Who needs PBS for geology when we have Myron Cook producing these fantastic videos for us? You can tell they are all works of joy and respect for this wonderful Earth that we all live on.
PBS, in my estimation has slipped way down with poor programming, ignoring a lot of archeology, geographical, good drama that needs telling. So, glad RUclips has picked up a good deal of interesting, sometimes controversial informative programs.
Sir, If all teachers took your approach, and had your enthusiasm for their field, we would have a country of far more well educated individuals! Thanks for what you do!
A lot of teachers are like this. It's just that as a child you weren't as interested in these cool topics as you are now so you'll actually pay attention. 😂
@@kinte1870It’s true I work at a college full of wonderful professors. It’s up to the student and person to be interested. I have to say there are less and less students interested in college these past years. Enrollment is dangerously down. Dangerous for the college’s future. That doesn’t mean the young aren’t interested in learning. It’s just my perspective right now.
You Sir are part of the reason why broadcast TV is about to die! Such great videos, great attitude, and super knowledge. Giving it all away for free to anyone who chooses to listen. ❤❤❤❤
I'm 38 yo. As a kid growing up here in north central Iowa, we would have to pick up rocks from the field every year. I would always get distracted looking at them wondering their story. Especially the odd looking ones. Your fascination into rocks and their history rekindle that in me. Never stop 🙂 Thank you.
I’m from Eastern Washington and we do the same to our wheat fields too, and I’m not going to lie I would wonder how old they were and what things they had “seen”.
My wife, who’s of Norwegian descent, said “troll fight” when you asked how the Dolomites boulders were distributed. So yeah, you stick to your “science” and she’ll stick to her mythology. (Not really, she’s really a brilliant data driven individual and was just being goofy)
Could be some truth woven into "mythology". You never know. Bretz and others have gone through hell convincing professionals to change their minds about catastrophism etc.
The explanations for natural phenomena by some cultures is so awesome! A troll fight is way more epic than some rocks rolling down a hill😂 very cool beliefs and culture
I get so happy when a Myron Cook video comes out!! I hope he continues documenting his geology knowledge in the form of these educational videos fir years to come!
Your knowledge and how you impart it to your followers via a question format make it so much more interesting than a strict statement of facts. Your audience is drawn into the subject matter and become participants with you in the quest for understanding. Keep up the great work!
My wife is a school teacher. Kindergarten. She loves and admires Mr Rodgers. She watched this video with me, and while the subject is not her cup of tea, she said that you are the Mr Rogers of geology. That you have this way of talking to people on whatever level they arrive; that you have an appreciation of people as thinking, feeling humans that is to be admired and shared. For me, I like the science, the outdoors, and new places to take my Jeep for a ride. 😅
Outstanding! Thank you for sharing your deep insight into the geologic history of the Earth. I love listening and learning from you because of your patient explanations to us newbies!
Tyndall stone is used *everywhere* here in Manitoba, and it is very beautiful. There are also many fossils in it (which they try to avoid as they weather differently, but some are amazing!) I’ve always heard they were made by burrowing of worms or shrimp, but have never heard or read an explanation this complete. Thanks for this, and the channel, from a long time silent fan!
I'm Finnish from a moraine-rich area and my immediate thought was that the boulders could have been moved by a glacier but that they didn't look anything like the glacial erratics we have around here. I'm not a geologist but I've always found it fascinating, thank you for sharing your findings and knowledge!
Mm. 26 minutes of relaxed, rapt attention paid earns a feeling of satisfaction and a little more knowledge of a fascinating world. Thanks again, Myron.
my wife and I love watching these videos together then drive to the locations. Thanks for your precious time, Mr Cook! Like many have said, you are a national Treasure indeed, sir.
I was a rock/mineral collector growing up in New England back in the 60's, eventually living in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. As a student I did some geologic mapping in NW Colorado and like you, loved being out in the field trying to understand what I was looking at. Your studies bring back many fond memories and peek my curiosity to better understand how complex our earth really is. Thank you for all your excellent presentations!
Dear Myron, I have no words to say my gratitude to you. I wish I could put my feet in your steps and follow you live in these magical journeys of yours.Thank you from UK.
You illuminate a very real advantage of observation, going into a situation blind, for lack of predisposition and prejudice, to arrive at innovative / objective solutions, to answer questions and pose solutions.
