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 ;)
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.
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 RUclips 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!
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"
She gets so happy talking about rocks, gets to hang out with her puppy and get that youtube money. Its so awesome. Teach me more about geoglogy. Geo Girl
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.
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!
Just came across your videos. I did my Ph.D. at South Carolina, but initially in coastal geology but migrated into biostratigraphy and the taxonomy of silicoflagellates and ebridians. I went on to run the L.L. Smith Geological Museum, then moved to teach at Clarion Univ. of PA. I began resposible for half of a curriculum as a new geology program was being built. Late in my career, I even ran the planetarium. I am retired now and living in Bellingham WA. I wish you all the best in your career and the highly informative videos.
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!🍻
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.
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!
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.
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
That happened LONG before humans appeared on Earth. It's weird when people say this to make it seem like Europeans are actually Indigenous to North America. If that were true, they wouldn't have treated Native people so horribly or been so racist.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Lovely video! 1st time watcher and I just love your passion ❤️ Good catch on the Appalachian pronounciation! I moved to the Southern Appalachians about 20 years ago and I was quickly corrected!
Awesome! I will look forward to those! Im a Biology teacher who is sorely lacking in Geology background, but am eager to learn more. Geology is the foundation for life (literally & figuratively 😂)!@@GEOGIRL
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!"
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).
Retired IT guy here, now teaching middle school science at a Catholic school. So cool to see you talking about so much of what I have covering lately in various grades from plants pulling nutrients from the soil to passing around my samples of garnet schist collected in Washington state to the Apps and Scottish Highlands being used as tectonic evidence. I just might have to force my kids to watch this video. Love it.
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).
In Minnesota we always said it with a long A as well. I've been changing that now that I live in SouthWestern Pennsylvania, close to West Virginia. JBG, I wonder how they say it down in SW PA. I'm new to the area so not entirely sure.
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 😂😂
(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.
She's here, she's there, she's everywhere! This video obviously took a lot of effort, and looks great. The sound quality is excellent as well. Awesome job, Geogirl Dr. Rachel!
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 😉.
Thanks for your hard work! Its mind blowing that were all literally walking on early earth history and even early life history. Ive always wanted to walk around with a geologist and get some teaching. This is almost as good.
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
Wow! What a beautiful video, but it still has all the great scientific explanations that make all the GG videos so much fun to watch. Very cute doggie too! Travel channel, pet channel & science channel all rolled into one ... a RUclips hit sho'nuff.
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!
Wow GeoGirl, you are out and about and you have a dog too. Excellent video on a really interesting topic. Loved it. Great detail and good maps. Helped to set the sequence of events in my head, as I sometimes get mixed up with the Appalachian mountain building. It's all so old and beautifully weathered by all that time. Thanks for the fantastic channel.
I’m from SWVA, and we do pronounce it with the short a sound, as you have begun to do. THANK YOU for pronouncing it correctly😂❤. Also, thank you for this incredibly informative video!! There’s So much to learn that I’ll have to go back and review it several times (I don’t retain things as quickly as I did in my younger days- haha). You do great work.
I am just discovering your channel. (I don't know how I have missed it, since I am always on the lookout for good geology channels). This is a particularly interesting one for me, very informative, and will require at least a second viewing. Thank you.
Keep doing the field format videos, you're really on to something with it...the footage was beautiful and it really gives life and scale to the information you're covering.
I liked this video very much. I’ve been to the Appalachian Mountains before, but was not able to explore very much. I was very impressed by the various rocks I saw at the time. Your survey maps in combination with your hiking experience really made this fascinating. Thank you! 😊
Loved your most recent video. You’re good in your regular space but you’re joy out in the natural world in infectious. Our world is fascinating isn’t it?
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!
GEOGIRL on a field trip, i love it (and with a super cute and well behave little doggy - this must have required a lot of treats). Super interesting and what amazing scenery!!! I look forward to more of these as and when you can. Your enthusiasm for your subject is infectious.
And I thought your passion & enthusiasm for geology was infectious during powerpoint videos. It is absolutely palpable in this field video. Now I'm all fired up to take a walk through the Canadian Shield and check out metamorphic rocks!
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"!
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.
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.
