Continental Drift [Updated, 2018]

[@TJL004]

When your teacher says "watch this video" and then walks out of the building saying "see you Friday"

[@harrietharlow9929]

I noticed this at age 6, over 60 years ago. Being so young, the only way I could put it was, "South America goes out where Africa goes in." lol When I earned about plate tectonics in the 1970s I was happy to see that my 6 year old eyes hadn't deceived me. Just subbed.

[@boxsterman77]

You got me beat. I distinctly remember staring at the first suitable map I had access to, the one in my 3rd grade classroom and having that Eureka moment. I told my 3rd grade teacher, Mrs Bowers, but she just dismissed it. This was before plate tectonics was actually proved.

[@harrietharlow9929]

@@boxsterman77 Yep, my Eureka moment was back before plate tectonics was a thing. I never understood why grownups didn't see it. lol

[@maxromero3658]

I'm gonna name my dog Alfred after this straight baller of a scientist. Froze to death looking for the truth. That's how a great man dies.

[@bufferbugs3869]

hat's off

[@Anatoly-Cherep]

A.Wegener was wrong. There is NO continental drift. The Earth gradually expands in reality.

[@myartbook936]

who are here for earth science on quarantine?

[@hyper.official]

im here because our teacher's making us do an activity on it :P

[@theo5860]

@@hyper.official @MyArT Book I'm doing this 2 days before its due 😂

[@theo5860]

@@hyper.official do you go to school in England?

[@hyper.official]

@@theo5860 Noo unforunately i study in the Philippines

[@theo5860]

@@hyper.official oh, i thought from the time zones and language it was English

[@Enosh254]

As A Geography Teacher Based In Kenya, This Is One Of The Best Break Down Of Continental Drift Theory.

[@Anatoly-Cherep]

The continental drift and plate tectonics hypotheses are wrong, because the Earth is gradually expanding. Mantle convection can not explain the drift of small and large pieces of the earth's crust. Just try to model all these processes!

[@harrietharlow9929]

@@Anatoly-Cherep No, it's not. Measurements of the earth taken by satellites have proven that the earths diameter has not changed. The spreading ridges produce new rock and the old crust is consumed at the ocean trenches. Plate tectonics is a scientific fact.

[@TheChristmasWarrior]

A moment of silence for Wegener.

[@luvcig]

ur voice is relaxing, why all science "teachers" have this relaxing voice

[@maaren3150]

video on 1.5x speed is necessary tho, he speaks very slowly

[@a.i.8813]

This is very educational but this guy’s voice is so relaxing almost thought I was listening to an asmr

[@maverickbalma3620]

Same

[@maverickbalma3620]

Use headphones

[@danoob1404]

I thought this video would be boring, but I was totally wrong. This was an amazing and super interesting video. Keep up the good work!

[@samuelwiseman319]

[@samuelwiseman319]

I agree,

[@Anatoly-Cherep]

The video is not boring, but it is totally wrong. The Earth is gradually expanding, and all thinking people should realize this phenomenon. Unfortunately it would take significant time to dewstroy all the erroneous constructions ("subduction", @convection"...) of the "plate tectonics theory" which was the biggest mistake in geosciences in 20th century...

[@akritiisharma9405]

You should make more video's, your way of teaching is so easy to understand, and it really helps!

[@creeper5149]

That's legit what I learned yesterday day on school

[@Benjamin-uv7op]

Fuck off you play fortnite

[@johanphan393]

Why don't you just shut up and stop being toxic kid.

[@georgewilliamson8387]

Benjamin dickhead

[@johanphan393]

@george I agree

[@esperanzamontford3406]

First of all. Why u ppl have to be so mean, and tnot to also be rude, but its “in school” not “on school”

[@jvs333]

I am not a scientist in anyway. But since a young kid in elementary school seeing my first really realistic looking globe and having been told about Pangea. While looking at the globe the thought cane to me that maybe a giant ice comet or ice moon crashed into what’s now known as the Pacific Ocean causing the earth to break open from the impact causing three things to happen: 1. Pangea to fracture up into separate tectonic plates. 2. Enlarging the earth’s size by absorbing the extra material of the colliding object. 3. Maybe the reason the earth is 70% water. The thing that gave me that thinking was Hawaii. Here was an the big island with smaller ones out in the middle of this giant Pacific Ocean. Like a giant pimple sticking out of the deep ocean. Which made me think of the images I had seen of a drop of milk hitting a cup of milk. It falls in then there’s a splash back, sending a drop up into the air. As this happens the milk creates a pimple like form from where the drop splashed back up out of. So maybe the impact of the larger object caused inner earth magma to splash up and creating the foundation for the Hawaiian islands. Also maybe the moon is the drop that splashed back up and out. Creating the moon. I know this all sounds nuts, but as a kid I thought these things. Still crosses my mind when I see satellite pics of earth. The Pacific Ocean just looks like it’s filling a giant area of the earth. But I know today’s science can prove that all wrong. But I was a 10 yr old kid with an imagination

[@sabeennaveed5516]

This was a great explanation. Indeed Alfred Wegener was a great man with a great mind. Thank you for explaining it so brilliantly!

