How Geologists Discovered and Mapped a Great Seaway
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- Опубліковано 13 кві 2024
- Cretaceous Interior Seaway, Utah geology, John Wesley Powell, Capitol Reef, Factory Butte, Book Cliffs, Ammonites, Fossils, Great Plains, Sevier Orogeny, foreland basin
- Наука та технологія
Why can’t you sleep sorry trying to learn about geology at 2am
You just spoke to my soul.
Totally 😹
4 am now.......!!!!
Same from me.
I’m not alone 👊
Finally, something worth watching on a Sunday night.
I was kidding myself. Amazing how interesting it is to find something that i have personally found truthfull and factual from when i was a kid. A kid from the Sonoran desert.
Same here
Here
how about a flood, a big flood
Shut your mouth
Your channel is proof that, if what you're talking about is interesting enough, there's no need to turn it into some television event drama. This was so good!
Thanks!
You don't even have to blame aliens for a single thing, amazing stuff.
@@myroncook Myron ! What a great journey you took us on ! It's truly amazing that so many clues are still visible to anyone, in plain sight ! Now, there is just one tiny issue, and I hope that you take this as a form of well-mannered constructive criticism, sir. The title is just every so slightly misleading. To me, in my mind, "How Geologists Discovered [the Seaway]" would lead me to think that the video would be about those specific geologists and the actual specific discoveries made by them over time, in a historical context. This was especially true for me since you mentioned the 1869 expedition by John Wesley Powell. I expected more specific historical details to follow in his footsteps. Alas, we did not get that. Now, I know that this is not a true historical channel, in the normal sense. Instead this is a great, shall I say spectacular, channel about geology over a much vaster historical timeline. Keep up the amazing work, and I speak for everyone when I say, NEVER STOP !!
So true!
I've gotten to the point where I absolutely cringe at the over-dramatization on Nova, National Geographic, etc.
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I spent fifty years in construction, I wish I would have been a geologist. I really love geology, who would have thought geology would be so fascinating.
Geologist prob would have thought.
You still have time to start, even a year or two.
LOVE your channel! My elderly mother and I enjoy learning about geology, astronomy, and geography. I am her caregiver and we love to watch educational videos as part of our daily routine to keep her mind active. Thank you for making and sharing your outstanding videos.
That is awesome!
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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE UNITS CONVERSION! It’s the little details that show your empathy and respect for the viewers. Most youtubers don’t notice how much the units impact the understanding of scale!
It's also nice that he says one unit and writes the other. Hearing both each time makes it more difficult to compare. I can choose to remember just the ones I read, or the ones I hear.
@@GregConquest that can be an issue for hearing impaired people though
@@krispycool1 How so? If someone who is hearing impaired is watching this video, then they're reading the captions already anyway. The audio as spoken is transcribed. So, they'd see both units.
@@GregConquest have you read youtube captions? they are the worst ever! most of time the words make no sense
@@krispycool1 So, what are you saying? Hearing impaired people aren't hearing the words, and now you're saying the auto-generated captions are often not accurate. So, it wouldn't matter which units he says aloud.
My original point seems as valid as ever, and your complaint seems to make no sense.
If Geology could talk, this is what it would sound like. Thank you Myron. This is my first time you were recommended.
Welcome aboard
Myron: I greatly appreciate the free education you are handing out here. Your style of leading one to the points of the lesson are wonderful to listen to and learn from. The natural world needs more story tellers like you. Thank you.
I appreciate that
And outdoors yet!🕊️😎🎵❤️🐦🗻♥️🗽
This video is so fascinating! I love when you address “how do we know that?” kinds of questions! And the photography is always sooo stunning! Thank you for educating us!
I'm so glad!
Great sound too!
The little tree 🌲 (not to scale) is the cherry on top of these fine lessons you produce.
Keep up the great work sir!!
Many thanks!
Great use of tree.
@@myroncook you were born for this gig !
The future geologist is going to be astonished to find dam machinery in his core samples. 😮
A total Bob Ross move to fill out the best geology videos on UA-cam
I live in northern Kentucky and have always been fascinated by finding fossilized coral and sea shells in field stones. Amazing to think of how our earth has changed over the ages.
