My dad is a geologist and growing up, he’d always emphasize how easy fossils were to find out in the wild (esp in places like gravel beds and driveways) and would encourage us to have collections of them. Good times.
I found some in some construction dirt and a bunch in the irrigation canal where the farmers used to toss rocks they plowed up when my neighborhood was a field,
Up here in Washington state there's an abundance of fossils from the Chuckanut Formation (from the Eocene period). There is an absolute _abundance_ of fossils in those rocks, palm fossils being some of the more fun ones to find. Once I found innumerable quantities of them where a hillside had been broken apart so a house could be built. Not terribly interesting per se, as Eocene stuff isn't terribly exotic, but its still neat to find 'em.
Growing up along an Appalachian creek, you cannot help but find tons of these fossils. My grandpa told me this area was once underwater "A long time ago". To a child I cou;dn't reconcile those time scales, so I thought maybe 1000yrs. Those hills are old, older than trees, older than the evolution of bones. Wonders never cease. Excellent video. Your accents made me smile big time.
the grenville orogeny was what created the appalachian mountains, reaching their peak during the formation of pangea. they've definitely had plenty of time to erode since then
Well, sorta older than the trees. The main bit of the Appalachians formed from the closure of the Iapetus ocean, but the southern portions of the Appalacians formed with the closure of the Rheic ocean, which occurred shortly _after_ trees evolved (trees evolved in the Middle Devonian, the Rheic closed in the Late Devonian). Interestingly enough trees very likely originated from the slopes of the early Appalachians, on ancient river deltas.
@@semaj_5022 Honestly these are things you kinda gotta scrounge up from random research lol, or at least that's how I end up learning this stuff. But the UA-cam channel Christopher Scotese has some very well put together animations of plate tectonics and paleoclimate (although he seems to have the Rheic close a tad early compared to what I generally have seen)
There is a place in Northern Utah's Logan Canyon that has millions of fossils like the ones in this video. I am not kidding, literally every rock you pick up has fossils of shells/mussels/anemones and other under sea life. I once took a girl there on a date to look for some of the coolest ones to keep. To this day she still says that it was her all time favorite date. One of the fossil rocks we found has been sitting on display in our home for close to 7 years now. I like to joke that it was that specific date where she decided to say yes when I eventually asked her to marry me. So yeah, I like these little fossils lol.
You're not even a yt content creator right now but a fully fledged scientist and researcher. Your channel is totally special and fascinating. Even if the topic something I never knew I had interest for, your presentation piques my curiosity. I love every one of your videos.
You can find rocks like that in Oklahoma, evidence that a huge portion of the modern USA used to be under the ocean. The rocks are jam packed with remnants of ancient shells, trilobytes, crinoids and other plants and animals. There could be dozens on a single rock. It gives an impression of just how abundant sea life was in that area and in general so long ago.
@@JiminyClarkson actually, the way the fossils are distributed and the way certain ones are found only in certain layers is just one of the many pieces of concrete evidence that disproves Noah's flood, at least as a global event.
@@L_Train actually, the way those layers are determined is by the types of fossils they contain (it's the practice of using index fossils), in turn the age of fossils are determined by their geological/evolutionary positioning, so it's a self fulfilling and circular argument.
@@L_Train "Contrary to what most scientists write, the fossil record does not support the Darwinian theory of evolution because it is this theory (there are several) which we use to interpret the fossil record. By doing so, we are guilty of circular reasoning if we then say the fossil record supports this theory." Ronald R. West, "Paleontology and Uniformitarianism," Compass, Vol. 45, May 1968, p. 216. The rocks do date the fossils, but the fossils date the rocks more accurately. Stratigraphy cannot avoid this kind of reasoning if it insists on using only temporal concepts, because circularity is inherent in the derivation of time scales." American Journal of Science, Vol. 276, p.53 The intelligent layman has long suspected circular reasoning in the use of rocks to date fossils and fossils to date rocks. The geologist has never bothered to think of a good reply." J.E. O'Rourke, "Pragmatism vs. Materialism in Stratigraphy," American Journal of Science, January 1976, p. 48.
@@JiminyClarkson there are plenty of creationists and religious zealots within the scientific community, yet all of them are either disapproved on spot or later with additional evidence being uncovered. Unfortunately, it takes awfully a lot of time to get rid of the religious propaganda out of what is supposed to be a logical mindset. Regarding the circular argument, it doesn't make sense even within your context. Did you actually watch the video? How else would those damn clams get inside so deep, all the while clear layers of ground accumulating are visible? The fossils are not older nor younger than the rock surrounding them in almost all cases. And even now, with physics and chemistry advances carbon dating more than accurately shows the age in geology.
Props to Atlas Pro for going out and finding his video in a stream. Also, plesiosaur tracks made in the seabed can be found in the Swiss alps. Pretty cool
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i really like how you find value in “old” books anyone of us could have in our parents house. books like those were where i’d go for answers or for my research in elementary school, pre-internet era. thanks for reminding me that, yes, everything is online, but we still have those amazing repositories there, unopened in years on the bookshelf!
My dad was a builder 10 years ago and when I was a kid he made a sand pit for me from the sand they dug out when building. When I was a kid I was obsessed with dinosaurs so I used to dig in the sand as a paleontologist and later I discovered that the rocks in that sand where full of these shells. I am now 16 and that was a part of why I got into biology. I am actually from Ukraine so this stuff is all around the world.
I was once climbing volcanoes with my dad in Lanzarote and at the top we found a seashell just in the dust behind a rock. It was either a bird that dropped it or it'd been there for a very long time but I thought that was cool :)
Well, Lanzarote being a volcanic island, has only emerged from the ocean a mere 15 million years ago, so actually finding anything non-marine is more exceptional 😉. But ok, a seashell would've probably been dropped there indeed.
Can you keep doing more biogeography videos? Macaronesia, Gargano Island, the biogeography of the Permian, and abyssal gigantism would all be good subjects to cover.
@@curiodyssey3867 Despite the continents all being united into Pangaea, there was still quite a bit of variation between Late Permian faunal assemblages in Russia, China, Germany, Tanzania, Zambia, and South Africa (the most sampled areas from the Late Permian). It would be an excellent subject to do a video on, especially since Atlas Pro already has a video on the biogeography of Mesozoic dinosaurs, which is a much better explored topic.
@@altanativeftw2625 Also the general position of Pangaea was changing throughout the Permian too it often gets neglected to mention that when Pangaea formed in the late carboniferous Gondwana had still occupied the Antarctic polar zone meaning Pangaea was fairly lengthwise extending from the Equatorial regions to the South pole. The continent gradually shifted towards the much more familiar equatorial arrangement via true polar wander a consequence of a rotating system's tendency to minimize its moment of Inertia over time limited in the case of the Earth by the plasticity of Earth's upper mantle. True polar wander events aren't all that uncommon whenever Earth has a long lived supercontinent or an otherwise long lived highly lopsided mass imbalance between hemispheres, its the reason all of the super continents aside from the ephemeral Pannotia that either began to break up before it finished forming and or involved lateral translation between the two major minor supercontinents of the time.
