I want to clarify two things; 1) The sea water was not boiled to precipitate the salt. Rather, it was simple evaporation of the sea water. 2) The pancake analogy was used to show the shapes of flowing material. The heat to create the pancake is not important.
to: “Myron Cook”, For what it’s worth, my working hypothesis is that a major geological process responsible for shaping and reshaping Earth’s surface, mainly continental divisions and coastlines, has been overlooked. Generally, when we think of geological erosion we think of small amounts of materials being worn away by wind, water or ice (glacial motion) over long periods of time. However, I am of the opinion that Earth geological erosion processes aren’t always so subtle. That being said, I conjecture that Earth periodically casts off, setting adrift the entirety of its polar ice accumulations mainly upon the Northern Pacific & Sothern Atlantic oceans within 8-16 hours, from start to finish. Once irreconcilably off axis and adrift, these massive accumulations of ice would disrupt ocean currents and begin to accelerate in the direction of centrifugal force outward away from the Earth’s axis and towards the equator. The Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets are estimated to contain 4.6 and 7.2 million square miles of ice respectively and having almost zero rotational velocity, they would achieve relative impact velocities with their new surroundings (equatorial land masses/continent(s)) upward of nine hundred miles per hour, capable of displacing millions square miles of earth and rock in a matter of hours (rifting by extrusion). The proceeding bow wave, and ensuing wake would drive massive ice flow tsunamis inland causing further erosion. Additionally, the subsequent melting and runoff should be capable of carving great canyons on relatively short geological time scales. What do you think?
Enters Hyperborean Enigma : " Dear Professor, could You, please, provide the Bathymetric Map of the Tulomaa River Delta ...and the Apollo's Temple/ Resting House Conundrum will be all but....could You imagine, dear Professor, the Schliemann's déjà vu situation...?!? "
I have to hand it to the algorithm. I would never in my life search for this content, yet I’m here and absolutely fascinated by this topic. Your students don’t know how lucky they are, having such a knowledgeable and kind person to teach them. Well done 👍
Any teacher actually teaching and not indoctrinating young minds with "WOKE" communism BS, is a teacher I can get behind!!! Very interesting video!!! So disgusted watching what's happening to kids at colleges across the country!!!
@@cheebaman4728 the only to prevalent American groups that I will immediately get into a debate/argument with are neo confederates and woke Social justice warriors.
Thank you so much for this video. My late wife was a petroleum geologist working out of Houston before we were married and this is what she did. Her talk often mentioned salt domes and she explained them as where they looked for oil, but we did not talk much about the deep time geology of how they formed in the Gulf. I am an engineer and we talked "shop" many times about our work. I had taken several geology courses so I could follow some of what she was describing, but this video has made it so much more real and clear to me. I am now 75 and will be 76 this year and she passed ten years back, but your video has given me a much deeper feel and understanding of what she did. I AM a new subscriber and look forward to more videos.
I am 75 and stumbled into your "mini class" about a complex geological feature on the sea floor in the Gulf of Mexico, something from which you revealed evidence of numerous geological processes, all brought to light by your knowledge and remarkably clear and personally well-presented teaching. To be importantly noted, this is what teaching is about, that from which genuine learning can be exercised. Teaching on this order is what fuels not only more learning but sharpens minds for new discovery. Being a Christian man it most expands my understanding about the magnificence of God thru characteristics of His Creation. My sincere thanks.
first of all I would like to say I'm sorry for your loss even though I know it was 10 years ago it's just like a few days ago that y'all met for the first time .
If someone told me, “Sit down. I want you to watch this 25 minute video on the geologic makeup of the Gulf of Mexico” I would have said, “Nope. I don’t think so.” But I somehow happened upon this video all on my own, and your teaching style, tone and kind face immediately had me interested in the topic! I even subscribed! 65 years old but will never be too old to learn!
I would probably have moved on, except that I’ve dove some of the shallower parts of that structure. Having read up on this, already knew there were salt domes under at least part of the area. Would not have guessed surface structure was due to flow, instead guessed holes were from salt dome collapse.
And you bought this? With the name Carol Child of God, I would hope you would be smarter then that. You think the Earth is hundreds of millions of years old? SMH
I’m a rock mechanics engineer for the gold mining industry … a geologic engineer by education. For the most part, I’ve been successful with rock mechanics and geotechnical stuff, but I think I forgot about what led me to the geologic sciences in the first place. Wonderful channel!!! Thanks for your willingness to teach … geology is so much more interesting than rock mechanics!!!
I pondered the other day about how the education system managed to make me loathe subjects I've discovered in my adult life that I find really interesting. Your excellent presentation has the opposite effect of making me curious about something I originally wasn't all too interested in. Presentation matters. Anything can be presented in a way that makes it undigestible to even the most curious of men. The opposite is also true, anything presented in the right way can spark the mind of almost anyone.
I got put off geology by having to draw fossils in a course of historica geology that should have been interesting. Also the prof talked about formations he could see i his mind but I sure couldn;t.
A lot of that "how the education system managed to make you loathe subjects" has a lot to do with your brain development at that age. Most students of high school age aren't ready to truly understand the subjects that are taught. They also don't understand the importance of each subject. I know of many teachers who put in a ton of hours and money planning fun experiments and discussions and activities, only to have the students blow it off and half-heartedly do it. Apathy is a big problem.
Wasn't the education system, it was us and the normal shortness of attention span that average children possess. As individuals, even when we are children, are more so responsible to apply the effort to learn than the system. Assuming the educational systems instruction is up to standards, the student has to engage into the information they are given. We do so love playing the victim and cast all blame on other people or entities for our failures and setbacks. I still get a giggle when these folks explain occurrences and such and the time period must have been about 60 million years ago but can't figure out what direction the bullet came from that killed JFK only 60 years ago.
I remember the teachers that made an impact! A third grade teacher that helped me to love reading. A math teacher that showed me girls can learn it too!. Are the good ones all gone?? Can't be- we just need to give these great teachers the recognition they deserve!!!🍎⭐
I feel the same way. I would have taken more geology classes except I was a music major going with my strength. I had a wonderful career in music, but I still remember that single geology class, and I'm finding it to be reminiscent of that class, though on topics we never touched upon. I don't know if they even knew about this when I was taking geology in my freshman year. It's amazing how many new things have been discovered in just that half a century. I want another lifetime so I can see what happens in the next fifty years! Maybe if I magically get another fifty years, I'll become a geologist.
@@Chompchompyerded IKR? It blew me away the other day to realize that plate tectonics had become acceptable to modern geophysics in my lifetime, that ocean floor spread was in my lifetime, that finding part of a rock structure from NY state in England was in my lifetime.😂 I cannot even imagine what we will learn in the next very short span of history with our knowledge base growing exponentially!! Just reading some of the advances in technology, things that are on the cusp of becoming reality is mind boggling. In human hands, it's also quite terrifying.
For a tutorial on interstellar travel see Pleadian contactee Billy Meiers material with a narrative by Randolf Winters...hit the video icon.You will see crystal clear photos & 8mm film footage of 3 different types of spacecraft with 3 different types of propulsion system,s.
As someone who has lived on the Louisiana gulf coast for the majority of my life, I've always been fascinated by salt domes but never took the time to really learn about their formation. This sheds so much light on something that has been a mystery to me since childhood. Your video was a wonderful learning experience; thank you so much for sharing it with us!
Also spent my life fishing the best fishery in the world and while I never got this educated on it I was aware of the general theory about the salt domes and why they contribute to abundant fish life. Anyone running the rip for Tuna has been running that exact geological formation even if they didn't know it. Not quite that far out but same situation. Appreciate the attention to home!
I'm in Louisiana as well. About 20 years ago I had to do an inspection for the dept. of energy. The location was an old set of buildings that the government had purchased to convert into a high security facility. You wouldn't know by looking at it but you'd have to go through metal detectors and have dogs sniff your vehicle, men would check under every vehicle with mirrors, etc. But the whole operation was based on the salt dome below the facility. They were drilling holes into the dome and washing it out so they could store oil reserves inside then cap it off. I believe it was 2003 when I went there. There was a large screen inside that showed every pipeline, oil store, etc. It looked pretty cool. There were military men all over the place guarding the hallways and doors with weapons. It was a pretty cool experience.
@@Peppersfirst You sure you didn't sign an employment NDA? 😆 Only kidding, but in seriousness, I've actually heard that the government had oil reserves beneath the domes for years, but again, never really looked into it until now. It's called the SPR and it's really interesting.
@tehweez Honestly, I have no idea, lol. I was around 20 years old and so intrigued by the whole experience. There was a man assigned to me and my coworker as a kind of chaperone during our inspection. At one point the chaperone told me I could walk down the hall alone to check a station so I did and a guard pulled his gun on me. Screamed freeze or stop, something like that. I told that guy he almost got me killed and stood beside him the rest of the day. 😆
You know someone dominates and understands a topic so well they can explain it on the first try to a complete novice to the topic and have them understand it. Kudos to you, sir. Great job, I learned something today.
@@myroncook Dear Professor, could You , please , consider if " The Lapland Gate " ( " Tornvagge" ) "U-shaped" beauty between the two adjacent mountains formed as a result of the natural erosion or ... Thermonuclear obliteration ?!? And, if the former ...could You explain the geological metamorphosis at work here ...Please, it's Hanno-Himilco-Pytheas evidence pointing to the Apollo's Temple/Resting House ...shown to Them by the Saami ( "Saamaas" means " Sun " in Sumerian )...
