Ok, Thank you all. Cant believe how far I missed the mark on the pounds -per-cubic - foot weight of sandstone ☠☠☠Turns out these things are WAY heavier than I calculated. On a magnitude of 12x. The first object weighs closer to 1,354,500 lbs, about the same weight as a Giant Crane. The second object probably weighs 5,356,800 lbs which is about the weight of 4-5 Giant Cranes.

I am an adventurous soul in a disabled body. As I lay here in bed, where I've spent the majority of the last 34 years, I watch this completely enthralled and transported into a dream of life as I would have loved it to be. THANK YOU for this great gift!!!

THANK YOU, for slow smooth camera panning, and no lame ass background music!

"I can't even get to where I want to go, I just can't stop finding things." Same.

Any gap between rocks which are human width are super scary. Don't fall down them, or you'll starve to death with your body dangling caught by your head.

Not gonna lie, even if there is a perfectly reasonable geological explanation for this, those damn sure look like a quarry..

As a structural and architectural engineer I am super sensitive to geometry and you have given me the absolute best video I have ever watched....late in my 70s I can't go there to see it for myself so thank you for your great adventure

At 6:38 you can see where each new block will break off in the future, I'm not sure if it's moist or red clay in the spaces but it makes a grid pattern. I haven't seen any comments on this and thought it made it so much cooler that you can tell where it'll start receding thousands of years from now

Im just pleasantly amazed that there isnt piles of garbage everywhere. Since i was a young boy i loved to explore, to see an interesting rock outcrop or geological feature and hike to it in hopes that id be the 1st person to set foot on the site and perhaps discover something incredible. Without fail, EVERY single place ive ever visited dissapointed me to find remnants of others carelessness and disrespect for nature. Broken beer bottles, cans and trash around an accompanying fire pit was all i found. It used to make me so angry that people could be so lazy and apathetic to the beauty of nature. To see such a spectacular place unmolested by careless people is so refreshing. Beautiful cinematography btw. Thank you for sharing. Youve got quite a talent.

I think these cubes weigh a LOT more than you are estimating. A cubic foot of sandstone weighs about 150 pounds. Regardless of their mass.....this is another stunning video. You are putting out some very unique and amazing content.

The way a log burns in a fire, then falls into separate square/rectangular pieces is what this reminds me of, just on a massive scale. Awesome find !

Aliens used those perfectly cut rocks to build up the Pyramid, but they went bankrupt due to the economic crisis.

Omg this is an incredible find. This apparent quarry reminds me of the stuff Brian Foerster has identified on his channel, which covers huge ancient megalithic rock ruins. The rocks were quarried, transported and placed using technology way beyond what should have existed at the time. Even more than we have now because these would have to be literally levitated to get where they are at.

I’m close to a panic attack just watching you and waiting for you to fall or get stuck in a crevice. The dog has no fear either. That is an unbelievable place to explore. Thanks for sharing and staying alive!

You are exactly correct! That is fossilized coral. This entire region was once an inland sea, and when Earth changes happened long ago, the land rose, the water fled to the current oceans, and what was once at the bottom of the sea is now high above the current sea level.

Great video. When you squeezed between these massive blocks you made me feel claustrophobic. Felt like it was me in there for a minute haha 😂

Excellent slow, quiet look at this unique geology. Thanks. I swam in rockpools where there was a square gap, 4 separate huge rocks on sides. It is likewise looking manmade but at impossible location and huge size. And mostly underwater. Sandstone also, on Queensland south east coast. I always wondered if there were others too, so thanks for showing these.

Hey I live here! It never gets old. So much to find. Petroglyphs, pottery, fossils, even gemstone quality agate, agatized fossils, petrified wood. And of course some of the most unique rock formations on earth.

It boggles the mind to believe this is natural. There are so many lines that look like precise cuts.

I found this from “universe inside you” did a video about what you found here. Fascinating. The view is so beautiful and humbling too. Thank you so much for sharing with us. Edited: I have to add, if you were my son you would be giving me a heart attack watching at 11:31. I had to stop at 11:52, my PTSD anxiety couldn’t watch anymore. I will pray for your safety. Traumatizing your friends should be your first clue your a dare devil death wish waiting to happen. For your families sake love, please be more mindful, and careful. My brother was like you, and in his 50s he regrets those things and his injuries remind him every day. Love and best wishes on your journeys.

