Hundreds of Walls Lead to Evidence of Catastrophes Near Yellowstone

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Special thanks to Jakob Ruffner for GIS work
Special thanks to Rob Christiansen for grizzly footage
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[@MikeJones-rk1un]

China has a similar wall. There's is in better shape.

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​@@MikeJones-rk1unone is 1k years old. The other is 40m years old.

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[@earlysda]

Just wish he would state the truth of the matter, rather than proselytizing for the god of Evolution.

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​@@earlysda he trusts science

[@earlysda]

@@ey3z4ya ey, There is no "science" without God.

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@@earlysda yeah, he does nothing of the kind. He only expresses how the god given gifts of sense (sight, touch), imagination and rational thought can be used to understand the geological processes of our world. I specifically praised him for NOT doing the "state the truth" method- if you want to be told what to believe, there are plenty of channels out there that will tell you what you should think.

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@@huberthumphry280 hubert, he does nothing of the kind... of telling the truth of the matter. . Noah's global flood roughly 4,400 years ago is what caused the mountains etc.

[@GeologyNick]

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[@myroncook]

Thank you, Nick!

[@nobody8328]

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@GeologyNick & @myroncook: Part 2 of this video by seems like it could be a crossover episode! At 49MA in the Clennett model (from Nick’s latest video with Karin Sigloch) there is an eastward subduction zone that looks like it hops over toward Idaho/Wyoming. Does that explain the Sunlight Volcano? Are the Absaroka Volcanics a precursor to the Cascades?

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I just thought of this and here somebody already commented 😃

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Beautiful! Thank You for taking the time to share these views with those of us that can never go.❤

[@raifsevrence]

I have never seen anything like those shattered/fractured mountains. An entire landscape that looks like an abandoned rock quarry. That is absolutely wild.

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[@myroncook]

My pleasure!

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The Bob Ross of geology.

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[@vincenzegreisingel2429]

Wow. Pure absorption in an utterly enthused delivery. Fascinating to finally get a picture of the strati volcano. Fascinating.

[@johnsee7269]

Your enthusiasm for the grandeur of the awe inspiring geologic features of Yellowstone is much appreciated Dr. Cook! Thanks and enjoy your honorary PhD; your efforts are much appreciated! 🌋

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[@mikelong9638]

Myron, your videos are the perfect mix of art and science. As some of the others mention below, there is something soothing about understanding these processes that started long before we existed and will continue uninterrupted long after we're gone. Looking forward to part two.

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I like this thought!

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[@myroncook]

Thanks!

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Phenomenal drone video footage! You make some of the best high resolution videos on KZbin. Hat tip to your brother for his contributions to your work.

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You made my day! I hope you work through this and heal. All the best, Myron

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Thank you!

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Such amazing work, thank you for sharing your understanding of this magnificant area and it's processes! Beautiful video chosen, lovely narration and explaination. Breathaking drone work as always. Just continue to love your work sir! Yes, makes for a great Friday night!

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Thank you Myron Cook! This was one of the most dramatic, interesting and beautiful locations I've seen in your videos!!! Looking forward to the next one.

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NZ really has amazing geology. I'd love to see it in person, and yeah, I'd think he'd have an absolute blast down there.

[@myroncook]

I'm sure I would love it

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@@myroncook just don't get lost on your way over there. Most maps don't even show it : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omission_of_New_Zealand_from_maps 😃

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[@myroncook]

Thanks for watching!

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Fantastic video, no annoying music. First time visitor to the channel, not disappointed! Thanks for sharing this all with us!

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Awesome, thank you!

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Some consider him the Bob Ross of geology. 😀

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This was amazing! Thank you for taking us along!

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Thank you for sharing. (And thank you, Elgin, for looking after a national treasure as he investigates a national treasure.)

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First vid I've seen on your channel. I love your format of showing the macro-level of geology by your drone footage to the pedestrian level with your hiking and diagrams to the micro-level of your microscopic stills. It helps me to appreciate the landscape not only for what it is, but for what it was and even what it is yet to become.

[@myroncook]

Awesome, thank you!

[@TheTrashcantrash]

Great video! Thanks for taking the time to share your insights.