I did much of the mapping to create that map. We used 3-D industry seismic data. In addition to. 2-way travel time (bathymetry), we also created seismic amplitude maps (reflectivity) of the sea floor. The Gulf sea floor is cut by thousands of faults, and many are naturally leaking oil and gas. The sea floor contains bacteria that consumes the hydrocarbons and secretes limestone which cements the mud and forms a solid substrate for attachment of tube worms, mussels and other chemosynthetic organisms (the derive their energy from hydrocarbons rather than sunlight. Since much of the Gulf has a seafloor that consists of pelagic mud, which is soft, the seep areas show up clearly as high amplitude events. We mapped over 10,000 naturally occurring seeps in the same area as the bathymetry map!
Congratulations! You explained all of that in terms a layperson could understand. I know the most rudimentary facts of geology, and you gave me new information in words I knew. Thank you, Jesse, from this 80 year old widow! I LOVE LEARNING NEW STUFF!
Myron is the Bob Ross of geology! With his calm even-tempo and stunningly good reference data, his knowledge couldn’t help but seep into my brain much like those pink shaded salt extrusions.
You are the exact opposite of me ... I hate the long drawn out explanation of bathymetry, imaging, water, overlays, it's like he's talking to kindergartners 😂🤣he's 3 minutes in and I've already googled it and am reading about it while I listen to him and have already started developing theories. I can't wait to see if I'm close 😆😂 I guess it makes sense for youtube, not everybody has the same knowledge base. Geology absolutely fascinates me. I could read about how every square inch of this earth was created and evolved and never get bored, every single rock has a story to tell ... but I'm sure this is like teaching geology to grades K through university in one classroom. 😆
@deborahwood I think you would be interested in the Franciscan Melange at the coast of central California. I met several world reknowned geophysicists and other geologists there while doing my own study. I've written two (unpublished) thesis on the morphology. It is fascinating. Perhaps you'd care to take a stab at the orogeny.
Yes since I also ( in addition to geology) like art and painting I know Bob Ross so I agree they have similar delivery styles that are pleasing to listen to.
@@vistrode9604you must be fun at parties. If you see an expert praise someone and you disagree with the praise, remember that you might be in the beginning of your journey to understanding the complexity.
@@vistrode9604how does that explain the core samples taken in the region, containing large concentrations of salt? Alluvial fans are an excellent description for fluid dynamics and dispersion, however, I’m struggling to reconcile how precisely “post-ice-age runoff” would fully explain this phenomenon?
Exploration geophysicist? Cool. Why did we put the Deep Water Horizon well so close to Louisiana? And why aren't we putting rigs on this structure Myron describes? Maybe "deepwater" is a relative term, maybe this structure is much deeper than the Horizon well? so much oil out there, so much oil processing resources in that area. It bugs me, we're sort of banadoning the Gulf for oil, while Norway and Holland pull oil out of the North Sea. I hope someone can shine some light on this issue for me. Thank you.
This my first ever geology lecture. What amazes me is the complexity of results of interactions of simple processes over long periods of time. We see it so vividly in the tree of life and evolution, but we can also see it in natural formations. The most impressive part of this is our ability to drill cores of rock from absolutely anywhere, like from the ocean floor.
The way you format your videos is brilliant. instead of just saying what it is at the beginning and then describe the process you go through it like trying to solve a puzzle with the audience which will make it more engaging and allow us to use our brains. It has me more interested in geology now. Plus the production quality of all your videos is great with things like shots of you walking to geological features and other little details.
totally agree with you on this! love the way he presents things. easily understandable, and no fancy words, slow, and after all this, I don't feel overwhelmed, which happens to me all the time. I love science, always did. :)
I always found lectures on geology that I attended to be a cures for insomnia. Hence I did not experience that many. But this lecture was presented in a way to keep my attention glued. I came away not bored but actually comprehending what Myron was trying to get us to understand. I have new respect for both this science and great admiration for Myron.
I made the mistake of falling asleep during a lecture on salt domes while sitting at the front of the class. Fortunately for me the professor was teaching outdated concepts about buoyancy being the driving force on salt movement. Out of all of the students in the class, I turned out to be the only one to actually work on salt geometry and tectonics in my career.
It is called the algorithm, and it is software that studies what you watch, and then sends you channels you might be interested in viewing. I watch a lot of archaeological channels, so I think that is why Dr. Cook showed up one day. I watched the episode, and before it was over, I had subscribed. Love learning new stuff!
I am 70 and agree! I am learning about so many things! If I could do it over I would have majored in one of the sciences, probably astronomy. Geology is fascinating, too!
Thanks Myron! I had the pleasure of testing new PCD drill bits offshore Texas and Louisiana in the 80's. We developed new Hydraulic designs in these bits to flush away the 'gumbo' clay deposits (above the salt) that would ball-up traditional rock bits and prevent further drilling. Amazing developments in remote sensing and seismic has unlocked a lot of the mystery of Sigsbee. Keep them coming Sir!
This video reminds me of sitting down in the 90s as a kid and watching educational stuff on PBS. It has that same genial, fatherly energy. Like, sitting down with a grandfather I didn't know I had. You seem so excited to share this with us, and that excitement is contagious! I'm not usually all that interested in geology where it doesn't already intersect my actual discipline of history, but you make this absolutely fascinating, Mr. Cook.
Myron Cook I’m so delighted to learn about your videos! I live in Southwest Louisiana smack dab in salt mining country (near Lafayette). My new friend James Keenan, geologist explains that in near future, it will be revealed to general public that this area was once an open port where Olmec & numerous other cultures used this center for trade. It seems this abundance of salt may have been more precious than gold at one time. I can’t wait to review ALL OF YOUR RESEARCH!
I want to thank you for this amazing lecture and visual mapping! These days of fear and worry, stress and anxiety about the government, the planet, the Universe...to have this lecture literally bringing us all back 'down to earth' in such an informative and clear and interesting way is a great gift to us! I've subscribed to your channel to keep on learning at 70 years old, my greatest happiness is growing food, farming, reading and always learning. I'm thankful for everything you've taught us in 25 minutes~You are a great teacher!
Our schools taught us about this and other geologic features when I was 12-14 years old. Living in Texas was probably a factor. A basic tenant of geology is that the land above water looks much like the land below water. The dry land of the Texas Gulf Coast is covered with salt domes that are covered with sediment just as those off of the Gulf Coast Continental Shelf. Other interesting features in the bathymetric illustration are the rivers on the ocean floor which appear to be extensions of the contemporary larger rivers of Louisiana and Texas. You have excellent delivery and presentation skills.
Myron you truly have a gift, I'm not sure if you replicate a mentor or teacher from your life or have developed it on your own but I'm thankful you share it with us all here on RUclips!
We seldom think about the mountains and valleys in the oceans and the geology involved. Thank you Myron. Your method of teaching is awesome and it makes things understandable.
Not only are you an excellent teacher, you’re way of explaining the many details about geology is with full comprehension of what happened to cause the development of what you showed us in your map and you didn’t leave anything out! Thank you for your wonderful work in a field that many of us are not very familiar with! ❤
I grew up on the Canadian Shield and as a child, would hike in the mountains and fish in the lakes. It got me curious, as a kid, how these all formed. As I grew up, I learned that I lived in a special area, on the Shield , where 1.8 billion years ago an asteroid had hit the earth where I lived. It explained why my friend’s fathers worked in a nickel mine, and explained why my town existed. It kindled in me my interest in geology. This video was in my feed, and the way you explain things, relating it to everyday things, helps me grasp the concepts. Thanks! Stay safe, stay sane, stay strong
I grew up by the Gulf. A major river started behind my house, full of colored clay. It’s really an underrated geological area. I’ve never had such a clear explanation of how salt domes form!
Your video proves that no subject is difficult to learn. There is only ever poor quality education that needlessly obfuscates a topic. I really enjoyed this and think that you and Randall Carlson would be an excellent, highly informative and generally entertaining lecture/debate/discussion to listen too.
@@AcmeAceSalt is a rock called Halite. It's formed when sodium from eroded rocks bonds to chlorine eroded from volcanic rocks when both are in water to become sodium chloride. Salt has a natural attraction to water so forms a bond with the water molecules to remain suspended in the solution though it will drop out once the solution becomes oversaturated with salt.
I’m only 23 years old and have lost many friends to cancer, violence and suicide. I have loved geology since I was 5 years old and my love for the subject has only grown since finding your channel a year ago. Since finding your channel, I have gotten a job as a consulting Geologist and you are a big reason for that. Your content means the world to me and I really hope I get the pleasure of meeting you one day. Please keep sharing your knowledge with the world and contact Allie Ward to be in her podcast Ollogies. I love her content for the same reason I love yours.❤️
You have made my day Herman! I think it is important to have a passion/love for something that is stable in this unstable world, it can be of help during the difficult times. I hope to meet you sometime and I wish you all the best in your endeavors.
Medical analogy: just as the "mother" salt layer under pressure squeezes out a large canopy of salt in the Gulf of Mexico, in a human joint, say a wrist joint, joint fluid under pressure can protrude through a weak spot in the joint lining/capsule/ligaments and show up on the back of the wrist, for example, like a water balloon under pressure - or, a ganglion cyst. This is the first Myron Cook video I have seen; I'm now going to check out others. This is how you teach people how to think. Thank you.
Myron, you've created a new discipline, Pancake Geology :) Seriously, I'm the Fossil Collections Manager for the Natural History Society of Maryland, and I'm always reading up on other aspects of geology. This is very cool. Thank you.
