Triassic Sinbad Limestone

What happened after Earth’s worst mass extinction? Welcome to a new Rocks of Utah episode. I’m so excited to share this new video with you looking for fossils in the early Triassic Sinbad Limestone in the San Rafael Swell in central Utah. This series explores the unique geology and paleontology of Utah, highlighting a new rock layer in each episode.
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[@livvy-w8m]

i’m a highschool student planing to study geology in college and this video was super interesting and gave me a new view on the permian triassic extinction event. 🙌 Awesome video!

[@CROWSDEMISE]

Also a high school student planning to study geology, along with paleontology, in college! I wish you the best of luck! 🫡

[@paulthew2]

Great video. Loved the story behind the rock and its fossils. The scenery was breathtaking....really liked the wide shots, it was like being there. Really good production, well done.

[@stevengeorge5605]

Well done, and super interesting, as all of your videos have been. Thank you!

[@BenjaminBurgerScience]

Thank you!

[@abdulwahabbello9260]

Wow. Super excited to see another video from you on the rocks of Utah. Thank you so much, Ben. Your videos are really educative and inspirational. Great teacher! Looking forward to many videos on the rocks of Utah. Thank you so much.

[@Laserblade]

Every time I finish one of your videos, I leave having learned and understand more than I did before. Thank you for your time and efforts!

[@stoneworld5962]

I'm discovering this channel only now, and wanted to thank you, Mr Burger, for your dedication in sharing this knowledge ! You have a lot of videos to watch by now, i will most likely binge watch them all. Thanks again, best wishes for your projects, hoping they include some more videos.

[@christopherholder9925]

Your excitement is contagious.

[@danieldegennaro5606]

Well done! I'm a retired teacher, taught geology for 25 years to my junior high students, and now a landscape photographer who recognizes the many scenes you videoed. See you out there!

[@mikeprice2701]

Thank you! I'm fascinated by the swell!

[@QUIRK1019]

I'm subscribed to dozens of education KZbin channels, and I love learning on here. This is no exaggeration: I have learned more from your channel than any other. I've gone thru the Introduction To Vertebrate Paleontology twice now and it really should be recognized as some of the best content KZbin has to offer.

[@BeBetter-tintbao]

Because lots of his videos are essentially university lectures

[@danielbishop7890]

Excellently well produced and presented video as always, Dr Burger!

[@ilankotzin3104]

Thanks for sharing....very informative!

[@Alberad08]

These flat red areas - and then small mountains left and right coming out of these, like exhibits in a gallery... For a guy from Europe, it doesn't get more strange than this, but it looks hauntingly beautiful. Thanks a lot for sharing this!

[@pairofjacks1006]

Hands down! One of the best guys out there..great teacher. Thanks .

[@QUIRK1019]

This is your best produced video yet!

[@claraallen12]

Yes! Awesome editing with the musical score and scenery!

[@aaronandrews3059]

Always love your videos. I drove through the Swells this past weekend. Love those rock formations.

[@EmileCluyse]

Amazing video. Your channel inspires me to keep learning about earth's magnificent history

[@johnhodge5871]

Great video, really interesting, thank you very much. I have read about a 'carbonate gap' in the early Triassic due, presumably, to ocean acidification. The Sinbad Limestone provides a timeline, not to mention an appreciation, of how quickly the pH of early Triassic oceans recovered.

[@BenjaminBurgerScience]

Yes, very cool to see!

[@martinmorgan7808]

A fantastic video series. Thanks.

[@MrSiwat]

Great video. Thanks so much. Amazing scenery along with the info on the PT extinction.

[@ufp1701]

glad to see a new episode! I love Utah and its geology

[@davidkaplan2745]

I was hiking in the San Rafael Swell just a few weeks ago. Didn't go to Black Dragon Canyon though. Spectacular country. Saw a lot of Navajo, Chinle, Kayenta, and Wingate.

