How Snowball Earth Leveled Mountains and Created the Great Unconformity

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Hike with a geologist and see spectacular exposures of the Great Unconformity and appreciate the profound history of earth.
Thanks to Elgin Cook for being the drone pilot; check out his channel • Sunlight Basin - Volca...
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field geology, Wyoming geology, Wind River Canyon, Clarks Fork Canyon, Utah geology, Antelope Island, Metamorphics, granite, Homeschool Earth Science Education
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@myroncook Год назад

Viewer, Thomas Cheymol suggested that I should mention isostasy. I thank him for the suggestion and agree! At 18:00 I talk about deeply buried sediments being continually uplifted and eroded in an approximate equilibrium to eventually bring metamorphics and granites to the surface. I should have mentioned that most of this uplift, after the initial formation of mountains, is through isostasy. When you load the crust with weight (mountains, sediments, ice) the crust sinks into the mantle (basins like the one on my sketch do this) and when you erode or remove weight the crust slowly rebounds, bringing deep rocks to the surface. Therefore, the principle of isostasy is key in both deep burial and massive uplift. NOTE #2 Concerning glacial periods. I mostly referred to a period from about 800 to 600 million years ago when at least three major glaciations occurred. The three biggest ones we know of are named the Sturtian, Marinoan, and Gaskiers. There was also at least one about 2.5 billion years ago.

@RU3YJB Год назад

I enjoy your presentations, and the reverence you sometimes show and allow breathing room for us to think and feel about geological formations and environs. But I get really excited when I hear all of the legitimate professional terminology, because it not only refreshes my memory of things I have already learned, but I learn new things as well. More, please!

@joseywilds3133 Год назад

Excellent presentation!!!!!!

@halweilbrenner9926 Год назад

Isostasy?

@TheWadetube Год назад

I see evidence of a global flood all over the world and yet mainstream geologists nearly always dismiss it because it comes from the bible... which they also dismiss. But it also comes from over 200 cultures and languages around the globe. Every country knows it happened and approximately WHEN it happened but this is not calculated in any rock formation, layering or depositions of materials like river rock found INSIDE a mountain slope, sea shells on Everest, Whale Bones on the high plains of the Atacoma desert. But what I wanted to point out is that fast erosion of the Grand Canyon came from a inland flood and was rapid, otherwise all rivers around the world would be grand canyons. And a large flood can put down many layers of sediment in one flood drifting in from various areas and this is demonstrated when petrified trees are found STANDING upright in many flat layers of sediment. They were buried whole, otherwise the would have died and rotted and fell over. Some of these layers are from one large flood, but there are three other means by which layers are deposited that I can think of. Sand and dust storms, volcanic ash or lava, and asteroid impacts and micrometor dust raining down, about 100 tons of it each day. Can you name another source for these new layers?

@nothingmuch8865 Год назад

@@halweilbrenner9926 Actually, the Isostacy Apostasy!

@DaSchnuz Год назад

As a retired geologist, who spent majority of his working years in well logging, you do a wonderful job explaining everything to non geologists! I love how you use modern technology with old technology to explain things and you do it in a way that people can grasp the concept, the present is the key to the past! Well done!!

@myroncook Год назад

Thank you for the feedback

@dudedude2207 10 месяцев назад

The past is not observable

@jeremiah_dyess 10 месяцев назад

@@dudedude2207 It so is!

@dudedude2207 10 месяцев назад

@@jeremiah_dyess how?

@jeremiah_dyess 10 месяцев назад

@@dudedude2207 "How" is a broad word. We would have to agree on a few points. Are you edumacated? I mean do you understand how knowledge is accumulated? I just want to be able to speak in your terms. Am I speaking to someone in high school, or is this an adult?

@markdoherty9205 Год назад

I'm from the UK, which, for a small island, has a mass of geology. But what a fantastic insight into american geology Myron gives. As another comment said, it's a great storyteller. Thank you, Myron.

@myroncook Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@richardschaeffer3204 Год назад

I'm intrigued by doggerland , now under the English channel. During the younger dryas, ocean levels were over 150 meters lower.

@markdoherty9205 Год назад

@richardschaeffer3204 oceans lower or did the land sink lol. This is what I love with geology. Piling in London we found sink holes 20m down as the uk is still tipping back after the ice age, Scotland is lifting and England is sinking.

