The Insane Geology of North Scotland's NC500: 3 Billion Years in 500 miles

[@julesdingle]

CORRECTION.. I'm a filmmaker not a geologist so I will make mistakes.. a correction for Durness limestone, I said it was the shells and bones of sea creatures, it often is but Durness limestone is so ancient it is almost devoid of life, but for strange bacteria..you can find their fossils. The limestone was created chemically, the weathering of rocks that sucked out CO2. If you are in Durness do visit Bjorn.. an Icelandic geologist who has an exhibition and runs amazing tours. You can find him in the craft centre camp to west of the village. durnessdeeptime.com

[@nathaliesurprenant9137]

Thank you Jules. Great tour of Scotland's geologic periods and features. I really enjoyed!

[@snodrog5]

Kept waiting for Knockan Crag as your end point. Wonderful vids, thank you very much.

[@julesdingle]

Knocken Crag and the story behind it is a story in its self... with model building! But I will return.The cliff featuring the shuffled up strata.. older rock on top of younger rock and the quartzite layers is visible at 37 mins

[@nolderine]

Awesome . Has the feel of an old 1980s BBC2 open uni documentary . Your music choices and voice just seem to take me back . Very informative video thank you

[@julesdingle]

thank you.. the music choice is very much a blast from the past.. so far no one has worked out [a clue is in the typeface I choose]

[@sethoflagos2880]

@@julesdingle All disnae?

[@Dripfed]

Well shot, really captures the landscape. Enjoyed this whistle stop tour and commentary. 👍

[@julesdingle]

Whistles stop! it is nearly 40 minutes long which is certainly on the long side for a KZbin video.. and I left out detail. I have more footage and will go back to fill in some of the gaps.. very glad you enjoyed

[@Dripfed]

@@julesdingle lol. 👍 What's 40 minutes in 3 billion years.

[@yorkshirelass8786]

This was so informative. Stunning imagery and I loved the music.

[@julesdingle]

thank you..

[@bv3bv334]

Nice one. Have a passing interest in rocks. Fascinating subject. 👍

[@julesdingle]

check out the rest of the geology playlist.. and I'm adding more content on the subject... I hope you will have more of a passing interest in the future!

[@surferaly]

Fab! Thank you, I'll look out for more of the same. I did a number of geology field trips in some of these locations years ago, wonderfull to revisit them like this. I read up on geology a lot and scour youtube for decent content, I havent seen such a good aerial treatment and commentary before, really distinctive style, more please😃

[@julesdingle]

More coming.. I have a backlog after travelling the Scottish isles .. So another on Skye, one Mull with all its amazing volcanic geology. Arran which is the best geological island having everything. I have also got back from the Irish wild Atlantic way ..I need up at Giant's Causeway. And a full video on Ice Ages, having visited Norway's glaciers So stay tuned. best Jules

[@vannjunkin8041]

Superb Video. Enjoyed it ever so thoroughly ❤.

[@garethmorgan6889]

Thanks Jules. Absolutely love your photography, geology guide and light hearted delivery. Stunning video throughout. Will check out Skye next and looking fwd to seeing more! 👍

[@ThatScottishguy1]

Brilliant, I loved watching my Country in your beautiful video and how it’s formed,? I look forward to more of your stuff??.

[@julesdingle]

always more to come.. we live on a blessed island and the more I film it the more it reveals the beautiful... and for a time I thought I had seen it all !

[@richardpegg9265]

well - as long as you know the 6 different types of oolitic limestone - that's good enough for me. wonderful film, very enjoyable and all midge free from the sofa.

[@TuxedoPanther]

Great video, thanks 👍

[@geologyjohnson7700]

Very cool! I did my hydrocarbon project on the Beatrice field!

[@Mouse2113]

Fascinating video

[@stevo728822]

What a wonderful video for us geology fans. I've spent a month exploring the coastline of the Aberdeenshire and the Moray, and a had a quick trip through the Central Highlands. I want to come back one day and explore the Northern Highlands.

