How Was the Grand Canyon Formed?

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9 жыл бұрын

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It's a long story…
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How do you make a Grand Canyon?
Thanks to Mike from PBS Idea Channel and Jamin from PBS Game/Show for hanging out at the Grand Canyon with me!
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Special thanks to Raymond Schillinger for great camera work!
I was in Arizona recently for Phoenix Comic-Con, and had the amazing pleasure of seeing one of Earth's greatest natural wonders… the Grand Canyon. More than a mile deep, and several miles across, it just defies belief. But I couldn't help but think, the Colorado River down at the bottom isn't that big. How did it cut a canyon so massive? How old is the Grand Canyon?
Here's its story
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@trashking1867
@trashking1867 3 жыл бұрын
Videos and pictures don't do it justice.. seeing it up close was something else.. I can't explain the feeling I got
@DoctorWho
@DoctorWho 9 жыл бұрын
1:11 - So it was him who stole our TARDIS!
@Sherlock221B
@Sherlock221B 9 жыл бұрын
Doctor Who Don't look at me. I'm too busy chasing Moriarty in my own timeline.
@GammaProtogolin
@GammaProtogolin 8 жыл бұрын
+Sherlock ha ha. What are the chances of this? 😂
@luciferbroke7875
@luciferbroke7875 8 жыл бұрын
That Doomsday will come? I'm curious about that too.
@cactusgamingyt9960
@cactusgamingyt9960 7 жыл бұрын
Doctor Who where do you live?
@cactusgamingyt9960
@cactusgamingyt9960 7 жыл бұрын
Doctor Who in the movie
@gauravdhande3954
@gauravdhande3954 2 жыл бұрын
thanks for the amazing info. I can now throw this fact to my friends! I dream of visiting it.... in the mean time I also came across James Asquith's vlog on Grand Canyon and it was amazing!
@zwussow
@zwussow 9 жыл бұрын
That was such a random cameo... Love it.
@NerdSyncProductions
@NerdSyncProductions 9 жыл бұрын
Definitely didn't recognize Jamin or Mike at first. That was great!
@mrose8748
@mrose8748 9 жыл бұрын
scott you watch this channel? didn't see this coming.
@NerdSyncProductions
@NerdSyncProductions 9 жыл бұрын
hello universe Really? I thought I made it clear how much I love PBS Digital Studios. Plus, my passion is learning about anything and everything I can. Seems like it should have been expected that I'd be here. Haha
@NerdSyncProductions
@NerdSyncProductions 9 жыл бұрын
Marlon Moreno Thanks!
@the_moon_1644
@the_moon_1644 9 жыл бұрын
Can you please do a video on this topic!!! I was wondering how, why, ants have wars it sounds cool.
@pekee9304
@pekee9304 3 жыл бұрын
:(
@genthefrog18
@genthefrog18 3 жыл бұрын
i know you've probably watched it, but just in case kurzgesagt has a video on it
@Simon-et4hu
@Simon-et4hu 3 жыл бұрын
@@genthefrog18 i did not know about this channel and i am eatching a couple videos on it after this one. Looks like they are gonna get a new subscriber! Thank you :)
@ctrockstar7168
@ctrockstar7168 4 жыл бұрын
That’s such an interesting story and you tell it so well
@Kram1032
@Kram1032 9 жыл бұрын
LOL, that cameo! I actually had that happen to me before: Some tourist was asking where this ginormous mall was. I just pointed behind them and they went "Oooooooh".
@soggy6645
@soggy6645 9 жыл бұрын
I'm still curious as to what factors made the results of the grand canyon so drastic compared to OTHER canyons, as well as why not all rivers seem to have made canyons.
@markhonea2461
@markhonea2461 Жыл бұрын
I hope you have learned something about it in the previous 7 years. If not, see my comment.
@StopFear
@StopFear Жыл бұрын
You are asking too broad of a question. What do you mean by "drastic"? Which part? As is the answer could simply be because the canyon is large so it looks so "drastic"
@shaahinrapsong
@shaahinrapsong Жыл бұрын
​@@StopFear dude question is 7 years old bro
@gabrielhoefle
@gabrielhoefle 11 ай бұрын
There must be a fault where the river lies at the bottom of the canyon, and the north and south rim are part of different tectonic plates that separated. Maybe that's why the north rim is much higher. (?)
