Fossils and Badlands of Eastern Montana
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- Опубліковано 18 сер 2021
- Hanging out just below the boundary that marks the mass extinction 66 million years ago at the end of the Mesozoic era, between the Cretaceous and the Tertiary, on the Hell Creek (Cretaceous) and younger Fort Union (Paleocene) formations. The buttes and the dry rivulets between them are composed of a few dozen million years' worth of fluvial sediments deposited in ancient streams and swamps that saw the end of the dinosaurs and the rise of the mammals.
The storm clouds in the background contrasted, in a somewhat ominous and foreboding beauty, with the layers of sand stone, iron oxides, coal beds( pic 4), and iron stones, all dappled here and there with agatized wood.
The chunks of iron (pic 5) seemingly a result of water moving through these strata after long deposition and dissolving and transporting iron-rich fluids to layers below, precipitating the iron out of solution upon reaching a less permeable layer somewhere below.
Both of these formations - the Hell Creek and the Fort Union - showcase a pivotal time in our planet's history. They are incredibly rich in both dinosaur and mammal fossils, respectively.
I didn't realize how important what I was standing on was until afterwards, when I consulted a geologic map. I knew these sediments were roughly Paleocene, but I didn't know it was the BEGINNING of that epoch, initiated by the mass extinction caused by the comet impact, highlighted by an abundance of fossil fern spores that show up as a result of ferns recolonizing the empty landscape and the ruins of the collapsed biosphere.
It boggles the mind to think of what the Earth's surface looked like for those few hundred thousand to few million years after the impact. I think about what so many modern landscapes on Earth will look like after (and if) we've finally managed to slow down our own epic race towards mass extinction and biosphere collapse. Looking back on this evening I see why those ominous storm clouds seemed so poignant and fitting.
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Thanks, GFY. - Наука та технологія
Who else is doing this ? the plants and geology..... Great.
i actually would like someone to drop links to similar channels if any
I don't know of any, but what are you in to plants or rocks because there are some plant people out there and there is one of two rock people but not like Tony
Part of me wants to do an Australian version
👍watched this instead of the news, so much better for my psyche.
4:25 Nicely put. Non-botanists don't get this, but when you get out and botanize a place it's like getting intimate with it... :) Building a relationship with it... ;) So rewarding.
Really dug this one :) Often now, as I walk through the forests of Oregon, I hear the sound of Tony saying "Eeehhh, whattawe got here?" as I kneel down to examine a plant.
How was this commented 2 weeks ago when this video was uploaded 5 minutes ago…… enlighten me please
Same, man, same
@@brandon7.535 this video was uploaded privately for patreons. I'm guessing. Happens on other channels anyways.
Here in Michigan I ,too hear his voice when I’m looking at the plants.
That bit of rain really brought out the details of the fossils. Fascinating.
Ahhh yeah! Just got done 6hrs landscaping in full 100 degree heat, & I’m fk’d now, but get to kick back and watch this. Thanks, & cheers, from Southern Oregon. ❤️🙏
hey man... i want to thank you for your hard work in these projects. they bring a breath of fresh air to an otherwise fucked up world. you always manage to make me laugh and experience wild places.
sometimes i just pretend I understand what you're saying most of the time I don't understand but I love learning about these plants environments and all the small stuff so thank you!
Awesome, I live in Calgary Alberta and have always loved our badlands in Southern Alberta, this is pretty much the same biological zone, same plants and animals and look exactly the same. Our badlands are deep enough to get down to the cretaceous hence the many Dino discoveries. The silica in the badlands are extremely slippery when wet! Believe me! It's a thrill to hear you talk about plants that are so familiar to me! Between Tony and Seth Myers Mike Lindell impersonation I am coming close to a very amusing Chicago accent impersonation myself!
Maybe I'm too late. But that is Tony in Montana. Cracking me up. Tony Montana. Close enough for me🤣
Say go fuck yourself to my little friend
Say hello to my little friend. Opuntia polyacantha, Prickly pear ya prick.
The red rock is known locally as scoria but technically is called clinker. It occurs when a coal seam catches fire and burns the overlaying sedimentary rock. Its very prevalent in the badlands of the Dakotas, Wyoming and Montana.
Huh. Cormac McCarthy uses the word scoria so much in Blood Meridian. So is it in Mexico and Texas too?
@@PlayRoom44 anywhere you get intermixed coal and clay. The brick color is a giveaway
lylelay clinker
This is the only UA-cam channel that I don't skip ads on. As a California botanist, I gotta support this wonderful channel. Oh, and are you really going to write the land owner about that fence?
Probably when he's ready.
Fairly sure skipping ads doesn't affect revenue at all. UA-cam creators get a percentage based on subscribers and viewers
Then you would love Tony's Patreon! excellent way to support this amazing creator for the same cost as one coffee per month from your local Starbucks.