[@julesdingle]

I'm very glad you enjoyed it... I have always had an interest in geology but the trip this June was magical and I'm even further down the geology rabbit hole. In the spring I will do more around Skye, Harris and Arran... as well as get into exploring the centre of the northern highlands. Check out my video on Skye and the insane geology there.

[@forbesmeek6304]

Superb 👍

[@peterthornton2396]

Hello, very informative video. A couple of years ago I spent some time in Orkney and I sincerely miss the place. Especially the drive through the highlands. Makes you feel very small indeed. Would love to go back one day.

[@julesdingle]

it is a very easy place to fall in love with.. Orkney I find a little too treeless to feel entirely at home

[@mattralph6998]

This video needs more views!

[@julesdingle]

well that would be a appreciated !

[@EuroScot2023]

OOps! No captions/subtitles. Sorry. No use.

[@julesdingle]

Not sure what you want.. there is auto captions that work but I don't have the resources for subtitles. As for locations if you need more references they can be added.. is that what you wanted.. or just a title card for locations?

[@andrewsmethers9652]

Thank you, I thought this was an excellent film and applaud your efforts. I am familiar with the area and appreciated finding out about what has intrigued me since I first traveled there (1980's by motorcycle, when it was still considered quite remote). One small criticism; The music was at times overwhelming and I would have turned it off except I did not want to miss your essential commentary. I have not had this happen on your other productions and assume you just got the modulation wrong. I am almost as ancient as some of the rock you describe, and appropriately hard of hearing, so the volume must have been quite loud for me to find it intrusive. It seems less than gracious to offer any negative comment on such an informative and beautiful film but the volume did intrude.

[@julesdingle]

thank you.. yes you re right music can be a real issue.. I mix in my studio and that doesn't always work for smaller laptops and tablets. I choose the music 1/ it's copyright free 2/ they are used in Disney's Fantasia and the dinosaur scene as well as a night on a bald mountain had an impact on me as a child. This year I filmed the geology of Irelands Wild Atlantic Way ..so a similar video will be out before the end of the year. best J

[@tinab3364]

Love the selfie

[@Wise_Heart]

Sorry, I should specify I was wondering about the music in the Windmill farm segment. :)

[@Wise_Heart]

What is the name/artist for your music? This is a lovely video. Thank you!

[@julesdingle]

Hi.. the main music is the collection put together for Disney's Fantasia, in the first instance it is out of copyright but as a child I remember the dinosaurs and the tracks seemed to fit. The short section of music during the wind farm section is from Top Gear, but a strange accordion cover I picked up at a gig. the original is Jessica by the Allman Brothers

[@JohnShields-xx1yk]

The time scales are mind bending.

[@julesdingle]

yes, when I was trying to find a means to illustrate how old Scotland is it surprised me ..deep time is deep, and the concept was promoted by a Scot James Hutton over 200 years ago

[@svsfilm]

Great film-making, well done. I was hoping you might have mentioned GB's northernmost coal mines at Brora (where part of my family comes from).

[@julesdingle]

that's sounds interesting.. I shall investigate next time I'm up that way. they are an unusual coal field being late- Jurassic [younger than the Devonian rocks and Cambrian coalfields of the central belt- and more in common with the oil fields out to sea]

[@svsfilm]

@@julesdingle Much more on the geology and history can be found from my friends at the Brora Heritage Centre. The coal was the foundation for electric power, wool mills, brick making, salt and whisky. etc

[@emsmac80]

I am from Durness. I detest NC500. However I love this video, thank you 😃 it's fab!!!

[@julesdingle]

have you visited the 'rock' museum on the old army camp..the whole area is a fabulous geological class room

[@Cutondogor]

When All This Rubbish is over and it's safe to travel again, I shall grab a good Geological Guide to Scotland and my long-suffering husband, and we shall do this drive. I'll tell him we're hunting for Wild Haggis, even though *I* know they're best found in the Highlands on the steep slopes.

