One of my very observant viewers noticed that I used the same photo for the two macro shots of sandstone at 2:15 and 3:08. This was an error on my part. I can assure you that the two sandstones are VERY similar when observing with a hand lens. The sandstone in the "tree" is very slightly darker stained on a freshly broken surface. I think it is awesome that I have people paying such close attention!! I'm sure other errors will be found in future videos. Thank you to foolishwatcher.

@SquirrelSniper138

Жыл бұрын

Greetings from across the pond 🇬🇧 May I say I so appreciate feet on the ground.. I follow a Young Chap here called Paul Cook kzread.info/dron/TeaCfGLItytCMsU1DQ7Wsg.html in which we are investigating Geopolymer and he has recreated sandstone structures... would be interesting to have your 👀 and knowledge to have a look at his channel. All the best. New sub btw

@mattt6459

Жыл бұрын

That's definitely biology, but not a tree

@melkel2010

Жыл бұрын

I would still like to see the contrasting pictures. Could you post that as a short or in your community feed? Just because I love rocks :) I live near Potsdam sandstone quarries in NY and we have buildings made of it. I always thought all sandstone was like ours but now that I'm old I've researched and found that our sandstone is unique along with the famous German sandstone and other sandstones aren't cemented quite so hard as to be suitable for building with.

@spuddy4845

Жыл бұрын

do a show on the petrified forest

@pauleasley6488

Жыл бұрын

@@guysumpthin2974 thats right. your fairy tale made those millions of years old formations, during a flood that has been scientifically proven to have never happened... i bet you really believe "moses" parted the red sea, then wandered for 40 years in a region you can cross on foot in a few days right? never mind we have plenty of written records from that time that prove that moses, and the "exodus of jews" never existed/happened.

Living in Montana and formerly working for a gravel crushing company that travelled to remote locations,We've found many petrified forests in the prairies and the petrified wood always felt like glass. Some of these trees were agatized, and some looked like "living" wood! Great video,btw!

@SexyTrappaTv

Жыл бұрын

What do you mean by “living” wood?

@jdagreat4595

Жыл бұрын

@@SexyTrappaTv wood is still living if its not cured . Like if someone breaks branch of tree, that branch is still living wood.

@tawnyahawbaker235

Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure he meant the type of petrified wood that looks like an actual piece of wood that just fell off a tree or pieces of bark.

@Napsteraspx

Жыл бұрын

Cool! Where you able to take any home?

@owlivdejong5086

Жыл бұрын

When I lived in Montana it was easy to find small pieces of petrified wood in gravel and rock that had been brought it. Walking the edges of the rock parking lot's after rain first thing in the morning makes the agates easier to spot.

Production values continue to impress, Myron, but it's the tone of these videos that's most impressive. You are not speaking down to your audience....a rarity. Great job.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks! Your feedback helps me stay motivated to do more. I've learned a lot from watching your videos and really like your style. You are a natural communicator and clearly LOVE geology!

@jacotacomorocco

Жыл бұрын

when is the collaboration fellas?

@okboomer6201

Жыл бұрын

If nick likes it, that is all I need to hear. SUBSCRIBED

@miqsh70

Жыл бұрын

Yep, Nick has changed my life forever and I will always look at others to learn even more about geology. Enjoying this video! I hope you will keep posting!

@cerpintaxt7392

Жыл бұрын

We NEED a Zentner/Cook collaboration.

The fact that these aren't actually petrified trees is so much more unbelievably fascinating to me than if they actually were. All the things/unbelievable amounts of time that had to happen to make it look like that.. what an absolute wild phenomenon.. geography is so amazingly fascinating..

@Frenchy78ify

13 күн бұрын

Bro its 100% petrified tress what are you on 🤣🤣🤣 you literally have a tree stump in front of you and will say its a bunch of solidified dirt ?