When I was a kid I found a big rock full of fossils. Shells, trilobites, unknown little critters, you name it. It was a very heavy rock (imagine a more or less 1ft diameter geode but with a flat bottom and more oval than round) with several shades of grey and browns. I loved that rock and I learned so much with it in the many years I had it. The flat part was kinda flaky and I could remove bits of it easily to show new fossils under. The top rounder part was hard af and there was bigger shells on it. When I got 18 we moved out and I think I left my rock there. It's been over 10 years and I am still sad about my missing rock. Wish I took it with me still to this day. I even contemplated the idea of going back and ask the (not so new now) owners of the house for my rock.
I'd like to point out that since the Scottish Highlands and Atlas Mountains were part of the same range and hold the same fossils, the whole ordeal to figure this stuff out could have started hundreds of years earlier. The Roman Empire, for example, included the Atlas Mountains and part of the British isles. We were really that close.
I think part of the Atlas (Anti-Atlas) was part of the Alleghenian (Appalachain) Orogeny (320-260 my ago) but the large majority of the Atlas is very recent (
definitely not 'just' a pangaea focussed video like I originally thought, but so much better! I especially loved the on-location footage at the stream and seeing you just pick up fossil rocks off the ground. It invokes a feeling of 'wow, what's stopping me from going out in nature where I live and find cool things like that?'' Makes the whole topic feel much more intimate and personal (not sure if those are the right words) than lets say videos about astronomy - though those are obviously awe-inspiring, loved and fascinating in their own way - Those little reminders that you don't *have* to travel to some of the most famous (and often distant) distant geological features in order to learn about the earth's history and instead can find cool things in your own 'backyard' that then inspire a deep dive into geology... I don't know, it's comforting in a way? Ramblings aside, congratulations on another amazing video! Beautifully shot and narrated as always and very informative! Can't wait for part two! (And hopefully you'll be able to do even more on-location stuff in the future if the video's topic calls for it )
I read an article awhile back that claimed that what is the Appalachian mountains now actually were the valleys between the much larger mountains that eroded away. Which explains why some of the mountains are made of sand instead of limestone. I’d love a video either explaining it or debunking it if it’s not true. Loved the video!
I sincerely hope you’re joking because that’s a terrible name, maybe just the name atlas but even then, The name is a little bit, too, for lack of a better word, full of it…
I grew up in Kentucky right on the doorstep of the Appalachians. I found a ton of these sort of rocks and fossils as a kid and loved searching for the rocks and examining them, looking at all the little shells and other sorts of fossils embedded in there. Thanks for another great video!
As a geology professor who’s taught about both the History of Geology and Geologic Time, I think this was a great video. Also, nice, unexpected collaboration with Mr. Beat.
Start with seashell > explain how geology came to be > explain how all of that is related to Darwin too. I love this. The connecting the dote discussion is what I love the most. There is something satisfying in it ♥
This reminds me of once when I was younger my family took a road trip through the Karoo. My dad saw some wave ripples and didn't hesitate to remind us he studied geology by telling us how they indicated that the arid, desert-like landscape we were suffering in used to be entirely underwater. I asked how long ago, but wasn't prepared for the words "Probably a few hundred million years". I don't think anything else has ever made me feel as insignificant as I did then.
Greetings from India 🙏🏼. Oh Boy my country made an epic journey !!! From bordering Antarctica to bumping into Asia, smothering the Tethys Sea and birthing the greatest mountain range mankind has ever seen... The Himalayas ! Btw , these aquatic fossils are really really common all across the Himalayas. And fossils of aquatic flora and fauna high up the Himalayan snow fields really helped shaping many of these geological theories. For a person like you, the Himalayas would be a gold mine 😁. Please consider visiting the region once. Thanks for your videos, really like them.
I've just come back from two weeks in the eastern alps, where we were practicing geological surveying (honestly kind of ironic that being a geology student sometimes makes it hard to keep up with your content but alas) and the beginning of the video I think says it all like yes I knew that tectonic forces pushed up the crust to make mountains, I've been there multiple times before, we've already found the fossils (I have some very cute leaves from a creek very similar to that one) but sometimes to really get it you have to look at a rock with a seashell in it and think "this seashell fell to the seafloor 250 million years ago, and then 200 million years later it was pushed up from its resting place 5+ km underground until it ended up halfway up a mountain" fun fact: we kept coming across signs of the same mountain building event that resulted in the appalachians! because that's something that can happen! you can be chilling in northern italy and say "there used to be mountains here that were formed by the same event that made those big mountains in the us" how people figured that out is one of the coolest things ever imo
Its so fascinating. You can find the remenants of truely ancient creatures just... everywhere! Every one of those shells was a thriving animal and we get a glimpse into what its life was like in an almost alien world.
Thank you for taking us on a trip with you! I've never had the opportunity to find fossils in a stream like that (I live in the Netherlands). I wonder if I could find any here at all by myself. Nevertheless, it's great that you give me a second hand experience and educating me on something interesting at the same time. It kind of feels like a geography/geology teacher taking me with them on a trip and teaching all kinds of interesting stuff, amazing! Also; holy, your production quality has gotten so much better (not that it was ever bad per se) and it's awesome to see your channel succeed! Love all your content, thanks a lot!
This is by far my favorite video you have produced. I really enjoyed how you tied it all together being the foundation of natural sciences in a way I haven’t seen before. Gave me a new perspective. Thank you.
Sincere and heartfelt thanks for making these videos. Not only are they excellent on their own terms, but when you consider the context of the 2020s, they shine even brighter as reminders to allow ourselves a little awe and wonder at the world.
My grandmother still genuinely believes these seashells are evidence of the flood. I only really talked about it with her when I was younger so I didn't have a full understanding of how to explain it. It is definitely hard to think of things on such a massive timescale; a thousand years seems like a long time ago, but that's barely a blink for these fossils, and where they came from, and how far they've come.
The video made mention of Young Earth Creationism, which was not necessarily supported by the Bible. The phrase "In the beginning" at Genesis 1:1 implies an indefinitely long time - it could mean billions of years.
Yes! Love the geology content! I can't wait to see your fossil collection! If you're looking for geology video ideas, there's some cool stuff out there for the art of paleogeographic reconstruction techniques and theories. For that I'd point you toward Scotese's paleomap project, all the new telemetry/seismology stuff (Karin Sigloch), the drama involving paleomagnetic data reliability, and (of course) matching up fossils and ancient landforms/geologic deposits. For something less geologic... ever read about Pytheas of Massalia's "On the Ocean" / voyage to Ultima Thule? His descriptions of the arctic are pretty wild. It could compliment the Histories suggestion above.
