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This armchair traveler really enjoys your tutorials . I can no longer travel , so it's especially pleasing to not only travel with you but to learn so much.
Love your videos. I grew up in Twin Falls, graduated 1970. Fished the river and hiked the canyon and collected rocks. Found arrowheads west of country club. Fun times.
Thanks for all the videos you make from this part of the world. Such different geology to what we have in England. You and Nik Zentner are fantastic Educators in this field. Thanks again.
Really enjoy your videos. I have visited many of the places you highlight and you are reawakening my interest in geology and re educating me on many things I had forgotten since college many years ago. Thank you very much.
Been there in October a few years ago, fall were just a trickle then. Still a wonderful place to visit. Great museum at the University. Recommend you visit both!
That was great! The next time I go there I’m going to try to visit the same spots. I love seeing the stories that are there for the telling if you just know how to read the rocks
My wife and I vacationed in Twin Falls last August and we had just the greatest time! The Twin Falls area has so much to offer. Just absolutely spectacular scenery. Highly recommend.
So 8 to 10 million years ago the Yellowstone hotspot was here. It doesn't move but the North American continent does over it. This part of the Snake river plain has sunk down by the weight of all volcanic activity. The river has cut through time and exposed the different types of lava flows . Thanks for taking us along and explaining the rock features Shawn!
Wow the yellowstone plume was underneath the twin falls region. Another takeaway from this one was if you used your imagination, right around 5:00 the twin falls region moved off a hot spot and you can visualize what the topographical area would've looked like then. Good work
I'm excited to spend more time in southern Idaho. Beautiful and interesting. You are thoughtful to leave us videos while traveling. I hope you share what youve seen in Europe.
Visitors traveling from the RR siding at Shoshone spoke of the boiling white mist coming from the canyon that could be seen for miles. There was a hotel on the rim at that time. Maybe travel upstream to Cauldron Lynn, too?
Love the Metolius tee shirt! I was never really into geology until I started rock climbing. I'm not surprised to see you wearing a rock climbing shirt. Be safe out there my friend!!
I was there in early June of 1975 (a wet year), and the falls were even more impressive. Visits since have been in July and August, and especially in August, there's so much diversion and summer dryness that there's barely a trickle over the falls.
That stream deposit layer doesn't look like it has much in the way of layering or particle sorting by size. If I were to guess based on other things I've seen here and on Myron Cook's channel (I'm not a geologist), I'd say that looks like it's more of a catastrophic flow deposit than a stream. I'm happy to find out that I have that wrong, but I'd appreciate knowing what I missed or misunderstood if so.
18:00 I'm guessing that the stream the basalt flowed over was quite shallow, inasmuch as you don't see any pillows along the contact, only the imbricated pipe vesicles. So whatever stream existed at this point was presumably small and the flow of water relatively quick or vigorous. That's what I'm visualizing here.
When we put that sequence together with what we have been shown from current events in Iceland - Shawn is really bringing the past to life. That section of road cut can be visualised t(o some extent) as it might have appeared to a witness millions of years ago. Time Travel !! Loving this Geology -- I wonder if the overlying basalt formed columnar structures of any kind ?
Hi Prof Wilsey. Any chance you can link up with Nick Zentner and do a joint video ? Any topic since the both of you are so engaging with your delivery of this subject material.
That stream lava contract was cool and given the lack of explosive fragmentation I suspect this probably wasn't very deep at the time of interaction at least not compared to the flow height. Thanks for the bit of info on how the snake river got its name I had totally thought that was linked to its meandering behavior. It also sounds like there were red winged blackbirds nearby using those wetlands too when you filmed we have them back east as a slightly different subspecies but I recognize that distinctive trill call.
It is probably worth mentioning that as the Horseshoe side of Niagara is 180 feet that there's plenty of falls higher than it. An additional one of these is Taughannock Falls, just a little bit north of Ithaca, NY, at 215 feet. It falls into the lower level of a 400 foot deep gorge from a hanging canyon upstream of the gorge.
I have to say I'm impressed by the design of the power plant. They could have gone for the usual concrete monstrosity, but that somehow adds to the overall look.
Great video Shawn I have been there once, I’m going back to see what you explained Thanks for the great video I follow nick zentner also I’m very interested in geology everything above the Rosa magma flow hasn’t been studied much do you know why? I’m puzzled why much of the geologic history hasn’t been identified.
So, I'm looking at the events in Iceland and seeing multiple layers of basalt being laid over a short period of time. And I'm looking at this basalt layer that is 20ft-30ft or more thick. Was this layer (that is 20ft+ thick) laid down in 1 eruption or multiple like Iceland? Or is it not possible to tell?
Near the town of Shoshone (pronounced Sho-sho-nee) by Death valley there is a spectacular intrusion of Vitrophyre. I see geology students/tourists there fairly often.
