Busting 5 Common Geology Myths

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There are numerous commonly held beliefs involving geologic subjects that are in fact scientifically incorrect. This video will disprove 5 of those myths, including topics covering the Yellowstone supervolcano, diamonds, coal, gold, platinum, amber, and more!
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[1] Sin-Mei Wu, Hsin-Hua Huang, Fan-Chi Lin, Jamie Farrell, Brandon Schmandt, Extreme seismic anisotropy indicates shallow accumulation of magmatic sills beneath Yellowstone caldera, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 616, 2023, 118244, ISSN 0012-821X, doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.1.... (www.sciencedirect.com/science..., CC BY 4.0
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[4] Source of Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) methodology and criteria: Newhall, C. G., and Self, S. (1982), The volcanic explosivity index (VEI) an estimate of explosive magnitude for historical volcanism, J. Geophys. Res., 87(C2), 1231-1238, doi:10.1029/JC087iC02p01231. Accessed / Read by / geologyhub on Oct 5th, 2022.
0:00 Geologic Myths
0:25 Myth #1, Platinum
1:46 Myth #2, Diamonds
2:37 Myth #3, Volcanic Eruption Rates
3:55 Myth #4, Yellowstone
4:42 Myth #5, Amber
5:05 Conclusion

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@iowafarmboy 7 месяцев назад

I blame the Platinum rarity myth on the class ring sellers. They always told us that Platinum was soo much more rare than gold, and that's why it was so much more expensive (at that time in early 2000s)

@marnig9185 7 месяцев назад

It's also tru for Gold and Diamond's the only two selling points are, its shinny and u can put it in a save, the Technical value is Limited ,we have so mutch Gold reservs,we can stop mining it,and no one in tech will notice it for decades❤

@icollectstories5702 7 месяцев назад

It is rarer in the metals market. So it's true if you don't specify *where*.😁

@Leitis_Fella 7 месяцев назад

I work at a gold mine. The gold we mine is microscopic, the most we'll find is about 5-6 ounces/ton in the highest-grade ore, but the sheer value of gold is more than enough to pay for all the processing costs and give everyone a fat salary.

@vbscript2 7 месяцев назад

As far as the amount of Platinum that is usable by humans, it is correct to say that it is significantly more rare than gold. It's just that that doesn't mean it's actually less abundant in the crust overall. For practical purposes, it is indeed more rare.

@Croz89 7 месяцев назад

It's like steel vs. aluminium. Aluminium is significantly more common than steel in the earth's crust, but the refining process makes it more expensive than steel to produce.

@Atlasworkinprogress 7 месяцев назад

I think an important myth to bust is that the majority of the Cascades volcanic cones (and many others around the world) are not dormant as often sited, but are active. Many people do not understands that a few 10s 100s or even 1000s of years without an eruption does not make a volcano dormant.

@jayphil2563 7 месяцев назад

By definition a volcano is considered dormant if it hasn't erupted in the last 10 thousand years. However, dormant doesn't mean extinct.

@darknebulae7470 7 месяцев назад

@@jayphil2563 This channel has stated it before, but the cut off date is an arbitrary 11,690 years.

@Atlasworkinprogress 7 месяцев назад

@@jayphil2563 Correct, but the general population doesn't understand this.

@tthappyrock368 7 месяцев назад

Indeed it is! In the last 100 years pretty much the only eruption people can point to is Mt. St. Helen. While that eruption didn't greatly affect Portland, Vancouver or even Seattle, if the prevailing winds had blown in a different direction, the story might have been quite different. If Mt. Hood erupted there could be significant impacts on Portland/Vancouver, barges and other Columbia river traffic, or on crops grown in the region. If Mt. Ranier blew, there could be a lot of destruction around Seattle. Mt. Mazama didn't blow all that long ago, geologically speaking.

@albinoviper2876 7 месяцев назад

i see someone that dont know what "dormant" means

@capnkwick4286 7 месяцев назад

I definitely agree on "out of sight, out of mind" prior to the early 20th century. If a volcano erupted in South America or Indonesia, it probably wouldn't have even rated a mention in most newspapers.

