I was going to suggest the sand dunes in Michigan as well, though I wanted to also suggest having a more clear audio/video transition between each place. Sometimes it's hard to tell when you've finished describing one place and start on another.
The canyon in Georgia is absolutely breathtaking. My wife and I were looking for something to do one weekend when I was at Fort Benning and someone told us about a canyon nearish by. We figured it would be lame. Had no idea something so magnificent and massive was hiding amidst the Georgia pines.
Cloudland Canyon in north Georgia is also beautiful but has the added advantage of being rock as opposed to red dirt. If you enjoy camping and/or hiking I would recommend visiting it sometime.
Georgia is gorgeous. You also have Tallulah gorge to the north. I moved north a few years ago and it has nice places but I miss home. Georgia is always on my mind.
@@obsidianjane4413 I've been 'out' plenty. Seen a good deal of the world. I still think it's lovely. Whatever that says about me, your decision to post this negative comment for absolutely no reason says far more about you.
Providence Canyon is really cool and a great place for a hike. One sort of correction, though - this area along with much of the southeast used to not be completely treed forests. They were savannahs combining native grasses and wildflowers along with a much thinner density of trees, much of which was Longleaf Pine. After that was all logged they replanted with Loblolly Pine as it grew faster and they engaged in fire suppression which led to the unnaturally closed canopy forests we have now.
Thanks for sharing! I didn't know that and I'm from Columbus. I agree, there are definitely a lot of very bad drivers there, too. Along with a bunch of other "bad actors". It's sad. Columbus used to be a pretty nice place.
@@dextermorgan1 Could the "bad actors" be a remnant of Phenix City's legacy? Phenix City, AL was notorious in the mid 20th century as a hub of organized crime ("Dixie Mafia"). Part of its success was due to Fort Benning being located nearby.
Yep, the Longleaf Pine ecosystem is awesome. When traveling down to South Alabama, you can see where landowners are beginning to replant Longleafs. The mature growths are beautiful.
Being from florida, i absolutely love the southeastern pine forests and flatwoods. Every time i see providence canyon, it makes me wonder just how much more insanely beautiful my home would be if we had rock forms and mountains like the southwest. It would be truly unearthly.
With as much rain as Florida gets the geography would likely be more like the beautiful blue ridge mountains. Tho the different latitude would likely have far different fauna and flora.
Oh so u just want it to look like the southwest then cause where your from isn’t meant to have rock forms and such none of that flora evolved with diverse geography
This is my favorite series! As someone from FL, learning that the middle of the state is split in two by an ancient Caribbean island chain is fascinating!
The Lake Wales Ridge isn't the only ancient beach dune hills in Florida. Notable riges include the Trail Ridge & Brooksville Ridge. An honorable mention that is unrelated are the 200ft cliffs/bluffs along the Apalachicola River. What's fascinating is that the cliffs are only on one side of the river in certain areas and are at their most spectacular in Torreya State Park.
But doesn't that Ridge run all the way up Rte 41 to Brooksville? That's an interesting area with rolling hills and farms and forests all over. Looks nothing like the rest of Florida and as you travel south down 41 it stays flat for miles with all the carnival storage facilities on both sides of the road amongst other things like Mills and factories. I was told that if you travel that route at night you'll see some strange things, and I ain't talking about just some drunk carneys wandering around. 😨
I'm not sure if it's got an actual name but here in Indian River county there's an area referred to as Florida ridge and I'm pretty positive it's the highest natural elevation in the area, only 20 or 30 feet higher then it's surroundings but it has the characteristics of a sand bar, the only places real plants grow are where people have moved in large amounts of top soil and roads across it either require higher amounts of engineering or deteriorate quickly. Edit spelling of name.
I grew up in Liberty County where those 200 foot bluffs reside. One cool aspect of the right side of the river being taller than the left is the affect that ridge has on eastward moving weather. I have seen many storm systems hit that ridge and then they are forced North East up towards Chattahoochee instead of just eastwards. I think that ridge played a large part in where hurricane Michael went once it made landfall. Had it come in on the east side of Apalachicola my house probably wouldn't have survived.
@@jaberosier9853 I lived in Tampa almost all my life and moved to Tallahassee about 9 months ago for college. I was stunned when I did the Garden of Eden Trail for the first time a few weeks ago. That hike pushed me more than some in the mountains I've done. I was stunned I was still in the same state.
As a kid growing up in Paradise Valley, Az, there was Mummy Mountain literally rising up in my backyard. We climbed on it often and I would find seashells on it. Wondered about it but never pursued it. Seeing this video, and the Western Interior Seaway, might explain it. Thanks for doing this.
@@jessicaleague4173 Well duh, Over the course of the several billions years water has been on our giant blue marble every piece of land you see today was at one point submerged. And sea life has been here far longer than land life, by an extreme factor. Isn't learning about geology and archaeology fun :D
@@KitsuneRogue Learning is always fun when you approach it with an open mind. Like the chariot wheels and animal hooves found at the bottom of the dead sea crossing and the sand that has been melted together like concrete on the shore and the mountain top that is black and burned at the top with a stone alter at the bottom of it with pictures of a calf or cow drawn on it and the giant split rocks nearby that have water erosion coming from the cracks that look like a small river flowed out of them and the giant boat hull in the upper mountains of Turkey with giant stone anchors with 8 people carved on them in the same area and fish fossilized midbirth and midmeal letting you know that a catastrophic event happened so quickly as to fossilize them like that. Learning is totally awesome! Have a blessed day!
@@albertsaffron7582 there does seem to be evidence in many areas of liquifaction although I don’t think sea shells and fossilized sea life would get on hilltops and mountain tops from that. It may have caused the hills and mountains to seem shorter than before though as the soil levels would possibly be raised higher than before around their bases.
If you want out-of-place geography, I'd recommend the North-Shore/Sawtooth mountains of Minnesota. It's a surprisingly striking mountain range compared to the rest of the state and even the midwest. Furthermore, it's so close to Lake Superior it forms quite prominent cliffs. I think you showed off the Splitrock lighthouse located on the North Shore in one of the previous videos as an outro, but you didn't talk about too much, so I think it'll be a great place to cover.
@@nathanbyd570 Not to disparage the beautiful Sawtooth in the Rocky Mountain chain, but the mountains Dennis Shaykevich is talking about are totally out of place. Interstate 35 runs from Laredo, TX to Duluth, MN and the mostly flat Interstate has two out of place mountains on it, Arbuckle Mountain in Oklahoma and Sawtooth Mountains which has the best view on the whole road hands down. You get a huge view of Lake Superior and Duluth and you wonder, why is this here when Minnesota is generally rolling hills to flat. Then there is this mountain range that's rather out of place when you look around it. You have to wonder when the Lutsen Mountain area is the only mountain ski area in the Midwest. I never looked up on why there is this small mountain range in the Great Plains on the shores of Lake Superior, bet it is volcanism long gone.
i wouldn't say its more beautiful than the rest of the midwest, the sand dunes and hundreds of lighthouses and the quite similar porcupine mountains are all in michigan, the UP of michigan is pretty similar albeit a bit flatter
@@MountainFisher The Arrowhead region of Minnesota is quite interesting. "Minnesota contains some of the oldest rocks on Earth, granitic gneisses that formed some 3,600 mya (million years ago) - roughly 80% the age of the planet.[1] About 2,700 mya, the first volcanic rocks that would later underlie Minnesota began to rise up out of an ancient ocean, forming the Superior craton.[2] This craton later assembled into the Canadian shield, which became part of the North American craton."
