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Once again Cook hits it out of the park. The library of work that Dr Cook is creating will excite and inspire generations of scientists. His passion for Geology is infectious yet more than entertain Dr Cook teaches the practice of observation, the comparative evaluation of what is being observed to what is known, and the application of critical thinking to piece together a puzzle or in this case a story. Bravo.
Fascinating how the river, which was originally a weak point in the land, through long processes, eventually became more resistant to erosion than everything else around to become a ridge.
@@inyobill If Myron has grandchildren I wonder if they ever buried him on a beach and carefully exhumed him again while practicing archeological field techniques. A great chief's barrow and burial trove - a jeeps keys, assorted coins and credit cards, the bills are long gone (in my pocket now), a belt buckle, mostly disarticulated bones, a mobile phone, spearmint gum, some humbugs - quite the find as we imagine it.
I’m going to slaughter the quote, but something about “a man becomes complete when he rediscovers his childhood wonder and passion with an adult’s capacity to discover and act” … that’s you my guy! Your passion for the wonderful makes me feel like a kid again. Your videos are like a portal into the imagination; who needs Hollywood Marvel CGI bs!? Thanks for cheering me up Myron, you’re a saint, and a man I greatly admire… The Sultan of Strata. Skål!
The Sultan of Strata. Now that's a great moniker. I also agree that as an adult with an engineering education I can appreciate much more the physical and chemical properties that drive weathering, erosion, deposition, and conversion of sediment into rock. The kicker is Deep Time. It simply blows my mind because I get it.
That idea describes my life to a stratigraphic layer! As a kid I was magnetically obsessed with geology, paleontology, evolution, astronomy, geometry, music, art, architecture, archeology, GrecoRoman history, philosophy and anthropology. (Notice you didn't see algebra in there.) But I famously lacked the focus and perseverance to actually study, in depth, most of these. No longer; I have over a thousand nonfiction & didactic books, and can't find enough time to read, write or watch brilliant teachers like Myron.
Hi Myron! A New Zealand geologist channel turned me onto your channel! I asked them about someone in the US, close to California to watch and you were who they mentioned! I am loving your channel and the simplifying of the science behind all of the wonderful places you visit! Thank you! 😊
What a great learning moment. Thanks! Your lessons are much appreciated and confidence building to encourage us to “speculate” about what happened here. Love your videos.
This writer hopes the Netherlands is also watching world travel in CZcams video, by Ichy Boots. She and another traveler, RanOutOnARail, both let us see travel in the Copper Canyon of Mexico. At one point their travel preference routes traveled side by side. Two very different people. I'd heard about the mining and wanted to see that supporting infrastructure.
My goodness, Myron. "We can use analogs. Analogies." You are not just brilliant, you are a philosopher and you are speaking existence into understanding. Spectacular, truly.
Thank you so much, Myron! You have solved a mystery that has always puzzled me: If everything on top has eroded away, why haven't the footprints eroded, as well? I have never even considered perhaps the bottom layer is more resistant to erosion! Of course, it's so glaringly obvious now! Love your videos, the way you see the world, and encourage us to think critically and use the tools of knowledge we have collected to solve geologic mysteries!
I've seen this kind of stuff before, but I had always assumed that those depressions were carved out by eddies in the stream. Thanks for setting me straight Myron. Great video. Take care.
Hey Myron, great stuff. I also love finding prehistoric animal tracks. Something you might find interesting is Larks Quarry stampede, it's not far from where I live in Australia. I think it's the only recorded instance of a fossilized stampede, you would find it interesting. Thanks for the video!
What I learned about depositional enviroments from you was like an ah-ha moment. The way you explain a lot of it makes perfect scientific sense, and how much truer can you get than that? I`m all about just the facts so you are one of my go-to guys for that. Thanks Mr. Cook.
What a fascinating find. Thanks for putting this out there for us! Keep up the good work Myron. You're going to have a 100k subscribers before you know it! Update: The algorithm predicts you'll have 100k subscribers in about 5-6 months and 1 million subs in 2 years!
Geology is more fascinating as I get older. Thank you. All the times I've wondered about anomalies outdoors,your content is enlightening. Love Nick' s on the rocks shows too
Hi Myron, your videos are not only very very interesting and informative but I also find them to be relaxing to soak in all the vistas nature has to offer.
