Hey guys! Sorry about the headphone audio! I just got these field mics and apparently I accidentally pressed the button that made it go on only one side of the headphone set for some of the clips. This is a problem with the recorded video, I can't fix it, so I am sorry, please try to listen either with both sides in or without headphones! Again, so sorry, I am still new to the field mics/equipment/set up! I will do better in the future :)
a fast workaround for windows watchers: * go to "Settings > Ease of Access" * find there a section "Hearing > Audio" * there will be the toggle called "Turn on mono audio" * when it's set as "On", all stereo sound will be "collapsed" into mono, and then both earpieces should play the same sound I bet, you can do similar things in other environments ;)
As much as I love your PowerPoint lectures, it's nice to see you in the field! You'd be a fun guide for a group of geology tourists. At least that's what I want when I'm on an excursion, a guide who's knowledgeable, accessible, enthusiastic, and excited to share discoveries.
@@toastyburger thanks! I am so glad to hear that you enjoyed it, I worry sometimes about straying too far from my traditional PowerPoint format since it got me this far but I am so glad you enjoyed this new format! I certainly won’t be able to do it for all videos but it’s good to know I can do them like this sometimes and you will still enjoy it :)
@@GEOGIRL You gotta try something new occasionally if you want to grow. You'll never know how far you can reach if you don't keep stretching. Seeing you in your element makes me wish I could read rocks like you can. Anyone who enjoys the outdoors can watch this video and think, wow, there's so much of the world around me I'm missing. If only I had a tour guide... It might encourage someone more industrious than me to take geology as an elective. The map parts, however, seemed targeted to people already immersed in the field. For me, it was a buzz kill. I felt I needed a lecture just to teach me how to use the USGS map.
Really enjoyed the field aspect of this video. It was perhaps a little dense in content, but fine. Wish you had more formally introduced the co-host on the leash😊
@@jimscheltens2647 Yea, I didn't think about doing that until we had left and then I just figured I'd keep her elusive, but I will certainly introduce her in the next one ;)
Rachel, I loved seeing you trying a field-based format to your geology education videos. This was really well done. Keep up the great work. PS-the outtakes were great.
Oh my gosh, Shawn thank you! Coming from someone as good in the field as you, this means a lot! I hope to do many more, someday I'll make it out your way to yellowstone and all the other beautiful geologic regions in the west ;D
@@GEOGIRL Totally agree with Shawn! Your teaching is stellar, and what a treat to see you doing out in the field and in this context. Every video, every teaching moment, every lesson I get from all you geology TH-cam leaders is one more layer of richness added to my love of the world. I get to go places and see things and learn things that would take me decades on my own. Thank you both so much!
Blue Ridge native, retired Land surveyor with a Forestry degree. I know many of the plants and animals native to these mountains, but my knowledge of the geology is sadly lacking. Thank you GeoGirl for your information. You are always interesting, even your PowerPoints. I prefer this.
Thanks Myron! That means a lot coming from you! I actually watched your video (among a lot of other Appalachian content) to prepare for this trip! ;) Thanks for all the info you've put out there!
looking at the cross section - as a structural geologist, I will never forget the advice (somewhat facetiously) given to me about constructing cross sections: "If in doubt, fault it out" and "dashed lines and question marks are your best friends"
I have relatives from near the Kentucky / West Virginia boarder who say they are from apple-LAY-shuh, but where I now live in Tennessee everyone says apple-LATCH-uh. Very interesting video -- and adorable little assistant, too. 🙂🐕
I grew up in Southwestern PA, and everyone also pronounced it with the same "a" you hear in "snake" or "cake." However, I have also heard it pronounced with the "a'" sound you get in "latch" or "patch." It must be a more regional thing.
I used to always say Appalachian with the long A, too. However, I've been learning the short A version more recently, and again in your video, and I like it better.
I am surprised there is not a debate in the comments about the pronunciation. (I am from Ohio and say the long A; it was semi-distracting to not hear it that way the whole video, but I powered through given the content was so well done).
I grew up in upstate NY, near Binghamton and Ithaca. It's gorges here! :D At least in the local area, you'll often hear Appalachian pronounced yet another way: with a "k" sound. Something like... "apple lay kin"!
Nice Gneiss. :) While eastern NA is passive now that probably will not always be the case in fact there are possible hints that things might be changing as in the last 5 million years or so the Adirondack mountains have started to form the only young mountains in Eastern North America which seem to be related to a hot spot of some kind rising into the upper mantle. A lot is enigmatic about it's nature as the seismic tomography is hard to interpret but upwelling seems to be occurring there with the Adirondacks still rising to this day faster than erosion can tear them down. There also seem to be several surprisingly prominent lines of Earthquakes through Eastern Na one going from Mississippi and Missouri up through the St Lawrence channel while the more eastern counterpart seems to go from Alabama and Arkansas up into the Maritime Provinces sort of bounding the Appalachians as a whole. Given that at least some of the faults from quakes large enough to map them out like the 2011 quake in Virginia appear to be young and aligned preferentially along these NE SW trend lines or are reactivated ancient faults in these general vicinities it seems there is some kind of longer term geologic strain in the region. I can only wonder how these might change in the coming future are they blips soon to fizzle out or a sign that tectonic strains are slowly shifting reawakening the region?
