We're lucky to live in such a time when great teachers like Myron are able to educate us in the comfort of our homes for free. "Lucky" barely touches it--thousands of generations of humans looked at the living rock we stand on and regarded it as timeless and immutable, which we know to be false--it is entirely dynamic and, indeed, *alive.* Thanks so much, Myron.

@Schizniit

15 күн бұрын

And yet we have so many conspiracy nuts running around, refusing to acknowledge any information or facts and manipulate others into doing the same. In other words, always share knowledge with others

@Jahcef

15 күн бұрын

Also Roger Spurr at mudfossil university. Check Mr Roger out he's got DNA and cat scan evidence

@ericcomp7032

13 күн бұрын

Denver is not in the mountains 😕 Sry not sry but I live here. Denver is situated in a high arid desert and the mountains are close by. People always associate Denver with mountains because it makes great marketing but you are being sold a lie. Denver is not in the mountains.

@Running4Daze

13 күн бұрын

“Sold a lie”That sounds a bit dramatic. People associate Denver with the mountains because u r a proverbial stone’s throw or relatively super quick drive to them.

@ericcomp7032

13 күн бұрын

@@Running4Daze I'd be angry if Cherry Hill NJ sold itself as a beach town and I got there to find it's an hour drive to the beach. But yet people are fine with Denver pulling this shit. Without the suburban sprawl and manicured landscaping Denver wouldn't have any trees, have sand instead of soil, and paddle cacti would dominate the hillsides. You can be ok with them lying to you but I'm not that stupid.

Myron drops a video, and I drop everything I’m doing to watch. 🥞

@GregMcNeish

15 күн бұрын

I literally rearranged my work plan for the day on the fly specifically so that I could put this on my side monitor and work exclusively on the main screen, until the video is over. I *MUST* watch this video *NOW*.

Retired science teacher here. These lessons are wonderful in every way. Smooth, comforting tone, and available to novice and advanced alike. Really enjoyable. Mahalo nui.

@myroncook

11 күн бұрын

Wow, thank you!

Myron, I'm a young (relatively; I'm just 27!) Canadian living in Saskatchewan. I've so loved your videos and on location things you show and teach us. I live in a somewhat transitional area between the phanerozoic basin and the precambrian shield. It's mind bogling to think of the history of the rocks around me. Some are upwards of 3 Billion years old. I stop to think of the history they have endured. The archean. The birth of life on our planet. Id often find myself firmly planting head in the rocks and my mind imaging the world when they were formed. These videos and what you show us has had such a profound effect on my present life. I've even been considering returning to school to pursue an education in geology. Thank you. From the bottom of my heart. I look forward to your next video eagerly.

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

I'm humbled that I somehow have had a positive influence in your life. You seem to have a "feel" for our planet like I do.

What a pleasure it is to go on these visual and informative journeys with you! Absolutely magnificent! Thank you!

@myroncook

15 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@richarddodge1349

9 күн бұрын

Grew up on the front range, went to ted rocks school between the hogback and the amphitheatre. Mount Morrison was my front yard. Spent vacation in Moab. All that now geologic memory, myself dinosaurian.

That was sneaky Myron.... About to go to bed. Had to get a beer and sit back and learn... Thanks mate!

@myroncook

15 күн бұрын

Enjoy!

@vickihubach4388

12 күн бұрын

haha, same here, I couldn't stop watching.

@denniscrane9753

12 күн бұрын

I’m gettin paid to watch Myron! I love my job!

I am a simple man: Myron's dulcet tones in a new silky smooth upload cause me to watch the video, enjoy the video, and upvote the video. Simple!

You are the BEST geology professor I ever heard !! Thanks for educating to all of us.

I grew up a bike-ride away from Red Rocks. The Bear Creek runs through there--ice-cold melt-water that lower down becomes a venerable cottonwood riparian corridor, much like all the mountain streams feeding the great Platte and Arkansas Rivers to the east, the Rio Grande to the south and the Colorado River west. Great place for kids, although now the suburban sprawl represents a sad, poorly regulated detriment to the Front Range of Denver. But what a treat it is, 60 years after riding my bike in the summers around the town of Morrison (near Molly Brown's summer bungalow!) to now hear Myron's explanation of how the great Morrison Formation came to be, and how Red Rocks amphitheater is astonishingly older than the Front Range of the modern Rocky Mountains, looming over 14,000 ft behind. Thank you, Myron--I can't tell you how meaningful your video classes are. And those introductory photos of Colorado are really gorgeous.