Thank God I found your channel Myron!!!! Your love and passion for geology is apparent and infectious!!! You have re-kindled my passion to hit the road and again do some rock learning!!!👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Thank you, Professor Cook. I avidly look forward to each new episode installment from your phenomenal channel. I only wish that I could have had you as one of my professors back in college. That would have been an honor and privilege. Thank you so much for such continually outstanding content and your brilliant teaching. Happy New Year 2023. The EPIC BEST VERY BEST of everything to you and your family.
@@johnemory7485 I couldn't disagree more, the way Myron takes us on a journey of discovery is the part I enjoy the most. Allowing us viewers to try and interpret what is happening in Earth's history and then showing us what did happen allows us to think like a geologist and imagine we're the first humans to discover a formation. I believe this method allows us to better understand the formation than simply telling us what happened and how.
@user-ot6zl8ix1r the person I replied to clearly stated they didn't like the way Myron presents his videos and I couldn't disagree more. Myron has a very unique way and personally I think his method is much more educational, he would make an amazing professor if he hasn't already done that in his career.
This salt formation reminds me a lot of when the Mediterranean practically dried up 6MYA and left huge salt deposits there. The action was geological and the continents shifting together to close the Gibraltar Strait then was re-flooded when the continents moved far enough apart. Even now the east side of the Mediterranean is saltier than the west side because it has more evaporation than water inflows (from the Atlantic west side and from fresh water runoff).
As a native to Louisiana, and a geography nut, ive always been mesmerized by this formation on google earth but have never found a good explanation on it. Awesom video. You explained it very well and have very much increased my interest in this formation.
@@DC-cv9chfunny you mentioned that, bc I have family that live in Mexico, Tampico and they always say “hurricanes never hit our coast bc there is an alien base” 😂 I always thought that was a funny thing to believe
You are an absolutely great teacher! Your love of being able to get your message through is remarkable. This has been a great video about the salt in the sea. I have taught classes in my craft and learned to teach at a kindergarten level. That's how I learn. Kindness and joy go a long way. Thanks!
That is the best demonstration and discussion of the gulf that I have seen! Thank you! I'm a native Mississippian and live on the gulf coast ! I was enthralled with the deep sea images that became publicly available with the Google earth site. Spent hours pouring over the edges of the continent . Its great to finally understand what I've been looking at ! Please indulge yourself with as many more videos on the gulf coast basin ,please! I will happily view them all!
Thank you Myron for your obvious love of our natural world that so many take for granted. I don’t know how I found your page but I’m glad I did. I have lived in Cody Wyoming for nearly all of my 43 years. I have visited and explored so many naturally beautiful places in this world. But the Big Horn Basin will always be my home. You have such a great way of explaining the features that I have always just said “that looks cool”. Now maybe I can pass a little knowledge on to my kids. And get them more interested in our Earths history and less interested in social media and all the crazy being spread around the world. Please keep up the great content and if you ever lead a field trip I hope I hear about it. I will be the first to sign up.
I wish you the best with your kids! Sign up to my newsletter by going to my channel homepage and find the link to my website to hear about field trips.
Myron, your presentation from your kitchen is classic. Your voice is so inviting and your homestyle southern appearance and personable manner makes me feel like a child visiting a wise Grandpa who loves to share his knowledge and excitement over a little known subject. I am a 72 year old musician who just found a fascinating subject, geology!!! Thank you. You are a wonderful teacher. By the way, do you have some butter and real maple syrup to go with your pancakes???🥰
Wonderful teacher. Wish I'd had him for all my science classes Perspective and relationship is hard in science . He does wonderfully to give that visual along with explanation
Thank you so much! I work for Bell Geospace that specialise in gravity gradiometry, mapping density contrasts, and our early work was largely helping oil companies model salt domes in the GoM because the seismic data couldn't map the base of the salt. This video has helped me understand it much better and put it into context!
I'm a professional Petroleum Geologist and find your teaching style informative and interesting, keep up the good work and keep uploading content. A suggestion: towards the end of the video it would have been nice to see a reminder again of the scale with your "mini" Tetons on the salt extrusive.
This is fantastic. I don't know much about geology but as a retired mechanical engineer, I do understand fracture mechanics and viscous flows. Your presentation is superb. I thoroughly enjoyed it and learned a great deal. Thank you. I imagine with the higher concentration of salt, a lot of this could be laminar flow. The boundary layer interaction with the sediment and ocean currents could introduce some turbulent or mixed flow. It would be interesting to learn more about the flow mechanics.
Thank you professor, I audited Nick Zentners 101 and 301 Geology course during the pandemic. The earth is such an amazing place. The more I learn, the more I want to know. Thank you for your work.
I am so glad to have found this! I love the history of rocks. More importantly, I love and feel a special affinity to the Gulf of Mexico. My father was a commercial fisherman, and he used to tell all the wonders on the gulf, and especially the caverns under my home state of Florida. Growing up in Bonita Springs, Fl. it was so marvelous hearing about the geological history that he gleaned from a lifetime of fishing in the gulf. He only went to the sixth grade, and the child like wonder he felt for the natural environment was infectious. Man, oh, man how he would have loved listening to this lecture. Thank you so much for creating this.
I’m sure you have heard this before but it cannot be said enough. You are a gifted teacher and if all teachers were as able as you our world would be elevated. Education is the answer , lack of education is evidenced by the state of our world today. Thank you for this presentation! It made me want to know more.
Absolutely wonderful! I'm so thankful to have stumbled across your channel. It's a breath of fresh air after being bombarded with all the weird "science" channels with strange computer-generated voices with odd grammar and word pronunciations mixed with disconnected and often bizarrely unrelated strings of videos and images. You're a favorite now.
I love the enthusiasm you have for geology! The pacing and presentation is perfect for learning, too - much more engaging and understandable than a powerpoint lecture. Geology and the chronology of geology tends to be so difficult to grasp (especially comprehending deep time), so having the seismic and its analysis explained step by step helps a ton. Almost makes me wish I went into geology and geophysics. Thank you!
I always unintentionally thought about these kind of processes and imaging how things came together. This is my first lecture about these processes happening over billions of years. It was clear as water an explanation everybody can understand! Very nice!
Great explanation! I’ve been in south Louisiana my entire life and always wondered why we have so many salt deposits and mines here. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
I often joke that I'm a closet nerd. So as I lay here in my room flipping through RUclips, snacking on mini marshmallows 😋 watching "science videos" 🤓 I'm thinking to myself, "This is the life. Sometimes I just love being an introverted nerd ." 🤟😁 I really appreciated your video Myron & look forward to seeing more interesting, intriguing, & entertaining videos I can learn from. Thank you for feeding that part of my soul 🥰
I'm an engineering geologist by trade. I knew many of the basic concepts, but really didn't have a concept of the scale and time with which these salt features appeared. This vid is well done - you speak on a level laymen can understand, but make it interesting enough that a 25 year professional can gain a lot out of it. Thanks!
Sir, I love the contents of your channel. I am from Puerto Rico, and after the 2000 earthquakes that happenned here, many of the geologists here are still puzzled and discoverying new faults and geological features. Thank you for offering this content, it is fascinating.
I figured the sediment angle flowing from the Mississippi river, hadn't thought of salt deposits. That is fascinating stuff. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!
I love the way you ask us questions to make us think what you're getting at and to draw a picture, in our minds, of what you are showing. Very well done. I have a theory about what might cause some cases of Alzheimer's, we stop learning and get into our own heads (that is not a good place for any of us to be) and our brain, therefore, shuts down. If there was a way to get older people, like me, interested in learning this would be it. Keep the mind working. Absolutely love this.
Thank you for one of the best geological lectures I've ever experienced! I was born in Port Arthur, my dad designed many of the oil refineries and rigs in the Gulf in the late 50s and 60s working for Gulf Oil. I spent a lot of time out there. I'm fascinated by all of this ❤️
Excellent video. I have tried to explain to my children what I do and why it is so fascinating but my enthusiasm for tangents has complicated their understanding. I watched this with them before school this morning and they understood and enjoyed the video. You present information in an accurate and easily understood way. Thank you for working to inspire the next generation of geologists.
The silt layer that has not formed into stone is totally from the Younger-Dryas. Laurentide ice sheet deluge. This also washed over the Yucatan peninsula. We'll find the remains of many extinct Mega-fauna and the Clovis people in there dated to around 12 to 15 thousand years old. Love the explanations. You're a wise and gentle teacher.
Came for the title, stayed because I was absolutely transfixed by your teaching style. What an exciting time to be alive and doing science. When satellite imagery makes you say “what is that?” Then you go solve the mystery. Thanks for making science a fun and strangely relaxing experience!
Salt withdrawal minibasins and subsalt traps are key components as to why the GoM is such a prolific hydrocarbon province. The salt body that still blows my mind is in the Paradox Basin of Utah.
Since I live in the area (Delta, CO) and recreate all over that area covered by the Paradox Basin I would LOVE to learn more about it as well. Thank you for bringing it up.
That's a great idea! I went to University of Utah (regrettably, I didn't major in geology....), but did explore the area and gained some basic knowledge of the area's features. It would be great to understand better what I saw.
Paradox Fm: ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/UnitRefs/ParadoxRefs_9763.html. Pennsylvanian salt marine deposition on the flanks of the Ancestral Rockies. ~300 ma.
Myron, this was indeed a gift. As a youth in the wilds of northernBC Canada, on the shore of the Peace River I had the pleasure of exploring these big round or elliptical holes -smooth, polished….I puzzled over the got down into the ones I could. Then I discovered a commonality in a few of them. A single round worn rock was in the bottom, I then realized seasonal flooding and the right water movement created a movement creating these exquisite cup holes. Many having a smaller mouth opening…several smelled of bear dens…as strange as it may seem, I have found those in unusual terrain on dry land;so I’m taking from that a body of flowing water existed there atone time….thank you again
Sounds a lot like kettle lakes/ponds, which are very common in Canada. They form from chunks of glacial ice breaking off and melting as a glacier is receding.
