Total time elapsed in this sequence of rocks is 2.7 billion years. Several have asked about high vs low-energy deposits. I should have expanded on the use of these terms. Larger grain sizes require more energy to transport and deposit than do low energy deposits. Clay-size particles are the lowest energy in that they can float in calm water for long distances before depositing. Very high-energy deposits like cobbles or boulders require a lot of energy to transport and are deposited quickly as energy is dissipated (water or wind velocity slowing down). There is a full range in particle size and energy required to transport them.
I knew this. However, I want to thank you for taking your time to explain it to everyone. Your explanation of the environment of the formations and how they intertwine was fantastic.
Just amazing the way you took us back in time ,it was mind boggling to have a sense of scale of these sedimentary basins and of course the beauty of thier depositional environments ...you never disappoint us with your video sir ..this video is a classic.. wishing you great health and peace of mind. Thank you 🙏
What is up with the ridiculous globe thumbnail proving you arent that right sir? Who use dumb contradictions proven a fake in education? Why use deceiving stuff? CGI globe anno 2023, change your name to Crook
@@tomosbon7347can you elaborate? I've not heard of him being a propagand-ist. What and how does he push propaganda on/about? Genuinely curious as I've not heard this before. But I'm not a big Attenborough enthusiast, either.
Attenborough is an agenda-driven tool. Hard to listen to his drivel. Myron, however, is legendary in his genuine love for his field of study and desire to share it with a wider audience.
Wow! Another great video from Myron! He explains things so well. Thank you Myron, we appreciate all the effort you put into sharing your knowledge with us!
If so, I agree already so would like to get paid too, not much, but the principle for being kind, honest & paid for it sounds perfectly un-devious to my ears!@@UQRXD
I second that opinion, Myron is a wonderful teacher listening to these videos helps me get over the fact I never went to college and it shows it truly is never too late to learn
@@kenboydart Sure college can teach you some things or 2 but you will end up brainwashed and weaker than to actually learn yourself. 2 myron doesnt know that much at all, its just that most folk dont know their stuff and believe everything ppl like myron say to them as it blows them off their feet because it makes a little sense. We dont live on a globe ball of water for example, yet this biologist does not understand this basic knowledge; that proves a person dumb and incapable.. No education or college will make it so that you are actually born more intelligent........ I dont need a diploma/degree in stuff to show the so called experts who is born more intelligent and can tell them how it works withot having the need to blindly copycat books from others when it fits the system or narrative of history
Hey Myron! My daughter will be 7 in 10 days. She LOVES your videos. Your teaching style has captured her attention and she is really beginning to show an interest in geology and is already contemplating time in a manner that I’ve never seen a child consider. You went and sucked ME in as well, and I am grateful for that. I haven’t been this interested in a subject since I first got into emergency medicine about 25 years ago. Thank you for all of this!
Myron, it struck me when you compared contemplating time in geological formations with staring into to unimaginable depths of a clear night sky. As I've aged and am better able to ponder things beyond survival for myself and family, which we know we spend most of our adult life doing. I'm not able to escape the light and pollution clouded sky's where we live nearly as much as I'd like. I share to feeling of insignificance when looking into a canyon walls as well as the infinite sky's. Thanks for taking the time to create these wonderful lessons!😊
Myron, I have watched many of your videos. So many good videos. I was out hiking today in some bentonite hills; recalling your videos on erosion. I see things of the past, now so much clearer.
Myron, I have thoroughly enjoyed your videos. I have learned so much and I love your calm, quiet voice as you teach. You are a natural and I can tell how much you truly love what you do. Thank you for all your marvelous videos.
I watch a lit of geology videos on RU-vid, but what I absolutely love about Myron is that he focuses on the field evidence. I really appreciate his insights and how he explains principles plainly and with good reasoning. Thank you, Myron. You'll never fully how how much your videos impact others and bless them. You are appreciated, Sir!
Hello Myron. I travel all over the Midwest as a pilot car. Almost on a daily basis I am in awe with the nature I see. And as I would pass by the mountains with all the exposed layers, I would always Ponder what has happened to create these layers. So when I found you, I found a treasure trove of answers to my questions. It's like reading a book now as I drive down the road with the information you have given me. And Myron, I can't express how grateful I am for the opportunity to know you through these videos. You are a delightful human being to say the least.And this world is a better place having had you here. Godspeed
I got a deeper appreciation for geological from Randell Carlson to begin with. I live on a mountain in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains. Everywhere around here once you get 2 feet deep you hit sandrock, to learn that this mountain was at one time was a river delta blue my mind. Your channel is fantastic, to me, for a deeper dive into geological processes. Thanks for the info, you do a great job.