He should let someone know about the fence as, someone might be getting ready to graze that area. While they should check the fence line before letting cows in, they might not and those cows will be out in a heartbeat.
Wow Tony, this is great! Loved seeing the Sequoia and other fossil leaves! How perfect that it rained. All the mystery from the last end of the world. Sparse but beautiful vegetation. Mmmmmm the Artemisia. Thanks for bringing me something beautiful to ponder, appreciate you.
I LOVE these badlands!!! They are so beautiful!!!!
Wow man. Great to see the geology and fossils come to life with your brilliant botanical knowledge. Awesome
Man, you just gotta read the description of this video to know this man is a true king of our time.
There is an old growth cedar forest near the Montana Idaho border that is super cool. If you look up "Hub lake Montana" and make sure you hike in from the Montana side it's a super awesome uphill hike that offers tons of awesome plants. Really big cedars kinda in a rainforest with so much moss that the cedars from in moss mats on giant rocks.
Hey Tony! Thank you! I wasn't in a vacation, nor with someone that I like, but I think I found an Eriogonum, or a close relative, here in Brazil, near my house. Probably an invasive species.
We have very different Polygonaceae here, specially in Coccoloba genus. Thank you for your amazing videos. I have learned a lot!
8:52 Mine are drier now that I moved out of Florida. But man, I need to take myself on a road trip out West and see some of what you are showing me! Thank you again
Love this channel. Still amazed that you came out here to West Oz.. so barely recognise your plants. Fossils and geological info totally fascinating. Cheers.
I love the terse way Tony describes his own show, with so much attitude and nearly some disdain.. "Yet another episode of this GD show."
Made my night so in love with these shows. Get so excited about you and the dawgs.
Love the interesting sediments and paleo-botany!! So cool!!
thanks for getting rained on. i love to see the layers opening up like a book; so revealing when wet. you da best tone.
Amazing landscape.
You can almost feel the geological timescales at work.
Thanks for sharing.
Really love your vids . Thank you for this
Welcome to Montana! Eastern Montana has the most beautiful agates, jasper, petrified wood and fossils to be found along the Yellowstone river. If you like rocks and get the chance...do some rockhounding on the gravel bars on the river....or any tributaries running into the Yellowstone river. Happy hunting!
Beautiful work, as always!!!
I just found you. I am so glad. You are hilarious!...and smart. Refreshing combo!😉
Geology rocks, but geography is where it's at.
:/
Thanks Dad.
gneiss joke
Lol 😂
@@Blackheathenly kranked em!
Love your show, Tony. Keep doing what you do!
I don't know about the particular red/orange bed you are looking at, at 21:17 but a lot of that stuff looks "brick" colored because it basically is brick. Clay that was overlying a coal seam that caught fire and baked the clay.
Badlands don't look so bad, eh? Thank you Joey, for a great expose of current and past plants here.
Very interesting, the geology stuff is great, it goes well with the botany. Keep 'er comin'.
Best videos ever. Wish you did more
Gorgeous, thanks for sharing
Spent june up in this area going to check all your vids and catch up.
i loved the central and upper NW area.
Awesome metasequoia fossil and the others! The geology is great. I like the botany, love the paleobotany. Also love your videos, thanks for sharing!
Love all your videos. I especially appreciate the 4k 60fps. 👍
Kinda hurts me to say this, but this is the best thing on UA-cam. Except for the naked yoga...
Beautiful geology! Thank you.
Thank you again for taking my mind off of the BS of the daily grind.
I didn't know jack shit before I started watching these videos, now I'm actually able to identify the things around me. Good fuckin job teaching me more than the American education system ever did.
Dude, cranking out the content! Keep it comin god nabit
Love the Montana vids, hope you get into west Mt some more. I know you're partial to badlands
idk when you got that nice camera, but I'm so glad you did :D
Ay love the videos man. Buckwheat was used as flour and porridge for native Americans. Very edible, you can buy it at one of those hippie dippy stores for 22 bucks a half pound. When you fall off a damn cliff with that slippery soil and break your back now you can last a few more days.
Oh man I need some badlands in my life
Tanks, tony.
I could watch videos of badlands geology all day.
Hey Tony how's it going dude
Another excellent adventure of rocks plants that nature provides that you get to show us many many thousands upon hundreds and thousands of years of evolution you get the chance to show us not to mention a few billion years of settlement Rock
For the content you put out my guy you should have more subs
Its a good show.
Good afternoon uncle Tony!
Joy to watch.
Thanks for doing an episode in Montana! Come more west next time... or don’t.
You're the Trachelospermum jasminoides of our day buddy!
laughing out loud in my room whilst learning
A f@cking delight as normal. Thank Tony.
enjoy your show
Nice!!!!!!!!
