then and the need for these defense walls.
I have no degree or anything like this but I don't know if your buddy is right, and most rocks are billions or millions of years old unless they are volcanic in nature. I believe that tectonic tensions even in Michigan would have toppled the wall fairly soon. I will give you that I'm not an expert but maybe just as good as "a friend of mine". It is an interesting formation and the video was well shot.
Thank you. What an amazing place. I've seen lots of locations where the geological strata have become distorted and crumpled by tectonic activity over vast periods of time, but this has to be one of the best examples. Shame it is on private land, would be great for teaching schoolkids about the history of the Earth.
wonder what the rest looks like the buried part? Plus why? are the cubes rougly all the same in size?
This is awesome.
That is a wall.
I love the Keweenaw Peninsula !! I really like your videos and your research you do on them! Request a video on Mackinac Island for future content 😎!
Thanks, James!! And yes, absolutely - I would love to get out to Mackinac Island at some point!
I don't doubt that structures can be nature made in amazing ways, but I'm curious what your explanation of the lettering carved into it at the top middle at 2:46 is? It looks to be German, maybe?
Shhhhh!!!!😂😂😂
Top word looks to be WILFRED, hard to make out the surname.
It says 'drink your ovaltine' 🤣
Wilfred Hendrickson.
Thanks, awesome, I always look forward to your videos
totally amazing .learn new things with each vidio .
Very interesting! I learned something new today, thank you! Your videos always take us to cool places, show us interesting things, and teach us something.
If the rock was cracked then how didn't it fall apart as its raised? This sounds like a lot guesswork.
Like Seneca Rocks in West Virginia, it was most likely sandwiched between layers of "softer" rock when the segment in question was tipped on edge. At that point the mere weight of the wall itself would help keep it together even after the other layers fell away.
@@DrewNorthup iv just learned about shifting soils or whatever it's called. That sort of explains it.
@@maxwellblackwell5045 Not really
Great video! I've always wanted to see this odd land feature. My grandpa, who later moved down to N Wisconsin back in the '30s, helped build this wall. I remember him saying the worst part of the whole project was hauling the lumber in to build the scaffolding.
Hard to understand why the sandstone was not eroded away like to remaining ravine sides.
Too cool! But is have a question: How did it survive the glaciers?
Who said it did? It's being revealed beneath layers of earth after unimaginable amounts of erosion and time having passed.
@@Bluebloods7 Hmm, maybe you are right, but the glaciers receded just 10,000 years ago.
@@Grumpyoldman037 exactly...
@@Bluebloods7 Umm, you said unimaginable amounts of erosion and time. I agree with that. The last glacier recession was about the same time humans started farming, so that was not so long ago. That wall has been uncovered many many moons before that if my uneducated eye does not deceive me. That was why I asked why the glaciers did not impact it. Lets wait for Alexis to give us an educated answer.
@@Grumpyoldman037 I've been teaching likely for longer than you've been alive, son, but sure, have at it.
Thank you Alexis. Extremely fascinating. Thank you for sharing your passion for learning with us.
Nature is a highly skilled stone mason!
Part of me just does not want to believe that is not human made. Thank you for a very cool thing, and a beautiful area!
Thank you to the owner of this place for letting you share it.
Hope you’re loving your life because I love the info you bring us with unbridled enthusiasm. Keep wandering and wondering!
It looks a lot more symmetrical in a still. Loooking at from other angles, it's a lot less "brick" like
I see Wlfred Hendrikson was there, at 2:40 in the video scribed on the wall. Thank you for the videos. I live in Jackson, I love this state
Alexis you did a great job explaining and the diagrams really helped get a picture of what went on to form the cool Tessellations . You make something that appears to be blah ....very exciting & interesting!!
That is absolutely the coolest thing I’ve ever heard of. If I walked upon that, I would have just assumed someone built a wall. Just plain cool.
Wonderfully explained. As much as I’d like to see it in person I can appreciate it being on private land.
Can you appreciate the owner paying property taxes?
@@user-bg2oi4bz3p I hadn’t noticed the “can’t”. Made the whole statement nonsensical and I’ll edit it.
@@nickdee5764 I see.
How did that fragile sandstone wall survive the Glaciers?
It was probably buried and only exposed due to more recent erosion.
@@deafman4090 Those super light weight glaciers huh?
I'd suggest you read a book but it's obvious you already know everything.@@dvnwnd07
Yet again, another great piece of content! The natural world is so interesting!
I appreciate the video 😊. I don't know what to think of this wall. There are a lot of ancient built walls in Michigan. The more recent ones from the rock mound builders are usually "L" shaped, hundreds of feet long, and have graves on the inside of the "L" shape, and not as tall.
Michigan ROCKS!
Interesting. I’d have bet that was a man-made wall.
Thanks for the marvelous content and education about this State that we live in.❤❤❤
There is a city in Texas called Rockwall that has a mysterious underground wall. The program that I saw on that postulated that a fissure had opened and sand was washed into it, eventually hardening into rock.
