How Geologists Discovered and Mapped a Great Seaway
2024 ж. 13 Сәу.
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Cretaceous Interior Seaway, Utah geology, John Wesley Powell, Capitol Reef, Factory Butte, Book Cliffs, Ammonites, Fossils, Great Plains, Sevier Orogeny, foreland basin
Why can’t you sleep sorry trying to learn about geology at 2am
You just spoke to my soul.
Totally 😹
4 am now.......!!!!
Same from me.
I’m not alone 👊
Finally, something worth watching on a Sunday night.
I was kidding myself. Amazing how interesting it is to find something that i have personally found truthfull and factual from when i was a kid. A kid from the Sonoran desert.
Same here
Here
how about a flood, a big flood
Shut your mouth
Your channel is proof that, if what you're talking about is interesting enough, there's no need to turn it into some television event drama. This was so good!
Thanks!
You don't even have to blame aliens for a single thing, amazing stuff.
@@myroncook Myron ! What a great journey you took us on ! It's truly amazing that so many clues are still visible to anyone, in plain sight ! Now, there is just one tiny issue, and I hope that you take this as a form of well-mannered constructive criticism, sir. The title is just every so slightly misleading. To me, in my mind, "How Geologists Discovered [the Seaway]" would lead me to think that the video would be about those specific geologists and the actual specific discoveries made by them over time, in a historical context. This was especially true for me since you mentioned the 1869 expedition by John Wesley Powell. I expected more specific historical details to follow in his footsteps. Alas, we did not get that. Now, I know that this is not a true historical channel, in the normal sense. Instead this is a great, shall I say spectacular, channel about geology over a much vaster historical timeline. Keep up the amazing work, and I speak for everyone when I say, NEVER STOP !!
So true! I've gotten to the point where I absolutely cringe at the over-dramatization on Nova, National Geographic, etc.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE UNITS CONVERSION! It’s the little details that show your empathy and respect for the viewers. Most youtubers don’t notice how much the units impact the understanding of scale!
It's also nice that he says one unit and writes the other. Hearing both each time makes it more difficult to compare. I can choose to remember just the ones I read, or the ones I hear.
@@GregConquest that can be an issue for hearing impaired people though
@@krispycool1 How so? If someone who is hearing impaired is watching this video, then they're reading the captions already anyway. The audio as spoken is transcribed. So, they'd see both units.
@@GregConquest have you read youtube captions? they are the worst ever! most of time the words make no sense
@@krispycool1 So, what are you saying? Hearing impaired people aren't hearing the words, and now you're saying the auto-generated captions are often not accurate. So, it wouldn't matter which units he says aloud. My original point seems as valid as ever, and your complaint seems to make no sense.
I spent fifty years in construction, I wish I would have been a geologist. I really love geology, who would have thought geology would be so fascinating.
Geologist prob would have thought.
You still have time to start, even a year or two.
The little tree 🌲 (not to scale) is the cherry on top of these fine lessons you produce. Keep up the great work sir!!
Many thanks!
Great use of tree.
@@myroncook you were born for this gig !
The future geologist is going to be astonished to find dam machinery in his core samples. 😮
A total Bob Ross move to fill out the best geology videos on KZhead
LOVE your channel! My elderly mother and I enjoy learning about geology, astronomy, and geography. I am her caregiver and we love to watch educational videos as part of our daily routine to keep her mind active. Thank you for making and sharing your outstanding videos.
That is awesome!
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If Geology could talk, this is what it would sound like. Thank you Myron. This is my first time you were recommended.
Welcome aboard
This video is so fascinating! I love when you address “how do we know that?” kinds of questions! And the photography is always sooo stunning! Thank you for educating us!
I'm so glad!
Great sound too!
Both you and Bob Ross have a great way with trees. Thanks for another fine lesson.
Love the little tree 🌲
“Happy” trees!
Agreed
Little trees and little fish, 100 million years ago, ha. Love it!
exactly, they both paint what they want to paint.
Myron: I greatly appreciate the free education you are handing out here. Your style of leading one to the points of the lesson are wonderful to listen to and learn from. The natural world needs more story tellers like you. Thank you.
