I used to hike here back into the 1970's as a teenager, so cool to learn this history about the area. It's an amazing place you do a wonderful job explaining this material.

I drove through The Gunks during my college years, mountain biked/hiked the trail of Lake Minnewaska and saw the waterfall. You do a great job in explaining and speaking, along with never saying any "like"s, "uhm"s, or doing any up-speak. Looking forward to seeing your channel grow and you have your own geology travel show!

Amazing video. We moved to Wurtsboro in 2013 and have been exploring the gunks since then. So much history in the area and I just can’t get enough of it.

Hello! Wow, I live right across the Hudson river from the gunks. I learned more from your video than I have ever learned from living here for 50 years! Thank you!

LOVE THE GUNKS ! All areas of the Shawagunks are beautiful - the Trapps, near Trapps, Skytop, Minnewaska, Lost City, Sam's Point, Table Rocks. Great climbing and hiking; lovely waterfalls. Get there early on nice weekends as parking lots fill up early.

Along the "gunks" there are at least 2 interesting features. Near Ellenville there was a mine that contained museum quality specimens of quartz crystal mixed with pyrite Crystal's, there is a specimen on display at the American museum of Natural History in NYC. The other feature is near Wurtsboro, an old Lead mine in which large amounts of galena were extracted. Sam's Point was once a tourist attraction along with Ice Caves nearby located between Ellenville and Walker Valley. Love the area.

Geo. Wow. Thank you so much for putting this together! Part of my amazement and awe is seeing this presentation-- We see the Gunks every day here off in the distance 😁 At times, it is easy to forget how beautiful and majestic this area is and I thank you for bringing it back into focus📷. The waterfall is by far one of my favorite places to be. The first time seeing it was jaw-dropping. We would go there and sit behind the waterfall as our "chill space" Standing under the path of the fall, looking up as it continuously rains down---- it takes your breath away ( maybe not totally🤡) That spot in particular holds a special space for me🧘‍♂️ And you brought it back full circle💫 So Thank You... and thank you for bringing back Real, objective scientific insights. Well done🤜⚡️🤛 Now.... to try and make my way up there before the ice🥶!! Which is equally stunning to see as ice!! Ooof😅 Look forward to checking out more here on your channel🫡 Salutes my friend💪

This was an awesome and very informative video. You answered some questions l had for a long time. Maybe we bump into one another hiking some day! always,farmer john

Love this, the best to the point presentation of how these mountains formed. Although I'm from long Island these were always my mountains. I've gone back& forth over them since I was big enough to peer over the dashboard of my dad's 55 Chevy when it was new going to our summer house in Kerhonson.

That was Great! I been exploring the Tectonic mountains for years and its always amazing!! I am now a Subscriber!! 🌞

Nice job describing a place I would now like to visit. I'm a paleo guy, you made the explanation of that fascinating geology straight forward and understandable. I will subscribe, good like in your field of endeavor.

Thank you Geo Beck!

@geo peck I grew up in new Paltz and I have been exploring the gunk's my entire life. I've always been very curious about the make up of the rocks and found your video very informative great work

Thanks for sharing this was fascinating!!

Great video! I. Hope you visited the Mohonk Mountain house.

Thanx red! Love your vids!

I'm near Rt 7. There is a tilt to layering of exposed rock in the area. At Kent school in CT. Rt 341. All rocks for tens of miles have this tilt

A beautiful video, the sounds, the imagery, all the information,..another of your knowledge expanding / feel good moments!

Wow amazing video and what beautiful landscape. I learned so much from this video your presentation and showing us exactly what you're explaining is epic ! Ty

Great video! That's the Catskills not really Upstate yet

and Cragsmoor rocks! pun intended :)

I just binged a few of your Hudson valley videos. Super fun (also super cute) my question is as follows: have you tried “The lost City” and “rock rift” both in the Mohonk Preserve? I have videos on both. I think you may like those two spots. Also, in my Ashokan High Point military plane wreck hike video, what are your thoughts on the stone piles (cairns) I’m Wondering what a smart person view is on those. Great stuff. Also, I can point you to some really fun glacier erratics and blue stone Quarries Great vids. Jay :)

@ps4402

6 ай бұрын

Lost City is a great hike. I grew up in New Paltz and hiked all over the mountains.

@jaycreature3893

6 ай бұрын

@@ps4402 super cool. Any thoughts on the rock cairns on Ashokan High Point ? I’d be interested in a smart persons take on those would be :) Jay

Have you been to this gorgeous place?

@awboat

3 жыл бұрын

I've heard of them due to rock climbing. The Gunks are one of the world's best known climbing areas.

Very informative I have been trying to find a fossil site with eurypterids in the shawangunks

What cool cliffs! I haven't been to upstate NY, but after watching your videos I've definitely added it to my list. A few quick questions: What time scales are we talking about in regards to cementation and lithification? How much sediment has to be deposited before enough pressure/heat is generated to begin the lithification of the layers below? What happens to the sediment that's at the very top? Does it get covered by more sediment in a never-ending cycle? Thanks for the video, I really enjoyed it!

