The Great Basin: A Fractured Land

The Great Basin is a super unique geologic region within the US; it is the largest continuous region of endorheic basins (regions where water ways do not lead to any major world ocean). This video will detail the formation of the Basin, as well as a brief Native and European history in the region. This video is a slight change to my usual format so I hope you all like it!
Sources/Hikes Featured List:
docs.google.com/document/d/1C...

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  • @donbolin3450
    @donbolin34504 ай бұрын

    Great video. It's nice that you are not an AI voice, and everything you say is obviously something you understand and probably wrote yourself.

  • @thenaturalexperience2140

    @thenaturalexperience2140

    4 ай бұрын

    I'm studying geology currently and yes I do script stuff out! Thank you very much for your comment; I appreciate you!

  • @aliciaelizabeth9729
    @aliciaelizabeth97293 ай бұрын

    I am from El Paso, Texas and I too love hiking. I just randomly found your channel and it makes me so happy and is educating me. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and interest!

  • @GraniteChief369
    @GraniteChief3694 ай бұрын

    Born n raised in Reno. Great video dude. Fallon Naval Air Station, Area51, the Nevada Triangle, the Lovelock Giants, and the densest population of ski lifts in the world are located in the GB.

  • @thenaturalexperience2140

    @thenaturalexperience2140

    4 ай бұрын

    Interesting! thanks for sharing! I am a Reno person myself

  • @Kendubious
    @Kendubious4 ай бұрын

    Look at a map and find a isolated range then follow the road. That is the best way to explore the Great Basin.

  • @thenaturalexperience2140

    @thenaturalexperience2140

    4 ай бұрын

    As a man who loves staring at google earth for hours on end; I 100% agree (:

  • @kayperkayful
    @kayperkayful4 ай бұрын

    Great presentation….Thank you.

  • @thenaturalexperience2140

    @thenaturalexperience2140

    4 ай бұрын

    thank you!

  • @keeparizonawild156
    @keeparizonawild156Ай бұрын

    Such a great video! Well done my friend. Happy to have found your channel fellow lover of ecology

  • @howdypardner4128
    @howdypardner41284 ай бұрын

    Your research amd presentation are great. Thanks for the video. Keep it up!

  • @thenaturalexperience2140

    @thenaturalexperience2140

    4 ай бұрын

    thank you! i'll do my best to keep it comin!

  • @andreabank8786
    @andreabank87863 ай бұрын

    This is great! Learned so much!

  • @user-hw6hb4rk9t
    @user-hw6hb4rk9t4 ай бұрын

    Sooooo interesting. This is fantastic info.

  • @thenaturalexperience2140

    @thenaturalexperience2140

    4 ай бұрын

    Thank you! I got a lot more stuff coming like this; stay tuned (:

  • @prototropo
    @prototropo4 ай бұрын

    How about a video on Colorado National Monument! It's grandeur is amazing and underrated.

  • @thenaturalexperience2140

    @thenaturalexperience2140

    4 ай бұрын

    Believe it or not I actually got something in the works for that already! Stay tuned! (:

  • @jdcjr50
    @jdcjr504 ай бұрын

    Nice job. Thanks!

  • @thenaturalexperience2140

    @thenaturalexperience2140

    4 ай бұрын

    I appreciate that! Stay tuned for more (:

  • @haa_vee
    @haa_vee4 ай бұрын

    Great video! Thanks for all the info!

  • @thenaturalexperience2140

    @thenaturalexperience2140

    4 ай бұрын

    thanks for your comment! I got more on the way!

  • @marthawhite2387
    @marthawhite23874 ай бұрын

    Thanks Jack. Good information.

  • @nathanwilson5789
    @nathanwilson57894 ай бұрын

    Great video!

  • @gregrussell7704
    @gregrussell77044 ай бұрын

    Very good and interesting video. I could understand every word

  • @thenaturalexperience2140

    @thenaturalexperience2140

    4 ай бұрын

    I appreciate that

  • @ruthmusser4449
    @ruthmusser44494 ай бұрын

    My favorite too ! Ty 😊

  • @stevengoins3553
    @stevengoins35534 ай бұрын

    Well done. Informative, interesting and entertaining. I want to go.

