When a Billion Years Disappeared

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In some places, the rocks below the Great Unconformity are about 1.2 billion years older than those above it. This missing chapter in Earth’s history might be linked to a fracturing supercontinent, out-of-control glaciers, and maybe the diversification of life itself.
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  • @lucashampton6269
    @lucashampton62694 жыл бұрын

    Earth's natural history is freaking wild. You've got dinosaurs, shrimps from hell, sloths that started in the seas, 2 million years of rain, and just up and losing a billion years. You couldn't make this stuff up.

  • @MatthewSpencerKociol

    @MatthewSpencerKociol

    4 жыл бұрын

    well it's not THAT freaky. This whole video can be summed up as "one day a giant glacier formed, and scraped a billion year's worth of dirt and rocks into the ocean, and like primordial fish food it just boosted the ocean with new and diverse life forms!" Not that crazy when you consider all those big canyons out in the western states formed by Glaciars could be made in a few million years, and sometimes in just a few thousand years! By geological standards glaciers move pretty fast!

  • @deerdeerdeerdeer9698

    @deerdeerdeerdeer9698

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah now everythings lame

  • @Dunkster74

    @Dunkster74

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@deerdeerdeerdeer9698 naw, just think of whatever the next bunch will think. "These apes did what? What's with all these iron and carbon vertical deposits?"

  • @nineball039

    @nineball039

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@MatthewSpencerKociol Did you watch more than half of the video?

  • @CottonCandySharks

    @CottonCandySharks

    4 жыл бұрын

    I didn't know most of that and am now super delighted!

  • @jirachixu
    @jirachixu4 жыл бұрын

    i really hate it when a billion years just disappears

  • @notforsaletoday1895

    @notforsaletoday1895

    4 жыл бұрын

    rachi I know right. Happens to the best of us.

  • @chrrmin1979

    @chrrmin1979

    4 жыл бұрын

    Coulda swore i was only on my phone a minute. Now im getting fired cuz i let the dinosaurs go extinct

  • @LarryThePhotoGuy

    @LarryThePhotoGuy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Happened to me just last night. Really torques my shorts!

  • @sandrakranzwinther3286

    @sandrakranzwinther3286

    4 жыл бұрын

    I know! All the time!!!

  • @JustinHo98

    @JustinHo98

    4 жыл бұрын

    Honestly about 25% of my memories are probably gone too

  • @t.b.cont.
    @t.b.cont.4 жыл бұрын

    Ah, that billion years.... I’m sure I left it around somewhere...

  • @strangelic4234

    @strangelic4234

    4 жыл бұрын

    Have you looked in the fridge? Maybe it's under snowball earth.

  • @Marine_Dynamite

    @Marine_Dynamite

    4 жыл бұрын

    Maybe it is in your skeleton all along

  • @trizvanov

    @trizvanov

    4 жыл бұрын

    The dog ate it!

  • @mrichar9

    @mrichar9

    4 жыл бұрын

    Its floating in the ocean and in sea shells.

  • @criston9318

    @criston9318

    4 жыл бұрын

    Oh yeah.... . . .go and find it we need! Come on...

  • @trishnewell7760
    @trishnewell77604 жыл бұрын

    It’s interesting to know that Earth sometimes clears out its browser history, too. 😳

  • @orangehearing4682

    @orangehearing4682

    3 жыл бұрын

    I never do >:]

  • @kanduyog1182

    @kanduyog1182

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hm...

  • @sourishganguly1996

    @sourishganguly1996

    3 жыл бұрын

    😳

  • @ITSecurityNerd

    @ITSecurityNerd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nah, just a billion years of incognito mode....

  • @leohaddleton6087

    @leohaddleton6087

    3 жыл бұрын

    What was it browsing

  • @digapygmy70
    @digapygmy704 жыл бұрын

    "The Great Unconformity" sounds like an album by a teenage punk band

  • @AlexssandroMeneses

    @AlexssandroMeneses

    4 жыл бұрын

    Isn't just a phase is a entire geological mystery!😅

  • @tre6316

    @tre6316

    4 жыл бұрын

    Either that or a 3-track 80-min doom album

  • @jeffhack6839

    @jeffhack6839

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes, Canadian band 'Teenage Head'! True, look it up!!!!!!! Seen them multiple times!!!!

  • @jw6588

    @jw6588

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, they been playin them 'rock sequences' in the "Vishnu Twist".

  • @Random1nations

    @Random1nations

    4 жыл бұрын

    Or a 2021 meme

  • @seansola6708
    @seansola67084 жыл бұрын

    If you're reading this and you stole 1 billion years of earth's history, pls give it back.

  • @mrblackmamba117

    @mrblackmamba117

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nope I will not

  • @Iku00

    @Iku00

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@mrblackmamba117 Return it, and make sure to do it with ease

  • @SultanGamer124_GD

    @SultanGamer124_GD

    3 жыл бұрын

    Shhhhhhhhhhh🤫

  • @lordreaper7569

    @lordreaper7569

    3 жыл бұрын

    Somewhere In the universe Ultron is laughing

  • @thesun7960

    @thesun7960

    3 жыл бұрын

    In my basement

  • @hairyplotter42069
    @hairyplotter420694 жыл бұрын

    I guess the Earth just took those billion years for granite. (I'll show myself out.)

  • @keithbrown7685

    @keithbrown7685

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well that's like when I told my friends I was getting into volcanology. They said "go ahead, it's your fumarole!"

  • @theasinclaire52

    @theasinclaire52

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ain't no Dad Jokes like Science Dad Jokes.

  • @grokeffer6226

    @grokeffer6226

    4 жыл бұрын

    Gneiss one !!

  • @pianofry1138

    @pianofry1138

    4 жыл бұрын

    And I'll show you back in because that was the schist.