I lived in Coralville, IA. It took me a while to realize why it was called "Coralville" so far north until I saw the fossilized coral. The only reason I knew how to spot fossilized coral is from living in Miami, FL where there is fossilized coral everywhere!
Ya the gravel around here has really cool coral fossils or corals and crinoids. I get really distracted searching for them in landscaping rock. So crazy that we stand on hundreds of feet of solidified sunlight!
We have the "Subway" cave system, off of highway 44 in Lassen County . They are huge. Rock hounding and artifacts is fun to us. I stop for roadcuts too. You showed me the Grand Staircase and I was hooked. I'd heard about it, but never realized how noticable and amazing it is. I've always been interested in geology and archeology, but you make it simple and interesting. Thank You 😊.
Yay for caves! From a fellow geologist. I love surveying outcrops from inside the caverns we research. It always takes me back to my sedimentology/stratigraphy days as a masters student. But this level of bioturbated detail was something I haven't come across in a long time, so thanks for sharing!
Thank you, Myron, for another fascinating story! What gets me the most is the sense of deep time, not just how long ago the layers were put down, but for how long these tiny creatures with their short lives were burrowing, billions of them.
I love watching your videos. They're always so informative, and I love the sound of your voice and your delivery. Very soothing. Sort of like a combination of Mr. Rogers and Bob Ross. Looking forward to your next video!
Such cool rocks. Beautiful landscape. I love geology, so much more permanent, and yet still slowly moving, alive but in repose, ready to become something more. Cool, cool.
Also thank you for the look at the Dolomite…I live in South Eastern Florida and found several patches right on the ocean of Dolomite but didn’t know what they were 👍🏻🤩🌊🌞
Still currently in undergrad for BSC in geology but just completed my Field camp over the summer. Really wish I had come across the channel before going out there. These videos are super engaging and awesome to watch, and so much of what I learned at field camp is discussed in your videos. Ive never seen such a "geologist" looking geologist and it's totally awesome. What a cool guy and channel! Your enthusiasm for geology makes me grin and smile along with ya in the video! Your whiteboard segments are chefs kiss they are so well done and so easy to understand. your whiteboard examples on the great unconformity were especially well done (different video). I got to visit colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Nevada, but ive always wanted to go out to Wyoming looks so beautiful.
Thank you, Myron! I’ve been in and around petroleum geology for 40 years, and this presentation provided a clearer picture of the processes involved than anything I’ve ever come across. Kudos to you!
WOW! This lesson is fantastic, one of your best Mr Myron. Thank you once again for sharing your knowledge in such an entertaining, amusing manner. Blessings to you for what you do.
Hi Myron, I just found your channel and it is absolutely wonderful to watch. My grandpa was also a geologist and I have so many fond childhood memories of him telling me about all the minerals he worked with and how they formed. I still have the crystals and geodes he would sometimes give me in Folgers coffee tins. Your videos have helped me remember those times, so thank you.
Your channel seems to be growing, I was happy to see so many comments last video. I've been moonlighting on nicks geo 101 between your videos so maybe i wont embarrass myself if we ever met on one of your outtings. Thanks for the inspiration Myron
Wyoming is so vast and beautiful! Thank you for this great educational experience I have shared with my wife and daughter. I loved driving down through there coming home from Yellowstone just a couple of weeks ago. It was so tranquil, I had a deeper realization of the world in which we live.
Very interesting. Thank you. Where I grew up in Australia, there is limestone with exactly the same texture as your dolomite. Now I know what it means.
Thank you for another great look into geology. I love your passion, chill attitude and your communication skills(?) You have a great way of explaining things that is both entertaining and digestible without needing a degree. God Bless and be safe.
Thank you Myron. I made a discovery that rather amazed me this week here in Pembrokeshire, South West Wales, UK... There's a 'tor', an outcrop of Preseli bluestone (dolomite - the same stone placed in the centre of Stone henge) on-top of the hill I'm on here and I just noticed that the stone is surprisingly resonant. If a sizeable plate, a foot thick and 3' square say, is balanced on a few points so it's not deadened by too much contact it rings quite audibly when struck. An irregularly shaped stone balanced in this way will produce several tones if struck at different points and so can be played like a drum. Being a drummer myself, I've been enjoying this over the past few days and have taken to wandering around the hill with a mallet striking stones as I walk past them. I am slightly worried I may be considered mad, but it's really something, I've found, to walk up the hill to the outcrop here and, instead of an inert mass sat there atop it, to see a musical instrument waiting to be played, it really brings the hills alive with the sound of music! Aye. So, I just wanted to say... perhaps you might add the occasional sonic observation to your explorations. I am thinking I'll record and publish a piece of music playing these stones soon, when I'm done with my current project. All the best and thank you for your enthusiasm, always a pleasure to receive.
