A Gigantic and Mysterious Feature that Nobody has Heard of!
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2024
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Texas geology, Gulf of Mexico geology, salt tectonics, Pangea, Homeschool Earth Science Education
#geology #myroncook #wyoming
I want to clarify two things; 1) The sea water was not boiled to precipitate the salt. Rather, it was simple evaporation of the sea water. 2) The pancake analogy was used to show the shapes of flowing material. The heat to create the pancake is not important.
Salt tectonics is the only thing that’s weirder than convergent margins and overthrust zones
to: “Myron Cook”, For what it’s worth, my working hypothesis is that a major geological process responsible for shaping and reshaping Earth’s surface, mainly continental divisions and coastlines, has been overlooked. Generally, when we think of geological erosion we think of small amounts of materials being worn away by wind, water or ice (glacial motion) over long periods of time. However, I am of the opinion that Earth geological erosion processes aren’t always so subtle. That being said, I conjecture that Earth periodically casts off, setting adrift the entirety of its polar ice accumulations mainly upon the Northern Pacific & Sothern Atlantic oceans within 8-16 hours, from start to finish. Once irreconcilably off axis and adrift, these massive accumulations of ice would disrupt ocean currents and begin to accelerate in the direction of centrifugal force outward away from the Earth’s axis and towards the equator. The Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets are estimated to contain 4.6 and 7.2 million square miles of ice respectively and having almost zero rotational velocity, they would achieve relative impact velocities with their new surroundings (equatorial land masses/continent(s)) upward of nine hundred miles per hour, capable of displacing millions square miles of earth and rock in a matter of hours (rifting by extrusion). The proceeding bow wave, and ensuing wake would drive massive ice flow tsunamis inland causing further erosion. Additionally, the subsequent melting and runoff should be capable of carving great canyons on relatively short geological time scales. What do you think?
Enters Hyperborean Enigma : " Dear Professor, could You, please, provide the Bathymetric Map of the Tulomaa River Delta ...and the Apollo's Temple/ Resting House Conundrum will be all but....could You imagine, dear Professor, the Schliemann's déjà vu situation...?!? "
Mm.. pancakes..
I thought for sure it was a byproduct of the chicxulub impactor when I first started watching this.
I have to hand it to the algorithm. I would never in my life search for this content, yet I’m here and absolutely fascinated by this topic. Your students don’t know how lucky they are, having such a knowledgeable and kind person to teach them. Well done 👍
Glad you enjoy it!
Any teacher actually teaching and not indoctrinating young minds with "WOKE" communism BS, is a teacher I can get behind!!! Very interesting video!!! So disgusted watching what's happening to kids at colleges across the country!!!
@@cheebaman4728 the only to prevalent American groups that I will immediately get into a debate/argument with are neo confederates and woke Social justice warriors.
I never would have searched this out either. Guess we can be thankful for videos like this. Those that expand our knowledge/interest.
Endless standing Ovation 💝
Thank you so much for this video. My late wife was a petroleum geologist working out of Houston before we were married and this is what she did. Her talk often mentioned salt domes and she explained them as where they looked for oil, but we did not talk much about the deep time geology of how they formed in the Gulf. I am an engineer and we talked "shop" many times about our work. I had taken several geology courses so I could follow some of what she was describing, but this video has made it so much more real and clear to me. I am now 75 and will be 76 this year and she passed ten years back, but your video has given me a much deeper feel and understanding of what she did. I AM a new subscriber and look forward to more videos.
Thank you, Tom.
I am 75 and stumbled into your "mini class" about a complex geological feature on the sea floor in the Gulf of Mexico, something from which you revealed evidence of numerous geological processes, all brought to light by your knowledge and remarkably clear and personally well-presented teaching. To be importantly noted, this is what teaching is about, that from which genuine learning can be exercised. Teaching on this order is what fuels not only more learning but sharpens minds for new discovery. Being a Christian man it most expands my understanding about the magnificence of God thru characteristics of His Creation. My sincere thanks.
Im so glad her knowledge and interests stayed with you.
@@johnjosephpajor8809 Perhaps you would like Roger at Mudfossil University ? He's the greatest teacher we've had for a very long time.
first of all I would like to say I'm sorry for your loss even though I know it was 10 years ago it's just like a few days ago that y'all met for the first time .
As an 81 year old, I found this so interesting. You are never too old to learn. Thank you for taking the time to make this documentary.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi im78 still so much to learn isn’t there x
Agreed
You really didnt learn anything from this.
@@joshportie UA-cam keyboard warrior, go outside and touch grass
As someone who has lived on the Louisiana gulf coast for the majority of my life, I've always been fascinated by salt domes but never took the time to really learn about their formation. This sheds so much light on something that has been a mystery to me since childhood. Your video was a wonderful learning experience; thank you so much for sharing it with us!
Thanks for sharing!
Also spent my life fishing the best fishery in the world and while I never got this educated on it I was aware of the general theory about the salt domes and why they contribute to abundant fish life. Anyone running the rip for Tuna has been running that exact geological formation even if they didn't know it. Not quite that far out but same situation. Appreciate the attention to home!
