Pennsylvanian Paradox Formation - The Rocks of Utah

[@7inrain]

Very nice to find another geologist on KZbin besides Shawn Willsey, Nick Zentner and Myron Cook. I wish we would have this here in Germany. Subscribed.

[@Laserblade]

Thanks for the education! Nice touch to leave your audience with a laugh, thanks for that too!

[@TrainLordJC]

What a buzz it must be for you to understand the amazing geology of Utah as you travel through the area on your explorations and to know and understand over eons of time their very interesting formations. Years of study and passion pay off so we all thank you for the effort you put into your presentations as we learn more about this amazing planet.

[@markgorman1951]

Thanks for the tour of this weird formation! I liked your music accompanying the rough ride to the outcrop, too.

[@trevorknight3904]

If I had a prof like you I would have enjoyed geology a lot more. I was at the Logan campus. I love the way you present information; it feels more like storytelling than a lecture.

[@NigelNaughton]

One of the best shows on KZbin for sure. I love that Onion Creek area.

[@wandajarabo1793]

Absolutely fascinating, what stunning formations. Wish you could come to eastern Spsin to Chera near where I am to do a video of some incredible formations. I'm constantly amazed at the geology in this region and struggle to understand it. Watching you and other geologists helps me a teeny bit. Best wishes

[@eszterszep9163]

thank you for the Rocks of Utah series, Benjamin!

[@nexusvi4373]

Jestem pod wrażeniem dokładności mapy paleogeograficznej. Szczególnie zarysu wysp na zanikającym Morzu Kaskasja. A ponad wszystko ten gigantyczny lądolód na Gondwanie. Jego próg musiał sięgać ponad chmury.

[@mjhoee]

Amazing knowledge and well portrayed. I'm currently doing a MSc about the Little Grand Wash Fault. Shoutout from Norway! the geology in Utah is awesome.

[@chegeny]

Nice video. Paradox Basin is a fascinating area. I once had the good fortune to explore Avery Island, Louisiana. It was interesting to see the salt dome sat above the surrounding flatland. It's famously the home of Tabasco as well, and as you mentioned, adjacent to some massive oilfields in the Gulf of Mexico.

[@Rachel.4644]

Just found your channel! Very fun and beautiful. I love your driving videos in areas I can't get to in my RV. (Lol) Also, this is the first I've heard about salt influenced geology.

[@adbrouwer]

I can't even remember how and when I got across your channel, but I have no regrets of hitting that subscribe button back then. Amazing information and views, Benjamin. And yep, it's flat here in the Netherlands ;-)

[@bodhi7945]

These videos are just great, thank you for sharing all of these videos.

[@iamtoothewalrus]

Dead Horse Point is a must see if you're in Moab. We drove around the roads where Potash evaporation ponds exist, very cool area.

[@Katylest]

Fascinating as always! Onion creek looks surreal.

[@hadesswagger3006]

I love big words and I cannot lie ❤ Great video

[@michaelgelunas1113]

great production

[@tracihatten7465]

I absolutely LOVE your videos! Our earth is an AMAZING place! Thanks for doing them!

[@bathyshawaii6882]

Loved the gearshift insert shot!

[@rainbowboa100]

been to utah a bunch of times. once you've seen one red rock, you've seen 'em all!

[@billwilson-es5yn]

Rocks, rocks and more rocks!

[@Muddytrickle]

Good overview of the Paradox and the associated structural deformation that can occur with salt/evaporite diapirs ( diapir not diapore). Just another fun fact - bryazoans and corals are from 2 distinct phylums and are completely unrelated. Great to find good Pennsylvanian examples. You have inspired me to visit these places. Thanks.

[@Brian_yeah_that_brian_Strang]

It’s a pretty wild hike to that uplift. Lots of tourists when I was there. Nice video

[@richardcoleman9932]

Really cool thanks for sharing

[@warrenmusselman9173]

Platinum group elements and shocked quartz.

[@jadedmastermind]

Onion Creek is a great little 4x4 trail!

[@MoaByte-v2z]

That's exactly what I wanted to know, thanks.

[@MaxPixUT]

Thank you for another interesting and educational video! Have you been to Vermilion Cliffs White Pocket yet? Now that's a geological mind blow! Hope to see a future production on that area.

[@johnwallace9002]

Some of Clyde Tombaugh's ashes went past Pluto, the ninth planet, on New Horizons.

[@bleacherz7503]

Are you available for 1/2 day guides?

[@Pyrexlover]

Say what was the big mountain in the background at the beginning of your video

[@mrdayyumyum3712]

I live in Vernal. Have you been north of Jensen and seen the 6 foot plus round sandstone boulders? If can you tell me how they were formed?

[@BenjaminBurgerScience]

Is this the Frontier Formation? There is a video on the rock layer and it’s cannonball concrétions:m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2LEfmytnJ6ShKs

[@myramadd6651]

We have a lot of those sorts of Fossils in Tennessee, too.

[@michaelbean9165]

I wonder who built that road to the paradox site?

