Bryce Canyon's Fairlyland Hoodoos Explained By Geologist Shawn Willsey
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Explore the fascinating hoodoos and scenery of Bryce Canyon National Park with geology professor Shawn Willsey. GPS location: 37.64960, -112.14547
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Bryce Canyon is beautiful and enjoyed alot of the information you shared on it
Thanks Shawn. That snow brings it alive, and demonstrates how the erosion patterns form.
I am from Switzerland, but been in the west of the US several times over 30 years ago. We visited Bryce Canyon in a November where OF COURSE there was a government shutdown! First we were disappointed, but then we decided to sneak in and had probably one of the quietest and most beautiful days of our lives 🥰!
Many mountain ranges east and north of Menan have quartzite. They are durable and last a very long time.
That’s exactly what I would have done too. Snuck in!
I wish I had a geology teacher like you when I was in high school and university.
Such a beautiful area! It's really helpful to see the Eocene map! Thank you so much!
One of the coolest, if not THE coolest National Park I've ever been to! Thanks, Shawn!
Absolutely amazing
Bryce is my second favorite National Park. (Uh, Yellowstone is number 1, lol.)
If you ever get a chance to drive Utah-12, it starts at US-89, and passes Bryce Canyon, Kodachrome Basin, Grand Escalante and ends at Utah-24, where Capitol Reef (Wayne's Wonderland) is. (Goblin Valley is halfway up Utah-24 heading to I-70,)
My number one drive in the US. Just about 200 miles of some of Utah's most scenic wonders...
Capitol reef is a wonderful, people-free dramatic Park-
Bryce Canyon National Park is one of my favorites! Spectacular landforms and colors!
Visited Bryce on a motorcycle trip 53 years ago. Magnificent!
Had my Honeymoon here and was back again last year. Amazing place and thanks for the history!
What an artist the planet is. Thank you.
Shawn thank you for making these excellent videos for Utah and the Intermountain West. Between you, Nick Z., and the roadside geology books I'm finally able to learn and understand the landscapes I love so much. Bryce Canyon NP has some of the happiest visitors walking around in awe of the hoodoos.
Thanks for sharing beautiful place …. Great geology ❤
When fishing on Shasta lake (my home) early morning to midmorning I witnessed freeze/thaw in action with the rocks rolling off the steep eastern facing slopes freezing at night after a rain then heaving the rocks out and them rolling down when the ice would thaw !
Thank you! Bryce is absolutely a unique experience. I love Utah!
Thanks, Shawn. It’s a beautiful location.
How beautiful with the snow on the ground!
We did a tour of cool things in the southwest when we bought my son to college a couple years ago, Bryce Canyon is one of my favorite places.
The word 'hoodoo' is such a delight.
Wow, you lucked out on a bluebird sky winter day to hike/ ski Bryce Canyon. The snow, the hoodoos, the sky-- gorgeous! Thank you for sharing the Eocene map with the lakes, that helps explain the depositional environment. PS-- that's my favorite virtual hike /ski this season!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks! Beautiful!
Nice clear air. Good view of Powell Point in final seconds of video.
I like seeing those maps , very cool.
Fairyland Point is my favorite part of Bryce, which is my second favorite national park. Capitol Reef is my favorite.
I remember being awe-inspired when I was there about 5 years ago. One of those spires that you show there looks very delicate and the top just might break off at some point in the future.
I really enjoy geeking out on geology with your videos. I told you in comment on another video that the last time I was at the Grand Canyon I thought to myself, 'I wish I had a geologist here to explain to me what I'm seeing. We visited many national parks on that trip. A few days after we saw the Grand Canyon our trip found us at Bryce Canyon and I thought the same thing! 'Where's a geologist when you need one!' I remember the arches at Bryce, like the ones at Arches Nat. Park, wondering how much water and time it took to carve out those arches. How stable are the tops of those hoodoos? Don't they crumble and fall a lot? They all look like they could fall over any minute. Some are top heavy! I remember my trip there so vividly!