[@mikesammartano]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@harrietharlow9929]

He truly was. The tragedy was that he couldn't find the mechanism that made it all work (mantle convection).

[@olivia-hz9nf]

Wegner is an true scientist and an amazing man he spent his time to prove his theory and a true man will do anything to prove that they are correct. It is such a shame he was frozen to death I truly wish him a happy life in heaven

[@pauljensen5699]

For all of us that went to school in the 1980's mentally I am waiting for the little beep of the flim strip to advance the frame. Good information to have repeated anyway.

[@lauriehenry6555]

This is a very good video and I plan to share it with my students as a review of Wegener's evidence of Continental Drift. My only complaint is your use of the word, "Theory." Continental Drift, was an idea, a hypothesis. His idea of continental drift later led to the theory of plate tectonics. This distinction is important in science and the casual misuse of the word 'theory" causes confusion for the general public. Please consider revising that portion of the video in your future updates. Thank you for your work.

[@VectorJW9260]

Yeah, theories are well-supported and explain many different phenomena (like plate tectonics explains basically everything about terrestrial geology) while continental drift is a hypothesis, an idea, a possible explanation for a certain thing.

[@juliaaagh]

Is it just me, or this this actually the only interesting video your science teacher makes you watch in online school??

[@michaeldelaney6987]

Plate tectonics is for the purpose of differentiating the iron that is trapped above the core, Earth is in the final phase of differentiation, that takes place ONLY in the goldilocks zone. As heavier material is sinking and lighter material is rising, this causes gravity and centripetal force to increase. The increase in gravity comes from the iron weighing more than the same volume of silicate. This means Earths core is getting denser at the expense of the mantle, allowing the mantle to become lighter with this exchange, leads to the increase in centripetal force. The increase in centripetal force is only acknowledged as increased surface speed, because the added centripetal force allows for Earths mantle to occupy a greater volume, therefore maintaining a 24 hour rotation. The greatest accomplishment was maintaining a 24 rotation during the crossing of the Goldilocks zone, this made life possible, without 24 rotation being fixed, we would not be here. The truth is, an increase in centripetal force always leads to an increase in circumference. Mars has a 24 hour rotation and its axis are tilted like Earth. Mars is half of Earths diameter, and its surface speed is half of Earths, this means if the same thing were to happen on Mars, where its heavier material sinks and the lighter material rises from the core, Mars too, will grow in radius and overtime will cross the Goldilocks zone just as we have. Earth is leaving the Goldilocks zone while Mars is entering. Earths dimise will be the lose of Moon due to increased centripetal forces and gravity pulling Earth closer to the sun, where the Moons density cannot go.

[@nidhipatel220]

Hey Mike, Can you please make a video on Folds and Faults ? Its my request to you because I really like the way you explain all these things.

[@Jonnyboh]

Wow! You explained this theory perfectly! I have an exam in science in two days. This will be very helpful, thank you!

[@chopppacalamari]

Wegener was a cold hard man who never knew there were rocks on the bottom of the ocean.

[@scottschneider3662]

You did a terrific job with this video. I will be using it with my Earth Science students on Thursday!! Thank you for putting it together.

[@aerickajm9298]

This video made me emotional, God bless Wegner's soul, I stan

[@thanpuia7]

Wegner is a real genius ... Thank you Mr Wegner for your contributions

[@jesseplumley16]

cough cough Wegener*

[@Anatoly-Cherep]

Wegener was wrong. There is no continental drift. A primitive hypothesis. In fact, the continents are separated because the Earth is gradually expanding, and real scientists should think about the mechanisms of expansion.

