I’m a geologist who did a masters thesis mapping the Valley and Ridge geology in Hampshirite and Hardy counties, WVA. I appreciate your efforts to clearly explain the geologic history to lay people. From the comments, looks like your work is much appreciated. Good refresher for me, too.

@bobfoster687

Жыл бұрын

That was in 1977. I’m old! But not as John Denver sang, “older than the mountains…”

@richardhutchinson4974

Жыл бұрын

Excellent, next time I drive through the mountains I will appreciate the 'how did that happen? ' question.

@psilocybemusashi

5 ай бұрын

wow i studied mechanical engineering but i was close to switching to geology. in the end i thought there were less jobs and lower pay but now i realize i could have made far more money working for an oil and gas company as a geologist... or a mechanical engineer for that matter meh no regrets.

@hobog

4 ай бұрын

​​@@psilocybemusashiI think starting pay is generally higher for engineers. Civil Engineering firms in Europe and US+Canada have been hiring geologists for maybe more than a generation now. Mining includes water and non-fossil-fuels too!

@AustinKoleCarlisle

4 ай бұрын

that area has some of the purest aquifers, right?

As a sixth grader in 1962 I looked at a map on the wall and told the teacher that the continents all fit together nicely, and she assured me I was wrong. Plate tectonics couldn't come quick enough for this inquisitive young man.

@kekkic

26 күн бұрын

I remember being an elementary school also in the late 60s and thinking that all the continents fit together like a puzzle and I somehow knew that they once had been one continent without ever really learning about it till later

@kyokkyuu

25 күн бұрын

@@kekkicI love stories like this. I've anecdotally heard that people noticed these things ever since decent maps started being produced, but technology had to advance a long way before we as a species could explain it.

@MinnesotaGuy822

21 күн бұрын

@GregDaniels But everyone knows that "authorities" have perfect and complete knowledge about everything and are to be unquestioningly believed and obeyed. Don't think for yourself, the authorities have your best interest at heart and if you don't brainlessly believe and obey them, you'll hurt yourself! /s That was pretty much the upbringing I had as a kid in the 1970s; be deferential to "authorities" and live by and internalize "the orthodoxy". Yeah, right. It's amazing how many people who are scientists are fiercely tribal, holding to their tribe's orthodoxy, their set of sacred dogmas, their "sacred truths" that are not allowed to be questioned. On the other hand, just being contrary and oppositional just to feel powerful, i.e., being a troll, is a pretty horrible state to live in. Given what some of us humans have learned since about just how partial human knowledge is and how fragile human reason is, I've found it better to chart the middle course and live by the motto, "Examine everything carefully; cling firmly to that which you find to be good." And always ask, "How do I know what I think I know, what I believe to be true?" Keep on asking questions, young man! :D

@kevkevdj

9 күн бұрын

@@MinnesotaGuy822no that’s religion.

@Starry_Night_Sky7455

3 күн бұрын

I just want to know the identity of the teacher. Add a name and face here. She was so so wrong 😅. Find her relatives. Send a card that says you were right.

You have us mesmerized, we wish we were 50 years younger and were studying to be geologists. You are an inspiration. Allan and Carmon

@Rain9Quinn

Жыл бұрын

Yup!😆

@harrietharlow9929

8 ай бұрын

I know I wish I was younger and studying geoogy!

@tangerine199

6 ай бұрын

It's never too late! Seriously find out if you can sit in on some geology classes at a university near you. Lots of profs in smaller universities/colleges would love to talk to you and share their ideas - a Geologist's son

@MarkFloyd7451

3 ай бұрын

@@tangerine199 A lot of professors don't mind. You can also take classes thru Open University no matter what your age is. When I was in my early twenties and taking a Physical Geology class I remember there was a much older looking gent, perhaps in his 60's or more, auditing the class.

@carolyngarman1422

26 күн бұрын

As a geologist (BS - VA Tech, MS - CO School of Mines), I assure you it has been the love of my life and you can appreciate it everywhere you go. I wouldn't want to be in any other profession. You learn to think in 3D. I worked in the environmental industry.

Between you and Nick Zentner, I am finding a sincere love for geology. I love this stuff. Nick has taught me so much about the Pacific Northwest. And now you're teaching me about our east coast. Now I wish I could find something to teach me about Missouri Geology.

@myroncook

11 ай бұрын

I love to hear this!

