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@ajvandelay8318

7 ай бұрын

You've never observed, nor can you repeat 66 billion years. This is not science.

@xequals-pc1wl

7 ай бұрын

@@ajvandelay8318 Moron. I'm a time traveller and can report that the Romans dug the Great Glen.

@ljr6490

7 ай бұрын

@@ajvandelay8318 That is not what "observation" means. You are conflating "observation" with "watching"

@BenjaminPMorrill

6 ай бұрын

Oh that is hilarious. Dear Scotsman. We call that a dad joke here :-)

@annekerr1729

3 ай бұрын

😂😂😂❤

I remember a Scottish person telling me that Scotland was wandering around the oceans and it could have run into any country, but it had to run into fookin' England.

@HappyBeezerStudios

7 ай бұрын

England stole it from north America. And Noway tried to nick Greenland as well.

@jackwatsonepic626

5 ай бұрын

Lol😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@darkstarr2321

4 ай бұрын

Not surprised, we tend to live in their heads rent free

@jackwatsonepic626

4 ай бұрын

@@darkstarr2321 some English , not all 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@2msvalkyrie529

3 ай бұрын

Yeah ......sounds like the typical whingeing Scot ?

Greetings from Scotland. I'm a highlander and it's definitely my fault!

@maxpulido4268

3 жыл бұрын

Reported

@whatabouttheearth

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 Geology itself is basically the fault of the Scottish Check out the Geology videos in this playlist I made, there alot of stuff about Scotland, y'all basically made modern Geology kzread.info/head/PLgRoK-eyLjomaNEGNHjb1r8YWbUzVIskd

@iaincampbell4422

2 жыл бұрын

Fellow scot. Underrated comment.

@BrokenToken1

Жыл бұрын

I'm a glaswegian!

@kated9914

Жыл бұрын

Greetings from the US. I'm a New Englander and it's definitely my sister's fault.

This shows that Scottish independence is inevitable in the next 66 million years

@daggag21

3 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@danpictish5457

3 ай бұрын

Sooner if I can help and it could be my fault again!

@Bamsebrakar2011

3 ай бұрын

Only for the northern Highlands

@zebis3534

3 ай бұрын

​@Bamsebrakar2011 it's fine we'll apply gorilla glue to the fault between lowlands and the highland so it can come with

@crismillet62

3 ай бұрын

😂😂

Have a look at the Highland Boundary Fault further south, which separates the Highlands from the Lowlands. The small town of Comrie in Perthshire is known as "shaky toun" as it's right on the fault and gets dozens of small tremors a year. It even has the world's first seismology station, built in 1840. It's a lovely area to visit with fantastic scenery.

@R3_Rapta

7 ай бұрын

Haha that’s where I live!

@kirsteneasdale5707

3 ай бұрын

I live just above the Highland Boundary Fault, on the Loch Long Fault. I remember experiencing an earthquake here in 1985. It was quite a loud bang followed by a violent shoogle. I thought there had been an explosion nearby and that our house had slipped down the hill. Of course it hadn’t but an earthquake isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you experience something like that in Scotland.

@jal-kx6tm

Ай бұрын

@@kirsteneasdale5707 so you guys are directly on a fault and you have tremors but no big earthquakes?

@jmckendry84

Ай бұрын

​@@jal-kx6tmprecisely. I'm certainly not a geologist but I guess the strength of the quakes depend on how "active" a fault line is. The ones in Scotland don't move that much these days, hence the quakes are small. That's my understanding, at least 😂

It did this to make a perfectly straight line for Nessie to swim through when she wants to leave Loch Ness.

@MikeSugarbaker

3 жыл бұрын

Nessie has evaded capture for decades without even having the ability to turn. Magnificent creature

@ianmacfarlane1241

3 жыл бұрын

@@MikeSugarbaker Magnificent creature....or log.

@Davey-Boyd

3 жыл бұрын

I thought it was to stop wild haggis roaming to the South

@1701Starfish

3 жыл бұрын

@@Davey-Boyd Wild haggis never leave the mountain they are born on. Interesting fact - they also never move up or down a mountain, they remain at the same elevevation they were at birth because females have longer legs on their left side, males on their right, so females can only walk around the mountain slope clockwise and males anti-clockwise.

@jonstfrancis

3 жыл бұрын

Originally, Nessie swam along the Laurentia coast and then almost got trapped in Loch Ness when the continents collided, luckily as you state she can leave along the straight line whenever scientists come to find her :)

Slightly further south is the Iapetus Suture, which is what separates the Laurentian plate from the Avalonian plate. It runs close to the Scottish border, down through the Isle of Man where you can actually see the bare rocks, and through Ireland down to the Shannon Estuary. It's had a huge effect on history.

