As a geology student with a passion for botany and plant fossils, this channel often feels like it was made for me. The crude and hilarious narration makes it perfect. In the past few weeks, you've become my #1 favorite RU-vid channel. Keep it up, man.
The brown indicates the persistence of carbon containing compounds in the wood i.e. complex sugars. If it's that pure white kind of color, you know it's fully mineralized. Those exposed logs with the brown fibers in them are probably only a few million years old at most, otherwise they would have mineralized fully. It takes 2-3 million years on average to fully fossilize a tree that size. It could also be the that the mineralization was interrupted by erosion. Your commentary is very well informed, I really enjoyed this video. You're not uptight about it like most geology fans, you don't take yourself too seriously. Keep it up my man, I'll be sending you a big donation once the harvest is finished and our cash flow is good.
Thanks a lot for the comment. I researched this area, looked at some geologic maps, and spoke to some locals that were collecting opal in the area, and the strata that the logs are in is indeed about 15 million years old (the basalt flows, high up top and much younger, are about 8 million). Some of the wood has been opalized, but other parts of the same log will still have fibers in it. It's very strange. Not sure if the fibers are silica or still carbon, but when I first found this area I was pretty blown away. I have no idea why some pieces of "wood" in the same formation are rock hard and why others are so fibrous and still seem like soft Metasequoia wood.
look up mud fossil university. he demonstrates that fossilization can occur much quicker in the correct environment. much more to it than that is the tip of the iceberg.
@@RustyShakleford1 This Mud Fossil guy is an absolute loon. A total crank. I watched a video where he looked at a google satellite image and concluded that a bunch of mountains valleys and tributaries 900 miles across was the remains of a dragon, lol. Why invent such stupid bullshit when the truth, as partly described in this video, is ten times more interesting?
frankos rooni fossilization can occur when the earths telluric currents and salt/water as well as correct surrounding soil composition. The earths electrical current allows for mineral exchanges to occur at a much more rapid rate than was first postulated. Timely enough mineral exchanges will cause fossilization in an oxygen deprived environment, rather than decomposition. I agree he goes out on a whim the bible has taken over his mind but DO NOT throw the baby out with the bath water. This is no joke. The satellite biblical dragons are a stretch- he’s just hyped the bible has helped him discover how fossilization can occur in a much faster process. It says somewhere in the bible the “the stones will bleed” or something like that.
@@RustyShakleford1 To be blunt this is tosh; what the chuff are "telluric currents". when they're at home. How is the "earth's electrical current generated"?
Been watching for a month or so now, makes my day and speaks at a rate listenable, most yanks talk like they missin a chromosome or something no offence if you are
My mother's father, before he married and settled down to have kids and build a business in NJ, worked on trains out west. Nevada, California mainly. In my grandmother's curio cabinet were small pieces of petrified wood that he found out in Nevada. As a kid I was so perplexed and amazed at the idea that this rock was once a living tree. (One of my favorite photographs of my grandparents and one of my uncles is of them in a desert in Nevada outside a tent they lived in while my grandfather worked the trains.). Thanks for the video.
I was entranced by my first experience of viewing a dozen or so Metasequoia glyptostroboides. They were planted in a circle in a small local park in my hometown in New York State. They were purchased at the 1964 N.Y. World’s Fair. A beautiful tree.
I just moved to Sparks, NV. last month. I am LOVING the Geology! Redwoods are the fastest growing, longest lived things we have going. They dont have an "off" season, they grow all year.
I found your channel a few hours ago from the coyote video on facebook. I've been immersed in your videos ever since. So refreshing and interesting! Subbed for sure!
Bro, YOU ROCK, Botanically and geologically speaking, so refreshing, no pretense. LOVE IT, THANK YOU, I'm Sharing this vid, hope it gets a lot of views!!
Metasequoia occidentalis and glyptostroboides b/w Sequoiadendron cheneyi and rhyolitic ash flow tuff... 3 words of this description are in my vocabulary: [and, ash, flow] Glad I found this channel!
it really just goes to show that someone can become knowledgeable and over time an expert in the field without having to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars. just time and interest.
