This is incredible - the bit about the oxygen taking a billion years to get into the atmosphere because it was rusting the iron is something I never knew! Thank you for sharing!

The oxygen catastrophe is one of my favourite catastrophes

4:56 When you said "the entire planet was rusting", I instantly thinking of Mars.

I realized while watching, but the Great Oxidation Event might be one of the great barriers of the Fermi Paradox. An event such as that may wipe out an insanity-inducing amount of barren worlds, all of which had life, but lost it. Perhaps Mars had an event like this, and Venus had the opposite, as continued production of methane through geological processes heated it up into a sweltering wasteland. What if one of those two happens nearly everywhere in the universe?

When I saw the title I instantly thought of Shark Bay because that's where I saw thrombolites and stromalites when I was travelling Australia. The Exmouth area in general is worth a visit for anyone interested in nature. You can see transient humpback whales close to the shore, you can go snorkeling with whale sharks, there is an abundance of reef sharks and rays and if you're a bit lucky you will also see sea turtles and dolphins. You do want to be careful though, the blue-ringed octopus, stingrays and other animals that are dangerous also live in these waters so tread carefully.

atomic frontier:*talks about the complex history of tease rock like organisms* my stupid ass brain: *PET ROCK*

This channel is beyond underrated.

Woah, I had no idea. A planet sized test tube sounds simplistic but very rad at the same time ! Reminds me of "a plant figured out lignin, and trees took of like mad, forming most of the world's coal, until a fungus figured out how to break down lignin".

oh, just noticed the upload date. That's really cool you've been doing this so long! I'm glad to see the channel grow so much in a day! hope it continues

I had some prior knowledge of this from an excellent episode of The Entire History of Earth (How Bad Was The Great Oxidation Event?) but it was fun to go over the story again and see the distant descendants of the key players. Thanks for the video, and here's another wish to throw on the pile of hopes that your channel takes off in the algorithm sometime soon. =D

Fascinating. How have I made it this far in life and never known these events occurred.

How do I get to know your channel just now? It’s so awesome, I really love your videos mate, keep it up. You absolutely earned my subscription!

This is an amazing video, doing this on my uni course and its helped me a lot! Thank you

The anaerobic bacteria that would have perished during the great oxydation event also took refuge in the intestines of animals. They are what digests the food we eat.

I was curious about the conversion of methane into CO2. Do we have a way of knowing how fast was this conversion? I can't imagine all that bubbling methane not being ignited by lightning once the O2 content in the atmosphere was high enough.

One of the clearest explanation of this event I have listened to. Thank you.

I can't believe I've not found your channel until now

This video and your channel deserves more subscribers and viewers. This is informational and I quite thank you for the video and hard work, tho I may be 5 years late.

I learned a lot from this video. Now i have even more interesting things to bother my friends and family with. You did a great job explaining and the narration was pleasant. thx.

I could watch hours of your documentaries, a shame that I discovered the channel a few days ago not years.

I feel like I knew the consequences of most of this, but never really fundamentaly understood it on a deeper level. Amazing video, I learned a lot I about what I never even questioned.

Brilliant, Thank you.

Why does this have only 55k views the content is amazing

Just a few fun little tidbits I thought would be interesting to mention. The BIF's continued into the early Cambrian, so there would've been rusting seas even as early complex life evolved... the Ediacaran especially supposedly still had some iron and sulfur in the seas. And right as the Great Oxygenation Event occurred, there was the Francevillian biota, potentially early multicellular or colonial lifeforms at the time. They probably went extinct after the oxygen levels dropped a bit after. Also, oxygen still wasn't at current levels even into the Devonian, when the first forests evolved and really started pumping out oxygen. There was even probably a few short ice ages due to this. Crazy to think how much our atmosphere has evolved and all the effects that came with it.

There are also Thrombolites in Flowers Cove , Newfoundland, Canada. Which means that Newfoundland was part of one of these other continents .

Oh man I hope you keep doing this for at least another 60-70 years. Fantastic stuff.

Your videos are amazing and deserve so much more attention!

Absolutely amazing video, thank you for making it!

wow, absolute wow! Such a great channel!

Amazing video man

This channel is one of the best finds! I need more Atomic Frontier!!!

Such a beautiful video. Really amused by the quality of editing and immersive soundtrack.

Super well done! Can't believe I haven't heard of this event before.

An explanation I can fully grasp! Thank you.

Lake Richmond in Rockingham also has them.