Search the area near Train Rock, Utah and find many of the same fracture patterns and also at 37º0'6.97"N 109º 6'25.16"W as well. One can find hundreds of instances of natural fracturing by observing the vegetation growing atop many of the mesas. The plants have found the natural fissures and take root there giving the appearance of tree lines or fence lines.

It looks like you’ve actually found coral fossils, similar to the affects which created the nearby petrified forest. All of that land was once under water. Great work, by the way!

Beachrock is cool stuff. Even a gazillion years after it was created. Imagine standing on an old coast all these years later, now so far above sea level. Wonderful. Thank you.

You have done an outstanding job. I congratulate you on your adventurous spirit and ability to explain and think، I lived in Utah for two years in the early 1980s and unfortunately never visited that place، Thanks a lot.

Looks like a prehistoric oceanfloor. With the corals and dried up, petrified mud and everything. Amazing video! Thank you

From the UK, I just want to say how incredibly envious I am of this excursion and how brilliantly shot and narrated it is. Having been through Monument Valley twice and always wanted to get on top of the cliffs there, this is a real thrill to see this. Look forward to watching more of your adventures.

Been a builder all my life, Stone is about the same as concrete 150 pounds per cubic foot. Some stone a little lighter , some a little heavier. The 12.5 could only be a board foot,, 12X12x1 inches 21.5X21X20 yields 9030 cubic feet, weighs 1,354,500 pounds 677.25 tons. edited,, When my comment was entered,, it landed on my screen immediately below your correction. Same answer. Thought I was seeing double for a moment. (That is the San Juan down below? Not far from Goose Neck. I have never been up on that ridge,, I have paddled the full length of the San Juan,, That cliff is visible and distinctive from below,)

The strangest part I noticed at 6.40 into the video, the aerial view show's the background. The whole are has outlines of these pre-cut lines. Have you ever tried to ask a geologist or someone what could have caused these naturally ? I'm thinking, in Ireland there is the Giants Causeway, but they are tiny compared to these but there are over 40,000 interlocking square columns over there. This is amazing though, i'd love to have come on this adventure with you !!

Honestly ~ this is the most incredible video I've ever seen. I'm 67 and spent many years hiking and traveling, and have never seen anything like this!! I can't thank you enough for your fantastic videos. The area looks as if it has been mined. I was a Miner, from an AZ mining town. At app'x the 20:25 mark, there's a pyramid. Also- when you're at the cedar tree, looking at the odd 'coral' rock, I noticed perfect bricks. I am absolutely blown away. Sharing your video to my friends!!! 🏆

Okay, I'm just going to admit it, I'm really, really impressed with the drone footage that you shot. Truly top quality. Very professional.👏

This video shows that really how little we knwo about our home planet. Thank you for sharing your courage and desire to give us your experiences and knwoledge. Love this video and You tube. Jim Camp

You have to remember that these places were once submerged underwater for millions of years . The tops of these mountains didn't start emerging from the depths until approximately 300 million years ago . Then thousands of years ago they were under ice from the last ice age . The evidence is there . Fossils of all types of fish and other deep sea dwelling crustaceans , and shellfish . The ground itself has the evidence on top of erosion that has taken place . First water , then ice , and millions of years of wind . These angles that form these "cubes " are done naturally . If you go diving in parts of the ocean you can see the same formations . No ancient aliens cut these rocks . Nature did all the work .

BTW, your productions are of the finest quality. The purity of the hauntingly reflective, silent moments evoke profound wonder that would be spoilt by backing music. Thank you.

Your dog getting so close to the edge and wanting to follow you is KILLING me!

It's amazing !!! Well done. Thanks for showing the world that there is so much still to be discovered !!! It's similar to the megaliths of Baalveck

You did some great video work, I assume using a drone with a decent video cam. Thank you for investigating and sharing this post.

Amazing find! I will suggest you carry around with you a GPS Beacon like a Garmin InReach mini just in case you don't already have one. If you got stuck you could use it to save your life.