@Leyrann 7 месяцев назад

In 1815, Mt Tambora erupted in one of the largest eruptions in the last 10 000 years. About half a year later, a small corner of an English newspaper reported on it, and that's all Europe heard about it, despite suffering effects so severe the next year was called the "year without a summer". In the same century, in 1883, Krakatoa erupted in a slightly smaller, but still very large eruption. That same day, telegraphs relayed the event to Europe, and by the time the atmospheric shockwave from Krakatoa's eruption passed the local barometers (as it did several times), the news about the major volcanic eruption was already starting to spread. And we've since gone another 140 years of technological advancement. Now, a remote volcanic island in the Pacific blows itself up, and within an hour, videos of the eruption have been viewed by hundreds of millions of people, tsunami warnings across the entire Pacific are issued, and within a day aid is being prepared for the islands nearby the eruption site while people from all across the world bicker over what the actual size of the eruption was, and what the effects on the climate might be.

@luannvondracek439 7 месяцев назад

Again you've added proper knowledge to my cranial area. Please do keep producing these.

@caenen6869 7 месяцев назад

The myth of volcano eruption frequency increasing in recent times is also likely a result of recency bias.

@mcpr5971 7 месяцев назад

and people inhabiting almost every sq km of earth

@JeremyHansPatrick 7 месяцев назад

other common myths, maybe for future videos: oil comes from dinosaurs dying and getting buried; earth's core is molten lava; volcanoes emit more co2 than humans; the moon's dark side is perpetually dark; meteorites are heated to a molten state when they hit earth (many are cool to the touch when they have reached the earth); the 'big one' earthquake in california is due or something along the lines of that (not predictable).

@SirBoden 7 месяцев назад

I’m pretty sure it’s a myth that all those ideas are myths. I’m not saying any of them are true either.

@LadyAnuB 7 месяцев назад

Sinclair is responsible for the dinosaur-oil connection since its mascot is a dinosaur

@JeremyHansPatrick 7 месяцев назад

@@SirBoden well you'd be surprised how many people believe these myths. I had a discussion with a guy not that long ago that argued that throwing a chicken bone into his garden would produce oil, like the dinosaurs 'would'.

@aaronh1372 7 месяцев назад

Meteorites cool to the touch? Molten? Fusion CRUST has left the chat.

@Vesuviusisking 7 месяцев назад

Please do more myths 🫶🏻

@jajssblue 7 месяцев назад

I really like that you did this kind of video. It's such a great resource for sharing!

@Vesuviusisking 7 месяцев назад

We need another q&a tbh

@jajssblue 7 месяцев назад

@@Vesuviusisking Absolutely! People forget how new much of geology's history as a science is fairly recent. So there are a LOT of early conjectures that were taught or are in reference material, but have been disproven.

@Vesuviusisking 7 месяцев назад

@@jajssbluedo you have any questions you need answering

@putteslaintxtbks5166 7 месяцев назад

Another thing about platinum is until not to long ago, when mining gold and platinum was in the ore, it was not considered a useful metal until just the resent past.

@Eric_Hutton.1980 7 месяцев назад

This video reminded me of something John Denver once said, "Some days are diamonds some days are stones."

@kathysmith6413 7 месяцев назад

i can understand why people think as they do but luckily my basic elementary education taught me the truth about most of these and the other i have acquired over my 76 years of life. this is just the kind of basic info a lot of people need and you are doing a wonderful job.

@ryanosborne7534 7 месяцев назад

That same basic elementary teaching that may have succeeded for you has failed many many other people, especially in the US. Keep that in mind before being so harsh on people for not knowing what you perceive as common knowledge.

@davidschwartz8125 7 месяцев назад

Remember, in the US education policy is mostly generated on the state level and then refined at the district level and then interpreted at the school level. Plus the DOE provides overarching guidance every so often. So what you experienced decades ago may not have been the case for people in the next school over then.

@EarthquakeSim 7 месяцев назад

Love this video idea! Very educational in such a short time 🙂

@stevejohnson3357 7 месяцев назад

If you walk through northern deciduous forests, you'll likely find wild cherry trees that will produce an amber colored hard plastic like substance that can look like it was squirted from the tree by a tiny barista.

@b.a.erlebacher1139 7 месяцев назад

This is the tree's reaction to mechanical damage by insects or diseases. It's a gooey sap that hardens somewhat, but whether it can form a material that can last for as long as 100+ million years is another question. Btw, you can get a similar material by scratching a squash with your fingernail. ;-)

@earthknight60 7 месяцев назад

He messed up pretty badly on the amber portion. He's correct only in that most amber comes from conifers, but one type appears to come from the pea/bean family of trees, and of the other two main types neither is thought to have come from Pinaceae , although it's been proposed that Burmese amber 'might' come from that rather than the Araucariaceae family. It's clear that he's not a botanist, ecologist, or paleontologist.