  • @HaRDc0r3z

    @HaRDc0r3z

    4 жыл бұрын

    yeah, and don't come back! my eyes did a full rotation hahaha

  • @Azeria
    @Azeria3 жыл бұрын

    He really stood in the *grand* canyon and called it the *great* unconformity?

  • @rairynabapo8781

    @rairynabapo8781

    3 жыл бұрын

    first

  • @jackoroni4609

    @jackoroni4609

    3 жыл бұрын

    If I'm correct he called the great uncomfromany the great uncomfromany not the grand canyon

  • @AskMia411

    @AskMia411

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jackoroni4609 I think the joke is that since he was in the Grand Canyon, it should have been the Grand Uncomformity

  • @Jenacide

    @Jenacide

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AskMia411 I'll admit that went over my head the first time I read it, and they bolded the words and everything 😅

  • @SuperMrHiggins

    @SuperMrHiggins

    3 жыл бұрын

    Guy really wouldn't be told what to do 🤣.

  • @samdoesstuff7624
    @samdoesstuff76244 жыл бұрын

    Knowing stuff like this makes hiking and being outdoors in general so much more fun

  • @cgaccount3669

    @cgaccount3669

    4 жыл бұрын

    Staying 2m apart isn't as fun now days

  • @JLone55

    @JLone55

    4 жыл бұрын

    Totally agree. Every time I go hiking I tell my wife that I wish we had a geologist friend to come with us!

  • @salmastryon3926

    @salmastryon3926

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@JLone55 That is what I loved about my geology 101 class. All the hikes with the TAs and professors. :D

  • @elitemana9401

    @elitemana9401

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's Awesome

  • @Bladavia

    @Bladavia

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, science in general makes looking at nature even more interesting when you appreciate all the hidden processes that went and are still going into creating it. I can never see a river or a lake without thinking about the cycle of water.

  • @penguinbellyflop548
    @penguinbellyflop5484 жыл бұрын

    Steve, whoever you are, thank you for being an eontologist. My four-year-old always cheers for you.

  • @wishcraft4u2

    @wishcraft4u2

    4 жыл бұрын

    Maybe it's Minecraft Steve. That's my favorite hypothesis

  • @EryxUK

    @EryxUK

    4 жыл бұрын

    My direct supervisor at work is a Steve and he did study paleontology at university. I like to think its secretly him.

  • @dukdukgoos

    @dukdukgoos

    4 жыл бұрын

    Steve Woziak?

  • @omarmartinezolvera8405

    @omarmartinezolvera8405

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@wishcraft4u2 it'd make more sense if it was Steve from Blue's Clues

  • @beback_

    @beback_

    4 жыл бұрын

    I do too lol

  • @camdesilva3633
    @camdesilva36334 жыл бұрын

    That paper you guys reference at 6:09, the first author on it was a TA I've had. The second author is my research advisor and I've talked with everyone else on that paper. I'm super proud to say I work with those people and Mike's paper was awesome!

  • @mukhumor
    @mukhumor4 жыл бұрын

    A billion years disappeared? Now I'm not so worried when I can't figure out where the last three days went.

  • @mid7699

    @mid7699

    4 жыл бұрын

    Anti Aging

  • @thecoobs8820

    @thecoobs8820

    3 жыл бұрын

    Drugs.

  • @Deeplycloseted435
    @Deeplycloseted4354 жыл бұрын

    I friggin LOVE that we have high quality geology channels and education on youtube.

  • @tre6316

    @tre6316

    4 жыл бұрын

    Kevin Harris got any other good geology channel recommendations?

  • @WeAreNotAIone

    @WeAreNotAIone

    4 жыл бұрын

    Tom Scott is another great channel for all kinds of great stuff. Give it a look.

  • @destree6348

    @destree6348

    4 жыл бұрын

    I never thought I would see the day I could get amazing teaching on demand for free. I know... I'm old lol

  • @jdubb4589

    @jdubb4589

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same here!🙌🏾

  • @Deeplycloseted435

    @Deeplycloseted435

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ever Martinez check out these lectures from Central Washington University. They are really good, made for the public, and their channel has much more besides just the lectures. kzread.info/head/PLwNJg2mCrcQRYmYJzHUv7YxO40JlNbAWe

  • @colbybeltz8836
    @colbybeltz88364 жыл бұрын

    This is when you can appreciate the National Park System protecting such a unique timeline of sediment in the Grand Canyon

  • @notnormalyet

    @notnormalyet

    4 жыл бұрын

    @thecahn There were over 2,000 mining claims requested adjacent to the grand canyon between 2003 and 2011.

  • @colbybeltz8836

    @colbybeltz8836

    4 жыл бұрын

    thecahn I’m not saying every surface on the Grand Canyon would be erased, but that’s prime property for some serious mines

  • @ec4145

    @ec4145

    3 жыл бұрын

    I realize it would be mining and fracking that would do it in without protection, but I immediately pictured people cutting chunks out to make pretty counter and table tops. "Yeeep, got this right here from the Grand Canyon. Last place you can see all the layers is here in my kitchen."

  • @Michelle-po9xy

    @Michelle-po9xy

    3 жыл бұрын

    And Big Bend in Texas, near Mexico

  • @hannaciszewska554

    @hannaciszewska554

    3 жыл бұрын

    You know what a different name for Uncomformity could be? The Resistance, hehe

  • @JulieReizner
    @JulieReizner4 жыл бұрын

    I've no doubt you all know this, but this is by far the best science channel on KZread or probably anywhere. I literally JUST got done lecturing on Proterozoic climate, and as this is my first time teaching Earth History, I'm always looking online for assistance and I couldn't have done any better than this! The complex interactions between plate tectonics, volcanism, life, the atmosphere, and climate are hard to grasp (both today and in the past) for students, so I love having multiple sources (me, my textbook, some great videos) help me to teach these topics!

