Understanding Petroleum Geology and the Geology of the San Juan Basin

This short educational video is designed with young science students in mind. It gives a brief overview of Petroleum Geology, and in particular, the geology of the San Juan Basin in Northwest New Mexico. It describes the depositional history of the basin and explains the logging tools geologists use to identify intervals that contain hydrocarbons in commercial quantities. The video also describes some of the more interesting geologic features seen at the surface in the Four Corners. Yes, God left some amazing and beautiful evidence of the chaos that was the Cretaceous.
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[@pagosa1040]

That was a great presentation. Ive stood on the summit of shiprock twice. The drone footage brought back some fine memories.

[@patrickkillilea5225]

Great video! I lived in Durango, Co., around 2006, 2007. Actually, out on the mesa towards Bayfield. Fracking was everywhere. Such and amazing region. And a really great place to live. Watch out for the Deer!

[@stephenjacks8196]

I used to take my cat on long trips over the mountains (bank tech). Those "see in the dark" eyes alerted me to STUPID DEER in the middle of the road many times.

[@trimetrodon]

So much content I’m going to watch it again.

[@jimjr4432]

Perhaps a few times for me!

[@lookinin123]

What a great fact-filled video! Thanks for putting it up.

[@nufosmatic]

Forty years ago we had Schlumberger recruiting electrical engineers at the University of Florida showing us all of their neat tools for doing down-hole surveys. They basically need electrical engineers because of the sophisticated instrumentation involved connected to the computers in the truck. Years later I met someone who knew Mr Schlumberger...

[@Lyarrah]

I just want to know how I never heard about the bisti badlands before this, despite having visited mesa verde often as a kid

[@georgesharpe]

It's a very cool place!!

[@urospetrov5216]

This is the most American explanation of anything ever.

[@georgesharpe]

What a nice comment. Thanks.

[@domcizek]

GOOD VIDEO, NOW I UNDERSTAND HOW YOU LOCATE GAS AND OIL

[@chrishunter7976]

Super video George!

[@mikethemaniacal]

love the vid. its interesting that geologists always put music at the beginning and end of their vids.

[@georgesharpe]

haha, and so it should be!

[@almar7114]

I drilled many oil and gas wells, logged and perforated them. They don’t teach you anything on a drill rig except how to keep that rig going and how to be a man. Didn’t realize they took resistant measurements to find the oil. Thanks for education… great vid minus the singing…lol, thanks.

[@jimjr4432]

We moved to Farmington 5 years ago. Live not that far from the Piedra Vista HS. I guess we drive by that well most days. I wasn't smart enough to be a geologist, so became a forester. Still want to learn and you aced it, but being me, need to watch again and again? Thanks so much, Jim

[@mafic_taco7061]

Great video! Sorry about your drone ☹️

[@nuggetella]

Enjoyed the clip, have worked in exploration drilling and am highly familiar with the terms..!

[@secularsunshine9036]

*Let the Sunshine in.*

[@nibiruresearch]

Lesson ONE for geologists and paleontologists should be the explanation of the catastrophism theory. This theory is based on the findings of the French naturalist and paleontologist Georges Cuvier around the year 1800. During the excavations when making roads through France, he discovered the fossils from land and sea creatures in the same layer, strata. But also in the layer on top of that and the one below. So he concluded that the planet Earth is suffering from a recurring natural disaster where flooding must cover a large part of the land even on high places. But I assume that this theory is neglected because nobody could think of the possible cause of regular floods. But ancient books tell us that our planet Earth is suffering from a cycle of seven natural disasters. By seriously thinking and researching we will find out that the only cause of a cycle of recurring disasters can be a celestial body that orbits our sun in an eccentric orbit. Than that body, planet, will be close to the sun for a short while and disappear in the universe for a long time. Much more convincing information about the recurring flood cycle, the re-creation of civilizations and its timeline and ancient high technology can be found in the e-book: "Planet 9 = Nibiru". The book answers many of your questions about our past. It can be read on any computer, tablet or smartphone. Search: invisible nibiru 9

[@Cwra1smith]

So 200 years ago a guy with a shovel discovered something no one else has been able to comprehend since and conjured up an imaginary planet to explain it? Ancient high technology? Are you an alchemist?

[@nibiruresearch]

@@Cwra1smith We have abundant and convincing evidence for the existence of a celestial body causing havoc on our planet including many pictures.

[@matthewseed3386]

​@@Cwra1smith it's a better explanation than dead sea creatures turn into hydrocarbons that make gas that doesn't float but migrates sideways through rock, when those creatures don't just become fossils that is.

[@Cwra1smith]

@@matthewseed3386 The creation of hydrocarbons takes millions of years with all the sediments pressing down on them.