@Evan490BC 10 месяцев назад

Hi Mark, I'm British as well. I wish people stopped calling Great Britain a "small island". It's not Greenland, for sure, but it's not small either.

@elgorrion52 3 месяца назад

That's because of all the Scotsmen moving to the South@@markdoherty9205

@peggyteague6825 Год назад

So glad I found your geology site. I am a former mudlogger of 14 years. I was always so excited to find microfossils in my samples. Especially knowing I am the only human to have ever seen those particular mud samples. Everytime I see strata I wonder where it is from and how it has formed. It must be truly amazing to put your hands on all those rocks. And yes, I truly wish I could touch them also. Your teachings are magnanimous! And I will continue to and look forward to your next teaching.

@myroncook Год назад

I love your story, Peggy. I have great respect for mudloggers; part science and part art. I think about fossils and or geologic features in a similar fashion....amazing that I am the first to see it or that it somehow miraculously presented itself to me.

@jeremiah_dyess 10 месяцев назад

I sing this to myself all time! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rGa9IvpooKI.html

@janreynolds3388 Год назад

My college geology classes are coming back to me. I was a zoology major when I took my first geology class in 1970. If I hadn't put in two full years into a zoology degree, I would have switched majors. Sometimes. I still wish I had. I love listening to the great geology lectures on You Tube. Thank you!

@clairpahlavi Год назад

Study the Thunderbolts Project for another twist in the geologic science. Open your mind. Move outside of standard classic geological box.

@Andre_XX Год назад

@@clairpahlavi I thought I would check out the comments to see how long it would take to find a comment on a pseudo-scientific crank idea. It did not take me long to find one.

@Joe-Pryzbranowski 5 дней назад

The 'open your mind' gives it away.

@Oldbugssy Год назад

I think I need a new head gasket. Because every time I watch one of your presentations you keep blowing my mind! Thanks for this.

@myroncook Год назад

Glad you like them!

@daleeason9687 Год назад

I'm so glad you put this one together. In 1951 when I has 5 we moved from Lander to Worland. My dad was in oil exploration ( a seismograph crew) for Phillips Pet. It was the first time I ever remember going through the wind river canyon. I have gone through it many times since. But have not lived in Wyoming since the 50's. Thermopolis and Tensleep where areas we visited many times as well. You have just explained some of the Geology of my childhood. That I never knew how those features were made. Now I know and it is amazing. I knew a little geology from what my father learned as he worked on the seismograph crew. Plate tectonics' was not understood back then. It is a joy to learn about now and how it has shaped the areas were we live. Thank you so much.

@myroncook Год назад

I really enjoyed this history, Dale. All the best

@joshportie 4 месяца назад

And his explanation isnt correct. The religious interpretive spin is hard.

@whyyes6428 Год назад

Thank you for all the driving you've put in to make this video. I think it's people like you creating videos like this which will help people find and develop a passion for geology. Although you don't have a substantial subscriber base, I'm every everyone of your subscribers appreciates the hell out of this. Cheers man

@donnavorce8856 Год назад

Over 45 minutes with Myron! Awesome. Thanks Myron and also thanks to your photographer. Great work.

@thomasrobbins1171 Год назад

Thank you Myron. The pages of a book to years analogy was a stunner. The apparently unknown, and possibly unknowable, cause of the start and end of snowball earth is a humbling thing, isn't it?

@earthjustice01 3 часа назад

I think the probable cause is the evolution of photosynthesis, which took a lot of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, chilling the planet.

@karendasero8061 Год назад

Your videos are wonderful. My father was a geologist and wanted me to study geology. I didn’t think I was proficient in math and science to do so. He always took on rock finding hikes in the San Gabriel mountains, Los Angeles National Forest. He lived and breathed geology. Every day I look at those mountains and remember those moments.

@myroncook Год назад

Love this

@guiart4728 Год назад

People think geology is a dry subject but the geologists I know of are some of the most enthusiastic and passionate folks around!

@cuncata Год назад

This is fantastic. I had a real interest in geology when I was but 5 years old; it didnt go away. I can't tell you how much I appreciate these educational videos. You are a truly great science communicator. I would love to go on a field trip with you. My uncle is a geologist and on our camping trips he spoke like you do :) Thank you so much.