@JusNoBS420

2 ай бұрын

Nick is also great 👍

@nancyscipione9876

22 күн бұрын

Watch Shawn Wolsey. He is also great!

@chloedoritoloco8537

18 күн бұрын

Missoula flood fans unite!

This was awesome. The Appalachians are my home mountains, I’m glad to understand them more. It’s so nice to spend time with someone who is also just thrilled by the story of the earth.

@gravitystorm61158

7 ай бұрын

I grew up in the Catskill range of the Appalachia Mountains. Rockland County NY to be exact. I was taken by rocks as a kid because everywhere I put a shovel to dig worms for fishing, I would hit a rock. They interested me in learning how they got there. All school taught us was the “Ice Age”….

You know it's gonna be a good day when Myron drops a fresh video! 😊

@williamthomas5342

Жыл бұрын

Love the nolage. Please keep teaching me.

Thanks Myron. As a Merrylander who got his historical geology training in the region, I appreciate your covering this. Like you say, though the Rockies are far more spectacular, the Appalachians have their own charm (maybe that's why Baltimore is called "Charm City" ;) especially in terms of it's long history and series of orogenies. As is said, Maryland is "American in Miniature," not only in terms of geography, but also geology. From Precambrian to Pleistocene Terraces, the only thing we're missing at the surface is the Jurassic Period and the Oligocene Epoch. For about a year now I've been dating a lady who grew up in Huntsville AL, which is located in the N.E. part of the state. Naturally I checked out the geology there, and I was rather surprised to find geologic formations that were identical to ones here. For instance, the Pennsylvanian Pottsville Formation runs from Pennsylvania, through western Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, and Alabama. "It is a major ridge-former in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians." When you mention “deep underground,” understanding that was an early major insight for me. The faults and folds here are very complicated. I was fortunate in the fact that Dr. Beem, the person I took honors geology with for 4-years, liked to do field work, which was an incredible help in my being able to put the puzzle together in my mind. And it’s not just the Valley & Ridge that are interesting. Running here through Frederick Countie’s Triassic sediments, is the Newark Supergroup. It starts in Newfoundland and runs through to South Carolina, and also has areas of Jurassic sediments. It represents an early Rift Zone that failed, as Pangea began to pull apart. In N.E. Frederick county are found Grallators, that are thought to be made by the the early dinosaur, Coelophysis. Precise identification is difficult, because the animal(s) appeared to have been running. Another point of interest in Frederick County, the western side has two ridges that contain greenstone Metabasalts, remnants of volcanism occurring towards the east during the Paleozoic Era. One last thing, about 20 miles west of Baltimore is the town of Granite, named so for obvious reasons. The rocks there are thought to be the remains of the core of an ancient volcano :)

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

fascinating!

@pambrown6260

Жыл бұрын

We followed the Appalachians to/ through the gasped peninsula.

Great video about an area that is sadly ignored. I am a rock hound and live in Maryland. There are so many deposits of all kinds jumbled around me. Fantastic metamorphic schist, a mica mine and even red sandstones with iron and dinosaur tracks. This area was the source of Colonial iron ore and granite too! We are still classed as a moderate earthquake zone due to remaining stresses.

My 8th grade earth science teacher introduced us to “The Theory of Continental Shift” back in 1973. The term “plate tectonics” wasn’t known to me until some years later. At the time, it wasn’t considered mainstream science, but within about 5-10 years, it was accepted as scientific fact. Once we put cameras down at the bottom of the Atlantic Rift and actually saw new crust being created, thus pushing the continents apart, it was pretty much proven.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

interesting!

@LyleFrancisDelp

Жыл бұрын

@@myroncook I’m wondering if I’m correct on this. Please enlighten me. That was a long time ago, but I remember it distinctly.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

​@@LyleFrancisDelp You are correct!

@LyleFrancisDelp

Жыл бұрын

@@myroncook Thanks for reassuring my memory. That teacher was one of my all time favorites. He ignited an interest in science that pervades to this day.

@bobfoster687

Жыл бұрын

Sea floor magnetic anomaly “stripes” also were indicative. Magma rising was magnetized differently depending on the shift of the Earth’s magnetic pole, creating symmetrical, parallel magnetic bands parallel to the Mid-Atlantic Rift.