I'm in Louisiana as well. About 20 years ago I had to do an inspection for the dept. of energy. The location was an old set of buildings that the government had purchased to convert into a high security facility. You wouldn't know by looking at it but you'd have to go through metal detectors and have dogs sniff your vehicle, men would check under every vehicle with mirrors, etc. But the whole operation was based on the salt dome below the facility. They were drilling holes into the dome and washing it out so they could store oil reserves inside then cap it off. I believe it was 2003 when I went there. There was a large screen inside that showed every pipeline, oil store, etc. It looked pretty cool. There were military men all over the place guarding the hallways and doors with weapons. It was a pretty cool experience.
@@Peppersfirst You sure you didn't sign an employment NDA? 😆 Only kidding, but in seriousness, I've actually heard that the government had oil reserves beneath the domes for years, but again, never really looked into it until now. It's called the SPR and it's really interesting.
@tehweez Honestly, I have no idea, lol. I was around 20 years old and so intrigued by the whole experience. There was a man assigned to me and my coworker as a kind of chaperone during our inspection. At one point the chaperone told me I could walk down the hall alone to check a station so I did and a guard pulled his gun on me. Screamed freeze or stop, something like that. I told that guy he almost got me killed and stood beside him the rest of the day. 😆
At 70, feel like I'm back sitting in the lecture halls again. Extremely well presented! Thank you!
I feel the same way. I would have taken more geology classes except I was a music major going with my strength. I had a wonderful career in music, but I still remember that single geology class, and I'm finding it to be reminiscent of that class, though on topics we never touched upon. I don't know if they even knew about this when I was taking geology in my freshman year. It's amazing how many new things have been discovered in just that half a century. I want another lifetime so I can see what happens in the next fifty years! Maybe if I magically get another fifty years, I'll become a geologist.
@@Chompchompyerded IKR? It blew me away the other day to realize that plate tectonics had become acceptable to modern geophysics in my lifetime, that ocean floor spread was in my lifetime, that finding part of a rock structure from NY state in England was in my lifetime.😂 I cannot even imagine what we will learn in the next very short span of history with our knowledge base growing exponentially!! Just reading some of the advances in technology, things that are on the cusp of becoming reality is mind boggling. In human hands, it's also quite terrifying.
I'm 71. Me too.
70 and present for class🙄
For a tutorial on interstellar travel see Pleadian contactee Billy Meiers material with a narrative by Randolf Winters...hit the video icon.You will see crystal clear photos & 8mm film footage of 3 different types of spacecraft with 3 different types of propulsion system,s.
If someone told me, “Sit down. I want you to watch this 25 minute video on the geologic makeup of the Gulf of Mexico” I would have said, “Nope. I don’t think so.” But I somehow happened upon this video all on my own, and your teaching style, tone and kind face immediately had me interested in the topic! I even subscribed! 65 years old but will never be too old to learn!
I would’ve been hyped if someone said that. But I like learning literally everything no matter the topic
I would probably have moved on, except that I’ve dove some of the shallower parts of that structure. Having read up on this, already knew there were salt domes under at least part of the area.
Would not have guessed surface structure was due to flow, instead guessed holes were from salt dome collapse.
And you bought this? With the name Carol Child of God, I would hope you would be smarter then that. You think the Earth is hundreds of millions of years old? SMH
….. 65? That’s when most people first START learning 😆✌🏽
me too and I am 80.
I’m a rock mechanics engineer for the gold mining industry … a geologic engineer by education. For the most part, I’ve been successful with rock mechanics and geotechnical stuff, but I think I forgot about what led me to the geologic sciences in the first place. Wonderful channel!!! Thanks for your willingness to teach … geology is so much more interesting than rock mechanics!!!
Get together with some engineer buddies and start a band, The Rock Mechanics. 😆
@@DannyWJaco Lol! Get a guy named Mike in the band - then they can call themselves Mike & the Rock Mechanics. (sorry for the cheesy 80s reference)🤣
This video reminds me of sitting down in the 90s as a kid and watching educational stuff on PBS. It has that same genial, fatherly energy. Like, sitting down with a grandfather I didn't know I had. You seem so excited to share this with us, and that excitement is contagious! I'm not usually all that interested in geology where it doesn't already intersect my actual discipline of history, but you make this absolutely fascinating, Mr. Cook.
Glad you enjoyed it!
big Mr. Wizard vibes
I pondered the other day about how the education system managed to make me loathe subjects I've discovered in my adult life that I find really interesting. Your excellent presentation has the opposite effect of making me curious about something I originally wasn't all too interested in. Presentation matters. Anything can be presented in a way that makes it undigestible to even the most curious of men. The opposite is also true, anything presented in the right way can spark the mind of almost anyone.
I got put off geology by having to draw fossils in a course of historica geology that should have been interesting. Also the prof talked about formations he could see i his mind but I sure couldn;t.
