The Curious Relationship Between Salt and Oil

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Myron, you give off the same calm, educational energy as the greats like Mr. Rogers and Bob Ross. Thanks for the Christmas present episode!

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Bingo. That is so spot on.

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Thank you Mr. Cook. May you always be hiking for the next discovery.

[@What1zTyme]

Merry, Happy Everything! What a great Winter Solstice gift, a new Myron Cook video.. about salt and oil, no less! Cool!

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I’m old but you can never be to old to learn something new, thank you and a merry Christmas to all 🙏🎄

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Thank you for this Christmas gift.

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Thanks for sacrificing your kitchen for our benefit!

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The kitchen? He sacrificed himself!!1! 😩 Mrs. Cook would eventually find out what he did to her kitchen! 😓 🙃

[@JayCWhiteCloud]

Happy holidays Myron...When this popped up in my feed today I just had to watch. I love the fact you are one of the best teachers of this subject and remind me of my friend and Geology professor in college who was fundamental to sending me on a different and expansive professional path in life. With each of you videos I always learn something new which is refreshing to someone like me. May the coming year be joyous and productive toward your endeavors...Blessings, j

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thanks and blessings to you!

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Great video . Thank you for educating the general public . A breath of fresh air

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Best Xmas present so far, a new MC video!

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Simp harder!

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Happy holidays! I’ve been waiting for you to publish a video explaining this!!

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Merry Christmas brother.

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Merry Christmas everyone!! Thanks Myron!!

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You are a great teacher. Thank you for making these videos and making rocks so interesting. Oh, and merry Christmas!

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Myron surprised us all with a Christmas gift! Merry Christmas everyone!

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Merry Christmas Mr Cook!

[@leetreado3801]

Merry Christmas Myron and thanks for another excellent lesson.

[@xoxo2008oxox]

I love this guy and his sharing of his geological knowledge. And I love that cabinet next to him! Happy Holidays Myron!

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Happy Holidays Myron! Thank you for all you do for us!

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Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁

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I don't understand why I love these videos so much. What a cool guy!

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How could you not like this guy? He should have been a movie star or president😊

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Merry Christmas Myron! Thank you for helping us understand so much! 🎄 ❤

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thank you for the Christmas video, Merry Christmas Myron!

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Always love your videos. Keep them coming and Merry Christmas!

[@John-ir2zf]

Merry Christmas, Myron and thank you for the information !

[@dj-kq4fz]

Thanks for a great demonstration, Merry Christmas!

[@1a1u0g9t4s2u]

At the beginning of my professional career I worked on the Alaskan Pipeline project and several co-workers dropped the phrase Salt Domes. As none of us were geologist that was the furthest that discussion went. Fast forward to the last project I worked on was in Saudi Arabia. While on R&R with some other co-workers out into the dessert I came upon what I first thought was where some inconsiderate person dumped some motor oil. But after pondering, I realized this was natural oil seeping to the surface. Now your video has connected many of the dots I acquired about where and how oil form and answered in part what Salt Domes are. Still have lots of questions like how do salt domes form but at least there is a light ahead indicating a path to the answer. Thanks for sharing.

[@laurienielsen8031]

Happy Holidays everyone one. Thanks Myron for another great video. Still waiting to see you in southern Oregon. 😊

[@BGraves]

I did enjoy this video and finding out my salt encasement hypothesis was 50% correct. Merry Christmas

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I was hoping you'd drop a new video for the Holidays 🎄

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I was hoping you'd be a little more appreciative. merry christmas.

[@INHUMANENATION]

Merry Christmas and happy holidays! Peace on earth and goodwill amongst all people❤🕊️

[@FreedomDaveX]

Merry Christmas Geology Santa!