  • @Bloodmuffin6
    @Bloodmuffin64 жыл бұрын

    I love the hypothesis that changing ocean chemistry made the larger, harder bodies of the Cambrian possible. It makes a lot of sense--the biological processes that create biomineralization would have an easier time concentrating insoluble salts from ocean water if those ions are more abundant. As ocean chemistry changes, crude and weak biomineralization processes could be gradually improved by natural selection until they are tolerant to much more scarce conditions. A really beautiful concept.

  • @SquadDirector
    @SquadDirector4 жыл бұрын

    "What's your first and last name?" "Steve !"

  • @JamesTheFoxeArt

    @JamesTheFoxeArt

    4 жыл бұрын

    Your last name is !

  • @abdlhmdx

    @abdlhmdx

    4 жыл бұрын

    Steve “Stephan” Stevenson

  • @TotalDrganMania

    @TotalDrganMania

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@abdlhmdx Steve "Stephan" Stevenson from Stevenson Alabama

  • @zarvoc

    @zarvoc

    4 жыл бұрын

    Director of the Notification Squad i bet Steve will remain an eonite just to hear her say his name like that each episode.

  • @cgaccount3669

    @cgaccount3669

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's actually interesting to learn about how different cultures came up with their naming practices. For example at one time he might be Steve of Philadelphia. Or Steve the shoemaker. Or Steve the son of Frank... or even had his name Steve created or chosen by some method we'd find strange. Either way... thanks Steve!

  • @Mona-kg6hy
    @Mona-kg6hy4 жыл бұрын

    I love how y'all just make these videos amazingly - wonderfully illustrated and in depth - for free! I know a lot of this information is already out there for free, but it can be hard to digest and, sometimes, I don't even know about certain things like this to even search about it. This channel has given me so much info on biological and geological features, creatures, and processes, and above all, hours of informative entertainment. Thank y'all, and I'll pledge on patreon as soon as I have a little more cash coming in.

  • @johndifrancisco3642

    @johndifrancisco3642

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Anonymous Weirdo And worth it.

  • @xxmessymindxx1303

    @xxmessymindxx1303

    4 жыл бұрын

    This is why I always watch ads in full when they have them. :D

  • @dentoncrimescene

    @dentoncrimescene

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeehah!

  • @Richard-zc1cj

    @Richard-zc1cj

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lurkin, PBS is a great asset. Definitely worth contributing to.

  • @_ninthRing_
    @_ninthRing_4 жыл бұрын

    I just love this show. The way it makes me look at the extraordinary past of our amazing planet, as well as the awe inspiring & vast lineage of organisms stretching billions of years behind each of us. It's so wonderful to look at the beauty of nature, learning from it instead of just exploiting it. It's an anodyne to the cynical worldview that the modern world sometimes imposes on us. An interesting aside, Sponges (as noted here) are truly amazing animals that were among the few multicellular organisms that survived "Snowball Earth" (possibly from living in the warmer waters near hydrothermal vents). There are a truly staggering 10,000 (at least) Porifera species alive, today - with many more in the fossil record. (This is actually a pretty damn big percentage of all animal life!)

  • @LarryThePhotoGuy

    @LarryThePhotoGuy

    4 жыл бұрын

    The concept that I, personally, am directly related to All life on this planet is staggering, humbling, and inspiring. I like it when PBS Eons talks about my family!

  • @expansionpackdeluxe636

    @expansionpackdeluxe636

    Жыл бұрын

    Sponges are based, that’s why Stephen Hillenburg choose a Sponge as the animal to become a main protagonist for his cartoon.

  • @JACCO20082012
    @JACCO200820124 жыл бұрын

    The single greatest thing that humans as a species will ever contribute to this planet is the fact that we can think about, learn, and appreciate the beauty and function of nature. This is a perfect example of that.

  • @brooksrobertson250
    @brooksrobertson2504 жыл бұрын

    "When a billion years disappeared" The feeling of watching a new Eons episode after waiting for it to drop all week!

  • @derekbauer2125

    @derekbauer2125

    4 жыл бұрын

    Brooks Robertson ikr! I was waiting foreverrrr for a new episode

  • @iangrant4756

    @iangrant4756

    4 жыл бұрын

    March and April 2020 seem to be about that long...

  • @rhoddryice5412
    @rhoddryice54124 жыл бұрын

    One day I will go through all PBS Eons' videos arrange them in chronological order and binge-watch them all. One day.

  • @HaikatrineKat

    @HaikatrineKat

    4 жыл бұрын

    No, it will take several days.

  • @landon8961

    @landon8961

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@HaikatrineKat No it won't. As I have no life I actually took the time to calculate this. Okay, so, PBS Eons has uploaded 122 videos. Each one ranging from 8 to 12 minutes. The average for that is 10 alright? Now there are 1440 minutes and a day and 10 times 122 is only 1220. Therefore by subtracting those numbers you will have 220 minutes left of the day. Which is exactly 3.7 hours. Which means you will most likely finish these videos after 20.3 hours. Now this isn't exact but it's as close as I really care to get. So as long as you have all day and no life at all. You could feasibly finish all these videos in less than a day.

  • @landon8961

    @landon8961

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@HaikatrineKat And still have almost 4 hours to spare!

  • @MrWils25

    @MrWils25

    4 жыл бұрын

    Will there be an unconformity in your chronological order?

  • @mryea6954

    @mryea6954

    4 жыл бұрын

    Please do, you would be an absolute champion.

  • @rebeccaalpert5052
    @rebeccaalpert50524 жыл бұрын

    I love Kallie’s videos. She has such a lovely, natural presenting style that’s engaging without veering into overstated. 💕

  • @jawword86
    @jawword864 жыл бұрын

    9:16 am I the only one that sees a QRS wave? Like a heart beat? It even has a little P wave preceding it.