[@matthewseed3386]

@@Cwra1smith are the sediments not full of organisms that will also become hydrocarbons? I doesn't jive. It never has. We have lakes of oil and shores of coal on Titan a moon of Jupiter. Methane is in all kinds of places in the solar system and throughout the universe. I think that the fossil fuel story is to charge lots of money for a " finite" resource. It's also funny how when I was in school 30 years ago we were supposed to run out of oil in 30 years and they just keep finding more. I think scientists often have no clue about things but they are too egotistical to say so not to mention afraid that saying something that goes against the standard model may lose them book deals and more. Something just screams bullshit to me whenever I hear about how oil is made. I think there's a better chance that our planet is a living being and that is a vital fluid that it needs. We know very little about the bottom of the ocean and even less about what lies beneath the Earth's crust and much less about how planets are formed yet we seem to think we have all the facts about oil. Nope, no way.

[@SolaceEasy]

So glad you lost your drone flying over that Holy Mountain. Pray you yourself have not been similarly cursed.

[@mray8519]

I’ve heard of holy cows, holy shit, holy moly, holy Toledo, but never holy mountains.

[@auroraheidialis]

Rejoicing in others loss shows a lot about one's character. Also, the loss of things on the holy mountain mostly means more litter on it.

[@georgesharpe]

I'm praying hard!!

[@jimjr4432]

It's a mountain!

[@stephenjacks8196]

When I think of "Four Corners" I think of that huge pillar of dirty coal smoke from the four corners power plant powering Los Angeles and poisoning Four Corners area. And fracking releases Radon gas, but OK it only kills locals.

[@Cwra1smith]

Radon gas is released anyplace there has been a sea and sediments. The heavy metals drop to the bottom and as the earth pushes up and erodes sediments in the midwest you will get a constant outside level of 1 pico-curie. Some of the coal mines have been measured at 200 and people worked down there for years. Some got lung cancer and some didn't which is how they first discovered how dangerous it was in confined areas. Outside, not so much. If you don't want any move to Florida.

[@stephenjacks8196]

@@Cwra1smith Not really. Learn Science. I did NDT. X-raying pipes etc. Radon boils at -60 and propane at -40 so workers ahead of the propane separator were REQUIRED to wear radiation badges. The original lava that made the original rock had Uranium and Thorium; today 1ppm and 2 ppm (half-life age of Earth and age of Universe respectively). Due to Earth's extraordinary abundance of radioactive elements out core is still alive and only "proto-star" Jupiter, besides Earth, emits more energy than Solar. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_elements

[@Cwra1smith]

@@stephenjacks8196 I din't ask for a science lesson, I merely stated that Radon is everywhere in the Midwest. The least of anyone's worries would be an oil well.

[@stephenjacks8196]

@@Cwra1smith The least of anyone's worries should be flammable tap water. Gas pipeline workers are REQUIRED to wear a radiation test badge if working on gas pipeline before propane extraction. This is due to Radon normally in. Natural Gas. Deep lung tissues radioactive particulates - Radon fits - like Plutonium cause likely 100% lung cancer in 5 years from 1 microgram.

[@stephenjacks8196]

@@Cwra1smith Notice that other countries smoke more than the US but the US has 10X the lung cancer? ALL of the phosphate mines that provide fertilizer for (intensely fertilized) American Tobacco farms were originally Thorium mines (hint, hint).

[@TheAnarchitek]

The "inland sea" wasn't as salty (the seas and oceans were probably only 1/3 as salty as they are today, perhaps half that), the oil wasn't deposited "millions of years ago", and the landscape we take for granted today was created over a very short, geologically, period, only recently. I know, this flies in the face of "conventional wisdom", the stories people have developed to account for evidence that doesn't support their thesis. "Millions of years ago" takes the starch our of every argument against them. There is no unified theory that accounts for the existence of "crude oil", and some are strictly la-la-land territory. The tectonic movement that created the Earth we know today didn't happen "millions of years ago", it happened in historical times. There are ample, if discredited, witnesses. Sorta like "witnesses" against mob bosses making it to trial, mob bosses ain't gonna let it happen, if they have anything to say about it. Geology has vested itself in history, when it really should confine itself to geology. HOW the rocks got miles into thin air has NOTHING to do with "when they were solidified" from the goo in the Earth's core. In fact, everything in the world SITS on "bedrock", solidified rock, some of which you call "basement rocks" that were thrust upward into open air. What kind of force do you calculate to raise the Himalayas? Some of what we look at is VERY old, when it was folded, spindled or mutilated. THEN, it was pushed OUT of its bed, or layer, into the shapes we call mountains, ridges, hogback, synclines, buttes, mesas, hills and more. Force, then, becomes the operant agent, not "tectonics". Without some external force, there is no reason for the Earth to tear itself apart. Some gargantuan force exerted against our planet raised the mountains, and "folded" the oil into compartments you could find, and exploit, at some point in the future. The oil itself came from outside Earth, most of it probably about 5,000 years ago (a long, long time, to humans, but not even an eyeblink in geologic measurement), but Exodus tells of the survivors living off "manna", crystalized carbohydrates, deposited "like the dew", on rocks where the Sun evaporated the liquid. If Earth had encountered an atmosphere rich in hydrocarbons, and succeeded in ripping it away, as seems the case, not all of those molecules would have made it to earth intact, enabling the deposit of "manna", as an aftereffect. Interestingly, the interaction of a nitrogen-rich atmosphere with a carbohydrate-rich atmosphere would create three byproducts: Carbon Dioxide to the carbohydrate atmosphere, and Water and Crude Oil, to the nitrogen atmosphere.