I heard that morning glories have a species of Fungi inside of them that is symbiotic, I have HUGE bushes of them in my garden, ipomoea purpurea... anyways I think it kinda secretes this fungus into other plants, and it makes them more colorful. It could also be nitrogen from the senna I have planted there also, or the herbicide and fungicide receding... znywyas my tomatoes have never done this good or been this tasty, and the inside is dark, with an almost purplish hue. They are black krim x Berkeley tie dye... I think its some kinda symbiosis. I found some native morning glories also, if they make seeds I'll be growing them also.
They seem like an ancient plant that diverged into other evolutionary avenues, I'm amazed how much Red Bud leaves look like morning glory leaves. If they were more perennial they'd almost grow like Euonymous, which is considered a shrub, despite its climbing ability.
14:24 this kinda reminds me of what I'm talking about. It's like the purple flowers tint the surrounding area slightly purple. Lucky to be in the rain.
19:05 that might be a meteorite, you'd have to cut a slice out and look at the crystal pattern, if it's high carbon it will be more crystallized, and therefore more likely to be from the cosmos. One side appears scorched, little pockets of minerals inside get superheated in the atmosphere and this causes the outer part to chip away while it burns through the sky.
Misanthropy-you and me both, brother T!
I got all excited walking the dog this morning. The Pityopsis was starting to bloom along my dirt road. Then the fucking county mowing crew came through, again. Guess they cut all the Eupatorium fixing to go off too. They cut our area more often because it's shady & little traffic, the pricks!
thank you
I love those
Hey- is you knockin my hometown? Rightly so, recently.
GFY. I want that on a sticker. Thanks Tony.
I was over in Teddy Roosevelt national park a couple weeks ago doing field work and I was looking at the plants and I immediately like I need to look and see if Tony has a video about the badlands area.
The red to black purplish rock is scoria (igneous).
ive been near there
i have found out just how slippery that white mud is lol
i even went 2 the Drumheller muse ehm and considered a bit going down into the defiles and then thought better of it as i imagined myself not being able to climb back up lol
I’ve tried to get Eriogenum in my yard. I like that too
You’re in my neighborhood, better watch out! Hehe
We have a 60 foot tall meta sequoia here in Santa Barbara. And a 25 foot tall Wollemi pine
You can find amber in those coal/lignite beds by the way. Usually they are in the fort union but they do occur in the hell creek. Amber is probably from Glyptostrobus europaeus, Metasequoia occidentalis, Taxodium olrickii or some other thing.
14:48,14:55, 15:58 looks almost like Trochodendroides genetrix which is related to cercidiphyllum. Plants here are pretty similar to what you find in Vietnam, China, and Japan. There are hundreds of species from the Hell Creek and Fort Union but some are dominant in the record such as T. genetrix.
Nice fossil!
Fu..ing fantastic....
The Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum*, if these Buckwheats evolved during that time no wonder why they're thriving when others are not. *-FYI for those that don't know, other than the End Permian Extinction one of the warmest periods on Earth
Oh man, a world Geoguessr episode would rock.
man I love the rocky cutt. nice show!
Awesome! Those leaves must have been covered abruptly, as is from landslide or deluge. Only way.
Hot Action!
Those fossil leaf imprints 👍
“Some people see some barren shit, I see some hot action.”
Just drove from Seattle to Des Moines, as a flat lander I found the geology amazing and the flora interesting. And holy fuck the irrigation
i've seen enough stigmatic slits in my time but never five at once!
Please tell me we can expect a video from the Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum!
Good morning Tony
Just watched ghost town living’s video on potential strip mining operation near Cerro Gordo CA. It would be sick if you did a video on the ecological damage in an area that’s been mined.
There is a petrified palm tree in the Wallowa County mountains of Northeastern Oregon.
That Penstemon is probably grandiflorus. It really lives up to its name; big, showy, purple flowers. The wide, glaucous leaves are pretty distinctive even in fruit.
Hey Janel! Caught it in fruit near Sturgis, South Dakota. What a banger, even without flowers.
wish we d get rained on Deer Park Wash hasnt rained spit in I forget how many months
What type & model of "hand lens" are you using? It seems to work pretty well for enlarging small through the phone cameras as i've seen in previous videos.
👍👍 been there!!! 🍻
wild!
been away from intranuts for 2 weeks gotta catch up
15-23 the perfect dry landscape design...Like as though it had just been cleaned for the shot.. nature knows, we need to pay closer attention to its details...like Tony...apparently does, everyfday...
Man I wish you’d find more scorpions 🫀
Show me how to find water in the desert; I think I'm going to need it soon.
my mans always finding buckwheat.... like everywhere