Devils Courthouse is great. Is that where you were seeing the garnets? And yeah the shimmering sand from all the mica is kind of wild. The Brevard fault zone is also interesting.* Some consider the mountains to the east of the fault zone to be part of the Piedmont province rather than the Blue Ridge province. *I just stopped here not explaining the Brevard fault zone because I'm terrible at commenting from my phone.
Great video that was jam-packed full of good info for non-geologist rock fans. This was my first time reading a USGS geological layer map with cross-sections and your explanation helped me with figuring out what's what. Now I'm wondering how amphibolites and other high temperature, high pressure metamorphics make their way to the surface after being buried deep down.
Non-geologist here. While the map talk went over my head, I believe it will be of interest to students. My favorite parts are where you're explaining interesting features, such as moss using acid to infiltrate rock or the garnet muscovite trail, or even the orange quartzite. I had to watch some scenes twice because I was so distracted by the beautiful scenery, you, what you were saying, and the slides popping up. Thanks for taking us along on your field trip! It was a gneiss video!
Howdy Rachel, got a good chuckle with your comment, typical geological: wow look at this outcrop…it would look so beautiful …if it wasn’t so covered by moss.” My wife, more of a botanist would be carrying on about the moss. Me, I’d be lost in the timing of the different orogenies. Something for everyone!
Recently moved to Appalachia after living in Piedmont for 15 years and loving learning about the history and culture here. Truly is a treasure I never even knew existed.
NC native, so I've always loved the Blue Ridge area. One time we took a trip to TN and went the I-40 route cut through the mountains. As a passenger I was transfixed at the layers of old rock towering high above the road and for a brief moment captured in my mind the scale of size and time that the region has existed in. I learned even more from this video to help bring back that feeling of VERY OLD. I laughed at the "I don't even know what this is". :D I guess such things are found at the borders of these various regions where lots of different things get mixed into each other.
I think my favorite moment was "wow! I don't know exactly what this is but I know it's metamorphic" "I don't know" is awesome because it also means "I want to know!"
My sister and I have been section hiking the AT two weeks a year for the past 13 years. As one does when hiking trails, we spend most of our time looking down. Nice to have a bit more context.
I don’t know how long it took to film and edit this but can we please have more of it? Your enthusiasm is infectious and I really enjoyed the changing scenes while keeping to the script. Keep up the great work and give Suki lots of love for us!🍻
A very useful video! I'm from PNW volcano country, and took a trip to the Great Smokey mountains to take pictures of fireflies this summer. I could tell by looking the rocks were very different, but the people I was with were entomologists and couldn't tell me much.
I knew about the Taconic, Acadian, and Allegheny orogenies, but I didn’t know geologists have mapped the Blue Ridge Mountains to show pre-Cambrian orogenies. Appalachian geology is very complicated to map, because all the vegetation leaves very few good exposed rock surfaces, along with the age of the mountain range eroding exposed rock surfaces making them hard to identify. This is before working through the folding, faults, thrusts, etc. from the all the orogenies that formed the mountain range.
I used to hike in the smokies and had no idea of the history that surrounded me. Now I'm going to have to go back equipped with a geo map on my ipad, and discover for myself the rich history that you revealed. Please do more of these videos
Haha yes, but actually the one I was wearing at the beginning is not one of mine 😂 but I do need to work on more verbal shoutouts to my website, that is something I will try to incorporate more in future videos, but just brielfly at the end probably :)
yes please do more field videos. i know it is a lot more effort on your part, but it is makes a much better viewing experience. you dont have to go to this much effort, but please include more field footage when you can.
Oh please do Vermont geology next? Such a beautiful state and has amazing natural features. Check out the Chazy Reef. Its the oldest fossil reef with corals. Thanks for your amazing videos!
Great presentation. We in Florida would like to thank you. In geology it is often what is not there as there. Because of millions of years of Appalachian quarts rocks eroding in stream beds, the residue that reaches the sea we call it sand. Most of the east coast of the USA is composed of this sand. Shore currents carry sand south to it's final retirement home, Florida.
Old yes although there is still some debate as to when the "current" Appalachians came into their modern configuration. I'm in the camp that considers the topography we see more a result of much younger erosion and isostatic adjustment, although the mountain mass owes its origin to the formation of Gonwanda. In some ways, it's like the Laramide uplifts. They were born in the Laramide Orogeny but were mostly reduced to low hills and featureless plains by Cretaceous time. They have been rejuvenated much more recently into the high rocky mountains we all love.
Absolutely love the field video on the Appalachians. Really liked the interactive geologic survey maps showing the rock breakdown of the regions. I live in PA Appalachia and am fascinated with learning more about my local formations. If that map covers up by Pennsylvania, can you share the link? Keep up the great work!
