Becky, Wow! You covered all of Geology in less than 20 minutes! I finished up with a B.S. in Physics from the University of Illinois in 1973 and headed up north to Madison to get an M.S. in Geophysics from the University of Wisconsin in 1975. When I arrived in Madison in 1973, I had a lot of deficiencies in Geology because I had not taken a single undergraduate course in Geology. So I started off with lots of undergraduate courses in Geology that were very strange. This was because we were just emerging from the Plate Tectonics Revolution of 1965 - 1970. None of the geological textbooks of time had caught up with Plate Tectonics yet, so they all featured old wacko Pre-Plate Tectonics geological theories to explain observed geological processes. The textbooks could explain what had happened based on fieldwork but they could not explain why it had happened. So my professors had to explain why things had happened in terms of Plate Tectonics and leave the what had happened to the textbooks. For me, Plate Tectonics did to Geology what Newton and Einstein did to Physics. Regards, Steve Johnston
I actually once lived in Acadia National Park (Schoodic Point). My wife and I were married at the point and revisited last summer. Thanks for sharing a great overview. Learned some stuff.
Excellent video!!! This will make the trip next week so much more interesting. Thank you far all you efforts to present this information. So fascinating.
Sweet! I visited Arcadia 47 years ago when I was a senior in HS and would especially love to go back and enjoy its amazing geology. Retired now and have become a "rock hound" here in western Colorado, where we have amazing strata and ancient formations. Your video reminded my of the awe I felt years ago and how much I'd like to experience that magical park once again. (Check out the Colorado National Monument and the Black Canyon of the Gunnison River! They ROCK! :-) )
Kudos to you for finding Raven’s Nest on Schoodic. Plus I have read that Bubble Rock has been traced to Lucerne-in-Maine which is over 30 miles from it’s present position.
Glacial erratics are everywhere. It doesn't matter if you're in a swamp or bog deep in the forest, inevitably you'll run across a giant boulder left by glaciers.
Gimme some of that Diabase! Actually though, give me some. Loved the video (as always!) but next time you go somewhere geologically awesome, bring back some samples so you can show examples as you talk about the formations!
thanks rich!! :) I didnt take any diabase unfortunately, and **if** I did happen to take any rocks from Acadia, it probably wouldn't be very smart to display them online since it's not exactly legal to take samples from national parks... hahaha but next time I do a video on somewhere that I can take samples from I will definitely do that !!
@@richardfrieman lol just like a real geologist! and yeah very good point! There definitely are places on Mount Desert Island that are not in the bounds of the park so i'll definitely keep that in mind next time I go
"In a few hundred years Acadia will look nothing like it does today and it will be in a different place". Did you mean a few hundred million years? I doubt Acadia will change much in a few hundred years because even with sealevel rise, because much of it is cliffs it will still be mostly unchanged, unlike Florida and other places with lower coastlines. Of course it depends on how much you think the sea will rise. 3' no big deal. 30' yeah.
Sorry but this doesn’t add up when using common sense. If there was a recent event even the erosion would for some type of geometric lines of sand would be easily identifiable. I suspect the alleged time line is way off.