@myroncook

10 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing

I lived in Denver for a dozen years and I loved exploring the geology of Colorado. I knew the basics about the area, especially Red Rocks but you really expanded my knowledge on the whole deep history. Absolutely wonderful - as usual!

I genuinely wish more of my teachers would have been more like Myron.

Your work is amazing and your presentation is so personable. Warm greetings and best wishes from the west coast of Ireland 🇮🇪🇺🇸

@myroncook

15 күн бұрын

Thank you very much!

Okay so this one of my favorites so far. Explained so much about one of my favorite drives in the whole country. Thanks Myron. ❤

@myroncook

15 күн бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

Best geology content on the internet - absolutely amazing. Thank you so much Myron!

2 minutes after posting. I’m watching. Go Myron, Okay, why was only a few thousand feet red?

I always look forward to your geological excursions, they never disappoint.

Greetings from Boulder! As a local rock climber, I’m so thankful for your videos. I’ve found a lot of evidence of petrified streambeds in the arkose of the Flatirons- long snaking tubes

@myroncook

15 күн бұрын

That is awesome!

@mandobob

15 күн бұрын

You may have noticed that the Fountain formation exposed in Eldarado canyon tends to be significantly harder than most of the Fountain formation exposed in the Flatirons. Same rock, although typically more fine grained, but the Eldarado canyon rocks have been cemented with silica (quartz) complements to thermal springs activity. Rocks can have an interesting history post deposition. Geologist call post deposition changes diagenesis. - Long time rock climber.

@CFEF44AB1399978B0011

14 күн бұрын

I’ve always suspected that the eldo rock was fountain, but was always confused by this. I was kind of amazed at how the little chunks of rock in some of the cliffs are so strikingly similar to the Garden of the Gods rock. It just I guess didn’t make sense to me, because Gog rock is very very soft compared to eldo. Still somehow haven’t made it up a flatiron, gotta climb out there, I grew up on North Table, which is kind of out of place in the front range, being a random basalt dike that left a big flat top mountain since it's more resistant @@mandobob

@jonscootsaround

14 күн бұрын

It’s fascinating how the qualities of the fountain change up and down the front range. Have you seen the railroad tracks that run up the fountain formation south of Eldorado Canyon? It starts rising just north of the Ralston Dike- love the geologic story of the table mountains

@mandobob

13 күн бұрын

@@CFEF44AB1399978B0011 Actually some of the rock fins at the GOG are another Ancestral Rockies sourced deposit called the Lyons Formation (also called the Lyons Sandstone). It is mostly wind-blown (eolian) sands that formed dune fields adjacent to the sea. The Lyons SS is named for the type location near the town of Lyons north of Boulder and has been used for many years as a decorative and building stone along the Front Range. The Lyons SS has been used for sidewalks all over Denver - clue, you can see fossil sand/mud ripples. Depending on where you are the Lyons Sandstone can be quite hard or much softer, and that may be what you have observed. Just one more thing, the basalt-capped North and South Table Mesas is actually a flow(s) and not a dike or sill. The flow originated up Ralston Creek north of Golden.

Howdy, Myron. Welcome to the Front Range! I live near Boulder and would have offered you a little Colorado hospitality had I known that you were passing through my area. As you know, there's a lot of geology piled into our Centennial State, and isn't it a sad irony that one human life is so short. I'll never get to see it all, but videos like yours help greatly in extending my time here. At the end of each presentation, I'm always curious to see where you'll take us on your next exploration. Thank you, and I'll see you then.

@myroncook

15 күн бұрын

thanks!

I've never been more excited to make some observations!

@myroncook

15 күн бұрын

love that!

Myron Cook and Nick Zentner geology lectures on the same morning. It's already a good day.

Myron is a “rock” star! I live in Denver, and love his clear explanations of the beauty I see around me every day.

I feel just as fortunate to watch your videos! Thank you!

I just love your enthusiasm for geology! I truly enjoy learning from you, Professor Myron! I don't know if you're actually a professor, but it's like having your own personal geology teacher watching these videos 🤗

While you blow our minds, I find it wonderfully soothing when you present us with your trusty little tree on your whiteboard. Love your presentations!

a masterful explanation Myron. Thank you

@myroncook

15 күн бұрын

Very welcome

Mountains recycle! Now cover all that with trees and you get my beloved Blue Ridge. Come to the east, please, and check out the road cuts here, or Natural Chimneys, Endless Caverns... It's crazy fun!

