Total time elapsed in this sequence of rocks is 2.7 billion years. Several have asked about high vs low-energy deposits. I should have expanded on the use of these terms. Larger grain sizes require more energy to transport and deposit than do low energy deposits. Clay-size particles are the lowest energy in that they can float in calm water for long distances before depositing. Very high-energy deposits like cobbles or boulders require a lot of energy to transport and are deposited quickly as energy is dissipated (water or wind velocity slowing down). There is a full range in particle size and energy required to transport them.
I knew this. However, I want to thank you for taking your time to explain it to everyone. Your explanation of the environment of the formations and how they intertwine was fantastic.
Just amazing the way you took us back in time ,it was mind boggling to have a sense of scale of these sedimentary basins and of course the beauty of thier depositional environments ...you never disappoint us with your video sir ..this video is a classic.. wishing you great health and peace of mind. Thank you 🙏
What is up with the ridiculous globe thumbnail proving you arent that right sir? Who use dumb contradictions proven a fake in education? Why use deceiving stuff? CGI globe anno 2023, change your name to Crook
@@tomosbon7347can you elaborate? I've not heard of him being a propagand-ist. What and how does he push propaganda on/about? Genuinely curious as I've not heard this before. But I'm not a big Attenborough enthusiast, either.
Attenborough is an agenda-driven tool. Hard to listen to his drivel. Myron, however, is legendary in his genuine love for his field of study and desire to share it with a wider audience.
I watch a lit of geology videos on RUclips, but what I absolutely love about Myron is that he focuses on the field evidence. I really appreciate his insights and how he explains principles plainly and with good reasoning. Thank you, Myron. You'll never fully how how much your videos impact others and bless them. You are appreciated, Sir!
Wow! Another great video from Myron! He explains things so well. Thank you Myron, we appreciate all the effort you put into sharing your knowledge with us!
If so, I agree already so would like to get paid too, not much, but the principle for being kind, honest & paid for it sounds perfectly un-devious to my ears!@@UQRXD
I second that opinion, Myron is a wonderful teacher listening to these videos helps me get over the fact I never went to college and it shows it truly is never too late to learn
@@kenboydart Sure college can teach you some things or 2 but you will end up brainwashed and weaker than to actually learn yourself. 2 myron doesnt know that much at all, its just that most folk dont know their stuff and believe everything ppl like myron say to them as it blows them off their feet because it makes a little sense. We dont live on a globe ball of water for example, yet this biologist does not understand this basic knowledge; that proves a person dumb and incapable.. No education or college will make it so that you are actually born more intelligent........ I dont need a diploma/degree in stuff to show the so called experts who is born more intelligent and can tell them how it works withot having the need to blindly copycat books from others when it fits the system or narrative of history
I have creationists in my life trying to convince me that the earth is only a few thousand years old. But when I see evidence like this then I can't help but believe that the earth is very, very old
Hey Myron! My daughter will be 7 in 10 days. She LOVES your videos. Your teaching style has captured her attention and she is really beginning to show an interest in geology and is already contemplating time in a manner that I’ve never seen a child consider. You went and sucked ME in as well, and I am grateful for that. I haven’t been this interested in a subject since I first got into emergency medicine about 25 years ago. Thank you for all of this!
Myron, it struck me when you compared contemplating time in geological formations with staring into to unimaginable depths of a clear night sky. As I've aged and am better able to ponder things beyond survival for myself and family, which we know we spend most of our adult life doing. I'm not able to escape the light and pollution clouded sky's where we live nearly as much as I'd like. I share to feeling of insignificance when looking into a canyon walls as well as the infinite sky's. Thanks for taking the time to create these wonderful lessons!😊
Where has this guy been all my RUclips life! The sonorous voice, the clean crisp videography and inspired editing. Mr. Cook could film paint drying and I’d watch for an hour
Myron, I have watched many of your videos. So many good videos. I was out hiking today in some bentonite hills; recalling your videos on erosion. I see things of the past, now so much clearer.
Myron, I have thoroughly enjoyed your videos. I have learned so much and I love your calm, quiet voice as you teach. You are a natural and I can tell how much you truly love what you do. Thank you for all your marvelous videos.
Impressive, i'm hard to impress. You did an excellent work putting this out here. Showing us time upon time upon time. 1 Billion years or more, showing perfect examples. Plus, 2 - 4 snowball earths to boot.
Hello Myron. I travel all over the Midwest as a pilot car. Almost on a daily basis I am in awe with the nature I see. And as I would pass by the mountains with all the exposed layers, I would always Ponder what has happened to create these layers. So when I found you, I found a treasure trove of answers to my questions. It's like reading a book now as I drive down the road with the information you have given me. And Myron, I can't express how grateful I am for the opportunity to know you through these videos. You are a delightful human being to say the least.And this world is a better place having had you here. Godspeed
Excellently presented and we really appreciate your interspersed drone views as it greatly assist in the overall structures. Thanks for sharing and the best of luck!