@pasnthru7x3

3 күн бұрын

Something is happening ~ ~since seeing fake globe,fake moonlandings, fake news, fake Dis-Ease, fake Education, fake Political, fake Medical, :to write this out is almost intimidating~my heart actually "got jacked up" when I re-read the above 1st 14words. Anyway add in the "short season of Satan's escalated deception" + All of the "indoctrinate~ing" "Fake~Science" ~Satan is entwined in ALL of this Darkness~ And as the CIA director (Casey,I think) said "when everything the (american)people believe is a lie , their job would be done.~ TA DA~we are told so many lies, About Everything! AND I AM SO ENCOURAGED TO COME TO SEE THE DEPTH OF THE DECEPTION, because ~ I Struggled hard for years to believe what many deceived ~(or worse)~"pastors" proclaimed ,to the point of quitting the church thinking myself evil ~because what i read in the Bible was different ~and for many "reasons" I believed or felt "they" must be right and "they" were so far above me ~(& as many put forth)~I must be "ever learning ,never understanding, poor soil,with out ears to hear, possibly lukewarm, definitely in rebellion (which is WITCHCRAFT) ~Like the government uses the words~ TERRORIST ~So your response is discredited & ignored. i would go into their "church" services OK😊 & walk out upset😢(actually pissed off,regrettably). The more I Come to see that we may be in "Satan's little season/short time to deceive the nations"~>; the more "my little mustered seed faith" is growing :~seeing & understanding we are "ACTUALLY" Being attacked and deceived be an actual ADVERSARY; ~ An "ADVERSARY " That Our/Your Father said was so good at his job that, God must cut Satan's time short OR ELSE EVERYONE would be DECEIVED. SO it's kinda very Encouraging to see that God knew this would happen and told us in such a way ~ that we would find the book Enoch : I'm thinking we were given eyes to see ~now ~ because God wanted as to notice & be upheld. Satan has no power other then THAT GRANTED him by our Father ~ For oDoes God means what He says everywhere except the following verses~Is He such a tricky Father??? NO! These mean exactly what "IS WRITTEN". EVERYONE QUIT AVOIDING THE GOSPEL ~1TIM.2:3-6...This is Good and Acceptable in the sight of God our Father,"WHO WILL HAVE ALL MEN TO BE SAVED" and come to the knowledge of truth....One Mediator...Jesus...TO BE TESTIFIED IN DUE TIME. THESE ARE SIMPLE WORDS. He is not only going to save us ALL, He promised here to TEACH us ALL The TRUTH. It's becoming more clear daily, that God's word means what it says...Pray for De This is the Gospel ~1Tim 4:10... trust in the living God, Who is the Savior of (ALL) men SPECIALLY those that believe. (Better to believe) & 1Tim.2:4-6 ...God our Savior, who will have (ALL) men to be saved and come to the knowledge of truth.... To be Testified in DUE TIME. Everyone please consider the following verses in regards to the Gospel being Good News: Always~ Hopefully uncovering another of Satan's big lies ~ These verses are so often ignored and avoided: something is amiss Col.1:20. GOD, our Father chose that...by him~>[Jesus]~to reconcile all things to reconcile ALL things to himself...things in Earth, or things in Heaven. 1Tim. 2:3-6 ~...God our Savior, who will have "ALL" men to be "Saved" "AND" come to the knowledge of "Truth"...(to be TESTIFIED in DUE TIME.) 1Cor.15: 22 ~As in Adam "ALL" die even so in Christ shall "ALL" be made alive. Luke 23:34 ~ Then said Jesus, Father forgive them for they know not what they do. Isa. 29:24 ~They that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine. Rom.5:18 ~Therefore as by the offense of one [Adam] judgment came upon "ALL" men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one [Jesus Christ] the free gift came upon "ALL" men unto justification of life. [Jesus restored what Adam messed up] 1Tim.4: 9-11 ~...Trust in the living God, Who is the Savior of "ALL" men "SPECIALLY" those that believe. Psalm136:5~To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endures for ever. × 26ish times John 17:2 ~ As thou hast given him power over "ALL" flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.[Jesus is given power over ALL flesh.] Isaiah 19:22 ~And the Lord shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the Lord. 1Cor.3:13-15... If any man's works shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. 1John 2:2 ~ And he is the "propitiation (payment) for" our sins: and not for our's only, but also for the "sins of the whole world". 1Tim. & 1Peter

Incredible to think that at one time a large river flowed through this region, in a direction and way that's so far different than the present geography would suggest. It's fun to see how dramatically the surface of the earth can change over time, but it must be equally as fun to find these clues in the rock and soil to put together an accurate understanding of what that specific place once looked like millions of years ago.

As a geology student, this is priceless. Love seeing the process of drawing conclusions from field observations explained so clearly. Thank you!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, and I hope your studies prove fruitful!

@shawnj3525

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/mqWTzbhyoZaafMo.html Go to the 14:30 mark What do you see? What geological process could possibly result in something that looks exactly like a tree?

@halweilbrenner9926

Жыл бұрын

And the "tubular" rock formations have a BARK texture & appearance. Open mind evidence based. Best wishes.

@markgray6982

Жыл бұрын

The Devils tower in Wyoming,,,,,IS a Giant tree from the Bible. The evil cabal inverts everything, thats why they named it after satan. God said, cut them down and leave the stump,, the experts that say this is lava formation are evil and Dumb as a Rock

@alexbetts8291

Жыл бұрын

Do the channels that have produced the concreations contain heavier sediment than the surrounding sandstone?

Myron Cook, the Bob Ross of Geology. Love your work. Always excited to see a new video pop up.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Feedback is a motivator for me.

@TheEudaemonicPlague

Жыл бұрын

I was trying to think who he reminded me of. Heh.

@liarliar7491

Жыл бұрын

@@myroncook wow, not being funny but as soon as I saw you today for the first time, I thought its Jack! Where is number 7? Lol. I'm hooked! New subscriber, love Grizzly Adam's and I love this topic!

@bonzie321

Жыл бұрын

GW Bush was the Bob Ross of 911🥶

@jannettb7930

Жыл бұрын

Happy little concretions

In my youth I lived near the Petrified Forest in Northern Arizona. While I am not a Geologist, I could tell at a glance these objects did not form the same way as the objects in the Petrified Forest of Northern Arizona. The objects in the video were long and round which, at a distance, looked like a tree trunk, but not so much when up close. In Arizona, the objects look like trees near and far. We could pick up a piece of these stone trees and it "looked" like you had a piece of wood in your hands. From what I remember learning, the downed trees where laying in water and absorbed minerals from the water that filled the cells of the tree. You could even see where large limbs came off the trunk. But then, what do I know, I'm not a Geologist. I do know this was a fantastic video, informative and easily understood by it's audience. Well done, sir, well done.

@Frenchy78ify

13 күн бұрын

It is 100% a tree tho, you can see the outer sheel. Geology is a scam.