I just got back from the west coast of Scotland. If you want stories of paradigm shifting discoveries and inspiring examples of intellectual determination in the early days of geology (and maybe a hiking trip to see some fantastic scenery), the story of the Moine thrust, as illustrated in the UNESCO North West Highlands Geopark might be worth a video. Older rocks being found on top of younger ones, rocks changing through processes other than metamorphosis, modern borders lining up with geological ones, there’s tonnes to talk about 👍🏻
This was really fascinating! It made me consider how often I take knowledge like this for granted. "Of course it's plate tectonics!" I thought, because I have the benefit of this science being hashed out some 50 plus years ago. But to people for most of human history this was a crazy mystery and a big flood probably sounded more plausible to our human brains always tryna make sense of things.
I know that book! Read it myself when I was just a kid. Long before the internet those beautiful Time/Life books were enthralling with their colour photographs, leading into their drawings and into their wonderful text.
Like you, I remember scanning through the series (about 30 books) when I was young. They must have been a world wide mail order as I am in New Zealand. After my parents passed, I ended up doing a clean up and they were a casualty- possibly to a 2nd bookstore.
Right as I turn 30, I'm spending my morning watching Caelan talk about sea-fossils in the mountains. Life is good, and I haven't even had my coffee yet.
This was basically a half hour summary of my first term of natural science in college. It really should be taught much earlier (like in middle school), in my opinion.
I'm so happy.. today I went outdoors in upstate New York and hunted for fossils. I do like this method its more interactive also you should share your library... you have a wide array of books, I want to know the titles
I’ve been putting off watching this video for a few days because it didn’t look the coolest, but this has to be your best video yet. So good, you showed your humanity you explained the topic in an amazing sense, had good editing, and articulated your argument. Amazing
hey man, love your content and how your channel and professionalism grew. I had my doubts when you first appeared on camera but realized its value since, keep up the good work! btw if you want a frenchman who's got less of a german accent, hit me up!
I can feel how much you care about this in your video. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and talents with us. I know making these videos are not easy at all, let alone have a stratified educational layer underneath it all
Right now I'm in a watershed management class that has taught me all about the amazing biodiversity that's found in the state of Alabama. One of my favorite parts was when we canoed up a lake and stopped to talk about how the short rock cliffs had formed in the Carboniferous period, what megafauna lived in the area, and how this time period formed coal veins that led to a major industry in those areas. It's crazy how the geology spreads to so many aspects of our lives, the very foundation of what we are just sitting beneath our feet. When and how rocks formed affects what soil types are found in different areas, and that in turn affects what we can use the land for, and what we use the land for affects the quality of our water. It's just cool how it's all interconnected. Like you said, geology, geography, and biology 🙂
I love this video being a different topic, I do like your other videos but I was getting a bit sick of biogeography after so many videos about it and I'm glad to see a new topic for a video!
I would absolutely love to see videos on the deposition of certain rocks, especially if it then went on to show metamorphic rocks derived from the initial deposition. Also explaining things like how certain rocks, like quartz requiring oxygen, and chalk requiring foraminifera, only came into existence as Earth's biosphere developed, detailing the when and how, could be a great way to link the geological aspect to your other three categories.
The mountains of Utah are home to astounding, indisputable records of the past 500 million years of evolutionary history... and, somehow also the Mormons. You can lead a horse to water...
Finally a video about geology ♥ I studied bio-geo sciences, so I know very well how important and intrinsically connected both biology and geology are. Down to the origin of life - how the first cells developed from minerals AND how organisms create rocks. We also have fossils in the mountains in my home country Bulgaria and where I live currently in Germany. These formations here are called Muschelkalk (transl. "shell lime"). The Muschelkalk was deposited in a triassic land-locked sea which used to cover large parts of present-day Central Europe. Oh, and you did a great job as usual - very inspiring and eloquently presented! :)
Love seeing you going on location! Love the channel in general, keep it up etc. Keeps my commute on the tube more educational than most people's every time you have a new video out. Thank you.
These sorts of discussions always forget the important part played by Charles Darwins Grandfather: Erasmus Darwin. Living under the shadow of the church he formed ideas about evolution, but disguised all his writings as poetry. Charles almost certainly knew of his grandfathers work and built the theory of evolution from that rather than being truly original. And extract from one of Erasmus Darwins poems: “ Organic Life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nursed in Ocean’s pearly caves. First, forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass. These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume; Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing.”
This video was just super interesting and super fun to watch. You are gifted at both making these videos and making them interesting and knowledgeable. Please never stop making such videos...
I am continuously amazed by both the production and informational quality of your content as well as your exuberant passion for science. Please don’t stop telling these amazing stories of our world - you have such a gift for it!
I used to find piles of these in a creek behind my house in Cincinnati as a kid. I remember thinking the creek had to have been a giant river or lake a really long time ago. It was the only thing that made sense to me. When we learned the ancient ocean explanation in 4th grade, I had a full on existential crisis trying to picture it in my mind. Ohio? Under an ocean? Geology and Geography instantly became my favorite subjects in that moment.
I've always enjoyed Nick Zentner's lectures on geological happenings in the pacific NW - much like your lost islands and lost continents videos, there are stories of great cycles of flood and fire, massive geological features like lakes and rivers filled and emptied in decidedly non-geological timescales.
You are right about it that the answer was pretty straightforward and simple by today's standards. It was fairly easy to follow along the same line of thought on my own and come to the same conclusion. Then I checked the length of the video and realised that if there is half an hour worth of content here, there's probably something really intriguing to see here. It's bizarre how underappreciated this whole aspect is in general. Last time I felt so excited about geology was probably back in middle/highschool. I really appreciate videos like this that follows a concise narrative and encourages the study in a field more.
I absolutely LOVED this video! Back in my college days, our class took a field trip to the Catskills, and visited a high outcrop of limestone. With a whack of my geologic hammer, I broke off a piece, and - viola! - clear fossils of coral. I felt like I was following in the footsteps of scientific history!
I love how good you have become at making videos! I have been a subscriber for a long time, and it is truly amazing to see how you have grown, not only as a channel but also as a film maker. The editing, scripts, research and locations are so good. I also loved when you decided to include yourself in the videos! Keep up the great work! PS! I actually use a lot of your videos in my social studies class. The students love them!
This was fantastic! I found some of those fossils about 30 years ago while fly fishing the south branch of the Potomac river in West Virginia. Thank you so much for this amazing history lesson.
