Surprising Implications of a Cave Discovery

[@tommybabin5156]

Sir, If all teachers took your approach, and had your enthusiasm for their field, we would have a country of far more well educated individuals! Thanks for what you do!

[@industrialathlete6096]

Amen!

[@kinte1870]

A lot of teachers are like this. It's just that as a child you weren't as interested in these cool topics as you are now so you'll actually pay attention. 😂

[@myroncook]

Wow, thank you

[@georgekemp8298]

Another great video!! Thanks for all your work

[@TracyD2]

@@kinte1870It’s true I work at a college full of wonderful professors. It’s up to the student and person to be interested. I have to say there are less and less students interested in college these past years. Enrollment is dangerously down. Dangerous for the college’s future. That doesn’t mean the young aren’t interested in learning. It’s just my perspective right now.

[@Mark-sx3rf]

You Sir are part of the reason why broadcast TV is about to die! Such great videos, great attitude, and super knowledge. Giving it all away for free to anyone who chooses to listen. ❤❤❤❤

[@rubensilva_]

Who needs PBS for geology when we have Myron Cook producing these fantastic videos for us? You can tell they are all works of joy and respect for this wonderful Earth that we all live on.

[@myroncook]

Thanks!

[@dt4676]

Pbs was great before youtube but it has been replaced. Theres more info in a good 10 minute video than an hour pbs special

[@ferocioustick]

I want both!

[@ConstanceDawley]

PBS, in my estimation has slipped way down with poor programming, ignoring a lot of archeology, geographical, good drama that needs telling. So, glad KZbin has picked up a good deal of interesting, sometimes controversial informative programs.

[@ConstanceDawley]

Nick Zentner is great on geology, too. Nick on the rocks great programming

[@iowafarmboy]

I'm 38 yo. As a kid growing up here in north central Iowa, we would have to pick up rocks from the field every year. I would always get distracted looking at them wondering their story. Especially the odd looking ones. Your fascination into rocks and their history rekindle that in me. Never stop 🙂 Thank you.

[@myroncook]

thanks!

[@scottmcley5111]

Central Iowa represent! 👍

[@LilB0pete]

I’m from Eastern Washington and we do the same to our wheat fields too, and I’m not going to lie I would wonder how old they were and what things they had “seen”.

[@itzmysecret31374]

Hello neighbors... East central Iowa here!!!!!

[@jimrhoads9810]

I'm in Michigan had to pick rock too.. but why did i have to pick them i did not put them there....................

[@ethanbrock8406]

Myron, you're a national treasure. Thank you for your high quality educational videos.

[@Marcus-gq6jd]

Your knowledge and how you impart it to your followers via a question format make it so much more interesting than a strict statement of facts. Your audience is drawn into the subject matter and become participants with you in the quest for understanding. Keep up the great work!

[@thelostone6981]

My wife, who’s of Norwegian descent, said “troll fight” when you asked how the Dolomites boulders were distributed. So yeah, you stick to your “science” and she’ll stick to her mythology. (Not really, she’s really a brilliant data driven individual and was just being goofy)

[@candui-7]

Could be some truth woven into "mythology". You never know. Bretz and others have gone through hell convincing professionals to change their minds about catastrophism etc.

[@neiljohnson6815]

I think I'll stick to her (our) mythology as well. Troll fight is so much more entertaining.

[@TylerMWeather9102]

The explanations for natural phenomena by some cultures is so awesome! A troll fight is way more epic than some rocks rolling down a hill😂 very cool beliefs and culture

[@kaboom4679]

Because who DOESNT enjoy a good troll fight ? From a safe distance of course ...

[@quietobserver4636]

A good troll battle is way more exciting to imagine than 100s of thousands of years of inching along. I'm with her! 😂

[@zilfondel]

Sir, you are the Bob Ross of geology! Seriously.

