How Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles

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  • Опубликовано: 11 май 2024
  • Despite the profound changes we’ve made here in recent history, the epic saga of Los Angeles' natural history is still visible - and even striking - if you know where and how to look for it.
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  • @McPilch
    @McPilch Год назад +1106

    Not only was this out-of-studio format so enjoyable, but hearing Michelle as more of the expert she is rather than just a presenter added so much more to this video! If costs and logistics aren't an issue, hope to see more of these productions! 👏😃

    • @29jgirl92
      @29jgirl92 Год назад +11

      Totally agree!!

    • @gabrielcalvin9229
      @gabrielcalvin9229 Год назад +8

      Absolutely! This was a fun treat.

    • @Megadextrious
      @Megadextrious Год назад +8

      Agreed! I love learning more about historical places hidden in plain sight 😄 I lived in California for 23 years and never even went to see the la brea tar pits, totally want to now.

    • @ultimaIXultima
      @ultimaIXultima Год назад +2

      Seriously this was her best bit yet, I genuinely enjoyed listening to her the entire time - this time.

    • @jf632
      @jf632 Год назад

      Yeah eatzqi can yr

  • @KimberlyGreen
    @KimberlyGreen Год назад +2407

    Please, PBS Eons, more out-of-studio explorations. This was a really enjoyable variation. Thank you Michelle & Blake.

  • @LawrenceOwen
    @LawrenceOwen Год назад +641

    This was cool. To go more into: "Every place has it's geological tale to tell.", it would be awesome to do one of the videos. For each state!

    • @Wockes
      @Wockes Год назад +5

      @Solidarity Forever No, that's impossible!

    • @blogdesign7126
      @blogdesign7126 Год назад +2

      @Solidarity Forever True too.

    • @LawrenceOwen
      @LawrenceOwen Год назад +3

      @Solidarity Forever Absolutely. I just figured this one was done in Cali, they could have one person travel from state to state, (Since PBS is a U.S. based station) while a couple travel the world? But yeah, that would take some serious Patreon donations...

    • @daniwells4195
      @daniwells4195 Год назад +1

      yessss!! I'd love to see this in other states.

    • @jocatherine1400
      @jocatherine1400 Год назад

      "We're going to Florida for this episode of Eons. One fact about it's geology is that sometimes it eat you." - Eons explores sinkholes

  • @dwightdemerchant2176
    @dwightdemerchant2176 Год назад +208

    As a geologist up here in Canada one of my favourite sites is the Joggins Fossil Cliffs in Nova Scotia! A really amazing site with standing fossilized trees and many other plants and animals. Definitely would be a great place to visit for the show. Was also visited and written about by Sir Charles Lyell and then infuenced Darwin himself!

    • @macking104
      @macking104 Год назад

      tropical plants, or temperate forest?

    • @yankldoodl8096
      @yankldoodl8096 Год назад +1

      I live in Halifax. I used to roll my eyes and say no thank you every time anyone suggested going to Joggins. Now, after watching Eons for three years, I am a little ashamed I haven't made it yet and get so excited to explain its significance to people. I also lost my mind when I found out the first dimetrodon fossil was found on PEI. There's so much good paleontology in our neck of the woods!

    • @quietone748
      @quietone748 Год назад

      I've been there. Spectacular area to view geological sediments!

  • @MGood-ij1hi
    @MGood-ij1hi Год назад +386

    Went to the La Brea Tar Pits and was surprised that there were no "pits" there and that all those large animals could be caught in a few inches to a foot of asphalt. The back site of the museum is completely undeveloped due to the asphalt pooling up in low spots, with researchers there actively digging up bones in large asphalt blocks. The museum and dig sites are completely surrounded by downtown LA. It's like a tiny patch of wilderness surrounded by urban Los Angeles. The outside of the museum always smelled like an asphalt road was being laid.

    • @ariochiv
      @ariochiv Год назад +19

      I've heard of the La Brea tar pits, of course, but I had no idea it was right smack in the middle of urban Los Angeles. Something to visit if I ever have to go there again.
      ........nooooooo the traffic aaaaaaaaaaaaaa.......................
      Too many damn people. We need an extinction event pronto. 😵

    • @Googledeservestodie
      @Googledeservestodie Год назад +27

      @@ariochiv my wife and I went to LA for our honeymoon, if you do go schedule it around the free museum day in july, because la Brea is actually pretty small you can explore the whole thing in a few hours, but right next door to it is the art museum and the car museum (where Biggie got drive byed btw lmao) and on free museum day no charge for either of them.

