America civil war too

hopefully california separates itself off the main usa and we can put all the BLM liberals snowflakes feminists all on there

girlsdrinkfeck You know there’s more to California than LA right?

@@jerry3790 yh but the rural cali people with migrate to the real America anyway

@@girlsdrinkfeck Ok, boomer.

Nah man you forgot to add tobacco and alcohol to the poor diet and lack of exercise. Once you do that, the weight just melts off.

Cannabis regulates ur metabolism!

I usually just pull of fat, easiest way to go down in weight.

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Is that why my knees hurt more, and not because I'm getting older...

There's a neat row of extinct (or dormant) volcanoes in southeast Idaho leading to the current Yellowstone caldera...interesting sight.

⁠@@haroldwilkes6608that’s because the magma chamber that is under Yellowstone today used to be in Idaho. Just about every super eruption in the hotspot’s history occurred in Idaho

Those MN mountains are actually quite older than 1 billion years old

We have extinct volcanoes in UK. One of the most least geological active areas in the world. Some of them still have hot springs. One has a new lithium brine well. Yellowstone is a mantle plume hotspot. The tectonic plate moves over it leaving a trail of dead volcanoes. Canary Islands are unusual because islands at each end of the chain are active while the big one in the middle is dormant and probably dead.

And along the lakeshore, in Duluth, you can see the lava flows, with clear ripple/flow marks in what was pahoehoe lava.

IT'S THE CIRCLE OF 'MURICA!

*Humans in North America destroying themselves lol.

Something never change

@@ortherner I'm sure Mexicans and Americans do it, but Canadians?

No. Not "North America today: destroying itself". Canada and Mexico are doing OK. Lol

Except if you lived in the active tectonic plate like Pacific Ring of Fire.

Extremely boring, interesting as hell...or absolutely terrifying.

@@emilyplunkett6034 constant fear of tsunami and earthquake...

Extreme boring? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sOBmqZmAy9W1pqc.html

@@lotsofspots Just watched it. 40K foot hole dug by man. Took 24 years. Pretty cool.

Ah yes, the difference between granite and sandstone.

We use to find it in well drillers rigs, right out in open, help yourself

In the U.S. we just play with guns.

As a kid in NH in the early 60s/early 70s, I remember there was a PSA about blasting caps & finding them just laying about sometimes, warning kids that if you EVER see one of these -- DON'T TOUCH. After reading your comment, I can see why they had to say that. NH's granite is pretty tough, too.

@@just_kos99 Yes it's very similar. The Canadian Shield is mostly Precambrian granite and gneiss, mountains once higher than the Himalayas that have worn down to stumps and then scraped over by the mile-thick Laurentide Ice Sheet.There's an outlier of the shield forming the Adirondacks in upstate New York. New Hampshire's rocks are a little bit younger (mostly Devonian), but they're also granite and gneiss, also post-glacial --- and much prettier in my opinion, such gorgeous marble! We can both claim to have lived with REAL rocks, not those dumb cheesy crumbly things that others are stuck with.

Clearly. Canada has but a tiny fraction of its own Midwest from alberta to manitoba so it's very much small in size.

100 million years sounds too long, i'd rather wait 0.1 billion years instead.

Shouldve said 1.1×10^-3 trillion years, to confuse everyone Properly

@@arthas640 0.1 billion years sounds longer than a mere 100 millionq

Call me weird, but 0.1 Billion Years sounds longer then 100 Million Years.

@@ortherner same

but when you truly think about the situation you come to the conclusion that elephants are the only animals that cant jump

@@Rien-- Have you heard of bacteria, worms, most snakes, most insects, and most sea animals?

Sun Hat well maybe it’s just a mammal thing

North America is not rifting. It's being compressed from the east by the expanding Atlantic, and the subduction of the Pacific and Juan de Fuca plates on the west. The San Andreas is a major fault, but it's a strike-slip fault, not a rift.

Thirst Fast, they’re not talking about North America ripping itself apart, just the United States of America.

Sounds like a Mario kart level

Budget superhero B movie?

Or a ska band

Emo come Indie Alt Rock band name

Damn, I thought it was a GRAVY high!