[@drewb.5419]

Hahaha that’s awesome

[@amandanelson9697]

My thought exactly! :)

[@lawrenceaubert6540]

I recognized that as well, how nice

[@WillArtie]

I get so happy when a Myron Cook video comes out!! I hope he continues documenting his geology knowledge in the form of these educational videos fir years to come!

[@myroncook]

I hope so too!

[@robindebreuil]

Tyndall stone is used *everywhere* here in Manitoba, and it is very beautiful. There are also many fossils in it (which they try to avoid as they weather differently, but some are amazing!) I’ve always heard they were made by burrowing of worms or shrimp, but have never heard or read an explanation this complete. Thanks for this, and the channel, from a long time silent fan!

[@myroncook]

Thanks for the info!

[@mrtoastyman07]

Amazing, those rocks been waiting 480Ma for someone to hear their story - I'm so glad you were able to share it with us.

[@myroncook]

I like the way you said that

[@alyssa2796]

@@myroncookme too!

[@earthandtime5817]

Excited for another geologic adventure with you! You always make high quality, informative videos. I always learn something new. Thank you.

[@spincube5734]

You are the OG (optometric geologist) !! You help me see geology more clearly than I ever have.Thanx Myron !!!!

[@dorothymccomb2244]

I love watching your videos. They're always so informative, and I love the sound of your voice and your delivery. Very soothing. Sort of like a combination of Mr. Rogers and Bob Ross. Looking forward to your next video!

[@myroncook]

Thank you so much!

[@marjieestivill]

So much I don’t know, getting filled in by fact crystals, steadily firming up the larger picture I have about our amazing earth. Thanks Myron!

[@KevinRCarr]

Mm. 26 minutes of relaxed, rapt attention paid earns a feeling of satisfaction and a little more knowledge of a fascinating world. Thanks again, Myron.

[@stevengfx]

Ah, one of the best channels on the tube. Absolutely great stuff. Thank you!

[@myroncook]

Wow, thanks!

[@Fhyrgiiknhijh]

My wife is a school teacher. Kindergarten. She loves and admires Mr Rodgers. She watched this video with me, and while the subject is not her cup of tea, she said that you are the Mr Rogers of geology. That you have this way of talking to people on whatever level they arrive; that you have an appreciation of people as thinking, feeling humans that is to be admired and shared. For me, I like the science, the outdoors, and new places to take my Jeep for a ride. 😅

[@myroncook]

Thanks!

[@lstepinski]

I was a rock/mineral collector growing up in New England back in the 60's, eventually living in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. As a student I did some geologic mapping in NW Colorado and like you, loved being out in the field trying to understand what I was looking at. Your studies bring back many fond memories and peek my curiosity to better understand how complex our earth really is. Thank you for all your excellent presentations!

[@myroncook]

thanks!

[@Bill-xx2yh]

Teachers like this when I was young, would of changed my life

[@jakebrookesactor]

Always a pleasure to learn something new from Myron Cook.

[@occamsrazor5376]

You are incredible, Myron. Thank you SO MUCH for stimulating my interest in geology! You RULE!

[@thebillcollector]

This gentleman is a national treasure! What a fantastic educator.

[@GrandmaBev64]

We have the "Subway" cave system, off of highway 44 in Lassen County . They are huge. Rock hounding and artifacts is fun to us. I stop for roadcuts too. You showed me the Grand Staircase and I was hooked. I'd heard about it, but never realized how noticable and amazing it is. I've always been interested in geology and archeology, but you make it simple and interesting. Thank You 😊.

[@NainakaiAyita]

Thanks for sharing yet another adventure with added geological and natural wisdom to go with it. Not to mention the gorgeous views! :D

[@dougthomson5544]

Myron, you are on hell of an amazing teacher! Thank you so much for your enthusiasm and skills.

[@myroncook]

thanks!

[@MoncœrCoyoteSmith]

I lived in Coralville, IA. It took me a while to realize why it was called "Coralville" so far north until I saw the fossilized coral. The only reason I knew how to spot fossilized coral is from living in Miami, FL where there is fossilized coral everywhere!