I have a question: its believed that the deeper a layer of strata the older it is but at the same time, erosion is supposedly happening. How can both be happening at the same time? I've been wondering this for years but nobody answers me. I live in Blackfoot, ID. I go to Twin Falls on a monthly basis and been to Shoshone Falls many times. Enjoy your videos!
Through the 1990s my uncle owned the water rights underneath the Shoshone falls clear down to Blue lakes and he had a business that he purchased which was pontoon boats and he would take people on trips underneath in the Blue lakes . He was also used by the sheriff's office in several occasions when parachutes did not open for base jumpers from the prinne bridge.
Professor, your honour, Shawn! 🙇♂ I noticed GPS stations all over Iceland indicate a drop up to 30mm over the passed day. Did you see that, too? Could that be due to an atmospheric condition influencing the GPS signal or is Iceland re-enacting Atlantis as easter special show? What's going on there? There's much too much volume in motion for all of this being related to the Dalarhaun eruption!
While I appreciate your content in sharing the history of an important part of Idaho. One thing you forgot to mention is the under Rivers. Meaning that there are tunnels underneath the river that create their own Rivers underneath.
This is going to sound picky and petty, but Shoshone is pronounced like show show knee. There was/is a tribe of indigenous people who have that name, and that’s how it’s pronounced. Now that my knit picking is over, those are beautiful falls. Thanks for sharing this video.
@shawnwillsey 7 hours ago I have lived here for 20 years and that is how it is pronounced locally. Other areas, like in Wyoming, pronounce it differently.
It is when regarding the native tribe, not when it comes to these falls or the town to the north by the same name. Don’t ask why, that’s just how it is.
The native pronunciation should ordinarily be respected, but here it sounds like there is a longstanding settler pronunciation which by now has its own long history. I suspect the spelling -- if rendered Sho-sho-ne -- was an attempt to mimic the native pronunciation, but that smushing together of the letters instead encouraged readers to picture the word as Sho-shone, with speakers following more familiar English examples (shone, lone, bone, hone, phone, tone...) in pronouncing the final five letters.
I was raised north of the falls in the town of Shoshone. Professor Willsey is using the correct locally accepted pronunciation of the word. Locally the long eee usually is used to indicate the Shoshone tribe (aka the Shoshone -Bannock tribe), other pronunciation to indicate a place
People now understand that there is a local place-name tradition of pronunciation that differs from how tribal members pronounce it (and from how locals refer to the tribe itself). The more interesting question is why this divergence in pronunciation occurred.
My wife and I just spent about 2 weeks in south-central ID following your video work and have to say, we thoroughly enjoyed exploring this area, thanks to you. We've been watching your videos as we travel the the southwest and western US and it has really been enhanced by your work. Thank you
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This armchair traveler really enjoys your tutorials . I can no longer travel , so it's especially pleasing to not only travel with you but to learn so much.
i ALWAYS learn so much when I watch one of Shawn's videos.
This is magnificent scenery with a fascinating story for those with the right eyes. Thanks Shawn.
Shawn Willsey for president!!!
Willsey/Zentner 2024!
Gee!
Yes! I’m in!
Love your videos. I grew up in Twin Falls, graduated 1970. Fished the river and hiked the canyon and collected rocks. Found arrowheads west of country club. Fun times.
Beautiful, thank you Shawn for taking us along.
Always interesting to see somewhere I'm never likely to get to visit. Thanks Shawn.
Thanks for all the videos you make from this part of the world. Such different geology to what we have in England. You and Nik Zentner are fantastic Educators in this field. Thanks again.
Nice tip about the imbricated vesicles being a sign of the direction of the flow.
Really enjoy your videos. I have visited many of the places you highlight and you are reawakening my interest in geology and re educating me on many things I had forgotten since college many years ago. Thank you very much.
Thanks professor Willsey🙏
Very interesting. I know so little about our West. I had never heard of Shoshone Falls. Thanks 👍
Fascinating story about the formation of the canyon and the types of rock involved. Love the story about the salmon, linking geology to people.
I love learning about the Yellowstone hot spots!
Great video and lesson! Thank you.
Our CSI track and field coach used to make us run up and down the roads in and out the canyon the 1980's.
What beautiful landscape and geology! Iceland, Idaho.... all interesting!!
Great stuff. Love the bit about the salmon. I love the intersection of geology and biology and how the former influences the latter. Thank you.
Happy to see Shawn back home! Big Feet are also fond of salmons & humans... ;)
great video Shawn Thank you
way kewl. those different layers and what formed them. those little details that tell a story.
Hey Shawn, this is a great Video! I enjoy your out in the field Videos the most. Thank you for creating this fantastic content!
Nice video. Good concise narrative.
Fascinating! You never disappoint. Thanks for putting this together Shawn... Love the vesicles. They're a nice twist in the story.
Thanks!