@alisonwilson632 7 месяцев назад

I really enjoy watching your Chanel and I'm learning so many interesting new rings each week. Thanks so much for the time and effort you put in to your Chanel so we can stay updated on the latest facts going on around the world.

@JonMartinYXD 7 месяцев назад

Related to volcanic eruption rates, the same myth applies to earthquakes. Some people believe that earthquakes are becoming more frequent and more powerful but it is just actually just a perception created by having more information. Compare the 1976 Tangshan earthquake which received little press coverage outside of China due China's very closed nature at the time, to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake which the world watched unfold live. The immediacy of seeing videos of the destruction and suffering is an incredibly powerful thing.

@vbscript2 7 месяцев назад

It's technically true that earthquakes are becoming more common. There are a few types of human activities which are known to cause earthquakes, such as hydraulic fracturing for oil extraction and some processes used at geothermal power plants. This channel has videos on both of those. However, you're right that large, destructive earthquakes are not becoming notably more common. Earthquakes caused by human activity are mostly quite small and only detectable with measurement equipment.

@mcpr5971 7 месяцев назад

Your channel got me interested in geology, by making it interesting. I wouldn't have otherwise thought this subject could be so cool. thanks

@trainingnotes4793 7 месяцев назад

Very enlightening. Thanks so much!

@storyfirstfilms149 7 месяцев назад

fantastic, detailed content - thank you

@1234j 7 месяцев назад

Excellent as usual, and most interesting. Thank you from England.

@Vesuviusisking 7 месяцев назад

We’re both from England

@aoilpe 7 месяцев назад

Great you clarified these myths ! It was time for someone to do it ! Thank you 🙏

@coasterblocks3420 7 месяцев назад

6. The earth is only 6,000-10,000 years old. 7. The earth is flat. You’d be disturbed by how many people think these myths are true. You’d be even more disturbed that there is a resurgence in these beliefs.

@adamc1966 7 месяцев назад

Only in America thanks to religion 👍

@MostlyIC 7 месяцев назад

IIUC, amber is made from a resin that has polymerized over time (so technically its an all natural plastic!), and the trees that made that type of resin have all gone extinct, what we have left are conifers that produce non-polymerizing resin that degrades over time.

@swabianscience 7 месяцев назад

I'm not a geologist, but isn't graphite formed by strong heat and pressure from organic carbon, enriching and crystallizing the carbon while other elements like hydrogen, oxygen and sulfur diffuse out as volatiles like water or H2S? This process obviously takes some time, but wouldn't that mean that diamonds would eventually develop from coal at high temperature and pressure? I'd imagine it as a kind of natural recrystallization, which is a classic lab method for purifying solids, excluding impurities from the slowly growing, highly ordered crystal.

@scillyautomatic 7 месяцев назад

1:46 This myth is known as the Cameron myth. You know, as in "When Cameron was in Egypt's land..." This myth was started by Farris Buller. Great video! As always.

@Chuntise 7 месяцев назад

That’s where I first heard it. 😄

@davidcovington901 7 месяцев назад

Yellowstone has gone as long as 1,580,000 years between major eruptions. It has been 631,300 years since the last eruption. But that does not qualify as "negligible," I think, since this is 40% of the longest interval. Am I missing something?

@toughenupfluffy7294 7 месяцев назад

That also means that it could be as long as 948,000 years (60%) before it catastrophically erupts again. But you're right, 'negligible' is not the right word for 40%.

@xwiick 7 месяцев назад

it could also set new records and go 2 or 3 million over, we don't know and people just gotta deal with it or put their head in the sand

@b.a.erlebacher1139 7 месяцев назад

IIRC, the hotspot is now moving under the much thicker and harder crust of the precambrian shield, so there's the possibility that there will be no more eruptions, or at least not as extreme ones. Also, if you want catastrophes that could affect you in your lifetime to worry about, there are a good many more clearly imminent ones.

@Me3stR 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for talking about these myths!

@vrccim5930 7 месяцев назад

Very interesting. Thank you.