@Hossak Год назад

It is creators and channels like this that are the heart and soul of youtube for me. Thank you for all the hard work you are putting in to bring the joy of geology that you clearly feel to us. I am loving all of your videos!

@macswinford3315 Год назад

I'm a geologist in Ohio, but I worked in Wyoming as a young man. I have never touched the great unconformity. It's on my bucket list. This video is enthralling. It's been 45 years, but I have got to make it back the Wind River Canyon and see the surface that has alluded me.

@RogueReplicant Год назад

* eluded, not alluded

@petecooper4412 Месяц назад

This 82 years old engineer is your latest student. Thanks, Myron.

@loueckert4970 Год назад

Myron is so enthusiastic, you must listen to his stories. I love to learn this way.

@augusth3532 Год назад

As a non-geologist this was a very informative and easy to understand video. I really liked that you actually went out and showed the real rock formations, and your enthusiasm was very contagious.

@RobertLScott-br4uy Год назад

Living and working in Montana and Wyoming and watching your series I wish I had studied geology instead of design engineering. Great educational tour of one of my favorite canyons

@MangySquirrel Год назад

Hey Myron, i have to tell you something really cool - a connection I’ve had to this video. I did a hike in Banff, Canada up to Helen Lake back in 2016. Up at the top of our hike after a steep long climb, we saw what we’re told is a field of stromatolite fossils that are 500 million years old. Those stromatolites must have formed when all off North America was under water in shallow sea conditions. Those maps you showed at the end of the video finally visualized and brought it together for me. I took some photos there as I just could not get over how I was walking on 500 million years of history - the world before the dinosaurs, as you’ve shown in this video. It was a beautiful formation that i captured. Thanks so much for your video, looking forward to seeing more.

@myroncook Год назад

Fascinating story !

@higherresolution4490 6 месяцев назад

It's equally fascinating to think that stromatolites arose about one-and-a-half billion years ago. The first aerobic bacteria on Earth, they are responsible for having killed most of the anaerobic bacteria and archaea that lived without the protection of water or earth. Shark Bay, above Perth in Western Australia, still has a healthy population of stromatolites. Probably the most robust population anywhere in the world. A tiny pond relic of an inland sea in central Mexico has stromatolites still living on its edges. Stromatolites are found in other places too. Without their oxygen, life would never have evolved beyond single-cell morphology. But you were so fortunate to see in the rock shale in Canada was a record of the great Cambrian explosion.

@SueFerreira75 Год назад

Thanks for your videos, Myron. In my last year at school, 60 years ago, our new biology teacher, also a geologist, took my class out to look at the rocks around my town in England. I was fascinated and fell in love with the discipline, but was already headed to medical school. My work as a physician was a joy, but medicine takes over your life, so now in my retirement, I am enjoying my return to learning more about our geological history with your assistance.

@susanbone3634 Год назад

Another inspiring and heart-warming video. You and the photographer bring all this fascinating information and the story of Earth to us with generosity and kindliness. It's very appreciated. Thank you.

@robertyauger1025 Год назад

So thankful I stumbled onto your videos. I love geology, but I am not a field trained geologist. I am from the east, but love going out west. It's often difficult for me to translate the things I read about to what I am seeing in the rocks - you help to visualize it and understand it. I find the structural and historical geology just fascinating, not to mention the beautiful scenery. Thanks so much!

@myroncook Год назад

Awesome! Thank you!

@dougsrepair1060 Год назад

Your geology knowledge is unquestionably thorough. What makes it so interesting is the visual evidence along with your ability to explain it so we can grasp it.

@gregjones2217 Год назад

Thank you again Myron. I don't know how many times I drove the canyon. I learned a lot today.

@hestheMaster Год назад

An amazing walk through time with you professor. I wonder if they know for sure how many times the Earth was almost totally covered by ice? Kudos to your brother on the excellent drone work!

@myroncook Год назад

Three times from about 800 ma to 600 ma ago. Also way back about 2.5 Ga ago. Could have been others too

@davidhollenshead4892 Год назад

@@myroncook How many different worlds would you estimate this planet has been ??? [ Snowball Earth is a distinctly different type of world, just as the Carboniferous was so very different it almost belongs in a Science Fiction Story, compared to the world we live in....]

