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Rock Pools Drill The Earth

This is a photograph taken from a prior expedition of five ridge seaguls. (Image: Toby Parry-Russell)

West coast seaguls are twelve foot deep freshwater pools. The seaguls are incredible depth pools consisting of sediment left over from ancient ocean sediments. They exist in many regions of Oregon, Washington, California, Arizona and British Columbia. They have been known and documented since the 17th century.

Many times the seaguls have disappeared after a wave or another large event but then new ones appear. The government is very interested in these enormous physical remnants of life because their geology and ecology provide valuable information about what life and the oceanic environment was like when the Pacific Ocean first broke off from Asia.

Here is a history of the seaguls and the water they are composed of:

The Dipole Anomaly, 41 miles northwest of Newport (Oregon), was the first known land formation in the Northwest. These pools were formed in the shallow pools from the vast shallow sediments of the San Juan National Forest. A blast of hot air swept down the Pacific coast from the north pushed out the present sea floor and buried the sediment.

The cliff mouth of Hokkaido sits on a massive mound of old underwater sediments from the large Elbe and early Malahide Plateau Tectonic Encounters. These drills emerged from the volcanic oceanic material encountered in the Earths core and are named for their appearance.

Hokkaido is famous for a huge pile of unshelled continental crust called “Flatjungle Hump” or “Humpy”, the most eroded in the world at several hundred feet high.

Other huge south-facing cliff pockets found along the coast include:

Bonanza Head (south-east of Newport, Oregon)

Isaugua Ridge (southeast of New York, Ohio)

Talega Provincial Park (four miles south of Bonanza Head)

Stout Head (south-east of Texas Head)


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