Thank you for the encouraging words! That means a lot, especially coming from you. I’ve enjoyed plenty of your awesome videos, research, & lectures. I’m in the field as we speak getting more content for an upcoming series on Walker Lane. Thanks again for the supportive feedback - Spread the word!
Woman, oh woman ! You definitely delivered a massive can of whoop azz geology here. You covered a massive portion of everything across the spectrum of geology, plate tectonics, subduction, lava, volcanoes, hot spots, lahars, pyroclastics, mafics, felsics, porphyries, intrusive silicate/quartz veins with upwellings of precious and industrial metals ....
Thank you!!! Glad you can appreciate the breadth of info. I get a little bit of scope creep going on when I make these, and want to include so much more!
@@LetsGoGeo Thus, my various comment(aries) adding in further geological backstories of those locations, huge insane geological landmass movements (especially "Baja to WA" exotic terraines), and the accretionary proto-shorelines as the West Coast history of WA, OR, and N CA. Most all orogeny of the exotic terraines of the Pacifc NW, west of the Rockies is exotic and comes from the ancient equatorial (and massively volcanic, tectonic and moving hotspots of the) Central-South American landbridge. The modern landbridge is just a skinny portion, compared to its original bridge of ~910 miles in width (!) from eastern Panama on the Gulf to the SW shoulder of South America - that same measurement of what would be the eastern shoreline of Mexico at the Gulf to its original landbridge width outward into the Pacific.
@@LetsGoGeo . . . . Wow just Wow ! I've never heard anyone spew geology like that ! I LOVE IT ! Really Glad I found your channel. I took 3 years of geology about 60 years ago but didn't get to finish my degree do to domestic situation. I think I might get to complete my education listening to you . And you are much more pleasant to listen to than the gruff ole professors whose classes I used to try to survive ! My head is still swirling from this video, it is a huge amount of knowledge to retain and try to relate one point to the other. Atleast here , we can re watch as much as needed . I've forgotten so much of this , it is fun to hear the terminology and see the deposits in field is awesome ! Definitely subbing ! Thanks Much !
So packed full of information! Thank you. Hiking around my general area, Wadsworth, Nv. I see this material in large volumes. This video requires a second view. Very impressive.
Many thanks for enduring the relentless heat and rattlesnake minefields in your quest to explore and educate. It is most groovy to be able to virtually explore fascinating Western landscapes and their inherent complex geology from the comfort of a NJ couch. Cheers
For the non-Nevada residents: It's pronounced Neh-vaaa-duh. There's a good size caldera near Beatty, NV not too far from Spicer Ranch. It's roughly 16-18 miles in diameter. Interesting place to visit... there's a lot of light colored tuff deposits which can be seen there.
I got 450 pounds of pgm inside 4 years by hand and recently found the gold phase nugget. Needless to say I am redoubling my efforts. Success is guaranteed which is rare to be able to say.
WIth all of these various rock and mineral samples you show in the vid, you could gather a truck load of all these various specimens. Through a lapidary, cut down samples into small cubes, slices, or small pebble rock-tumbled specimens. Put onto a collection container board, and sell them. The vast amount of variety that you showed there, most people, including lay and mature geologists, would never see ... neither accomplish ... an acquisition of an expansive collection in their life. This area appears to be a masive "gold mine" of rocks and minerals for a collector to rock-out on their geology collection ....
@@LetsGoGeo Maybe you should be nicknamed "Rocky!" "LetsGoRocky" ... "LetsGetRockinwithRocky" .... Your Idaho college/university should (then) have a massive selection of rocks and minerals ... rivaling the South Dakota School of Mines collection in Rapid City !
Very great information. I was just at Bodie 2 weeks ago. The entire walker area is toybox of minerals to explore. Great information. New subscriber here.
Had to make one more comment! Wow, you really know your stuff! I have been fascinated with the geology of Nevada since I moved to Reno from Texas in '86! Thanks for filling my brain with all this great info!!!
Well done, young lady! Good explanations, covered much, and entertaining. Even I learned a few things, and I grew up in Nevada and have a degree in geology.
Awesome! Thanks for that encouraging feedback. Geology is a never-ending open pit of info., so I think not matter how much we know it’s enough to keep us entertained for two lifetimes.
We do have Prairie rattlers out here. Two weeks ago, mid August, 2024, I had a theee footer snuggled up against my truck tire. He/she gave me plenty of warning. Very loud rattle, demanded respect. This snake was not aggressive. Allowed him to live another day, unmolested. But, I double checked every exterior door was closed well. Have spotted a huge scorpion in early July (evening). Geology is so cool.
Yea, I’ve run into so many rattlers, of course doing field work in the Southwest. Arizona - diamondbacks & others, in California a Mojave Green, in Washington state, too, including a Puma on the same day. I love the experiences - makes ya feel alive!
