SiO2 is also unique in shale compaction by pressure solution : Google "Proposed Method for Shale Compaction Kinetics" 2021. Thanks for your work. (Ever read J W Gibbs' "On The Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances"?)
fitting song: music.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6cyHVZk74Jc.html wonder if the more pointy pyramids like the pyramids of Bir Tawil and the Gypt of Egypt has a relation..
Hey, I’m a long time listener….. I mean long long time. I listened to your “ earth and environmental systems science podcast”, back when it was on iTunes when you first released it.… you changed my life and showed me the wonder of science. I hope you know how inspiring you’ve been to people.
Funny, the dissenters do not hold scientific degrees. They avoided those electives even in high school, yet now have sitting on the toilet staring at a phone research knowledge. It’s also where they got their data on vaccines.
Thank you so much for this video! Your production quality is fantastic, and I truly appreciate the effort you put into making it. Keep up the great work-I genuinely enjoy your content, and your knack for this shines through!
Christian, I'm delighted to see that you're still producing these superb presentations. Haven't tuned in for a year or more but just came across this new one. Thank you.
I love this channel (and Aron Ra's 'Systematic Classification of Life' and Earth.Parts). It is a great example of how one can make science lessons without it being the typical boring class lesson style amd without it being vague and devoid of actual lessons like all the mainstream stuff.
Wegener died for the cause "Wegener died in Greenland in around the middle of November 1930 while returning from an expedition to bring food to a group of researchers camped in the middle of an icecap.[16] He supplied the camp successfully, but there was not enough food at the camp for him to stay there. He and a colleague, Rasmus Villumsen, took dog sleds to travel to another camp - which they never reached. Villumsen buried Wegener's body with great care, a pair of skis marking the grave site. After burying Wegener, Villumsen resumed his journey to West camp, but he was never seen again. Six months later, on 12 May 1931, the grave was discovered halfway between Eismitte and West camp. Expedition members built a pyramid-shaped mausoleum in the ice and snow, and Alfred Wegener's body was laid to rest in it.[17] Wegener had been 50 years of age and a heavy smoker, and it was believed that he had died of heart failure brought on by overexertion. Villumsen was 23 when he died, and it is estimated that his body, and Wegener's diary, now lie under more than 100 metres (330 ft) of accumulated ice and snow."
Somehow this song got overlooked, a shame. It is tight with an upbeat energy, a very fine companion to Whisper to a Scream - Birds Fly. We will be new again, wash it all away.....
"We start by not trusting people who have a forgone conclusion and this gets selective about which evidence they bring forward" followed by 13 minutes of your own forgone conclusions. This entire video assumes a longer geologic timescale without question. For instance, in the part where you misrepresented the work of the RATE project (which I would bet my next paycheck you haven't read) you referenced K-feldspar and say with certainty that it starts with 100% potassium and 0% argon (which itself is based on a forgone conclusion since you could never know the initial conditions or history of a rock that is millions of years old) and don't address any of the known issues with K-feldspar dating like recoil, excess argon, radiogenic argon loss, etc, etc. K-spar doesn't avoid any of the assumption problems that any other dating technique does. You either knew this and suppressed these objections because they don't fit your narrative (thereby falling into the same category the creationist do), or you just aren't an expert on this topic. I will assume you are an expert on this topic, which makes me think that is an example of you and your forgone conclusions being selective about what evidence you bring forward. Later in the video you criticize the RATE Project's dating of Mt. St. Helens rocks because you can only use the k-Ar dating method on rocks at least 3 million years old. Now, if you don't hear your own forgone conclusions in that statement, I don't know what to say. If a test is unreliable on rocks less than X million years old, what if no rocks are X million years old? Your test will never work. You have to assume old earth age for the tests to be able to test old earth age. The circular reasoning is mind-boggling. Lastly, the RATE project consisted of 8 Ph.D. scientists, including 3 geologists, 3 physicists, and a meteorologist. You didn't surprise them with any new information. They know everything you talked about. They also knew their work would be subjected to this kind of criticism so they took special care to make sure they had everything in order. All the RATE Project did was take rock samples, send them to the world's leading laboratories, and then report the data. It cannot be argued that the data was all over the place. That data is an observable fact that they published online and can be read by anyone. Anyone can see that the dating techniques are wildly inconsistent, even among samples taken within feet of each other. Now, that fact doesn't help your argument because you need creationists to be dummies in order for this video to work. That is another example of you and your forgone conclusions being selective about which evidence you bring forward. If you're going to accuse someone of having forgone conclusions and being selective about what evidence they bring forward, you can't then do the exact same thing.
❤ hola soy de Guatemala. Fíjate que tengo mucha curiosidad por los cristales y piedras, pero tengo una roca que mide aproximadamente 15 o 20 centímetros de largo y más o menos eso por alto. L o único que no se qué es porque tiene cáscara y por dentro tiene como brillantes pequeños u es de color entre negro y gris se ve como el cielo de noche con estrellas es muy duro me atrevo a decirle que más duro de 7. En la escala. De mosh. Quisiera abusar de usted para ver si me puede ayudar a mi en lo personal me da el pensar que es jade galáctico porque tiene una línea sobre encima como si la hubieran querido partir con fricción porque parece ser una piedra que querrían haber cortado nuestros antepasados, por la línea que llevaban para cortarla. La encontré cerca de donde e encontrado algunos objetos prehispanicos.Porfabor ayúdeme a saber que puede ser le puedo mandar foto. Tengo mucha curiosidad. Gracias.
1:48 can someone tell me what is going on with this rock? There’s an old timers mine with this as the outcrop like this near home. I would like to know what it was mined back in the day.
Thanks you answered a lot of questions for me. Found a copper silver pyrite vein the best I could describe it was a peacock malachite vein that blends in to iron cinnabar and mercury and a gold color. I dissolved some of it in a acid, it left a silver leaf on quartz
Brilliant videos. Thanks for putting these together. It's a great introduction that leaves one hungry to continue learning more. Love the pytitized ammonite. The one I have is one of my favourite non-fluorescing mineral.
Diamonds are the most reliable specimens are far as not being contaminated. So in other words, when dates agree with what you want it be, it's accurate, but when it conflicts with what you want it to be, there's been contamination! Is that about right?
In several of your minerals and rock videos you mentioned that references were available to download. I cannot seem to find where these reference charts and tables are located. Are they in the comment section below the individual video that made reference to the additional information, or are they located somewhere else? PS We love all the videos.
