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Omg I am obsessed with Continental Drift and the history of our tectonic plates and climate of our sweet little planet. Plus being a student in Greece, heavily focused on Ancient Greek and Latin studies, this is literally the best combo I could have expected from this channel. Awesome work!

@polyMATHY_Luke

7 ай бұрын

Κᾱ̓γώ, ὦ φίλε! Ὅτι σοι ἀρέσκει ἡ ταινίᾱ χαίρω σφόδρα. Χάριν σοι οἶδα!

This is great! I'm a geology student and a latinist (I took three semesters of Latin in college!) so this is right up my alley! Having a background in classical languages is helpful in any science. But man, this was such an intersection of two of my biggest interests! Thank you, Luke!

@polyMATHY_Luke

7 ай бұрын

I’m really glad! I will be doing more like this, so stay tuned! Grātiās, amīce.

You explained this 10x better than any of my profs... and they even told me I shouldnt learn latin or ancient greek as it wouldnt have any use in modern science??? Greetings from Germany. I'll definitly learn latin and ancient greek after I finished learning spanish!

@polyMATHY_Luke

7 ай бұрын

Hallo, Ludwig! Thanks very kindly. Haha when I began my geology major in college, I was way ahead of everyone because I already knew Latin and Greek.

Pangaea in particular I find to be extremely fascinating.

Fantastic as usual, Luke! I love the etymology tangents, just 👌

@polyMATHY_Luke

7 ай бұрын

Thanks John! I’m really glad you liked it.

@redplanet7163

7 ай бұрын

I love entomology! But while the study of insects is fascinating, it's the study of languages that really gets to me 😁 Seriously though...plate tectonics...I love that too! Your content is amazing!

Man, what I would give to have a time machine and go back to spend just a few months studying the flora and fauna of one of the ancient periods in Earth's history. Like, a season in the Paleogene tropics

@polyMATHY_Luke

7 ай бұрын

Gosh that would’ve amazing, wouldn’t it. I feel as strongly about the time travel you described as I do about one to Ancient Rome or Greece.

@aaronmarks9366

7 ай бұрын

@@polyMATHY_Luke Absolutely, same! The first thing that came to mind for me would be witnessing the day of Alexander's death and the council that followed ;) Luke, did you happen to see Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny? If not, you have to see the final half hour at least, I think you'd love it

Fun fact: the Appalachian mountains are some of the oldest in the world and pre-date Pangea

@polyMATHY_Luke

7 ай бұрын

A fun fact I will definitely be covering in the future!

@toranshaw4029

7 ай бұрын

@@polyMATHY_Luke it's also interesting how they are connected to the Scottish Highlands.

I found your vids while taking latin 3 in high school and now you've got me hooked on geology 😭

@polyMATHY_Luke

7 ай бұрын

That’s awesome! It only gets better from here.

Thank you.

@polyMATHY_Luke

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Saluti dall'antica Neapolis, Luke :) sei un grande! Continua così!

@polyMATHY_Luke

7 ай бұрын

We we! Grazie mille. 💪

Just discorvered you from your Metatron collab and you are fantastic dude! Great content. I hope you guys work together again. Glad to be a new subscriber

@polyMATHY_Luke

7 ай бұрын

Thanks very much! Metatron is my personal hero and a good friend. Thanks for being here.

Geology ❤

I enjoy this stuff very much

@polyMATHY_Luke

7 ай бұрын

Thanks, Ellen! I really appreciate the view and the comment.

I would add a fews details : the organisms involved in the sedimentation of CaCO3 are called "Coccolithophores". Those microscopic algaes are part of the phytoplanktons and are an essential part of the carbon cycle : both as a CO2 sink and as the victims of the ocean being a sink itself. Ocean's capture of CO2 makes the ocean water more acidic, which tends to prevent Coccolithophores from forming their shells (coccoliths).

@polyMATHY_Luke

6 ай бұрын

Quite so! I'll cover coccolithophores in a future video.

Che meraviglia! Grazie per questo video così interessante e rilassante ✨ ❤

@polyMATHY_Luke

7 ай бұрын

Grazie, amorcule mī! ❤️🐠

If I ever invent a time machine and then accidentally go back to the time BEFORE dinosaurs, I will be very upset (not that there weren't some cool animals back this far as well, mind you)

5:08 How do ferrous rocks tell you where they were formed? The magnetic field of the Earth constantly changes, so how do you dicide between "this rock formed over there" and "the magnetic field was oriented this way at the time"?

It's crazy to think that for most of earth's 4.5 billion year history, complex multicellular organisms had only just arisen 500 million years ago. That means that for most of Earth's history, we were all just a bunch of bacteria (for around 3.5 billion years).