I can't get the image out of my head of Wile E. Coyote prying one of those blocks up to smash the roadrunner. Thus is a great video.

I'm from Brazil and looking at these rocks with this level of precision, wondering what would be the method used for such precise cuts. Truly a part of human history has not been told. Congratulations on the discovery and thank you for posting the video, without it we wouldn't know about this place!!

I know nothing of filming anything. But i see skill in the way you operate. Wonderful video. To see those petroglyphs, thank the universe for that moment

Sandstone is usually between 145 to 160 pounds per cubic foot. Usually sandstone doesn't naturally cleave like that. This is more indicative of a Halite. This level of accuracy makes me wonder about past civilizations and ancient quarrying techniques.

This is orthogonal jointing in the uppermost massive sandstone member of the Permian (~270 Ma) Cedar Mesa Sandstone (of the Cutler Group). It formed due to a combination of 1. changes in the stress field as the Laramide-era (75-50 Ma) compression in the Colorado Plateau gave way to tectonic relaxation and extension, 2. development of the joint pattern due to thermal cycling and freeze/thaw physical weathering as the overburden above the Cedar Mesa sandstone was denuded and the unit exposed, concomitant with a Neogene uplift of the Colorado plateau, and 3. endogenous, auxetic effects on quartz grains in massive sandstone due to burial and subsequent uplift. There are numerous papers on this subject: Wagon & Curran. (2021). “Sandstone Geometry on the Colorado Plateau”. The Mathematical Intelligencer., Bai et al. (2002). “Orthogonal cross joints: do they imply a regional stress rotation?”. Journal of Structural Geology., Rives et al. (1994). “Analogue simulation of natural orthogonal joint set formation in brittle varnish”. Journal of Structural Geology., Li & Ji. (2020). “A new interpretation for formation of orthogonal joints in quartz sandstone”. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering., to name but a few.

I saw the same rocks at Meteor Crater. It think it’s molten sandstone. Maybe the extreme heat and cold split those boulders like a laser. Thanks for the awesome footage 👍

Awesome report and finding. This is how i like to be presented with this kind of 8nfo. Just the sound of nature, great footage and easy going narration. Thanks man

Andrew, I know of many formations around the world of polygonal Basalt columns, but this is really amazing, I mean WOW. Looking at the edge of that cliff from high above, and the perfect square blocks that had fallen away was mind blowing. Look I am 70 years old, and have done my share of off roading, back packing in the High Sierras, and hiking in the Sonoran Desert, but this is other worldly. Your'e going to be at 300,000 subscribers in short order if you keep this up, and I have no doubt you will. Thank You So Much for Sharing.

They're so straight with perfect angles. Definitely looks like a quarry, like someone cut the cliff side with technology that's foreign to us.

Crazy, the amount of work put into these and how well they fit together. Also noticing how incredibly flat they are on top.

My fear of heights is so bad that I was getting dizzy just watching this but it was so incredibly interesting I powered through. I am also fascinated by the way these blocks are put together. Awesome to see someone right up next to them

The wide shots with the thunder off in the distance are so peaceful. You could make an hour-long video just with cuts like that and I'd play it in the background just for the feeling it invokes. Also, can I ask what kind of shoes you are wearing? They seem to be very grippy. I'm guessing something with a minimal sole, like Merrells?

This reminds me of the “giants causeway” and other places where geometric shapes occur naturally in stone. But this is really strange. Great work!!

Really enjoyed that exploration... Would be scared to do what you did, but travelling on your shoulder through the camera is a real eye opener... Definitely more to it than natural geography... Had to be either man made or extra terrestrial in origin..

Reminds me of the massive slabs of stone the Egyptians used to build their largest structures. Like an ancient quarry. Those lines are just TOO perfect and there are so many, I feel like man was definitely involved in the creation of these...even if it was thousands of years ago. Such an interesting video, thank you for sharing!

The block you measured weighs 600 TONS. That is 1,323,000 LBS. A typical tank is 50 tons, so this rock weighs 12 military tanks.