On family road trips through the mountains of the Western states and Mexico, I became fascinated by how they could have been created, knowing they started out under the seas. I ended up studying geophysics. That Wegener had figured out continental drift, it wasn’t until magnetic anomalies on the sea floor and their age were studied that the mechanism for this drift by sea floor spreading was figured out. There are rocks near where I live in New Mexico that are 1.68 to 1.7 billions of years old. Same kind and age rocks were recently found in Antarctica, forming possibly a super continent that predates Rodinia, the supercontinent that predates Pangea. Rocks are fascinating when they reveal their secrets.
one of my favorite things to do with friends here in utah is look for aquatic fossils, especially star crinoids (they look so cool in bigger rocks) and especially if my friends arent from here or dont know the history of the geology here, blows their mind that we can be hundreds of miles from any lake, thousands of miles from any ocean, and still find so many shells and corals in the middle of the desert ^^ really i just love all of the rocks you can find here lol, my big favorites to go look for are hyalite geodes, malachite, and yellow labradorite, but theres so many unique kinds of rocks and fossils all over the entire state, and all of them are amazing and very fun to look for with friends ^^
I'm from Ohio and there are loads of fossils and coral. The bedrock is mostly limestone, so small fossils are common. I have a small collection of fossilized coral I've found in my field. I'm near the highest point in the state. It's a very geologically interesting area. If you look up a rock type map of Ohio, the high point is quite an outlier.
Even though I knew all about the subject of Geology and fossil distribution, I found your enthusiasm for the subject very enjoyable & entertaining. That's why I watched the entire video. Keep up the great work and I am looking forward to your next installment. 👍👍😉😉
Damn, I need to get on that pattern to ensure this quality is met every time because *inhale* damn that was good. (The visuals, the voiceovers, the props, visiting the places, all of it was amazing).
@12:20 I have been watching your videos for some time now, and watching your interpretations of the natural world lead you to this very point gave me a little bit of a rush. It's still such a new science (relatively speaking) that it's impossible (imho) to be unamazed at the leaps and bounds the study has achieved since only so very recently. Learning about geology has been an absolute watershed in my life, and now, in my career. I think I may have said this before, but each one of your videos could be a separate, graduate-level thesis on their own given the obviously enormous amount of time and research you put into each of them. You've got a long and prosperous career ahead of you, no matter what you choose to do, and I thank you again for the effort you put into each and every one of these videos.
Another exceedingly important fossil discovery from the Appalachian region is some of the earliest forests on the planet, from about 385 million years ago in the Middle Devonian when there were large epicontinental seaways around the Appalachian region and Euramerica had yet to collide with Paleogondwana. Very strange plants are filling in the gaps of how the heck trees became a thing, how seeds originated, and the origins of some very important plant groups like horsetails and ferns.
I find these fossils, and others like Crinoids and small bones mixed in with the fossils, in the mountains and hills of Eastern/Mideastern Kentucky. Even in the creeks and streams further west closer to Lexington and Paris. I collect the best looking of them and we even use them as basking rocks for our turtle, lizard and amphibian enclosures. Some in the snake cages. My best, in my opinion, is the giant Crinoid stem that measures roughly 10cm(4in) long and is a kit as big around as my wrist. You can even see the segments in the body of the stem(not sure what else to call it other than the Crinoids stem. Base maybe?). They are so cool and every now and then you can even find them as quartz crystals formed into the fossils and even imprints of the imprints made from quartz. Those are awesome, but very, very fragile and I've yet to find a piece that won't fall apart after extraction from the rock matrix. Maybe one day. If I ever do get one to stay together after extracting it, I'll post pics in the community section of my channel for all to see. I may start posting my fossil collection, or at least the more interesting stuff.
Even out here, in central Europe, about 450km from the nearest sea, in my hometown, on the hillside I can see out my window, there's soooo much of trilobite fossils. Dad has collected so many, found some myself. It's forbidden to do digging there for some time now, but the holes are still there. Last year, on a walk, I decided to take a look there, as it is almost just next to the path. Flipped first nice rock and there it was, a nice trilobite fossil. First such find in almost two decades ... I just had to bring it home, clean it, and now it decorates my desk. This was a big deal, back in the day, it brought some famous paleontologists here, like Barrande. National museum in Prague has collection of his findings, including huge several tons in weight chunk of rock covered in such fossils. Sh!t's fascinating. I probably wouldn't be here watching your videos, if I still wasn't fascinated. My hometown even has a trilobite in its heraldry!
I just finished my Geology and Physical geography degree (got results today). Having my favour geography UA-camr talking about geology really made my day.
You"re amazing!! Keep up the excellent work and love learning through your analysis. The quality is top notch and your enthusiasm is beyond compare!! Watching you makes me happy!!
I found a pretty sizable schell basically petrified (almost like petrified wood) on a piece of caliche limestone rock just south of Las Vegas near good springs. The last time this part of the country was under water was around 150 million years ago before the uplift above sea level began . Cool to learn geologic history from simple fossils
Up here in grey county, Ontario, fossiliferous limestone is the main bedrock. I call it "fossilized yes", because there's a little bit of everything inside them
My dad is a geologist and growing up, he’d always emphasize how easy fossils were to find out in the wild (esp in places like gravel beds and driveways) and would encourage us to have collections of them. Good times.
lucky. the ice age destroyed virtually every fossil in Finland
I found some in some construction dirt and a bunch in the irrigation canal where the farmers used to toss rocks they plowed up when my neighborhood was a field,
Note: this was in Colorado on what used to be the shoreline of an inland seas at one point.
Up here in Washington state there's an abundance of fossils from the Chuckanut Formation (from the Eocene period). There is an absolute _abundance_ of fossils in those rocks, palm fossils being some of the more fun ones to find. Once I found innumerable quantities of them where a hillside had been broken apart so a house could be built. Not terribly interesting per se, as Eocene stuff isn't terribly exotic, but its still neat to find 'em.
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Growing up along an Appalachian creek, you cannot help but find tons of these fossils. My grandpa told me this area was once underwater "A long time ago". To a child I cou;dn't reconcile those time scales, so I thought maybe 1000yrs.
Those hills are old, older than trees, older than the evolution of bones. Wonders never cease.
Excellent video. Your accents made me smile big time.
Some of the oldest mountains in the world, they have had plenty of time to erode and so they aren't as impressive of mountains.
the grenville orogeny was what created the appalachian mountains, reaching their peak during the formation of pangea. they've definitely had plenty of time to erode since then
Well, sorta older than the trees. The main bit of the Appalachians formed from the closure of the Iapetus ocean, but the southern portions of the Appalacians formed with the closure of the Rheic ocean, which occurred shortly _after_ trees evolved (trees evolved in the Middle Devonian, the Rheic closed in the Late Devonian). Interestingly enough trees very likely originated from the slopes of the early Appalachians, on ancient river deltas.
@@StuffandThings_ Do you know where I can read more about what the conditions would have been like around the early Appalachians?
@@semaj_5022 Honestly these are things you kinda gotta scrounge up from random research lol, or at least that's how I end up learning this stuff. But the UA-cam channel Christopher Scotese has some very well put together animations of plate tectonics and paleoclimate (although he seems to have the Rheic close a tad early compared to what I generally have seen)
There is a place in Northern Utah's Logan Canyon that has millions of fossils like the ones in this video. I am not kidding, literally every rock you pick up has fossils of shells/mussels/anemones and other under sea life. I once took a girl there on a date to look for some of the coolest ones to keep. To this day she still says that it was her all time favorite date. One of the fossil rocks we found has been sitting on display in our home for close to 7 years now. I like to joke that it was that specific date where she decided to say yes when I eventually asked her to marry me.