@@anthonyrozewski2486 sounds possible and I suspect compounds my observations….but the large absolutely rounded rocks left in the bottom of some of these anomalies lead me to believe that over recent times the flood water of the peace took up where glaciers left off. The rock glacier at Atlan BC and the massive moraine certainly show the receding nature of glacier movement….in fact, I had the privilege of working on the Bennet dam near Hudson’s Hope. That dirt dam was created from an actual mountain that was moraine. I worked in the claim’s department… I regularly had dinosaur part go through my office…my father were instrumental in rescuing the first tracts and between my mother and father they have 4 dinosaurs named after them… my father found the worlds first bird prints but let Phil claim the privilege because he was starting his career. I was on several of the rescue missions. So, the peace river is one of the grandfather rivers of the earth….the Ammonites that my father took the Tyrell museum group to were so big …that flying one out by helicopter almost floundered the copter….big or what….yes, the great bear paw sea went from bottom end of USA the Bermuda are all the way through Yukon….I’m sure you know about it. Dad was doing oil exploratory work under contract to govt back in early 50’s up northern BC,NORTH WEST TERRITORIES, ALBERTA Found all kinds of ancient things breaking in road to no man’s land…often drilled up petrified fish…
@@dyannejohnson6184 the rocks are likely "glacial erratics"... rocks and boulders broken off and suspended in ice as an ice sheet advances which are rounded and eroded as they are carried through the ice sheet, then essentially left in place (whether on the surface or in a kettle lake) as the ice sheet receded. As a result, those boulders likely do not consist of the same material as the native bedrock where you live.
My guess is that Myron Cook is a teacher. If not, he should be. This "educational" video was presented in a clear, understandable manner... Excellent job! Also, I just enjoy geology.
I studied geography to A level long ago at school. I always preferred physical geography. And have been fascinated by geology so its lovely to have an opportunity to learn about it. ❤
Thank you Myron for the Gulf of Mexico lesson! Keep them coming. One cant learn too much about the gulf that gives us the worlds most beautiful beaches.
I have taken quite a bit of geology while earning my BS. My university is in Texas, so of course my professors would reference Texas geology (since most of our field experiences were accessible). Areas like Edwards Plateau, Llano Uplift, Old Town Granite (of course Enchanted Rock), many salt domes and almost anyplace else where sea floor deposits of limestone and sea fossils are found (seemed like everywhere). We never covered the Sigsbee Escarpment. Thanks for the educational update.
This is definitely a youtube gem. Genuinely loved the way the concepts were presented, and i was absolutely riveted for the whole thing. Thank you sir, for your knowledge and experience.
Geology, a subject I had little interest in till way after my schooling. Now I find it so fascinating. Better late than never to learn something new. Very helpful thanks for posting.
Your method of explaining is perfect, you take a complex subject and portray it simply. You have me racing thru all your videos anxious for the next in the series. Thanks for your time sir.
I could listen to you any time of day, morning while making breakfast, driving to work, cooking dinner, at the gym, falling asleep at night; love your channel
Another perfectly explained geological mystery! Thank you for making these so fun to watch and easy to follow. I live in the Peninsular Ranges of Southern California and these videos have opened my eyes and mind to all sorts of amazing geological observations. Thank you again Myron.
Absolutely mesmerizing! Thank you for sharing your knowledge in a very understandable way. I look forward to each new video you produce. Geology rocks!
Fascinating! I'm always awed by the enormity of geologic features. I went to the science center in Des Moines, Iowa back in October and they had a display about dinosaurs that makes you feel pretty small. But that is nothing compared to the depth of that salt flow!
Great analogy and explanation. It should also be noted that the smokey mountains were higher than the rockies are today and since they are much older, much of that erosion contributed to the sedimentation of the Gulf of Mexico.
Interesting video. I love information about the Gulf of Mexico. I’m a long time diver in Pensacola, and an area we dive frequently is called “The Timber holes.” It’s about 20 miles east of Pensacola Pass in about 110 fsw on the far northeastern area of your salt dome area. On the bottom you find perfectly round holes. Most of them average about 2 ft in diameter. Some are bigger; some are smaller, but mostly they are perfectly round holes, and are coral and limestone encrusted. I’ve been told that they were once part of a prehistoric forest that was flooded after the last ice age. I would be interested in understanding more about their formation and how this area relates to your salt dome.
please get in touch with Randall Carlson (he has a channel on youtube). it is commonly accepted that the sea level rose 400 ft within the past 15,000 years, but for those holes to exist means the ocean RAPIDLY rose and engulfed the trees, otherwise if the ocean rose slowly the waves would have eroded the trees in no time.
@@margaretecheverria9937 The Christian bible has been proven wrong in so many places. Charles Darwin explained human origin truths that the bible authors never understood. The bible was OK with human slavery. But for it to be correct in the "flood" example only means that it reflects what many other cultures and religions believed to have happened. Some say that the sea level rise caused the end of Atlantis and civilization far more advanced than human hunter gatherers. The findings in Turkey of structures built many thousands of years before the cities like Babylon and Damascus show that we don't yet understand all about our past.
@@davideasterling5262 I'm so sorry that you don't believe! Just came here to engage in decent conversation. I didn't evolve from monkeys like Charles Darwin. GOD created me. We can agree to disagree can't we?? Have a most wonderful day.
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I want to clarify two things; 1) The sea water was not boiled to precipitate the salt. Rather, it was simple evaporation of the sea water. 2) The pancake analogy was used to show the shapes of flowing material. The heat to create the pancake is not important.
Salt tectonics is the only thing that’s weirder than convergent margins and overthrust zones
to: “Myron Cook”, For what it’s worth, my working hypothesis is that a major geological process responsible for shaping and reshaping Earth’s surface, mainly continental divisions and coastlines, has been overlooked. Generally, when we think of geological erosion we think of small amounts of materials being worn away by wind, water or ice (glacial motion) over long periods of time. However, I am of the opinion that Earth geological erosion processes aren’t always so subtle. That being said, I conjecture that Earth periodically casts off, setting adrift the entirety of its polar ice accumulations mainly upon the Northern Pacific & Sothern Atlantic oceans within 8-16 hours, from start to finish. Once irreconcilably off axis and adrift, these massive accumulations of ice would disrupt ocean currents and begin to accelerate in the direction of centrifugal force outward away from the Earth’s axis and towards the equator. The Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets are estimated to contain 4.6 and 7.2 million square miles of ice respectively and having almost zero rotational velocity, they would achieve relative impact velocities with their new surroundings (equatorial land masses/continent(s)) upward of nine hundred miles per hour, capable of displacing millions square miles of earth and rock in a matter of hours (rifting by extrusion). The proceeding bow wave, and ensuing wake would drive massive ice flow tsunamis inland causing further erosion. Additionally, the subsequent melting and runoff should be capable of carving great canyons on relatively short geological time scales. What do you think?
Enters Hyperborean Enigma : " Dear Professor, could You, please, provide the Bathymetric Map of the Tulomaa River Delta ...and the Apollo's Temple/ Resting House Conundrum will be all but....could You imagine, dear Professor, the Schliemann's déjà vu situation...?!? "
Mm.. pancakes..
I thought for sure it was a byproduct of the chicxulub impactor when I first started watching this.
I have to hand it to the algorithm. I would never in my life search for this content, yet I’m here and absolutely fascinated by this topic. Your students don’t know how lucky they are, having such a knowledgeable and kind person to teach them. Well done 👍
Glad you enjoy it!
Any teacher actually teaching and not indoctrinating young minds with "WOKE" communism BS, is a teacher I can get behind!!! Very interesting video!!! So disgusted watching what's happening to kids at colleges across the country!!!
@@cheebaman4728 the only to prevalent American groups that I will immediately get into a debate/argument with are neo confederates and woke Social justice warriors.
I never would have searched this out either. Guess we can be thankful for videos like this. Those that expand our knowledge/interest.
Endless standing Ovation 💝
Thank you so much for this video. My late wife was a petroleum geologist working out of Houston before we were married and this is what she did. Her talk often mentioned salt domes and she explained them as where they looked for oil, but we did not talk much about the deep time geology of how they formed in the Gulf. I am an engineer and we talked "shop" many times about our work. I had taken several geology courses so I could follow some of what she was describing, but this video has made it so much more real and clear to me. I am now 75 and will be 76 this year and she passed ten years back, but your video has given me a much deeper feel and understanding of what she did. I AM a new subscriber and look forward to more videos.
Thank you, Tom.
I am 75 and stumbled into your "mini class" about a complex geological feature on the sea floor in the Gulf of Mexico, something from which you revealed evidence of numerous geological processes, all brought to light by your knowledge and remarkably clear and personally well-presented teaching. To be importantly noted, this is what teaching is about, that from which genuine learning can be exercised. Teaching on this order is what fuels not only more learning but sharpens minds for new discovery. Being a Christian man it most expands my understanding about the magnificence of God thru characteristics of His Creation. My sincere thanks.
Im so glad her knowledge and interests stayed with you.
@@johnjoseph8809 Perhaps you would like Roger at Mudfossil University ? He's the greatest teacher we've had for a very long time.
first of all I would like to say I'm sorry for your loss even though I know it was 10 years ago it's just like a few days ago that y'all met for the first time .