I lived in Columbus, Ga through the 60's and part of the 70's. As Boy Scouts, we would go to the "Little Grand Canyon" as it was known before they named it Providence Canyons in 1971. I remember washing our mess kits in the stream running through it and scrubbing the kits with the clay. The sights were amazing, even as a color blind kid. In the 70's we'd take dates there to watch the sunrise after a night of dancing and partying, a true spectacle!!
The mining in northern Michigan had many strange consequences. There is a lake near Houghton that was filled with mining waste and then dug out again after new value was found in the waste material. Torch lake.
I am thrilled that you mentioned the Orthodox Aleuts. We Orthodox take pride in the fact that the faith is a key part of Native Alaskan culture and keeps native languages alive. We even have Native American saints who are venerated across the world.
Sounds like some shit white people forced on isolated people's living in the north hundreds of year ago You can go ahead and do whatever you want now, the conquests are over
Yes -- Religious missionary efforts- on behalf of and in the general benefit to local communities have long played a role in colonial endeavors- like those Filipinos (largely Catholic FOR SOME REASON) or all those good Mormons in Hawaii, or...all those mining towns - you'll find small,very ethnic churches in the darnedest places.
@@danweyant4909 The Philippine Islands were colonized by the Spanish in the 1500s after it was claimed by Magellan's expedition. Like South America, also colonized by the Spanish, only Catholic missionaries were permitted by the government. The islands the gathering point for the Manila galleons shipping East Asian luxury goods to Mexico, paid for with silver from South America. Then the Havana galleons gathered to ship most of the luxury goods and some of the silver to Spain. For more than 300 years, the islands were governed by the Spanish, so the common language became Spanish and the common religion became Catholicism. (At least in the 'civilized' areas. Names also became Spanish, like Ferdinand Marcos.)
As someone who looks at a lot of geography, the lake Wales ridge is new to me, as well as the Georgia canyons. Really cool stuff, and always love learning about new places in this country!
Loved this video. I've been to both Columbus GA and Central Florida, and I had no clue these places existed. Thanks a lot for teaching me something interesting.
I think another good one is the Tennessee River Gorge outside Chattanooga. While people tend to think of Tennessee either as Nashville or the Smoky Mountains, the River Gorge is one of the largest in the US, it is 26 miles long literally cutting right through the Cumberland plateau, beautiful sandstone canyon walls contrast with the lush forests. It is an absolutely stunning piece of geography and there isn't really anything similar to it in the eastern USA. The other Tennessee geography that's unique is Big South Fork National Recreation Area. It extends into Kentucky and is home to tons of canyons, rock bridges and even a few hoodoos which are normally associated with the mountains out in the western US. Both fascinating places
that is cool, we learn so much rubbish in geography in school.. the grand canyon is about the main geological feature they teach, maybe death valley or salt lake,a few volcanoes., there is so much, the USA is abundant with all sorts of features every square mile offers something unique outside the city and rural areas.. this one reminds me of the tail of the dragon, deals gap....
I once flew over the Gorge, and it’s breathtaking from the air. Tennessee and Kentucky also have cedar glades, which are just bare rock with desert plants like cacti and wildflowers. They’re very intriguing.
florida native living in georgia most of my adult life - super cool video. i feel like these two states complement each other quite well; being within easy driving distance from each other but yet have a completely different feel.
I thought he was going to be talking about Cloudland Canyon on Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga. That however was made by nature and is just an absolutely stunningly beautiful part of the world if you ever get the chance to visit/hike around.
I have a friend who worked a summer as a ranger at Cloudland Canyon State Park. Cloudland Canyon has an unusual geological feature, a large alluvial fan. I remember riding a century bike ride that had one of the sag stops at that park, and I believe the Bicycle Ride Across Georgia has passed through there.
(EDIT: I see you did a Fall Line video 7 months ago, but I am referring to the specifics in GA) I love the series you're doing Shawn. Here are a couple of things for you. I'm from the Providence Canyon region and doing some small scale plowing and planting I really have to fight against the erosion in my sandy soil of the Georgia Fall Line area. I think a good Geological area to cover is the "Fall Line" - which I refer to as an ancient beach front that runs across GA (Augusta - Macon - Columbus) and into AL. Hwy 80 is a good marker for the fall line. The name comes from where rivers and creeks crossing this line tend to have falls of some sort associated with them. To the North is the Piedmont Region - rolling pine covered hills with hardwood bottoms made up of Georgia's famous red clay. To the south is the Coastal Plain of relative flat land made up of sandy soil. From Google satellite maps you'll see the area covered in agricultural fields where cotton, peanuts, corn, soybeans and other crops are grown. The fall line is the division between the two Regions. It also produces Kaolin mines where ancient marine fossils, such as shark's teeth, clams, sand dollars and more can be found. It has a unique bio-diversity too like the Gopher Tortis, Eastern indigo snakes, red-cockaded woodpeckers, long leaf pines, and I've heard that the Alligator will not cross the fall line, but I've seen them in Harris County which is north of Columbus, GA where the fall line can be seen in the rapids of the Chattahoochee River. Another area I'd recommend looking at is Sequatchie Valley in TN. Looking at it on Google Satellite it appears to be a really long straight valley stuck between the Cumberland Plateau and Walden Mountain. I've always found it to be an interesting image from the Satellite view.
Thank you for your work here. I was stationed at Attu for a year in 2002. It is truly a unique place. To add to your accurate description of the island, that monument that looks like it belongs on top of a Christmas tree, is for the Japanese Colonel that died and was buried there during WW2. Once a year, the Colonel's daughter would come to pay respects. It was interesting to see. Also, there are many underground bunkers large enough for a fleet of heavy trucks, are mostly buried, but still accessible. The most interesting one for me is that the only Coast Guard C-130 to crash, did so on the island on July 30th, 1982. The wreckage was still there, mostly, and we would hike to it when new members came to the station, telling the story. One of the surviving crew members of that crash that killed 2, came to visit as a Master Chief. That was a good story to hear from a survivor. What a great place to have lived for a year.
I’ve lived in columbus most of my life. Providence Canyon is always a treat to visit. I may include that on the trail walk around the perimeter of the canyon, there are very very old cars and machinery that add on to the uniqueness of the area. How they got there? Who knows. Highly recommend everyone visit. The near by offroad trails are also fun to mess around on.
I’d be interested in hearing about the Oachita mountains in Arkansas and Oklahoma. And why the layers of rock and sediment on the cliff faces are at such extreme angles, and often even verticle
The Ouachita's are a reminant of the same collision that created the Smoky Mountains during the construction of Pangea. They are often confused for being part of the much younger Ozarks to their north. The vertical rocks are the eroded reminants of a folded series of rocks that the top of the fold was removed via erosion, leaving the near vertical rocks of the fold's sides to be enjoyed today.
I just found your channel! Not sure if you've covered this yet but West Virginia has a cranberry bog on top of the mountains in the Monongahela National Forest. The bog has weather, flora and fauna typical of Canada and northern New England, as a result of landshaping performed by the retreat of the last Ice Age. It's literally and figuratively a cool place.
I love this series, really interesting that there is an Aleut / Filipino community existing out there. Ethnic group anomalies would be a cool addition to this series too. Love these keep it up
Check out the Driftless Area! It's a region of the Upper Mississippi Valley that has evaded glaciation for at least the past 100,000 years. It is characterized by a fractal-like arrangement of deep (>300') valleys with steep limestone/sandstone cliffs, karst topography, disappearing streams/rivers, and some of the finest trout streams in the country.
Second this suggestion - the area also has features called Algific Slopes, hillsides where unique geology keeps them unseasonably cool and support endemic species of organisms including the Pleistocene Snail :)
I'd recommend scoping out the Chiracahua National Monument in southern Arizona. The rock formations out there rival those of Bryce Canyon and are much more remote with far fewer visitors.