  • @user-fk6cb9en8v
    @user-fk6cb9en8v4 жыл бұрын

    1:14 'The Great Unconformity' is what I call my puberty goth-phase. 🧛‍♂️

  • @jacobduran8256

    @jacobduran8256

    4 жыл бұрын

    AHAHA I FELT THAT

  • @Bimtavdesign

    @Bimtavdesign

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ehehehe assuming it ever finished

  • @PremierCCGuyMMXVI
    @PremierCCGuyMMXVI4 жыл бұрын

    I don’t know why I think looking at geology is so cool, just the fact looking at rock layers like in the Grand Canyon tell a story of Earths history. It’s really interesting. But I think it maybe both theories, rock drawing CO2 cooled the planet into Snowball Earth which caused even more erosion stripping the planets history. However still lots of unknowns. Still wait to see what science says.

  • @NotProFishing

    @NotProFishing

    4 жыл бұрын

    All I can say is geology rocks.

  • @Ullmannite

    @Ullmannite

    4 жыл бұрын

    It really is! I'm doing something similar in my studies, however I'm doing dating in the Paleogene on Apatites instead of Zircons and I think its just amazing to learn something from another timescale and their connecting processes.

  • @Australiantourforyourdog

    @Australiantourforyourdog

    4 жыл бұрын

    SuperStormThunder g’day from downunder.. many moons ago I worked in an open cut mine middle of Australia as a serviceman.. getting to look at several layers of shale and the fossils inside were amazing.. millions or billions of years ago.. I loved looking at the layers and thinking about all going on when they were put down.. I saw at least 5 layers that ment it had to be underwater at that time.. place called lawn hill north west qld. Mine called century mine.. dinosaurs found all over the area and we had some stuff found that were made to sign NDA to work in the area.. mainly footprints and whatnot.. We have been here for like a foot or two of the 1 mile or so of earth I saw.. some crazy things occurred in earths past according to the rocks and dirt.. Have a great day twitter.com/k9isolation/status/1244869405495853056?s=21 below a silly song made for kids and dogs.. needs music and vocals, but a start.. Stay safe fellow geo lover 🇦🇺🦘🐾✌️

  • @tre6316

    @tre6316

    4 жыл бұрын

    I got my BS in geology at UMass Amherst and most of my classes were 6 hour labs where we went out into the woods to make real observations, collect real data, and get the best hands on experience I could ask for. We climbed mountains, looked at river/deposition systems, collected fossils, and a ton of other super fun activities... damn i wish i could go back!

  • @luismaldonado1494

    @luismaldonado1494

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@NotProFishing r/punpolice Hold it right there!

  • @verdatum
    @verdatum4 жыл бұрын

    I don't know when I would ever have an opportunity to wear a trilobite broach, but I still kind of want one now. I remember visiting the Grand Canyon decades ago, and my dad was so excited to point out the Great Unconformity. I love my massive nerd of a dad.

  • @cauxzieruffhausen9547

    @cauxzieruffhausen9547

    4 жыл бұрын

    Etsy is your friend. Input "trilobite brooch" and away you shall go!

  • @freenamorris7785
    @freenamorris77854 жыл бұрын

    Time really flies when you're having fun

  • @GrahamAstles
    @GrahamAstles4 жыл бұрын

    No doubt Clarence Dutton was an influential man, but he was only building o-n the work of the Scottish geologist James Hutton from around 100 years before. It was Hutton who discovered "unconformities" and ushered in a new era for the science of Geology based on the presupposition of uniformitarianism. No doubt a helpful idea at the time, but a fresh appreciation of catastophism is thankfully making a mark in recent years.

  • @georgefspicka5483

    @georgefspicka5483

    4 жыл бұрын

    As the head of volcanology for the United States Geological Survey, Dutton was probably aware of unconformities via the book “‘Principles of Geology,” which was published in 1830 by another Scottish scientist, Charles Lyell. Much of it’s content was based on the papers of James Hutton. Charles Darwin took volume 1 of the book with him on his voyage around South America.

  • @cuervoramos

    @cuervoramos

    4 жыл бұрын

    Most of the discoveries made through history by influential people are the result of somebody building on the work of people who came before them, it's the beauty of science, we all work together in order to build upon past discoveries to either enhance them, reform them or discover entirely new things based on those previous discoveries.

  • @trizvanov

    @trizvanov

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@cuervoramos Very well put.

  • @hamnchee

    @hamnchee

    4 жыл бұрын

    Clarence Dutton, James Hutton, Benjamin Button.

  • @jackspencer5676

    @jackspencer5676

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hutton's multiple unconformities across Scotland are pilgrim sites for geologists. But I am concerned, what do you mean by a 'fresh appreciation of catastrophism'? This sounds worryingly biblical.

  • @Bhatakti_Hawas
    @Bhatakti_Hawas4 жыл бұрын

    Vishnu Schist sounds like the name of a Psychedelic/Prog rock band P.S. There's a similarly named American band called Mahavishnu Orchestra. Check dem out. They're quite awesome

  • @swaswa1

    @swaswa1

    4 жыл бұрын

    Or some Indian demigod either way dope name

  • @frankboadi1031

    @frankboadi1031

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hahahahah. True

  • @abloodorange5233

    @abloodorange5233

    4 жыл бұрын

    Vishnu is a Hindu god

  • @Raventooth

    @Raventooth

    4 жыл бұрын

    Psych/Prog

  • @sephikong8323

    @sephikong8323

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ah yes, I see a Black Flag profile picture just when I buy back the game. Nice

  • @andyjay729
    @andyjay7294 жыл бұрын

    6:00 The St. Francois Mountains are thought to have been the only part of the US Midwest that was never submerged under the ocean. They're about 1.485 billion years old. When the Appalachians started forming, the St. Francois were already twice as old as the Appalachians are today.