@baylorsailor Год назад

And we will be covered in ice again as soon as we finish melting from the last ice age. 😊

@JM-zg2jg Год назад

@@baylorsailor Hmmm. Maybe. There weren’t any humans or human industries the last times around. This time at least, it may be a lot longer before it happens again.

@bettywing52 Год назад

I did a mountaineering school for 6 weeks in the Wind River Mountains and Popo Agie Wilderness in the Seventies, hitchhiking from NJ to Lander. Lots of it was in the higher elevations, and I remember walking and climbing a lot of that granite surface covered with the lichens. I had found some olivine there, like the NASA Curiosity team on Mars. Thanks for all the "Wyoming." You're a terrific teacher. I live on the Driftless in Wisconsin, and hunt fossils in the local cuts and quarries these days. The deep time of the earth right in my hands.

@myroncook Год назад

I like your story...interesting!

@kaldrazadrim Месяц назад

As someone with no interest in geology, I watched this entire video. That’s how engaging and informative you are! 10/10

@FredPilcher Год назад

Thank you, Myron!! Best geology-for-laypersons channel on RU-vid!

@RosedaleJimmy.43 Год назад

A great presentation! It’s very interesting and you explain everything in an enjoyable manner, as you do in all of your presentations I’ve seen so far. 79 and still growing 😉

@SuzaWoof Год назад

Super excited whenever I see a new upload from you! Thank you for taking the time and effort to gift us with such fascinating videos that educate AND entertain us all! Loved it!

@chrisrozier9787 3 месяца назад

Thank you so much for inviting me along, on all your RU-vid geologic journeys. I have found great enjoyment and enlightenment through your geologic discussions and thought experiments. I find a peace and understanding with these deep age processes and how they evolved to today and beyond, hard to find this much knowledge and effort together just to further anothers knowledge. Thank you Myron for all your efforts.

@grandmamichelle6753 Год назад

Thank you for another great lesson. The time spans can be hard to comprehend, but your explanation is clear and concise.

@myroncook Год назад

You are welcome!

@jimjr4432 Год назад

Thank you so much, again for the great geologic adventures. So, thanks to your video and great lectures, I briefly scanned Wikipedia and am I guessing correctly that the snowball earth to which you refer is the Baykonurian glaciation? 547 mya? Love your videos and if I had geology from you in 1967 I would have not been a forester. Merry Christmas, Jim

@myroncook Год назад

I mostly referred to a period from about 800 to 600 million years ago when at least three major glaciations occurred. The three biggest ones we know of are named the Sturtian, Marinoan, and Gaskiers. There was also at least one about 2.5 billion years ago.

@justme7415 Год назад

I've always been fascinated by the Great Uncomformity and was a bit confused about way it was. Your video clarified it immensely. Thank you! I love your long vids.

@myroncook Год назад

Glad it was helpful!

@elizabethfierro8104 Год назад

I just stumbled across your channel a few days ago and am thrilled to have found it. I watch Nick Zentner's geology videos but your hands on is fantastic to help me understand the concepts. I am not a geologist and your arrows and lines to show where these things are make a huge difference. I can hardly wait to watch all your videos. They have made a big difference in my understanding in just this short time..

@myroncook Год назад

Awesome, thank you!

@Earthgazer Год назад

I'm liking your videos more and more. Love the drone shots, the beauty of Wyoming, and the effort put in to the videos in general. I studied geoscience in college, but didn't do nearly enough field work in retrospect. These are like the geology version of the old wildlife documentaries I used to love!

@myroncook Год назад

Glad you like them!

@smellycat249 Год назад

I enjoyed this video a ton. Thanks for the great explanation of the great unconformity.

@myroncook Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@elsapon Месяц назад

"... which overwhelms me with a sense of awe.": you make it contagious! Thank you for your passionate insight into this often disregarded but quite inescapable facet of our gorgeous blue ball, and please live long and proper. :)

@myroncook Месяц назад

I'm glad you felt the awe!

@eternalbordome Год назад

I gotta say, you're enthusiasm for geology is a big reason I watch your videos. That and the geology of course.

@gardubois7194 Год назад

Thank you! I’m new to your channel. I fell in love with geology as a commercial river guide in Grand Canyon in the 70’s and 80’s, observing the book of time laid bare in the canyon walls. Simply understanding the processes of the earth for some reason fascinated and delighted me and continues to do so. I fully relate to the love and joy of discovery and understanding and the inspired awe that infuse your being and the videos you share with us. I’m eager to begin delving into all what you’ve shared. Again, thank you!!