So yeah, I like these little fossils lol.
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That’s sick dude, I’m a student at usu. Mind sharing your secret spot?
@@chapmanhercules3480 Pretty sure I just found you on insta and I sent you a DM 👍
I kind of want to know where that is next time I go visit my brother nearby.
Wingmanning from well beyond the grave
You're not even a yt content creator right now but a fully fledged scientist and researcher. Your channel is totally special and fascinating. Even if the topic something I never knew I had interest for, your presentation piques my curiosity. I love every one of your videos.
You can find rocks like that in Oklahoma, evidence that a huge portion of the modern USA used to be under the ocean.
The rocks are jam packed with remnants of ancient shells, trilobytes, crinoids and other plants and animals.
There could be dozens on a single rock. It gives an impression of just how abundant sea life was in that area and in general so long ago.
Yes, there was a huge worldwide ocean during the great flood of Noah's day which is why those fossils are everywhere.
@@JiminyClarkson actually, the way the fossils are distributed and the way certain ones are found only in certain layers is just one of the many pieces of concrete evidence that disproves Noah's flood, at least as a global event.
@@L_Train actually, the way those layers are determined is by the types of fossils they contain (it's the practice of using index fossils), in turn the age of fossils are determined by their geological/evolutionary positioning, so it's a self fulfilling and circular argument.
@@L_Train "Contrary to what most scientists write, the fossil record does not support the Darwinian theory of evolution because it is this theory (there are several) which we use to interpret the fossil record. By doing so, we are guilty of circular reasoning if we then say the fossil record supports this theory."
Ronald R. West, "Paleontology and Uniformitarianism," Compass, Vol. 45, May 1968, p. 216.
The rocks do date the fossils, but the fossils date the rocks more accurately. Stratigraphy cannot avoid this kind of reasoning if it insists on using only temporal concepts, because circularity is inherent in the derivation of time scales."
American Journal of Science, Vol. 276, p.53
The intelligent layman has long suspected circular reasoning in the use of rocks to date fossils and fossils to date rocks. The geologist has never bothered to think of a good reply."
J.E. O'Rourke, "Pragmatism vs. Materialism in Stratigraphy," American Journal of Science, January 1976, p. 48.
@@JiminyClarkson there are plenty of creationists and religious zealots within the scientific community, yet all of them are either disapproved on spot or later with additional evidence being uncovered. Unfortunately, it takes awfully a lot of time to get rid of the religious propaganda out of what is supposed to be a logical mindset.
Regarding the circular argument, it doesn't make sense even within your context. Did you actually watch the video? How else would those damn clams get inside so deep, all the while clear layers of ground accumulating are visible? The fossils are not older nor younger than the rock surrounding them in almost all cases. And even now, with physics and chemistry advances carbon dating more than accurately shows the age in geology.
Props to Atlas Pro for going out and finding his video in a stream. Also, plesiosaur tracks made in the seabed can be found in the Swiss alps. Pretty cool
i really like how you find value in “old” books anyone of us could have in our parents house. books like those were where i’d go for answers or for my research in elementary school, pre-internet era. thanks for reminding me that, yes, everything is online, but we still have those amazing repositories there, unopened in years on the bookshelf!
I love how you can see the happiness in his face when speaking about It being the origins of geology as a science, keep It Up man
My dad was a builder 10 years ago and when I was a kid he made a sand pit for me from the sand they dug out when building. When I was a kid I was obsessed with dinosaurs so I used to dig in the sand as a paleontologist and later I discovered that the rocks in that sand where full of these shells. I am now 16 and that was a part of why I got into biology. I am actually from Ukraine so this stuff is all around the world.
I was once climbing volcanoes with my dad in Lanzarote and at the top we found a seashell just in the dust behind a rock. It was either a bird that dropped it or it'd been there for a very long time but I thought that was cool :)
Well, Lanzarote being a volcanic island, has only emerged from the ocean a mere 15 million years ago, so actually finding anything non-marine is more exceptional 😉. But ok, a seashell would've probably been dropped there indeed.
Can you keep doing more biogeography videos? Macaronesia, Gargano Island, the biogeography of the Permian, and abyssal gigantism would all be good subjects to cover.
biogeography of the Permian, yesssss
There are already some niche channels that cover Paleozoic stuff. But it is indeed a very interesting period!
@@curiodyssey3867 Despite the continents all being united into Pangaea, there was still quite a bit of variation between Late Permian faunal assemblages in Russia, China, Germany, Tanzania, Zambia, and South Africa (the most sampled areas from the Late Permian). It would be an excellent subject to do a video on, especially since Atlas Pro already has a video on the biogeography of Mesozoic dinosaurs, which is a much better explored topic.
@@altanativeftw2625 Also the general position of Pangaea was changing throughout the Permian too it often gets neglected to mention that when Pangaea formed in the late carboniferous Gondwana had still occupied the Antarctic polar zone meaning Pangaea was fairly lengthwise extending from the Equatorial regions to the South pole. The continent gradually shifted towards the much more familiar equatorial arrangement via true polar wander a consequence of a rotating system's tendency to minimize its moment of Inertia over time limited in the case of the Earth by the plasticity of Earth's upper mantle.
True polar wander events aren't all that uncommon whenever Earth has a long lived supercontinent or an otherwise long lived highly lopsided mass imbalance between hemispheres, its the reason all of the super continents aside from the ephemeral Pannotia that either began to break up before it finished forming and or involved lateral translation between the two major minor supercontinents of the time.
When I was a kid I found a big rock full of fossils. Shells, trilobites, unknown little critters, you name it. It was a very heavy rock (imagine a more or less 1ft diameter geode but with a flat bottom and more oval than round) with several shades of grey and browns. I loved that rock and I learned so much with it in the many years I had it. The flat part was kinda flaky and I could remove bits of it easily to show new fossils under. The top rounder part was hard af and there was bigger shells on it. When I got 18 we moved out and I think I left my rock there. It's been over 10 years and I am still sad about my missing rock. Wish I took it with me still to this day. I even contemplated the idea of going back and ask the (not so new now) owners of the house for my rock.
You should! If it means so much to you, I'm sure the new owners won't mind :)
I would definitely go back!!
I don't care if it 50 or 70ya
Do it.
I'd like to point out that since the Scottish Highlands and Atlas Mountains were part of the same range and hold the same fossils, the whole ordeal to figure this stuff out could have started hundreds of years earlier. The Roman Empire, for example, included the Atlas Mountains and part of the British isles. We were really that close.