[@T0mtoma]

@@Anatoly-Cherep so they were once together

[@Anatoly-Cherep]

@@T0mtoma Yes, the continents were together 150 mln years ago on a much smaller planet. But the continents have moved apart FOREVER, because the Earth is gragually growing. No future super-continent will be generated. That's the difference between falsy "plate tectonics theory" and true Earth expansion hypothesis! You will see in several years that the turth will become clear for the most of thinking people including "geoscientists" 😀

[@lucy-ih8kp]

this helped so much

[@meejungkim6652]

Cool video!!!!! We Had To Watch This 4 Homework WSQ

[@annamoore1468]

meejung kim same!

[@johnrotuno1077]

I saw a TV show when i was a kid about this rabbit that actually sawed the state of Florida right off ! I wonder if this was how the continents separated.

[@wolfgirl28]

“Coal has been found in cold areas” Shows Australia 😂

[@slimbean4272]

Wolf Girl fun fact: in the east of Australia in winters it can get very cold, up to -20°c

[@averymohr4354]

@Donald J wtf?

[@davidbroughall3782]

Also Siberia

[@GeoscienceImaging]

Good video Mike, well done.

[@jamesgrist1101]

no mention of the iguanas or possums that are spread from Australia, PNGuinea, Mid Pacific Isles, and western americas. The Pacific split East Asia+Oceania and America apart just as the Atlantic split America and Europe+Africa apart. Such bio similarity is an inconvenience to standard plate tectonics, as it favours Growing Earth theory, so its ignored by mainstream geologists.

[@1magnit]

Growing earth is pretty obvious for 2 reasons, Nuclear fission in the core where the end products are less dense that the original material. The tons of meteorites which arrive every day.

[@Adruquena]

9:53 Seafloor Spreading is what comes to mind. Unfortunately Wegener failed to study this matter. After his death, scientists like Harry Hess proposed this Seafloor Spreading theory and it is mainly one of the strongest evidences you can find to back up Wegener's Continental Drift Theory...

[@mariajacinta1715]

Thank you Mike,you are one of the best teachers ! This will help us,at school.

[@ahero7608]

The Best video on this topic thank you for the beautiful explanation

[@rockmanlee5978]

I've been thinking about this a bit and I want a pangea map with all ancient ruin locations pin pointed and see how close they are in proximity to each other . Would explain alot of rock being moved from far off locations .

[@anantbijolia8415]

Pangea existed 300 million years ago. Not even mammals existed back then let alone humans. The ruins are hundreds, thousands or at best some 10 thousand years old.

[@DracoJ]

While cool prospect. Pangea existed millions of years before even the earliest signs of homanid shelters. In fact it seperated long before many popular dinosaurs even existed.

[@stevenbaumann8692]

This version is a bit better than your 2012 video. I’m sorry I didn’t stumble upon this until 2019. We are going to Greenland in 2021. I hope I don’t freeze to death. I thought his body was still undiscovered? Maybe it was just his journal that wasn’t found.

[@أبوصالحالمطوع]

Thank you a lot!!!! That is absolutely great! Much better than my doctor ❤❤

[@stewartritchey7602]

Plate tectonics. You were ahead of your time.

[@uz969]

got my homework done finally

[@nooriscool]

i'm still doing it :(

[@aasiancracker-_2465]

@@nooriscool are you still doing IT🥴🥴🥴😫😫😫😩😩😫😫😩

[@nfotalottin6933]

Wow😮 this is awesome

[@mattikordorkharbihkhiew2132]

A help for geology student👍

[@killua2034]

Miss the good old days 2018...

[@paradigmbuster]

It has been noticed by some that if you place the continents on a smaller diameter earth then all the continents fit together, north, south, east and west. Even if you close the Pacific they fit together perfectly. The science community rejected the idea that continental drift was caused by an increase in diameter of the earth because no natural process could be found to account for it. So therefore this theory was replaced by the standard model with drifting plates, subduction zones and a constant diameter earth. There are two observations that seem to militate against this. One - how can plates be moved if the mantle circulations move around the earth, creating a push and a pull? Two - large islands are surrounded by midocean ridges suggesting oceanic crust under the continental crust stretching in all directions.

[@quotictalk6936]

can you make a video on Plate Tectonics?

[@perlamargarita8040]

Great video! Does Wegener have descendants that know of his accomplishments?

[@rphnxx_6943]

Thanks for the video! It helped a lot

[@laurahernandezo.6613]

Beautiful job, Mike!

[@rexhannum728]

mike wazowski

[@mikeltang2508]

Hi Mike, Thank you very much for your very clearly explanation.

[@apiz4285]

alfred wegner was GOAT

[@robthatsme9831]

Love the voice (narrative) 👍

[@samuelwiseman319]

ikr

[@jonkline709]

Great video and narrative. Hope to see more from you.

