I love that so much of the field geology you show in these videos is puzzle solving and investigation. Working through understanding how massive physical features got to be the way they are now through millions of years of history is awesome.
I want to let you know you and other Geologists have inspired me to go back to school at 56 and pursue a geology degree! Thank you and Merry Christmas!
I hope some day you could visit the Grand Junction - Bookcliffs-Gunnsion Buffs - Grand Mesa etc, and show us its Geological history and its formation. Also look up the Canyons lands on JE Ranch in S.E. Colorado. Lots of new discovery's being found there.
I'm guessing, since Morrison, CO is somewhat famous for the fossils much like the ones you are describing, that the formation and town have something in common. By the end of the video I'll likely know the answer ( I'm about to google it actually). Back with an edit in a few. Yep, named after the town. Sorry if I spoiled anything! Thanks! Dave J (I live SW of Morrison and used to bike on Dinosaur Ridge many years ago). One more edit, beautiful photography!
I grew up just SE of Morrison in the mid- '80s~early '90s and hunted fossils between the excavation and construction of C-470 at the time. Road crews dug and blasted through many of these layers along the hogback, leaving shale-embedded fossils exposed for miles during the brief window before they built the highway. Made for a great field trip!
Thank you Myron. Love your videos, especially about the Big Horn Basin as I grew up in Worland. Next time I'm home I have to visit Sheep Mountain. Your videos have finally driven it home how unique that area is, geologically. The longer video of you going back in time was really eye-opening. I'm on the other side of the planet now, just finished climbing a volcano in Tanzania called Oldoinyo Lengai. It formed only about 15,000 years ago, and most recently erupted in 2008... some of the cone is only 15 years old! Down on the plains are human footprints frozen in the mud from the early eruptions. Talk about cool. But now it's interesting to think that when that volcano was being formed everything in the Big Horn Basin was already very old and eroded. Thanks again.
It must be very satisfying to be able solve these mysteries. I'm often completely stumped by nature, and the Earth. The scenery there sure is dramatic. I'm also captivated by the many uniform looking double or triple lines of small, almost (but not quite) pyramid like shapes that were frequently in the background on the left side of the screen, for example at 1:17, 9:40, and 19:34. And there are also some curious deep red looking small forms to the immediate left of the base of "Sheep Mountain", starting at about 6:06 that remind me of beehive kilns. This was great! Thank you.
If my elderly brain is working correctly, I believe Myron had a video about those “sawtooth” triangular formations. I know you will be pleased to search his videos for that one! He also has another one about stream deposit rock formations that look like giant petrified logs, but are not!😊
Soooo .... you going to make a part 2 of this and discuss those background anti-tank "dragon's teeth" formation that looks like a mile long dinosaur spine and its formation, inclination, and origin ?
@@secretsquirrel6718 Ok. I'm giving you a break. After your break take some time to address your comprehension of this topic. It may be helpful for you.
@@secretsquirrel6718 Have you never taken a geology class? The land can tell us a great deal about what happened in the past; you just have to look for the clues.
How wonderful! Just hours ago I subscribed and shared your wonderful RU-vid channel. I am so excited to watch your new video. I will commence that endeavour now.
The perspectives given by your excellent camera work lead us nicely to ask the questions. The various ideas you propose help guide our responses. In short, your videos are uniformly excellent. Thank you and Merry Christmas.
I love sandstone. Southern Illinois has some really beautiful formations, and it's tough enough that you can rock climb if you're into that sort of thing.
Once again you have brought understanding to an area I have wandered through for years. Saying thank you just isn't enough. You and the jeepers have been a wonderful source of fun and learning. I want to wish you and yours the best of new years. Happy holidays.
I love that you use your drone often to see it all from different perspectives. I’m always amazed by your knowledge and ability to teach and show in such an interesting way!
Thanks so much for your enthusiastic, educational, entertaining, and inspiring videos. I like their mystery-solving character, with a good balance of hints with exploration. Love the views and drone views, and much more as well.
It's always so amazing to watch these videos and to learn about the earth's past. It sure does humble a person and leaves one with a sense of awe. Our own human history is but a blip in time.
The awesome, yet humbling timeframe you mention seems to be one of Nature's returning themes, almost like a fractal phenomenon. It makes me think of certain short-lived cells of the human body versus the capability of the entire organism to live more than a century. For example, in the GI tract, the outermost cells of the lumen are called enterocytes or brush border cells. Their maximum lifespan is 2-3 days. And yet the entire organism can live well over 36,500 days!
Thank you for another fascinating video Myron. I am fortunate to have the opportunity to travel through the UK and Europe. I always get a thrill when I see a geological feature in the landscape that I recognize from what I have learned on RU-vid videos like yours.
Not only was this a fascinating video on some of the most beautiful geological structures I've seen, but this is a great lesson in how to reason things out and come up with a logical conclusion. Appearances are so often deceiving, and when it comes to geology, the untrained eye can really get things wrong. Here we have true science, not the masquerade parade of corporate science we see today.
