Appalachian Geology: Surprising Implications
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2024
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Appalachian mountains geology, Smokey mountains geology, plate tectonics, coal geology, hydrocarbon geology, Valley and Ridge geology, Homeschool Earth Science Education
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As a sixth grader in 1962 I looked at a map on the wall and told the teacher that the continents all fit together nicely, and she assured me I was wrong. Plate tectonics couldn't come quick enough for this inquisitive young man.
I remember being an elementary school also in the late 60s and thinking that all the continents fit together like a puzzle and I somehow knew that they once had been one continent without ever really learning about it till later
@@kekkicI love stories like this. I've anecdotally heard that people noticed these things ever since decent maps started being produced, but technology had to advance a long way before we as a species could explain it.
@GregDaniels But everyone knows that "authorities" have perfect and complete knowledge about everything and are to be unquestioningly believed and obeyed. Don't think for yourself, the authorities have your best interest at heart and if you don't brainlessly believe and obey them, you'll hurt yourself! /s
That was pretty much the upbringing I had as a kid in the 1970s; be deferential to "authorities" and live by and internalize "the orthodoxy".
Yeah, right. It's amazing how many people who are scientists are fiercely tribal, holding to their tribe's orthodoxy, their set of sacred dogmas, their "sacred truths" that are not allowed to be questioned.
On the other hand, just being contrary and oppositional just to feel powerful, i.e., being a troll, is a pretty horrible state to live in.
Given what some of us humans have learned since about just how partial human knowledge is and how fragile human reason is, I've found it better to chart the middle course and live by the motto, "Examine everything carefully; cling firmly to that which you find to be good." And always ask, "How do I know what I think I know, what I believe to be true?"
Keep on asking questions, young man! :D
@@MinnesotaGuy822no that’s religion.
I just want to know the identity of the teacher. Add a name and face here. She was so so wrong 😅. Find her relatives. Send a card that says you were right.
I’m a geologist who did a masters thesis mapping the Valley and Ridge geology in Hampshirite and Hardy counties, WVA. I appreciate your efforts to clearly explain the geologic history to lay people. From the comments, looks like your work is much appreciated. Good refresher for me, too.
That was in 1977. I’m old! But not as John Denver sang, “older than the mountains…”
Excellent, next time I drive through the mountains I will appreciate the 'how did that happen? ' question.
wow i studied mechanical engineering but i was close to switching to geology. in the end i thought there were less jobs and lower pay but now i realize i could have made far more money working for an oil and gas company as a geologist... or a mechanical engineer for that matter meh no regrets.
@@psilocybemusashiI think starting pay is generally higher for engineers. Civil Engineering firms in Europe and US+Canada have been hiring geologists for maybe more than a generation now. Mining includes water and non-fossil-fuels too!
that area has some of the purest aquifers, right?
This is what I would have imagined a Bob Ross demonstration would have been like had he been a geologist.
Between you and Nick Zentner, I am finding a sincere love for geology. I love this stuff. Nick has taught me so much about the Pacific Northwest. And now you're teaching me about our east coast. Now I wish I could find something to teach me about Missouri Geology.
I love to hear this!
Nick is also great 👍
Watch Shawn Wolsey. He is also great!
Missoula flood fans unite!
This was awesome. The Appalachians are my home mountains, I’m glad to understand them more. It’s so nice to spend time with someone who is also just thrilled by the story of the earth.
I grew up in the Catskill range of the Appalachia Mountains. Rockland County NY to be exact. I was taken by rocks as a kid because everywhere I put a shovel to dig worms for fishing, I would hit a rock. They interested me in learning how they got there. All school taught us was the “Ice Age”….
You have us mesmerized, we wish we were 50 years younger and were studying to be geologists. You are an inspiration. Allan and Carmon
Yup!😆
I know I wish I was younger and studying geoogy!
It's never too late! Seriously find out if you can sit in on some geology classes at a university near you. Lots of profs in smaller universities/colleges would love to talk to you and share their ideas - a Geologist's son
@@tangerine199 A lot of professors don't mind. You can also take classes thru Open University no matter what your age is. When I was in my early twenties and taking a Physical Geology class I remember there was a much older looking gent, perhaps in his 60's or more, auditing the class.