This was an amazing video! thank you

Your location arrow is pointing to the southern end of the peel Harvey estuary, lake Clifton is about 15ks south of this point on the western side of the highway.

Absolutely awesome video! Thank you so much!

well done, very interesting

What a spectacular gem of a video!

Fantastic. Clear and to the point.

The term "snowball earth" is controversial, because sedimentologists found evidence of transportcycles of clastic rocks which were probably transportet by glacierice on open water. This would mean that there was still a band of liquid water around the equator. This hypothesis calls the freezing events "slushy earth".

This video is mind-blowing on so many levels

highly informative.

Requesting either synced manual English subtitles or a transcript. please. Thanks.

Why does Australia get all the cool stuff?!

Incredible video. Thank you

I wonder what music was used during the video, it was pretty nice

We live just 2 kilometres from here at Lake Clifton Western Australia. Go Go Go

Excellent video!

Great Video bro 👍 Gorgeous Scenery 👍😃 wish I was there 👍😃

This deserves more views like your newer content

Man, if it turns out that oxygen is necessary for sophisticated life, that lends more credence to the rare earth hypothesis. It's interesting to imagine that we might be the only life in our galaxy, and that such a thing only happens in any galaxy once in a few billion years.

Its strange to thing that of the very little locations these are left, 2 locations are rockingham and mandurah. The 2 citys that you cant leave your car outside without finding it on blocks :P

Is there Thrombolites in NSW?

love the video, good job :)

Nice!

These are also seen at Bacalar Lagoon in Bacalar, Quintana Roo, Mexico.

That's awesome. Thanks

amazing channel.

This is GREAT!

the notes being played at 9:08 sounds so familiar

That's a very nice video! I saw your comment on a video of PBS Eons channel and got curious to check it out. Definitely worth of a subscribe. Greetings from Brazil.

What about lake Richmond in Rockingham, groups my mum helped in, helped in getting it recognised, they when I was older I helped build the environment centre that's was there. Haven't been back there in 25 years. I might drive past this weekend.

The whole planet got rusted, poisoned, (possibly) exploded, then frozen. Quite an epic narrative you got there.

Is that runescape music in the background, very pog

Mate, are you an exception or is the Australian STEM education system the best in the world?

Amazing. Why don't you have a patreon?

Great summary, and well illustrated. One question: how many syllables in "thrombolites"? Sounds like James is saying "thro-mom-bolites" (e.g., 6:18 and 8:41)

Interesting.

? Rapid and radical changes in ocean levels many times, wonder how they survived those with a 10cm limit depth.

I knew that terraria was right, boulders are the most deadly thing.

Song name in video ? :)

Standard rock?

these guys really saw a hospitable planet and said "absolutely fucking not"

Coolest rock I’ve seen

been here😁

Hey, I live near there.

Your videos are awesome but i do feel like you should cite your sources

those are the river rocks from ark, they give alot more metal

Man i love our planet❤️ i belive that we got one of the good ones

Can these live in captivity? Have they been genetically sequenced? Do they have different organelles? What about the anorobic bacteria from the under the ice that causes the bleeding falls in Antarctica? Wonder if directive evolution could adapt these lifeforms to Venus?

A planetary wide atmospheric firestorm...yikes.

Easy Sub

Great video, I learned a lot from it! The part that really made me stop and think was the fact that methane naturally reacts with oxygen to create CO2 over 8 years thereby reducing the greenhouse effect. Makes me wonder what that implies for the current mass extinction event, a.k.a. climate change 🤔

The topic is fascinating but the music is so loud I cant hear you

"Standard Rock" lol

The atmosphere was full of methane....and some oxygen. Then, like "a bolt out of the blue", WHOOOOOOSH!

I didn’t expect to get so emotional for some bacteria...

Thromombolites 💚

Crap, first thing I did was Google the difference between these and stromatolites, was reading it when he explained.

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

1:50 needs a wee

Gotta love them thromombolites🤪

Some unicellular boi: hey this other organism seems comfy imma enter it Everyone everywhere: (dies)

Around 3 minutes, why did you say “UV radiation”? PAR, photosynthetically active radiation, is mostly around the wavelengths of visible light. That, and UV is damaging to cells.

Thromombolites.

it could have lit up if ,coincidentally, an asteroid or meteor hit earth at that exact time

Awesome video. Although you failed to mention thrombolites can be found in Newfoundland Canada

fucking AMAZING video