There`s a lost lead mine somewhere on timber company land in northern LaSalle Parish in Louisiana in the Rosefield/Summerville area. My grandfather was born there in 1886 and told me how they mined and smelted the ore to make bird shot by pouring the melted ore through window screens into a washtub of water. Existing samples of the lead from this mine have an unusually high silver content. Hunting clubs leased the land and refuse to allow us access to our family graves from the 1800s.
I like these videos-one of those small grip clamps with the lever and padded jaws etc. can be used well as a phone support. You put the handles at an angle to the ground and squish the phone in it. The Walmart ones are cheap.
1st time viewer. Excellent presentation. "Nick" I wonder if that's the same Brilliant Nick up in Washington? You share the same amount of passion- that says alot. I've learned a lot from Nick and others like Jeff Williams. I hope your videos will attract more young women to pursue working as geologists. You go girl. Nick, Jeff, you're going to have to step up your game!! Warm wishes from So. Cal.
Walker Lane! Don’t hear that often. My thesis was “Xenoliths from the Cima Volcanic Field, the seismic structure of an active plate margin, and the fate of the Walker lane”.
Oh cool! I’ll have to look that up and read it! That area is super fascinating - and there’s a huge rare earth mine around there and some radioactive stuff. I will be heading that way this fall or winter.
Outstanding!! You shared a wealth of information,educating Nubie novices as to rock composition,history of them in regards to map locations,and geological events.Lets hope Yellowstone stays quiet or you'll have a ton of more areas and rocks to identify.You just be tired after all that cross country climbing,walking talking and scanning the horizon and the Earths surface for 3D examples of every category mentioned in your lecture.
Thanks! Appreciate the positive feedback! It’s actually always so tough deciding what I have to leave out so the videos don’t get too long! I am out working on some more related content this week. Cheers!
It is pretty crazy to consider this! And that they were able to find so many valuable minerals in the 1800s without this knowledge. But there was a bit more laying around for them 😆
I haven’t even gotten 4 minutes in and I’m all like “I need her to walk around with me for a few days down in Western Arizona where I prospect/mine for gold. She could really help me understand some things better”. I’m pretty good at finding the gold, but I just don’t understand some of the deeper geologic aspects. I see things, but I don’t know how some of them play a part in the larger picture. Meaning, I’m probably walking right by some good areas 😂 I pay in shiny gold nuggets! 🙃
Mazama huh? Learned something. Thnx. I grew up in a tiny little town called Aromas. It was called such by the Spanish because of the Mineral Springs that used to be there. When I was 8 my dad came to me and said "We're going to sleep on volcanoes this summer!" I thought he was nuts until he handed me a book about the ring of fire. The next year at school I had the best stories to tell. I'll never forget the smell of sulfur welling up from the Earth and the paint pots! All the many colors oozing from the ground. That same summer I learned how to pan for gold and have been hooked ever since. St Helens blew on my 12th bday. People in New York City were putting the ash in jars and selling it. Ever been to New Idria in Ca.?
Man, you had a cool dad! That sounds pretty unforgettable, especially as a kid. I know of it, but despite having seen quite a bit of California I haven’t been to New Idria, but maybe some day soon.
New to your channel! Very impressed with how you field present the science! I'm a copper oxide guy ],namely Turquiose! Kinda looks like this tuff video is close to my claim!
This is the first time I watch a woman talk tirelessly. Almost nonstop. Like a proverbial funnel piwered by wind. I came here for those huge gold in the thumbnail.😅
Great video Heather a lot of the things I've heard of but I've never seen them to you show them to me still say you should have went to school and got your PhD what you doing pretty darn good without it 😉🐝
Time to get up to the Oregon (granitic) batholiths and the eastern Oregon highland desert basalt bedrock and obsidian veins. Also the center for the rotation of the Pacific NW in a clockwise movement of the land, with the North American craton moving south and west, while the Farallon plate (Explorer, Juan de Fuca, and Gorda sub-plates) move (relative) toward the north and east. This continues to shove all of the WA, OR, and N CA shorelines north scrunching up against British Columbia and the Canadian Shield and all of its massive interplays of exotic terraines ...
Oh, I have some awesome obsidian chunks from south Oregon! And loved John Day & Owyhee. I have some content from those visits that I might still need to edit into a short video when I get the time. I will hopefully make it back soon enough. Hoping the fires calm down.
@@LetsGoGeo With all the eastern Oregon blow down pick-up-stick timber forest ... it is a wonder that the whole area (like the Dakota Black Hills with 24+ inches of dry and explosive pine needles and pine dust duff) hasn't exploded and turned the whole place into a massive campfire for the Idahoans to roast their marshmallows and hot dogs ... at 100+ miles distance !