@shaneflickinger Год назад

Wow, so much info packed into this video, I think I'm going to have to watch it again to absorb it all. Thanks especially for the book analogy on deep geologic time, as personally, I feel that is one of the hardest things to grasp about geology. I do have to ask seeing you wear the UWYO alumni hat; it makes me wonder if you taught professionally during your career or if it is just something you started with this RU-vid channel. Either way, I'm glad to be a student now. Thanks Myron.

@myroncook Год назад

Got my bachelors from UW

@yung_calibri 5 дней назад

Myron, you do a great service to the profession of teaching.

@Rob-pt8dh 2 месяца назад

Thank you for putting in all of the effort to create this video! Most RU-vidrs would have just looked for some pictures on google and used those for examples, but you actually drove hours out into the field to give us a better look. I felt like I was back in college listening to a lecture and learning something new. I now have a better appreciation about sedimentary layers and how they're created.

@myroncook 2 месяца назад

Thanks!

@gregjones2217 Год назад

I watched again. I was very impressed by your explanation of the granite shelves at sunlight creek bridge. I must admit to being more of a paleontologist than a geologist. More of a petrified wood rat than a rock rabbit. Thus your videos have been very helpful and presented in a very "real" and personal way. Plus your in my part of the world. Thank you and happy holidays.

@myroncook Год назад

Thank you, Greg. All the best

@VIKASHSINGH-hf3kt Год назад

I am Vikash from INDIA and just 3 yrs ago, I married with SCIENCE after watching CARL SAGAN' s Cosmos a personal Voyage series and then i got intrested in ASTRONOMY then gradually, the chain of knowledge of science make me intrested in Cosmology then Physics, Biology, Evolution, Origin of life and then Paleontology and now GEOLOGY. i am getting extremely intrested about GEOLOGY from few months and clearing my douts related to Earth's geological history of it's formation of rocks, minerals etc.. PLS KEEP UPLOADING YOUR VALUABLE VIDEOS AND DON'T STOP

@myroncook Год назад

Neat story!

@prototropo 2 месяца назад

I love your enthusiasm, Vikash! The world needs your energy and joy for science.

@crispycritter9163 Год назад

I may not 'Feel' the history through the screen , but you have conveyed a' Sense' of it. Thanks.

@RT-mn2pb 8 дней назад

"Love ya Myron" that's what my wife said as soon as the video ended. We both just love your videos. Very well done, terrific, clear education and explanation. And your enthusiasm comes through right along with the wealth of experience and information. This is just awesome. We're eagerly going through every Myron-show we can find. Thanks so much for your work. Oh, and as I mentioned in other posts, please be careful. My wife frets every time she sees you get near the edge of a cliff or slippery slope.

@midori4352 Год назад

I love your videos so much! As a former biology person, I wish I got my degree in geology! No one was talking about it when I grew up outside of a rock and gem summer camp I went to for a couple of weeks (which I loved and excelled at). Local attitudes just didn't support women going out in the wilds on their own, even just for research. I hope women do get into geology even more than they are already! It is such a great field and I have never met an unhappy geologist! :D Thank you for sharing all your knowledge!!!

@maximbudnick Год назад

So much work goes into this and it does not go unnoticed! Thank you so much for your brilliant educational videos, please keep them coming. Also thanks for the Canadian Shield mention as its my home rock and close to my heart.

@myroncook Год назад

Thank you very much!

@leonjohansson6542 Месяц назад

Thanks, good stuff. I had the privilege to know another renowned Wyoming geologist, Charlie Love, when he taught at Modesto Junior College in the late 60s. He led a group of students on a backpacking adventure to Yellowstone where we ventured off trail to a remote active thermal area.

@twod0ves Год назад

I'm so glad I found this channel. Believe it or not finding straightforward educational videos about geology online is a lot harder than you would think, and you nail it.

@tuffymartinez Год назад

Thank You Myron Cook...I give you a thumbs up even before I watch what you have to say👍 I want to learn and you are a wonderful teacher. ... After watching, WOW, those vertical tubes Scalithos!!! You are a big breath of fresh air that opens my eyes!!! Hope you can always keep it humble with your polite delivery of valuable information. TM

@myroncook Год назад

Thanks for watching

@azurata 5 дней назад

I'm not a geologist, but I love your videos. Your joy in teaching reminds me of some of my favorite professors in college. What a fascinating world we live in!