Those "coral" stones are likely just the same sandstone that's all around, but with a mineralized layer of what I believe is calcite that has created a kind of shell over the sandstone. I had it explained by a geologist once ages ago, so I may be wrong saying calcite... But if you were to look at the cliff right where you saw those, I would wager you could find more of that stuff as well as evidence of water. You find those "shells" often on cliff faces where you can tell there used to be a drainage of sorts. I believe the water deposits minerals on the sandstone as it moves over it, and over time this hard layer builds up, often with little annoying bumps for some reason. (I'm a rock climber, and that stuff hurts when its on your hold!) I think its a similar idea to how stalactites / stalagmites form in caves. In some spots, you can see the shell layer has broken away from the sandstone, and you can even grab little flakes of it if it's loose enough. So I would guess that those rocks you found on the ground either fell off of the cliff, or were dripped on, or perhaps were sitting in a puddle of mineral rich water for ages. All that being said, in certain high areas in the desert like that you can indeed find ancient sea life! I see it most often in limestone. There are little shells and mini "shark jaws" stuck in the rock sometimes 7-8k+ feet above see level! Nature is so cool.

I believe those cubes are located there because the coastline was there at some point and those blocks were used to disrupt the tides as seen in Mexico coastlines like in Cancun. It is still unfathomable in current times to see how these megalithic structures were orchestrated during prehistoric times. Amazing

This is a great find, and a clue as to why ancient people used specific types of stone in their megaliths. If you're curious, look into the dimensions of polygonal megalithic masonry; it is earthquake-proof material as ancient people used it, arresting seismic tremors. What you are showcasing here are 'greater harmonics'. All crystallization has stable substructures you can see as 'harmonics'. We appreciate these as types of minerals: feldspar, carbonates, quartz, etc. you are looking at the longer-time, larger-space form of sandstone's matrix, which is either chalcedony or opaline depending on the density. (I'm not an expert, but I have studied harmonics most of my life...they appear in galaxies, planetary atmospheres, DNA, atoms, etc. DNA is a double-helix; this is a mated pair of Golden Ratios. They would spiral forever outwards if not mated together...each hemisphere of your brain represents one helix. All form is harmonic)

Bro...your dog near the edge of these cliffs gives me anxiety. 😅

Looking around on google earth/maps. These straight lines are all over the area, but limited to just this peninsula. 1918: those are fossilized corals which are often found in the area.

Dude...thanks for taking us along. What a cool thing to find! The petroglyphs were amazing to see. As for the blocks...who works in stone that massive? The scale is unreal. We know nothing about our past beyond living memory.

O my gosh you are scaring me! Stop walking so close to the edge!! Great find and video. We have been so lied to about everything. Thanks for sharing!

Your videos, your expressions, your dialog helps one understand what the first explorers, the mountain men must have felt when they first ventured into the whole western US after the Louisianna Purchase. For me, I have nothing but admiration for those explorers.

I went out to this formation in the mid 1970's while a student at UNM. This area has been studied by geologists and geo students more than a few times. Am sure there is a PhD thesis or two which examines the sandstone, the under laying formation and what it went through over time with pressures. There are lots of examples across the planet of fracturing along , more or less, angular lines then movement occurred as underlying formations shifted. You make a cool video and get people thinking about the real world that surrounds us. A note: stone masons have split sandstone along angular lines for millennia. Some sandstone's split that way be it small or massive.

Hey man great video . I work at a travertine and marble quarry, the cuts on the walls and the way de blocks where tossed down are identical as the procedure we do to extract our marble blocks , its completely surreal nature did something like this , specially with those crazy angles an geometry. Strange....

THAK YOU for sharing this marvelous scene and new aspects of the nature formations that no one would believe were possible.

No more jumping from rock to rock...it's too much on my nerves , thank you for thinking of us out here

Beautiful! I have to agree with others, thank you for not adding music and extensive editing, just gorgeous footage all on its own.

Bro, you are the man. Your videos are so interesting. All of this kind of stuff really fascinates me too. I love investigating earth on Google Earth too. Totally get it.

Geologist here. That looks like diaclaze breaking up of rock layers as they decompress. Check joint in Wikipedia.