A good way to visualize a foreland basin is to pile books, one at a time, onto a sofa cushion. As the pile of books get taller, the 'basins' adjacent to the books gets deeper. Small mountains ranges - a small pile of books - will create shallow basins on either side of it, and an immense pile of books will create very deep basins. The depth and extent of the basin can be used as a proxy for the length and height of the mountain range that created it.

@mbvoelker8448

Жыл бұрын

That's a terrific visual!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

good idea!

@joeelliott2157

Жыл бұрын

"The depth and extent of the basin can be used as a proxy for the length and height of the mountain range that created it." That is an excellent point. Since the basin will resist erosion for a much longer period than the much more exposed mountains themselves. Most of the mountain range will have been eroded away, while the still largely below ground basin will still persist.

@mulder2400

Жыл бұрын

Globe "Planets" with oceans glued to a curved surface ? LOL ... LMAO Here kids, Earth is a level plane comprised of fossilized flesh. The actual term is called Nucleophilic Substitution, with level Earth the Substrate. Mega titan dragon creatures 🐉🐲died here long ago, and their bodies are now limestone and granite ⛰🏔 mountains, and island chains etc. This type of creature was airborne, fire breathing and it's actual venom is where Crude Oil, Shale, and Coal come from. These Dragons bodies 🐉are loaded with the 38 Transition Metals (e.g. - Fe, Au, Ag, Cu etc.) like the Appalachians Mts. 🏔 (dragon) on the East coast. Fossil Fuel is a correct term like biogenic oil, but there is no true "Jurassic period", just the reality that ancient mega Titan reptilian creatures existed and limestone/granite mountains are the physical remains (Substrate). Go to google earth, remove borders and labels, and see the Atlas Mts. in Morocco for a starter dragon (1000 mi. baby), and notice the two colorful blue/red glands which secreted the black venom (now Crude Oil). There's also a 500 mile long fish 🐠as the Sahara Desert, leaving it's Si Silicon, and SiO2 sands laying next to that dragon as well. The east coast Appalachians/Blue Ridge Mts. are another multi head dragon, a Monster-0 type (lol) leaving shale and the Mexican Gulf it's vast oil (Venom) deposits etc. The north Canadian Rockies are made of at least two separate dragon 🐉🐲creatures, leaving massive coal and crude oil deposits in Alaska and Yukon Territories etc. These mega-Titan fire breathing dragon creatures are the stuff of legends, and they are forever part of Earth Plane Topography (🐉=🏔), and our ancient level Earth's actual History. Now you know where gasoline, and metals for tooling comes from, 🐲🐉! 😉 lol ... Dragons !

@Jungcheese1080

Жыл бұрын

Isostatic pressure

I can not even begin to tell you how much I appreciate this video! I watched it three times this morning. I’ve lived in the PA Appalachian mountains all my life and was always fascinated by the different formations, but never was able to put a visual on the how truly big they actually were. As a little kid, my babysitters husband gave me fossils he would find and told me “my” mountains were once the biggest in the world! I grew up on the north face of a fold, not far from the Susquehanna. To get to Harrisburg, we would travel down 322 along the river where I could see these beautiful layers exposed. Thank you, Mr. Cook! You’ve got a friend in Pennsylvania!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your story, Skippy! I'm so happy it added some knowledge/appreciation for your homeland.

@joemug4079

Жыл бұрын

I just found Byron’s show and love it! Because I love science, all of it. I’m now watching your videos about daily now. I have you added to my list of best KZread scientists: * Myron Cook Geology Read the Rocks *StarTalk *Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t Thank you for you’re show!!