    • @megameow321
      @megameow321 Год назад +13

      It’s funny how it’s neither tar nor pits

    • @easagepie
      @easagepie Год назад +11

      @@ariochiv yeah it's like 3 minutes from Beverly hills 😳 and also if you're looking for a fun disaster movie about the la Brea tar pits, San Andreas fault, and a volcano watch Volcano lol it's good fun about what would if...

    • @easagepie
      @easagepie Год назад +7

      @@Googledeservestodie next time you go, be sure to go to the miniature museum close by as well. It's really cool

  • @celticcharlie7096
    @celticcharlie7096 Год назад +238

    Please go to the bogs of Ireland! Near perfect preservation of humans from countless eras in time, and incredible animals like the great Irish Elk!! Would be an amazing episode!

    • @kiltman13
      @kiltman13 Год назад +3

      Oooh, this is a good idea!

    • @JaneAxon123
      @JaneAxon123 Год назад +4

      @@kiltman13 Also the hillside bogs that are a unique ecosystem created by people cutting down the rainforests 500 years ago.

  • @animalpeeps
    @animalpeeps Год назад +369

    Michelle's enthusiasm and knowledge throughout their explanations was really inspiring. It almost makes me want to consider doing something where I can get to geek out and explain things that surround us! I've been struggling with thinking if going back to school to research and talk about these things with other people is something up my alley or not. The ever-growing enthusiastic kid inside me makes me consider a route similar to this as a career and not just a dream. I really appreciate being able to see Michelle explain all this fascinating stuff in such a satisfyingly understandable way! I really never knew about the fascinating geology they got to walk us through.

    • @extragoogleaccount6061
      @extragoogleaccount6061 Год назад +3

      Whats the subject(s) you would like to pick if you went back to school? What do you love geeking out about?

    • @animalpeeps
      @animalpeeps Год назад +1

      @@extragoogleaccount6061 It's tough for me to decide on anything, really lolol. But overall I generally like biology/ecology and anatomy, so I end up typically enjoying looking at bones/fossils and finding dead things 😅 Discovering more about those animals or plants is so fascinating, so I love to learn about them and teach others of what is known about various things. For awhile I really considered paleontology, but felt I probably couldn't find a career in it without moving away from family. But things related to animal anatomy, their evolution, and how they relate to their environments and to each other (like how things coevolved alongside each other etc) is what I generally love to think about!

    • @gaywizard2000
      @gaywizard2000 Год назад +2

      Just start doing what you like but be mindful of what you need to do to accomplish it. Life will often come together for you. I'm a Gen X r I waited many years to get where I wanted to be!

    • @nicklauzon615
      @nicklauzon615 Год назад +3

      I’m in bio rn. Definitely not as smart as a lot of people in the program but if you’ve got the love for stuff like this it’s worth it. You only live once

    • @sjdkfl
      @sjdkfl Год назад

      When plates collide it’s hard to tell who’s at fault.

  • @kevinbee25
    @kevinbee25 Год назад +179

    Coming from a Caribbean island with its own tar pit (also called la brea) I'm extremely interested in learning about what animals have been discovered in tar pits around the world.
    Ps: Love from Trinidad 🇹🇹

    • @katbairwell
      @katbairwell Год назад +11

      Oh rhat would be a brilliant video, great idea!!

    • @lu.ciel8770
      @lu.ciel8770 Год назад +3

      Ooh I’d love to see that

    • @monticore1626
      @monticore1626 Год назад +4

      I’ve always wondered about tar pits elsewhere and from other time periods, like imagine a tar pit full of dinosaurs

    • @louieralphie2957
      @louieralphie2957 Год назад +1

      Don’t forget Tobago!

  • @CaptainKent
    @CaptainKent Год назад +241

    While visiting the tar pits I once saw some birds feeding on insects that were flying around above the main tar pit that is covered in a thin layer of water. One bird swooped too low and got stuck in the asphalt. Took about 10 minutes for it to go under while struggling. It was sad to watch but absolutely amazing watching the same process going on today as it has been for 10's of thousands of years!

    • @ZombieCupid12
      @ZombieCupid12 Год назад +6

      Such a cool story, thanks for sharing!

    • @ecurewitz
      @ecurewitz Год назад +6

      Poor thing

    • @Gadavillers-Panoir
      @Gadavillers-Panoir Год назад +5

      Live by the sword, die by the sword.