4:00 Actually to a large degree the sky islands aren't explained by greater orographic rainfall but by lower evaporation due to cooler temperatures, both while the rain is falling (so less rain evaporates in the air as virga) and after the rain has fallen, i.e. the plants are under less evaporative stress. Most of Arizona's precipitation falls in the summer in big monsoon thunderstorms and it is not really orographic in nature, it's due to atmospheric convection. In the winter the sky islands probably do see more orographic precipitation as storm fronts move through, and some of this will last into the late winter/spring as snow.
Carcross Desert in Yukon Territory, Canada. About 1 sq mi of sand dunes in the rain shadow of some mountains in southwestern Yukon, and they're surrounded by taiga. Anticosti Island in Quebec, Canada. A large island smack dab in the middle of the Gulf of St Lawrence. The island itself doesn't seem too unusual at first glance, but it has a number of canyons carving through the cliffs and into the ocean, including a large and unexpected waterfall, Vaureal Falls.
Watched the video to see the canyons in Georgia. Grew up in Augusta and never knew this was there! But you really blew my mind with the Lake Wales peninsula…lived in Lake Wales when i was in first grade and remember walking around on the playground and finding sharks teeth and sea shells... in the middle of Florida! Those pictures totally looked like i remember my back yard- cactuses and sand spurs everywhere! So cool! Thank you
I really enjoy this series you've put together. I enjoy unique geography that has largely been forgotten. I think it would be interesting to learn more about unique places where people settled such as the "fall line" where rivers more or less ended for boat inland. You can see this chain on the maps today. Everyone talks about the east coast fall line, but im curious of the branches off the Mississippi river and such. "How early settlers used geography" to settle would be fascinating to learn. It would be even cooler if you can find a few "unsettled places" like where things seem "optimum." Maybe they're all settled? All the big cities already took them? Then theres all the "coming disasters" I know a group that thinks we're going to see a climate migration East, then north due to water issues, we already know the colorado river issues longer term ...their theories on that are grim yet interesting on how that will play out. "will Florida flood again?" (raising sea levels)
@@georgebennett715 Why would prickly pears growing there be bizarre? To me it seems like the perfect environment. Lowish rainfall, it isn't too cold, and the area would have good drainage.
@@brandon9172 Right sure conditions are great but it's still pretty weird that desert plants are sharing space with arctic plants in an area that is neither a desert nor the arctic.
The part of the Lake Wales Ridge in Lake Wales are (at the Bok Tower Gardens) is called Iron Mountain and is the highest point in Florida. We you stand on it and look out, it feels like you're out west where that type of height is very normal. I didn't realize it stretched as far as it did. Thanks for sharing.
Actually, Britton Hill in Walton Cty located in the panhandle is the highest point in Florida, The LWR may be the highest in the peninsula portion of Florida
I'm curious where you got the Florida "lake whales ridge" we were taught in school, it was called the 'ocala rift' After googling- the name 'Ocala rift" doesn't come up on google- but google points at it being called the lake whales ridge like its common knowledge? I'm from that area- have called it the ocala rift for 25+ years and often will joke it's the ocala mountain range..
Two years ago I took a 3 week trip around the Midwest and West. I visited the Badlands in SD, the Grand Canyon, Saguaro National Park, and on my way home to Georgia, I stopped at Providence Canyon.
I used to live in Yonkers NY just across from the Palisades of New Jersey. It's a remarkable change from New Jersey and NYC just a few miles south. I know the basic history but perhaps you can expand on it. I have enjoyed the two videos I've seen and look forward to following you.
Good to see the “Alps of Florida” getting some recognition. We live on the Brooksville Ridge, the “range” to the west, and people are astounded when the see our view for the first time.
Check out the Cranberry Glades and Beartown State Park, West Virginia. The glades are an isolated bog on top of a mountain with carnivorous plants, and Beartown, near Droop Mtn. Battlefield has some amazing geology. There's huge crevasses, they're like slowly steering off and sliding down, and ferns and tree roots melt over them. Certainly the most stupendous place in WV♡
Very well done video. It lured me in with the title (I'm from Georgia), but I stayed and watched the whole thing because it was very well done. And you got to the info in the title (providence canyon) in the first couple of minutes and did not make me wait to the end.
New sub here. These are places that apparently been completely untouched by geographers and historians. Excellent work. I have one suggestion: "take a breath" when you switch locations. Aleutians to Florida for example was almost the same sentence. I was still processing Aleutians 5 seconds into Florida.
Please if you do another one of these, include the Prairie Coteau of South Dakota (it extends into Minnesota and arguably Iowa as well). It's a highland that separates the Minnesota and James Rivers. The highest point on the Coteau is 2135 feet above sea level and the landscape atop the coteau versus at the bottom is like two different worlds. At the bottom is standard eastern South Dakota cropland, while at the top all the land is rangeland, and there are thousands of lakes that dot the map, especially in the northern part. Sica Hollow State Park is an easy place that exhibits both worlds. You can see the cropland from the grassland you are hiking in, because of the 800 foot hill you are on the edge of.
id love to go run in the tall grass of the prairies, not much left but there is this one.. I have ancestors that hunted and dwelled in these prairies, yup, chippewa and sioux, other tribes..
The first time I ever went down to Florida to work, I almost forgot where I was at because I had no expectations of seeing land resembling so much of my hometown in West Texas. Great video as always!
Been meaning to Google " blue hole camp ground " in (i think) Paulding, Ohio. Growing up in the area, it was always described as a bottomless hole of water. This area was once called The Black Swamp, it had to be drained to be inhabited. Am interested in its history. Thanks for helping my natural interests, find these topics fascinating. 🕊
Much of this Georgia Canyonland is part of the Ft. Benning military reservation, and trekking up and down the erosion ditches has been the bane of most Ranger School students for decades.
So much better than what I remember on TV and why I haven't had one for 23 years. Perfect channel name too. Subscribed. Eastern North Carolina including the Outer Banks is much more interesting than I knew during the time I lived there. Very interesting geology.
4:00 this is also the reason why we here in az get flash flood warnings even though its not raining where the flood warning is in; the extreme amount of rain dropped on the mountains funnel down into the valleys between the mountains ( also known as the places that are actually populated)
I grew up on a small cattle ranch in Lake Wales, Fl. We could see Bok Tower poking above the treeline from almost anywhere for miles around the ridgeline. The elevation seems insignificant to many, but my entire childhood, the tower and the ridge were monuments that felt like they grounded the entire region.
A couple other out-of-place bits in Florida are: the Cody Escarpment; which separates the Gulf Coastal Lowlands and the Florida Highlands, and basically runs perpendicular to the Lake Wales Ridge before turning to run parallel to it; and, the hilly terrain of the central highland counties like Madison and Leon. Though, one could argue that these are both part of the same surprising geographical/geological arrangement that most people wouldn't expect from the flattest state. This arrangement also creates the only Class 3 whitewater rapids in FL: Big Shoals, in Hamilton County. And there's also the Alapaha River, which periodically fully drains into a cave system and becomes an underground river for a few miles, also in Hamilton County.
I went there a little after I graduated basic training while I was still in the area. Really cool place with a pleasant, unchallenging hike. Definitely worth a visit if you're in the area.
Mount Taylor in southern new mexico is amazing, I've done that section of CDT many a time and the view from the submit across the high desert was always amazing.
Went there for the first time a couple months ago. I love about and hour and a half away. Glad I got to see the little grand canyon. It's a good way to spend a day hiking through the trails. Wear boots the canyon can be pretty wet.
