An Unusual Sandstone Monument: Where Did It Come From? Where Did It Go?

[@austinobambino1360]

I love that so much of the field geology you show in these videos is puzzle solving and investigation. Working through understanding how massive physical features got to be the way they are now through millions of years of history is awesome.

[@prankmonkeyxs650]

He is an extremely good teacher IMO

[@kehenabeach4418]

You left out conjecture and assumptions.

[@jamebrooke894]

FIELD WORK IS ALWAYS EXCITING!!

[@brianshissler3263]

It is awesome! Probably my most nerdy pleasure lol

[@mudfossiluniversity]

I do Research on these things and have DNA tests etc...discussion is real science and Myron will not????? Why?

[@zekeabercrombie3583]

By far the best geology lessons on the internet. I could listen to Myron all day.

[@perguto]

Rob Butler is also excellent!

[@maxwellking3326]

AGREED!

[@laughingoutloud5742]

I want to let you know you and other Geologists have inspired me to go back to school at 56 and pursue a geology degree! Thank you and Merry Christmas!

[@myroncook]

Wow...congrats!

[@donnavorce8856]

Thank you Myron for another adventure. So much amazing beauty is found in that area.

[@PunCraft]

That is a gorgeous area of land. Thank you for the scenery and information :)

[@myroncook]

It really is!

[@genericalfishtycoon3853]

​@@myroncook@6:37 Looks like a giant battleship in a rough sea. Beautiful view! Definitely a land to inspire thoughts of dinosaurs, without a doubt.

[@calvinallen9508]

Another great episode Mr Cook. Thank You for doing all the work and creating such a wonderfully educational program.

[@garrickgraydon1084]

How wonderful! Just hours ago I subscribed and shared your wonderful KZbin channel. I am so excited to watch your new video. I will commence that endeavour now.

[@CodyShell]

6:49 this has to be the best drone shot ive seen in a really long time, really spectacular stuff!

[@santoshr2984]

One of the best channels for geological enthusiasts like me. Thank you for such great videos.

[@stevenm3141]

I can't believe that is Wyoming! The repeating forms on the edges are fascinating and the size of the entire area is awesome. 😊

[@myroncook]

It really is!

[@OneNationUnderGod.]

Thank you Myron for taking us on another geology journey with you, I hope you and your family have a Merry Christmas!

[@ZIGZAGBureauofInvestigation]

I hope some day you could visit the Grand Junction - Bookcliffs-Gunnsion Buffs - Grand Mesa etc, and show us its Geological history and its formation. Also look up the Canyons lands on JE Ranch in S.E. Colorado. Lots of new discovery's being found there.

[@riverbender9898]

The perspectives given by your excellent camera work lead us nicely to ask the questions. The various ideas you propose help guide our responses. In short, your videos are uniformly excellent. Thank you and Merry Christmas.

[@myroncook]

Merry Christmas

[@18Bees]

You are my favorite geology channel.

[@a787fxr]

I am truly impressed with your ability to figure out what took place and then explain it in your incredibly well done videos. More please !:- )

[@secretsquirrel6718]

Yeah.... I find it truly AMAZING that HE knows that happened 50 to 100 MILLION years ago....😂 Give me a break.

[@a787fxr]

@@secretsquirrel6718 Ok. I'm giving you a break. After your break take some time to address your comprehension of this topic. It may be helpful for you.

[@keirfarnum6811]

@@secretsquirrel6718 Have you never taken a geology class? The land can tell us a great deal about what happened in the past; you just have to look for the clues.

[@Rs-bm1gy]

​@@secretsquirrel6718you just keep following the sky squirrel

[@adambailey156]

Ask the ”expert" why there is no biological matter trapped in the sandstone. It's only sand, no seaweed, fish, pebbles nothing...

[@Babbajune]

Thanks for sharing, the history of our planet is so interesting! ❤❤

[@dj-kq4fz]

I'm guessing, since Morrison, CO is somewhat famous for the fossils much like the ones you are describing, that the formation and town have something in common. By the end of the video I'll likely know the answer ( I'm about to google it actually). Back with an edit in a few. Yep, named after the town. Sorry if I spoiled anything! Thanks! Dave J (I live SW of Morrison and used to bike on Dinosaur Ridge many years ago). One more edit, beautiful photography!

[@toughenupfluffy7294]

The first stegosaurus ever discovered was at Morrison, CO in 1877. The stegosaurus is the Colorado State Fossil.