As a geologist (BS - VA Tech, MS - CO School of Mines), I assure you it has been the love of my life and you can appreciate it everywhere you go. I wouldn't want to be in any other profession. You learn to think in 3D. I worked in the environmental industry.
Thanks Myron. As a Merrylander who got his historical geology training in the region, I appreciate your covering this. Like you say, though the Rockies are far more spectacular, the Appalachians have their own charm (maybe that's why Baltimore is called "Charm City" ;) especially in terms of it's long history and series of orogenies. As is said, Maryland is "American in Miniature," not only in terms of geography, but also geology. From Precambrian to Pleistocene Terraces, the only thing we're missing at the surface is the Jurassic Period and the Oligocene Epoch. For about a year now I've been dating a lady who grew up in Huntsville AL, which is located in the N.E. part of the state. Naturally I checked out the geology there, and I was rather surprised to find geologic formations that were identical to ones here. For instance, the Pennsylvanian Pottsville Formation runs from Pennsylvania, through western Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, and Alabama. "It is a major ridge-former in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians."
When you mention “deep underground,” understanding that was an early major insight for me. The faults and folds here are very complicated. I was fortunate in the fact that Dr. Beem, the person I took honors geology with for 4-years, liked to do field work, which was an incredible help in my being able to put the puzzle together in my mind. And it’s not just the Valley & Ridge that are interesting.
Running here through Frederick Countie’s Triassic sediments, is the Newark Supergroup. It starts in Newfoundland and runs through to South Carolina, and also has areas of Jurassic sediments. It represents an early Rift Zone that failed, as Pangea began to pull apart. In N.E. Frederick county are found Grallators, that are thought to be made by the the early dinosaur, Coelophysis. Precise identification is difficult, because the animal(s) appeared to have been running.
Another point of interest in Frederick County, the western side has two ridges that contain greenstone Metabasalts, remnants of volcanism occurring towards the east during the Paleozoic Era.
One last thing, about 20 miles west of Baltimore is the town of Granite, named so for obvious reasons. The rocks there are thought to be the remains of the core of an ancient volcano :)
fascinating!
We followed the Appalachians to/ through the gasped peninsula.
Great video about an area that is sadly ignored. I am a rock hound and live in Maryland. There are so many deposits of all kinds jumbled around me. Fantastic metamorphic schist, a mica mine and even red sandstones with iron and dinosaur tracks. This area was the source of Colonial iron ore and granite too! We are still classed as a moderate earthquake zone due to remaining stresses.
A good way to visualize a foreland basin is to pile books, one at a time, onto a sofa cushion. As the pile of books get taller, the 'basins' adjacent to the books gets deeper. Small mountains ranges - a small pile of books - will create shallow basins on either side of it, and an immense pile of books will create very deep basins. The depth and extent of the basin can be used as a proxy for the length and height of the mountain range that created it.
That's a terrific visual!
good idea!
"The depth and extent of the basin can be used as a proxy for the length and height of the mountain range that created it."
That is an excellent point. Since the basin will resist erosion for a much longer period than the much more exposed mountains themselves. Most of the mountain range will have been eroded away, while the still largely below ground basin will still persist.
Globe "Planets" with oceans glued to a curved surface ? LOL ... LMAO Here kids, Earth is a level plane comprised of fossilized flesh. The actual term is called Nucleophilic Substitution, with level Earth the Substrate. Mega titan dragon creatures 🐉🐲died here long ago, and their bodies are now limestone and granite ⛰🏔 mountains, and island chains etc. This type of creature was airborne, fire breathing and it's actual venom is where Crude Oil, Shale, and Coal come from. These Dragons bodies 🐉are loaded with the 38 Transition Metals (e.g. - Fe, Au, Ag, Cu etc.) like the Appalachians Mts. 🏔 (dragon) on the East coast. Fossil Fuel is a correct term like biogenic oil, but there is no true "Jurassic period", just the reality that ancient mega Titan reptilian creatures existed and limestone/granite mountains are the physical remains (Substrate). Go to google earth, remove borders and labels, and see the Atlas Mts. in Morocco for a starter dragon (1000 mi. baby), and notice the two colorful blue/red glands which secreted the black venom (now Crude Oil). There's also a 500 mile long fish 🐠as the Sahara Desert, leaving it's Si Silicon, and SiO2 sands laying next to that dragon as well. The east coast Appalachians/Blue Ridge Mts. are another multi head dragon, a Monster-0 type (lol) leaving shale and the Mexican Gulf it's vast oil (Venom) deposits etc. The north Canadian Rockies are made of at least two separate dragon 🐉🐲creatures, leaving massive coal and crude oil deposits in Alaska and Yukon Territories etc. These mega-Titan fire breathing dragon creatures are the stuff of legends, and they are forever part of Earth Plane Topography (🐉=🏔), and our ancient level Earth's actual History. Now you know where gasoline, and metals for tooling comes from, 🐲🐉! 😉 lol ... Dragons !
