Finally, something worth watching on a Sunday night.

@trevormiles5852

14 күн бұрын

I was kidding myself. Amazing how interesting it is to find something that i have personally found truthfull and factual from when i was a kid. A kid from the Sonoran desert.

@manikaggarwal2018

14 күн бұрын

Same here

@markycash9368

14 күн бұрын

Here

@maxieduardoapariciom.3181

14 күн бұрын

how about a flood, a big flood

@JaKingScomez

14 күн бұрын

Shut your mouth

Your channel is proof that, if what you're talking about is interesting enough, there's no need to turn it into some television event drama. This was so good!

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@bmattmcneilly013

11 күн бұрын

You don't even have to blame aliens for a single thing, amazing stuff.

@jasonhildebrand1574

11 күн бұрын

@@myroncook Myron ! What a great journey you took us on ! It's truly amazing that so many clues are still visible to anyone, in plain sight ! Now, there is just one tiny issue, and I hope that you take this as a form of well-mannered constructive criticism, sir. The title is just every so slightly misleading. To me, in my mind, "How Geologists Discovered [the Seaway]" would lead me to think that the video would be about those specific geologists and the actual specific discoveries made by them over time, in a historical context. This was especially true for me since you mentioned the 1869 expedition by John Wesley Powell. I expected more specific historical details to follow in his footsteps. Alas, we did not get that. Now, I know that this is not a true historical channel, in the normal sense. Instead this is a great, shall I say spectacular, channel about geology over a much vaster historical timeline. Keep up the amazing work, and I speak for everyone when I say, NEVER STOP !!

@mbvoelker8448

10 күн бұрын

So true! I've gotten to the point where I absolutely cringe at the over-dramatization on Nova, National Geographic, etc.

@studio-ke1iq

9 күн бұрын

¹​@@bmattmcneilly013

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE UNITS CONVERSION! It’s the little details that show your empathy and respect for the viewers. Most youtubers don’t notice how much the units impact the understanding of scale!

@GregConquest

13 күн бұрын

It's also nice that he says one unit and writes the other. Hearing both each time makes it more difficult to compare. I can choose to remember just the ones I read, or the ones I hear.

@krispycool1

10 күн бұрын

@@GregConquest that can be an issue for hearing impaired people though

@GregConquest

9 күн бұрын

@@krispycool1 How so? If someone who is hearing impaired is watching this video, then they're reading the captions already anyway. The audio as spoken is transcribed. So, they'd see both units.

@krispycool1

3 күн бұрын

@@GregConquest have you read youtube captions? they are the worst ever! most of time the words make no sense

@GregConquest

3 күн бұрын

@@krispycool1 So, what are you saying? Hearing impaired people aren't hearing the words, and now you're saying the auto-generated captions are often not accurate. So, it wouldn't matter which units he says aloud. My original point seems as valid as ever, and your complaint seems to make no sense.

This video is so fascinating! I love when you address “how do we know that?” kinds of questions! And the photography is always sooo stunning! Thank you for educating us!

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

I'm so glad!

LOVE your channel! My elderly mother and I enjoy learning about geology, astronomy, and geography. I am her caregiver and we love to watch educational videos as part of our daily routine to keep her mind active. Thank you for making and sharing your outstanding videos.

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

That is awesome!

@AB-wf8ek

13 күн бұрын

🌷🏔️🪻🪨🌾

The little tree 🌲 (not to scale) is the cherry on top of these fine lessons you produce. Keep up the great work sir!!

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

Many thanks!

@aaronskoy957

14 күн бұрын

Great use of tree.

@jasonhildebrand1574

13 күн бұрын

@@myroncook you were born for this gig !

@pat8988

13 күн бұрын

The future geologist is going to be astonished to find dam machinery in his core samples. 😮

@bmattmcneilly013

11 күн бұрын

A total Bob Ross move to fill out the best geology videos on KZread

I spent fifty years in construction, I wish I would have been a geologist. I really love geology, who would have thought geology would be so fascinating.

How many times have I driven through boring landscapes and just couldn't wait to get to somewhere interesting? Myron, you should have made these videos 50 years ago. What great videos for kids to watch while travelling cross country.

@IceLynne

14 күн бұрын

I agree. When I was a kid we took some really long trips across the US and I could have used this info! lol

@macking104

14 күн бұрын

Have you bought any of the “Roadside Geology” series. They describe the stuff you along the roads…

Thank you Myron! This is my favorite channel in KZread and you have completely transformed my understanding of the Earth. Learning geology the last few months since I found your channel has given me so much joy! Keep doing what you’re doing partner!