  • @thenaturalexperience2140

    @thenaturalexperience2140

    4 ай бұрын

    thank you! I got more content coming soon!

  • @Antisocialboomer
    @Antisocialboomer4 ай бұрын

    I was wrong! Tahoe IS in the Great Basin. Humble Pie for Me Learning is good!😅

  • @thenaturalexperience2140

    @thenaturalexperience2140

    4 ай бұрын

    that's what this channel is all about! (:

  • @deebee2854
    @deebee28544 ай бұрын

    @thenaturalexperience2140 Great video and info. I am very interested in what may be either a railroad map or Pony Express map shown between 8:48 and 9:45. If you can please share the location where that is from and if it can be obtained by us viewers how to do so if you are familiar with that. Thank you!

  • @thenaturalexperience2140

    @thenaturalexperience2140

    4 ай бұрын

    nationalponyexpress.org/nevada-stations/

  • @thenaturalexperience2140

    @thenaturalexperience2140

    4 ай бұрын

    I replied with the link for the source! The sources for all my videos are in a google doc that I linked in the description; the pony express was sorta like the oregon trail; it wasn't necessarily a railway it was more of a well treaded path

  • @deebee2854

    @deebee2854

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@thenaturalexperience2140 Awesome!. Thank you!

  • @williamolliges2622
    @williamolliges26224 ай бұрын

    Home. More accurately, Las Vegas is home, but technically the metro area lies in the Colorado drainage. However, the Basin is a short drive away.

  • @thenaturalexperience2140

    @thenaturalexperience2140

    4 ай бұрын

    that's what I like about Mount Charleston; it's right along the boundary of the great basin! Thanks for your comment!

  • @williamolliges2622

    @williamolliges2622

    4 ай бұрын

    @@thenaturalexperience2140 Funny. I never really thought of the Spring Mountains as a Boundary Range, but you’re right. One of the craziest transition Zones in Nevada is the Meadow Valley Wash. It’s that finger of the Colorado Drainage that stretches North into the Great Basin that by some freak of crust fracturing nature drains into the Colorado. All the flora, fauna, and geology are pure Grat Basin but the water does eventually reach the sea, sorta. The other interesting transition zone is up near Tonopah, which is dry dusty high cold rain shadow desert. Not that far to the east , the clouds seem to get their mojo back an everything turns back into Sagebrush valleys and juniper/pinion pine mountains. It’s mind boggling to consider Ely and Tonopah are roughly the same distance north and the same elevation.

  • @thenaturalexperience2140

    @thenaturalexperience2140

    4 ай бұрын

    @@williamolliges2622 Yeah that finger area of of the colorado drainage is quite interesting, I did notice that when making this video. I live in Reno currently so I totally know what you mean! If you drive in a straight line from Reno to the eastern part of the state it's 10 times as green!

  • @11Airshow11
    @11Airshow114 ай бұрын

    Good stuff

  • @thenaturalexperience2140

    @thenaturalexperience2140

    4 ай бұрын

    I appreciate that

  • @robertschrum5496
    @robertschrum54964 ай бұрын

    Thx for the pix of Utes... tiniest horses I've seen, especially the white one. Looks like an alfalfa deficiency. GL

  • @thenaturalexperience2140

    @thenaturalexperience2140

    4 ай бұрын

    I never really thought about it, but you're right; those horses are tiny!

  • @AFMR0420

    @AFMR0420

    3 ай бұрын

    Mongol ponies were said to be small.

  • @MrNedsaabdickerson
    @MrNedsaabdickerson4 ай бұрын

    I have been interested in the great basin for years, only drove through Nevada a couple of times.