@@LetsGoGeo Don't let anyone else know that statement, as obsidian in Oregon is a non-collectible item, considered part of the ingenous population's sacred rocks, veins, and territories - and is a legal citation ! Sounds insane, but it is an actual statement, having driven through those highland deserts, and seeing obsidian traces, and told that there is no permissions given to collecting obsidian !
Just stumbled across your you tube, you are hot, on the geo. Very interesting, entertaining, and educational. I love you tube were individuals can present their passions so others can be exposed to what they may never had been before ..
Love, love, love what you are doing and thank you!!! Only thing is, you are pronouncing Nevada wrong. We pronounce it with a short a in the middle like hat. Sry, it just drives us nuts when people say, Nevaaadah. I did the same thing before I moved here and was quickly corrected! 😊 Keep up the good work!!! I subscribed!!!
Thanks! 😂 We speak from habit, I suppose. I learned it as NeVAHDah. And after learning Spanish it only solidified the pronunciation with the Spanish A. I’m stuck with it unless I retrain my brain.
@LetsGoGeo Yea, I know what you mean! I did some serious retraining when I moved here, lol! Everything is different in Southeast TX! It's now almost culture shock when I go visit. BTW, I never realized I had an accent till I moved away. 😊
Good question! From my experience, silicic igneous extrusive rocks tend to be lighter and more porous* (visible holes) than sandstone. Sandstone also often looks like it has a coating of sugar due to the grains of sand, and if it's poorly cemented, you can often rub off grains of sand with your hand. Also, if you taste a clean surface (yes, a real test for geologists), sandstone will taste more like dirt and mud. *Not to be confused with porosity and permeability - whole different topic.
It’s up for debate …. Nay - Vah - Dah (if it’s a Spanish word) Nuh - Vaa - Duh (if it’s been agreed upon by locals to say it that way, or there is an alternative origin) On a side note, I find it funny that the program asked if I wanted to “Translate to English” your response 😆 What’s the census on this one ?
Gold and other heavy dense precious and industrial metals are made deep in the Earth's interior, and through silica lithification (movement of silicates and quartz veins) with water, ... quartz and metals flow up from the depths and through granite bedrocks (and sometimes through ancient seabeds - that have undergone later vulcanism and tectonic events).
Gold IS made in novae, along with the heavier elements, i.e. above iron, through nuclear bombardment - same process used to create elements (unstable) beyond uranium. The chunks of material then coalesce into planets. Through various processes, e.g. tidal flexing due to gravity, the heavier elements sink toward the center of the nascent planet. Other processes (magma plumes, geochemical, hydrothermal reactions) later bring those elements to the surface forming chemical compounds (crystals) or more rarely native deposits, that is pure forms of some metals - gold, silver, copper. Gold deposits can take many forms. Carlin NV has microscopic gold that is dissolved out of the ore via cyanide heap leaching. Goldfield NV had secondary enrichment - the ground mass weathered away, but the gold didn't, thus increasing the concentration of gold at the surface; gold got scarcer as the mines went deeper.
@@Alwsmith It IS NOT made in a (super)nova. The stellar engine of a star, the photosphere makes Hydrogen fused into Helium to Iron. The chromosphere makes Cobalt to Element 118, As such, the stellar engine makes gold in the chromosphere. Any gold, from a (super)nova, of dying stars, exploding star core fragments, are the initial 2nd and later generations of accretionary planets and moons. The gold was already fused and existed. It is blasted into space as plasma, and then later gathered up by stars, planets, and moons in their electrostatic (ES) and electrogravitic (EG) accretionary cycles. In that star core, any exploded plasmas of precious metals, are recollected by these vastly shot-forth STAR CORE FRAGMENTS. These ARE THE REAL SUPERCONDUCTOR SUPERSOLID CORES (not a solid iron or nickel core !!!). Any of these spewed cosmic elements are again accreted onto the surface of this nearby core, alongside all of the vast cosmic volume of Hydrogen, Helium, and other higher elements. As the Earth's core IS a star core fragment, any and all such precious and industrial metals et al, are found deep in the original and evolving asthenosphere. It is that roiling and boiling magma and its elemental smeltering and kilning slag, that then amalgamates these elements into their deposits and extrusive/intrusive veins. With inherent WATER (fused Hydrogen and Oxygen) inside the asthenosphere, the silification of fused Silicon happens. This starts the centrifugal process of coming up to the surface layers of the asthenosphere, into the cold boundaries of the Moho(rovic) discontinuity boundary of the soft asthenosphere and the hard (lithification) of the lithosphere (our planetary hard rock surface layers, some 20-25 miles in depth). As said, it is these processes and products that come from the depths of the planet's own evolutionary (orogeny) accretions, and then forced outward into the lithosphere. These are such quartz veins and with precious and industrial metal deposits that are found by humans. No such concept (as given by modern physics and astrophysics, that high elements are ONLY created in (super)novas is just BS. They have no understanding (and admit it) that they do not understand the stellar engine of stars, let alone the processes of a dying star becoming a (super)nova. The ES and EG model fully explains in simple and layman terms what happens, how it happens, what changes happen, and what are the end results of such (super)novas. The stellar engine photosphere and chromosphere make all of the elements THAT ARE in existence through tensor bosons and tensor bosino fusion. Such are the designated Higgs-1 (and -2) (and the Lord-1 - 4) tensors (that are mislabeled as gauge bosons. They are the actual fusion agents making entirely clean fusion processes in the photosphere and chromosphere. Tensor bosons and bosinos, being the actual agents, conduct fusion inside these star regions - with complete energy cleanliness of real nuclear fusion. So, making your statements shows an apparent lack of education of the ES and EG model that fully explains all fusion, stellar engines, (super)novas, cosmic evolution of stars, planets, and moons - having active star core fragments inside them and their evolution into their present existence. You can refrain from making any more uneducated statements on the comment lines.
