The Amazing Life Cycle of Mountains | SciShow Compilation

Mountains may look like they've all been stagnant for thousands of years, but the life cycle of a mountain is actually quite fascinating. From mountain ranges in space, to why Earth isn’t a water-world, here are some videos exploring the complexity of mountains and a shifting world. You won't believe the amount of history they contain! Hosted by: Stefan Chin
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Original Episodes:
How Tall Can Mountains Get? - • How Tall Can Mountains...
Earthquake Science and the Disaster that Created it - • Earthquake Science, an...
How Rain Might Make Mountains Grow - • How Rain Might Make Mo...
How Earth Recycled a Mountain Range - • How Earth Recycled a M...
Why is there Land? - • Why There is Land on E...
3 of the Strangest Mountains in the Solar System - • 3 of the Strangest Mou...

Ah yes, a mountain compilation. Also known as a range.

[@kf10147]

This is a perfect comment

[@conradcregor3487]

A mountilation, if you will

[@HornyNStrangler]

ah well if it was contiguous it would be a range good sir

[@novablum3399]

HAH

[@robpatty6062]

10 out of 10 my friend 😉😜

[@torchianicolas]

I just noticed that the mountain in the thumbnail is the Mt. Fitz Roy in the southern Argentinean-Chilean border! In my (biased) opinion, it is one of the most beautiful places on Earth! Love from Argentina ❤️

[@ladyj.klmnop]

Dutchsinse on yt

[@kingdmind]

🇦🇷🇨🇱

[@IzumiCurtiss]

Also known as El Chaltén, yeah, the most beatiful place I've seen 💜

[@nomadben]

Much love from the US ♥️

[@warpdriveby]

Both the lakes region and Tyrolean Alps in Austria have incredibly similar peaks in multiple areas, though in a slightly smaller scale. I thought it was a pic from near Mont Blanc at first, but that dagger shape is too distinctive. I realize it was in Patagonia just from seeing other photos.

[@FloozieOne]

Hank comes up with stuff that makes me laugh like crazy like: "Don't take land for granted; we could all be fish." You have to have a kind of "unique" view of reality to see things that way, but just in case, I'm going to say "Thank you earth" every day from now on.

[@qubit1788]

he lost the opportunity to say "don't take land for granite"

[@bookapillar]

@@qubit1788 so many missed mountain and rock related pun opportunities in this video 😅 lol

[@DJStompZone]

That's all fine and good, but maybe some of us *wanted* to be fish... (Flops away awkwardly)

[@DJStompZone]

@@qubit1788 Wow, I had to stop and marble at all the great geology puns he missed out on...

[@Katie-ul4dg]

Always thank earth she’s given us everything we have

[@irri4662]

This has been a very uplifting experience. Ty😎👍

[@RaeMachiavelli]

I can't blame you for making such a pun; it's not your fault.

[@thatonegirl5319]

I know, peak comedy.

[@TeaRex12]

I love when y'all talk about geology

[@johnp9988]

It rocks!

[@tetsuomiyaki]

@@johnp9988 jesus christ john they're minerals!

[@roxannlegg750]

@@tetsuomiyaki wrong. rocks are comprised of minerals. 2 or more minerals = a rock. Nomenclature matters. and no need for profanities. Geology rocks and i should know - my name says it all...

[@TomMilner]

Main takeaway from this video: Don’t take land for granite, we’re lucky land exists and we aren’t underwater - so don’t basalty about it.

[@aaronmorgan9444]

Yeah. We could all b fish 🎏

[@redflamearrow7113]

Too creative!

[@missyonthemoveadonaj.8387]

Why is this comment so far down... this is Sci-show gold

[@fandroid6491]

I hate dad jokes but this one is so good!

[@Tusai]

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[@PenguinCam]

I wonder sometimes if the presence of sea creature fossils in mountains, due to the plates' advance seafloor winding up high up, led to ancient people devising flood stories. They couldn't know then that the bit of rock with the seashells at the top of the mountain used to be seafloor, so they figured the water used to come up that high so there must have been a big flood. It makes sense in my head, anyway :-)

[@CviliC]

Thats an interesting theory. Sounds logical

[@ValeriePallaoro]

Good bit of insight. Says that they were both intelligent enough to question what they saw, and smart enough to take what they saw and create a story of the past. Nice idea.