Glad to have you here as a Fellow Appalachian Geo Girl. I have TRULLY Enjoyed your Great Video about the Geology of the Appalachian Mountains. Although I live just on the Western edge of the Appalachians in Northeastern Middle TN, I have spent much time drilling for Oil & Gas in different areas, deeper into the Appalachians.
I read one report saying they rose to Andes height and another Himalayan height. One of they calculated the continental shifts and said if you put them back on the Appalachians they would be 30,000 feet.
Fantastic video. Living in NH always interesting learning about the geology of the East Coast. In much of NH the last glacier stripped off the top soil so rocks are on the surface, hence the name the Granite State. I recently stumbled on the book "Written in stone: a geological and natural history of the northeastern United States" by Chet Raymo at our local library. Prior to that had no idea how complex and varied was the geology of New England.
Love it! I'm from the Rockies and never studied the appalaaacians lol. Hey geo girl! I use an awesome app called Gaia gps with geologic map overlay. Total game changer..
Good to know! Thanks! I will check it out ;D That will actually be amazing because I was having trouble correlating where I am on my google maps with where I am on the geo map! haha
You'll love it I guarantee. I paid like 70 for the year but it is so cool. Driving anywhere u can see what formation you are in and the age, also shows faults too!
I am LOVING seeing you in the field! The joy you show when you're finding and examining things is so beautiful to watch; please keep making these! I did not know that about the Blue Ridge area, and I used to live near there. And the outtakes are great 😂😂
Excellent Rachel! yes, I also appreciate you presenting out in the "field"'; I resided in Ashe County in the 1980s, and typically spend most of each September (not October due to so many more tourists), around Waynesville area, on the BRP, and the Marshall area; somewhat of a geology buff, longtime organic gardener, and simply so very much awed by our amazing, magnificent earth!!!! Retired now in North Central Florida, with such amazing fauna & flora, coastal zones, and geologic wonders!
(non-Geo) Never knew the Appalachians are so full of history and geological activity! Growing up West coast, I always thought Rockies were active and awesome, but now I'm coming to appreciate Appalachian more and more. Thank you for including the timeline at the beginning; it's always mindblowingly incomprehensible how slow geological time scale is.
Love meeting Field Rachel along with great scenery and canine supervision. Makes geology feel so much more tangible (and in my case a bit closer to where I spent a great deal of time caving a while back).
This is so exciting! I grew up spending so much time in the blueridge mountains, primarily around Brevard where my aunt and I would constantly be hiking the mountain trails. My parents also just moved into a mountain home nestled atop one of these mountains, although the hurricane has made it so that they temporarily have had to move out. I also just learned that you’re a professor at UofSC! I was born and raised in Columbia, and am currently here for a couple months before I go back up to Clemson. I have know lots of professors at UofSC at one point or another and it’s wild to me that someone whose videos I love so much also teaches at a school essentially down the rode from me.
Smart showcase of some of the fringe benefits to being a geologist - going to stunning locations, working along cliffs, creeks, and road cuts, being outside, seeing stuff that lots of people never see, working in hiking gear, taking your dog to work, etc. I wonder if this sort of social media outreach will get more or longer views among younger viewers than the lecture videos. I suspect that some of the field geologists who follow you could share stories of field expeditions that would also catch the attention and interest of young prospective earth scientists.
Hi Rachel 🧗! I love field Rachel 💚! You were spectacular 💥! All the wardrobe changes! Best ever! Please make more of these. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Oh yeah, the rocks 🪨 were cool too 😉.
I like the field video format. It's probably better for GEO GIRL as well. "Hike the Appalachian Trail" is on my bucket list. Now I need to allot more time for the hike so I can explore the things in this video. I'll probably pronounce Appalachia my way just to see who corrects me.
Good video. I would love to hear more about the northern Appalachians....such as how sub-ranges like the Shawangunks, Catskills, White Mtns and the ranges in Maine, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland came to be.
Don! Thank you so much! By the way, I swear I have had 'email Don about scheduling an interview' on my to do list for months now, but have been super busy. I hope you will still be able to eventually chat with me about what we had emailed about. I think it would make a very valuable video. Anyway, just thought I'd update you so you know I plan to reach out! Hopefully by the end of the year, but potentially early spring :) Hope you are doing well otherwise! And thanks for the kind comment about this video, I am so glad people have liked my first field attempt :D
Of course, Rachel, I’d be glad to help out in way any I can. It truly would be an honor. I‘m doing fine. Just returned from a grueling 2 week stay in South Sudan and Kenya. I was able to hold my 9 month old grandson for the first time. What an incredibly emotional and joyful moment. Also, the geology of the Great Rift Valley is so stunning…an added benefit of the family visit. Keep up your great works Rachel. Best wishes. -Don
This is a great virtual field demonstration. Thanks! I can tell it's a beautiful part of the world with an incredible geological story. I teach orogenies and tectonic processes so I was glued to this!
Good to see you in the field. FYI, grew up on the Appalachian Plateau. You can pronounce it either way, depending on where you're at. It's a big range.