There is a lot to see in the 4 Corners area. My Dad is a Douser for Gold 🥇🪙. He can gauge depth and has a book out, and a video on KZread. The Art of Dousing by Mike Fercik. He might be Tesa recantation??. Smart Man for sure though. God Bless You Amen. Thanks for this amazing video for us to watch.

The bodies in your excellent video are perhaps the largest pseudofossils that one will ever run across. I used to volunteer in my town's tiny museum and I'd identify specimens for guests. One guest brought in a "dinosaur egg" that has been in his family for three generations. It was certainly the right size and shape to be a dinosaur egg and it did have a "shell" that had a small piece missing revealing the rounded insides (like a hard boiled egg). I had to point out that the "egg" was made of granodiorite and was "unlikely to be a fossil and that the egg-shape was due to exfoliation and spheroidal weathering common to granites." The answer was unsatisfying and the guy said that he will continue to believe it to be a dinosaur egg as did his father and grandfather. We parted with broad smiles.

@ckh57

4 ай бұрын

Most Geologist are brainwashed over educated ignorant fools with a closed mind to what they are looking at on and in the earth. Their brainwashed academia ideas for them are not to be challenged with any real facts of history, for the most part they will not talk to someone who disagrees with academia implanted ideas. They are by any reasonable scientific normal measurement, very poor scientist.

@Segma369

2 ай бұрын

Waw, your ego it's big. الرجل يقف على جذور كانت تحت الارض لشجر ة عملاقه الزلازل والرياح والعوامل الطبيعيه تسببت، فالتعريه

Thanks for that Myron. I recently watched another film on KZread about A California Geologist who was also very entertaining. He was discussing why you get a long line of vegetation in remote parts of desert and he said this was where the tectonic plates rise above each other and you get natural springs form all along them. In 1993 I was on a family holiday in the state of California and the family decided to have a ride out. After looking at a place on the map called “Lone Pine” I said “that will do”. About an hour later, we were there. Well, it was what I would call an oasis. Just about a dozen Huge Palm trees in the middle of a Mojave style desert. Myself and my children walked into the middle of this oasis and I looked down at the sand at my feet. I started flicking the sand from side to side with my sandalled foot and the ground under my feet opened up and the more I did this the more it turned into water. After a short time there was a puddle and there appeared the smallest of fish, like what you would call “sticklebacks” in the UK. This incident really freaked me out. It was like I’d witnessed some sort of miracle.. it was alike the phenomenon of it raining frogs. What a wonderful thing Geology is.

@Kayenne54

Жыл бұрын

I've seen it raining frogs. A couple of times, when I was a kid, in outback Australia. They definitely didn't emerge from the soil, but were plopping down around us (poor things). Little grey frogs. And rain as well of course. Many hopped away, apparently unharmed.

@future8796

Жыл бұрын

Check out mud fossils university and the rocks were alive. 😊

@Kayenne54

Жыл бұрын

@@future8796 Interesting. Things aren't always what they seem ha ha.

@future8796

Жыл бұрын

@@Kayenne54 Hay Check out mud fossils university. Also check out the rocks were alive. Tyson mud fossils.

@Kayenne54

Жыл бұрын

@@future8796 Will do, thanks.

Having grown up in the bighorn basin area, I'm shocked I've never seen or even heard of these formations. But next time I go home, I am going to find these!! You are amazing! Your explanations were on a level anyone could understand and you were thorough! Thank you! I just can't get enough of your videos. Makes me want to go explore!!

With over 4K comments in the last one year I doubt I will be noticed, but I had to say I absolutely loved every second of your channel and watch videos repeatedly. You are my favourite geologist in the whole world.

@myroncook

Ай бұрын

Noticed

@dellseasandoval8187

Ай бұрын

@@myroncook I sincerely appreciate the acknowledgement sir🫡.

If you weren't a teacher you sure are now! It was quite enjoyable learning from you. I am looking forward to more of your videos. Thank you

@alexlechner9330

11 ай бұрын

These a tailings from mining with chemicalshe entire Earth was mined

@onewordhereonewordthere6975

8 ай бұрын

@@alexlechner9330 the Earth was and is a mine . That gorge that is in the Gulf of Mexico was a mine. Still a lot to learn. Good luck

As someone who has lived his whole life within 30 miles of saltwater, I find this fascinating. Thank you.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Great!

KZread has been recommending me quack "scientists" and I was afraid when I got recommended your video that this was another. Thank you for not talking about aliens or giants. Thank you so much.

I absolutely love your passion and enthusiasm about geology. You explained this fantastically and it was intriguing all the way through for someone who has no prior knowledge on any of this!

Back when I was a kid my Mom took us to a petrified forest I think when we were playing a county fair in the area where we found some petrified wood pieces! One of the advantages of being raised in the carnival business is your Mom takes you around to see the historical sites

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Nice story!

@rogerandjoan4329

Жыл бұрын

That’s a pretty unique upbringing. Where did you get schooling from and what do you/did you do for a living?

@roberthepburn7461

Жыл бұрын

@@rogerandjoan4329 when I was a kid we owned a sideshow! In the winter most of the carnivals and circuses wintered in gibsonton Florida and Sarasota Florida and the Fair season ended on labor day so we didn't miss school gibsonton was mostly populated by carnival and circus people so the school made allowances, while most kids lived and stayed in their town's I got to travel all over the USA and I got to see everything and meet people everywhere and I got to work with my dad and I learned how to make money! My daughter and granddaughter were raised in the carnival business as well! I don't regret anything it was a great life! Unfortunately people only get to see the help and think that we are bad!