I think part of the Atlas (Anti-Atlas) was part of the Alleghenian (Appalachain) Orogeny (320-260 my ago) but the large majority of the Atlas is very recent (
definitely not 'just' a pangaea focussed video like I originally thought, but so much better! I especially loved the on-location footage at the stream and seeing you just pick up fossil rocks off the ground. It invokes a feeling of 'wow, what's stopping me from going out in nature where I live and find cool things like that?'' Makes the whole topic feel much more intimate and personal (not sure if those are the right words) than lets say videos about astronomy - though those are obviously awe-inspiring, loved and fascinating in their own way -
Those little reminders that you don't *have* to travel to some of the most famous (and often distant) distant geological features in order to learn about the earth's history and instead can find cool things in your own 'backyard' that then inspire a deep dive into geology... I don't know, it's comforting in a way?
Ramblings aside, congratulations on another amazing video! Beautifully shot and narrated as always and very informative! Can't wait for part two!
(And hopefully you'll be able to do even more on-location stuff in the future if the video's topic calls for it )
Great summation of I think a significant portion of the audience’s feelings about the video, i certainly sign under every wors
I read an article awhile back that claimed that what is the Appalachian mountains now actually were the valleys between the much larger mountains that eroded away. Which explains why some of the mountains are made of sand instead of limestone. I’d love a video either explaining it or debunking it if it’s not true. Loved the video!
My first son was born last Friday, I named him Atlas Pro in honor of you and now we’re watching this video together at home 🥰🥰🥰
Atlas is also a Greek titan and a king of Atlantis.
I sincerely hope you’re joking because that’s a terrible name, maybe just the name atlas but even then, The name is a little bit, too, for lack of a better word, full of it…
16:48 omg my school used to have a full bookshelf full of that set of books and I loved them! I should buy them somewhere so I can read them again
I grew up in Kentucky right on the doorstep of the Appalachians. I found a ton of these sort of rocks and fossils as a kid and loved searching for the rocks and examining them, looking at all the little shells and other sorts of fossils embedded in there. Thanks for another great video!
As a geology professor who’s taught about both the History of Geology and Geologic Time, I think this was a great video. Also, nice, unexpected collaboration with Mr. Beat.
Start with seashell > explain how geology came to be > explain how all of that is related to Darwin too. I love this. The connecting the dote discussion is what I love the most. There is something satisfying in it ♥
This reminds me of once when I was younger my family took a road trip through the Karoo. My dad saw some wave ripples and didn't hesitate to remind us he studied geology by telling us how they indicated that the arid, desert-like landscape we were suffering in used to be entirely underwater. I asked how long ago, but wasn't prepared for the words "Probably a few hundred million years". I don't think anything else has ever made me feel as insignificant as I did then.
Always a good day when he uploads
Agreed
Greetings from India 🙏🏼. Oh Boy my country made an epic journey !!! From bordering Antarctica to bumping into Asia, smothering the Tethys Sea and birthing the greatest mountain range mankind has ever seen... The Himalayas !
Btw , these aquatic fossils are really really common all across the Himalayas. And fossils of aquatic flora and fauna high up the Himalayan snow fields really helped shaping many of these geological theories. For a person like you, the Himalayas would be a gold mine 😁. Please consider visiting the region once. Thanks for your videos, really like them.
Your channel is such a nice break from the hellstorm that is social media recently 😐 thanks, i needed this
I've just come back from two weeks in the eastern alps, where we were practicing geological surveying (honestly kind of ironic that being a geology student sometimes makes it hard to keep up with your content but alas) and the beginning of the video I think says it all
like yes I knew that tectonic forces pushed up the crust to make mountains, I've been there multiple times before, we've already found the fossils (I have some very cute leaves from a creek very similar to that one) but sometimes to really get it you have to look at a rock with a seashell in it and think "this seashell fell to the seafloor 250 million years ago, and then 200 million years later it was pushed up from its resting place 5+ km underground until it ended up halfway up a mountain"
fun fact: we kept coming across signs of the same mountain building event that resulted in the appalachians! because that's something that can happen! you can be chilling in northern italy and say "there used to be mountains here that were formed by the same event that made those big mountains in the us"
how people figured that out is one of the coolest things ever imo
Love the geology content! Appalachian geology is highly underrated as an interesting topic. Hope to see more!
Sincerely, a Geologist.
Its so fascinating. You can find the remenants of truely ancient creatures just... everywhere! Every one of those shells was a thriving animal and we get a glimpse into what its life was like in an almost alien world.
Thank you for taking us on a trip with you! I've never had the opportunity to find fossils in a stream like that (I live in the Netherlands). I wonder if I could find any here at all by myself. Nevertheless, it's great that you give me a second hand experience and educating me on something interesting at the same time. It kind of feels like a geography/geology teacher taking me with them on a trip and teaching all kinds of interesting stuff, amazing!
Also; holy, your production quality has gotten so much better (not that it was ever bad per se) and it's awesome to see your channel succeed! Love all your content, thanks a lot!
This video is essentially a 30min love letter to geology and I'm all for it!
This is by far my favorite video you have produced. I really enjoyed how you tied it all together being the foundation of natural sciences in a way I haven’t seen before. Gave me a new perspective. Thank you.
Phenomenal video. Always makes my day when you upload and always happy to support you
Sincere and heartfelt thanks for making these videos. Not only are they excellent on their own terms, but when you consider the context of the 2020s, they shine even brighter as reminders to allow ourselves a little awe and wonder at the world.
My grandmother still genuinely believes these seashells are evidence of the flood. I only really talked about it with her when I was younger so I didn't have a full understanding of how to explain it. It is definitely hard to think of things on such a massive timescale; a thousand years seems like a long time ago, but that's barely a blink for these fossils, and where they came from, and how far they've come.
Yeah i mean if it was from a global flood they'd be everywhere not just specific places
The video made mention of Young Earth Creationism, which was not necessarily supported by the Bible. The phrase "In the beginning" at Genesis 1:1 implies an indefinitely long time - it could mean billions of years.
@@kuyabillylptmaed The Bible is pretty clear about the age if the earth an the human race
@@ThomasBomb45 they are everywhere though, how about you look into it instead of just assuming they're not.
So far this is the best comment. Amen
Yes! Love the geology content! I can't wait to see your fossil collection!
If you're looking for geology video ideas, there's some cool stuff out there for the art of paleogeographic reconstruction techniques and theories. For that I'd point you toward Scotese's paleomap project, all the new telemetry/seismology stuff (Karin Sigloch), the drama involving paleomagnetic data reliability, and (of course) matching up fossils and ancient landforms/geologic deposits.
For something less geologic... ever read about Pytheas of Massalia's "On the Ocean" / voyage to Ultima Thule? His descriptions of the arctic are pretty wild. It could compliment the Histories suggestion above.
I just got back from the west coast of Scotland. If you want stories of paradigm shifting discoveries and inspiring examples of intellectual determination in the early days of geology (and maybe a hiking trip to see some fantastic scenery), the story of the Moine thrust, as illustrated in the UNESCO North West Highlands Geopark might be worth a video. Older rocks being found on top of younger ones, rocks changing through processes other than metamorphosis, modern borders lining up with geological ones, there’s tonnes to talk about 👍🏻
I think it's crazy to see how I was recommended your channel when it was around 4000 subscribers. I'm glad to see your videos whenever you upload.