Wonderful episode, Myron! I love geology for those stories, telling me what it is that I'm seeing, how it came about. The time dimension puts things into perspective as you said on a personal level, much like astronomy with its astronomical distances and time scales :) Thank you for making and sharing these amazing videos with us.
Thank you Myron for your wonderful videos explaining deep time. I have a greater appreciation for understanding just how long the formations around us that we often take for granted took to form. Please consider this a compliment, but to me you are the Bob Ross, or Mr. Rogers of the geology world :)
This video is amazing. I've never seen someone (and a professional in the field) take the time and put in the effort to systematically go through such a huge section of formations and explain each one. I didn't even know that so many layers can be read in turn and insitu across an enormous basin like this. Mind blowing and wonderful! And all presented in such an enthusiastic but kind and mild manner. Hats off to you good sir!
My husband and I love watching your videos and get so excited when we get a notification that you put a new one out! Great content, narration, and beautiful scenes. We are learning so much!
Another fabulous lesson! I've hiked a few of those areas and was thrilled to learn so much about them. Can't wait to hike them again now, with a keener eye ❤️
I thoroughly enjoyed this video and the drone footage makes it even clearer and more awe-inspiring. I kept pausing it while I tried to imagine all the periods when the layers were being formed, when the lifting and lowering and eroding took place, and marveling at how the planet has gone through so many cycles of change. When the layers eroded, where did the dust and soil go? Part of the various periods of ancient to more recent Wyoming must have flowed or blown to the rest of the continent and vice-versa and maybe even somewhere else. It really makes you think about time and connection. Thank you for explaining it so well and showing up close how amazing it all is, Mr. Cook. I'm looking forward to the next video and hope to see these formations for myself in the near future. :)
Thank you so much Myron. Another beautiful explanation of our geological processes at work. I just struggle to comprehend how just one location can go through so many different changes, its mind boggling. I reckon your Great Uncle Cliff would be so proud of you. Best wishes, Geoff (Perth, Western Australia)
This is making me so much more excited for my incoming trip to the Bardenas desert in Spain, thank you for all the great content you're putting out Myron, you've singlehandedly rekindled my childhood interest in geology.
I got a deeper appreciation for geological from Randell Carlson to begin with. I live on a mountain in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains. Everywhere around here once you get 2 feet deep you hit sandrock, to learn that this mountain was at one time was a river delta blue my mind. Your channel is fantastic, to me, for a deeper dive into geological processes. Thanks for the info, you do a great job.
@@KOTAPA I subscribe to 'catastrophism'. I have countlessly watched entire mountains erode in a day. The Sumatra Tsunami not only killed at minimum 250,000 humans, it wiped islands and coastal region out. Plus, increased the Earth's rotation speed thus shortening our days by a few microseconds. Edit: spelling
Well boggled mind. Question time in a few thousand years. Need to watch the video several hundred more times. Thank you Myron for putting it all together and showing it in a quiet enjoyable manner.
I love your videos SOOO Much! Thank you for introducing me to geology, and a big thank you to your great uncle Cliff, too. P.S. I enjoyed it immensely.
Amazing story. Lovely video. I'm in complete awe of the depths of time, your meditation on 1" of deep sea ooze deposition as a life lived - really resonated with me. The cycles within and changes between so many different environments, over such unimaginably vast swathes of time, just incredibly humbling. Thank you for taking us on this journey.
Your videos are, as you should know, first class! I love the drone shots and google earth and for sure the whiteboard. I'd sure give you a metaphor award as yours are so helpful. Especially the one about dust, with which I plan to use when my wife wants me to vacuum or dust the house. Thanks again, Jim
Thank you so much for this really phenomenal educational video; we have gained tremendous insight from your education and often find ourselves pointing out information on rocks around us that we learned from you. This latest video is really wonderful, it's organized beautifully; thank you!
I'm studying archaeology, so experiencing time through one's surroundings is something I find extremely valuable and fascinating. But the time scales involved in geology are just incomprehensible. Thank you so much for making this video and being such a great educator!
Archaeologic time overlaps the time of the near surface of the earth. You are wise to follow this information... just adjust in to your understanding of Ancient archeology to include recent Geology. That's where the truth lay in deposits.... Where I am in sw Ohio, the upper 3 to 6 meters of recent , (11,600 year old) Deposits. Stone age tools are found all around Ohio. The FLOOD covered it all , near post glacial melt floods. Pyramids all over America and messo America. yOU ARE ONTO SOME THINGS.
0:40 No joke: One million seconds is 11 and a half days. One billion seconds is 31 and half years. Time is a great way to illustrate the difference. A lot of your viewers probably can remember what they did 11 days ago, while not even been born 31 years ago.