[@OsadabwaMoto]

At WHS in the '90s we did experiments in science class using a computer program with underground sketches of geology just like your whiteboard drawings. Our goal was to pick where to drill for oil (location and depth). I quickly worked out that pockets under the salt layers would be a good spots, but I never understood why until this video. Thanks Myron and Merry Christmas

[@lloydlewis8380]

Thanks Myron! Happy Christmas and God bless you and your family. Your pre-video question made me go back and review your earlier video about the gulf and salt behavior discussion. Your videos are wonderful and you're a great teacher.

[@myroncook]

thanks!

[@martincotterill823]

Fascinating video, thank you, Myron. Merry Christmas and all the best in the new year!

[@Strykenine]

Merry Christmas, everyone.

[@Rory-w8x]

I find your improvised geological whiteboards to be the very best that YT has on offer. As a miner who worked hematite, magnetite, all the sulphides, PGM's, wolframs, coal and uranium I advise you Myron that every single oil column/salt dome structure that you so expertly describe, can be quite easily and very accurately located, with exploration techniques such as Bouger anomaly or automatic gradient control magnetic field imagery. As far as all of the above earth products are concerned it is a simple matter of porosity and density.

[@myroncook]

neat technology

[@michellewarmath7811]

Happy Christmas, Myron! Thank you for another wonderful geology lesson!

[@YewtBoot]

Another informative and enjoyable presentation. Loved the model you did. As some folks say, good science often gets messy. Best wishes as we approach a new year again.

[@ryanthomas33]

This video was so educational Thank you for gifting us with your experience and knowledge

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Merry Christmas, Myron. God bless you & yours!

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Just in time to save Christmas!

[@KathleenStidham]

What a great surprise to see a new video from you this morning!

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Thanks for the video Myron, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

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Merry Christmas, Myron and to all you love! ❤ I always come away from your videos amazed! By the way, what good is a mess if it's not fun? 😂

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Merry Christmas Myron! Thank you for your videos. They are both educational and enjoyable to watch. You show us so many beautiful places too; makes me wish I was there with you.

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Very informative. Thanks Myron! Merry Christmas.🎄

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Thank you for all the excellent videos and all the hard work you put in Mr. Cook. Take care and happy holidays! 😊👍

[@Phehistyr]

What a pleasant surprise to have this video pop up in my feed. Looks like I have a new channel to follow. Merry christmas from a new viewer.

[@myroncook]

Same to you!

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Can we have a channel like this one but on the geology of Europe? That would be super interesting! Thanks for all the material, I have literally divoured most of the videos over the last days

[@wtpauley]

Amazing! I knew bits and pieces of all of this information but never all in one place that connected them all together.

[@frankjenkins3871]

Thanks for your very informative videos. Merry Christmas

[@macking104]

There were some oil wells (Hancock #1) dug just south of La Brea tarpits (about 2300’) that were abandoned because they hit salt water..

[@mikelong9638]

What a great Christmas gift to sit and watch one of your videos this afternoon. Merry Christmas to you and your family Myron!

[@pootthatbak2578]

Now, im hooked on oil. Keep going. Where is the youngest oil, the oldest, what are the quality differences in oils, best combustion engine oil, best machine oil, bunker oils , etc.. and what scenario produced that quality or trait? We need more oil stories, thank you

[@jasongarcia2140]

Lol so awesome I love stuff like this and random people like you who are also curious.

[@KSparks80]

Search for "cracking oil" for some good oily info.

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Merry Christmas and thanks!

[@jeffhaskins530]

What I don't understand is why there are hydrocarbon lakes on Titan. There's certainly no sea life there. could hydrocarbons be a chemical product rather than a biological one?

[@TheDanEdwards]

"could hydrocarbons be a chemical product rather than a biological one?"