@SatumainenOlento

3 жыл бұрын

Cool! Thank you!!!!

@WillArtie

3 жыл бұрын

Noice!

@dontbotherreading

3 жыл бұрын

All I saw was plates, now I'm hungry

@sidthur2268

3 жыл бұрын

Y

@geostyma

3 жыл бұрын

Such knowledge . Dope

hello a scotsman here from glasgow, another thing also is we built the caledonian canal along this fault, so we connected all the lochs and waterways along the full length of scotland, so you can get a boat from the atlantic ocean on the left to the north sea on the right, you can hire boats and do it if you wish.

@kumasenlac5504

2 ай бұрын

This government project started in 1803 to allow warships to move readily and safely from the North Sea to the Atlantic. It was completed in 1822 - just as the introduction of iron steamships re-wrote the rule-book leaving it effectively obsolete. It has been used for small freight vessels and, increasingly, pleasure craft.

It's all Feng Shui. Since dragons can only run in straight lines, this feature makes Nessie feel at home.

@larsrons7937

3 ай бұрын

That might be so. I'm Danish so it's definitely not my fault.

@Palemagpie

3 ай бұрын

Ohh I like that answer.

@MP-vc4nu

3 ай бұрын

Nah it’s caused by Excalibur, It was the final battle

@coinneachmaclellan3121

29 күн бұрын

Feng Shui is nothing more than Chinese superstition based on cultural paranoia...

When you travel from one side of the fault line to the other, due to the plates being made of different types of rock the scenery changes completely. From a brownish, rounded-off quality to the hills and mountains in the east, to pure grey granite with very little coverage of moss and plants in the west. It's like suddenly stepping into Austria 🙂

@chiefsdad

3 жыл бұрын

Not dissimilar to the change in the Peak District at the great ridge between Edale and Hope Valley. To the north is sandstone (millstone grit), forming the domed mountains and moors of the Dark Peak; to the south is carboniferous limestone, forming the dales (plateaus and valleys) of the White Peak. The change and contrast is sudden and dramatic.

@thomasdrysdale4240

2 жыл бұрын

I can confirm this, I live in the thing, on one out of my bedroom door I see Austria, from my conservatory I see the alps

@IndigoBikeTouring

Жыл бұрын

@@chiefsdad its nothing like the peak district, that doesnt even belong in this conversation

@chiefsdad

Жыл бұрын

@@IndigoBikeTouring who made you the arbitrator?

@Trylobyte

Жыл бұрын

Fascinating observation! I must go and see

A lot of my PhD was on this. I studied how magnetic fields interact with the carbon in the Iapetus Suture and Variscan orogenic faults and this enabled me to find where the former ancient ocean bed residue was, and allowed me to make 3D models of the Earth's crust in Ireland.

@SchoolforHackers

3 жыл бұрын

Now that is cool.

@MolloyPolloy

3 жыл бұрын

That's amazing 👏 I'd love to see it. Is it available online?

@medad5413

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting

@dirkhamilton2709

3 жыл бұрын

Now that’s the coolest thing I’ve heard in a while!

@Karlen53

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! We’d love to see your work!

Fun fact! Nearly every Loch in the Great Glen has its own Loch Monster. "Nessie" in Loch Ness "Wee Oichy" in Loch Oich "Lizzie" in Loch Lochy And even some rare sightings of one in Loch Linnhe Many of the surrounding Lochs also have their own sightings in Loch Garry, Loch Quoich, Loch Arkaig, Loch Morar, and Loch Sheil. Personally I think they're all the same species migrating across the highlands through the river systems that connect the lakes together.

Always amazes me as you drive north across it. The total and pretty abrupt change in the scenery. It's a very special place.

@eric2500

8 ай бұрын

Cross that line on the right train route up from London is the MOST amazing experience. *You have arrived in Scotland!*

@eric2500

8 ай бұрын

Wrong line - *I was thinking of the one far closer to the national border, and it is not as spectacular as the Great Glen.* It's beautiful on it's own though.

@MP-fw4ub

8 ай бұрын

It's as you go up the A9 north of Stirling it kicks in

@richardscally694

8 ай бұрын

It's stunningly beautiful.

@jarraandyftm

8 ай бұрын

@@MP-fw4ubthat road 😬

SciShow: Straight line through a country GeoWizard: heavy breathing

@mosmes02

3 жыл бұрын

I understand this reference!

@HermanVonPetri

3 жыл бұрын

Queue Tom's walking mission music.

@Dog-eg8lc

3 жыл бұрын

Queue angry farmers

@awesomelyshorticles

3 жыл бұрын

The whole scotland mission I was thinking of this specific line

@GhostsOfThings

3 жыл бұрын

My first thought hahaha~

It's so we can have lochs deep enough to hold monsters in.