The mass of little round rocks that look like coral could be oolites. This area was a sea at one time, oolites form from a couple of different natural processes, Google oolitic or oolite sandstone/limestone. I'm envious, really cool exploration and video, consider sharing your discovery of the petroglyph's with nearby tribal leaders or rangers. Thank you!

I've seen wonders in Egypt and alot around the world but this is something that left me speechless.

Thank you so much for taking us all to see the sights,I would not be able to see this without you.😊

Oh, and by the way, love the video. Enjoy exploring the SW with you and your ilk.

This rock formation is the Cedar Mesa Sandstone Member of the Permian Cutler formation. The Cedar Mesa Sandstone Member consists of two totally unlike facies- a sandstone facies present only in the area near Cedar Mesa and a gypsiferous facies. As typically exposed on Cedar Mesa, the sandstone facies consists of a sequence that is dominantly sandstone having minor interbedded siltstone. The sandstone is grayish orange, very pale orange, and yellowish gray and shows at places pale-reddish-brown and very light greenish-gray mottling. It consists of rounded to subangular very fine to medium quartz grains and minor accessory minerals and is generally well cemented by calcium carbonate. The sandstone occurs in thick prominent ledges as much as 125 feet thick that consist of individual beds from 5 to 35 feet thick. Many sandstone beds are cross laminated, and the inclination of the laminae is dominantly eastward (Read and Wanek, 1961, p. 7). Sears ( 1956) rnapped and described a "lower soft" part of the sandstone facies, which is locally present and contrasts markedly with the typical sandstone facies of the Cedar Mesa Sandstone noted above. This lower softer zone forms a steep slope and is overlain by remnants of cliff-forming grayish -orange cross bedded sandstone in all respects similar to typical Cedar Mesa exposed at the type locality near Cedar Point. From s structural standpoint, the area in this video falls along the fold axis of the Cedar Mesa Anticline which is referred to in the literature as "Essentially the summit of the Monument Upwarp ". The monument upwarp is considered to be a large structural element of the Colorado Plateau, and is characterized as a broad northward trending uplift about 35 miles wide and 100 miles long extending from near the junetion of the Green and Colorado Rivers to near Kayenta, Ariz. The upwarp is asymmetrical and has a gently dipping west limb and a steeply dipping east limb. I think that the regional structural deformation and local surface conditions, consisting of relatively brittle sandstone over the "lower softer, gypsiferous" member of the Cedar Mesa Standstone, produced thenearly perfect symmetrical joint sets shown in this video. Some references- Structural geologic evolution of the Colorado Plateau George H. Davis Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA Alex P. Bump BP Exploration and Production Technology, Houston, Texas 77079, USA Geology of the Cedar Mesa-Boundary Butte Area San Juan County, Utah , ROBERT B. O'SULLIVAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1186 Geologic Map of the Cedar Mesa-Boundary Butte Area, San Juan County, Utah (GIS reproduction of USGS Bulletin 1186 [1965]) by Robert O'Sullivan 2019 PERMIANLAND: THE ROCKS OF MONUMENT VALLEY by D. L. BAARS Department of Geology Fort Lewis College Durango, Colorado

I used to work as a stone mason and I've been into few queries. This definitely looks like a query to me.

Nice video. Interesting, even though the formation itself can of course be considered as a geologically explained phenomenon going right down to the cubical mineral structure of sandstone and its previous tectonic activity. Surely these formations were just as fascinating for earlier civilisations that also visited or lived nearby.

Amazing exploration, I wish was able to travel to these rugged and beautiful locations and do what you did!👍🏽

This is one of the most incredible finds I've ever seen! And your cinematography skills are super! I hope your friends have recovered.

The formation at the top of the mesa is the Cedar Mesa sandstone member of the Cutler formation. The vertical "cuts" are naturally-occurring fractures (aka joints) that are formed during gentle warping of the Earth's surface. One such fold (the Halgaito anticline) is southwest of the mesa. It is not unusual joints to occur in orthogonal patterns in a given stress field (conjugate joints). See "Photogeologic map of the Bluff-12 quadrangle, San Juan County, Utah" by the USGS. The rocks @19:00 look like calcite probably formed by spring flow at some point in the past.

