Glenn Simonelli
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Varves!
Varves are very fine-grain sedimentary deposits that form on the bottom of lakes. The presence of varves at Croton Point Park, in New York, tells us that at one time, toward the end of the last ice age, the Hudson River was a freshwater lake. Geologists call this paleolake :Lake Albany".
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How Does It Work?
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Glenn's Science Videos Presents: How Does It Work? A special Purim production for the students of the Leffell School. Warning: this video contains scenes of malicious, gleeful destruction of well, technically school property.
How Does It Do That
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A brief explanation of the physics behind the Purim project.
Schist!
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Some of the rocks on our nature trail aren't from around here! Which ones don't belong? Where did they come from? CORRECTION: Schist is metamorphosed mudstone, not granite as I state in this video. Thanks to Charles for this correction. BTW, mudstone is a sedimentary rock. Granite is igneous.
International Look Under Stuff Day
มุมมอง 694 ปีที่แล้ว
No new trees this week. If you've watched the other videos, you can already identify about 95% of the trees growing on our nature trail. Instead, we will celebrate a new holiday: International Look Under Stuff Day.
The Birch and the Poplar Trees
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Identifying some of the plants and trees on our school grounds. Lesson 6: The Birch and the Poplar, or Tulip, Trees. This video also corrects a mistake on the video about maple trees and explains how to tell the different between Norway maples and sugar maples.
Beech
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Identifying some of the plants and trees on our school grounds. Lesson 5: The American Beech.
Oaks
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Identifying some of the plants and trees on our school grounds. Lesson 4: Oak Trees, including the red oak group and the white oak group.
Hickory
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Identifying some of the plants and trees on our school grounds. Lesson 3: Hickory trees, and how to tell them from ash trees.
Poison Ivy Video
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Identifying some of the plants and trees on our school grounds. Week 1: How to identify poison ivy.
POPular Self Help with Dr. S.
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"Remember: If you're unhappy, it's your own fault!"
Worst Christmas Song Ever
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Did you know, back when I lived in Indiana, you needed a license to have a dog, but not to have a child? Just saying. For charts, email: glenn.simonelli@gmail.com Glenn Simonelli is a blogger who has way too much time on his hands. His most recent collection of blog posts, "A Little Cynicism Never Hurt Anyone," has little chance of ever being published.
Dirge
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An uplifting homage to hammers smashing clumps of dirt.
How to Use a Protractor
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Glenn's Science Videos Presents: How to Use a Protractor I'll bet you didn't know that the protractor was invented by Agnes Protractor.
Happy Birthday (Sing-along Version)
มุมมอง 37710 ปีที่แล้ว
Sing-along version of Happy Birthday, a music video
Vote for Skip
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Vote for Skip
Phone Call #2
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Phone Call #2
Phone Call
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Phone Call
Excursion
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Excursion
Believe in Magnets
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Believe in Magnets
What's with the birds
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What's with the birds
Reflection #3
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Reflection #3
The Tubs
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The Tubs
Mazurka
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Mazurka
Allemande
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Allemande
Reflection #4
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Reflection #4
First Reflection
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First Reflection
Adagio-Allegretto (Grace)
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Adagio-Allegretto (Grace)
Swagger
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Swagger
Tarantella
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Tarantella

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  • @davidhuffman4036
    @davidhuffman4036 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Native Americans as well, as old landslides or construction will leave scattered varieties of rock too. When it see these i look for quartz veins

  • @alfredzkhanlakibul8494
    @alfredzkhanlakibul8494 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    we have a sample of schist with mica. Thank you we have learned alot

  • @shucksful
    @shucksful 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Eeeeeeecccchhhh

  • @philporter9957
    @philporter9957 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’ve never heard of schist forming from granite. Granite becomes gneiss under pressure and temperature. It is usually mudstones that change into shale, then slate,, then schist…This is what I am aware of anyhow!

    • @gsimonel
      @gsimonel 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, you are correct. I made a mistake on the video.

    • @justicecountryman4060
      @justicecountryman4060 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, however, from what I have seen granite CAN be a parent rock of gneiss, just not shist.