This video topic really overlaps with my goals in hiking and exploring microclimates and biomes in the southeastern United States. You should cover serpentine barrens, there are quite a few in Georgia and North Carolina, the most famous one being Buck Creek Serpentine Barrens. Serpentine barrens on a massive scale are found in southern New Caledonia and the biome is called "miner's terrain". Lots of rare mineral types are found in serpentine soils, as well as rare plants as they create islands of diversity due to the soil prohibiting certain plants from growing and allowing more light to reach the forest floor creating a savanna biome. The rocks there look completely different than the gray granite typical of the region, almost lava like and the soil is a bright orange color as opposed to the rich black soil that rests on top of the thin soil layer over granite typical of the mountains. There are more features like Providence Canyon on Fort Benning to the north, near the west side of Malone range complex at the Land Navigation site near Tiger Creek and Steam Mill Road, I love the terrain out there so much biodiversity with the creeks, hills, and multiple soil types. Quite a few hoodoos out there. Also another cool terrain feature would be to cover seepage slopes. There are places in South Carolina, Georgia and North Carolina that have bogs that are on granite domes which have inundations in them that allows soil to collect, these environments can be wet or dry based on the contours of the terrain and the sunny south side or dark north side of the mountain. Ashmore Heritage preserve is my favorite site like this. It has pitcher plants on a granite waterfall, and also desert plants like yucca, cedar, and prickly pear cactus growing side by side. Seepage slopes exist in places like Florida too as permanently wet savannas. Savanna environments in north Florida like those at Wright Lake near the Apalachicola river are imperiled biomes. The south also has limestone outcrops that exist in the savanna biome. It feels like you are in the Serengeti sometimes. A good example of such a site is Rock Hill in Washington County, Florida. Restricted access owned by Nature Conservancy.
I love these videos. Pine Mountain Georgia just north of Providence Canyon is a Geographical oddity as well. The fall line of the Flint River is another with rapids, alligators, and Spanish moss hanging on Rhododendron. Congaree National Park in South Carolina is another. On a much larger scale the Ozarks of Arkansas are out of place in an otherwise flat region of the US.
First of your posts I've seen and well done! You might want to do that desert in eastern Oregon. I had never head of that till recently. Best, from Colorado!
This is the first of your videos that I've seen so I'm not sure what you've covered so far. Growing up in the Los Angeles area, we had annual field trips to the La Brea Tar Pits. Evan as a child, the irony and contrast of an active prehistoric site in the middle of metropolitan L.A. gives you a feeling of being in two different worlds at the same time.
Have just discovered your channel and subscribed. This was very good and I look forward to viewing more of your vids. I'll also be reflecting on places you might want to look into... that is, if you haven't already!
i love this channel because i like random info and unique geography. the sky islands remind me of the ones in east africa. in kenya or something. where there are geckos that are known to live on only one mountain and differ from mountain to mountain.
Love this series! Been hooked on this subject since we were on vacation in KY and my geologist husband pulled to the side of a mountainous road and said 'I'll be right back." Within 10 mins he came back with a 25 Ib sIab of rock that contained all sorts of seashell fossils! In the mountains! I was fascinated at how this happened. If you haven't already, do a story on ocean fossils in the KY mountains!
We used to hike all through providence canyon, as we lived about an hour from it. There are miles of hiking trails & you can walk down the stream at the bottom until you get too hungry or too tired to find out what's around that next curve.
Thanks for covering Providence Canyon. Most people in Georgia don't even realize it is there much less go to visit the area. Maybe this will help bring recognition to the area. Love the history part of your videos as well. Keep up the good work.
Just discovered your awesome series! I was hoping you'd cover Kaibab national Forrest in AZ then heard you mention it was in another video. Cool place. As a Tucsonan I've actually never heard them called Sky Islands but I'm definitely using it from now on! Mt. Lemmon is such an awesome driving and cycling route!
There is a state park in Florida called ravine gardens state park and yes it have ravines not only that there is a town near it called Palatka Which is oddly on a uplands and on top of all that it right across the st John river and I do live near it . And another thing there is a weird kind of plateau going from Memphis Tennessee across the Yazoo river then the Mississippi river then ending barely in Louisiana and the last one a another plateau again from Kansas city to Sioux city Iowa.
Each of these are fascinating! The sky islands are probably my favorite from this video; I'm going to look up the other videos now. I would love to hear about my two home states, Indiana and Tennessee. People assume Indiana is only flat, and people assume Tennessee is nothing but Smoky Mountains. There's so much more!
Great video. Lots of rich content. If I can make a suggestion, put a 3 second pause between locations so we can think about and digest the previous one. I felt like I was being surprise teleported around in this video.
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Which of these places would you be most interested in visiting? Do you know any geographic anomalies you'd like me to include in future videos?
Bisti Badlands. NM
Driftless part of Wisconsin and the dunes around Great Lakes Superior and Michigan
Love your voice it is surprisingly soothing to listen to. You've grown a lot in the past year. Keep up the good work.
I was going to suggest the sand dunes in Michigan as well, though I wanted to also suggest having a more clear audio/video transition between each place. Sometimes it's hard to tell when you've finished describing one place and start on another.
@@mikeehuber Don't forget Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota are part of the driftless area.
The canyon in Georgia is absolutely breathtaking. My wife and I were looking for something to do one weekend when I was at Fort Benning and someone told us about a canyon nearish by. We figured it would be lame. Had no idea something so magnificent and massive was hiding amidst the Georgia pines.
Welcome to Georgia baby ✨️glad you enjoyed your stay!
Cloudland Canyon in north Georgia is also beautiful but has the added advantage of being rock as opposed to red dirt. If you enjoy camping and/or hiking I would recommend visiting it sometime.
Georgia is gorgeous. You also have Tallulah gorge to the north. I moved north a few years ago and it has nice places but I miss home. Georgia is always on my mind.
You need to get out more if you think Providence ditch is breathtaking.
@@obsidianjane4413 I've been 'out' plenty. Seen a good deal of the world. I still think it's lovely.
Whatever that says about me, your decision to post this negative comment for absolutely no reason says far more about you.
Providence Canyon is really cool and a great place for a hike. One sort of correction, though - this area along with much of the southeast used to not be completely treed forests. They were savannahs combining native grasses and wildflowers along with a much thinner density of trees, much of which was Longleaf Pine. After that was all logged they replanted with Loblolly Pine as it grew faster and they engaged in fire suppression which led to the unnaturally closed canopy forests we have now.
Thanks for sharing! I didn't know that and I'm from Columbus. I agree, there are definitely a lot of very bad drivers there, too. Along with a bunch of other "bad actors". It's sad. Columbus used to be a pretty nice place.
@@dextermorgan1 Could the "bad actors" be a remnant of Phenix City's legacy? Phenix City, AL was notorious in the mid 20th century as a hub of organized crime ("Dixie Mafia"). Part of its success was due to Fort Benning being located nearby.
Yep, the Longleaf Pine ecosystem is awesome. When traveling down to South Alabama, you can see where landowners are beginning to replant Longleafs. The mature growths are beautiful.
Being from florida, i absolutely love the southeastern pine forests and flatwoods. Every time i see providence canyon, it makes me wonder just how much more insanely beautiful my home would be if we had rock forms and mountains like the southwest. It would be truly unearthly.
It would be a lot more safe during hurricane tho but there’s be massive mudslides.
With as much rain as Florida gets the geography would likely be more like the beautiful blue ridge mountains. Tho the different latitude would likely have far different fauna and flora.
It's a good thing Florida is so flat. Mud slides would be constant from all the rain, and it would be much more difficult to travel
As someone who lives in a tropical mountain range. Thats the last thing you'd ask
Oh so u just want it to look like the southwest then cause where your from isn’t meant to have rock forms and such none of that flora evolved with diverse geography
This is my favorite series! As someone from FL, learning that the middle of the state is split in two by an ancient Caribbean island chain is fascinating!