Thank you for presenting a film that shares your passion and my new interest in geology. You do such an excellent style of making it easy to understand.
Just out of curiosity, do you lose your keys very often? Great videos, thanks. When I ponder the vast history of the Earth I get a tremendous sense of just how short our lives as individuals here really are.
I like how you explain things, so an amateur like myself can understand. The white board is always helpful. I never would have thought the small holes would have been crawfish burrows.
Thanks for this insighful and contemplative video! There's not many things that would cause those depressions in the original sediments but plants must be considered, as well as animal burrows. Also it has to be determined that the pits are not from weathering, but original to the preserved top of the formation. But you make a great comparison between clear cow tracks, aged cow tracks, and the surface of the ground as generally disturbed by cows. Bioturbation is that word for that! Occasionally I will find a sandstone surface that is just covered in deep, irregular depressions but with no distinct tracks or trackways. More like a herd of cows drinking at a water hole. But still hard to say with confidence that you're looking at fossilized tracks, when all you have is a bioturbation or something like it. But it's always worth taking a close look. You may find one track or trackway out the whole mess that happens to be exceptionally preserved! The more you spend time watching animal tracks as they age and weather, the more adept you will become at also spotting fossilized tracks if there happen to be any in your local sedimentary exposures! Always look first at the sedimentary rocks when going to a new planet, to get an idea of what kind of life has existed there.
Hi Myron, thank you for another great lecture that I so enjoy from the comfort of my chair. Next week for spring break, my son, two grandkids and I are driving a short distance to Glen Rose, Tx to see the very features you are talking about in today's video. Each time we visit, we always come away having seen or learned something new. My granddaughters are both very interested in rock formations as well as dinosaurs, so we will see if these become vocations in their future. Thanks again.
Thanks for this explanation. I understand better the way that trackways are preserved. I was thrilled when I got to see dinosaurs tracks in Golden Colorado. My father taught me to track a bit when we were camping.
Nice wee nugget there, thanks Myron. I'd love to see a video on unusual granite formations from you, such as the round stacks or towers found on-top of hills in Cornwall, UK, or the huge "walls" which get misidentified as megalithic structures often as they can appear to be made from huge blocks - there are some in -Minnesota- [Montana] I think it was. Would help set things straight a little in that area where snake oil salesman can take advantage of folks.
@@terryt.1643 Apparently when reading we focus on the letters beginning and ending a word, we spot the pattern there in the beginning and ending and take little notice of the letters in-between. So I can forgive myself that, they both begin and end with "M" and "a" respectively. ...That's why spelIing mistokes often go unnoficed in the middle of words I guess too.
I just love Myron’s curiosity and love of the natural world. I feel his excitement and wonder. Just like when I found 520 million year old ripple marks in the canyon walls in Death Valley. It’s fascinating! I can’t get enough of these videos. Myron is outstanding!
Thanks again Myron! You're teaching us all things we never knew! You took our Burlington Schools teaching staff on a Big Horn Basin field trip almost twenty years ago! I still use what I learned from every time I visit the Basin. Looking forward to more!
I live on a plateau at the foothills of the Appalachians, there's a lot of sand rock around here, I'll never forget how blown away I was to learn it used to be a River delta. I've really liked geology ever since.
Myron, you are so appreciated. You have inspired in me and i’m sure many others a lifelong love for and curiosity about geology and paleontology. I have shared these with my friends and family. Thank you! You are a treasure.
Recently my 13 year old son was talking to me about watching CZcams videos at night when he is having trouble sleeping. I asked what kind of videos he likes and he said history and science so I showed him one of yours. I think (maybe hope) he's hooked. Love your work!!!
Another fine lesson Myron! I've been meaning to ask you if Dr. Kenneth L. Cook was a relative of yours. He taught me a class when I was an undergraduate at the University of Utah in the late '70's. He was a fantastic teacher, as you are.
