An ordinary looking Nevada mountainside reveals extraordinary geology and beauty. 

Thank you for sharing, saltpony.

Wow, thanks

Absolutely !

"Do you know what a 'plethora' is, Jefe?"

....then you haven't seen ballet :-)

@@sgmckean oh yes I have 😬

humans can create life.

@@SeahamV2 Nature created humans...

Beauty created by massive cataclysms like a world flood that created all limestone and sand stone geological features today we call mountain ranges etc thus the vastly expedited timing of petrification or turning to stone which is about the water and highly mineralised voila there was no greater example thus so much we find fossilised in stone lime and sand to be exact. thats why mass creature deaths are logged as in a big flood you find everything in the valleys its not rocket science so NASA should understand it also!

I don't know what to say, Biking Viking. I am overwhelmed that somehow I have been part of making your life more enjoyable. I hope you love your geology course and find solace in learning about our planet. I know this helps me tremendously when difficult times come. All the best, Myron.

I vote for Maestro of Metamorphics! And I'm glad you are starting to enjoy the world again. Be sure to adopt a dog to go hiking with you again, too.

Rock - On 😜

​@@khajiitkitten5679 Sultan of Strata was my favorite! Likely because it reminded me of one of my favorite movies as a kid. "He's the Sultan of Swat.."

@@khajiitkitten5679 oh I am a pound dog guy for life. Grew up with Weimer Reiner‘s as family dogs, but when I first moved to college in San Diego I got my 1st pound dog, named him Chevy Chase… he was the most magnificent animal and the best companion. When he passed I was devastated, and thought about getting a puppy of the same breed that he was, but I realized he wasn’t a particular breed that made him special, he was a pound dog; that’s what made him special. So naturally, when the grieving period was over, I took myself up to The shadows of Mount Shasta to the pound up there, and got ᛋaxon, he’s my best friend 😁

It may have been 98 million, but who was there to count a million years or two?

Looks like its biological remains of dead mud fossils

Avanavana and moe syslak host Springfield geology tour

Watch out for Avana-he's a monster! :0)

It's a wonderful region. I would love to spend more time there.

I'm on the other side of the gorge from you, and part of the reason I love places like this is *because* there aren't a lot of people there.

I used to live in Vegas…went all over the countryside…I miss it so much…enjoy it

I lived at blue diamond use to mountain bike and rock climb there… love the spring mountains-red rocks area… awesome explanation of its formation!

Rock on!

Glad you like them!

Thank you for your feedback! I wish you the best in your learning venture.

Check out Nick Zentner if you haven't already.

@Roachdogg Jr. smiles, I'm a long standing Zentnerd. I live one valley north of him, grins. I really enjoyed Baja to BC. I really enjoy Shawn Willsey because he has made me appreciate Southern Idaho in a new way. I thought it a boring drive. I simply had no idea how much wonderful geology is along that route. I also watch Myron Cook, Geo Girl and Valitin Troll.

Watch Roger Spurr Mudfossil University

Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau. Look up that video. It’s from 2015. But those 2 geologist speaking are awesome. I started a similar journey you’re in right now. That one has been my favorite.

We were so poor as kids, we lived off mud pies and all we had to play with was rocks, but when you are young, you have good eyes and nature is a wonder.

+1 there mate

For most Americans, Wyoming is as foreign as Australia is.

I have found a similar one for New Zealand, but that's no help to you.

Richard Smiths Australia, the first billion years is excellent.

Thank you, Terry!

surely, "Dr. Cook"?

Wonderful!

You are so kind

@@myroncook You are so generous with your time and knowledge!

Thank you, I will

Do geologist attach GPS to these thrust sheets to see if they are still moving?

@@TheScientificDuo I don't know about these now discombobulated thrust sheets but the whole Basin and Range and really everything west of the Rio Grande Rift Valley is currently getting rotated clockwise in a regular interval (actually involves a brief relaxation slip before continuing the offset). There does appear to be some form of translation on the order of 1,000 Kilometers in at least parts of the American Cordillera since the late Cretaceous. Also if you consider the nascent deep plate tectonics model emerging thanks to Seismic Tomography revealing discontinuities in the mantle, then it appears that at least some plates continue down below the asthenosphere into the deep solid mantle below and at least one of these mantle plate boundary faults is the East Pacific Rise/Juan De Fuca Ridge then its quite probable that everything on the other side of this ridge line is technically overthrust onto the Pacific plate. The boundary where the deep Pacific appears to extend below North America starts along the East Pacific Rise cutting under North America along the gulf of California before diving under Arizona and New Mexico where it divides the Colorado plateau from the rest of the North American craton via the Rio Grande rift and continuing north up to Yellowstone Wyoming, which appears to be the corner Junction, then heading west into Idaho continuing into southeastern Oregon and northern California where it eventually joins up with the Juan de Fuca ridge. This involves a ridge like lower density or slow wave zone which separates some kind of compositional discontinuity that goes deep down into the planet. Additionally on the northeastern side we also have the good old Farallon plate in the upper mantle which is eventually sinking down into the lower mantle as a vast slab wall. Everything to the west is based on GPS data slowly getting rotated clockwise resulting in extension in the Basin and range and compression to the north of the boundary connecting Yellowstone to the Juan de Fuca ridge i.e. the Cascades so it sure looks like there is some form of catchment or astenospheric weak layer effect going on here but its also way more complicated than that as the ridge appears to be blowtorching the overlying continental crust causing uplift and upwelling thought to be due to a process known as mantle drip which induces magmatic intrusions that can lead to volcanism. And indeed if you plot the zones of more buoyant mantle you find that the volcanism of the Basin and Range lies on top of the ridge.

Possibly somewhere. These have been inactive for a very long time.

@The Scientific Duo EXACTLY what I was thinking!! Loving Mr. Cook (Dr.?)'s style of "teaching"!!!

The Bob Ross of geology; I love it. Myron does have a very soothing voice and does paint a picture when he explains geology.

I can't get my head around it either!

Many cool places all over state

Many thanks!

So true!

Thank you, James.

Thank you kindly!

Thank you!

Awesome! Thank you!

Wonderful!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you for your interest!

I'm working on a documentary of Basin and Range National Monument..be done mid summer

Welcome aboard!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you! 😃

That is awesome!

Glad you enjoyed it