GEOLOGY of Lake Powell - Is Lake Powell disappearing?

[@janjohannessmith7033]

Wow.! What an amazing journey around that huge beautiful lake❤ thank you

[@realnikonlover6207]

Lake Powell is one of our favorite places to go houseboating. It is its own lifestyle and a good one at that. Thanks for sharing the geological side of Lake Powell. It truly is a wonder of the world.

[@sandmaker]

Lake Powell is one of our favorite places! This was the first time I ever saw horseshoe from above. I'm glad you were able to enjoy it with friends. Cheers to you all!

[@sstortz7775]

You have done a great job on this video. Between the geology, sight seeing, and fun it was extremely interesting. By having the advantage of flying over desolate areas in the southwest you are one step ahead of the other UTUBERS. Keep up the good work!

[@ElleyKnowsRocks]

Glad you enjoyed it! thank you sooo much!!

[@lesleyhenshaw2878]

Thank you Elley , this must have been such an amazing time. Your video is fantastic, so much beautiful scenery. Thanks again x❤️

[@ElleyKnowsRocks]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Harpy-24]

Super rad and informative video, as always, from a legend. Thanks for sharing.

[@ElleyKnowsRocks]

thank you

[@JoanieBC]

I've always wanted to go to Lake Powell. One of these days, I might actually get that opportunity

[@ElleyKnowsRocks]

thank you

[@davidfierros8186]

This is beautiful, I've dreamt of a place like this, I live in az and didn't know lake Powell was this beautiful. Thanks for the cinematic art

[@mcoffroadinaz4075]

So, as you turn into the last left turn for Rainbow Bridge, if you go straight instead, you'll come into some really, really cool undercut out croppings and sand bar that you can walk under. The water level looks just perfect to see it. It's about a 1/4 mile back in there. All no wake.

[@fairedepeche]

Best video yet. Thank you

[@ElleyKnowsRocks]

Wow, thanks!

[@charlesurrea1451]

It really is a lot of fun to see you out in the field. I've been to a great many of these places but I rarely get to see them these days. I noticed that you focus primarily on Arizona and Nevada. Do you think you could do Northern California? I've been feeling a little homesick. I remember as a kid going to various lakes and being reminded emphatically to wear shoes because of the obsidian everywhere.

[@ElleyKnowsRocks]

Glad you enjoyed! thank you for watching, I want to cover more places!!! I want to get more info out there! I will try and get some trips in to cover more states. When my videos do well (more views) I'm able to save to go to other places. its a catch 22 lol :)

[@nhrockaholic6038]

Wow, just wow.

[@toddeftsadams5909]

I hope you made the trip to Shootaring Canyon and Hanson Creek as well as Clay Point. If you did miss, you really missed. The best corpalight , wood and agate.

[@davec9244]

WOW nice job if I could, I would give you one Million thumbs up thank you ALL stay safe

[@ElleyKnowsRocks]

Thank you very much!

[@combatmedicmom]

I really liked this video. It started me thinking that I needed to pursue a degree in Geology, even though it might just be an AA degree. (I already have a Bachelor's and Master's in Public Health. That part of my life is done.) I want to identify how the land was formed, the type of rocks, etc. I often think/wonder about what happened to form the area's hills, mountains, and rocks when we drive through the desert and hills of So Cal and during the drive on my trip with my friend to the Grand Canyon this spring.

[@susie5710]

Amazing thanks!

[@hoborobprospecting]

Elley! Still waiting for my package girl! This is a cool video

[@ElleyKnowsRocks]

you didn't get it? I'm sorry. message me your address again and i'll see if I can't fix that!

[@ElmerFudd-y8b]

Lime stone does it have gold in it

[@dougberrett8094]

Disneyland was NEVER as cool as Lake Powell.

[@ElleyKnowsRocks]

VERY true!!

[@dougberrett8094]

Later in the video you spoke about the Sahara. I have spent time there too. Lake Powell and surrounds are also way cooler than the Sahara.

[@gavinshineon3192]

I want to go!

[@ElmerFudd-y8b]

Grand canyon look like a flood not ice cutting the rock

[@dannyr.edwards4721]

🦋🦋🦋🏜

[@iam2nd184]

Horseshoe bend resembles a big ass reptile head of a lizard laying down . Am I tripping or not ?

[@JulesUS8386]

Lake Powell is rapidly drying up inching toward Deadpool as a result of the scorching megadrought in the Western U.S., and may completely disappear in just decades. The second largest reservoir in the U.S. by total capacity after Lake Mead, Lake Powell spans the Utah/Arizona border, and is an artificial lake created from damming the Colorado River.

[@johnchism5728]

While technically correct on the drought. The major reason is the release of too much water down the Colorado River to the canals into California and Arizona for multiple purposes.

[@johnchism5728]

I would really like to have someone young and healthy to do some prospecting for gemstones in places i know about. Large pinkish white pegmetite dikes with bulges exposed in the foot wide over a half mile long and from zero to 2 feet high. Bulging indicates possible voids or vugs caused by air pockets where gemstones crystals foem. This dike has smooth sides on both sides and the top. Exposed in these smooth surfaces are yellow, blue, greens, and other colors of clear crystal like they sheared off during the formation of the dike. Those look like Sunstone and Moonstone and others. There are other light and dark fine grain softer veins that are greens. Places in these i have found green and black crystals that are opaque but broken. The larger ones look clear. Some of these crystals are in quartz veins that cross through the green veins. These green veins are like those in South Africa, where they mine platinum minerals. And yes, assays show the PGMs. There is a white quartz vein that is exposed for over a mile. It is a few inches to around a foot wide. Through the center of it are 1 to 2 veins that split the quartz with crystals that are filled with a blackish mineral that when broken is shiny silver to redish silver crystals. Probably iron. But has spectroscopy assayed with PGMs. The Sugarloaf Mountain is an ancient volcano that was erupted through an ancient ocean. The surrounding mountains are dated as precambrian era granite. This left big borders as the softer granite weather eroded away. In many places are areas that hydrothermal water that was highly mineralized filled between the feldspar, magnitite, apatite crystals, and other mineral grains. Surrounding the precambrian granite is the ancient ocean floor of conglomerate with mixed smooth rocks and broken sharp edges rocks of numerous types. I've found fire agate, cinnabar, jasper, jade, and other rocks in the conglomerate. There is a calcite vein with a honey onyx in it. And of course, the basalt surrounding the higher cone forms a mesa to where the water surface was. The government made this area a Wilderness Area exempted from mineral entry for claims. But you can drive the existing roads. Many go here for rv uses. Further away is an old rose quartz blowout. Mostly opaque, but some transparent was there in the 1980s. I am on Facebook and Messenger.