    • @einsiol
      @einsiol Год назад +5

      Almost sound like a Venus flytrap, like a living thing that is able to feed itself passively

    • @deboralee1623
      @deboralee1623 Год назад +3

      in the early '70s, i volunteered there. one day, some guests told the security guard a bird had gotten stuck in the Lake Pit. the guard (carrying a long metal rod), the guests, and i went to see the unfortunate creature. the guard climbed the fence near the bird, balanced himself on the ground/lake shore, placed one end of the rod -- um, i'm gonna end this here; suffice it to say, the bird didn't take about 10 minutes to be put out of its misery.

  • @haldon12
    @haldon12 Год назад +65

    You almost mentioned one of my favorite geology/geography quirks of California! The same tectonic shift that rotated the Santa Monica mountains also shifted land north. Drake's Bay (just north of San Francisco) is actually geologically linked to the land around LA!

    • @andyjay729
      @andyjay729 Год назад +11

      Yeah, it's on the Pacific Plate whereas most of the Bay Area is on the North American. Likewise, the landscape of Pinnacles National Park south of Hollister is part of Neenach Volcano way down near Lancaster, just north of Vasquez Rocks. And the rocks of the Farallon Islands (as well as some of the rocks visible along the old road in the Devils Slide area just south of Pacifica) are related to the rocks of the Sierras.

    • @DoahnKea_Tuber
      @DoahnKea_Tuber Год назад

      @Haldon; and @Andyjay729 -- Your Comments Made This Cool Video Even Better! I'm off to read more... 🙂

  • @natmorse-noland9133
    @natmorse-noland9133 Год назад +76

    I love this! Michelle's natural charisma shone through in a way I haven't seen in her scripted videos. Would love to see her do more tour guiding.

    • @Jop_pop
      @Jop_pop Год назад +16

      I think they purposefully try to avoid putting this in the video to avoid controversy, but Michelle uses they/them pronouns. Just a heads up!

    • @jaimequinones1109
      @jaimequinones1109 Год назад +1

      @@Jop_pop this needs to be a main comment, thank you so much for saying this!

    • @Orangeman47
      @Orangeman47 9 дней назад

      ​@@Jop_popnobody cares

  • @robertxavier44
    @robertxavier44 Год назад +21

    As a naive Los Angelo, thank you for this episode. I’ve been to all those sites, and it’s wonderful to be reminded of the long geological history of my home.

  • @vince_c
    @vince_c Год назад +182

    I really enjoyed this, going out of the studio and exploring was surprisingly fun! More like this if possible, thank you, Eons!

  • @ziizification
    @ziizification Год назад +71

    As many others have said, please PLEASE do more videos like this! It's both a really cool way to learn and a fun way to get to know the hosts better too!

  • @Psychol-Snooper
    @Psychol-Snooper Год назад +13

    I remember hiking in the Santa Monica Mountains as a child, and my father telling me how the rock strata was an ancient sea floor upthrust by tectonic forces. My mind was just totally blown. It's such revelatory knowledge that effects everything you know.

  • @Leomoon101
    @Leomoon101 Год назад +31

    This is a great episode. I hope it becomes a series with a clever name like the "Packing Paleontologist" or something. I hope you go to the Grand Canyon, Sedona, or Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. Those places really have some exciting stories to tell.

  • @TheCleric42
    @TheCleric42 Год назад +46

    Eons, y’all should do a similar field trip to the Chesapeake to show us how it was excavated by a meteorite!

    • @andyjay729
      @andyjay729 Год назад +2

      Also one on the theories of how Hudson Bay and the Gulf of Mexico both got their almost perfectly round shapes.

    • @extragoogleaccount6061
      @extragoogleaccount6061 Год назад

      Wait, really? How have I lived in VA my whole life and never known this? I knew that part of the Hudson is speculated to have been, as commented below, but hadn't heard that about the Chesapeake!

    • @extragoogleaccount6061
      @extragoogleaccount6061 Год назад +1

      @@andyjay729 Wasn't the meteorite that killed the dinosaurs partially on the Yucatan and partially in the ocean (instead of making/falling along the larger outline of the Gulf)? Was there an earlier and much larger one that made the bay and the curved coastline there? (I had originally pictured the crater from the one that killed the dinosaurs ass the whole bay/coastline because of its roundness...but I thought I learned that this waasnt the case.)

  • @ridethecurve55
    @ridethecurve55 Год назад +76

    I've always wanted to visit this 'tarribly' wonderful attraction in downtown LA! Thanks for a glimpse of what it's like, Eons!

