Totally possible. Unfortunately is impossible to marry the mineral associations, the phenocrysts, and the geoforms all together in one compelling idea. In a somewhat unrelated point the one of the papers I've been consulting has a similar idea for the formation of Orthanc: "Isengard, with its black rocks (Tolkien, 1954b, pp. 159-160), was certainly a vast volcanic crater, while Orthanc itself (cal., 1977) must have been an aiguille - a column of solidified lava thrust up from the vent in a last spasm of an eruption within the crater of Isengard, to be afterward shaped by human hand or magic. (The so-called “spine” produced in the last phases of the eruption of Mont Pelee, Martinique, is comparable.)" - William Antony Swithin Sarjeant
Great work! Super interesting!
Thanks a lot!
Great video! I love geology and LOTR
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
The pointy and jagged shape of erebor could also be a volcanic neck much like a gigant version of the devil's tower in wyoming.
Totally possible. Unfortunately is impossible to marry the mineral associations, the phenocrysts, and the geoforms all together in one compelling idea.
In a somewhat unrelated point the one of the papers I've been consulting has a similar idea for the formation of Orthanc:
"Isengard, with its black rocks (Tolkien,
1954b, pp. 159-160), was certainly a vast volcanic crater,
while Orthanc itself (cal., 1977) must have been an aiguille -
a column of solidified lava thrust up from the vent in a last
spasm of an eruption within the crater of Isengard, to be
afterward shaped by human hand or magic. (The so-called
“spine” produced in the last phases of the eruption of Mont
Pelee, Martinique, is comparable.)" - William Antony Swithin Sarjeant
"the geological equivalent of 'a wizard did it' 💀💀
Este es mi favorito so far. Fluidos hidrotermales, vetas poli metálicas and shit
Es bueno si.
I am a little less ignorant now!