Isostatic pressure
My 8th grade earth science teacher introduced us to “The Theory of Continental Shift” back in 1973. The term “plate tectonics” wasn’t known to me until some years later. At the time, it wasn’t considered mainstream science, but within about 5-10 years, it was accepted as scientific fact. Once we put cameras down at the bottom of the Atlantic Rift and actually saw new crust being created, thus pushing the continents apart, it was pretty much proven.
interesting!
@@myroncook I’m wondering if I’m correct on this. Please enlighten me. That was a long time ago, but I remember it distinctly.
@@LyleFrancisDelp You are correct!
@@myroncook Thanks for reassuring my memory. That teacher was one of my all time favorites. He ignited an interest in science that pervades to this day.
Sea floor magnetic anomaly “stripes” also were indicative. Magma rising was magnetized differently depending on the shift of the Earth’s magnetic pole, creating symmetrical, parallel magnetic bands parallel to the Mid-Atlantic Rift.
I can not even begin to tell you how much I appreciate this video! I watched it three times this morning. I’ve lived in the PA Appalachian mountains all my life and was always fascinated by the different formations, but never was able to put a visual on the how truly big they actually were. As a little kid, my babysitters husband gave me fossils he would find and told me “my” mountains were once the biggest in the world! I grew up on the north face of a fold, not far from the Susquehanna. To get to Harrisburg, we would travel down 322 along the river where I could see these beautiful layers exposed. Thank you, Mr. Cook! You’ve got a friend in Pennsylvania!
Thank you for your story, Skippy! I'm so happy it added some knowledge/appreciation for your homeland.
I just found Byron’s show and love it! Because I love science, all of it. I’m now watching your videos about daily now. I have you added to my list of best UA-cam scientists:
* Myron Cook Geology Read the Rocks
*StarTalk
*Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t
Thank you for you’re show!!
Globe "Planets" with oceans glued to a curved surface ? LOL ... LMAO Here kids, Earth is a level plane comprised of fossilized flesh. The actual term is called Nucleophilic Substitution, with level Earth the Substrate. Mega titan dragon creatures 🐉🐲died here long ago, and their bodies are now limestone and granite ⛰🏔 mountains, and island chains etc. This type of creature was airborne, fire breathing and it's actual venom is where Crude Oil, Shale, and Coal come from. These Dragons bodies 🐉are loaded with the 38 Transition Metals (e.g. - Fe, Au, Ag, Cu etc.) like the Appalachians Mts. 🏔 (dragon) on the East coast. Fossil Fuel is a correct term like biogenic oil, but there is no true "Jurassic period", just the reality that ancient mega Titan reptilian creatures existed and limestone/granite mountains are the physical remains (Substrate). Go to google earth, remove borders and labels, and see the Atlas Mts. in Morocco for a starter dragon (1000 mi. baby), and notice the two colorful blue/red glands which secreted the black venom (now Crude Oil). There's also a 500 mile long fish 🐠as the Sahara Desert, leaving it's Si Silicon, and SiO2 sands laying next to that dragon as well. The east coast Appalachians/Blue Ridge Mts. are another multi head dragon, a Monster-0 type (lol) leaving shale and the Mexican Gulf it's vast oil (Venom) deposits etc. The north Canadian Rockies are made of at least two separate dragon 🐉🐲creatures, leaving massive coal and crude oil deposits in Alaska and Yukon Territories etc. These mega-Titan fire breathing dragon creatures are the stuff of legends, and they are forever part of Earth Plane Topography (🐉=🏔), and our ancient level Earth's actual History. Now you know where gasoline, and metals for tooling comes from, 🐲🐉! 😉 lol ... Dragons !