Hmmm...the ballistic trajectory of a rocket can be distrupted by the continent alone, interesting...

@@wikansaktianto9215 why does it sound like you're plotting some mega-bad-evil-malicious manifesto for world domination?

@@curiouswafi Because I am super-duper-ultra-malevolent-heinous-fiend lad.

@@wikansaktianto9215 understandable, have a great day

Same reason "sea level" varies by as much as 13 feet in different areas of the world... over seamounts and mid ocean ridges the higher gravity pulls at the surrounding water attracting a "mound" of water making the local sea level actually higher than it is over much of the abyssal plains... Later! OL J R :)

Not to worry, they can migrate elsewhere...if they had no competition, they will still alive even when their home completely dried out.

don't worry too much 1.1 Ga there weren't any fishies to hurt yet. But yeah fish and other marine life need more respect

@@Dragrath1 Indeed..stop throw the trash on the river.

There were no fishes

@@wikansaktianto9215 i throw trash in river, a truck load every week

A scene from young and the restless

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That's beautiful. 😭🤧😭

You are a god! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Except california now want to split from the continent

Do you really think that it ends? Seems really doubtful.

Cute you think either side will gracefully accept defeat

Trump

No matter who is elected, there will be no conclusion to this

@@thekingoffailure9967 Yeah I mean it isnt like either side doesnt have a history of vote tampering

*X-Files theme play in the distance*

I hope you learned the word "aulacogen"!

@@thirstfast1025 Hello there..We meet again, what is Aulacogen? Some short of retracted fiture of geological landscape? How come the mantle and crust keep opening and closing at the same time?

@@wikansaktianto9215 An aulacogen is the third arm of a continental rift that always fails during a continental rift. Because of the shape of the planet, and the forces generated by the rotation of the planet, when continental crust fails, or begins rifting, it always takes on the shape of a "Y" at first. But then one of the 3 branches of the "Y" closes, and the rift follows the other two branches. Then you get a spreading centre, like the mid-Atlantic rift. The third, failed branch now follows what is called an "Euler pole", around which the new, fragmented plate rotates. But that's getting very complicated..... This failed mid-continent rift is peculiar in that all 3 branches ended up failing, despite the tremendous outpouring of basalt mentioned in the video. As for the second part of your question, we've already touched on why the mantle keeps getting 'exposed'. The main mechanism is slab-pull. Once a tectonic plate begins to subduct, it drags the whole conveyor downward, pulling it apart somewhere else. Like you said, wherever the crust is thinnest. Be that a cold, old continental sag, causing a rift, or the middle of an oceanic rift, like the mid-Atlantic.

@@thirstfast1025 Hmmmm...thanks for explaining the slab-pull once more, forgive me for being slow learner. But yet again, does that mean the so called "Third branches" or the remnant aulacogenesis process(If I am correct) got turned off due to some hugh masses clumping out the mantle?

I was born in Kansas, which was the floor of the ocean , this yakky yak , can't explain why whale bones are found across the plains of Kansas , Nebraska, Oklahoma,

We mine it not far from where I grew up, in Dresser, WI. We call it trap rock, and the railroad still hauls it!

"Or do they mean back in the 1800s?"

I have a feeling this comment will age like a fine wine

It’s not that teachers where wrong back then - much of what we know and can prove about geology has just been done in the past 20 years thanks to technology that allows us to prove or disprove what was once just theories.

She was right - at the time. 2nd grade teachers are saints.

For you to remember that from 2nd grade, even if imperfectly, tells me she was a remarkable teacher. Kudos to her.

@@mrcryptozoic817 She was easily one of my favourite teachers! I remember being so excited to have her again the next year because her sister got a job at the school so she got moved to teaching 3rd grade! Her sister went by her middle name so no one would get confused about two teachers with the same name XD

oh Hai, Kevin!!

Your comment really Rocks !

It is called Taconite. It's an iron formation. Those pellets are man-made from taconite rock which is a 9 on the hardness scale.

So is the New Madrid fault line here in the Midwest.

@@bigboy4006 : The video was talking about New Madrid, it's a branch of the larger structure.