I appreciate that
And outdoors yet!🕊️😎🎵❤️🐦🗻♥️🗽
Hi Myron! I am an engineer with a railroad out here in Grand Junction and my route goes through Thompson Springs, Helper, and all along the Bookcliffs. I get so excited riding along these beautiful features every day and wondering about the ancient landscapes that made these mountains into what they are today. So glad to see you made a video about them. I just bought a book about this very thing by Ron Blakey! PS, you met my boyfriend, Jason at a restaurant while you were here in town, thanks for the photo! We were so excited! If you ever make it back to GJ, I hope to meet you, too!
Cool job! I enjoyed meeting your friend, very pleasant fellow. I studied geology under Ron Blakey.
Thank you Myron! This is my favorite channel in KZhead and you have completely transformed my understanding of the Earth. Learning geology the last few months since I found your channel has given me so much joy! Keep doing what you’re doing partner!
Wonderful!
@@myroncook i found a channel that you might enjoy watching for amusement, relaxation, or some information. it is not a geology channel in the purest sense, but it does occasionally hit on geology in a tangential manner. the creator has a very soothing voice, and the visuals are amazing. the channel name is, *_"Desert Drifter"_*
@@myroncooki eatvhed your video about the fans coming from river deltas and how far they go out to see, as well as the channels you noted running across the bottom of the ocean. I believe you said they were caused by the rivers and underwater currents, but it wasnt fully understood. I disagreed, its my understanding that the paths the major rivers follow were not originally carved by the rivers themselves, the eater just took the path of least resistance. I adhere to the electrical model of the universe, in said model its understood from accounts of the ancients that great cataclysms of an electrical nature happened. These events occured before life even existed here. These planetary scale electrical storms literally carved out huge swaths of land and killed untold numbers of species in the known catacylsms (it wasnt a meteor it was a global electical storm and a scale we can hardly imagine). Look at electrical excavation experiments done by many experimentalists. It shows the exact same fratures we see on he surfaces of every celestial body we observe.
I will correct my typos when i get home from work... Yt app is glitching out and making it impossible to do so.
Have not watched yet but I know it will be interesting, informative and well done. Thank you, Professor Cook.
Myron I love your enthusiasm! From one geologist to another, you are a geologists, geologist!
Thank you, Bob
@@myroncook geology isint real its just concrete painted by my buddy bob
I live in northern Kentucky and have always been fascinated by finding fossilized coral and sea shells in field stones. Amazing to think of how our earth has changed over the ages.
For me, it’s not just the great knowledge you have but the enthusiasm you show that makes your videos as enjoyable as they are educational. Thank you for sharing these
I appreciate that!
How many times have I driven through boring landscapes and just couldn't wait to get to somewhere interesting? Myron, you should have made these videos 50 years ago. What great videos for kids to watch while travelling cross country.
I agree. When I was a kid we took some really long trips across the US and I could have used this info! lol
Have you bought any of the “Roadside Geology” series. They describe the stuff you along the roads…
I spent about 25 years in Utah. It's a nature-lover's paradise. I hope everyone has a chance to visit the beauty of southern Utah. It's truly amazing. Thank you, Mr. Cook. I don't know why you don't have a million subscribers by now.
You sir are surely not lying! ...And I'll call you Shirley! Grrl!
Thank you for adding meters and kilometers in your videos, us Europeans appreciate it .
As an European I really appreciate the unit conversion. Sometimes I struggle to follow american educational contents because I'm not familiar with the imperial system. It's a small thing but really appreciated. Also your content is pure gold, you manage to go really deep but with an easier vocabulary that makes it understandable for anyone, you really have a gift. Thank you for your videos!
North of San Antonio, TX. Sea shells and related fossils in my backyard. Honeycomb rocks with sea shells and fossils embedded in them. Yep, I will most certainly buy it. In the same area I stood in a dinosaur track back in the 60's. It was on private land and cannot be accessed now.
neat!
When I lived in Jackson Wyoming, south in the snake River canyon there were sea shells way up on the hill sides in the canyon
Around Coralville, Iowa, there’s plenty of evidence of a huge Coral Reef, with the Coral Detail clearly evident.
I live north of SATX. Have seen more marine invertebrate fossils in Cibolo Creek bed than I could ever count.
I live near bulverde but all I've unearthed is some amber calcite in my garden
Thank you so much Myron your geography content is seriously unmatched I use it to help teach my children about the great Appalachians around from here in central Pennsylvania
Wow, thank you
@@myroncook no sir thank you
Now you know why the Great Plains is so fertile.