I took a geology class as an elective in college. We went on a couple field trips in the East County of San Diego around Palm Springs, and the professor explained things so much like you did and I remember enjoying this so much. I still love geology to this day. _Definitely_ subbed and looking forward to future "field trips" with you! This was great 👍
Dr. Cook, you communicate the joy and wonder of geology really. Really. Well. I lived for 34 years in the area of the southern Sierra Nevada and Panamint Valley. I do miss it. Here in Germany, the geology is mostly a bit more hiddeb.
Thanks Myron for another great geology lesson! It’s wonderful to be out in the field with you and seeing the examples of the tracks in the mud. I’m hoping to hike in Wyoming before too long- the rocks and views are amazing!! 👌👍👍😄 - Jennifer
In term of geological timescale, it's amazing to think that how mammals evolved from the size of a small dog for it's largest mammal species circa 65 million years ago, to ancient rhinos weighing 4 times African elephants, about 50 millions ago. 10 million years in geological timeframe is just a blink in the eye.
Thank you Mr. Cook for another interesting geology video. Informative and told in your easy style that invites everyone to watch and learn about this planet we call home. Thank you.
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@@rogerspurr4404 ...what?
@@shay_box Go to my channel and see.
Oh man! Gonna sign up! Wish we still lived there!! someday though 👍
I don’t see the link for the website in the description. What is the website name?
I'm not going to now, as I'm sick with alcohol, you're a great geology expert.
Once again Cook hits it out of the park. The library of work that Dr Cook is creating will excite and inspire generations of scientists. His passion for Geology is infectious yet more than entertain Dr Cook teaches the practice of observation, the comparative evaluation of what is being observed to what is known, and the application of critical thinking to piece together a puzzle or in this case a story. Bravo.
I'm a bit flattered by this....I just love geology and our earth history
Well summarized
Perfect description of his videos!
@Myron Cook and I can't thank you enough for sharing it with me and re-sparking the interest in geology that I had as a child.
Gotta admit, dude is a stud!
Fascinating how the river, which was originally a weak point in the land, through long processes, eventually became more resistant to erosion than everything else around to become a ridge.
It is indeed
His discussion of the exhumed lava flows comes to mind.
@@inyobill If Myron has grandchildren I wonder if they ever buried him on a beach and carefully exhumed him again while practicing archeological field techniques. A great chief's barrow and burial trove - a jeeps keys, assorted coins and credit cards, the bills are long gone (in my pocket now), a belt buckle, mostly disarticulated bones, a mobile phone, spearmint gum, some humbugs - quite the find as we imagine it.
I’m going to slaughter the quote, but something about “a man becomes complete when he rediscovers his childhood wonder and passion with an adult’s capacity to discover and act” … that’s you my guy!
Your passion for the wonderful makes me feel like a kid again. Your videos are like a portal into the imagination; who needs Hollywood Marvel CGI bs!?
Thanks for cheering me up Myron, you’re a saint, and a man I greatly admire… The Sultan of Strata.
Skål!
The Sultan of Strata. Now that's a great moniker. I also agree that as an adult with an engineering education I can appreciate much more the physical and chemical properties that drive weathering, erosion, deposition, and conversion of sediment into rock. The kicker is Deep Time. It simply blows my mind because I get it.
That idea describes my life to a stratigraphic layer!
As a kid I was magnetically obsessed with geology, paleontology, evolution, astronomy, geometry, music, art, architecture, archeology, GrecoRoman history, philosophy and anthropology. (Notice you didn't see algebra in there.) But I famously lacked the focus and perseverance to actually study, in depth, most of these.
No longer; I have over a thousand nonfiction & didactic books, and can't find enough time to read, write or watch brilliant teachers like Myron.
Hi Myron!
A New Zealand geologist channel turned me onto your channel! I asked them about someone in the US, close to California to watch and you were who they mentioned! I am loving your channel and the simplifying of the science behind all of the wonderful places you visit! Thank you! 😊
Welcome aboard!
What a great learning moment. Thanks! Your lessons are much appreciated and confidence building to encourage us to “speculate” about what happened here. Love your videos.
Thank you, Myron, for bringing geology into my life.
Here in the Netherlands your geology lessons are highly appreciated. I watched them all 👍
This writer hopes the Netherlands is also watching world travel in CZcams video, by Ichy Boots.
