Jurassic Navajo Sandstone - The Rocks of Utah 

FINALLY A NEW EPISODE

I have loved the "Rocks of Utah" series!

As a student of Sedimentology, I can't help but find this so helpful and fascinating, especially the description of aeolian dunes and the succession from wet habitats to a wind-blown desert. Where I live (Sardinia, Italy), there are Early Permian fluvial deposits and Triassic formations by the coast, they found and described a species of Caseidae too, Alierasaurus.

It's about DAMNED TIME !! Miss you Ben !!

thank you for sharing your knowlege

Thank you

Amazing to think about that massive beautiful desert of red sand dunes and how it wrnt on to leave its fossil remains as the amazing sandstone monliths of Utahs canyons.

Ben, Keep in mind that the north American continent had been drifting northward into the belt of ascending airmasses which suck most moisture into the upper atmosphere. You'll find most deserts today along these belts. Not a coincidence that we start getting aolien sandstones, Moenave , Navajo, Windgate, Entrada etc piling up at this time.

Can't describe the hype when I saw this was uploaded.

Oh Ben, I love the geological vids especially, that you do. Not sure if I have asked you before but have you heard of Nick Zentner? He is such a good teacher/story teller of all things related to the geology of the PNW. I am excited to see what else you produce. Thanks Ben. Love and respect from the UK.

As a Tour guide at Lower Antelope Canyon. Thank you sir.

Great video. Shows how many pieces of evidence you have to string together in order to get a picture of what happened. And even then a lot of questions remain that have to be solved by future evidence. Thanks so much.

Love the Taylor Trail

Interesting and thorough, as always!

Can I say I love the touches like Thomas Moran (much of his art on display here in Oklahoma) and the occasional keyboard fills? The glimpses of the blue skink (?) and native flowers? I appreciate this stuff more than ever.

hell yes, good to see you

I've been climbing and biking in the moab area for 25 years, and I love how these videos help make sense of the geologic story there.

Excellent video! Thank you!

This is awesome, and so informative!! Thank you!!!

We're all want ta be rock hounds and you make a good video.

Love your videos. They cover so much material. Thanks

Im glad you made this video (you said you were nervous at the start) - very good and super interesting (I always wondered what created that checkerboard affect looking top down over zion, Also learned what caused the white navajo)

This is an amazing series and channel that I’ve come across. I am an A level college student who is studying geology and this allows me to learn parts of it differently and it increases my comprehension of the subject very well!

You are awesome man! Thanks for the new video

Hey, your in my hood. Do you ever do guilded hikes? I love your videos. You've probably heard of Randall Carlson. He's my hero. Busted my geo eyes open and teaching me to see thru time.

This is such a cool channel!! post more!!!

Love the way you share your knowledge. I can absorb it so easily, thank you so much.

Beautiful location.

Best thing I have ever seen on the subject. One thing you could have possibly mentioned as to the drying climate was that up in Zion especially you can follow up the flat wet layers on the bottom and view as things dried out. another possible suggestion is you possibly do one on Zircon dating which is "about as exact as it gets" since almost all areas are interlaced with eruptions which have the zircon in them almost like dating tree rings. the huge thing your forgot about eolian wind blown circular grains thats why if it starts raining when your out there you better hope is a paved road since you will sliding around on wet greasy ball bearings. on the concretions you talked about the various colors only as it pertains to recent liquid pouring down but not the layers of colors in the sandstone that are reducing fluids from fresher water above. that may be one to consider since everyone wonders why sometimes even thick layers such as at Red Rock near Las Vegas will be perfectly white in between and among red sandstone layers. another one that confuses people is "lithified" "how did this become rock? the sand is virtually 100% tiny agates silica. so with the water the silica cements itself together in the spaces. up at valley of fire if you ever go there on other side of road from mouses tank is an ASTONISHING interdune lake bottom complete with dinosaur tracks.

This was excellent! I'm in nw nm and I'm trying to figure out what formed this area. Thank you.

I hope the Utah Tourism Board is a supporter.

Ive been waiting for this! KEEP IT UP

Another great video, Benjamin. And that area is so beautiful. My wife and I did some exploring there just before COVID locked the world down.

I've just watched your interesting playlist. Thank you for all the efforts you put into them. I'm amused by your cognito use of Indiana Jones!! I've learnt an awe full amount. You seem to have proved beyond a shadow of doubt that climate 'change' is more to do with plate tectonics and the suns cycle's and precisions than the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

This guy knows his shit, flat out. 😁

Great video series. Thank you

Kaolinite! The mother rock of clays 🙌

Great video. Thanks.

love the explanation. I am a geology buff leaving in Vegas and go to Southern Utah often. Would it be ok for me to ask u questions ? Thanks.

always enjoy your videos. did not much of this sand originate with the eroding appallachian mountains and was carried west by large westward flowing rivers?

A new video...Nice!

I have heard that the intense red, iron oxide, color was the result of higher Triassic/Jurassic oxygen levels caused by the all the plant life in thee carboniferous(?) period. Do you have any thoughts on that?

I'd love a jurassic documentary voiced over by a Navajo elder. The perfect mix of science and native spirituality

That’s a great video. If ya need an idea a cool place would be to visit silver reef Utah down in Washington county I believe. They found silver in sandstone and sent a sample to the smithsonian. They replied back that it was a great fake and didn’t believe it. I read the Spaniards probably also got their silver down their from similar deposits and that there’s been found a petrified tree that was silver. That’d be cool to find. Love your videos very informative

Make more videos!!!

Hello Benjamin, This is Carlos. 2 years ago I was making a video on Trilobites, remember? I am at USU, it’s my second semester. I was told that you belong to the other campus. Is it okay to just show up? I would like to meet you and talk and chat a bit.

Video recommendation: the markagunt plateau

I am blocked from notifications on this channel . I dont know why. Any suggestions?

Most interesting. Some academia propping the fanatics...interesting. It is the total absence of mentioning the actual time-value of your prehistoric climate delta's ,,suddenness" that impugns a political bias...IMO.