Canada's Volcanoes: The Cradle of Life | Full Documentary | TRACKS

Our adventurers explore volcanism across BC while visiting the volcanic plateau of Mount Edziza, hiking Black Tusk Mountain, and flying over Mount Garibaldi and more.
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[@jbrobertson6052]

I was an Oiler/Marine Engineer on the Canadian ship Endeavor an Ocean Research/Defense Research Ship it was us who discovered the Endeavor Ridge and Vents

[@JulieBullard-gp1zc]

Ok That's JUST SUPER KOOL 😎

[@kellybliss6163]

That's so cool!!

[@JulieBullard-gp1zc]

@@kellybliss6163 I know right? I think I said the same thing? But I told him I wanted to hear more about it. It just sounded EXCITING 😎 LOL. Ditto ❤️

[@mariapereira5500]

So very poetic way to describe the box canyon. Thanks for the beautiful documentary..

[@mariapereira5500]

Thank you for the great documentary, I learned so much from it. Our Earth is indeed stunningly beautiful. 👍

[@sabascaracas]

What a nicely made documentary!

[@luisemosch9498]

Ooooh,i envy people who live there! I enjoyed watching this beautiful nature,with all the History behind it. My home country is Austria,we have just those boring Alps around.😄 All my thumps up for Canada🎉❤👣

[@eyetrollin710]

I spent a month of my life being up close and personal with mount edziza. So unbelievably amazing. And sad that most people don't even know it exists

[@rikkispence7049]

You are quite right about eruption potential.. All cascade volcanos are in various stages of reactivating.

[@gjohnston6052]

This was great. thank you

[@jacquelinezwahlen6827]

I would have liked to take part in this hike too. Beautiful!

[@constantinepapadakis1155]

Vary nice documentary

[@jbrobertson6052]

Hey thanks for the video its an awesome program I'm on Vancouver Island and I didn't realize that we had that many volcanoes in BC

[@eyetrollin710]

I've spent the last 20 years working in Earth Science and I too live on Vancouver Island and I think the most terrifying thing about living here isn't that it's a volcanic island prone to the biggest earthquakes on Earth it's the fact that most people around here just think it looks pretty and no one is prepared,, also too few people in the world realize that in northern BC is a super volcano complex and mt edziza is active, I don't care what they say I have flown over it and watched it steaming

[@jbrobertson6052]

@@eyetrollin710 Kool I would like to hear more but I have just typed a bunch and my hands are numb and sore to do more right now sorry. Hope to hear more from you. Cheers

[@knossos574]

I cruise through the rockies regularily, Western Canada is home to me. All of this fascinates me. This is a great quality video that really captures the imagination, how matter evrywhere in and on this earth continues to form and change, and just how massive these plates are that we sit on. It's awesome, it really is. Love learning good science, thank you.

[@Wutzmename]

I just love this video. Where I live in Ridgecrest California we experience thousands of micro earthquakes a year due to the volcanic activity in the area. We also have a bunch of tectonic plates and faults in the area as well. The largest earthquake I have ever experienced in my 47 years of living was here back in July 4 and 5th 2019. 6.5 and a 7.1 respectively. The crust moved so fast that parked vehicles appeared to move as if they were accelerating from a standing stop. I've been through so many earthquakes in California that it's hard to count them.

[@afwalker1921]

I've been through one good California earthquake. You can have it!

[@craftycriminalistwithms.z3053]

I feel you. I lived through the Northridge earthquake. They first rated it at above 7.5, then lowered it because FEMA would have to pay more if it was rated on that scale, allegedly at least. They ended up changing it to a 6.9, last I checked. It was crazy to live through that. The ceiling fell on my head as I slept, and our home was condemned, along with many others. A lot, including us, lived in tents for a while. ♥️💪♥️

[@afwalker1921]

@@craftycriminalistwithms.z3053 My experience wasn't nearly so disasterous, but the day to day threat of seismic shocks wore me down. I lived in SoCal from 2010 to 2016, and I had an actress friend on my speed-dial in case I was away from the house and something happened. The first damage done by any small quake was to the seals at the base of the toilets. You'd come home and find flooding and know there had been activity. If I heard there was a quake in the area, I'd call Hannah D., she'd go by my place and check the bathrooms and if necessary shut off the water. As an act of revenge I had a character in one of the teleplays for my Vampire Slayer show (which was never made) look out the side window of her limo and declare that "No one should ever live in LA". I meant it!

[@annychest718]

Waiting for the big one..they were just pre labour pains

[@76rjackson]

I have a piece of land in Ridgecrest. I bet the desert is beautiful this spring! Unfortunately a road trip is out of the question right now but that's a nice little town imho.