[@Ryan-ow2bq]

I grew up just SE of Morrison in the mid- '80s~early '90s and hunted fossils between the excavation and construction of C-470 at the time. Road crews dug and blasted through many of these layers along the hogback, leaving shale-embedded fossils exposed for miles during the brief window before they built the highway. Made for a great field trip!

[@peteloader4194]

Another great video, Myron. I love the way you explain these natural phenomena using the scientific method. Another one to share with my students.

[@wrp3621]

Wonderful adventure, thanks M.C.

[@johnlord8337]

Soooo .... you going to make a part 2 of this and discuss those background anti-tank "dragon's teeth" formation that looks like a mile long dinosaur spine and its formation, inclination, and origin ?

[@fennynough6962]

Was wondering how these symmetrical tombstone, like Dinosaur spline's, could be each so similar in shape?

[@alaskanight940]

I am very curious about those also, hard to beleave he did not mention them. I hope there is a second video on them.

[@kimklinzman2919]

@@fennynough6962Myron has an older video on those. I don’t recall the title, but I know you will enjoy looking for it!!!!!!

[@pcatful]

I made the same comment myself. @@alaskanight940

[@myroncook]

sometime

[@4coryw]

I've only recently discovered your channel, but you've quickly become my favorite geologist. Great job with the video and all the explanations.

[@ramonaharrold8996]

I would like to see you do a show about the Rock Springs/Green River area. Love your show!

[@SB-qm5wg]

Well done as always.

[@danzac1857]

HI Myron. I'm just curious if you have ever done a video on that formation to the left of the monument that looks like a double row of tilted half moons that continues way off into the distance. What is that?

[@ironcladranchandforge7292]

Yes, I'm interested in that too. Amazing stuff going on around this location.

[@georgegrader9038]

Erosional Flatirons of the Basal Morrison Fm overlying the red Triassic ?

[@myroncook]

future video

[@silva7493]

It must be very satisfying to be able solve these mysteries. I'm often completely stumped by nature, and the Earth. The scenery there sure is dramatic. I'm also captivated by the many uniform looking double or triple lines of small, almost (but not quite) pyramid like shapes that were frequently in the background on the left side of the screen, for example at 1:17, 9:40, and 19:34. And there are also some curious deep red looking small forms to the immediate left of the base of "Sheep Mountain", starting at about 6:06 that remind me of beehive kilns. This was great! Thank you.

[@kimklinzman2919]

If my elderly brain is working correctly, I believe Myron had a video about those “sawtooth” triangular formations. I know you will be pleased to search his videos for that one! He also has another one about stream deposit rock formations that look like giant petrified logs, but are not!😊

[@silva7493]

@@kimklinzman2919 Haha! If my elderly brain is up to it, I might find those!!! That sounds great. Thank you.😊

[@myroncook]

I will do a video on those in the future

[@silva7493]

@@myroncook Oh, Thank you!!!

[@jrcather5196]

@@myroncook dino's fake like water curving only when you dont look

[@mikelong9638]

Doctor, just another great video! I learn so much every time I watch one. Have a great holiday. Looking forward to next year.

[@mixolydian2010]

Absolutely stunning scenery myron. All the best.

[@OsadabwaMoto]

Thank you Myron. Love your videos, especially about the Big Horn Basin as I grew up in Worland. Next time I'm home I have to visit Sheep Mountain. Your videos have finally driven it home how unique that area is, geologically. The longer video of you going back in time was really eye-opening. I'm on the other side of the planet now, just finished climbing a volcano in Tanzania called Oldoinyo Lengai. It formed only about 15,000 years ago, and most recently erupted in 2008... some of the cone is only 15 years old! Down on the plains are human footprints frozen in the mud from the early eruptions. Talk about cool. But now it's interesting to think that when that volcano was being formed everything in the Big Horn Basin was already very old and eroded. Thanks again.

[@HH-xyz123]

Worland local here. Totally agree. Myron's videos are fascinating.

[@myroncook]

adventurous you are!

[@shellyharry8189]

Absolutely fabulous presentation! I've been to Dinosaur National Monument and it's very sad to see all those poor dinosaurs. I don't know if they were caught crossing the river or perhaps swept away in a flash flood, but it had to have been horrible for them.

[@bjnslc]

Well done, as always. And that's a spectacular anticline. Lovely lighting in your footage.

[@jerrywills]

You are a terrific educator/Teacher. I just learned so much from this ONE video! Thank you for taking the time to help us all know more.

[@myroncook]

You are so welcome!