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 RUclips 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!🥰🐶😁
That freaking puppy is so cute
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"
She gets so happy talking about rocks, gets to hang out with her puppy and get that youtube money. Its so awesome. Teach me more about geoglogy. Geo Girl
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.
It's great to have these field trip videos and see the overall geological structures!
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.
Just came across your videos. I did my Ph.D. at South Carolina, but initially in coastal geology but migrated into biostratigraphy and the taxonomy of silicoflagellates and ebridians. I went on to run the L.L. Smith Geological Museum, then moved to teach at Clarion Univ. of PA. I began resposible for half of a curriculum as a new geology program was being built. Late in my career, I even ran the planetarium. I am retired now and living in Bellingham WA. I wish you all the best in your career and the highly informative videos.
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!🍻
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.
so cool. a field expedition. geo girl, you are a rock star of geology.
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!
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
This is where my father's ancestors are from, beautiful country. Thank you for the 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!
Haha! Yes! I love both the moss and the rocks but sometime the rocks are just a little bit cooler to me ;)
Getting to see the mountains in the background for most of the video was a nice treat!
Love the field trip! Look at those rocks!
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
Great job covering the field geo descriptions and checking them back with the surface geology maps. Definitely vote for more field videos!
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.
Welcome to the mountains! I love learning about how this beautiful place came to be. Those are some great shots from the Parkway!
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
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.
I know, that’s crazy. The world is a fascinating place!
It's so amazing.
I would only add that this is used to support the theory of tectonics.
That happened LONG before humans appeared on Earth. It's weird when people say this to make it seem like Europeans are actually Indigenous to North America. If that were true, they wouldn't have treated Native people so horribly or been so racist.
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.
Pennsylvania says it that way too. I think it just depends where you live in them.
I'm in the shenandoah valley and use the "lay" version too. Lived here all my life.
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.
Awesome. The Blue Ridge is my home. Keep it up.
Coffee treat for U!
Thank you so much!
Enjoyed this. Looking forward to more Geo Pup.
Geo Pup. I love it!
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.
Born and raised in the Shenandoah Valley and graduated from Virginia Tech. 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 am from somalia and i study geology , honestly i love how u explain thank you.
Thank you so much! So glad to hear that ;)
Yes, more field trips!
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!"
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?
I'm super stoked for this one!! such a good puppers too!! so cute!
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.
Lovely video! 1st time watcher and I just love your passion ❤️ Good catch on the Appalachian pronounciation! I moved to the Southern Appalachians about 20 years ago and I was quickly corrected!
Thank you so much for the comment and kind words! I am so glad you enjoyed this video! I am hoping to make more like this one very soon! :D
Awesome! I will look forward to those! Im a Biology teacher who is sorely lacking in Geology background, but am eager to learn more. Geology is the foundation for life (literally & figuratively 😂)!@@GEOGIRL
Also loved the Geobiochemistry bit at the end of the vid!!! ❤
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 👍
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 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) ;)
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 was awesome! I think that all of us will agree: more field trips!
Yay! So glad to hear that :D
Your dog is very enthusiastic about geology.
Retired IT guy here, now teaching middle school science at a Catholic school. So cool to see you talking about so much of what I have covering lately in various grades from plants pulling nutrients from the soil to passing around my samples of garnet schist collected in Washington state to the Apps and Scottish Highlands being used as tectonic evidence. I just might have to force my kids to watch this video. Love it.
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).
In Minnesota we always said it with a long A as well. I've been changing that now that I live in SouthWestern Pennsylvania, close to West Virginia. JBG, I wonder how they say it down in SW PA. I'm new to the area so not entirely sure.
I've lived in the Shenandoah Valley my whole life and said it with the long a too.
I'm near Salem VA. The mountains are home. Nowhere more beautiful.
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
I like the on-location presentation!
(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.
Enjoying the outtakes at the end!
I love how Siberia has been here just chilling the whole time.
That's one cute doggo! Also, great video! I love the scenery. It's some really gneiss schist!
Loved this episode. Looking forward to more like this, hilarious outtakes and all. ;-)
This is great and I can learn like this. I loved the map and seeing how to read that resource
So glad you enjoyed the video and got something out of the map segment! I will be making more like this for sure! :D
This is one of your best vids yet, professor. Please give us more about the Appalachians.