  • @coachbrandon01

    @coachbrandon01

    3 жыл бұрын

    i learned, long ago, that The ozarks were a one of a kind in the world, but never completely understood the why and the consequences. I live just east of the mountains and it is assumed that they cause their own little weather area that extends to the east. I have explored the mountains in Mo and Arkansas, and it is beautiful land. I believe that this area also has the tallest waterfall, by some measure, located at Hemmed in Hollow, in Arkansas. The mountain also has the Buffalo river and many other waterways. It is interesting to hear the fact that You stated. I never knew that.

  • @bandgeek0165
    @bandgeek01654 жыл бұрын

    I love it when two completely different professions use the same word. Deposition. Legal term, to interview with a witness to outline what transpired during the lawsuit/crime. Usually recorded by audio or court reporter.

  • @googiegress7459

    @googiegress7459

    4 жыл бұрын

    Both carry the sense of putting down little bits to establish a firm thing. I think the legal term has an extra etymological thread for "to depose" when you drag someone out of their comfy zone and sit them in your chair in your office and question them as an authority figure.

  • @EmmaDilemma039
    @EmmaDilemma0394 жыл бұрын

    I'm a simple person. I see a new PBS Eons video, I click on it.

  • @KSWfarms

    @KSWfarms

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same!

  • @EryxUK

    @EryxUK

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same here.

  • @matheussanthiago9685

    @matheussanthiago9685

    4 жыл бұрын

    yo urahara

  • @wrnm0051

    @wrnm0051

    4 жыл бұрын

    Best comment.

  • @markfox1545

    @markfox1545

    3 жыл бұрын

    You are indeed simple - you repeat that silly 'simple person, I click' thing that many simpletons have mindlessly repeated previously.

  • @theinfectorgaming8074
    @theinfectorgaming80744 жыл бұрын

    The first part of this video ROCKED my world.

  • @Erik_coolman

    @Erik_coolman

    3 жыл бұрын

    It made me STONED

  • @morenofranco9235
    @morenofranco92352 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, PBS Eons, for a wonderful presentation.

  • @TheWorld_2099
    @TheWorld_20994 жыл бұрын

    This was a fantastic video. The amount of data, research and writing that went into this is impressive. Thank you for making this!

  • @watchdealer11
    @watchdealer114 жыл бұрын

    "A billion years disappeared" -Me watching PBS Eons 😎

  • @starwolfishere53

    @starwolfishere53

    4 жыл бұрын

    Why are the top 6 comments written by you

  • @watchdealer11

    @watchdealer11

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@starwolfishere53 me wondering the same question

  • @starwolfishere53

    @starwolfishere53

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@watchdealer11 why... Are you wondering that??? YOU are the one who wrote them after all...???

  • @watchdealer11

    @watchdealer11

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@starwolfishere53 😂 I'm wondering why I wrote so many comments

  • @robertstuart480
    @robertstuart4804 жыл бұрын

    Born and raised in Arkansas. Love the Ozarks. Glad to see them mentioned.

  • @johnballs1352

    @johnballs1352

    4 жыл бұрын

    I just went through AR, I live in southern Missouri. Arkansas is beautiful, I want to move there one day.

  • @DracowolfieDen
    @DracowolfieDen3 жыл бұрын

    I LOVE these videos and this channel, this has been my favorite thing I've found this quarantine. Thank you so much for putting these out.

  • @MrGorecki
    @MrGorecki4 жыл бұрын

    Just wanted to thank PBS Eons for making such awesome content. Thank you!

  • @richardirish3230
    @richardirish32304 жыл бұрын

    When did the oceans become saltwater? Will you do an episode on this? Will any patreons get on patreon and ask this question?

  • @PremierCCGuyMMXVI

    @PremierCCGuyMMXVI

    4 жыл бұрын

    Richard Irish the reason theirs saltwater was during the late heavy Bombardment lots of asteroids filled with water and salt crashed into Earth more than 4 billion years ago.

  • @Cyrath89

    @Cyrath89

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@PremierCCGuyMMXVI spoiler alert

  • @dnstone1127

    @dnstone1127

    4 жыл бұрын

    Salt in the oceans comes eroded mountains and land deposited by rivers over billions of years.

  • @Loreman72

    @Loreman72

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@dnstone1127 what he said. Also, the elements washed into the sea get concentrated by evaporation of water, which takes out water leaving the elements behind.

  • @PremierCCGuyMMXVI

    @PremierCCGuyMMXVI

    4 жыл бұрын

    C Cannea wdym

  • @EmrysEnergy
    @EmrysEnergy4 жыл бұрын

    There's some cool unconformity layers in some of the mountains in the UAE. I find them fascinating. Id love to get out of the car and take a closer look but they're on a sheer cliff face right next to the motorway 😅

  • @Bimtavdesign

    @Bimtavdesign

    4 жыл бұрын

    +

  • @sophierobinson2738

    @sophierobinson2738

    4 жыл бұрын

    One of our freeway off ramps is right next to a lovely shale slope, with beautiful ripple marks. Alas, it also is unreachable.

  • @derpderpington100

    @derpderpington100

    4 жыл бұрын

    Where in UAE?????? Jebel al Jais?

  • @FLUXXEUS
    @FLUXXEUS4 жыл бұрын

    *The simulation was rebooted so that data was deleted* 😂

  • @justinbiggs1005

    @justinbiggs1005

    4 жыл бұрын

    Doubt it. This looks like Corrupted files. Lmao

  • @nathanaelraynard2641

    @nathanaelraynard2641

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yea then the devs just decided to patch in some lore to it to cover it up lol

  • @hellomynameishuman

    @hellomynameishuman

    3 жыл бұрын

    There's a glitch in the matrix.