[@cameron7356]

I love these videos so much. Please don’t stop with them. You inspire at least one person here

[@hughgray4199]

Excellent presentation Myron; what might present an even more fantastic image.... would be to describe the existing environment, (winds, rain, flood, heat or cold) that contributed to the demise of the inhabitants and the "erosion" of the planet (beside of course, the immensity of time)? By the way, I always enjoy your chalk board explanations....

[@nitahill6951]

Once again you have revealed the most awesome explanation of the our wonderful world!

[@michaelwaterdragon]

Another interesting trip! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Would love to hear your insights on some of the Mars footage available, and how some of those formations came to be.

[@craighoover1495]

Thank you Myron. I can only imagine how these places speak to you and am profoundly grateful that you are taking the time to share how they do.

[@myroncook]

You are very welcome

[@Nrc3neallyo]

Another masterpiece, Myron! Gorgeous scenery. This is going on my bucket list. Keep-a-rockin! 🤘😎🤘

[@DroneLifebyChristie]

I love that you use your drone often to see it all from different perspectives. I’m always amazed by your knowledge and ability to teach and show in such an interesting way!

[@ironcladranchandforge7292]

Wow!! That is one of the most interesting geological areas I've ever seen. Thanks for explaining how this beautiful area came to be.

[@killakoala10]

I learn something new every time I watch your videos. Thank you for taking the time to make them.

[@myroncook]

My pleasure!

[@Chiamex]

It's always so amazing to watch these videos and to learn about the earth's past. It sure does humble a person and leaves one with a sense of awe. Our own human history is but a blip in time.

[@myroncook]

indeed

[@higherresolution4490]

The awesome, yet humbling timeframe you mention seems to be one of Nature's returning themes, almost like a fractal phenomenon. It makes me think of certain short-lived cells of the human body versus the capability of the entire organism to live more than a century. For example, in the GI tract, the outermost cells of the lumen are called enterocytes or brush border cells. Their maximum lifespan is 2-3 days. And yet the entire organism can live well over 36,500 days!

[@noone-ft9lw]

Good stuff Myron

[@joehopfield]

Richard Feynman agreed - curiosity and deep understanding make the beauty of the world more profound,. Thank you for showing us a more deeply beautiful world.

[@WIBBS75]

Happy to see you have a video up!

[@tb4876]

Wow I always learn so much from your videos! Thanks so much for sharing you knowledge and the beauty of our planet!

[@myroncook]

So nice of you

[@TrentonR]

I seriously love your content. you are providing such an indispensable service. Your presentation and explanations are educational and fun. - I thank you sincerely.

[@josecarloscassiano1846]

Another magnificent video from Master Myron. As previously mentioned, I'm from Brazil, but I've already visited several places mentioned by the master in Utah. It's a pleasure to attend these enlightening classes!! Thank you very much Master! Big hug!! Jose Carlos

[@myroncook]

Interesting!

[@michellewarmath7811]

Thank you again, Myron, for another educational and beautiful video. You make geology so easy to understand. I will never again look at stripes on strata without thinking of your water glass and the color changes from the water levels in the sandstone. (I'll also grab a glass if I need to check whether a picture is level...🙂) Our planet's history and development are truly wonderful. Happy holidays to you and yours.

[@wolkenbummler]

Your geology videos are my absolute favorites. Thank you very much.

[@Stuffthatsfunny1]

Brilliant as always. Thank you Myron

[@AvaGrail]

I love your videos and your presentation so much!! We get to come on the exploration with you!! ♥️♥️♥️

[@higherresolution4490]

Not only was this a fascinating video on some of the most beautiful geological structures I've seen, but this is a great lesson in how to reason things out and come up with a logical conclusion. Appearances are so often deceiving, and when it comes to geology, the untrained eye can really get things wrong. Here we have true science, not the masquerade parade of corporate science we see today.

[@Turbohh]

I love your joy and peace in explaining this subject. Very interesting and amazing. Thank you.

[@overdoneone]

Thank you Myron for another great video/geology lesson. I do agree, you live in a beautiful state with so many colorful formations.

[@atoz4399]

Since you explained some of this now I have an interest in geology. I never found any interest in to it prior to. Now watching you I have to re-examine how I look at things. Very great show. Keep up the great work.

[@matildamarmaduke1096]

Think trees

[@stephenspreckley8219]

Always intrigued by your shows Myron, and thank you too for creating them.

[@mattrowland473]

Thanks Myron, I always enjoy very much your great videos of our natural history!

[@lisajahn6839]

Thank you for making and sharing this wonderful video! Be well, stay safe all.