The Lake Wales Ridge isn't the only ancient beach dune hills in Florida. Notable riges include the Trail Ridge & Brooksville Ridge.
An honorable mention that is unrelated are the 200ft cliffs/bluffs along the Apalachicola River. What's fascinating is that the cliffs are only on one side of the river in certain areas and are at their most spectacular in Torreya State Park.
But doesn't that Ridge run all the way up Rte 41 to Brooksville? That's an interesting area with rolling hills and farms and forests all over. Looks nothing like the rest of Florida and as you travel south down 41 it stays flat for miles with all the carnival storage facilities on both sides of the road amongst other things like Mills and factories. I was told that if you travel that route at night you'll see some strange things, and I ain't talking about just some drunk carneys wandering around. 😨
I'm not sure if it's got an actual name but here in Indian River county there's an area referred to as Florida ridge and I'm pretty positive it's the highest natural elevation in the area, only 20 or 30 feet higher then it's surroundings but it has the characteristics of a sand bar, the only places real plants grow are where people have moved in large amounts of top soil and roads across it either require higher amounts of engineering or deteriorate quickly.
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I grew up in Liberty County where those 200 foot bluffs reside. One cool aspect of the right side of the river being taller than the left is the affect that ridge has on eastward moving weather. I have seen many storm systems hit that ridge and then they are forced North East up towards Chattahoochee instead of just eastwards. I think that ridge played a large part in where hurricane Michael went once it made landfall. Had it come in on the east side of Apalachicola my house probably wouldn't have survived.
I live on the ridge it's cool
@@jaberosier9853 I lived in Tampa almost all my life and moved to Tallahassee about 9 months ago for college. I was stunned when I did the Garden of Eden Trail for the first time a few weeks ago. That hike pushed me more than some in the mountains I've done. I was stunned I was still in the same state.
As a kid growing up in Paradise Valley, Az, there was Mummy Mountain literally rising up in my backyard. We climbed on it often and I would find seashells on it. Wondered about it but never pursued it. Seeing this video, and the Western Interior Seaway, might explain it. Thanks for doing this.
There are shells and fossilized sea life at the tops of countless mountains all over the world. Almost like it was all underwater at one time. 🤔
@@jessicaleague4173 Well duh, Over the course of the several billions years water has been on our giant blue marble every piece of land you see today was at one point submerged. And sea life has been here far longer than land life, by an extreme factor. Isn't learning about geology and archaeology fun :D
@@KitsuneRogue Learning is always fun when you approach it with an open mind. Like the chariot wheels and animal hooves found at the bottom of the dead sea crossing and the sand that has been melted together like concrete on the shore and the mountain top that is black and burned at the top with a stone alter at the bottom of it with pictures of a calf or cow drawn on it and the giant split rocks nearby that have water erosion coming from the cracks that look like a small river flowed out of them and the giant boat hull in the upper mountains of Turkey with giant stone anchors with 8 people carved on them in the same area and fish fossilized midbirth and midmeal letting you know that a catastrophic event happened so quickly as to fossilize them like that. Learning is totally awesome! Have a blessed day!
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@@albertsaffron7582 there does seem to be evidence in many areas of liquifaction although I don’t think sea shells and fossilized sea life would get on hilltops and mountain tops from that. It may have caused the hills and mountains to seem shorter than before though as the soil levels would possibly be raised higher than before around their bases.
If you want out-of-place geography, I'd recommend the North-Shore/Sawtooth mountains of Minnesota. It's a surprisingly striking mountain range compared to the rest of the state and even the midwest. Furthermore, it's so close to Lake Superior it forms quite prominent cliffs. I think you showed off the Splitrock lighthouse located on the North Shore in one of the previous videos as an outro, but you didn't talk about too much, so I think it'll be a great place to cover.
Have you seen the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho? We have some beautiful lakes with crystal clear water.
@@nathanbyd570 Not to disparage the beautiful Sawtooth in the Rocky Mountain chain, but the mountains Dennis Shaykevich is talking about are totally out of place. Interstate 35 runs from Laredo, TX to Duluth, MN and the mostly flat Interstate has two out of place mountains on it, Arbuckle Mountain in Oklahoma and Sawtooth Mountains which has the best view on the whole road hands down. You get a huge view of Lake Superior and Duluth and you wonder, why is this here when Minnesota is generally rolling hills to flat. Then there is this mountain range that's rather out of place when you look around it. You have to wonder when the Lutsen Mountain area is the only mountain ski area in the Midwest. I never looked up on why there is this small mountain range in the Great Plains on the shores of Lake Superior, bet it is volcanism long gone.
i wouldn't say its more beautiful than the rest of the midwest, the sand dunes and hundreds of lighthouses and the quite similar porcupine mountains are all in michigan, the UP of michigan is pretty similar albeit a bit flatter
@@MountainFisher The Arrowhead region of Minnesota is quite interesting. "Minnesota contains some of the oldest rocks on Earth, granitic gneisses that formed some 3,600 mya (million years ago) - roughly 80% the age of the planet.[1] About 2,700 mya, the first volcanic rocks that would later underlie Minnesota began to rise up out of an ancient ocean, forming the Superior craton.[2] This craton later assembled into the Canadian shield, which became part of the North American craton."
@@pedigreeann Interesting.
I lived in Columbus, Ga through the 60's and part of the 70's. As Boy Scouts, we would go to the "Little Grand Canyon" as it was known before they named it Providence Canyons in 1971. I remember washing our mess kits in the stream running through it and scrubbing the kits with the clay. The sights were amazing, even as a color blind kid. In the 70's we'd take dates there to watch the sunrise after a night of dancing and partying, a true spectacle!!
Cool story, Hitler
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The mining in northern Michigan had many strange consequences. There is a lake near Houghton that was filled with mining waste and then dug out again after new value was found in the waste material. Torch lake.
Alex Dahl(?) here on RUclips has a series of videos about that area!
That’s true. Also a lot of people got wasted on Torch Lake as I remember.
Wait. Torch Lake was man made?!? 😢 Noooooooo!!!! 😂 That is my fave lake of all of thee times.
Multiple torch “lakes” in Michigan
@kk84 kk84 I'm going to make a wild guess here, it's called Torch Lake because it looks like it's on fire at sunset?
I am thrilled that you mentioned the Orthodox Aleuts. We Orthodox take pride in the fact that the faith is a key part of Native Alaskan culture and keeps native languages alive. We even have Native American saints who are venerated across the world.
Super cool video. This was all news to me.
Sounds like some shit white people forced on isolated people's living in the north hundreds of year ago
You can go ahead and do whatever you want now, the conquests are over
Yes -- Religious missionary efforts- on behalf of and in the general benefit to local communities have long played a role in colonial endeavors- like those Filipinos (largely Catholic FOR SOME REASON) or all those good Mormons in Hawaii, or...all those mining towns - you'll find small,very ethnic churches in the darnedest places.
@@danweyant4909 The Philippine Islands were colonized by the Spanish in the 1500s after it was claimed by Magellan's expedition. Like South America, also colonized by the Spanish, only Catholic missionaries were permitted by the government. The islands the gathering point for the Manila galleons shipping East Asian luxury goods to Mexico, paid for with silver from South America. Then the Havana galleons gathered to ship most of the luxury goods and some of the silver to Spain. For more than 300 years, the islands were governed by the Spanish, so the common language became Spanish and the common religion became Catholicism. (At least in the 'civilized' areas. Names also became Spanish, like Ferdinand Marcos.)