When Bob Rocks drops a video, I drop what I'm doing to watch. Thank you Myron, these videos give me a sense of calm I oft lack in my hectic life.

My favorite KZread show starts off in my very own back yard. I do have to get up in Myron's neighborhood to take a look at the Big Horn Basin first hand. Thanks Myron for your work.

The living earth is such a beautiful thing to behold.❤

This was a great little lecture. I saw Peter Gabriel at red rocks a few years back before the concert. I went and looked at all of those dinosaur tracks in the area. Anyway, the concert was amazing the sound of the surroundings. While the concert was in progress. There was a lightning storm in the distance that added to the amazing experience.

I should make everyone I hike with on the front range watch this before hiking any of the hog-backs, or canyon trails in the area. I was at Garden of the gods back in February, and was just mind blown at how such a soft sandstone conglomerate can be so old, and yet so soft that I can pluck little clasts from the rock with relative ease. Sometimes, if you're lucky, you can go just a few miles away from the hogback and see coal beds and limestones with leaf fossils and petrified wood, which really drives home the fact that there were really marshes and swamps and beaches here with the mountains. I highly recommend stopping at Marshal Mesa if you ever visit Boulder, you can see these coal and limestone formations right out in front of the rockies. . It’s really amazing how you connected so many locations together to explain just how all this fits together, and didn’t just tell people how there once was an ancestral rocky mountain range, but showed it so people could see it for themselves. Now I’m curious how you'd show the laromide, and subsequent uplift of the front range, which I only sort of understand at a hand-wavy level.

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

You live in an awesome area...lots of geology

It's great fun to have you shine a light on our amazing home. Helps me see and feel the magic of our Mother Earth and our very fleeting existence. 🙂

@myroncook

15 күн бұрын

love to hear this!

A video from our beloved Myron Cook is always a great way to cap off a day. Thank you for all your hard work! edit: And you start off in Red Rocks!! So glad to hear youve seen a show there, Id love to myself one day!!!

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

do it!

Thanks Myron, born and raised in the Morrison area but now live between the Grand Mesa and the Uncompahgre plateau. You have helped me understand some of the different geology in this area. Thanks.

Myron, you inspire me with your beauty. Also the Rock formations and their absolute stunning beauty. Thanx

Woohoo a new video I have been waiting to hear my Bob Ross of geology! Especially since it's on mountains I don't have any of those here in Florida lol

This blew my mind Dr. Cook. I am going to have to watch it a couple more times for it to completely soak-in. I grew up on the west side of Denver, along the hogback wondering how it was formed and how the red rock formation fit in geologically and it has never been resolved for me until now with your explanation, so thank you for that! I hope you had time to visit Dinosaur Ridge, just a few miles north of Red Rocks amphitheater while you were there. There are dinosaur footprints fully exposed along the roadside on the rock walls. It too is a spectacular site to see and just a couple minutes drive from C-470 there. I have also been fortunate to see the areas of southern Utah that were once the great sand dunes you spoke of. Also a site to behold. Now it all is starting to make sense to me. Thank you once again for helping make sense of something so complex as this for my small mind.

@myroncook

15 күн бұрын

Thanks for the feedbacK! I have been to Dinosaur Ridge...very cool

Thank you Myron! That filled in some blank spots in my understanding of the Rockies and the Ancestral Rockies!

@myroncook

Күн бұрын

Excellent!

I love your videos and your enthusiasm for all the geology, your appreciation of the beauty of Earth. Thank you for these videos.

Thank you for the wonderful interpretation of the rebirth of the Rockies. Earth's History is so exciting when one learns the language of the rocks.

I'm glad you mentioned the Flatirons. I've been staring at them out the window from the beginning of the video. I've heard of the Fountain Formation, but never realized it's so old.

My lucky day when I discovered this Channel and the explanation of this Great World and our Beautiful Mountains and how they formed. Thank You, Myron !

@myroncook

15 күн бұрын

Wonderful!

Blowing my mind with every video. I will never look at the Colorado Rockies the same again.

@myroncook

13 күн бұрын

love to hear that!

My goodness. What a story over time. Thank you.

I can't tell you how much I enjoyed this "field trip". I only wish that I had seen it years ago when I took a trip to Colorado. And, I loved the John Denver reference. Thank you so much, Professor Cook!

Now I want to drive all down the Rockies, snaking back and forth to see all these amazing sights and sites!