@SatumainenOlento

3 жыл бұрын

The most logical explanation 👍😀 Love it!

@polyherb4096

3 жыл бұрын

And hence the lochness monster

@rickyspanish6261

3 жыл бұрын

Nah its the Monloch sterness

@christinehunt625

3 жыл бұрын

🤣

@marcdenton2996

3 жыл бұрын

So we’ve found where Godzilla & Mothra have come from?

1:20 i too like to move 8 to 29 kilometers away from my current location from time to time to dissipate built up stress.

My fault too. Those of us educated locally who took Geography to Higher are pretty familiar with all the details. That straight line extends way beyond the sea shore at Caol or Inverness and can be seen extending at least to Mull and perhaps Islay and Jura in the South and to Tarbat Ness and maybe even Wick in the North. As major faults go, it's pretty quiet. Earthquakes in the UK are almost all less than 4.5 and activity here is usually a lot less than that. Only one event directly on the fault in the last 60 days (BGS) and it was 0.8. The glaciation has carved out a trench that reaches down to around 300m to 400m below sea level and at four places along this trench it is filled with glacio-fluvial deposits to above sea level. These allow Fort William, Laggan, Fort Augustus and Inverness to provide home for around 70,000 people and prevents there being two separate islands. Loch Ness is the largest and best known of the lochs that fill the gaps between these plugs of sand and gravel. It has a muddy flat-bottom due to deposition from huge catchment area and is a maximum of 223m deep (surface elevation 16m). I always get a laugh when construction projects run by people from elsewhere start drilling in central Inverness trying to find bedrock without understanding that it is several hundred metres down. The BGS database clearly shows results from a 19th century drill exploration to nearly 100m and all it shows is sand and gravel with occasional minor clay deposits. The buildings all seem to stay up!

@lukasrentz3238

8 ай бұрын

Its a Problem we know from Fault Lines where stress builds up only very slowly (if at all): We don´t know what they are capable for. Strong Quakes on such Faults are rather 1 in a 1000 or 10 000 Years events. The Fault line (or fault system) is certainly still active. I could imagine a new Episode of Activity started after the End of the last Ice Age when the Retreating Ice Cover let the ground bounce back which induced pressure onto the Faults. Quakes which could be attributed to the Great Glenn or nearby Faults are a 4.3 (USGS) in 1974 and a 4.2 (USGS) in 1986. Noteworthy also a 4.6 (+/- 0.3) near Inverness in 1816 with Intensity 7-8 (via Archive of European Earthquake Data). A 1 in 1000(0) Years Quake could easily be a M6 one.

@larsrons7937

3 ай бұрын

I can tell it ain't my fault. I'm from Denmark. But nice and interesting fault.

I can tell you that here in Connecticut, on the East side of the river, is definitely proof that Scotland and America did indeed collide. The soil and rocks are the same as they are in Scotland. On the western side of the Connecticut River, the soil and rocks are completely different and have almost none of the same qualities. I’ve lived here for over 50 years and I also enjoy Geology. Specimens are VERY different! 🇺🇸🕊

@oklahomahank2378

3 жыл бұрын

Namibia also shares geology with areas in Latin America.

@lisalabar7262

3 жыл бұрын

@Karen S Hi! You wouldn’t happen to be talking about Devils Hopyard, would you? Lots of crazy noises there! 🕊

@markscott554

3 жыл бұрын

I heard something similar from coal miners.

@lisalabar7262

3 жыл бұрын

@Karen S Say no more LOL! The 70’s were a great time, as long as you remember them! 🥰

@lisalabar7262

3 жыл бұрын

Anyone who is interested in this area should look it up. Haddam Ct. I tried 2X to post a link, however I guess it went against the rules or something, because it doesn’t show up in these comments! 🕊🇺🇸

The line is a result of things formed during Caledonian Orogeny... So Scotland is an...Orogenous Zone?

@zadtheinhaler

3 жыл бұрын

Found Eccentrica Gallumbit's YT account.

@davidnewtown8774

3 жыл бұрын

I know it's a joke, but also, yes, that's the term for a region characterized by mountain-building 😂 geologists have a lot of fun

@zadtheinhaler

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidnewtown8774 That's awfully gneiss of you not to go after the low-hanging fruit.

@gearandalthefirst7027

3 жыл бұрын

@@zadtheinhaler schist, that's the pun I was going to use

@td1559

3 жыл бұрын

The great glen hasn't been an orogenous zone for a very long time - its very old and inactive.

Some arial view pics of what it looks like from above would have been a nice compliment to this interesting topic.

@JamesHartnell

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, weird - I have more questions than before I watched this video. Bit rubbish really.

