Narrator walks in on mountain scene, explains some geology, walks through. What an old Canadian geology film gem.

Ahhhhhh!😊 The nostalgia of watching old VHS videos. I love watching ancient Weather Channel from the late 80's into early 90's. The music, technology, and hairstyles of that time just takes me back to those days full of wonderful memories.

The time that has passed since this documentary was made to the present, is virtually instantaneous in geologic time.

I've learned a lot about geology over the last few years but never heard a key point that you make: the story of rocks is very different from the story of mountains (though the mountains are made up of the rocks). They're very different phenomena and events at very different times. That clarifies why geology can explain a lot more than might be immediately apparent. The mountains are important, and the rocks are important, but the rock composition of the mountains is important in itself!

Anyone know if the narrator for this documentary (Chris Yorath) did a geology series? He's a very good narrator. AND an actual geologist, unlike nearly all other such narrators. In other words, he's not just reading a script, pretending he knows what he's talking about. He does know what he's talking about.

VHS is still pimpin' hard! What a great video, they sure don't make em' like they used to.

Geology is such an underappreciated science.

Thanks for uploading this video, I've been searching for a video about Canadian geology for a while now, so Thank you.

I love these old documentaries made for straight to VHS. It’s funny watching him randomly walking around. Would be funny to see him go into a liquor store for a bottle or into an adult bookstore for some magazines.

excellent! Very enjoyed this very detailed formation of the Rockies .. Thanks

Sometimes I miss calm, Canadian TV.

Great video, have lived in the Van lower mainland and always marveled at the geology.

Wonderful video! It’s so nice to learn about the geologic history via utube. Thanks !!

Excellent and informative show! Thanks for the great explanation of what happened and continues to happen.

Anyone else see the face in "The Big Rock" erratic shown at 20:59? Maybe that's just my pareidolia acting up again :)

a great video with clear and simple description

Thanks for uploading! I’m trying to get the basics of the geology of North America (from my couch in western Europe), and it’s hard to find a ‘for beginners’ instruction. This video is extremely helpful!

Even though it's from 1992, this video is very informative. I view a lot of geology videos on KZfaq but this is the 1st concerning North America north of Washington. I never knew this area of Canada was south of the equator. So many videos deal with the N.A from Yellowstone to Grand Canyon & eastward to the Atlantic. I agree with many others that it's great.

Looks like this video was made in 1993, 30 years ago. I was 25 and living here in Alberta, wondering what I was doing when they were filming this video. Such sweet days! I loved the video, learned so much more about this amazing world.

absolutly fantastic .....

This is the best thing I've seen on the internet this year

Great film.... dovetails quite nicely with others I watch here showcasing the “modern” geological theories” Nick Zentner, GeoCosmicX, etc. Very eye-opening and thought provoking! Thanks!

Interesting and informative... thanks.

Thank you... good clear information 🤗

Thank you for this video. I'm reading a book called Okanagan Geology South and am finding all this very fascinating.

Wow!! Clearest presentation on KZfaq.

Well done and informative.

Great stuff, thank you!

So good, love it!

Thanks, Knowing this helps me know Montana better.

Nick Zentner sent me! 👋

Greetings from the BIG SKY. A very good treatise on plate tectonics.

Very informative, I just came back from a trip to Banff and Jasper and wanted to educate myself on you the Canadian Rockies were formed.

This guy is a great educator snd has those cool 70s-80s vibes. As someone who lives in Vancouver and adores the gorgeous landscapes, as well as the flora and fauna of BC, it was great to learn the history of how it all came to be. It's truly humbling to think of the magnitude of the timespans involved and to discover that the land that I live on was once as warm as the tropics or that there was a time when the ocean came right up against the border of Alberta. Really reminds how you dynamic Mother Earth is and her many faces. Long may the beauty of this bejeweled blue pearl - the only oasis of life we know in this gigantic cosmos - endure! We humans, despite all our arrogance about being « special » are but a small transitory species in the vast stage of life.

Really great

kind of cool watching a documentary that showcases a rock 5km away from you own town!

Back when they didnt dumb down science shows too much.. Nice.

I believe that the KZfaq algorithm sent me here in care of Nick Zentner and Randal Carlson. 🙏🏼❤

I find Geology, the most fascinating of all the Sciences

Great and interesting. Totally Canadian😀

This was so informative. I live on Vancouver Island.

Fascinating!!!

I may have seen this in earth science 11 over a decade ago. It's got me feeling nostalgic, all I need is an uncomfortable chair and a hot stuffy room filled with bored slackers(they were there for easy credits). :D

Very well written and great host. 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

:) Great video, thank you. I live in the appellation mountain fold in Pennsylvania called the Poconos. This helps me understand what happened around here a few years back....... I have always wondered when you see the band strata, I've always thought that this must've been done slowly when the strata layers were still wet and under the ocean. Is this true? Again thank you for the great video and even greater narration and explanations.

to bad this wasn't a series, the presenter is very good leaves you wanting to learn more

Zentnerds unite!

