Total time elapsed in this sequence of rocks is 2.7 billion years. Several have asked about high vs low-energy deposits. I should have expanded on the use of these terms. Larger grain sizes require more energy to transport and deposit than do low energy deposits. Clay-size particles are the lowest energy in that they can float in calm water for long distances before depositing. Very high-energy deposits like cobbles or boulders require a lot of energy to transport and are deposited quickly as energy is dissipated (water or wind velocity slowing down). There is a full range in particle size and energy required to transport them.

@gregjones2217

Жыл бұрын

I knew this. However, I want to thank you for taking your time to explain it to everyone. Your explanation of the environment of the formations and how they intertwine was fantastic.

@Laripower

Жыл бұрын

Thank you sir. ❤

@MrYashino

Жыл бұрын

Just amazing the way you took us back in time ,it was mind boggling to have a sense of scale of these sedimentary basins and of course the beauty of thier depositional environments ...you never disappoint us with your video sir ..this video is a classic.. wishing you great health and peace of mind. Thank you 🙏

@Vicus_of_Utrecht

11 ай бұрын

Every child that put mud in the gutters to create a dam during rainstorms should already know this. ... Unfortunately, apps.

@zengerz

9 ай бұрын

What is up with the ridiculous globe thumbnail proving you arent that right sir? Who use dumb contradictions proven a fake in education? Why use deceiving stuff? CGI globe anno 2023, change your name to Crook

The geological david attenborough!

@tomosbon7347

9 ай бұрын

Hopefully not 😮since Sir David is a propaganda artist. 😮😮

@tornadomash00

5 ай бұрын

@@tomosbon7347 shut the fuck up he has an amazing voice

@MissileGuidance

4 ай бұрын

​@@tomosbon7347Yes I agree, unfortunately

@BackYardScience2000

4 ай бұрын

​@@tomosbon7347can you elaborate? I've not heard of him being a propagand-ist. What and how does he push propaganda on/about? Genuinely curious as I've not heard this before. But I'm not a big Attenborough enthusiast, either.

@willswift94

3 ай бұрын

Attenborough is an agenda-driven tool. Hard to listen to his drivel. Myron, however, is legendary in his genuine love for his field of study and desire to share it with a wider audience.

So someone asks, "how do you know that?" And he explains it perfectly. And now I can also explain it to others as well.

@CharlesCollier-kp7km

11 күн бұрын

Me too!!!!

Thanks great uncle Cliff; what you put in that boy enriched many of our lives.

Wow! Another great video from Myron! He explains things so well. Thank you Myron, we appreciate all the effort you put into sharing your knowledge with us!

@triedzidono

11 ай бұрын

If so, I agree already so would like to get paid too, not much, but the principle for being kind, honest & paid for it sounds perfectly un-devious to my ears!@@UQRXD

@kenboydart

10 ай бұрын

I second that opinion, Myron is a wonderful teacher listening to these videos helps me get over the fact I never went to college and it shows it truly is never too late to learn

@zengerz

6 ай бұрын

@@kenboydart Sure college can teach you some things or 2 but you will end up brainwashed and weaker than to actually learn yourself. 2 myron doesnt know that much at all, its just that most folk dont know their stuff and believe everything ppl like myron say to them as it blows them off their feet because it makes a little sense. We dont live on a globe ball of water for example, yet this biologist does not understand this basic knowledge; that proves a person dumb and incapable.. No education or college will make it so that you are actually born more intelligent........ I dont need a diploma/degree in stuff to show the so called experts who is born more intelligent and can tell them how it works withot having the need to blindly copycat books from others when it fits the system or narrative of history

Hey Myron! My daughter will be 7 in 10 days. She LOVES your videos. Your teaching style has captured her attention and she is really beginning to show an interest in geology and is already contemplating time in a manner that I’ve never seen a child consider. You went and sucked ME in as well, and I am grateful for that. I haven’t been this interested in a subject since I first got into emergency medicine about 25 years ago. Thank you for all of this!