@myroncook 4 дня назад

Glad you like them!

@silentlividity923 9 месяцев назад

Everything either gives Way or gives Up, doesn't it Myron. The perfect Order or not so perfect Order working PERFECTLY together (smile). "THANK YOU MYRON" for sharing your wisdom & LOVE 4 the Planet (MOUNTANEOUS hug). GOD BLESSES ALL.

@dlschweppe Год назад

Myron, as a geo major 1984, I appreciate your talks. You remind me of Larry Demott, my geo professor and his classes. Geology does put things into perspective, doesn't it? And thank your spouse (who we all see walking behind you in the other room during this video) for supporting your sharing of things geological with others.

@TillyOrifice 2 месяца назад

What a marvellously clear and vivid description of the geology associated with the Great Unconformity.

@daviddrake8433 Год назад

That was a great discussion about the Great Unconformity. I, too, take a geologist's pleasure in placing my hand on our exposures of that same Unconformity around Albuquerque just as you did in Wyoming. Thanks.

@myroncook Год назад

Wonderful!

@AintNoFossil Год назад

Wow, this is what a Geology based youtube video should actually be. I remember my geology textbooks mentioning the great unconformity but have yet to explain its inception (they were written in 1982). Although I don't study geology formally anymore and am currently pursuing History, I still feel the same joy I felt when I first read up on geology.

@robertoraupp 2 месяца назад

I'm an agronomist from southern Brazil. Your channel is sensational. Thank you very much!

@earthjustice01 3 часа назад

I absolutely love your videos! You make geology so interesting and enjoyable.

@charleslord266 Год назад

Myron, Your channel brings be back to my college days. I was a Civil Engineering student at Clemson but during my senior year I loaded up on Geology classes just because I found them and the faculty to be a lot of fun. The Army had me after graduation and life didn't allow me to obtain another degree in Geology. We have a very interesting place in Maine. Our house has an outcrop of metamorphic rock that is quite beautiful and scratch marks from the last glaciation. This video reminds me of that glaciation during the great non conformity and what the land may have looked like just after and before the sea level rose up. If you ever decide to come east for a lecture/video please come and stay with us.

@drychaf Год назад

That was a very cheery way to learn! Lots of information (without overload), lots of great views and details and very nice company too. Thanks.

@myroncook Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@Gubbinsmcbumbersnoot 10 месяцев назад

I could sit and talk to this man about geology for hours on end and not get bored. Truly fascinating stuff

@House_Stark 10 месяцев назад

Rigth? He's like the Bob Ross of Geology! 😂

@godsgrace7777 Год назад

You are a really good teacher. I like your use of the board which really helps us understand. Merry Christmas!

@myroncook Год назад

Thank you! You too!

@sciencegeekgrandpa8 Год назад

Myron, you spoke of the desolation of walking on the granites left by the retreating glaciers. Of course, land plants wouldn't come along for another 160 million years, so glaciers or no, the land was devoid of life. I share your sense of awe in the enormity of the story imbedded in the rocks.

@myroncook Год назад

You are right...but I like to think the plant life would have come earlier without all of the glaciers!

@sciencegeekgrandpa8 Год назад

@@myroncook You may well be true there! Without those glaciers, the whole course of evolution might have been different, with vastly different ecosystems to be destroyed by the Great Dying and the K-T extinction event. We probably would never have come to be!

@lorq3370 3 дня назад

Thank you Myron - fascinating presentation.

@deniswang5577 Год назад

Thanks! One of your best lectures and field trips! Leaving us with so much to think about...

@myroncook Год назад

Wow, thank you!

@mikehartman5326 Год назад

Your sketches are a big help to understand what we are seeing at the places you go to and drone footage.

@morganssonggmail Год назад

Fantastic job, Myron. I shared your video on Mastodon. What a great storyteller you are. I am in absolute awe!

@jeremiah_dyess 8 месяцев назад

I been here since some of your first posts Myron, I send your stuff to my people, on your word. I'm glad that you are here to teach us about mountain formations, not just below sea-level but above it as well.