Great format and good addition to your toolbox :) I did my AT through in ‘21-‘22 and this is exactly what I was talking to myself about for 2200mi. “Hey, is that a Silurian worm track? Cool!” 🍂🍁⛰️🥾🥾 Keep on rocking…
As a non-American, it's nice to learn about US geology, particularly when it isn't specifically about the West coast I'm sure there are more amusing names out there, but the Penguin orogeny (late Precambrian) always makes me smile, because....Penguins. Another tongue twister is the Tabberabberan orogeny (Devonian). both Australian. I think there is a reason that geologists are known to drink a lot....
I'm impressed by the variety of rocks you've shown. Some time ago, I came across a diagram showing the origins of the Appalachian Mountains. I remember struggling to make my way through various Wp. pages, as well as geological maps and diagrams, trying to understand the kinship between the geological structures of the North-Eastern USA and Canada, and those of North-Western Europe and Africa (Scandinavian range, Ireland, Scotland, ...). I'm thinking in particular of the Acadian, Caledonian and Avalonian structures. Unfortunately, I didn't quite understand which American structures correspond to which African or European ones. I don't know if you've ever shown maps or animations on this subject in other videos, but I'd find it very interesting.
Hey guys! Sorry about the headphone audio! I just got these field mics and apparently I accidentally pressed the button that made it go on only one side of the headphone set for some of the clips. This is a problem with the recorded video, I can't fix it, so I am sorry, please try to listen either with both sides in or without headphones! Again, so sorry, I am still new to the field mics/equipment/set up! I will do better in the future :)
a fast workaround for windows watchers:
* go to "Settings > Ease of Access"
* find there a section "Hearing > Audio"
* there will be the toggle called "Turn on mono audio"
* when it's set as "On", all stereo sound will be "collapsed" into mono, and then both earpieces should play the same sound
I bet, you can do similar things in other environments ;)
@@DominikJaniec Thanks for providing this info! So helpful :D
There's no need to apologize. The delivery is solid. Keep it up. You are on your way to being mentioned in the same breath as Bill nye.
No worries. I'm a professional audio engineer and it was ok for me. It's easy to make that kinda mistake. We've all done it from time to time.
can probably just remix it to mono and reupload it.
As much as I love your PowerPoint lectures, it's nice to see you in the field! You'd be a fun guide for a group of geology tourists. At least that's what I want when I'm on an excursion, a guide who's knowledgeable, accessible, enthusiastic, and excited to share discoveries.
@@toastyburger thanks! I am so glad to hear that you enjoyed it, I worry sometimes about straying too far from my traditional PowerPoint format since it got me this far but I am so glad you enjoyed this new format! I certainly won’t be able to do it for all videos but it’s good to know I can do them like this sometimes and you will still enjoy it :)
@@GEOGIRL You gotta try something new occasionally if you want to grow. You'll never know how far you can reach if you don't keep stretching.
Seeing you in your element makes me wish I could read rocks like you can. Anyone who enjoys the outdoors can watch this video and think, wow, there's so much of the world around me I'm missing. If only I had a tour guide...
It might encourage someone more industrious than me to take geology as an elective. The map parts, however, seemed targeted to people already immersed in the field. For me, it was a buzz kill. I felt I needed a lecture just to teach me how to use the USGS map.
You're the east coast version of Nick Zentner 👍
Really enjoyed the field aspect of this video. It was perhaps a little dense in content, but fine. Wish you had more formally introduced the co-host on the leash😊
@@jimscheltens2647 Yea, I didn't think about doing that until we had left and then I just figured I'd keep her elusive, but I will certainly introduce her in the next one ;)
Rachel, I loved seeing you trying a field-based format to your geology education videos. This was really well done. Keep up the great work. PS-the outtakes were great.
Oh my gosh, Shawn thank you! Coming from someone as good in the field as you, this means a lot! I hope to do many more, someday I'll make it out your way to yellowstone and all the other beautiful geologic regions in the west ;D
@@GEOGIRLyes, come out west and we can do some geology videos together.
@@GEOGIRL Totally agree with Shawn! Your teaching is stellar, and what a treat to see you doing out in the field and in this context. Every video, every teaching moment, every lesson I get from all you geology TH-cam leaders is one more layer of richness added to my love of the world. I get to go places and see things and learn things that would take me decades on my own. Thank you both so much!
Geo Girl on location
OOH PUPPY!
I know, right? My first thought was "Tell your dog I said hi!"
Geo Pup!🥰🐶😁
Blue Ridge native, retired Land surveyor with a Forestry degree. I know many of the plants and animals native to these mountains, but my knowledge of the geology is sadly lacking. Thank you GeoGirl for your information. You are always interesting, even your PowerPoints. I prefer this.
Nice to see you in the field and good job! Good energy
Thanks Myron! That means a lot coming from you! I actually watched your video (among a lot of other Appalachian content) to prepare for this trip! ;) Thanks for all the info you've put out there!
Y'all are my 2 favorite rock stars!
Myron’s stamp of approval! Nice! And yes, whole heartedly agree. Hopefully it wasn’t too stressful to make the shift to recording in the field.