[@julesdingle]

it really is rewarding.. just spending a day walking a mile or so along the beach at Durness is a fun and cheap day out. There is a Geotrail website with additional information

[@illumencouk]

I hope you don't mind my asking but is the 'glacier' scenario primarily to explain the large amounts of surface water in these regions? The surrounding terrain being 'carved' by a sliding glacier seems a little far fetched when we clearly see the water didn't follow the ice down whatever slope it's supposed to have slid. Besides, 'squashed mountains' sounds silly.

[@julesdingle]

As it happens I'm in the process of producing a bumper Ice Age special.. but everywhere north of Southern England and most of Wales and all of Scotland was under ice, up to two miles deep for 100,000 years to 40,000 years at time .. obvious glaciers carved valleys but the lack of mountains and where the sea is was an ice sheet... moving slowly with a lot less concentrated eroding power. And it's important to remember ice move far more like a solid than a liquid.. it can move up hill, rolling over lesser hills as a sheet.

[@illumencouk]

@@julesdingle What I find most problematic about this subject in general is its primary source, the miles of ice to which your working theory is built upon, it having long since melted means this explanation is an hypothesis, a non-demonstratable interpretation that can't be scientifically replicated. Super Position is the first law of Geology, correct? This rule of thumb says the 'surface or top' layer must be the newest, the youngest in age than all the subsequent layers deposited below and these must therefore, be older. This sounds logical and appears on the face of it, obvious. I fully agree that the evidence can be interpreted this way but look further a field and astronomers explain how comet's shed material from their surface in response to forces interacting with our sun. This action is scalable and describes how larger masses, such as ourselves - brown or red dwarf stars / planets also shed surface material if their magnetosphere's touch. Mars wears a scar that dwarfes the Grand Canyon, earning it the nickname Scarface. Billions of cubic metres of Mars surface were, exactly like the comet, removed. Super Position states that the newly arrived Martian layer now covering a totally different body, is the youngest layer - but the object 'covered' could just as easily been formed only a million years ago. NASA labels these as 'resurfacing events.'

[@julesdingle]

@@illumencouk the rule of super position is for strata .. existing layers of rock, but for instance along the NC500 is ancient gneiss over younger rocks caused by faults. And of course erosion is constantly stripping away the top layer.. in the example of recent glaciation billion year old rock was removed to expose 3-4 billion year old rock Earth atmosphere reduces the impact of resurfacing agents..but killer asteroids such as that of 60 million years ago resurfaced parts of the US and Central America

[@somerfeeild]

Some of the shots remind me of The lord of the rings

[@julesdingle]

it really is magical up in the North of Scotland.. I will be returning in the Spring to do some more videos.

[@holyworrier]

7:56 - Shame you couldn't get out there when the light was right. 20:16, 21:33 - The sky is hardly as interesting as the foreground. Less sky, more rock.

[@julesdingle]

There is a special on Lewisian Gneiss .. the Insane Geology of the Outer Hebrides with less sky and more rocks! As for getting the light right, I went back and filmed at a better time to do a special on the genius of Peach and Horne which should be out later this year.

[@holyworrier]

@@julesdingle - Thanks, Jules! Subscribed.

[@234cheech]

its not insane

[@julesdingle]

3 billion years is pretty insane.. check out the Geology of the Outer Hebrides .. 3,000,000,000 is as insane as it gets And it is also very beautiful

[@Jim-w6j]

complete utter bull. remove

[@julesdingle]

do want to expand on your observation.. otherwise I'm not sure which bit is wrong ?

[@FilthySoapCore]

Love the disney music in the background

[@julesdingle]

you should get an award..few spot that. I was of course influenced by Fantasia with mountains and dinosaurs .. but finding older copyright free version was a challenge for each of the movements