@mulder2400

Жыл бұрын

Globe "Planets" with oceans glued to a curved surface ? LOL ... LMAO Here kids, Earth is a level plane comprised of fossilized flesh. The actual term is called Nucleophilic Substitution, with level Earth the Substrate. Mega titan dragon creatures 🐉🐲died here long ago, and their bodies are now limestone and granite ⛰🏔 mountains, and island chains etc. This type of creature was airborne, fire breathing and it's actual venom is where Crude Oil, Shale, and Coal come from. These Dragons bodies 🐉are loaded with the 38 Transition Metals (e.g. - Fe, Au, Ag, Cu etc.) like the Appalachians Mts. 🏔 (dragon) on the East coast. Fossil Fuel is a correct term like biogenic oil, but there is no true "Jurassic period", just the reality that ancient mega Titan reptilian creatures existed and limestone/granite mountains are the physical remains (Substrate). Go to google earth, remove borders and labels, and see the Atlas Mts. in Morocco for a starter dragon (1000 mi. baby), and notice the two colorful blue/red glands which secreted the black venom (now Crude Oil). There's also a 500 mile long fish 🐠as the Sahara Desert, leaving it's Si Silicon, and SiO2 sands laying next to that dragon as well. The east coast Appalachians/Blue Ridge Mts. are another multi head dragon, a Monster-0 type (lol) leaving shale and the Mexican Gulf it's vast oil (Venom) deposits etc. The north Canadian Rockies are made of at least two separate dragon 🐉🐲creatures, leaving massive coal and crude oil deposits in Alaska and Yukon Territories etc. These mega-Titan fire breathing dragon creatures are the stuff of legends, and they are forever part of Earth Plane Topography (🐉=🏔), and our ancient level Earth's actual History. Now you know where gasoline, and metals for tooling comes from, 🐲🐉! 😉 lol ... Dragons !

@ohyeayea6692

Жыл бұрын

😅im not a geologist & I'm way closer to Antarctica than to the US. Its interesting how one becomes aware of the terminology unknowingly, its to do with the calibre of the presentations. i do find deep time difficult... contemplating a billion years, really understanding it , isnt something i know how to do. I'll be watching this gentleman's other videos, very comfortable viewing.

@JohnLeePettimoreIII

Жыл бұрын

@@joemug4079 here are some others that may interest you : Cody's Lab - misc science/nerd Nile Red - chemistry Nile Blue - chemistry Journey To The Microcosmos - microbiology Thoisoi - chemistry Sixty Symbols - physics Mathologer - maths 3 Blue 1 Brown - maths Ben Eater - electronics

I really enjoyed this, Myron! I live in PA, have traveled the east coast extensively and have seen lots of roadway cutouts which looked exactly like the one pictured at 0:10 in this video. Now I know what I’m looking at and have a whole new appreciation for the sheer beauty of this geology. Thanks!

@Seeker0fTruth

Жыл бұрын

Same!! Hello fellow Pennsylvanian!

Fantastic presentation. I can now look out my back yard at the foothills and valleys and understand how they were formed. Driving around here in East Tennessee and western North Carolina I can also understand these huge rock folds that dominate the mountains. Been waiting for this and you delivered it brilliantly. 😊

Myron, Thanks for the time and effort you put into making this. Your explanations are flawless.

I'm from Eastern PA and I love looking at the rocks when I'm out driving. I live right on the Blue Mountain and the next ridge over is pure sand; it's so interesting to think that that ridge is made up of a smooshed ocean floor and mine was from somewhere to the east, more or less. Thanks for the great video.

What a coincidence you posted this video! I just got back from mapping the Valley and Ridge province for a project as well as writing a paper on the orogenies that had occurred in creation of the Appalachian mountains all semester! I was able to see physically all the incredible folds and deformation of rock.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Very cool!

@bobfoster687

Жыл бұрын

Valley and Ridge

You're like if my dad liked rocks instead of planes.

Wow! I live in the Hudson Valley, and I have the Catskills to my west and the Taconics and Berkshires to my east. We have some amazing folds of layers of limestone in rock cuts, with well pressed fossils. These were the creatures who were buried in the Foreland* basin, that were covered by the Catskill Delta. Would love to know more! Thanks for this!

@bobfoster687

Жыл бұрын

Foreland

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your feedback, Jillian! Keep visualizing and enjoying the geology...brings wonderment.

Myron, it's simple. I love you - your joy-infused teaching is incomparable. Where were you in my grade-school??? I'd likely be sitting here in a glorious pile of rocks rather than the horticultural spread I enjoy. You are a 'national treasure', even if I'm Canadian. Bless your work.💐

This so reminds me of my geology 101 course taught by a professor who was not the nice person you obviously are, but was an excellent teacher. He inspired me with a love of studying geology and subsequent courses were more of a detailed review of the concepts he introduced, with fill-in detail added. I appreciate your recognition of the importance of petroleum and coal diagenesis despite the really bad press "fossil" energy is currently receiving. Yes, CO2 from coal and hydrocarbons is an increasingly serious problem, but the fact is that the rise of our modern civilization and so much of the scientific innovation that is so vital to our lives can all be traced to James Watt's Cornish mine engines run on coal and Colonial Drake's well in Titusville, Pennsylvania. My ancestor's career was in drilling for oil in North-Western Pennsylvania (near Titusville) and that's where I'd spend my summers as a child in the folded Allegheny Mountains. Interesting to ponder that this region was on the Western edge of the Appalachian Foreland Basin. By the way, what we now call "Foreland Basin" development buried so deep as to have granitic intrusions was part of the Geosyncline Theory (taught by my Prof.) that proceeded the (then) brand new (and not totally accepted) Plate Techtonics Theory.

