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I live in the scab lands. It’s impressive to see how much water came through here. The valley floor in some areas has the ripples from a huge flood. The ripples are the size of hills. lol. Lots of rocks in odd areas dropped off by glacier floods.
Shawn is very good for sure . Fortunately he is not alone , as a geo focused content creator . Myron Cook , Nick Zentner , and , several others , all mke excellent geo focused content , a long with other content creators focused on related topics .
These videos represent the best of modern technology. The fact that I can sit in my living room and be transported 2,000 miles away and given a world class lecture bogles the mind. Thank You!!!
The new camera was impressive; I could really see the details in the rock texture. Loved the video, and now I have a new term to impress my friends with. :)
I laughed at the snowman too...but now it will help me remember "spheroidal weathering"...I never would have guessed that's how those boulders formed. 👍🏻👍🏻on the camera too.
Thanks Shawn! I found your page during the Iceland volcano eruptions, and now I've added you to my daily study of my Ologies and Ographies. Never stop learning. Its my favorite hobby. ... I can't wait for the next eruption over there. Its getting so interesting. It could happen here in Utah , where i am, and Idaho. I'm from Mt. St. Helens, hence the volcanology interest. Thanks a bunch!🎉
Excellent picture quality first thing I noted in the first second that it came on the picture was outstanding thanks 🎉for the video I've seen all your videos 👍
WOW, Shawn! The difference in image quality is night and day! Vibrant beautiful color, expanded dynamic range and stunning resolution. A treat for the eyes now to make a great show even better!
One of tour best videos IMO. The roadcut vids are cool and all, but something about this format dealing with an exposed common type of feature like this is really interesting learning that is applicable. Love the variety of topics and approaches you cover and your high frequency of vids are pluses. Thanks for all the great vids!
Great way to present the concept of spheroidal weathering (that's my 'something new' for today) but I was a little disappointed I didn't get to see one of the small rounded spheroids roll off and crush the stick man on the left side of your diagram. Thumbs up on the new camera, looks and sounds great
In Dutch this type of erosion is called 'wolzak verwering', woolbag weathering. Because the rounded boulders look a bit like bags of wool. I seem to remember that only granitic rock will erode in this way. Thanks for this video, and yes, new camera is a big improvement!
I really like the new camera. The picture was clear and crisp, whether near or far. Enjoyed the story of how the rocks formed - one I hadn't heard before!
For me, with absolutely zero formal education in any Geologically vased study, this theory is absolutely quite plausible. Yet, to me, this remains an open door as it is stil a bit mysterious until I delve deeper. Although my background is deeply focused in the sciences,, being told of A theory regarding this deposit of immense boulders opens my mind to a few possibilities, it remains an unknown mystery until I see more evidence...The oroof is just not quite there for me yet... .I would like to see a view of what lies below the surface. I ask a lot from life before I accept and believe theory as fact. If I had a .magical X-ray or Lidar scan to use as yet another physical test, any evidence acquired wouid be added to the basis of proving one way or another. I would like to see a showing i number depth of the boulders below as describe; and perhaps I would be more convinced in this theory. In history, we are often fooled by our own assumptions, only to be shocked when we are later proven to have taken the word of others as truth. We tend to use their rhythm as a basis of closing the door on the subject without further personal inquiry. BUT ..often just delving a bit deeper, leads to incredible new data. I chose to try to l I ve my l I fe utilizing the strange rule to fyrther questkon ideas that are brand new to me ....and it stands in, almost, any potential subjects in my personal quest for knowledge. And learning and living in our bizarre world, it seems that every rule has an exception... the excepion to my rule of questioning is >n matters of one's choice of personal Faith in a Higher power.