Hi Myron! I am an engineer with a railroad out here in Grand Junction and my route goes through Thompson Springs, Helper, and all along the Bookcliffs. I get so excited riding along these beautiful features every day and wondering about the ancient landscapes that made these mountains into what they are today. So glad to see you made a video about them. I just bought a book about this very thing by Ron Blakey! PS, you met my boyfriend, Jason at a restaurant while you were here in town, thanks for the photo! We were so excited! If you ever make it back to GJ, I hope to meet you, too!
Cool job! I enjoyed meeting your friend, very pleasant fellow. I studied geology under Ron Blakey.
Both you and Bob Ross have a great way with trees. Thanks for another fine lesson.
Love the little tree 🌲
“Happy” trees!
Agreed
Little trees and little fish, 100 million years ago, ha. Love it!
exactly, they both paint what they want to paint.
Thank you Myron! This is my favorite channel in UA-cam and you have completely transformed my understanding of the Earth. Learning geology the last few months since I found your channel has given me so much joy! Keep doing what you’re doing partner!
Wonderful!
@@myroncook i found a channel that you might enjoy watching for amusement, relaxation, or some information. it is not a geology channel in the purest sense, but it does occasionally hit on geology in a tangential manner. the creator has a very soothing voice, and the visuals are amazing. the channel name is, *_"Desert Drifter"_*
@@myroncooki eatvhed your video about the fans coming from river deltas and how far they go out to see, as well as the channels you noted running across the bottom of the ocean. I believe you said they were caused by the rivers and underwater currents, but it wasnt fully understood. I disagreed, its my understanding that the paths the major rivers follow were not originally carved by the rivers themselves, the eater just took the path of least resistance. I adhere to the electrical model of the universe, in said model its understood from accounts of the ancients that great cataclysms of an electrical nature happened. These events occured before life even existed here. These planetary scale electrical storms literally carved out huge swaths of land and killed untold numbers of species in the known catacylsms (it wasnt a meteor it was a global electical storm and a scale we can hardly imagine). Look at electrical excavation experiments done by many experimentalists. It shows the exact same fratures we see on he surfaces of every celestial body we observe.
I will correct my typos when i get home from work... Yt app is glitching out and making it impossible to do so.
Have not watched yet but I know it will be interesting, informative and well done. Thank you, Professor Cook.
For me, it’s not just the great knowledge you have but the enthusiasm you show that makes your videos as enjoyable as they are educational. Thank you for sharing these
I appreciate that!
Myron I love your enthusiasm! From one geologist to another, you are a geologists, geologist!
Thank you, Bob
@@myroncook geology isint real its just concrete painted by my buddy bob
How many times have I driven through boring landscapes and just couldn't wait to get to somewhere interesting? Myron, you should have made these videos 50 years ago. What great videos for kids to watch while travelling cross country.
I agree. When I was a kid we took some really long trips across the US and I could have used this info! lol
Have you bought any of the “Roadside Geology” series. They describe the stuff you along the roads…
North of San Antonio, TX. Sea shells and related fossils in my backyard. Honeycomb rocks with sea shells and fossils embedded in them. Yep, I will most certainly buy it. In the same area I stood in a dinosaur track back in the 60's. It was on private land and cannot be accessed now.
neat!
When I lived in Jackson Wyoming, south in the snake River canyon there were sea shells way up on the hill sides in the canyon
Around Coralville, Iowa, there’s plenty of evidence of a huge Coral Reef, with the Coral Detail clearly evident.
I live north of SATX. Have seen more marine invertebrate fossils in Cibolo Creek bed than I could ever count.
I live near bulverde but all I've unearthed is some amber calcite in my garden
I spent about 25 years in Utah. It's a nature-lover's paradise. I hope everyone has a chance to visit the beauty of southern Utah. It's truly amazing.
Thank you, Mr. Cook. I don't know why you don't have a million subscribers by now.
You sir are surely not lying!
...And I'll call you Shirley! Grrl!
Thank you for adding meters and kilometers in your videos, us Europeans appreciate it .
Thank you so much Myron your geography content is seriously unmatched I use it to help teach my children about the great Appalachians around from here in central Pennsylvania
Wow, thank you
@@myroncook no sir thank you
You need an award simply for carrying that whiteboard for miles. Great stuff!
Dude Uses more whiteboards than Katie Porter on cocaine
As an European I really appreciate the unit conversion. Sometimes I struggle to follow american educational contents because I'm not familiar with the imperial system.
