I really like the way you talk about geology! It is enthusiastic and clear information. I myself live in Finland, where the entire landscape is shaped by ice ages, everything is so different from Wyoming. Here we can see only very old and very young processes, you also have a lot to look at in between!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. Indeed, we live in very different geology landscapes.

@toserveman9265

Жыл бұрын

No woke bs too

@legacyXplore

5 ай бұрын

Yes I agree. There are a couple channels that do a good job but they do so in the context of gold prospecting. Although that is also incredibly interesting it’s fascinating to learn about geology in a broader form

@CrownMuzik

Ай бұрын

@@toserveman9265😂

@wout123100

Ай бұрын

@@toserveman9265 rolls eyes, what a stupid comment.

Sir, you're a Bob Ross of geology! That's how soothing your videos are. I'm gonna watch each and every one of them...

@myroncook

2 ай бұрын

wow, thanks!

I'm really loving the series. You are an incredibly gifted teacher and communicator, and it just happens geology is one of my favorite fields of interest so it's a perfect fit. Thanks for sharing these amazing lessons centering on the Bad Lands. I went there in my 20's and its impactful memories stand out to me. I'm just loving learning the history of its formation.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you!

@jimjr4432

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Mr. Big Star. Well said. I so enjoy geology as well, but really appreciated gifted teachers too.

Myron, that grass in your yard is pristine!!

What is also fascinating to me that all those layers of shale and sandstone had been created as a result of erosion all those million years ago. How many circles of building up and eroding away might had been there? It boggles the mind! Thanks Myron

I'll try this one, Myron! "When a mommy planet and a daddy planet love each other very much..." :)

I never thought about geology and rocks to be interested..until I listened to this gentleman.

I love hiking with geologist Myron. Erodes the rocks in my curiosity.

@billwilson-es5yn

20 күн бұрын

Is that how we get wrinkles on our brains?

I have worked in the McCollough Peaks for four summer campaigns during my PhD (2016-2021, TU Delft) and we have high-resolution drone models that can be navigated in the software. my last visit was just last summer (not sure whether you know there is a big gathering every year on July 4th in Powell, where lots of geologists and paleontologists participate). I really enjoy watching your videos, which are well filmed and illustrated. Everybody, including geologists and laymen, should watch this, in my mind. Highly recommended! Hope to see you one day in the basin!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

I haven't spent a whole lot of time in the McCollough Peaks area as compared to the Elk Creek region. I will be releasing a few videos focusing on fluvial systems soon which showcases the amazing outcrops in the area. I would be happy to meet you next time you are in the area and show you a bit of my area of the basin. Thank you for the feedback on my videos.

@youweiwang2417

Жыл бұрын

@@myroncook I look forward to both meeting you in the field and watching your upcoming videos. You can also find my PhD defense video on my channel if you are interested. Thank you for your work and inspiration!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

I'll have to check it out.

I just realized something as you explained Mesa formation. Whether they are topped with former river rock deposits or lava, they were once the lowest steepest parts since they followed the gradient of the topography around them. Then erosion takes place, and it sort of inverts, now they impose gradients of descent around them and are the highest parts locally. They're almost like fossils of previous gradients.

@sephysaurus

8 ай бұрын

Is it ok to refer to these as fossilized rivers?

Your videos are so fascinating and beautifully produced. If I was rich I would totally go back to school and major in geology just for the fun of it. I love learning how things work and what made them look the way they do. Geology is like a very long term history of nature. I also love rockhounding so learning about the conditions that creat certain rocks is very helpful. You have a great way of teaching to us lay people without dumbing it down too much. Keep up the great work!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

This men is inspiring just as nature is only by being him. Thank u men that I could see the world with geology lens

I grew up in Cody, been to he top of Hart Mt., worked seismograph thru the McCullough Peaks, up around Sheep Mt. but my favorite was Pat O’Hara, Sunlight and the base of Pilot. We used to own the Blue Haven Motel and had a number of geologists stay there. I’m 79, so lots of years back. Love your work and your videos.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

You have an interesting history! Thanks for the feedback.

@santa3756

Жыл бұрын

흥미 있는 글입니다. Interesting feedback story!

