Just recently, the crew of another exploration vessel, the Nautilus, made a major new discovery while researching an area called Liliʻuokalani Ridge in the Pacific Papahanamkokaia Marine National Monument. : A feature that resembles a road paved with cobblestones, a strange-looking landform! This is how it happened? Let's take a closer look below.

Scientists have discovered a strange "yellow brick road" in the Pacific Ocean! How peculiar is it?

According to the researchers, Nautilus spent most of the past April studying the geological and biological systems of the seamount. After all, seamounts are underwater mountains of volcanic origin, and research is of great significance. The research team said that they had discovered a "dry lake bed" formed at the top of the Nutka Seamount, which has been identified by research as a fracture flow of transparent rock.

This material is formed by a type of volcanic rock formed in a high-energy eruption, with many fragments of the rock settling on the seabed. Scientists speculate that the brick-shaped pattern discovered this time may be related to the heating and cooling cycle associated with volcanic eruptions. When many researchers watched the live diving video of the landform together, they even described it as "yellow brick road" and "yellow brick road". "The Road to Atlantis," said the video in state media as weird, cool and crazy.

Indeed, as can be seen from the photos at the scene, this scene in the sea is really weird, like a road paved with bricks, which is not only neat but also very clean, so there are also many netizens who said, "There are no cleaning staff on the bottom of the sea?", and also Some netizens are imaginative, saying: "Isn't this the veritable Huangquan Road"; others even boldly guessed: "Seeing the yellow bricks means that since ancient times, the Pacific Ocean has belonged to our Chinese nation." So what are the facts? Where exactly did it come from?

Where did the bizarre "yellow brick road" in the Pacific come from?

According to official statistics, the Pacific Ocean is 15,900 kilometers long from north to south, 19,000 kilometers wide from east to west, with a total area of ​​181.344 million square kilometers, an average depth of 3,957 meters, and a maximum depth of 11,034 meters. The ocean with the most marginal seas and islands. Since the 1620s, the "Pacific Ocean" was first named by the navigator Magellan and his fleet. Over the centuries, human beings have been developing and multiplying, and the exploration of it has never stopped!

The discovery of such a bizarre "yellow brick road" in the Pacific Ocean has naturally aroused public debate. Some are amazed at the wonder of natural preservation of objects, the strangeness of the underwater world, and many more are discussing these "yellow brick roads". "Where did it come from?

Is it natural or "man-made"?

Globally, there are currently six major plates, namely the Pacific plate, the Eurasian plate, the American plate, the Indian Ocean plate, the African plate and the Antarctic plate. In addition, the major plates have always been in motion, not only in relative motion, such as the separation of the Eurasian plate and the North American plate on both sides of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, but also in absolute motion relative to the deep mantle.

These six plates have their own characteristics, but the Pacific plate is the only plate that is completely submerged in the ocean. For it, the changing characteristics are mainly the subduction of the trenches towards the northwest, west and north. The most widespread theory of the earth's land and ocean tectonic theory is the theory of plate motion. Thousands of years ago, the land was transformed into the ocean due to plate motion, and the ocean was transformed into the land, and thus substances such as fossils, oil, and natural gas can be used by modern people. mining and utilization.

So are these bizarre "yellow brick roads" discovered in the Pacific Ocean natural or "man-made"? There are different opinions on this issue. First, because there is a long process of geological plate movement, if the place where early human activities moved into the sea, it is actually reasonable. Secondly, it is indeed very likely that some rocks have been eroded and then cracked according to the rock texture, just looking like bricks, resulting in a visual difference that feels like a yellow brick road.

Just as scientists discovered a mysterious screw 300 million years ago in Kaluga, Russia, many people have expressed doubts: Is there really a prehistoric civilization, and there are even many other weird speculations. But in the end, the researchers said that in fact, this "screw" thing was probably just a fossil of a marine creature called crinoids. The reason for the spiral shape may be that the rocks are attached to the creatures, and the creatures gradually dissolve.

In addition, a magical stone was actually found in the Russian city of Labinsk. After careful observation, it was found that the surface of the stone was actually inlaid with a circuit board, which was very similar to the current chip. According to research, it is at least 250 million years old, but in-depth research found that this is also just a fossil of ancient creatures, but it is true that the appearance is too similar to modern technology, which leads to an illusion. Therefore, as far as this "yellow brick road" incident is concerned, it cannot be ruled out that it is a natural phenomenon.

If it is really "artificial", will it be "Made in China"?

Once the incident was reported, it aroused heated discussions, and the topic of whether it was "Made in China" was also brought to the forefront. So will it really be so?

Bricks have changed the era of human habitation from haystacks and mud walls, which is a huge progress in the history of human construction. The invention of bricks originated from the use of fire by humans, and even the invention of pottery. As far as China is concerned, pottery has been built as early as the Shang Dynasty, and in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, architectural pottery such as slab tiles and tube tiles was innovated, and then bricks began to be used in buildings around the Western Zhou Dynasty.

What is even more surprising is that in 2010, the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology discovered a batch of 5 special pottery-brick building materials in a site discovered in Lantian, Xi'an. This marks it as the earliest brick discovered in China and the earliest fired brick discovered in the world. Therefore, starting from the "uniqueness" of this brick-burning technique, it seems reasonable to say that it is made in China.