That freehand map in the sand was impressive

I wish we'd of had this stuff 50 years ago when I was in high school LOL! This was SO interesting and SO informative. Young people today.... you don't know how lucky you are to have this wealth of knowledge at your fingertips. All we had were boring teachers and a worn out set of encyclopedias.

@user-bl2ty9lm3b

5 жыл бұрын

As a current geology undergrad, I cant imagine how tough it must have been. A lot of students nowadays are very much visual learners, so documentaries like these keep us inspired.

@jaybeecee1949

2 жыл бұрын

I had amazing teachers and my encyclopedias were worn because I read them avidly! I love these kinds of shows as well, but reading books and listening to experts lecture will give you far more intimate and detailed knowledge. These shows are catalysts for further reading for me.

@harrietharlow9929

Жыл бұрын

I would have totally grooved on things like this! During summer breaks I was all times at the library, reading geology texts and even lugging some home for further perusal. I've been a geology buff for 60 years now and the more I learn, the more I wish to know.

@Andrew-cr5mj

Жыл бұрын

To 3 dessert be d off

Iain gives such great demonstrations and descriptions! That crack round Glen Coe showed later geologists that it was a supervolcano. I wish I was younger and lived in the North of Scotland. For me that would be geology heaven! Through my grandma, I have Highlander heritage and wish I could see this magnificence for myself. An incredible place.

So enjoyed watching this incredibly interesting program! The breathtaking scenery of the Scottish Highlands and the beautiful soundtrack, just added to the enjoyment. The history of our planet sure is a fascinating one!

As a BSc major in Geology I was aware of the development of the accepted continental drift. However, not some of the names mentioned. For example Wegener seems to have gotten credit for the theory. Thanks for the transcript; I'll have a look at the names mentioned to find out their contributions. BTW, excellent presentation and demonstrations!

These three programs by Iain Stewart are excellent , I will use them in my science classes.

This series is excellent!

Before I ever studied science, I went on a bus through part of the Andes mountains and I noticed all the crazy angles of rocks too. It was really inspiring. I ended up studying biology because all the interesting plants in the rainforest on the other side of the Andes also made a big impression on me.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this. It's fantastic, I am hoping for it to come out on DVD. I am going to show it to my 10th grade students, after having already shown Ep.01. It is perfect. Also thank you to who subtitled it in Portuguese. It's so good that one almost never notices it is portuguese from Brazil.

thanks, a month ago the 3 parts were deleted, glad 2 are up again, wonderfull docu. I surely will buy once in the stores.

The whole Lapworth episode demonstrates something that happens in both society *and* science, although recently less so in science. And that is that people at the top either willingly, or ignorantly, cannot see what is happening below and around them, or accept that they may be wrong. Such attitudes can cause revolutions.

This is a really interesting series. Enjoying it very much!

Our Pugs really enjoyed these videos! Thanks so much! Incidentally! They are excellent! Thanks so much! You damn Limeys know how to make a documentary!

Raasay (1965-1966), my undergraduate mapping project!

Gotta love that scenery. Wish I was there

excellent program... useful in class... thanks for sharing

15:42 -- I just watched another series on geology -- Tony Robinson's "Birth of Britain" -- where they used the very same device to demonstrate the folding of sedimentary layers in response to their lateral movement.

Thanks for upload.

brilliant...very educational for me.:)

I've seen another documentary that showed both halves of Scotland coming together and sliding along the visible line that runs from Inverness to Glencoe or roundabouts. No mention of that here. The geologists also showed that one half of Scotland has rocks that come from the Americas and the other being the rest of the UK.

@harrietharlow9929

Жыл бұрын

Indeed. Much of the Highlands is a continuation of the Appalachian-Ouichita range since both were once part of the Central Pangean Mountains. And the line of which you speak is the Great Glen Fault. It's much like the Highlands--the fault actually has a North American section on the other side of the Atlantic. The original fault was broken into two sections as the North Atlantic opened. I'm sure you probably know, but I'll throw it in as a fun fact: Glen Coe is actually a supervolcano. Scotland's got it all geologically!

@clareshaughnessy2745

Жыл бұрын

Ooh, where does the fault appear on the US side? I’d love to Google Earth it

@harrietharlow9929

Жыл бұрын

@@clareshaughnessy2745 lPlease let me do a bit of research and get back to you.