  • @Jenacide

    @Jenacide

    3 жыл бұрын

    Me missing entire years of my own personal history because I never bothered to backup that laptop.

  • @kmw4359

    @kmw4359

    2 жыл бұрын

    That was when the Vogons destroyed it to build a new hyperspace expressway. Plans were posted, you know. But fortunately, this time Slartibartfast had a backup and Earth was reinstalled… you know, the way they showed in that film adaptation in 2005 with Martin Freeman and Sam Rockwell. But of course only Arthur Dent, Zaphod, and the mice on the talk show circuit know if this time, it actually finished calculating the answer to the Magratheans’ Ultimate Question.

  • @craffaele
    @craffaele4 жыл бұрын

    I love this channel so much, helping a lot during the quarantine! Thanks.

  • @lolzhammer8281
    @lolzhammer82814 жыл бұрын

    I've suspected this for a while, I've just gotta ask: Steve is the office/studio cat, isn't he? 😆

  • @johannageisel5390

    @johannageisel5390

    4 жыл бұрын

    I would like to know too. Who is Steve?

  • @gautamvaze1101

    @gautamvaze1101

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@johannageisel5390 he is minecraft steve. That's why he know so much about geology. He probably mined out the great unconformity

  • @johannageisel5390

    @johannageisel5390

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gautamvaze1101 That makes so much sense!!!!

  • @andregck9056

    @andregck9056

    2 жыл бұрын

    Steve is always there

  • @madrobertson9521
    @madrobertson95214 жыл бұрын

    I love this show! I rewatch old episodes multiple times!! Thank you for making these

  • @Manj_J

    @Manj_J

    4 жыл бұрын

    Me too! And once when I was sick and home alone, I binge-watched these episodes and the host's voices were so soothing that I fell asleep and not once did I wake up sweaty and tossing and turning or even to cough, it was like a miracle to me after 2 days of interrupted sleep. Ever since then, I binge these videos when I want to feel less alone whenever I'm working late at night, it's like having a smart friend explain stuff to you while they're studying next to you

  • @allworknoplay5515
    @allworknoplay55154 жыл бұрын

    I am so glad that I found this video!! Thanks for all the great information and entertainment. I am looking forward to the next video and cannot wait to watch more.

  • @homersimpson7068
    @homersimpson70683 жыл бұрын

    Great to hear music that doesn't overwhelm but adds nicely to the video and commentary

  • @DIO45032
    @DIO450324 жыл бұрын

    Damn. King Crimson got a massive buff, it seems.

  • @dingee7233

    @dingee7233

    4 жыл бұрын

    didnt expect a jojoke on a pbs eons video. but here i am.

  • @SHOrTwiREDdeviantart

    @SHOrTwiREDdeviantart

    4 жыл бұрын

    Being a huge Jojo fan & frustratingly close to my degree in geosciences, this is the best analogy I've ever seen to describe how King Crimson & unconformities work 😎❤️🤓

  • @pohatunuva3771

    @pohatunuva3771

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@SHOrTwiREDdeviantart At least Unconformities are consistent. Oh, wait.

  • @caperniaWar
    @caperniaWar4 жыл бұрын

    i think my brain grasped the information, But i wouldnt count on it.

  • @donna30044
    @donna300444 жыл бұрын

    The more information we discover, the more we find out how much we don't know.

  • @ZOGGYDOGGY

    @ZOGGYDOGGY

    3 жыл бұрын

    What we don't know, we can always attribute to that little old man in the sky.

  • @katyungodly

    @katyungodly

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ZOGGYDOGGY Google "God of the gaps", its a form of the "argument from ignorance" fallacy.

  • @davismacdonald2579
    @davismacdonald25794 жыл бұрын

    This was incredibly well made, thank you!

  • @watchdealer11
    @watchdealer114 жыл бұрын

    Just bought my nephew the Eons Lego set and let's just say I'm the fav uncle now. 😎

  • @spacem0nkey411

    @spacem0nkey411

    4 жыл бұрын

    Where can I find such a thing?

  • @Bimtavdesign

    @Bimtavdesign

    4 жыл бұрын

    +

  • @drsuperhero
    @drsuperhero4 жыл бұрын

    The depth of knowledge, research and time putting this together is amazing! Great work.

  • @BodhiPolitic
    @BodhiPolitic4 жыл бұрын

    This is one of your best episodes by far.

  • @APOLLO456789
    @APOLLO4567894 жыл бұрын

    I love this channel so much. Thank you guys for doing what you do, and putting out such amazing content.

  • @MarMar-zj8tf
    @MarMar-zj8tf4 жыл бұрын

    i wish this was around when I took geology 101. It's so concise and helpful.

  • @tre6316

    @tre6316

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mario Morales i was thinkin the same thing!

  • @Livestreamlurker
    @Livestreamlurker4 жыл бұрын

    I wonder how many species were erased by the great unconformity.

  • @ricardoabh3242

    @ricardoabh3242

    4 жыл бұрын

    FusRohDah mostly bacteria’s in the beginning of that era? Will need to google now lol

  • @Nokus416

    @Nokus416

    4 жыл бұрын

    The great unconformity happened before the cambrian expolosion, so it probably would have mainly been records of microscopic life if any records at all

  • @cgaccount3669

    @cgaccount3669

    4 жыл бұрын

    You wonder what's awaiting us. We know the sun will eventually kill us... but there's a lot of time for geological events to do it as well. Long term hopefully.