[@breetopkuschi9657]

My aunt still thinks that’s what happened. That the ice age was the flood and put fish bones in the mountains. Lol

[@danielled8665]

@@breetopkuschi9657 yeah that's because people wrote a book a few thousand years ago before we had the tools to figure this stuff out, then wrote that anyone who didn't believe that book would burn horribly forever. Kind of led to a lot of long term willful ignorance and resistance to new information

[@Immortalrounin]

@@danielled8665 the story of the flood predates written texts (so far) it's something most ancient ppl shared. It could be possible that most of the world's early human population delt with a flood that to them seemed global. But in reality was localized to a region

[@neurofiedyamato8763]

Ok, cryovolcanoes are the coolest thing I've heard in awhile. Pun not intended.

[@thefoxyknifer1554]

Not intended, but welcomed 😎😂

[@CarolineBearoline]

Ground liquifaction from a quake is absolutely terrifying

[@fminc]

Looked that up, you are spot on, very scary. did not know that. Is "The majority Report" neutral or partisan ? Couldn't guess precisely from the thumbnails.

[@dizzym9554]

So KZbin kind of hitched for a moment and I just heard "While most of the earthquake activity in southeastern Europe is the work of turkeys" before it started buffering I nearly spit out my drink.

[@madsringswaldegan1687]

Short-haired Michael is like an unevolved pokemon

[@sharonolsen6579]

I love the short hair on him !!

[@dipstiksubaru3246]

Yup it doesn't look right. I can't believe he chopped it off, all that work and all that amazingness gone.

[@ValeriePallaoro]

@@dipstiksubaru3246 Don't be concerned; this is early Mike. The one you know and love, with the external things and the evolved pokemon look, is the _now_ Michael. This short, How Tall can Mountains Grow, aired 18 Sept 2019. So, not 'chopped off' at all.

[@demonflowerchild]

I love long haired Michael

[@himssendol6512]

He looks so young here.

[@loveliestfawn8961]

The editing is so well done gotta give appreciation to the editor or editors

[@GustafB]

Thanks. This was packed with new information and knowledge I had no idea of.

[@jaye2491]

"Glacial Buzzsaw" is a terrific name for a heavy metal band 😂

[@vernepavreal7296]

Excellent summation took me back to my earth science degree you even seem to have found an uplift processed I wasn’t familiar with good going cheers

[@susankay497]

Wow! This is fascinating - THANK YOU SciShow !!

[@ZeroAnalogy]

Tectonic plates? Ah, it's your fault there are mountains.

[@susanfleming2271]

This episode contains a lot of wonderful and varied facts. Thank you.

[@thegameres816]

Really cool compilation! There's so many crazy mountains in China as well, I'm surprised I did not see a video about them yet. Maybe a future idea?

[@3hermans]

That was a mountain of knowledge. Thanks!

[@melusine826]

We really have learnt a lot in last few hundred years...

[@BooksAndChocolate]

Amazing and fascinating video. I love mountains. If I don't go hiking or bicycling in the mountains for a while I'm getting itchy. I couldn't live anywhere else.

[@MichaelWalker-hh2xp]

Am glad these people cooperate together to make these videos⚡

[@Articulate99]

Always interesting, thank you.

[@minnymouse4753]

If you drain the ocean. How close would Hawaii compare to Olympus Mons on Mars

[@TechBearSeattle]

Mauna Kea is 9,966 meters tall. Olympus Mons is around 25,000 meters, almost 3 times taller.

[@kaiceecrane3884]

@@TechBearSeattle all of Hawaii itself without the ocean, at that point where does the landmass start

[@YoutubeIsAGarbagePit]

@@kaiceecrane3884 they just told you. about 10000 meters to the ocean floor

[@kaiceecrane3884]

@@KZbinIsAGarbagePit Mauna Kea, which is what they gave a measurement for, is the absolute bottom of the land mass of Hawaii?

[@YoutubeIsAGarbagePit]

@@kaiceecrane3884 no. For the 3rd time. What you would call "the bottom" of a land mass is the ocean floor. If you drained the ocean, it would be 10000 meters tall.