@tornadomash00
@tornadomash00 10 ай бұрын
Most canyons form surrounded by mountains, the grand canyon is surrounded by mostly flat land which is why it's so spectacular to see. There is a fault somewhere along the canyon that raised the northern rim up, not part of different tectonic plates though
@GuyWithAnAmazingHat
@GuyWithAnAmazingHat 9 жыл бұрын
Sherlock in a TARDIS is the stuff of fan fiction.
@meenaafshar5053
@meenaafshar5053 3 жыл бұрын
there was an episode of Doctor Who where the 11th Doctor dressed up as sherlock
@politech2722
@politech2722 6 жыл бұрын
There truly is so much natural beauty in this world.
@valentinlopez182
@valentinlopez182 3 жыл бұрын
My students loved this video. We want to visit the Grand Canyon soon!
@GRIMPONG
@GRIMPONG 4 жыл бұрын
I am a true Whovian, and good job on using the good time tracks.
@rosiemeraz4895
@rosiemeraz4895 4 жыл бұрын
my grandson had to watch this for school
@eversunnyguy
@eversunnyguy 3 жыл бұрын
Great animation to depict the formation.
@javakat343
@javakat343 4 жыл бұрын
THIS VIDEO IS BRILLIANT. BLESS THESE ANIMATIONS
@niyaross4724
@niyaross4724 3 жыл бұрын
i love the name of this channel "Its ok to be smart". thanks for that lol(also ty this really help me learn about grand canyons!)
@metaloreo8423
@metaloreo8423 3 жыл бұрын
Lmao there is only one Grand Canyon
@ACSReactions
@ACSReactions 9 жыл бұрын
How does a canyon become grand? When Joe Hanson goes to it. Also, did you shoot all those time lapses? If so how.
@besmart
@besmart 9 жыл бұрын
I did shoot those time lapses! And if I told you how, I'd have to, well… you know.
@Jelmomovies
@Jelmomovies 4 жыл бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/eouXlomDmZiShqc
@ku2simple
@ku2simple 3 жыл бұрын
Because it has layers of rocks and the river Colorado is grand . Also, it is one of the seven natural wonders of the world in the united states. So that s why is grand and the seven natural wonders are unbelievably beautiful so that's why.
@lukehauser1182
@lukehauser1182 6 жыл бұрын
Excellent - thank you!
@urinstein1864
@urinstein1864 9 жыл бұрын
Tbh I haven't seen that many of your videos yet, but this is o far my favourite.
@rickandrygel913
@rickandrygel913 Жыл бұрын
Why do people always ignore the actual start of the canyon? It starts along a mountain range. There once was a massive lake in there. The water started by flowing over the low point of the mountain range and once the flow lowers the low point it just cuts through rock as it drains the lake.
@floopr4529
@floopr4529 7 жыл бұрын
now can i tell you my fantasy how the grand canyons were made
@vick7848
@vick7848 5 жыл бұрын
Instantly subbed for the name of the channel and again instantly satisfied with that outro statement ♥
@melaniechilton3971
@melaniechilton3971 3 жыл бұрын
My students enjoyed this informative video.
@raghavgupta1118
@raghavgupta1118 3 жыл бұрын
0:26 that looks like the start of yt rewind 2019
@spideybp
@spideybp 8 жыл бұрын
Do an episode on the African honey bee (killer bee)
@chiefofcst
@chiefofcst 3 жыл бұрын
As recent as 80 million years ago. lol, Oh yeah, I remember seeing that on the news. Great video.
@kzpm9796
@kzpm9796 9 жыл бұрын
thx for the video!
@malcolmgraham8319
@malcolmgraham8319 9 жыл бұрын
lol "here's an idea." Thanks for the Easter egg!
@msfredb7
@msfredb7 9 жыл бұрын
I still don't get why this massive erosion only happened there. Did I miss something ?