[@harrietharlow9929]

Love this, Myron. Thanks to this, I've learned more about the Yellowstone and adjacent areas. I never got to fulfill my dream to become a geologist😥 but thanks to KZbin geology lectures like yours, I'm getting a great late-life education in the subject (and subdisciplines). You and your confreres are a big reason why I call KZbin "my free university". Thank you for uploading this and for continuing my geological education!

[@myroncook]

Wonderful!

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very informative and relaxing video! CAn't wait till part 2!

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Thanks, Myron, for another of your excellent geology lessons and sharing your outings to visit!

[@solarwizzo8667]

Great insights! Thank you for the video. It somehow touches topics, which Nick Zentner had talked about recently in a mini series about pre-cascadian volcanism in Idaho and east of that. You have just awesome video footage in your shows!

[@MrMarkAMartin]

I’d love to see Myron and Nick work together.

[@davidstick9207]

I was about to post this as well. But will just bump it instead. I do think, however, this activity may be prior to what Nick was referring to. Maybe more associated with the event that created the Rockies?

[@sedonamudsquid]

This was amazing. I love your smooth and informative delivery! Great drone footage. You sir are a national treasure!

[@mikya9611]

Just what I need to perfect my Friday night!

[@shaneflickinger]

This was fantastic Mr. Myron. Looking forward to the next video and continuing this story.

[@carygrant8796]

Fascinating to see your next video on the plate tectonics responsible for these volcanoes. This complement the Idaho Batholith and Crazy Eocene series Nick Zentner has done. You, Nick, and Shawn Willsey are my Geology Professors. Thank you.

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Thank you for another visually stunning, emotionally inspiring and intellectually engaging video, @Myron Cook! I look forward to more videos in this series!

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Fantastic video! You do your own stunts! Impressive :) (I am still watching but couldn't help myself)

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I live in this great state we call WYOMING. Love the drone footage it makes you really see how the land is laid out in front of you. Thanks for the drone footage.

[@myroncook]

Thanks 👍

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As usual, this is excellently edited and presented! You are a professional sir!

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Great vistas…thanks Myron! Bringing geology to life! 👍

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What a great video! Stunning aerial shots. Appreciate your markups of geological features. Commentary is top quality.

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You've outdone yourself with this one.

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I love this content. I grew up in and around the area near granite peak. My late grandpa wrote a book on the mountains surrounding the alpine/east rosebud area. I've always been mesmerized by this specific mountain range. You definitely have a new subscriber and thank you for your service 🫡

[@myroncook]

Thanks for sharing!

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You make fantastic videos. Thank you

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Thank you for taking us along.

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This is my trip to Yellowstone, Thanks Myron!

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Thank you Myron! Such beautiful landscapes and to get some of the history of those places makes them even more amazing.

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Greetings from Australia. Myron, your a first class educator. Well appreciated.

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This is the first one of your videos I have watched. Your enthusiasm is infectious and your love for what you do is palpable. I have now subscribed and plan to watch many more.

[@myroncook]

love to hear it!

[@旭球]

Truly excellent, thank you. Volcanoes create such cool phenomena. Not far from me in Japan is a forest of massive 4000 year old trees that was buried by an adjacent active volcano. They were so well-preserved that when you enter the excavated area, it still smells like freshly-cut wood.

[@Greye13]

This sounds like such an amazing place to visit. I would love to see it some day. Do you know what the place is called? Thank you for sharing. 🗻🌳☺

[@旭球]

​@@Greye13Sanbe Azukihara Buried Forest. Mt. Sanbe being the active volcano in question

[@Greye13]

@@旭球 Thank you so much for your reply. Even the name is intriguing. I definitely want to visit this 4000 year old buried forest. Thank you again and best wishes.

[@nickdivona8769]

I love these videos so much. The information is presented in a very digestable manner, the audio quality is great, and the visuals really help to emphasize the points that are being made. I love the use of the drone shots as things pull back to reveal more. Thank you very much for always producing such fantastic educational content!

[@curly__3]

The walls look the same as the ones that we have here in colorado on the spanish peaks. Awesome vids! Thank you!