So glad to see you covering our neck of the woods, Myron! As a native of Pennsylvania, I grew up as one of those who underappreciated our local mountain range in lieu of the spectacular Rockies, but over time I've come to love the subtle beauty and lush forests that these old and fairly stable mountains have to offer.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad to hear that

If I were still teaching high school geoscience your videos would be my assistant. Your ability to convey the whole geologic picture is great. Thanks

@mulder2400

Жыл бұрын

Globe "Planets" with oceans glued to a curved surface ? LOL ... LMAO Here kids, Earth is a level plane comprised of fossilized flesh. The actual term is called Nucleophilic Substitution, with level Earth the Substrate. Mega titan dragon creatures 🐉🐲died here long ago, and their bodies are now limestone and granite ⛰🏔 mountains, and island chains etc. This type of creature was airborne, fire breathing and it's actual venom is where Crude Oil, Shale, and Coal come from. These Dragons bodies 🐉are loaded with the 38 Transition Metals (e.g. - Fe, Au, Ag, Cu etc.) like the Appalachians Mts. 🏔 (dragon) on the East coast. Fossil Fuel is a correct term like biogenic oil, but there is no true "Jurassic period", just the reality that ancient mega Titan reptilian creatures existed and limestone/granite mountains are the physical remains (Substrate). Go to google earth, remove borders and labels, and see the Atlas Mts. in Morocco for a starter dragon (1000 mi. baby), and notice the two colorful blue/red glands which secreted the black venom (now Crude Oil). There's also a 500 mile long fish 🐠as the Sahara Desert, leaving it's Si Silicon, and SiO2 sands laying next to that dragon as well. The east coast Appalachians/Blue Ridge Mts. are another multi head dragon, a Monster-0 type (lol) leaving shale and the Mexican Gulf it's vast oil (Venom) deposits etc. The north Canadian Rockies are made of at least two separate dragon 🐉🐲creatures, leaving massive coal and crude oil deposits in Alaska and Yukon Territories etc. These mega-Titan fire breathing dragon creatures are the stuff of legends, and they are forever part of Earth Plane Topography (🐉=🏔), and our ancient level Earth's actual History. Now you know where gasoline, and metals for tooling comes from, 🐲🐉! 😉 lol ... Dragons !

I am 63 and I still feel incredible excitement when I hear you speak with a great love of geology. Thank you, Myron for keeping geology a satisfying distraction from the necessary pains of daily life.

@myroncook

Ай бұрын

My pleasure!

Thank you for the great video Myron! We were just down hiking in Red River Gorgw and the foothills of the Appalachians today. The geologic processes at work in the gorge are simply amazing and we are often left with limestone and sandstone arches, tall cliffs, rock outcroppings, caves etc. Great to see geology at work!

I always look forward to a new video from you Myron, and anticipate what new things I can learn about geology. Great stuff as usual!

The 11-papers analogy is a very effective way of showing how thin the crust is and easily penetrated from below👍

Brillant explanations and super helpful illustrations! Love this channel!

I really appreciate the way you explain things, especially your use of those maps, and how you outline Pennsylvania. It provides a great reference.

Thanks Myron. You are a superb teacher.

The range is over a billion years old. Great place to hike. Beautiful river gorges and waterfalls. My understanding (before watching the vid) is the Appalachians used to be 36000', higher than Mount Everest. It eroded down to the current 6000' leaving the river valleys chocked full of quadrillions of rocks of all sizes.

@RuminatingWizard

Жыл бұрын

It's NOT over a billion years old. You've been indoctrinated

What a great video! I always enjoy learning from you Myron! Thank you!

Excellent presentation Myron more please.

I've been waiting on this . As I'm a east Tennessee Appalachian man . I appreciate this knowledge. Thank you

This is what I would have imagined a Bob Ross demonstration would have been like had he been a geologist.