@harrietharlow9929

Жыл бұрын

I must correct a previous statement. The actual suture between Engand and Scotland lies just a bit south of the Anglo-Scots Border. This tidbit from Nature Scot: "The northern edge of Eastern Avalonia, marked by the Iapetus Suture, lies buried beneath younger sediments just south of the Scotland-England border.Feb 1, 2023" If you'd like to know more aout Scotland's Geological history, please googe "Scotland's Geological Foundations Nature Scot". It's actually pretty interesting.

@clareshaughnessy2745

Жыл бұрын

@@harrietharlow9929 thanks, Harriet. I knew about the great glen, but the idea it reappears over the other side of the ocean is absolutely fascinating

A great video. But I will agree with those who asked why was Wegener was not mentioned? Both Holmes and Wegener deserve credit. Rufus Mclean....Lecturer UNC Charlotte geology department...

@boffeycn

8 жыл бұрын

+Rufus Mclean But Wegener was not the only one, was he? Many others proposed the same theory. Also Stewart does mention him elsewhere. This series is about "pioneering geologists working in Scotland", please advise when Wegener did pioneering geologic work in Scotland.

Great video but broken by adverts EVERY five minutes!!! C'mon You Tube...you can do better!!!

I've read Arthur Holes Principles of Physical Geology several times. It's excellent, I highly recommend it.

@harrietharlow9929

Жыл бұрын

I have that. It's fabulous. He even came up with a possible mechanism for continental drift--convection currents in the mantle. He says that Wegener would have viewed the Atlantic as an "enormously widened rift" (pg. 496), which it pretty much is.

When the rock is forced back into the earth than all of the fossils in that layer are destroyed are they not? There must be species that we will never discover because they have been destroyed in this process of subduction.

@wafikiri_

9 жыл бұрын

Yes, you are right. Subduction melts everything except the more volatile substances, like water, that are vaporized. Many, many species, even from land, are absent from the fossil record: either they never left a fossil, or it was destroyed, or they lay where they won't easily be found.

@doodelay

9 жыл бұрын

Wafikiri why do some bones leave fossils and others do not?

@wafikiri_

9 жыл бұрын

doodelay Fossilization is a difficult process. For bones to fossilize, they have to be in very concrete circumstances. Most of the times, bones are just destroyed: acidic soil or water dissolves them, for example. But one in a thousand, or even rarer, gets the right conditions. If we get lucky, we find it.

@doodelay

9 жыл бұрын

Wafikiri You could've just said "I don't know" instead of communicating how difficult the process is. I wanted to know the process.

@wafikiri_

9 жыл бұрын

doodelay Oh, sorry. The process consists of a very slow dilution of minerals into the dead tissues, replacing them until most or all the tissue has been transformed into stone, without the tissues being disintegrated and dispersed before fossilization is over. Most tissues, especially the soft ones, are destroyed through natural decay, and that is why most fossils are of bones [edited:], teeth, [end edition] and shells, and few of soft tissues. Sometimes, some tissue still remains in the innermost part of fossilized bones, albeit generally in a very bad condition.

3 of 3 is not showing up on KZread it say video is hidden ? eddit found it n search on an other chal

40:33 -- Ardnamurchan isn't a caldera ; it's a lopolith (a lens-shaped intrusion of magma). B. O'Driscoll, V.R. Troll, R.J. Reavy and P. Turner; 2005, The great eucrite intrusion of Ardnamurchan, Scotland: Reevaluating the ring-dike concept, Geology, 34 (3): 189-192.

@christinamann3640

11 ай бұрын

Good work providing sources

At 6.05 I changed my diapers, smirk. More respect to you , Man !

A good series. But I never realised that every pioneer of geology was a Scotsman. 😅

Is subtraction mainly taking place around Pacific ?

@christinamann3640

11 ай бұрын

I think I’ve seen maps of the ocean floor that do show subduction zones at the edges of the Pacific Ocean.

at 17:52 I'll be damned if that isn't a cannabis plant in the middle

@RissaJoans

9 жыл бұрын

Phuok Yu I'm pretty sure that's thistle

@phuokyu6441

9 жыл бұрын

must you dash my hopes for a world colonized by the sacred herb?

32:20 Iain Stewart must have been a "interesting" student in cooking class!

That's just a given though, isn't it? ALL land masses were at one time super volcanoes because that is how all land on earth was formed whether it was more recently or billions of years ago.