And again - the wall is broken into rectangular solids like this one with a stagered structure, similar to a constructed wall. Like the one down 1 more entry.
How did the glaciers 'jump' this valley and leave a perfectly intact sandstone structure?
I just glad it is so far from any place some people don't mess with it
I love your videos. It's so cool learning all of the history and geological facts about Michigan.
I would love to spend a summer with you going around researching these magnificent places.
How do you find these places?
I really like how you're able to work with so many geologists and scientists and provide so much real truth knowledge on the places to go to.
Thank you for another great video❤
Another fantastic video, Alexis! From the thumbnail alone, I would've thought it was from a long destroyed dam or building. I had no idea what is effectively natural masonry existed!
Effective natural Architectural Surface Treatment! 😂
cast geopolymers can last a very long time when properly mixed.
I'm no geologist, but that to me is clearly a man made prehistoric megalithic wall. A truly incredible find! Thanks for sharing.
Clearly, you are no geologist.
Hello from Sault Ontario! It's funny how you can live in the area all your life, and have no idea about some amazing things like this!
A billion year old sandstone that must have remained relatively close to the surface, or it would've been metamorphosed into quartzite. Amazing!
It could have happened deep with silica dioxide crystalising after volcanic activity.
Very cool, thanks for taking us along :-)
Thanks Alexis for another great geology lesson!
Good to hear the Michigan dialect again. Been awhile since hearing it.
We have a dialect?
Amazing, thank you for sharing.
Reminds me of the sandstone and quarrying relics at Banning State Park on the Kettle River near Askov and Sandstone, Minnesota! 😎✌️
There’s no way that fault was 5-6 miles deep as the graphic suggests. That’s more than twice the average depth of the ocean! Are you sure you didn’t mean 5-6 miles wide? Also - fellow Michigander here. You’ve got a fan for life!
Faults can and do extend more that 5 to 6 miles deep. This is well known from some of the deep rift basins in the world and verified by seismic imaging. I know, because I have seen the imaging myself. Mount Everest in the Himalayas is 5.49 miles high and still rising. As a geologist, seeing these sorts of spectacular displacements is not commonplace but they do crop up every so often.
As usual, amazing and informative video.
Hi Alxis! wow, that wall has a human kind of look to it. Amazing what Mother Nature can do on her own! Thanks for sharing. Love your videos. Cheers from Michigan.
I’d like to hear Steven Baumann’s take.
Wow its hard to believe that is a natural formation. It looks as if bloks of stone were cut and were fit together to make a wall.
It is hard to believe because it is not natural. Look at the surrounding hills and whatnot, not natural. It can happen naturally, though it is extremely rare, but there would be a lot more seen in the area aside from that wall to point to this and there isn't.
Thank you again! Your delight in the world and in this very special area are wonderful.
Very cool. Thanks!
very cool video ! so why didnt you show the writing that was carved on the wall?
I was wondering the same; glad to know I'm not the only one who noticed the carved lettering.
The person’s name revealed in the comments.
found it thanks.@@davidrandell2224
A billion year old vertical tessellated rock wall is such a rare find. Amazing how it looks man-made, appearing as almost perfectly vertical stacked blocks. Surprising such a wall could be twisted to stand vertically by purely geological forces moving the earth without breaking the sheet into many sections. Is it possible the blocks were held in place by layers of sandstone sandwiching them, and they later eroded away after being stood vertically? How did you hear of such a rare formation?
Other less resistant vertical layers later eroding away is what happened. That wall is NOT a billion years old.
I think that is an ancient dam of some sort.. the terrain seems fitting..
This is so cool! I was going to ask where in the Keewenaw peninsula it was, but then you said it’s on private land, so never mind.
If it was anyone but you I'd question the non man made explanation. Amazing.
There is a gigantic broken “wall" around the corner where I live at! Which is located in Iron Gate, Virginia! If course a river runs through this broken up wall and it’s groove! I believe before the river and the wall there was one a single mountain and held back an prehistoric sea bay. Over time this area broke loose and created the river and the two separate mountains which today you can see the broke up “wall"
Its amazing place we live in
MICHIGAN
There are no faults in the Keweenaw! It's perfect!!😄
At 1:16 That one block at the center of the picture seems to be holding up a lot.
THANKS, VERY MUCH, ALEXIS!!....THAT IS ...."SPECFRICKINTACULAR!!!!!!!"
This is fascinating.
I'm in Quebec, you make me want to go to Michigan. I've opnly spent 37 hrs at the airport in Detriot due to a mangled flight connection from Beijing.
Wow, very very cool. Thank you. P.S. Any thoughts on how it survived the glaciers?
That is an excellent question, I’m very interested in the answer as well.
Thank you for providing such a fine detailed view and description of the rock. That is an amazing formation.
Thank you for sharing this amazing piece of geology. The natural world is fascinating. 😊😎
Awesome video! Thank you!