Thanks Myron! Wyoming is breathtakingly beautiful! It’s so nice to get a better understanding of the formations and how they’ve formed over time. The modern day examples and photos are extremely helpful to imagine what it was like when the layers were created! 👌🌟🌟🌟
This is so well done Myron’s teaching is comprehensible. What a gift. I am astonished by this vast depositional interpretation. Thank you for such a pleasant tone of style.
Myron bless you. My husband is a geologist by training but has had other careers since. I recently got curious about geology but could not stick with some of the RUclips channels on this incredible subject. Too sterile. We have been captivated by your joy and your passion. I am deeply curious about many subjects but this has become addictive lately. I work in mental health and I am convinced that if this was part of our general education, compulsory, the world would be saner, wiser and less stupid! We quite plainly love life, our blue dot and you! 👏🙏🐬🌹🌻
This is just unbelievable and hard work, what with all the efforts that's gone into the recordings with drones and what not and not mentioning the travel and traversing of places far afield; I feel like I'm on a field trip and actually experiencing the locale and its geologic history firsthand. A million thanks from Azerbaijan!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge! I live in Norway and I'm surrounded by amazing and beautiful landscapes. I don't have the knowledge to decode their mysteries, but thanks to your videos I've started to get a somewhat clearer perspective.
Well done, MC. I can read about this stuff and kind of get it , but when it’s presented in this form it becomes clear and succinct enough even for this highschool dropout to figure out. You do us a good service.
We are contemporaries and I've enjoyed hundreds of hours of classroom time, on both sides of the desk. I am very impressed with your approach to the material. Thank you.
Thank you Myron! Such an overwhelming sense of awe from this video. I have been slowly going through your channel over the last couple of months and I have learned so much.
Mind blowing stuff Myron. And before I comment, Much thanks for the priceless contribution! I like to think about the relationship between evolutionary geology and biological evo. Think of all the accidental incidents in geology that influenced bio evolution. Especially when you factor in the great extinctions including snowball earth. What an extremely rare chance that advanced primates like us could have evolved. And like the identity of a DNA molecule or a personal finger print, any evolved life form has it's own unique identity. So when you factor in the immense scale of time, we are like an intelligent form of bacteria that will come to pass forever after just a few hours on the cosmic calendar. That is how small we really are. We are an incredible gift from the stars! imo
Alway, we always enjoy watching your shows Myron. We learn a lot, we're awed and amazed, and we're inspired. I have to agree with you that physically walking, or even watching you do that, through these tangible records of time, each with such varied details, really drives home the enormous passage of time much more keenly than just "hey, here's big number".
You are still the best! I read books and listen to other geologists but you make it so real. I understand ater I've heard you explain things so carefully. Thank you so much for giving us your time!
I really enjoyed this perspective on geological time. I especially liked the superimposing of the actual environments over the geological formations. Your presentations offer great clarity on a very complex subject.
Once again, thank you for sharing what you love. Your knowledge and understanding and sense of wonder, compound the delight I feel in my meager understanding of geology and geological time.
Thank you Myron, for taking all this time and effort to visit and explain all the layers right down to the great unconformity. If I could go all the way to your country, I surely would do this drive and take in the sheer enormity, and especially the time scales that divide each region. I am in awe, truly.
Mr. Cook: I've been interested in science for as long as I can remember, and I'm 67 years old. I've always had an interest in geology, but just couldn't wrap my mind around the time scales. I grew up in the oil-rich east Texas region but, here, geologists were mostly involved in oil exploration. I don't think that I EVER heard any REAL discussion about the surface geology here. We have beautiful rolling hills of sandy loam, natively populated with pine trees, mixed with grassed plains. I surely wish that I had someone like you around, back then. Your video helped me to make sense of the aeons of time involved in these geologic processes. THANK YOU!😊
Amazing video. My grandparents lived up in Buffalo Wy and other family in Cody and Greybull. I have been all through the areas in the video and really had no clue or appreciation of what I was looking at. Thank you for explaining! The awe of it all is staggering.
As I watched this very thought provoking video, I realized how much time and effort you put into your videos. The way you present the material is very logical and easy to understand, thank you for being a great teacher. I would be willing to bet that you have raised awareness of geology in countless individuals, and perhaps inspired many to pursue a career in the field.
Sat like glued and watched this video -as always! And just like You said, I too get the same feelings, when I look at the nightsky, as thinking about our beautiful planet. Total awe! It is so incredibly mindblowing and humbling that we even exist! ? And the Time it has taken … ? ! I can not deal with that really. What I Can do, is deal with Today! So I will go out, try my best to appreciate my insignificance and pick up some littering in my neighbourhood! Thank You Myron! Also a thankful thought to your Uncle !🙌🏼
Thank you. One of your videos came on to my feed and now I'm subscribed to your channel and spending my weekend learning more about Geology. I also a fan of Nick Zentner.
Absolutely wonderful!!!! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge; I appreciate it. Definitely a lot of time and effort to make a high-quality presentation like this. I love all your videos.