@Marcopolo-pm8ty
@Marcopolo-pm8ty 9 жыл бұрын
Frederic Bessette I do not know american geology that well, but the general process is often the same. When you get a canyon shape, i's genraly thanks to one or two layer of rocks. This layer was for some reason a lot more resistant to erosion. Most of this layer was left inatct, but in some places (like in a river bed) the eorsion was important enough to erode it , water suddenly reached the soft layers hidden beneath it. From there, the stream cuts trough the soft sedimentary rocks, until it reaches another hard layer. When you look at the profile, every plateau represents a layer of harder rock. The last very important thing is the geometry of those layers. They have to be horizontal, otherwise the erosion would occur on different layers at the same time. Erosion didn't only happened there, but the specific context of the region gave birth to this canyon. If you have a more general context, you juste end up with a plain, not very exciting...
@msfredb7
@msfredb7 9 жыл бұрын
ty
@burt591
@burt591 9 жыл бұрын
Frederic Bessette I wonder the same
@SSmotzer
@SSmotzer 9 жыл бұрын
Frederic Bessette Well, it was mostly chance that decided where, As the snow from the Rocky's melted, it flowed down following the lay of the land all the way to the ocean. Then as the ground arose more and more, the little river cut deeper and deeper, wind and rain erosion making it wider and wider.
@msfredb7
@msfredb7 9 жыл бұрын
***** What your saying is exactly what the video said, but there's snow melting and erosion everywhere, and the river isn't that big. Marc o'polo's explanation is what I was looking for.
@chrisroberts7900
@chrisroberts7900 3 жыл бұрын
Beautiful.
@fatimafarias3479
@fatimafarias3479 3 жыл бұрын
Thank it helped a lot.
@thulean.uruk-hai
@thulean.uruk-hai 9 жыл бұрын
I love how you said "here's an idea" before spinning Mike around to see the canyon. Classic. Nice cameo by him and Jamin.
@jaedenfinance4356
@jaedenfinance4356 4 жыл бұрын
Was it planned though
@ultrainstinctshaggy177
@ultrainstinctshaggy177 4 жыл бұрын
When you realize that beginning wasn't Green Screen
@gisisodia
@gisisodia 6 жыл бұрын
I was there, is really hard to notice it, is too big and it get lost in the horizon. Awesome experience.
@jrjubach
@jrjubach 9 жыл бұрын
The way that guy cries, "ooohhhhhh" is funnier each time I hear it, lol.
@briantravelman
@briantravelman 5 жыл бұрын
A depressed Paul Bunyan was walking through northern Arizona dragging his giant axe across the ground.
@jupitercrescent9504
@jupitercrescent9504 5 жыл бұрын
yes, this is my favorite tale on the creation of the Grand Canyon! I nearly forgot about it until I read your comment.
@hearnjack
@hearnjack 4 жыл бұрын
I would believe that over millions and millions of years
@AnikiDomo
@AnikiDomo 9 жыл бұрын
why does there seem to be no mention of Jamin from pbs game show and Mike from Idea Channel? o.O
@pbsgameshow
@pbsgameshow 9 жыл бұрын
***** *crickets*
@david21686
@david21686 9 жыл бұрын
***** I don't know about Mike, but I know that nobody mentioned Jamin for reasons similar to why nobody mentions a crippling brain tumor.
@PabloCorinthian
@PabloCorinthian 9 жыл бұрын
***** What I found more appaling is the lack of Gabe from PBS Spacetime
@Firebert
@Firebert 9 жыл бұрын
***** "Here's an idea." ;)
@dennisdavis6943
@dennisdavis6943 9 жыл бұрын
PabloCorinthian Gabe is probably too busy making the relativity videos for us. Gabe is awesome
@S.A.Bukhari007
@S.A.Bukhari007 Жыл бұрын
Good info
@brento2890
@brento2890 5 жыл бұрын
Excellent Channel !!!
@Ferda1964
@Ferda1964 5 жыл бұрын
big huge flood ripped the geological layers , it was a very quick process
@asehastly
@asehastly 9 жыл бұрын
"Here's an Idea" That was funny!
@orangecamo1
@orangecamo1 9 жыл бұрын
"Here's an idea." That was great.