@pedigreeann Yes, I know why, that was rhetorical
As someone who looks at a lot of geography, the lake Wales ridge is new to me, as well as the Georgia canyons. Really cool stuff, and always love learning about new places in this country!
Loved this video. I've been to both Columbus GA and Central Florida, and I had no clue these places existed. Thanks a lot for teaching me something interesting.
I think another good one is the Tennessee River Gorge outside Chattanooga. While people tend to think of Tennessee either as Nashville or the Smoky Mountains, the River Gorge is one of the largest in the US, it is 26 miles long literally cutting right through the Cumberland plateau, beautiful sandstone canyon walls contrast with the lush forests. It is an absolutely stunning piece of geography and there isn't really anything similar to it in the eastern USA.
The other Tennessee geography that's unique is Big South Fork National Recreation Area. It extends into Kentucky and is home to tons of canyons, rock bridges and even a few hoodoos which are normally associated with the mountains out in the western US. Both fascinating places
It really is beautiful. There aren’t many glacial formations in the South, but the Appalachians are actually far older than most mountain ranges.
that is cool, we learn so much rubbish in geography in school.. the grand canyon is about the main geological feature they teach, maybe death valley or salt lake,a few volcanoes., there is so much, the USA is abundant with all sorts of features every square mile offers something unique outside the city and rural areas.. this one reminds me of the tail of the dragon, deals gap....
I once flew over the Gorge, and it’s breathtaking from the air. Tennessee and Kentucky also have cedar glades, which are just bare rock with desert plants like cacti and wildflowers. They’re very intriguing.
Have they done the New River Gorge, in West Virginia? The New is one of the oldest rivers in the world (ironically).
florida native living in georgia most of my adult life - super cool video. i feel like these two states complement each other quite well; being within easy driving distance from each other but yet have a completely different feel.
I thought he was going to be talking about Cloudland Canyon on Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga. That however was made by nature and is just an absolutely stunningly beautiful part of the world if you ever get the chance to visit/hike around.
Lookout Mountain itself is amazing
Hey, how about Candy Mountain.. huh, Charlie, how about Candy Mountain?? 🦄🦄
I was about to reply the same.
Chattanooga is a best kept secret place. Such a neat little city and region.
I have a friend who worked a summer as a ranger at Cloudland Canyon State Park.
Cloudland Canyon has an unusual geological feature, a large alluvial fan.
I remember riding a century bike ride that had one of the sag stops at that park, and I believe the Bicycle Ride Across Georgia has passed through there.
(EDIT: I see you did a Fall Line video 7 months ago, but I am referring to the specifics in GA) I love the series you're doing Shawn. Here are a couple of things for you. I'm from the Providence Canyon region and doing some small scale plowing and planting I really have to fight against the erosion in my sandy soil of the Georgia Fall Line area. I think a good Geological area to cover is the "Fall Line" - which I refer to as an ancient beach front that runs across GA (Augusta - Macon - Columbus) and into AL. Hwy 80 is a good marker for the fall line. The name comes from where rivers and creeks crossing this line tend to have falls of some sort associated with them. To the North is the Piedmont Region - rolling pine covered hills with hardwood bottoms made up of Georgia's famous red clay. To the south is the Coastal Plain of relative flat land made up of sandy soil. From Google satellite maps you'll see the area covered in agricultural fields where cotton, peanuts, corn, soybeans and other crops are grown. The fall line is the division between the two Regions. It also produces Kaolin mines where ancient marine fossils, such as shark's teeth, clams, sand dollars and more can be found. It has a unique bio-diversity too like the Gopher Tortis, Eastern indigo snakes, red-cockaded woodpeckers, long leaf pines, and I've heard that the Alligator will not cross the fall line, but I've seen them in Harris County which is north of Columbus, GA where the fall line can be seen in the rapids of the Chattahoochee River. Another area I'd recommend looking at is Sequatchie Valley in TN. Looking at it on Google Satellite it appears to be a really long straight valley stuck between the Cumberland Plateau and Walden Mountain. I've always found it to be an interesting image from the Satellite view.
Thank you for your work here. I was stationed at Attu for a year in 2002. It is truly a unique place. To add to your accurate description of the island, that monument that looks like it belongs on top of a Christmas tree, is for the Japanese Colonel that died and was buried there during WW2. Once a year, the Colonel's daughter would come to pay respects. It was interesting to see. Also, there are many underground bunkers large enough for a fleet of heavy trucks, are mostly buried, but still accessible. The most interesting one for me is that the only Coast Guard C-130 to crash, did so on the island on July 30th, 1982. The wreckage was still there, mostly, and we would hike to it when new members came to the station, telling the story. One of the surviving crew members of that crash that killed 2, came to visit as a Master Chief. That was a good story to hear from a survivor. What a great place to have lived for a year.
Love the series. Some suggestions are Sioux quartzite, Minnesota River at Mankato, Black Hills and Devils tower, Nebraska Sandhills and pine ridge.
I especially enjoyed learning about the Aleutian Islands because I haven't heard much about them.
I visited Mt. Lemmon in Tucson last May. Absolutely stunning views. I just wanted to say also the Ponderosa Forest near Sedona is also amazing!
I’ve lived in columbus most of my life. Providence Canyon is always a treat to visit. I may include that on the trail walk around the perimeter of the canyon, there are very very old cars and machinery that add on to the uniqueness of the area. How they got there? Who knows. Highly recommend everyone visit. The near by offroad trails are also fun to mess around on.
Oh please! Its been so long since I've been and I unfortunately moved way up north. I'd definitely watch!
The old cars are there because these used to be farms.
I’d be interested in hearing about the Oachita mountains in Arkansas and Oklahoma. And why the layers of rock and sediment on the cliff faces are at such extreme angles, and often even verticle
The Ouachita's are a reminant of the same collision that created the Smoky Mountains during the construction of Pangea. They are often confused for being part of the much younger Ozarks to their north. The vertical rocks are the eroded reminants of a folded series of rocks that the top of the fold was removed via erosion, leaving the near vertical rocks of the fold's sides to be enjoyed today.
I've been to the Canyon in Georgia last year in May. It's really beautiful and it's story is very interesting. Definitely worth a visit!
I just found your channel! Not sure if you've covered this yet but West Virginia has a cranberry bog on top of the mountains in the Monongahela National Forest. The bog has weather, flora and fauna typical of Canada and northern New England, as a result of landshaping performed by the retreat of the last Ice Age. It's literally and figuratively a cool place.
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I love this series, really interesting that there is an Aleut / Filipino community existing out there. Ethnic group anomalies would be a cool addition to this series too. Love these keep it up
Dude. Thank you, I found your channel today and I am absolutely hooked. Right up my alley.
Check out the Driftless Area! It's a region of the Upper Mississippi Valley that has evaded glaciation for at least the past 100,000 years. It is characterized by a fractal-like arrangement of deep (>300') valleys with steep limestone/sandstone cliffs, karst topography, disappearing streams/rivers, and some of the finest trout streams in the country.
@Ethan Fuhrman that sounds interesting & beautiful.
Second this suggestion - the area also has features called Algific Slopes, hillsides where unique geology keeps them unseasonably cool and support endemic species of organisms including the Pleistocene Snail :)
He’s already covered it in the previous videos of the series
I'd recommend scoping out the Chiracahua National Monument in southern Arizona. The rock formations out there rival those of Bryce Canyon and are much more remote with far fewer visitors.
4:00 Actually to a large degree the sky islands aren't explained by greater orographic rainfall but by lower evaporation due to cooler temperatures, both while the rain is falling (so less rain evaporates in the air as virga) and after the rain has fallen, i.e. the plants are under less evaporative stress. Most of Arizona's precipitation falls in the summer in big monsoon thunderstorms and it is not really orographic in nature, it's due to atmospheric convection. In the winter the sky islands probably do see more orographic precipitation as storm fronts move through, and some of this will last into the late winter/spring as snow.