  • @joshuadeyoung5540

    @joshuadeyoung5540

    4 жыл бұрын

    right!? In that period of time which we have No evidence from there could have been an entire planet wide intelligent species which had its own space faring civilization. Maybe they even made it off this rock before it froze completely. But we'll never know #thanksGlaciers

  • @Zack_Taylor

    @Zack_Taylor

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@joshuadeyoung5540 Maybe you're being hyperbolic, but there are a ton of reasons we know that not to be true. This was before the cambrian explosion, so the idea that during that period, life went through a similar diversification process incredibly quickly and developed intelligent life doesn't really add up. On top of that, there are plenty of marks on earth left by humans that could arguavly still be detectable after an event like this. Plastics and nuclear explosions stand out as being something that there would probably be some evidence of left over. It's conceivable that that evidence could have been lost, but just adds to the implaussibility. The lack of development of life that we see in the records immediately after this gap is the main reason that it seems impossible.

  • @Resavian
    @Resavian4 жыл бұрын

    Every single time you learn things like this, the world becomes more amazing.

  • @Ruby321123
    @Ruby3211234 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Eons Team! Your videos feed my sense of wonder & improve my days!

  • @erickbush1167
    @erickbush11674 жыл бұрын

    Another great video. This channel does a great job explaining geology. Seldom do I catch them giving bad/ incorrect info. In particular you're very good at distinguishing between fact and theory, as well as presenting opposing ideas. Kudos to you guys and your channel.

  • @EryxUK
    @EryxUK4 жыл бұрын

    Best KZread channel ever! Keep it going! Thank you all.

  • @Walter-Montalvo
    @Walter-Montalvo3 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic, thanks for showing the different hypothesis and rationale behind them. It is so much more interesting to see how researchers explore possible explanations, than to be told what the explanation is.

  • @asmaakadry6535
    @asmaakadry6535 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much💖

  • @krisinsaigon
    @krisinsaigon4 жыл бұрын

    i feel like i know how it is to lose a billion years too

  • @alexv3357

    @alexv3357

    4 жыл бұрын

    The March-April 2020 Uncomformity has given us all a taste of lost time

  • @jaysonklein6018

    @jaysonklein6018

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, man. I mean, I recall being a Opabina, myself, before this ca-roba-doba... and only NOW do I see that I'm a human being. ... I miss my five eyes and claw-mouth.

  • @geoCorpse
    @geoCorpse4 жыл бұрын

    Great video! I wish I could visit the Great Canyon someday and see this unconformity for myself.

  • @nemeceka

    @nemeceka

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's the Grand Canyon, not the Great Canyon. And I hope you get to come see it, too.

  • @MrWils25

    @MrWils25

    4 жыл бұрын

    Take a raft trip down the river and you’ll be right in the middle of it. Amazing place.

  • @undefeated3257
    @undefeated32574 жыл бұрын

    Loved how this was made. So well done!

  • @redpower6956
    @redpower69564 жыл бұрын

    Very informative, keep doing these fantastic videos! Thank you so much.

  • @Demolitiondude
    @Demolitiondude4 жыл бұрын

    6:13 even back then Ozarks weather is OCD.

  • @AnokiEdam
    @AnokiEdam4 жыл бұрын

    Are the layers removed during the great uncomoformity in existence anywhere else? Meaning, the 1.2B years of rock layers must exist somewhere, no?

  • @3gunslingers

    @3gunslingers

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ocean sediments I would guess. But since the oceanic crust is "recycled" relatively fast in geological terms we have no trace of those old sediments. When the oceanic crust gets pushed under the continental crust, it takes the sediments with it.

  • @CareerKnight

    @CareerKnight

    4 жыл бұрын

    Its possible but if so they haven't been found yet and possibly never will. For instance if some or all of the missing layers could be found at the bottom of the pacific good luck excavating them.

  • @someguy3084

    @someguy3084

    4 жыл бұрын

    World wide erosion, sounds like the great flood

  • @AnokiEdam

    @AnokiEdam

    4 жыл бұрын

    So there are 1.2B years where we have no clue of the geological record?

  • @cgaccount3669

    @cgaccount3669

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@AnokiEdam Clues. But no nice and simple rock layer.

  • @markuhler2664
    @markuhler26644 жыл бұрын

    The sheer magnitude of the time periods in this video blow me away

  • @GreatWhite00000
    @GreatWhite000002 жыл бұрын

    This show is amazing. Even experts learn here. And it's so easy to understand. Amazing work

  • @ar2279
    @ar22794 жыл бұрын

    love this lady her voice is so soothing. love the way she explains. pls keep her in every videos of yours.

  • @Depipro
    @Depipro4 жыл бұрын

    If both hypotheses of the Great Unconformity have their evidence, couldn't both be true? I.e. the breakup of Rodinia caused erosion to start, setting the stage for Snowball Earth, which in turn produced the grinding glaciers for some more erosion? Just because it's one gap now doesn't necessarily mean all that rock eroded in one and the same way, does it? Edit: I see SuperStormThunder had exactly the same idea a few hours ago. ;)

  • @lauracrossey9524

    @lauracrossey9524

    4 жыл бұрын

    Depipro such a great point! In Grand Canyon the Great Unconformity is made up of several discernible unconformities exactly as you suggest!

  • @estebanclavijo4309
    @estebanclavijo43094 жыл бұрын

    You are the best! Thanks for these wonderful videos

  • @jaimie00
    @jaimie004 жыл бұрын

    Great episode! Thanks so much. I appreciate you!

  • @andreasimon2752
    @andreasimon27524 жыл бұрын

    Its so interesting how we even know this stuff Scientists are great at solving mysteries 😊

  • @Patrick-hb7bk

    @Patrick-hb7bk

    4 жыл бұрын

    You're easy fooled .

  • @camerontaylor7471

    @camerontaylor7471

    4 жыл бұрын

    Patrick 777 777 SCIENTISTS=SATANIST ... we worship fantasy, storytelling, intellectual property, it’s all non-sense...there are never ending psychological operations that are used to keep the mass population docile and complicit within their position/status in the system as a SLAVE... you can travel the world, read all the great books of wisdom, and knowledge, and spirituality, and science, and consciousness, and philosophy, etc and in the end you will still be paying your taxes, going to work 40 hours a week, and paying for food water and shelter and all the other benefits the system offers... all while the administrator and authorizers of the system(slave masters) go around the world abusing children, organizing war, and destroying and polluting earth and nature...