[@gus473]

My kids would find tiny fossils in our landscaping rocks in NE Tarrant County, Texas, too! 🦕🤠✌️

[@MoncœrCoyoteSmith]

@@gus473 I thought i was going crazy thinking oceanic fossils were there. Now, it completely makes sense! I love our professor here.

[@wswitters]

Ya the gravel around here has really cool coral fossils or corals and crinoids. I get really distracted searching for them in landscaping rock. So crazy that we stand on hundreds of feet of solidified sunlight!

[@wswitters]

Oh and seeing ancient shells in the rocks around here is so cool!

[@cindykq8086]

Ate you referring to coquina?

[@martincotterill823]

Thank you, Myron, for another fascinating story! What gets me the most is the sense of deep time, not just how long ago the layers were put down, but for how long these tiny creatures with their short lives were burrowing, billions of them.

[@myroncook]

yes, it is crazy to think about

[@nonviolent6598]

Dear Myron, I have no words to say my gratitude to you. I wish I could put my feet in your steps and follow you live in these magical journeys of yours.Thank you from UK.

[@myroncook]

Wow, thank you

[@dantheman2907]

Absolutely fascinating as always. Your passion for geology makes it even more enjoyable to watch.

[@estherclawson6876]

Such cool rocks. Beautiful landscape. I love geology, so much more permanent, and yet still slowly moving, alive but in repose, ready to become something more. Cool, cool.

[@canadiangemstones7636]

The drone footage really makes this pop! Fantastic place, thanks for sharing.

[@Riverguide33]

Great teaching style, Myron. Wonderful scenes…interesting explanation. The scale of time and size shown here is humbling. 👍

[@ageofrocks]

Yay for caves! From a fellow geologist. I love surveying outcrops from inside the caverns we research. It always takes me back to my sedimentology/stratigraphy days as a masters student. But this level of bioturbated detail was something I haven't come across in a long time, so thanks for sharing!

[@crazygamerbp]

You're such a wonderful man I aspire to be able to pass on such rich knowledge and exude the happiness you do when I am older

[@eevilauntie]

I'm Finnish from a moraine-rich area and my immediate thought was that the boulders could have been moved by a glacier but that they didn't look anything like the glacial erratics we have around here. I'm not a geologist but I've always found it fascinating, thank you for sharing your findings and knowledge!

[@calvinallen9508]

WOW! This lesson is fantastic, one of your best Mr Myron. Thank you once again for sharing your knowledge in such an entertaining, amusing manner. Blessings to you for what you do.

[@georgedreisch2662]

You illuminate a very real advantage of observation, going into a situation blind, for lack of predisposition and prejudice, to arrive at innovative / objective solutions, to answer questions and pose solutions.

[@milkyISO]

my wife and I love watching these videos together then drive to the locations. Thanks for your precious time, Mr Cook! Like many have said, you are a national Treasure indeed, sir.

[@myroncook]

Glad you like them!

[@marksuplinskas3474]

I love your geology talks. I learn stuff all the time. A retired RN.

[@myroncook]

thanks!

[@chuckinshanks]

I've been contemplating a lot of these topics recently and then you drop this gem. Thank you!

[@myroncook]

You're so welcome!

[@skyemac8]

This gives me an even greater appreciation for the Ordovician Dolomites of the Niagara Escarpment part of the Michigan Basin. Thanks!

[@CTSFanSam]

Thanks to Myron's videos, I have had two trips to Wyoming for geology trips. The place is amazing.

[@myroncook]

That is awesome!

[@PeterSWiley]

Mr Cook is a priceless national treasure. Thank you for showing us all this cool stuff....

[@connieembury1]

I live near the Tyndall stone quarries in Manitoba and I have never heard of Upogebia. Thank you for teaching me something new.

[@thathobbitlife]

Between yourself and the lovely Nick Zenter, this is all I need for teachers to learn about the Geology of the American West and beyond!

[@Bill-is9lu]

Thanks Myron It's always nice when friends drop in.

