Geologic Triple Junction of Southern Utah
Geologic Triple Junction of Southern Utah
In Southwest Utah near St. George, there is a unique “triple junction” of 3 of physiographic and geologic provinces. Those 3 provinces are the Colorado Plateau, the Mojave Desert, and the Great Basin. Join us on this tour around Southwestern Utah and you will learn how to “read the landscape” and see where certain features can be found, learn about what makes each province different, where to find some of those features, and why this triple junction is so special.
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Wish we watched this before visiting the area. Nice job!!!! Thanks for doing all the research. Love the BLM land out there too….public land like BLM land offer us the chance to enjoy this awesome geology without the commercialization or bureaucracy.
Thanks for your great video,the way you describe the geology of this area is amazing💜
Great
Have family in Leeds and I am always exploring when there. The video gives me so much more to look for and ponder when out and about. Thank You for this!
Nice video — great overview of the area. I won’t nitpick/debate some of the pronunciations as others have, but.. Capitol Reef is with an "o" not an "a". It’s named for the Navajo Sandstone there which resembles capitol (building) domes one might find in a capital (city). 👍
Outstanding visuals, and just the right amount of geology. Actually many geologists don’t even understand or agree with what’s going on. Lots left to figure out about this beautiful region.
I love aspen trees; that’s one drawback to living in Southern California, no aspens.
This is a beautiful collection.. yet I can’t help NOT commenting on the fact that this is all sacred to our native Americans.. it all was stolen..
Your video is amazing!! I am so happy that I found your channel. We will go to this area this summer. I am so excited to check this area more. I will share this video to my husband, and I will watch this before and after the trip! Thank you very much!
I wish I had stumbled on this vid a few weeks ago! My husband and I will be visiting the Grand Canyon area next month and would have included the Triple Juncture in our plans. Plans are now etched in stone. Maybe next year we can visit the Triple Juncture. So many photo ops and not enough time! And I too am a Nick Zentner fan, and you are right up there with him!
Amazing Video ….love this whole area …all 4 deserts of the southwest and the Colorado plateau are breathtaking …have you made any videos that look at the Mogollon Rim area
That was incredible!! Keep making videos!!
It’s not difficult folks. God flooded the Earth and started His creation over again. The Ark that Noah built will be revealed.
What everyone else has said plus;
I came through the junction at night having traveled from Washington a couple of years ago. My desert adventure. I traveled this area at night en-route to winter warmth in Yuma. I missed most of the natural beauty as a result.
Thanks to your video I’m going back. I now realize that this is the hub and culmination of what I’ve been looking for in a place to set new roots. No more PNW rain❗
St George is surrounded my some incredible landscapes.I thought it didnt make sense that this was a city and not a national park.Its been 17 yrs since i was last there and the housing tracts were booming.I can only imagine how bad the place looks now .
Excellent information, but the verbal delivery seems to be directed toward an audience of five year olds. Annoying.
This is amazing. The geological explanation is second in excellence only to Nick Zentner (which is extremely high praise), but the visuals you created to help explain the narrative were second to none. Everyone involved in the creation of this video is a Boss. This is a veritable masterpiece compared to most youtube fare. Well done.
Well Done! and Thank you. Very clear!
I live in st George right where he’s talking about. This video came up randomly too!
It is the best area I’ve ever lived in
One of my fav areas to look at on Google maps or Google earth! One of the coolest aerial views in the US of natural landscapes just east of Hurricane UT, the (4-corners region) it forms a silver tip red fox bed down! ❤️
I live in st George
It’s beautiful here
It’s growing into a big city
It sucks now
We are being lied to about our history,and geology a little river i don’t care how long doesn’t account for the erosion of the grand canyon and the badlands of north and south Dakota
Very good video of that area. The level of descriptions was just right for me to easy to take in. i will check out more of your videos. The video randomly showed up in my YouTube list and i am glad it did.. i do follow Nick Zentner as well.
