Come on people. Why doesn't this man have more subscribers. Without people like this youtube is trash. Just like twitter or tik tok. Thank you Mr. Willsey for your outstanding channel.
Hey thanks for this-comb ridge is a special place that doesn’t get a lot of attention. With the striking geology and anthropology to explore-it is a real gem. Edward Abbey used the location in the Monkey Wrench Gang to good effect. I worked at Natural Bridges in the 1980’s so Comb Ridge was always an interesting part of my “commute” to get groceries in Blanding. It’s isolation keeps it relatively unvisited and in “hidden gem” status. Nice geologic presentation-thanks.
Hi Shawn, another great video but I do have a couple questions for you. First, I've approximately geolocated this to 37.179049, -109.725696 south of the San Juan and about midway between Mexican Hat and Bluff but a bit closer to Mexican Hat. And second, if you wouldn't mind looking a bit at a drone video I made about 6 years ago right near Mexican Hat, there is a segment in the video following the San Juan and a mile upstream from Mexican Hat that shows some very interesting 'chevrons' in the landscape just beyond the river and I wonder if you could explain the way those chevrons were formed. I see similar features in your video (this video) and I presume it is erosional but the uniformity of them is striking and seem to point in the opposite direction I would imagine. I have no desire to spam your channel with my videos but I found those chevrons fascinating and still don't fully understand how they were formed. The video I took ( ruclips.net/video/XXucuren_T8/видео.html) and beginning at about 0:33 is, as I understand it, part of the Raplee Anticline.
Hi there. I actually did two videos from that spot. One on the Comb Ridge monocline and one on the Mule Ear Diatreme. Your drone video is very nice. Wish I could fly one as nicely. Yes, the chevron formation are a product of the tilted rock layers and the small gullies eroding them perpendicular to the tilting in the rock. Quite striking as you mention due to the color of the rocks and lack of vegetation.. The rocks dip steeply to the west while the gullies and streams cut across them, flowing to the west. Because the rock layers here (the Honaker Trail Formation and the Rico Formation) are dipping to the west steeper than the gradient of the stream beds, they form a "V" on the landscape with the "V" pointing westward (or down slope). You can look up "Rule of V's" for geologic maps to learn more.
@@shawnwillsey Hi Shawn, I just thought you'd like to know that the Rico Formation was demoted to a member of the Cutler Formation in 1954. Last I heard, it was lumped into 'Lower Cutler beds' on the geologic map of Canyonlands National Park: ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/UnitRefs/RicoRefs_10164.html
Just curious if the people below you are some of your students on a field trip. If so, how did ever get them to make the hike to where you're at? 😉I'm guessing you're a bit south of where Chinle Creek joins the San Juan and that doesn't seem to be terribly accessible.
No students on this trip. Folks you see are friends on our river trip. We obtained a hiking permit from Navajo Reservation to access this area south of river.
Why is it that today when plates move it causes earthquakes and rocks crumble at the folds, yet in the past, millions of years ago all the layers bent to form monoclines, synclines and anticlines. Sedimentary layers are brittle. You can only bend them so far A worldwide global flood depositing all the sedimentary layers above the Precambrian, and plate tectonics happening within years while all the layers are still soft makes much more sense. My goal is for you to start comparing the validity of a single catastrophic global flood versus multiple small scale catastrophes. We see massive layering in the past opposed to very small layers of today's minor floods.
Rock becomes plastic under pressure - just like plasticine. These rocks can be buried 50 miles deep and subject to immense pressure. The question of the global flood was dealt with 200 years ago and settled - there was no global flood. The Earth also is over 4 billion years old, and not 6000 years.
@@charliewatts6895 At that kind of pressure, sedimentary layers would become metamorphic layers. Besides, where do you find massive sedimentary layering in today's world. You don't. The global flood explains most anomalies that old earth geology can only guess at.
@@charliewatts6895 You are welcome to believe that hypothesis, but you can never ultimately prove uniformitarianism just as I can't ever prove Catastrophism for the global flood. But I will never stop helping people interested in hearing about Catastrophism.
@@knightclan4 we that believe the global flood have an eyewitness but uniformitarianism does not have an eyewitness so I'm confident that the flood caused most of the geology on Earth today
@@phillipgray7371 Jesus taught that the flood was a real event. I was a non-believer for almost 40 years. At 57 now, I'm so glad that I see the truth of scripture finally.
Thank you for explaining it so clean on site.
Thanks for watching and learning.
I've always wanted to get there ever since I glimpsed it from a return flight to LAX from Denver. Blew my mind when I saw it.
It's really an impressive feature. About 70 miles long and very obvious from the air or on Google Earth.
It's really weird looking at from ground level. Looks like another planet.
I flew from the Bay Area to Dallas, TX years ago and remember looking down at Comb Ridge. It was amazing to see it so clearly from the air. Thank you.
Come on people. Why doesn't this man have more subscribers. Without people like this youtube is trash. Just like twitter or tik tok. Thank you Mr. Willsey for your outstanding channel.