@islam2662

Жыл бұрын

بسم الله الله الذي خلقنا عزيز وحكيم وقد أنزلنا للارض ليختبرنا وهو لا يقبل ابدا هل الفسوق والعصيان الذين لا يتبعون مشيئتة الله عزيز ولانه عزيز فلن يدخل جنتة الا من اتبع مشيئتة في ترك ما نها عنه واتباع ما أمر به وتقواه ولانه عزيز فمصير من يعصيه ويتبع هواء النفس من فجور وعصيان ونسيان آياته البينه في كل ما تراه العين من نهار وشمس ليل وقمر ارض وزرع ماء وهواء انعام ودواب بنظام لا يقبل ابدا التكذيب واخرا لان الله عزيز خلق جنه ونار من اطاعه دخل جنته ومن عصاه دخل ناره وفي آخر الأمر لن يكون الا ما أراد الله قال الله أن الدين عند الله الإسلام

@islam2662

Жыл бұрын

@@myroncook بسم الله الله الذي خلقنا عزيز وحكيم وقد أنزلنا للارض ليختبرنا وهو لا يقبل ابدا هل الفسوق والعصيان الذين لا يتبعون مشيئتة الله عزيز ولانه عزيز فلن يدخل جنتة الا من اتبع مشيئتة في ترك ما نها عنه واتباع ما أمر به وتقواه ولانه عزيز فمصير من يعصيه ويتبع هواء النفس من فجور وعصيان ونسيان آياته البينه في كل ما تراه العين من نهار وشمس ليل وقمر ارض وزرع ماء وهواء انعام ودواب بنظام لا يقبل ابدا التكذيب واخرا لان الله عزيز خلق جنه ونار من اطاعه دخل جنته ومن عصاه دخل ناره وفي آخر الأمر لن يكون الا ما أراد الله قال الله أن الدين عند الله الإسلام

@hodwooker5584

Жыл бұрын

I was a jug hustler for 2 years. I worked for Western Geophysical out of Rocksprings Wyoming. We performEd seismograph surveys on White mountain above Rocksprings and all over the Red Dessert. Try breaking a front axle coming off of White Mountain in the dark. We spun around and around and damn near went over a rock ledge.I remember going to the overthrust formations in Utah for a month long survey that covered just over 50 miles of pure hell for a survey team, we had to coil and carry the sensor cable up and down hills instead of laying out from the back of the truck. Our trucks were so heavy that we had to unload most of the equipment to get past the scales at the border. We would unload part of the equipment, cross the scales and unload the remaining equipment in Utah. Then we would go back for the rest of the cables and jugs. I was in better shape working seismograph than I was after military basic training. It was damn hard work, but it was done with a terrific crew.

As a lifelong rock-hound, I've been enjoying these videos immensely for a couple months now(recently found and subscribed) and have often wondered the time scale of erosion? Dr. Cook generously provided the answer (for the Bighorn Basin) in this video: ".7 inches per 100 yrs". Wow! I don't know what I expected, but that blows my mind. This guy is such a gift! I'm glad he had the inspiration to start this channel and makes the effort to create so much excellent content. Thank you Dr. Cook.

Thank you for the excellent video on erosion. I love Geology and I'm interested in Life and Acient Evnironments. It's really neat when someone like you who knows the language of the rocks can interpret the story they tell for us viewers. Your hard work in putting this together is much appreciated. Thank you!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@felmlee1876

Жыл бұрын

I too appreciate the women of geology.

@anjou6497

Жыл бұрын

Lovely comment. 👍☺️🌱

This was an absolutely awesome video. I can’t wait to see more. Well done Myron. 👍

@myroncook

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

I love the drive west from Denver across Colorado and into Utah all the way to I15. The geologic scenery is incredible from start to finish. Especially the Utah leg. I could spend months out there and never get tired of the beauty of that nature. If anyone reading this comment hasn’t seen this in their life I highly recommend putting this on your bucket list.

The more I watch the more I learn. Thank you so much for the information you give.

You are a fantastic teacher, thank you so much!