A lot of that "how the education system managed to make you loathe subjects" has a lot to do with your brain development at that age. Most students of high school age aren't ready to truly understand the subjects that are taught. They also don't understand the importance of each subject.
I know of many teachers who put in a ton of hours and money planning fun experiments and discussions and activities, only to have the students blow it off and half-heartedly do it. Apathy is a big problem.
Well said like the way you put that into words
Wasn't the education system, it was us and the normal shortness of attention span that average children possess. As individuals, even when we are children, are more so responsible to apply the effort to learn than the system. Assuming the educational systems instruction is up to standards, the student has to engage into the information they are given. We do so love playing the victim and cast all blame on other people or entities for our failures and setbacks. I still get a giggle when these folks explain occurrences and such and the time period must have been about 60 million years ago but can't figure out what direction the bullet came from that killed JFK only 60 years ago.
I remember the teachers that made an impact! A third grade teacher that helped me to love reading. A math teacher that showed me girls can learn it too!. Are the good ones all gone?? Can't be- we just need to give these great teachers the recognition they deserve!!!🍎⭐
UA-cam needs more Geology content like this. You and Nick Zentner do great work sharing this knowledge.
Yeah, instead we get this clown Neil Tyson. Dumbed down half science.
I agree. So much to learn about.
Best geology videos I’ve seen
I came for the Geology, stayed for the food.😁
I love professor Nick 👍🏼#JOYGIVER
Myron Cook I’m so delighted to learn about your videos! I live in Southwest Louisiana smack dab in salt mining country (near Lafayette).
My new friend James Keenan, geologist explains that in near future, it will be revealed to general public that this area was once an open port where Olmec & numerous other cultures used this center for trade.
It seems this abundance of salt may have been more precious than gold at one time.
I can’t wait to review ALL OF YOUR RESEARCH!
They influenced the Woodlands mound builders and the tribes in the southwest (ie: Chaco Canyon complex)
This my first ever geology lecture. What amazes me is the complexity of results of interactions of simple processes over long periods of time. We see it so vividly in the tree of life and evolution, but we can also see it in natural formations. The most impressive part of this is our ability to drill cores of rock from absolutely anywhere, like from the ocean floor.
I’m a retired exploration geophysicist. An excellent discussion. Accessible and accurate.
This is an alluvial fan from the Ice Age flood that washed from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. No surprise.
@@vistrode9604you must be fun at parties.
If you see an expert praise someone and you disagree with the praise, remember that you might be in the beginning of your journey to understanding the complexity.
I also want to add that learning HOW and WHY something has been defined is infinitely more useful than if he'd just have said "it's an alluvial plain"
@@vistrode9604how does that explain the core samples taken in the region, containing large concentrations of salt? Alluvial fans are an excellent description for fluid dynamics and dispersion, however, I’m struggling to reconcile how precisely “post-ice-age runoff” would fully explain this phenomenon?
Exploration geophysicist? Cool. Why did we put the Deep Water Horizon well so close to Louisiana? And why aren't we putting rigs on this structure Myron describes? Maybe "deepwater" is a relative term, maybe this structure is much deeper than the Horizon well? so much oil out there, so much oil processing resources in that area. It bugs me, we're sort of banadoning the Gulf for oil, while Norway and Holland pull oil out of the North Sea. I hope someone can shine some light on this issue for me. Thank you.
Myron is the Bob Ross of geology! With his calm even-tempo and stunningly good reference data, his knowledge couldn’t help but seep into my brain much like those pink shaded salt extrusions.
You are the exact opposite of me ... I hate the long drawn out explanation of bathymetry, imaging, water, overlays, it's like he's talking to kindergartners 😂🤣he's 3 minutes in and I've already googled it and am reading about it while I listen to him and have already started developing theories. I can't wait to see if I'm close 😆😂 I guess it makes sense for youtube, not everybody has the same knowledge base. Geology absolutely fascinates me. I could read about how every square inch of this earth was created and evolved and never get bored, every single rock has a story to tell ... but I'm sure this is like teaching geology to grades K through university in one classroom. 😆
@deborahwood
I think you would be interested in the Franciscan Melange at the coast of central California.
I met several world reknowned geophysicists and other geologists there while doing my own study. I've written two (unpublished) thesis on the morphology. It is fascinating. Perhaps you'd care to take a stab at the orogeny.
@@secretsquirrel6308 Is that like a Chronosynclasticinfindibulum?
Yes since I also ( in addition to geology) like art and painting I know Bob Ross so I agree they have similar delivery styles that are pleasing to listen to.
The Gulf Of Mexico is a happy mistake!
I am so glad to have found this! I love the history of rocks. More importantly, I love and feel a special affinity to the Gulf of Mexico. My father was a commercial fisherman, and he used to tell all the wonders on the gulf, and especially the caverns under my home state of Florida. Growing up in Bonita Springs, Fl. it was so marvelous hearing about the geological history that he gleaned from a lifetime of fishing in the gulf. He only went to the sixth grade, and the child like wonder he felt for the natural environment was infectious. Man, oh, man how he would have loved listening to this lecture. Thank you so much for creating this.
thank you for sharing your story!