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

Wonderful!

@JohnLeePettimoreIII

14 күн бұрын

@@myroncook i found a channel that you might enjoy watching for amusement, relaxation, or some information. it is not a geology channel in the purest sense, but it does occasionally hit on geology in a tangential manner. the creator has a very soothing voice, and the visuals are amazing. the channel name is, *_"Desert Drifter"_*

@ElectricalExistence

14 күн бұрын

​@@myroncooki eatvhed your video about the fans coming from river deltas and how far they go out to see, as well as the channels you noted running across the bottom of the ocean. I believe you said they were caused by the rivers and underwater currents, but it wasnt fully understood. I disagreed, its my understanding that the paths the major rivers follow were not originally carved by the rivers themselves, the eater just took the path of least resistance. I adhere to the electrical model of the universe, in said model its understood from accounts of the ancients that great cataclysms of an electrical nature happened. These events occured before life even existed here. These planetary scale electrical storms literally carved out huge swaths of land and killed untold numbers of species in the known catacylsms (it wasnt a meteor it was a global electical storm and a scale we can hardly imagine). Look at electrical excavation experiments done by many experimentalists. It shows the exact same fratures we see on he surfaces of every celestial body we observe.

@ElectricalExistence

14 күн бұрын

I will correct my typos when i get home from work... Yt app is glitching out and making it impossible to do so.

@dianespears6057

13 күн бұрын

Have not watched yet but I know it will be interesting, informative and well done. Thank you, Professor Cook.

Myron: I greatly appreciate the free education you are handing out here. Your style of leading one to the points of the lesson are wonderful to listen to and learn from. The natural world needs more story tellers like you. Thank you.

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

I appreciate that

Both you and Bob Ross have a great way with trees. Thanks for another fine lesson.

@JusNoBS420

14 күн бұрын

Love the little tree 🌲

@revolvermaster4939

14 күн бұрын

“Happy” trees!

@ComfortRoller

14 күн бұрын

Agreed

@jeffyowell

14 күн бұрын

Little trees and little fish, 100 million years ago, ha. Love it!

@maxieduardoapariciom.3181

14 күн бұрын

exactly, they both paint what they want to paint.

If Geology could talk, this is what it would sound like. Thank you Myron. This is my first time you were recommended.

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

Welcome aboard

Hi Myron! I am an engineer with a railroad out here in Grand Junction and my route goes through Thompson Springs, Helper, and all along the Bookcliffs. I get so excited riding along these beautiful features every day and wondering about the ancient landscapes that made these mountains into what they are today. So glad to see you made a video about them. I just bought a book about this very thing by Ron Blakey! PS, you met my boyfriend, Jason at a restaurant while you were here in town, thanks for the photo! We were so excited! If you ever make it back to GJ, I hope to meet you, too!

@myroncook

10 күн бұрын

Cool job! I enjoyed meeting your friend, very pleasant fellow. I studied geology under Ron Blakey.

For me, it’s not just the great knowledge you have but the enthusiasm you show that makes your videos as enjoyable as they are educational. Thank you for sharing these

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

I appreciate that!

I spent about 25 years in Utah. It's a nature-lover's paradise. I hope everyone has a chance to visit the beauty of southern Utah. It's truly amazing. Thank you, Mr. Cook. I don't know why you don't have a million subscribers by now.

@Kaz.Klay.

14 күн бұрын

You sir are surely not lying! ...And I'll call you Shirley! Grrl!

I live in northern Kentucky and have always been fascinated by finding fossilized coral and sea shells in field stones. Amazing to think of how our earth has changed over the ages.

Myron I love your enthusiasm! From one geologist to another, you are a geologists, geologist!

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

Thank you, Bob

@circleinforthecube5170

10 күн бұрын

@@myroncook geology isint real its just concrete painted by my buddy bob

Myron...you have definitely got that Bob Ross delivery going on. Thank you for the fun informative videos.

@myroncook

5 күн бұрын

You are very welcome

North of San Antonio, TX. Sea shells and related fossils in my backyard. Honeycomb rocks with sea shells and fossils embedded in them. Yep, I will most certainly buy it. In the same area I stood in a dinosaur track back in the 60's. It was on private land and cannot be accessed now.

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

neat!

@robertandjodijackola4901

13 күн бұрын

When I lived in Jackson Wyoming, south in the snake River canyon there were sea shells way up on the hill sides in the canyon

@stevenmoomey2115

12 күн бұрын

Around Coralville, Iowa, there’s plenty of evidence of a huge Coral Reef, with the Coral Detail clearly evident.