If someone told me, “Sit down. I want you to watch this 25 minute video on the geologic makeup of the Gulf of Mexico” I would have said, “Nope. I don’t think so.” But I somehow happened upon this video all on my own, and your teaching style, tone and kind face immediately had me interested in the topic! I even subscribed! 65 years old but will never be too old to learn!
I would’ve been hyped if someone said that. But I like learning literally everything no matter the topic
I would probably have moved on, except that I’ve dove some of the shallower parts of that structure. Having read up on this, already knew there were salt domes under at least part of the area.
Would not have guessed surface structure was due to flow, instead guessed holes were from salt dome collapse.
And you bought this? With the name Carol Child of God, I would hope you would be smarter then that. You think the Earth is hundreds of millions of years old? SMH
….. 65? That’s when most people first START learning 😆✌🏽
me too and I am 80.
I’m a rock mechanics engineer for the gold mining industry … a geologic engineer by education. For the most part, I’ve been successful with rock mechanics and geotechnical stuff, but I think I forgot about what led me to the geologic sciences in the first place. Wonderful channel!!! Thanks for your willingness to teach … geology is so much more interesting than rock mechanics!!!
Get together with some engineer buddies and start a band, The Rock Mechanics. 😆
@@DannyWJaco Lol! Get a guy named Mike in the band - then they can call themselves Mike & the Rock Mechanics. (sorry for the cheesy 80s reference)🤣
@@ronin4713 Get a guy by the name of dan And rename them, Mike and Dan and the mechanics 🤣🤣🤣
I pondered the other day about how the education system managed to make me loathe subjects I've discovered in my adult life that I find really interesting. Your excellent presentation has the opposite effect of making me curious about something I originally wasn't all too interested in. Presentation matters. Anything can be presented in a way that makes it undigestible to even the most curious of men. The opposite is also true, anything presented in the right way can spark the mind of almost anyone.
I got put off geology by having to draw fossils in a course of historica geology that should have been interesting. Also the prof talked about formations he could see i his mind but I sure couldn;t.
A lot of that "how the education system managed to make you loathe subjects" has a lot to do with your brain development at that age. Most students of high school age aren't ready to truly understand the subjects that are taught. They also don't understand the importance of each subject.
I know of many teachers who put in a ton of hours and money planning fun experiments and discussions and activities, only to have the students blow it off and half-heartedly do it. Apathy is a big problem.
Well said like the way you put that into words
Wasn't the education system, it was us and the normal shortness of attention span that average children possess. As individuals, even when we are children, are more so responsible to apply the effort to learn than the system. Assuming the educational systems instruction is up to standards, the student has to engage into the information they are given. We do so love playing the victim and cast all blame on other people or entities for our failures and setbacks. I still get a giggle when these folks explain occurrences and such and the time period must have been about 60 million years ago but can't figure out what direction the bullet came from that killed JFK only 60 years ago.
I remember the teachers that made an impact! A third grade teacher that helped me to love reading. A math teacher that showed me girls can learn it too!. Are the good ones all gone?? Can't be- we just need to give these great teachers the recognition they deserve!!!🍎⭐
As an 81 year old, I found this so interesting. You are never too old to learn. Thank you for taking the time to make this documentary.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi im78 still so much to learn isn’t there x
Agreed
You really didnt learn anything from this.
@@joshportie RUclips keyboard warrior, go outside and touch grass
At 70, feel like I'm back sitting in the lecture halls again. Extremely well presented! Thank you!
I feel the same way. I would have taken more geology classes except I was a music major going with my strength. I had a wonderful career in music, but I still remember that single geology class, and I'm finding it to be reminiscent of that class, though on topics we never touched upon. I don't know if they even knew about this when I was taking geology in my freshman year. It's amazing how many new things have been discovered in just that half a century. I want another lifetime so I can see what happens in the next fifty years! Maybe if I magically get another fifty years, I'll become a geologist.
@@Chompchompyerded IKR? It blew me away the other day to realize that plate tectonics had become acceptable to modern geophysics in my lifetime, that ocean floor spread was in my lifetime, that finding part of a rock structure from NY state in England was in my lifetime.😂 I cannot even imagine what we will learn in the next very short span of history with our knowledge base growing exponentially!! Just reading some of the advances in technology, things that are on the cusp of becoming reality is mind boggling. In human hands, it's also quite terrifying.
I'm 71. Me too.
70 and present for class🙄
For a tutorial on interstellar travel see Pleadian contactee Billy Meiers material with a narrative by Randolf Winters...hit the video icon.You will see crystal clear photos & 8mm film footage of 3 different types of spacecraft with 3 different types of propulsion system,s.
I'm glad to hear that you could talk about it for days, because I could sure listen to you for days! Thank you for educating me!
You are so welcome!
Wow! Thank you for this! I would never have found this out this on my own!
RUclips needs more Geology content like this. You and Nick Zentner do great work sharing this knowledge.
Yeah, instead we get this clown Neil Tyson. Dumbed down half science.
I agree. So much to learn about.
Best geology videos I’ve seen
I came for the Geology, stayed for the food.😁
I love professor Nick 👍🏼#JOYGIVER
As someone who has lived on the Louisiana gulf coast for the majority of my life, I've always been fascinated by salt domes but never took the time to really learn about their formation. This sheds so much light on something that has been a mystery to me since childhood. Your video was a wonderful learning experience; thank you so much for sharing it with us!
Thanks for sharing!
Also spent my life fishing the best fishery in the world and while I never got this educated on it I was aware of the general theory about the salt domes and why they contribute to abundant fish life. Anyone running the rip for Tuna has been running that exact geological formation even if they didn't know it. Not quite that far out but same situation. Appreciate the attention to home!
I'm in Louisiana as well. About 20 years ago I had to do an inspection for the dept. of energy. The location was an old set of buildings that the government had purchased to convert into a high security facility. You wouldn't know by looking at it but you'd have to go through metal detectors and have dogs sniff your vehicle, men would check under every vehicle with mirrors, etc. But the whole operation was based on the salt dome below the facility. They were drilling holes into the dome and washing it out so they could store oil reserves inside then cap it off. I believe it was 2003 when I went there. There was a large screen inside that showed every pipeline, oil store, etc. It looked pretty cool. There were military men all over the place guarding the hallways and doors with weapons. It was a pretty cool experience.
@@Peppersfirst You sure you didn't sign an employment NDA? 😆 Only kidding, but in seriousness, I've actually heard that the government had oil reserves beneath the domes for years, but again, never really looked into it until now. It's called the SPR and it's really interesting.
@tehweez Honestly, I have no idea, lol. I was around 20 years old and so intrigued by the whole experience. There was a man assigned to me and my coworker as a kind of chaperone during our inspection. At one point the chaperone told me I could walk down the hall alone to check a station so I did and a guard pulled his gun on me. Screamed freeze or stop, something like that. I told that guy he almost got me killed and stood beside him the rest of the day. 😆
You know someone dominates and understands a topic so well they can explain it on the first try to a complete novice to the topic and have them understand it. Kudos to you, sir. Great job, I learned something today.
I appreciate that!
@@myroncook Dear Professor, could You , please , consider if " The Lapland Gate " ( " Tornvagge" ) "U-shaped" beauty between the two adjacent mountains formed as a result of the natural erosion or ... Thermonuclear obliteration ?!? And, if the former ...could You explain the geological metamorphosis at work here ...Please, it's Hanno-Himilco-Pytheas evidence pointing to the Apollo's Temple/Resting House ...shown to Them by the Saami ( "Saamaas" means " Sun " in Sumerian )...
@@myroncook à
NOVICE! Yup, that's my name in here😂.
I did much of the mapping to create that map. We used 3-D industry seismic data. In addition to. 2-way travel time (bathymetry), we also created seismic amplitude maps (reflectivity) of the sea floor. The Gulf sea floor is cut by thousands of faults, and many are naturally leaking oil and gas. The sea floor contains bacteria that consumes the hydrocarbons and secretes limestone which cements the mud and forms a solid substrate for attachment of tube worms, mussels and other chemosynthetic organisms (the derive their energy from hydrocarbons rather than sunlight. Since much of the Gulf has a seafloor that consists of pelagic mud, which is soft, the seep areas show up clearly as high amplitude events. We mapped over 10,000 naturally occurring seeps in the same area as the bathymetry map!
Fascinating, Jesse
Congratulations! You explained all of that in terms a layperson could understand. I know the most rudimentary facts of geology, and you gave me new information in words I knew. Thank you, Jesse, from this 80 year old widow! I LOVE LEARNING NEW STUFF!
I love this channel!
Myron is the Bob Ross of geology! With his calm even-tempo and stunningly good reference data, his knowledge couldn’t help but seep into my brain much like those pink shaded salt extrusions.
You are the exact opposite of me ... I hate the long drawn out explanation of bathymetry, imaging, water, overlays, it's like he's talking to kindergartners 😂🤣he's 3 minutes in and I've already googled it and am reading about it while I listen to him and have already started developing theories. I can't wait to see if I'm close 😆😂 I guess it makes sense for youtube, not everybody has the same knowledge base. Geology absolutely fascinates me. I could read about how every square inch of this earth was created and evolved and never get bored, every single rock has a story to tell ... but I'm sure this is like teaching geology to grades K through university in one classroom. 😆
@deborahwood
I think you would be interested in the Franciscan Melange at the coast of central California.
I met several world reknowned geophysicists and other geologists there while doing my own study. I've written two (unpublished) thesis on the morphology. It is fascinating. Perhaps you'd care to take a stab at the orogeny.