Do one on the Goldmine that is on PLM property but used to be Native American property. I think it was the Shoshoni. Yeah BLM switched around. Said it was abandoned killed all their free range horses and then six months later Vegas tribune reported $2 trillion gold strike. Do that one
I like your content and presentation EXCEPT ........... I'm a native of this state. For God's sake learn how to pronounce Nev aaa da.. There is no H. NOT Nevahhda. It's from Spanish. It means snow covered.
@@LetsGoGeo So you're gonna argue with a native Nevadan. It;s grated on my nerves for all of my 71 years and will continue to. As it does with all of us who have lived here all our lives.
I really can't understand her mispronunciation, certainly she must have been in the state long enough to learn the proper way to say it. Perhaps she doesn't really care if she comes across as an ignorant tourist.
@@HerbertHerbGlum Unfortunately it's not uncommon. And actually the current "native" pronunciation is somewhat americanized. I'll give her that. But there comes a time when you yield to the local. Most of the rest of the world has managed to. I wouldn't begin to tell a cajun in Louisiana how to pronounce Louisiana.
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I've been enjoying your videos, Heather. Thank you. Please keep going...
Thank you for the encouraging words! That means a lot, especially coming from you. I’ve enjoyed plenty of your awesome videos, research, & lectures. I’m in the field as we speak getting more content for an upcoming series on Walker Lane. Thanks again for the supportive feedback - Spread the word!
Woman, oh woman ! You definitely delivered a massive can of whoop azz geology here. You covered a massive portion of everything across the spectrum of geology, plate tectonics, subduction, lava, volcanoes, hot spots, lahars, pyroclastics, mafics, felsics, porphyries, intrusive silicate/quartz veins with upwellings of precious and industrial metals ....
Glad she's got this outlet!
Thank you!!! Glad you can appreciate the breadth of info. I get a little bit of scope creep going on when I make these, and want to include so much more!
@@LetsGoGeo Thus, my various comment(aries) adding in further geological backstories of those locations, huge insane geological landmass movements (especially "Baja to WA" exotic terraines), and the accretionary proto-shorelines as the West Coast history of WA, OR, and N CA. Most all orogeny of the exotic terraines of the Pacifc NW, west of the Rockies is exotic and comes from the ancient equatorial (and massively volcanic, tectonic and moving hotspots of the) Central-South American landbridge. The modern landbridge is just a skinny portion, compared to its original bridge of ~910 miles in width (!) from eastern Panama on the Gulf to the SW shoulder of South America - that same measurement of what would be the eastern shoreline of Mexico at the Gulf to its original landbridge width outward into the Pacific.
@@LetsGoGeo . . . . Wow just Wow ! I've never heard anyone spew geology like that ! I LOVE IT ! Really Glad I found your channel. I took 3 years of geology about 60 years ago but didn't get to finish my degree do to domestic situation. I think I might get to complete my education listening to you . And you are much more pleasant to listen to than the gruff ole professors whose classes I used to try to survive ! My head is still swirling from this video, it is a huge amount of knowledge to retain and try to relate one point to the other. Atleast here , we can re watch as much as needed . I've forgotten so much of this , it is fun to hear the terminology and see the deposits in field is awesome ! Definitely subbing ! Thanks Much !
@@wh8085 Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it & appreciate the depth. :)
She is sooo good at explaining geology in the West. Nominate her for the Nick Zentner award now!
Happy to hear you enjoyed the content! That motivates me to get out and get more!
So packed full of information! Thank you. Hiking around my general area, Wadsworth, Nv. I see this material in large volumes. This video requires a second view. Very impressive.