The Appalachian, Atlas, and Scottish Highlands are all the same mountain range that was broke apart when Pangea broke apart.
I was prepared to say the same thing, but decided to scroll through the comments to see if someone else had said it. Well done.
looking at the cross section - as a structural geologist, I will never forget the advice (somewhat facetiously) given to me about constructing cross sections:
"If in doubt, fault it out"
and
"dashed lines and question marks are your best friends"
I have relatives from near the Kentucky / West Virginia boarder who say they are from apple-LAY-shuh, but where I now live in Tennessee everyone says apple-LATCH-uh.
Very interesting video -- and adorable little assistant, too. 🙂🐕
I'm from Maryland and say apple-LAY-shuh. Which seems to match.
From Ohio and also say “LAY”
I grew up in Southwestern PA, and everyone also pronounced it with the same "a" you hear in "snake" or "cake." However, I have also heard it pronounced with the "a'" sound you get in "latch" or "patch." It must be a more regional thing.
I used to always say Appalachian with the long A, too. However, I've been learning the short A version more recently, and again in your video, and I like it better.
It seems where in the mountains you are determines how it’s said . Here in Western PA we say it with the long A
Here in New England we use the long A too.@JBG1968
I am surprised there is not a debate in the comments about the pronunciation.
(I am from Ohio and say the long A; it was semi-distracting to not hear it that way the whole video, but I powered through given the content was so well done).
I grew up in upstate NY, near Binghamton and Ithaca. It's gorges here! :D
At least in the local area, you'll often hear Appalachian pronounced yet another way: with a "k" sound. Something like... "apple lay kin"!
Nice Gneiss. :)
While eastern NA is passive now that probably will not always be the case in fact there are possible hints that things might be changing as in the last 5 million years or so the Adirondack mountains have started to form the only young mountains in Eastern North America which seem to be related to a hot spot of some kind rising into the upper mantle. A lot is enigmatic about it's nature as the seismic tomography is hard to interpret but upwelling seems to be occurring there with the Adirondacks still rising to this day faster than erosion can tear them down.
There also seem to be several surprisingly prominent lines of Earthquakes through Eastern Na one going from Mississippi and Missouri up through the St Lawrence channel while the more eastern counterpart seems to go from Alabama and Arkansas up into the Maritime Provinces sort of bounding the Appalachians as a whole. Given that at least some of the faults from quakes large enough to map them out like the 2011 quake in Virginia appear to be young and aligned preferentially along these NE SW trend lines or are reactivated ancient faults in these general vicinities it seems there is some kind of longer term geologic strain in the region. I can only wonder how these might change in the coming future are they blips soon to fizzle out or a sign that tectonic strains are slowly shifting reawakening the region?
Devils Courthouse is great. Is that where you were seeing the garnets? And yeah the shimmering sand from all the mica is kind of wild.
The Brevard fault zone is also interesting.* Some consider the mountains to the east of the fault zone to be part of the Piedmont province rather than the Blue Ridge province.
*I just stopped here not explaining the Brevard fault zone because I'm terrible at commenting from my phone.
Oh yes you LITERALLY said you were at Devil's Courthouse in the shot where you found the garnets.
Great video that was jam-packed full of good info for non-geologist rock fans. This was my first time reading a USGS geological layer map with cross-sections and your explanation helped me with figuring out what's what. Now I'm wondering how amphibolites and other high temperature, high pressure metamorphics make their way to the surface after being buried deep down.
Non-geologist here. While the map talk went over my head, I believe it will be of interest to students. My favorite parts are where you're explaining interesting features, such as moss using acid to infiltrate rock or the garnet muscovite trail, or even the orange quartzite. I had to watch some scenes twice because I was so distracted by the beautiful scenery, you, what you were saying, and the slides popping up. Thanks for taking us along on your field trip! It was a gneiss video!
@@toastyburger Thank you so much! I am so glad you enjoyed it! Even the random tangents I go on about fungal organic acids 😂😁
@@toastyburger and yes! A gneiss video haha that is the perfect compliment for this video :)
@@GEOGIRL The random tangents and you being you are the best parts!
Howdy Rachel, got a good chuckle with your comment, typical geological: wow look at this outcrop…it would look so beautiful …if it wasn’t so covered by moss.”
My wife, more of a botanist would be carrying on about the moss.
Me, I’d be lost in the timing of the different orogenies. Something for everyone!
Haha! Yes! I love both the moss and the rocks but sometime the rocks are just a little bit cooler to me ;)
so cool. a field expedition. geo girl, you are a rock star of geology.
Recently moved to Appalachia after living in Piedmont for 15 years and loving learning about the history and culture here. Truly is a treasure I never even knew existed.
NC native, so I've always loved the Blue Ridge area. One time we took a trip to TN and went the I-40 route cut through the mountains. As a passenger I was transfixed at the layers of old rock towering high above the road and for a brief moment captured in my mind the scale of size and time that the region has existed in. I learned even more from this video to help bring back that feeling of VERY OLD.
I laughed at the "I don't even know what this is". :D I guess such things are found at the borders of these various regions where lots of different things get mixed into each other.