@@absalomdraconis I thought it did.

@@absalomdraconis I know that the fault is part of what's called the Reelfoot Rift. I'm not sure if that's the name for just the branch or it's the name of the entire structure.

Americas just filled with failed things aint it

The most important statement for the beginning of wisdom is "I do not know".

Oh, you mean the historic Middle East Peace deal. 😊 🇮🇱🇦🇪🇧🇭

@hawkturkey

Oh Hai, Mark!

If had enough of this world.

The New Madrid fault zone is due to a different rift which formed around the time when supercontinent Rodinia was breaking up. The event discussed here occurred at or just before the time when Rodinia was assembling.

North America is not only the US

You mean 2020, that time the US had some fools try to tear it apart for political gain?

Canada and Mexico are probably wishing they could separate from the US about now. If we succeed at tearing ourselves apart, it will be a humanitarian disaster unseen since the first half of the last century, and they’ll be flooded with Americans, and we’ll be the worst refugees ever, so entitled and self centered!

There was a whole civil war which was a literal political division of the United States don't act like 2020 is the worst year.

@@LizzyThatB I had an ancestor in the Union army killed at Gettysburg, so I would thank you not to lecture me, thank you very much...

Ah yes, the news reporter.

If Trump didn't go around killing black people, this never would have happened.

@@jakeryker546 Which black people has Trump killed? I would love to hear that explanation.

Nothing new. The US considered invading Canada in the 40s, 30s, and 20s. The US and Mexico went to war in the 1840s (both sides instigated that conflict). US allied Canadians launched an "invasion" from Ontario into the rest of Canada in the 1840s. The US invaded Canada in 1812 and in the 1770s and Canadian soldiers invaded the US during the Revolutionary war as well. The US Civil War of the 1860s drew in a lot of international attention and basically tore North America apart in much the same way the Revolutionary War did. North America has torn itself apart plenty, but far less often than most other continents.

*2016

Map men map men map map map men!

I noticed that he didn't mention it either. I actually watched this expecting it to get name checked. I used to volunteer at the Saint Louis Science Center, and I was told that the working hypothesis for the New Madrid/Wabash Valley Seismic Zones' existence was because the continent tried to rift in two at one time in the LONG ago past and for some reason it stopped. His explanation makes sense for that but the imagery they show is of a fault system that goes around the western part of MO, not the eastern.

@@christinacody5845 Right. Also should remember, however, that the "continent" I referred to was not North America, but one of the ancient ones, I believe Rodinia.

@@christinacody5845 Regarding the fault zone on the western part of Missouri, if you drive north/northwest of KC, there is land that has what appears to be "waves" or "ripples," it's very interesting. I'm not a geologist (just study it), but I wonder if those dramatic ripples are left over from earthquakes that occurred there millennia ago.

Are you thinking of MegaFault (2009)?

@@blcmd No. It's definitely older. Came out during the wave of Dante's Peak/Volcano/Armageddon disaster movies, and I believe it was on network TV.

Was that 10.5?

With Jeff bridges?

*Viagra*

Or covering it in about 1000 feet of saltwater!

You would be speaking German if that had happened.

@@jacobarmstrong2343 if you mean world war 2 would have been lost, you're very much mistaken. Germany never had any chance of victory even without the US involved. Even so, so much would have been different just by some butterfly effect that it's not a safe bet that the course of history would have led to a second world war, or even a first.

No way we need the ancient fault lines under the east coast and fault lines under California to go active Sliding both sides into oceans leaving MIDDLE AMERICA to be great again

@Janitor Queen only reason USA went to war was J P Morgan thought he might lose his 2 million dollars he loaned to France and England for war and he had presidents ear . Also rich didn’t want to lose the properties in Europe . War also gave them a chance to get richer

That's both what the evidence from the 1811/12 Earthquake Swarm and the anecdotes say happened.