@@hippiecowgirl4231 It is next in line... probably take a good month or so. As the stones concerned are on a mountaintop its also may take quite a wait before I get a day still enough to record decent audio as the wind blows hard up here, the vast majority of the time... but it will come, when the Tones of The Stones are ready to be heard once again! 🧙♂️
I have been watching your videos for a few months now and I love your content. I have loved geology but none of my teachers could ever make it as interesting as you make it due to teaching me new things I haven't learned. Thank you.
You're astute comprehension of geological processes and relating them down to comparative terms that regular people can understand is astounding ! and so absolutely fascinating. The true dynamics of earths geological machinery and what it has done is just so amazing
I find it very helpful when you give examples of your family history. It gives us a realistic impression of history - even if it is just a minute piece of time relative to history. My family own a significan area of land down here in Mississippi. I sometimes look from the satellite and wonder how things were in the 1800s when they came down from Virginia. Keep up with those examples. It keeps me watching the videos. One other thing - you taught me how to recognize the movement of the Mississippi River over time. The information was always there. I just didn't realize how to see it.
Mud shrimp sure have a humble name compared to the monumentality of what they built. I’m awestruck by the scale of it. And thank you again for sharing your ‘paradise on earth’ scenic mountains. I feel like a kid on Christmas morning when I see a new Myron Cook video has arrived!
What a beauty of a video. Truly amazing. Informative, beautiful to look at, personal-relatable. By all means I can't find another word to fit it better then beautiful. Thank you sir for this!
@@myroncook I'm not done. These days I don't have enough time to watch videos, I listen to them. I've watched two of yours and half way through third. You'll be added to the list of very few channels that I find time to watch. Which as of today has two whole channels. It would be 3 but one of the channels moved away from RUclips. The work you do is truly amazing. Keep it comming!
I truly enjoy inspecting ancient seabed sediments for fossil remains. Fusulinid & Crinoid stones are among the favorites in my collection. I normally apply a sealant to my fossils to keep them intact. Keep up the great work you have been doing Myron!
At 80 I am so enjoying your videos. Love geology but never had the opportunity to study it. I collect fossils, mostly marine, here in Middle Tennessee. I have a rock from the shrimp burrows but never had the opportuity to learn about them. Thanks a million. We are sitting on a large deposit of limestone here along with chert.
Thank you Myron for reawakening my interest in geology. As well as answering some of my recent observations. Always looking forward to your next excursion.
What a wild ride. These videos are top notch. I always find myself admiring the mountains and formations here in So.UT and these videos make it so much more engaging. Support this mans Patreon!
Rather interesting that these crustaceans have survived both the Ordovician extinction and the End-Permian extinction events. Seems they are well suited for long term survival.
@@myroncook I want you to know I’ve always loved geology and have even considered going to university for it. I absolutely love your videos. Thank you so much for all your shared knowledge!
Videos like this are really important to me because I grew up in a religious environment where young-earth creationism was pounded into my head from a young age. Along my journey of disillusionment from that denomination, the discovery that rocks do in fact tell an intricate story of Earth's past was a major epiphany for me. I love learning about the pages of Earth's prehistory, especially from such a masterful teacher as this!
I've watched several of your very interesting and well explained videos. I'm 67 and did a lot of 'tromping around' the woods whenever I could. I'm a retire engineer so I always love a well explained solution to interesting observations. Your video titled "Investigate a Mysterious Undocumented Rock Wall" was especially so. I wondered if you might consider doing a similar one on the so call "Sage Wall" in Montana. There are a lot of ... uh ... sensationalized videos ... of which I am fairly skeptical. I think it would bring a great balance to that discussion. Thanks!
How many of you looked up tyndall stone ? As I did.... And thank you again Myron your postings are impossible to pause . Also Myron, your drawings are getting better .