[@2hacksbuilding82]

It's one of my favorite places in Colorado. I drive over la veta pass twice a week to go to and from work, and I always see something new every time I drive by. I live in the valley, and our house has spatter cones and shields all around it.

[@terryt.1643]

I love how you sketch something on your white board, explaining something, then show us the formation and we can see it. Amazing. Thanks!

[@strat2tele]

I just checked if I maybe missed a notification for a new video about 20 minutes ago. Imagine my surprise when I refresh my feed and this pops up. Cheers!

[@myroncook]

Oh wow!

[@ProsperousPorcupine]

Great video. Really well done and informative. Thanks for making it!

[@fallinginthed33p]

21:21 The lahar deposits with massive volcano chunks embedded inside would have come from a long runout landslide. It's astonishing to see an entire mountainside move 20 to 30 miles away. The embedded blocks could have come from a slope failure high up on the Sunrise volcano's flank, giving the debris flow enough momentum to get that far.

[@tdcfpc3630]

Well done video. I very much appreciate the detail and quality you put into your videos. Your method of presentation keeps engagement high as the viewer is slowly coming to conclusions and sees more and more. Thank you Myron!

[@CoAk0000]

The weekend just got better 👌

[@stevengfx]

Amazing and entertaining work Myron! I really appreciate the work effort you put into making these.

[@Boz2131]

I’m a 58 year-old mechanic in South Louisiana. I came across your video of the gulf coast, which I really enjoyed. I’ve really been interested in this after finding out that LSU did a study or a meteorite impact a few miles north of my house I continued watching your videos because you take me places that I will probably never go and explain the geology of it all. Your mild man And the way you explained things is on my level, I’m not the smartest and I’m not the dumbest, you keep things interesting. There’s a great article on the meteor strike that was done by LSU geology department maybe this is something you want to look at for future video. Thanks so much for your videos. Boz

[@myroncook]

cool!

[@raywalter285]

Myron, I really enjoy watching your videos. I really learn a lot. Thank you, sir

[@PMaynard-22]

Wow I am 58 and if I could have watched this back in school, I could have looked at things with so much more appreciation as I traveled everywhere. Sir you are a treasure, and I fully appreciate you for teaching us this stuff more than you know. Thank you from all my heart from NH USA.

[@ruthanneseven]

What a great day! A video from YOU, Myron!😊

[@earstoyou2916]

Nice to meet you Elgin. Don’t let your brother do these trips alone. What fabulous drone footage, superb narration, personality and knowledge of remarkable work.

[@fruityrazzmatazz9183]

Majestic video! Drone footage work at its finest. Thank you for all your hard work and sharing.

[@mikamcdonald9974]

Really informative and entertaining video. My dad, Kermit Gustafson (who passed away back in 2001) was a professor of Geology and would take student on field trips to Yellowstone, the grand canyon and many other locations around the western US. He passed before I was able to really find my own interest in geology so I long felt I missed out on a lot of information I could have learned from him. Your video was a real pleasure to watch. I’d like to think my dad would be happy I found such value in your teaching. Thanks a bunch!

[@myroncook]

we need more of your dads

[@mikamcdonald9974]

@@myroncook the older I get them more I forgive the junk that was so upsetting for Me as his child and the more I can be thankful for him

[@papayaman78]

Such concise and rich content is hard to find these days. You deliver it perfectly.

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Myron, I really enjoy how you set your video up with a question or something surprising and then take us along to discover like we were right there with you.

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Myron, Thank you! I really appreciate your efforts. I enjoyed your video.

[@TodaysAGoodDayBro]

5 seconds in and I want all the knowledge this guy has

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Thank you for the content. Very informative and educational! I appreciate you manner and effort.

[@itsmers]

Great thumbnail

[@rickb06]

What a fantastic and informative documentary! Wonderful job Myron!

[@aubreytycer8708]

I love your videos. I earned my geology degree at Eastern Kentucky University. Can never get enough. My wife and I were driving from Phoenix last year. She saw all these strange hills. We were in the San Francisco Volcanic Field. On our round about return we ran into Ship Rock. Another ancient volcano with dikes all around.

[@myroncook]

Wonderful