I grew up in Cody and spent most of my childhood in the Big Horn Basin and the Beartooth Mountains and now I work in the northern end of the Beartooths in an underground mine. I've been enjoying these videos as a history lesson on stuff I looked at my whole life!

Along with being a most excellent teacher it is obvious from your photos you are an artist fer sure!

Discovered your videos today and I've watched several of them. I'm really impressed with the photography and the way that you use the drone to show not only the examples you're talking about but just the transition shots while you're driving in the Jeep with the drone overhead or something. The composition in your videos and the use of lighting and other technical things are just as good as your knowledge of the geology. It's very beautiful and you really showcase the land you live in and make me want to go there to learn more about the geology of it.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for that, Bill.

Your public speaking skills are next-level. Very interesting! Thanks!

Loved exploring places like Goblin Valley in Utah and Bisti Badlands in New Mexico, with all the hoodoos and toad stools. Amazing to see nature in action.

Excellent presentation of the subject and wonderful film work.

I love your method of teaching through fractal patterns.

Great video! I often thought while sitting in my own college geology classes that if geology was required of all students in high school, it would settle a lot of the disagreements people have over various belief systems.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Great point!

this is magic how we can read the layers like a book and travel through history . thank you I love what you do

What an incredible video! You really have a gift for editing, narration, and most important of all teaching!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Wow, Mother Nature is beautiful.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

It really is!

Wow! Just WOW! Looking at the planet I live and walk on different now! Wish I could give 10 thumbs-up!

Love so much with this video

I love Geology. I did have a class and a few field trips in college. I love archaeology and paleontology as well as astronomy. It is all so fascinating. Geology makes you stop and see the deep time of it all. Erosion is just as fascinating. Water is very powerful.

@myroncook

13 күн бұрын

awesome

Bryce Canyon, another excellent example of differential erosion. Thanks for the lesson.

Myron, you are, without doubt, my favourite American, it's therapeutic and informative listening to you. So glad I found your channel. I love this world we are so lucky to inhabit, i'm like you, I notice everything and wonder, every little critter, tiny flowers, mountains to mole hills. I'm going to live my parrallel life as a Geoligist, who loves her job, through your eyes. Always wanted to visit the States, so many fantastic lanscapes. Australia is the same, fascinating history, and lots of erosion features (Bungle Bungles in the NW of Australia and Karijini National Park). Thankyou for sharing, your very lucky living where you do, it's so good for the soul to be able to see nothing but mountains, not concrete and steel. Love the name of the Badlands, which are anything but, I live in the badlands, called a city lol

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Zed!!! You absolutely made my day!!! Welcome aboard! Maybe someday you can visit the American West.

You are bringing this Wyoming to me, to my room, and I appreciate it. Thanks.

Very informative, thanks! Every time I fly west I see nothing but erosion, I love it .

I live about 20 miles from Chirachua National Monument and the incredible formations there. I enjoy this topic very much.

I could listen to you all day. 🌱☺️🌿

Badlands are amazing places!

Thank You Myron. Wonderful lesson on Erosion. We need more passionate teachers like you. The Very Best Fred Lawlor

Thank you for what you do! I have always been intrigued by geology and geography. I truly appreciate your educational videos. Please know you're videos are very appreciated!

Excellent very nice ...

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

Deep Time, billions of years is something Geology will cause us to think about, it's astounding.

I'd love to fly over this landscape one day.

Pleasing and educational.

I'm beginning to understand the world around us. Thank you.

Good idea to explain what is a Erosion and how it make on the earth surface Thank you

Thank you! 🙏❤️🙏

I'm hooked. I use to go rock hunting when I was a kid. We'd drive out the one of the deserts in Southern California and spend the whole day day looking for different types of rocks. My dad would take a few home cut them and polish them. He'd make necklaces for my sister and her friends. I'm glad I found you channel. I'm now 65 and in a few more months I will be able to spend as much time in the wild as I want. Enjoying the natural beauty that we all need to slow down and enjoy!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Do as much as you can while you are mobile. Life is short.

@eddieagnich1875

Жыл бұрын

@@myroncook Thank you. I agree.