Thanks! Appreciate it! I always have so much I want to add, and have to cut it! 🥴
Many thanks for enduring the relentless heat and rattlesnake minefields in your quest to explore and educate. It is most groovy to be able to virtually explore fascinating Western landscapes and their inherent complex geology from the comfort of a NJ couch. Cheers
Appreciate that feedback a ton! I hope to emulate that which inspired me to enjoy these sights and features.
Thank you till next time happy happy, happy happy trails
My new favorite channel! Heather, you are crushing it! headed to Patreon now...
Love her enthusiasm and knowledge...
For the non-Nevada residents: It's pronounced Neh-vaaa-duh. There's a good size caldera near Beatty, NV not too far from Spicer Ranch. It's roughly 16-18 miles in diameter. Interesting place to visit... there's a lot of light colored tuff deposits which can be seen there.
Nev-add-a
It’s a Spanish word.
@@LetsGoGeo All I can say is that people that live here in Nevada all say it that way.
Yes, I’ve heard it said that way. I’m simply used to the Spanish pronunciation.
Smart and BEAUTIFUL! You go young Lady!
One thing I absolutely love about rattlesnakes is the fact that they warn you before they remove you from the census and put you on a shirt.
Indeed! I’ve met a lot of rattlesnakes and they have all given me proper warning. I respect them. :)
Not always, sometimes they don't give you any warning.
Arizona native.
THIS is the kind of practical knowledge I need. Thanks kid.
I got 450 pounds of pgm inside 4 years by hand and recently found the gold phase nugget. Needless to say I am redoubling my efforts. Success is guaranteed which is rare to be able to say.
Thank you for the information. Blessings
WIth all of these various rock and mineral samples you show in the vid, you could gather a truck load of all these various specimens. Through a lapidary, cut down samples into small cubes, slices, or small pebble rock-tumbled specimens. Put onto a collection container board, and sell them. The vast amount of variety that you showed there, most people, including lay and mature geologists, would never see ... neither accomplish ... an acquisition of an expansive collection in their life. This area appears to be a masive "gold mine" of rocks and minerals for a collector to rock-out on their geology collection ....
I keep collecting more, and my pack is always weighed down by rocks. 🤣
@@LetsGoGeo Maybe you should be nicknamed "Rocky!"
"LetsGoRocky" ... "LetsGetRockinwithRocky" ....
Your Idaho college/university should (then) have a massive selection of rocks and minerals ... rivaling the South Dakota School of Mines collection in Rapid City !
Given the area you were talking about, and the elevation (junipers), I'm guessing the ghost town is Aurora.
So, the first clip was taken at a slightly higher elevation than the second half. The junipers disappeared down by the old town area.
Very great information. I was just at Bodie 2 weeks ago. The entire walker area is toybox of minerals to explore. Great information. New subscriber here.
Thanks & welcome! I’ll have some more Walker stuff coming soon.
Had to make one more comment! Wow, you really know your stuff! I have been fascinated with the geology of Nevada since I moved to Reno from Texas in '86! Thanks for filling my brain with all this great info!!!
Awesome, thanks for being here! More from Nevada coming down the line fore sure!
Well done, young lady! Good explanations, covered much, and entertaining. Even I learned a few things, and I grew up in Nevada and have a degree in geology.
Awesome! Thanks for that encouraging feedback. Geology is a never-ending open pit of info., so I think not matter how much we know it’s enough to keep us entertained for two lifetimes.
We do have Prairie rattlers out here. Two weeks ago, mid August, 2024, I had a theee footer snuggled up against my truck tire. He/she gave me plenty of warning. Very loud rattle, demanded respect. This snake was not aggressive. Allowed him to live another day, unmolested. But, I double checked every exterior door was closed well. Have spotted a huge scorpion in early July (evening). Geology is so cool.
Yea, I’ve run into so many rattlers, of course doing field work in the Southwest. Arizona - diamondbacks & others, in California a Mojave Green, in Washington state, too, including a Puma on the same day. I love the experiences - makes ya feel alive!
That was great and I really enjoyed the longer video!
Awesome, thank you !!!
There`s a lost lead mine somewhere on timber company land in northern LaSalle Parish in Louisiana in the Rosefield/Summerville area. My grandfather was born there in 1886 and told me how they mined and smelted the ore to make bird shot by pouring the melted ore through window screens into a washtub of water. Existing samples of the lead from this mine have an unusually high silver content. Hunting clubs leased the land and refuse to allow us access to our family graves from the 1800s.
I`ve met an Eastern Diamondback...very huge snake...and he was very calm and just crawled away.
I like these videos-one of those small grip clamps with the lever and padded jaws etc. can be used well as a phone support. You put the handles at an angle to the ground and squish the phone in it. The Walmart ones are cheap.