@DENVEROUTDOORMAN

2 күн бұрын

And you can see the Dinosaur Footprints across from Red Rocks Ampitheater...there is a hiking trail above the footprints

I always like to set time aside to really follow the narrative Myron builds. I always learn something new 🙏

Thank you so much for educating me on the red rocks. I always wondered how "The Garden of the Gods" was created. I was thru the tree back in 1987 with my family. I was only 15 then and absolutely enthralled with them. Love your white boards.

Thank you, Myron! I love having a deeper understanding of the landscapes that I hike through!

I fell in love with geology in 1980. Thanks for bringing that wonder back...

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

love to hear that!

I wish I had teachers like Mr. Cook as a youngster. Sadly, they're quite rare. Keep up the great videos!

This is a very timely video, as I hope to make my first visit to Colorado later this year. I'm so looking forward to seeing this landscape.

The joy of seeing the past through your eyes is a great joy to me. Thank you really isn't enough to say.

My aunt took me to the Garden of the Gods back in 1985. I was very impressed by what I saw. Unfortunately I wasn’t into photography back then. So I have to enjoy your video to see them again.

This has become one of my favorite channels the last few years ❤ Myron

I live in Broomfield, just east of the Flatirons. I really enjoyed watching this video. Thanks so much!

@myroncook

11 күн бұрын

thanks!

@DENVEROUTDOORMAN

2 күн бұрын

I'm in Arvada so love the views

Thank you again. You're the best teacher I've ever had!

@myroncook

12 күн бұрын

Wow, thanks!

My cousins live in Roxborough Park. I’m always so jealous with the beautiful scenery they have in their backyard. Excited to learn more about it!

@DENVEROUTDOORMAN

2 күн бұрын

It has great hiking but the ridge across from the Ampitheater is Dakota/Dinosaur Ridge with Dinosaur Footprints and you can hike that ridge.

Thanks, Myron, for this amazing class. What enchanted views! I live in Brazil and I'm always enjoying your videos.

@myroncook

11 күн бұрын

Glad you like them!

Enjoyed walking through millions of years of the Rocky Mountain range! Equally enjoyed the art / drawings of the past.

The spectacular beauty of the opening scenes; the grandeur of the formations; the John Grisham novel type exposition of the hows and whys (ok that's excessive; lol) and lastly the warmth and sincerity of the presentation are kinda heartwarming. Many thanks for chipping away at that mountain of ignorance in all of us!

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

thanks!

I used to bike ride to Red Rocks from Denver in the 1960s as a kid and look at the formations. I did have an interest in geology back then. The dinosaur tracks on the east side of the Dakota hogback to the gneiss and granite on Mount Morrison behind the amphitheater. Someone tried to put a tram up Mt. Morrison once and a rock bed and a rail sticking out was left of that effort. I have a couple of ancestors that lived in the Morrison area herding sheep in the late 1800s. Thanks Myron! Brings memories!

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

neat story

Been watching and listening, enjoying and learning from these videos for a while, but it just struck me (GenX'r here) that the kindness, peace, and pace of his voice reminds me of Mr Rodgers. Thank you Mr Cook.

I love opening youtube on my computer to see a video of Myron ready to watch!

holy cow... my mind is officially boggled now... that was fascinating! I love the way you teach... on the ground, in the field, from the air and pulling it together on the whiteboard! Thank you!

@myroncook

11 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I feel very fortunate as well, this one was exceptional and it shows in your smile. Many thanks!

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

Many thanks!

Myron, I just got back from a trip to Yellowstone and we are currently staying 10 minutes away from Garden of the Gods so this video really came out at the perfect time! You are an amazing lecturer, I really appreciate all of your videos.

Absolutely amazing. I never thought of Red Rocks that way. Just admired them. Wow, that was thought provoking. Living in a Denver 'burb, I'm pretty familiar with these rocks. So glad you made this video, Myron. Thank you.

@myroncook

7 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I live very close to Red Rocks. I had to watch. The geology around this area is fascinating.

thank you for visiting!

Observations! What a great word. 👀🔎💡

@myroncook

15 күн бұрын

well said!

I truly did enjoy this lesson about the Ancestral Rockies. I really liked geology classes in undergrad and now regret not getting at least a minor in geology. It's been one constant love since childhood that I'll keep enjoying the rest of my days!

I dropped everything, went and got a beer and some peanuts to snack on and enjoyed the presentation, as I felt like I was in the field with Myron. I've been to several of those places, great pics, overview and white board work. It's great to see if presented so artfully. Thanks!