😅im not a geologist & I'm way closer to Antarctica than to the US. Its interesting how one becomes aware of the terminology unknowingly, its to do with the calibre of the presentations. i do find deep time difficult... contemplating a billion years, really understanding it , isnt something i know how to do.
I'll be watching this gentleman's other videos, very comfortable viewing.
@@joemug4079 here are some others that may interest you :
Cody's Lab - misc science/nerd
Nile Red - chemistry
Nile Blue - chemistry
Journey To The Microcosmos - microbiology
Thoisoi - chemistry
Sixty Symbols - physics
Mathologer - maths
3 Blue 1 Brown - maths
Ben Eater - electronics
I really enjoyed this, Myron! I live in PA, have traveled the east coast extensively and have seen lots of roadway cutouts which looked exactly like the one pictured at 0:10 in this video. Now I know what I’m looking at and have a whole new appreciation for the sheer beauty of this geology. Thanks!
Same!! Hello fellow Pennsylvanian!
Myron, Thanks for the time and effort you put into making this. Your explanations are flawless.
Fantastic presentation. I can now look out my back yard at the foothills and valleys and understand how they were formed. Driving around here in East Tennessee and western North Carolina I can also understand these huge rock folds that dominate the mountains. Been waiting for this and you delivered it brilliantly. 😊
I am 63 and I still feel incredible excitement when I hear you speak with a great love of geology. Thank you, Myron for keeping geology a satisfying distraction from the necessary pains of daily life.
My pleasure!
I'm from Eastern PA and I love looking at the rocks when I'm out driving. I live right on the Blue Mountain and the next ridge over is pure sand; it's so interesting to think that that ridge is made up of a smooshed ocean floor and mine was from somewhere to the east, more or less. Thanks for the great video.
What a coincidence you posted this video! I just got back from mapping the Valley and Ridge province for a project as well as writing a paper on the orogenies that had occurred in creation of the Appalachian mountains all semester! I was able to see physically all the incredible folds and deformation of rock.
Very cool!
Valley and Ridge
You know it's gonna be a good day when Myron drops a fresh video! 😊
Love the nolage. Please keep teaching me.
Myron, it's simple. I love you - your joy-infused teaching is incomparable. Where were you in my grade-school??? I'd likely be sitting here in a glorious pile of rocks rather than the horticultural spread I enjoy. You are a 'national treasure', even if I'm Canadian. Bless your work.💐
I always look forward to a new video from you Myron, and anticipate what new things I can learn about geology. Great stuff as usual!
So glad to see you covering our neck of the woods, Myron! As a native of Pennsylvania, I grew up as one of those who underappreciated our local mountain range in lieu of the spectacular Rockies, but over time I've come to love the subtle beauty and lush forests that these old and fairly stable mountains have to offer.
I'm glad to hear that
You're like if my dad liked rocks instead of planes.
Thank you for the great video Myron! We were just down hiking in Red River Gorgw and the foothills of the Appalachians today. The geologic processes at work in the gorge are simply amazing and we are often left with limestone and sandstone arches, tall cliffs, rock outcroppings, caves etc. Great to see geology at work!
Brillant explanations and super helpful illustrations!
Love this channel!
Wow! I live in the Hudson Valley, and I have the Catskills to my west and the Taconics and Berkshires to my east. We have some amazing folds of layers of limestone in rock cuts, with well pressed fossils. These were the creatures who were buried in the Foreland* basin, that were covered by the Catskill Delta.
Would love to know more! Thanks for this!
Foreland
Thank you for your feedback, Jillian! Keep visualizing and enjoying the geology...brings wonderment.
Thanks Myron. You are a superb teacher.
What a great video! I always enjoy learning from you Myron! Thank you!
Fantastic lesson Myron! I really appreciate you taking the time to put this together.
The 11-papers analogy is a very effective way of showing how thin the crust is and easily penetrated from below👍
I've been waiting on this . As I'm a east Tennessee Appalachian man . I appreciate this knowledge. Thank you
I really appreciate the way you explain things, especially your use of those maps, and how you outline Pennsylvania. It provides a great reference.
Geomorphology is always interesting. It is hard to wrap your head around it all, but Mr. Myron Cook makes it easy.
Very interesting, I love the clay model and the explanation of erosion was very helpful as I’ve had trouble grasping the scale of that. Thank you Myron!