You got it all wrong, you discovered the ruins of a city called Bedrock. There was a documentary made many years ago on 2 of the many families that lived there, Fred and Wilma Flintstone and his neighbours Barney & Betty Rubble (both had kids). Bedrock City had about 2500 people. If you look around, you should see a quarry not far, and likely some fossils of jurrassic era pets. And if you look carefully, perhaps some of the cylindrical rocks that were used as wheels for their cars. 🙂
Thanks! Seems like I should have known this, but because of this video, I’ll never forget that if I see a boulder field with stacked rocks, the rocks must have been formed in situ.
I've learned a tremendous amount from watching your videos. Thank You! I live at the edge of the Boulder batholith in Western Montana. Many of the rocks you show are very similar to the formations here. There are a lot of solitary rock formations sticking up out of the prairie. I've heard them referred to as tors or kopjes. The eroded material surrounding them looks the same as what you show in the video. Is this layer of material called regolith?
Smoother focus changes...a little fading of sound as you move but the quality of your voice is clearer and more resonant. Cool granitic rocks weathering into rounded shapes!
Video quality is great! You had me wondering how these formed because I kept thinking they were too big for water or glacial deposition. Thanks for a great lesson, Shawn!
I graduated BSU with a BS in Geology and have a Teaching Certificate in Earth Science and Physics. I very much look forward to viewing your informative field presentations. Keep up the great work.
The quality of the camera and sound is excellent. It was never a major issue, but now the video and audio quality is commensurate with the quality of the geology. I presume that the granite piles of boulders in the Matopos Hills in Zimbabwe were formed by this process. I always wondered, when I was a kid living there in the early 1960s, and it is nice to have an answer after all these years. Thank you Shawn.
Finally! For decades I've been curious about the formation of the odd rock outcroppings on highway 93 about 17 miles south of Jackpot. This video nicely answers my questions. Thanks! Love your informative content. Now I need to know the geo history of ten mile gulch near the state pen.
Sounds and looks great. The snowman cracked me up. @3:05 to 3:10 it looked like two halves of a giant sphere, it would have been interesting to poke around a bit more to see if they were actually from the same giant rock. Very well done!
Thanks for teaching us about spheroidal weathering. It's a new concept for me and no doubt useful if I ever come across similar outcrops. As for the new camera/mic setup, I think it works really well! Crisp images and the audio is much cleaner compared to previous videos.
I love how I can apply these to the rocks I see in my own state. We have a few (very few, literally like three spots) areas in GA with granitic formations like this. They are all associated with the Ben Hill Granite formation. The largest example is Stone Mountain, but there are a couple of other spots where the Ben Hill granite breaks the surface, and they display very similar to the large boulder formations you showed us here.
Ooh wow, incredibly sharp video and excellent audio quality, I love the new camera! Good thing you contacted Myron Cook and upgraded your equipment, Shawn :) Very helpful diagram, as always. Also, "spheroidal weathering": a very cool new term has been added to my geology lexicon, and the snowman made me laugh ;)
A great example of how to investigate and come up with a most plausible geological history within a small area. I was going to guess maybe some differential weathering into hoodoo landscape. Great Geo-sleuthing Shawn. The camera seems great and hopefully easier for you to record while describing features, especially finer detailed close-ups.
Great explanation Shawn. Where I live in the UK we have some large rounded boulders or 'glacial erratics' lying in some of the local fields. These are granitic in composition and stand out from the local sandstones and conglomerates. They are blocks of Shap granite which have been transported 9 miles from their original source. The power of ice!
West of that location is the Santa Rosa Range near McDermitt. Extremely complex area formed by sequential volcanism and intrusive activity. Lots of old mining activity and exposure of mineralization at different levels in the mountains (Hg at the higher levels and Au & Ag and As lower). Also very beautiful mountains.
Audio & video was very good. These type of weathered boulders are the best part of Joshua Tree NP, IMHO. The trees are interesting but the rock formations are just fantastic.
For me personally with the TV that I watch your videos on, the new camera. Is much better. The resolution is way better and sound also better. I enjoy watching your videos and this makes it even better to watch . Keep up the good educational work.👍
I live near Dartmoor in the UK where we have basically the same thing going on (except in granite and with more lots more trees and cows around) so I knew what these were, but it was really cool to see such familiar formations in a completely different context. Thank you!