Thanks for the education, Myron!

Absolutely fascinating! Myron, you have the gift of making complex subjects like geology seem easy to the extent that even dummies like me ‘get it’. Thank you 🙏

I love your videos and teaching style. What a stunning backstory on the appellation orogeny. Some of the map orientation was difficult to follow, so a North marker on the maps would help a great deal for non-northern Hemisphere folk.

I grew up in PA and had no idea how the Appalachian Mountains were formed! Thank you for doing such a great informative video! 😊

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you! You do such a good job of explaining complex topics simply so that the rest of us can understand and appreciate the wonders around us.

Fantastic lesson Myron! I really appreciate you taking the time to put this together.

Very interesting, I love the clay model and the explanation of erosion was very helpful as I’ve had trouble grasping the scale of that. Thank you Myron!

Thx so much for this! For us in the east, the Appalachians are as keenly interesting as the rockies are to you guys! Have been looking for this kind of clear, easy to understand history for so long. (Only found dry lectures with bad sound and hard to see charts). You’re a great and enthusiastic teacher. Going to watch again in a few minutes.

@Danika_Nadzan

Жыл бұрын

I agree completely! I'm from eastern PA and also spent ten years in Tennesee's Smoky Mountains, where you can see those beautiful waves of hills at the beginning of your video. I spent many days walking my dogs at Wilbur dam in Carter County, TN, looking in awe at the huge cuts in the mountainsides. Their many-layered folds, tilted at steep angles, are the live version of your clay model. Myron, the model and your explanation of the whole process make it easy to grasp and understand! And I knew the Appalachians were once as tall as the Himalayas, but had no idea their erosion spread as far as Arizona! Puts it into an even larger perspective...the Appalachians show the future the Rockies and the Himalayas!

Geomorphology is always interesting. It is hard to wrap your head around it all, but Mr. Myron Cook makes it easy.

Fascinating! Thank you for sharing.

Great stuff, as always, Myron. Gives a little insight into the initial Pennsylvanian deposits in SE Kansas, and the coal mining in that area.

Growing up in Pa. I've seen this firsthand. I remember seeing coal seams coming right out of the ground in places when hunting. Strip mining around eastern Pa. looks for the coal which is close to the surface. Today most mining in Pa. has stopped, but I now understand better the way coal seams were laid down. In Wyoming you don't have all the green vegetation covering up the land and you can see all the ground features easily. Both places have their own beauty.

Just found this channel. Loving it, thanks!!

Fascinating! Thank you very much.

These videos should be shown in schools...

@katanaki3059

20 күн бұрын

But Evolution vs the Bible

@prime-mate

20 күн бұрын

@katanaki3059 Geology isn't evolution, and the Bible is a little vague when it comes to geological processes.. what exactly are you trying to say?

Always interesting. Always enjoyable. Thanks again. I had the good fortune to visiting the Black Thunder coal mine outside of Wright a few years ago and was amazed by what they showed us with regard to the amount of coal that is deposited in Wyoming. It would sure make an interesting video...

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Hope to do that

Thank you so much for presenting this.

Fascinating! Thanks for the geology lesson!

I grew up near Pittsburgh and learned my college geology at Juniata College in the heart of the ridge and valley province in the early 80's. Drs. Trexler and Washington would take us up horrible fire roads to overlooks where we could see the land spread out all the way to the next ridge and see the synclines and anticlines almost as clearly as if we were looking at a map.

@RobbieMcT97

3 күн бұрын

Fellow JC alumnus- trexler/mutti era

@mbvoelker8448

3 күн бұрын

@@RobbieMcT97 Cool!

Thank you for covering this! The Appalachians are such an interesting group of mountains, and super important culturally and historically to so many, but often overlooked just because they're 'short.' I'd love to see something on the Mississippi Embayment and even more so on the formation of the Ouachitas. Most of the Ouachitas are very similar to the basin and range geology of the Appalachian system, but they have some unique features. Top of mind are the McKinley Rocks and the Potato Hills in the Kiaminchi valley area, as well as the novaculite seams that are--from what I've been told--the only major metamorphic rocks known in the whole Ouachita system. Supposedly, there is an odd lack of associated vulcanism as well.

