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Where did you learn to pronounce Wasatch? Certainly not along the Wasatch front.

How many times do I have to apologize for those earthquakes? Jeez!!!

Beaty is ready for the new BOOM!

So did you identify the radioactive isotope in that rock?

Fun to mine

My house in Bakersfield got rocked by the July 2019 quakes! Then I started paying attention to that theory at the end. You can almost see it happening live. The northward lateral movement appears gridlocked by the SoCal Transverse Ranges and general westward bulge of California by Point Conception. Increased lift in the So Cal mountains and lateral earthquakes under Walker Lane makes perfect sense.

You should do a podcast .... maybe, call it 'Fun with Faults'?

Unfortunately 😂 have you seen how the natives have treated the land they have? Its a literal shithole the moment you drive over the hill into the rez

Gilsonite is also used as a driveway and parking lot sealant when applied in a liquid form, probably cut back with naphtha. It sure looks shiny and black for a while.

Hi. I've watched your video about the Charlie Brown 'Dyke' on the Charles Brown road between Shoshone and Pahrump. It looks just like the Gilsonite that you talk about in this video but you apparently identify it as something else (vitrified tuff ?)

I hadn't heard of Gilsonite until like last year or maybe the year before. The Skinwalker Ranch show, they ran into some of it. So many types of rock out there!

We used to joke about eventually having ocean front property whiling living in Reno.

My husband and I lived many years in Reno NV. We were motorcyclist and took trips in the Serra Nevadas, north. Just north outside of Reno is this area with massive cracks in the earth. They looked like fissures from earthquakes or volcano flumes. I often wonder what they were.

Like pitch?

You miss pronounce Nevada and Mono

BEER did you say BEER? yes please thank you.

There used to be a Gilsonite plant just east of Fruita Colorado for many years. The smell was strong when we drove by.

I'm here because it is you who is there. Secondly, curious about gilsonite. And, by the way, it's WAHsatch.

Gilsonite is a Uintah Basin anomaly. It was produced by the 110 mile x 110 miles impact zone. It was said to be an asteroid hit of a 6 diameter asteroid, and buried some 3-4-6 miles deep. What is now known is that the asteroid, is not an asteroid, not a meteor, but is a star core or star core fragment. This object, like its brother down at Chicxulub and the Bermuda Triangle anomalies are the same 6 mile diameter object, but buried some 12 miles deep in that area. They are both 65 MYA impact zones of the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T boundary) or the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. While Uintah produces Gilsonite, asphalts, tars, ... like the La Brea Tar pits (said only 26 feet deep) in Los Angeles, these seams of hydrocarbons have been produced via this star core and its fusion processes using the material around it and fusing Hydrogen up to Iron, and water, carbon organics, and hydrocarbons. Skinwalker Ranch in the Uintah Basin has a large geomagnetic anomaly there due to its high iron content, but also other fused trans-uraniums in other fractured geological seams in the area. The Bermuda Triangle also produces a massive geomagnetic anomaly of iron in its area, no (as yet) documented trans-uraniums. Other features of both impact sites have much of the same intermittent non-ionizing electromagnetic interference and (not documented as yet) ionizing gamma radiation. Skinwalker has both documented non-ionizing microwave 1.6 GHz frequency emissions and ionizing gamma ray beams. Each of these 2 manifestations come from a star core that is recreating its photosphere (producing infrared, microwave, and radiowave non-ionizing radiation), and the chromosphere (producing gamma rays, UV rays, and visible light ionizing radiations). This means, and answer some of the many anomalies around the planet where all these same manifestations are happening. An ancient (super)nova of 65 MYA, threw fragments of its star onto the Earth. Those star cares are recreating their stellar engines. Both 6 miles in diameter, there is a suspected 12 mile spherical cavern surrounding these buried objects. The Uintah Basin produces land-born magnetic iron magnetite, hydrocarbon Gilsonite, and trans-uraniums. The Bermuda Triangle produces either water-born non-magnetic iron hematite, or land-born magnetic iron magnetite, hydrocarbon Methane cavern deposits, and the possible deep existence of trans-uraniums. Good showing this one Heather. All part of my many geological researches of the ancient geological past, and current geological locations.

I remember that earthquake that hit Ridgecrest back in 2019 and it was felt was far away as Southern NV/Nevada. I live in Laughlin (It's a small, rural town in Southern NV that's and hour & 40 minutes to 2 hours south of Vegas). My 2 kids felt the same aftershock that Vegas felt. My then-husband was at work when our kids felt the aftershock. I lived in Southern CA/California (San Diego County) for 10 years, 2003-2013. Feeling aftershocks wasn't anything new for our family since we used to live in Southern CA for a long time. The aftershock that hit Vegas was kind of scary for a lot of Las Vegans since they'd never experienced an earthquake or an aftershock. I only learned about the Walker Lane Fault Line either this year or last year. It's way northwest of Laughlin where I live with my 2 kids.

Anheuser-Busch used Gilsonite to seal beer barrels? That's why Bud tastes like that!