@myroncook

Күн бұрын

sounds fun

My Favorit places is, Purgatory River Canyon Lands in Southeastern Colorado. From Las Animas Colorado. to Trinidad Colorado.

Myron, please forgive me for commenting before watching the entire video. I find it compelling that you have gone into so much detail in explaining a question I asked in one of your earliest videos. I feel like you are talking directly to me. Thank you for that. I lived between eagle and Glenwood for ten years in the 70s and 80s.

@myroncook

7 күн бұрын

awesome!

yep... gonna be a good day. rock doc uploaded.

Love, love, love these journeys in geology. Thank you Myron!

@myroncook

15 күн бұрын

My pleasure!

Thanks for another wonderful video, Myron. Boy it's really tricky picturing the complex sequence of events and processes that lead to today's landscape. I feel that the combination you do of field work observation and white board diagrams is a good complement. And, naturally, when I told my wife I had another of your video's she said "Oh boy, it's Myron, what's he got for us today". Many thanks, Myron, not only for the education, but the awe and wonder you capture in your terrific photography and narration. I'm giving you a thumbs up, and, hmm let's see, how about 3 happy faces. 😀😀😀

@myroncook

Күн бұрын

Thanks!

Love it! I grew up in the Montana Rocky mountains and always wondered how they where formed. Sometime I hope you will do a video of the area of the Bob Marshall wilderness. Thanks again for your wonderful videos.

Rare I subscribe after one video, however such is the inspiration you provided Myron. What a journey you took me on, much gratitude.

I was there on April!

By chance i watched this video in the morning before a anned hike in Lory state park, where I'll see a section of this formation. Perfect synchronicity. Excited.

I love your videos Myron. Another Good one. I used to live in Longmont Colorado in 1977-78. Now I live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and do some Mineral Prospecting in British Columbia. I'm a BCiT Certified Prospector and have built some Core Drilling Platforms on the side of mountains where we flew in our building material by Helicopter. This is where my Profile picture came from almost 20 years ago. Your videos remind me of my adventurous spirit. The Adventure continues. Thank you so much, please keep them coming. Peter.

@myroncook

11 күн бұрын

neat background story! Love Calgary...lived there for three years

Many thanks Myron, you make geology and rocks come to life! 🇦🇺

I love your videos! You don't just highlight oddities you explain how to interpret them and that is what I love to learn

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

Myron, thank you so much for this video. Finally a video on the front range of Colorado. Recently I become very interested in geology. It’s very fascinating and you make it all the more fascinating. But videos mostly cover Utah and from you Wyoming. These sites are too far away for me. But I live within 30 minutes of these red rocks so this video is altogether more exciting for me. I have a drone also and I’m looking forward to taking a few shots of these sites.

Thank you Myron for yet another insightful video.

great presentations! You are a wonderful geology teacher

@myroncook

11 күн бұрын

Thank you! 😃

Myron, I live in Junction. Have explored all around. This is the first time that what I saw has been explained. You have opened a whole new window on the world. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

@myroncook

9 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

And I feel fortunate to be able to learn from such a knowledgeable teacher, whose videos are stunningly well made. (Just to tag onto your two ending sentences.) thank you so much, Mr. Cook!

Wonderful host, intriguing geology, beautiful scenery! Love this video!💕

Thank you. A wonderful explanation, as always. I have spent a lot of time in these red rock areas, as well as the rest of the Rockies. You are a national treasure.

@myroncook

15 күн бұрын

You are very welcome

This is continuing geologic education for me, heck Myron’s lectures are more informative than my undergraduate earth science courses! Thanks Myron!

Thanks, Myron.👍

Myron, you also inspire us with your beautiful videos, just as much as those mountains do. Thanks again for what you give us

Enjoy your videos immensely. As a wyoming native, I have visited many if the places you describe and your insights have been inspiring to me.

@myroncook

15 күн бұрын

love to hear that!

This drone footage is incredible

Loved this video! I was so pleased that you included the Eagle basin.

Thank you professor for talking to us like old friends. It's a pleasure to hear you explaining the geological past of the USA. So much stuff sitting out in the open to see west of the 100th meridian! Fisher Towers is not too far west from the Top Of the World . Many car commercials made there! Both are spectacular view points. The white board got a workout this time! Thanks again professor! Steve

Myron does indeed do a good job on these! Thanks!