I live in that valley. The Great Glen. Very scenic.

@ImTHECarlos98

3 жыл бұрын

Can boats go through the valley? Or is it not actually covered in water?

@Daniel_leading_the_13_Plateans

3 жыл бұрын

Wow I visited Scotland would love to live in those hills

@bidders77

3 жыл бұрын

Tj4234 can you travel from one side of Scotland to the other solely by traveling the Great Glenn fault line valley?

@tj4234

3 жыл бұрын

@@ImTHECarlos98 yes they can. There's a canal that runs through it. Only small boats though, it's not a wide canal. The Isle of Skye is the large inner island that looks a bit like a wing. It has some high mountains on it. That's roughly a viewing distance of about 200 miles.

@tj4234

3 жыл бұрын

@@Daniel_leading_the_13_Plateans if you stand at the tip of the Great Glenn on its north eastern side, you can actually see the Isle of Skye in the distance (because the Great Glenn is below sea level like the video says).

Scishow: It happened recently Me: oh cool when? Scishow: 66 million years ago Me: huh. For some reason I was expecting it to be like more recent than that

@anyascelticcreations

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@oxy900

3 жыл бұрын

Deep time

@NicoUnken

3 жыл бұрын

I was expecting 60 years ago, not 60 MILLION years ago XD

@micaelgarcia1576

3 жыл бұрын

And I was expecting 60 thousand :P

@knucklesskinner253

3 жыл бұрын

That amount of time is a pinch of salt compared to how long the earth has been around

Have you ever done an episode that talks about the Appalachian Mountains and the Scottish Highlands being a part of the same mountain range?

@HappyBeezerStudios

7 ай бұрын

Not just those two, big parts of the norwegian mountains are also part of the same orogeny.

@Michael-sb8jf

3 ай бұрын

Atlas mountains too or evidence suggests they are

@67lionsoflisbon37

12 күн бұрын

Plus the Blue Stack mountains in Donegal, Ireland and the little Atlas mountains in Morocco. I think.

I learned about this some long time ago. But just as I reread a good novel I love to be reminded about stuff. Often there is new bit of infirmation as a bonus. Thanks.

About 300 million years ago, there was quite a massive mountain range called the Central Pangean Mountains. The Scottish Highlands are part of the remnants of those ancient mountains that were once as high as the Himalayas. The Appalachians in the US were also part of that range.

@jetaddict420

3 жыл бұрын

@Ricky Barber balls

@mb8787

3 жыл бұрын

I'll quip: I don't think it was called anything 300 millons years ago. 😏😊(😄)

@leticiaromano6054

3 жыл бұрын

@Ricky Barber No, you're wrong. We know how old something is based on a combination of stratigraphy and actual radiometric dating techniques. It's possible to date some rocks very precisely based on the decay of certain isotope (here's an example: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubidium%E2%80%93strontium_dating). Other times, we can see what order rocks appear and compare this with the local and greater area. If you have any specific questions, feel free to ask.

@marshalofod1413

3 жыл бұрын

@@leticiaromano6054 I wouldn't bother. Ricky Barber is obviously willfully ignorant. He doesn't want to learn. He only wants his worldview upheld. His ignorance is his bliss...

@sandysand3097

3 жыл бұрын

You can tell yourself anything, just as someone else can say anything. No one is right

Was hoping you'd mention the Scottish Highlands were once connected to America's Appalachia

@harrietharlow9929

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed ithey were. Some of the most ancient mountainous areas in Scotland were once part ofthe Central Pangean Mountains, which include the Appalachians, the Little Atlas of Morrocco and much of the Scottish Highlands. Here's a bit on the Great Glen Fault, which actually continues on the other side of the Atlantic: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Glen_Fault

@rogermac358

3 жыл бұрын

The Highlands are still connected to Appalachia, in the hearts of thousands of Scottish descendants!

@kingpest13

3 жыл бұрын

@@rogermac358 funny, when I read the ops comment that's what I thought of.

@smellybing

3 жыл бұрын

Yea. Too bad they didn’t

@Benzy670

3 жыл бұрын

My Scottish ancestors (really only a few generations ago) from the Highlands settled along the Appalachians here in New England. Makes sense they felt at home here! I long to visit the Highlands someday and our ancestral castle. Long live Scotland!

I just walked Great Glen Way by Loch Ness from Fort Williams all the way to Inverness there, was quite amazing.

@1nikg

7 ай бұрын

I'm hoping to do it soon. I've done the west highland way the proper way and I've been up the Highlands every year since. Glen Coe is my favourite place, it's majestic

@gregoryoutdoors

6 ай бұрын

@@1nikg Its epic

@davidlittle7182

3 ай бұрын

Fort William

Man, Scotland has been trying to leave the UK for a while now it seems.