I was looking on your channel last night for new videos and now here this one is! Thank you for the work that you do, your videos have undoubtedly influenced me on the major I am taking. You have a great effect on this world !
You could fit a lot of stories in a 40 mile thick book. Pretty overwhelming to think about. Great analogy. Geology is really interesting. My grandfather worked as a hoist operator and miner part time when he wasn't working in the woods and sometimes brought home rocks and crystals that he found to show us kids. I'm always staring at the landscape and wondering how and why, picking up random rocks everywhere I go and have a bit of a collection, but I don't really know much about any of it. It would be an absolute pleasure to go on a hike with this guy and learn about how the world was created.
Assuming sedimentation deposits a later of silt equivalent to a sheet of paper thick every year (which it is surprising close to) the book analogy is pretty apt! [Though smartasses like me would ask "what kind of paper?" since Indian paper can be way a fraction of the thickness of normal paper.]
Another wonderful lesson and beautiful walk through areas I will never be able to see in person. You are a great teacher and I thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us all.😊
Who needs PBS for geology when we have Myron Cook producing these fantastic videos for us? You can tell they are all works of joy and respect for this wonderful Earth that we all live on.
Thanks!
Pbs was great before youtube but it has been replaced. Theres more info in a good 10 minute video than an hour pbs special
I want both!
PBS, in my estimation has slipped way down with poor programming, ignoring a lot of archeology, geographical, good drama that needs telling. So, glad RUclips has picked up a good deal of interesting, sometimes controversial informative programs.
Nick Zentner is great on geology, too. Nick on the rocks great programming
Sir, If all teachers took your approach, and had your enthusiasm for their field, we would have a country of far more well educated individuals! Thanks for what you do!
Amen!
A lot of teachers are like this. It's just that as a child you weren't as interested in these cool topics as you are now so you'll actually pay attention. 😂
Wow, thank you
Another great video!! Thanks for all your work
@@kinte1870It’s true I work at a college full of wonderful professors. It’s up to the student and person to be interested. I have to say there are less and less students interested in college these past years. Enrollment is dangerously down. Dangerous for the college’s future. That doesn’t mean the young aren’t interested in learning. It’s just my perspective right now.
You Sir are part of the reason why broadcast TV is about to die! Such great videos, great attitude, and super knowledge. Giving it all away for free to anyone who chooses to listen. ❤❤❤❤
I'm 38 yo. As a kid growing up here in north central Iowa, we would have to pick up rocks from the field every year. I would always get distracted looking at them wondering their story. Especially the odd looking ones.
Your fascination into rocks and their history rekindle that in me. Never stop 🙂
Thank you.
thanks!
Central Iowa represent! 👍
I’m from Eastern Washington and we do the same to our wheat fields too, and I’m not going to lie I would wonder how old they were and what things they had “seen”.
Hello neighbors... East central Iowa here!!!!!
I'm in Michigan had to pick rock too.. but why did i have to pick them i did not put them there....................
My wife, who’s of Norwegian descent, said “troll fight” when you asked how the Dolomites boulders were distributed. So yeah, you stick to your “science” and she’ll stick to her mythology. (Not really, she’s really a brilliant data driven individual and was just being goofy)
Could be some truth woven into "mythology". You never know. Bretz and others have gone through hell convincing professionals to change their minds about catastrophism etc.
I think I'll stick to her (our) mythology as well. Troll fight is so much more entertaining.
The explanations for natural phenomena by some cultures is so awesome! A troll fight is way more epic than some rocks rolling down a hill😂 very cool beliefs and culture
Because who DOESNT enjoy a good troll fight ?
From a safe distance of course ...
A good troll battle is way more exciting to imagine than 100s of thousands of years of inching along. I'm with her! 😂
I get so happy when a Myron Cook video comes out!! I hope he continues documenting his geology knowledge in the form of these educational videos fir years to come!
I hope so too!
Sir, you are the Bob Ross of geology! Seriously.
Hahaha that’s awesome
My thought exactly! :)
I recognized that as well, how nice
Your knowledge and how you impart it to your followers via a question format make it so much more interesting than a strict statement of facts. Your audience is drawn into the subject matter and become participants with you in the quest for understanding. Keep up the great work!
