Strange formation, looks human made

[bobinsd]

I was following a story in a 1972 book by Rocky LeGaye and he told the story of an old miner, Freddy Crystal, and how he hade been looking in the Johnson CANYON AREA OF utah FOR THE aZTEC TREASURE. OOps.

So I Googled the area and came upon a strange dome formation, so symetrical that it must be man-made.I dn't know how to copy the pictgure but the coords are 37 19 36.92 by 112 24 39.37.

Can someone suggest how large this is and what it might be?

Bob

 

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[Rancho Leo]

This looks like a cinder cone from old volcanic activity.

 

[bobinsd]

Yeah, you're right. I should have measured it before posting. The base of the cone is over 1000 feet in diameter.
What's strange is the lack of apparant vegetation in the middle.

 

[aerograd]

That is a depression in the middle where no trees are right? I would say a large meteorite impact crater perhaps. Or ancient volcano maybe.

 

[Peg Leg]

I believe it is a VOLCANO. You noticed that I said A VALCANO.
The reason that I say this is becausre of no trees growning in the bottom.
I suggest you do a TEMP survey and see what the temp is AT THE PRESENT TIME also take a sample of the soil and have it checked out. This is a fre4e service.
Peg Leg

 

[captain Jack]

just my 2 cents....don't underestimate how symetrical nature can be. I'm not saying what you see isn't manmade. But just because it's symetrical doesn't mean it is either.

 

[morbiusandneo]

The federal gubermint has had a secret tunneling program going in the US for years.These tunnels interconnect man-made and natural caverns.And, ALWAYS there is a connection to the surface around the caverns or man-made cavities.The road being so close to this depression supports the last part.So, this may be a collapsed cavern, cave(either man-made or natural).

 

[Old Dog]

If it is natural I am only guessing that a meteorite crater would be a lor deeper than the surrounding base ground level.
But a lack of trees can be explained by an accumulation of water at certain times of the year and a lack of it durring others. This would prevent germination of foliage in the area.

We have enough salt in this desert soil to build up in a water shed like that one. there is enoughacumulated salinity in the soil that even if the ground isn't wet for long the soil won't grow anything.
A lot of local water holes are moved around for the cows because of this salt buildup.
It is so bad that Tamarisk won't even grow in it.

OD

 

[VonDigger]

That would be the classic shape of a cinder cone volcano. Possibly part of a Small volcanic complex.

Erin
"VonDigger"

 

[Rarewolf]

"Bald Knoll is the youngest of a group of basaltic cinder cones on the SW part of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in southern Utah, between the southern end of Bryce Canyon National Park and the western margin of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The 2135-m-high Bald Knoll has a well-preserved crater and produced a massive youthful-looking lava flow that traveled about 12 km to the SSE."
http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1207-03-

 

[Old Dog]

Rarewolf

Welcome to treasurenet.
I am familiar with that end of Bryce canyon.
You are correct in assuming a modicum of volcanic activity took place at one time.

Verry good post
thanks

 

[Chris_Odom]

volcano or not the aztec people did like having villages around volcanos and also found very strange places to live, so your treasure might be there somewhere.