    • @philporter9957
      @philporter9957 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Great videos by the way, keep them up!

  • @CharithiSudeshi
    @CharithiSudeshi 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    thank you sir.

  • @petrabednar3551
    @petrabednar3551 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Tulip poplar is NOT a poplar! It’s just a name, completely different family!

    • @gsimonel
      @gsimonel 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You are correct, it is not a true poplar. But that's what everyone calls it around here, so that's the term I use in the video. Common names of tree often vary depending on where you live. Hence, the blue beech; I mean, the water beech; no, I mean ironwood; no wait, it's a muscle tree; no, it's a hornbeam . . .

  • @kelcritcarroll
    @kelcritcarroll 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You are an interesting man! A musician Im assuming as ive seen a piano in your home and a scientist as well or geologist?..and a comedian to boot and im guessing ive not covered all u do!😁

    • @gsimonel
      @gsimonel 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you for the comment. As long as you precede each term with "amateur", I'll agree with you. Which one of my video shows shows the piano?

  • @GoodToKnow-Hello
    @GoodToKnow-Hello 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I truly enjoyed your video and will use this in my Earth Science class as an example of varves! Thank you!

  • @Mr_badjoke
    @Mr_badjoke ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeah ive had enough of these schists too! The schist is everywhere! Its confusing having so much schist around im up to my knees in the schist! Im on the Ohio river so ..✌️🤙

  • @loompy1440
    @loompy1440 ปีที่แล้ว

    I rockhound on the mountain my cabin is on in cascade Idaho and the rocks that don’t seem to belong are usually really old looking green orbicular rhyolite… basalt with tons of holes. Some stuff that looks like coral fossils. some stuff that looks like ocean jasper… but maybe gabbro? Some monazite. One piece of nephrite jade. One tiny piece of obsidian that’s grainy on the outside. One really really small aquamarine crystal filled pegmatite fragment.

  • @lizzymoore54
    @lizzymoore54 ปีที่แล้ว

    “ Where’s Waldo “ !😊

  • @cosimocarroccia4566
    @cosimocarroccia4566 ปีที่แล้ว

    Molto belle queste pietre

  • @Hellomrgeorge
    @Hellomrgeorge ปีที่แล้ว

    That is the rock that we always perform in ny

    • @gsimonel
      @gsimonel ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes. Many people have noted that New York is full of schist.

  • @LanceHall
    @LanceHall ปีที่แล้ว

    I wish I could find these types locally all we have is limestone.

    • @gsimonel
      @gsimonel ปีที่แล้ว

      Are there many fossils in the limestone? I miss looking for fossils.

  • @wesmahan4757
    @wesmahan4757 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your video just appeared on my TH-cam feed, as I'm very interested in geology. 1) Your commentary and narration is excellent. 2) The video quality is TERRIBLE. For a couple hundred dollars you can get a cell phone which produce REALLY excellent sharp video. Do us a favour and throw away the phone that produced these videos and buy a better cell phone. Almost any phone over $200 will give you wonderful results, compared to the phone you used. 3) In spite of the bad quality video, I'm going to subscribe, because your commentary is very good! But rock and mineral ID is really dependent on high quality video. 4) Please let us know WHERE you are located! Not a clue anywhere on your "About" tab. Though I guess you are on the eastern part of the USA. Maybe Pennsylvania?

  • @sbkarajan
    @sbkarajan ปีที่แล้ว

    I found some weird rocks, in Landers, CA, where I visited last month. I had uploaded the video, two kinds of rocks are shown in it. First rocks had weird protrusions (nubs?) like the ones found in so called megalithic walls of Inca and Egypt. Second rock type, definitely volcanic, had a string of harder rocks arranged in linear fashion. Some had CROSS shape... linear was weird enough, but cross arrangement? How is that possible? Have you seen this kind of rock formation? What are they called? Please take a look, I thought they were andesites, but I could be wrong. Thanks,

    • @gsimonel
      @gsimonel ปีที่แล้ว

      Very strange. Definitely igneous rocks. Uneven mixing of the chemicals in the magma creates slight differences in hardness in the rock as the magma cools. Over time, the weaker areas weather and erode more than the harder areas. So my guess is that what looks like inclusions is probably just the result of uneven weathering.

