Post by 1dave on Oct 9, 2024 14:16:49 GMT -5
In 1988 Work for electricians in Utah dried up. With time on my hands, I decided to knock some rockhounding sites off my bucket list.
First was the Moqui marbles at Big Spenser Flats it was a Mind blowing event for me! What could cause all the liesegang lines, the goethite pipes, the limonite, hematite, goethite spheres within spheres?
With my mind in a whirl about what I had just seen, I continued to my second goal, Upheaval Dome by Moab. In Moab I was fortunate to meet Fran Barnes! Fran invited me to go with him the following day to visit the sites on the path of Roberts Rift. I accepted, and drove out to Upheaval in the Eye In The Sky country. I took the left hand path down the side of Upheaval to the mouth entering the Upheaval pit. Looking up I knew there was no way I could climb inside.
So I started back, I had started late in the day and now it was getting dark. I think I was about half way from the top when I became so tired that i laid down on the side of the trail and went to sleep. I woke when the sunshine finally met me, remembering my appointment with Fran, I hurried back to the top and my Car, the only one in the parking lot, and hurried to Fran's House. He was wondering where I was. I explained. He loaded me up in he back of his Jeep, and he and his wife, Terby, drove me to sights that further befuddled my mind. What could create a 2" wide crack 2,000 feet deep through Jurassic, Triassic, and Permian sandstone, over 30 miles long? What ever it was had tossed Permian rocks up on to the Jurassic surface!
During the next 40 years I pondered these things. I studied the Sevier and Laramide Orogenies. The Uranium folds in a 60 mile diameter ring around the upheaval impact site.They didn't make sense. There was something wrong.
One day, while studying the Impacts in Argentina, reading about Penetration Funnels, it all clicked into place!
Why did some explode and others did not? because the atmosphere had stripped the water away from the leading asteroids. They were rock hitting rocks. Why didn't the penetration funnels explode? Because they were surrounded by water! They weren't a string of asteroids, they were part of a comet! Comets are 80-90% water! A water impact is very different from a solid rock impact!
The Upheaval asteroid wasn't alone! it was the leading part of the Upheaval comet, 120 miles in diameter, - 89-90% water, the rest vanadium, uranium, some copper, some rare earth metals! That is what made the penetration funnels in a ring around Upheaval!
Shockwaves from their impact reflected off the fault under the Colorado River meeting the on coming shock waves created a Standing Wave that turned the water in the sandstone layers into steam which blasted Permian rocks to the surface! That is what created Roberts Rift!
Another Question. Why the crooked Border lines on maps?
That low angle path from Canada was exactly the path of the western Intercontinental seaway and the Rocky Mountains!
Upheaval and the Upheaval comet weren't alone!
The main Midas Comet followed them!
It had to be huge! When it grazed earth it shoved the whole left side of the continent down below sea level, below thee ocean bed, and 1/3 of California was obducted!
The continent rebounded and the comet hit again, shoving the continent edge down again, and another 1/3 of California was obducted. Again the continent rebounded, and was struck for the third time and the last third of California was obducted.
Using what I knew of Geology, I imagined what had happened.
The major comet had to be huge, perhaps 1,000 miles in diameter, mostly ice, traveling 20-30 miles per second, Passed through 100 miles of earth's atmosphere in 3 1/3 - 5 seconds pushing compressed air before it. The heat generated perhaps melted 1 mile of surface ice to water. Perhaps some of it turning to steam
The Midas Comet, Hit first in the Beaufort Sea and the Yukon. perhaps several more miles of ice turned to water with asteroids and meteorites in it - The huge main core was still ice!
The comet seems to have been more stony on the right side, water on the left, shockwaves liquefying the rock layers and splashing them left, right, and ahead as it advanced, with the upheaval comet in the lead, leaving a trail of Vanadium and uranium.
As silica rocks shattered, ground water latched onto those broken silica bonds, making huge amounts of silica gel that caught the gold dust arriving for hours after the comet passed. Sinking down into the numerous fractures, they became the gold bearing quartz veins so eagerly sought today. That explains why we find gold on the mountain tops, and where it has washed down into the valleys and streams today.
The distance from first impact to the U.S. border is 1,500 miles. The asteroid crossed it between 50 and 75 seconds! perhaps more ice melted as the copper asteroids hit in Montana it became copper porphyry with a little lead, zinc, tin, Molybdenum, silver and gold mixed in.
As the comet traveled along, it shoved layers of rock in front of it, creating the shallow faulting of the Sevier orogeny, Much of the rock layers were pressed down to form a trench and drug water from the Beaufort sea with its, shale and dead broken fish with it to form the Mancos shale in it as recorded by Spicer.