  • @ireneglenisson4554

    @ireneglenisson4554

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@camerontaylor7471 what does all of this have to do with this vid I wonder

  • @Stangleripkis

    @Stangleripkis

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@camerontaylor7471stop spewing conspiracists mumbo jumbo. You should be on your knees praising scientist for the miraculous tools in which we survive on daily .

  • @thhseeking

    @thhseeking

    4 жыл бұрын

    It takes time. And scientific knowledge changes all the time as we learn more and more, and refine that knowledge. Unlike some spheres, where "knowledge" is "fixed", and has trouble dealing with it when science says differently.

  • @orale_
    @orale_4 жыл бұрын

    The answer is obvious.. King Crimson Requiem

  • @destree6348
    @destree63484 жыл бұрын

    Whoever your influences are/were, Thank You for teaching these people and Thank You for sharing your knowledge for free! 🙏❤️

  • @oswurth8774
    @oswurth87744 жыл бұрын

    The past is full of so many interesting stories. Thank you Eons for translating for us

  • @ethanwesterfield6478
    @ethanwesterfield64784 жыл бұрын

    Idea for a video. How did bones evolve and why did some animals use cartilage instead?

  • @Jesse__H
    @Jesse__H4 жыл бұрын

    You should totally do more geology-themed episodes like this one. I really enjoyed it!

  • @anuradhainamdar8967
    @anuradhainamdar89672 жыл бұрын

    Though I had Geography subject in B.A. & am a Geography teacher too, and subscribed for National Geography magazine for two decades.Having taught about the Continental shift theory by German meteorologist Alfed Wagener .Before which the supercontinent " Pangea" existed.I have never heard of non- conformity in the strata of Grand Canyon not of 'Rodenia' for the matter of fact. Thank you for this video, was very intriguing, expands my knowledge, and illustrations are very helpful. I congratulate Pateon for this particular feature ( illustrations) because 90 % of Geography in Indian schools & colleges is taught with out it.And maybe till even the those Professors have done Ph.D also do with out it, at M.A / Ph.D level.

  • @zaggedout
    @zaggedout4 жыл бұрын

    10/10 love this vid, love the music, topic, tempo, wish it was longer!

  • @iweoldtimer
    @iweoldtimer4 жыл бұрын

    Me: How??? Flatearther: Easy, the world tilt

  • @greatmarloes

    @greatmarloes

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hahaha omg you're hilarious

  • @Erik_coolman

    @Erik_coolman

    3 жыл бұрын

    Everyone knows the earth is a cylinder....

  • @howardchambers9679

    @howardchambers9679

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Erik_coolman and only 6,000 years old

  • @budgetsilksongcomposer1479

    @budgetsilksongcomposer1479

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wait. That makes sense doe

  • @FreezyPop

    @FreezyPop

    3 жыл бұрын

    Fool the earth is dinosaur shaped your all mindless sheep

  • @ericcrites3389
    @ericcrites33894 жыл бұрын

    I really love this channel, I can't believe I'm here so early.

  • @bonniehoke-scedrov4906
    @bonniehoke-scedrov49062 жыл бұрын

    Your video was so informative. Thank you so much!

  • @Snittyguy
    @Snittyguy Жыл бұрын

    I love this channel. Benn watching and learning for years.

  • @daniyalahmed687
    @daniyalahmed6874 жыл бұрын

    Can you make a video on the history of venom,how it came to be and how come many creatures came possess it.

  • @daniyalahmed687

    @daniyalahmed687

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Dan Ryan Safe my guy

  • @wolfil8019

    @wolfil8019

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'd like to know how so many humans came to possess it, but only a few (mainly humorists and comedians) know how to use it well ...

  • @zacdestroyerofultimatepart4487
    @zacdestroyerofultimatepart44874 жыл бұрын

    Now this is epic!

  • @alopiaspelagicus1628
    @alopiaspelagicus16284 жыл бұрын

    YES, please make more of these types of videos with more focus on geology, this was awesome!!

  • @Dragrath1
    @Dragrath14 жыл бұрын

    This is such an interesting period of time given how it shapes everything we know about life so it is always great to see coverage on recent developments over this time

  • @MagnusItland
    @MagnusItland4 жыл бұрын

    "Now that the beta is over, we'll wipe the servers as announced. The official opening of Tier Zoo on the Earth servers will take place at the end of the glaciation. See you all there!"

  • @starwolfishere53
    @starwolfishere534 жыл бұрын

    Last time I was this early you could still buy toilet paper XD

  • @nawa3236
    @nawa32362 жыл бұрын

    Poetic ending there. Good job guys always

  • @pohatunuva3771
    @pohatunuva37714 жыл бұрын

    The timelines and models used here are outstanding, really helps get the sheer scale across. Also, kinda surprised I haven't learned about the Great Unconformity yet, although Snowball Earth is a cool as always.

  • @menkomonty
    @menkomonty4 жыл бұрын

    A very interesting video. How about an episode exploring the history of crocodiles and how they survived the extinction of the dinosaurs.

  • @jordanlukacs5196
    @jordanlukacs51964 жыл бұрын

    “When a billion years passed” Don’t you mean after quarantine ends?

  • @johannageisel5390

    @johannageisel5390

    4 жыл бұрын

    No, you're thinking far too short-term. A billion years is roughly the amount of time it will take for BER to finally open.

  • @christianmingles6733
    @christianmingles67334 жыл бұрын

    Masterpiece! Thanks!

  • @bartonpaullevenson3427
    @bartonpaullevenson34274 жыл бұрын

    Good stuff. Thanks for posting.

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