1st time viewer. Excellent presentation. "Nick" I wonder if that's the same Brilliant Nick up in Washington? You share the same amount of passion- that says alot. I've learned a lot from Nick and others like Jeff Williams. I hope your videos will attract more young women to pursue working as geologists. You go girl. Nick, Jeff, you're going to have to step up your game!! Warm wishes from So. Cal.
that was some cool and interesting stuff! thanks!
also love your sense of humor
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Happy to hear you enjoyed the adventure here! Gotta have a sense of humor to love rocks this much, eh !? 🤣
Walker Lane! Don’t hear that often. My thesis was “Xenoliths from the Cima Volcanic Field, the seismic structure of an active plate margin, and the fate of the Walker lane”.
Oh cool! I’ll have to look that up and read it! That area is super fascinating - and there’s a huge rare earth mine around there and some radioactive stuff. I will be heading that way this fall or winter.
Outstanding!!
You shared a wealth of information,educating Nubie novices as to rock composition,history of them in regards to map locations,and geological events.Lets hope Yellowstone stays quiet or you'll have a ton of more areas and rocks to identify.You just be tired after all that cross country climbing,walking talking and scanning the horizon and the Earths surface for 3D examples of every category mentioned in your lecture.
Thanks! Appreciate the positive feedback! It’s actually always so tough deciding what I have to leave out so the videos don’t get too long! I am out working on some more related content this week. Cheers!
I'm smazed that we didn't really know about tectonic plates until the 1950s when the United States used sonar to map the ocean's floor.
It is pretty crazy to consider this! And that they were able to find so many valuable minerals in the 1800s without this knowledge. But there was a bit more laying around for them 😆
Loving this, why havent I found you sooner??!? Subbed and sharing!!
Thanks, glad to have you on board!
Love your videos, cheers from an old rock hound in New Zealand.
Welcome! Thanks for the support. Would love to see New Zealand some day.
I haven’t even gotten 4 minutes in and I’m all like “I need her to walk around with me for a few days down in Western Arizona where I prospect/mine for gold. She could really help me understand some things better”. I’m pretty good at finding the gold, but I just don’t understand some of the deeper geologic aspects. I see things, but I don’t know how some of them play a part in the larger picture. Meaning, I’m probably walking right by some good areas 😂
I pay in shiny gold nuggets! 🙃
Mazama huh? Learned something. Thnx.
I grew up in a tiny little town called Aromas.
It was called such by the Spanish because of the Mineral Springs that used to be there.
When I was 8 my dad came to me and said "We're going to sleep on volcanoes this summer!"
I thought he was nuts until he handed me a book about the ring of fire.
The next year at school I had the best stories to tell.
I'll never forget the smell of sulfur welling up from the Earth and the paint pots!
All the many colors oozing from the ground.
That same summer I learned how to pan for gold and have been hooked ever since.
St Helens blew on my 12th bday.
People in New York City were putting the ash in jars and selling it.
Ever been to New Idria in Ca.?
Hey Charles my family moved us from Santa Cruz to Aromas in 84. It was a boring place for a kid…except for Aromas Day!
Man, you had a cool dad! That sounds pretty unforgettable, especially as a kid.
I know of it, but despite having seen quite a bit of California I haven’t been to New Idria, but maybe some day soon.
I sure hope you got someone with you for security Ma’am! There are a bunch of weirdo’s out in these remote places. Plz take someone with you.
You may find Mineral Ridge at Silverpeak a interesting place to look.
I am a long time fan of Jeff Williams, and you two are the best on RUclips as far as hydrothermals and AU deposits go.
Awesome! I have more to come on this.
Cool video and beautiful sceneries!
Thanks, cheers!
I'm surprised. I understood almost half the words used in this lecture.
I could listen to her talk all day! Wow what a woman
I’ll be adding more content, so that might be possible soon 😉
THANKS FOR SHARING" NEWSUB in IDAHO!
Welcome!
This is a good chanel.
New to your channel! Very impressed with how you field present the science!
I'm a copper oxide guy ],namely
Turquiose!
Kinda looks like this tuff video is close to my claim!
Thanks for appreciating the hard work that goes into it! It’s fun, so long as weather and outside conditions cooperate, of course! :)
Cool video.
Thanks!
This is the first time I watch a woman talk tirelessly. Almost nonstop. Like a proverbial funnel piwered by wind. I came here for those huge gold in the thumbnail.😅
Glad you watched it and stuck with it!
I'm in Vegas too and like to explore. Let's chat
I`d love to metal detect for nuggets. I watch a couple of guys from Tasmania on here who find so much gold skindiving in creeks there.
The video is gold too
Well done thank you
Like your videos. Wish I could join you.