@@secretsquirrel6308 Is that like a Chronosynclasticinfindibulum?
Yes since I also ( in addition to geology) like art and painting I know Bob Ross so I agree they have similar delivery styles that are pleasing to listen to.
The Gulf Of Mexico is a happy mistake!
I’m a retired exploration geophysicist. An excellent discussion. Accessible and accurate.
This is an alluvial fan from the Ice Age flood that washed from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. No surprise.
@@vistrode9604you must be fun at parties.
If you see an expert praise someone and you disagree with the praise, remember that you might be in the beginning of your journey to understanding the complexity.
I also want to add that learning HOW and WHY something has been defined is infinitely more useful than if he'd just have said "it's an alluvial plain"
@@vistrode9604how does that explain the core samples taken in the region, containing large concentrations of salt? Alluvial fans are an excellent description for fluid dynamics and dispersion, however, I’m struggling to reconcile how precisely “post-ice-age runoff” would fully explain this phenomenon?
Exploration geophysicist? Cool. Why did we put the Deep Water Horizon well so close to Louisiana? And why aren't we putting rigs on this structure Myron describes? Maybe "deepwater" is a relative term, maybe this structure is much deeper than the Horizon well? so much oil out there, so much oil processing resources in that area. It bugs me, we're sort of banadoning the Gulf for oil, while Norway and Holland pull oil out of the North Sea. I hope someone can shine some light on this issue for me. Thank you.
This my first ever geology lecture. What amazes me is the complexity of results of interactions of simple processes over long periods of time. We see it so vividly in the tree of life and evolution, but we can also see it in natural formations. The most impressive part of this is our ability to drill cores of rock from absolutely anywhere, like from the ocean floor.
The way you format your videos is brilliant. instead of just saying what it is at the beginning and then describe the process you go through it like trying to solve a puzzle with the audience which will make it more engaging and allow us to use our brains. It has me more interested in geology now. Plus the production quality of all your videos is great with things like shots of you walking to geological features and other little details.
Thank you for the feedback
And no annoying background music either! 👍
It makes me so sad that I was taught bugger all at school. Love from UK.
totally agree with you on this! love the way he presents things. easily understandable, and no fancy words, slow, and after all this, I don't feel overwhelmed, which happens to me all the time. I love science, always did. :)
The best teachers always leave you wanting more.
I always found lectures on geology that I attended to be a cures for insomnia. Hence I did not experience that many. But this lecture was presented in a way to keep my attention glued. I came away not bored but actually comprehending what Myron was trying to get us to understand. I have new respect for both this science and great admiration for Myron.
Thank you, John
I made the mistake of falling asleep during a lecture on salt domes while sitting at the front of the class. Fortunately for me the professor was teaching outdated concepts about buoyancy being the driving force on salt movement. Out of all of the students in the class, I turned out to be the only one to actually work on salt geometry and tectonics in my career.
Not sure why you came across my feed but I sure am glad you did! If more teachers were like you more people would understand things better. Thank you!
Wow, thank you!
I watch The Why Files so I thought this might be an Atlantis theory. 😅
It is called the algorithm, and it is software that studies what you watch, and then sends you channels you might be interested in viewing. I watch a lot of archaeological channels, so I think that is why Dr. Cook showed up one day. I watched the episode, and before it was over, I had subscribed. Love learning new stuff!
As a 40 year old woman, I can honestly say I've learned more on RUclips than I ever did in school.
Only the bit about Christ was useful to me.
I am 70 and agree! I am learning about so many things! If I could do it over I would have majored in one of the sciences, probably astronomy. Geology is fascinating, too!
Isn't it fun and amazing ?
As a youtube commenter, i agree
You're a natural teacher. I wish all my teachers had been as good as you. Thank you.
Thanks Myron! I had the pleasure of testing new PCD drill bits offshore Texas and Louisiana in the 80's. We developed new Hydraulic designs in these bits to flush away the 'gumbo' clay deposits (above the salt) that would ball-up traditional rock bits and prevent further drilling. Amazing developments in remote sensing and seismic has unlocked a lot of the mystery of Sigsbee. Keep them coming Sir!
Thank you, Dave
This video reminds me of sitting down in the 90s as a kid and watching educational stuff on PBS. It has that same genial, fatherly energy. Like, sitting down with a grandfather I didn't know I had. You seem so excited to share this with us, and that excitement is contagious! I'm not usually all that interested in geology where it doesn't already intersect my actual discipline of history, but you make this absolutely fascinating, Mr. Cook.
Glad you enjoyed it!
big Mr. Wizard vibes
Myron Cook I’m so delighted to learn about your videos! I live in Southwest Louisiana smack dab in salt mining country (near Lafayette).
My new friend James Keenan, geologist explains that in near future, it will be revealed to general public that this area was once an open port where Olmec & numerous other cultures used this center for trade.
It seems this abundance of salt may have been more precious than gold at one time.
I can’t wait to review ALL OF YOUR RESEARCH!
They influenced the Woodlands mound builders and the tribes in the southwest (ie: Chaco Canyon complex)
Are you guys saying that the olmecs were here when the Gulf was dry land?
I want to thank you for this amazing lecture and visual mapping! These days of fear and worry, stress and anxiety about the government, the planet, the Universe...to have this lecture literally bringing us all back 'down to earth' in such an informative and clear and interesting way is a great gift to us! I've subscribed to your channel to keep on learning at 70 years old, my greatest happiness is growing food, farming, reading and always learning. I'm thankful for everything you've taught us in 25 minutes~You are a great teacher!
The Bob Ross of Geology! I love that you get twinkles in your eyes when you talk about sediment layers.
Our schools taught us about this and other geologic features when I was 12-14 years old. Living in Texas was probably a factor. A basic tenant of geology is that the land above water looks much like the land below water. The dry land of the Texas Gulf Coast is covered with salt domes that are covered with sediment just as those off of the Gulf Coast Continental Shelf. Other interesting features in the bathymetric illustration are the rivers on the ocean floor which appear to be extensions of the contemporary larger rivers of Louisiana and Texas. You have excellent delivery and presentation skills.
FYI the word you want is tenet. A tenant is someone who's renting space from you.
Lol I’m sure he didn’t need all that for a typo
@@nateday2010 all that?
@@nateday2010 Not a typo. Wrong word.
@@CrankyHermit There's no way to know that for certain... they may have been using voice to text, and the ai misconverted it. It happens all the time.
Myron, I love your display of passion and your genuine and caring nature. You're a hidden gem of education.
The world never ceases to surprise me. The scale of salt deposits here is inconceivable. Thanks very much Myron.
Myron you truly have a gift, I'm not sure if you replicate a mentor or teacher from your life or have developed it on your own but I'm thankful you share it with us all here on RUclips!
Thank you!
We seldom think about the mountains and valleys in the oceans and the geology involved. Thank you Myron. Your method of teaching is awesome and it makes things understandable.
There is a lot of interesting formations on the ocean floor that we have never seen. If we did see them it might change history.
It's interesting however now I'm worried about Pepper Water. How will the Pepper flow and to where?
@@tmayorca8770 the pepper flows out of my grinder and onto my food. 😁
Not only are you an excellent teacher, you’re way of explaining the many details about geology is with full comprehension of what happened to cause the development of what you showed us in your map and you didn’t leave anything out!
Thank you for your wonderful work in a field that many of us are not very familiar with! ❤
I grew up on the Canadian Shield and as a child, would hike in the mountains and fish in the lakes. It got me curious, as a kid, how these all formed. As I grew up, I learned that I lived in a special area, on the Shield , where 1.8 billion years ago an asteroid had hit the earth where I lived. It explained why my friend’s fathers worked in a nickel mine, and explained why my town existed. It kindled in me my interest in geology.
This video was in my feed, and the way you explain things, relating it to everyday things, helps me grasp the concepts.
Thanks!
Stay safe, stay sane, stay strong
Great lecture! Well done, sir!
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I believe you will enjoy this also, about Mt St. Helens
I grew up by the Gulf. A major river started behind my house, full of colored clay. It’s really an underrated geological area. I’ve never had such a clear explanation of how salt domes form!
Your video proves that no subject is difficult to learn. There is only ever poor quality education that needlessly obfuscates a topic. I really enjoyed this and think that you and Randall Carlson would be an excellent, highly informative and generally entertaining lecture/debate/discussion to listen too.
Why is there so much salt on this planet
@@AcmeAce that's an excellent question that I've often wondered as I live very near to the sea.
@@AcmeAceSalt is a rock called Halite. It's formed when sodium from eroded rocks bonds to chlorine eroded from volcanic rocks when both are in water to become sodium chloride. Salt has a natural attraction to water so forms a bond with the water molecules to remain suspended in the solution though it will drop out once the solution becomes oversaturated with salt.
Thank You Prof Cook! You have a great knack for understanding how to teach these wonderful concepts. I really appreciate your work!
I’m only 23 years old and have lost many friends to cancer, violence and suicide. I have loved geology since I was 5 years old and my love for the subject has only grown since finding your channel a year ago.
Since finding your channel, I have gotten a job as a consulting Geologist and you are a big reason for that. Your content means the world to me and I really hope I get the pleasure of meeting you one day.
Please keep sharing your knowledge with the world and contact Allie Ward to be in her podcast Ollogies. I love her content for the same reason I love yours.❤️
You have made my day Herman! I think it is important to have a passion/love for something that is stable in this unstable world, it can be of help during the difficult times. I hope to meet you sometime and I wish you all the best in your endeavors.
That is really amazing Herman.