Reminding how small we all are, expanding our perspective. I find your methods & voice very easy to persuade myself i'm learning something, despite not understanding a lot of the words.
Thank you for a fascinating review of geologic processes and eons of time. Your enthusiasm and respect for our own precious small time amidst this vast continuum. We are a way for the universe to ponder itself...and that is great gift and awesome responsibility!!! Thanks again for your insights and terrific presentation. !
Myron Cook, I am an ex Driller that prefers to have went into Geology. What do you mean by "Chug" water Please? You also mentioned something like "the presence of Iron (my words:: and it's resulting Oxidation) always results in the rocks turning Red. QUESTION -- Can "some" Rocks turn Black in the presence of Iron? I have noticed the Chattanooga or New Albany Shale (Devonian) is somewhat of a darker Black in color when comparing this Black Shale between Eastern Tennessee and Southeastern Kentucky with the Shale in TN being the more Darker. Is this caused by the Shale in TN containing more Organic Material rather than the Iron content. THANK YOU Sir. I enjoy your Videos. As a SIDE NOTE, may I ask, where did you study Geology at?
The formation is named after the town of Chugwater Wyoming. Some rocks that are iron-rich are very dark colored. The iron is in a reduced state for that to happen.
@@myroncook -- THANK YOu Sir. I guess I was wrong again. 😹. I was under the impression that the Devonian Shale got it''s name from Devon County, England since the rock was first studied there. The Chattanooga Shale was named after Chattanooga, Tennessee and the New Albany Shale was named after New Albany, Indiana.. I am going to quit doing my own thinking. It can be DANGEROUS. LOL
So much beauty and so much information! Im going to have to watch this a bunch of times to take it all in. Thinking of deep time and space...feeling "insignificant" is a rather strange choice of words. I feel pretty good about being among the first (in a history of the universe and earth perspective) to take this all in, just to think about this stuff. That so much has happened, from stars dying to create the materials to all the life thats struggled and died that led to us, to us standing here contemplating it all - for it all to now (kind of) fit in and live in our heads instead of just being an unappreciated process. I feel pretty significant to be the product of all that.
Myron, thank you so much for your fantastic Videos! Montana ist so beautyful ❤. My highest gratitude for your Work. All the best for you and many Greetings from Bavaria! 👍👍👍👍
Hi Myron, I have just come back from a trip in my Landy to south east Morocco, beautiful desert mountains. your vids are excellent, you describe the geology so well. Thanks Myron.
Total time elapsed in this sequence of rocks is 2.7 billion years. Several have asked about high vs low-energy deposits. I should have expanded on the use of these terms. Larger grain sizes require more energy to transport and deposit than do low energy deposits. Clay-size particles are the lowest energy in that they can float in calm water for long distances before depositing. Very high-energy deposits like cobbles or boulders require a lot of energy to transport and are deposited quickly as energy is dissipated (water or wind velocity slowing down). There is a full range in particle size and energy required to transport them.
I knew this. However, I want to thank you for taking your time to explain it to everyone.
Your explanation of the environment of the formations and how they intertwine was fantastic.
Thank you sir. ❤
Just amazing the way you took us back in time ,it was mind boggling to have a sense of scale of these sedimentary basins and of course the beauty of thier depositional environments ...you never disappoint us with your video sir ..this video is a classic.. wishing you great health and peace of mind. Thank you 🙏
Every child that put mud in the gutters to create a dam during rainstorms should already know this. ... Unfortunately, apps.
What is up with the ridiculous globe thumbnail proving you arent that right sir? Who use dumb contradictions proven a fake in education?
Why use deceiving stuff?
CGI globe anno 2023, change your name to Crook
The geological david attenborough!
Hopefully not 😮since Sir David is a propaganda artist. 😮😮
@@tomosbon7347 shut the fuck up he has an amazing voice
@@tomosbon7347Yes I agree, unfortunately
@@tomosbon7347can you elaborate? I've not heard of him being a propagand-ist. What and how does he push propaganda on/about? Genuinely curious as I've not heard this before. But I'm not a big Attenborough enthusiast, either.
Attenborough is an agenda-driven tool. Hard to listen to his drivel. Myron, however, is legendary in his genuine love for his field of study and desire to share it with a wider audience.
I watch a lit of geology videos on RUclips, but what I absolutely love about Myron is that he focuses on the field evidence. I really appreciate his insights and how he explains principles plainly and with good reasoning. Thank you, Myron. You'll never fully how how much your videos impact others and bless them. You are appreciated, Sir!
Wow! Another great video from Myron! He explains things so well. Thank you Myron, we appreciate all the effort you put into sharing your knowledge with us!
If so, I agree already so would like to get paid too, not much, but the principle for being kind, honest & paid for it sounds perfectly un-devious to my ears!@@UQRXD
I second that opinion, Myron is a wonderful teacher listening to these videos helps me get over the fact I never went to college and it shows it truly is never too late to learn
@@kenboydart
Sure college can teach you some things or 2 but you will end up brainwashed and weaker than to actually learn yourself.