I feel we are lucky to have drone technology available to help grasp the size and scale of these layers. Some awesome footage and that final stop was simply amazing. Still loving this channel and all the fascinating geology stories Mr. Myron. Thanks!
drones help a lot
This geology makes my retirement life a lot more interesting.
mine too!
I had a "wow" moment with the explanation of how ammonite fossils are used to correlate time with volcanic ash deposits! super cool! Thank you.
Myron...you have definitely got that Bob Ross delivery going on. Thank you for the fun informative videos.
You are very welcome
Loved this one. Was just in Capitol Reef last week looking at the formations, the oyster fossils and such. This pulled a lot of information together. Thanks!
Yup, I love hiking in the mountains of New Mexico and finding seashells at around 7000 ft. Really gets the brain working.
As a recent transplant to Denver I’m fascinated by the story of the Seaway and the geology of the west. Thank you for your excellent and understandable presentations. Love the trees!
You need an award simply for carrying that whiteboard for miles. Great stuff!
Dude Uses more whiteboards than Katie Porter on cocaine
Dr. Cook, I find the flow of your presentations very welcoming. I have had a lifelong but pedestrian interest in all things related to Earth science - - mainly focused on botany and biology. Having visited places like Capitol Reef in younger days, I found that I was easily overwhelmed by the various landscape formations, not able to understand the subtle clues of structure - so I simply remained in awe of the aesthetic beauty of such places... And now, many decades further, I am able to virtually revisit these in a new light even though I may not be able physically to do so. A subscriber thanks you!
Thanks!
A pretty good day is now an awesome day because a new Myron video just dropped ~ thank you!
Hello there sir , Myron we really enjoy your geology. Always in lightning and joyful love your humor keep them coming. I have a high understanding of the topic and I love the way you break it down Thanks again, Damon
Thanks, Damon
Fascinating stuff! A genuine educator. You can tell it comes natural to Mr Cook teaching.
Glad you think so!
New subscriber currently binging your content. 😅
A superb master teacher with a "big picture" clarity rarely equalled and probably never excelled.
It is so fascinating to just sit a try to see what was in the past. Thank you for adding so much to that pleasure.
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After an exceptionally rough week, Im stoked to sit down and hear about the Great Seaway from everyone favorite Geology Santa! Theres a lot of comfort in the humility of seeing a glimpse of the age of the world we live on and Im forever grateful for everyone that shares this passion.
thank you!
Thirty plus years ago i had a college geology professor that was just mesmerizing to listen to. He was an excellent teacher. Just like you, Myron!
My goodness...Ive learned so much watching your videos. Sadly in my lifetime I'll never see this part of our country. Truly amazing area. Never have I thought about rock formation until I started watching....thank you
Good to see you again Myron! Love your videos. As it so happens, I live on the boundary of the coastal plain and Piedmont Plateau in Maryland. Now, I find myself trying to imagine what my neighborhood looked like during the Cretaceous.
This reminds me of the inland Sea that Australia once had. One thing I love most about this ultimate favourite geology & palaeontology channel of my is it encourages me to ask questions that I both would not have thought of, or have been reminded of that I already thought of.
Love the old school teaching with the beautiful drone shots.
Respect for your work. I have found a shocking number of Creationists on youtube making videos about how the grand canyon was formed in a few weeks. It's horrifying to me to see such ideas get so much traction and support and your work really shines as a powerful and insightful informative array of data against such delusions. Great work! Liked and shared.
You make it so interesting! Every time I look at different areas as I drive around and travel, I contemplate the things I've learned from you. Thank you so much for being so generous with your time 🤗
Thirty minutes in, and I just had to pause to say Thank You. From a retired Brit with an interest in geology ever since my first visit to Scotland. (edit: and reading John McPhee too!) Living on the South coast, on a dark chilly evening but a very good Scotch to hand, it's good to be in your company. Just as absorbing as any David Attenborough, bless him. edit2: and what a poetic ending. If there was ever a poetic science, perhaps geology is it, because it can be directly observed, but only with understanding. which comes from teaching.
Love this feedback...thank you!