[@myroncook]

Thank you, I will

[@gregjones2217]

Once again you have brought understanding to an area I have wandered through for years. Saying thank you just isn't enough. You and the jeepers have been a wonderful source of fun and learning. I want to wish you and yours the best of new years. Happy holidays.

[@charlesmiddleton3247]

Myron, thanks for all your expertise and knowledge in bringing so much joy and excitement regarding geology and our "Mother Earth's" wonders of discovery. I love how you present your subject matter to reveal its ancient history and story. I've always been a curious and knowledge hungry "being" since childhood and marveled in rocks, minerals and the secrets they hold. Took Earth Science in Jr. High and I was hooked. At 70 years old... I'm still in the forests and trails searching and identifying thanks to individuals like yourself. I finally found a meteorite that I cherish found on one of my excursions and keep many rocks in my bedroom to just look at. Wishing you wellness and happy hunting. Namaste. From a Vietnam Era Marine Corps veteran.

[@myroncook]

neat find!

[@BGMBliss]

I love watching your videos! My love for geology has been growing each day!

[@user-wk1mw9nj3i76]

I enjoyed this video a lot! Great photography, clear demonstrations and easy for a non-specialist to follow the reasoning. Wow! Thank you.

[@Chris.Davies]

Thank you sincerely, Myron, for the amazingly smooth 60fps, and your gorgeous slow panning. So much detail and and such clarity makes watching a genuine pleasure. And that's before you hit us with your euphonious voice. :)

[@jamestalbert8358]

Really enjoyed the lesson. Thanks so much!

[@leswoodburn5764]

Always loved geology and ever since your first video you have me hooked. Thanks a lot.

[@jonarment1229]

I love sandstone. Southern Illinois has some really beautiful formations, and it's tough enough that you can rock climb if you're into that sort of thing.

[@keyscook]

Really amazing geology. Spectacular explanation, Myron. Thank you and Cheers from Seattle!

[@JoeZorzin]

Thanks again Myron for another superb geology video.

[@martinjcamp]

Another wonderful and informative and Professional production. Thank you for giving this to us!!

[@zenseed75]

What an interesting place! Ty for sharing! ❤

[@terrioestreich4007]

Beautiful!

[@chichcnc]

Your a weapon Myron. Yet another great video.

[@suspectsusphium1039]

I realy love these videos, i am quite a young person ang seeing these videos realy immerses me into what geology can truly be like just wondering around and asking questions about the rock formations and how they formed, these video type is a lot more relaxed and it feels like i am just there aswell its slow paced and i love that.

[@paulk2085]

Thank You Myron. Love your videos, learn a lot and now my eyes are tuned towards the geology of my local world

[@ArtHistoryProfessor]

WOW!!!!!!!!!! What an excellent installment as always, Professor Cook! You know I love paleontology and this video is a special treat for me! Thank you, thank you, thank you, so very much!!!! The spectacular aerial drone footage is cinematic splendor par excellence! And what beautiful terrain and breathtaking landscapes. I'd love visit and explore the geology of these sites. I can't thank you enough! All the best from chilly North Carolina.

[@myroncook]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@martincotterill823]

Thank you gery much, Myron, what a fascinating story and a truly monumental landscape!

[@jimjr4432]

I just love your videos. I always hated to use whiteboards, not for the boards, but for the inks, bad smells for me. So, now I love both yours and Karl Rove's whiteboard talks for wonderful content and no odor. Again, you have great presentation skills. Merry Christmas 2023

[@RT-mn2pb]

Hi Myron, thanks, great video. I want to add my wife and I to the queue of people anxious to hear about the saw-tooth, or as johnlord8337 said 4 months ago, the "anti-tank "dragon's teeth" formation". That's just fascinating, and so distinct. So, we're curious and looking forward to hearing about it.

[@myroncook]

likely next year

[@dancooper8551]

Another excellent and fascinating video Myron! Thank you.

[@Donatich.Onataka]

Fantastic video, Myron! Thank you. I've been wondering if we would see another one soon.

[@WyomingUpland]

Love your videos and I've bird hunted close to, or at many of the spots you feature!

[@TheHeroAppeared]

So happy I discovered this channel! Never formally studied geology but am so fascinated by it!

[@DavidEFarner]

WOW! 👍❤️ fascinating.

[@cherm-k9b]

Thank You Myron Cook... YOU NEVER DISAPPOINT !!!!! Another day and I have learned (now if I can just retain all this wonderful knowledge you shared?)... Tuffy Marginez... TM

[@monoped_adventures]

Once again you've explained such a complex geological sequence in a way that's easy to understand. Thank you!