It's a small thing but really appreciated. Also your content is pure gold, you manage to go really deep but with an easier vocabulary that makes it understandable for anyone, you really have a gift. Thank you for your videos!
Myron...you have definitely got that Bob Ross delivery going on. Thank you for the fun informative videos.
You are very welcome
This geology makes my retirement life a lot more interesting.
mine too!
A pretty good day is now an awesome day because a new Myron video just dropped ~ thank you!
I had a "wow" moment with the explanation of how ammonite fossils are used to correlate time with volcanic ash deposits! super cool! Thank you.
Yup, I love hiking in the mountains of New Mexico and finding seashells at around 7000 ft. Really gets the brain working.
I feel we are lucky to have drone technology available to help grasp the size and scale of these layers. Some awesome footage and that final stop was simply amazing. Still loving this channel and all the fascinating geology stories Mr. Myron. Thanks!
drones help a lot
Hello there sir , Myron we really enjoy your geology. Always in lightning and joyful love your humor keep them coming. I have a high understanding of the topic and I love the way you break it down
Thanks again, Damon
Thanks, Damon
As a recent transplant to Denver I’m fascinated by the story of the Seaway and the geology of the west. Thank you for your excellent and understandable presentations. Love the trees!
Loved this one. Was just in Capitol Reef last week looking at the formations, the oyster fossils and such. This pulled a lot of information together. Thanks!
A superb master teacher with a "big picture" clarity rarely equalled and probably never excelled.
Now you know why the Great Plains is so fertile.
Fascinating stuff! A genuine educator. You can tell it comes natural to Mr Cook teaching.
Glad you think so!
New subscriber currently binging your content. 😅
After an exceptionally rough week, Im stoked to sit down and hear about the Great Seaway from everyone favorite Geology Santa! Theres a lot of comfort in the humility of seeing a glimpse of the age of the world we live on and Im forever grateful for everyone that shares this passion.
thank you!
It is so fascinating to just sit a try to see what was in the past. Thank you for adding so much to that pleasure.
Ocean front property in Indiana
Love the old school teaching with the beautiful drone shots.
Thirty plus years ago i had a college geology professor that was just mesmerizing to listen to. He was an excellent teacher.
Just like you, Myron!
I am very pleased. A new Myron Cook video. 🎉🎉
My goodness...Ive learned so much watching your videos. Sadly in my lifetime I'll never see this part of our country. Truly amazing area. Never have I thought about rock formation until I started watching....thank you
This guy is the first one that ever made me find geology interesting and begin to understand it. Many thanks.
You make it so interesting! Every time I look at different areas as I drive around and travel, I contemplate the things I've learned from you. Thank you so much for being so generous with your time 🤗
Good to see you again Myron! Love your videos. As it so happens, I live on the boundary of the coastal plain and Piedmont Plateau in Maryland. Now, I find myself trying to imagine what my neighborhood looked like during the Cretaceous.
You are a genuinely gifted educator. Thank you!
This is exactly why I watch this channel. This helps me greatly in understanding the geologic environments that cretaceous animals in North America would have lived in
Myron has a perfect score for his geology videos as far as I'm concerned. Such a pleasant voice and pacing of speech plus his enthusiasm and questions to the viewers throughout the video. Extremely well done Myron. i bet that there are some future geologists watching these videos. In the future, professors will ask, "how did you get involved in geology?" and the student will reply, "I watch Myron Cook discuss geology in videos on UA-cam." The student will think and mutter softly, "I sure wish this professor was as good as Myron."
I'm in Scotland, studying plants for research/conservation - my degree doesn't even brush up against geology and I can't understand why not! It's so interesting, and holds so much information about why the current configuration of land is the way it is, and why plants grow where they do. I love to read rock formations and try to visualise how they formed and what might have lived around them, your videos are like learning to read. I'm in an area that was repeatedly flooded and reforested through the Carboniferous, I've got chunks of fossilised rainforest from alternating layers of mudstone, shale and coal capped by massive slabs of sandstone that I can now visualise better thanks to your video. Feels a bit like deep time vertigo. It's also really interesting to see formations that are nothing like what we've got since our landscape was scraped smooth by ice.
awesome to hear! I often can map formations by the type of vegetation on them
Respect for your work. I have found a shocking number of Creationists on youtube making videos about how the grand canyon was formed in a few weeks. It's horrifying to me to see such ideas get so much traction and support and your work really shines as a powerful and insightful informative array of data against such delusions. Great work!