@rogerandjoan4329

Жыл бұрын

@@roberthepburn7461 Thanks for writing back. I never thought about you guys until I read your post. It sounds like you had a great time. It’s fantastic that you took advantage to see everything. Your mom sounds very special to realize all the opportunities. I would have liked to meet such an intrepid and curious woman. You, your daughter, and grand daughter should write a book about your experiences.

@roberthepburn7461

Жыл бұрын

@@rogerandjoan4329 if you ever travel to the Tampa bay area in fl in gibsonton just south of Tampa on us-41 go to gibsonton we built a museum of the carnival with some pretty cool stuff/ an 1896 Conderman Ferris wheel and many other rides games shows! I think it's on the web IISA museum of the carnival best in the winter when it's open. It also home of the largest showmen's club in the USA

I am 62 now, and I wish I had become a scientist, like a geologist or a biologist. Two very interesting fields of study. However, I became a tradesman instead. Anyway, I really loved this segment. I find the whole idea of something looking like one thing, but being something completely different. Also, in how the outcroppings were made, considering the vast amount of time it took for these to form, it is now easy to understand the process. Geology is fascinating, and I truly believe I would have been very good at it. Because of you and others in the many circles of science, I can still enjoy it all, especially when coming from nice people like you who love to teach others like me. *Thank you for this thoroughly enjoyable and thought-provoking video!* This is the first video of yours that I have watched, but I am now a subscriber with notifications - I want to see all of your videos! 😊

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Enjoy it as a hobby...it will bring joy

@yeahweburnstuff

Жыл бұрын

retirement age going up to 75 in the near future; give yourself a second career!

@stevenkaskus6173

11 ай бұрын

Just so you know we need tradesman very much so in this country especially now so I hope you have or are or will teach others your trade, you Will be passing on much needed knowledge and expertise in your trade field after so many years of experience so please don't sell yourself short and also know your knowledge is just as valuable.

@heatherkaye8653

10 ай бұрын

Many community colleges give free tuition for like 8 credits to folks over 65- you can still become a scientist!

@truce6441

Ай бұрын

I am glad at 62 you can browse though internet and check anything you find interesting.

I love the laid back format of these videos. Puts me very in mind of the various documentary-centric channels before they were forced willy nilly to begin catering to shorter attention spans. I'm so happy that we seem to have come full circle and purely educational videos once again have an environment where they can thrive.

I’m not even currently doing anything relating to geology I find your videos very relaxing, interesting and very easy to follow. Take care stay blessed

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

This makes my day! People finding interest in geology!

@lovejumanji5

Жыл бұрын

Lol. Same .

@CoincidenceTheorist

Жыл бұрын

1:00. “Think like a geologist”. Perhaps not. That is if we want to see the truth rather than the lies Of his stories. The narrative of parasites. Despite that, not all are the same. Open heart and mind? Or closed and crystallized?

@CoincidenceTheorist

Жыл бұрын

11:00. Interesting. I challenge all to compare to what is found in Washington state that you’ll find to be a great comparison and exercise in mental gymnastics of its own. Yet in that case trees they do declare them to be. 50 million years???? Someone is using antiquated information/dating methods/techniques. C/o CWU Geology Dept of superior sciences - students to staff. The Rod. The path. Soil seeds. Stats and graph. Today’s facts tomorrows laughs and gafs

Having seen petrified trees before, I was pretty sure that the formations were something else, because they didn't have the correct pattern on the end. I had no idea what else they could be though, since I had never heard of concretions. Very interesting.

@Totemspirit8

Жыл бұрын

Sap, leaking. Tree broke like that, & leaked. Just my opinion.

@harrysmith8338

Жыл бұрын

There are the remnants, such as 'Devils Tower', of the Giant Trees, that were part of a prior Creation called the "First Fruits", in Genesis 1:1-2. Where does it say that, in the Bible, you ask? Well, correctly translated, Genesis 1:1-2 reads as follows: "The First Fruits, Elohim cut down; and the Earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the Deep." Jeremiah 4:23, describes that event in detail.

@howardfreeland5595

Жыл бұрын

You are right - those are not trees. Concretions are very common , although I have not seen them in this shape before.

@beer1for2break3fast4

Жыл бұрын

@@harrysmith8338 Devils Tower is NOT a petrified tree stump ffs.

@bendover4154

Жыл бұрын

​@@harrysmith8338What really happened with Devil's Tower was that it was a large tree that my mother-in-law didn't like, so she cut it down. Yes, I'm pretty sure she was around back then. Anyway the years passed and the stump turned to stone. Any questions?

Absolutely fascinating material. Your videos are truly gifts. Why Geology isn't a taught more rigorously in schools is beyond me. Who wouldn't benefit from a dose of Geologic time as opposed to ridiculous creation myths which are interpreted literally and defended as real? Ditto a previous commenter in saying I wish I had studied Geology more too. The Geology majors I knew in College were all smart, committed, outdoorsy and incredibly fun people. What a wonderful way to see and interpret our world. Many thanks! Your channel is a gem.