Good video. I have spent many nights backpacking in the
Shenandoah National Park. 😊
Great video! Love the way you tied and explained the USGS map. Nice field shots. Keep up the great work. Happy New Year!
She's here, she's there, she's everywhere! This video obviously took a lot of effort, and looks great. The sound quality is excellent as well. Awesome job, Geogirl Dr. Rachel!
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
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!!🙌🏼😄
Thanks for your hard work! Its mind blowing that were all literally walking on early earth history and even early life history. Ive always wanted to walk around with a geologist and get some teaching. This is almost as good.
Would love to go on a geologic hike with someone like you, who's so knowledgeable and enthusiastic about it.
That was a really kewl field presentation Rachel. I hope you do more of them.
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
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 :)
Definitely do more field videos! Nature is so beautiful. :)
So glad to hear that, thanks for the feedback! I absolutely will ;D
Thanks!
@@KwanLowe thanks so much! I am glad you enjoyed the video!!😃
All good the knowledge is what's important, thx😊
Great video! We live on the Cumberland Plateau and are curious about the local geology. Your videos help so thank you!
Wow! What a beautiful video, but it still has all the great scientific explanations that make all the GG videos so much fun to watch. Very cute doggie too! Travel channel, pet channel & science channel all rolled into one ... a RUclips hit sho'nuff.
This is awesome! Grew up in Appalachia. Don’t worry about how you pronounced it before. Great video! 😊
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!
Wow GeoGirl, you are out and about and you have a dog too. Excellent video on a really interesting topic. Loved it. Great detail and good maps. Helped to set the sequence of events in my head, as I sometimes get mixed up with the Appalachian mountain building. It's all so old and beautifully weathered by all that time. Thanks for the fantastic channel.
I’m from SWVA, and we do pronounce it with the short a sound, as you have begun to do. THANK YOU for pronouncing it correctly😂❤.
Also, thank you for this incredibly informative video!! There’s So much to learn that I’ll have to go back and review it several times (I don’t retain things as quickly as I did in my younger days- haha).
You do great work.
I am just discovering your channel. (I don't know how I have missed it, since I am always on the lookout for good geology channels). This is a particularly interesting one for me, very informative, and will require at least a second viewing. Thank you.
field trip! this was fecking awesome, more? yes, please!
Great job! Watching you and Nick Zentner learning much. Thx
Keep doing the field format videos, you're really on to something with it...the footage was beautiful and it really gives life and scale to the information you're covering.
I liked this video very much. I’ve been to the Appalachian Mountains before, but was not able to explore very much. I was very impressed by the various rocks I saw at the time. Your survey maps in combination with your hiking experience really made this fascinating. Thank you! 😊
Since you asked: I do like this format a lot. Keep up the great work!
This channel is going to get huge!
Great job. Very informative.
Loved your most recent video. You’re good in your regular space but you’re joy out in the natural world in infectious. Our world is fascinating isn’t it?
So much to learn, so little time left.
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!
I live in Appalachia and I have yet to hike on the Appalachian Trail but some day I will
Excellent idea to do more of these. Well I think so, anyway. Thanks for the infection with enthusiasm, too.
I grew up out there. This video was very exciting to watch, and extremely educational! Thank you! This format is fantastic, yes do more please.
You have so many videos!! Ahhhhh!!!
I have to catch up
I love watching your videos; from your information, I can learn a lot about geology. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
5:26 Gneiss! One of my favorite geology puns!
GEOGIRL on a field trip, i love it (and with a super cute and well behave little doggy - this must have required a lot of treats). Super interesting and what amazing scenery!!! I look forward to more of these as and when you can. Your enthusiasm for your subject is infectious.
And I thought your passion & enthusiasm for geology was infectious during powerpoint videos. It is absolutely palpable in this field video. Now I'm all fired up to take a walk through the Canadian Shield and check out metamorphic rocks!
Yeah, I really enjoyed your enthusiasm in the field -- and what a beautiful field area it is! Fun to see your canine companion, too.
Yes more field trips please.
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"!
Ithaca is gorges. I grew up in Ithaca too.