@Jhearding

12 күн бұрын

I live north of SATX. Have seen more marine invertebrate fossils in Cibolo Creek bed than I could ever count.

@antitorpiliko

11 күн бұрын

I live near bulverde but all I've unearthed is some amber calcite in my garden

Thank you so much Myron your geography content is seriously unmatched I use it to help teach my children about the great Appalachians around from here in central Pennsylvania

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

Wow, thank you

@user-ed2dp6re2t

14 күн бұрын

@@myroncook no sir thank you

You need an award simply for carrying that whiteboard for miles. Great stuff!

@Pinakij

12 күн бұрын

Dude Uses more whiteboards than Katie Porter on cocaine

This geology makes my retirement life a lot more interesting.

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

mine too!

I feel we are lucky to have drone technology available to help grasp the size and scale of these layers. Some awesome footage and that final stop was simply amazing. Still loving this channel and all the fascinating geology stories Mr. Myron. Thanks!

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

drones help a lot

I had a "wow" moment with the explanation of how ammonite fossils are used to correlate time with volcanic ash deposits! super cool! Thank you.

A pretty good day is now an awesome day because a new Myron video just dropped ~ thank you!

Hello there sir , Myron we really enjoy your geology. Always in lightning and joyful love your humor keep them coming. I have a high understanding of the topic and I love the way you break it down Thanks again, Damon

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

Thanks, Damon

As a recent transplant to Denver I’m fascinated by the story of the Seaway and the geology of the west. Thank you for your excellent and understandable presentations. Love the trees!

A superb master teacher with a "big picture" clarity rarely equalled and probably never excelled.

My goodness...Ive learned so much watching your videos. Sadly in my lifetime I'll never see this part of our country. Truly amazing area. Never have I thought about rock formation until I started watching....thank you

It is so fascinating to just sit a try to see what was in the past. Thank you for adding so much to that pleasure.

Thirty plus years ago i had a college geology professor that was just mesmerizing to listen to. He was an excellent teacher. Just like you, Myron!

As an European I really appreciate the unit conversion. Sometimes I struggle to follow american educational contents because I'm not familiar with the imperial system. It's a small thing but really appreciated. Also your content is pure gold, you manage to go really deep but with an easier vocabulary that makes it understandable for anyone, you really have a gift. Thank you for your videos!

I am very pleased. A new Myron Cook video. 🎉🎉

Good to see you again Myron! Love your videos. As it so happens, I live on the boundary of the coastal plain and Piedmont Plateau in Maryland. Now, I find myself trying to imagine what my neighborhood looked like during the Cretaceous.

Myron has a perfect score for his geology videos as far as I'm concerned. Such a pleasant voice and pacing of speech plus his enthusiasm and questions to the viewers throughout the video. Extremely well done Myron. i bet that there are some future geologists watching these videos. In the future, professors will ask, "how did you get involved in geology?" and the student will reply, "I watch Myron Cook discuss geology in videos on KZread." The student will think and mutter softly, "I sure wish this professor was as good as Myron."

After an exceptionally rough week, Im stoked to sit down and hear about the Great Seaway from everyone favorite Geology Santa! Theres a lot of comfort in the humility of seeing a glimpse of the age of the world we live on and Im forever grateful for everyone that shares this passion.

@myroncook

4 күн бұрын

thank you!

You make it so interesting! Every time I look at different areas as I drive around and travel, I contemplate the things I've learned from you. Thank you so much for being so generous with your time 🤗

I'm in Scotland, studying plants for research/conservation - my degree doesn't even brush up against geology and I can't understand why not! It's so interesting, and holds so much information about why the current configuration of land is the way it is, and why plants grow where they do. I love to read rock formations and try to visualise how they formed and what might have lived around them, your videos are like learning to read. I'm in an area that was repeatedly flooded and reforested through the Carboniferous, I've got chunks of fossilised rainforest from alternating layers of mudstone, shale and coal capped by massive slabs of sandstone that I can now visualise better thanks to your video. Feels a bit like deep time vertigo. It's also really interesting to see formations that are nothing like what we've got since our landscape was scraped smooth by ice.

@myroncook

13 күн бұрын

awesome to hear! I often can map formations by the type of vegetation on them

Thank you for adding meters and kilometers in your videos, us Europeans appreciate it .

Yup, I love hiking in the mountains of New Mexico and finding seashells at around 7000 ft. Really gets the brain working.