@hjwong87
@hjwong87 7 жыл бұрын
so cool!
@HeaPOOp
@HeaPOOp Жыл бұрын
It's totally not an ancient quarry. It's definitely just a natural wonder.
@larrycroft6819
@larrycroft6819 2 жыл бұрын
23 trillion years ago my ancestors vacationed there. What wonderful stories the family have passed down over the trillions of years.
@roberthorner6840
@roberthorner6840 2 жыл бұрын
Lol came across this video mainly out of curiosity and made me laugh. Then my wife and I see your comment and we just rolled. Thanks for the laugh.
@Iman-ve3il
@Iman-ve3il Жыл бұрын
Lol yea right
@kenvonessen2792
@kenvonessen2792 10 ай бұрын
😂
@hypatiastanhope4716
@hypatiastanhope4716 6 жыл бұрын
Great vid, thanks
@kereazydiamund8212
@kereazydiamund8212 9 жыл бұрын
This channel deserve a lot more subs.
@umairsawesomeworld6522
@umairsawesomeworld6522 3 жыл бұрын
Yea, I agree. This channel needs 15 Million subs Right Now! People who see this: CLICK the Subscribe button!
@ACSReactions
@ACSReactions 9 жыл бұрын
Also, the Reactions team is watching this video over lunch now and we are fully divided on the JoeHa facial hair.
@believer1056
@believer1056 3 жыл бұрын
hello bro
@Vikas.03
@Vikas.03 3 жыл бұрын
There's a reason why it is named Vishnu❤️
@JohnAHayner
@JohnAHayner 9 жыл бұрын
Jamin and Mike! Lol "here's an idea"
@n.m.8728
@n.m.8728 9 жыл бұрын
Enjoying that cameo there.
@DeadlyVax
@DeadlyVax 4 жыл бұрын
Actually, a break in a natural dam and a flood of water eroded the land in a short time.
@diegosilang4823
@diegosilang4823 2 жыл бұрын
Specially after the end of ice age,
@norbertjendruschj9121
@norbertjendruschj9121 2 жыл бұрын
@@diegosilang4823 That happened in Washington (state) in the Columbia river basin.
@norbertjendruschj9121
@norbertjendruschj9121 2 жыл бұрын
@@GDM1787 My dear Dean, the bible is not a geology guide.
@FurlogTheGiant
@FurlogTheGiant 2 жыл бұрын
Wrong
@trinityhoult6395
@trinityhoult6395 2 жыл бұрын
@@norbertjendruschj9121 and you’re so certain because????
@jamkert3788
@jamkert3788 7 жыл бұрын
this is a good channel, very educational
@metaloreo8423
@metaloreo8423 3 жыл бұрын
And I took that personally
@arinainggolan889
@arinainggolan889 2 жыл бұрын
thanks for information #good
@MyVhey
@MyVhey 2 жыл бұрын
That's My VHEY Official 50 seconds ago The Grand Canyon is one of the best vlog that I ever made. with it's amazing and spectacular scenic view that really capture your attention.
@MegaBanne
@MegaBanne 6 жыл бұрын
But that doesn't make sense. Why would the river cross a high plateau? It should have gone around the high plateau shouldn't it? It is as if the plateau formed around the river in some weird sense. But that goes against our most accepted theories about the age of the high plateau as well as the river.
@deerjerkydave
@deerjerkydave 7 жыл бұрын
He still didn't explain how the canyon became so large. There are places with much bigger rivers with much more rain that don't look like this.
@raccoonfederation2391
@raccoonfederation2391 5 жыл бұрын
He did should of paid attention
@quintonbates5281
@quintonbates5281 3 жыл бұрын
This was formed from the flood
@JohnDoe-fy4fw
@JohnDoe-fy4fw 2 жыл бұрын
@@quintonbates5281 incorrect
@quintonbates5281
@quintonbates5281 2 жыл бұрын
@@JohnDoe-fy4fw why is that so hard to believe
@JohnDoe-fy4fw
@JohnDoe-fy4fw 2 жыл бұрын
@@quintonbates5281 because it's literally impossible, go back public school kid
@cbastor1
@cbastor1 9 жыл бұрын
I was just at the Grand Canyon, we must have just missed each other.