You have both rekindled my love for geology and dendrology and some how the Jerky Boys. Thank you for sharing your exploration, those 10+ million year old specimens are epic. I’ve subscribed, keep up the fascinating work.
AHHHH!@!#@ It's so freakin exciting[?]... thrilling?... to see the petrified wood, and know when it's from and see you interacting with it ahhhhhh so frikkin cool#@$ - I've held stone tools from a few million years ago made by earlier hominids and it still sends chills up my spine every time I think about it. Love this @#$
I had to sub. I couldn't stop watching. Never have I watched anything of this nature,I can't wait to check out more of your videos. When I hear people talking about things and using scientific names it seems to me that it feels like they are just trying to talk down to folks that have no clue what they are talking about. You kept me interested and actually listening . Awesome...
you are one of the few people i've ever heard who seems to understand time. . . . and my brother planted one of those dawn redwoods . . . in a low wet spot in a friend's yard . . . he said "come back in a few years and the tree will be pretty big and the swampy area will be gone."
God Dang! You said it. It’s like a new universe is being opened right before my eyes! Highest thanks and gratitude. Glad you have a wealth of videos. I’ll bet you swear less in nature than in the urban environment, that’s appropriate too.
Excellent! Very interesting narration & we learned hella lot; thanks. Jersey boy here in NorCal with my Jersey Girl and you sound like our son in law, with our daughter & grandkids in NY. Well done - thanks for the smiles. Sub'd.
Just started watching you man. This is my second video and I think I'll be watching your videos all day today. What do you NOT know? Botany now geology...what's next? Paleontology , archeology ? Wow, you are such a well rounded and interesting person. 😊 ( just subscribed, by the way ) .
Incredible! Vulcanism, geology, tectonics you name it! This guy knows not only his shit but a battalion of other learned peoples shit as well. And he makes it interesting too, thanks!
There is one of these Redwoods growing in a collection in Lubec, ME,. I was amazed when I read the story behind it. The land had been owned by a botanist, who had traveled the world; its now operated by a landtrust, I believe.
I'll keep my eye out for "money-shot" formations in life, for sure! Hahahaha. Finally subscribed and liked. For once wasn't sent here by a RU-vid recommendation but a WTTW (a public television station in Chicago, channel 11.) To be fair, it was a Google News article that directed me to the WTTW article.
You know your shit. From hot spots to basalt cap rock you are spot on. You remind me of one of my professors in college back in the 80's. He was a Korean war vet, kind of deaf due to being in an artillery unit. When someone would timidly ask a question, he would thunder "Speak up God Dammit, didnt hear a God Damm word you said! I would laugh my ass off, he was hilarious. Like you, engaging, knew his shit, great educator.
You read these landscapes like an adventure novel with dramas and characters and timeless plots. To me it looks like a wasteland but, after listening to you, I feel humbled by what this dear planet has lived through. Nice fossil finds - the monocot' looks like a reed or bullrush. Thanks Tony. Loving this stuff.
Nice stuff! That last one looks like a monocot to me. I go fossil hunting here on Long Island, I used to find lots of that small stuff we can't make out. We called it grass clippings, who knows. Nice video, learned a lot.
Love your social commentary! Taxodium mucronatum var. neomexicana one of my favorites that this video made me think about. BS common name "New Mexican Red Wood". That stump that had the opal shard looks like it could of been hit by lighting. Electric Geology! Thanks
Only two wild that I know of. Michael Melendrez of Trees That Please discovered them looking for unique oak species. He has since propagated them from seed and distributes them. They are very lovely, gentle yet stout.
My daughter in-law told me about a guy that had some trouble with the city or local government. He served up an ice cold platter of revenge by planting redwoods all over the city including the mayor's home. Wish I could sight a source or something.
man your observations are very thought provoking Really stuff i never looked at out there never would of thought about dead wood laying around that long. I were at a similar paradigm from google earth and documentaries but the mid/east totally burned down all the way across to michiga and all i heard about was the california. So you pointing that out showing us where to look given that stuff, helpful cues to observe in nature to read the landscape to get a better picture of 'Where' we are.