The colours at dawn and dusk on the little mushrooms would be phenomenal for photography, NW Australia is red dirt country and it enhances with sunrise and sunsets, beautiful,

Hi Myron, This is a really wonderful video, one of your best; thank you!! Your excitement of geology is contagious, really wonderful, thank you so very much! We learned a lot!!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear1

Absolutely Fascinating

Well done examination and explanation of some incredible sights!

Myron, you are a national treasure!!!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Hard to top that compliment, Ryan. Thank you so much.

It makes a hike a much richer experience when you have at least some idea of what you're seeing. Thanks so much for this beautiful video.

Thank you for another stellar presentation. Very good drone and stills.

Great series. Watched two or three in a row - will be coming back for more.

When hiking, it's always fascinated me that I can run into a creek that is cutting across a hillside. Thanks for explaining some of this, it's always baffled me.

@CFEF44AB1399978B0011

Жыл бұрын

Also, I was climbing in Kentucky recently, and the rock in the Red River Gorge area is all (at least the climbing areas) sandstone. Much like you describe in your sandstone section, there are areas with harder and softer sandstone. From what some of the people I was climbing with explained, there's iron rich sandstones that resist erosion more than the other sandstone around it, creating these plate features. The plate on the surface of the cliff doesn’t erode as fast as the less resistant sandstone behind so it creates climbing holds that you can just put your entire hand on. There's also random pockets in the rock and lots of roofs because the sandstone that's less resistant washes away and leaves a big roof that you can climb under. one thing that surprised me was how strong the rock was, i could literally yank as hard as I could on a little quarter inch thick plate to jug up and it was just fine. the products of erosion there are fasinating.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

You bet!

A very educational video. Well scripted and edited. Well done. Thank you.

*Intelligence is observable everywhere.* The energies of the Natural Formations, the Original Art, inspire generations, the energies touch us as they did the first observers.

Currently getting a B.A in geology. I find it difficult to watch teachings videos that draw my attention in its entirety and you have captured just that! Please post more. -Your new subscriber

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it!

@ericdenoorman1188

Жыл бұрын

@@myroncook Nicest teacher I´ve ever known. Your videos are awsome!!! Greetings from Spain from a geology ignorant (but interested in the subject).

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Eric. I love Spain! I lived there two years.

@rickyphillips5163

Жыл бұрын

It really is a beautiful video.

@DurpVonFronz

Жыл бұрын

Have you ever heard of the channel Hangman1128 before, I think his work on Geology is something to be looked at seriously. The paradigm needs an updating.

I like your shows.

I really enjoy flying over the west ang looking at thd geology in that macro view. Videos like this let me see the details of places i hope to see more of. Geology, evolution, and astronomy are all about time, unfathomable amounts and evolving conditions. Thanks for the vid

Really a treat for the visuals and your excellent instruction!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Nita

Warm greetings from Cornwall, fantastic videos! An engineer by trade and an armchair lover of the natural sciences, you are up there with Carlson Sir. Deep time, fractals, sedimentary form, brilliant! Thankyou.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

Worried I'm starting to get a bit of grey in my beard, but after watching this... it's just the start of my new Journey. THx

I wish I could hit rewind on my age and sign up for a Geology course and have you as my instructor. You make it so easy to understand. Again, another great video...thank you for taking the time to educate us on this incredible planet we live on. Fred in Texas

thank you i like learning new stuff

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it!

One of the biggest problems with geology is the passage of time, it's hard to get your head around it. But, when you slow it down a bit, i get it. Thank you. 👍

Love this video, always impressed by the way nature can create beautiful landscape! Thank you!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Drone footage towards the end, shows the ridges and valleys, mother nature’s best.

Cant believe I just discovered your channel, you remind me so much of my geology professor I had in my college days in Geol 101 and 201. All of your videos have really re-ignited my interest in the subject, it was one of my favorites and I had considered pursuing it into the graduate level at one point. Great work my friend.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you!

I believe your video has answered my questions about the spectacular area between Wikiup and Wickenburg AZ. I’m so thankful for your explanation.