    • @DogFoxHybrid
      @DogFoxHybrid Год назад

      It's not exactly Downtown - more like Wilshire area and it's honestly not that interesting of a museum to visit unless you're an ice age fauna specialist. Basically lots and lots of wolf or dire "wolf" skulls and a skeleton or two of the other critters. Now if you want a grand Natural History museum, you'll be well off going to the Smithonian in DC or the one in NYC.

    • @deboralee1623
      @deboralee1623 Год назад

      "tarrably". well done.

    • @deboralee1623
      @deboralee1623 Год назад

      @@DogFoxHybrid and i thought it was bad when NHM was referred to as being located "Downtown"; at least _that_ museum is close-ish to Downtown L.A.

  • @kelseywoodie3012
    @kelseywoodie3012 Год назад +44

    When Michelle was explaining the angles of the rock, it was super cool to hear them speak more like a professor! I think more of these exploration videos would be fun!

  • @darwinism8181
    @darwinism8181 Год назад +30

    Michelle really seems like one of those professors who's great at imparting their passion and knowledge to their students in relatable ways. This video was amazing, and I'd love to see more like it!

    • @Jenacide
      @Jenacide Год назад

      Nah I'd quit that class day 1

    • @CaraTheStrange
      @CaraTheStrange Год назад +2

      In the comments under their first solo video someone commented that they got geology from them at uni and that michelle was a great proff

  • @jcortese3300
    @jcortese3300 Год назад +42

    This whole thing made me so homesick. I lived in southern CA for 26 years after growing up on the east coast, and I lovelovelovelove the whole desert vibe out there. Brown, dry desert mountains are the most beautiful landscape on the planet to me. Someday, I want to go back.

    • @MiguelGarcia-vj7oo
      @MiguelGarcia-vj7oo Год назад +3

      Yea your gonna have to waite a while for the crime to go down....... I was gonna visit L.A this summer, and my family there said it's too dangerous.....

    • @Loneeeey
      @Loneeeey Год назад

      its a shytehole now mate

    • @christopher5958
      @christopher5958 Год назад +6

      Not anymore dangerous than the late 90's, and you wouldn't have minded visiting then.

    • @farticlesofconflatulation
      @farticlesofconflatulation Год назад

      I hope you like tents and humans in their feral state of being.

    • @Alusnovalotus
      @Alusnovalotus Год назад +1

      The desert sands await to welcome you back, kid. You just say when

  • @apbourgeois1
    @apbourgeois1 Год назад +15

    Go to the lower Mississippi river valley. You can talk about salt domes, liquefaction, oil and gas deposits, the meandering Mississippi Rive and the Atchafalaya River, three rivers damn, oxbow lakes, swamps, acquirers, and all the flora and fauna, etc.

  • @kinetocore
    @kinetocore Год назад +22

    I’d love an episode exploring the human migration from Beringia down the coast of BC. I think there’s been some recent work using GIS /satellite imagery to identify shell middens of the indigenous peoples who lived in BC when the sea level was much lower. Such a diverse geology and important archaeology here!

  • @okwatever3582
    @okwatever3582 Год назад +8

    It’s so fun in La Brea. I was also just using a stick to poke the bubbling asphalt and sitting on the grass when I went to the tar pits. filmed some slow motion and time lapse videos of the bubbling asphalts and literally seeing insects getting stuck in the asphalt as they hopped into those. Really intriguing to imagine how it was like when other animals were stuck at the same place I’m standing on when it was eons ago:)

  • @CarlitoStaxx
    @CarlitoStaxx Год назад +33

    I love Michelle, she’s amazing. She gives me the vibe of the cool science teacher in high school who made it all exciting.

    • @Jop_pop
      @Jop_pop Год назад +7

      Totally agree! Their episodes just carry so much joy. (Michelle uses they pronouns btw :) )

    • @tvs5941
      @tvs5941 Год назад

      @@Jop_pop Ok. That made her instantly uncool.

  • @Kleineganz
    @Kleineganz Год назад +6

    I vote for you to go to Chicago for a future video! I took a geology course when I was a student at the University of Illinois at Chicago back in the early 90s. One part of the course had the professor taking us on a tour through the region to learn the geological history of the area, including why the suburb of Blue Island is named that (it used to be an island in Lake Michigan before the lake receded to its current shoreline), the plethora of marine fossils at an abandoned quarry, and taking a hike to follow a riverbed and study the glacial erratics scattered in the area.

  • @DaveTexas
    @DaveTexas Год назад +8

    I started the video thinking, "Gosh, Blake is looking really tan!" Then I saw that he was doing field research in sunny SoCal and I was like, "Ahhhh, makes sense!"
    Awesome video! Really interesting information and quite fun to watch, too.