Many thanks for supporting geology education.
Thanks Shawn. I remember our lunch at the falls and hike up the road to these features.
Been there in October a few years ago, fall were just a trickle then. Still a wonderful place to visit. Great museum at the University. Recommend you visit both!
Thank you! Absolutely beautiful. (I know, you’re a rock climber with excellent balance, but sometimes I wanna yell “not so close to the edge!” 😂😂 😱)
Very interesting pages in the book of the area's Geology. Thank you Professor!
Back home from your travels, Shawn! Great scenery. 👍
That was great! The next time I go there I’m going to try to visit the same spots. I love seeing the stories that are there for the telling if you just know how to read the rocks
Great video, thanks Shawn!
Thank you Professor.
Really interesting, thank you. 🙂
Very cool and educational video! It’s so easy to see what you’re talking about. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for putting the words on the screen! Im dyslexic, so you wouldn't think it would matter lol, but seeing it helps so much!
❤❤❤ Thank you Shawn!
My wife and I vacationed in Twin Falls last August and we had just the greatest time! The Twin Falls area has so much to offer. Just absolutely spectacular scenery. Highly recommend.
Hi Shawn, I really enjoy your videos so I've sent a donation. Keep up the great work and I'll help all I can!
So 8 to 10 million years ago the Yellowstone hotspot was here. It doesn't move but the North American continent does
over it. This part of the Snake river plain has sunk down by the weight of all volcanic activity. The river has cut through
time and exposed the different types of lava flows . Thanks for taking us along and explaining the rock features Shawn!
Wow the yellowstone plume was underneath the twin falls region. Another takeaway from this one was if you used your imagination, right around 5:00 the twin falls region moved off a hot spot and you can visualize what the topographical area would've looked like then. Good work
I'm excited to spend more time in southern Idaho. Beautiful and interesting. You are thoughtful to leave us videos while traveling. I hope you share what youve seen in Europe.
Visitors traveling from the RR siding at Shoshone spoke of the boiling white mist coming from the canyon that could be seen for miles. There was a hotel on the rim at that time.
Maybe travel upstream to Cauldron Lynn, too?
13:38 In this part of the Outcrop the Breccia is disposed in (apparently) in inversed grading very common to subaerial flow. Thanks for the great Vid!
Excellent, thanks.
If I ever get to the USA, this will be on my list of places to see. Thanks for another great video. ❤
Love the Metolius tee shirt!
I was never really into geology until I started rock climbing.
I'm not surprised to see you wearing a rock climbing shirt.
Be safe out there my friend!!
I was there in early June of 1975 (a wet year), and the falls were even more impressive. Visits since have been in July and August, and especially in August, there's so much diversion and summer dryness that there's barely a trickle over the falls.
That was quite interesting, thanks.
That stream deposit layer doesn't look like it has much in the way of layering or particle sorting by size. If I were to guess based on other things I've seen here and on Myron Cook's channel (I'm not a geologist), I'd say that looks like it's more of a catastrophic flow deposit than a stream.
I'm happy to find out that I have that wrong, but I'd appreciate knowing what I missed or misunderstood if so.
I think this is the area the volcanic ash that fell on Ashfall Fossil Beds in Nebraska came from, very beautiful. Hope I can visit someday.
Very informative
18:00 I'm guessing that the stream the basalt flowed over was quite shallow, inasmuch as you don't see any pillows along the contact, only the imbricated pipe vesicles. So whatever stream existed at this point was presumably small and the flow of water relatively quick or vigorous. That's what I'm visualizing here.
When we put that sequence together with what we have been shown from current events in Iceland - Shawn is really bringing the past to life. That section of road cut can be visualised t(o some extent) as it might have appeared to a witness millions of years ago. Time Travel !! Loving this Geology -- I wonder if the overlying basalt formed columnar structures of any kind ?
Thanks for the video. I have been to Shoshone Falls several times. Where were you standing when you made the first half of the video? Thanks
Hi Prof Wilsey. Any chance you can link up with Nick Zentner and do a joint video ? Any topic since the both of you are so engaging with your delivery of this subject material.
That stream lava contract was cool and given the lack of explosive fragmentation I suspect this probably wasn't very deep at the time of interaction at least not compared to the flow height. Thanks for the bit of info on how the snake river got its name I had totally thought that was linked to its meandering behavior. It also sounds like there were red winged blackbirds nearby using those wetlands too when you filmed we have them back east as a slightly different subspecies but I recognize that distinctive trill call.
NICE! good job thank you , I was wondering what the (glue) brown mud looking material in the breccia is made of? ALL stay safe
It is probably worth mentioning that as the Horseshoe side of Niagara is 180 feet that there's plenty of falls higher than it. An additional one of these is Taughannock Falls, just a little bit north of Ithaca, NY, at 215 feet. It falls into the lower level of a 400 foot deep gorge from a hanging canyon upstream of the gorge.