@myroncook

11 ай бұрын

I can't tell you how much I enjoy hearing this!

@-108-

6 ай бұрын

😃@@myroncook

@rochellearellano7135

4 ай бұрын

My granddaughter is 6. She loves them too! Budding geologists!

I watch a lit of geology videos on KZread, but what I absolutely love about Myron is that he focuses on the field evidence. I really appreciate his insights and how he explains principles plainly and with good reasoning. Thank you, Myron. You'll never fully how how much your videos impact others and bless them. You are appreciated, Sir!

Not only have I seen time, partially due to your excellent videos, I've also heard the colors, tasted the sounds and smelled the light! 🙏💚💜💚🙏

Love your use of the drone. Epic photography that really allows the rest of us to see what you do!

It is nice to hear that not all Americans believe the world is not 6000 years old.

@mencken8

Ай бұрын

A good way to think of most such things. Words like “all, none, always, never, etc.” are very rarely correct to use, and proliferate like poisonous apples in Internet commentary, the refuge of the lazy. Very many Americans, I suspect, as well as human beings elsewhere on the planet, don’t think the world is 6,000 years old, simply because they’ve never thought about it, nor are likely to.

@TheCRHKing

Ай бұрын

Yeah, when you’re wrong about some thing you want everyone else to be wrong about it also. You don’t want to be the only one in your class to fail a test so if you fail you secretly hope many other people if not everyone in your class failed it also. You think the teacher will give you a second chance because there must have been something wrong with the test if everyone failed. In this analogy, God is the teacher and if you die in your sins, you are going to you spend eternity In worse conditions than you can imagine. You will not be given a second chance once you die.

@user-rn3rn6nl3h

26 күн бұрын

It's 6024.....duh

@TracyD2

19 күн бұрын

Being ignorant while thinking people are ignorant.

@DetourswithFrank

2 күн бұрын

@@TracyD2 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Myron, it struck me when you compared contemplating time in geological formations with staring into to unimaginable depths of a clear night sky. As I've aged and am better able to ponder things beyond survival for myself and family, which we know we spend most of our adult life doing. I'm not able to escape the light and pollution clouded sky's where we live nearly as much as I'd like. I share to feeling of insignificance when looking into a canyon walls as well as the infinite sky's. Thanks for taking the time to create these wonderful lessons!😊

I wish I had had Myron teaching my geology classes some 60 years ago. Myron’s geology videos are absolutely the best.

Where has this guy been all my KZread life! The sonorous voice, the clean crisp videography and inspired editing. Mr. Cook could film paint drying and I’d watch for an hour

Myron, I have watched many of your videos. So many good videos. I was out hiking today in some bentonite hills; recalling your videos on erosion. I see things of the past, now so much clearer.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

I love to hear that

I will never see the world the same way. Very well done. Thank you!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you!

This video is just incredible. You keep getting better and better with your editing, footage, and explanations!

Myron, I have thoroughly enjoyed your videos. I have learned so much and I love your calm, quiet voice as you teach. You are a natural and I can tell how much you truly love what you do. Thank you for all your marvelous videos.

I get so excited when I see a new video from Myron.

Another fabulous lesson! I've hiked a few of those areas and was thrilled to learn so much about them. Can't wait to hike them again now, with a keener eye ❤️

Hello Myron. I travel all over the Midwest as a pilot car. Almost on a daily basis I am in awe with the nature I see. And as I would pass by the mountains with all the exposed layers, I would always Ponder what has happened to create these layers. So when I found you, I found a treasure trove of answers to my questions. It's like reading a book now as I drive down the road with the information you have given me. And Myron, I can't express how grateful I am for the opportunity to know you through these videos. You are a delightful human being to say the least.And this world is a better place having had you here. Godspeed

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

I love to hear this! all the best

I love your videos SOOO Much! Thank you for introducing me to geology, and a big thank you to your great uncle Cliff, too. P.S. I enjoyed it immensely.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

Wonderful episode, Myron! I love geology for those stories, telling me what it is that I'm seeing, how it came about. The time dimension puts things into perspective as you said on a personal level, much like astronomy with its astronomical distances and time scales :) Thank you for making and sharing these amazing videos with us.