  • @Deadwrongallalong
    @Deadwrongallalong Год назад +9

    I enjoy the content on prehistoric species but I absolutely LOVE the topic and execution of this video! Actually seeing how prehistory has impacted modern times is so interesting

  • @oswurth8774
    @oswurth8774 Год назад +18

    WOW! And I didnt think that Eons content could improve! Have always loved the analytical style of the videos, but being able to let education speak is a really interesting progression!

  • @jetoplatypus
    @jetoplatypus Год назад +26

    Hi PBS Eons been really loving your podcast and hopefully you do more sessions of you guys talking together and answering questions🥰

    • @Vorador666
      @Vorador666 Год назад +3

      Really like the podcast too

  • @aneagleinyourmind2415
    @aneagleinyourmind2415 Год назад +1

    My dad took us to La Brea Tarpits in the early 90’s every summer as kids 😭 we drove from Bakersfield every summer. It holds a special place in my heart

  • @alexisc3658
    @alexisc3658 Год назад +3

    Literally just finished a road trip through Southern California including San Bernardino national forest, Joshua tree national park, Mt. San Jacinto, and lake Elsinore. And I get home to see this in my subscription box. Perfect timing 🥰

    • @macking104
      @macking104 Год назад

      you crossed the San Andreas, San Jacinto and Lake Elsinore faults!

  • @TheElizondo88
    @TheElizondo88 Год назад +13

    Dogs still get caught in the tar-pits every now and then. In a few hundred thousand years we will be digging up Chihuahua and Pomeranian fossils and wonder what the hell happed to the direwolves.

  • @1976CrazyK
    @1976CrazyK Год назад +20

    Wonderful. More like this, please. Visiting sites and museums would be amazing.

  • @naturaljustice7702
    @naturaljustice7702 Год назад +1

    Professor Michelle, I just want you to know that your relaxed approach acts as a welcome sign for people who'd like to know but feel as though they are not allowed to ask. Carry on.

  • @TheOriginalFaxon
    @TheOriginalFaxon Год назад +3

    Soooooo, this is officially your best video EVER, please do more like this, it would be excellent to see you guys out in the field whenever possible

  • @ambulocetusnatans
    @ambulocetusnatans Год назад +3

    LOL, I can tell who does more field work. Michelle runs through the crags and valleys like a little fawn and Blake picks his way carefully like an old man on an icy road.

  • @consentclub8431
    @consentclub8431 Год назад +1

    I always love Eons, but this was one of the most engaging episodes by far!
    It's especially cool hearing the presenters talking about their passions in such an easy-to-follow format. They all have such fantastic energy

  • @GeorgeTheDinoGuy
    @GeorgeTheDinoGuy Год назад

    This has most certainly been one of the best videos on your channel! A thoroughly enjoyable watch that will make me appreciate LA’s natural history far more!

  • @supercrownjosie7732
    @supercrownjosie7732 Год назад +10

    fantastic episode!! getting to see the places really made this lesson come alive in my imagination. between this, the regular episodes, and the podcast, yall are just killing it lately. keep up the great work!

  • @tonymark1526
    @tonymark1526 Год назад +4

    Definitely do more of these for other Mountains and features like the Appalachians, Rockies, Volcanic Mountains, etc.

  • @jso6790
    @jso6790 Год назад +1

    I loved this so much. Watching you two interact and just geek out on the geology (which I normally find boring in isolation, but found fascinating in the context of LA and La Brea) and natural history.

  • @Summer-xe6in
    @Summer-xe6in Год назад +1

    This was incredibly well done and the out-of-studio experience is a wonderful change from the in-studio experience. I agree with another who commented that if costs and logistics aren't too much of a challenge that it would nice for future episodes to also be out-of-studio experiences as well. Thanks so much for everyone who made this experience into a video. The host and his friend was truly remarkable as during the video the banter was wholesome. :) Lastly, I want to thank you all again for doing your research and giving credit to the indigenous folks and their land.

  • @DanielDod
    @DanielDod Год назад +3

    Fantastic video! It brought back many memories of exploring the area when I used to live near Vasquez Rocks. I would also take guests to the tar pits and hike the Santa Monica Mountains.
    Also, when you are looking for the fault up near Palmdale/Lancaster, Lake Palmdale on the east side of CA-14 is a sag pond, so that's the fault line.

