The Geologic Oddity in Australia; The Bungle Bungles
Within Western Australia are a series of dome shaped pillars which tower as much as 240 meters or 790 feet above the surrounding landscape. Informally referred to as the "Beehives", these fascinating geologic structures are today referred to as the Bungle Bungles. Located in Purnululu National Park, they began their formation more than 300 million years ago and have both a geological and biological origin.
Note: If you do decide to visit this highly remote national park, bring water and food, but also please stay on marked trails and roads only. The cyanobacteria crusts and sandstone as a whole are suprisingly fragile and can be destroyed by simply walking on or touching them.
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0:00 An Alien Landscape
1:18 Devonian Period
2:20 Bungle Bungle Formation
3:01 Rain Crusts
3:48 Conclusion
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I love all your episodes but the "oddities" are my favorites.
@GeologyHub
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They are quite fun to make. :) the geologic oddities series videos that is
@aaronfranklin324
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@@GeologyHub So these are formed, as is still occuring in the Neocene, in areas prone to Continental ice sheet formation by alternations of Stadial Ice Dome building, and Geothermally driven ice dome rupture and collapse. Causing saline deep aquifers to blowout, deposit loess and chemically weather it to clay. The Iron side of this is interesting. Iron 2+ ferrous in the sandstone rather than Iron 3+ ferric. Suggests reducing conditions in the porefluids that passed through the sandstone layers as the central Australian Ice dome ruptures proceeded. H2S, HF, HCl, methane, ammonia... Probably hypersaline ionic molten salts or supercritical geofluid flow as we observe occuring in Greenland and Antarctica today. As they undergo their periodic icedome blowouts. And responsible for native metallic copper in the Central Great lakes Blowout zone. And Native Metallic Iron In Greenlands. Anaerobic extremophiles may also have been involved. Probably still are. In symbiosis with the cyanobacteria providing oxygen with their bundled protein nanowires trading electrons for protons.
Koalas look a lot cuter than they sound.
@SinnerChrono
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They are also mean. Lol cuter than they are in all aspects 😂
@TheBlueB0mber
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@@SinnerChrono drop bears
@GeologyHub
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@@TheBlueB0mber I knew this comment would pop up :D
@dickard8275
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And smell 😂
@residentenigma7141
Жыл бұрын
They taste great !
I'd never heard of the bungle bungles! What a cool geologic feature!
Thanks again, Geology Hub. Erosion can produce a myriad of wonders!
FYI. There's no sockeye salmon in Australia. 😅 Interesting video! I didn't know that cyanobacteria were involved in the Bungles.
@icollectstories5702
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That could have been video from millions of years ago!😁
@theharper1
Жыл бұрын
@@icollectstories5702 got a Tardis? 😅
That is an unusual feature - and now I know what created it! Thanks as always!
Beehives. By the way, I have difficulty communicating because I had a stroke in Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls speech. 2/8/2021 but I lived again. (My wife helped me compose this.)
Very high in my bucket list to see in person. Pencilled in next year🤞
"The Bungle Bungles" With a name like that, you didn't need to say these were in Oz
Thank you once more for the education and you are correct when you said Koala's are quite cute, they are aren't they?😄
Could you maybe do an episode on how Colorado's Garden of the Gods formed? Curious to see how they did form. Thanks!
great content mate.. want to have a stab at what caused the formation of the great artesian basin?
Awesome! I'm always super fascinated by the stories of sediments, keep the oddities coming!
"Geological Oddities" Straya yeah? Yeah Straya Straya Straya Strayaaa Strayaaa STRAYAAA STRAYAAA
I'm enjoying your geologic oddity series, also. I've learned so much about our amazing planet, which I thought I knew! Thank you, friend.
I have always been enamoured of the Bungle Bungles and would love to visit them.
Another great video. Thank you 👍
As a resident of West Australia I thank you for this episode. I admire your attempt also at pronouncing 'Bungle Bungles' which is actually pronounced, 'Bungle Bungles'....hard to tell the difference I know! Sorry, only joking Mate!! I am an avid fan of your site & hope you continue to give your no-hype explanations of many interesting areas of geology.....Thank You Sir!
@argonaught5666
Жыл бұрын
I laughed. Is Australia still vaccine crazy? Do you have to be vaxed to visit?
Another very well done episode ❤❤
Excellent episode. Thanks so much.
Very interesting! Great video.
Very interesting. Thank you.
It's a beautiful place to visit if you ever get the opportunity!
That was neat. Greetings from Western Australia.
This is cool. I also like Port Wrangel on the Alaska Peninsula North of King Cove. A hidden deep bay shaped like a bowl with 1000 foot cliffs
I first heard of them when Helen Daniels went there in "Neighbours"
@Andrew-df1dr
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Neighbours is coming back. Woohoo.
@GrahamPointer1972
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@@Andrew-df1dr Hopefully the giant asteroid will have destroyed us by then
@Andrew-df1dr
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@@GrahamPointer1972 By July?
Ahhh now I know where Helen Daniels disappeared off to all the time! Always wondered - thanks!
Really Cool, an interesting history of the region especially the presence of an active cyanobacterial crust. I wonder if there is an evolutionary relationship between Australian species of cyanobacteria and Microclimate Biocrusts of the Sahara Desert?
very interesting
@GeologyHub can you do a video about Stone Mountain in Georgia? Thanks!