@dr.jamesolack8504

3 жыл бұрын

Scotland has been harassed long enough. Time for revolution!

@Imsailig

3 жыл бұрын

The exact opposite actually; it formed far away and has moved towards it….watch the video

@33m3c

3 жыл бұрын

@@Imsailig Fun fact, Scotland existed before England was a thing, so... it wasnt the uk it was the land lol

@chippysteve4524

3 жыл бұрын

Only if you play it backwards!

@Dz73zxxx

3 жыл бұрын

@@dr.jamesolack8504 "They may take our lives, but they'll *never* take, our freedom!"

Who's Fault Is It Anyway? A new geology comedy show. Coming soon to a KZread channel near you!

@dwaneanderson8039

3 жыл бұрын

"Scotland, this is all YOUR fault!"

@ToyKeeper

3 жыл бұрын

The Fault In Our Scars ... er, geological scars.

@chimps4gimps

3 жыл бұрын

There’s definitely a Trainspotting quote that belongs in here 😂

I love the idea that someone once wondered how this was so, then started thinking and got together with others and they all had ideas and looked at a lot of different things from what they collected and observed and gradually came up with this theory..... there are other theories too.... love to all!

@straighttalking2090

8 ай бұрын

This is what we need today. More love on the internet

@johnjiv5790

8 ай бұрын

That man was James Hutton. Also from Scotland.

@martindornan1667

7 ай бұрын

James Hutton born 1726 - died 1797, from Scotland is known as the father of geology.

Outstanding video, we are traveling from America to Scotland for a wedding and wanted to hike in the highlands. Your video presentation has given us the knowledge to understand the topographic features and made our visit that much more interesting. Thank You

@davidfalconer9281

7 ай бұрын

Go to Glencoe… just trust me. I’m a Scotsman 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💛

@NarwahlGaming

3 ай бұрын

It's been 4 months! How was the trip? 😊

@RobertJl9516

3 ай бұрын

@@NarwahlGaming Trip is in July 2024. We are preplanning to get the most out of our 7 day visit.

The geology here (Scotland) is amazing and never fails to leave me in awe.

@ianmacfarlane1241

3 жыл бұрын

Loch Awe?

@randyross5630

3 жыл бұрын

The Line starts just below Easter Ross which is the Easter Half of Ross-shire and Geologically speaking the area is referred to as Ross...

@thedroid6462

3 жыл бұрын

Sutherland is a mini Rockies. Gorgeous.

@janicesullivan8942

3 жыл бұрын

Edinburgh Castle sits on a dead volcano, not surprised that there’s a “line” running through Scotland. Beautiful country, I’m very lucky to have visited there.

@whatabouttheearth

2 жыл бұрын

This is a playlist I made, the geology videos talk alot about Scotland, the Scottish basically made modern Geology, it goes into some of the history (Evans is a Geology professor down here in southern Missouri who's been to Scotland and calls it the holy land of geologists) kzread.info/head/PLgRoK-eyLjomaNEGNHjb1r8YWbUzVIskd

So interesting that the Scottish Highlands and the Appalachians once connected. There is also another weird absolutely straight line valley in Tennessee called the Sequatchie Valley, where I grew up. It’s clearly visible on Google Earth.

@James_Knott

8 ай бұрын

Add to that the St. Lawrence Seaway, which is Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River, which form an almost straight line along the northern edge of the Appalachians and the two lakes are part of the border between Canada & U.S..

@thomasshepard6030

8 ай бұрын

Maybe that’s why so many Scottish people settled in the Appalachian Mountains

@ronaldharding3927

8 ай бұрын

​@@thomasshepard6030no, that's where the English on the shephelah forced us to live. They wanted us as a shield against the Native Americans, and had no intention of letting us live with them. Yes Walden Ridge runs from TN to Europe it plays out in Germany.

@andymoore1527

8 ай бұрын

​@ronaldharding3927 that's interesting, I always thought prospecting and mining drew people into those mountains. I'm English but I live in Scotland. I'm interested in the history of the interior of the United States. Its not something we learn much about in the UK. Everything we hear revolves around New York and Los Angeles.

@juliamorganscott9384

8 ай бұрын

@@andymoore1527 A wonderful book you might like is "Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South" by Dr. Grady McWhiney.

Great video 🙏🏻going to walk it next year will remember its history. Thanks for sharing

A no-nonsense high-speed presentation riddled with insights and facts? to me that deserves a tick and a subscribe which I've just done :)

@CareelBay

3 ай бұрын

Ditto!

It’s where the weans were turned on Limmy

@dannywalker1927

3 жыл бұрын

did she turn the weans against him, aye?

