I was kidding myself. Amazing how interesting it is to find something that i have personally found truthfull and factual from when i was a kid. A kid from the Sonoran desert.
Your channel is proof that, if what you're talking about is interesting enough, there's no need to turn it into some television event drama. This was so good!
@@myroncook Myron ! What a great journey you took us on ! It's truly amazing that so many clues are still visible to anyone, in plain sight ! Now, there is just one tiny issue, and I hope that you take this as a form of well-mannered constructive criticism, sir. The title is just every so slightly misleading. To me, in my mind, "How Geologists Discovered [the Seaway]" would lead me to think that the video would be about those specific geologists and the actual specific discoveries made by them over time, in a historical context. This was especially true for me since you mentioned the 1869 expedition by John Wesley Powell. I expected more specific historical details to follow in his footsteps. Alas, we did not get that. Now, I know that this is not a true historical channel, in the normal sense. Instead this is a great, shall I say spectacular, channel about geology over a much vaster historical timeline. Keep up the amazing work, and I speak for everyone when I say, NEVER STOP !!
LOVE your channel! My elderly mother and I enjoy learning about geology, astronomy, and geography. I am her caregiver and we love to watch educational videos as part of our daily routine to keep her mind active. Thank you for making and sharing your outstanding videos.
This video is so fascinating! I love when you address “how do we know that?” kinds of questions! And the photography is always sooo stunning! Thank you for educating us!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE UNITS CONVERSION! It’s the little details that show your empathy and respect for the viewers. Most youtubers don’t notice how much the units impact the understanding of scale!
It's also nice that he says one unit and writes the other. Hearing both each time makes it more difficult to compare. I can choose to remember just the ones I read, or the ones I hear.
@@krispycool1 How so? If someone who is hearing impaired is watching this video, then they're reading the captions already anyway. The audio as spoken is transcribed. So, they'd see both units.
@@krispycool1 So, what are you saying? Hearing impaired people aren't hearing the words, and now you're saying the auto-generated captions are often not accurate. So, it wouldn't matter which units he says aloud. My original point seems as valid as ever, and your complaint seems to make no sense.
I spent fifty years in construction, I wish I would have been a geologist. I really love geology, who would have thought geology would be so fascinating.
How many times have I driven through boring landscapes and just couldn't wait to get to somewhere interesting? Myron, you should have made these videos 50 years ago. What great videos for kids to watch while travelling cross country.
Thank you Myron! This is my favorite channel in RU-vid and you have completely transformed my understanding of the Earth. Learning geology the last few months since I found your channel has given me so much joy! Keep doing what you’re doing partner!
@@myroncook i found a channel that you might enjoy watching for amusement, relaxation, or some information. it is not a geology channel in the purest sense, but it does occasionally hit on geology in a tangential manner. the creator has a very soothing voice, and the visuals are amazing. the channel name is, *_"Desert Drifter"_*
@@myroncooki eatvhed your video about the fans coming from river deltas and how far they go out to see, as well as the channels you noted running across the bottom of the ocean. I believe you said they were caused by the rivers and underwater currents, but it wasnt fully understood. I disagreed, its my understanding that the paths the major rivers follow were not originally carved by the rivers themselves, the eater just took the path of least resistance. I adhere to the electrical model of the universe, in said model its understood from accounts of the ancients that great cataclysms of an electrical nature happened. These events occured before life even existed here. These planetary scale electrical storms literally carved out huge swaths of land and killed untold numbers of species in the known catacylsms (it wasnt a meteor it was a global electical storm and a scale we can hardly imagine). Look at electrical excavation experiments done by many experimentalists. It shows the exact same fratures we see on he surfaces of every celestial body we observe.
Myron: I greatly appreciate the free education you are handing out here. Your style of leading one to the points of the lesson are wonderful to listen to and learn from. The natural world needs more story tellers like you. Thank you.
North of San Antonio, TX. Sea shells and related fossils in my backyard. Honeycomb rocks with sea shells and fossils embedded in them. Yep, I will most certainly buy it. In the same area I stood in a dinosaur track back in the 60's. It was on private land and cannot be accessed now.
Hi Myron! I am an engineer with a railroad out here in Grand Junction and my route goes through Thompson Springs, Helper, and all along the Bookcliffs. I get so excited riding along these beautiful features every day and wondering about the ancient landscapes that made these mountains into what they are today. So glad to see you made a video about them. I just bought a book about this very thing by Ron Blakey! PS, you met my boyfriend, Jason at a restaurant while you were here in town, thanks for the photo! We were so excited! If you ever make it back to GJ, I hope to meet you, too!
For me, it’s not just the great knowledge you have but the enthusiasm you show that makes your videos as enjoyable as they are educational. Thank you for sharing these
I spent about 25 years in Utah. It's a nature-lover's paradise. I hope everyone has a chance to visit the beauty of southern Utah. It's truly amazing. Thank you, Mr. Cook. I don't know why you don't have a million subscribers by now.