  • @ulfetamujkanovic4085
    @ulfetamujkanovic4085 ปีที่แล้ว

    Imam i ja nekoliko kamenja . Svetlucaju .zanima me sta je i imali vrednost

  • @slaviusse
    @slaviusse ปีที่แล้ว

    Perfect lecture! :) Thank You!

  • @allstarvito
    @allstarvito 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great teach 🧐

  • @ulfetamujkanovic4085
    @ulfetamujkanovic4085 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Prevod

  • @haribiswa1444
    @haribiswa1444 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good ☺️

  • @mtnan1950
    @mtnan1950 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I live in a area where most all of the rocks are drop rocks

    • @gsimonel
      @gsimonel 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Interesting. Is there much other evidence of glacial activity?

    • @mtnan1950
      @mtnan1950 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gsimonel yes most of Montana’s geology is glacial.

  • @savannahflora6750
    @savannahflora6750 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey can I send you a photo of this tree I have I can’t figure out what it is:(

    • @gsimonel
      @gsimonel 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi Savannah. I can't make any promises, but I'm happy to look at the photo to see if I can recognize it.

  • @kantilalrawal4359
    @kantilalrawal4359 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    🙏 good job 👍

  • @douglaspohl1827
    @douglaspohl1827 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very good teaching geology video... keep it going...

    • @gsimonel
      @gsimonel 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you, Douglas.

  • @ArunChauhan-zd9cr
    @ArunChauhan-zd9cr 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    👌🙏

  • @willkosmider2027
    @willkosmider2027 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It has been a long time since I studied geology in college. I very much enjoyed the revisiting of the basics of the study of geology. Thank you very much.

  • @Phoenix_Enterprises
    @Phoenix_Enterprises 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Schist happens!

  • @pelosokeduchannel598
    @pelosokeduchannel598 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice 👍

  • @melissazuk69
    @melissazuk69 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love the video Glenn! Glad to see you getting some new followers here :). I really enjoyed the bit about glacial dropstones!

  • @fatmirscollectables9240
    @fatmirscollectables9240 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have minerals

  • @tomhabokita8818
    @tomhabokita8818 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have it.

  • @tomhabokita8818
    @tomhabokita8818 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow very good job. 👍👍

  • @garyinmaine1278
    @garyinmaine1278 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    If you found some under a church, would you be like; "HOLY SCHIST" ?

  • @definevetarihsevdas1190
    @definevetarihsevdas1190 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    th-cam.com/video/Acfy_mEQAUoy/w-d-xo.htmlre

  • @trptrungblogs
    @trptrungblogs 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳❤️

  • @gemstones118
    @gemstones118 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Schist is mine is not like yours...will maybe i have a large dark big black shiny...hope if you dont mind..but

  • @howler6490
    @howler6490 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I used to mountaineer...looking at the rock, sometimes very very closely, was one of the side pleasures of the game. Worked underground in coalmining, saw a lot of rock, sometimes a hellovalot more than I wanted to. It is a fascinating hobby and can supply a lot of information about the immediate locality... Great stuff...great wee video...

  • @clintwoodruff1187
    @clintwoodruff1187 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Schist - I thought you were just cussing in German !

  • @georgevantuyl5837
    @georgevantuyl5837 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Glenn are you a geologist?

    • @gsimonel
      @gsimonel 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No. I received a masters degree in geology, but that was many years ago. As someone else pointed out, schist is metamorphosed mudstone, not metamorphosed granite, as I said in the video. A professional geologist would not have made a mistake like that.

  • @bandilla7317
    @bandilla7317 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    very nice place to hounding rock it's beautiful place.

  • @philhooper7294
    @philhooper7294 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    If there is cole there even if someone put it there. ? In time doesn't diamond's form from cole?

    • @argonaught5666
      @argonaught5666 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No. They are both carbon but diamonds form deep under extreme heat and pressure. Diamonds are pure carbon, coal is not.