Gilsonite is also used in some older pyrotechnics formulas.

Thanks for coming to my area. There's more to the story of how gilsonite was discovered, but you did a good job at keeping the most part of the information in a short video. It was first thought to be coal, but when lit, it didn't burn. It had melted. Thus, the discovery of its potential uses.

Something that doesn't look like anything interesting turns out to be just the opposite. There are so many use for this material it is quite surprising. Thank you for the teaching lesson.

You need to learn how to correctly pronounce the state "Nevada." Either use the Native American pronunciation or the modern English pronunciation. The way you say Nevada just sounds lazy.

I enjoyed your video, you have a great voice and well spoken, with that said you said you love geology, gillsonite is the remnants of the dehydrated petroleum in the form of tar, but what's more interesting about your video is that you may have a great fossil bed there, anywhere there's coal, oil, tar ECT is an excellent environment for fossils. Have fun 😀😊

Yeah my lab had gilson everything gilson crusher gilson shakers gilson ovens gilson sieves et cetera et cetera et cetera 👌😁😉🐝

Good topic, thx for doing something that isn't the San Andreas fault. The idea of the "Walker Lane" alternative to the San Andreas fault general thesis was first brought to my attention in John McPhee's first geology book called "Basin and Range", in what then 17 years later became the first part of the megabook "Annals of the Former World." Basin and Range was first published in 1982. So the idea has been around a while, but is not discussed much in media (probably because few people live near it), though geologists in the west are familiar with it. There is something you didn't bring up though related to Great Basin extension--maybe for another program in the future. And that is a group of recent Great Basin earthquakes that form a more or less north-south line, from Wells Nevada (6.0 in 2008 in Northeastern Nevada), Borah Peak in Idaho (6.9 in 1983 in South Central Idaho--with a great fault scarp still visible--it killed 2 kids walking to school in nearby Challis) and near Stanley, Idaho (6.5 M in 2020 northwest of Stanley, though not easily seen due to topography, trees and no roads), which caused significant rockslides in the Sawtooth Mountains). Immediately south of the Lost River mountain range containing Borah Peak is Craters of the Moon National Monument--which is a series of very recent basaltic flows (15,000 to 2,000 years ago) due to Great Basin rifting in south Central Idaho. Though no one seems to be writing about this, it seems to me that this is another "lane" of seismisity in the Great Basin, but in the central Great Basin. Not as prominent yet as Walker Lane, which you can follow from Reno to Walker Lake, and down to either Death Valley or the Owens Valley, and continuing southeast until you enter the Sea of Cortez. Some are now suggesting (from a Nick Zentner podcast) that the Baja Peninsula and everything north including most of California west of Walker Lane and east of the San Andreas may be its own micro continent in the making as this slice of North America is being torn away.

Donkey poop - the most epic teaching aid ever!! 🙃

Hi Heather, I have a question... Do you plan on being at the Kino rock show in Tucson, in January/February? Can I meet you there?

While your walking along you need a metal detector.

I've been learning about the Walker-Lane and the Eastern California Seismic Zone. I'm fascinated by the theory that these areas may be the boundary between the plates in the future.

Always interesting to watch your videos and your evaluations of what is going on geologically.

Yes I do know about faults because I have all of them!

Volcanic in nature. Magma below has pushed up a low dome. That or a landfill.😋

Where do you think all those precious metals from Reno to Gardnerville came from. It's another mega caldera.

I would still like you with alittle less exuberance ❤

Mindat is ok but I prefer gemdat..when I start planning any holiday my first thing to do is check gemdat and see what gems are found in different countries..of course not every gem is listed in every country but it is a good starting point and very easy to look and see very quickly the possibilities..mindat seems pretty confusing at times.

Oops woke woker and wokest 😂

Thank you, Dee, for your earthquake explanations, to where they are very well explained, you seem to be really aware of what is happening in our earth. Good Job with all that you are doing for the USGA folks. Just hope you are not out there alone!!!!

What do you think about using Yucca Flats for the nation's nuclear repository? Or any place in Nevada?

The middle "A" in Nevada is pronounced like the first "A" in Alabama, not ah. Unless you're Mexican of course, in which case it's: Nee-bvah-ah.

Yes, sweet. Came looking for this after your recent Cadcades volcano vid.

Very excellent! Thanks for sharing and teaching. Do you have videos from Craters of the Moon, in Idaho? That place reminded me of a much cooler climate version of Lanzarote.

Iron pyrite?

Hahaha! Every time I go to Washington or Oregon, people say, "Bring me some lava!" So I have a truck full of Moses Coulee basalt from WA to pass out. Whew, that stuff is heavy!

Heather makes a claim that the European intoduction of cattle changed the flora, but never backed it up or gave an example of what changed. Does anybody know what she is talking about?

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Mormons mountain meadow massacres...

You'd be a very good, fun geology guide to go on a tour with! Okay, but what about our famous desert flash floods, where to they fit into the alluvial fan story?