[@JamesBiggar]

You could fit a lot of stories in a 40 mile thick book. Pretty overwhelming to think about. Great analogy. Geology is really interesting. My grandfather worked as a hoist operator and miner part time when he wasn't working in the woods and sometimes brought home rocks and crystals that he found to show us kids. I'm always staring at the landscape and wondering how and why, picking up random rocks everywhere I go and have a bit of a collection, but I don't really know much about any of it. It would be an absolute pleasure to go on a hike with this guy and learn about how the world was created.

[@mfaizsyahmi]

Assuming sedimentation deposits a later of silt equivalent to a sheet of paper thick every year (which it is surprising close to) the book analogy is pretty apt! [Though smartasses like me would ask "what kind of paper?" since Indian paper can be way a fraction of the thickness of normal paper.]

[@myroncook]

thanks!

[@mechadense]

Master of geological storytelling. Awesome as always. 👍

[@johnhiggs325]

I’ve found this video to be very informative. I live in the extreme northwest corner of Georgia and have often noticed the marine trace fossils seemingly everywhere. I knew that the limestone/dolomite bedrock throughout the Tennessee Valley was extremely old and insanely thick, but I had no idea that it had any connection with the Bighorn Mountains. Thank you for expanding my understanding again, Professor! 🫡

[@jerrycornelius5986]

Very interesting. Thank you. Where I grew up in Australia, there is limestone with exactly the same texture as your dolomite. Now I know what it means.

[@Rz8551]

This is one of your best yet Myron. Visually stunning

[@myroncook]

thanks!

[@albertnonymous1886]

As a Floridian some of these drone shots are awe inspiring. We don't have geology like that round these parts.

[@MoncœrCoyoteSmith]

I find it very helpful when you give examples of your family history. It gives us a realistic impression of history - even if it is just a minute piece of time relative to history. My family own a significan area of land down here in Mississippi. I sometimes look from the satellite and wonder how things were in the 1800s when they came down from Virginia. Keep up with those examples. It keeps me watching the videos. One other thing - you taught me how to recognize the movement of the Mississippi River over time. The information was always there. I just didn't realize how to see it.

[@whitneymacdonald4396]

First time coming across your videos. Love it. I've always been fascinated by geology and these mini-lessons are awesome. Thanks.

[@emperor192]

I have been watching your videos for a few months now and I love your content. I have loved geology but none of my teachers could ever make it as interesting as you make it due to teaching me new things I haven't learned. Thank you.

[@flounderfounder]

This was a perfect video, absolutely informative and perspective expanding. THANK YOU

[@Babbajune]

Always so fascinating, go figure, rock shrimp! ❤❤ thank you, Myron!

[@ByteMeDammit]

Love getting geology lessons about my backyard for free! Been camping on the Bighorns and Pryors my whole life. Love your videos.

[@YewtBoot]

What an upogebic episode! Thanks. Yes, I had fun making up that term. 😃

[@judithgockel1001]

Thank you, Myron! I’ve been in and around petroleum geology for 40 years, and this presentation provided a clearer picture of the processes involved than anything I’ve ever come across. Kudos to you!

[@myroncook]

thanks!

[@qpn6ph9q]

Thank you Myron for letting us glimpse the overwhelming beauty of nature across deep time.

[@myroncook]

My pleasure

[@ComfortRoller]

Your channel seems to be growing, I was happy to see so many comments last video. I've been moonlighting on nicks geo 101 between your videos so maybe i wont embarrass myself if we ever met on one of your outtings. Thanks for the inspiration Myron

[@CrownMuzik]

❤ geology with Myron xo does not get old.. just like the beautiful mountain views! They Never get old either! Lol😊

[@danielculver2209]

Thanks for showing us the preserved echoes of these ancient wonders. It's a delight to think about!

[@LeslieNice]

Excellent Presenter ! Bravo 🎉

[@jacksonm4792]

I was looking on your channel last night for new videos and now here this one is! Thank you for the work that you do, your videos have undoubtedly influenced me on the major I am taking. You have a great effect on this world !