@mulder2400

Жыл бұрын

Globe "Planets" with oceans glued to a curved surface ? LOL ... LMAO Here kids, Earth is a level plane comprised of fossilized flesh. The actual term is called Nucleophilic Substitution, with level Earth the Substrate. Mega titan dragon creatures 🐉🐲died here long ago, and their bodies are now limestone and granite ⛰🏔 mountains, and island chains etc. This type of creature was airborne, fire breathing and it's actual venom is where Crude Oil, Shale, and Coal come from. These Dragons bodies 🐉are loaded with the 38 Transition Metals (e.g. - Fe, Au, Ag, Cu etc.) like the Appalachians Mts. 🏔 (dragon) on the East coast. Fossil Fuel is a correct term like biogenic oil, but there is no true "Jurassic period", just the reality that ancient mega Titan reptilian creatures existed and limestone/granite mountains are the physical remains (Substrate). Go to google earth, remove borders and labels, and see the Atlas Mts. in Morocco for a starter dragon (1000 mi. baby), and notice the two colorful blue/red glands which secreted the black venom (now Crude Oil). There's also a 500 mile long fish 🐠as the Sahara Desert, leaving it's Si Silicon, and SiO2 sands laying next to that dragon as well. The east coast Appalachians/Blue Ridge Mts. are another multi head dragon, a Monster-0 type (lol) leaving shale and the Mexican Gulf it's vast oil (Venom) deposits etc. The north Canadian Rockies are made of at least two separate dragon 🐉🐲creatures, leaving massive coal and crude oil deposits in Alaska and Yukon Territories etc. These mega-Titan fire breathing dragon creatures are the stuff of legends, and they are forever part of Earth Plane Topography (🐉=🏔), and our ancient level Earth's actual History. Now you know where gasoline, and metals for tooling comes from, 🐲🐉! 😉 lol ... Dragons !

What a treat to hear my FAVORITE geologist give a talk on another fascinating aspect of a great science!!

Another great video. You confirmed a couple of things I'd heard but find astonishing. Thanks to Myron. Please keep up producing your videos.

This was really fantastic, you have a really nice way of presenting 101 information very concisely. Although, you and I need to have a serious discussion of the pronunciation of those mountains, lol. Geologist in the Western highlands of Virginia here, by the way. One thing, on a serious note, would be if you wanted to continue the discussion a little further… Is the graben that has occurred as the Atlantic rift opens up, and to the west, talking about the Appalachian plateau, where it goes to about a 3° western dip but otherwise it's flat lying. After the uplift brought all the coal up to shooting distance, a lot of people think that West Virginia became mountainous, which it really didn't; it's all erosional with the settlement going to the Gulf. Just lots of interesting stuff you can get into in our Appa-LATCH-IN mountains 😂

Hey Myron, just started this video and I’m sure I’ll love it, but I’d like to comment early with a question for a possible future video.. I am from Louisiana and spent 11 years in the Gulf of Mexico running Wireline and the last 5 in the Permian. Every once in a while I will drive by different erroded hillsides in New Mexico and even into colorado with a reddish almost purple formation that erodes easily and usually has a greenish gray band or 2 maybe a foot thick that also seems to erode at the same rate. Sometimes it’s under a cap rock of limestone or in a tuft or sandstone so I know it’s not just a soil profile although it seems to erode almost as easily like. I can’t seem to find anything explaining what it is. One example you may be aware of is off of New Mexico 84 between Abiquiu and echo amphitheater. I’m not sure if I described it well enough but if you do know what I’m talking about any response would be appreciated! Thanks for the great content!

@myroncook

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I'm not familiar with that particular area

@AdamCourville

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@@myroncook Oh ok. I see outcrops of what appear to be the same formation almost always beneath a harder cap rock all over New Mexico all the way down to the Texas border north to southern Colorado and nothing comes up with any google searches describing it. Being so widespread and different than most other easily identifiable types of formations I find it strange that it’s so hard to find out what it is. Is there a way to send some pictures of it maybe you your website? I understand you may be busy and no time for this so don’t want to bother you but figure it’s worth a shot asking.

@AdamCourville

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@@myroncook actually no need to send you pictures, watching your video of the 50 million year old mammal tracks and from around 9:20 until the end you are walking around in the same type of landscape I’m talking about, only deeper reddish purple with greenish gray colors. What created the scenery in the end of that video?