I live in northern Kentucky and have always been fascinated by finding fossilized coral and sea shells in field stones. Amazing to think of how our earth has changed over the ages.
Thank you so much Myron your geography content is seriously unmatched I use it to help teach my children about the great Appalachians around from here in central Pennsylvania
I feel we are lucky to have drone technology available to help grasp the size and scale of these layers. Some awesome footage and that final stop was simply amazing. Still loving this channel and all the fascinating geology stories Mr. Myron. Thanks!
Hello there sir , Myron we really enjoy your geology. Always in lightning and joyful love your humor keep them coming. I have a high understanding of the topic and I love the way you break it down Thanks again, Damon
As a recent transplant to Denver I’m fascinated by the story of the Seaway and the geology of the west. Thank you for your excellent and understandable presentations. Love the trees!
Myron has a perfect score for his geology videos as far as I'm concerned. Such a pleasant voice and pacing of speech plus his enthusiasm and questions to the viewers throughout the video. Extremely well done Myron. i bet that there are some future geologists watching these videos. In the future, professors will ask, "how did you get involved in geology?" and the student will reply, "I watch Myron Cook discuss geology in videos on RU-vid." The student will think and mutter softly, "I sure wish this professor was as good as Myron."
As an European I really appreciate the unit conversion. Sometimes I struggle to follow american educational contents because I'm not familiar with the imperial system. It's a small thing but really appreciated. Also your content is pure gold, you manage to go really deep but with an easier vocabulary that makes it understandable for anyone, you really have a gift. Thank you for your videos!
My goodness...Ive learned so much watching your videos. Sadly in my lifetime I'll never see this part of our country. Truly amazing area. Never have I thought about rock formation until I started watching....thank you
I'm in Scotland, studying plants for research/conservation - my degree doesn't even brush up against geology and I can't understand why not! It's so interesting, and holds so much information about why the current configuration of land is the way it is, and why plants grow where they do. I love to read rock formations and try to visualise how they formed and what might have lived around them, your videos are like learning to read. I'm in an area that was repeatedly flooded and reforested through the Carboniferous, I've got chunks of fossilised rainforest from alternating layers of mudstone, shale and coal capped by massive slabs of sandstone that I can now visualise better thanks to your video. Feels a bit like deep time vertigo. It's also really interesting to see formations that are nothing like what we've got since our landscape was scraped smooth by ice.
After an exceptionally rough week, Im stoked to sit down and hear about the Great Seaway from everyone favorite Geology Santa! Theres a lot of comfort in the humility of seeing a glimpse of the age of the world we live on and Im forever grateful for everyone that shares this passion.
Good to see you again Myron! Love your videos. As it so happens, I live on the boundary of the coastal plain and Piedmont Plateau in Maryland. Now, I find myself trying to imagine what my neighborhood looked like during the Cretaceous.
Respect for your work. I have found a shocking number of Creationists on youtube making videos about how the grand canyon was formed in a few weeks. It's horrifying to me to see such ideas get so much traction and support and your work really shines as a powerful and insightful informative array of data against such delusions. Great work! Liked and shared.
This is exactly why I watch this channel. This helps me greatly in understanding the geologic environments that cretaceous animals in North America would have lived in
You make it so interesting! Every time I look at different areas as I drive around and travel, I contemplate the things I've learned from you. Thank you so much for being so generous with your time 🤗
Myron, thank you for your work, and for explaining everything from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Seaway. You touch on the geology of greatly undervalued yet stunning subjects.
This reminds me of the inland Sea that Australia once had. One thing I love most about this ultimate favourite geology & palaeontology channel of my is it encourages me to ask questions that I both would not have thought of, or have been reminded of that I already thought of.
Your enthusiasm is infectious! Thank you for sharing bits of your vast knowledge, and reminding us to be curious and ask questions about the world around us.
Myron, you've done it again, sent my imagination off spinning into the depths of time. What a treasure for the curious - thank you so much for these thoughtful, amazing and inspiring videos.
Mr. Myron thank u so much for content such as this. I sit here on my couch completely fascinated and engaged with what I’m learning from your video. You and your channel show the power of doing something meaningful with a you tube channel. Thanks for all you do to enlighten and educate those in the online community. It most definitely helps us to stay curious:)!
The topics you cover in this video can be difficult to grasp sitting in a classroom or reading the literature. You have a gift of explaining and your videos and presentations are satisfying and getting better. I am sending anyone interested in learning geology to this channel.
I love the way you explain the changes in topography. Really helps to imagine what it used to be like. I live in the Uk and I look at the landscape in such a different way because of your teaching. Thankyou for opening my eyes to a much bigger picture. 💚
I dialed up the request line a month ago asking for coverage on this topic and Dr. Myron DELIVERED! You sir, are influencing far more people than you’ll ever realize. Truly, thank you sir.