@yomogami4561 7 месяцев назад

thanks for clarifying those myths

@pickle_boyee1177 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for informing us on this! Can you do a video on diamond peak in Oregon?

@tml721 7 месяцев назад

Had never heard these but thanks for the information

@xwiick 7 месяцев назад

Great video!

@TheMotorick 7 месяцев назад

This video "resin"ated with me. LOL.

@aliciarrrrrr 7 месяцев назад

Very interesting!

@Corium1 6 месяцев назад

happy you gave explanation as to why people would believe these myths. gives far more context than purely debunking these claims

@MossyMozart 2 месяца назад

It is very thoughtful of the earth to press graphite into pre-cut diamonds! So cost-effective.

@kubat1987 7 месяцев назад

@GeologyHub One video in the Canadian playlist (Hoodoo Mountain?) is marked as private. Also, I can no longer find the Volcano Mountain video.

@user-kn5vn7oy8q 7 месяцев назад

Very interesting!!!!❤

@dcrosco1458 7 месяцев назад

good info

@catherineclark6284 7 месяцев назад

Thank you for addressing Yellowstone. I am so tired of the quasi-educated insisting that it will erupt and who reject the educated for the half, or worse, zero geological education.

@sirskidney7998 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for another great video Mr. GH. Please excuse my ignorance but how do we know how much melt is in a magma chamber or how large and deep a magma chamber actually is?

@stevewhalen6973 7 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@Baldevi 7 месяцев назад

Awesome info, I am startled by how many of these myths I believed, and you debunked them for me, I appreciate that. I like to have facts in my brain, not fiction about such things as Volcanoes, Tornadoes, and other Sciencey things. [layman's term, it's my creation, Sciencey.]

@mothMagnets 7 месяцев назад

That mine at 1:32 looks really cool

@beagleissleeping5359 7 месяцев назад

Superman not only squishing the coal to make a diamond, but a faceted one at that!😂

@mtbee9641 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for the info on the frequency of volcanic eruptions. I am however still interested to know if there is any cyclic phenomena related to the activity, either based on locations or due to gravitational stresses or something else.

@gafrers 7 месяцев назад

Always Quality

@ladyofthemasque 7 месяцев назад

I remember the difference, sap = thin & watery, pitch = thick & sticky, amber = thick & sticky made even harder by time. Additionally, if ordinary sweet tree sap takes 40-100 gallons boiled down to make just 1 gallon of syrup (maple, birch, etc), then there's no way it could be turned into globs of amber with insects trapped in it. Pitch, on the other hand, oozes out thickly and dries very quickly into hard-ish globs, and can literally be used in a pinch as rosin for a violin bow. (Actual rosin is strained & purified pitch plus a couple ingredients, melted and poured into a brick so that when it cools it's hard enough to stroke over the horsehairs. Rosin = resin, btw, if you're looking for the root word connections.)

@filonin2 7 месяцев назад

Most people just call it all sap.

@user-kn5vn7oy8q 7 месяцев назад

And thank you for the last one and hopefully stopping the fear mongers

@tonydagostino6158 7 месяцев назад

I think you give folks too much credit. The coal-to-diamond myth comes from Superman. I doubt graphite ever enters their minds

@andrewcatlin3590 6 месяцев назад

Well for amber I always say pine sap because I’ve always known amber can only come from pine trees wich I guess is just another way of saying resin. Never considered people without my experience with trees and rocks would think any tree sap would make amber. I kinda just assumed everyone would know a maple tree ain’t gonna give you amber😅. Great video as usual

@kacperwoch4368 7 месяцев назад

The myth about amber being made out of tree sap may be exclusive to English language, in my language the words for sap translate to "milk juice" or "[tree] water" and this substance is clearly differecnciated from the actual resin.

@alfredbirnfeldt7492 7 месяцев назад

Could you please elaborate more on the topic of the mantle being solid? Pretty much all the books I read back in school said it was simply a huge pool of molten magma and that the crust floated above it. I confess it does sound convincing, because it's truly counterintuitive to think of mantle plumes, hotspots and convection currents without imagining it just being pure lava.

@toughenupfluffy7294 7 месяцев назад

When you go deep enough, the pressures are way too high for it to be liquid. But the heat is also very high, so critical rheic thresholds can be surpassed and heat movement occurs.