Fascinating. I often have wished I could go for a walk with a geologist who could explain to me what I am seeing. Loved this! 🥰💕❤️👍👍

I love seeing those badlands. Wyoming has it all. A fossil record that represents pretty much every time period that contained life. The prettiest Jade in my opinion. Even kimberlite fields. A rock hounds paradise. All of that and a great view of the nights sky. Thank you for the great video and helpful information.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Good to meet another Wyoming lover!

@richardcarter9107

Жыл бұрын

@@myroncook yes sir, my good friend lives in Douglas. I live in SC, and we have some really interesting geology in this area of the state. I'm near the center close to the capital in Columbia. The gem clubs all say that there isn't anything really to find until you get closer to the mountains. I've actually found a good bit of cool finds here. I think that someone said that and everyone went along with it. I just love exploring new areas. I'm thinking about writing a little field guide for the area, because I've found Tourmalated quartz, gem silica, some really nice moonstone and other really nice Feldspar crystals. I found a spot that has a lot of sandstone like in the video that you made, and that area has got some nice jasper with hematite bands. I've Even found some gem chrysoberylc⁶I 8gsome nice The thing is that the book that's local shows that the only interesting mineral nearby is mud ball garnets.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

You must get out a lot and hike the terrain. Those are some neat finds.

@richardcarter9107

Жыл бұрын

@@myroncook Yes sir, I love getting out and being surrounded by nature. Most of the places I hunt are creeks, or anywhere there's digging taking place. I really love exploring and finding new places. Can you imagine how many new sites that are still waiting to be found?!!! I wish you the best on your adventures! Take care

I spent some time in the badlands of Wyoming fighting wildfire in the 90s and fell in love with the area. So remote and wild. I really appreciate your content, you are such a terrific teacher. Thank you for posting. ✌️🇺🇸👍

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Interesting...thanks for watching

Just found your site!❤ If only my professor/teachers taught like you!!! You are so descriptive and enthusiastic, makes it such a pleasure to watch your videos. I’m obsessed 🤩

Thanks Myron! I learn new things with every video you make! Please keep making them!

I'm no archeologist, but I have to say, at first glance, the first thing that came to my mind when he took that drone shot of him walking.. those really look like giant petrified roots. Even the color of the rock from the bottom soil in that axial cut is different.

@Fanofthesky

Жыл бұрын

Yeah i think he has the wrong part of the tree. Maybe he doesn’t realize how large the ancient world was before the flood.

@mr.johnson460

Жыл бұрын

@@Fanofthesky He doesn't believe in a bibical flood. Not if he believes in 50 million yrs. ago.

@beezelsub

Жыл бұрын

Roots from devil's tower. Nice catch.

@gotworc

11 ай бұрын

​@@beezelsub lol okay buddy

@La-Phamilia

11 ай бұрын

it's roots. tree trunk u would see rings. im not a geologist or botanist. ❤

I love rocks and their adventures so much and it's been a dream of mine to just go hiking with a geologist and ask all my questions and this video fulfills that so well, it felt like going hiking together and solving a mystery. What an absolute delight!!!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Bard

@kellypawspa

Жыл бұрын

I visited a horse ranch just outside of Oatman Arizona... They had horse mining tours for opal and gold panning. That was the most fun I've ever had in all my life, Tom & Jennifer are the owners of the ranch and they are truly awesome people. I highly recommend to anybody to stop there on your way to visit Oatman... They aren't hard to find they're pretty much all that's out there, on the right just before you enter town.

This was really interesting. Thank you for taking your time to share your knowledge with us.

This is so interesting! I love how you educate me in the process to make this formation. I'm sitting here with a 300 million year old fossile of plants, locked in coal. Fine details and all. It's amazing! Thank you for this video!

Very good lesson. Geology is how time writes, and it's a fascinating book. I have been a fan since I first looked down and saw a colored rock. 65 years later and I am still learning. The exposed strata of a road cut never fail to draw my attention. My first clue the objects weren't trees was from the flattened shape. My second thought was maybe a lava tube, the color evoked Basalt - until you got to the close-up photos. Geology is a wonderful science that has told us a lot. Who doesn't love a good puzzle?

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Geology is how time writes....love that thought. Thanks for the feedback!

@KB4QAA

Жыл бұрын

@@myroncook What an electrifying phrase!!!

@olsim1730

Жыл бұрын

I live in a place that has much petrified forest remains(Curio Bay, NZ) and fyi many of the logs are flattened. 🤙

It’s amazing to me how a geologist can look at features like these and work out an origin from so long ago! Thank you for sharing

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@shawnj3525

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/mqWTzbhyoZaafMo.html Go to the 14:30 mark What do you see? What geological process could possibly result in something that looks exactly like a tree?

Watch you from Colorado Springs. I scratch my head in wonder on hike after hike. Thank you for uncovering the geology.

I always enjoy your videos, Myron. Great detective work. Solving mysteries with science.

I was going to say they were big scary prehistoric worms. It was fun watching the detective work. More videos please!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

More to come!

@kingfisher9553

Жыл бұрын

Ooooo I love that interpretation

I sat in the shade below the first site's sandstones for a few lunches. These well-cemented sandstones with dark color were fooling me during the first year of my PhD. It is so nice that you introduce these phenomena in a popular-science way. I am impressed. Thank you, Myron. Look forward to seeing more videos of yours!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

It's great to have another geologist appreciate my work. Thank you for watching!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Yes

another accelent video byron, thank you for sharing

Interesting hypothesis that requires further investigation.i enjoyed your analytical approach.