[@ArianRasouliii]

Who’s here for online skl work

[@boarder6246]

I love your videos! Keep up the good work my man.

[@karanwalanjkar6257]

Great explanation

[@mikesammartano]

Glad it was helpful!

[@zsetlos]

this is so interesting, I don’t get why they don’t teach this in school.

[@ratatoing4796]

I just learned this in science today

[@laneyh42]

They do teach it in school

[@gabiz07]

Oh they do I’m writing a CER about it

[@mitsunori222000]

Young Earth creationists don't want you to know.

[@kyleygamer6860]

I love learning about history

[@ethanpearson7060]

This is more geography than history.

[@leoq4498]

Mike, I have a question. Mossasaurus is believed to have appeared in South America in the late cretaceous some 90 million years ago (e.g. Taniwhasaurus antarcticus specimen is dated circa 70 m.y.a.) in the shallow seas formed by the invasion of the new atlantic ocean into part of Patagonia. However, from the video I understood that Mossasaurus (freshwater, a different variation) is evidence of continents being joined initially, because this animal could not have survived crossing the Atlantic, and its fosils are found both in Argentina and in South Africa. Hence the ocean wasn't there at the time. What am I missing? Thanx.

[@mipyuki]

I'm sure you've already figured it out but the animal he's referring to is "mesosaurus" not "mosasaurus" I made the same mistake and didn't realize I looked up the wrong animal haha.

[@gromit9322]

I can remember talking to my teacher in 1956 at primary school that I had read about this theory that the continents somehow drifted apart, he promptly told that I was talking rubbish as there is no way that continents could float on water or split apart!

[@rickknight5872]

The real question is how fast the continental drift occurred in the past. Two theories are available for research. Continental sprint versus continental drift. Evidence in mantle actually show temperatures too cold for long ages. Folded mountains cannot happen over long periods of time. All layers needed to be soft at the same time.. Most anomalies can be explained by a single catastrophic global flood versus long eons of time.

[@droopsmoop]

That would mean that every surface strata and folded rock layers would be made up of sedimentary rock. Water cannot just make a whole layer of rock soft. If you want these folds to happen by "global floods", you'd have to erode those rocks first into sediment and compact them into the folded shape they are in now.

[@rickknight5872]

John DC Your missing how catastrophic the global flood was meant to be.. If you’re curious about the alternative theories I’d be happy to point you to the PhD scientists that are researching catastrophism .

[@rickknight5872]

John DC Yes Genesis chapter seven All the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened. A global catastrophic flood. Not some little hurricane Katrina. We’re talking massive tidal wave after massive tidal wave eroding and stratifying what we now call the prehistoric world. Life prior to the flood was different than the world we witness now. Way too many anomalies can’t be explained by present day processes. A truly catastrophic global flood explains most anomalies. Most people, me included for 40 years, have never heard the alternative theories, or ignored them when offered. I wonder if are curious.

[@gromit9322]

Also your god created the heaven and the earth at 9:00am 23 October 4004 bc!

[@valeryrodrigueztorres7823]

Hey dude I just wanted to say you got some dope ass videos man

[@DoJ22]

Alfred Fegner, Alfred Vegner, yes pronunciation is amazing here

[@joharali420]

great thinking

[@AEARArg]

Congratulations!

[@lunch6360]

I came here expecting some fully sick drift cars 🤨

[@zandyzain6241]

De Javu

[@HoneyEggs]

Reat wooooosh

[@123cityperson]

@@HoneyEggs i dont see any woooosh you kid

[@HoneyEggs]

Marco Joselino Magtabog they deleted their comment

[@unkown_account]

this is for learning

[@errolfoster1101]

so the continent sat on the very edge of the tectonic plates just so could fit together and not talking about the continental shelves that surround each of the continents or allowing for any erosion over say 4.5 billion years or asteroids so this leads me to think this is a crock

[@rstrela]

The ocean floor is created in rifts and ridges. That is how the continents split in the first place. Then over time, more ocean floor was created between the continents.

[@dwhytedunbar4490]

Great video .......

[@mikesammartano]

Thanks!

[@Ilenia_Cookie]

Does my geography teacher actually expect me to watch a 11 minute video??? No thank you I’m relying on google for this one.

[@naumanzakir8005]

Thanks for information

[@dariusthedmirconsolidation3494]

This would help me a lot............