@petalumatube
@petalumatube 5 ай бұрын
Such good content
@robodragonn9506
@robodragonn9506 9 жыл бұрын
I lost it at the "Here's an idea"
@WWZenaDo
@WWZenaDo 9 жыл бұрын
Hey, if that canyon thinks it's so "Grand", then I'd like to hear ALL about the huge canyon on Mars which dwarfs it!
@AtheistRex
@AtheistRex 9 жыл бұрын
***** Apples and oranges; there were different processes at work. But still, if you were standing at the edge of the Valles Marineris under a clear, butterscotch Martian sky, I bet it would be the "grandest" sight in the solar system.
@WWZenaDo
@WWZenaDo 9 жыл бұрын
AtheistRex Yes, different processes. The Valles Marineris may be largely the result of gigantic rifting (assisted in small part by some early water erosion) rather than entirely water-eroded (well, primarily water-eroded) as the Grand Canyon was, but it's still a much more impressive sight. I'd love to see it up close. Only safe way to do that, at this point, would be thru robotic exploration.
@AtheistRex
@AtheistRex 9 жыл бұрын
***** I don't think there are any missions planned for that region. I think they're all focused on the ice-soil boundaries near the poles.
@WWZenaDo
@WWZenaDo 9 жыл бұрын
AtheistRex Not yet. I'm very uncomfortable about manned missions to Mars at this point; I don't think humanity has the technology (yet) to safely put someone on Mars & bring them back home alive.
@AtheistRex
@AtheistRex 9 жыл бұрын
***** NASA says 2030 is a good year for a manned Mars mission. The Mars One project will unfortunately not be going anywhere.
@ranarituraj588
@ranarituraj588 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@diannegabriel1017
@diannegabriel1017 4 жыл бұрын
I wish I could go there, someday.
@davidrobinson4118
@davidrobinson4118 3 жыл бұрын
I just love the way geologists say things like "as 'recently' as 80 million years ago!" Science is just wonderful.
@mysterymaster180
@mysterymaster180 2 жыл бұрын
Keeping in mind Earth is apparently nearly 5 billion years old.
@davidrobinson4118
@davidrobinson4118 2 жыл бұрын
@@mysterymaster180 That was the point I was making in a kind of round about way. Stay safe my friend.
@Iman-ve3il
@Iman-ve3il Жыл бұрын
@@mysterymaster180 the lies continue. Earth is not even millions of yrs old.
@jolasol8196
@jolasol8196 10 ай бұрын
?@@Iman-ve3il
@QuehannaWildman
@QuehannaWildman 7 ай бұрын
Your religion says the worlds billions of years old, not observable science
@Dovid2000
@Dovid2000 6 жыл бұрын
There are many nice theories. Erosion is an ongoing process, creating new geological forms. It is more likely that the receding waters after the Great Deluge some 4,200 years ago (if we can rely on the biblical account) formed the Grand Canyon, and that debris and sediment of other periods (broken mollusks and marine organisms) had collected in the canyon's strata, which gives to it the appearance of being 6 million years. Softer earth was swept away with the inundating waters, until one was left with the granite bedrock (otherwise known as the Vishnu Basement Rocks). Remember that the entire earth was once covered with water, which explains why they found fish fossils (or else sea shells) on top of Pikes Peak.
@hannahray4332
@hannahray4332 6 жыл бұрын
The flood of Noah's time created it. God created it.
@moudasandanaanyadas7641
@moudasandanaanyadas7641 4 жыл бұрын
Wonderful video .
@theworldoftheuniverse2693
@theworldoftheuniverse2693 3 жыл бұрын
Very interesting thanks for you 🌹👍
@stuartmain7201
@stuartmain7201 9 жыл бұрын
A critical part of science is observation, and the recording of it. For some reason this clip decides to ignore eye witness accounts which state that it was catostrophic forces at work which made this canyon, not uniformitarian forces. Had it been formed slowly over millions of years there would be similar canyons all over the world. Fossilisation is a rapid process, not a slow one.