[@rawdaaljawhary4174]

This is so incredible. ❤ 🌍 Thank you.

[@gamewalker91]

Where I am in the rockies, theres a mountain range where geological time was flipped on its side. Older rocks to the east newer rocks to the west

[@fadaazahira531]

VERY GOOD INFORMATIONS TNX TEACHER

[@LivingWithGout]

When he said “god knows…” I died.

[@scientist1417]

So fascinating

[@mrmeowmeow710]

Damm good video thank you for it

[@Raven-kv9mb]

BEAUTUFUL!!

[@phsal5182]

very interesting. thank you

[@ilexater9556]

I learn almost as much from sci show as I do from my 6 year old nephew.

[@vandy3427]

Hi

[@haggielady]

Hi

[@AJ-yj7fl]

Hi

[@ZeroAnalogy]

You were first commenter, but you were humble in not claiming it.

[@v249705]

;ooking great, Michael!

[@ruthnovena40]

This is so fascinating,

[@TheSkubna]

I feel that if earth was covered in water, wouldn't it aid cooling the surface layers, and possibly start plate tectonics by causing cracks in the slaggy layer up top, where the lightest magma oozed out and began forming the proto continent. An ice age could possibly pile up enough ice to cause cracks in this continent? Idk. I'm as much a geologist as randy marsh

[@BitterrootBackpacking]

The northern and eastern entrances of Yellowstone are closed because of 2-3 inches of rainfall. That's good enough evidence for me that rainfall is the primary variable affecting erosion.

[@wrightsel44]

Seen a few complications today, first one about mountains

[@wrightsel44]

these guys get it

[@maizee3018]

Rock paper scissors? Nah let's play mountain, river, tectonic plates! River erodes mountain, mountain squashes plate, plate cuts off river.

[@davidwilkie9551]

Very interesting

[@Amberthyme]

Must send this to Cecil & Carlos. Mountains are not a myth!

[@eudyptes]

I understood that reference!

[@1337fraggzb00N]

I grew up as a mountain. My childhood was hell.

[@ThojifadMain]

Why don't we have more of these? This would make a great series!

[@pargevkarapetyan2251]

Thank you guys.Your videos very educational,for peoples want to know more. Thank you👏👏👍

[@JohnnyHikesSW]

The highest mountain on Venus is a bit taller than Everest even though Venus has a thicker atmosphere, so from that we can infer that the width of the mountain and the gravity of the planet are the main factors that determine how tall a mountain can get, and the atmosphere is a much smaller factor

[@jonatanromanowski9519]

Go Go Sci Show

[@HauntedOne666]

"Smashing crust" is my new favourite euphemism.

[@sabrinafelber]

thanks love geology!

[@michaelelbert5798]

Finally I feel like I know at least as much as the hosts.

[@septemberquest6393]

🏔🗻⛰🗺good ,educational vid.👍

[@samanthayoung6334]

I didn’t know I didn’t like the word Crustal until today.

[@sarapereira7662]

I live for this

[@brittneystreeter493]

Cyro-Volcano…how cool! 😂

[@twocvbloke]

Quite the "range" of videos there... :P

[@harrietharlow9929]

Hopefully. SciShow could cover the active fault zone that was recently discovered on Mars and what it may mean.

[@brianward7550]

22:49 you know I heard this theory about that, I don't remember all the wording exactly, but I think it involved a decree something to the effect of "let there be land"

[@rodepet]

I've been wondering... Something completely different. Could hydrogen powered planes increase the chance of forrest fires? Like how your not supposed to water the plants at certain times when it's really sunny because the droplets can have a magnifying effect and burn the leaves. Could the hydrogen from a plane influence some similar effect on a larger scale?

[@JboBakey]

Leaf burn from water isn't actually a thing, it's been disproven.

[@danielled8665]

When you burn hydrogen you get water, not more hydrogen.

[@goodrabbi7176]

Also, that is an untrue old wives tale about watering on sunny days. I’d be happy to go into more detail if asked.

[@rodepet]

@@goodrabbi7176 yes please!