How does she only have 13k subs???
woo! more gold content pls!
Will do…but first, Mercury…
Great video Heather a lot of the things I've heard of but I've never seen them to you show them to me still say you should have went to school and got your PhD what you doing pretty darn good without it 😉🐝
I got a a degree in geology and have always loved teaching. This is such a great outlet for both! Loving it and thrilled to see it grow.
I'm very scared of tuff snakes 🐍
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Time to get up to the Oregon (granitic) batholiths and the eastern Oregon highland desert basalt bedrock and obsidian veins. Also the center for the rotation of the Pacific NW in a clockwise movement of the land, with the North American craton moving south and west, while the Farallon plate (Explorer, Juan de Fuca, and Gorda sub-plates) move (relative) toward the north and east. This continues to shove all of the WA, OR, and N CA shorelines north scrunching up against British Columbia and the Canadian Shield and all of its massive interplays of exotic terraines ...
Oh, I have some awesome obsidian chunks from south Oregon! And loved John Day & Owyhee. I have some content from those visits that I might still need to edit into a short video when I get the time. I will hopefully make it back soon enough. Hoping the fires calm down.
@@LetsGoGeo With all the eastern Oregon blow down pick-up-stick timber forest ... it is a wonder that the whole area (like the Dakota Black Hills with 24+ inches of dry and explosive pine needles and pine dust duff) hasn't exploded and turned the whole place into a massive campfire for the Idahoans to roast their marshmallows and hot dogs ... at 100+ miles distance !
@@LetsGoGeo Don't let anyone else know that statement, as obsidian in Oregon is a non-collectible item, considered part of the ingenous population's sacred rocks, veins, and territories - and is a legal citation !
Sounds insane, but it is an actual statement, having driven through those highland deserts, and seeing obsidian traces, and told that there is no permissions given to collecting obsidian !
Just stumbled across your you tube, you are hot, on the geo. Very interesting, entertaining, and educational. I love you tube were individuals can present their passions so others can be exposed to what they may never had been before ..
Love, love, love what you are doing and thank you!!! Only thing is, you are pronouncing Nevada wrong. We pronounce it with a short a in the middle like hat. Sry, it just drives us nuts when people say, Nevaaadah. I did the same thing before I moved here and was quickly corrected! 😊 Keep up the good work!!! I subscribed!!!
Thanks! 😂 We speak from habit, I suppose. I learned it as NeVAHDah. And after learning Spanish it only solidified the pronunciation with the Spanish A. I’m stuck with it unless I retrain my brain.
@LetsGoGeo Yea, I know what you mean! I did some serious retraining when I moved here, lol! Everything is different in Southeast TX! It's now almost culture shock when I go visit. BTW, I never realized I had an accent till I moved away. 😊
for a complete noob like me, how does one easily distinguish tuff from say, fine grain sandstone?
Good question! From my experience, silicic igneous extrusive rocks tend to be lighter and more porous* (visible holes) than sandstone. Sandstone also often looks like it has a coating of sugar due to the grains of sand, and if it's poorly cemented, you can often rub off grains of sand with your hand. Also, if you taste a clean surface (yes, a real test for geologists), sandstone will taste more like dirt and mud.
*Not to be confused with porosity and permeability - whole different topic.
Ne VAD uh!
It’s up for debate ….
Nay - Vah - Dah (if it’s a Spanish word)
Nuh - Vaa - Duh (if it’s been agreed upon by locals to say it that way, or there is an alternative origin)
On a side note, I find it funny that the program asked if I wanted to “Translate to English” your response 😆
What’s the census on this one ?
there are many host rocks for gold i think most of nevadas gold is in limestone....
To me it's a combination of biologie and geologie! Remember gold is in the blood, and came from God!
I thought gold was made in supernova not in volcanoes
Gold and other heavy dense precious and industrial metals are made deep in the Earth's interior, and through silica lithification (movement of silicates and quartz veins) with water, ... quartz and metals flow up from the depths and through granite bedrocks (and sometimes through ancient seabeds - that have undergone later vulcanism and tectonic events).
Gold IS made in novae, along with the heavier elements, i.e. above iron, through nuclear bombardment - same process used to create elements (unstable) beyond uranium. The chunks of material then coalesce into planets. Through various processes, e.g. tidal flexing due to gravity, the heavier elements sink toward the center of the nascent planet. Other processes (magma plumes, geochemical, hydrothermal reactions) later bring those elements to the surface forming chemical compounds (crystals) or more rarely native deposits, that is pure forms of some metals - gold, silver, copper. Gold deposits can take many forms. Carlin NV has microscopic gold that is dissolved out of the ore via cyanide heap leaching. Goldfield NV had secondary enrichment - the ground mass weathered away, but the gold didn't, thus increasing the concentration of gold at the surface; gold got scarcer as the mines went deeper.