@scottishrc7857

3 жыл бұрын

I heard if you sit in one of the Lochs with a bottle of Irn Bru and chant Maggie Thatcher 3 times, Falconhoof appears.

@AlanHoey86

3 жыл бұрын

The continents colliding created the loudest blahem known to man.

@samdherring

3 жыл бұрын

RIP Benny Harvey

@RealUlrichLeland

3 жыл бұрын

@@samdherring Gone but not forgotten big man 🥲

They didn't even mention that the larger part of the Laurentian plate that adjoined Scotland is now the Laurentian Shield part of North America, mostly in Canada.

@rosiefay7283

3 жыл бұрын

This video was about part of Scotland. It's not always about North America.

@Maru7en

3 жыл бұрын

You’d think the extra info would be educational enough to include, you know, also to add more to an already short video

@wilfdarr

3 жыл бұрын

Ya it was a 3 minute video, the extra material sold have worked well.

@PhantomOfThePsy-Opera

3 жыл бұрын

@@rosiefay7283 lol....salty?...geez

Good short viddy: I know this fault well, because the Caledonian canal is a superb route for a scenic boat trip, and one I have done very often.

Quick, precise answer without a lot of useless info. Thanks. 😁👍🏼

Always wondered about that straight line, thought it was glacial activity. Never realised it was originally caused by tectonic plates. Awesome, thanks!

I've had this question subconsciously for years, but it never occurred to me that it could be answered. Thanks SciShow!

It's very comforting as a Scotsman to know we were not attached to them .

@DPLFC

8 ай бұрын

Just ruled by us.

@user-xk4jx1xl7f

7 ай бұрын

​@@DPLFC😂😂😂

@Sbudz

7 ай бұрын

​@@DPLFCwe dont even hate you for that youre just all weird pricks

Did the Caledonian canal by kayak back in '84. A good trip, despite it snowing on the Loch Ness section.

We have a straight line here in NZ too but its much younger- the Alpine fault, that only formed within the last 40-30 MY.

@girlsdrinkfeck

3 жыл бұрын

Earth is 7k years old

@columnarbasalt4677

3 жыл бұрын

Explain the geology within 7k years old then

@jablue4329

3 жыл бұрын

@@columnarbasalt4677 Don't bother; their logic is that it was made like that, with evidence of it being older put there to test us or w/e. You can't argue with that.

@DenkyManner

3 жыл бұрын

@@girlsdrinkfeck it's actually 7 years old. we're all robots with false memories.

@Apocalymon

3 жыл бұрын

@@DenkyManner Boltzmann's Robots! RISE UP!!

I kind of prefer my own vision of Slartibartfast being responsible for all this. And the fjords, of course.

@sirandrelefaedelinoge

3 жыл бұрын

42

@aaronleverton4221

3 жыл бұрын

He got an award for them. The fjords.

Thank you very much for your informative video, much love from Scotland

The company i work for recently drilled a 750m deep borehole on the GGF as part of a hydro scheme. It was very interesting and greatly updated the BGS data in that area.

There's a similar fault on the southeast/eastern shore of the Great Slave Lake in Canada. The Great Slave Lake Shear zone runs through there, and can be seen from space, despite it not being active in well over a billion years. It is from the Taltson- Thelon Orogeny, and is related to the Trans-Hudson Orogeny, which formed the geologic core of Laurentia 2 billion years ago.

Nah, this is what happens when there is only one highlander and they test their power through their blade

@mamacat63

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, because the first Highlander died last year

@mavrosyvannah

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly, MacGregor!

@MONK-7

3 жыл бұрын

I am Connor macleod of the clan Macleod and I cannot die!

I have seen pictures of it before, but never gave it much thought. This was interesting to learn!

Thank you scissor for all of the great content over the years Always interesting and subject matter that I never knew anything about I love it and always look forward when new videos come out I also enjoy watching some of the older videos again Keep up the great work Have a wonderful day today ✨

Loch Ness is in the Great Glen - it takes up about a third of its length.

@alegsb3943

Жыл бұрын

Also this one called “Loch Lochy” quite funny

520 million years ago.. got it!

And just to show how far apart these plates can shift, the Scottish Highlands were also once connected to both the Appalachian Mountains in North America and the Atlas Mountains of northwest Africa.

Geology is always so facinating. I love the sloooow march of the tectonic plates always in sloooow motion, except the bursts of crazy activity!🏔🌍🌎⚡

I've traveled along the Caledonian Canal in Scotland. Beautiful land and lochs up there!

Even the land in Scotland has a slash on its face.

@sync4995

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 you win.