Hey thanks Ken. I appreciate your support. Not trying to be a RUclipsr at all. I just like sharing Earth's amazing stories and processes with folks.
He needs to have girls in bikinis dancing around while he points out the features. That will get him over 1 million.
Absolutely an Impressive feature
Excellent description, enjoyed the diagrams, nice job
Thanks for watching and learning.
Great inspiration for a next trip!
We love your stuff!!
Thanks for posting......just long enough to learn something not so long as to put one to sleep.
Comb Ridge and Strike Valley is one of the most impressive features I've ever seen. The San Rafael Swell is another.
Interesting, very interesting
Very nice video and great information!!! Thank you!!!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks!
Hey thanks for this-comb ridge is a special place that doesn’t get a lot of attention. With the striking geology and anthropology to explore-it is a real gem. Edward Abbey used the location in the Monkey Wrench Gang to good effect. I worked at Natural Bridges in the 1980’s so Comb Ridge was always an interesting part of my “commute” to get groceries in Blanding. It’s isolation keeps it relatively unvisited and in “hidden gem” status. Nice geologic presentation-thanks.
Hi Shawn, another great video but I do have a couple questions for you. First, I've approximately geolocated this to 37.179049, -109.725696 south of the San Juan and about midway between Mexican Hat and Bluff but a bit closer to Mexican Hat. And second, if you wouldn't mind looking a bit at a drone video I made about 6 years ago right near Mexican Hat, there is a segment in the video following the San Juan and a mile upstream from Mexican Hat that shows some very interesting 'chevrons' in the landscape just beyond the river and I wonder if you could explain the way those chevrons were formed. I see similar features in your video (this video) and I presume it is erosional but the uniformity of them is striking and seem to point in the opposite direction I would imagine. I have no desire to spam your channel with my videos but I found those chevrons fascinating and still don't fully understand how they were formed. The video I took ( ruclips.net/video/XXucuren_T8/видео.html) and beginning at about 0:33 is, as I understand it, part of the Raplee Anticline.
Hi there. I actually did two videos from that spot. One on the Comb Ridge monocline and one on the Mule Ear Diatreme.
Your drone video is very nice. Wish I could fly one as nicely. Yes, the chevron formation are a product of the tilted rock layers and the small gullies eroding them perpendicular to the tilting in the rock. Quite striking as you mention due to the color of the rocks and lack of vegetation.. The rocks dip steeply to the west while the gullies and streams cut across them, flowing to the west. Because the rock layers here (the Honaker Trail Formation and the Rico Formation) are dipping to the west steeper than the gradient of the stream beds, they form a "V" on the landscape with the "V" pointing westward (or down slope). You can look up "Rule of V's" for geologic maps to learn more.
@@shawnwillsey Shawn, much thanks for the feedback.
@@shawnwillsey Hi Shawn, I just thought you'd like to know that the Rico Formation was demoted to a member of the Cutler Formation in 1954. Last I heard, it was lumped into 'Lower Cutler beds' on the geologic map of Canyonlands National Park: ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/UnitRefs/RicoRefs_10164.html
Just curious if the people below you are some of your students on a field trip. If so, how did ever get them to make the hike to where you're at? 😉I'm guessing you're a bit south of where Chinle Creek joins the San Juan and that doesn't seem to be terribly accessible.
No students on this trip. Folks you see are friends on our river trip. We obtained a hiking permit from Navajo Reservation to access this area south of river.
Let's see we have Comb Ridge, Water pocket fold (strike valley), east kaibab (cockscomb), Sevier, and Hurricane.....which ones am I forgetting?
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Why is it that today when plates move it causes earthquakes and rocks crumble at the folds, yet in the past, millions of years ago all the layers bent to form monoclines, synclines and anticlines.
Sedimentary layers are brittle. You can only bend them so far
A worldwide global flood depositing all the sedimentary layers above the Precambrian, and plate tectonics happening within years while all the layers are still soft makes much more sense.
My goal is for you to start comparing the validity of a single catastrophic global flood versus multiple small scale catastrophes.
We see massive layering in the past opposed to very small layers of today's minor floods.
Rock becomes plastic under pressure - just like plasticine. These rocks can be buried 50 miles deep and subject to immense pressure. The question of the global flood was dealt with 200 years ago and settled - there was no global flood. The Earth also is over 4 billion years old, and not 6000 years.
@@charliewatts6895
At that kind of pressure, sedimentary layers would become metamorphic layers.
Besides, where do you find massive sedimentary layering in today's world.
You don't.
The global flood explains most anomalies that old earth geology can only guess at.
@@charliewatts6895
You are welcome to believe that hypothesis, but you can never ultimately prove uniformitarianism just as I can't ever prove Catastrophism for the global flood.
But I will never stop helping people interested in hearing about Catastrophism.
@@knightclan4 we that believe the global flood have an eyewitness but uniformitarianism does not have an eyewitness so I'm confident that the flood caused most of the geology on Earth today
@@phillipgray7371
Jesus taught that the flood was a real event.
I was a non-believer for almost 40 years.
At 57 now,
I'm so glad that I see the truth of scripture finally.