You've inspired me to go on a spontaneous trip to a cool place near me. Great video!

I just love Muley Point. Went thereabout twenty years ago. Stunning view. I will never forget it. Make sure you stick to the speed limit on he dirt track down to Mexican Hat or you will end up slipping and sliding.

@6:35 you can see that the pattern of fracture has already formed...! Good video, interesting, and beautiful view...!

6:38 !!! You can see everything is already pre-cut ! By looking at the Vegetation growth. Shows where water formations and grooves drain the water. So the stones are already pre cut or fabricated. They just have to be uncovered or picked up. Take a look at your drone footage, the lines going across like a grid

Obviously, you are not afraid of heights. What beautiful landscape and thank you for the drone shots of this beautiful location!

As much as I would love there to be some strange explanation, the grand canyon used to be under water so I'm guessing these blocks form when the water recedes, the sun baking and cracking it like mud does when it drys out just on a huge larger scale. Still amazing though

Yes, I am afraid of heights, I got butterflies in my stomach every time you point your camera down the cliff or your dog walks to the edge. Awesome site🎉 thanks for sharing🎉

Absolutely AMAZING! Being claustrophobic AND acrophobic your investigation (climbing, navigating, and standing atop) would scare the hell out of me makes me grateful YOU have the abilities! This is one of the BEST things I've seen on KZfaq....EVER!

The cubic shapes is (most probably) a result of the minerals crystal lattice, or more specifically the angles in the crystal lattice. If they form a cube, then this is how the mineral tends to crack (along the edges of the recurring crystal structure). Pretty common in geology

Obviously the quarry they used to construct all the buildings in Monument Valley. The ruins there still look magnificent, just imagine what it looked like just after it was completed! Same builders work can be seen in Egypt, China and Baalbek. They must have had amazing tech several millennia ago.

OMG! Starting at 1:45, your silence and this recording of rumbling thunder in the vastness of nature had me trembling. Simply stunning. Perhaps the most wondrous recording of nature I've ever seen. Thank you!

7:50 i had never felt claustrophobic until I had to squeeze through a deep slot in the granite at the Alabama Hills outside lonepine CA. Great find! Excellent footage 🌵👍🏻 i think you're blessed to be doing this and not wasting away at a gaming console.

Dude ! You must feel like your on Mars or another planet. And you give me anxiety when you get close to the edge. I enjoy watching you. Thanks

I would be in the car with your friends out of there. I watching, sat down, suffering from vertigo. Insane heights both scare and attract me ever since, as a young kid, I sat on the edge of a 200 ft cliff until my parents found me and went A-S, after they got me away. Fantastic video, excellent quality.

How lucky you are to have Mars on your doorstep. What a great video, those human markings looked really ancient. The whole thing just screams massive ancient flood!

It’s not impossible for nature to form cubes. In fact, it happens all the time with crystals. I have a near perfect cube calcite crystal in my room right now.

Great job. my favorite place to drive by myself after I’ve had stressful several weeks has always been monument Valley. I park in a mobile home park area alone in my car. I’m wasted the sunrise and there’s nothing like it on earth. There’s no hotels in the area so there’s no other way to actually experience it as you probably know, thank you for giving us a perspective we’ve never seen. And I wonder if there was coral reef at this area you spotted it what else can be shaped with coral reef like bubbles glad you made it home safe obviously.

So weird that a stone that cleaves universally is cut in 90° angles! Quarry of nature. And the crow flying over head was the coolest part of this video!

When you panned over the land 6:25-6:45 you can almost see a grid of stones that is intact with the ground still. I’m willing to bet that’s an ancient quarry site.

In order to check if it's a cube you need to measure the diagonals from corner to corner. If the diagonal measurements are the same, the corners are 90 degrees, provided the opposite sides measure the same.

The rock layers I understand, but the blocks are a wonder. Straight line cracks just don't seem normal or natural.

When thinking about the geological processes, the time scales involved. Starts to blow my mind. Those boulders that look like they’re on the edge. Could be sitting there for the next hundred thousand-million years. Our life span is barely a blip.