I started years ago studying geology. And I never cease to be amazed at the things the USA has to be seen. I just took A 4000 mile trip from Missouri to Virginia to Maryland/ Delaware, to Pennsylvania, to New York, to VT & NH. Coming back through Ohio and Indiana. I stopped at outcrops/cuts and picked up samples. It varied so much that I do not have two samples alike. So these videos farther amaze me - thanks!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

What a trip!

@joemeyers4131

Жыл бұрын

I suggest if you can come to the area immediately around a town called 29 Palms and study to look for evidence that that area was like a edge of or in a tropical forest once or a area with magnolia and avocado trees with the now existing fan palms which was said from a publication from the UC groups. If was it had laurel trees that are found way north in our redwoods. I really wish someone would check it out but don't just consult with locals becuz they will not tell you much prolly on purpose or will feebly . So do this secretly and report your observations or finds . If when trees grew in this mojave desert area it maybe it was dessicated after awhile eroding some rock material away but look closely for details or clues to a once deep forest environment that likely had streams going thru it . Much more rain amounts too. The NY Providence mts have the famous caverns in the way to Vegas , the northeast zone . Those created from like 80 inches of rain once likely. So check it out ir direct the video guy to my post! And thanks . Again don't consult locals, but act like just visiting is better . The local 'brains' are not real reliable. Many common people are seeming anti-knowledge is weird a thing. I know it from being here 40 years.

Fascinating! Old flood plain channels filled with sand and mud, buried and compressed to tubular stone geological artifacts. Thanks for solving this question and explaining it in great detail 😊👍👍

Love your video ! Thank you for giving me free, interesting and provocative knowledge today !!!

So marvelous video, thank you Myron!!

Great video! Thanks for posting this. I really enjoyed your approach which models an investigative approach to understanding the geological features. I'm hoping you might consider doing a video on actual petrified trees (or castings of them) in the badlands. I was fascinated by giant stumps I saw in Theodore Roosevelt National Park a few years back and would love to learn more about them.

Wow, this brings back memories of studying geology at Mines, Colorado (1998-2001). We went to Wyoming often for field trips, investigating Lewis Shale and the Green River Basin. Great explaination. You've earned a new subscriber, from Malaysia! 🙌👍

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Awesome!

The first clue that its not a tree is the oval shape...trees RARELY grow trunks that are that severely oval

@Frenchy78ify

13 күн бұрын

yeah bc you would know after petrification what it should look like. It looks exactly like a tree even after an X event that meleted lots of ruins that looks like "natural geology". Geology is a scam. You can clearly see the outer shell.

Great video and very, very informative. Geology and other naturally occurring phenomena are some of my favorite topics, and Wyoming is my home state, so having grown up there, as a kid I've had some of the most incredible finds! For example, I've found endless petrified wood, Indian beads in ant mounds and actual sea shells along the North Platte river even hundreds of feet from where the banks is currently. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

I remember my brother talking about this- pretty sure it's the same area. He studied Geology at the U of U for years and would travel out to weird geological areas and share the weird ones with me. Great to finally have video of the "trees". I could see where people could think they're trees with the markings.

@davidtyndall3786

Жыл бұрын

Ok.

@Segma369

2 ай бұрын

اذا ان اخوك هوا من المتلقنين الاغبباء الذين ضحكت عليهم الجامعات بخدعة التعليم واعمت بصيرتهم

I appreciate you walking us through the steps of how you developed a hypothesis to explain these features. Geology never ceases to amaze. Thanks for the video!

@tysonsmudfossiladventures3468

Жыл бұрын

He is DEAD WRONG! Watch kzread.info/dash/bejne/qHeg2KSRdtHJdrg.html

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@tysonsmudfossiladventures3468

Жыл бұрын

@@philindeblanc Uluru Australia, its not what you think friend. Its a beyond amazing discovery. Watch. kzread.info/dash/bejne/pItrsMGFfNSxfc4.html

Had a great time learning from you , very interesting subject , love the way you explain everything .

@myroncook

8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Awesome video and great explanation! Thank You for sharing!

Your enthusiasm is contagious! Your video came up on auto-play and I found you so engaging that I forgot what I was doing and watched this whole video. Never knew how interesting geology was. You must be a teacher… thanks for what you do. I will check out your other videos!😊

@davidtyndall3786

Жыл бұрын

Amy. Never minds

Oh please keep making your videos! We are really enjoying them! We are from Wyoming so this is even more special for us. You teach us like Nick Zentner does, I see he commented which made us both smile that he found you too!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

@bluecube7247

Жыл бұрын

​@Myron Cook YOU ARE AWESOME! just found your channel.... so excited.

lowkey one of the best geology channels around.

Those structures looks melted. It makes me think of a pyrotechnic mud flow. I love this speculation. I see so much intriguing geology as I travel around. Thank you for sharing your adventures.

As a relatively new subscriber, just wanted to say how much I enjoy your videos. You have a natural way of explaining things and your enthusiasm is contagious . Cheers,

Thank you Myron for the very understandable explanation. So now I understand how the “Cannonball” concretions formed in Theodore Roosevelt NP in ND. They were weird looking sticking out of the rock, and sometimes falling out.

@davidtyndall3786

Жыл бұрын

My mama knows. You wont

Thanks for sharing the outcrop and your analysis

Thank you I loved this! I learned a ton - - you're very patient and clear in your explanations. I'm looking forward to more videos.