[@bosa2459]

hey ! at 23:45 thats in Sao Miguel Azores Portugal ! Im from there :D

[@gmsherry1953]

I have some questions about Hank's first video in this compilation. At 9:18 he says "far from plates' boundaries," and the first example he gives (Utah and Idaho) IS at the interior of a plate. But then the next examples -- Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, Himalaya -- are a mixture (the Rockies are interior; I'm not sure about the Sierra Nevada; the Himalaya are definitely on a plate boundary). He then mentions that those are examples of the kind of fault that caused the Alaska earthquake, which is another plate boundary. And the last example -- the San Andreas fault -- is purely at a plate boundary. What point was he making? Did he lose track of what the examples were supposed to be examples of? And at 10:07 he refers to southwestern Europe and then mentions Turkey (with a map). Turkey can be southeast Europe or it can be southwest Asia. It can't be southwest Europe. This was an old episode (judging by Hank's exaggerated delivery). I think the quality control is better now.

[@willdulevitz]

I think he was saying that it wasn't only possible on the boudaries. The three types also happen on the poundaries, but can also happen in the interior.

[@debbiejoanhill1760]

St Michael,s Mount in Cornwall England and Ayers Rock are example of Mountains being crushed together.

[@ValeriePallaoro]

Uluru is an example of erosion of an ancient mountain range into finer particles that were washed down and sedimented by overlain land. Under high pressure and temperature the 'rock' was created and then the softer land eroded down to the level we see today. There is still so much Uluru under the land level today. St Michaels is granite, which by it's nature is molten rock cooled slowly under ground and then uplifted and the land eroded so we can see it. Good try. Geology is wonderful.

[@Chirkrasia]

cant fuckin believe i'm watching this to help me study for TWO classes

[@GhostOnHiatus]

I said "Oh!" like 5 times during this video, so damn interesting

[@HotelPapa100]

Wegener's continental drift theory was not based on the modern tektonic plate theory. In Wegener's model continents were ploughing through the ocean crust.

[@nikolaospeterson2495]

Weel...it's like this so far as a mountain itself arising at its base is Mauna Kea in Hawai'i. She is some 10.203 m in true height under mean sea level. So honestly that is 1'355 in difference from looking down upon Mt Everest which is from her base is 8'848 m..

[@priyambhushan8782]

God I love this channel

[@quique6676]

Stefan your skin looks incredible.

[@skybluskyblueify]

"Don't take laned for granted." Or we should take land for granite, because that's what continental crust if partly made of.

[@WhiteSpatula]

So.. we live on the foamy fringes of the soup skin of a colossal ball of molten lava? May as well go ahead and toss in hurtling through space! -Phill, Las Vegas

[@atee369]

Flagging this video as needing (not just auto-generated) subtitles. Please help us hard of hearing and deaf folks access your content!! 🥰🤟🏻

[@nasirhill]

Cool story bro

[@sgtpepperz25]

The study still only shows what happens in that situation...we know so little, and the more we know, the more we know we DON'T know.

[@Human-um5mu]

hey hank, long time lurker, first time commenter and you said south west, when refering to the south east.

[@instaperil]

Reid mentioned we have mountains that are also impact craters...which ones?

[@JAT985]

Panther Mountain in New York maybe?

[@chrisgale21]

top 10 at least :D

[@Sam_Da_Fox9151]

Short AND thick? Daaaaamn

[@ponyote]

Thanks Hank, thank.

[@trossbossmusic]

I learned about cryo- volcanoes today

[@Darkstar.....]

I have a question sci show. If the worlds water level rose one kilometre. Woukd that allow mountains to grow another kilometre or just half as much since water is almost half as dense as crust rock.

[@Darkstar.....]

Dam that's a good question dark star from the past. There might be something in that although I doubt it would be linear. 1 kilometre one way or the other by some metric. If the crust acted like a boat I can see your theory having something there. But what stops mountains from rising is the pressure the mantle and surrounding crust can exert on that break in the crust. Water shouldn't be involved at all but that's only because the water doesn't currently cover the entire planet. I can't decide. If the world was flattened out would it stop continental drift or simply start again from the beginning when earth was created from cosmic hellfire and liquid rock. like a lava lamp turned on. Mars is a lava lamp turned off billions of years ago. I learned a bit since I last saw this video. Fist pump 😁

[@0ntropy0]

Wegener made no mention of ‘plates’ and therefore no plate boundaries.

[@JerBear1990]

I love that Reid is in this one.