[@helenhocking9204]

Hi Mike, This is a great summary of Wegener's ideas, evidence and theory, with clear narration and graphics.....it's a favourite of mine to use with my Yr r class (Australia). May I have you permission to download this to our education video platform 'Clickview'? (we are not always able to access youtube from our classrooms.

[@АнатолийЧереповскийосейсморазв]

A great summary of wrong ideas. Alas! The Earth is surely expanding, and no chaotic continental drift ever happened in our planet. "Plate tectonics" is for kindergardens only.

[@skankhunt-zw6gg]

The theory of evolution and the theory of continental drift are ver influential theories in human history. The continental drift theory is the most interesting one to me. P.S. today is the day Darwin submitted the ‘Origins’.

[@Ratchet4647]

What did the people before the discovery of continental drift and tectonic plates believe made mountains, if not convergent plate boundaries?

[@GeoscienceImaging]

Geologists thought that mountains were formed by the Earth's crust moving up & down, but not laterally.

[@johnnyllooddte3415]

@@GeoscienceImaging scientists have always thought that lateral subduction was happenning.. thats silly

[@GeoscienceImaging]

Johnny L I don't know where you get that idea but it for sure isn't true. Wegener was the first to propose that continents move laterally, and most rejected the idea at first, and for the next 50 years.

[@surfk9836]

The next Fast and Furious movie - "Continental Drift, Slow But...Yea Slow"..

[@lynnskutches7359]

Great videos! Thank you so much for making and posting them all!!! Sorry to be greedy but the link for the worksheet gives an error message

[@starboysookai]

Whats updated from this video of Continental drift(2018) and the last one uploaded in 2013

[@adeelarshadkhan3220]

Very good video. Congratulations..! Can I use some parts of your video in my video of urdu language please?

[@nirmalashetty1410]

Great thinking 😊

[@seagull413]

The motion of the continents happened during the Great Flood!

[@OmKrishnan-c3j]

i have done research on the force why continents move. and i found that the force of magma which forms an internal ocean called ksheerasagara. it can go to millions of kilonewtons.

[@gabiz07]

Hey y’all, here because I have to write a CER about it😩

[@vladimirputin5600]

Same 😔✋🏻

[@gabiz07]

@@vladimirputin5600 OMG TWINSS, I’m so confused what my claim has to be tho

[@vladimirputin5600]

@@gabiz07 I think if you look at the beginning of the video it introduces his theory. That helped me with my claim.

[@gabiz07]

@@vladimirputin5600 it’s fine I alr got 100% my teacher graded it :))

[@krishnakumars4791]

Great presentation.....Great explanation.... Informative...

[@boarder6246]

I actually have a question I can't find the answer to. How is Africa moving due to continental drift? Has parts of African moved up and down beneath the ocean? I've heard theories of atlantas being in north west Africa. I'd like to see evidence for the "eye of Africa" being submerged underwater. Thank you!

[@johnnyllooddte3415]

havent you heard of the afrikkan rift????

[@NOTTHASAME]

If you want to see , just go to Google Earth and wear it out. See all thst you can never see from ground , you can see that the masses above the oceanic waters are the dead petrified body's of gigantic creatures and we live on top of them. This of course is the reason for the flood., killing giants and gigantic creatures .

[@blackveilblasphemy]

bright insight has a good video on this theory kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXXSfmd4otR3h68

[@wali1faisal]

Good job wgener

[@pawankumar-ui7ck]

So nice ❤️

[@seanellery3374]

Worksheet links don't work... :+(

[@ronimoye1553]

Yes Weser

[@charlesandroid9348]

Ty

[@lanetPulse101]

Great scientist 😢

[@esterelliasfleur5209]

ang sipag ko talagang mag-aral 👁️👄👁️

[@Accreal]

Shout out everyone here from crumpton's environmental science

[@samuelsamuel5301]

Very smart

[@z3treno2]

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[@sakuntalamgyaanodaya]

sir can i use your animation in my video for free teaching

[@lilyyoung123]

Science crewwwwwwwww

[@luvcig]

here for online classes lol

[@styxaaa6075]

Thanks Alfred Lothar Wegener (btw I learned this in school)

[@ibrahimismail7077]

Thnks from algeria

[@ainjaapa]

👍👍👍

[@AbdullahAlMamun-iv7er]

Do you know what is the most absurd way of thinking is?? Accidental creation of living cell from chemicals. And that cell luckily survived and had the ability to take food, digest it, make energy and replicate itself.

[@karlaarvayo]

What was Pangea? Give me the time please where you said it

[@rodg011]

scratch was my favorite character