Liked and shared.
This reminds me of the inland Sea that Australia once had. One thing I love most about this ultimate favourite geology & palaeontology channel of my is it encourages me to ask questions that I both would not have thought of, or have been reminded of that I already thought of.
Dr. Cook, I find the flow of your presentations very welcoming. I have had a lifelong but pedestrian interest in all things related to Earth science - - mainly focused on botany and biology. Having visited places like Capitol Reef in younger days, I found that I was easily overwhelmed by the various landscape formations, not able to understand the subtle clues of structure - so I simply remained in awe of the aesthetic beauty of such places... And now, many decades further, I am able to virtually revisit these in a new light even though I may not be able physically to do so. A subscriber thanks you!
Thanks!
Myron, thank you for your work, and for explaining everything from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Seaway. You touch on the geology of greatly undervalued yet stunning subjects.
I appreciate that!
Myron, you've done it again, sent my imagination off spinning into the depths of time. What a treasure for the curious - thank you so much for these thoughtful, amazing and inspiring videos.
Many thanks!
Thirty minutes in, and I just had to pause to say Thank You.
From a retired Brit with an interest in geology ever since my first visit to Scotland. (edit: and reading John McPhee too!)
Living on the South coast, on a dark chilly evening but a very good Scotch to hand, it's good to be in your company. Just as absorbing as any David Attenborough, bless him.
edit2: and what a poetic ending. If there was ever a poetic science, perhaps geology is it, because it can be directly observed, but only with understanding. which comes from teaching.
Love this feedback...thank you!
Love these long form videos. Incredibly interesting, informative, and entertaining.
Glad to hear it!
Mr. Myron thank u so much for content such as this. I sit here on my couch completely fascinated and engaged with what I’m learning from your video.
You and your channel show the power of doing something meaningful with a you tube channel.
Thanks for all you do to enlighten and educate those in the online community. It most definitely helps us to stay curious:)!
You are very welcome
No way my boy Myron Cook dropped another banger
My average attention span for a UA-cam video is ten minutes or so. But there is so much in this video that forty-five minutes passes really quickly. Fascinating subject, awesome scenery, and clear narration from someone whose enthusiasm is infectious. Time very well spent.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is incredible: the scenery, the concepts, the way you tie it all together…it might be the perfect video.
Thank you!
I love the way you explain the changes in topography. Really helps to imagine what it used to be like. I live in the Uk and I look at the landscape in such a different way because of your teaching. Thankyou for opening my eyes to a much bigger picture. 💚
I love this!
Love your channel- and thank you for adding metric measurements on screen for those of us who are most fluent in that :)
You are so welcome!
This man's passion for his field is so evident. Geology never seemed so exciting.
That area of the country has always facinated me. I could hang out with Mr Cook and talk geology for months. Thank you for this presentation have always wanted it someone to explained it in detail.
Your channel is so wonderful for education!
You are appreciated Myron. I didn't even realize I was stressed and then you started talking geology and I suddenly relaxed.
Excellent teaching in every way. The content, on site, presented by an expert, clearly and politely. The evidence for this seaway is compelling to me.
I learned in college that there's no such thing as a bad subject, only bad teachers. A good teacher can make any topic fascinating. Lately I am finding geology to be real interesting!
never before have i clicked on a video so fast
The topics you cover in this video can be difficult to grasp sitting in a classroom or reading the literature. You have a gift of explaining and your videos and presentations are satisfying and getting better. I am sending anyone interested in learning geology to this channel.
Wow, thank you!
You're one of my favorites on youtube. I watch a variety of things, but you're factual, and interesting. Thank you for your work.
Your enthusiasm is infectious! Thank you for sharing bits of your vast knowledge, and reminding us to be curious and ask questions about the world around us.
Love the videos! I have described you to my wife as "the Bob Ross of geology". I'm not a painter and have never intended on painting anything creative, but I can watch Bob Ross talk about and demonstrate his talent for hours. I'm not a geologist and do not intend on becoming one, but I can also watch you talk about geology and demonstrate your knowledge in the field for hours because even though I won't ever be a geologist, you give me just a little bit more knowledge to understand the world around me just a little bit better. Thank you!
Myron, I appreciate the way you parse all the relevant aspects into relatable components...and reassemble them into concepts that make sense.