[@myroncook]

Awesome, thank you!

[@reneeyounk9663]

I agree. Thank you much for the interested and interesting approach. I like learning from people like you.

[@bretthepler722]

Still currently in undergrad for BSC in geology but just completed my Field camp over the summer. Really wish I had come across the channel before going out there. These videos are super engaging and awesome to watch, and so much of what I learned at field camp is discussed in your videos. Ive never seen such a "geologist" looking geologist and it's totally awesome. What a cool guy and channel! Your enthusiasm for geology makes me grin and smile along with ya in the video! Your whiteboard segments are chefs kiss they are so well done and so easy to understand. your whiteboard examples on the great unconformity were especially well done (different video). I got to visit colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Nevada, but ive always wanted to go out to Wyoming looks so beautiful.

[@myroncook]

Thank you!

[@WillyBluefield]

Once passed the en medias res beginning, which was confusing if not unnecessary, this was a very good presentation.

[@kennyFF033]

Thank you for another great look into geology. I love your passion, chill attitude and your communication skills(?) You have a great way of explaining things that is both entertaining and digestible without needing a degree. God Bless and be safe.

[@Raya14]

Thank you Myron for reawakening my interest in geology. As well as answering some of my recent observations. Always looking forward to your next excursion.

[@papanam4267]

This is the best Geology Lecture ever!

[@AScottB]

You are a TREASURE! I learn so much from you and not all of it geology.

[@orang3blaz3]

What a wild ride. These videos are top notch. I always find myself admiring the mountains and formations here in So.UT and these videos make it so much more engaging. Support this mans Patreon!

[@donwyattaz]

Incredibly well done video. Fascinating, and extremely informative

[@myroncook]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@campbellpaul]

Wyoming is so vast and beautiful! Thank you for this great educational experience I have shared with my wife and daughter. I loved driving down through there coming home from Yellowstone just a couple of weeks ago. It was so tranquil, I had a deeper realization of the world in which we live.

[@myroncook]

That is awesome!

[@andrewjones4855]

Myron is The Man...Geology's rock star (very punny). Salute from Oolitic Limestone country.

[@stevea9604]

Also thank you for the look at the Dolomite…I live in South Eastern Florida and found several patches right on the ocean of Dolomite but didn’t know what they were 👍🏻🤩🌊🌞

[@JesseP.Watson]

Thank you Myron. I made a discovery that rather amazed me this week here in Pembrokeshire, South West Wales, UK... There's a 'tor', an outcrop of Preseli bluestone (dolomite - the same stone placed in the centre of Stone henge) on-top of the hill I'm on here and I just noticed that the stone is surprisingly resonant. If a sizeable plate, a foot thick and 3' square say, is balanced on a few points so it's not deadened by too much contact it rings quite audibly when struck. An irregularly shaped stone balanced in this way will produce several tones if struck at different points and so can be played like a drum. Being a drummer myself, I've been enjoying this over the past few days and have taken to wandering around the hill with a mallet striking stones as I walk past them. I am slightly worried I may be considered mad, but it's really something, I've found, to walk up the hill to the outcrop here and, instead of an inert mass sat there atop it, to see a musical instrument waiting to be played, it really brings the hills alive with the sound of music! Aye. So, I just wanted to say... perhaps you might add the occasional sonic observation to your explorations. I am thinking I'll record and publish a piece of music playing these stones soon, when I'm done with my current project. All the best and thank you for your enthusiasm, always a pleasure to receive.

[@myroncook]

interesting!

[@kalburgy2114]

You may have uncovered another aspect to the construction of Stonehenge nobody thought of before!

[@billwilson-es5yn]

​@@kalburgy2114A Flintstone xylophone.

[@hippiecowgirl4231]

Please make that video ! I would love to hear a rock concert !