Medical analogy: just as the "mother" salt layer under pressure squeezes out a large canopy of salt in the Gulf of Mexico, in a human joint, say a wrist joint, joint fluid under pressure can protrude through a weak spot in the joint lining/capsule/ligaments and show up on the back of the wrist, for example, like a water balloon under pressure - or, a ganglion cyst. This is the first Myron Cook video I have seen; I'm now going to check out others. This is how you teach people how to think. Thank you.
fascinating
Interesting, I didn't know that that's what a ganglion cyst was.
Myron, you've created a new discipline, Pancake Geology :) Seriously, I'm the Fossil Collections Manager for the Natural History Society of Maryland, and I'm always reading up on other aspects of geology. This is very cool. Thank you.
Thank you, George!
Thank God I found your channel Myron!!!! Your love and passion for geology is apparent and infectious!!! You have re-kindled my passion to hit the road and again do some rock learning!!!👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Wow, thanks
What a GREAT RUclips channel. It has quickly become one of my absolute favourites. Geology rocks, thank you Prof. Cook!
Glad you enjoy it!
Thank you, Professor Cook. I avidly look forward to each new episode installment from your phenomenal channel. I only wish that I could have had you as one of my professors back in college. That would have been an honor and privilege. Thank you so much for such continually outstanding content and your brilliant teaching. Happy New Year 2023. The EPIC BEST VERY BEST of everything to you and your family.
Thank you for your kind words, Barry
The slow burn almost made me stop watching. Stating the topic of the video clearly and up front helps a lot.
@@johnemory7485 I couldn't disagree more, the way Myron takes us on a journey of discovery is the part I enjoy the most. Allowing us viewers to try and interpret what is happening in Earth's history and then showing us what did happen allows us to think like a geologist and imagine we're the first humans to discover a formation. I believe this method allows us to better understand the formation than simply telling us what happened and how.
@user-ot6zl8ix1r the person I replied to clearly stated they didn't like the way Myron presents his videos and I couldn't disagree more. Myron has a very unique way and personally I think his method is much more educational, he would make an amazing professor if he hasn't already done that in his career.
This salt formation reminds me a lot of when the Mediterranean practically dried up 6MYA and left huge salt deposits there. The action was geological and the continents shifting together to close the Gibraltar Strait then was re-flooded when the continents moved far enough apart. Even now the east side of the Mediterranean is saltier than the west side because it has more evaporation than water inflows (from the Atlantic west side and from fresh water runoff).
You are right...it is an interesting story!
Very similar. The Mississippi Valley was an inland sea that dried up.
Was thinking the same. Sicily has many salt mines, running very deep.
As a native to Louisiana, and a geography nut, ive always been mesmerized by this formation on google earth but have never found a good explanation on it. Awesom video. You explained it very well and have very much increased my interest in this formation.
Glad you enjoyed it
Research how it affects hurricanes coming over it up north into Houston.
@@DC-cv9chfunny you mentioned that, bc I have family that live in Mexico, Tampico and they always say “hurricanes never hit our coast bc there is an alien base” 😂 I always thought that was a funny thing to believe
As a youtube commenter, i agree.
You are an absolutely great teacher! Your love of being able to get your message through is remarkable. This has been a great video about the salt in the sea. I have taught classes in my craft and learned to teach at a kindergarten level. That's how I learn. Kindness and joy go a long way. Thanks!
That is the best demonstration and discussion of the gulf that I have seen! Thank you! I'm a native Mississippian and live on the gulf coast ! I was enthralled with the deep sea images that became publicly available with the Google earth site. Spent hours pouring over the edges of the continent . Its great to finally understand what I've been looking at ! Please indulge yourself with as many more videos on the gulf coast basin ,please! I will happily view them all!
Totally agree. Fantastic stuff. I'd watch days of video about this. Thanks for making such awesome videos.
I love your enthusiasm for the subject, your videos are a joy to watch and I always learn a lot. Thank you!
Thank you, Ben.
Thank you Myron for your obvious love of our natural world that so many take for granted. I don’t know how I found your page but I’m glad I did.
I have lived in Cody Wyoming for nearly all of my 43 years. I have visited and explored so many naturally beautiful places in this world. But the Big Horn Basin will always be my home.
You have such a great way of explaining the features that I have always just said “that looks cool”. Now maybe I can pass a little knowledge on to my kids. And get them more interested in our Earths history and less interested in social media and all the crazy being spread around the world.
Please keep up the great content and if you ever lead a field trip I hope I hear about it. I will be the first to sign up.
I wish you the best with your kids! Sign up to my newsletter by going to my channel homepage and find the link to my website to hear about field trips.
Myron, your presentation from your kitchen is classic. Your voice is so inviting and your homestyle southern appearance and personable manner makes me feel like a child visiting a wise Grandpa who loves to share his knowledge and excitement over a little known subject. I am a 72 year old musician who just found a fascinating subject, geology!!! Thank you. You are a wonderful teacher. By the way, do you have some butter and real maple syrup to go with your pancakes???🥰
Thank you so much for your feedback!
I 'm a beginner geology student and I appreciate your clarity and good nature
Dude, you're AWESOME. I live on the Gulf Coast and always wanted to know why the bathymetry looked like it did. Thank you for all you do!
Wonderful teacher. Wish I'd had him for all my science classes Perspective and relationship is hard in science . He does wonderfully to give that visual along with explanation
Thank you so much! I work for Bell Geospace that specialise in gravity gradiometry, mapping density contrasts, and our early work was largely helping oil companies model salt domes in the GoM because the seismic data couldn't map the base of the salt. This video has helped me understand it much better and put it into context!
Wonderful!
I'm a professional Petroleum Geologist and find your teaching style informative and interesting, keep up the good work and keep uploading content. A suggestion: towards the end of the video it would have been nice to see a reminder again of the scale with your "mini" Tetons on the salt extrusive.
Wow, thank you!
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This is fantastic. I don't know much about geology but as a retired mechanical engineer, I do understand fracture mechanics and viscous flows. Your presentation is superb. I thoroughly enjoyed it and learned a great deal. Thank you. I imagine with the higher concentration of salt, a lot of this could be laminar flow. The boundary layer interaction with the sediment and ocean currents could introduce some turbulent or mixed flow. It would be interesting to learn more about the flow mechanics.
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I believe you will enjoy this also, about Mt St. Helens
This was randomly recommended to me. RUclips typically fails at showing me something I want, but this time is an exception. Good stuff.
Thank you professor, I audited Nick Zentners 101 and 301 Geology course during the pandemic. The earth is such an amazing place. The more I learn, the more I want to know. Thank you for your work.
Wonderful! Love Nick
I am so glad to have found this! I love the history of rocks. More importantly, I love and feel a special affinity to the Gulf of Mexico. My father was a commercial fisherman, and he used to tell all the wonders on the gulf, and especially the caverns under my home state of Florida. Growing up in Bonita Springs, Fl. it was so marvelous hearing about the geological history that he gleaned from a lifetime of fishing in the gulf. He only went to the sixth grade, and the child like wonder he felt for the natural environment was infectious. Man, oh, man how he would have loved listening to this lecture. Thank you so much for creating this.
thank you for sharing your story!
Great lesson, thanks Myron and crew!
Myron Cook is great! My hubby has out on his videos on the tv along with Nick and got us thru the pandemic with learning a lot of geology.
Thank You!
I’m sure you have heard this before but it cannot be said enough. You are a gifted teacher and if all teachers were as able as you our world would be elevated. Education is the answer , lack of education is evidenced by the state of our world today.
Thank you for this presentation! It made me want to know more.
Thank you, Patricia
Your excitement about these findings is contagious! Really appreciate everything involved in making this lesson/vid. Thank you!
Mr. Cook this was a fantastic lesson. I've also signed up for your newsletter. I'm looking forward to watching more from your channel!
Absolutely wonderful! I'm so thankful to have stumbled across your channel. It's a breath of fresh air after being bombarded with all the weird "science" channels with strange computer-generated voices with odd grammar and word pronunciations mixed with disconnected and often bizarrely unrelated strings of videos and images. You're a favorite now.
Thank you for that
I love the enthusiasm you have for geology! The pacing and presentation is perfect for learning, too - much more engaging and understandable than a powerpoint lecture. Geology and the chronology of geology tends to be so difficult to grasp (especially comprehending deep time), so having the seismic and its analysis explained step by step helps a ton. Almost makes me wish I went into geology and geophysics. Thank you!
Awesome, thank you!
This is a wonderful “story” and you have a HUGE gift for storytelling! Love love loved it!
Thank you so much!
I always unintentionally thought about these kind of processes and imaging how things came together. This is my first lecture about these processes happening over billions of years. It was clear as water an explanation everybody can understand! Very nice!
Great explanation! I’ve been in south Louisiana my entire life and always wondered why we have so many salt deposits and mines here. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
This content is hands down among the best available on this platform.
I often joke that I'm a closet nerd. So as I lay here in my room flipping through RUclips, snacking on mini marshmallows 😋 watching "science videos" 🤓 I'm thinking to myself, "This is the life. Sometimes I just love being an introverted nerd ." 🤟😁 I really appreciated your video Myron & look forward to seeing more interesting, intriguing, & entertaining videos I can learn from. Thank you for feeding that part of my soul 🥰
I'm an engineering geologist by trade. I knew many of the basic concepts, but really didn't have a concept of the scale and time with which these salt features appeared. This vid is well done - you speak on a level laymen can understand, but make it interesting enough that a 25 year professional can gain a lot out of it. Thanks!
Thank you!
Prof. Cook certainly has a knack to presenting information that can be interesting and erudite at the same time. A very rare ability!