I love your videos and teaching style. What a stunning backstory on the appellation orogeny. Some of the map orientation was difficult to follow, so a North marker on the maps would help a great deal for non-northern Hemisphere folk.
Absolutely fascinating! Myron, you have the gift of making complex subjects like geology seem easy to the extent that even dummies like me ‘get it’. Thank you 🙏
Thank you! You do such a good job of explaining complex topics simply so that the rest of us can understand and appreciate the wonders around us.
If I were still teaching high school geoscience your videos would be my assistant.
Your ability to convey the whole geologic picture is great. Thanks
Globe "Planets" with oceans glued to a curved surface ? LOL ... LMAO Here kids, Earth is a level plane comprised of fossilized flesh. The actual term is called Nucleophilic Substitution, with level Earth the Substrate. Mega titan dragon creatures 🐉🐲died here long ago, and their bodies are now limestone and granite ⛰🏔 mountains, and island chains etc. This type of creature was airborne, fire breathing and it's actual venom is where Crude Oil, Shale, and Coal come from. These Dragons bodies 🐉are loaded with the 38 Transition Metals (e.g. - Fe, Au, Ag, Cu etc.) like the Appalachians Mts. 🏔 (dragon) on the East coast. Fossil Fuel is a correct term like biogenic oil, but there is no true "Jurassic period", just the reality that ancient mega Titan reptilian creatures existed and limestone/granite mountains are the physical remains (Substrate). Go to google earth, remove borders and labels, and see the Atlas Mts. in Morocco for a starter dragon (1000 mi. baby), and notice the two colorful blue/red glands which secreted the black venom (now Crude Oil). There's also a 500 mile long fish 🐠as the Sahara Desert, leaving it's Si Silicon, and SiO2 sands laying next to that dragon as well. The east coast Appalachians/Blue Ridge Mts. are another multi head dragon, a Monster-0 type (lol) leaving shale and the Mexican Gulf it's vast oil (Venom) deposits etc. The north Canadian Rockies are made of at least two separate dragon 🐉🐲creatures, leaving massive coal and crude oil deposits in Alaska and Yukon Territories etc. These mega-Titan fire breathing dragon creatures are the stuff of legends, and they are forever part of Earth Plane Topography (🐉=🏔), and our ancient level Earth's actual History. Now you know where gasoline, and metals for tooling comes from, 🐲🐉! 😉 lol ... Dragons !
Great stuff, as always, Myron. Gives a little insight into the initial Pennsylvanian deposits in SE Kansas, and the coal mining in that area.
Another great video. You confirmed a couple of things I'd heard but find astonishing. Thanks to Myron. Please keep up producing your videos.
Great video myron! Keep them coming!
Thx so much for this! For us in the east, the Appalachians are as keenly interesting as the rockies are to you guys! Have been looking for this kind of clear, easy to understand history for so long. (Only found dry lectures with bad sound and hard to see charts). You’re a great and enthusiastic teacher. Going to watch again in a few minutes.
I agree completely! I'm from eastern PA and also spent ten years in Tennesee's Smoky Mountains, where you can see those beautiful waves of hills at the beginning of your video. I spent many days walking my dogs at Wilbur dam in Carter County, TN, looking in awe at the huge cuts in the mountainsides. Their many-layered folds, tilted at steep angles, are the live version of your clay model. Myron, the model and your explanation of the whole process make it easy to grasp and understand! And I knew the Appalachians were once as tall as the Himalayas, but had no idea their erosion spread as far as Arizona! Puts it into an even larger perspective...the Appalachians show the future the Rockies and the Himalayas!
These videos should be shown in schools...
But Evolution vs the Bible
@katanaki3059 Geology isn't evolution, and the Bible is a little vague when it comes to geological processes.. what exactly are you trying to say?
Geology contributed to evolution.
@nancyw5779 yes.. it did.
thanks Myron! i've been getting into all sorts of geology lately and your channel has been a big part of that. i grew up in the Allegheny Mountains in Pennsylvania, so seeing this video pop up on my feed got an instant click! i had no idea of everything that went into forming my home! much love
That is awesome!
What a treat to hear my FAVORITE geologist give a talk on another fascinating aspect of a great science!!