@myroncook 8 месяцев назад

I appreciate that

@bessiehadley3497 Год назад

I am so glad to be retired & now able to watch shows like this & keep on learning more about things I was always interested in, but had no time to study. I grew up in the USAF & we lived in Texas (Galveston), Louisiana (now town of Sulfur), Florida (Coral Gables, outside of Homestead by Everglades), Kansas twice (KC & Salina), Washington state (Vancouver) & Arizona (Phoenix - where I graduated college). But I am a 5th-generation native Californian & now live in Sacramento County & CA is always first in my heart. I have seen geology & man's history across it in all these places. (We had replace our yard's sand & topsoil twice a year in FL because we lived on a coral shelf - lol.). We could see Mt St Helens from our backyard (in 1965). Went to Yosemite as little kids. Saw the remains of the wagon trails across the Kansas fields (next to the highways). Went rock-hounding in Arizona. So beautiful there - God is the best gardener there is. Worked two summers while in college at Yellowstone Nat'l Park & loved it. Thank you for easily understandable field trips to fascinating places. Like I said - I love to keep learning more - makes me feel young & energetic to see someone who loves the work that they do, like you do. Thank you.

@myroncook Год назад

Very interesting history and thank you for your kind words, Bessie!

@chiapagringa Год назад

It's just so amazing learning and thinking about earth time, especially on today Earth Day 2023. Thank you so very much.

@MaximumOverdrive94 Год назад

I really enjoyed the entire video here on RU-vid and man, I'm glad I came across it, not at random of course, I do some part time research on a parts of the topics in this 45 minute discussion and it really kept me interested with the drone footage, the scenic views, the fantastic formations of rock and portrayal of the landscape while entirely being passionate of the geologic study and literal hands on experience of this field of knowledge. Great work! And thank you for posting this for us to watch!

@myroncook Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@fisterB Год назад

What an exciting luxury to have such a field geologist pointing and explaining with such narrative joy. I wish I could recognize the 'pages', the unconformities and all these phenomenons with that kind of ease.

@maryseeker7590 Год назад

I drove down that road once and was baffled and excited by the rocks. How nice to get a geologist tour with a drone of this place!

@TheArech Месяц назад

I am speechless. This is the best and the most informative and nicely presented lecture on Earth history I've even seen in my life. And I've seen them quite a lot... Thank you, Mr.Cook, for all you do. You are a true gem!

@myroncook Месяц назад

Wow, thank you!

@victoriaburkhardt9974 Год назад

Again, thank you for this. I studied geology a bit in college and went on several mind-blowing field trips with super smart professors and TA"s. It was so fun and interesting, just like this video I just watched. I've subscribed to your channel and look forward to more of you field trips.

@myroncook Год назад

Fantastic!

@jeffreyschweitzer8289 Год назад

Every summer from 1972 to 1976, as a teenager, I spent camped in the Bighorn Basin collecting fossils in the Willwood with expeditions from Yale, and later from Cretaceous rocks near Billings with Harvard. These places, images and formation names bring back very fond memories. So glad I found this channel. Thank you

@dangallagher8034 3 дня назад

Love your program. Many thanks!

@madelinelovato8991 Месяц назад

Love your videos. I am learning so much!❤

@myroncook Месяц назад

I'm so glad!

@Siralantoon Месяц назад

I have watched this fascinating film 3 times now and something crystallised this time. I managed to glimpse just the edge of an understanding; the slightest comprehension of the immense amount of time enfolded within these majestic rockscapes. What a gift to give me.

@myroncook Месяц назад

Thank you!!!!

@Siralantoon Месяц назад

Thank You Myron! Your passion is infectious and has focused my passing interest in Geology into an active pursuit. I started reading books on the subject inspired by watching your always interesting films. When you put your hand on the 'Unconformity' and a Billion years of missing history it sent a cold shiver down my spine.. I would like to express appreciation to your pilot for the amazing and enlightening drone sequences. They capture your words and help me to experience these Landscapes in a visceral way.

@robk8463 6 дней назад

When I was a kid my parents would take a two-week vacation and load up us five kids and head out West. They were fascinated by Geology and we'd go all over Wyoming and Montana and teach us about all this stuff. This brings back great memories!