She and another traveler, RanOutOnARail, both let us see travel in the Copper Canyon of Mexico.
At one point their travel preference routes traveled side by side. Two very different people. I'd
heard about the mining and wanted to see that supporting infrastructure.
Glad you like them!
@@jcee2259 Copper Canvon, Mexico, one of the destinations I have always wanted to visit, may not now get there. The beauty of Mexico is a huge secret.
My goodness, Myron. "We can use analogs. Analogies." You are not just brilliant, you are a philosopher and you are speaking existence into understanding. Spectacular, truly.
Wow, thank you!
I’ve watched 5 of your vids & L👍VE every one!!! I also just L🤘VE your deep voice!!!
Thank you so much, Myron! You have solved a mystery that has always puzzled me: If everything on top has eroded away, why haven't the footprints eroded, as well? I have never even considered perhaps the bottom layer is more resistant to erosion! Of course, it's so glaringly obvious now! Love your videos, the way you see the world, and encourage us to think critically and use the tools of knowledge we have collected to solve geologic mysteries!
"when the answer is given, the solution is obvious", Holmes to Dr. Watson. No disrespect, I am right there with you.
I love this feedback!
Your geology explainers are fantastic. Thank you Myron!
I've seen this kind of stuff before, but I had always assumed that those depressions were carved out by eddies in the stream. Thanks for setting me straight Myron. Great video. Take care.
Sometimes streams can "drill holes" or make interesting depressions but it is unusual and you need just the right conditions.
Awesome fascinations. Keep doing what you're doing. You're educating the generations of tomorrow.
Hey Myron, great stuff.
I also love finding prehistoric animal tracks. Something you might find interesting is Larks Quarry stampede, it's not far from where I live in Australia. I think it's the only recorded instance of a fossilized stampede, you would find it interesting. Thanks for the video!
Wow!
Thanks Dr. Cook, i not only enjoyed today's video i also learned a few new things too. I am 68 and love learning new things.
Wonderful!
What I learned about depositional enviroments from you was like an ah-ha moment. The way you explain a lot of it makes perfect scientific sense, and how much truer can you get than that? I`m all about just the facts so you are one of my go-to guys for that. Thanks Mr. Cook.
Yet another fascinating walk, thank you Myron! It is the highlight of my day when I see you've posted a new video.
Thank you Myron, I'm always happy to see a notification from your channel!
Fascinating. TY
What a fascinating find. Thanks for putting this out there for us! Keep up the good work Myron. You're going to have a 100k subscribers before you know it! Update: The algorithm predicts you'll have 100k subscribers in about 5-6 months and 1 million subs in 2 years!
Thank you!
Aw man, a new video today from Milo and you? It sure is a great day to learn something new
Geology is more fascinating as I get older. Thank you. All the times I've wondered about anomalies outdoors,your content is enlightening. Love Nick' s on the rocks shows too
Awesome, thank you!
I have always been absolutely fascinated by geology, but now in my mid-70s, it is certainly no less interesting to me.
Hi Myron, your videos are not only very very interesting and informative but I also find them to be relaxing to soak in all the vistas nature has to offer.
Glad you like them!
allways awesome to listen to your knowledge on geology. cheers to all of your adventures.
I can smell the air. Thanks Myron!
Thank you for pointing these features out! Wow!
Thank you, Mr. Cook!
Another fantastic and informative video! Thank you!
Another great video! I love tracking. I spent my childhood doing it.
That is awesome!
What a wonderful expositor you are in your fascinating geology videos. Thanks for the education!!
I love your videos, thank you for taking the time to show people from all around the world what geology is about.
Very educational - as always. Thank you. Albeit I had anxiety you would loose your car keys (as had occurred to me in similar scenario)
Thank you Myron, your lessons are absolutely captivating. So grateful for your unique self and channel.
Thank you kindly!
Fascinating stuff! Thank you, sir! For taking us along, and teaching!!!
Thank you for presenting a film that shares your passion and my new interest in geology. You do such an excellent style of making it easy to understand.
Thank you very much!
Just out of curiosity, do you lose your keys very often?
Great videos, thanks. When I ponder the vast history of the Earth I get a tremendous sense of just how short our lives as individuals here really are.
