The 200-Million-Year Formation Of The Rocky Mountains | Spark

The Rocky Mountains were formed over 200 million years through complex geological processes. This included the initial breakup of Pangia, subduction of the Pacific Ocean plate beneath the North American Plate, thrust faulting, erosion, and Granite uplift, resulting in the majestic mountain range we see today.
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[@jamesherron9969]

Geologically speaking Everything about the show is fault. We don’t know how the Rockies are actually built because There too young and we don’t know the mechanism is pushing them up because they are still rising. This is conjecture being portrayed as fact.

[@vitostan3134]

I bet there are geologists that would strongly disagree with the southern Rockies formation. Nick Zentner would have something to say about this for sure.

[@crystalgreen1252]

Music is too loud and overpowers the narrator

[@gregorysagegreene]

Because of the stress and time pressures involved in being a trucker, I now listen to documentaries as I'm getting ready to soothe my nerves. I found this one so fascinating I just had to actually watch it again while having breakfast a day or so later.

[@YoreBeatenPath]

There were at least five separate instances in this video that showed Half Done in Yosemite National Park in CA, USA. That mountain range is the Sierra Nevada which is hundreds of miles away from the Rocky Mountains. All these scientists and their assistants and yet you video guys got that totally wrong multiple times. So what else is wrong in your video? Otherwise I really enjoyed it.

[@Prometheus61]

Silly background "music" always gets in the way of good information.

[@blackdotpatrick]

Yosemite is in California, not the Rocky Mountains. You keep showing images of Yosemite.

[@NikColyerMachineWorks]

Great information but the dramatic music is so distracting I had to stop watching.

[@doctorwu1303]

Just think..there are people out there walking around thinking the Earth is just 6000 years old.

[@NONOOBZ4EVR]

I love watching Naked Science; especially given my current attire (nothing)

[@ktkalicka]

Finally! A documentary that really explains EXACTLY how mountains form. I have never been able to quite understand it, always thought some sudden giant earthquake made them. Thanks a LOT.

[@prototropo]

I'm so entranced by any discussion of the Rockies' Front Range, because it was my playground in the 1950s! Every summer my cousins and neighborhood buddies would ride our bikes up to Red Rocks and climb around the jagged hills we see in this video's description of the beautiful folded uplift. And to the east, the Great High Plains of North America fanned out, still layering from eroded silt carried down by the Platte and the Arkansas Rivers, and carried south by the Rio Grande, west by the mighty Colorado. It was a magical place to be an eight-year-old. Thank you for bringing my childhood, and Colorado's own childhood, to life!

[@038Dude]

More of this please, I love geology!

[@michaelfrymus]

I live in the Canadian Rockies, and Im a photographer and a hiking guide. Love educating people on the history and the formation of the mountains and the fossils found here

[@rogerdudra178]

That really works good, at 74, for seeing how the mountains formed.

[@paulmicks7097]

We were told in our geology classes in the 1980s because of ice core recorfs the earb was in up temperature cycle, that we could warm untill the down temperature cycle was estimated to begin in 5000-8000 years.

[@MrBetc]

Even more amazing than the Rocky Mountains is the music that seems to come from them.

[@betford2]

"The older I get, the better this works." 😂 I feel ya!

[@MaximRedin]

I was searching such a video! Thank you for filming this. I like geology. I'd like to visit some of those magnificent places in US and see it and touch it. Btw I am watching you from Russia

[@johnplong3644]

Flat slabs subduction is the company line but there is another Hypothesis Yeh I watched Nick Zentner How the Rockies formed There is a debate on this I am just learning this and I am far from being an expert I am at a 101 Geology student One of the things I have learned is a lot of land was added to the west coast