Southern California Geology | Fossils found in the Ladd Formation

2 Members of the Late-Cretaceous Ladd Formation featured here: the Baker Canyon Member and the Holz Shale Member. Fossils found!
Join me as I explore!
Music: Stick Figure, Fall into the Sun (2022)

[@doctorspooger5966]

In the 70's grade schools from all over Orange County would bring busloads of kids for fossil hunting field trips. I was on one of those trips. Picture the side of that hill crawling with dozens of 10yr old kids with hammers bashing away at rocks, four teachers smoking cigarettes and drinking something from thermos containers, the day we went it was raining. Our room hauled in 12 shark teeth, 60+ ammonites, 300+ gastropods, and a gazillion bi-valves.

[@1234j]

Really interesting yet again. Enjoying your video over breakfast here. Great start to my day thanks to your efforts and skills. I learned loads. Today's word is definitely, DEFINITELY, 'fossiliferous.' Cheers from England.

[@geologicallyspeaking]

Thanks for watching from across the pond! 😉

[@300Fatman]

My new favorite geology channel. I especially enjoy deep dives into specific geographic locations! I think an episode about the different Igneous types (say Felsic Ultramafic) might be cool, although I can't think of Ultramafic places off the top of my head. Keep up the good work man!

[@zack_120]

Fascinating, beautiful 👍👍👍

[@DanaDetterich]

Oh my goodness! What a wonderful channel. Thank you for making these videos. Watching geology informative videos is one way I decompress during teacher breaks. 😊

[@jeanjohnson391]

Thanks for the new video! I love taking these field trips with you and seeing rocks in the field. I frequently share them with my students and they learn so much!

[@johnlord8337]

Nice isntructive vid - and the teacher with the teacher wand - like a conductor with his conductor wand.

[@mikelewis2918]

Fantastic use of references and the iterations geologists go through to put the picture together first for their own improved understanding and then to share with friends, family, or anyone who will listen.

[@wtglb]

Very interesting, beautiful crystals!

[@Rachel.4644]

Watching this again, and remembering more...👍🏻 Really nice, Todd.

[@lindsaymalone9371]

Love learning along with you and getting introduced to geology terminology along with great images. The bivalve fossil impressions in the shale are awesome! Thank you for sharing!

[@johnlord8337]

Definitely making me look at everything geological ... but I have a strange San Francisco Holocene condition of looking at street asphalt bumps, concrete parking lot bumps, concrete sidewalks, asphalt roads, fossiliferous street lights, live Cretaceous street humans, subterranean gully wash drain caps, fossiliferous spray painted graffiti and road crossings and lane markings, ... and all kinds of Holocene detritus scattered across the landscape .... !!!!

[@Rachel.4644]

Nicely done, Todd, and how fun to see all the marine fossils in the mudstone and shale. Thanks for taking us along. Your explanations are understandable. And ❤️ music!

[@H1ya2u2]

My kind of adventure!!! And in my neck of the woods!!! I enjoy that you keep the explanation of every detail understandable and yet so interesting.

[@beachbum200009]

Thank you for doing these videos. I really enjoy them.

[@geologicallyspeaking]

Thanks for watching and for the encouragement! 😊

[@eladionunez2032]

A subject I know nothing about . Interesting to see you point out and have a name for things I've seen my whole life but didn't know how they came to be. Plus bonus im a SoCal resident , cool to learn about my sorroundings. Keep it up. Hope this channels grows.

[@Idrinklight44]

What a trip! About 5-8 Marines use to go up the valley to the mountains and CAL sites, not sure if they are still there since base moved. Lot of good memories up in them hills. Orange county lights were something to.

[@willyeverdie2731]

Once again fascinating and killing it with stick figure.

[@inspectre69]

Fossiliferous Mudflood layer 😅. It's definitely an interesting feeling seeing the Great Flood cause so much shifting of era's content to places above even to be finally seen by eyes. Tectonics.

[@malanacarnival4518]

I'd love to see an episode on potato chip! Big boulders info needed

[@IDNHANTU2day]

When you yell out FOSSILIFEROUS! with an emphasis on Foss, my wife looked at me and asked what you said. She though you said, "F(word) Fred Liferus!" She thought you were angry at somebody named Fred. Love your lectures.

[@georgeeliot2012]

So good.