@ThatisnotHair
@ThatisnotHair 5 жыл бұрын
How much rapid is this fossilization.
@Iman-ve3il
@Iman-ve3il Жыл бұрын
The earth is not even millions of yrs old. That’s the history lie they continue to feed the sheeple
@salmonkill7
@salmonkill7 Жыл бұрын
No, the critical feature is the massive SANDSTONE type rock. You can perform simulations on how well water erodes through various types of rock and basalt or granite rock derivatives would have been fairly impervious to the Colorado River. The Sandstone that the Southwest is made of, erodes much more easily compared to bedrock in other parts of the World. There are a few more Canyons around the World, just not as large. How long did you think the Grand Canyon was formed in? You can literally date the layers from the bottom to the top using Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) techniques and the dates are identical to the radiometric dates in the rocks. OSL signals are traps in metal oxides formed when natural ionizing radiation forms defects in metal oxides like Silicates. When the rock is illuminated with sunlight the signals erase, but once covered they integrate the time they are buried very precisely!!
@ProSurviver
@ProSurviver Жыл бұрын
@@salmonkill7 the bedrock of the grand canyon isnt sandstone
@salmonkill7
@salmonkill7 Жыл бұрын
@@ProSurviver It's limestone. What's you point?? Are you one of the
@dansdoves3650
@dansdoves3650 4 жыл бұрын
That little river as he calls it, must have rushed through this area in giant floods to cut the canyon walls when the water drained from the inland sea. Floods cut canyons straight up and down as most of the Grand Canyon is. Just my thought
@WilliamNordeste
@WilliamNordeste Жыл бұрын
When he says hundreds of millions of years were in trouble.
@iainpattison903
@iainpattison903 9 ай бұрын
I agree, giant floods (plural).
@bl0ody_n0s3
@bl0ody_n0s3 3 жыл бұрын
We watched this video quite some time ago in my class
@philipputzer9229
@philipputzer9229 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you: Thanks
@ellabellab0
@ellabellab0 9 жыл бұрын
You don't need to be great to make greatness, all you need is time!
@HajoBenzin1
@HajoBenzin1 9 жыл бұрын
seriously, was this greenscreen or not :D?
@garethdean6382
@garethdean6382 9 жыл бұрын
Come to my country! See the Adequate Canyon, home of the Mildly Interesting Falls and One Day They'll Be Great Lakes!
@xavierxrc
@xavierxrc 9 жыл бұрын
Hey Joe. I keep forgetting you're all part of PBS and I'm subscribed to all three of you. You guys should all do I jointed video on something.
@EsotericGold_net
@EsotericGold_net 5 жыл бұрын
Get with the times folks. The electric universe and the Thunderbolts project has not only the answer but has proven it in the lab, with a positive and negative electrode, electricity, the electric universe. The scar on Mars also has been produced identically. 🌝
@dansdoves3650
@dansdoves3650 4 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing but I think when the inland sea drained it caused the massive erosion seen in the Grand Canyon. Probably about the time as the younger dryas cataclysms that caused a lot of other floods in the northern part of the continent.Or it could have been a thunderbolt from a passing celestial body. Planet X would be my guess.
@DavidC_AZ
@DavidC_AZ 7 ай бұрын
Yes. Electrical discharge.
@udamantooable
@udamantooable 9 жыл бұрын
when I visited the Grand Canyon a park ranger explained that a lake formed east of the canyon and a land dam holding the water back broke and the spillage caused the canyon.
@yogiiibabasubscriber9939
@yogiiibabasubscriber9939 5 жыл бұрын
Very interesting video sir
@ashxlleyy
@ashxlleyy 4 жыл бұрын
My teacher made me do this so 💀😭
@shahmeerali5683
@shahmeerali5683 4 жыл бұрын
Ok and?
@BrownToiletIsh
@BrownToiletIsh 4 жыл бұрын
Online class?
@aelspecto
@aelspecto 9 жыл бұрын
1: Activates 4k 2: Computer freezes 3: Cries in the corner...