Myron, I appreciate the way you parse all the relevant aspects into relatable components...and reassemble them into concepts that make sense. I love geology but have a difficult time envisioning hypothesis from textbooks and journals. Your method of on-location instruction and diagramming is illuminating and enlightening. Thank you for these excellent lessons!
Loved this one. Was just in Capitol Reef last week looking at the formations, the oyster fossils and such. This pulled a lot of information together. Thanks!
This feels like I'm back in elementary school, learning from a teacher who uses the whiteboard like a musical instrument. It's impossible not to listen to and be amazed. I enjoyed such lessons in elementary school just blowing my mind with the vast time scales and awesome features of the planet, and I still enjoy such lessons.
Love the video. I'm a 37 year old near-life-long rock hound/ geology nut. I have a very distinct memory of being in the red feather area of northern Colorado with my grandfather hiking around and exploring the area. On a ridge roughly 8-9,000 feet above sea-level, I found a cluster of curious looking rocks that later I found out to be fossilized clams. I think the finding of that specimen and the knowledge of just what it was was the antithesis of my lifelong obsession with rocks. Thanks again for the great video.
Absolutely wonderful video, me and my family used to go camping all the time when I was a kid and I never cherished the vast knowledge and deep care park rangers had for the lands around them. Now that Im older I find my self missing that, and this fulfills that curiosity in such a calming way. I think its all to easy nowadays to get swept up with life and forget to slow down and enjoy what nature has to offer, and this has helped me take a breath. Thanks myron, you've brightened many days, and filled many minds.
Sir, you have a wonderful way of teaching Geology and I look forward to the discoverys you show us in these videos. I enjoy seeing the Earth as it was through your eyes. Thank you.
Thought provoking, inspiring, and fascinating. It's good to see you again Myron. Last time we hung out you were teaching me how to golf and I was failing badly. I'm still bad at golf but I have nothing but great memories with you. You're still a great teacher and as your video demonstrates, time is amazing.
Each video is a compilation of your deep knowledge of Geology. I am amazed every time I watch one. Though as I'm just an Architect I need time and several reviews to get part of the substance. TYSM for your generosity😊
Thank you so much! This is the one I've been looking for. I live in Fritch, TX. I can send you photographs. Now we have scorched Earth with no vegetation on rocks! A once in a lifetime opportunity.
If rocks could talk… what a history lesson they’d share. Love your stuff and how you dumb it down for folks like myself. Just amazed the amount of time and forces involved, just boggles my mind.
Whenever I want my mind blown, I tune into one of your videos. The vast amount of time it takes nature to display such wonders truly boggles the imagination. Thanks Myron for another great lesson in geology.
Love being shown the big picture! My college geology class emphasized rock classification so much that it was hard to see how it fit in the grand scheme of things. Between your white board and your drone footage, thank you for all the work you put into your great geology videos!
Dr. Cook, I find the flow of your presentations very welcoming. I have had a lifelong but pedestrian interest in all things related to Earth science - - mainly focused on botany and biology. Having visited places like Capitol Reef in younger days, I found that I was easily overwhelmed by the various landscape formations, not able to understand the subtle clues of structure - so I simply remained in awe of the aesthetic beauty of such places... And now, many decades further, I am able to virtually revisit these in a new light even though I may not be able physically to do so. A subscriber thanks you!
I love how Myron uses the Socratic method in his videos. More science education videos should do that. It makes it so much more fun and helps make it easier to understand the concepts.
I love how the drone flights put the details into perspective, showing it all in its real, large scale. You visualize everything so well that i can feel the joy of discovery too, as we really have a look into the memories of this planet and imagine it "growing up".
Every video of yours that I watch just blows my mind. It’s difficult to imagine the layers that we see on a horizontal plane. But I’m seeing the mountains that I live in totally different thanks to your videos. I’m so thankful.
Recently recommended this channel and can’t say enough nice things. From the lovely visuals, informative content and most of all the inviting, soothing and, I cannot help but make the connection, Mr Rogers evoking cadence and intonation, I’ve been loving to listen to these presentations. Thank you for sharing!
Absolutely fascinating, with amazing explanations, a most wonderful job! I hated to see it end. Building up at only a 1/4 of an inch every 100 years is mind boggling. Thanks
This is my most favourite geology & palaeontology video I’ve ever seen in my life. I’m absolutely obsessed with this channel. I love your work sir. you explain and show things extremely well with your field work, drawings, & clear explanations. Keep up the good work 👍🏻.
I worked down in Goblin Valley last summer and saw the mancos shale and the Morrison formation so much. The earth reveals a lot about its history through rocks and to imagine those ancient landscapes and how they affect the land today is amazing! Factory Butte in the golden hours of sunlight is incredibly beautiful