[@douglascronin7336]

Fantastic job. Such an interesting area . Thank you for taking us back in time.

[@myroncook]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@AdamWatkins-m3c]

Great video and audio quality Myron. I love the drone shots and your explanations; I would like to hike the land with you and take in all your knowledge!

[@cwalter54]

Thanks so much for your enthusiastic, educational, entertaining, and inspiring videos. I like their mystery-solving character, with a good balance of hints with exploration. Love the views and drone views, and much more as well.

[@felipericketts]

It's great fun, to say the least, when the landscape and it's history come alive through your explanations. Thanks! 🙂

[@myroncook]

Thanks for watching!

[@tommunyon2874]

My childhood friends and I would take day hikes in the Jemez Mountains (Valles Caldera complex) and would stop to speculate about various formations that we came across. I like Myron's questioning approach to geology. Life's path took my education on a different path, but I appreciate these videos as a way to get back to learning about geology. The geological variations on the drive from Los Alamos to Albuquerque always captivated my imagination. There is so much to know anywhere one goes in the West.

[@myroncook]

Los Alamos is an interesting area

[@higherresolution4490]

Although I'm from Laguna Beach, Ca, I worked at Los Alamos in 2014-15, and lived in Santa Fe for 6 months a few years prior. You're not kidding the geology in that area is fascinating! I was in awe the whole time, especially not having a car and doing a tremendous amount of walking and hiking. Many days from the patio of Smith's Market in Los Alamos it seemed like the ancient ocean down on the level of the Rio Grande River and the highway from Santa Fe to the exit for Los Alamos was almost perceptible, like some sort of mirage. Oddly enough, prior to Los Alamos, I worked in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, at the same altitude, also in the shadow of a caldera whose last eruption was the same time period as the one that created the lava flow basement for Los Alamos.

[@pierremaxted214]

Thank you for another fascinating video Myron. I am fortunate to have the opportunity to travel through the UK and Europe. I always get a thrill when I see a geological feature in the landscape that I recognize from what I have learned on KZbin videos like yours.

[@pcatful]

Thank you! Another great lesson and adventure! I'm curious about the long line of regular conical hills, like shark's teeth along the anticline. I'll have to go and check it out!

[@a787fxr]

I'm also going with "Shark teeth". That's probably an entire video in its self.

[@myroncook]

will do a video in the future

[@Flugmorph]

awesome video once more, i feel like ive learned so much!

[@lonthrall5613]

Thank you so much! The excellent drone(?) video starting at about 1:14 is a study in geologic time! And to see a folded and then eroded outcrop of an ancient river bed in the formation is incredible!

[@superman9772]

wow... really like this video... it was like watching a matlock mystery but for geology... thanks for making it fun and exciting....(seriously it was fun and enjoyable while learning)

[@oldgeezerproductions]

I didn't make it my career, but my geology studies have enriched my life and it was time well spent. Knowing something about the how, what and when of what I'm looking at makes the natural world so much more beautiful and interesting rather than just being "pretty," as you have observed yourself Myron.

[@johnlord8337]

You find some of the most-amazing geological sites that continually spin my mind. All these soft geologies vs my Pacific NW hard geologies of volcanoes, glaciers, ice floods, migrating hot spot trails, and geological scraping of the seabed flooring and making new coastal accumulation and accretion ....

[@mikeflynn2926]

Another finely crafted, fascinating video. Thank you! Looking forward to your analysis of the scalloped edges of the scene.

[@thelostone6981]

Very entertaining and enlightening as always!! I love learning this stuff!! I do want to ask about the sand dune type structures in the distance of this video; what makes those? Maybe a future video can explain them? In southern Utah is the “cockscomb” in Cottonwood Canyon and I love to photograph them. They are very similar and probably similar processes, but I imagine from much different time periods. Cheers!

[@myroncook]

I will do a video at some point. They are similar to the Cockscomb...a neat area

[@richarddavies7419]

Sometimes called "flatirons," they are erosional features like those prominently displayed along the Front Range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, as well as on the flanks of anticlines where harder layers (sandstone) overly softer shales. They are displayed beautifully here, where the Sheep Mountain Anticline is exposed in the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming.

[@douglasesposito5651]

You always make it very interesting. Having the Western United States relatively close offers so many great geology examples, and I want to visit them all. I need to calm down and be more like you. 🙂