Thanks.
I wonder why it’s just there
Thanks...
Nice touch reminding people of extreme fragility. Now my thoughts are torn between the recent no climbing Uluru policy, and people that just have to touch artworks made for the eyes.
Do you have any info on Laguna del Maule?????
I remember once reading a dark fantasy novel with some chapters set in the Bungle Bungles. Can't remember the title now.
I live in Phoenix Arizona. Several volcanic peaks are within the metro area. Any possibility of an eruption in Phoenix.
the pinnacles are a strange site ,does anyone know why they formed yet? this would make a good video
Awww! Now you've moved on to koalas. Very, very cute.
Thank you. *Let the Sunshine in...* .
The Kata Tjuta near Ularu ahve the same shape, different strata, of course.
After the termite mounds last time now "beehives" - but I'll let you off this episode!
Those were BIG BEES!
Definitely something you would see in a Star Trek show or film.
3:48 ... LOL
Make a video about some Brazil geology
I need TP for my Bungle Bungles!
I truly enjoy your videos I share your channel with friends all the time when I'm watching your videos everybody's impressed I hope they all subscribe the way I have good luck and please keep doing what you're doing thank you it's nice to be educated in geology I didn't pay as good of attention as I should have when I was young
When I was young, I was hoping for space travel to another planet. Not anymore; there's too much to see here on Earth.
Earth rocking in the distant past, slowly, just enough for a steady lay down of soil from differing areas . Magnetic readings maybe could give some credence to this. Just like undercoating paint, layer on layer over the years centuries or more. Nothing stays the same on Earth , probably, not outside Earth either.
Looks an awful lot like the Gaian cities from Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri.
Reminds me of the badlands of South Dakota.
@bazza945
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So North Dakota got the "Goodlands"?
@erickrobertson7089
Жыл бұрын
@@bazza945 They are all good. Never been through North Dakota but drove through that part of SD in 96' on the way to Yellowstone. Went back through in 05' on motorcycle. Nice country.
And here I thought the song lyrics bungle in the jungle were put together because they rhymed. I'm pretty sure the song is about Africa and not Australia though. Neat coincidence imo.
Bungles, not to be confused with (though ofen are) the Olgas. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kata_Tjuta
Is this related to why the Badlands in America exist? They look similar? Or no?
So the “hive” part of beehive isn’t entirely wrong.
Yes, Koalas are cute (see, I watched til the end).
Why is this beauty considered Alien?
Remains of giant creatures.
There isn't a good video explaining the layers of the Bunda cliffs. At least one that is easy to find. I don't think anyone can explain it better than you can.
This feels like an April Fool's Day episode
Mr. Bungle sounds like it was made by cyanobacteria. What a coincidence.
Wait, no comment before me? Cannot be’
@Jen56776
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Your lucky
@deborahferguson1163
Жыл бұрын
Good reminder to not walk on cryptobiotic soil. Thanks for another great video!
This video definitely has a dark undertone. We get to learn about this beautiful landscape, but there are going to be sheeple that don't care how brittle and easily damaged it is, they just gotta climb it, defacing it with their rope anchors and speeding up erosion while wasting beauty that could have lasted for millions of years. Something like this better have all the incentives in place to not climb these things. Electric fences are too costly, maybe a small section should be assigned to specifically be climbed while the rest is protected, against climbing by law, having some watch towers next to it peeking out over them.
@mopspear
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Don't say "sheeple". It makes you look bad and people won't listen to the rest of your point.
@bearcatracing007
Жыл бұрын
And who are you going to get to do all this and work in these watch towers? This place is out in the middle of no where...
@Yezpahr
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@@bearcatracing007 Nobody needs to work there lol... we have thousands of unmanned watch towers in my country... Or is that just naive of me to think that could work anywhere in the world?
@Yezpahr
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@@mopspear I did hesitate to use the word, but nothing better came to mind at the moment... I apologize to those that saw it. (weren't a lot anyway)
You lost me at (millions and millions of years) lol
You didn't have to tell us it was in Australia; with a name like Bungle Bungles. That is the most Australian name possible.
safety warning if ur car brakes down do not walk away from it u will die out there
JESSE WE NEED TO COOK 👨🍳
When the Earth is properly displayed with the South Pole at the top, Australia is the Land Up Over. It's a topsy-turvy world when maps always have the North Pole at the top. It's way past time for things to stop always being upside down. Regarding the solar system from the southern ecliptic is the correct view.
@satanofficial3902
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"The quickest way to Perth is to take the road to Sidney." ---Old Australian Proverb
All of australia is a bit of an oddity haha
tip toe around the crypto!
monotonous robotic delivery
Australians have a lot of silly names. Bungle bungles? Really guys?
@SevenPr1me
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@@anthonyj7989 guess their naming department is still in the early stages of evolution
@craigroaring
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Tell me where you are from and i'll point out equally silly names from your home.
@SevenPr1me
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@@craigroaring sounds like you're just projecting your own insecurity
@craigroaring
Жыл бұрын
@@SevenPr1me Why would i be insecure of someone else's naming?
@SevenPr1me
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@@craigroaring why would you be?
how much crap can one talk about something they know little about
Uh huh huh, bungle bungles.
Fishes?
in a Shorter Story -its EARTH
Nah, these layers of sandstone were laid down during the Biblical Flood ...and the Bungle Bungles were formed when the flood waters receded.