[@BobbyHill26]

There’s no doubt that hydrocarbons can be produced abiotically, but the conditions on Titan are extremely different from those on earth, and best we can tell they seem to be made up of ethane and methane, the simplest hydrocarbons, it’s basically liquid natural gas, and we’ve yet to see any evidence of something like oil/tar/coal and those sorts of things. We also have tons of evidence that points towards our hydrocarbons on earth coming from biotic sources, and nothing really that points towards any abiotic sources, just a couple ideas for how it could possibly happen

[@vidard9863]

Honestly this is ALL guess work. Some of the chemical analysis seems to suggest that oil is made from trees. It is unlikely for oil to form chemically naturally because it is not a stable or low energy compound, so unless the system is relatively young it shouldn't still exist... On the other hand not only have we not been able to confirm the lakes of oil, or their depth, we don't REALLY know for sure exactly how or from where titan itself was formed, and we don't really know what life may be present there.

[@ryanrising2237]

The hydrocarbons there are generally a lot simpler and almost certainly formed by chemical rather than biological processes, yeah. Heck, there’s even methane in the ice giants! But the stuff we’ve got here on earth is rather different in character.

[@johns1625]

Yes they are a natural product, everything made of only hydrogen and carbon. Methane is the most simple hydrocarbon and made more complex by more complex systems. There's a lot of methane in the gas giants as well. Titans cryogenic seas must be the most insane looking places. There's cryogenic volcanism as well. It's to bad we were born too soon to see extraterrestrial geology.

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Thank you. Enjoy your holidays.

[@craighoover1495]

Thank you, as always you have enlightened my life.

[@Chompchompyerded]

Fun video, and a wonderful Christmas gift. Thank you for being a gift to us all. You and the teaching you do for us is a gift every time you post a new video. For all of us who enjoy learning about this amazing world we find ourselves in for a precious few decades, there could be no better gift. Thank you Myron, and may the best of the holidays be yours, now, and always.

[@steveanderson9290]

Thank you Myron, wonderful episode! You answered many of my questions, including one that I didn't think was related. Here near Paris Texas, at the former shore of the Western Interior Seaway, there is no fresh groundwater to be had, but if you drill 600 feet or so, you will find salt water. Putting the pieces together, it now makes sense.

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Thank you for sharing the secrets of Corporate Geology.

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Happy New Year and please don't stop educating all of us in 2025.

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What a great Christmas gift! Thanks

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Merry Christmas dear Sir!!! You are a fantastic teacher, wish you good health and all the best! :)

[@JohnCompton1]

3:58 doesn't even seem fair to make these adorable lil' fellas so combustible

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What a lovely gift to have discovered you today.

[@zweispurmopped]

Just how well these processes are understood alone is fascinating. Thanks for this, me good Siree! 🤗

[@hestheMaster]

Merry Christmas Myron. Glad this wasn't a cooking show when I saw you in the kitchen and the video had the words oil and water in it! You made me think about the area of the US where the Western Interior Seaway was and how there is both salt and oil is in the ground where the sea was at one time. This was an great explanation as to why the two are found there.

[@Anyreck]

So interesting! thanks for the oily demo.

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What a nice Christmas present. Thanks! Merry Christmas Myron!

[@LeoDomitrix]

I NEVER knew about this. Thank you and happy new year!

[@Guy-Martin]

Pretty cool demonstration you did in your kitchen. Thanks for showing us how it all comes together and why in some cases there are great pressures. Merry Christmas, see you in the new year!

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Merry Christmas Myron, and thanks for all the data!

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Fascinating and very well explained as always! Thanks, Myron :) Merry Christmas to you and yours 🎄

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Absolutely wonderful. Thank you.

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Thanks Myron

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Profesor Cook. Thank you for a great 2024. I always look out for your new videos.

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Merry Christmas Myron! You never cease to amaze me. :)

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Christmas gifts from Myron thank you sir and all that hard work you are doing your amazing merry Christmas and happy holidays from my family to yours!

[@sputnik94115]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone! Thank you Myron for such an interesting episode. Well worth the watch and I felt so bad for you when oil started leaking from the bladder. You didn't miss a beat!