2 myron doesnt know that much at all, its just that most folk dont know their stuff and believe everything ppl like myron say to them as it blows them off their feet because it makes a little sense.
We dont live on a globe ball of water for example, yet this biologist does not understand this basic knowledge; that proves a person dumb and incapable..
No education or college will make it so that you are actually born more intelligent........ I dont need a diploma/degree in stuff to show the so called experts who is born more intelligent and can tell them how it works withot having the need to blindly copycat books from others when it fits the system or narrative of history
Love your use of the drone. Epic photography that really allows the rest of us to see what you do!
I have creationists in my life trying to convince me that the earth is only a few thousand years old. But when I see evidence like this then I can't help but believe that the earth is very, very old
Hey Myron!
My daughter will be 7 in 10 days. She LOVES your videos. Your teaching style has captured her attention and she is really beginning to show an interest in geology and is already contemplating time in a manner that I’ve never seen a child consider.
You went and sucked ME in as well, and I am grateful for that. I haven’t been this interested in a subject since I first got into emergency medicine about 25 years ago. Thank you for all of this!
I can't tell you how much I enjoy hearing this!
😃@@myroncook
My granddaughter is 6. She loves them too! Budding geologists!
Myron, it struck me when you compared contemplating time in geological formations with staring into to unimaginable depths of a clear night sky. As I've aged and am better able to ponder things beyond survival for myself and family, which we know we spend most of our adult life doing. I'm not able to escape the light and pollution clouded sky's where we live nearly as much as I'd like. I share to feeling of insignificance when looking into a canyon walls as well as the infinite sky's. Thanks for taking the time to create these wonderful lessons!😊
Not only have I seen time, partially due to your excellent videos, I've also heard the colors, tasted the sounds and smelled the light!
🙏💚💜💚🙏
Where has this guy been all my RUclips life! The sonorous voice, the clean crisp videography and inspired editing. Mr. Cook could film paint drying and I’d watch for an hour
Myron, I have watched many of your videos. So many good videos. I was out hiking today in some bentonite hills; recalling your videos on erosion. I see things of the past, now so much clearer.
I love to hear that
Thanks great uncle Cliff; what you put in that boy enriched many of our lives.
Myron, I have thoroughly enjoyed your videos. I have learned so much and I love your calm, quiet voice as you teach. You are a natural and I can tell how much you truly love what you do. Thank you for all your marvelous videos.
This video is just incredible. You keep getting better and better with your editing, footage, and explanations!
Impressive, i'm hard to impress. You did an excellent work putting this out here. Showing us time upon time upon time. 1 Billion years or more, showing perfect examples. Plus, 2 - 4 snowball earths to boot.
I will never see the world the same way. Very well done. Thank you!
Wow, thank you!
I wish I had had Myron teaching my geology classes some 60 years ago. Myron’s geology videos are absolutely the best.
Hello Myron. I travel all over the Midwest as a pilot car. Almost on a daily basis I am in awe with the nature I see. And as I would pass by the mountains with all the exposed layers, I would always Ponder what has happened to create these layers. So when I found you, I found a treasure trove of answers to my questions. It's like reading a book now as I drive down the road with the information you have given me. And Myron, I can't express how grateful I am for the opportunity to know you through these videos. You are a delightful human being to say the least.And this world is a better place having had you here. Godspeed
I love to hear this! all the best
I get so excited when I see a new video from Myron.
Love your channel. Peaceful and educational. I enjoy your real life examples and your whiteboard explanations.
Old school channel 13 public television vibes. It gives me the warm and fuzzy feelings of a time gone by.
Excellently presented and we really appreciate your interspersed drone views as it greatly assist in the overall structures. Thanks for sharing and the best of luck!
Wonderful episode, Myron! I love geology for those stories, telling me what it is that I'm seeing, how it came about. The time dimension puts things into perspective as you said on a personal level, much like astronomy with its astronomical distances and time scales :) Thank you for making and sharing these amazing videos with us.
Thank you Myron for your wonderful videos explaining deep time. I have a greater appreciation for understanding just how long the formations around us that we often take for granted took to form. Please consider this a compliment, but to me you are the Bob Ross, or Mr. Rogers of the geology world :)
This video is amazing. I've never seen someone (and a professional in the field) take the time and put in the effort to systematically go through such a huge section of formations and explain each one. I didn't even know that so many layers can be read in turn and insitu across an enormous basin like this. Mind blowing and wonderful! And all presented in such an enthusiastic but kind and mild manner. Hats off to you good sir!
Wow, thank you!
What a great pleasure to watch this and hear this long story told so seamlessly.
My husband and I love watching your videos and get so excited when we get a notification that you put a new one out! Great content, narration, and beautiful scenes. We are learning so much!
Awesome! Thank you!