Thanks. It would be great if you could show an example of the unroofing of the top of a pluton, its a great way of delivering the origin stories of plutons. And yes, the new camera works well.
You’ve helped answer questions I’ve had over this kind of feature I’ve stumbled across in Arizona. A bit east of Tucson AZ in Texas Canyon on Interstate 10 is a wonderful example of this. If you spend anytime there you’ll find ‘rock bottom’. 😎 you’ll know it when you see one 😎. The new equipment seems well worth it. Keep up the great work.
Loved the snowman! This makes so much sense. I wish I had seen this before being in Moab last month. I'm guessing that's how Catacomb Rocks on Chicken Corners came to be... seems to explain it quite well!
Hi Professor Willsey, I really enjoyed this program! Do you have plans for a show about Lake Bonneville that blasted itself through the Ikom and Pocatello area? Thanks!
When you were in Joshua Tree CA, you needed to go a bit further north into the Mojave Preserve. Near the Hole in the Wall campground. In Round Valley there is a similar formation but on a much bigger scale at 35.13984,-115.404134.
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I live in the scab lands. It’s impressive to see how much water came through here. The valley floor in some areas has the ripples from a huge flood. The ripples are the size of hills. lol. Lots of rocks in odd areas dropped off by glacier floods.
Thanks Shawn. It's good to be reminded about weathering and fracturing from time to time.
Best geologist on UA-cam.
I like Myron Cook as well!
Thanks. There are several of us out there, each doing it in our own way. All good stuff.
@@Iwishiwasanoscarmeyerweiner The best bumper sticker I ever saw: Geologists know what makes the bed-rock!
Shawn is very good for sure .
Fortunately he is not alone , as a geo focused content creator .
Myron Cook , Nick Zentner , and , several others , all mke excellent geo focused content , a long with other content creators focused on related topics .
Many good youtbers Been following nick zetner since 2020- washington. Geolically speaking is good for coastal california.
These videos represent the best of modern technology. The fact that I can sit in my living room and be transported 2,000 miles away and given a world class lecture bogles the mind. Thank You!!!
Good comment. So true! I love it.
Great resolution and sound, Shawn. Thanks!
I counted 10,493 whiskers and 78 freckles.
@@carlwest859 Oh jeez. Maybe it's too good.
The new camera was impressive; I could really see the details in the rock texture. Loved the video, and now I have a new term to impress my friends with. :)
Try saying spheroidal weathering 3 times fast. 🤭
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Your videos are grand. Thank you for your expertise, manner and generosity!
nice image and sound quality! looking forward for your next videos!
New camera gave some really good shots. Thanks for the video.
Nice camera filming. Great investment for making quality videos. Thanks for upgrading so we can see better.
Thanks for your hard work and enthusiasm for the wider world around us.
Always great content, now even better with the new camera!
Thanks for all the hard work on these videos!
You crack me up! The snowman was adorable! I always wondered how those rocks stacked one on top of the other. Thanks!
Had a good laugh for rock snowman. Optics and resolution were immediately apparent in the video, the new camera is a great investment. Ty
I laughed at the snowman too...but now it will help me remember "spheroidal weathering"...I never would have guessed that's how those boulders formed. 👍🏻👍🏻on the camera too.
Thanks Shawn! I found your page during the Iceland volcano eruptions, and now I've added you to my daily study of my Ologies and Ographies. Never stop learning. Its my favorite hobby. ... I can't wait for the next eruption over there. Its getting so interesting. It could happen here in Utah , where i am, and Idaho. I'm from Mt. St. Helens, hence the volcanology interest. Thanks a bunch!🎉
I can’t convey how much I enjoy learning geology from you
Excellent picture quality first thing I noted in the first second that it came on the picture was outstanding thanks 🎉for the video I've seen all your videos 👍
New camera is a winner. Great zoom to distant outcrop and close up zooms of close in boulders.