Thank you Myron for your wonderful videos explaining deep time. I have a greater appreciation for understanding just how long the formations around us that we often take for granted took to form. Please consider this a compliment, but to me you are the Bob Ross, or Mr. Rogers of the geology world :)

That was an amazing journey across Wyoming over time and rocks professor.

What a great pleasure to watch this and hear this long story told so seamlessly.

I got a deeper appreciation for geological from Randell Carlson to begin with. I live on a mountain in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains. Everywhere around here once you get 2 feet deep you hit sandrock, to learn that this mountain was at one time was a river delta blue my mind. Your channel is fantastic, to me, for a deeper dive into geological processes. Thanks for the info, you do a great job.

@tysonsmudfossiladventures3468

Жыл бұрын

Then please explain Uluru Australia? Its not what geological theory suggests at all. I am a material researcher, I go by the Evidence! Cant be denied unless a person suffers from menticide IMO. kzread.info/dash/bejne/pItrsMGFfNSxfc4.html&ab_channel=MudfossilUniversity

@Vicus_of_Utrecht

11 ай бұрын

Reality is just a few million years old. Shit moves faster than we want to admit.

@KOTAPA

Ай бұрын

​@@Vicus_of_Utrecht What?

@Vicus_of_Utrecht

Ай бұрын

@@KOTAPA I subscribe to 'catastrophism'. I have countlessly watched entire mountains erode in a day. The Sumatra Tsunami not only killed at minimum 250,000 humans, it wiped islands and coastal region out. Plus, increased the Earth's rotation speed thus shortening our days by a few microseconds. Edit: spelling

Thanks Myron! Wyoming is breathtakingly beautiful! It’s so nice to get a better understanding of the formations and how they’ve formed over time. The modern day examples and photos are extremely helpful to imagine what it was like when the layers were created! 👌🌟🌟🌟

Excellently presented and we really appreciate your interspersed drone views as it greatly assist in the overall structures. Thanks for sharing and the best of luck!

I thoroughly enjoyed this video and the drone footage makes it even clearer and more awe-inspiring. I kept pausing it while I tried to imagine all the periods when the layers were being formed, when the lifting and lowering and eroding took place, and marveling at how the planet has gone through so many cycles of change. When the layers eroded, where did the dust and soil go? Part of the various periods of ancient to more recent Wyoming must have flowed or blown to the rest of the continent and vice-versa and maybe even somewhere else. It really makes you think about time and connection. Thank you for explaining it so well and showing up close how amazing it all is, Mr. Cook. I'm looking forward to the next video and hope to see these formations for myself in the near future. :)

Your videos are, as you should know, first class! I love the drone shots and google earth and for sure the whiteboard. I'd sure give you a metaphor award as yours are so helpful. Especially the one about dust, with which I plan to use when my wife wants me to vacuum or dust the house. Thanks again, Jim

Another great easy to understand video explanation of the geology around us. Thanks Myron!

My husband and I love watching your videos and get so excited when we get a notification that you put a new one out! Great content, narration, and beautiful scenes. We are learning so much!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

Amazing story. Lovely video. I'm in complete awe of the depths of time, your meditation on 1" of deep sea ooze deposition as a life lived - really resonated with me. The cycles within and changes between so many different environments, over such unimaginably vast swathes of time, just incredibly humbling. Thank you for taking us on this journey.

@myroncook

8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you so much for this really phenomenal educational video; we have gained tremendous insight from your education and often find ourselves pointing out information on rocks around us that we learned from you. This latest video is really wonderful, it's organized beautifully; thank you!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you!

WOW, I just subscribed and turned on all notifications and 2 minutes later i get my girst new video. What great timing! Thanks for teaching us something interesting with every video.

