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Why Arches National Park Exists: Radical New Geologic Ideas

Myron Cook Geology

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Paleogeography map used with permission ©2023 Colorado Plateau Geosystems Inc.

Special thanks to Tim Reed for discussions on salt tectonics

Lateral terminations of salt walls and megaflaps: An example
from Gypsum Valley Diapir, Paradox Basin, Colorado, USA
2019 Frederic O. Escosa1 | Mark G. Rowan2 | Katherine A. Giles3 | Kyle T. Deatrick3 |
Allison M. Mast3 | Richard P. Langford3 | Thomas E. Hearon IV4 | Eduard Roca1

The Paradox Salt Basin, Utah and Colorado: Recognition of New Types of Salt Structures and Their Impact on Salt-Related Traps*
Katherine A. Giles1, Thomas Hearon2, Mark Rowan3, and Rip Langford1

Controls on the structural and stratigraphic evolution of the megaflap-bearing Sinbad Valley salt wall, NE Paradox Basin, SW Colorado
Jessica Ann Thompson Jobe1,2,*, Katherine A. Giles1, Thomas E. Hearon IV3,†, Mark G. Rowan4, Bruce Trudgill2, C. Evelyn Gannaway Dalton1, and
Zane R. Jobe2

Trudgill, B.D., 2011, Evolution of salt structures in the northern Paradox Basin: Controls on evaporite deposition, salt wall growth and supra-salt stratigraphic architecture

20 Comments

@mcbswolf 1 year ago

Love your videos, Myron. I am a retired geologist from the oil and gas industry now living in Portugal. My first geology teacher was a man similar to you at the University of New Mexico at that time in the 70's and he interested me then like you do now and he is why I became a geologist. Your channel and videos are so well crafted and they provide a unique learning environment, even for an old codger like me. I never stop learning. I'm also an avid environmental photographer and I can really appreciate the beauty that you capture in your work. This video is my favorite of all that I have seen of yours. I was a wellsite geologist in the Paradox Basin back inthe 1980's, and I have seen a lot of the country up close that you are describing, but in those days I didn't have the tools of Google Earth and drones available that provide such 3D perspectives. Keep that white board busy! Im looking forward to your next video!! Thank you for all that you do.

@heatherbergsten4190 1 year ago (edited)

My great grandfather was with the USGS team that mapped it about 100 years ago. No not topographic at that times. They were the creators of what would become a bedrock map

@Omfufu1 1 year ago

Iam 48 from Denmark. You Sir, make me feel like a smaal kid back in school with my favorite teacher, and I just sit, and suck it all up. With a feeling kids have with not a worry on my mind feeling safe. I have already gone trough, all your videos. You have such a plesent tone in your voice, and I simply can't get enough. Thank you for educating us all in such a beautiful way
❤

@RobZacSaz 1 year ago

I'm always so excited to see that you have uploaded a new video. Thank you Myron. You are a natural educator

@MeBeePaul 1 year ago

Your upbeat positive vibes, in combination with your white board drawings, helps prove that you are the Bob Ross of YT geologists. In this video, I was so expecting you to say that "faults don't make mistakes, they make happy accidents."

@Eatsgreencandles 1 year ago

The drone really helps with the explanations of the problems let alone the solution. I remember at school you'd be lucky to get one photo of something. Well worth some of these shots. beautiful

@MarieJackson-sp3be 1 year ago (edited)

Myron, you are the best! I lived out in Utah and Colorado when young. I went to school in the east to become a geologist (MS in sedimentology), came back out west on field trips and vacations. I never learned that there was a super-saline sea to create salt beds and that salt diapirism played any part in the creation of the anticlines out there. I did know about the Louann Salt and the diapirism that formed the salt domes along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. I am retired now and love to find you on Youtube to continue to learn new facts about the geology of America. Thank you so much for making these videos. ❤❤

@judgemental9253 1 year ago

The tree really is vital to my understanding of perspective; without it I’d be lost

@codyironworks307 1 year ago (edited)

Man you are like the mister Rodgers of YouTube geology 😂❤🎉

@KOTAPA 1 year ago

I am a Brazilian geologist and I really appreciate your teaching methods and the quality of the information in your videos.

Congratulations.

@juanvasquez9561 1 year ago

I went on a great trip without leaving the house!🤠..thank you Myron!🌵

@leetreado3801 1 year ago

Another awesome video Myron. Thank you so much. Beautiful photography to boot!

@JoeZorzin 1 year ago

Oh boy~ a new Myron Cook video! Gotta drop everything and watch it! 😊

@grumpy3543 1 year ago

As an airline pilot based in Las Vegas I see this area every day and am never bored. It’s always fascinating. That paradox valley from altitude is absolutely stunning. That long cliff has always made me wonder how it formed. I thought that it was eroded from water coming off the Le Sal mountains. But. I was wrong. Thanks for this. 12:19

@guiart4728 1 year ago (edited)

Lived in the Paradox Valley in the 70s. What an amazing place! I was told that the name came from the cutting of a waterway that crossed the valley perpendicular to the normal path that water would take if the valley had been formed by water erosion. The valley was there long before the cross cutting stream! Great memories of crossing the Lasalle mountains in my 1962 VW bus!

@kelton_johnson 1 year ago

My new favorite channel. I’ll be teaching people how to photograph the night sky in Moab next year. Being able to explain the geology of what they are looking at will be such an important aspect of that. Thank you for the knowledge!

@themaverickproject4577 1 year ago

This was not just a very interesting video. It’s the most beautiful produced in the series yet.

@creaturefeaturecosplay 1 year ago

Arches is my favorite National Park (so far) and this video gave me even more appreciation for how amazing it is. Thank you!

@charlesrenemonteil3206 1 year ago

Hi from France 🇫🇷, Myron! Congratulations for all your beautiful videos, and more for your open mind to teach us technical lessons, with astonishing views in the wild! I’m remembered my 9 years old, when I was reading a wonderfull book, ”Flicka, my friend” by Mary Ohara! Each nigth, I was dreaming about wild Wyoming with wild horses. Now, I’m 73 years old, and I come back with you! Thank you for your big work, walking, teaching and giving us your love for your country!