Awesome video, vibrant colours e good sound.
WOW, Shawn! The difference in image quality is night and day! Vibrant beautiful color, expanded dynamic range and stunning resolution. A treat for the eyes now to make a great show even better!
One of tour best videos IMO. The roadcut vids are cool and all, but something about this format dealing with an exposed common type of feature like this is really interesting learning that is applicable. Love the variety of topics and approaches you cover and your high frequency of vids are pluses. Thanks for all the great vids!
Never would have guessed how they formed. Pretty cool!
Yes, much better video and audio quality. Of course the quality of the content is top-notch as always. Your work is much appreciated.
New camera seems to be doing a good job. Thanks for the video!
Great resolution and audio. Love the diagrams, always a highlight when you bring them out!
Great way to present the concept of spheroidal weathering (that's my 'something new' for today) but I was a little disappointed I didn't get to see one of the small rounded spheroids roll off and crush the stick man on the left side of your diagram. Thumbs up on the new camera, looks and sounds great
In Dutch this type of erosion is called 'wolzak verwering', woolbag weathering. Because the rounded boulders look a bit like bags of wool. I seem to remember that only granitic rock will erode in this way.
Thanks for this video, and yes, new camera is a big improvement!
I really like the new camera. The picture was clear and crisp, whether near or far. Enjoyed the story of how the rocks formed - one I hadn't heard before!
New camera works great! Good job and keep up the excellent work of Yours, Professor Willsey!
Baja California has some spectacular examples of this. In some cases, this type of outcropping can provide some great bouldering.
Yes, especially in the Catavina area in the central part of the peninsula.
For me, with absolutely zero formal education in any
Geologically vased study, this theory is absolutely quite plausible. Yet, to me, this remains an open door as it is stil a bit mysterious until I delve deeper.
Although my background is deeply focused in the sciences,, being told of A theory regarding this deposit of immense boulders opens my mind to a few possibilities, it remains an unknown mystery until I see more evidence...The oroof is just not quite there for me yet...
.I would like to see a view of what lies below the surface. I ask a lot from life before I accept and believe theory as fact. If I had a .magical X-ray or Lidar scan to use as yet another physical test, any evidence acquired wouid be added to the basis of proving one way or another. I would like to see a showing i number depth of the boulders below as describe; and perhaps I would be more convinced in this theory.
In history, we are often fooled by our own assumptions, only to be shocked when we are later proven to have taken the word of others as truth.
We tend to use their rhythm as a basis of closing the door on the subject without further personal inquiry. BUT ..often just delving a bit deeper, leads to incredible new data. I chose to try to l I ve my l I fe utilizing the strange rule to fyrther questkon ideas that are brand new to me ....and it stands in, almost, any potential subjects in my personal quest for knowledge. And learning and living in our bizarre world, it seems that every rule has an exception... the excepion to my rule of questioning is >n matters of one's choice of personal Faith in a Higher power.
New camera is great. Very clear image, nice color and sound. Interesting to think about these rocks being created in place. ❤️✌️👍
Camera looks great! Very interesting video. I love how you bring to life the stories the rocks tell.
You got it all wrong, you discovered the ruins of a city called Bedrock. There was a documentary made many years ago on 2 of the many families that lived there, Fred and Wilma Flintstone and his neighbours Barney & Betty Rubble (both had kids). Bedrock City had about 2500 people. If you look around, you should see a quarry not far, and likely some fossils of jurrassic era pets. And if you look carefully, perhaps some of the cylindrical rocks that were used as wheels for their cars. 🙂
your camera enhances your program, I appreciate all that you do.
Hey Shawn, your new camera is fantastic! I love learning new things, this video is a prime example. Can't wait till the next one : )
Love the new camera. What nice color contrast of your attire besides the great landscape and rock views. Much much better in my opinion.
