Funny, I've been trekking in almost every area he mentioned. And thought of all his questions posed. My botany professor had a research area on one of the oddest parts of the uplift. The only one that ran east and west, rather than North and south. Just west of Castle Rock. The "weakened" point before the last uplift is on point. Also, riding the motorcycle through Red Rocks is soul melting. Sure do miss the Rockies.

Awesome - thank you! I'm a geologist/geophysicist at Michigan State, but I did a post-doc at UC Boulder many years ago, and I loved these rocks and their history!

This is continuing geologic education for me, heck Myron’s lectures are more informative than my undergraduate earth science courses! Thanks Myron!

So those crazy rock formations are ancient mountains that washed away 🤔 very cool

I had my high school graduation at red rocks, such a beautiful venue I implore anyone to see it at least once in their life. Dope I got to learn about it’s geology too lol

Hi Myron I’m Curt from Cheyenne Wyo and I’m curious what was the maximum amount of water that covered Wyoming and what period of time was it?? As always fascinating. I like how you slipped in the Great Divide at the very end there. 😊👍👍

Thank you for creating these well written and therefore easy to follow videos. I am transfixed throughout especially since I travelled through the area last fall. I am an easterner who is totally gobsmacked by the western US in my retirement travels.

I live in Broomfield, just west of the Flatirons. I really enjoyed watching this video. Thanks so much!

Thank you. This was a good watch while touring about the insanity of the internet.

great presentations! You are a wonderful geology teacher

Sounds like a catastrophic floods laid down these layers above the granite.

I just saw A Perfect Circle at Red Rocks.... now it all makes sense! Maynard references geology in several songs (Tool and APC... Pounding on a fault line, etc.). I guess you'd have to be a Maynard / Tool / APC fan, and a geology fan, to appreciate the reference. Love your explanations and the focus on deep time, processes, etc. Tony, Carbondale, CO

In these situations I.e. a “No Trespassing” sign, your work might be benefitted more by getting a drone.

G.O.G. myth busted, I guess: they used to think the GOG formation was a fossilized riverbed, that snapped vertical due to an earthquake ( there is a 7.3 fault line that runs through it.). Thanks.

Another great video, Myron. One thing for sure is that things never stay the same. Change is basic to everything we see and know..

Excited to see The Red Rocks amphitheater in the opening scene. I spent several years growing up in the Denver area, and family trips went there often ... back in the days when it was acceccible to the public, instead of posted as "No Trespassing".

I’d love to go to the Pennsylvanian age and know for a fact the industrial 🏭 possibilities that the resources of the time could offer for fuel , metal and other basic elements.

Note 🗒️ too , property owners : Let the Geologists free range to gather information about mineral deposits and geological activity. Really

The bad thing about a well explained geological phenomenon is that it makes me think on how inexorably short is our human lives time scale. It isn’t fair 😢.

Wow & Yes! ^..^~~

Excellent look into the creation of the Rockies.

Wow! I never knew there were ancestral Rocky mountains. Yes, it's very hard to wrap your head around that fact. Could there have been even earlier mountains? I really appreciate your whiteboard drawings/explanations. And the maps of the ancient U.S. land areas. Sometimes, looking at these maps makes me think that the earth goes through recycling processes.

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Illustrious white beard with white board… making geology enjoyable to say the least ! Never too late for more enlightenment ! Thanks professor, for helping so many learn so much more, about this earth that we should know so much more about. Best of health to you !

Good question ! I have red rock of the same content near my home which is very close to an ancient volcanic cone. It all amazes me and sometimes challenges nature, itself 🙂

Thank you for the lesson. I have often wondered about what I have been looking at here. Where can I find that awesome map?

Thanks Myron - wonderfully explained. I live in England near the Welsh border with geological history going back to the Pre Cambrian some 6-700 Mya., with some very ancient fault systems. Nothing quite as dramatic as the Rockies now but they once were. Your videos fascinate me. I've always been interested in geology and why the landscape looks like it does (plate tectonics weren't part of the curriculum when I was at school in the 1960s!).

Amazing presentation and use of visuals. Thank you.

He climbed the cathedral mountains, he saw silver cloud below

One of your best videos, thanks for the excellent content. Especially fascinating as a Front Range resident.

Do the undulating pattern typical of these submarine channels obey the same mechanics erosion-redeposition characteristic of river meanders on dry land where the meanders gradually march downstream over time? Do they also find oxbows forming? Final question are there salinity gradients that exist between the turbidite and surrounding seawater that might either tend to concentrate or disperse the flow of the turbidite in its associated channels? This might be a stretch but you could have something analogous to adiabatic compression happening where a density gradient constrains the flow and prevents the exchange of energy with the surrounding volume like you do with a katabatic wind in the gaseous portion of our atmosphere.

18:45 OMG 😨 that is an amazing aminate! I bet it feels incredible touching that piece of ancient history! 😊

Again, I very much appreciate the metric conversions.

Thank you professor for talking to us like old friends. It's a pleasure to hear you explaining the geological past of the USA. So much stuff sitting out in the open to see west of the 100th meridian! Fisher Towers is not too far west from the Top Of the World . Many car commercials made there! Both are spectacular view points. The white board got a workout this time! Thanks again professor! Steve

Thank you these great videos.

I always like to set time aside to really follow the narrative Myron builds. I always learn something new 🙏

Alvin Lee and 10 years After was my Red Rocks introduction.

I just found your videos, and I love how you break it down to make it easy to understand, and the places you get to travel to are beautiful! Is there any way you could do a video looking at Makoshika State Park in eastern Montana? I think it could tie into this video, and the one on the ancient seaway as well.

I'm relatively new to your channel, and I'm enjoying it both as a lover of all science and a rock climber. If youe looking for an unusual and interesting formation and happen to be in the deserts of SoCal, check out Sawtooth Canyon, also called New Jack City by climbers. Its an interesting and unusual metaphoric outcropping that I'm sure youd enjoy.

Thanks, Myron, for this amazing class. What enchanted views! I live in Brazil and I'm always enjoying your videos.