[@OppenheimerRanchProject]

Bryozoans are sometimes confused with corals, another colonial group of animals. Like corals, most bryozoans secrete external skeletons made of calcium carbonate, which form the framework of the colony. Bryozoans, however, are more complex organisms than corals and generally don't build reefs.

[@randyfisher6509]

Why has Paradox Fm come to the surface from so deep in the Onion Creek exposures?

[@tardigrade9493]

Curious.

[@KyleKoskovich]

What if these were formed as part of subduction zones? You call out the saltiness and the deformed rocks... 300+ million years ago i could see some plates crashing together causing the deformities and burying the salt thats now showing via erosion.... Thoughts?

[@marcg1001]

Best episode ever! Makes me want to leave Ohio tomorrow! Thank you!

[@guadalupegandara8961]

At The zone west of Rockies the bottom of prehistoric océan was extremely hard hit and layers sit sideways while few remain upright as Flat-tops! :

[@georgesheffield1580]

This reminds me of driving down tino Barranca de Cobre in mexico .

[@tifacola]

Was the sea even salty back then? I thought rivers made the sea salty.

[@herbf2700]

Isnt the entire San Rafael Swell being pushed up by a gigantic salt formation deep deep below?

[@BenjaminBurgerScience]

The San Rafael Swell is a tectonic structure that formed during the Laramide Orogeny in the late Cretaceous, very little salt is found under it, since it was too far to the west and outside the Paradox Basin province, where the seaway formed. There are some evaporitic deposits along I-70 as part of the Eagle Valley seaway that existed around the same time, in western Colorado. These can be see around the town of Dot Zero. The San Rafael Swell was uplifted during the same fore-shorting that resulted in the rise of some of the north-south folds, such as the Douglas Arch, Park Mountain Range, and perhaps even the Colorado Plateau.

[@herbf2700]

I've found some of the gypsum layers-- There's a great area on the Moore Cutoff several feet thick, and today I just spotted a layer that was exposed nice and clean by a road cut, up by ghost rock on I70. I hiked Eagle Canyon and had a great time hunting minerals today. Lots of green copper in the area and I even found a small very intense blue rock. Lots of petrified wood too. I wish I could learn more about the geology of the Swell since I hike it every weekend. Any suggestions of books or maps or web pages to get a newbie started on the geology of the area?

[@BenjaminBurgerScience]

Thats likely the Mancos Shale, lots of gypsum in that layer, as it was deposited by the Western Interior Seaway. I really like "Geology of Utah" by William Stokes, as well as "Geologic History of Utah" by Lehi Hintze and Bart Kowallis. Both books are good overviews of Utah geology. The "Road Side Geology books" are also good for newbies. I just picked up "The Practical Geologist" by Dougal Dixon and Raymond Bernor, which is a good very basic geology book for someone interested in getting started.

[@RichardKCollins]

So a slow motion salt volcano is a cool concept to have in the tool kit. If it is squishy, it does not have to be hot to flow. You are wrong. It is not "crazy" but simply complex and many repetitions with variations. "That is not hard, just tedious."

[@chromicm6686]

Hilarious, i was only in dead horse point about a month ago giving the same presentation, great video

[@joem9980]

are you a geology instructor?

[@BenjaminBurgerScience]

13,000 Feet and Climbing yes :)

[@joem9980]

Well I bet you're a very good instructor, your passion for geology comes through load an clear, and your positivity is genuine. Thank you for sharing. Great video and great editing.

[@robertfarrow5853]

The Great Flood. Massive ice melt swept over North America, caused th Badlands , Grand Canyon,not gradual erosion,just one event. Excellent podcast on this worth a search and watch..

[@christiansmith-of7dt]

Ive been there

[@mickobrien3156]

"Kinda a weird piece of trivia" HAHA Yes, very weird. A man's ashes were blasted to the moon. That's very odd and unusual, indeed.

[@galenhaugh3158]

Lays eggs?

[@phonicdictation9856]

utah wasn't utah back then

[@nancynoe4148]

What did the turtles call it?

[@thebackpackerschannel3580]

The native Western Shoshone called their land of this area Eldiho, which was corrupted by the interlopers to Idaho, which was the word they used to differentiate it from their land to the west which they called Oreyungun, which the same invaders corrupted into Oregon, though this western part also included what's now commonly referred to as Nevada or, at least, the north part of it.

[@ciprianpopa1503]

I think they call it a salt diapir not diapor.

[@Dr.GeoDave]

Bryozoa are not coral unless something has changed since I taught paleo lab many years ago.

[@mikos420211]

TREE SMH

[@bristow-smithquentin8691]

the rocket didn't make it to the moon

[@WilliamLee-bv4tv]

69 comments. Nice. Guess I'll have to be the one to make it 70🤣

[@marksinger3067]

Rock pick , nose pick , nice flick indeed..

[@SDFishGuessWhoMeAgain]

You comment as if your dates and opinions are fact. But.... We humans are too ignorant to really know.

[@AlohaMilton]

So this formation is where you found that fossil television? JK!!! I know education is underfunded.

[@gregcollins3404]

A better, simpler explaination is a worldwide flood....

[@amritpatel3794]

I saw similar landscape at 70 & 89 crossing.

[@amritpatel3794]

I love Utah.