[@georgesharpe]

I'm not sure I follow all that, but thanks for taking the time.

[@TheAnarchitek]

@@georgesharpe Our not-so-distant past is a fascinating story, when you take out the "Ice Ages", "millions of years ago" and unconformity bias. It's our story, every being on Earth today, because we are all descendants of the survivors. There is a narrative that makes sense, accounts for the visible phenomena and the welter of scars everywhere, without resorting to vast spans of time. Earth is undoubtedly old, and the rocks are part of that age, but their placement, orientation, location, and situation are not.

[@Cwra1smith]

It is impossible to measure geological time with Bible study.

[@TheAnarchitek]

@@Cwra1smith Not trying to do so, but the geological record is nearly as erroneous as Egyptology, for some of the same reasons. Bad input, = Bad output. The Earth of "millions of years ago" looked nothing like the Earth of today, in more ways than a glib response covers. If I hadn't given considerable thought to my comments, I would not have posted them. Perhaps "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." A couple hundred years ago, the "scientific community" refused to accept the idea of "meteorites", until one fell, literally at their feet, in 1804. Steady-state uniformitarianism was the dominant theory of the 1st half of the 20th Century, and the commonly-held-in-today's-world of electro-magnetism connecting the Universe was loudly rejected by all who adhered to that defunct theory, so where, exactly, are all the "rigorous men of science ensuring exactitude" you seem to believe devoutly protect the world of science? In fact, the world's EM signature, the "web" that holds our atmosphere in, is in disarray, as if from the very kinds of "interactions" I write about. Look it up. That whole Idea of "gradual change over long periods of time" is an outdate 19th Century concept that should have been jettisoned a century ago!

[@Cwra1smith]

@@TheAnarchitek The geological record cannot be erroneous, only someone's interpretation of it. It's plain as the nose on your face and it is billions of years in the making.

[@gl9412]

"God left some amazing and beautiful evidence..." - so your not a geologist then. I should have seen that punchline coming; such a shame considering the perfectly acceptable evidence you gave was good enough - then you ruined it.

[@georgesharpe]

Hmmm? I'm a believer in a 5 billion year old planet molded through the eons. That doesn't happen in a vacuum.

[@gl9412]

@@georgesharpe - not clear what a vacuum has to do with it; but that aside - why not just accept that tectonic forces, a nuclear core, and wind and rain and ice are sufficient to do the job - there's no need to introduce a myth to attempt to explain it; it explains itself.

[@georgesharpe]

Yeah, all that cool doesn't happen without a master mind behind it. If you threw out your alphabet soup on the floor and it spelled out the declaration of independence, you might think someone had something to do with that. But put more information in a DNA molucule than fits in the encyclopedia... just by chance? Not a chance.

[@Cwra1smith]

@@georgesharpe So just to keep us on our toes the mastermind throws in hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, and volcanoes?

[@georgesharpe]

@@Cwra1smith Yep. He never promised us a rose garden. Difficulties in life, whether natural or man-made, are just part of the reality He created.

[@daleunroe6074]

short and to the point - love the simple explanations ...it was very understandable to follow - nice glimpse into the world of oil/gas and why fracking provides great energy potential finds

[@tgwarnell]

Nice job George Just wished you had used Schlumberger logs

[@georgesharpe]

right? then you could actually read them!

[@miguelaphan58]

...a most genial intro to geological lesson ever, that rock track sound...is just genial !!!!!

[@BIG-DIPPER-56]

NOW THAT Was very darn Good - THANKS ! ! ! 🙂😎👍

[@AMorgan57]

"Old time rock & roll" ha, love the metaphor.

[@georgesharpe]

haha, me too!

[@carltuckerson7718]

Was playing in the background in my feed and when I looked over I saw you were showing a log so I immediately subbed.

[@LilMOMMAson]

Excellent video! Thank you.

[@dennisstorie4604]

Why don't they go after the coal

[@BrianDoherty-e8s]

OK, but I didn't see a 600' layer of dinosaurs. I prefer dino oil over that stuff from tiny sea creatures. My lifted Chevy square body is embarrassed burning anything but ancient dino hydrocarbons.

[@georgesharpe]

Haha, right?