Geologic Story of Jackson Hole & Northwest Wyoming
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- Опубліковано 6 січ 2022
- Presented by
John Hebberger Jr.
Geologists of Jackson Hole
Northwestern Wyoming, and Jackson Hole in particular, is one of the most beautiful places on earth. It is visited by millions each year. What most do not recognize is that ALL of what one sees and wonders at is a result of major geologic events that occurred through 2.7 billion years of earth history. Clear evidence is seen for more major geologic events, the ones that formed this place, than in any other comparably sized area on earth.
Geologists of Jackson Hole in any other comparably sized area on earth.
Our area is a result of and evidence can be seen for: 1) The earliest known “Himalayan Style” continental collision event; 2) The break-up of the super continent that existed BEFORE the Pangea super continent; 3) 500 million years of Wyoming’s existence at & near sea level; 4) The continental-scale compressional event that formed nearly ALL of Wyoming’s towering mountains & deep basins; 5) A major volcanic event that today we see evidence of with the Absaroka Mountains; 6) The advent of the Yellowstone volcano which migrated from the ID-NV-OR states’ borders to its present location just north of Jackson Hole; 7) Onset of the continental scale extensional event which formed the American West’s “Basin & Range” province, and which is forming the Teton Range and Jackson Hole today; 8) Continental-scale uplift & resultant major erosion of the landscape; 9) Major glacial episodes, from alpine style valley glaciers to a quasi-continental style of ice sheet that entirely filled Jackson Hole.
Jackson Hole area is gorgeous. The lives of geologists must be fascinating. Thank you for sharing your vast knowledge!
Just found this.
Thank you very much for this video. I found it very informative and interesting.
Keep safe and i will look forward to other videos
Of course the Yellowstone Hotspot didn't "start" at the Oregon/Nevada border. It's much older than that. It generated the Tillamook Highlands 40-something million years ago, and was producing the Siletzia oceanic LIP 50-something million years ago.
The story in Isaiah speaks to the dislocation of that "hot spot", aka a "polar" loci, in pretty clear terms, the "ten degrees taken from the clock of Ahaz". I don't endorse the religious meaning, but the historical one is hard to escape!
Amazing! I’m so glad I found this channel. Listened to it driving through the Mojave province. I was tempted to find some trilobites. I never pursued a career in geology upon graduating but have no regrets. It’s cooler than ever now. The host mentioned that Mike is going to present Teton glaciers and climate. Can you please ask Mike to review and included a small section of his presentation explaining the Vostok ice core samples CO2 data? A PHd explained the data many years ago and pointed out CO2 levels being up to 7 times higher than today 10’s of 1000’s of years ago and added that water vapor is never factored in, or just left out of modern reports. We all know science is never absolute and I can’t find a unbiased explanation of this data anywhere. Everything you publish is amazing. Please keep the thought crack flowing. I can’t get enough of these. Thank you all for doing this. Bye bye…
It's the presentation I've been waiting for so very very well done
Terrific speaker. Thank you.
What a lot of people do not hear re: glaciation is that areas of Late Glacial Maximum permafrost extended far south of the actual glacial boundaries. One narrow lobe of permafrost extended all the way south into into a small area of North East Georgia. I think that makes those areas by definition ...tundra.
Its not permafrost now.
@@drhyshek It will be again. Soon in geological time frames. If you look at an earth average temperature graph over the past half million years you'd see several very short interglacial warm periods of roughly 10k years, and long ice ages of 110-120K years. The last two interglacials were substantially warmer than our current state. We are currently 2000 plus years past the average times interglacial's last. It will be permafrost again. All the way into northern Texas, Georgia. When interglacial warm periods end they end FAST. With average temperatures dropping to deep glacial era cold in less than a century, possibly as short as a couple of decades.
Wow, very well taught.
I grew up in Duluth Minnesota on the North Shore of Lake Superior. It is interesting to see some similarities presented here.
Rust Never Sleeps!
Something I heard or read, sometime in the distant past, but not more than ~15 y/o, and it makes sense to ME... that the uplift of the western part of Turtle Island is mostly due to all of the material being removed. Like an epic feedback loop. Why isn't that, if it's not true? Or did it have SOME effect?
Loved it❤❤❤❤❤❤❤Thank you so much 🤗 I learned alot!!!!
This was a great presentation. I have learned why the John Day Formation in north east Oregon is said to have been a part of China, due to a South China being near Laurentia as Rodinia broke up.
I also now have an idea of why the basin and range area exists in western U.S. that it is due to the release of the piling up from colliding with the Farallon plate. Do we suppose that as the basin and range area expands, the lands to the east rise up as the weight of the continent is released by faults?
Excellent talk, thank you so much
Too interesting! I couldn't take my eyes off the diagrams to work on my sudoku! Pretty cool. Thank you.
What a shame that this vid didn't acknowledge the more recent mapping of the magma pools in the interior of the planet. Your discussion on Yellowstone would have been very different.
The sense I am getting from this is a guy who has been presenting the same information for 30+ years and refuses to change anything for newer information. A lot of the information in this video is 30-40 years old if not older and doesn't really stand up to much newer evidence. But as they say, science progresses one death at a time.
Sweet vid;;
Please provide me with a link to the paper about helium ratios etc.
I bet Yellowstone does spew Basaltic Lavas... After it's done spewing out it's Rhyolite.
Great presentation, but the smacking was a bit much.
Wyoming was at the equator and now it's where it is. Puny humans. That's climate change.
As an early visitor to Jackson Hole (circa 1957), I've seen enough changes around the American West, to know there is a lot of misinformation in this video. The Tetons were NOT pushed up "millions of years ago", geologists' favorite dating term, but far more recently. The soils distribution was caused by a massive "flood" that swept across the West, from the "river" that flowed from the Arctic to the mid-Atlantic. It rebounded, as water does (pick up a claw-foot bathtub, some time, to see this in action), and carried the same sediments back and forth, scattering them far and wide.
This is False info. Please Consider "The Electric Universe / The Thunderbolt Project,
Hahaha mult billion but still isn't eternity. Enough 4 to what million. Even looking at your first image you want to think that really was by chance. Incredible you must have stayed in many motels and ignored. He loves anyone enough to explain when He decided to do His own human studies. Adam and Eve. Peace Love. Studying why Anchorage Alaska shook almost 60 years ago may be quite a thing.
Lip smacking lecture