Geology 101 with Willsey, Episode #24: Explaining Strike and Dip

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  • Опубліковано 4 січ 2025

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  • @shawnwillsey
    @shawnwillsey  Місяць тому +2

    Please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE. I also appreciate your continual support of these geology education videos. To do so, click on the "Thanks" button just above (right of Download button) or by going here: www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EWUSLG3GBS5W8 Or: www.buymeacoffee.com/shawnwillsey

  • @causewaykayak
    @causewaykayak Місяць тому +9

    Every one a winner! I hope that making these episodes isn't chewing into your family time too m6ch BUT they are truly excellent. Your growing tribe of geology recruits testifies to that. I for one am very much looking forward to the next one. 👍🏽

    • @shawnwillsey
      @shawnwillsey  Місяць тому +4

      Thanks. These aren’t too much work to do and I’m happy to hear they help folks.

  • @jacquie-h4530
    @jacquie-h4530 Місяць тому +2

    Thank you again, Shawn. When I started this lesson I was convinced I'd never get the concepts but I got to the quiz and surprised myself. I got the right answer! I stopped my brain panicking and overthinking, cleared a space to picture your diagrams, and just took it back to simple directions. I'm looking forward to the next lesson when you go out into the field to look at rocks!

  • @xwiick
    @xwiick Місяць тому +5

    Thanks for all the hard work on these videos!

  • @stevewhalen6973
    @stevewhalen6973 Місяць тому +1

    Thanks! Good to know when learning how to conceptualize Geological mapping

  • @Firebuck
    @Firebuck Місяць тому +3

    The visual aids _really_ help with this one. I've googled "define strike geology" before and the answer might as well come back in hieroglyphs -- that's how well I understood it. But now I get it! You're a terrific teacher, Shawn. 👏

    • @shawnwillsey
      @shawnwillsey  Місяць тому +1

      Thanks for watching. Glad the visuals helped.

  • @craighoover1495
    @craighoover1495 Місяць тому +1

    Thanks, I have been a You Tube geology student for the last 4-5 years and never quite grasped these concepts to my satisfaction until now.

  • @oscarmedina1303
    @oscarmedina1303 Місяць тому +1

    Thank you Shawn.

  • @mbvoelker8448
    @mbvoelker8448 Місяць тому +1

    Good refresher to my 40 year old GEO 101 memories.

  • @shelleyszulinszky9732
    @shelleyszulinszky9732 Місяць тому +1

    Makes sense! Thank you ❤️✌️👍

  • @hansschleichert7852
    @hansschleichert7852 Місяць тому

    Thanks!

  • @raenbow66
    @raenbow66 Місяць тому

    Here we go...I have some making up to do! Thanks so much, Shawn! These classes have meant so much to my understanding!

  • @leenappeldoorn6075
    @leenappeldoorn6075 Місяць тому

    Bedankt 👍🏻

  • @tamar182
    @tamar182 Місяць тому +1

    Thank you so much, Dr. Willsey! I always enjoy watching your videos! Now, you've got to come to Hawaii to film a Roadside video!

    • @shawnwillsey
      @shawnwillsey  Місяць тому +1

      I’ll be there in Jan/Feb on Big Island. Any special roadcuts in mind?

    • @tamar182
      @tamar182 Місяць тому

      @ Excellent! If you can get anywhere near Isaac Hale Beach Park, it would be interesting to see. Also there are some interesting roadcuts along Saddle Road as well.

  • @CPaulCounts
    @CPaulCounts Місяць тому +3

    It's been approaching 30 years since I used a Brunton. I'm looking forward to the bonus next episode.

    • @geolyn
      @geolyn Місяць тому +1

      Only 30 years? 😁 I'm approaching 50 years and I seem to remember the measuring device was called a clinometer (in the UK). I can't remember what you did with it so I too am looking forward to the next episode!

    • @davidk7324
      @davidk7324 Місяць тому +1

      1978 is the last time I shot an azimuth on a day and night compass course. GI lensatic for my EFMB. Looking forward to the Brunton demo.

    • @CPaulCounts
      @CPaulCounts Місяць тому +1

      @@geolyn 😁

  • @filmic1
    @filmic1 Місяць тому

    Thank you very much. I took a Geography course at Univ. of Calgary many years ago. Though we didn't use the Bruton transit, the professor had laid out stereographic photos of Eastern Slope Rocky Mountains, with stereo graphic magnifiers and showed us on large scale Strikes and Dips. Took a Coursera Geology 'Our Earth It's History, Climate and Processes' Univ of Manchester. (UK.)

  • @sandrine.t
    @sandrine.t Місяць тому

    Very nice! Not easy to explain or understand but you did it. And, like you said, visuals really help! The quiz question was simple, I nailed it ;) I can't wait to see how the Brunton compass work in your next video. I'm learning a lot with this series, I love it! :))) Thanks for another excellent lesson, Shawn!

