Geologist Solves Mystery In Wyoming Cave

Have you ever looked at some Wyoming rocks and wondered what the heck happened to make them that way?

When he was a younger geologist Myron Cook solved one of those mysteries after he spent a little time in the cave you see in the photo above.

But what he saw in the cave was just the final clue that brought the final clue to the mystery.

Have a look at the rock that Myron is showing us, below.

Why would it look so rough and filled with sharp pockets?

Why is it not smooth?

The clues can be found by searching the area for other rocks like this.

If we go farther we find that these same oddities are found all over North America.

It comes from a time when this area was under a shallow sea.

Even though Myron is showing us a rock at the top of the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming, what he is showing us was once deep underwater.

What is now rock was the muddy bottom.

What made these rocks look so strange was what was living in that mud at the time.

Many things changed over a long period of time.

The seas retreated. The land rose higher. The climate went through many extreme changes, as it always does.

That means you can climb to the top of the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming and find evidence of sea creatures from a very long time ago.

By now you're probably wondering what those sea creatures and what those clues look like. Especially the clues that Myron found in that cave.

Watch the video below and he'll show you.

Videos like this give us a new way to look at the world we live in.