@alexburke1899

11 ай бұрын

Not all land masses are created by super volcanoes, there’s plenty of land made up of limestone/mudstone/sedimentary deposits being pushed up from the sea floor into land and mountain ranges. The European Alps and the Himalayas are both mostly sedimentary rocks. So a lot of land is just mud or ancient sea life that got heated into something else. Metamorphic rocks also don’t usually have anything to do with super volcanoes and the sea floors being built aren’t super volcanoes either. Proof of this can also be found on planets that have plenty of land/crust but never had plate tectonics or volcanic arcs associated with subduction.

Men Of Rock is about scientists working in Scotland who pioneered geological study and understanding, so no wonder the germans and every other geologic ethnicity was left out, its all about the scots

15 mins oreo mountain nom

funny,m this is identical to the part one video i just watched on this same damned channel >:(

Soooo we owe our beautiful landscape to England for crashing into us. This is bad news, nobody tell them

@manthasagittarius1

10 жыл бұрын

I think you owe more to the chunk of the North American plate that skidded in to form the Great Glen fault and the north bank of Loch Ness. The Highlands and the Western Isles are from the west. Our great pleasure to contribute them. :)

@mechtheist

9 жыл бұрын

forestpump What frame of reference are you assuming that makes it England crashing into Scotland and not the other way around? I'm not sure how such a thing would be decided

@mechtheist

9 жыл бұрын

manthasagittarius1 So you're saying it's the Americans that dumped Nessie on Scotland? Could be a conspiracy, our creationists are now using Nessie as proof of a 6000 year old earth. This is being taught to many a home-schooler, and, FFS, in many regular, state-run schools

@alfiecat9288

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 Jockanese humour

There's a nationalistic spin on it, yes. But one can ignore that and just learn from it. Besides, it's not as if ALL countries aren't guilty of this focusing on their own countrymen. It's simply to sell it to the public better, as unfortunately most people seem to think people of their own nationality are somehow more credible, on account of the shared nationality alone. As long as the information is accurate, that's all that matters-- as the scientists in these programmes are all great.

@masudbaba594

9 жыл бұрын

I share your sentiments. Its nationalistic to a certain aspect, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't learn from the documentary. I think this is the best documentary I have seen in ages. Its made me more curious about my beloved obsession which is you know what...GEOLOGY!

Good show but very unrealistically nationalistic. How can a show about the men of rocks mention only Scottish scientists, and omit Alfred Wegener, a German meteorologist who was perhaps the most important original discoverer of the theory of continental drift? There is also no mention of Harry Hess, who was the first to discover the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and propose the theory of subduction.

@youngscotsman

2 жыл бұрын

A Scottish program,made for Scottish audiences on BBC Scotland TV about Scottish Geologists and the Landscape of Scotland...Of course it is Nationalistic. It was never made to be a show for a global audience.

Totally ruined by a ridiculous amount of adverts. Definitely not subscribing🙄🙄🙄

@simonlowrie5731

Жыл бұрын

what's it like to go through life without a brain? Get youtube premium if you don't want ads

Funny that someone whines about omitting Wegener. This programme is about Scotland and certain individuals. Said complaint is like complaining that they omitted Rocky Marciano from a documentary on British boxers. Anyone in the know, is fully aware of Wegener's contribution. As for comments on monarchs with nazi aryan blood…. I hope he or she keeps taking the pills the doctor prescribed.

@Konstruktivismus

9 жыл бұрын

That makes no sense in my opinion. This is not only a documentary about Scottish Geologists. It is a documentary about Geology and the discovery of plate tectonics. And it is not correct, to explain the history of this theory, without even mentioning its founder, the pioneering Alfred Wegener. And I am not saying this, because i am German. Omitting Wegener from this documentary is like explaining the discovery of the "evolution of species" without even mentioning Darwin.

54:39 Scotland and Northern Ireland were separate than their other halfs we must remain separated because England forces us a monarch born of nazi aryan blood and one of our peoples religion, not all. Nazism must be weak the weaker a kingdom, the stronger the Democracy - or lets unite under an elected president, but that will never happen, because many among us claim that is not aryan nazi to be of loftier bloodline well if that is not nazism, then what is it? to entangle one of our people's religion to most Britanic Nations?

@AxelBliss

9 жыл бұрын

Joey McCarthy very nazi of you to say so