@b.a.erlebacher1139 7 месяцев назад

It's liquid in a sense, but it's a very very very viscous liquid, or a maybe a slightly plastic solid. At those pressures, materials don't behave the way we intuitively expect. Crust does sort of float on mantle, or at least continental crust does, because it's less dense. But when oceanic plate is subducted, it tends to sink lower in the mantle. There's some newish seismic data that suggests the mantle is more complicated than previously thought, and there may be "graveyards" of ancient subducted plate lying around in the lowest part of the mantle.

@damonroberts7372 7 месяцев назад

#5: Not all conifers are Pinaceae, and conifers are _not_ the only group of plants capable of exuding fossilizable resin. Chemical analysis of true Early Cenozoic amber (not copal) from numerous sites across Asia suggests the resin originated from a group of flowering plants called the Dipterocarpaceae. The dipterocarps are now largely confined to the South East Asian tropics, and incidentally include some of the tallest trees known... one specimen of _Shorea faguetiana_ rivals America's coastal redwoods, with a measured height of 331 ft /100.8 m.

@bradleyraath114 7 месяцев назад

Any chance you could do a video on the heightened volcanism 6000 years ago? Interested in what this entails..

@HamTransitHistory 7 месяцев назад

The "coal into diamonds" myth likely comes from an old Superman comic

@suzettehenderson9278 7 месяцев назад

I think we can blame Superman for the coal to diamond thing.

@StuffandThings_ 7 месяцев назад

With the constant rate since ~6ka, I'd assume this is due to the uptick in eruptions that occurred after deglaciation and the resulting decompression melting? Which would mean that we're actually at a lowered rate compared to before this time frame.

@christianeaster2776 7 месяцев назад

I really appreciate the info on Yellowstone. I have tried to keep up with it, but somehow no one has talked the percent melt in the magma chambers. I know the average between eruptions there and it was sort of a subconscious worry to me. Thank you

@michaelpoland529 7 месяцев назад

The melt percentage has been discussed in several of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory weekly "Caldera Chronicles" articles. The most recent on the subject is at www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/new-views-how-magma-stored-beneath-yellowstone-provided-hundreds-seismic.

@Croz89 7 месяцев назад

If you take average durations between geological events to try and make predictions, you end up with a lot of "overdue" scenarios scattered throughout the world. We have to remember two things, that they are just averages, and that sometimes earth changes in mysterious ways that we don't really understand. A volcano might just stop erupting, and we might have no solid idea why.

@earthknight60 7 месяцев назад

You might want to revisit the amber portion. Baltic ambers are from the Sciadopityaceae family (a kind of conifer), and Central and South American ambers are from what seems to be the Fabaceae family (the species is unclear but appears to be closely related to the Hymenaea genus - regardless, not a conifer), and Burmese amber is thought to be from either plants in the Araucariaceae family or the Pinaceae family, both of which are conifers. Given that of the three main sources of amber only one is possibly from the Pinaceae family, and one is potentially not even from a conifer group at all, it would be more accurate to say that most ambers are considered to come from the Pinopsida class of conifers.

@user-fq8st9qp6m 5 месяцев назад

That is not completely true for the baltic amber. Sciadopitys is one of several suggestions for the source of the baltic amber (succinite) but it has never been confirmed which is the true source. Pinus succinifera is one option (an extinct species of pine trees that split from the modern line before the pine trees started to produce Abietinic Acid for their resin). Several factors support a primitive pine tree as the true source of the succinite (initially milky resin that becomes clear in the sun, chemical components, pine wood inclusions with resin channels that are connected to the amber piece that embedded them, multiple pine needles, cones and pollen in the succinite) but there are also problems (not as much pine tree inclusions as expected and so on). Another tree is the Atlantic Cedar which has remarkable similitaries in the chemistry of its resin. Agathis australis, the Kauri-Tree, also has similarities in its chemistry. Sciadopitys was found through several cladodes in the amber. It is also a close relative of the pines but even though the arguments for Sciadopitys certainly place it as one of the most likely options alongside Pinus succinifera (Araucaria for example was suggested but I don't know of any fossil Araucaria inclusion associated with succinite) it is not sure which tree really produced it.

@earthknight60 5 месяцев назад

@@user-fq8st9qp6m That's interesting information, and thank you for it, but it doesn't change the fact that they made a mistake in the video regarding the sources of amber.