😂 love the boulder ‘snowman’. Thank you so much for the video. Very interesting! Video and audio were perfect! 👍🏼
Thanks! Seems like I should have known this, but because of this video, I’ll never forget that if I see a boulder field with stacked rocks, the rocks must have been formed in situ.
Good sound and optics.
Video and audio quality are really good. I expected the rocks to have washed to this location. Great explanation. Snowman depiction got a grin.
Awesome video and your new camera is good too. Sound and graphics were excellent 👌
I've learned a tremendous amount from watching your videos. Thank You! I live at the edge of the Boulder batholith in Western Montana. Many of the rocks you show are very similar to the formations here. There are a lot of solitary rock formations sticking up out of the prairie. I've heard them referred to as tors or kopjes. The eroded material surrounding them looks the same as what you show in the video. Is this layer of material called regolith?
Smoother focus changes...a little fading of sound as you move but the quality of your voice is clearer and more resonant.
Cool granitic rocks weathering into rounded shapes!
I really appreciate the new camera. Audio is quite good. Wonderful lesson on boulders.
The quality of the new equipment is outstanding! Great job Shawn!
The new camera is superb, really looking forward to it enhancing our learning.
Sooooo pleased to see a wind muffler on your microphone! Video quality is great although slightly fish eye at times. Great improvement overall.
Wow that was interesting, I never would of known! Congrats!
The new camera is a very nice improvement in audio and video.
Thank you for another great video-well done, as usual!😀👍
Video quality is great! You had me wondering how these formed because I kept thinking they were too big for water or glacial deposition. Thanks for a great lesson, Shawn!
Thanks! Keep up the good work
Thanks for your kind support.
I graduated BSU with a BS in Geology and have a Teaching Certificate in Earth Science and Physics. I very much look forward to viewing your informative field presentations. Keep up the great work.
Enjoyed this video immensely!
Nice work. I was wondering about spheroidal weathering before you got there and I was really glad to see you supporting the less dramatic explanation!
The quality of the camera and sound is excellent. It was never a major issue, but now the video and audio quality is commensurate with the quality of the geology. I presume that the granite piles of boulders in the Matopos Hills in Zimbabwe were formed by this process. I always wondered, when I was a kid living there in the early 1960s, and it is nice to have an answer after all these years. Thank you Shawn.
Always fascinating! Thanks, Shawn! 👍
Finally! For decades I've been curious about the formation of the odd rock outcroppings on highway 93 about 17 miles south of Jackpot. This video nicely answers my questions. Thanks! Love your informative content. Now I need to know the geo history of ten mile gulch near the state pen.
Your expositions are very clear and understandable. Thank you.
Sounds and looks great. The snowman cracked me up. @3:05 to 3:10 it looked like two halves of a giant sphere, it would have been interesting to poke around a bit more to see if they were actually from the same giant rock. Very well done!
Always great stuff, Shawn.
The drive between Twin Falls ID and Wells NV has always interested me. Thank you for the proefessional insight!
Onion skinning is how I heard the process of granite holders weathering into round objects described once
Thanks for teaching us about spheroidal weathering. It's a new concept for me and no doubt useful if I ever come across similar outcrops. As for the new camera/mic setup, I think it works really well! Crisp images and the audio is much cleaner compared to previous videos.
Very Buttermilks or JTree. Video and audio were great.
Perfect video and sound quality. Great and interesting information, as always! Thank you.
I love how I can apply these to the rocks I see in my own state. We have a few (very few, literally like three spots) areas in GA with granitic formations like this. They are all associated with the Ben Hill Granite formation. The largest example is Stone Mountain, but there are a couple of other spots where the Ben Hill granite breaks the surface, and they display very similar to the large boulder formations you showed us here.
The video and sound are great---almost as great as the education! Thank you!
Ooh wow, incredibly sharp video and excellent audio quality, I love the new camera! Good thing you contacted Myron Cook and upgraded your equipment, Shawn :)
Very helpful diagram, as always.