The compressed stuff reminds me of the carbon-print lakebed fossils you can find at Stonerose in Republic, WA. Lots of Metasequoia up there, along with fish, birds, lots of other plants.
That's the one! A Florissantia. It's a cool site in a weird town. Fun to think about that weird little desert enclave having once been a lake in a redwood forest. I hadn't thought about it in quite a while. Thanks for what you do, man. I've hiked right over or driven past so much and never really stopped to look at it, but now I just wanna go outside and look at plants.
Yea, here we are a bunch of little critters floaten around on a bunch of slag on top of a molten sea fire. Wired how smart some of the critters can get through. Wired how some of those critters think they can protect this precarious situation were in for eternity. Nice video though. Thanks for your time.
You clearly are super interesting, super into trees, a real person and you go through the terms and uses of botany and tree stuff in the coolest voice. Keep em coming please, i love this shit x
Cupressaceae is my favorite plant family. It was marvelous to see the age etched into some of the remnant bark of that old, old tree 24:45 Redwoods really show you the shape of their growth, and what a vision from 12 million years ago.
I subbed today and have been on roll on your videos since. Man, you are so knowledgable and actually fun to listen to. Thanks for your videos. It has made my very shitty day end on a good note. Fucking rock on man
Bro 😂😂😂 spot on i was just enjoying thé ch. Then read sounds like gppd fellas character, but now I just see carl with a hand on hip floating thru desert 😂😂😂
And despite all the spectacular fossil sites like that, there's still people who choose to disbelieve in the Earth being billions of years old and life having evolved via natural selection. SMH.
It shows in one sense how enriched the forested environment was with thick plants and tall thick trees and so much interesting things growing all over like some otherwise enchanted forest scenery and so unreal and bigger than life . Many have not tried to keep learning thru books about the ancient forests or never came to a crossroads to want to look deeper into things . Much of the reasons people fail to ponder the common natural scenery is other people discourage spending the time reading books that they view as wastful or fruitless because they dismiss as usual fiction . They don't seem to have grasped things to get interested . Many are narrow thinking even so into sports that they pass up nature like aggressive alphas caught up in physical activity . These are some observations I gained over decades. I like reading often . Sadly many I know will not admit they will read at times so they try to suppress it in others . As if they want to live like is just about muscle to show off . One is ridiculed for wanting to read or gain some knowledge.
I thought the same thing. Incredible how negligible 12 million years is (save for some permineralization) when you're buried in a few hundred feet of volcanic ash.
Thuja plicata (at least one of the cupressaceae) wood was/is good for canoes...? Not to mention the inner bark fibery bits are/were amazing for making baskets and water resistant clothing. Probably due to the anti-fungal/rot resistant compounds. Maybe those compounds make these trees good candidates for permineralization -- they can survive rot long enough to be permineralized? I dunno.
I live In the high desert. It’s very beautiful when you find untouched strands of sagebrush steppe. There like 40 things that grow very well here and then lots of things not so much.
I sure wish there was some way to withstand or be totally comfortable in the hot summers because I lived in a 2000 ft above sea level desert town for 42 years and my body cannot take the heat anymore , looking to move to a cooler climate even if a further east State. If there is some costless trick to feeling very cool in blazing weather I can use that when walking thru a town . I can't get comfortable and I'm 59 now . The areas around the 29 USMC base north of hwy 62 in CA do not have much petrified tree stuff that I ever seen . I been all through Amboy road just north side of 62 . If there was something like trees or forest plants I'd of already got word of or seen it . There looks like there is a lot ancient volcanism around sticking up to see a little . You can see pieces of discolored volcanic rocks like bombs that seem very ,very old like the volcano crater long eroded away . Laying close to where they were thrown out at . Scattered too among what's called desert pavement .
i think you are correct that it was at the bottom of a water flow. volcanoes and earthquakes go hand in hand. which comes first? if a tectonic plate shifts with a substantial amount of groundwater sitting above or below, it could cause it to very quickly raise up to surface and cause large portions of continents to liquefy causing the environment we see here. a volcano could erupt at the same time causing the fossilization all around you