Super interesting and obscure information, you earned a sub.
Carcross Desert in Yukon Territory, Canada. About 1 sq mi of sand dunes in the rain shadow of some mountains in southwestern Yukon, and they're surrounded by taiga.
Anticosti Island in Quebec, Canada. A large island smack dab in the middle of the Gulf of St Lawrence. The island itself doesn't seem too unusual at first glance, but it has a number of canyons carving through the cliffs and into the ocean, including a large and unexpected waterfall, Vaureal Falls.
Watched the video to see the canyons in Georgia. Grew up in Augusta and never knew this was there! But you really blew my mind with the Lake Wales peninsula…lived in Lake Wales when i was in first grade and remember walking around on the playground and finding sharks teeth and sea shells... in the middle of Florida! Those pictures totally looked like i remember my back yard- cactuses and sand spurs everywhere! So cool! Thank you
I really enjoy this series you've put together. I enjoy unique geography that has largely been forgotten. I think it would be interesting to learn more about unique places where people settled such as the "fall line" where rivers more or less ended for boat inland. You can see this chain on the maps today. Everyone talks about the east coast fall line, but im curious of the branches off the Mississippi river and such. "How early settlers used geography" to settle would be fascinating to learn. It would be even cooler if you can find a few "unsettled places" like where things seem "optimum." Maybe they're all settled? All the big cities already took them? Then theres all the "coming disasters" I know a group that thinks we're going to see a climate migration East, then north due to water issues, we already know the colorado river issues longer term ...their theories on that are grim yet interesting on how that will play out. "will Florida flood again?" (raising sea levels)
I just stumbled upon your channel. Thank you for making this fascinating video -- Loved it! Instant sub. :)
Indiana dunes is interesting because you can see arctic plants in a temperate climate, some call it when the south meets north.
Not gonna lie I didn't believe this so I looked it up and wtf man Indiana dunes is mad! Prickly pears there too!?! Very bizarre!
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Why would prickly pears growing there be bizarre? To me it seems like the perfect environment. Lowish rainfall, it isn't too cold, and the area would have good drainage.
@@brandon9172 Right sure conditions are great but it's still pretty weird that desert plants are sharing space with arctic plants in an area that is neither a desert nor the arctic.
That was totally refreshing! I never knew any of this! Love it!
I was actually talking to a friend about Providence Canyon two days ago
I absolutely love this video!!! Def watching the other ones
The part of the Lake Wales Ridge in Lake Wales are (at the Bok Tower Gardens) is called Iron Mountain and is the highest point in Florida. We you stand on it and look out, it feels like you're out west where that type of height is very normal. I didn't realize it stretched as far as it did. Thanks for sharing.
Actually, Britton Hill in Walton Cty located in the panhandle is the highest point in Florida, The LWR may be the highest in the peninsula portion of Florida
The Little Grand Canyon was the one park I missed in GA. Its a long trip back down but its a really cool area and a neat state
I'm curious where you got the Florida "lake whales ridge" we were taught in school, it was called the 'ocala rift' After googling- the name 'Ocala rift" doesn't come up on google- but google points at it being called the lake whales ridge like its common knowledge? I'm from that area- have called it the ocala rift for 25+ years and often will joke it's the ocala mountain range..
Two years ago I took a 3 week trip around the Midwest and West. I visited the Badlands in SD, the Grand Canyon, Saguaro National Park, and on my way home to Georgia, I stopped at Providence Canyon.
Maine. Moose, pine trees and monthly blizzards Maine has a desert
(don't go there. It's a tourist trap and it sucks)
I used to live in Yonkers NY just across from the Palisades of New Jersey. It's a remarkable change from New Jersey and NYC just a few miles south. I know the basic history but perhaps you can expand on it. I have enjoyed the two videos I've seen and look forward to following you.
That first canyon reminds me of the massive open pit ironmines of northern Minnesota. One has been dubbed the Grand Canyon of the north.
that was my same thought. the iron range is full of stuff that looks just like that canyon, especially around the hibbing area
We've missed you, Carter!
Glad to see a new segment. I hope school is going well.
Good to see the “Alps of Florida” getting some recognition. We live on the Brooksville Ridge, the “range” to the west, and people are astounded when the see our view for the first time.
Check out the Cranberry Glades and Beartown State Park, West Virginia.
The glades are an isolated bog on top of a mountain with carnivorous plants, and Beartown, near Droop Mtn. Battlefield has some amazing geology. There's huge crevasses, they're like slowly steering off and sliding down, and ferns and tree roots melt over them. Certainly the most stupendous place in WV♡
Would love it if this was a series too ❤
How awesome everyone chimes in for more content ideas. Nice choice of genre and great execution. Thank you!
Very well done video. It lured me in with the title (I'm from Georgia), but I stayed and watched the whole thing because it was very well done. And you got to the info in the title (providence canyon) in the first couple of minutes and did not make me wait to the end.
In the next video you could talk about the Freeport Desert up in Maine.
He has already
New sub here. These are places that apparently been completely untouched by geographers and historians. Excellent work.
I have one suggestion: "take a breath" when you switch locations. Aleutians to Florida for example was almost the same sentence. I was still processing Aleutians 5 seconds into Florida.
Please if you do another one of these, include the Prairie Coteau of South Dakota (it extends into Minnesota and arguably Iowa as well). It's a highland that separates the Minnesota and James Rivers. The highest point on the Coteau is 2135 feet above sea level and the landscape atop the coteau versus at the bottom is like two different worlds. At the bottom is standard eastern South Dakota cropland, while at the top all the land is rangeland, and there are thousands of lakes that dot the map, especially in the northern part. Sica Hollow State Park is an easy place that exhibits both worlds. You can see the cropland from the grassland you are hiking in, because of the 800 foot hill you are on the edge of.
id love to go run in the tall grass of the prairies, not much left but there is this one.. I have ancestors that hunted and dwelled in these prairies, yup, chippewa and sioux, other tribes..
The first time I ever went down to Florida to work, I almost forgot where I was at because I had no expectations of seeing land resembling so much of my hometown in West Texas.
Great video as always!
What part of Florida was similar to west Texas?
Been meaning to Google " blue hole camp ground " in (i think) Paulding, Ohio. Growing up in the area, it was always described as a bottomless hole of water. This area was once called The Black Swamp, it had to be drained to be inhabited. Am interested in its history.
Thanks for helping my natural interests, find these topics fascinating.
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Much of this Georgia Canyonland is part of the Ft. Benning military reservation, and trekking up and down the erosion ditches has been the bane of most Ranger School students for decades.
Fantastic vid. I love seeing geographic/ecological oddities that seem more out of a fantasy book than reality.
So much better than what I remember on TV and why I haven't had one for 23 years. Perfect channel name too. Subscribed.
Eastern North Carolina including the Outer Banks is much more interesting than I knew during the time I lived there. Very interesting geology.
As someone who lived in Albany GA for most of my childhood, these canyons were always a fun day trip to visit.
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this is also the reason why we here in az get flash flood warnings even though its not raining where the flood warning is in; the extreme amount of rain dropped on the mountains funnel down into the valleys between the mountains ( also known as the places that are actually populated)
The algorithm served me up something really special. Can't wait to peruse your catalog.
A video on the Niagara Escarpment and how it creates random cliffs in the states and provinces it passes through would be neat.
That canyon in Georgia looks very interesting. With the soil colors and pines it looks like the coastal bluffs in Torrey Pines, California
That was an excellent presentation! Your narration is well written, and the topics are very interesting! SUBSCRIBED!