Every time I watch your many presentations -- I Learn something new and remember things that I have forgotten -- Thanks Doc. ⛰
I think my favorite moment was "wow! I don't know exactly what this is but I know it's metamorphic"
"I don't know" is awesome because it also means "I want to know!"
Yea! That was one of my favorite rocks the whole trip! I love the mysterious ones (if it were smaller, I would've taken it home lol) ;)
This is awesome! Grew up in Appalachia. Don’t worry about how you pronounced it before. Great video! 😊
My sister and I have been section hiking the AT two weeks a year for the past 13 years. As one does when hiking trails, we spend most of our time looking down. Nice to have a bit more context.
I don’t know how long it took to film and edit this but can we please have more of it? Your enthusiasm is infectious and I really enjoyed the changing scenes while keeping to the script. Keep up the great work and give Suki lots of love for us!🍻
I'd love to see more of these kinda videos. Also, you have an awesome pup!
So glad to hear that! I am making a list of new places to do! ;D
A very useful video! I'm from PNW volcano country, and took a trip to the Great Smokey mountains to take pictures of fireflies this summer. I could tell by looking the rocks were very different, but the people I was with were entomologists and couldn't tell me much.
I knew about the Taconic, Acadian, and Allegheny orogenies, but I didn’t know geologists have mapped the Blue Ridge Mountains to show pre-Cambrian orogenies.
Appalachian geology is very complicated to map, because all the vegetation leaves very few good exposed rock surfaces, along with the age of the mountain range eroding exposed rock surfaces making them hard to identify. This is before working through the folding, faults, thrusts, etc. from the all the orogenies that formed the mountain range.
I used to hike in the smokies and had no idea of the history that surrounded me. Now I'm going to have to go back equipped with a geo map on my ipad, and discover for myself the rich history that you revealed. Please do more of these videos
i am from somalia and i study geology , honestly i love how u explain thank you.
Thank you so much! So glad to hear that ;)
And you're wearing such cool "Geology Rocks" sweatshirts! You've got to let people know that those are available at Geo Girl Science!
Haha yes, but actually the one I was wearing at the beginning is not one of mine 😂 but I do need to work on more verbal shoutouts to my website, that is something I will try to incorporate more in future videos, but just brielfly at the end probably :)
This was awesome! I think that all of us will agree: more field trips!
Yay! So glad to hear that :D
yes please do more field videos. i know it is a lot more effort on your part, but it is makes a much better viewing experience. you dont have to go to this much effort, but please include more field footage when you can.
Oh please do Vermont geology next? Such a beautiful state and has amazing natural features. Check out the Chazy Reef. Its the oldest fossil reef with corals. Thanks for your amazing videos!
Oh my gosh! I must go! Thank you for the suggestion! I can't make it up there soon unfortunately, but it is certainly on my list! :)
I'm near Salem VA. The mountains are home. Nowhere more beautiful.
I was just talking to my brother the other day about he and I hiking the Appalachian trail. This video just makes me want to go even more.
Yes, more field trips!
Good video. I have spent many nights backpacking in the
Shenandoah National Park. 😊
Great presentation. We in Florida would like to thank you. In geology it is often what is not there as there. Because of millions of years of Appalachian quarts rocks eroding in stream beds, the residue that reaches the sea we call it sand. Most of the east coast of the USA is composed of this sand. Shore currents carry sand south to it's final retirement home, Florida.
I live in New England and often heard that the Appalachian's were old, but didn't realize how old. cool video!
Old yes although there is still some debate as to when the "current" Appalachians came into their modern configuration. I'm in the camp that considers the topography we see more a result of much younger erosion and isostatic adjustment, although the mountain mass owes its origin to the formation of Gonwanda. In some ways, it's like the Laramide uplifts. They were born in the Laramide Orogeny but were mostly reduced to low hills and featureless plains by Cretaceous time. They have been rejuvenated much more recently into the high rocky mountains we all love.
What a fun and helpful explainer on USGS maps, great scenery!. Suki was so well behaved! Well done Rachel ❤
@@barbaradurfee645thank you :) glad you liked the map part, I think there will be mixed reviews on that bit haha
This is where my father's ancestors are from, beautiful country. Thank you for the video
Absolutely love the field video on the Appalachians. Really liked the interactive geologic survey maps showing the rock breakdown of the regions. I live in PA Appalachia and am fascinated with learning more about my local formations. If that map covers up by Pennsylvania, can you share the link? Keep up the great work!
Glad to have you here as a Fellow Appalachian Geo Girl. I have TRULLY Enjoyed your Great Video about the Geology of the Appalachian Mountains.
Although I live just on the Western edge of the Appalachians in Northeastern Middle TN, I have spent much time drilling for Oil & Gas in different areas, deeper into the Appalachians.
PS: I THANK GOD "we are Blessed with some FASCINATING GEOLOGY!"
Virginia Blue Ridge Appalachian right here :)
You keep trying new things and you keep hitting it out of the park! I love your constant enthusiasm for your field. It’s inspiring.