Another interesting trip! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Would love to hear your insights on some of the Mars footage available, and how some of those formations came to be.
You find some of the most-amazing geological sites that continually spin my mind. All these soft geologies vs my Pacific NW hard geologies of volcanoes, glaciers, ice floods, migrating hot spot trails, and geological scraping of the seabed flooring and making new coastal accumulation and accretion ....
At the beginning, I looked at the aerial view, and it didn't make a lot of sense. Now, after your explanation, I can see the river through the valley. The monument now makes sense to me. I lived in Colorado for 14 years and would drive I-25 through your area. I was fascinated and wished I could explore that area of Wyoming. I so enjoy your teaching about the land forms there. I did get to Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison when they had tour days. I also many years before got to go to Dinosaur National Monument. Now, I am home in Eastern Washington and learning geology by youtube. Thank you for teaching me about the Rockies that always made me courieous (sp) when I was living around them. I'm 75 and homebound now but finally learning about geology.
Great video and audio quality Myron. I love the drone shots and your explanations; I would like to hike the land with you and take in all your knowledge!
I realy love these videos, i am quite a young person ang seeing these videos realy immerses me into what geology can truly be like just wondering around and asking questions about the rock formations and how they formed, these video type is a lot more relaxed and it feels like i am just there aswell its slow paced and i love that.
Thank you so much! The excellent drone(?) video starting at about 1:14 is a study in geologic time! And to see a folded and then eroded outcrop of an ancient river bed in the formation is incredible!
Thank You Myron Cook... YOU NEVER DISAPPOINT !!!!! Another day and I have learned (now if I can just retain all this wonderful knowledge you shared?)... Tuffy Marginez... TM
Richard Feynman agreed - curiosity and deep understanding make the beauty of the world more profound,. Thank you for showing us a more deeply beautiful world.
HI Myron. I'm just curious if you have ever done a video on that formation to the left of the monument that looks like a double row of tilted half moons that continues way off into the distance. What is that?
I didn't make it my career, but my geology studies have enriched my life and it was time well spent. Knowing something about the how, what and when of what I'm looking at makes the natural world so much more beautiful and interesting rather than just being "pretty," as you have observed yourself Myron.
I watched your video about ancient river beds being eroded slower than the neighbouring grounds and thus standing out in the landscape. That already was fascinating. This one is on a whole new level. A river bed that had been dipped into vertical - really amazing to think of. Thanks for this video.
Thank you sincerely, Myron, for the amazingly smooth 60fps, and your gorgeous slow panning. So much detail and and such clarity makes watching a genuine pleasure. And that's before you hit us with your euphonious voice. :)
My childhood friends and I would take day hikes in the Jemez Mountains (Valles Caldera complex) and would stop to speculate about various formations that we came across. I like Myron's questioning approach to geology. Life's path took my education on a different path, but I appreciate these videos as a way to get back to learning about geology. The geological variations on the drive from Los Alamos to Albuquerque always captivated my imagination. There is so much to know anywhere one goes in the West.
Although I'm from Laguna Beach, Ca, I worked at Los Alamos in 2014-15, and lived in Santa Fe for 6 months a few years prior. You're not kidding the geology in that area is fascinating! I was in awe the whole time, especially not having a car and doing a tremendous amount of walking and hiking. Many days from the patio of Smith's Market in Los Alamos it seemed like the ancient ocean down on the level of the Rio Grande River and the highway from Santa Fe to the exit for Los Alamos was almost perceptible, like some sort of mirage. Oddly enough, prior to Los Alamos, I worked in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, at the same altitude, also in the shadow of a caldera whose last eruption was the same time period as the one that created the lava flow basement for Los Alamos.
Myron, yet another terrific geology video for us. Thank you for all you do. You are doing some of the most important work a geologist can do: teaching the public some basic geology using beautiful field examples. I love your questioning methods to help people consider possibilities and find the most logical answers. I hope you will consider videos of the Clark Fork Canyon (Wyoming) and associated piedmont glacial formation.
Thank you again, Myron, for another educational and beautiful video. You make geology so easy to understand. I will never again look at stripes on strata without thinking of your water glass and the color changes from the water levels in the sandstone. (I'll also grab a glass if I need to check whether a picture is level...🙂) Our planet's history and development are truly wonderful. Happy holidays to you and yours.
Another magnificent video from Master Myron. As previously mentioned, I'm from Brazil, but I've already visited several places mentioned by the master in Utah. It's a pleasure to attend these enlightening classes!! Thank you very much Master! Big hug!! Jose Carlos
Since you explained some of this now I have an interest in geology. I never found any interest in to it prior to. Now watching you I have to re-examine how I look at things. Very great show. Keep up the great work.
Another very interesting and informative earth mystery video, Professor Cook! Please keep them coming! I've been a geology lover since I was a youngun. You provide a lot of good information, and great visuals, too. Yeah!