I grew up in PA and had no idea how the Appalachian Mountains were formed! Thank you for doing such a great informative video! 😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
This was really fantastic, you have a really nice way of presenting 101 information very concisely. Although, you and I need to have a serious discussion of the pronunciation of those mountains, lol. Geologist in the Western highlands of Virginia here, by the way. One thing, on a serious note, would be if you wanted to continue the discussion a little further… Is the graben that has occurred as the Atlantic rift opens up, and to the west, talking about the Appalachian plateau, where it goes to about a 3° western dip but otherwise it's flat lying. After the uplift brought all the coal up to shooting distance, a lot of people think that West Virginia became mountainous, which it really didn't; it's all erosional with the settlement going to the Gulf. Just lots of interesting stuff you can get into in our Appa-LATCH-IN mountains 😂
Thank
You for publishing this. I really enjoy watching you and Nick Zentner on UA-cam
This was fascinating! I had no idea that the erosion of the Appalachian mountains filled in the interior ocean. I’m impressed by your high quality preparation, the teaching aids (yay, white board,), cool maps, and your good-humored and very well-spoken narration, plus your filming of it all (the drone shots are astounding): topics and teaching are always great. Thank you so much!
Growing up in Pa. I've seen this firsthand. I remember seeing coal seams coming right out of the ground in places when hunting. Strip mining around eastern Pa. looks for the coal which is close to the surface. Today most mining in Pa. has stopped, but I now understand better the way coal seams were laid down. In Wyoming you don't have all the green vegetation covering up the land and you can see all the ground features easily. Both places have their own beauty.
Always interesting. Always enjoyable. Thanks again. I had the good fortune to visiting the Black Thunder coal mine outside of Wright a few years ago and was amazed by what they showed us with regard to the amount of coal that is deposited in Wyoming. It would sure make an interesting video...
Hope to do that
I’m studying geology right now and since my school is in the Appalachian plateau we’ve been learning about the geology of the area and it’s made me have so much more appreciation for the region
Thank you for your continued sharing of your knowledge and for once again expanding my understanding and nurturing my curiosity of the processes that form our landscapes…all of which I delight in. The scaled down earth images, models, and white board images helped greatly.
Thank you for covering this! The Appalachians are such an interesting group of mountains, and super important culturally and historically to so many, but often overlooked just because they're 'short.'
I'd love to see something on the Mississippi Embayment and even more so on the formation of the Ouachitas. Most of the Ouachitas are very similar to the basin and range geology of the Appalachian system, but they have some unique features. Top of mind are the McKinley Rocks and the Potato Hills in the Kiaminchi valley area, as well as the novaculite seams that are--from what I've been told--the only major metamorphic rocks known in the whole Ouachita system. Supposedly, there is an odd lack of associated vulcanism as well.
Globe "Planets" with oceans glued to a curved surface ? LOL ... LMAO Here kids, Earth is a level plane comprised of fossilized flesh. The actual term is called Nucleophilic Substitution, with level Earth the Substrate. Mega titan dragon creatures 🐉🐲died here long ago, and their bodies are now limestone and granite ⛰🏔 mountains, and island chains etc. This type of creature was airborne, fire breathing and it's actual venom is where Crude Oil, Shale, and Coal come from. These Dragons bodies 🐉are loaded with the 38 Transition Metals (e.g. - Fe, Au, Ag, Cu etc.) like the Appalachians Mts. 🏔 (dragon) on the East coast. Fossil Fuel is a correct term like biogenic oil, but there is no true "Jurassic period", just the reality that ancient mega Titan reptilian creatures existed and limestone/granite mountains are the physical remains (Substrate). Go to google earth, remove borders and labels, and see the Atlas Mts. in Morocco for a starter dragon (1000 mi. baby), and notice the two colorful blue/red glands which secreted the black venom (now Crude Oil). There's also a 500 mile long fish 🐠as the Sahara Desert, leaving it's Si Silicon, and SiO2 sands laying next to that dragon as well. The east coast Appalachians/Blue Ridge Mts. are another multi head dragon, a Monster-0 type (lol) leaving shale and the Mexican Gulf it's vast oil (Venom) deposits etc. The north Canadian Rockies are made of at least two separate dragon 🐉🐲creatures, leaving massive coal and crude oil deposits in Alaska and Yukon Territories etc. These mega-Titan fire breathing dragon creatures are the stuff of legends, and they are forever part of Earth Plane Topography (🐉=🏔), and our ancient level Earth's actual History. Now you know where gasoline, and metals for tooling comes from, 🐲🐉! 😉 lol ... Dragons !