@kinexkid

Жыл бұрын

You definitely won't be disappointed. Myron Cook is the teacher we all wish we had back in school. I can't help but feel like I'm a child again with a sort of wistful excitement watching him with a glimmer in my eyes

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard!

Love your channel. Peaceful and educational. I enjoy your real life examples and your whiteboard explanations.

Outstanding production. Love your enthusiasm. Thanks for sharing.

@myroncook

2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

Myron, Wow! this was an amazing video full of really awesome material; I love how you organized the information; thank you!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I'm studying archaeology, so experiencing time through one's surroundings is something I find extremely valuable and fascinating. But the time scales involved in geology are just incomprehensible. Thank you so much for making this video and being such a great educator!

@rodneycaupp5962

Жыл бұрын

Archaeologic time overlaps the time of the near surface of the earth. You are wise to follow this information... just adjust in to your understanding of Ancient archeology to include recent Geology. That's where the truth lay in deposits.... Where I am in sw Ohio, the upper 3 to 6 meters of recent , (11,600 year old) Deposits. Stone age tools are found all around Ohio. The FLOOD covered it all , near post glacial melt floods. Pyramids all over America and messo America. yOU ARE ONTO SOME THINGS.

Thank you so much Myron. Another beautiful explanation of our geological processes at work. I just struggle to comprehend how just one location can go through so many different changes, its mind boggling. I reckon your Great Uncle Cliff would be so proud of you. Best wishes, Geoff (Perth, Western Australia)

This is making me so much more excited for my incoming trip to the Bardenas desert in Spain, thank you for all the great content you're putting out Myron, you've singlehandedly rekindled my childhood interest in geology.

Well done, MC. I can read about this stuff and kind of get it , but when it’s presented in this form it becomes clear and succinct enough even for this highschool dropout to figure out. You do us a good service.

Myron bless you. My husband is a geologist by training but has had other careers since. I recently got curious about geology but could not stick with some of the KZread channels on this incredible subject. Too sterile. We have been captivated by your joy and your passion. I am deeply curious about many subjects but this has become addictive lately. I work in mental health and I am convinced that if this was part of our general education, compulsory, the world would be saner, wiser and less stupid! We quite plainly love life, our blue dot and you! 👏🙏🐬🌹🌻

@myroncook

2 ай бұрын

Thank you! Agee on mental health

Well boggled mind. Question time in a few thousand years. Need to watch the video several hundred more times. Thank you Myron for putting it all together and showing it in a quiet enjoyable manner.

Myron: you hit the ball out of the park with this video! Your drone shots and diagrams bring the geologic time scale to life. Thanks!

Amazing video. My grandparents lived up in Buffalo Wy and other family in Cody and Greybull. I have been all through the areas in the video and really had no clue or appreciation of what I was looking at. Thank you for explaining! The awe of it all is staggering.

Sure have. The most hitting to me was when I was in Loreto Mexico . We were out fishing and could see the water lines on rock formations . The captain said that was the water line from millions of years of ago. The water line was 100 feet over our heads. Makes you humble

Thanks for sharing your knowledge! I live in Norway and I'm surrounded by amazing and beautiful landscapes. I don't have the knowledge to decode their mysteries, but thanks to your videos I've started to get a somewhat clearer perspective.

Sat like glued and watched this video -as always! And just like You said, I too get the same feelings, when I look at the nightsky, as thinking about our beautiful planet. Total awe! It is so incredibly mindblowing and humbling that we even exist! ? And the Time it has taken … ? ! I can not deal with that really. What I Can do, is deal with Today! So I will go out, try my best to appreciate my insignificance and pick up some littering in my neighbourhood! Thank You Myron! Also a thankful thought to your Uncle !🙌🏼

@myroncook

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Beyond intelligent!!! Thank you so much. You have answered my questions without me having to ask!!!😮😮😮😮😮

We are contemporaries and I've enjoyed hundreds of hours of classroom time, on both sides of the desk. I am very impressed with your approach to the material. Thank you.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

Alway, we always enjoy watching your shows Myron. We learn a lot, we're awed and amazed, and we're inspired. I have to agree with you that physically walking, or even watching you do that, through these tangible records of time, each with such varied details, really drives home the enormous passage of time much more keenly than just "hey, here's big number".