  • @mahmoodmoossavi243
    @mahmoodmoossavi243 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you sir. I really did enjoy this brief lesson about our mother nature. Bless you. Liked and Subscribed.

  • @fancyfeast4610
    @fancyfeast4610 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    When I clicked on this I thought...BOOORRRIINNNGGG but I stayed and was glad I did. It's actually way more interesting than I anticipated. Thanks for making me not a dumb dumb 👍

    • @akatripclaymore.9679
      @akatripclaymore.9679 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      So glad this vid taught you something that will be useful to you, So many Video's teach you thing's ( which just take up Brain Space) no cranial flatulence here...lol bah ha ha ha ha.

    • @fancyfeast4610
      @fancyfeast4610 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@akatripclaymore.9679 I'm not sure if it's 'useful' information for me, don't know if identifying rocks is something I need to know, I got this far in life without knowing 😆maybe a question might pop up on a quiz night 😂 but it's definitely interesting information.

    • @fancyfeast4610
      @fancyfeast4610 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@akatripclaymore.9679 I get sarcasm, you're just not very good at it..so what do I say back to it? 🤷‍♀ just be polite 😆

    • @fancyfeast4610
      @fancyfeast4610 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@akatripclaymore.9679 And my original comment was semi sarcastic too btw

    • @geowallace9758
      @geowallace9758 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      you were right 1st time

  • @Iziireal
    @Iziireal 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is it common or possible for schist with a lot of mica to also contain gold as well?

    • @gsimonel
      @gsimonel 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gold is not associated with mica, so the amount of mica in the schist is probably not relevant. Gold is often found with quartz, so it might be possible to find some in schist with a high quartz content. I'm assuming, though, that the process of turning the original granite into schist doesn't remove or alter the gold somehow. I'm not a metamorphic geologist, so I don't know for sure, but I don't think that's likely.

    • @argonaught5666
      @argonaught5666 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      There are quartz veins in schist that are gold bearing although not in the schist itself.

    • @gsimonel
      @gsimonel 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@argonaught5666 Thanks for clarifying. I am correct in assuming that the quartz veins would have formed later, after the schist had already metamorphosed?

    • @argonaught5666
      @argonaught5666 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gsimonel I'm no geologist but yes. I assume the schist was metamorphosed and then a cooling off period. Then an activation of the intrusive broke it and solution worked through those channels and formed gold bearing quartz veins. Keep in mind, geology includes a lot of conjecture. For instance, the great Boulder batholith in Montana is presumed to have four major events of activity. In the last one the interior was pretty solidified and not much happened there. However, the margins were thinner and that is where things broke up allowing for the intrusion, formation of pigmatite dikes. In these all kinds of rare earths and crystals formed. So I would imagine that these same processes happened in the schist and gniess bodies. Rochester basin out of Twin Bridges Montana is a good example of gold veins in schist. The geologic schools visit it often because it is known as basement rock, some of the oldest on earth.

  • @tramainecbaynes1364
    @tramainecbaynes1364 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    respect

  • @Kandyflip
    @Kandyflip 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was very educational , rocks tell so much history it blows your mind sometimes👍

    • @gsimonel
      @gsimonel 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's what I love about geology. A young boy once said to me that they were like "mini time machines." He was right. If you know what they are and how they form, it's like going back in time hundreds of millions of years.

  • @Za7a7aZ
    @Za7a7aZ 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Shist brought me here because in the cairo museum there is a shist disc. Now i know how difficult it must be to make that disc out of shist i am pretty much off the fence there must have been advanced tools in ancient history.

  • @speakeasydoorman4966
    @speakeasydoorman4966 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Canadians want their rocks back....

    • @gsimonel
      @gsimonel 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, okay. But we're keeping the geese.

    • @speakeasydoorman4966
      @speakeasydoorman4966 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gsimonel Informative video Thank you for the knowledge An by the way.....Rock On* *Pun intended

  • @2HighNoon
    @2HighNoon 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I enjoyed the walk along in the field examination portion of the video after the classroom educational portion. 👍