@m.a4491

3 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment 🤣

@icatjam

8 ай бұрын

I don't know anyone with a slash in their face and most of my friends are Glaswegian incl. My ex deid husband

Thanks for all these years of amazing content!

Great vid, straight to the point, clear, thorough. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I always wondered too tbh, I am into war map games and seeing the valley line on Scotland made me curious.

Caledonian Orogeny sounds like a Proclaimers/Prodigy mashup band.

@davidgessin-mccully3919

3 жыл бұрын

“And I will drive the fire starter, twisted fire starter, 500 miles lmfao 😂😂💀

@bagoquarks

3 жыл бұрын

We need some more love songs here in the U.S. Please send the brothers on tour, thanks.

@JoeySchmidt74

3 жыл бұрын

That could be me, I can do heavy electronic music!

Loch Ness - that valley is Loch Ness and very very deep. Lots of places for a sea monster to dwell and hide!

the other year in my home town it hit 42c and so me and my friend got up at 3am and drove all day into the highlands of scotland where the night was 12c. Ever since then I have been in love with the place and it's straight lines and cold nights and buckfast swilling neds.

I've been wondering why there is a line in Scotland for a while but never had the balls to figure out. God bless you for making this

@mikeball6182

8 ай бұрын

"the balls"? I think there's a reason you couldn't figure it out, but somebody else will have to explain.

@user-xk4jx1xl7f

7 ай бұрын

It was really my grandad in his JCB that caused it. 😂

Quite the coincidence. Was talking to my pal about this recently when we were hiking in the Cairngorms!

@SoiSoiSourzz

3 жыл бұрын

did ye aye?

Thanks. I’d noticed the line on maps and I wondered if there was an explanation to it. Cheers!!

I haven';t even seen the entire video yet. However I have the reason for the split. It is simply where "The Wall in the North" used to be, made of 1000ft of solid ice. Castle Black was the main fortification guarding the wall but there was also Eastwatch and many others. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

aah i love this topic. i'm on google earth everyday and have always wondered about this. thank you! more geography videos please

What is also interesting is that the brown rocky formations around the GGL are molecularly exactly the same rock that New England “Brown Stones” are made from.

@paavobergmann4920

8 ай бұрын

I´d guess it´s really the same rock. The oldest central parts of the Appalachians are also Caledonian Orogenesis, and the North Atlantic opened much later and tore Laurasia apart, so parts of the same old Brown Stones are now on both sides of the pond.

Had a boating holiday in the Great Glen years ago, fantastic two weeks, Dennis

Been there many times, it's one of the most beautiful places in the UK with Ben Nevis, Loch Ness and much more nearby

Glaciers don’t carve when they recede: they “carve” when they advance. (2.10)

@mireillelebeau2513

3 жыл бұрын

Good point! snd sound scientific criticism.

@vice.nor.virtue

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe he meant to say something like “They reveal what they have carved up when they recede” 🤔

@maxpulido4268

3 жыл бұрын

@@vice.nor.virtue so they meant to not be wrong

@vice.nor.virtue

3 жыл бұрын

@@maxpulido4268 yeahhh. They didn’t really hit all the nails squarely on the head with this video. 🧐

Hello from Scotland. Hope everyone is well.

@stefanjakubowski8222

3 жыл бұрын

We are trying, best to you and yours

@kellydalstok8900

3 жыл бұрын

I was hoping to visit Schotland in three weeks time, but my holiday was canceled again due to COVID. I moved it forward to May 2022. Fingers crossed

@derekscanlan4641

3 жыл бұрын

back at you from dublin!

@camerondon3712

3 жыл бұрын

And hello to you, likely from a different part of Scotland.

@jimmy2k4o

9 ай бұрын

@@kellydalstok8900maybe fate is trying to help you….

Well, that's my "Learn something new every day." taken care of for today. Thanks!

That's pretty cool! My ancestors were Pict. I always wondered about that line.

Relatively recently- 66 million years ago. Still fascinating! I love this channel❤

Imagine those 2 ancient continents drifting towards each other for hundreds of millions of years for the sole purpose of Mel Gibson making that Braveheart movie.

What about the straight line in the southwest of Spain, going along Huelva - Seville - Córdoba?

@urk5204

7 ай бұрын

That line reminds me of the Transverse Ranges here in Southern California, most notably the mountain range next to Los Angeles. Funny enough, these mountains are also along a couple strike-slip faults, the most notable one being the San Andreas

@larsrons7937

3 ай бұрын

​@@urk5204 Yes, San Andreas slips from time to time. It's not my fault.

Man, I grew up in Fortrose on the Black Isle overlooking the Moray Firth across to Dalcross, Fort George etc... for year I stared out of my bedroom window, wondering what lay beyond those hills, what adventures my life had in store when i grew up...i never knew i was looking at Gondwana from Laurentia!!!!!