@myroncook 6 дней назад

good to hear

@robk8463 6 дней назад

@@myroncook Oh, dude! It's so cool to hear from you! Your channel is fantastic!

@dudleybaggerman9574 Год назад

Thank U , my mind 🤔 is spinning for day's after watching ur shows !!

@myroncook Год назад

My pleasure 😊

@christineatherton3572 Месяц назад

Thank you so much for producing your videos . The knowledge is wonderfully presented . So many other documentary have exaggerated , dramatic and noisy elements, which do not add to the videos . Your production is excellent. I studied geology at university , many years ago and I’m enjoying all of your videos so much . Christine ( in Australia)

@williamhoffer9277 Год назад

Myron's enthusiasm is contagious!

@sksk-bd7yv Месяц назад

Wow! Geology is fu*king amazing! Thanks!

@render1802 8 дней назад

Wonderful informative lesson, and stunning drone footage! I've never taken much interest in geology until I started watching your channel, but you make it so interesting that I'm hooked. This is what I wish PBS and Discovery channel were. Thank you for your hard work!

@myroncook 8 дней назад

Awesome! Thank you!

@theincenseguy1 2 месяца назад

You remind me of how I was so excited, in my formative years (up until my second year of college, ages ago) about geology. Had I met anyone as excited as you are, I doubt I'd have changed my major and pursued the entirely different path that wound up being my life. Thank you!

@djungelskog3434 Год назад

I'm pursuing a career that's the furthest thing from geology, but listening to a passionate expert about any topic draws me into the subject and keeps me curious and wanting to learn more! Keep up the great work Mr Cook, you've earned a new subscriber!

@myroncook Год назад

Thanks for sharing!

@dichebach Год назад

FANTASTIC content! I'm a retired professor of anthropology, but many decades ago, when I was an undergraduate in anthropology, I did two Minors Geology and History and I was at one point quite perplexed about whether to go geology or anthropology. Great to see that historical geology lives on!

@trentondowling1842 Год назад

Thank you very much!! I learned more about the Great Unconformity in this video than I have from 30 other videos. Please keep it up! Let's go to the San Rafael Swell sometime!

@myroncook Год назад

Thank you, Trenton!

@tcmoore5970 28 дней назад

Myron, you and Nick Zentner are my heroes

@greekpapi Год назад

Thank you so much for making these videos Mr Cook!!!! This is really great information!!!

@myroncook Год назад

Glad you like them!

@room5245 5 дней назад

Absolutely fascinating stuff! I'm Dutch, we don't even have rocks. Really amazing way to appreciate the timescale and I'm glad you never miss an opportunity to let the rocks talk and inspire awe

@myroncook 4 дня назад

Awesome, thank you!

@bob_frazier Год назад

I'm relaxing by my fire watching a world class geology presentation, and it's free. What an amazing thing, a simple thank you seems inadequate. Fantastic!

@myroncook Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@scottgordon9504 10 месяцев назад

Dr. Cook, I live 20 minutes from Antelope Island, Utah. After seeing your video, I had to see the outcropping myself. It's every bit as amazing in person, I feel even more fortunate now to live where I live. Thank you for answering a lot of my questions about the creation of the earth and the role of glaciation. Also, thanks for making the 8hr drive to Utah to make this video!

@myroncook 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing

@sampickett3843 3 месяца назад

Myron, thanks for all the time and effort you put into this video. This one in particular was awesome. It brought back some old memories for me. I know I was younger than 6 at the time so I am going back over 60 years when our family was taking a trip through Wyoming headed for Canada. The only thing I remember about that trip was taking a passenger train through the Wind River Canyon. I was glued to the window the whole time, except for when we went through a tunnel. Funny how things like that stick in your mind forever. I don't know if a passenger train stills runs on that track, but it would be a shame if it doesn't. I think I would like to repeat the trip now that I know the geology.

@myroncook 3 месяца назад

great story! no passenger trains now...just cargo

@harshyadav1942 Год назад

Wow, it was such a great session. Learned , Loved and enjoyed every second of the lecture. ♥️

@myroncook Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@invictus6592 Год назад

Very interesting video! I appreciate your channel as a highschool student struggling to figure out what he wants to do with his life. You've helped me realize that I'm pretty interested in geology and I'm definitely considering looking further into it. Thanks, man. Keep up the great work!

@myroncook Год назад

Awesome! Thank you!