The giant stone beach or God's toy garden?

In the near Kaspir region of Kazakhstan, on the vast desert of the sucker area of ​​Turysh province, thousands of round rocks like giant marbles have been discovered scattered over quite a large area, dating back to about 8-9 million years. No one knows why they appear there.

Giant's playground?

Windy sun and temperature difference have created cracks on these giant "marbles"

Anyone who first set foot on this giant rock feels like being lost in an unrealistic setting. Thousands of round stones like marbles, the largest with a diameter of more than 2 meters, are the smallest of the cannonballs, as if some giant hand sprayed on the area about a few square kilometers. Strange rocky beaches are known by locals since thousands of years, calling it " the pitch of giants " and considering it a sacred place so no one dares to cultivate or live. In the Soviet period, Kazakhstan was the center of the agricultural cooperation movement, but the strange rocky area was located in a remote area, so it did not enter the planned area, so, apart from the public In, no one knows this particular area. Until recently, thanks to a local newspaper, the outside world became aware of "the faces of giants ".

Not made by humans

First of all it is said that spherical rock is a rare phenomenon, but is also present in some parts of the world such as Costa Rica, Mexico, Brazil and Romania. Who spreads them down there? So far there have been many theories about this phenomenon, but no theory is convincing. In the Soviet era, district scientists once "boasted" the local people that around the round stones existed an " anomalous school " that could mislead machines and make the body All living things are not normal, so people rarely dare to come near this area. At the time of pre-Soviet and post-Soviet times, there were all kinds of sensational explanations, round stones were cosmic eyes, with the function of identifying, transmitting and broadcasting information to "the dark supreme high ".

Whatever the explanation, people just know for sure: these giant marbles cannot be " human works ". Millions of years ago, when the number of people (or gibbons) on the planet was too small and the means of labor were too rudimentary, no one could manipulate and transport such a huge mass of stone from It brings here to spread almost aimlessly.

Children of volcanoes?

Spherical rocks can only be formed from lava, volcanic ash or from the burnt sand layer by sputtering or "pasted" by some inorganic compound solution. Imagine, when you roll a snowball into a small handful of tennis ball and roll it over the snow, it will suck in snowflakes to gradually form a large mass of snow with a large spherical shape. optional. Sand "flabby" ( due to the fluidity of the solution, not water ) also has this characteristic. It is possible that sand globes, over millions of years, under the physicochemical and radioactive effects, have turned into round stones as we see them today.

The hypothesis of lava origin seems more reasonable. Again imagine: under the impact of the explosion in the volcanic heart, sputtering of liquid jelly splattered out, we know, the outer surface tension of the liquid makes the jelly-like droplets float in space to take shape bridge. Suppose that at the time of the volcanic eruption that was an ice age, these droplets quickly coagulated into round stones, existing to this day.

The ocean takes them?

However, unlike spherical rocks in other parts of the world, in some Kazakh rocks there are traces of marine creatures such as shellfish and snails. Based on that, some scientists hypothesize that these rocks originated from the sea floor. Explosions in the volcanic bottom of the seabed can also cause lava-forming "droplets" to form spheres in water. But suppose that they were rough at first but not round, over time, underground currents abraded their sharp edges and pushed them to roll on the sea floor, making the stones gradually shaped like a sphere. Over millions of years, the sea floor may bulge and rise to later turn into grassland or desert, causing rocks to stay on the ground.

This theory is supported by scientific evidence that shows in the land of Kazakhstan that once existed the Tethis ocean in ancient times. Nearly 10 million years ago, due to the geological tectonic activities of the earth, the ocean of Tethis disappeared, revealing the bottom with rocks that once rolled in the water. It is possible that in the new era of "emergence", the rocks still have some rough edges. But after many millions of years, the wind has completed the final stage, helping them get the ideal shape as it is today. Be aware that, under the influence of wind, along with climate change over many periods with two glacial cycles - dry, even the very large temperature difference between day and night ( as in the desert Kazakhstan ) also caused the surface of many round stones in Kazakhstan to appear cracking. Cracking is the beginning of peeling. Over millions of years the stone blocks here have been peeled many layers already.

However, the question is, most of the bare rocks on the earth are formed from jelly, but the phenomenon of peeling is not happening to all of them. This can be explained in relative terms as follows: rocks have been "soaked" in seawater for millions of years and emerge in direct contact with the air with a way of behaving in front of the physical and chemical impact of the environment. (like weather, climate) different from rock soils that have never been soaked. Indeed, there are still peeling events in many of Kazakhstan's round stones, just like people peeled onions. Besides, there are also many small blocks of stone that can no longer "peel" any more class. Scientists believe that this is the first "cause" to form a big rock in the shape of a snowy island in the fist making a giant block of snow.

The stones are only partially raised

But the mystery is not just that.

Many large rocks in the rocky beach were also added to the two blocks as if they were separated by saw blades and the saws were always in the right direction north - south. This makes one think of the Earth being added in half by a plane that coincides with the magnetic field of the magnetic field. In addition, the number of "balls" on the rocky beach is not only a few thousand as it appears, because in some places people still see the raised balls are not very high, so there may still be such ones. buried in the ground.

In addition, if in Kazakhstan the marble balls are scattered, uneven, then in Costa Rica, they are arranged very consciously, forming geometric shapes such as round, square, rectangular, triangles, regular hexagons, trapezoidal scales . The same phenomenon, but the interpretation is different from each other. In cases like this, it is very likely that what is now called truth, tomorrow is considered a legend.

According VnExpress / New World (Itogi)
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