Read up on the Native tribe or tribes that got major into making copper tools at first for a good while then switching to copper ornamentals for trade in part taking good stone tools in return. Speculation the stone was good enough so making wealth selling the copper better than making tools of it. And understandably copper tools are limited. Some hints they also hit some iron but it did not go big otherwise the white relatives coming later would have had a lot more problems dealing with iron and steel weapons. Relatives because a large amount of European DNA in the Eastern tribes. Enough that some members could pass as European and people thought they could pull off being Indians at Boston Tea Party and later Canadian whites passed as Indians helping the Miami and other Ohio tribes beat the US army and then bairly loose in the end. One of that regions tribes one of the oldest story is when they arrived at what became their lands whites were already there. This has to be cross overs during the Ice Age either with primitive boats going along the Ice Bridge between Europe and America or traveling across Siberia and then Western America to settle in east. Discovery of European DNA a good deal across Siberia has the second theory but why not settle at all in the West and only go East the ice bridge theory works better. Europeans arriving later though this was survivors of Atlantis maybe. Explains the high regard in part that many Colonists leaders and those normally not on the frontier had for the tribes even using part of their government organization in US constitution. The why the land taking? That what whites did to other whites did in Europe many cases of Small Pox being used as a weapon in Europe they really did not understand how disease worked and did not realize that it would come back to bite them later. You cannot in first few centuries say the Europeans treated the natives any worse than they treated each other and treated their commoners in Europe. See 30 years war and sack of Antwerp and others for examples. The racism more around Andrew Jackson's time as Europeans started believing treating other whites this way wrong. The racism the excuse to not apply the growing rights of man Enlightenment to those not white. Also explains how the vanished first colony population could have merged with the local tribe and not be noticed as different. One old Free Black settlement area fairly near there claims the men were killed and the women taken by the tribe and one family traces their ancestry to the famous daughter of the leader left there as the natives merged with the free Black.

It takes IMPOTUS and Moscow Mitch. They're doing a fine job.

See, now you're just making up Pokemon names.

@@Chad_Thundercock ha!😂

I've seen Idaho faults, California faults and Alaska faults but New Madrid is the most deceptive...the area looks so blah until you get it mad, then it's Katy bar the door. Nice people though.

The New Madrid Rift is a much much later thing. The Mississippi/New Madrid system follows a rift that is much younger and is still slowly spreading.

Same could be said of twenty years ago...

Saying “lit” doesn’t tho.

Gravity High. From a Gravity Bong 🤘

What are you, some fkn rock-man? Why do you know about all of em?

So...if slab-pull contribute their movement...was the massive continental plate acted like a jutting spoon?

@@wikansaktianto9215 I'm not sure what you mean about the spoon, but "continents" and "plates" are different things. Both continental and oceanic crust 'rides' on tectonic plates. When a plate subducts, the oceanic crust is pulled down by gravity, and due to it's density is capable of descending through the less dense asthenosphere rock. Continental crust is less dense (considerably) than oceanic crust, so it always 'stays afloat' during subduction. That's why you end up with a melange of exotic terranes on the coast of a continent where the tectonic plate subducting is pulling the oceanic crust toward the over-riding plate, and only ever mountains where continental crust meets continental crust. You get very deep trenches where oceanic crust meets oceanic crust. I hope this helps! Cheers!

@@privateuser7 I am some kind of rock man. I like that. I might start calling myself "rock man". :) I love geology. I read lots of books, especially textbooks if I can get them.

@@privateuser7 Oh, I also live on the shore of Lake Superior....

The fing wot one does gravimetrics wiv.

It is as real as torsion balance or hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia.

"All words are made up." -Thor, King of Asgard

“Columbus used a penis ruler, a ruler for specialists in Dirtonomy...” Yeah It’s safe to say that was a load of BS

Thats more related to Analonogy

Reelfoot Lake was created as a result of the New Madrid Earthquake Swarm of 1811/12. The New Madrid Fault/Seismic Zone is what caused the earthquake that shifted the Mississippi River and Reelfoot lake is a remnant of the old meander of the River prior to 1811/12.

Nova Scotia would just be regular old Scotia.

No

@@bigpopparasta8133 yes

You know, you're right. Astrophysicist sounds cool as hell, but it doesn't have the same energy.

@@MicrowavedAlastair5390 Different school of magic. still powerful though