[@JesseP.Watson]

@@hippiecowgirl4231 It is next in line... probably take a good month or so. As the stones concerned are on a mountaintop its also may take quite a wait before I get a day still enough to record decent audio as the wind blows hard up here, the vast majority of the time... but it will come, when the Tones of The Stones are ready to be heard once again! 🧙‍♂️

[@zooziz5724]

What a beauty of a video. Truly amazing. Informative, beautiful to look at, personal-relatable. By all means I can't find another word to fit it better then beautiful. Thank you sir for this!

[@myroncook]

Wow, thank you!

[@zooziz5724]

@@myroncook I'm not done. These days I don't have enough time to watch videos, I listen to them. I've watched two of yours and half way through third. You'll be added to the list of very few channels that I find time to watch. Which as of today has two whole channels. It would be 3 but one of the channels moved away from KZbin. The work you do is truly amazing. Keep it comming!

[@b.a.erlebacher1139]

Thanks so much! Another video that made me think hard trying to guess what you were about to tell us. I really enjoy your teaching style.

[@myroncook]

You are so welcome!

[@stevewhalen6973]

You're astute comprehension of geological processes and relating them down to comparative terms that regular people can understand is astounding ! and so absolutely fascinating. The true dynamics of earths geological machinery and what it has done is just so amazing

[@overdoneone]

Thank you Myron, for another great video/geology lesson. Like yourself, I'm still trying to fit my head around that 500 million page book....and you blew my mind yet again.

[@WelshWoman23]

if you don't mind Sir, please live forever! I love watching your vids, thank you for all your effort and knowledge sharing!

[@kenboydart]

How many of you looked up tyndall stone ? As I did.... And thank you again Myron your postings are impossible to pause . Also Myron, your drawings are getting better .

[@DJDouglasWarden]

Another excellent video! Thank you very much! Beautiful scenery and great information.

[@bluwtrgypsy]

So interesting and so beautiful. Always wanted to visit northwest WY and, always learn something from you. Thank you, Myron.

[@cribbsprojects]

Great back up with the sound recording, filming, drone work, and editing. These videos will last the test of time for sure. Kudos!

[@myroncook]

thanks!

[@TracyD2]

Very blessed to grow up in such a beautiful peaceful area.

[@myroncook]

yes

[@Kade_Bauman]

Hi Myron, I just found your channel and it is absolutely wonderful to watch. My grandpa was also a geologist and I have so many fond childhood memories of him telling me about all the minerals he worked with and how they formed. I still have the crystals and geodes he would sometimes give me in Folgers coffee tins. Your videos have helped me remember those times, so thank you.

[@myroncook]

I LOVE to hear this!

[@kurtclark8560]

Thank you so much for another wonderful video. I have watched all of them at least once and I find them inspiring.

[@myroncook]

Glad you like them!

[@gueswhosthis]

SIR, YOUR REACH IS SO GLOBAL, YOU CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE ! All the best from Serbia 🇷🇸!

[@devindustman1489]

I hiked the Solitude Loop in the Big Horns a few weeks ago. What a beautiful range, and so quiet, definitely a special area!

[@myroncook]

Totally agree!

[@Ezramicon]

Wow, the production quality of this channel is excellent! Love the drone footage

[@dianespears6057]

Yay!!! Myron Cook is on the screen! Thank you, Professor.

[@FirstCatch]

I’m glad to learn from the white eraser board. It helps a lot. Amazing educational content. Subscribed! From Illinois 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦🙌

[@myroncook]

Thanks and welcome

[@Donatich.Onataka]

Excellent video, as always, Mr. Cook. I look forward to each video you create.

[@coffeetop1131]

Welcome back Myron! I sure do love your videos of the Bighorns. We visit every year or so. I enjoy the challenge of high altitude hiking through such beautiful landscapes.

[@IDNHANTU2day]

I always look forward to you programs. Thank you.

[@sammynorge]

Always glad to see a new installment! Thanks for all your hard work, travel, and hoofing it to bring us all these informative and fascinating videos!