THIS HELPS ME

-Denim work shirt -Light duty pick up -Questionable "about" pronunciation This man is one hockey reference away from being too Canadian.

Beautiful

Well done. Thank you.

From where did this chunk of rock come from? 14:45 Was the Juan de Fuca MOR not active at that time?

*"COPYRIGHT 1992."* Still relevant as I watch it 29 years later.

excellent !

1992! Why does the video look much older than that? That was the year I moved to Vancouver, 31 years ago! Oh man, time just flies by.

Can we have some more of this, very interesting stuff

@:40 Did he say "Seventeen Hundred Million Years Ago"? Never heard it said this way...Great video thnx for posting!

loved it

Great!

thanks....

Mahalos for posting wonderful geology doc ! Watchout for bigfoot in western canada lol

The bubbling mud is intensely satisfying

I'm using this to educate my undergrad field trip before we leave

The even more interesting question is where on the globe was the land when it was collided with the land masses have been crashing together and running away from each other the entire time.

Baja BC is a theory gaining wide support that Vancouver Island and much of the western coast came from Mexico. So interesting.

BC Geology for dummies!!!! love it

11:16 does anyone know if this rock also found on the east side of the Fraser river at Lilooette?

Collision that makes the mountains I always wonder how slowly it happens

When I was on southern Vancouver Island I noticed the rocks all looked like Pillow Lava and wondered if they originated in the ocean before the plates collided and placed the island where it is now.

"jumbled up mess"!!!! My home this is!!!

3:12- the clock in the sand 12:24- 1st collision 16:24- 2nd collision 17:22- the Rockies

If you've ever been to the Yukon, and walk some of the trails in the Yukon, you'll notice that you're walking on sea shells. They are everywhere up there. Clear evidence, it was, at one point, the ocean floor. Pick one up, and you're holding something, billions of years old! It's quite a spectacle to see this, that far from the coast. If you're in Whitehorse, go for a walk, and "sea" for yourself. I live in British Columbia, and live in these mountains. Good vid👍

There is still an elegance in sand graphics displays that you cannot find in computer graphics.

it is now known that the collision of the plates was westward not eastward as we were always taught. the north american plate moved westwards the pacific plate did not move eastwards as much as we thought. it was to do with the old continent of Pangeia which moved westward as it broke apart. if in doubt see Prof Nick Zenter's talk on the new discovery and evidence.

thanks

To the person who thinks the geologist can't spell, "terrane" is a geologic term, not a misspelling of the word "terrain".

The narrator was my graphic design, illutration, layout student... wow, small world

wow BIG NUMBETS. IMPRESSIVE

a little out of date as it doesn't mention Kula Plate or that some of the terranes may have travelled from Baja to BC...

I hope the pole switch from north to south does not devastate us ?

So thats why we can find ocean fossils in the Rockies.

I wondered as to why I had Laterite on my claim in central BC

Here's Chris on Ray Matt trench

Check if Clock of time is quite what you intended The "clock vs what you were saying"

What is the ceour de leiria? (spelling most likely wrong)

Oh, hello there! Lol awesome

What are Terranes. I know what terrains are, do these differ somehow? You spelled Geology right.

Most of geology is silenced these days and taught society lies of our past history good thing we have access with KZfaq to watch these old docos

I wish it would have gone into where they think those terrannes were formed

“Magic Time Machine” “take us back to 1992”

Baja BC ?

From 1992.

I don't get it.I have looked at this several times. A potter for 40 years and know very well temperature and silicate materials relations, but Geology has me stumped by all the moving parts. Its like the earth is firing itself.Answers lots of questions and that's great.Too many answers are all over the place and have gaps. It can't be this simple. This kind of heat acting over this timescale.At least as much interaction in the mantle as the crust.Also, shouldn't we be cooked by now?I mean apart from the fact we have been,we are here now.I need to take a course.Also a strangely compelling desire to hammer out and to fire various rocks in my kiln.Never done that because the water, both entrained physically and chemically makes them explosive,but what the hell! Its my cosmic duty as a Rosslander,B.C.'er and Canadian.Thanks for the upload!

But why does it sound like a 1959 flick?

Given its broad application, everyone should understand GEOLOGY - therefore this video has been indexed and a link added by DR-KNOW / iq-2k Information Services - roughly 850 videos have indexed for this series

seventeen hundred million years ago, really

CAN WE PLEASE TALK ABOUT 1:15 ????? 😂😂😂😂

Einstein said it took less than 30 minutes to form

Amazing stuff l sd volcanoes not mtns people laughed wanna get married? Haha what a grand job on this telling Nick Z. In Washington.

Eastern Canada's mountains are much older.