[@marinareynolds2678]

Thank you 🙏🏻 very mucho ✊🫂for your extraordinary knowledgeable content ✊💋🙏🏻

[@pamelaattrux336]

Box canyon that was exciting

[@seitisetsoh4991]

Really interesting, I didn't even know we had volcanoes in Canada, much less so close to where I lived! I wonder if it was because they would have had to talk about the tribes that lived in the area? We barely covered any of the tribes of Canada, other than the ones important to the first settlers. Buuut, I also lived in a poorer town, so maybe it was just a resource thing

[@bouteilledeau1463]

Garibaldi stratovolcano isn't that far from Vancouver BC.

[@equarg]

Look up “Geology Hub” on KZbin. He has covered several of them!

[@AvanaVana]

And with the exception of Garibaldi and the nearby Silverthrone caldera, most of the volcanism in Canada (essentially all located in BC except for a rare few in the YT), this volcanism is actually really poorly understood by scientists. Owing to the remote and unforgiving location of many of the volcanoes of the “Northern Cordillera Volcanic Province”, they are relatively understudied and scientists do not agree on why this volcanic province should exist in the first place. Garibaldi and its neighbors are part of the Cascades volcanic arc, classic subduction-related continental arc volcanoes-but the volcanoes of the NCVP, Anahim Volcanic Belt, Wells-Grey Clearwater, and other volcanic regions of Canada, have never been explained by a unified model. It’s broadly thought that extension is responsible for volcanism in the NCVP, and a hotspot under the Anahim volcanic field, but these models are underdeveloped and no one has managed to piece together everything into one clear picture of what’s going on under the earth’s surface to cause all of this.

[@brettwilson3142]

All of Earth was a valcano at one point..

[@ramthian]

Wows 😍

[@t-bonejones3576]

Mt. Garibaldi is not the northernmost Cascade volcano. Mt Meager is

[@RyanRoemer8624]

That is just scary

[@Zafiroazul7214]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@bonnieballew7762]

The most fertile soil seems to be close to volcanoes. Italy for example.

[@CollectiveConsciousness1111]

Awesome content. 💡 would building a mountain of dirt between the volcano and town work? Can be done ... control the flow of lava

[@DAYBROK3]

these volcanoes are not that sort of volcanos, these ones mostly blowout ash

[@frankperino4215]

It’s interesting! I live in Toronto…we have no volcanoes 🌋, but in the earlt eighties I was lying in bed my whole room started to shake…we had an earthquake!

[@JoshuaPerks1128]

My dad told me about that. He worked and lived in T.O during the week and came home on weekends and he was really excited

[@Wutzmename]

I live in Ridgecrest California. We had that 6.5 and 7.1 earthquake here in July 2019. Really, really bad. I've lived in California my whole life and have experienced many earthquakes in my 47 years of living. Toronto's earthquakes have never been larger than 5.1.

[@Levchukkostya]

I hiked up to Garibaldi last year. Had no idea it was a volcanoe...

[@anonviewerciv]

8:00 Not the one near Cape Town.

[@learning-chinese-online]

what’s the last background music name？

[@Abigael317]

Citations in description please.

[@andrewbrown6522]

Awesome piece but blue green algae isnt plant life and some of the evolutionary stuff in here is a bit off from my understanding.

[@toddvanderheyden9774]

So did all water on surface of present day come from magma in volcanoes?

[@gardengeek3041]

Volcano chains, always an interesting topic. But maybe we should call this " British Columbia's volcanoes". Have no other parts of Canada had volcanic activity, in the last billion years, maybe?

[@Mossyz.]

[@RajnishPrasher-oj7jm]

Task 19

[@kevinfelix2543]

you missed mount meager

[@EMarcisz32]

those imposed location maps would be great if they would actually showing the location... Placing map of whole Canada (bigger than Europe) when talking about location in BC (1of13 provinces/territories) is quite misleading.

[@user-co6fw6ql7h]

Where does Spock go when he feels sick? To the Volcanologist. Hardy Har Har Har.... live long and prosper.

[@afwalker1921]

Wouldn't that be VULCANOLOGIST? Diktor et musma...

[@andrewign5806]

Major scientific discovery: lava moves fast 🤣

[@kananaskiscountry8191]

the 3 main elements of life Earth = Fire = Water that is it

[@anne-mariecole6692]

Your facts are incorrect...Canada has been inhsbited much longer that 10,000 BCE!

[@grahamkearnon6682]

Poor documentary. Between BC/Yukon there are 21 volcanoes, the southern interior has many magma pillow mountains.

[@johnirby493]

At the 33:15 mark, what you see is not a volcano. It is a giant doodle bug nest.

[@petefluffy7420]

Has it been discovered where life has its origin?

[@peterdore2572]

Anyone else already knows what Plate Tectonics is?

[@kelvingoode1393]

i pay not to have adverts so why are you advertising on her

[@notsure5698]

anyone else never want to try veely after that annoying theme song?

[@olav3420]

dumb idea to take of shoes, u loose grips on the rock,

[@ergloo6660]

No helmets what d'heads

[@bunnieoneloves8248]

Not the cradle. The cradle is in America..the Mojave desert Nevada Arizona California

[@lindadowning6249]

God, made man. In his own image.