I’m currently a student in geology doing research on the Louann salt in the Green Canyon protraction, thank you for this video!
Sir, I love the contents of your channel. I am from Puerto Rico, and after the 2000 earthquakes that happenned here, many of the geologists here are still puzzled and discoverying new faults and geological features.
Thank you for offering this content, it is fascinating.
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I believe you will enjoy this also, about Mt St. Helens
I figured the sediment angle flowing from the Mississippi river, hadn't thought of salt deposits. That is fascinating stuff. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!
I love the way you ask us questions to make us think what you're getting at and to draw a picture, in our minds, of what you are showing. Very well done.
I have a theory about what might cause some cases of Alzheimer's, we stop learning and get into our own heads (that is not a good place for any of us to be) and our brain, therefore, shuts down. If there was a way to get older people, like me, interested in learning this would be it. Keep the mind working. Absolutely love this.
Oh thank you!
You and Geology Hub are both amazing. There’s still and will always be more geology discoveries.
Thank you for one of the best geological lectures I've ever experienced! I was born in Port Arthur, my dad designed many of the oil refineries and rigs in the Gulf in the late 50s and 60s working for Gulf Oil. I spent a lot of time out there. I'm fascinated by all of this ❤️
Wow, thank you!
You have made a basic science topic so interesting that I could not turn away. Excellent work, Sir.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent video. I have tried to explain to my children what I do and why it is so fascinating but my enthusiasm for tangents has complicated their understanding. I watched this with them before school this morning and they understood and enjoyed the video. You present information in an accurate and easily understood way. Thank you for working to inspire the next generation of geologists.
Wonderful!
The silt layer that has not formed into stone is totally from the Younger-Dryas. Laurentide ice sheet deluge. This also washed over the Yucatan peninsula. We'll find the remains of many extinct Mega-fauna and the Clovis people in there dated to around 12 to 15 thousand years old.
Love the explanations. You're a wise and gentle teacher.
That is a mud flow from one massive flood!
Truly one of the best educational videos I’ve ever watched. You are an incredible teacher and geologist! #inspired
Thank you!
Well done! So wonderful to learn new...well, OLD things on RUclips. Great presentation.
Came for the title, stayed because I was absolutely transfixed by your teaching style. What an exciting time to be alive and doing science. When satellite imagery makes you say “what is that?” Then you go solve the mystery. Thanks for making science a fun and strangely relaxing experience!
Welcome aboard!
Salt withdrawal minibasins and subsalt traps are key components as to why the GoM is such a prolific hydrocarbon province. The salt body that still blows my mind is in the Paradox Basin of Utah.
Since I live in the area (Delta, CO) and recreate all over that area covered by the Paradox Basin I would LOVE to learn more about it as well.
Thank you for bringing it up.
At some point I will do something on the Paradox Basin...I love it.
That's a great idea! I went to University of Utah (regrettably, I didn't major in geology....), but did explore the area and gained some basic knowledge of the area's features. It would be great to understand better what I saw.
Paradox Fm: ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/UnitRefs/ParadoxRefs_9763.html.
Pennsylvanian salt marine deposition on the flanks of the Ancestral Rockies. ~300 ma.
are you talking about the paradox valley where the delorus river goes?
Myron, this was indeed a gift. As a youth in the wilds of northernBC Canada, on the shore of the Peace River I had the pleasure of exploring these big round or elliptical holes -smooth, polished….I puzzled over the got down into the ones I could. Then I discovered a commonality in a few of them. A single round worn rock was in the bottom, I then realized seasonal flooding and the right water movement created a movement creating these exquisite cup holes. Many having a smaller mouth opening…several smelled of bear dens…as strange as it may seem, I have found those in unusual terrain on dry land;so I’m taking from that a body of flowing water existed there atone time….thank you again
Neat story!
Sounds a lot like kettle lakes/ponds, which are very common in Canada. They form from chunks of glacial ice breaking off and melting as a glacier is receding.
@@anthonyrozewski2486 sounds possible and I suspect compounds my observations….but the large absolutely rounded rocks left in the bottom of some of these anomalies lead me to believe that over recent times the flood water of the peace took up where glaciers left off. The rock glacier at Atlan BC and the massive moraine certainly show the receding nature of glacier movement….in fact, I had the privilege of working on the Bennet dam near Hudson’s Hope. That dirt dam was created from an actual mountain that was moraine. I worked in the claim’s department… I regularly had dinosaur part go through my office…my father were instrumental in rescuing the first tracts and between my mother and father they have 4 dinosaurs named after them… my father found the worlds first bird prints but let Phil claim the privilege because he was starting his career. I was on several of the rescue missions. So, the peace river is one of the grandfather rivers of the earth….the Ammonites that my father took the Tyrell museum group to were so big …that flying one out by helicopter almost floundered the copter….big or what….yes, the great bear paw sea went from bottom end of USA the Bermuda are all the way through Yukon….I’m sure you know about it. Dad was doing oil exploratory work under contract to govt back in early 50’s up northern BC,NORTH WEST TERRITORIES, ALBERTA Found all kinds of ancient things breaking in road to no man’s land…often drilled up petrified fish…
@@dyannejohnson6184 the rocks are likely "glacial erratics"... rocks and boulders broken off and suspended in ice as an ice sheet advances which are rounded and eroded as they are carried through the ice sheet, then essentially left in place (whether on the surface or in a kettle lake) as the ice sheet receded. As a result, those boulders likely do not consist of the same material as the native bedrock where you live.
My guess is that Myron Cook is a teacher. If not, he should be. This "educational" video was presented in a clear, understandable manner... Excellent job! Also, I just enjoy geology.
That's a class I would definitely stay awake in 😁😻👍
I studied geography to A level long ago at school. I always preferred physical geography. And have been fascinated by geology so its lovely to have an opportunity to learn about it. ❤
Myron is a real gem. I'm glad I have him to learn from here on the tube
Thank you Myron for the Gulf of Mexico lesson! Keep them coming. One cant learn too much about the gulf that gives us the worlds most beautiful beaches.
I have taken quite a bit of geology while earning my BS. My university is in Texas, so of course my professors would reference Texas geology (since most of our field experiences were accessible). Areas like Edwards Plateau, Llano Uplift, Old Town Granite (of course Enchanted Rock), many salt domes and almost anyplace else where sea floor deposits of limestone and sea fossils are found (seemed like everywhere). We never covered the Sigsbee Escarpment. Thanks for the educational update.
This is definitely a youtube gem. Genuinely loved the way the concepts were presented, and i was absolutely riveted for the whole thing. Thank you sir, for your knowledge and experience.
Wow, thank you!
Geology, a subject I had little interest in till way after my schooling. Now I find it so fascinating. Better late than never to learn something new. Very helpful thanks for posting.
Your method of explaining is perfect, you take a complex subject and portray it simply. You have me racing thru all your videos anxious for the next in the series. Thanks for your time sir.
Great to hear!
Loved this video. You have made a giant lump of salt interesting and compelling. There should be an award for that.
I could listen to you any time of day, morning while making breakfast, driving to work, cooking dinner, at the gym, falling asleep at night; love your channel
Another perfectly explained geological mystery! Thank you for making these so fun to watch and easy to follow. I live in the Peninsular Ranges of Southern California and these videos have opened my eyes and mind to all sorts of amazing geological observations. Thank you again Myron.
Very cool!
Absolutely mesmerizing! Thank you for sharing your knowledge in a very understandable way. I look forward to each new video you produce. Geology rocks!
Fascinating! I'm always awed by the enormity of geologic features. I went to the science center in Des Moines, Iowa back in October and they had a display about dinosaurs that makes you feel pretty small. But that is nothing compared to the depth of that salt flow!
Great analogy and explanation. It should also be noted that the smokey mountains were higher than the rockies are today and since they are much older, much of that erosion contributed to the sedimentation of the Gulf of Mexico.
Interesting video. I love information about the Gulf of Mexico. I’m a long time diver in Pensacola, and an area we dive frequently is called “The Timber holes.” It’s about 20 miles east of Pensacola Pass in about 110 fsw on the far northeastern area of your salt dome area. On the bottom you find perfectly round holes. Most of them average about 2 ft in diameter. Some are bigger; some are smaller, but mostly they are perfectly round holes, and are coral and limestone encrusted. I’ve been told that they were once part of a prehistoric forest that was flooded after the last ice age. I would be interested in understanding more about their formation and how this area relates to your salt dome.
please get in touch with Randall Carlson (he has a channel on youtube).
it is commonly accepted that the sea level rose 400 ft within the past 15,000 years, but for those holes to exist means the ocean RAPIDLY rose and engulfed the trees, otherwise if the ocean rose slowly the waves would have eroded the trees in no time.
@@AustinKoleCarlisle proof of the biblical flood wouldn't ya say?
@@margaretecheverria9937 The Christian bible has been proven wrong in so many places. Charles Darwin explained human origin truths that the bible authors never understood. The bible was OK with human slavery. But for it to be correct in the "flood" example only means that it reflects what many other cultures and religions believed to have happened. Some say that the sea level rise caused the end of Atlantis and civilization far more advanced than human hunter gatherers. The findings in Turkey of structures built many thousands of years before the cities like Babylon and Damascus show that we don't yet understand all about our past.
Look at the Mind Unveiled video on Pensacola, it will blow your mind. “Pensacola Unveiled”
@@davideasterling5262 I'm so sorry that you don't believe! Just came here to engage in decent conversation. I didn't evolve from monkeys like Charles Darwin. GOD created me. We can agree to disagree can't we?? Have a most wonderful day.