@Geobeck

3 жыл бұрын

They are beautiful, I love the Hudson Valley I definitely recommend you visiting sometime in the future! There are so many beautiful places to hike.I appreciate you coming up with such interesting questions! That's the true spirit of science, constantly being curious and asking tons of questions. I don't know if I can give simple answers to these like I wish I could, as geology rarely has simple answers/solutions. I like to make these videos not too complicated because I like to share the main (current) info that is available to me and that I've researched. I have to stop myself from going on too many tangents when I talk about this stuff lol. To answer your first question, cementation and lithification occur, like most geologic processes, on a time scale of tens of thousands to millions of years. Essentially, it took thousands to millions of years for all of that sediment in the streams to be transported from the mountains to the west and eventually deposited in many many layers. Then, they were buried under more sediment, and later affected by tectonic stress of different mountain building events that occurred after the Taconic Orogeny (like the Acadian orogeny and Alleghenian Orogeny). This is most commonly known as uplift - one of the main reasons why so many rocks around the world that were once thousands of feet underground have been exposed to the surface. Weathering and erosional forces take over and helps expose the rocks as well, but tectonic uplift is extremely important in 'pushing' those rocks up through the crust. Since that quartz is so resistant, like I mentioned, lots of those sediments it was once buried under were eventually eroded away - exposing that white quartz sandstone/conglomerate. I'm afraid I don't know the exact value for exactly how much sediment had to have been deposited in this scenario for lithification to occur (but it had to have been at least thousands of feet) - like I said before, answers to geological questions don't always have exact quantitative values. I like that you used the word 'cycle' because that brings up the topic of the rock cycle! I have a video of the rock cycle that (simply) explains the main processes that rocks go through. Thanks again for your questions! I just started to read a book called "Timefulness: how thinking like a geologist can help save the world" and already in the first couple of chapters I feel like it would be a great book for anyone just getting started in learning about geology. Based on your questions, I think maybe you would find that book interesting! :) I will also edit the description of this video to include some sources that I used, and that viewers can read if they'd like.

We own a property that is known as 'The Hell' and would like to know more about it. The location is in the area not too far from New Paltz. If there is someway to get in touch with you or some other geologist that would be willing to visit and tour the location it would be fascinating to learn about the geology of the place. That is Stony Kill Falls in your video isn't it?

Awesome video! My family just got back from some light hiking there earlier today. Quick question though, what type of map is that on a screen at the 8 minute mark and does one exist of the whole country? 😃

There are few places more beautiful

Interesting video (on the geology of the place); but "moun'ns"?

Awesome video. It has everything in a video about science. I wonder if most if the times you use a word like orogeny you can define it. Eventually us students can finally get a clue.

@Geobeck

3 жыл бұрын

thank you!! I appreciate the feedback. In this video I decided to not go into as much depth about the Taconic orogeny since I spent a lot of time talking about it in the video I mentioned (the Taconic Mountains in MA), but that's a good suggestion. Next time I will at least do a small definition/clarification of vocabulary I use, and then direct viewers to other videos that may have more info. I guess it's a learning process figuring out how much info is too much hahah, so I think sometimes it leads me to being more vague than I intend to.

Is this also known as Sam's Point Preserve? Same kind of cliffs... I went up there one winter to make my peace with the cold... lots of icy paths, sandstone, and contorted, dwarf pine trees on the windswept highlands. I recall there being a waterfall, but I remember not being able to get a good look at it and that the path to it was closed, but I climbed over the gate anyway, I remember sliding down chutes of ice that formed over stair steps cut into eroded joints in the sandstone, not knowing how I was going to get back up.

@Geobeck

3 жыл бұрын

it's the same rocks! Sam's point is about 15-20 minute drive from where I was (Minnewaska state park), but they all have the same beautiful crazy looking cliffs! I love Sam's Point too, it has some crazy view points, as well as a beautiful hike to the ice caves (which I believe were caused by frost wedging). There's also a trail to another waterfall at Sam's Point, I forget the name of that one though - I haven't been on that trail yet. The waterfall I went to is Awosting Falls, but the Shawangunks actually have quite a few waterfalls! I think another popular one is called Peter's Kill - and another one is Stonybrook falls which I went to in the winter about 4 years ago and it had huge beautiful icicles hanging over all the cliffs. Felt like a winter wonderland. If you get a chance to go back again soon I highly recommend, especially in the fall!

@tomballard4794

2 жыл бұрын

A few years back like 45 years back,Sam's Point had signs that told about the rock. They told how the shale helped the ridge slip and break up, along with water, and frost. There are other ice caves but you need a permit and a guide to take you. To many people going there and beating down the area. It is a 1/4 mile long crescent shape valley that pulled away from the ridge.

@mudpuddleaficionado6408

Жыл бұрын

Sam’s Point area has ice caves too, both the labeled ones with trails and the hidden ones on the western side. Easy place to get lost! A video on the meteor crater in the Catskills would be fun too.

@AvanaVana

Жыл бұрын

@@mudpuddleaficionado6408 Re: impact structure…besides the unusual drainage pattern, do you know if anyone has ever found positive evidence of impact there? (e.g. planar deformation features, high-t/high-p polymorphs of quartz and other minerals, shatter cones, impact breccia, melt, gravity anomaly). I used to stay a rental property on top of Panther Mountain and also visit Prof. Bob Thurman’s Tibetan Buddhist center on the very top, Menla. Panther Mountain is located in the very center of the alleged impact crater, with the road from Phoenicia going around it, along the circular drainage. I always wondered if the Tibet House folks selected the site because of the impact theory. Many historical Tibetan ritual instruments were crafted from meteoritic iron (གནམ་ལྕགས། in Tibetan-lit. “sky-iron”), so it would be considered a very auspicious site for a meditation retreat and traditional Tibetan medicine center.

Mow-ins?

Mountains has a T in it.

Regurgitated peer-reviewed nonsense we know most of this stuff is wrong now