There is One river in the Basin that flows to the Colorado River. One. It begins in Zion and flows thru Bunkerville, past Cliven Bundy’s ranch, he’s the polygamous Mormon Land Pirate that claims we owe him the land he is trying to steal. Why would CB want that land? I already told you. He would love to plant other Mormons like himself along this unique raparian corridor and control water and land, counties of land. Part of the land claimed by Mormonism as the nation of Deseret. Some dreams die. Hard. Just north past the turn off for Pine Valley is the site of The Mountain Meadows Massacre. 120 mostly women and children separated from their husbands and murdered, stripped naked, searched and left on the desert. Precisely On The Rim of The Basin. The Rim crosses the highway some 1.5 miles north of the entrance to the memorial. The Rim was chosen intentionally. The Main Mormon responsible, John D Lee, says Taking a Gentile of The Rim of the Basin was a euphemism for murder of "gentiles". Pine Valley is beautiful. Along the road up to PV are the Largest Cliff Rose you will ever see anywhere. Blooms in April.
What perfect timing for YouTube to recommend this video to me. My wife and I will be travelling to St George for the last week of September. This will help tremendously with our explorations of the area. We live in NC and have nothing to compare with the desert southwest.
Glad the gods of YouTube recommended this. Geology? OF UTAH??!!!
OH HELL YES!
And how appropriate: heading to St. George next week!!!
Can’t wait to get me a good dose of Navajo Sandstone soon…
Enjoyed the video. Appreciate the effort and the approach. Well done.
Very nice production. Thank you. I live on the southern edge of the Mojave Desert on the San Andreas Fault which is the ecotone between the desert floristic provence and the california floristic provence. Talk about genetic diversity. The geological activity in my region is spectacular. I want to move out of California but this desert doesn’t want me to go. It is constantly finding new ways to show me how beautiful it is.
nicely done!
After viewing this outstanding video lesson, I wish that I had had time in college to take a course in geology. I am now self-teaching and your videos are very helpful. Thank you.
Watching this after a couple trips to Utah. Wish I saw this video beforehand! Thanks for making this
AWESOME ………… THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks! Very keen on geology! Love it!
The Earth is 6000 years old. All these features were created after the flood of Noah’s time.
Thanks. Living as I do in an area covered with trees, I appreciate the chance to see the principles of geology made evident in the landscape.
too slow, patronizing delivery
You just can’t beat Nick and his chalkboard and bowtie. Having said that this is one of the best geology presentation I have seen on YouTube . The one thing I have a problem with is you and all of the other geology videos including Nick Zentner is relating geology of our world to Pangia. Its is impossible for me to get a mental picture of the monumental forces that make up our planet. I think anything past 50 to 70 million years is the end of the breakup of Pangia. Hope to see more.
Well done,sir!
I quite like layer cake…
It is breath raking. But I am a believer if a young Earth…not millions of years took to create that landscape. It happened fast after Noah’s Flood.
Please do the San Rafael Swell. I loved this.
I live in the area so it answered a lot of questions. Is there a big fault on the Southern Nevada California border? In other words should I be buying earthquake insurance?
This is exactly the broad overview of the geology of the SW and Colorado plateau I was looking for. Very well done!!
35:50 is the best real-world view of an anticline I’ve ever seen. Not anticline-mactic in the least!
You really did an amazing job with the visuals and photos in this video. Truly stunning.
Thank you very much!
PS Now watching the view of Hwy 9, I realize that I remember that section of road very well after my driving it on several occasions in 2019. Ha, I sure didn’t notice the anticline then!!!
I watched this before and after my trip to this area and it was very informative. Thanks!
Brilliant explanation, astonishing pictures and illustrations, just great upload! Thank you!
Of I drilled a core sample below the sandstone layers described here in the Colorado Plateau, what kinds of rocks are below them?
Living in Hurricane brings this all to life. Thanks for explaining the geology of this area.
Very well done video
Thank you for this explanation!