I have to say I'm impressed by the design of the power plant. They could have gone for the usual concrete monstrosity, but that somehow adds to the overall look.
Great video Shawn I have been there once, I’m going back to see what you explained Thanks for the great video I follow nick zentner also I’m very interested in geology everything above the Rosa magma flow
hasn’t been studied much do you know why?
I’m puzzled why much of the geologic history hasn’t been identified.
So, I'm looking at the events in Iceland and seeing multiple layers of basalt being laid over a short period of time. And I'm looking at this basalt layer that is 20ft-30ft or more thick. Was this layer (that is 20ft+ thick) laid down in 1 eruption or multiple like Iceland? Or is it not possible to tell?
Near the town of Shoshone (pronounced Sho-sho-nee) by Death valley there is a spectacular intrusion of Vitrophyre. I see geology students/tourists there fairly often.
I have a question: its believed that the deeper a layer of strata the older it is but at the same time, erosion is supposedly happening. How can both be happening at the same time? I've been wondering this for years but nobody answers me. I live in Blackfoot, ID. I go to Twin Falls on a monthly basis and been to Shoshone Falls many times. Enjoy your videos!
This a more a question rather than a comment. Have you any insight into the history of the landscape of Mars? It might make an interesting series.
Through the 1990s my uncle owned the water rights underneath the Shoshone falls clear down to Blue lakes and he had a business that he purchased which was pontoon boats and he would take people on trips underneath in the Blue lakes . He was also used by the sheriff's office in several occasions when parachutes did not open for base jumpers from the prinne bridge.
Professor, your honour, Shawn! 🙇♂ I noticed GPS stations all over Iceland indicate a drop up to 30mm over the passed day. Did you see that, too? Could that be due to an atmospheric condition influencing the GPS signal or is Iceland re-enacting Atlantis as easter special show? What's going on there? There's much too much volume in motion for all of this being related to the Dalarhaun eruption!
While I appreciate your content in sharing the history of an important part of Idaho. One thing you forgot to mention is the under Rivers. Meaning that there are tunnels underneath the river that create their own Rivers underneath.
This is going to sound picky and petty, but Shoshone is pronounced like show show knee. There was/is a tribe of indigenous people who have that name, and that’s how it’s pronounced. Now that my knit picking is over, those are beautiful falls. Thanks for sharing this video.
I have lived here for 20 years and that is how it is pronounced locally. Other areas, like in Wyoming, pronounce it differently.
@@shawnwillsey Ah, ok. Every place is different.
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I have always pronounced this Shuh SHOW née falls
Sho shone is the place Sho shonee are the people.
@shawnwillsey
7 hours ago
I have lived here for 20 years and that is how it is pronounced locally. Other areas, like in Wyoming, pronounce it differently.
Thanks Shawn for the explanation. My background is from my summer study at the Iowa State University geology field camp at Shell Wyoming in 1973.
I always thought the E in Shoshone was pronounced, like Yosemite
Here in southern Idaho, it is pronounced “show shone”.
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nope plainandsimple2576 beat you :P ... this however is the first reply :P and the first edited reply :P
@@georgewaters6424nope. Check the timestamps. Mine came in first
@@xIceframe70398x I'm gonna guess english isn't your first language, nor logic a strong suite, nor reading timestamps. Ego you got nailed champ!
@@georgewaters6424 lol what? You be trollin
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It's pronounced Shoshonee. No point watching if you can't be bothered to look up pronunciations.
I have lived here for 20 years and that is how it is pronounced locally. Other areas, like in Wyoming, pronounce it differently.
It is when regarding the native tribe, not when it comes to these falls or the town to the north by the same name. Don’t ask why, that’s just how it is.
The native pronunciation should ordinarily be respected, but here it sounds like there is a longstanding settler pronunciation which by now has its own long history.
I suspect the spelling -- if rendered Sho-sho-ne -- was an attempt to mimic the native pronunciation, but that smushing together of the letters instead encouraged readers to picture the word as Sho-shone, with speakers following more familiar English examples (shone, lone, bone, hone, phone, tone...) in pronouncing the final five letters.
I was raised north of the falls in the town of Shoshone. Professor Willsey is using the correct locally accepted pronunciation of the word. Locally the long eee usually is used to indicate the Shoshone tribe (aka the Shoshone -Bannock tribe), other pronunciation to indicate a place
People now understand that there is a local place-name tradition of pronunciation that differs from how tribal members pronounce it (and from how locals refer to the tribe itself). The more interesting question is why this divergence in pronunciation occurred.
Thanks!
My wife and I just spent about 2 weeks in south-central ID following your video work and have to say, we thoroughly enjoyed exploring this area, thanks to you. We've been watching your videos as we travel the the southwest and western US and it has really been enhanced by your work. Thank you