Left my key or hammer or something a few times...just adds more walking😂
Thanks for another great lesson, teacher! 👍♥️
Another beautiful, informative video. Thank you Myron for sharing your love of geology.
You have a great way of explaining things. I really appreciate you making these videos!
Thank you, Myron. I truly enjoy your videos!
Glad you like them!
I like how you explain things, so an amateur like myself can understand. The white board is always helpful. I never would have thought the small holes would have been crawfish burrows.
I have been reading about geology for many years. I almost always learn new stuff from his vidss.
Thank you so much for making these videos. Geology is really interesting, and you explain it really well. I'm so glad I found this channel!
Thanks for this insighful and contemplative video! There's not many things that would cause those depressions in the original sediments but plants must be considered, as well as animal burrows. Also it has to be determined that the pits are not from weathering, but original to the preserved top of the formation. But you make a great comparison between clear cow tracks, aged cow tracks, and the surface of the ground as generally disturbed by cows. Bioturbation is that word for that! Occasionally I will find a sandstone surface that is just covered in deep, irregular depressions but with no distinct tracks or trackways. More like a herd of cows drinking at a water hole. But still hard to say with confidence that you're looking at fossilized tracks, when all you have is a bioturbation or something like it. But it's always worth taking a close look. You may find one track or trackway out the whole mess that happens to be exceptionally preserved! The more you spend time watching animal tracks as they age and weather, the more adept you will become at also spotting fossilized tracks if there happen to be any in your local sedimentary exposures! Always look first at the sedimentary rocks when going to a new planet, to get an idea of what kind of life has existed there.
Hi Myron, thank you for another great lecture that I so enjoy from the comfort of my chair. Next week for spring break, my son, two grandkids and I are driving a short distance to Glen Rose, Tx to see the very features you are talking about in today's video. Each time we visit, we always come away having seen or learned something new. My granddaughters are both very interested in rock formations as well as dinosaurs, so we will see if these become vocations in their future. Thanks again.
Wonderful!
Thanks for this explanation. I understand better the way that trackways are preserved. I was thrilled when I got to see dinosaurs tracks in Golden Colorado. My father taught me to track a bit when we were camping.
Silky smoooooth 60 fps - a genuine pleasure to watch.
Aaaaand... silky smoooooth Myron - a genuine pleasure to listen to.
You must be into video to know the frame rate!
It is hard for me to put time into prospective when we are talking about 100 + million years of erosion. But thanks to you I am learning. Keep it up
You are not alone. Our brains are not evolved to understand numbers of those magnitudes.
Nice wee nugget there, thanks Myron.
I'd love to see a video on unusual granite formations from you, such as the round stacks or towers found on-top of hills in Cornwall, UK, or the huge "walls" which get misidentified as megalithic structures often as they can appear to be made from huge blocks - there are some in -Minnesota- [Montana] I think it was. Would help set things straight a little in that area where snake oil salesman can take advantage of folks.
Sage mountain wall,Montana too.
@@mikesauer7775 that's what I was thinking of... Montana - Minnesota... hey, I'm Bri'ish, it's in America and it begins with 'M'! 😉
@@JesseP.WatsonThat’s how my mind works, too. Sometimes I remember things but the letters they begin with…
@@terryt.1643 Apparently when reading we focus on the letters beginning and ending a word, we spot the pattern there in the beginning and ending and take little notice of the letters in-between. So I can forgive myself that, they both begin and end with "M" and "a" respectively.
...That's why spelIing mistokes often go unnoficed in the middle of words I guess too.
It is amazing to see so many keys scattered in the middle of a desert. Great and inspiring video, beautiful nature! Thank you!
I just love Myron’s curiosity and love of the natural world. I feel his excitement and wonder. Just like when I found 520 million year old ripple marks in the canyon walls in Death Valley. It’s fascinating! I can’t get enough of these videos. Myron is outstanding!
Thanks!
I’m so incredibly happy to live in the West (Western Colorado) where the geology is so … naked. It’s right there, plain in sight.
Hello Myron, just wanted to express gratitude for all of your extremely captivating videos. You're a treasure to humanity, thank you very much.