@GrappleApple1
@GrappleApple1 3 жыл бұрын
omg this is helping me
@hassantoor6802
@hassantoor6802 6 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU FOR USING THE METRIC SYSTEM!!!!!!!!!!!!😃😃😊😊😁😁☺️☺️🙂🙂
@BrandonRasaka
@BrandonRasaka 9 жыл бұрын
I have to make a correction to the video: much of the Grand Canyon erosion happened concurrently with the Colorado Plateau Uplift, not after. Until about 5 million years ago, the Colorado River flowed along a slight different route, most likely via today's Kanab Creek. But there was another river on the plateau, also eroding the landscape, that merged with and "captured" the ancient Colorado, altering it to its present course. So the video isn't entirely wrong in stating that the river migrated headward, because one of the rivers did, until they merged into one. But the majority of the erosion of the entire canyon was happening at the same time the land was being uplifted.
@besmart
@besmart 9 жыл бұрын
Brandon Rasaka That doesn't line up with the timeline of events according to my research. The Laramide Orogeny, which was the first and major portion of uplift to create the Colorado Plateau, began about 75 million years ago, and the Colorado River didn't begin major erosion until 5-6 MYA. I think you'd be right in saying that much of the erosion happened concurrently with the rifting that opened the Gulf of California and the reversal of a portion of the Colorado, but from my understanding the uplift was essentially complete at this time, and much of the eastern water came from ancient snowmelt lakes. If you have supporting info for that, I'd love to see it!
@WWZenaDo
@WWZenaDo 9 жыл бұрын
It's Okay To Be Smart Brandon Rasaka is correct; you may want to check out this paper from the Geology Department, University of Akron: www.nature.nps.gov/geology/education/Foos/plateau.pdf Which states, on page 6: "The Laramide Orogeny occurred from the end of the Cretaceous to Early Tertiary periods and was responsible for formation of the Rocky Mountains. Deformation was more gentle on the Colorado Plateau, resulting in the formation of monoclines and normal faulting. During the Eocene the Colorado Plateau was at a low elevation surrounded by mountains. These mountains were eroded and sediments were deposited in intervening basins, resulting in burial of Laramide structures... Approximately 5 million years ago the entire Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau were uplifted 4,000 to 6,000 feet. This type of uplift which does not involve deformation and effects a large area is termed epeirogenic uplift. On the Colorado Plateau, uplift was facilitated by reactivation of preexisting faults and accompanied by tilting of the plateau toward the north. Present day streams established their courses at this time *and because they were lifted high above base level (sea level) they began to rigorously downcut. Deep entrenchment of streams and differential erosion of the plateau began at this time.*"
@willsmiththeiron5007
@willsmiththeiron5007 9 жыл бұрын
It's Okay To Be Smart yeah tell him boss
@besmart
@besmart 9 жыл бұрын
***** Brandon Rasaka Ah, so the Foos paper, which I had seen, dates from 1999. A couple of papers came out in 2010 that paint a much more complex picture, though: geology.gsapubs.org/content/38/7/671.full From the commentary there, it seems likely that there was some uplift still occurring about 5 MYA, but a great deal of it happened as far back as the late Cretaceous.
@WWZenaDo
@WWZenaDo 9 жыл бұрын
It's Okay To Be Smart A great deal may have happened in the late Cretaceous (although it's more likely that the process had just begun in the late Cretaceous), but there was apparently a great deal of "unroofing" of rock in the general area, not just downcutting of the proto-Grand Canyon channel. The last burst of uplift (time range estimates vary) may have caused a final spurt of erosion of the Colorado River's channel. One question is, how much downcutting took place during that last 5 to possibly 20 million years...? One of the free papers quoted in your link states "Mid-Tertiary dates from the Grand Canyon basement at the bottom of the Upper Granite Gorge limit signifi cant incision of the modern Grand Canyon below the Kaibab surface to
@CoryPelizzari
@CoryPelizzari 6 жыл бұрын
They say that you could fit the entire world's population in that canyon. If everyone was Japanese, this would happen.
@kumaraguru_1973
@kumaraguru_1973 5 жыл бұрын
🤔
@ExcellentLeoSilinda
@ExcellentLeoSilinda 5 жыл бұрын
Hey Vsauce, Michael here
@kaifinn1584
@kaifinn1584 4 жыл бұрын
cool video!