Also, "spheroidal weathering": a very cool new term has been added to my geology lexicon, and the snowman made me laugh ;)
A great example of how to investigate and come up with a most plausible geological history within a small area. I was going to guess maybe some differential weathering into hoodoo landscape. Great Geo-sleuthing Shawn. The camera seems great and hopefully easier for you to record while describing features, especially finer detailed close-ups.
Great video quality, very informative subject. I hadn’t heard of spheroidal weathering before. Thanks, Shawn!
Thanks for another great video! I'm really digging the video and audio quality. I didn't need the upgrade, but really appreciate it!
Great explanation Shawn.
Where I live in the UK we have some large rounded boulders or 'glacial erratics' lying in some of the local fields. These are granitic in composition and stand out from the local sandstones and conglomerates. They are blocks of Shap granite which have been transported 9 miles from their original source. The power of ice!
West of that location is the Santa Rosa Range near McDermitt. Extremely complex area formed by sequential volcanism and intrusive activity. Lots of old mining activity and exposure of mineralization at different levels in the mountains (Hg at the higher levels and Au & Ag and As lower). Also very beautiful mountains.
Thanks Shawn, excellent analysis and description. I did learn something..as usual!! New camera does a nice job. Thanks again
Audio/video were great! Very interesting topic. Learned a few new things.
Audio & video was very good. These type of weathered boulders are the best part of Joshua Tree NP, IMHO. The trees are interesting but the rock formations are just fantastic.
5:04. Over my upper right clipboard corner, is a good example of this freeze thaw exfoliation/and spheroidal weathering.
Great video quality, Shawn! What camera are you using?
DJI Osmo Pocket 3. Love it so far.
Great Lesson. Video and sound are perfect! Thx!
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For me personally with the TV that I watch your videos on, the new camera. Is much better. The resolution is way better and sound also better. I enjoy watching your videos and this makes it even better to watch . Keep up the good educational work.👍
Very interesting. I wouldn't have guessed they shaped themselves in that manner, in place.
This new camera is great, not only sharper images, but also a better stabilized image; good choice! 😊
I live near Dartmoor in the UK where we have basically the same thing going on (except in granite and with more lots more trees and cows around) so I knew what these were, but it was really cool to see such familiar formations in a completely different context. Thank you!
Well presented sir.
Nice camera upgrade!
Thanks. It would be great if you could show an example of the unroofing of the top of a pluton, its a great way of delivering the origin stories of plutons. And yes, the new camera works well.
one word: amazing. Thank you Shawn for sharing. The video was looking very good.👍
My first thought was glaciers but this explains it so much better.
Thanks for the technology upgrade. Sound and pictures are sharp.
looks like a region I passed through along highway 93 south of twin falls.
This is the same area. Hwy 93 lies below me in the valley you can see in the video.
You’ve helped answer questions I’ve had over this kind of feature I’ve stumbled across in Arizona. A bit east of Tucson AZ in Texas Canyon on Interstate 10 is a wonderful example of this. If you spend anytime there you’ll find ‘rock bottom’. 😎 you’ll know it when you see one 😎.
The new equipment seems well worth it. Keep up the great work.
Loved the snowman! This makes so much sense. I wish I had seen this before being in Moab last month. I'm guessing that's how Catacomb Rocks on Chicken Corners came to be... seems to explain it quite well!
Thanks!
Thanks for supporting geology education.
Hi Professor Willsey, I really enjoyed this program! Do you have plans for a show about Lake Bonneville that blasted itself through the Ikom and Pocatello area? Thanks!
When you were in Joshua Tree CA, you needed to go a bit further north into the Mojave Preserve. Near the Hole in the Wall campground. In Round Valley there is a similar formation but on a much bigger scale at 35.13984,-115.404134.
Yes. The video and audio with the new equipment are excellent.
Good image quality. As to the substance of the video, commendable clarity of presentation.
Love your explanation. Also, your new camera is way better. The sound is like more natural, and the video quality is spot on.
picture and sound were great. Thanks
lol frosty....great vid! Very educational and enjoyable. ty