@@johnlord8337 but come on the actual gold itself is made in a supernova
To believe otherwise it’s ridiculous.
@@Alwsmith It IS NOT made in a (super)nova. The stellar engine of a star, the photosphere makes Hydrogen fused into Helium to Iron. The chromosphere makes Cobalt to Element 118, As such, the stellar engine makes gold in the chromosphere.
Any gold, from a (super)nova, of dying stars, exploding star core fragments, are the initial 2nd and later generations of accretionary planets and moons. The gold was already fused and existed. It is blasted into space as plasma, and then later gathered up by stars, planets, and moons in their electrostatic (ES) and electrogravitic (EG) accretionary cycles.
In that star core, any exploded plasmas of precious metals, are recollected by these vastly shot-forth STAR CORE FRAGMENTS. These ARE THE REAL SUPERCONDUCTOR SUPERSOLID CORES (not a solid iron or nickel core !!!). Any of these spewed cosmic elements are again accreted onto the surface of this nearby core, alongside all of the vast cosmic volume of Hydrogen, Helium, and other higher elements. As the Earth's core IS a star core fragment, any and all such precious and industrial metals et al, are found deep in the original and evolving asthenosphere. It is that roiling and boiling magma and its elemental smeltering and kilning slag, that then amalgamates these elements into their deposits and extrusive/intrusive veins. With inherent WATER (fused Hydrogen and Oxygen) inside the asthenosphere, the silification of fused Silicon happens. This starts the centrifugal process of coming up to the surface layers of the asthenosphere, into the cold boundaries of the Moho(rovic) discontinuity boundary of the soft asthenosphere and the hard (lithification) of the lithosphere (our planetary hard rock surface layers, some 20-25 miles in depth).
As said, it is these processes and products that come from the depths of the planet's own evolutionary (orogeny) accretions, and then forced outward into the lithosphere. These are such quartz veins and with precious and industrial metal deposits that are found by humans.
No such concept (as given by modern physics and astrophysics, that high elements are ONLY created in (super)novas is just BS. They have no understanding (and admit it) that they do not understand the stellar engine of stars, let alone the processes of a dying star becoming a (super)nova. The ES and EG model fully explains in simple and layman terms what happens, how it happens, what changes happen, and what are the end results of such (super)novas.
The stellar engine photosphere and chromosphere make all of the elements THAT ARE in existence through tensor bosons and tensor bosino fusion. Such are the designated Higgs-1 (and -2) (and the Lord-1 - 4) tensors (that are mislabeled as gauge bosons. They are the actual fusion agents making entirely clean fusion processes in the photosphere and chromosphere.
Tensor bosons and bosinos, being the actual agents, conduct fusion inside these star regions - with complete energy cleanliness of real nuclear fusion.
So, making your statements shows an apparent lack of education of the ES and EG model that fully explains all fusion, stellar engines, (super)novas, cosmic evolution of stars, planets, and moons - having active star core fragments inside them and their evolution into their present existence. You can refrain from making any more uneducated statements on the comment lines.
Do one on the Goldmine that is on PLM property but used to be Native American property. I think it was the Shoshoni. Yeah BLM switched around. Said it was abandoned killed all their free range horses and then six months later Vegas tribune reported $2 trillion gold strike. Do that one
Sounds like this refers to more than just one mine (save for the 2 trillion estimate)
I like your content and presentation EXCEPT ........... I'm a native of this state. For God's sake learn how to pronounce Nev aaa da.. There is no H. NOT Nevahhda. It's from Spanish. It means snow covered.
OK, the Spanish “a” is pronounced “ah” such as in Casa 😬
@@LetsGoGeo So you're gonna argue with a native Nevadan. It;s grated on my nerves for all of my 71 years and will continue to. As it does with all of us who have lived here all our lives.
I really can't understand her mispronunciation, certainly she must have been in the state long enough to learn the proper way to say it. Perhaps she doesn't really care if she comes across as an ignorant tourist.
@@HerbertHerbGlum Unfortunately it's not uncommon. And actually the current "native" pronunciation is somewhat americanized. I'll give her that. But there comes a time when you yield to the local. Most of the rest of the world has managed to. I wouldn't begin to tell a cajun in Louisiana how to pronounce Louisiana.
Pronounce "Nevada" correctly, though, please. The first A sounds like the A in "apple".
It’s a Spanish word.
No, they’re free to pronounce words how they want. What matters is if the ideas were properly communicated, which I think is the case here.
Are you a teacher ?
In more ways than one :)
So what you're saying if you can't explain things in recent history blame it on millions of years ago
3:30. a nope rope. 🪇 🐍
You're beautiful! I wish I were in better health to do what you're doing.