No way my boy Myron Cook dropped another banger

Myron, thank you for your work, and for explaining everything from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Seaway. You touch on the geology of greatly undervalued yet stunning subjects.

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

I appreciate that!

This is exactly why I watch this channel. This helps me greatly in understanding the geologic environments that cretaceous animals in North America would have lived in

You are a genuinely gifted educator. Thank you!

Mr. Myron thank u so much for content such as this. I sit here on my couch completely fascinated and engaged with what I’m learning from your video. You and your channel show the power of doing something meaningful with a you tube channel. Thanks for all you do to enlighten and educate those in the online community. It most definitely helps us to stay curious:)!

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

You are very welcome

Myron, you've done it again, sent my imagination off spinning into the depths of time. What a treasure for the curious - thank you so much for these thoughtful, amazing and inspiring videos.

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

Many thanks!

This guy is the first one that ever made me find geology interesting and begin to understand it. Many thanks.

This reminds me of the inland Sea that Australia once had. One thing I love most about this ultimate favourite geology & palaeontology channel of my is it encourages me to ask questions that I both would not have thought of, or have been reminded of that I already thought of.

Respect for your work. I have found a shocking number of Creationists on youtube making videos about how the grand canyon was formed in a few weeks. It's horrifying to me to see such ideas get so much traction and support and your work really shines as a powerful and insightful informative array of data against such delusions. Great work! Liked and shared.

I love the way you explain the changes in topography. Really helps to imagine what it used to be like. I live in the Uk and I look at the landscape in such a different way because of your teaching. Thankyou for opening my eyes to a much bigger picture. 💚

@myroncook

13 күн бұрын

I love this!

Fascinating stuff! A genuine educator. You can tell it comes natural to Mr Cook teaching.

@myroncook

5 күн бұрын

Glad you think so!

@rougeneon1997

5 күн бұрын

New subscriber currently binging your content. 😅

The topics you cover in this video can be difficult to grasp sitting in a classroom or reading the literature. You have a gift of explaining and your videos and presentations are satisfying and getting better. I am sending anyone interested in learning geology to this channel.

@myroncook

12 күн бұрын

Wow, thank you!

Love your channel- and thank you for adding metric measurements on screen for those of us who are most fluent in that :)

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

You are so welcome!

Your channel is so wonderful for education!

I just love how you make geological time come alive in terms we can relate to. Thank you for your geology vulgarization. It's fascinating.

Dr. Cook, I find the flow of your presentations very welcoming. I have had a lifelong but pedestrian interest in all things related to Earth science - - mainly focused on botany and biology. Having visited places like Capitol Reef in younger days, I found that I was easily overwhelmed by the various landscape formations, not able to understand the subtle clues of structure - so I simply remained in awe of the aesthetic beauty of such places... And now, many decades further, I am able to virtually revisit these in a new light even though I may not be able physically to do so. A subscriber thanks you!

@myroncook

10 күн бұрын

Thanks!

Ocean front property in Indiana

never before have i clicked on a video so fast

Myron, I appreciate the way you parse all the relevant aspects into relatable components...and reassemble them into concepts that make sense. I love geology but have a difficult time envisioning hypothesis from textbooks and journals. Your method of on-location instruction and diagramming is illuminating and enlightening. Thank you for these excellent lessons!

@myroncook

13 күн бұрын

I appreciate that!

You're one of my favorites on youtube. I watch a variety of things, but you're factual, and interesting. Thank you for your work.

You are appreciated Myron. I didn't even realize I was stressed and then you started talking geology and I suddenly relaxed.

Why can’t you sleep sorry trying to learn about geology at 2am

Your enthusiasm is infectious! Thank you for sharing bits of your vast knowledge, and reminding us to be curious and ask questions about the world around us.

Loved this one. Was just in Capitol Reef last week looking at the formations, the oyster fossils and such. This pulled a lot of information together. Thanks!

Love the old school teaching with the beautiful drone shots.

Excellent presentation . The combination of different aspect footage , scale markers and whiteboards really helped to understand this . Thanks .

Love these long form videos. Incredibly interesting, informative, and entertaining.

@myroncook

8 күн бұрын

Glad to hear it!

Thirty minutes in, and I just had to pause to say Thank You. From a retired Brit with an interest in geology ever since my first visit to Scotland. (edit: and reading John McPhee too!) Living on the South coast, on a dark chilly evening but a very good Scotch to hand, it's good to be in your company. Just as absorbing as any David Attenborough, bless him. edit2: and what a poetic ending. If there was ever a poetic science, perhaps geology is it, because it can be directly observed, but only with understanding. which comes from teaching.