It emplaced copper porphyry in Montana.
And mashed out the Sawtooth Mountains.
it deposited gold and other metals in Colorado, including tin on top of the southern mountains. Porphyry filled cracks every where in the mountains.
In Utah, the rocks were metamorphosed, Limestone turned to marble, Dolomite to soapstone, sandstone into quartzite. A large asteroid hit at the location of the Great Salt Lake and Antelope island as reported by Geologist Robert E. Cohenour
in his epic 1987 book
The impact removed the Jurassic and Triassic rocks from highland Utah, and impacted a huge metaliferous asteroid into Bingham Canyon and vicinity.
That impact sent shockwaves into southern Utah that liquefied the sandstone into waves that made it possible for erosion to carve them into over 600 natural arches, lift pools of water in the Permian Sandstone up to the Jurassic surface as seen at Kodachrome Basin. The thousands of shockwaves per second turned on and off the piezoelectric Quartz crystals in the sandstone that attracted the iron in the water racing back and forth to form the Iron concretions found throughout Jurassic, Triassic and Permian sandstone in the area.
The waters washed away the Jurassic and Triassic layer sand deep into Permian sandstone to form Monument valley, pushed wide open the Colorado river fault 40 miles wide, and filled it with sediments for the river to meander through and form the Grand Canyon.
Monument Valley:
It ripped away rock layers in Arizona right down to bed rock and more metal asteroids impacted to form the mines there and in New Mexico.
It channeled Old Mexico, heaping up the east and west mountain ranges. then plunged into the Pacific ocean, converted the basalt ocean bottom into andesite impregnated here and there with copper porphyry and other metals.
Somewhere around Tera de Fuego, still traveling faster than the 11 miles per second escape velocity, it escaped back into space where it late crashed almost head on into Venus, but that is a different story for someone else to tell.
Meanwhile, back in North America, The continent broke apart and continental collision began as the ever widening Atlantic Ocean forced the two sections together repeatedly, known as the Laramide Orogeny.
Broken submerged sections of land were driven into older pieces of other terrains, The copper, lead, silver, gold of Bingham Canyon was driven into the much older Permian limestone. All along the Sevier River the land was doubled and even tripled as at the Pahvant Range.
Eureka, Utah:
San Rafael Swell:
This happened all along the broken sections of land from Laramie Wyoming to Nevada.
Finally, after answering all my questions, my journey is over.
First was the Moqui marbles at Big Spenser Flats it was a Mind blowing event for me! What could cause all the liesegang lines, the goethite pipes, the limonite, hematite, goethite spheres within spheres?
With my mind in a whirl about what I had just seen, I continued to my second goal, Upheaval Dome by Moab. In Moab I was fortunate to meet Fran Barnes! Fran invited me to go with him the following day to visit the sites on the path of Roberts Rift. I accepted, and drove out to Upheaval in the Eye In The Sky country. I took the left hand path down the side of Upheaval to the mouth entering the Upheaval pit. Looking up I knew there was no way I could climb inside.
So I started back, I had started late in the day and now it was getting dark. I think I was about half way from the top when I became so tired that i laid down on the side of the trail and went to sleep. I woke when the sunshine finally met me, remembering my appointment with Fran, I hurried back to the top and my Car, the only one in the parking lot, and hurried to Fran's House. He was wondering where I was. I explained. He loaded me up in he back of his Jeep, and he and his wife, Terby, drove me to sights that further befuddled my mind. What could create a 2" wide crack 2,000 feet deep through Jurassic, Triassic, and Permian sandstone, over 30 miles long? What ever it was had tossed Permian rocks up on to the Jurassic surface!
During the next 40 years I pondered these things. I studied the Sevier and Laramide Orogenies. The Uranium folds in a 60 mile diameter ring around the upheaval impact site.They didn't make sense. There was something wrong.
One day, while studying the Impacts in Argentina, reading about Penetration Funnels, it all clicked into place!
Why did some explode and others did not? because the atmosphere had stripped the water away from the leading asteroids. They were rock hitting rocks. Why didn't the penetration funnels explode? Because they were surrounded by water! They weren't a string of asteroids, they were part of a comet! Comets are 80-90% water! A water impact is very different from a solid rock impact!
The Upheaval asteroid wasn't alone! it was the leading part of the Upheaval comet, 120 miles in diameter, - 89-90% water, the rest vanadium, uranium, some copper, some rare earth metals! That is what made the penetration funnels in a ring around Upheaval!
Shockwaves from their impact reflected off the fault under the Colorado River meeting the on coming shock waves created a Standing Wave that turned the water in the sandstone layers into steam which blasted Permian rocks to the surface! That is what created Roberts Rift!