Another fabulous lesson! I've hiked a few of those areas and was thrilled to learn so much about them. Can't wait to hike them again now, with a keener eye ❤️
You are very good and patient in explaining how Geology is done thanks
I thoroughly enjoyed this video and the drone footage makes it even clearer and more awe-inspiring. I kept pausing it while I tried to imagine all the periods when the layers were being formed, when the lifting and lowering and eroding took place, and marveling at how the planet has gone through so many cycles of change. When the layers eroded, where did the dust and soil go? Part of the various periods of ancient to more recent Wyoming must have flowed or blown to the rest of the continent and vice-versa and maybe even somewhere else. It really makes you think about time and connection. Thank you for explaining it so well and showing up close how amazing it all is, Mr. Cook. I'm looking forward to the next video and hope to see these formations for myself in the near future. :)
That was an amazing journey across Wyoming over time and rocks professor.
This channel contains some of the best geology stuff on the Internet.
Another great easy to understand video explanation of the geology around us. Thanks Myron!
Outstanding production. Love your enthusiasm.
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you very much!
Fun watching again! Blows my mind to think of the deep time
Thank you so much Myron. Another beautiful explanation of our geological processes at work.
I just struggle to comprehend how just one location can go through so many different changes, its mind boggling.
I reckon your Great Uncle Cliff would be so proud of you.
Best wishes,
Geoff (Perth, Western Australia)
This is making me so much more excited for my incoming trip to the Bardenas desert in Spain, thank you for all the great content you're putting out Myron, you've singlehandedly rekindled my childhood interest in geology.
I got a deeper appreciation for geological from Randell Carlson to begin with. I live on a mountain in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains. Everywhere around here once you get 2 feet deep you hit sandrock, to learn that this mountain was at one time was a river delta blue my mind. Your channel is fantastic, to me, for a deeper dive into geological processes.
Thanks for the info, you do a great job.
Reality is just a few million years old. Shit moves faster than we want to admit.
@@Vicus_of_Utrecht
What?
@@KOTAPA I subscribe to 'catastrophism'. I have countlessly watched entire mountains erode in a day. The Sumatra Tsunami not only killed at minimum 250,000 humans, it wiped islands and coastal region out. Plus, increased the Earth's rotation speed thus shortening our days by a few microseconds.
Edit: spelling
Well boggled mind. Question time in a few thousand years. Need to watch the video several hundred more times. Thank you Myron for putting it all together and showing it in a quiet enjoyable manner.
I love your videos SOOO Much! Thank you for introducing me to geology, and a big thank you to your great uncle Cliff, too.
P.S. I enjoyed it immensely.
Glad you like them!
Amazing story. Lovely video. I'm in complete awe of the depths of time, your meditation on 1" of deep sea ooze deposition as a life lived - really resonated with me. The cycles within and changes between so many different environments, over such unimaginably vast swathes of time, just incredibly humbling. Thank you for taking us on this journey.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Your videos are, as you should know, first class! I love the drone shots and google earth and for sure the whiteboard. I'd sure give you a metaphor award as yours are so helpful. Especially the one about dust, with which I plan to use when my wife wants me to vacuum or dust the house. Thanks again, Jim
Thank you so much for this really phenomenal educational video; we have gained tremendous insight from your education and often find ourselves pointing out information on rocks around us that we learned from you. This latest video is really wonderful, it's organized beautifully; thank you!
Wow, thank you!
I'm studying archaeology, so experiencing time through one's surroundings is something I find extremely valuable and fascinating. But the time scales involved in geology are just incomprehensible. Thank you so much for making this video and being such a great educator!
Archaeologic time overlaps the time of the near surface of the earth. You are wise to follow this information... just adjust in to your understanding of Ancient archeology to include recent Geology. That's where the truth lay in deposits.... Where I am in sw Ohio, the upper 3 to 6 meters of recent , (11,600 year old) Deposits. Stone age tools are found all around Ohio. The FLOOD covered it all , near post glacial melt floods. Pyramids all over America and messo America. yOU ARE ONTO SOME THINGS.
Fabulous ,brilliant explanation of the deep time and how the different layers of the planet formed .
0:40 No joke: One million seconds is 11 and a half days. One billion seconds is 31 and half years.
Time is a great way to illustrate the difference. A lot of your viewers probably can remember what they did 11 days ago, while not even been born 31 years ago.
Thanks Myron! Wyoming is breathtakingly beautiful! It’s so nice to get a better understanding of the formations and how they’ve formed over time. The modern day examples and photos are extremely helpful to imagine what it was like when the layers were created! 👌🌟🌟🌟
Myron, Wow! this was an amazing video full of really awesome material; I love how you organized the information; thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is so well done Myron’s teaching is comprehensible. What a gift.
I am astonished by this vast depositional interpretation. Thank you for such a pleasant tone of style.
You're very welcome!
These videos are so well done. And super fascinating. Thank you for making them!