Then please explain Uluru Australia? Its not what geological theory suggests at all. I am a material researcher, I go by the Evidence! Cant be denied unless a person suffers from menticide IMO. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rW7N_LLqKMk.html&ab_channel=MudfossilUniversity
Another fabulous lesson! I've hiked a few of those areas and was thrilled to learn so much about them. Can't wait to hike them again now, with a keener eye ❤️
I'm studying archaeology, so experiencing time through one's surroundings is something I find extremely valuable and fascinating. But the time scales involved in geology are just incomprehensible. Thank you so much for making this video and being such a great educator!
Archaeologic time overlaps the time of the near surface of the earth. You are wise to follow this information... just adjust in to your understanding of Ancient archeology to include recent Geology. That's where the truth lay in deposits.... Where I am in sw Ohio, the upper 3 to 6 meters of recent , (11,600 year old) Deposits. Stone age tools are found all around Ohio. The FLOOD covered it all , near post glacial melt floods. Pyramids all over America and messo America. yOU ARE ONTO SOME THINGS.
Wonderful episode, Myron! I love geology for those stories, telling me what it is that I'm seeing, how it came about. The time dimension puts things into perspective as you said on a personal level, much like astronomy with its astronomical distances and time scales :) Thank you for making and sharing these amazing videos with us.
Thank you Myron for your wonderful videos explaining deep time. I have a greater appreciation for understanding just how long the formations around us that we often take for granted took to form. Please consider this a compliment, but to me you are the Bob Ross, or Mr. Rogers of the geology world :)
I thoroughly enjoyed this video and the drone footage makes it even clearer and more awe-inspiring. I kept pausing it while I tried to imagine all the periods when the layers were being formed, when the lifting and lowering and eroding took place, and marveling at how the planet has gone through so many cycles of change. When the layers eroded, where did the dust and soil go? Part of the various periods of ancient to more recent Wyoming must have flowed or blown to the rest of the continent and vice-versa and maybe even somewhere else. It really makes you think about time and connection. Thank you for explaining it so well and showing up close how amazing it all is, Mr. Cook. I'm looking forward to the next video and hope to see these formations for myself in the near future. :)
I love your videos SOOO Much! Thank you for introducing me to geology, and a big thank you to your great uncle Cliff, too. P.S. I enjoyed it immensely.
Where has this guy been all my RU-vid life! The sonorous voice, the clean crisp videography and inspired editing. Mr. Cook could film paint drying and I’d watch for an hour
Well done, MC. I can read about this stuff and kind of get it , but when it’s presented in this form it becomes clear and succinct enough even for this highschool dropout to figure out. You do us a good service.
Your videos are, as you should know, first class! I love the drone shots and google earth and for sure the whiteboard. I'd sure give you a metaphor award as yours are so helpful. Especially the one about dust, with which I plan to use when my wife wants me to vacuum or dust the house. Thanks again, Jim
Thank you so much for this really phenomenal educational video; we have gained tremendous insight from your education and often find ourselves pointing out information on rocks around us that we learned from you. This latest video is really wonderful, it's organized beautifully; thank you!
WOW, I just subscribed and turned on all notifications and 2 minutes later i get my girst new video. What great timing! Thanks for teaching us something interesting with every video.
You definitely won't be disappointed. Myron Cook is the teacher we all wish we had back in school. I can't help but feel like I'm a child again with a sort of wistful excitement watching him with a glimmer in my eyes
This is making me so much more excited for my incoming trip to the Bardenas desert in Spain, thank you for all the great content you're putting out Myron, you've singlehandedly rekindled my childhood interest in geology.
Sure have. The most hitting to me was when I was in Loreto Mexico . We were out fishing and could see the water lines on rock formations . The captain said that was the water line from millions of years of ago. The water line was 100 feet over our heads. Makes you humble
Amazing story. Lovely video. I'm in complete awe of the depths of time, your meditation on 1" of deep sea ooze deposition as a life lived - really resonated with me. The cycles within and changes between so many different environments, over such unimaginably vast swathes of time, just incredibly humbling. Thank you for taking us on this journey.