My wife is a school teacher. Kindergarten. She loves and admires Mr Rodgers. She watched this video with me, and while the subject is not her cup of tea, she said that you are the Mr Rogers of geology. That you have this way of talking to people on whatever level they arrive; that you have an appreciation of people as thinking, feeling humans that is to be admired and shared.
For me, I like the science, the outdoors, and new places to take my Jeep for a ride. 😅
Thanks!
Outstanding! Thank you for sharing your deep insight into the geologic history of the Earth. I love listening and learning from you because of your patient explanations to us newbies!
Teachers like this when I was young, would of changed my life
Tyndall stone is used *everywhere* here in Manitoba, and it is very beautiful. There are also many fossils in it (which they try to avoid as they weather differently, but some are amazing!) I’ve always heard they were made by burrowing of worms or shrimp, but have never heard or read an explanation this complete. Thanks for this, and the channel, from a long time silent fan!
Thanks for the info!
This gentleman is a national treasure! What a fantastic educator.
You are the OG (optometric geologist) !!
You help me see geology more clearly than I ever have.Thanx Myron !!!!
Amazing, those rocks been waiting 480Ma for someone to hear their story - I'm so glad you were able to share it with us.
I like the way you said that
@@myroncookme too!
Ah, one of the best channels on the tube. Absolutely great stuff. Thank you!
Wow, thanks!
I love your geology talks. I learn stuff all the time. A retired RN.
thanks!
I'm Finnish from a moraine-rich area and my immediate thought was that the boulders could have been moved by a glacier but that they didn't look anything like the glacial erratics we have around here. I'm not a geologist but I've always found it fascinating, thank you for sharing your findings and knowledge!
Mm. 26 minutes of relaxed, rapt attention paid earns a feeling of satisfaction and a little more knowledge of a fascinating world. Thanks again, Myron.
my wife and I love watching these videos together then drive to the locations. Thanks for your precious time, Mr Cook! Like many have said, you are a national Treasure indeed, sir.
Glad you like them!
I was a rock/mineral collector growing up in New England back in the 60's, eventually living in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. As a student I did some geologic mapping in NW Colorado and like you, loved being out in the field trying to understand what I was looking at. Your studies bring back many fond memories and peek my curiosity to better understand how complex our earth really is. Thank you for all your excellent presentations!
thanks!
Dear Myron, I have no words to say my gratitude to you. I wish I could put my feet in your steps and follow you live in these magical journeys of yours.Thank you from UK.
Wow, thank you
You illuminate a very real advantage of observation, going into a situation blind, for lack of predisposition and prejudice, to arrive at innovative / objective solutions, to answer questions and pose solutions.
Excited for another geologic adventure with you! You always make high quality, informative videos. I always learn something new. Thank you.
I lived in Coralville, IA. It took me a while to realize why it was called "Coralville" so far north until I saw the fossilized coral. The only reason I knew how to spot fossilized coral is from living in Miami, FL where there is fossilized coral everywhere!
My kids would find tiny fossils in our landscaping rocks in NE Tarrant County, Texas, too! 🦕🤠✌️
@@gus473 I thought i was going crazy thinking oceanic fossils were there. Now, it completely makes sense! I love our professor here.
Ya the gravel around here has really cool coral fossils or corals and crinoids. I get really distracted searching for them in landscaping rock. So crazy that we stand on hundreds of feet of solidified sunlight!
Oh and seeing ancient shells in the rocks around here is so cool!
Ate you referring to coquina?
We have the "Subway" cave system, off of highway 44 in Lassen County . They are huge. Rock hounding and artifacts is fun to us. I stop for roadcuts too. You showed me the Grand Staircase and I was hooked. I'd heard about it, but never realized how noticable and amazing it is. I've always been interested in geology and archeology, but you make it simple and interesting. Thank You 😊.
Yay for caves! From a fellow geologist. I love surveying outcrops from inside the caverns we research. It always takes me back to my sedimentology/stratigraphy days as a masters student. But this level of bioturbated detail was something I haven't come across in a long time, so thanks for sharing!
You're such a wonderful man I aspire to be able to pass on such rich knowledge and exude the happiness you do when I am older
Absolutely fascinating as always. Your passion for geology makes it even more enjoyable to watch.
Always a pleasure to learn something new from Myron Cook.