  • @RavinRay
    @RavinRay Год назад +7

    In my four trips to the US I've been to Rancho La Brea twice: the first time as freshman geology student, the second as a working geologist/paleontologist. Both visits were unplanned though, so next time I'll be sure to write ahead of time to see if I can actually interact with the resident geologists and paleontologists there.

    • @Alusnovalotus
      @Alusnovalotus Год назад +1

      Please do! We’d love to have you visit our crazy city! 🫠

  • @case3474
    @case3474 Год назад +1

    Aw, yall look like you had a blast filming this on location! I hope you get to do more of these, this is a treat

  • @curiodyssey3867
    @curiodyssey3867 Год назад +3

    Wow I learned so many new things because of this video. Amazing job as always.
    I've always had trouble grasping the immense scales of pressure, time, size, and force when it comes to the mechanisms that power tectonic activity. This helped immensely. Thank you

  • @tscream80
    @tscream80 Год назад +10

    "Watch out for Gorn!" 😋

    • @SteveGillow
      @SteveGillow Год назад +3

      I was hoping for a blooper of them doing the slow-mo Kirk/Gorn fight

  • @georgiajeffreys7504
    @georgiajeffreys7504 Год назад +1

    It was really nice to have Michelle as a teacher she did a really fantastic job of explaining everything, your normal in studio videos are awesome but this is fantastic aswell !

  • @prem27mndl
    @prem27mndl Год назад +1

    If any teachers watching this channel, please ask your schools to allow PBS Eons in the Geology classes.
    These videos are very informative and easy to understand against all those almost futile efforts we put into understanding only by reading those geology textbooks.

  • @AdahliaBiPunk
    @AdahliaBiPunk Год назад +5

    Loved this episode! Would love to see more like this!! Always makes my day to see a new video from ya'll!!

  • @StevenRud
    @StevenRud Год назад +3

    This video is truly spectacular and well made!!! Greatly explained… could listen and watch these videos all day long!!! One of the best channels out there on RUclips!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😎😎😎😎

  • @Tinyvalkyrie410
    @Tinyvalkyrie410 Год назад

    This is absolutely my favorite episode you guys have done yet. Id love to see more off the cuff, field trip, interview style episodes

  • @owlseye7108
    @owlseye7108 Год назад +1

    Do more of these, this was highly entertaining. Literally anywhere, I don't even care, but this format is fantastic!

  • @zamani3535
    @zamani3535 Год назад +12

    This was great! I'd love to see more of these kind of videos :)

  • @AMPdphoto
    @AMPdphoto Год назад +6

    This was great! Would love to see you two wander the rainforests anywhere in the Pacific Northwest? Thanks for everything you do!

    • @Alusnovalotus
      @Alusnovalotus Год назад

      There are rain forests in the north west?!

    • @GillianMStarlight
      @GillianMStarlight Год назад

      @@Alusnovalotus Temperate, not tropical, rain forest.

    • @AMPdphoto
      @AMPdphoto Год назад

      @@Alusnovalotus Like Gillian said they are temperate rainforests but to my Canadian self they are still very much rainforests and contain some of the oldest trees in North America (like 2000 years old old!)! They are SO special! I highly recommended looking them up! They also contains elusive sea wolves, and the immensely special Spirit Bears.

  • @malcaniscsm5184
    @malcaniscsm5184 Год назад +1

    This channel is one of the most wholesome, educational and entertaining on RUclips. Please keep going guys!

  • @k-saurrous
    @k-saurrous Год назад +1

    I usually pass on vids that dont follow the usual layout.. I'm a creature of habit, sue me. But this, I watched the whole thing! glued to the screen. More like dis please!! 🥳

  • @Pfhorrest
    @Pfhorrest Год назад +5

    It's also part of the Transverse Ranges, but I'd love if you'd do something on the Topatopa Mountains specifically, especially in the Ojai Valley. There is such interesting geology here: an enormous bluff (after which the mountains are named) with visible strata that is horizontal but upside-down (older rock on top); a waterfall at over 3000ft elevation that's made out of fossilized coral and around which you can find fossil oysters from when the whole area was underwater; near there, a view toward the ocean where you can see the California Channel Islands as though they were just another ridge of the mountain range, because they actually are! I have also heard a theory that the Monterey Submarine Canyon originally formed at the mouth of the Channel before being pushed further up the coast, as there is an enormous submarine waterfall at the mouth of the Channel; part of that theory involved the Colorado River having once emptied through what's now the Santa Clara River basin, across the (then-above-water) Channel floor and off the continental shelf, down that (now-submarine) waterfall into (what's now) the Monterey Submarine Canyon.