As a native to Louisiana, and a geography nut, ive always been mesmerized by this formation on google earth but have never found a good explanation on it. Awesom video. You explained it very well and have very much increased my interest in this formation.
Glad you enjoyed it
You know someone dominates and understands a topic so well they can explain it on the first try to a complete novice to the topic and have them understand it. Kudos to you, sir. Great job, I learned something today.
I appreciate that!
@@myroncook Dear Professor, could You , please , consider if " The Lapland Gate " ( " Tornvagge" ) "U-shaped" beauty between the two adjacent mountains formed as a result of the natural erosion or ... Thermonuclear obliteration ?!? And, if the former ...could You explain the geological metamorphosis at work here ...Please, it's Hanno-Himilco-Pytheas evidence pointing to the Apollo's Temple/Resting House ...shown to Them by the Saami ( "Saamaas" means " Sun " in Sumerian )...
@@myroncook à
NOVICE! Yup, that's my name in here😂.
Not sure why you came across my feed but I sure am glad you did! If more teachers were like you more people would understand things better. Thank you!
Wow, thank you!
I watch The Why Files so I thought this might be an Atlantis theory. 😅
This was wonderful! Learning from you is such a joy. Thank you, Myron 😊
Thank God I found your channel Myron!!!! Your love and passion for geology is apparent and infectious!!! You have re-kindled my passion to hit the road and again do some rock learning!!!👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Wow, thanks
The Bob Ross of Geology! I love that you get twinkles in your eyes when you talk about sediment layers.
The way you format your videos is brilliant. instead of just saying what it is at the beginning and then describe the process you go through it like trying to solve a puzzle with the audience which will make it more engaging and allow us to use our brains. It has me more interested in geology now. Plus the production quality of all your videos is great with things like shots of you walking to geological features and other little details.
Thank you for the feedback
And no annoying background music either! 👍
It makes me so sad that I was taught bugger all at school. Love from UK.
totally agree with you on this! love the way he presents things. easily understandable, and no fancy words, slow, and after all this, I don't feel overwhelmed, which happens to me all the time. I love science, always did. :)
The best teachers always leave you wanting more.
You sucked me in with pancakes. I was a geology major at Baylor many years ago, and learned a lot of these things, but your videos are fantastic refreshers for all the knowledge I'm not using regularly, or at all. And they're great for learning new things as well! Keep making the great mini-lectures and I'll keep watching them. But now... I just want pancakes.
Go bears!
The earth is as flat as a pancake so it's funny he compares a pancake. Kansas flatter than a pancake = proof the earth is not a globe. No curve = no globe. Facts. The Bible speaks the truth
Thank you Myron for the Gulf of Mexico lesson! Keep them coming. One cant learn too much about the gulf that gives us the worlds most beautiful beaches.
Thanks Myron! I had the pleasure of testing new PCD drill bits offshore Texas and Louisiana in the 80's. We developed new Hydraulic designs in these bits to flush away the 'gumbo' clay deposits (above the salt) that would ball-up traditional rock bits and prevent further drilling. Amazing developments in remote sensing and seismic has unlocked a lot of the mystery of Sigsbee. Keep them coming Sir!
Thank you, Dave
I always found lectures on geology that I attended to be a cures for insomnia. Hence I did not experience that many. But this lecture was presented in a way to keep my attention glued. I came away not bored but actually comprehending what Myron was trying to get us to understand. I have new respect for both this science and great admiration for Myron.
Thank you, John
I made the mistake of falling asleep during a lecture on salt domes while sitting at the front of the class. Fortunately for me the professor was teaching outdated concepts about buoyancy being the driving force on salt movement. Out of all of the students in the class, I turned out to be the only one to actually work on salt geometry and tectonics in my career.
Not only are you an excellent teacher, you’re way of explaining the many details about geology is with full comprehension of what happened to cause the development of what you showed us in your map and you didn’t leave anything out!
Thank you for your wonderful work in a field that many of us are not very familiar with! ❤
Myron, I love your display of passion and your genuine and caring nature. You're a hidden gem of education.
You're a natural teacher. I wish all my teachers had been as good as you. Thank you.
Absolutely wonderful! I'm so thankful to have stumbled across your channel. It's a breath of fresh air after being bombarded with all the weird "science" channels with strange computer-generated voices with odd grammar and word pronunciations mixed with disconnected and often bizarrely unrelated strings of videos and images. You're a favorite now.
Thank you for that
I studied geography to A level long ago at school. I always preferred physical geography. And have been fascinated by geology so its lovely to have an opportunity to learn about it. ❤
Your video proves that no subject is difficult to learn. There is only ever poor quality education that needlessly obfuscates a topic. I really enjoyed this and think that you and Randall Carlson would be an excellent, highly informative and generally entertaining lecture/debate/discussion to listen too.