Thanks again Myron! You're teaching us all things we never knew! You took our Burlington Schools teaching staff on a Big Horn Basin field trip almost twenty years ago! I still use what I learned from every time I visit the Basin. Looking forward to more!
I remember you, George. That was a fun field trip!
Myron Cook is always great.
Thanks for all your meandering and pondering 💘
I live on a plateau at the foothills of the Appalachians, there's a lot of sand rock around here, I'll never forget how blown away I was to learn it used to be a River delta. I've really liked geology ever since.
Myron, you are so appreciated. You have inspired in me and i’m sure many others a lifelong love for and curiosity about geology and paleontology. I have shared these with my friends and family. Thank you! You are a treasure.
Wonderful!
Thanks Myron 🙏
Myron you are the best
thank you for your passion and love of the earth and it's processes
and your simple yet profound analysis
Another great video Myron.
Recently my 13 year old son was talking to me about watching CZcams videos at night when he is having trouble sleeping. I asked what kind of videos he likes and he said history and science so I showed him one of yours. I think (maybe hope) he's hooked.
Love your work!!!
neat!
Thank you Myron
Hi Myron
Fantastic series of films straight to the point and fascinating keep them coming.
Another fine lesson Myron! I've been meaning to ask you if Dr. Kenneth L. Cook was a relative of yours. He taught me a class when I was an undergraduate at the University of Utah in the late '70's. He was a fantastic teacher, as you are.
Not related, although interestingly enough, my Dad's name is Kenneth!
Thanks Myron!
Awesome videos Myron!
Thanks again, Myron. As always, you teach me things about the area I've wandered in for years.
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I took a geology class as an elective in college. We went on a couple field trips in the East County of San Diego around Palm Springs, and the professor explained things so much like you did and I remember enjoying this so much. I still love geology to this day. _Definitely_ subbed and looking forward to future "field trips" with you! This was great 👍
Another awesome topic! Love it
I'm loving these videos, thank you Mr. Cook!
More, more, more! Great stuff, and thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Great stuff, I always look forward to your videos
Thank you Myron. Good teaching, great scenics, a real adventure I enjoyed from the middle of Mo.
Glad you enjoyed it
Fascinating! Thank you so much for taking the time to make such engaging and well-explained videos.
I truly appreciate your videos and your special way of teaching. Thank you.
Thank you kindly
Great to have geology and rhino in the same fascinating episode from Myron!
I happily stumbled across your channel and I'm so glad I did. I love rocks and any geology gets me excited! Thanks for these! 😊
Thanks for another fine video!
Thank you for sharing!
So awesome! Thank you!
Love your geo videos, thanks!
I sure enjoy these field trips with you as well as the opportunity to learn. THANK YOU
Concise and thoroughly educational! Thank you!!
Thank you for building and explaining such an elegant line of reasoning. Great video!
Superb Myron.
Dr. Cook, you communicate the joy and wonder of geology really. Really. Well. I lived for 34 years in the area of the southern Sierra Nevada and Panamint Valley. I do miss it. Here in Germany, the geology is mostly a bit more hiddeb.
Thank you
Thank you for taking the time to explain this so clearly. Please don't lose your keys.
Thanks Myron for another great geology lesson! It’s wonderful to be out in the field with you and seeing the examples of the tracks in the mud. I’m hoping to hike in Wyoming before too long- the rocks and views are amazing!! 👌👍👍😄 - Jennifer
Thank you so much for sharing... love the videos... like breathe of fresh air...
In term of geological timescale, it's amazing to think that how mammals evolved from the size of a small dog for it's largest mammal species circa 65 million years ago, to ancient rhinos weighing 4 times African elephants, about 50 millions ago.
10 million years in geological timeframe is just a blink in the eye.
I can't wait to go look for some of these features. Thank you!!
Your vids are delightful ✌
Thanks
A case of the simple explanation is the best. Thanks again.
Thanks for your explanations.
Thank you Mr. Cook for another interesting geology video. Informative and told in your easy style that invites everyone to watch and learn about this planet we call home. Thank you.
Excellent! Thank you!
You have such a keen eye for reading rocks and nature.
Ty for the educational videos!
Thank you so much for making these great videos!
Grateful for you sir.