    • @sujimtangerines
      @sujimtangerines Год назад +2

      I've been to Monterrey & one of the Channel Islands (along with all the NPS properties in the lower 48 + all but Molokai in Hawaii), but I don't think I visited any of the other features you mentioned.
      It sux a bit to find out that there's so much - and sometimes more interesting - geology, geography, anthropology & paleontology that's not incorporated into those parks/sites.
      Guess I'll just have to start a new list and do it all over again. Thanks for the info!

  • @brendanwright1992
    @brendanwright1992 Год назад +3

    Y’all should check out the painted hills in Oregon. Also, I love how y’all did this video, keep up the good work!

  • @isabelladesouzaleao9662
    @isabelladesouzaleao9662 Год назад

    I love the typical format of the videos on PBS Eons but this was such a fun treat to watch. Would love to see more out of studio features with experts in future!

  • @rahbrt
    @rahbrt Месяц назад

    As a native born Angeleno, this was extremely pleasant! Both of you made this very fun to watch!

  • @goodthingsonly23
    @goodthingsonly23 Год назад +6

    I would love to see y'all do a series of america like this! Exploring all the states different geological tales.

    • @macking104
      @macking104 Год назад

      there was another PBS 3 episode show, "Making North America" that covers various parts of the US... search for : nova making north america

  • @ProfezorSnayp
    @ProfezorSnayp Год назад +5

    I like this new format. More please.

  • @lynnclapper997
    @lynnclapper997 Год назад +1

    Blake needs a 30 minute show visiting with specialists around the world

  • @kevinbee25
    @kevinbee25 Год назад

    Loved this one. Having spoken about the la brea tar pits in so many videos previously, it was lovely to be taken there to see and explore it

  • @cheaplaughkennedy2318
    @cheaplaughkennedy2318 Год назад +3

    Really good segment, wish it were longer

  • @anasevi9456
    @anasevi9456 Год назад +17

    Great new format guys, i really enjoyed this one. Hope to see more of these in the field videos once in a while.

  • @matthewgillam-lewis6831
    @matthewgillam-lewis6831 Год назад

    Wow! This is one of my favorite Eons episodes. So amazing to see y’all out in the wild!!! 🤓 Really, what a treat. ☺️ More of these in-the-wild episodes, please! 😁

  • @MrMakae90
    @MrMakae90 Год назад

    This episode was SUPER fun and SUPER informative, it is amazing how you managed to do both! Michelle's personality got a lot more room to shine! Amazing episode.

  • @jacobv3396
    @jacobv3396 Год назад +3

    Loved this episode. More field trips, please!

  • @andresdeleon5160
    @andresdeleon5160 Год назад +7

    This is interesting and fascinating

  • @lukemorris261
    @lukemorris261 Год назад

    Can't speak higher of this channel! Love the normal in-studio videos and also this new flavor! You guys rock!!!

  • @ericatchley3482
    @ericatchley3482 Год назад +1

    I was in LA last September and the one place above all others I made a point of seeing was the Labrae tar pits! If your ever there dont miss it! Also the Peterson Auto museum, as a retired mechanic it's the coolest car museum ever!

  • @jaimequinones1109
    @jaimequinones1109 Год назад +6

    I absolutely loved all of this. PLEASE do this more often, i loved hearing Michelle talk about everything. They clearly are very knowledgeable and comfortable with the material and just so charismatic. I always thought they were awesome but this made them an even bigger star for me! More out of studio travels, bonus if they're with Michelle!
    Edit: found out Michelle uses they/them pronouns.

  • @phionella7
    @phionella7 Год назад +3

    This was an awesome episode

  • @jessicacaraballo645
    @jessicacaraballo645 Год назад

    I liked the two hosts getting to interact with each other... Combined with the voice over it made a fun dynamic

  • @hfangle13
    @hfangle13 Год назад

    This was wonderful!! Great job to all involved, I loved the out of studio vibe of this one, could definitely see a recurring maybe monthly, bi-monthly situation being super interesting!! Take care!

  • @alicecain4851
    @alicecain4851 Год назад +8

    Thank you for taking us on such an interesting trip!
    Who knew that tar - asphalt - could be so interesting?
    Or fun? (Well, now. Not back then so much...)