Why is there so much salt on this planet
@@AcmeAce that's an excellent question that I've often wondered as I live very near to the sea.
@@AcmeAceSalt is a rock called Halite. It's formed when sodium from eroded rocks bonds to chlorine eroded from volcanic rocks when both are in water to become sodium chloride. Salt has a natural attraction to water so forms a bond with the water molecules to remain suspended in the solution though it will drop out once the solution becomes oversaturated with salt.
We seldom think about the mountains and valleys in the oceans and the geology involved. Thank you Myron. Your method of teaching is awesome and it makes things understandable.
There is a lot of interesting formations on the ocean floor that we have never seen. If we did see them it might change history.
It's interesting however now I'm worried about Pepper Water. How will the Pepper flow and to where?
@@tmayorca8770 the pepper flows out of my grinder and onto my food. 😁
This is undergrad level educational material and you're just putting it out for fun
I happened upon this video quite by accident and as I watched, your presentation from the begining drew in my curiosity. Your joy of teaching this is obvious and the content is fascinating as you illustrated how salt changes over time, and under various conditions. I'm not formally educated but stepped away from your video learning new things and smiling a new smile. Thank you, sir and I hope you go way encouraged. I'm fully subscribed
Thank you
I grew up on the Canadian Shield and as a child, would hike in the mountains and fish in the lakes. It got me curious, as a kid, how these all formed. As I grew up, I learned that I lived in a special area, on the Shield , where 1.8 billion years ago an asteroid had hit the earth where I lived. It explained why my friend’s fathers worked in a nickel mine, and explained why my town existed. It kindled in me my interest in geology.
This video was in my feed, and the way you explain things, relating it to everyday things, helps me grasp the concepts.
Thanks!
Stay safe, stay sane, stay strong
Great lecture! Well done, sir!
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I believe you will enjoy this also, about Mt St. Helens
The world never ceases to surprise me. The scale of salt deposits here is inconceivable. Thanks very much Myron.
I was sent here by a comment on a different video (short format) about the round, elliptical shapes visible on aerial photographs of the North American continent. The person who posted that comment was full of praise about this video - and also about how you present your information in a way that is engaging and easy to follow along.
These days I usually think at least twice about following a video link, deciding that it´s probably not worth the risk. However, for what I´ve been presented with here I am thankful that I set aside my doubts. These roughly 25 minutes were absolutely worth the risk, providing me with lots of knowledge I didn´t know I wanted. The comparisons and practical examples were refreshing and did a wonderful job of putting what you laid out for us into perspective. I won´t speak for others, but I found that the wildly different - though somehow related - topics («areas of focus»? Apologies, English is a second language to me) were a great help to keep my focus and curiosity at their max throughout the entire video. I think I will stick around, as the rest of your library looks very intriguing as well😊
Thank you for your story!
You are such a good presenter ! And video maker! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and yourself with us.
I grew up by the Gulf. A major river started behind my house, full of colored clay. It’s really an underrated geological area. I’ve never had such a clear explanation of how salt domes form!
Our schools taught us about this and other geologic features when I was 12-14 years old. Living in Texas was probably a factor. A basic tenant of geology is that the land above water looks much like the land below water. The dry land of the Texas Gulf Coast is covered with salt domes that are covered with sediment just as those off of the Gulf Coast Continental Shelf. Other interesting features in the bathymetric illustration are the rivers on the ocean floor which appear to be extensions of the contemporary larger rivers of Louisiana and Texas. You have excellent delivery and presentation skills.
FYI the word you want is tenet. A tenant is someone who's renting space from you.
Lol I’m sure he didn’t need all that for a typo
@@nateday2010 all that?
@@nateday2010 Not a typo. Wrong word.
@@CrankyHermit There's no way to know that for certain... they may have been using voice to text, and the ai misconverted it. It happens all the time.
As a petroleum exploration geophysicist I spent many years interpreting paper records of seismic data like that in the Gulf of Mexico. Some of the salt flows are even more complicated and fascinating. Those were the good ole days of seismic interpretation. Now its all done on computers in 3D.
I had the good fortune of interpreting a few paper lines....not too many.
Medical analogy: just as the "mother" salt layer under pressure squeezes out a large canopy of salt in the Gulf of Mexico, in a human joint, say a wrist joint, joint fluid under pressure can protrude through a weak spot in the joint lining/capsule/ligaments and show up on the back of the wrist, for example, like a water balloon under pressure - or, a ganglion cyst. This is the first Myron Cook video I have seen; I'm now going to check out others. This is how you teach people how to think. Thank you.
fascinating
Interesting, I didn't know that that's what a ganglion cyst was.
Making me regret not pursuing geology more than I already do.
Thanks for the awesome Geologist Bob Ross!
Same here, I have always love archeology n geography..since a child, but found out then, I would have to spend lot of time in the hot sun..so I said, ok, no.
I then pursued nursing..I should have kept my first loves...
Makes my one course in geology in college seem like it just scratched the surface!