Hi Myron, I just wanted to say your videos are amazing. The microscopy photos you captured where so telling. I’m eager to see more of your videos!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your feedback.

That’s a great hypothesis. I’ve always had this crazy idea that it was once an ocean and something happened to displace the water and somehow all the life in the ocean was petrified and turned into different stones depending on the surrounding minerals and what the organisms were originally composed of. Just a cool thought on how we get those (whale rocks) and thing like that. Everyone always wants to jump to petrified wood but any living organisms can be petrified. This man did great work on this video

Wow fascinating insight thank you for sharing ,....

Great video! I’m happy I stumbled across your channel.

Thanks Myron! Just ran across your channel and plan on watching all the episodes. I’m a geology enthusiast. A rock pick and hand lens is in the truck at all times. Life is exploration. Great job on the video, please keep them coming.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard!

I always learn so much from these beautiful videos - Thanks!!

As an engineer with a geology minor.. i appreciate your methodology and am compelled to alogn with your conclusions. Xlnt work!

Wow, I love geology, I was thinking of studying it when I went back to school in my 40's, but wasn't sure how I would pay the bills. I chose human science instead and got my RN. But when I retire I'm going to go back to geology!! I have been watching Nick's videos for years now. So glad I saw yours today so I have another avenue for geology. I've been picking up rocks since I was a little kid. I have way too many rocks in the backyard. But can't wait till the next rock hunt!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

I wish you the best in your endeavor!

You're a great teacher sir. What a good feeling it is as understanding coalesces and something originally mysterious and puzzling becomes clear! Thank you for your explanation, and your video.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

Very interesting, thanks for sharing.

thats a beautiful place. thanks for sharing your adventure and your knowledge.

Thank you Myron, very well explained ... a Sherlock Homes type investigation and we are all along for the ride. I'm way down in New Zealand ... Geology is infectious stuff with you and Nick ..much appreciated. Its enthused me to contact a New Zealand Geologist to fly him in my Cessna over our Southern Mountains to video the glacial, alpine fault and various rock we have here ...stand by. Geology dominates you tube. You and Nick started it and its world wide.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

I can't imagine how beautiful that must be. New Zealand is an amazing place. I would like to visit it someday.

Mysterious concretions...Hard to understand exactly how they start (developed).....well said. I liked your presentation. Thank you for showing us such a beautiful formation. A pleasure to watch.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks Myron very good explanation of the mysterious outcrop. I worked hard to become a professional geologist but got side tracked. Still I had a good education and a challenging graduate school and learned a lot. I now am the go to geologist on our clubs Jeep adventures the travel the western USA and Canada. I get to analyze and explain and your presentation is a good model to follow.

So interesting. Thank you for the video and information about these things.

I'm so glad KZread randomly decided to recommend this to me. My grandfather was an electronics engineer, but had a huge passion for geology and loved going out into the field and collecting samples. He used to take me to the gem and mineral shows and loved explaining how each piece would have formed. I miss him dearly and this reminded me of him.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this. I lost my great uncle and he was the one that got me interested in geology by his passion for it even though he never had the opportunity to study it..I miss him too

Gosh Myron, this was so interesting!! Thank you for explaining it so clearly and simply ....for a rookie like me. Geology and archeology are two of the interests that I visit daily. Bom dias from Portugal ❤

I just found your channel and I really enjoy it. Thank you for the information really intriguing.

You did your best, Myron very enjoyable. However, I don't think I'll ever truly get my head round these ancient processes and their results. Loved the idea of the sandstone spheres forming round the fossil like pearls in an oyster. We have lovely, russet Cheshire "pebble bed" sandstone here in Chester, UK. From northern France, brought here by an ancient river in the Triassic, I believe.

Another great story Myron! Clues were everywhere, but the common man see’s things differently! I was a petroleum landman for many years and worked with several geologists in the Anadarko Basin and central Oklahoma from North to South. Most of the deeper wells here are around 18k’-22k’ out west and 8-10k’ in central Oklahoma! There is a large outcrop around Ardmore, Oklahoma in the Arbuckle mountains, the oldest is precambrian consisting of gneiss and granite dated to 1.4 billion years! Thanks again!

@caseyatchley3827

10 ай бұрын

Did you by any chance know my dad? RJ Mowrey, Mowrey Seismic?

@lantose

10 ай бұрын

@@caseyatchley3827 I did not. I knew quite a few geologists, however seismic was always outsourced to private seismic vendors and would provide all the data collected from the well bore, processed and then sent to the operator’s geologist in charge of said well.

i have been interested in fossils since a child. I was born in Snowdonia, N Wales, UK, rich in glaciated valleys, they are huge and impressive even to a child. My father made dry-stone walls and he pointed out to me that these rural walls constantly kept changing according to terrain = geology! Thank you for your very interesting video and good memories of my father.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

I love this story...thank you for watching.

@leoneleone7886

Жыл бұрын

I absolutely love Snowdonia, and used to live in Capel Uchaf many years ago, I wish I still did😃

What i like about this channel. It's as real as it gets. Talking about real stones, talking about real history, wears a cap of where he lives not some distant trendy sionist city.

Wow, Myron. That was great. I would never have guessed it was not petrified wood. I learned a thing or two from this. Thanks.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@shawnj3525

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/mqWTzbhyoZaafMo.html Go to the 14:30 mark What do you see? What geological process could possibly result in something that looks exactly like a tree?