@myroncook

9 күн бұрын

Love this feedback...thank you!

I worked down in Goblin Valley last summer and saw the mancos shale and the Morrison formation so much. The earth reveals a lot about its history through rocks and to imagine those ancient landscapes and how they affect the land today is amazing! Factory Butte in the golden hours of sunlight is incredibly beautiful

This was wonderful! I grew up in Minnesota and I am happy to see that she had a shoreline on this great seaway. Great job, Mr. Clark.

Myron….great job bringing geology to a broad range of people. Not overly technical…fascinating topic. Thanks! 👍

Absolutely wonderful video, me and my family used to go camping all the time when I was a kid and I never cherished the vast knowledge and deep care park rangers had for the lands around them. Now that Im older I find my self missing that, and this fulfills that curiosity in such a calming way. I think its all to easy nowadays to get swept up with life and forget to slow down and enjoy what nature has to offer, and this has helped me take a breath. Thanks myron, you've brightened many days, and filled many minds.

This channel is nothing short of a pilgrimage site for Geology enthusiasts like me.

I love how Myron uses the Socratic method in his videos. More science education videos should do that. It makes it so much more fun and helps make it easier to understand the concepts.

Great talk, and very eye opening for me. Especially the coastal lowland depositions which were later deformed and eroded. Totally cool.

This was really good. I'm not usually into things like this, but this was very interesting. The effort put into making the video itself is obvious, too. I'll definitely check out some more videos on this channel. 😊

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

Glad to hear

15:12 - GREAT visuals there, really showcase the complex

Recently recommended this channel and can’t say enough nice things. From the lovely visuals, informative content and most of all the inviting, soothing and, I cannot help but make the connection, Mr Rogers evoking cadence and intonation, I’ve been loving to listen to these presentations. Thank you for sharing!

I absolutely love your deep-dive explorations into how geology is done.

You’re so lucky to have so many dramatic and significant lands capes to read into. Thanks for the géology masterclass :)

Fascinating presentation as always Myron! Thank you.

I never thought geology was cool until stumbling upon this channel. Taking the whiteboard out into the field like that is just super helpful and cool.

@myroncook

Күн бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

Each video is a compilation of your deep knowledge of Geology. I am amazed every time I watch one. Though as I'm just an Architect I need time and several reviews to get part of the substance. TYSM for your generosity😊

You are a great teacher. Thank you so much for all the videos Myron

I really enjoy your videos. Thank you so much for producing these for us Geology lovers!

Thank you for making these historical documentaries. The videos are very informative.

I love your work, Professor Cook. Every video. Thank you. You're a good teacher. I soak up each lesson. Teacher's sacrifice. They give jewels to many, each lesson. I appreciate every point about geology that you bring alive. (And you show people from your region of the country can have much positive to share).

@myroncook

14 күн бұрын

Thank you!

Well you did it again Mr Cook, you up and blew my mind. Awesome presentation, Sir. Thank you so much for all your hard work.

MYRON! I am so jealous. What a fabulous find. What a fabulous job! Thanks for sharing!

@myroncook

10 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching!

I dialed up the request line a month ago asking for coverage on this topic and Dr. Myron DELIVERED! You sir, are influencing far more people than you’ll ever realize. Truly, thank you sir.

Sir, you have a wonderful way of teaching Geology and I look forward to the discoverys you show us in these videos. I enjoy seeing the Earth as it was through your eyes. Thank you.

Thanks Myron, for another great video. It looks like you have a lot of fun out there!

You are a master educator Myron. Brilliant.

Amazing! I feel blessed having someone explain this in such a great way,

Thank you so much Myron! I love your videos. You're a great teacher.

This feels like I'm back in elementary school, learning from a teacher who uses the whiteboard like a musical instrument. It's impossible not to listen to and be amazed. I enjoyed such lessons in elementary school just blowing my mind with the vast time scales and awesome features of the planet, and I still enjoy such lessons.

Absolutely fascinating, with amazing explanations, a most wonderful job! I hated to see it end. Building up at only a 1/4 of an inch every 100 years is mind boggling. Thanks

Thank you so much! This is the one I've been looking for. I live in Fritch, TX. I can send you photographs. Now we have scorched Earth with no vegetation on rocks! A once in a lifetime opportunity.

Love being shown the big picture! My college geology class emphasized rock classification so much that it was hard to see how it fit in the grand scheme of things. Between your white board and your drone footage, thank you for all the work you put into your great geology videos!

Myron, I just love your explanations and techniques!