@polyMATHY_Luke

6 ай бұрын

Indeed! Isn’t that amazing? It really blows my mind. Its also crazy how little geological history is preserved from then.

@daciaromana2396

6 ай бұрын

@@polyMATHY_Luke Yep. That's probably because the old plates that held Earth's early geological history have dissolved under the Earth's mantle due to billions of years of plate shifting, except for a few places left on Earth like the Canadian Shield.

Gondwanaland!

@polyMATHY_Luke

7 ай бұрын

Your vote has been counted! 👍

"Rocks are rocky. But not bullwinkle-y." ---Albert Einstein

Funny that 🤠 states like Kansas and Colorado are situated where the bottom of the ocean once was. But Texas is both 🤠 and has a coast ⛵ but you don't think much about it for some reason 🤔

@polyMATHY_Luke

7 ай бұрын

Indeed! Amazing to see the history written right in the rocks. We’ll see more of that in the upcoming videos.

Wow, this was very cool, but went way too fast!

@polyMATHY_Luke

6 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it! Do you mean it was too short, or that I communicated the information too fast in the video?

I choose Gondwana! 🦘

@polyMATHY_Luke

7 ай бұрын

Excellent choice! 🦘

@DrLeroy76

7 ай бұрын

@@polyMATHY_Luke Cheers, although I might be biased 🇦🇺

I refuse to believe that Kansas has been anything other than my own flat little hell.

@polyMATHY_Luke

7 ай бұрын

Haha. I feel ya.

There is a sunken continent, you know. It’s not Atlantis. It’s Zealand, of which only its peaks remain above water today, as the north and south islands of New Zealand. Also, there’s Doggerland, the sunken province of Europe which is now the North Sea. And about 5.6 million years ago, the Mediterranean dried up when the Strait of Gibraltar closed off, forming an unearthly basin resembling a gigantic version of the Dead Sea or Death Valley, where temperatures reached 180F and the atmospheric pressure was about 1.7 atm at the bottom of the basin about 3 miles below sea level. This is called the Messinian Salinity Crisis.

@mytube001

7 ай бұрын

The Med dried up and refilled several times during that time, not just once! Amazing to think that a small ocean can empty and refill like that.

@markvoelker6620

7 ай бұрын

@@mytube001 Yes! And imagine the waterfall at the Strait of Gibraltar when it refilled! A similar waterfall occurred at the Bosporus, when the Black Sea filled.

I fixed your title: "What America maybe looked like 400 million years ago"

@polyMATHY_Luke

7 ай бұрын

No, “looked like” does not imply identity of appearance, but similarity. “What did America look like then? Like Caribbean or Indonesian islands today.”

Fun fact: The climate has always been changing. Nothing stays still.

@polyMATHY_Luke

7 ай бұрын

Quite so! Πάντα ῥεῖ.

Continentia altera sunt bona, sed Americam septemtriōnālem studeō.

@polyMATHY_Luke

7 ай бұрын

Optimē.

You missed Calcium. In latin it mean Lime. Original word, Calx.

@polyMATHY_Luke

7 ай бұрын

Heh I was selective in the Greek and Latin terms I wanted to explain here.

@pierreabbat6157

7 ай бұрын

Not to be confused with the other calx, which is in the foot. In Italian, calcio is both calcium and soccer.

@OBGynKenobi

7 ай бұрын

@@pierreabbat6157 you refer to CALCEUS, which is shoe or boot. Side note, Caligula carries this name, but it's diminutive, Little Boots.

Not the catfish? I thought Silurian had something to do with a catfish.

Why would a prehistoric period be named after a British Celtic tribe?

@polyMATHY_Luke

7 ай бұрын

Ah great question, perhaps I should have elaborated on that. An early geologist found rocks in Wales corresponding to the time period when it was identified.

@mytube001

7 ай бұрын

There's another! The Ordovician is also named after a Celtic tribe. And the Devonian and the Cambrian are names based on Celtic areas.

@iberius9937

7 ай бұрын

@@polyMATHY_Luke Grātiās. Teneō.

OK I know this is picky, but saying “this is when bony fishes first appeared” and showing a shark….?

@polyMATHY_Luke

7 ай бұрын

The shark is pursuing a school of fish, and the first sharks evolved in the Silurian too. They didn’t look quite like modern sharks; something like that evolved in the Devonian. These are just modern analogues, of course; they’re meant to be evocative of what things might have looked like back then.

@jeffreyschweitzer8289

7 ай бұрын

@@polyMATHY_Luke Understood. Thanks.