[@user-nv5lh8ib1p]

Sure hope to see more videos sometime. Family and I, we live in N Utah and love watching your captivating and informative videos.❤

[@herbf2700]

LOL the second I saw the reef behind you I knew exactly where you were: Moonshine Tanks. Then later Black Dragon Canyon near the petroglyphs. And that sure looks like Assembly Hall and Windowblind behind you when you're talking to the camera. Lots of petrified wood right at that spot. Its kinda fun to recognize all the places in this video... My usual stomping grounds. The Swell sure has some cool geology going on. I remember a girl at a rock show was showing off a giant red crystal cube she found near Moonshine Tanks at the start of the video just sitting there on a ridge. There's lots of good green copper staining in that area and crazy, intense purple and green and yellow layered mudstones. I saw a video of some of the old mines where radioactive mineral traces in the cliffs glow brightly in UV light. I've never found any good fossils in those sandstones though-- just clams, though I know there's a footprint or two at the start of Buckhorn Draw (where you were driving at the end of the vid)

[@Ezullof]

Very interesting! I love the specific cases studies to understand these global phenomena. Great video as always!

[@DesertRatExploration]

Happy your back! I have some footage of the swell in my recent video

[@StillxAvoidingxTomorrow]

I think the work you done on the permian extinction is amazing . I instantly thought of the real city of Centralia where a underground coal fire has been on going for years and it kinda seems the permian extinction is starting to look like a massive scale of that kinda scenario. Along with the volcanos. As a paleo artist you give me great amount of knowledge to accuratly present this time. thx.

[@danielpenkoff]

Love your videos keep em coming

[@cdineaglecollapsecenter4672]

Great video! Thanks!

[@edwardlulofs444]

Very nice, thanks. I wish that I could visit there.

[@glennquagmire1747]

Fascinating stuff 👍

[@martinfernandez9873]

I hope I can see some pre-Cenozoic scaphopods in situ some day. Before I started my geo degree, inspired by Dr. Burger's channel, I was really only interested in the fossils, and the rocks as a means to them. Now, knowing more about structure, digging deep into sed. strat. prinples, and a lot of paper reading later, your videos are always a wonderful expression of how truly beautiful & profound the sediments are. Absolutely love your videos. Dr. Burger, if you see this comment, will you be at GSA this year? It is a bit far from you.

[@garyonnen7634]

Any chance that since you were driving down Buckhorn wash. You’ll do a video on the Wedge Over look area. Fun video thanks.

[@BenjaminBurgerScience]

Yes, there are some great overlooks, will visit more of the Swell in the future.

[@markvonwisco7369]

Off topic, but this looks like a great area to do some trail bicycling!

[@elberethreviewer5558]

Why did you stop making videos? You should come back!

[@CMGuavs]

Hi Benjamin, my name is Jeff and I have a BSc. in Geology from U.C. Davis (1978). I never worked doing real geology but did work in marine geophysics and the geotechnical fields. I REALLY enjoy your channel and have a couple of questions regarding large (25'x25'x25') cubic sandstone blocks located near the San Juan River in SE UT. Do you have any videos that explain the origin of these giant blocks? Would the underlying presence of salt domes have any influence on their shape? I welcome the opportunity to learn more and plan to visit that area in the Spring or Fall of 2024. Thanks for your time. Cheers, Jeff

[@quincylassiter5684]

hi professor can you make a geology lecture playlist thanks

[@kaifern-ml6bx]

lil late to the party but i love yer videos!!! you are fueling my autism :D

[@youruncleted]

i trust you because you have a cool hat

[@jan-martinulvag1953]

why dont you ask Andrew Hall if he agrees with you

[@leechild4655]

Going from then to now it looks like mass waste erosion of epic purportion

[@billkallas1762]

Wasn't a good part of Southern and Central Utah above water in the Triassic?

[@BenjaminBurgerScience]

Most of its covered by shallow ocean and coastal tidal flats. There is some uplift to the for eastern side and into Colorado, and the ancestral Rocky Mountain Region in western Colorado, but still trying to figure out if there was any uplift in central Utah.

[@billkallas1762]

@@BenjaminBurgerScience Thanks. I guess that the Early Triassic map that I looked at, wasn't very accurate. It showed just the North East corner of the State under water.

[@cdineaglecollapsecenter4672]

the black dragon looks like a turkey to me.

[@lissa-rf1rz]

… aren’t petroglyphs pecked into the rocks… and not painted.

[@jhonviel7381]

geology CANNOT be, in an urban environment.

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[@vegasbright]

Love your videos!