Big stone river. Taganay stone rivers

"Stone rivers" of the South Urals. Version.

We live in the South Urals. Our mountains hold many secrets.

On Taganay and in many other places in the Urals there is an interesting and mysterious phenomenon - "stone rivers", consisting of kurumniks.

The depth of the "stone rivers" is quite large. When you cross it, you can sometimes hear the splash of water flowing somewhere down there. Trees cannot germinate because they do not reach the water. These are the most unique places.

Kurums have ragged, sharp edges and corners, it is difficult to walk on them. As if impaled by someone. Obviously, they do not lie like this for thousands of years, but 200-300, otherwise these sharp edges would have long ago smoothed out, rounded, worn out from the influence of rain, snow, wind. But this does not bother the officials. They only say one thing: hundreds of thousands of years ago, a giant glacier, moving down, crushed rock.

"Stone Rivers" are often horizontal (top photo). In addition, the slopes of all mountains and ridges are also strewn with the same kurums. How could they have formed?

Small Taganay. Feathers.

And if you try to compare the stones on the mountains and in the valleys? Their rock is the same, the stones on the tops and slopes of the mountains lie randomly in placers, they are also sharp, not at all rounded, chaotically located, there is no direction.

Was there a glacier at all? If you look at the Responsive Ridge, it is precisely a ridge with intricate serrated turrets at the top, indented with cracks. Why didn't the giant glacier bring them down, didn't straighten them? After all, the action of the glacier should be smoothing, not crushing. And all the rocks in the cracks seem to be from some kind of impact, impact.

Photo Responsive Comb

The glacier could not move anywhere. On a horizontal surface, and even with such serious obstacles as these Ural Mountains.

"Stone rivers" of chipped stone in the Urals are everywhere on all our ridges. Many outliers sticking out of the ground are covered with cracks. Moreover, it is clear that these cracks were formed relatively recently, they do not have traces of water and wind erosion, which should be present on stones that have been lying for thousands of years. Chips, sharp edges, not rounded at all. The stones scattered around are fragments of rock. Where did such a huge amount of broken stone come from?

Remains on Mount Antenna on the ridge. Zygalga

All the rocks are covered with cracks, as if someone had punched them with a giant hammer.

There is a version that the Ural Mountains were subjected to massive nuclear or thermonuclear bombardment or some kind of infrasonic bombardment. And this happened 250-300 years ago.

Let's take a look at the Zygalga ridge, for example. This is what Bolshoi Shelom looks like on a satellite image.

Bolshoi Shelom from the satellite

Upstairs, for some reason, is a perfectly flat area. The word "Shelom" itself comes from the word "helmet". And it is not the Bolshoi that looks like a helmet, but Malye Shelomchiks with sharp tops.

Zigalga ridge. Bolshoi Shelom on the right.

Assuming that there was an explosion over Bolshoi Shelom? The shock wave cut off the top, forming an even plateau. And all the nearest mountains within a radius of tens to hundreds of kilometers, depending on the power of the explosion, were covered with crushed stone - kurums.

Zygalga slope as elsewhere in the Urals

It is no secret that these granite deposits on all ridges have an increased radioactive background. And on Bolshoy Shelom there are areas that are quite heavily contaminated with radiation. In the early 90s, someone even died of radiation sickness. Of course, the diagnosis was different, but all the signs were precisely radiation sickness. After that, persistent rumors spread among Chelyabinsk tourists that there was a burial of radioactive waste on Bolshoy Shelom.

On the slopes of the Zigalga, stones are scattered, they lie on top of the ground, that is, these are not rocky outcrops. The picture is the same as near the stone quarries, where explosive mining of stone is being carried out.

It can be seen that the kurums are about the same size. Where did they come from on all slopes in such a huge number? There is no natural reason for this.

Quite often you come across amazing curums with a ribbed surface, like a washboard. There are quite a few of them.

Everything is the same on Iremel. But there is something interesting. On the plateau, if you look closely, rocky outcrops tilted to one side as if the blow was from the side. That is, the shock wave from the explosion came from one side, by the way, just from the direction of Bolshoi Shelom, where the epicenter of the explosion might have been. The stones are raised and turned in one direction.

Iremel plateau.

In addition to large stones on the Iremel plateau, there are many small ones that seem to be stuck either into the ground, or, as in the picture below, into a gap between other stones. As if they had flown in from somewhere and stuck like a knife into butter.