This was really fascinating! It made me consider how often I take knowledge like this for granted. "Of course it's plate tectonics!" I thought, because I have the benefit of this science being hashed out some 50 plus years ago. But to people for most of human history this was a crazy mystery and a big flood probably sounded more plausible to our human brains always tryna make sense of things.
That red marble tray needs an episode of its own! Absolute Beauty as it is presented
Very cool! It's amazing what you can discover with only a little bit of searching
Hey Mr. Beat! Thanks for introducing me to this channel. It was nice to hear your cameo in this episode.
I know that book! Read it myself when I was just a kid. Long before the internet those beautiful Time/Life books were enthralling with their colour photographs, leading into their drawings and into their wonderful text.
Like you, I remember scanning through the series (about 30 books) when I was young. They must have been a world wide mail order as I am in New Zealand. After my parents passed, I ended up doing a clean up and they were a casualty- possibly to a 2nd bookstore.
Right as I turn 30, I'm spending my morning watching Caelan talk about sea-fossils in the mountains.
Life is good, and I haven't even had my coffee yet.
This is def a good start.
Happy trip around the sun, too. 👍🏼
This was basically a half hour summary of my first term of natural science in college. It really should be taught much earlier (like in middle school), in my opinion.
Yes! More geology! Your presentation style makes it so much easier to grasp, I love it!
I'm so happy.. today I went outdoors in upstate New York and hunted for fossils. I do like this method its more interactive
also you should share your library... you have a wide array of books, I want to know the titles
I’ve been putting off watching this video for a few days because it didn’t look the coolest, but this has to be your best video yet. So good, you showed your humanity you explained the topic in an amazing sense, had good editing, and articulated your argument. Amazing
hey man, love your content and how your channel and professionalism grew. I had my doubts when you first appeared on camera but realized its value since, keep up the good work!
btw if you want a frenchman who's got less of a german accent, hit me up!
I can feel how much you care about this in your video. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and talents with us. I know making these videos are not easy at all, let alone have a stratified educational layer underneath it all
As someone who lives in upstate ny I want to thank you for showing people how beautiful it is, everyone thinks all of ny is cities lol
I found one of those back in College! I was so confused, and I kept the rock at home. I’m really glad you’re making this video
Excellent video. The importance of Geology can not be overstated. In some places, Mars and asteroids come to mind, it may be the only way to discover.
Thank you so much for this work! If only I had a teacher like you when I was a kid...AND YES! More on geology, please.
More geology this was great!
Right now I'm in a watershed management class that has taught me all about the amazing biodiversity that's found in the state of Alabama. One of my favorite parts was when we canoed up a lake and stopped to talk about how the short rock cliffs had formed in the Carboniferous period, what megafauna lived in the area, and how this time period formed coal veins that led to a major industry in those areas.
It's crazy how the geology spreads to so many aspects of our lives, the very foundation of what we are just sitting beneath our feet. When and how rocks formed affects what soil types are found in different areas, and that in turn affects what we can use the land for, and what we use the land for affects the quality of our water. It's just cool how it's all interconnected. Like you said, geology, geography, and biology 🙂
I love this video being a different topic, I do like your other videos but I was getting a bit sick of biogeography after so many videos about it and I'm glad to see a new topic for a video!
I'm a geological engineering student from Venezuela, totally love each one of your videos!! Keep it up ❤❤❤
I love it when you post keep going 😄
I would absolutely love to see videos on the deposition of certain rocks, especially if it then went on to show metamorphic rocks derived from the initial deposition. Also explaining things like how certain rocks, like quartz requiring oxygen, and chalk requiring foraminifera, only came into existence as Earth's biosphere developed, detailing the when and how, could be a great way to link the geological aspect to your other three categories.
The mountains of Utah are home to astounding, indisputable records of the past 500 million years of evolutionary history... and, somehow also the Mormons. You can lead a horse to water...
Finally a video about geology ♥ I studied bio-geo sciences, so I know very well how important and intrinsically connected both biology and geology are. Down to the origin of life - how the first cells developed from minerals AND how organisms create rocks. We also have fossils in the mountains in my home country Bulgaria and where I live currently in Germany. These formations here are called Muschelkalk (transl. "shell lime"). The Muschelkalk was deposited in a triassic land-locked sea which used to cover large parts of present-day Central Europe.
Oh, and you did a great job as usual - very inspiring and eloquently presented! :)
I guess you could say that the Natural Sciences had a rocky start.
Love seeing you going on location! Love the channel in general, keep it up etc. Keeps my commute on the tube more educational than most people's every time you have a new video out. Thank you.
Sally selling her sea shells in the woods now?
Yeah I think so.
Man, I wish I was younger. To study Geology after only now finding it so absolutely fascinating.
These sorts of discussions always forget the important part played by Charles Darwins Grandfather: Erasmus Darwin. Living under the shadow of the church he formed ideas about evolution, but disguised all his writings as poetry. Charles almost certainly knew of his grandfathers work and built the theory of evolution from that rather than being truly original.
And extract from one of Erasmus Darwins poems:
“ Organic Life beneath the shoreless waves
Was born and nursed in Ocean’s pearly caves.
First, forms minute, unseen by spheric glass,
Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass.
These, as successive generations bloom,
New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume;
Whence countless groups of vegetation spring,
And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing.”
Atlas Pro debunks God. 7:13
Anyone can do with a time about 5 minutes and it is great scientist go in their educational videos
This video was just super interesting and super fun to watch. You are gifted at both making these videos and making them interesting and knowledgeable.
Please never stop making such videos...
The young earth creationist would start to explain tge great flood and Noah's ark. Incredible there are people who still believe it.
I am continuously amazed by both the production and informational quality of your content as well as your exuberant passion for science. Please don’t stop telling these amazing stories of our world - you have such a gift for it!
Mr Beat does not have a good voice for reading like that. Then there's the German accent who read the French guys letter
Each time you post a video you remind me of how interesting our world is. Good job, as always
I used to find piles of these in a creek behind my house in Cincinnati as a kid. I remember thinking the creek had to have been a giant river or lake a really long time ago. It was the only thing that made sense to me.
When we learned the ancient ocean explanation in 4th grade, I had a full on existential crisis trying to picture it in my mind. Ohio? Under an ocean?
Geology and Geography instantly became my favorite subjects in that moment.
It was a pleasant surprise to see Mr. Beat appear in the video!
you're really killing it with these videos. totally mind blowing
I've always enjoyed Nick Zentner's lectures on geological happenings in the pacific NW - much like your lost islands and lost continents videos, there are stories of great cycles of flood and fire, massive geological features like lakes and rivers filled and emptied in decidedly non-geological timescales.