Thank you, Myron, for another fascinating story! What gets me the most is the sense of deep time, not just how long ago the layers were put down, but for how long these tiny creatures with their short lives were burrowing, billions of them.
yes, it is crazy to think about
This is one of your best yet Myron. Visually stunning
thanks!
You are incredible, Myron. Thank you SO MUCH for stimulating my interest in geology! You RULE!
I love watching your videos. They're always so informative, and I love the sound of your voice and your delivery. Very soothing. Sort of like a combination of Mr. Rogers and Bob Ross. Looking forward to your next video!
Thank you so much!
So much I don’t know, getting filled in by fact crystals, steadily firming up the larger picture I have about our amazing earth. Thanks Myron!
This gives me an even greater appreciation for the Ordovician Dolomites of the Niagara Escarpment part of the Michigan Basin. Thanks!
Myron, you are on hell of an amazing teacher! Thank you so much for your enthusiasm and skills.
thanks!
Such cool rocks. Beautiful landscape. I love geology, so much more permanent, and yet still slowly moving, alive but in repose, ready to become something more. Cool, cool.
Also thank you for the look at the Dolomite…I live in South Eastern Florida and found several patches right on the ocean of Dolomite but didn’t know what they were 👍🏻🤩🌊🌞
Thanks for sharing yet another adventure with added geological and natural wisdom to go with it. Not to mention the gorgeous views! :D
Still currently in undergrad for BSC in geology but just completed my Field camp over the summer. Really wish I had come across the channel before going out there. These videos are super engaging and awesome to watch, and so much of what I learned at field camp is discussed in your videos. Ive never seen such a "geologist" looking geologist and it's totally awesome. What a cool guy and channel! Your enthusiasm for geology makes me grin and smile along with ya in the video! Your whiteboard segments are chefs kiss they are so well done and so easy to understand. your whiteboard examples on the great unconformity were especially well done (different video). I got to visit colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Nevada, but ive always wanted to go out to Wyoming looks so beautiful.
Thank you!
Great teaching style, Myron. Wonderful scenes…interesting explanation. The scale of time and size shown here is humbling. 👍
Love getting geology lessons about my backyard for free! Been camping on the Bighorns and Pryors my whole life. Love your videos.
Thanks Myron
It's always nice when friends drop in.
SIR, YOUR REACH IS SO GLOBAL, YOU CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE !
All the best from Serbia 🇷🇸!
Between yourself and the lovely Nick Zenter, this is all I need for teachers to learn about the Geology of the American West and beyond!
I've been contemplating a lot of these topics recently and then you drop this gem. Thank you!
You're so welcome!
I live near the Tyndall stone quarries in Manitoba and I have never heard of Upogebia. Thank you for teaching me something new.
What an upogebic episode! Thanks. Yes, I had fun making up that term. 😃
Once passed the en medias res beginning, which was confusing if not unnecessary, this was a very good presentation.
Thank you, Myron! I’ve been in and around petroleum geology for 40 years, and this presentation provided a clearer picture of the processes involved than anything I’ve ever come across. Kudos to you!
thanks!
The drone footage really makes this pop! Fantastic place, thanks for sharing.
WOW! This lesson is fantastic, one of your best Mr Myron. Thank you once again for sharing your knowledge in such an entertaining, amusing manner. Blessings to you for what you do.
Mr Cook is a priceless national treasure. Thank you for showing us all this cool stuff....
Hi Myron, I just found your channel and it is absolutely wonderful to watch. My grandpa was also a geologist and I have so many fond childhood memories of him telling me about all the minerals he worked with and how they formed. I still have the crystals and geodes he would sometimes give me in Folgers coffee tins. Your videos have helped me remember those times, so thank you.
I LOVE to hear this!
Your channel seems to be growing, I was happy to see so many comments last video.
I've been moonlighting on nicks geo 101 between your videos so maybe i wont embarrass myself if we ever met on one of your outtings. Thanks for the inspiration Myron
Great back up with the sound recording, filming, drone work, and editing. These videos will last the test of time for sure. Kudos!
thanks!
As a Floridian some of these drone shots are awe inspiring. We don't have geology like that round these parts.
Wow, the production quality of this channel is excellent! Love the drone footage
Thanks to Myron's videos, I have had two trips to Wyoming for geology trips. The place is amazing.