The range is over a billion years old. Great place to hike. Beautiful river gorges and waterfalls. My understanding (before watching the vid) is the Appalachians used to be 36000', higher than Mount Everest. It eroded down to the current 6000' leaving the river valleys chocked full of quadrillions of rocks of all sizes.
It's NOT over a billion years old. You've been indoctrinated
You have such a gentle and understandable way of presenting this geology. This would be a good learning video for people of any age. Thanks for a video on my home mountains.
Thank you Myron for another great lecture!
This so reminds me of my geology 101 course taught by a professor who was not the nice person you obviously are, but was an excellent teacher. He inspired me with a love of studying geology and subsequent courses were more of a detailed review of the concepts he introduced, with fill-in detail added. I appreciate your recognition of the importance of petroleum and coal diagenesis despite the really bad press "fossil" energy is currently receiving. Yes, CO2 from coal and hydrocarbons is an increasingly serious problem, but the fact is that the rise of our modern civilization and so much of the scientific innovation that is so vital to our lives can all be traced to James Watt's Cornish mine engines run on coal and Colonial Drake's well in Titusville, Pennsylvania. My ancestor's career was in drilling for oil in North-Western Pennsylvania (near Titusville) and that's where I'd spend my summers as a child in the folded Allegheny Mountains. Interesting to ponder that this region was on the Western edge of the Appalachian Foreland Basin.
By the way, what we now call "Foreland Basin" development buried so deep as to have granitic intrusions was part of the Geosyncline Theory (taught by my Prof.) that proceeded the (then) brand new (and not totally accepted) Plate Techtonics Theory.
I grew up near Pittsburgh and learned my college geology at Juniata College in the heart of the ridge and valley province in the early 80's. Drs. Trexler and Washington would take us up horrible fire roads to overlooks where we could see the land spread out all the way to the next ridge and see the synclines and anticlines almost as clearly as if we were looking at a map.
Fellow JC alumnus- trexler/mutti era
@@RobbieMcT97 Cool!
Just found this channel. Loving it, thanks!!
I have watched this post again and will watch it over and over until I fully understand it. I am just a laser sheet metal worker that works in manufacturing. I have NO Collage, or geology skills.
I am just a common person that Loves Geology. I live in Alabama and were at one time a pretty good caver. I LOVE ALABAMA and its Geology. I am so pleased to have found this channel and want to learn more. Who has time for games when you can feed your mind with information. Thank you for replying. I have a basic concept about the basic geology in my area. As ignorant as I am, have learned a lot from watching you. Thank you for your Great work. You have your ducks in a row.
Thank you for your story, Paul. I love to hear about people like you...it is inspiring to me. For me the "common man" is the absolute backbone of our country.
Hey Myron, just started this video and I’m sure I’ll love it, but I’d like to comment early with a question for a possible future video.. I am from Louisiana and spent 11 years in the Gulf of Mexico running Wireline and the last 5 in the Permian. Every once in a while I will drive by different erroded hillsides in New Mexico and even into colorado with a reddish almost purple formation that erodes easily and usually has a greenish gray band or 2 maybe a foot thick that also seems to erode at the same rate. Sometimes it’s under a cap rock of limestone or in a tuft or sandstone so I know it’s not just a soil profile although it seems to erode almost as easily like. I can’t seem to find anything explaining what it is. One example you may be aware of is off of New Mexico 84 between Abiquiu and echo amphitheater. I’m not sure if I described it well enough but if you do know what I’m talking about any response would be appreciated!
Thanks for the great content!
I'm not familiar with that particular area
@@myroncook Oh ok. I see outcrops of what appear to be the same formation almost always beneath a harder cap rock all over New Mexico all the way down to the Texas border north to southern Colorado and nothing comes up with any google searches describing it. Being so widespread and different than most other easily identifiable types of formations I find it strange that it’s so hard to find out what it is.
Is there a way to send some pictures of it maybe you your website? I understand you may be busy and no time for this so don’t want to bother you but figure it’s worth a shot asking.