Another Question. Why the crooked Border lines on maps?
That low angle path from Canada was exactly the path of the western Intercontinental seaway and the Rocky Mountains!
Upheaval and the Upheaval comet weren't alone!
The main Midas Comet followed them!
It had to be huge! When it grazed earth it shoved the whole left side of the continent down below sea level, below thee ocean bed, and 1/3 of California was obducted!
The continent rebounded and the comet hit again, shoving the continent edge down again, and another 1/3 of California was obducted. Again the continent rebounded, and was struck for the third time and the last third of California was obducted.
Using what I knew of Geology, I imagined what had happened.
The major comet had to be huge, perhaps 1,000 miles in diameter, mostly ice, traveling 20-30 miles per second, Passed through 100 miles of earth's atmosphere in 3 1/3 - 5 seconds pushing compressed air before it. The heat generated perhaps melted 1 mile of surface ice to water. Perhaps some of it turning to steam
The Midas Comet, Hit first in the Beaufort Sea and the Yukon. perhaps several more miles of ice turned to water with asteroids and meteorites in it - The huge main core was still ice!
The comet seems to have been more stony on the right side, water on the left, shockwaves liquefying the rock layers and splashing them left, right, and ahead as it advanced, with the upheaval comet in the lead, leaving a trail of Vanadium and uranium.
As silica rocks shattered, ground water latched onto those broken silica bonds, making huge amounts of silica gel that caught the gold dust arriving for hours after the comet passed. Sinking down into the numerous fractures, they became the gold bearing quartz veins so eagerly sought today. That explains why we find gold on the mountain tops, and where it has washed down into the valleys and streams today.
The distance from first impact to the U.S. border is 1,500 miles. The asteroid crossed it between 50 and 75 seconds! perhaps more ice melted as the copper asteroids hit in Montana it became copper porphyry with a little lead, zinc, tin, Molybdenum, silver and gold mixed in.
As the comet traveled along, it shoved layers of rock in front of it, creating the shallow faulting of the Sevier orogeny, Much of the rock layers were pressed down to form a trench and drug water from the Beaufort sea with its, shale and dead broken fish with it to form the Mancos shale in it as recorded by Spicer.
It emplaced copper porphyry in Montana.
And mashed out the Sawtooth Mountains.
it deposited gold and other metals in Colorado, including tin on top of the southern mountains. Porphyry filled cracks every where in the mountains.
In Utah, the rocks were metamorphosed, Limestone turned to marble, Dolomite to soapstone, sandstone into quartzite. A large asteroid hit at the location of the Great Salt Lake and Antelope island as reported by Geologist Robert E. Cohenour
in his epic 1987 book
The impact removed the Jurassic and Triassic rocks from highland Utah, and impacted a huge metaliferous asteroid into Bingham Canyon and vicinity.
That impact sent shockwaves into southern Utah that liquefied the sandstone into waves that made it possible for erosion to carve them into over 600 natural arches, lift pools of water in the Permian Sandstone up to the Jurassic surface as seen at Kodachrome Basin. The thousands of shockwaves per second turned on and off the piezoelectric Quartz crystals in the sandstone that attracted the iron in the water racing back and forth to form the Iron concretions found throughout Jurassic, Triassic and Permian sandstone in the area.
This is what made the Moqui marbles!
The waters washed away the Jurassic and Triassic layer sand deep into Permian sandstone to form Monument valley, pushed wide open the Colorado river fault 40 miles wide, and filled it with sediments for the river to meander through and form the Grand Canyon.
Monument Valley:
It ripped away rock layers in Arizona right down to bed rock and more metal asteroids impacted to form the mines there and in New Mexico.
It channeled Old Mexico, heaping up the east and west mountain ranges. then plunged into the Pacific ocean, converted the basalt ocean bottom into andesite impregnated here and there with copper porphyry and other metals.
Somewhere around Tera de Fuego, still traveling faster than the 11 miles per second escape velocity, it escaped back into space where it late crashed almost head on into Venus, but that is a different story for someone else to tell.
Meanwhile, back in North America, The continent broke apart and continental collision began as the ever widening Atlantic Ocean forced the two sections together repeatedly, known as the Laramide Orogeny.
Broken submerged sections of land were driven into older pieces of other terrains, The copper, lead, silver, gold of Bingham Canyon was driven into the much older Permian limestone. All along the Sevier River the land was doubled and even tripled as at the Pahvant Range.
Eureka, Utah:
San Rafael Swell:
This happened all along the broken sections of land from Laramie Wyoming to Nevada.
Finally, after answering all my questions, my journey is over.