[@PatriciaMassie]

Nice break from the HoHoHo around here. I'm gonna be watching this one again. The experiment looked like my last cooking venture. Here's to a Happy and Prosperous New Year!

[@NickBeek]

More great info! Thanks for enlightening me again. Merry Christmas!

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Merry Christmas Myron to all y'all out west. Thank you for al the interesting and informative videos.

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Merry Christmas! This was a really fun wholesome video to watch tbh, just nice, simple and very well explained, i really liked it thank you for making this!

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Thank you! You too!

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Thanks for all your hard work..merry christmas.

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Thank you for another great learning experience. Merry Christmas

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Merry Christmas and a moment of silence for the hydration packs selfless sacrifice in the name of science .

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Great video sir. Thank you and Merry Christmas.

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Very interesting! Thank you!

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You are always interesting and enjoyable. Thanks Myron.

[@oldgeezerproductions]

Love your videos Myron and this latest was certainly interesting to watch. You might mention that salt under pressure from overlying sedimentary layers can actually flow (unlike other sediments) and this flow can cause deformation (anticlines) in otherwise tectonically stable regions. Here in California we don't have salt domes or evaporite layers that form our cap rocks or cause deformation, but we have stratigraphic traps formed by folds and especially by faults due to tectonic forces. With all our faults (no pun intended), the ground up material (gouge), resulting from the relative movement between the "hanging wall" and the "foot wall," also forms an impenetrable layer where petroleum can accumulate without being dispersed. Our "source rock" around here is the Monterey Shale that is the result of untold gigazillions of diatoms and their nutrients accumulating in deep, anoxic basins that were once off our coast during the Miocene. As you mentioned, much petroleum seeps out to the surface over geologic time and it was these seeps that created the La Brea Tar Pits South of here, where petroleum is still seeping out as it is at nearby Coal Oil Point off Santa Barbara despite all the drilling and pumping over the last century. It was these seeps that first alerted the early "Wildcatters"where to drill for petroleum in what is today the Orcutt Hills (named after William Orcutt who first identified the bones at La Brea as extinct Pleistocene creatures and his work with "The Western Union Oil Company" that revolutionized the new science of Petroleum geology).

[@MikkellTheImmortal]

This was a great presentation as always. I will be able to use the information provided in the future to more easily explain where oil comes from and how wells refill after they have been pumped to the point of no longer being profitable to extract. I've been struggling with the concept of being able to explain it so a 10 year old can understand. I assumed that since I was talking to people who are my own age they would understand my simplified explanation, but no, they still think a magician makes it for them and the oil companies pump 100% of the oil out of the well🤦

[@Andrey-jf1su]

1. Salt does not flow down from the mountains, but comes out of "black smokers" on the ocean floor (Mid-Atlantic ridge). If we talk about chlorides. 2. There are no black shales under the salt of the Gulf of Mexico, it lies on newly formed basalt, which appeared as a result of the movement of continental plates. The oil in this area comes from limestone layers located ABOVE the salt. It falls into the traps of salt domes, but not the ones you drew, but flatter ones like a table with one leg or a mushroom with a large flat cap (it spread horizontally when there were no overlying layers yet).

[@Andrey-jf1su]

Merry Christmas! Fanks

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

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Thanks for the Christmas present, a new video!

[@Dragrath1]

Good explanation as usual even if your demo didn't work as planned I knew the broad strokes but the seal types and structures had some details that were new to me. 2 questions from this video: 1) How do we know where the source rock for that oil is it from core samples or ground penetrating radar? 2) Is the breaking of a seal due to building pressure responsible for the formation of mud volcanoes around hydrocarbon rich areas with lots of suitable sediment cover? (Of course not to be confused with the mud volcanoes which form in volcanic hydrothermal systems similar feature different composition of gasses namely you can't ignite the hydrothermal system kind of mud volcanoes.)

[@djseiner]

Thanks Marvin for another great video!