Thank you so much! This is so motivating! :D
Ditto!
I read one report saying they rose to Andes height and another Himalayan height. One of they calculated the continental shifts and said if you put them back on the Appalachians they would be 30,000 feet.
Would love to go on a geologic hike with someone like you, who's so knowledgeable and enthusiastic about it.
Great Job Rachel 👏! - I also have a T-Shirt with the ‘Geology Rocks’ sign
Is that the one that also says "but geography is where it's at"?
Indeed, haha! - 😆 Geography is pretty amazing too. My best friend is a geographer 👍
Fantastic video. Living in NH always interesting learning about the geology of the East Coast. In much of NH the last glacier stripped off the top soil so rocks are on the surface, hence the name the Granite State. I recently stumbled on the book "Written in stone: a geological and natural history of the northeastern United States" by Chet Raymo at our local library. Prior to that had no idea how complex and varied was the geology of New England.
Love it! I'm from the Rockies and never studied the appalaaacians lol. Hey geo girl! I use an awesome app called Gaia gps with geologic map overlay. Total game changer..
Good to know! Thanks! I will check it out ;D That will actually be amazing because I was having trouble correlating where I am on my google maps with where I am on the geo map! haha
You'll love it I guarantee. I paid like 70 for the year but it is so cool. Driving anywhere u can see what formation you are in and the age, also shows faults too!
Great job covering the field geo descriptions and checking them back with the surface geology maps. Definitely vote for more field videos!
I like the on-location presentation!
I am LOVING seeing you in the field! The joy you show when you're finding and examining things is so beautiful to watch; please keep making these! I did not know that about the Blue Ridge area, and I used to live near there. And the outtakes are great 😂😂
Thank you so much! I am so glad to hear that! I absolutely loved making this and hope to do many more like it ;D
Enjoying the outtakes at the end!
Love field videos!
I do the same thing but without the knowledge :)
Awesome. The Blue Ridge is my home. Keep it up.
Excellent Rachel! yes, I also appreciate you presenting out in the "field"'; I resided in Ashe County in the 1980s, and typically spend most of each September (not October due to so many more tourists), around Waynesville area, on the BRP, and the Marshall area; somewhat of a geology buff, longtime organic gardener, and simply so very much awed by our amazing, magnificent earth!!!! Retired now in North Central Florida, with such amazing fauna & flora, coastal zones, and geologic wonders!
Love the field trip! Look at those rocks!
(non-Geo) Never knew the Appalachians are so full of history and geological activity! Growing up West coast, I always thought Rockies were active and awesome, but now I'm coming to appreciate Appalachian more and more.
Thank you for including the timeline at the beginning; it's always mindblowingly incomprehensible how slow geological time scale is.
Definitely do more field videos! Nature is so beautiful. :)
So glad to hear that, thanks for the feedback! I absolutely will ;D
Love meeting Field Rachel along with great scenery and canine supervision. Makes geology feel so much more tangible (and in my case a bit closer to where I spent a great deal of time caving a while back).
I see many of the same incredible rocks in CT. At the most eroded parts of the Appalachians you'll find rivers full of garnets.
Which indicates deep metamorphosis as I understand it.
I live in Appalachia and I have yet to hike on the Appalachian Trail but some day I will
This is so exciting! I grew up spending so much time in the blueridge mountains, primarily around Brevard where my aunt and I would constantly be hiking the mountain trails.
My parents also just moved into a mountain home nestled atop one of these mountains, although the hurricane has made it so that they temporarily have had to move out.
I also just learned that you’re a professor at UofSC! I was born and raised in Columbia, and am currently here for a couple months before I go back up to Clemson. I have know lots of professors at UofSC at one point or another and it’s wild to me that someone whose videos I love so much also teaches at a school essentially down the rode from me.
Getting to see the mountains in the background for most of the video was a nice treat!
I'm super stoked for this one!! such a good puppers too!! so cute!
This is so cool! I love learning more about the Appalachians. Thanks, @GeoGirl!
Oh my gosh, what an honor to have you in my comments! Thanks so much :D
Haha nice reporting from the field. I can tell you had a lot of fun!
@@Tin24k thanks! So glad you enjoyed it :) I had sooo much fun! I hope to make many more all over the world someday :)
Blue Ridge Mountains into the Cherokee Forest is my happy place
They are soooo beautiful! ;D
Smart showcase of some of the fringe benefits to being a geologist - going to stunning locations, working along cliffs, creeks, and road cuts, being outside, seeing stuff that lots of people never see, working in hiking gear, taking your dog to work, etc. I wonder if this sort of social media outreach will get more or longer views among younger viewers than the lecture videos. I suspect that some of the field geologists who follow you could share stories of field expeditions that would also catch the attention and interest of young prospective earth scientists.
Born and raised in the Shenandoah Valley and graduated from Virginia Tech. Great video!
Welcome to the mountains! I love learning about how this beautiful place came to be. Those are some great shots from the Parkway!
Hi Rachel 🧗!
I love field Rachel 💚! You were spectacular 💥! All the wardrobe changes!