That is awesome!
Wyoming is so vast and beautiful! Thank you for this great educational experience I have shared with my wife and daughter. I loved driving down through there coming home from Yellowstone just a couple of weeks ago. It was so tranquil, I had a deeper realization of the world in which we live.
That is awesome!
This is the best Geology Lecture ever!
Very interesting. Thank you. Where I grew up in Australia, there is limestone with exactly the same texture as your dolomite. Now I know what it means.
Thank you Myron for letting us glimpse the overwhelming beauty of nature across deep time.
My pleasure
Thank you for another great look into geology. I love your passion, chill attitude and your communication skills(?) You have a great way of explaining things that is both entertaining and digestible without needing a degree. God Bless and be safe.
Thank you Myron.
I made a discovery that rather amazed me this week here in Pembrokeshire, South West Wales, UK... There's a 'tor', an outcrop of Preseli bluestone (dolomite - the same stone placed in the centre of Stone henge) on-top of the hill I'm on here and I just noticed that the stone is surprisingly resonant. If a sizeable plate, a foot thick and 3' square say, is balanced on a few points so it's not deadened by too much contact it rings quite audibly when struck. An irregularly shaped stone balanced in this way will produce several tones if struck at different points and so can be played like a drum. Being a drummer myself, I've been enjoying this over the past few days and have taken to wandering around the hill with a mallet striking stones as I walk past them. I am slightly worried I may be considered mad, but it's really something, I've found, to walk up the hill to the outcrop here and, instead of an inert mass sat there atop it, to see a musical instrument waiting to be played, it really brings the hills alive with the sound of music! Aye. So, I just wanted to say... perhaps you might add the occasional sonic observation to your explorations. I am thinking I'll record and publish a piece of music playing these stones soon, when I'm done with my current project.
All the best and thank you for your enthusiasm, always a pleasure to receive.
interesting!
You may have uncovered another aspect to the construction of Stonehenge nobody thought of before!
@@kalburgy2114A Flintstone xylophone.
Please make that video ! I would love to hear a rock concert !
@@hippiecowgirl4231 It is next in line... probably take a good month or so. As the stones concerned are on a mountaintop its also may take quite a wait before I get a day still enough to record decent audio as the wind blows hard up here, the vast majority of the time... but it will come, when the Tones of The Stones are ready to be heard once again! 🧙♂️
First time coming across your videos. Love it. I've always been fascinated by geology and these mini-lessons are awesome. Thanks.
I have been watching your videos for a few months now and I love your content. I have loved geology but none of my teachers could ever make it as interesting as you make it due to teaching me new things I haven't learned. Thank you.
You're astute comprehension of geological processes and relating them down to comparative terms that regular people can understand is astounding ! and so absolutely fascinating. The true dynamics of earths geological machinery and what it has done is just so amazing
❤ geology with Myron xo does not get old.. just like the beautiful mountain views! They Never get old either! Lol😊
This was a perfect video, absolutely informative and perspective expanding. THANK YOU
on a side note that spiderweb on your hat drives my arachnophobia crazy lol
Thanks for showing us the preserved echoes of these ancient wonders. It's a delight to think about!
I find it very helpful when you give examples of your family history. It gives us a realistic impression of history - even if it is just a minute piece of time relative to history.
My family own a significan area of land down here in Mississippi. I sometimes look from the satellite and wonder how things were in the 1800s when they came down from Virginia.
Keep up with those examples. It keeps me watching the videos.
One other thing - you taught me how to recognize the movement of the Mississippi River over time. The information was always there. I just didn't realize how to see it.
Mud shrimp sure have a humble name compared to the monumentality of what they built. I’m awestruck by the scale of it. And thank you again for sharing your ‘paradise on earth’ scenic mountains. I feel like a kid on Christmas morning when I see a new Myron Cook video has arrived!
thanks!
I can't say anything better than anybody else here has already said. You rock.
What a beauty of a video. Truly amazing. Informative, beautiful to look at, personal-relatable.
By all means I can't find another word to fit it better then beautiful.
Thank you sir for this!
Wow, thank you!
@@myroncook I'm not done. These days I don't have enough time to watch videos, I listen to them. I've watched two of yours and half way through third. You'll be added to the list of very few channels that I find time to watch. Which as of today has two whole channels. It would be 3 but one of the channels moved away from RUclips.