Wonderful video. Thanks for making me realize time.
Myron bless you. My husband is a geologist by training but has had other careers since. I recently got curious about geology but could not stick with some of the RUclips channels on this incredible subject. Too sterile. We have been captivated by your joy and your passion. I am deeply curious about many subjects but this has become addictive lately. I work in mental health and I am convinced that if this was part of our general education, compulsory, the world would be saner, wiser and less stupid! We quite plainly love life, our blue dot and you! 👏🙏🐬🌹🌻
Thank you! Agee on mental health
This is just unbelievable and hard work, what with all the efforts that's gone into the recordings with drones and what not and not mentioning the travel and traversing of places far afield; I feel like I'm on a field trip and actually experiencing the locale and its geologic history firsthand. A million thanks from Azerbaijan!
Myron: you hit the ball out of the park with this video! Your drone shots and diagrams bring the geologic time scale to life. Thanks!
Your visual explanation helps me so much. Thank you for starting your channel to show the rest of us "how it all came to be".
You are so welcome!
Great video once again, Myron. Your passion for geology is really amazing. Thank you so much.
So someone asks, "how do you know that?" And he explains it perfectly. And now I can also explain it to others as well.
Me too!!!!
So I do not actually know...but I saw a RUclips video...and I am an expert now. I see you....and everyone like you.
Excellent film Myron more please.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge! I live in Norway and I'm surrounded by amazing and beautiful landscapes. I don't have the knowledge to decode their mysteries, but thanks to your videos I've started to get a somewhat clearer perspective.
Well done, MC. I can read about this stuff and kind of get it , but when it’s presented in this form it becomes clear and succinct enough even for this highschool dropout to figure out.
You do us a good service.
We are contemporaries and I've enjoyed hundreds of hours of classroom time, on both sides of the desk. I am very impressed with your approach to the material. Thank you.
Thank you
Thank you Myron! Such an overwhelming sense of awe from this video. I have been slowly going through your channel over the last couple of months and I have learned so much.
As usual, an incredible, easy to understand explanation of deep time. You are an amazing teacher.
Glad you think so!
Thanks -again
Mind blowing stuff Myron. And before I comment, Much thanks for the priceless contribution! I like to think about the relationship between evolutionary geology and biological evo. Think of all the accidental incidents in geology that influenced bio evolution. Especially when you factor in the great extinctions including snowball earth. What an extremely rare chance that advanced primates like us could have evolved. And like the identity of a DNA molecule or a personal finger print, any evolved life form has it's own unique identity. So when you factor in the immense scale of time, we are like an intelligent form of bacteria that will come to pass forever after just a few hours on the cosmic calendar. That is how small we really are. We are an incredible gift from the stars! imo
neat insight
@38:38 I 100% agree with you, I get that feeling looking up at the sky at night every time.
Yet another fine romp through the geology of beautiful Wyoming. Thank you.
Alway, we always enjoy watching your shows Myron. We learn a lot, we're awed and amazed, and we're inspired. I have to agree with you that physically walking, or even watching you do that, through these tangible records of time, each with such varied details, really drives home the enormous passage of time much more keenly than just "hey, here's big number".
Well said!
You are still the best! I read books and listen to other geologists but you make it so real. I understand ater I've heard you explain things so carefully. Thank you so much for giving us your time!
Wow, thank you!
Thanks Myron. This summary has helped me to put the field trip in context.
Glad to hear it, Cap
I really enjoyed this perspective on geological time. I especially liked the superimposing of the actual environments over the geological formations. Your presentations offer great clarity on a very complex subject.
Fascinating perspective of time, so humbling, so peaceful. Brings a great perspective of time, alive. Thank you and your uncle.
Glad you enjoyed it
Once again, thank you for sharing what you love. Your knowledge and understanding and sense of wonder, compound the delight I feel in my meager understanding of geology and geological time.
Thanks for putting these videos up.
Spectacular drone views. Well done.
You have a wonderful way of explaining the deep history of this planet in easy to grasp and simple terms. Thank you very very much!
Many thanks!
Wow I've learned so much thank you Myron. Mostly I've learned again how little I know! I am really impressed with all you know and share. Thanks !
What a wonderful trip through time. Thanks for making these greatly insightful video’s. Greetings from the flat Netherlands!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I really enjoyed this. Thank you for spending the time to make the video and share your accumulated knowledge with us in such a clear way
Thank you Myron, for taking all this time and effort to visit and explain all the layers right down to the great unconformity. If I could go all the way to your country, I surely would do this drive and take in the sheer enormity, and especially the time scales that divide each region. I am in awe, truly.