  • @timpointing
    @timpointing Місяць тому +1

    Thanks again. Another easy-to-understand video.
    I have two questions on this:
    1) When describing strike direction in degrees, is there any convention on the numerical range for the strike angle in degrees. For example, a bed which strikes NW-SE could be described as a -45° or it could be 135° (or even 315°!). Is there a convention whereby it is normal to keep the angle in the range 0° to180° or perhaps -90° to +90°?
    2a) For clarity, how is the orientation of the symbol for the overturned bed done? For the example symbol, on the slide you showed with the four symbols, does this show a bed whose original "up" is now pointing down to the lower-left or is it down to the upper-right? [As you pointed out in your video, this really is a subject that is inherently "visual" and hard to describe succinctly and clearly!]
    2b) Would the dip angle for overturned beds be given as a number >90°

  • @professorsogol5824
    @professorsogol5824 Місяць тому +2

    In your quiz, you told us the strike is North East/South West (or azimuths 45/225). Does geology use both numbers (one compass bearing and its 180 degree complement)? If only one number is normally cited, how do you decide which one to use? Northern hemisphere, relative to North, in the southern hemisphere, relative to South?

    • @shawnwillsey
      @shawnwillsey  Місяць тому +2

      For strike, you can use either direction although there is a convention called right hand rule which determine the preferred strike direction. Look for an upcoming video on this.

  • @jimscheltens2647
    @jimscheltens2647 Місяць тому

    Glad to finally learn what these terms mean.

  • @JanClancey
    @JanClancey Місяць тому

    This will require re watching 😊 but you explain so clearly thank you Shawn

  • @PlantaVeganas
    @PlantaVeganas Місяць тому

    hi teacher i'm starting with structural geology, and understand all, very helpful, thanks so much :]

  • @codyedwards6922
    @codyedwards6922 Місяць тому

    I got the notification at 11:11. Make a wish Willsey.

  • @Dragrath1
    @Dragrath1 Місяць тому

    You have exposed a weakness of mine here probably will need to rewatch this one again as the compass directions are confusing my brain

  • @3xHermes
    @3xHermes Місяць тому

    Thx!

  • @johncooper4637
    @johncooper4637 Місяць тому

    I assume that if the rock layers have been compressed horizontally that you take the general direction of the compression.

  • @dougsundseth6904
    @dougsundseth6904 Місяць тому

    When reporting strike, do you use magnetic or true direction? I assume true, but that does implicate the use of magnetic corrections by location, which I've found to be a bit tricky to teach when teaching orienteering.

  • @charlesward8196
    @charlesward8196 Місяць тому

    I could not resist getting a Made in USA vintage Brunton Pocket transit. It is in excellent condition, and I bought it for $99.00 plus shipping on eBay last week.

  • @stevewallace9124
    @stevewallace9124 Місяць тому

    Have you had the opportunity to look at Wendover, Utah’s Volcano Peak? It is a very strange and different mountain that has features I have never seen in other volcanos.

    • @shawnwillsey
      @shawnwillsey  Місяць тому

      I am not familiar with Volcano Peak near Wendover. Do you mean Pilot Peak?

    • @stevewallace9124
      @stevewallace9124 Місяць тому

      @@shawnwillsey It is a few miles south of Pilot. It is a very dramatic peak that should be in a “Lord of the Ring” type movie.

    • @stevewallace9124
      @stevewallace9124 Місяць тому

      @@shawnwillsey is there a place I can send you a few pictures of it?

  • @SylasMoon
    @SylasMoon Місяць тому

    thank you, my teachers didnt explain this very well

  • @greedygringoprospecting6941
    @greedygringoprospecting6941 Місяць тому

    you live in or near orange county ca. i look for gold. you should see the creek bed i go to. intrusive rock all over. you name its there.

  • @J0hnC0ltrane
    @J0hnC0ltrane Місяць тому

    I chose correctly but then was over thinking it a bit.

  • @sudazima
    @sudazima Місяць тому

    roughly how many episode till we get to GEOL102?

    • @shawnwillsey
      @shawnwillsey  Місяць тому +1

      Oh boy. I haven't committed to this yet. There are still a dozen or more episodes left in the GEOL 101 series. GEOL 102 at my college is Historical Geology, which covers the Earth's history and the evidence.

  • @jefferyporter9645
    @jefferyporter9645 Місяць тому +1

    Hello everyone

  • @mechabubba
    @mechabubba Місяць тому

    youtube suggestions goin wild. not my major, not my college. gonna see if i can make heads or tails of this

  • @adairjanney7109
    @adairjanney7109 Місяць тому

    I want you to explain the weird strips of land in Pocatello/Chubbuck near the wind farms, if you dont know what I am speaking of I can provide coords, in fact if it lets me ill edit this and add those if you see this anyway 42°48'24"N 112°43'54"W

    • @owenlindblom6981
      @owenlindblom6981 Місяць тому

      I think what you are seeing are buried pipeline scars.

  • @professorsogol5824
    @professorsogol5824 Місяць тому

    Please do not fail to show us how to measure strike and dip with a cell phone. Brunton compasses are expensive, but all of us amateur geologists looking to up our game have cell phones. Then our only problem when out in the field is do we have a signal?

  • @skyedog24
    @skyedog24 Місяць тому

    🧭 🔨

  • @wheezer324na3
    @wheezer324na3 Місяць тому

    Thanks!