I'm in Scotland, studying plants for research/conservation - my degree doesn't even brush up against geology and I can't understand why not! It's so interesting, and holds so much information about why the current configuration of land is the way it is, and why plants grow where they do. I love to read rock formations and try to visualise how they formed and what might have lived around them, your videos are like learning to read. I'm in an area that was repeatedly flooded and reforested through the Carboniferous, I've got chunks of fossilised rainforest from alternating layers of mudstone, shale and coal capped by massive slabs of sandstone that I can now visualise better thanks to your video. Feels a bit like deep time vertigo. It's also really interesting to see formations that are nothing like what we've got since our landscape was scraped smooth by ice.
awesome to hear! I often can map formations by the type of vegetation on them
Myron, thank you for your work, and for explaining everything from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Seaway. You touch on the geology of greatly undervalued yet stunning subjects.
I appreciate that!
You are a genuinely gifted educator. Thank you!
This guy is the first one that ever made me find geology interesting and begin to understand it. Many thanks.
Myron has a perfect score for his geology videos as far as I'm concerned. Such a pleasant voice and pacing of speech plus his enthusiasm and questions to the viewers throughout the video. Extremely well done Myron. i bet that there are some future geologists watching these videos. In the future, professors will ask, "how did you get involved in geology?" and the student will reply, "I watch Myron Cook discuss geology in videos on KZhead." The student will think and mutter softly, "I sure wish this professor was as good as Myron."
I am very pleased. A new Myron Cook video. 🎉🎉
Mr. Myron thank u so much for content such as this. I sit here on my couch completely fascinated and engaged with what I’m learning from your video. You and your channel show the power of doing something meaningful with a you tube channel. Thanks for all you do to enlighten and educate those in the online community. It most definitely helps us to stay curious:)!
You are very welcome
Your enthusiasm is infectious! Thank you for sharing bits of your vast knowledge, and reminding us to be curious and ask questions about the world around us.
This is exactly why I watch this channel. This helps me greatly in understanding the geologic environments that cretaceous animals in North America would have lived in
I love the way you explain the changes in topography. Really helps to imagine what it used to be like. I live in the Uk and I look at the landscape in such a different way because of your teaching. Thankyou for opening my eyes to a much bigger picture. 💚
I love this!
Myron, you've done it again, sent my imagination off spinning into the depths of time. What a treasure for the curious - thank you so much for these thoughtful, amazing and inspiring videos.
Many thanks!
My average attention span for a KZhead video is ten minutes or so. But there is so much in this video that forty-five minutes passes really quickly. Fascinating subject, awesome scenery, and clear narration from someone whose enthusiasm is infectious. Time very well spent.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Myron….great job bringing geology to a broad range of people. Not overly technical…fascinating topic. Thanks! 👍
Love your channel- and thank you for adding metric measurements on screen for those of us who are most fluent in that :)
You are so welcome!
No way my boy Myron Cook dropped another banger
That area of the country has always facinated me. I could hang out with Mr Cook and talk geology for months. Thank you for this presentation have always wanted it someone to explained it in detail.
Myron, I appreciate the way you parse all the relevant aspects into relatable components...and reassemble them into concepts that make sense. I love geology but have a difficult time envisioning hypothesis from textbooks and journals. Your method of on-location instruction and diagramming is illuminating and enlightening. Thank you for these excellent lessons!
I appreciate that!
You are appreciated Myron. I didn't even realize I was stressed and then you started talking geology and I suddenly relaxed.
Your channel is so wonderful for education!
Excellent teaching in every way. The content, on site, presented by an expert, clearly and politely. The evidence for this seaway is compelling to me.
This was wonderful! I grew up in Minnesota and I am happy to see that she had a shoreline on this great seaway. Great job, Mr. Clark.
never before have i clicked on a video so fast
This is incredible: the scenery, the concepts, the way you tie it all together…it might be the perfect video.
Thank you!
Love these long form videos. Incredibly interesting, informative, and entertaining.
Glad to hear it!
I love this channel. I saw a geology book back in the late 60s about faults and have been hooked ever since.
The topics you cover in this video can be difficult to grasp sitting in a classroom or reading the literature. You have a gift of explaining and your videos and presentations are satisfying and getting better. I am sending anyone interested in learning geology to this channel.
Wow, thank you!
Recently recommended this channel and can’t say enough nice things. From the lovely visuals, informative content and most of all the inviting, soothing and, I cannot help but make the connection, Mr Rogers evoking cadence and intonation, I’ve been loving to listen to these presentations. Thank you for sharing!
Great talk, and very eye opening for me. Especially the coastal lowland depositions which were later deformed and eroded. Totally cool.
I absolutely love your deep-dive explorations into how geology is done.