[@BabyBoomersDoomer]

Hello! It's springtime, I hope your Considering getting outside and filming new Stratigraphic layers❤❤🎉

[@ucprof2008]

There are large boulders and outcrops of conglomerates on the campus at UCIrvine. These can be seen easily in Aldrich park, in the center of the campus and in the campus preserve off East Pelteson drive. Might be informative for your subscribers and the campus to have a look at these.

[@ericazubris]

I've found a fossil during the big rains of 07 before the fires when we were pulling horses from here. I was walking my horse and a small mudlslide happened in front of me. I picked up a perfect gastropod fossil!

[@petecapri4054]

If you’re ever in the Bay Area there are tons of cool spots

[@bradriney919]

Check out the late Cretaceous Point Loma Formation spectacular sea cliff exposures at La Jolla Bay just south of La Jolla Shores. Very fossiliferous shallow water sandstone low in the section with very fossiliferous deepwater shale upsection. Lots of invertebrates including ammonites and baculites. Rare dinosaur fragments found in the lower marine sandstone. My old stomping grounds, best accessible at a minus 1' or lower tide.

[@georgeeliot2012]

Found another heart for ya ❤

[@qs898]

From Iraq 🇮🇶 you are the best ⚒️🌏

[@purelyrod9310]

Man, do I like your channel. Its like a parallel universe. Every location you hit is in the footsteps of my youth. Please, please, please more vids, more often.

[@luizramosneto]

👏

[@Idrinklight44]

Cal sites, not calcite....confined area landing.... great video!!!!

[@haseo8244]

By the way bivalves by createous was well represented by modern families. cockles are the ones with deep ribs. Clams are smooth. Turritella reach large # by createous era along with oysters. Hard to believes turritella and oysters are fairly latecomers.

[@poisonbunny420]

How do I find a Lithostratagraphic graph of my town. I found a few fossils but I’m confused

[@mapleleaf902]

I am fighting the geologic high on your videos, some ppl do not get the excitement.

[@charlesstreet5030]

9:30 almost looks like petroglyph. Beautiful

[@drbobinski1]

Good Morning Tod, is that a Roadside Geology book you use. Thanks for your reply.

[@haseo8244]

Look like it wasn’t popular because it was too hard to break and getting intact shells is harder.

[@runtaoyang1244]

Could you share what book were you referencing? Ps I started saying fossiliferous just like you do haha

[@geologicallyspeaking]

Its a paper within the book "Field Excursions in Southern California - Field Guides to the 2016 GSA Cordilleran Section Meeting" 👍

[@geologicallyspeaking]

FOSSILIFEROUS!! 🤪

[@betr7999]

What book are you referencing in this video?

[@helgalynn7685]

What book are you refering from? I do enjoy your geology wanderings.

[@geologicallyspeaking]

Thank you kindly. It's a paper within the book "Field Excursions in Southern California - Field Guides to the 2016 GSA Cordilleran Section Meeting" 👍

[@jonviol]

Why do you keep using the word cool as an adjective ? It is a summary admission of being plain lazy . The English language is full a wonderful words which relate directly to subject - an intersting rock or feature cannot be cool unless it is compared to one which is warm . Using 70's dopehead junky hippy language is neither farout man, groovy in the mists or indeed cool in this study . A thesaurus as light reading is most rewarding .

[@willyeverdie2731]

What is not cool is analytical grammar vultures who try to dissect every word everyone has ever said. If you don't like the words of which someone is using then close your ears. Having a fancy vocabulary doesn't make you interesting. Furthermore if it's your opinion then just fathom that you might be the only one who cares about it. Todd is "cool" you should give it a try sometime.

[@jonviol]

@@willyeverdie2731 Excellent ,our language is rich and fullfilling which when used with thought and imagination ,and perhaps a bit of reading , can and does add to the quality of our short stay on earth. mindless repetition is grim.

[@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo]

​@@jonviol what would happen to you if you listened to a rap song?

[@jonviol]

@@willyeverdie2731 Yes of course , you are correct.I'm not trying to be clever . My point is that everyone use this 'cool' almost as a 'de rigueur' habit for just about everything . So boring .

[@jonviol]

@@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo Well its a genre of social communication which ,in truth, I've never listened to - so before hand perhaps its something to do before giving a reply.