THANK YOU MYRON COOK!!!!!!! YOU and your calm, polite explanations are a BREATH OF FRESH AIR!!!! I have liked and I have subscribed and I look forward to more, more, more, YES!!!!!....TM

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Thanks and welcome

Thank-you for coming to the Basin..I live in Worland..really enjoyed your presentation 👍 ❤

Thanks for taking us along to this very interesting site and for the very good explanation. Took me back to My college day's.

Such an interesting video Mr Cook. Thank you for doing a great job of explaining all the natural history involved with these unique formations. I'm noting that location down as a ' must see '. Hopefully in a couple of years we'll trek up there from Texas to see them in person.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

There are so many wonderful geologic sites here...you could spend a lot of time!

This is my 1st time watching one of your videos. I've always loved rocks! This is a very informative video, especially for someone uneducated in geology. You explained everything so perfectly for me to understand! Exhibit 1 looked so much like a tree with the sides even looking like bark! I was expecting to see the rings on the end of it. I would have not believed it was also sandstone because of the color differences. The macro pics and sketches were great in helping me see what you were explaining and I didn't have to google any of the geologic words you were using. I thoroughly enjoyed this! Thanks so much! 🥰

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Love your feedback, Tricia.

I have always been interested in rocks and geology. You are the best for explaining the formation of different rock bodies. I learn so much every time. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise so clearly. I love it.

@ckh57

4 ай бұрын

Most Geologist are brainwashed over educated ignorant fools with a closed mind to what they are looking at on and in the earth. Their brainwashed academia ideas for them are not to be challenged with any real facts of history, for the most part they will not talk to someone who disagrees with academia implanted ideas. They are by any reasonable scientific normal measurement, very poor scientist.

I like how you walk through what you’re looking at with the person. Instead of just telling the person what it is so that you can make up each persons own mind.

My first thought when I saw those was, "lava tubes." I found a small (bookend size) piece of a lava tube from the volcanos five miles from us across Sitka Sound. Kind of a miniature Devil's Tower. Lots of neat stuff like that around here. Most of the pumice has been collected although some pieces occasionally "pop" up, if you catch my pun. This chunk of mine is a treasure, and it also works great to hold the plate down on the cabbage when I make sauerkraut. When you showed a picture of the end of the "tree," however, I saw what looked like layers, and then showed the "ribs," now I was stumped (no pun here.) Which is why I love watching your videos.

@carolina_girl3484

3 ай бұрын

"lava tube".... LMAO !! That is a pseudo made up word. There is no item in nature!

Fascinating! Im glad you enjoyed making it: I really enjoyed watching it. I really liked the format of following your process. Thank you!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I scrolled & found ya! What a well advanced comprehensive & educational video detailed & broken down for anyone to understand I appreciate this geology study from a trained professional Geologist I look forward to being a student to your future teachings & demonstrations I am honored to be your newest subscriber! Cordially

@myroncook

8 ай бұрын

Welcome aboard!

At one minute & twenty seconds you literally told the world what you are going to call your new show- 'Think Like A Geologist'! I would watch your show everyday, haha!!😊

The KZread algorithm led me to this captivating video. Myron has a gift for teaching, I hope he keeps it up.

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you!

There was probably a cavern upstream of the concretions where calcite and similar minerals were leached out of some body of stone, then followed the river bed for a way before precipitating. That would be one way to get the mineral rich water, but also there can be some epithermal minerals being released from deep underground, displacing the host rock minerals (due to the acidity of the epithermal fluids) and being pushed up from below. If you can find the 'headwaters' of the mineral source, it would help a lot, because it would likely come up from underground, spreading out into the river bed, leaving a fissure/fault, you will likely find some sulfides and possibly some igneous or metamorphic traces as well. I have some of that super fine quartz stuff growing on my land, along the face of some chert, which all appear to have been the result of some epithermal deposits of sulfides a couple of hundred feet deeper into the country rock. Due to its width and abundance, mine strongly suggests a rapid, short lived formation while that which you are showing suggests [to me anyway] a slower, more sedate accretion, based on the fact that it more casually picked easier paths, and stacked up fairly high within those paths, rather than shooting out like a sheet which would require a strong uplifting of the land. Also, mine is all in shale and limestone, with hardened sandstone as a byproduct in certain areas with a Moh's hardness of about 7.5 - 8.9 and a crystal density just short of flint, bumped up against super tough chert with similar hardnesses, but without any verifiable cleavage. I'm hoping mine will lead to a valuable volume of metallic sulfides I can get to some day.

@davidtyndall3786

Жыл бұрын

Un huh,,,,,

So an old rock farmer found something while harvesting in '23... It confused him, since it was unlike all the other produce.... The research ensued... Safe to say, he is resting well tonight! Cheers to you Mr. Cook!!!

This was great i very much enjoyed you e xplaining all this thank you😊

Myron, thank you for this video. I have always wanted someone to explain what they are seeing in different layers of rock and go through it systematically like this. I hope you do many more videos even if they aren't about oddly shaped rocks. Keep up the great videos! I subscribed!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Very welcome

This was great! I’m an undergrad and learning to think like this really helps! I’m excited to watch more videos like this to help me think like a geologist! Thank you much!

@myroncook

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@shawnj3525

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/mqWTzbhyoZaafMo.html Go to the 14:30 mark What do you see? What geological process could possibly result in something that looks exactly like a tree?