The Amazing Life Cycle of Mountains | SciShow Compilation

[@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

[@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.

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

[@kf10147]

This is a perfect comment

[@conradcregor3487]

A mountilation, if you will

[@HNS-007]

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

[@novablum3399]

HAH

[@robpatty6062]

10 out of 10 my friend 😉😜

[@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...

[@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.

[@futrey9353]

joke got me quaking

[@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 😎😂

[@loveliestfawn8961]

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

[@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]

​

[@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.

[@MichaelWalker-hh2xp]

Am glad these people cooperate together to make these videos⚡

[@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.

[@GustafB]

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

[@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.

[@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?

[@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

[@jaye2491]

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

[@susankay497]

Wow! This is fascinating - THANK YOU SciShow !!

[@threehermans15]

That was a mountain of knowledge. Thanks!

[@Books-and-coffee0]

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.

[@melusine826]

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

[@ZeroAnalogy]

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

[@susanfleming2271]

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

[@Articulate99]

Always interesting, thank you.

[@rawdaaljawhary4174]

This is so incredible. ❤ 🌍 Thank you.

[@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.

[@LivingWithGout]

When he said “god knows…” I died.

[@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.

[@Amberthyme]

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

[@eudyptes]

I understood that reference!

[@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

[@mioVanz]

0:08 Not all mountains are made the same way.. Agreed! I like big mountains 😁

[@v249705]

;ooking great, Michael!

[@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

[@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"

[@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

[@1337fraggzb00N]

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

[@fadaazahira531]

VERY GOOD INFORMATIONS TNX TEACHER

[@ilexater9556]

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

[@ruthnovena40]

This is so fascinating,

[@HauntedOne666]

"Smashing crust" is my new favourite euphemism.

[@pargevkarapetyan2251]

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

[@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

[@maizee3018]

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

[@bosa2459]

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

[@chelseawolfe5289]

I will never again take land for granite

[@phsal5182]

very interesting. thank you

[@ThojifadMain]

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

[@mrmeowmeow710]

Damm good video thank you for it

[@scientist1417]

So fascinating

[@septemberquest6393]

🏔🗻⛰🗺good ,educational vid.👍

[@Raven-kv9mb]

BEAUTUFUL!!

[@samanthayoung6334]

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

[@stephenjacks8196]

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

[@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!

[@atee369]

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

[@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...

[@priyambhushan8782]

God I love this channel

[@jonatanromanowski9519]

Go Go Sci Show

[@JesseSwaney]

Mount Olympus: 374 mi.

[@davidwilkie9551]

Very interesting

[@Dismythed]

22:21 - Genesis 1:2; Psalm 104:6 22:47 - Genesis 1:9; Psalm 104:7-9 Corresponds perfectly to geology. The Babylonian legend, on the other hand, says that a god got slit in half and he became the ground and sky.

[@quique6676]

Stefan your skin looks incredible.

[@harrietharlow9929]

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

[@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

[@jmanj3917]

26:26, I'm kind of surprised that nobody has blamed the cause of the imbalance in crust types solely on human activity. Maybe it's because the paper is still fairly new. Give it time...

[@michaelelbert5798]

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

[@sabrinafelber]

thanks love geology!

[@charwest5892]

im gonna tell my kids this channel was the Big Bang Theory

[@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.

[@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 😁

[@JerBear1990]

I love that Reid is in this one.

[@Human-um5mu]

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

[@Chirkrasia]

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

[@twocvbloke]

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

[@paulbennett7021]

For a shorter crust, use lard.

[@seanwinegardner5931]

6:30 this Alfred dude looks a lot like Shia Labeouf👀

[@privateinvestigator8607]

0:15 that’s what she said

[@christianstrobl9480]

hehe nice

[@nasirhill]

Cool story bro

[@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..

[@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.

[@danwylie-sears1134]

6:26 "The theory of plate tectonics had actually been proposed a full fifty years before ..." What Wegener proposed wasn't plate tectonics. He compiled an impressive amount of evidence, demonstrating that continents had been in different locations in the geologic past, with the Americas in contact with Africa and Europe. Plate tectonics isn't a set of facts about the locations of continents at different times. It's a theory about how such changes work, with subduction zones, mid-ocean ridges, and so on. 23:22 "But since rock isn't completely homogenous, it's not like it all melted at once ..." That's not why. Even flash-frozen obsidian would have partial melt. A mixture is homogeneous when it's mixed at the atomic scale, i.e. when it's a solution. A liquid is, because there aren't any stable connections between atoms to maintain any separation. If a liquid solidifies faster than atoms can sort themselves out, it stays completely mixed. It still has different elements, that can form different minerals. If such a completely homogeneous rock were melted slowly, over millions of years, it would recrystallize as it partially melts, so the partial melt would have a different composition than the remaining solid rock.

[@brittneystreeter493]

Cyro-Volcano…how cool! 😂

[@delphinidin]

Scientist: "Pluto's crust is made of water ice." Philadelphians: WOODER ICE?!? DELICIOUS!

[@GhostOnHiatus]

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

[@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?

[@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.

[@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.

[@onionlayers9457]

Me: Aaah, 30 minutes long! I'm not gonna watch this video... Me:*clicks on the video* Also me 30min later: Ooh, it was interesting after all😑🚶🚶🚶

[@Leaf_Locke]

Have we seen what happens if a mega thrust were to happen at or near an active or dormant volcano? Or do we need to run simulations to see what would happen for that?

[@mortophobegaming6454]

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

[@oberonpanopticon]

10:37 Wait, I thought the plates were just the earth’s crust floating on top of the mantle, but 100km is almost 10x thicker than the crust? Clearly one of my assumptions was incorrect, but which?

[@ShawnSavageTeachings]

Mountains show you a glimpse of Gods enormity. I live by pikes peak and I thank God for its beauty every day. So cool to see the science of how God made them.

[@michaelkeller5927]

😂😂😂😂

[@ShawnSavageTeachings]

@@michaelkeller5927 😂🙌🏻🤯

[@skybluskyblueify]

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

[@vandy3427]

Hi

[@haggielady]

Hi

[@AJ-yj7fl]

Hi

[@ZeroAnalogy]

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

[@instaperil]

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

[@JAT985]

Panther Mountain in New York maybe?

[@sarapereira7662]

I live for this

[@gkess7106]

Please place text at the bottom of the screen showing metric measurements in FEET. That way I don’t have to hear a distance in meters then try and imagine that same distance three times longer or higher. At 19:55 you say they earth could have been “flat”! No. It could have been “smooth” or “smoother”. The earth would still be round, not flat. The terms smooth, level, and flat are often misused.

[@chrisgale21]

top 10 at least :D

[@tecumsehcristero]

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

[@ponyote]

Thanks Hank, thank.