8:46 y’all, a wild mr. Beat collab in its habitat. Please do not disturb
This is such great content- could rival anything anywhere by anybody. Chilling great!
You are right about it that the answer was pretty straightforward and simple by today's standards. It was fairly easy to follow along the same line of thought on my own and come to the same conclusion. Then I checked the length of the video and realised that if there is half an hour worth of content here, there's probably something really intriguing to see here.
It's bizarre how underappreciated this whole aspect is in general. Last time I felt so excited about geology was probably back in middle/highschool. I really appreciate videos like this that follows a concise narrative and encourages the study in a field more.
I absolutely LOVED this video! Back in my college days, our class took a field trip to the Catskills, and visited a high outcrop of limestone. With a whack of my geologic hammer, I broke off a piece, and - viola! - clear fossils of coral. I felt like I was following in the footsteps of scientific history!
Do the geography of minerals, precious metals, and gemstones!
Could be a really fun video
I love how good you have become at making videos! I have been a subscriber for a long time, and it is truly amazing to see how you have grown, not only as a channel but also as a film maker. The editing, scripts, research and locations are so good. I also loved when you decided to include yourself in the videos! Keep up the great work!
PS! I actually use a lot of your videos in my social studies class. The students love them!
This was fantastic! I found some of those fossils about 30 years ago while fly fishing the south branch of the Potomac river in West Virginia.
Thank you so much for this amazing history lesson.
love you used Mr beat to do voiceover
I love your channel man, your presentations continue to get more and more engaging and polished 💓
On family road trips through the mountains of the Western states and Mexico, I became fascinated by how they could have been created, knowing they started out under the seas. I ended up studying geophysics.
That Wegener had figured out continental drift, it wasn’t until magnetic anomalies on the sea floor and their age were studied that the mechanism for this drift by sea floor spreading was figured out.
There are rocks near where I live in New Mexico that are 1.68 to 1.7 billions of years old. Same kind and age rocks were recently found in Antarctica, forming possibly a super continent that predates Rodinia, the supercontinent that predates Pangea.
Rocks are fascinating when they reveal their secrets.
one of my favorite things to do with friends here in utah is look for aquatic fossils, especially star crinoids (they look so cool in bigger rocks) and especially if my friends arent from here or dont know the history of the geology here, blows their mind that we can be hundreds of miles from any lake, thousands of miles from any ocean, and still find so many shells and corals in the middle of the desert ^^
really i just love all of the rocks you can find here lol, my big favorites to go look for are hyalite geodes, malachite, and yellow labradorite, but theres so many unique kinds of rocks and fossils all over the entire state, and all of them are amazing and very fun to look for with friends ^^
I'm from Ohio and there are loads of fossils and coral. The bedrock is mostly limestone, so small fossils are common. I have a small collection of fossilized coral I've found in my field.
I'm near the highest point in the state. It's a very geologically interesting area. If you look up a rock type map of Ohio, the high point is quite an outlier.
I assume you've heard about the crazy fish from the Cleveland Shale then?
Even though I knew all about the subject of Geology and fossil distribution, I found your enthusiasm for the subject very enjoyable & entertaining. That's why I watched the entire video. Keep up the great work and I am looking forward to your next installment. 👍👍😉😉
Crazy, I saw the thumbnail and could directly recognize the environment and rock, enough to say “I bet that’s New York” and lo and behold!
Geologising is the best word I've never heard of.
Damn, I need to get on that pattern to ensure this quality is met every time because *inhale* damn that was good. (The visuals, the voiceovers, the props, visiting the places, all of it was amazing).
@12:20 I have been watching your videos for some time now, and watching your interpretations of the natural world lead you to this very point gave me a little bit of a rush. It's still such a new science (relatively speaking) that it's impossible (imho) to be unamazed at the leaps and bounds the study has achieved since only so very recently.
Learning about geology has been an absolute watershed in my life, and now, in my career. I think I may have said this before, but each one of your videos could be a separate, graduate-level thesis on their own given the obviously enormous amount of time and research you put into each of them. You've got a long and prosperous career ahead of you, no matter what you choose to do, and I thank you again for the effort you put into each and every one of these videos.
Another exceedingly important fossil discovery from the Appalachian region is some of the earliest forests on the planet, from about 385 million years ago in the Middle Devonian when there were large epicontinental seaways around the Appalachian region and Euramerica had yet to collide with Paleogondwana. Very strange plants are filling in the gaps of how the heck trees became a thing, how seeds originated, and the origins of some very important plant groups like horsetails and ferns.
I find these fossils, and others like Crinoids and small bones mixed in with the fossils, in the mountains and hills of Eastern/Mideastern Kentucky. Even in the creeks and streams further west closer to Lexington and Paris. I collect the best looking of them and we even use them as basking rocks for our turtle, lizard and amphibian enclosures. Some in the snake cages. My best, in my opinion, is the giant Crinoid stem that measures roughly 10cm(4in) long and is a kit as big around as my wrist. You can even see the segments in the body of the stem(not sure what else to call it other than the Crinoids stem. Base maybe?). They are so cool and every now and then you can even find them as quartz crystals formed into the fossils and even imprints of the imprints made from quartz. Those are awesome, but very, very fragile and I've yet to find a piece that won't fall apart after extraction from the rock matrix. Maybe one day. If I ever do get one to stay together after extracting it, I'll post pics in the community section of my channel for all to see. I may start posting my fossil collection, or at least the more interesting stuff.
Even out here, in central Europe, about 450km from the nearest sea, in my hometown, on the hillside I can see out my window, there's soooo much of trilobite fossils. Dad has collected so many, found some myself. It's forbidden to do digging there for some time now, but the holes are still there. Last year, on a walk, I decided to take a look there, as it is almost just next to the path. Flipped first nice rock and there it was, a nice trilobite fossil. First such find in almost two decades ... I just had to bring it home, clean it, and now it decorates my desk.
This was a big deal, back in the day, it brought some famous paleontologists here, like Barrande. National museum in Prague has collection of his findings, including huge several tons in weight chunk of rock covered in such fossils. Sh!t's fascinating. I probably wouldn't be here watching your videos, if I still wasn't fascinated.
My hometown even has a trilobite in its heraldry!
I just finished my Geology and Physical geography degree (got results today). Having my favour geography UA-camr talking about geology really made my day.
I’m gonna start my geoscience degree in about 2 months from now, excited! 😁
You"re amazing!!
Keep up the excellent work and love learning through your analysis. The quality is top notch and your enthusiasm is beyond compare!!
Watching you makes me happy!!
I found a pretty sizable schell basically petrified (almost like petrified wood) on a piece of caliche limestone rock just south of Las Vegas near good springs. The last time this part of the country was under water was around 150 million years ago before the uplift above sea level began . Cool to learn geologic history from simple fossils
Up here in grey county, Ontario, fossiliferous limestone is the main bedrock. I call it "fossilized yes", because there's a little bit of everything inside them
You know it's gonna be a good video when Atlas is in the woods.