@myroncook

2 ай бұрын

Well said!

Tick, Tick, Tick the clock is a ticking. The study of Geology is more a study of erosion and time, all this is mind blowing. And the time of man, the erosion continues, and time seem to stand still, but Tick, Tick, Tick. Thank you ALL stay safe

Superb work. Your drone shots really amplify the geologic magnificence. The videos I have done in the 40 Mile Desert of Nevada have been greatly greatly enhanced since I started getting GoPro views from the outside of my airplane. Northern Nevada is considered the dullest country to drive through. But the geology seen from 2,000 feet is wonderous.

Road cuts are the playground of geologists. I love them. Additionally, arid landscapes are history of the earth as far as the eye can see.

I have creationists in my life trying to convince me that the earth is only a few thousand years old. But when I see evidence like this then I can't help but believe that the earth is very, very old

These videos are so well done. And super fascinating. Thank you for making them!

This is so well done Myron’s teaching is comprehensible. What a gift. I am astonished by this vast depositional interpretation. Thank you for such a pleasant tone of style.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

Your visual explanation helps me so much. Thank you for starting your channel to show the rest of us "how it all came to be".

@myroncook

11 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

As I watched this very thought provoking video, I realized how much time and effort you put into your videos. The way you present the material is very logical and easy to understand, thank you for being a great teacher. I would be willing to bet that you have raised awareness of geology in countless individuals, and perhaps inspired many to pursue a career in the field.

@myroncook

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

Myron, I love your videos. I also love your chair and am extremely envious of you for having such an awesome leather chair. 😂

This video is amazing. I've never seen someone (and a professional in the field) take the time and put in the effort to systematically go through such a huge section of formations and explain each one. I didn't even know that so many layers can be read in turn and insitu across an enormous basin like this. Mind blowing and wonderful! And all presented in such an enthusiastic but kind and mild manner. Hats off to you good sir!

@myroncook

25 күн бұрын

Wow, thank you!

This is just unbelievable and hard work, what with all the efforts that's gone into the recordings with drones and what not and not mentioning the travel and traversing of places far afield; I feel like I'm on a field trip and actually experiencing the locale and its geologic history firsthand. A million thanks from Azerbaijan!

Thank you Myron! Such an overwhelming sense of awe from this video. I have been slowly going through your channel over the last couple of months and I have learned so much.

Great video once again, Myron. Your passion for geology is really amazing. Thank you so much.

Always look forward to a new video from you. Love it please keep them coming, much appreciated.

What a wonderful trip through time. Thanks for making these greatly insightful video’s. Greetings from the flat Netherlands!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Indeed, I HAVE thoroughly enjoyed watching this video! Thank you, sir! Very cool stuff! And I especially appreciate the ways in which you captured drone footage. Top notch.

@myroncook

6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Wow I've learned so much thank you Myron. Mostly I've learned again how little I know! I am really impressed with all you know and share. Thanks !

I once through the bighorn canyon years ago. Thanks for illuminating the rocks there. It's always fascinated me. Great job Myron.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Thank you Myron for another very well done video! I enjoyed the trip through the Bighorn Basin and your drone shots really add to your detailed explanations.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

I have just found these videos presented by Mr. Cook. I find them very interesting. I have learned much about our little blue marble. As a pilot I now look for the signs he has presented. I thank you Sir. I feel it is a good thing that the EPA was not present 20 million years ago controlling erosion. We wouldn't have such spectacular things like the Grand canyon, Niagara falls, ect.