  • @thenaturalexperience2140

    @thenaturalexperience2140

    4 ай бұрын

    I live in Nevada; so I experience it everyday! Plenty of amazing spots to check out; if you need any recommendations let me know

  • @es702rider
    @es702rider4 ай бұрын

    You should make a video talking about mt Charleston or spring mountains, and sheep mountain rancge. And southern nevada in general. I know it may be near cross over but would be great to touch on i seen a video on how st George area is a cross of 3 different environments. Great basin, mojave, colorado plateau

  • @thenaturalexperience2140

    @thenaturalexperience2140

    4 ай бұрын

    I actually have been thinking about making a Mt Charleston video; it's my favorite mountain the Great Basin. Stay tuned!

  • @es702rider

    @es702rider

    4 ай бұрын

    @@thenaturalexperience2140 the video is called “ triple junction of southwest utah” . Not enough info talked about around this amazing region. Most ppl caught up in the hustle bussel of L.V. It would be a great video if you made one!! Spring mountains seem under appreciated. The sheep range seems spooky lol then the mountains near Caliente Nevada. Many layers and ecosystems. I love the pinyon-juniper. Spirt mountain and Mount mccullough seems cool. And how maybe the basin connects to Az ? Im not sure 🤔

  • @ZeroPointZap
    @ZeroPointZap4 ай бұрын

    The Great Inland Sea

  • @thenaturalexperience2140

    @thenaturalexperience2140

    4 ай бұрын

    Lake Lahontan is super fascinating, so is lake bonneville; I think i'm gonna do a video on em soon

  • @pat8988
    @pat89884 ай бұрын

    “Their cries are being overlooked”. (1:12) Overlooked implies something accidental, while IGNORED is much more accurate.

  • @thenaturalexperience2140

    @thenaturalexperience2140

    4 ай бұрын

    no doubt, perhaps it was a poor choice of words... although in Thacker passes case the Native voices were listened to and councils held; but the amount of money the project is projected to generated proved to alluring of a prospect to respect the faith and territory of our nations original inhabitants... it's a sad situation all around

  • @Antisocialboomer
    @Antisocialboomer4 ай бұрын

    Tahoe drains west. Not in basin. I lived on both sides. Sorry dude!

  • @ghosttownbound

    @ghosttownbound

    4 ай бұрын

    Tahoe drains into the Truckee River on the north shore that drains east to Pyramid lake east of Tahoe..... sorry dude

  • @thenaturalexperience2140

    @thenaturalexperience2140

    4 ай бұрын

    ghosttown is correct, but hey I still appreciate the comment

  • @llanitedave

    @llanitedave

    4 ай бұрын

    Geologically, Tahoe is straddling a boundary. In one sense it's located within the Sierra Nevada batholith, and is part of that uplifted granite block which defines the western boundary of the Basin and Range province. But it is also located within a graben, structurally related to the Basin and Range extensional tectonics. It leaves the western shore of Lake Tahoe, but loops east, into the Great Basin. Without the Truckee River, Pyramid Lake would not even be a lake, just another of the many isolated dessicated valleys that populate the Great Basin.

  • @billburkhalter411
    @billburkhalter411Ай бұрын

    Noah's flood. The Bible is true.

  • @stevecurran5206
    @stevecurran52064 ай бұрын

    not bad but too wordy to watch. maybe next time hire someone with a voice to narrate for you.

  • @thenaturalexperience2140

    @thenaturalexperience2140

    4 ай бұрын

    I'm working on it Steve, geo concepts are sometimes very hard to condense in a digestible way; and my voice does suffer a bit after hours of exams and masters level work

  • @howdypardner4128

    @howdypardner4128

    4 ай бұрын

    Lame comment that serves no purpose. Tearing people down and their hard work is despicable.

  • @scooterking09

    @scooterking09

    4 ай бұрын

    go to hell "steve"

  • @Ladiesman17

    @Ladiesman17

    4 ай бұрын

    Yo Steve I know where you live buddy, maybe next time you should hire someone to hide your personal information before runnin your mouth. Oil yourself up lil bro I'm on my way

  • @zxprodigy3776

    @zxprodigy3776

    4 ай бұрын

    Okay I thought his voice was fine but since you think otherwise why don't you man up and narrate for him I wanna hear the real Steve.