@jordanisregis 7 месяцев назад

Do you think and of the volcanoes in the Eastern Caribbean Region are becoming active again, St Lucia, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica, UWI seismic center reported the increase in frequency of earthquakes but trusting in your expertise and advice what do you think!

@cspringer6832 7 месяцев назад

I think I've seen some of these myths stated in geology / earth science text books. What do you believe are the best / worst geology texts?

@TheQuartzScepterMinerSIO2 7 месяцев назад

The deeper you go the heavy the metals and minerals their are because of a massive amount of gravity heavy weight metals and minerals tend to go towards the planets core and cycle up and back down like a lava lamp. The massive pressure s at depth rise and sink with the moon and the heat coming from the core.when the metals and minerals flowing upwards they can catch a free ride to the surface where they can be found.the other ways metals and minerals can be found near or on the surface is meteorites that land and make a deposit of various metals and minerals.volcanoes are another way that come up to the surface can be found as well

@AtarahDerek 7 месяцев назад

Americans knew about Hunga Tonga's eruption before we heard it. That's how fast information travels. If you're hearing about "more" eruptions in today's world, that's why. I think if we experienced a sudden spike in geologic activity, the whole world would know it very quickly.

@GAMakin 7 месяцев назад

So... Superman could'nt make a diamond by squeezing a lump of coal in his mighty hand!? Dang! Another childhood fantasy squelched! What's the World coming to... Current market quotes: Platinum: $922/Troy ounce Gold: $2021/Troy ounce Sincerely, Iron Man

@leschatssuperstars1741 7 месяцев назад

he could by squeezing a lump of graphite

@GAMakin 7 месяцев назад

@@leschatssuperstars1741 I suppose. But one episode showed him squeezing a lump of coal...

@Croz89 7 месяцев назад

Sometimes geologists just get it wrong. I remember the prediction that a La Palma eruption would cause half the island to fall into the sea, creating a massive tsunami that would wipe out the US east coast. Then it did erupt, and it didn't even come close to happening. Turns out more recent studies done even before the eruption had found that it was extremely unlikely this would happen for at least the next few centuries even if there were frequent eruptions, but because that didn't really make for an interesting TV documentary, "catastrophic disaster is *not* going to happen", it didn't really filter out to the public, so a lot of people were still worried about it when the eruption happened. Now the US east coast only has to worry about the usual sea level rise and storm intensity increase from climate change.

@BlueCyann 7 месяцев назад

You're remembering this wrong. It wasn't about an eruption, but rather a landslide on the island. Which could hypothetically be sparked by earthquakes related to an eruption, I suppose, but certainly wouldn't have to be. It's not like a St Helens situation where the landslide in some sense *is* the eruption, and it definitely was not predicted, by any geologist, that the next eruption at La Palma was going to spark such a catastrophe. The two things are not directly related. I don't know where the evidence about La Palma points right at the moment, other than the evidence for a future catastrophe at that particular place maybe not being as good as was once thought. However, such things do happen -- if not there, then elsewhere == and will happen again. The undersea landscape around the Hawaiian Islands is littered with evidence of them, for instance. There could still be a future massive slide from Mauna Loa (another massive slide, technically, as there's already been at least one) and there almost definitely will at some point be one from Kilauea, which is still younger than the age at which most of these collapses seem to happen.

@TomGreenSSC 7 месяцев назад

Something i question myself. The magma chamber under Iwo Jima is growing and growing. And now there was an eruption. But a small one. How is that possible? With so much pressure the entire island should erupt?! There is a connection between the magma chamber and the surface with the eruption. But the entire magma chamber is not going empty? Why?

@xwiick 7 месяцев назад

It's rare that the entire magma chamber goes or even most of it. the new eruption could be a small portion of melted magma, a smaller intrusion etc. you have to put a lot of pressure on a soda can to make it empty and if smaller cracks open before pressure becomes critical barley any does expect for gasses. Also the fact that we simply do not know everything about volcanoes and every volcanic system is pretty much unique

@S-T-E-V-E 7 месяцев назад

There's company that can take the Carbon from your Ashes after cremation and turn them into a Diamond! I think that's kind of coll to be honest!

@scillyautomatic 7 месяцев назад

I've heard of that recently. Everyone I know, though, want's their ashes spread at Bryant-Denny Stadium. I guess because they spent so much time there.

@bettyswallocks6411 7 месяцев назад

On the average main street of the average US or EU city at midday, is there more platinum, or more gold?