@@myroncook actually no need to send you pictures, watching your video of the 50 million year old mammal tracks and from around 9:20 until the end you are walking around in the same type of landscape I’m talking about, only deeper reddish purple with greenish gray colors. What created the scenery in the end of that video?
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I hope you don’t mind me saying, but you’re like the new Bob Ross. I hope your channel breaks through in a major way!
Thanks for the education, Myron!
What a great video. Myron does it again. It is very hard to find good videos for regular people about Appalachian geology. And, the cliffhanger- Appalachian zircons in Arizona. Can’t wait to hear an explanation for that!
Thank you so much for presenting this.
I'm so pleased I discovered your videos! You have a passion for geology that shines through, and an excellent, clear presentation style.
Fascinating content! I really appreciate the visual detail that makes it all so easy to understand.
Great work, breaking things down to help understand the process. How you were able to do that in 36 minutes is incredible.
This I giving me a whole new perspective to our upcoming trip to the Smokey Mountains in 2 weeks!
Thank You!
As usual Myron, you're explanations of geological formations are wonderful to watch. Thank you for your excellent presentations.
i have lived in socal where the mountain range i lived on was just over 10,000yrs old, and now i live in NC where the appalachians are nearly the most ancient in the world. i used to think the appalachians were ugly compared to socal, but now that i understand their geological history better i've found a new appreciation for what we see.
thank you for explaining the formation of these ancient geologies... i can begin to understand the rocks and mountains around me and appreciate the time and movement of our world that has created it all. wow. thank you!!
geology is so amazing.
one of my favorite things is when i fly coast to coast and can look out the window and see geological formations that i've learned about and to be able to pick out some of the formations, especially out west where there's less vegetation hiding the geology. i've driven across the country twice, too, and all over the southwest. the geology of north america is so fascinating.
thanks for explaining all of this so well. i love learning about geology!
Great content and a presentation style that would make Mr. Rogers smile.
Yay . Mr.Myron posted!! Was happy to hear your calming voice this evening and I’m excited to watching this new piece of art you have created for us! I had to pull it up on my handheld device just to comment on the video and thank you for posting !! You are so awesome!
Hope you enjoy it!
Wow!!! Thank you for sharing your vast knowledge. I thoroughly enjoyed this whole video and will continue watching all of them! I'm in Colorado and hope you do one on this state.
Great stuff as always Professor Cook!
Thank you Myron, Very interesting and thanks for expanding my knowledge of the Appalachians. Thank also for pointing our the time periods in which all this happened.
Excellent presentation Myron more please.
Excellent informative content as always. Thank you!
Subscribed, and enjoying the education! Hope you can inform us all (maybe you have.. a lot of videos to go through) about the mountains and processes of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Guessing they are related to this episode. Thank you Dr. Cook.
I have always loved geology and your easy, diagramed presentations are amazing and so informative, Myron.
Great video. Love the way you described everything. Definitely subbing and can't wait to check out more.
Thank you for this. As a native Georgia resident who moved to Texas 10 years ago I miss learning about these mountains and the local geology and natural history
Thank you for teaching us! You do a great job!
What a wonderful explanation! Myron you are an incredible natural down to earth teacher with a love and passion of Geology. Thank you for a great presentation of the Appalachians.
Fascinating! Thanks for the geology lesson!
Excellent explanations and visuals! Thank you Myron! 👌👍👍🌟🌟
i wish i had a teacher like Myron back in school. He has taught me more about things ive seen in my traveling for work. its awesome passing a hill or ravine and knowing what processes went into making it. thank you Myron.
Thank you, this video was so helpful and giving me tons of insight!
Thank you for sharing your wonderful knowledge. This is fascinating!
Yep. Definitely look forward to these.
I love your channel! Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge. So fascinating!
AS usual, a fun and informative video, Myron. I always enjoy your presentations.
Thanks again!
What an absolutely wonderful trip you took me on! I've studied a bit of geology and you just filled in the gaps - kind of like sedimentation... Thank you!
Fascinating! Thank you for sharing.
I love this classes! Thank you, sir!
Thank you Myron for another excellent video .
Very welcome
Fascinating! Thank you very much.
Thank you so much for answering so many questions that I had.
Always excited to see a new post by the good Dr.
Thanks again! Fantastic video!
So informative! Thank you so much. You're the best!