  • @7inrain
    @7inrain Год назад +5

    _"Every place on Earth does have its own unique geological tale that's just waiting to be told."_
    So true. I'm living very close to the Neandertal valley in Germany where the first Neanderthal hominids were found. But this fact makes a lot of people overlook the fascinating geological story of the valley itself which of course is a lot older than the Neanderthals who lived here 40,000 years ago. This valley was cut by a creek into calcite rocks that were formed from corals living in the shelf sea near the coast of an ancient continent, the so-called Old Red Continent 380 million years ago.
    And for you Americans: Big parts of the Old Red Continent went into North America. So if for example you are living in Maine you can rightly claim that the Neandertal was not that far away in the past because regions of your home state once were coastline of the Old Red Continent. And if you would have gone scuba-diving there 380 million years ago you would have seen the corals that later formed the valley that gave its name to the Neanderthals (and that can still be found here in the valley if you keep an open eye).

  • @_maxgray
    @_maxgray Год назад

    Eons has just a marvelous set of hosts. They're all different, yet somehow all perfect for this.

  • @ashiik
    @ashiik Год назад

    PBS eons you all rock! Eons and deep look are my fav pbs productions out of anything. So educational and you can tell they are both so passionate

  • @williandalsoto806
    @williandalsoto806 Год назад +3

    This was really fun!

  • @daniellstephen
    @daniellstephen Год назад +4

    This format is really, and I mean REALLY GOOD, enjoyable and refreshing! It has that Great Big Story vibes to it. Keep these up please!

  • @TomZarek24
    @TomZarek24 Год назад

    Honestly, my favorite episode yet! More episodes outside of the studio please!

  • @loue6563
    @loue6563 Год назад

    Ever noticed how all of Eons host talk alike? Even though they have difficulty accents, They have the same cadence to their speech patterns. I’m not be critical at all I like how they tell their stories they are all very talented at getting and keeping your attention. They are so good at explaining all the activities of earths Eons!!! Great job all!!

  • @KB48996
    @KB48996 Год назад +20

    The main reason I want to visit California is to see the La Brea tar pits

    • @1922BluePhoenix
      @1922BluePhoenix Год назад +2

      I love it there

    • @anasevi9456
      @anasevi9456 Год назад +2

      I went there as a teen on holiday, it was incredible. California is like a giant amusement park, where there are so many incredible places to visit that can be realistically visited within a vacation timeframe. It's not to horrifically spread out, remote like my own country [Australia].
      Even our great barrier reef is a 3 hour boat ride from the docks. lol

  • @5chr4pn3ll
    @5chr4pn3ll Год назад +3

    This was great fun

  • @Nuggetbinch
    @Nuggetbinch Год назад +1

    I'd love if Eons did another video on the geologic history of California, because it's really really interesting to learn about faults and fossils and such.

  • @theambassador2350
    @theambassador2350 Год назад +1

    I wanna thank the humans who kept immaculate pictures and videos from 30 million years ago.

  • @geniusmp2001
    @geniusmp2001 Год назад +7

    I enjoyed this variation on the standard Eons content. If you ever do something like this again, may I recommend Cincinnati? I visited the Caesar Creek Lake spillway earlier this year, and you basically can't find a rock that isn't an Ordovician fossil.

  • @relwalretep
    @relwalretep Год назад +3

    Thanks

  • @da_ostrichyeet7999
    @da_ostrichyeet7999 Год назад +2

    This was amazing!
    Thank you for this wonderful tour, cheers bro

  • @NendoNow
    @NendoNow Год назад

    Absolutely loved this video. Seeing you guys out and about made the video so more engaging.

  • @YungassPadawan
    @YungassPadawan Месяц назад

    One of my favorite episodes. I’ve watched this 4-6 times in the last year.

  • @octipuscrime
    @octipuscrime Год назад +3

    Please come to Scotland!! 😁

  • @activefitgym1046
    @activefitgym1046 Год назад +3

    Loved it! And big thanks to the blurb at the end recognizing native land and practices.

  • @Philc854
    @Philc854 Год назад

    A brilliant episode! Very informative and nicely entertaining. Much as I love all of your output, more field excursions like this please! Greetings from the UK.

  • @lindsaynic
    @lindsaynic Год назад

    This was awesome! I loved the format.
    You should come do something like this in Western and Central New York and talk about the landscape dug out by glaciers! The Great Lakes, the finger lakes, Niagara Falls, the Genesee River….hills and mountains and gorgeousness abound!

  • @Getpojke
    @Getpojke Год назад +4

    Nice, I really enjoyed the longer format of this episode, hopefully you can do more in the future? Interesting stuff too, the geology there is dynamic [and still active] plus the tar pits are fascinating.
    Thank you.