@@jimwhitsett4736
…….no pun intended…
I was thinking “Bob Ross” too 😊 -
@@H4me7215 thanks for being a nurse I appreciate you
From Australia, and I truly enjoyed learning about these formations and how submariner salt can behave.
You are truly a great teacher!
After decades of studying geology, you still seem to be so excited to understand all these awestriking phenomena and, therefore, eager to share your knowledge. And you do it exceptionally well in my humble opinion.
All the awe I feel when I am in the mountains, alps, all the wondering I have when I see photographs of landscapes, you can explain, demonstrate, visualise so good that my heart starts pounding.
Thank you so very much for all your effort. A great example is your video about the geological time travel throgh grand canyon.
Thank you!
I want to thank you for this amazing lecture and visual mapping! These days of fear and worry, stress and anxiety about the government, the planet, the Universe...to have this lecture literally bringing us all back 'down to earth' in such an informative and clear and interesting way is a great gift to us! I've subscribed to your channel to keep on learning at 70 years old, my greatest happiness is growing food, farming, reading and always learning. I'm thankful for everything you've taught us in 25 minutes~You are a great teacher!
I love your enthusiasm for the subject, your videos are a joy to watch and I always learn a lot. Thank you!
Thank you, Ben.
So glad I found your channel. I've gotten my whole family into the Three Body Problem books now the show is out. A common question from them (and readers online) is "does the story make you scared because of the reality of humanity's insignificance in the universe?"
Easy answer, no. Not because we are not insigificant - we are - but because we don't need to look to space to realize the (literally) awesome natural processes of the universe.
Geology scratches that itch just fine. Everything we do will one day be changed - maybe not gone, but certainly changed.
I don't need to imagine aliens and solutions to the Fermi Paradox to feel wonder. Videos like this do just fine. My mind is still blown by the (potential) true scale of river fans and sediment deposits.
Geology, like History, has been done dirty in pop culture as "boring". The only way these subjects are boring is if they are being presented by a bore. The facts themselves are incredibly interesting - and the more you know, the more you know, and the more you know, and on it goes.
Love this!
amazing geology Myron, thanks for the video Good to see you sharing your immense knowledge.
Thanks, Dale
This salt formation reminds me a lot of when the Mediterranean practically dried up 6MYA and left huge salt deposits there. The action was geological and the continents shifting together to close the Gibraltar Strait then was re-flooded when the continents moved far enough apart. Even now the east side of the Mediterranean is saltier than the west side because it has more evaporation than water inflows (from the Atlantic west side and from fresh water runoff).
You are right...it is an interesting story!
Very similar. The Mississippi Valley was an inland sea that dried up.
Was thinking the same. Sicily has many salt mines, running very deep.
Myron, your presentation from your kitchen is classic. Your voice is so inviting and your homestyle southern appearance and personable manner makes me feel like a child visiting a wise Grandpa who loves to share his knowledge and excitement over a little known subject. I am a 72 year old musician who just found a fascinating subject, geology!!! Thank you. You are a wonderful teacher. By the way, do you have some butter and real maple syrup to go with your pancakes???🥰
Thank you so much for your feedback!
This video was very eloquent and educational! Thank you for taking the time!
Excellent content as always Myron. Thanks b
What a GREAT UA-cam channel. It has quickly become one of my absolute favourites. Geology rocks, thank you Prof. Cook!
Glad you enjoy it!
Thank you, Professor Cook. I avidly look forward to each new episode installment from your phenomenal channel. I only wish that I could have had you as one of my professors back in college. That would have been an honor and privilege. Thank you so much for such continually outstanding content and your brilliant teaching. Happy New Year 2023. The EPIC BEST VERY BEST of everything to you and your family.
Thank you for your kind words, Barry
The slow burn almost made me stop watching. Stating the topic of the video clearly and up front helps a lot.
@@johnemory7485 I couldn't disagree more, the way Myron takes us on a journey of discovery is the part I enjoy the most. Allowing us viewers to try and interpret what is happening in Earth's history and then showing us what did happen allows us to think like a geologist and imagine we're the first humans to discover a formation. I believe this method allows us to better understand the formation than simply telling us what happened and how.
@@user-otzlixr the person I replied to clearly stated they didn't like the way Myron presents his videos and I couldn't disagree more. Myron has a very unique way and personally I think his method is much more educational, he would make an amazing professor if he hasn't already done that in his career.
Bravo, Myron! Well done. Thank you for sharing your talents with the world to help us better understand this world. We are delighted to discover you channel and look forward to anything that you post. Your Chandler friends from Dhahran.
We hope you guys are doing well!
Myron you truly have a gift, I'm not sure if you replicate a mentor or teacher from your life or have developed it on your own but I'm thankful you share it with us all here on UA-cam!
Thank you!
Dude, you're AWESOME. I live on the Gulf Coast and always wanted to know why the bathymetry looked like it did. Thank you for all you do!
I just found your channel and I'm loving the content! The way you explain things is fascinating.
