A Gigantic and Mysterious Feature that Nobody has Heard of!

A special thanks to TGS who kindly provided the seismic
Paleogeography Maps Copyrighted by Colorado Plateau Geosystems Inc. : License # 5120

Texas geology, Gulf of Mexico geology, salt tectonics, Pangea, Homeschool Earth Science Education
#geology #myroncook #wyoming

[myroncook]

I want to clarify two things; 1) The sea water was not boiled to precipitate the salt. Rather, it was simple evaporation of the sea water. 2) The pancake analogy was used to show the shapes of flowing material. The heat to create the pancake is not important.

[lordchaa]

I have to hand it to the algorithm. I would never in my life search for this content, yet I’m here and absolutely fascinated by this topic. Your students don’t know how lucky they are, having such a knowledgeable and kind person to teach them. Well done 👍

[tomroderick]

Thank you so much for this video. My late wife was a petroleum geologist working out of Houston before we were married and this is what she did. Her talk often mentioned salt domes and she explained them as where they looked for oil, but we did not talk much about the deep time geology of how they formed in the Gulf. I am an engineer and we talked "shop" many times about our work. I had taken several geology courses so I could follow some of what she was describing, but this video has made it so much more real and clear to me. I am now 75 and will be 76 this year and she passed ten years back, but your video has given me a much deeper feel and understanding of what she did. I AM a new subscriber and look forward to more videos.

[carolchildofgod]

If someone told me, “Sit down. I want you to watch this 25 minute video on the geologic makeup of the Gulf of Mexico” I would have said, “Nope. I don’t think so.” But I somehow happened upon this video all on my own, and your teaching style, tone and kind face immediately had me interested in the topic! I even subscribed! 65 years old but will never be too old to learn!

[MikeS]

I'm glad to hear that you could talk about it for days, because I could sure listen to you for days! Thank you for educating me!

[lotharschiese]

At 70, feel like I'm back sitting in the lecture halls again. Extremely well presented! Thank you!

[thedolenorway]

I pondered the other day about how the education system managed to make me loathe subjects I've discovered in my adult life that I find really interesting. Your excellent presentation has the opposite effect of making me curious about something I originally wasn't all too interested in. Presentation matters. Anything can be presented in a way that makes it undigestible to even the most curious of men. The opposite is also true, anything presented in the right way can spark the mind of almost anyone.

[margaretburn]

As an 81 year old, I found this so interesting. You are never too old to learn. Thank you for taking the time to make this documentary.

[jorgeharmstrong]

I’m a rock mechanics engineer for the gold mining industry … a geologic engineer by education. For the most part, I’ve been successful with rock mechanics and geotechnical stuff, but I think I forgot about what led me to the geologic sciences in the first place. Wonderful channel!!! Thanks for your willingness to teach … geology is so much more interesting than rock mechanics!!!

[hgbugalou]

Youtube needs more Geology content like this. You and Nick Zentner do great work sharing this knowledge.

[roberthigbee]

Myron is the Bob Ross of geology! With his calm even-tempo and stunningly good reference data, his knowledge couldn’t help but seep into my brain much like those pink shaded salt extrusions.

[tehweez]

As someone who has lived on the Louisiana gulf coast for the majority of my life, I've always been fascinated by salt domes but never took the time to really learn about their formation. This sheds so much light on something that has been a mystery to me since childhood. Your video was a wonderful learning experience; thank you so much for sharing it with us!

[jessehunt]

I did much of the mapping to create that map. We used 3-D industry seismic data. In addition to. 2-way travel time (bathymetry), we also created seismic amplitude maps (reflectivity) of the sea floor. The Gulf sea floor is cut by thousands of faults, and many are naturally leaking oil and gas. The sea floor contains bacteria that consumes the hydrocarbons and secretes limestone which cements the mud and forms a solid substrate for attachment of tube worms, mussels and other chemosynthetic organisms (the derive their energy from hydrocarbons rather than sunlight. Since much of the Gulf has a seafloor that consists of pelagic mud, which is soft, the seep areas show up clearly as high amplitude events. We mapped over 10, 000 naturally occurring seeps in the same area as the bathymetry map!

[lazywallstreetnews]

You know someone dominates and understands a topic so well they can explain it on the first try to a complete novice to the topic and have them understand it. Kudos to you, sir. Great job, I learned something today.

[akskier]

I’m a retired exploration geophysicist. An excellent discussion. Accessible and accurate.

[wormhole]

The way you format your videos is brilliant. instead of just saying what it is at the beginning and then describe the process you go through it like trying to solve a puzzle with the audience which will make it more engaging and allow us to use our brains. It has me more interested in geology now. Plus the production quality of all your videos is great with things like shots of you walking to geological features and other little details.

[MissCookie]

As a 40 year old woman, I can honestly say I've learned more on YouTube than I ever did in school.

[Peachy]

Not sure why you came across my feed but I sure am glad you did! If more teachers were like you more people would understand things better. Thank you!

[TheGreatDanish]

This video reminds me of sitting down in the 90s as a kid and watching educational stuff on PBS. It has that same genial, fatherly energy. Like, sitting down with a grandfather I didn't know I had. You seem so excited to share this with us, and that excitement is contagious! I'm not usually all that interested in geology where it doesn't already intersect my actual discipline of history, but you make this absolutely fascinating, Mr. Cook.

[anandsharma]

This my first ever geology lecture. What amazes me is the complexity of results of interactions of simple processes over long periods of time. We see it so vividly in the tree of life and evolution, but we can also see it in natural formations. The most impressive part of this is our ability to drill cores of rock from absolutely anywhere, like from the ocean floor.