@shamsurnayeem2769
@shamsurnayeem2769 9 жыл бұрын
Joe be sure to get yourself some good stuff during your stay at CO!
@kevinhuang379
@kevinhuang379 9 жыл бұрын
What happened to your glasses
@besmart
@besmart 9 жыл бұрын
Kevin Huang They fell in the canyon. Just kidding! I'm not so blind that I need to wear them all the time, just keeping you all on your toes
@pbsgameshow
@pbsgameshow 9 жыл бұрын
It's Okay To Be Smart More importantly, what happened to the *lenses* in your glasses?
@DorthLous
@DorthLous 9 жыл бұрын
PBS Game/Show You did a video without lenses, you're the one to talk...
@ehaslage
@ehaslage 9 жыл бұрын
Dorth Lous That's the joke.
@metaloreo8423
@metaloreo8423 3 жыл бұрын
He couldn’t find them
@gfather1259
@gfather1259 9 жыл бұрын
well why don't other rivers form canyons like this
@ronschlorff7089
@ronschlorff7089 4 жыл бұрын
@markj6700 there was one formed on Mars too!! Vallis Marineris
@joshmusic9766
@joshmusic9766 4 жыл бұрын
this question is addressed in the video. it is the literal purpose of the video.
@j.m.r.f6286
@j.m.r.f6286 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, gracia's
@deepeshjatav6243
@deepeshjatav6243 3 жыл бұрын
Love love love for science and for you!!!!
@realtruthseeker521
@realtruthseeker521 6 жыл бұрын
Lol. @ “the Colorado river made the Grand Canyon”.
@JorgeLopez.888.
@JorgeLopez.888. 4 жыл бұрын
When I see the Canyon Iook like water was drying and living the layers and the only way water was high like that and powerfull to make the erotion was the Noah's Flood. Same layers are all arround the world.
@michaelk3582
@michaelk3582 3 жыл бұрын
You'll appreciate this link .. he actually demonstrates and shows all the real and technical evidence of sudden catastrophic formation. kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3LGc4aleLKVnZI
@israelobregon1226
@israelobregon1226 6 жыл бұрын
You're so cool! I can't get tired of watching your videos all over agani! Why can't you be my dad?
@Questerer
@Questerer 9 ай бұрын
I got the idea of tackling the rising of the ocean level by dumping a huge portion into the canyon. Won’t ever happen. But it is interesting to think about.
@GalanDun
@GalanDun 9 жыл бұрын
You're shooting in 4K, but no 60FPS? For shame! :P
@besmart
@besmart 9 жыл бұрын
Alex Shannon tbh I am not a fan of 60 fps, 23.98 is plenty of frames for me :)
@GalanDun
@GalanDun 9 жыл бұрын
It's Okay To Be Smart Don't say that around the PC Master-race :P But honestly, even though I don't tend to care about 60FPS I would always prefer to produce my videos at that framerate, since it keeps people in the comments from complaining :P
@Xackus
@Xackus 9 жыл бұрын
Alex Shannon As long as there are no fast moving objects or quick camera movements (like in games) 30 fps is fine. But games at anything lower than 60 fps is horror. PC Master Race FTW!
@GalanDun
@GalanDun 9 жыл бұрын
Xackus As a budding filmmaker I've decided that I will shoot in 60fps for the sake of futureproofing.
@cavalrycome
@cavalrycome 9 жыл бұрын
Alex Shannon Beware of the "soap opera effect" that comes with high frame rates. It ends up making productions look very cheap and nasty.
@akelch11
@akelch11 6 жыл бұрын
Has anyone heard of the Hydroplate Theory by Walter Brown? His Theory seems to be the most logical to me.
@ghostboys9189
@ghostboys9189 6 жыл бұрын
My class watched this and now I am commenting on this vid LOL
@Daniel-Roos
@Daniel-Roos 9 жыл бұрын
Nice video!
@teekanne15
@teekanne15 9 жыл бұрын
Had sedimentology exam today... :D
@unvergebeneid
@unvergebeneid 9 жыл бұрын
teekanne15 Yet another -ology I never even knew existed.
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