The Lost Pines around Bastrop, Texas is something I'd suggest. Thanks for the informative video
I grew up on a small cattle ranch in Lake Wales, Fl. We could see Bok Tower poking above the treeline from almost anywhere for miles around the ridgeline. The elevation seems insignificant to many, but my entire childhood, the tower and the ridge were monuments that felt like they grounded the entire region.
I started my channel after watching your videos for a long time TII, thank you for your great videos! Cheers!
That's great to hear! Keep up the good work and best of luck with your channel!
@@ThatIsInterestingTII thank you TII! I appreciate it! Same to you!
A couple other out-of-place bits in Florida are: the Cody Escarpment; which separates the Gulf Coastal Lowlands and the Florida Highlands, and basically runs perpendicular to the Lake Wales Ridge before turning to run parallel to it; and, the hilly terrain of the central highland counties like Madison and Leon. Though, one could argue that these are both part of the same surprising geographical/geological arrangement that most people wouldn't expect from the flattest state. This arrangement also creates the only Class 3 whitewater rapids in FL: Big Shoals, in Hamilton County. And there's also the Alapaha River, which periodically fully drains into a cave system and becomes an underground river for a few miles, also in Hamilton County.
I went there a little after I graduated basic training while I was still in the area. Really cool place with a pleasant, unchallenging hike. Definitely worth a visit if you're in the area.
Mount Taylor in southern new mexico is amazing, I've done that section of CDT many a time and the view from the submit across the high desert was always amazing.
I’ve always been fascinated by White Sands, NM. I’ve seen shows on it, but I am always interested in it and will watch anything you might produce.
This is really interesting! It's the awesome novelty of finding something I haven't heard about before. : )
Went there for the first time a couple months ago. I love about and hour and a half away. Glad I got to see the little grand canyon. It's a good way to spend a day hiking through the trails. Wear boots the canyon can be pretty wet.
This video topic really overlaps with my goals in hiking and exploring microclimates and biomes in the southeastern United States.
You should cover serpentine barrens, there are quite a few in Georgia and North Carolina, the most famous one being Buck Creek Serpentine Barrens. Serpentine barrens on a massive scale are found in southern New Caledonia and the biome is called "miner's terrain". Lots of rare mineral types are found in serpentine soils, as well as rare plants as they create islands of diversity due to the soil prohibiting certain plants from growing and allowing more light to reach the forest floor creating a savanna biome. The rocks there look completely different than the gray granite typical of the region, almost lava like and the soil is a bright orange color as opposed to the rich black soil that rests on top of the thin soil layer over granite typical of the mountains.
There are more features like Providence Canyon on Fort Benning to the north, near the west side of Malone range complex at the Land Navigation site near Tiger Creek and Steam Mill Road, I love the terrain out there so much biodiversity with the creeks, hills, and multiple soil types. Quite a few hoodoos out there.
Also another cool terrain feature would be to cover seepage slopes. There are places in South Carolina, Georgia and North Carolina that have bogs that are on granite domes which have inundations in them that allows soil to collect, these environments can be wet or dry based on the contours of the terrain and the sunny south side or dark north side of the mountain. Ashmore Heritage preserve is my favorite site like this. It has pitcher plants on a granite waterfall, and also desert plants like yucca, cedar, and prickly pear cactus growing side by side. Seepage slopes exist in places like Florida too as permanently wet savannas. Savanna environments in north Florida like those at Wright Lake near the Apalachicola river are imperiled biomes.
The south also has limestone outcrops that exist in the savanna biome. It feels like you are in the Serengeti sometimes. A good example of such a site is Rock Hill in Washington County, Florida. Restricted access owned by Nature Conservancy.
Never knew about the Lake Wales ridge. Very interesting. I’ll have to go check it out. Thanks
I love these videos. Pine Mountain Georgia just north of Providence Canyon is a Geographical oddity as well. The fall line of the Flint River is another with rapids, alligators, and Spanish moss hanging on Rhododendron. Congaree National Park in South Carolina is another. On a much larger scale the Ozarks of Arkansas are out of place in an otherwise flat region of the US.
First of your posts I've seen and well done! You might want to do that desert in eastern Oregon. I had never head of that till recently. Best, from Colorado!
This is the first of your videos that I've seen so I'm not sure what you've covered so far. Growing up in the Los Angeles area, we had annual field trips to the La Brea Tar Pits. Evan as a child, the irony and contrast of an active prehistoric site in the middle of metropolitan L.A. gives you a feeling of being in two different worlds at the same time.
I clicked for the Georgia canyon.
I stayed for everything else.
Excellent piece! Very informative. Thank you!
Have just discovered your channel and subscribed. This was very good and I look forward to viewing more of your vids. I'll also be reflecting on places you might want to look into... that is, if you haven't already!
Great series. Looking forward to your next installment!
Really neat stuff. The sand hills near Santa Cruz CA are really neat.
The Aleutian islands part was super cool, great video
This was riveting bro good job. You're in the algorithm, don't fck it up.
i love this channel because i like random info and unique geography. the sky islands remind me of the ones in east africa. in kenya or something. where there are geckos that are known to live on only one mountain and differ from mountain to mountain.
There’s a miniature one in southern Mississippi called the Red Bluffs. Love that place.
One cold winter day years ago I was hiking in Providence Canyons and it started to snow. It was beautiful beyond description.
Love this series! Been hooked on this subject since we were on vacation in KY and my geologist husband pulled to the side of a mountainous road and said 'I'll be right back." Within 10 mins he came back with a 25 Ib sIab of rock that contained all sorts of seashell fossils! In the mountains! I was fascinated at how this happened. If you haven't already, do a story on ocean fossils in the KY mountains!
We used to hike all through providence canyon, as we lived about an hour from it. There are miles of hiking trails & you can walk down the stream at the bottom until you get too hungry or too tired to find out what's around that next curve.
Would love to get to visit Alaska one day....what a beautiful place. You have to be really impressed by the people who have lived there for so long
Thanks for covering Providence Canyon. Most people in Georgia don't even realize it is there much less go to visit the area. Maybe this will help bring recognition to the area. Love the history part of your videos as well. Keep up the good work.
Please no! There is not enough parking as is and they are clearing beautiful land for more parking.
@@herelieskittythomas3726 Sorry, just love the beautiful places in my state and like to share them. Notice I said nothing about ATL.
Great presentation, Great landscape footage. .
Just discovered your awesome series! I was hoping you'd cover Kaibab national Forrest in AZ then heard you mention it was in another video. Cool place. As a Tucsonan I've actually never heard them called Sky Islands but I'm definitely using it from now on! Mt. Lemmon is such an awesome driving and cycling route!
There is a state park in Florida called ravine gardens state park and yes it have ravines not only that there is a town near it called Palatka Which is oddly on a uplands and on top of all that it right across the st John river and I do live near it . And another thing there is a weird kind of plateau going from Memphis Tennessee across the Yazoo river then the Mississippi river then ending barely in Louisiana and the last one a another plateau again from Kansas city to Sioux city Iowa.
Each of these are fascinating! The sky islands are probably my favorite from this video; I'm going to look up the other videos now. I would love to hear about my two home states, Indiana and Tennessee. People assume Indiana is only flat, and people assume Tennessee is nothing but Smoky Mountains. There's so much more!
Imagine our surprise when, having randomly chosen this video, up popped a picture of our home! You’ve got a new fan!
Great video. Lots of rich content. If I can make a suggestion, put a 3 second pause between locations so we can think about and digest the previous one. I felt like I was being surprise teleported around in this video.
It's in my home county. Grew up in and out of that canyon. Now 23 I've taken several field courses in college that lead us there for geology