That was brilliant. I found this from Shawn Willaseys channel. These two geologists did a chat on u tube recently. Two great communicators and educators. (Msy 2024)
Thank you professor, I audited Nick Zentners 101 and 301 Geology course during the pandemic. The earth is such an amazing place. The more I learn, the more I want to know. Thank you for your work.
Wonderful! Love Nick
Myron, you've created a new discipline, Pancake Geology :) Seriously, I'm the Fossil Collections Manager for the Natural History Society of Maryland, and I'm always reading up on other aspects of geology. This is very cool. Thank you.
Thank you, George!
At the end you said "I could go on for days" (about the complex geology of the Gulf of Mexico). Please do! I would love to hear more about it! Thanks for the salt techtonics description. I have been trying to learn about geology the last two or three years. I remember reading something about the movement of large salt bodies but it was hard to visualize and wrap my brain around, something about salt being lighter than other minerals and sort of plastic(?) so salt deposits 'want' to rise. I had only read about salt bodies moving and cropping up on dry land (probably deposited in earlier undersea periods). You are right, I didn't know anything about salt domes in the Gulf!
So happy I found this video. Will be looking at all your stuff. I have always been fascinated with geology. I have a good friend who was a geologist for a state (retired) and I have been on camping trips with him in unique geological places. Recently moved to South Texas and the area you discussed in this video is now far more interesting to me.
Thank you for the awesome information.
Welcome aboard!
This is fantastic. I don't know much about geology but as a retired mechanical engineer, I do understand fracture mechanics and viscous flows. Your presentation is superb. I thoroughly enjoyed it and learned a great deal. Thank you. I imagine with the higher concentration of salt, a lot of this could be laminar flow. The boundary layer interaction with the sediment and ocean currents could introduce some turbulent or mixed flow. It would be interesting to learn more about the flow mechanics.
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I believe you will enjoy this also, about Mt St. Helens
If this was the early 90’s this guy would have a PBS shoe by now.
As someone who works on the environmental side of the oil and gas industry, I already knew it was salt! Because I know there’s tons of rigs in that area, and where there’s salt domes, there’s usually oil. 😀. Salt water keeps me busy because the oil companies can’t seem to stop spilling it.
Myron, I just happened upon your channel and have watched several as you explain things in such an interesting manner with illustrations. I subscribed on the first one I watched as I knew you were the real deal. I am an Engineer and can appreciate your approach to the details of your analysis. Your presentations are so enjoyable to watch as you draw us in to thinking “ahead” to possibilities of what happened here.
Your pancake illustration was excellent and I have to say as the presentation went on I was looking in the kitchen to see if that pancake was smoking! Hopefully it was later enjoyed as a meal. Thanks again for your excellent educational videos! Greetings from Kentucky.
Thank you for your feedback.
Thank you so much! I work for Bell Geospace that specialise in gravity gradiometry, mapping density contrasts, and our early work was largely helping oil companies model salt domes in the GoM because the seismic data couldn't map the base of the salt. This video has helped me understand it much better and put it into context!
Wonderful!
I’m sure you have heard this before but it cannot be said enough. You are a gifted teacher and if all teachers were as able as you our world would be elevated. Education is the answer , lack of education is evidenced by the state of our world today.
Thank you for this presentation! It made me want to know more.
Thank you, Patricia
Myron Cook! You are having way too much fun! What a wonderful human you appear to be!
I love the way that you present information to those of us without an education in geology.
I 'm a beginner geology student and I appreciate your clarity and good nature
The silt layer that has not formed into stone is totally from the Younger-Dryas. Laurentide ice sheet deluge. This also washed over the Yucatan peninsula. We'll find the remains of many extinct Mega-fauna and the Clovis people in there dated to around 12 to 15 thousand years old.
Love the explanations. You're a wise and gentle teacher.
That is a mud flow from one massive flood!
Cheers from South Louisiana. As soon as you showed the seismic imagery I knew what it was. I’ve never thought about whether the salt domes continued off shore. Pretty neat and great video.
i hadn't expected a gulf of mexico geology lesson at 2 am on weekday, but here i am enjoying it.
This is a wonderful “story” and you have a HUGE gift for storytelling! Love love loved it!
Thank you so much!
I'm an engineering geologist by trade. I knew many of the basic concepts, but really didn't have a concept of the scale and time with which these salt features appeared. This vid is well done - you speak on a level laymen can understand, but make it interesting enough that a 25 year professional can gain a lot out of it. Thanks!
Thank you!
This has been a treat! Thank you.
Excellent clarity of content and presentation. Your enthusiasm is contagious! As an MD, I was familiar with the biomedical uses of "autochthonous" but not its geological definition and use. Thank you for expanding my thinking to include "deep time" and other fun concepts.
Thanks
Absolutely fascinating presentation! I’ve spent my entire life growing up near & occasionally enjoying beachtime around this amazing silt bowl. Thank you for sharing this😎
The Bob Ross of geology. Seriously, would like to have a much greater (formal) knowledge of and about geology. Especially about the formations of gold, silver, gems, and the like. I’ll keep reading and tuning in to experts like yourself. Thank you!