Myron love all the work you do! That Hoodoo had a peculiar silhouette... It may have Peyronie's Disease...😂😅😅😂😂😅😅😅😂😂😂😅😅❤❤❤😊❤❤❤

Thank you for sharing.

Thanks so much for the amazing teachings, I appreciate it greatly

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

You are very welcome

I find your videos super interesting. I love how you present your lessons with the whiteboard. The whiteboard lesson ties it all together for me.

Such beautiful landscapes. I so enjoy your videos, Myron. Thank you so much for creating and sharing your experience, thoughts, knowledge, and talents 😊❤

@myroncook

5 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Thankyou for making such videos

Dear Mr Cook, my first real encounter with a geologist was about 20 years ago. I spent the better part of my work career in excavations. My father was a quarryman in our local limestone industry and I'm a retired construction superintendent. This young geologist was performing soil testing for a large resort foundations. As we walked through the glacial till he would pick up small stones and explain to me where they came from. I've always been aware of the Wisconsin glacial period, in fact where my home is was once under a mile thick glacier. The more I learn the more my curiosity increases. We live on the Niagara Escarpment. To imagine the type of erosion that occurred almost yesterday, in geologic time. Thanks for the wonderful videos.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your story!

Very delighted your teachings on Earth Science. Many thanks of your efforts and field trips that illustrate how to understand geological puzzle. Please keep the good works and share with me your reaching videos !!!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

Many thanks go to the person who sent me to this beautiful channel. I am new here from Morocco.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Welcome!

Thank for this amazing information. It infancies my love of nature.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks!

Winds, also freeze thaw cause erosion. Nice representation for all the worlds rivers and trickles and falls.

Really enjoying your videos. Since my retirement I’ve spent a lot of time in Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and Texas “looking at rocks”. Keep ‘em coming.

Loved the learning and views Myron! Very well done! You do a wonderful job teaching!

@myroncook

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Very nicely done! Thanks.

Those are some of the coolest formations! Helped us understand erosion a lot better! We sure hope more people find your channel to learn about this amazing Wyoming geology!!

wow what a view from home . . . .

I live in West Texas. About 200 miles north in the panhandle is Palo Duro canyon. It is a strikingly beautiful park which contains some very interesting hoodoos.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info!

It’s incredible to realize these places don’t look much different than they did thousands of years or millions of years ago and will look pretty much the same for thousands and millions more if we don’t destroy it. Truly a national treasure you show us!

@JohnSmith-uy7sv

Жыл бұрын

Genesis chapter 1. The entire universe is only 10-15,000 years old. God can make anything appear to be older or younger than it is. God created everything. He is the master of everything.

@bauhnguefyische667

Жыл бұрын

@@JohnSmith-uy7sv Ok, if that works for you👍

@JohnSmith-uy7sv

Жыл бұрын

@@bauhnguefyische667Its the Bible, God's Holy word. You either believe the Bible or you believe satan, the father of lies. There is no other choice. It's one or the other. You can't be both.

@davidvaughn7752

11 ай бұрын

​@@JohnSmith-uy7sv... And, the Earth is flat, right?

@JohnSmith-uy7sv

11 ай бұрын

@@davidvaughn7752 The Bible never said about the earth Being flat. What satanic bible do you read?

Wow that’s so beautiful video my friend ,I great to see this video!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

That area is beautiful. The landscape is perfect to see all the geological wonders.

Dear Myron, thanks for unlocking some of the secrets of geology to those of us in your audience whose only experience with rocks is playing with some in the garden. Thanks so much. Love from Australia - one of the oldest Continents on Earth.

just discovered your channel sir so much beauty and history in the colors and textures

These videos are so well made! I appreciate your passion for the geology of the world around us. The formations you showed in this video are beautiful examples. Thank you for sharing what you love!

@myroncook

8 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

Thanks Myron, really enjoyed finding your channel! Just got the next video to watch and then I’ll be caught up 😊 (kinda went backwards watching them).

Thank you for your efforts,,,🙏🌷

Holy shit, I am 45 years old and I had no idea how canyons were formed until 6:25 seconds of your video. Today. Thank you!🙂. "These canyons started like the drainage in my driveway"..Holy shit. that put it all together for me.