@myroncook

2 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

Thank you Myron, for taking all this time and effort to visit and explain all the layers right down to the great unconformity. If I could go all the way to your country, I surely would do this drive and take in the sheer enormity, and especially the time scales that divide each region. I am in awe, truly.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Thank you. One of your videos came on to my feed and now I'm subscribed to your channel and spending my weekend learning more about Geology. I also a fan of Nick Zentner.

@myroncook

2 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

I sit here now knowing the depth and the ages it took to deposit some of these layers for it only to still be unfathomable. Thank you Myron, wonderful video

Once again, thank you for sharing what you love. Your knowledge and understanding and sense of wonder, compound the delight I feel in my meager understanding of geology and geological time.

You are truly an amazing man Myron. God bless your uncle & ❤ your shows. Gonna show my kids 🎉

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate that

Another great lesson in geological formation, thanks 👍🙏

Amazing video! Deep Time sequences are some of my favorite to think about. Just imagining all the sea level change through this video and how that effected the rest of the world and influenced geology elsewhere and the changes in climate we see from the desert coasts to the coal producing swamps blows my mind. I mapped a much smaller but similar sequence near Ely Nevada for my Bachelors Field Camp Project

Everytime I see a shot of the Grand Canyon or the Badlands, I get anxiety thinking about what happened to make it look like that and the absolute scale of it all. Thanks Randall Carlson!

Some of my favorite most relaxing inspiring videos.

Myron, thank you so much for your fantastic Videos! Montana ist so beautyful ❤. My highest gratitude for your Work. All the best for you and many Greetings from Bavaria! 👍👍👍👍

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

You are very welcome

Excellent film Myron more please.

Incredible video, thank you so much Myron.

What an ANCIENT Earth we live on!

I really enjoyed this perspective on geological time. I especially liked the superimposing of the actual environments over the geological formations. Your presentations offer great clarity on a very complex subject.

After I moved to Andalucia in S Spain I read up a bit about my local geography. Every time I walk my dogs and look at hills that were there before dinosaurs it puts my petty problems into perspective.

As usual, an incredible, easy to understand explanation of deep time. You are an amazing teacher.

@myroncook

11 ай бұрын

Glad you think so!

I can remember the excitement as a child counting the growth rings on a tree that my dad had cut down now I am smiling thinking that tree wasn’t very old . Thank you for sharing your journey through time in the basin I have certainly enjoyed learning more about the past❤🎉❤😮😊

great videos Myron. the geology is surprisingly easy to follow, and the delivery totally relaxing- a cross between slow TV and Bob Ross. its hard to not calm down watching these, harder still to not learn something. therapeutic as well as educational.

@myroncook

2 ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

Hi Myron, I have just come back from a trip in my Landy to south east Morocco, beautiful desert mountains. your vids are excellent, you describe the geology so well. Thanks Myron.

Awesome....keep them coming really enjoy them 😁👍

Yet another fine romp through the geology of beautiful Wyoming. Thank you.

Thanks as usual, Myron. Great historical geology lesson.

I really enjoyed this. Thank you for spending the time to make the video and share your accumulated knowledge with us in such a clear way

Wow, just wow... Thank you for this!

Absolutely wonderful!!!! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge; I appreciate it. Definitely a lot of time and effort to make a high-quality presentation like this. I love all your videos.

Well, I watched the whole video and you did a great job💯 I am very impressed by it. You taught us a lot about the different rock layer types and showed how they appear visually and texturally. I love how you presented things in the "How the Earth Was Made!" pictorial way so that we could see what types of environments created those rock layers. I guess that must be how geologists present things generally. I loved so much your excellent use of drone film footage to give us a bird's eye view of each rock layer❣My father was a pilot so I know he would have appreciated that❗I like especially how you showed us all of those biological fossils peculiar to each rock layer❗I am extremely interested in paleontology so that connection interested me so much❣ 💯💯💯

You are very good and patient in explaining how Geology is done thanks

Thinking about deposition over millions of years is comforting. Makes me think my problems are very inconsequential.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

I like that thought