Absolutely wonderful video, me and my family used to go camping all the time when I was a kid and I never cherished the vast knowledge and deep care park rangers had for the lands around them. Now that Im older I find my self missing that, and this fulfills that curiosity in such a calming way. I think its all to easy nowadays to get swept up with life and forget to slow down and enjoy what nature has to offer, and this has helped me take a breath. Thanks myron, you've brightened many days, and filled many minds.
I worked down in Goblin Valley last summer and saw the mancos shale and the Morrison formation so much. The earth reveals a lot about its history through rocks and to imagine those ancient landscapes and how they affect the land today is amazing! Factory Butte in the golden hours of sunlight is incredibly beautiful
This man's passion for his field is so evident. Geology never seemed so exciting.
I love the content, and you clearly do too. You sound and look more happy to reveal knowledge to people than anyone I've ever heard. Traveling through the west for the first time, these are all the things I was thinking about. I love it.
You're one of my favorites on youtube. I watch a variety of things, but you're factual, and interesting. Thank you for your work.
I never thought geology was cool until stumbling upon this channel. Taking the whiteboard out into the field like that is just super helpful and cool.
Glad you enjoy it!
Thought provoking, inspiring, and fascinating. It's good to see you again Myron. Last time we hung out you were teaching me how to golf and I was failing badly. I'm still bad at golf but I have nothing but great memories with you. You're still a great teacher and as your video demonstrates, time is amazing.
Good to hear from you, but who are you? Thanks for the feedback
Well you did it again Mr Cook, you up and blew my mind. Awesome presentation, Sir. Thank you so much for all your hard work.
Well explained, I love this channel because you not only teach, you take us on an adventure. Your words are precise and easy to understand. It must be rewarding when these guys or groups get all those puzzle pieces together, I hope you have been apart of those.
This came across my recommendations and I was like oh hell yeah! I learn so much watching you and I love the way you teach. I gotta say I’m also thankful that you’re shooting in 4K because the scenery is incredibly beautiful. Keep it up,Mr Cook 🎉
I love your work, Professor Cook. Every video. Thank you. You're a good teacher. I soak up each lesson. Teacher's sacrifice. They give jewels to many, each lesson. I appreciate every point about geology that you bring alive. (And you show people from your region of the country can have much positive to share).
Thank you!
Love the videos! I have described you to my wife as "the Bob Ross of geology". I'm not a painter and have never intended on painting anything creative, but I can watch Bob Ross talk about and demonstrate his talent for hours. I'm not a geologist and do not intend on becoming one, but I can also watch you talk about geology and demonstrate your knowledge in the field for hours because even though I won't ever be a geologist, you give me just a little bit more knowledge to understand the world around me just a little bit better. Thank you!
I love how the drone flights put the details into perspective, showing it all in its real, large scale. You visualize everything so well that i can feel the joy of discovery too, as we really have a look into the memories of this planet and imagine it "growing up".
I love "memories of the planet" great term
You’re so lucky to have so many dramatic and significant lands capes to read into. Thanks for the géology masterclass :)
just back from Wyoming - prepping for a field trip looking at Delta's - this is a great video, enjoy the passion, the scenery and the way you explain the geology in terms for the layman
sounds fun
Love your videos. I grew up in Rawlins, Wyoming and your videos educate me of the lands I experienced. You answer many of my questions. Nature is wonderful and fascinating.
I'm so glad you linked the distant past to more recent events like the bison roaming the great plains. A great video!
Each video is a compilation of your deep knowledge of Geology. I am amazed every time I watch one. Though as I'm just an Architect I need time and several reviews to get part of the substance. TYSM for your generosity😊
Sir, you have a wonderful way of teaching Geology and I look forward to the discoverys you show us in these videos. I enjoy seeing the Earth as it was through your eyes. Thank you.
I just love how you make geological time come alive in terms we can relate to. Thank you for your geology vulgarization. It's fascinating.
Thank you!
Absolutely fascinating, with amazing explanations, a most wonderful job! I hated to see it end. Building up at only a 1/4 of an inch every 100 years is mind boggling. Thanks
Jesus, that was so good. Your production, I am blown away. You have great presence and are a really proficient teacher. I learned so much!!
Thank you. A great story, brilliantly narrated.As a geologist walking through modern landscapes I am always thinking what they tell us about the past.
You are a great teacher. Thank you so much for all the videos Myron