[@Michael500ca]

Like a trailer park or priests loving on children, or both?

[@user-iu4se2ps7d]

A documentary about B.C. volcanoes narrated by French with English voice over? Ok, interesting. By the way, hardly anybody in British Columbia/Western Canada speaks French.

[@psycherevival2762]

It doesn’t matter. French is still one of Canada’s official languages, and the scientists are obviously from Quebec.

[@lighttheoryllc4337]

Timestamp 9:45 delivers wrong information regarding timeline and 1st ancestor being bacteria instead of Adama and Eve.

[@showmeyamoves6427]

Based Creationist

[@lighttheoryllc4337]

@@showmeyamoves6427 Based in AL Torah, AL Zaboora, AL Injeel, AL Qur'an books, across middle east, Egypt, Jerusalem, Nazareth, Saudia Arabia Kabbah.

[@SteelFisher]

@@lighttheoryllc4337 Science beats ancient fairytales everyday of the week and twice on Sunday

[@lighttheoryllc4337]

@@SteelFisher good because there is MORE VERIFIABLE SCIENCE IN AL QUR'AN THAN IN YOUR HEAD

[@Michael500ca]

Adama and Eve? I'm sure Commander Adama is fictional and so are Adam and Eve. Single celled organisms evolved into multicellular organisms and evolved to become us, eventually. Life finds a way you know. Ancient goat herders do not dictate facts in this world.

[@xavisanchez7522]

We want docs and films in canadian or american languages, not european based ones. English and french speakers in canada are not americans , not native from american countries

[@bouteilledeau1463]

If it was American based, I'll bet my life there'll be a bunch of super dramatic noises that'll push you into thinking somehow the morphology of the Tseax cone will make Yellowstone make its big one in our lifetime and cause the end of the world.

[@psycherevival2762]

This is a Canadian production, filmed in French, with English voice-overs. French IS one of Canada’s official languages. Your complaint is very ignorant.

[@NewFamily23-np7nk]

No women there 👀😄

[@jamiedbg51]

It’s pronounced lāhvûh NOT lâaaahhhvuh. You pronounce it wrong and at times correctly inconsistently throughout the entire video. It’s frustrating. Please make up your mind! I don’t understand why you showed, over and over, the descent through box canyon, as the only thing you spoke about was the granite (intrusive) and basalt (extrusive) igneous rocks, over and over. To what end? We got it the first time. It was not interesting nor educational to say the same thing 15 times and ended with no conclusion. The lahar was interesting as I had not heard about that buy that’s it. You also made a surprising number of inaccurate “facts.” Scientists agree that magma wells up due to the heavy oceanic plates that drag or pull down the plate. The magma does not well up and push the plates apart. Please make that correction lest you confuse more people. Also life evolved/appeared ~3.8 billion years ago. You misspoke it as 2 billion years ago, which is somewhat close to when multicellular organisms evolved/appeared. Eve come is actually a cinder cone. It would have been great for you to have explained what a cinder cone is, the different ways in which they erupt, for how long they erupt, what they erupt, how they are created and for how long they tend to be active but you don’t explain anything. Also, cyanobacteria first produced oxygen and released it into the water. When the water became supersaturated with oxygen, just like a soda bottle that is shaken up and then opened (although it releases carbon dioxide instead of oxygen), snd only then the oxygen is released into the atmosphere. It only then began to accumulate in the troposphere snd eventually the stratosphere, where it slowly began to produce ozone. However, it still took from 3.8 billion years ago until ~450 million years ago when there was enough accumulated ozone to protect the first terrestrial organisms, plants, from harmful UV radiation which would have otherwise decimated and/or broken the bonds between molecules on DNA and thereby otherwise preventing anything from surviving on land. If not for massive amounts of ozone which protect the DNA of all living things. Thank you.

[@arthurmunoz3597]

My friends if you believe in the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, Please honor and respect GOD ALMIGHTY' Holy name for GOD ALMIGHTY, is omnipresent, wherefore GOD ALMIGHTY is aware of all the things, which occur all of the time. That including those who say the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY'S Holy name in Vain. So please remember to give praise and glory, to GOD ALMIGHTY, and to our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. AMEN.

[@uewyryyre]

No.

[@Michael500ca]

Bad place to say silly things like that since British Columbia is mostly non-religious. Please take your Satan worship elsewhere.

[@maxl5657]

4.6 billion years… Another headed to the great abyss and who has been fooled.

[@WeRHisPoem]

Some bright person decided to test some brand-new lava rock at Mt. ST. Helens. It should have tested as being basically ZERO-- right??? Well guess how old that brand new piece of rock supposedly was? 2 1/2 MILLION YEARS OLD! SO MUCH FOR THE " MILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF YEARS" BALONEY. WATCH " THE MYSTERIOUS ISLANDS," ABOUT DARWIN AND THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS. FOR STARTERS....

[@skrame01]

Lava is pronounced Lah-vah.