[@chelseawolfe5289]

I will never again take land for granite

[@schlempfunkle]

My friend, I have a question: what if we could gather soil in mass and move it to or from the pole or equator of mars; what direction do we move it?

[@stephenjacks8196]

Mars and Venus have cold cores. Earth has more radioactive keeping the iron core molten and powering plate tectonics (weathering).

[@b0kkeee]

When that first land peaked its head, were the circumstances it too extreme to hardbor the at that hypothetical timeframe for the bacteria to survive? Could it have been possible that life developed seperately above ground from these bacteria forming new lifeforms in an entirely different way?

[@brattymonkey7450]

I love science!

[@slevinchannel7589]

Low-Key-Hot-Take: Science-Channel and Atheist-KZbinr are Siblings, but many dont realize it, which is the one-and-only Reason to keep the Overlap low.

[@user-pz6kq2tv9m]

i made a research paper about this. cool.

[@ValeriePallaoro]

Good job!

[@gehtdianschasau8372]

There is an old saying in german: Steter Tropfen höhlt den Stein. (Constant dripping wears away the stone.) It took quite a while to proof that long know fact. I don't expect the evolution theory to be finally proofen by scientific standards ever. So people, who don't understand what a theory is, will keep saying:"But it's just a theory, bro."

[@robertgermainii7813]

I would have never known.

[@PrincessTS01]

they cut the line wrong on the san Andreas move of los Angeles. it's not a horizontal line in reality the fault runs from the middle of the baja body of water north and west curving past san bernadino and heading to san Francisco and since the earth is a ball the line isn't straight one bit...

[@Corium1]

The impact that hit mercury must have been apocalyptic. It seems like if it was just a little faster hitting it, it could've destroyed mercury

[@beyondgenesis2954]

Olympus mons: hold my beer

[@HolldollMcG]

Glacial Buzzsaw is a banger metal band name.

[@amateurastronaut5006]

Let me ask something. Is it possible that the earth didn't have any land until it was smacked by an asteroid that created the moon? Is it possible that the impact shattered the oceanic crust and created fault lines kinda like when you crack an egg? Then from the constant pull on the moon kinda kept the ball rolling? Just a thought. I ask because mars doesn't have any fault lines and only has a what some think is a captured moon. Never got to make any fault lines.

[@JMon2021]

Interesting idea, but unlikley, for a few reasons, the first being the timing, Theia, the protoplanet theorized to be about the size of Mars, hit the earth around 4.5 billion years ago forming the Moon. At that time the earth's surface would have been far too hot to support oceans so the planet would have been a barren black and red ball when Theia hit. Also, due to the heat, the earth would not have the layers we see today, everything would have been homogenous molten rock, so no crust to crack.

[@platorocks842]

Great work guys. Like your work. One question though that I would like to submit for open discussion. You say the weight of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa depress the seafloor by as much as 6,000 metres. How can you reconcile this with the usual explanation of the height of the seafloor at Iceland (which is something like 3,000 metres above where it should be) which is explained in the textbooks as due to uplift caused by the Icelandic hot spot. The Hawaiian hot spot leads to crustal depression and the Icelandic hot spot produces crustal uplift. Hum?? I concede the Hawaiian hot spot may now be somewhat distant from Mauna Loa but I'm thinking not by enough to produce a 9 kilometre swing. Over to the experts .......

[@breetopkuschi9657]

Just shuddup and listen to mountain stuff

[@danielled8665]

Because similar geologic events don't always have similar geologic results. One is on a sea crust, the other a continental. One is equatorial one isn't, one is likely different mineral composition... Be aware that you don't know enough to know what you don't know. None of us do.

[@mortophobegaming6454]

@22:45 hurray we got land, but don't take it for granite

[@tecumsehcristero]

Question- How do faults form in plates? Answer- Drunken Busboys

[@kingofbirds]

I've been ruined, I heard everest may be nearly as high as mountains can get and went "an yes, the block limit"

[@pride2184]

You didnt mention how olympus mons shows signs of collasps meaning it was larger however gravity caused it to topple and spread out and plateau however if it was still active it would contiunely collasps under its own weight.

[@zaubermaus8190]

i'll take one earth pizza with cheesy crust please! ^_^°