Glad you enjoyed it
This is my new favourite geologist channel by far 👍 Covering everything anyone wants to learn
Mr. Cook: I've been interested in science for as long as I can remember, and I'm 67 years old. I've always had an interest in geology, but just couldn't wrap my mind around the time scales. I grew up in the oil-rich east Texas region but, here, geologists were mostly involved in oil exploration. I don't think that I EVER heard any REAL discussion about the surface geology here. We have beautiful rolling hills of sandy loam, natively populated with pine trees, mixed with grassed plains. I surely wish that I had someone like you around, back then. Your video helped me to make sense of the aeons of time involved in these geologic processes. THANK YOU!😊
You are very welcome!
Amazing video. My grandparents lived up in Buffalo Wy and other family in Cody and Greybull. I have been all through the areas in the video and really had no clue or appreciation of what I was looking at. Thank you for explaining! The awe of it all is staggering.
Always excellent Myron video. Wish I could do an apprenticeship with this guy. Wow what a collection of knowledge and excitement to glean from.
Always look forward to a new video from you. Love it please keep them coming, much appreciated.
As I watched this very thought provoking video, I realized how much time and effort you put into your videos. The way you present the material is very logical and easy to understand, thank you for being a great teacher. I would be willing to bet that you have raised awareness of geology in countless individuals, and perhaps inspired many to pursue a career in the field.
Thanks!
Sat like glued and watched this video -as always! And just like You said, I too get the same feelings, when I look at the nightsky, as thinking about our beautiful planet. Total awe! It is so incredibly mindblowing and humbling that we even exist! ? And the Time it has taken … ? ! I can not deal with that really. What I Can do, is deal with Today! So I will go out, try my best to appreciate my insignificance and pick up some littering in my neighbourhood! Thank You Myron! Also a thankful thought to your Uncle !🙌🏼
Thank you!
A fantastic video of both the beauty of the landscape, and the geology. I learned so much from this, thank you.
Thank you. One of your videos came on to my feed and now I'm subscribed to your channel and spending my weekend learning more about Geology. I also a fan of Nick Zentner.
Awesome! Thank you!
THANK YOU one of the most informative well made videos ive seen and its all i do is watch all the earth inspiring videos i can find
Thank you for such a wonderful and complete informative video. Time is simply mind=boggling. I'm totally in awe of this planet we call home.
Absolutely wonderful!!!! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge; I appreciate it. Definitely a lot of time and effort to make a high-quality presentation like this. I love all your videos.
Reminding how small we all are, expanding our perspective.
I find your methods & voice very easy to persuade myself i'm learning something, despite not understanding a lot of the words.
Great content, the way you go to the actual sites with video footage is very enjoyable and interesting. Thank you.
Thank you for a fascinating review of geologic processes and eons of time. Your enthusiasm and respect for our own precious small time amidst this vast continuum. We are a way for the universe to ponder itself...and that is great gift and awesome responsibility!!! Thanks again for your insights and terrific presentation.
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Myron Cook, I am an ex Driller that prefers to have went into Geology. What do you mean by "Chug" water Please?
You also mentioned something like "the presence of Iron (my words:: and it's resulting Oxidation) always results in the rocks turning Red.
QUESTION -- Can "some" Rocks turn Black in the presence of Iron? I have noticed the Chattanooga or New Albany Shale (Devonian) is somewhat of a darker Black in color when comparing this Black Shale between Eastern Tennessee and Southeastern Kentucky with the Shale in TN being the more Darker.
Is this caused by the Shale in TN containing more Organic Material rather than the Iron content. THANK YOU Sir. I enjoy your Videos. As a SIDE NOTE, may I ask, where did you study Geology at?
The formation is named after the town of Chugwater Wyoming. Some rocks that are iron-rich are very dark colored. The iron is in a reduced state for that to happen.
@@myroncook -- THANK YOu Sir. I guess I was wrong again. 😹. I was under the impression that the Devonian Shale got it''s name from Devon County, England since the rock was first studied there.
The Chattanooga Shale was named after Chattanooga, Tennessee and the New Albany Shale was named after New Albany, Indiana.. I am going to quit doing my own thinking. It can be DANGEROUS. LOL
So much beauty and so much information! Im going to have to watch this a bunch of times to take it all in.
Thinking of deep time and space...feeling "insignificant" is a rather strange choice of words. I feel pretty good about being among the first (in a history of the universe and earth perspective) to take this all in, just to think about this stuff. That so much has happened, from stars dying to create the materials to all the life thats struggled and died that led to us, to us standing here contemplating it all - for it all to now (kind of) fit in and live in our heads instead of just being an unappreciated process. I feel pretty significant to be the product of all that.
I get your point....nice perspective
I know, right? It makes me so grateful to be alive in this time.
Myron, thank you so much for your fantastic Videos! Montana ist so beautyful ❤. My highest gratitude for your Work. All the best for you and many Greetings from Bavaria! 👍👍👍👍
You are very welcome
Hi Myron, I have just come back from a trip in my Landy to south east Morocco, beautiful desert mountains. your vids are excellent, you describe the geology so well. Thanks Myron.
Some of my favorite most relaxing inspiring videos.