He's been asking me questions in private messages. I don't normally like to devulge those, but I feel that I should at least provide my responses because I think it will help clear things up.
orogenicman Wrote:There are mesas all over Arizona and Utah that have these features. In addition, in the Andes, there are guyots that have been uplifted from the ocean floor. The one in question likely is an outlier, an eroded remnant of a much larger plateau. But its hard to tell from a fuzzy video. I need detailed aerial photographs and topographic and geologic maps to know for sure.
I've read that people have said that they looked for talus from the top of the plateau and couldn't find it anywhere. All I can say to that is show me the geologic field logs, or a published report on their efforts. Because I can promise that if they are looking for eroded remnants of that mountain, all they have to do is to look in the adjacent valley floors. It is surrounded by fluvial fans. The mountain has a surrounding slope, and as the slope erodes the talus ends up in the valleys, including the edges of the top, which gets cut back over time. Now, this doesn't fully explain how the top got flat, of course. If it is a guyot, then it became flattened long before it was uplifted out of the sea. If it was a mesa, then it is the remnant surface of a former more extensive plateau.
If you can get me a latitude and longitude for the mountain, I can get you more information.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