The work you do is truly amazing. Keep it comming!
I agree. Thank you much for the interested and interesting approach. I like learning from people like you.
I truly enjoy inspecting ancient seabed sediments for fossil remains. Fusulinid & Crinoid stones are among the favorites in my collection. I normally apply a sealant to my fossils to keep them intact. Keep up the great work you have been doing Myron!
thanks!
Incredibly well done video. Fascinating, and extremely informative
Glad you enjoyed it!
At 80 I am so enjoying your videos. Love geology but never had the opportunity to study it. I collect fossils, mostly marine, here in Middle Tennessee. I have a rock from the shrimp burrows but never had the opportuity to learn about them. Thanks a million. We are sitting on a large deposit of limestone here along with chert.
That is awesome!
Thank you Myron for reawakening my interest in geology. As well as answering some of my recent observations.
Always looking forward to your next excursion.
What a wild ride. These videos are top notch. I always find myself admiring the mountains and formations here in So.UT and these videos make it so much more engaging. Support this mans Patreon!
Rather interesting that these crustaceans have survived both the Ordovician extinction and the End-Permian extinction events. Seems they are well suited for long term survival.
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@@myroncook I want you to know I’ve always loved geology and have even considered going to university for it. I absolutely love your videos. Thank you so much for all your shared knowledge!
if you don't mind Sir, please live forever! I love watching your vids, thank you for all your effort and knowledge sharing!
Myron is The Man...Geology's rock star (very punny). Salute from Oolitic Limestone country.
Videos like this are really important to me because I grew up in a religious environment where young-earth creationism was pounded into my head from a young age. Along my journey of disillusionment from that denomination, the discovery that rocks do in fact tell an intricate story of Earth's past was a major epiphany for me. I love learning about the pages of Earth's prehistory, especially from such a masterful teacher as this!
Always so fascinating, go figure, rock shrimp! ❤❤ thank you, Myron!
I've watched several of your very interesting and well explained videos. I'm 67 and did a lot of 'tromping around' the woods whenever I could. I'm a retire engineer so I always love a well explained solution to interesting observations. Your video titled "Investigate a Mysterious Undocumented Rock Wall" was especially so. I wondered if you might consider doing a similar one on the so call "Sage Wall" in Montana. There are a lot of ... uh ... sensationalized videos ... of which I am fairly skeptical. I think it would bring a great balance to that discussion. Thanks!
Very blessed to grow up in such a beautiful peaceful area.
yes
How many of you looked up tyndall stone ? As I did.... And thank you again Myron your postings are impossible to pause . Also Myron, your drawings are getting better .
Thanks so much! Another video that made me think hard trying to guess what you were about to tell us. I really enjoy your teaching style.
You are so welcome!
This is incredible! I've never learned anything about geology to this degree. I love your enthusiasm. Sparked a new interest in our world for me!
Awesome! Thank you!
I was looking on your channel last night for new videos and now here this one is! Thank you for the work that you do, your videos have undoubtedly influenced me on the major I am taking. You have a great effect on this world !
Awesome, thank you!
I really like that hat !! Looking good my friend thank you so much for explaining the geology!
You are a TREASURE! I learn so much from you and not all of it geology.
Master of geological storytelling. Awesome as always. 👍
You could fit a lot of stories in a 40 mile thick book. Pretty overwhelming to think about. Great analogy. Geology is really interesting. My grandfather worked as a hoist operator and miner part time when he wasn't working in the woods and sometimes brought home rocks and crystals that he found to show us kids. I'm always staring at the landscape and wondering how and why, picking up random rocks everywhere I go and have a bit of a collection, but I don't really know much about any of it. It would be an absolute pleasure to go on a hike with this guy and learn about how the world was created.
Assuming sedimentation deposits a later of silt equivalent to a sheet of paper thick every year (which it is surprising close to) the book analogy is pretty apt! [Though smartasses like me would ask "what kind of paper?" since Indian paper can be way a fraction of the thickness of normal paper.]
thanks!
Another excellent video! Thank you very much!
Beautiful scenery and great information.
Excellent Presenter !
Bravo 🎉
Another wonderful lesson and beautiful walk through areas I will never be able to see in person. You are a great teacher and I thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us all.😊
Wow, thank you!