The Wilson Cycle and Plate Boundaries

We just learned about plate tectonics, so let's see how that fits into a global-scale model for the formation and destruction of supercontinents called the Wilson Cycle. How do supercontinents like Pangea form and split up? It's an awe-inspiring process that takes millions of years, so let's check it out!
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[@glennpearson9348]

Absolutely fascinating! I think the hardest thing to grasp is the time-scale over which these powerful changes occur. Just like it's difficult to grasp the enormity of distance between our galaxy and those formed 13 billion years ago, it's hard to imagine these processes playing out over hundreds of millions of years. It's so impressively humbling, yet super exciting! Thanks, Professor Dave. Really enjoyed this one.

[@JCO2002]

Saying thanks as a Canadian for discussing Tuzo Wilson's work on plate tectonics. He deserves much more recognition than he's gotten in the past.

[@loversofgeography]

Great explanation sir you really helped me a lot to clear this topic

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[@Riogrande1964]

For an in-depth dive into the history of this epic discovery, there's nothing better than Henry Frankel's The Continental Drift Controversy (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2017) - 4 volumes. Masterpiece of scholarship and a deep dive into how scientists came to accept a theory that was long considered preposterous.

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It's amazing to know that even the land we live on isn't that hard or fixed rather it has fluidity dynamics

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[@Riogrande1964]

Very well explained and illustrated. Highly recommended.

[@atlasl25]

hi, anyone konw, when stage 1 the continent separate apart, rifting system, but it is rifting system stops and the subduction begins and consume all the oceanic lithosphere , which they rejoin again? am I right? idk why the divergent system stop.

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This has been very fascinating. Thank you Professor Dave!

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Concise and clear as usual.

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[@PlayNowWorkLater]

Would slab pull from the subduction of one or more of the tectonic spreading plates be a possible mechanism for passive rifting?

[@Polymeron]

I'm starting to see why Plate Tectonics theory met with such stiff resistance in its early days. It requires a hell of a lot of mechanisms and explanations, without which the idea of shifting continents seems mysterious and even absurd. But that's part of the beauty of science... When mysteries abound, people go and research them, and when all the results point in one direction, a new theory is formed.

[@Riogrande1964]

Henry Frankel's Continental Drift Hypothesis (Cambridge, 2017) chronicles scientists' long resistance to the theory... what made the difference, ultimately, was the discovery of sea floor spreading

[@Anatoly-Cherep]

@@Riogrande1964 The sea floor spreading is fine. The subduction and all "plate tectonics" is a poor fantasy. The Earth is definitely expanding!

[@cobyfront6310]

Great informative video, thanks professor dave

[@babyblossom1179]

From what i had learned Lake Victoria is not a part of east african rift valley lakes, but it says at 3:20 that it is .... please correct me if i am wrong, or explain. thank you

[@Onio_Saiyan]

J Tuzo Wilson in the thumbnail on my tiny phone screen looked like Picard. Anyway, I'mma keep watching.

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One day all of this knowledge will be lost and restart the process again lol 😂

[@operaflute]

Why does the subduction of the old, cold oceanic crust cause the continental crust to reverse direction?

[@JR-mj8ph]

Awesome!

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[@PopeLando]

My name is Wilson. I wish I had been a cool scientist with the middle name Tuzo.

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Cool!!

[@RocketboyX]

I wonder how a flat earther would wave away the measurable and verifiable current continental drift?

[@JoeFromDetroit]

Oh I'm sure they would say some BS.

[@glennpearson9348]

They wouldn't have to. They'll just say that all of the land masses slide around on the plate like ice cubes, then go off muttering something about mud floods.

[@columnarbasalt4677]

wait till you hear about the "expanding earth theory" . .

[@Ensaima]

VeCt0r VeCt0r magnetic expansion

[@slovosch]

Супер! Спасибо за видео!

[@Anatoly-Cherep]

За что спасибо говорите? За бессмысленные ненаучные сказки? Вся "тектоника плит" - детский сад, придуманный от страха признать РАСШИРЕНИЕ ЗЕМЛИ.

[@slovosch]

​@@Anatoly-CherepЯ на Ваш канал тоже подписана, правда с другого аккаунта. Мне очень нравится Ваша точка зрения. Люблю, когда есть альтернативные теории, ведь в споре рождается истина! (В геологии нефти и газа я приверженец неорганики и Кудрявцева 😅) На канале Дэйва информация хорошо структурирована и все по "общепринятой теории". Я использовала его канал для изучения профессиональной лексики и подготовки к лекциям на английском языке (читала курс геологических дисциплин в Китае).

[@Anatoly-Cherep]

@@slovosch Тогда понятно. Основы "общепринятой теории", конечно, здесь хорошо излагаются. Но основы ложные, если присмотреться. Я надеюсь застать при жизни падение "теории толкотни плит". С китайскими геофизиками сталкивался только в России, и у меня впечатление, что они думать об альтернативах не будут. Зачем рисковать при огромной конкуренции? Мне китаец на переговорах в Москве жаловался, что в Штатах стали ограничивать кол-во студентов из Китая и кол-во научных сотрудников в университетах. А куда же больше? Итак, по моим прикидкам, 2/3 докладов на международных конференциях (SEG и т.п.) подают китайцы! Нового от них ничего ждать нельзя - только то, за что гранты дают.

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