@spankymcflych 7 месяцев назад

Are you saying superman lied to us when he squished that chunk of coal into a diamond? Blasphemy!

@danduzenski3597 7 месяцев назад

Thank You. Rerun time

@jamesmcdermott5048 7 месяцев назад

Oh, and the vitrified glass found all over Earth, Moon, and Mars is form meteor impacts or lightening, not Solar micro-Nova impactors.

@plathanosthegrape5569 7 месяцев назад

Your opinion on Planet 7x existence?

@embo4887 7 месяцев назад

Love your videos. Small request, But could you edit you bass. For me who has tinnitus it’s hard to hear what you say because your voice is to monotone for me.

@icollectstories5702 7 месяцев назад

These are mostly over-simplifications or conflations and are mostly harmless. It should be pointed out that *everything* seems to be happening more frequently, mostly because we see them ourselves through glass screens.🙃🙃🙃

@dudmic 7 месяцев назад

If you haven't skipped geography classes in school you would have realized, if not the teacher would have mentioned it already that volcanic activity has generally decreased

@bertbaker7067 7 месяцев назад

I have a planetary geology question, is the moon really made of cheese?

@JeremyHansPatrick 7 месяцев назад

Yes? This is common knowledge. The holes are even formed due to meteorites impacts going through the moon. I believe they recently discovered it to be a more goatish type of cheese with properties of Gouda. Super interesting

@kenbrady119 7 месяцев назад

The frequency of eruptions is a fascinating topic to me, with relevance to not just Earth but also to Venus and Mars (and possibly a few moons of the gas giants) and to exoplanets. I can comfortably predict that the frequency of eruptions generally decreases over time as the Earth cools, but the information is in the rate of that decrease. Do we have enough information in the geologic record to put together a graph of the rate of eruptions vs. time? Thanks!

@JeremyHansPatrick 7 месяцев назад

I don't think a graph showing eruption history is going to be that accurate considering how stuff can be buried or 'lost' in geologic time, due to erosion and what not. But you can consider how tectonic plates' movement speed changes through time as well. Faster speed generally means more volcanic activity and vice versa. This could be done with correlation techniques, using magnetostratigraphy for example and other ways to figure out how fast plates moved over time relatively to those correlated time scales. At times plates will move over particularly shallower mantle plumes, like the Indian plate over the Deccan Traps, which will induce a lot more volcanic activity, which isn't really accounted for in this method of plate tectonics speed.

@kenbrady119 7 месяцев назад

I find this hard to believe. Certainly there will be fluctuations in the frequency of volcanic eruptions, but with >3 billion years of geologic history to average, I'm certain there must be a trend.@@JeremyHansPatrick

@jordanisregis 7 месяцев назад

Hi , there has been a large number of earthquakes in the Eastern Caribbean Region, over the past few days, do you think we will be expecting a major earthquakes in the Eastern Caribbean Region and Tsunamis, what are your thoughts on this

@AndyFromBeaverton 7 месяцев назад

Another myth is that kryptonite only exists on the planet Krypton.

@heatherblack9491 7 месяцев назад

The Earth is doing what it's been doing for hundreds of thousands of years. There are just more people in the way now to notice

@TheRealRedAce 7 месяцев назад

So how come Superman can crush coal into diamonds? Answer me THAT! :D

@WildAlchemicalSpirit 7 месяцев назад

Can you possibly do a weird topic? I really want to know how plausible it is that diamond could form from bone. Is it even possible? If anyone else wants to answer instead of him doing a video about it, which probably won't happen anyway because it's kinda creepy, feel free to chime in.

@richardrobertson1331 7 месяцев назад

That's a reasonable question. Bone is made of Calcium, phosphorus and CO2. Way too contaminated to form diamond. Bone would first have to be "reduced" deep in the earth's crust near a magma chamber, for example. There are so many other much better sources of carbon. As was stated in this very fine video, even coal is not made into diamond. It, too, would have to be reduced under tremendous heat and pressure. Graphite has already been exposed to a magma chamber, but even then, it's rare to duplicate the conditions necessary to have graphite crystalize into diamonds.

@SAOS451316 7 месяцев назад

If you're thinking about having diamonds made from cremains then that is possible and it's a service one can buy today. Cremains are mostly calcium phosphates but there's a bit of carbonates as well, from which carbon can be extracted and turned into a lab-grown diamond.