Thanks Myron! Wyoming is breathtakingly beautiful! It’s so nice to get a better understanding of the formations and how they’ve formed over time. The modern day examples and photos are extremely helpful to imagine what it was like when the layers were created! 👌🌟🌟🌟
Thank you so much Myron. Another beautiful explanation of our geological processes at work. I just struggle to comprehend how just one location can go through so many different changes, its mind boggling. I reckon your Great Uncle Cliff would be so proud of you. Best wishes, Geoff (Perth, Western Australia)
Well boggled mind. Question time in a few thousand years. Need to watch the video several hundred more times. Thank you Myron for putting it all together and showing it in a quiet enjoyable manner.
Absolutely wonderful!!!! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge; I appreciate it. Definitely a lot of time and effort to make a high-quality presentation like this. I love all your videos.
Hi Myron, I have just come back from a trip in my Landy to south east Morocco, beautiful desert mountains. your vids are excellent, you describe the geology so well. Thanks Myron.
I sit here now knowing the depth and the ages it took to deposit some of these layers for it only to still be unfathomable. Thank you Myron, wonderful video
Once again, thank you for sharing what you love. Your knowledge and understanding and sense of wonder, compound the delight I feel in my meager understanding of geology and geological time.
There are few channels, and episodes within those channels, that I watch from start to finish. Another excellent episode and one that I've passed on to both geologist I know, and to people that don't have an interest necessarily in these things. This one really gave me an appreciation of deep time right here in my back yard. Thank you Dr. Cook!
Thank you Myron for another very well done video! I enjoyed the trip through the Bighorn Basin and your drone shots really add to your detailed explanations.
Thank you Myron! Such an overwhelming sense of awe from this video. I have been slowly going through your channel over the last couple of months and I have learned so much.
This is just unbelievable and hard work, what with all the efforts that's gone into the recordings with drones and what not and not mentioning the travel and traversing of places far afield; I feel like I'm on a field trip and actually experiencing the locale and its geologic history firsthand. A million thanks from Azerbaijan!
I really enjoyed this perspective on geological time. I especially liked the superimposing of the actual environments over the geological formations. Your presentations offer great clarity on a very complex subject.
Thank you Myron, for taking all this time and effort to visit and explain all the layers right down to the great unconformity. If I could go all the way to your country, I surely would do this drive and take in the sheer enormity, and especially the time scales that divide each region. I am in awe, truly.
Reminding how small we all are, expanding our perspective. I find your methods & voice very easy to persuade myself i'm learning something, despite not understanding a lot of the words.
Where I live now? Some of our rocks in the Blue Ridge are around 1 B years old. When you touch a rock, exposed, that has been here that long? ....(Gneiss, to be preicse, at Old Rag.) I, at least, feel immense peace and calm. Truly, the earth endures.
Myron, thank you so much for your fantastic Videos! Montana ist so beautyful ❤. My highest gratitude for your Work. All the best for you and many Greetings from Bavaria! 👍👍👍👍
This is so well done Myron’s teaching is comprehensible. What a gift. I am astonished by this vast depositional interpretation. Thank you for such a pleasant tone of style.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge! I live in Norway and I'm surrounded by amazing and beautiful landscapes. I don't have the knowledge to decode their mysteries, but thanks to your videos I've started to get a somewhat clearer perspective.
I can remember the excitement as a child counting the growth rings on a tree that my dad had cut down now I am smiling thinking that tree wasn’t very old . Thank you for sharing your journey through time in the basin I have certainly enjoyed learning more about the past❤🎉❤😮😊
My husband and I love watching your videos and get so excited when we get a notification that you put a new one out! Great content, narration, and beautiful scenes. We are learning so much!
Myron bless you. My husband is a geologist by training but has had other careers since. I recently got curious about geology but could not stick with some of the RU-vid channels on this incredible subject. Too sterile. We have been captivated by your joy and your passion. I am deeply curious about many subjects but this has become addictive lately. I work in mental health and I am convinced that if this was part of our general education, compulsory, the world would be saner, wiser and less stupid! We quite plainly love life, our blue dot and you! 👏🙏🐬🌹🌻
Hello Myron! your videos cause me to break into a big smile! I enjoy your delivery style, you are very informative and boy! I learn alot which makes me appreciate so much more about geography! You would make a fantastic jr high or high school teacher!
Since subscribing to your channel, I now marvel at the display of historical time when driving through any deep highway cut in a hillside or mountain. We have several spectacular examples here in BC, Canada. Stay well, and thanks for another lesson.