Best ever!
Please make more of these.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Oh yeah, the rocks 🪨 were cool too 😉.
@@michaeleisenberg7867 thanks so much! So glad to hear you enjoyed it!!🙌🏼😄
That's one cute doggo! Also, great video! I love the scenery. It's some really gneiss schist!
Great video! We live on the Cumberland Plateau and are curious about the local geology. Your videos help so thank you!
I love how Siberia has been here just chilling the whole time.
6:29 OK, that garnet and schist are pretty gorgeous looking!
i hope the survey map is NOT going to be on the test 🤪 thank you for sharing your field exploration, great report 👍☺
I like the field video format. It's probably better for GEO GIRL as well. "Hike the Appalachian Trail" is on my bucket list. Now I need to allot more time for the hike so I can explore the things in this video. I'll probably pronounce Appalachia my way just to see who corrects me.
Good video. I would love to hear more about the northern Appalachians....such as how sub-ranges like the Shawangunks, Catskills, White Mtns and the ranges in Maine, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland came to be.
Coffee treat for U!
Thank you so much!
Great job. Very informative.
And I thought a trip to the outcrops was a great idea, love the rocks. Thanks
So glad you enjoyed it! Thank you :D I hope to do many more of these field videos!
The episode was great ! 👍👍 "Filmed on location" as they say ☺🦮🌳🌲
But I somehow missed the explanation why the east coast is geologically passive now 🤔
That part starts at 3:57 :D
@@GEOGIRL Thanks ! Now I have no choice other than to rewatch it 😊
Loved it Rachel…absolutely loved it!!! Beautifully explained with stunning filming and editing. Masterful! I bow before you!!
Don! Thank you so much! By the way, I swear I have had 'email Don about scheduling an interview' on my to do list for months now, but have been super busy. I hope you will still be able to eventually chat with me about what we had emailed about. I think it would make a very valuable video. Anyway, just thought I'd update you so you know I plan to reach out! Hopefully by the end of the year, but potentially early spring :)
Hope you are doing well otherwise! And thanks for the kind comment about this video, I am so glad people have liked my first field attempt :D
Of course, Rachel, I’d be glad to help out in way any I can. It truly would be an honor. I‘m doing fine. Just returned from a grueling 2 week stay in South Sudan and Kenya. I was able to hold my 9 month old grandson for the first time. What an incredibly emotional and joyful moment. Also, the geology of the Great Rift Valley is so stunning…an added benefit of the family visit. Keep up your great works Rachel. Best wishes.
-Don
This is a great virtual field demonstration. Thanks! I can tell it's a beautiful part of the world with an incredible geological story. I teach orogenies and tectonic processes so I was glued to this!
Yay! So glad to hear I did it justice (as someone who does not typically teach about tectonics) ;D Thanks so much!
Lots of fun! The pp lectures are necessary to understand geology, but the field trips are necessary to fully appreciate geology. More please!
Love this comment! So true🥰
Excellent idea to do more of these. Well I think so, anyway. Thanks for the infection with enthusiasm, too.
5:26 Gneiss! One of my favorite geology puns!
Good to see you in the field. FYI, grew up on the Appalachian Plateau. You can pronounce it either way, depending on where you're at. It's a big range.
Oh cool! Good to know, thanks :D
Great format and good addition to your toolbox :)
I did my AT through in ‘21-‘22 and this is exactly what I was talking to myself about for 2200mi.
“Hey, is that a Silurian worm track? Cool!”
🍂🍁⛰️🥾🥾
Keep on rocking…
Yes more field trips please.
As a non-American, it's nice to learn about US geology, particularly when it isn't specifically about the West coast
I'm sure there are more amusing names out there, but the Penguin orogeny (late Precambrian) always makes me smile, because....Penguins. Another tongue twister is the Tabberabberan orogeny (Devonian). both Australian.
I think there is a reason that geologists are known to drink a lot....
I think she say Grenville
I greatly enjoyed the parts where you just start to point out cool rocks. Rocks are always cool. I love watching stuff like this.
What a cute dog! aww
I'm impressed by the variety of rocks you've shown.
Some time ago, I came across a diagram showing the origins of the Appalachian Mountains.
I remember struggling to make my way through various Wp. pages, as well as geological maps and diagrams, trying to understand the kinship between the geological structures of the North-Eastern USA and Canada, and those of North-Western Europe and Africa (Scandinavian range, Ireland, Scotland, ...). I'm thinking in particular of the Acadian, Caledonian and Avalonian structures.
Unfortunately, I didn't quite understand which American structures correspond to which African or European ones. I don't know if you've ever shown maps or animations on this subject in other videos, but I'd find it very interesting.
You have so many videos!! Ahhhhh!!!
I have to catch up
I enjoy the visuals. Would appreciate more field vids
further north, like Harrisburg, PA most people say Appalachian the same way you used to say it.
Nobody wants to give Slartibartfast credit for his fine work for anything but the fjords.
I'm old fashioned enough to think they give a baroque feel to a continent, and they tell me it's not equatorial enough.