I love geology but have a difficult time envisioning hypothesis from textbooks and journals. Your method of on-location instruction and diagramming is illuminating and enlightening. Thank you for these excellent lessons!
I appreciate that!
I never thought geology was cool until stumbling upon this channel. Taking the whiteboard out into the field like that is just super helpful and cool.
Glad you enjoy it!
This channel is nothing short of a pilgrimage site for Geology enthusiasts like me.
Excellent presentation . The combination of different aspect footage , scale markers and whiteboards really helped to understand this . Thanks .
I love the content, and you clearly do too. You sound and look more happy to reveal knowledge to people than anyone I've ever heard. Traveling through the west for the first time, these are all the things I was thinking about. I love it.
Thank you for including measurements that actually mean something to 193 out of 195 nations.
Every content creator who wants to convey measurements should take notes from this gentleman.
I call myself an Amateur Geologist who grew from a Rockhound - someone who loses pretty rocks - found originally on the shores of Lake Superior, Lake Huron & Lake Michigan (no rock hunting done on Eerie or Ontario).
You are a FANTASTIC teacher and it’s obvious that you LOVE Geology and teaching geolog. You tickle me because you are so happy.
I’d love to spend time with you wandering around and just listening and asking questions.
If you ever want someone to hang out with, someone who loves learning about geology and getting her hands dirty - oh and a trusty little 10 pound dog 🐕
Look me up. I’m as serious as a heart attack. I’m off to the Badlands area to Boondock in my RV and explore. I adore the Badlands. Maybe I’ll see ya there.
Myron….great job bringing geology to a broad range of people. Not overly technical…fascinating topic. Thanks! 👍
I love this channel.
I saw a geology book back in the late 60s about faults and have been hooked ever since.
Thanks Myron, for another great video. It looks like you have a lot of fun out there!
Absolutely fascinating, with amazing explanations, a most wonderful job! I hated to see it end. Building up at only a 1/4 of an inch every 100 years is mind boggling. Thanks
This was wonderful! I grew up in Minnesota and I am happy to see that she had a shoreline on this great seaway. Great job, Mr. Clark.
Interesting geology information + calming voice = im set
I really enjoy your videos. Thank you so much for producing these for us Geology lovers!
I love your work, Professor Cook. Every video. Thank you. You're a good teacher. I soak up each lesson. Teacher's sacrifice. They give jewels to many, each lesson. I appreciate every point about geology that you bring alive. (And you show people from your region of the country can have much positive to share).
Thank you!
Absolutely wonderful video, me and my family used to go camping all the time when I was a kid and I never cherished the vast knowledge and deep care park rangers had for the lands around them. Now that Im older I find my self missing that, and this fulfills that curiosity in such a calming way. I think its all to easy nowadays to get swept up with life and forget to slow down and enjoy what nature has to offer, and this has helped me take a breath. Thanks myron, you've brightened many days, and filled many minds.
Love your videos. I grew up in Rawlins, Wyoming and your videos educate me of the lands I experienced. You answer many of my questions. Nature is wonderful and fascinating.
I just love how you make geological time come alive in terms we can relate to. Thank you for your geology vulgarization. It's fascinating.
Thank you!
You’re so lucky to have so many dramatic and significant lands capes to read into. Thanks for the géology masterclass :)
Very interesting and professor here explained it and kept it interesting on a level which I think most of us can follow
I absolutely love your deep-dive explorations into how geology is done.
Thank you for making these historical documentaries. The videos are very informative.
Fascinating presentation as always Myron! Thank you.
I dialed up the request line a month ago asking for coverage on this topic and Dr. Myron DELIVERED!
You sir, are influencing far more people than you’ll ever realize. Truly, thank you sir.
I love these Myron, thank you for continuing to publish these. I know they took tremendous time and effort, but you are really making the geology accessible to more of us out here.
Glad you like them!
I'm not a geologist or even really aware of the first thing about it. But this was fascinating. Feels a bit like being a time traveler, analyzing the evidence and placing where things were in the past. Fun video, thank you, and thanks to the mighty UA-cam algorithm for landing me here!
Every video of yours that I watch just blows my mind. It’s difficult to imagine the layers that we see on a horizontal plane. But I’m seeing the mountains that I live in totally different thanks to your videos. I’m so thankful.
I LOVE to hear this!