_"The Bob Ross of geology"_ 👍🎨🗻
I could listen to you any time of day, morning while making breakfast, driving to work, cooking dinner, at the gym, falling asleep at night; love your channel
Great learning experience about a subject that I suspect many of us are quite ignorant. Thank you. This lesson was a 'wow' for me.
I figured the sediment angle flowing from the Mississippi river, hadn't thought of salt deposits. That is fascinating stuff. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!
Salt withdrawal minibasins and subsalt traps are key components as to why the GoM is such a prolific hydrocarbon province. The salt body that still blows my mind is in the Paradox Basin of Utah.
Since I live in the area (Delta, CO) and recreate all over that area covered by the Paradox Basin I would LOVE to learn more about it as well.
Thank you for bringing it up.
At some point I will do something on the Paradox Basin...I love it.
That's a great idea! I went to University of Utah (regrettably, I didn't major in geology....), but did explore the area and gained some basic knowledge of the area's features. It would be great to understand better what I saw.
Paradox Fm: ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/UnitRefs/ParadoxRefs_9763.html.
Pennsylvanian salt marine deposition on the flanks of the Ancestral Rockies. ~300 ma.
are you talking about the paradox valley where the delorus river goes?
This is cool stuff. Thank you. Keep the field trips and videos coming.
Myron you bring a million years to life in half an hour. I used to love geology at school I wish I had you as my teacher I probably would have made it a career. I thought that some of features might have been due to the Chicxulub event, obviously not.
First video of yours I have ever seen will also be the best video I have seen on UA-cam this year. Simply excellent presentation. Subscribed!
Wow, thank you!
My guess is that Myron Cook is a teacher. If not, he should be. This "educational" video was presented in a clear, understandable manner... Excellent job! Also, I just enjoy geology.
That's a class I would definitely stay awake in 😁😻👍
Truly one of the best educational videos I’ve ever watched. You are an incredible teacher and geologist! #inspired
Thank you!
Oh wow! This seismic image is fantastic! Also, I had no clue there was such a thing as salt tectonics... Very informative video, I learned a lot, thank you :)
Glad it was helpful!
Amazing. Thank you Myron!
My pleasure!
Myron, this was indeed a gift. As a youth in the wilds of northernBC Canada, on the shore of the Peace River I had the pleasure of exploring these big round or elliptical holes -smooth, polished….I puzzled over the got down into the ones I could. Then I discovered a commonality in a few of them. A single round worn rock was in the bottom, I then realized seasonal flooding and the right water movement created a movement creating these exquisite cup holes. Many having a smaller mouth opening…several smelled of bear dens…as strange as it may seem, I have found those in unusual terrain on dry land;so I’m taking from that a body of flowing water existed there atone time….thank you again
Neat story!
Sounds a lot like kettle lakes/ponds, which are very common in Canada. They form from chunks of glacial ice breaking off and melting as a glacier is receding.
@@anthonyrozewski2486 sounds possible and I suspect compounds my observations….but the large absolutely rounded rocks left in the bottom of some of these anomalies lead me to believe that over recent times the flood water of the peace took up where glaciers left off. The rock glacier at Atlan BC and the massive moraine certainly show the receding nature of glacier movement….in fact, I had the privilege of working on the Bennet dam near Hudson’s Hope. That dirt dam was created from an actual mountain that was moraine. I worked in the claim’s department… I regularly had dinosaur part go through my office…my father were instrumental in rescuing the first tracts and between my mother and father they have 4 dinosaurs named after them… my father found the worlds first bird prints but let Phil claim the privilege because he was starting his career. I was on several of the rescue missions. So, the peace river is one of the grandfather rivers of the earth….the Ammonites that my father took the Tyrell museum group to were so big …that flying one out by helicopter almost floundered the copter….big or what….yes, the great bear paw sea went from bottom end of USA the Bermuda are all the way through Yukon….I’m sure you know about it. Dad was doing oil exploratory work under contract to govt back in early 50’s up northern BC,NORTH WEST TERRITORIES, ALBERTA Found all kinds of ancient things breaking in road to no man’s land…often drilled up petrified fish…
I'm a professional Petroleum Geologist and find your teaching style informative and interesting, keep up the good work and keep uploading content. A suggestion: towards the end of the video it would have been nice to see a reminder again of the scale with your "mini" Tetons on the salt extrusive.
Wow, thank you!
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That was explained concisely and without redundancies that distract. Made me want to go back to school. You’re a great teacher. Thank you! Liked and subscribed.
welcome aboard!
Myron. What a brilliant bloke this fellow is. Very engaging.
You are an absolutely great teacher! Your love of being able to get your message through is remarkable. This has been a great video about the salt in the sea. I have taught classes in my craft and learned to teach at a kindergarten level. That's how I learn. Kindness and joy go a long way. Thanks!