Gorgeous place, interesting story 😊
Thanks!
Such a beautiful area! Thanks for sharing another inspiring and educational video! Oh, and nice hat - looks like it was hand-knitted.
Beautiful!
2:13 I see the willamette valley! 😊
Our favorite NP. Especially in the winter.
If you make it to the Ozarks, I'd love too see you do a video on Grand Gulf, the mini grand canyon in Missouri. Thanks for all the awesome videos
Thx Prof ✌🏻
Love the maps.
Hiya, Shawn. I'd love to see you come to Kansas at some point and talk about the rock formations near Scott City in the western part of the state. It's my understanding that they formed when Kansas was covered by an inland sea.
So many people think Kansas is a flat, barren wasteland but that's far from the truth. From the fossil rich areas in the west to the Flint Hills in the east, Kansas has a lot going for it.
Thank you, for another informative video!
I might have to fit in some exploratory detours this September if I drive from Washington State to my class reunion in New Mexico. I had always assumed that Bryce Canyon had volcanic tuffs. Interesting to know it is limestone.
@shawnwillsey - that Ron Blakey and his Birkenstocks! What a tall dude!
6 ft 8 inches. Legit.
Wow!! What a fantastic landscape!!! Thanks for a very inspiring video, I love the Eocene map and the hoodoos (such a funny name! ^^) And you're wearing a very nice beanie, Shawn! Do I see an erupting volcano or is it just a figment of my imagination?? ^^
Okay, thanks--lacustrine limestone explains a LOT, the unique strange soft erodibility. Cedar Breaks is way less crowded in Summer, to see the same stuff-
I knew the hoodoos had to get their own video since you went to bryce.
To any one has read "The Way of Kings" by Brandon Sanderson. This geologic structure is what inspired the shattered plains and much of the alien world of Roshair.
Been quite a few years ago now, but I did a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle of Bryce Canyon. Beautiful picture when it was done, but it was quite hard on the eyes and sanity during assembly. Would be awesome to view it in reality.
According to the USGS Geolex, the Claron Formation might be as old as Late Cretaceous, but is certainly no younger than Early Oligocene (29.5 MA, as determined using K/Ar age dating in overlying volcanic rocks). Also, and oddly, it has no type section, but is instead named after Mt. Claron near Cedar City, UT.
With this SW Utah freshwater lake, and consideration of the Uintah Basin fresh water lake, on wonders of all this freshwater lake and freshwater limestone deposits if there could be ANOTHER asteroid fragment that hit in this SW Utah area, creating another impact basin that later filled in with fresh water ... (!).
Let me recommend zion national park and flaming gorge In the area around moab
Thanks again for great video. Been there 2017 and now second time going there in end of March. Doest the roads still have snow or ice then? Is it ok to drive there with rental car summer tires ;) Greetings from Finland!
Instead stress relief :-)
You need to be very careful on the lesser used trails in Bryce. They are poorly marked, no trail blazes allowed by the local ranger chief unlike other NPS parks. And there is no cell signal so you need to load trail maps in Alltrials or Gaia before setting out. Once into the trails the many trails intersect and those are poorly marked. You can easily end up on the wrong trail and find yourself deep into the surrounding National Forest.
The local Sheriff Dept rescues a number of hikers every monyh
sweet beanie
Hard to tell how tall the hoodoos are from where your standing, they look huge though!
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Thanks Shawn. Did you forget to put the HCl bottle in your pocket?
I've learned that if you put HCl on rocks in national parks that you can be cited and fined for "defacing rock resource". No HCl test in parks.
@@shawnwillsey Well, that certainly is an odd example of overkill. I learn something new every day.
Do you pay for a filming permit, or is there an academic exemption?
No regulations against filming in NP that I am aware of.
@@shawnwillsey you should check, some you tubers have been fined.
ohhh so pretty
wow! world class content, oops
Thanks!