@seasmith2268

4 ай бұрын

Bump, for notice by Myron Cook @@AdamCourville

This was fascinating! I had no idea that the erosion of the Appalachian mountains filled in the interior ocean. I’m impressed by your high quality preparation, the teaching aids (yay, white board,), cool maps, and your good-humored and very well-spoken narration, plus your filming of it all (the drone shots are astounding): topics and teaching are always great. Thank you so much!

Fantastic, outstanding, and great presentation. THANKS

I hope you don’t mind me saying, but you’re like the new Bob Ross. I hope your channel breaks through in a major way!

Thank you for sharing your wonderful knowledge. This is fascinating!

Thank You for publishing this. I really enjoy watching you and Nick Zentner on KZread

I'm so pleased I discovered your videos! You have a passion for geology that shines through, and an excellent, clear presentation style.

Thank you for teaching us! You do a great job!

Thanks for spreading the knowledge.

I have always loved geology and your easy, diagramed presentations are amazing and so informative, Myron.

Fascinated by this geology tour, well done

Amazing presentation and use of visuals. Thank you.

Thank you for your continued sharing of your knowledge and for once again expanding my understanding and nurturing my curiosity of the processes that form our landscapes…all of which I delight in. The scaled down earth images, models, and white board images helped greatly.

Excellent explanations and visuals! Thank you Myron! 👌👍👍🌟🌟

Absolutely fantastic presentation!!

Excellent informative content as always. Thank you!

thanks Myron! i've been getting into all sorts of geology lately and your channel has been a big part of that. i grew up in the Allegheny Mountains in Pennsylvania, so seeing this video pop up on my feed got an instant click! i had no idea of everything that went into forming my home! much love

@myroncook

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That is awesome!

You have such a gentle and understandable way of presenting this geology. This would be a good learning video for people of any age. Thanks for a video on my home mountains.

Great content and a presentation style that would make Mr. Rogers smile.

I love this classes! Thank you, sir!

I have watched this post again and will watch it over and over until I fully understand it. I am just a laser sheet metal worker that works in manufacturing. I have NO Collage, or geology skills. I am just a common person that Loves Geology. I live in Alabama and were at one time a pretty good caver. I LOVE ALABAMA and its Geology. I am so pleased to have found this channel and want to learn more. Who has time for games when you can feed your mind with information. Thank you for replying. I have a basic concept about the basic geology in my area. As ignorant as I am, have learned a lot from watching you. Thank you for your Great work. You have your ducks in a row.

@myroncook

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Thank you for your story, Paul. I love to hear about people like you...it is inspiring to me. For me the "common man" is the absolute backbone of our country.

Thank you so much for answering so many questions that I had.

So informative! Fascinating to learn of the Appalachian geology. Thank you so much.

I love your channel! Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge. So fascinating!

I’m studying geology right now and since my school is in the Appalachian plateau we’ve been learning about the geology of the area and it’s made me have so much more appreciation for the region

What a wonderful explanation! Myron you are an incredible natural down to earth teacher with a love and passion of Geology. Thank you for a great presentation of the Appalachians.

Fascinating content! I really appreciate the visual detail that makes it all so easy to understand.

As usual Myron, you're explanations of geological formations are wonderful to watch. Thank you for your excellent presentations.

Thank you Myron for another great lecture!

Always excited to see a new post by the good Dr.

Great video myron! Keep them coming!

Marvelous visuals. !!!🕊💕🕊 Thank you

thank you so much mr cook your fotografy and explanations are testament to your vast knowledge much appreciated

Great stuff as always Professor Cook!

Thank you Myron. As a fellow educator, I am inspired by you.

Great video, very interesting, clear, and beautiful! Thank you, kindly.

Wow!!! Thank you for sharing your vast knowledge. I thoroughly enjoyed this whole video and will continue watching all of them! I'm in Colorado and hope you do one on this state.

Excellent easy to understand explanation. Thank you so much!!!

Just found your channel a few days ago. Huge appreciation for your work. Subscribed.

What a great video. Myron does it again. It is very hard to find good videos for regular people about Appalachian geology. And, the cliffhanger- Appalachian zircons in Arizona. Can’t wait to hear an explanation for that!

That was great! Very insightful and intuitive!

Thank you! Wonderful presentation, I learned so much.

AS usual, a fun and informative video, Myron. I always enjoy your presentations.

@myroncook

6 ай бұрын

Thanks again!