@lithiumvalleyrocksprospect9792 7 месяцев назад

I think Superman started the coal myth

@HawkDawgfan 7 месяцев назад

Why do I always envision Kurt from Gilmore Girls is the one doing these videos?

@whiteknightcat 7 месяцев назад

I used to know somebody named Amber.

@porcus123 7 месяцев назад

Really thought number 5 would be that the earth nucleus is liquid

@rogermestler1753 7 месяцев назад

platinum card 26.5 ppb interest rate just rounding

@jdean1851 7 месяцев назад

MOST COMMON MYTH -IS YOU LIVE ON A SPINNING BALL...IMHO

@swampmonster4935 7 месяцев назад

This is why you will spend your life serving us hamburgers from a drive through.

@filonin2 7 месяцев назад

Your caps lock key is stuck down with dried drool, Cletus.

@filonin2 7 месяцев назад

What holds up the flat Earth? What does it sit on? Gods lap? Are you three years old?

@grokeffer6226 7 месяцев назад

👍👍👍

@Mp57navy 7 месяцев назад

I must admit. Platinum IS cooler than gold. It looks better and has more interesting properties.

@John-dh1gh 7 месяцев назад

It would be good to know your views as to the earths core slowly cooling. My conjecture is that it isn't. And we've been billions of years in the near absolute zero of space....that the earth is being internally heated from internal frictional forces of gravity as it goes around the sun, just like moons on other worlds have the same gravitational effects on them.

@b.a.erlebacher1139 7 месяцев назад

Some of the internal heat of the earth is due to kinetic energy of infalling materials and compression of these materials as the planet formed. That's pretty much a one time thing, although insignificant amounts of extraterrestrial material continue to fall. Another source of heat is radioactive decay. The earth has been around long enough for more than half its uranium to have decayed away, and almost every other element has a shorter half life, so there's less contribution from that source. While tidal forces from the sun and moon exist, they are mostly dissipated by being transformed into the motion of ocean water, the gradual motion of the moon's orbit further from the earth, and the slowing of the earth's spin.

@John-dh1gh 7 месяцев назад

@@b.a.erlebacher1139 Very good.

@jdean1851 7 месяцев назад

IF WATER IS CURVED" ITS MOVING....

@filonin2 7 месяцев назад

Nope.

@bytedude1312 7 месяцев назад

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@scrappydoo7887 7 месяцев назад

Palladium is more interesting to me

@doxielain2231 7 месяцев назад

Then there are the people who believe in mudfloods and think the exposed cores of volcanoes and other similar structures are the remains of giant trees. smh.

@just_kos99 7 месяцев назад

I'd also add that the word "supervolcano" was coined by the BBC, when the official designation is a "resurgent dome caldera." I saw a video recently that stated the official word was "supervolcano."

@kathysmith6413 7 месяцев назад

now a question. a sight just poppled up and it has given me the impression that Etna has popped its cork again. Has it???

@Vesuviusisking 7 месяцев назад

Yes it did

@kathysmith6413 7 месяцев назад

@@Vesuviusiskingthank you. just chicking. i have a friend who has family in that area, not too far away i am sure theu are safe but..... it is a volcano

@rdbchase 7 месяцев назад

Never heard of either of your first two myths and I generally avoid videos enumerating and ranking in such a manner.

@motorpurrr 7 месяцев назад

But could Yellowstone be made to erupt through man made ways?

@michaelpoland529 7 месяцев назад

No. Even large nuclear weapons are basically the equivalent of large earthquakes in terms of energy release, and we know that large earthquakes (which can happen right next to the magma chamber, instead of on the surface) don't cause eruptions. Like the M7.3 that happened just west of the park in 1959. That released the same energy as a moderate nuclear weapon. It shook the geyser plumbing systems (which are fragile) and caused some changes in hot spring behavior, but had no impact on the magmatic system.

@filonin2 7 месяцев назад

@@michaelpoland529 If however, Yellowstone's magma chamber WERE much more molten and man focused every atomic warhead he could muster upon it, I'm pretty sure we could breach the chamber and cause an eruption. As is I don't think exposing the chamber would do much that the hundreds or thousands of nukes didn't do.

@motorpurrr 7 месяцев назад

Good to know@@michaelpoland529

@motorpurrr 7 месяцев назад

@@filonin2 I wonder if they have other means besides nukes?