I KNOW THIS ONE!!! The electro archon was fighting a great evil serpent, so with her Musou no Hitotachi, she split the serpent AND the land in two. You can still feel the energy in that area known as balethunder

@connielred

3 жыл бұрын

Genshin Impact player spotted!

@mikeball6182

8 ай бұрын

I had a motorbike like that. Cheap knock-off.

The tectonic plates be like, “You take the high road and I’ll take the low”

@RichO1701e

3 жыл бұрын

I understood that reference!

@marbleman52

3 жыл бұрын

Pusher _13...."and I'll be in Scotland....or Appalachia...before ye..." LOL..!!

@Pusher97

3 жыл бұрын

@@marbleman52 On the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@marbleman52

3 жыл бұрын

@@Pusher97 Yes...!! My father's mother was a Mcneill ( one "L", or two; not sure now ). There is or used to be a popular plaid design called the Mcneill Plaid.

@whatabouttheearth

2 жыл бұрын

@@marbleman52 Weren't the McNeils in the Chattan Confederacy with the Davidson's?

I live beside it but it is under sea water in the Cromarty Firth. V useful for submarines, cruise liners, oil rigs, things to put windturbines on and attached to the sea bed, huge cable laying ships and other strange craft.

Thanks for explaining this! I've often wondered about the creation of this fault.

@hoon_sol

8 ай бұрын

Don't blame me, it's not my fault.

This is really interesting and informative. Thanks for the video.

@whatabouttheearth

2 жыл бұрын

More Geology vids in this playlist I made, it fascinates me. Alot about Scotland kzread.info/head/PLgRoK-eyLjomaNEGNHjb1r8YWbUzVIskd

Furthermore, the Scottish lochs are so deep they hold over 90% of the UK's fresh water. Loch Ness alone has more than all of England and Wales put together.

@Cervando

3 жыл бұрын

@anon anon The rain 🌧️

@audie-cashstack-uk4881

8 ай бұрын

Only because us English allow it

@tombartram7384

8 ай бұрын

They're natural lakes too. Most lakes in England and Wales are reservoirs.

@Cervando

8 ай бұрын

@@audie-cashstack-uk4881 How exactly do we English allow it? Last time I checked weather control wasn't one of our abilities?

@scottishemu159

8 ай бұрын

​@@audie-cashstack-uk4881what????? What you gonna do drain our lochs???

Well this was new to me! Thanks for the video!

Very interesting and a good theory. It would explain why the terrain very abruptly changes up there.

The Caledonian canal connects Fort William and Inverness using the lochs along the Great Glen fault and man-made canals and locks.

Asks "why don't we see more strait lines in geology like this?" and then proceeds to ignore his own question and move on without even an attempted answer.

@ericvanzytveld9034

3 жыл бұрын

He mentioned the reasons: ice age carving and surface features. He just didn't say things like, "first" or "also" or "another reason is". But he did answer it.

@joshuadempsey5281

3 жыл бұрын

@@ericvanzytveld9034 he explained how this happened, but not why we don't see more of it.

@ericvanzytveld9034

3 жыл бұрын

@@joshuadempsey5281: it's also a 2-min video. I'd expect he'd say more if he made a 5-min video. It's also possible it's that rare, that just the right set of circumstances worked. Other locations have different sets and different results.

@ethelredhardrede1838

3 жыл бұрын

@@joshuadempsey5281 Partly because its not always straight. The San Andreas Fault in California is the same type of strike-slip fault between two plates but its bent due to the Sierra Nevadas. Southern California is where it bends. In many places where two plates are against each other the plates are moving towards each other. Such as India into Asia or Africa into Eurasia.

@billwilson-es5yn

6 ай бұрын

Freaks of nature? There's a straight mountain valley in the Canadian Rockies that is 600 miles long. Those are rugged upthrust mountains and geologists have no idea how the crust managed to break in a straight line for that far.

Cool! Thanks for the lesson.

Slate mining in that part of Scotland is cut with one machine horizontally and another vertically depending on the location. My good friend in Fort William is a slater by trade. He found Scottish slate on old cottages in Brittany many years ago when we were touring there.

"God doesn't build in straight lines." --Prometheus "Hold my Tennent's..." --Scotland

@theylietoyouall.5051

3 жыл бұрын

Tennants, ironically the drink of the homeless in Scotland. 🍻😂

I live in England but been going to Scotland since the 70’s, I’ve been to a lot of countries but nothing beats it. I always thought that everything North and West of The Great Glen is an island? It’s separated by water! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️

@johnhughes2653

3 жыл бұрын

And yet, ironically, the Black Isle isn't an island.

@colinmacdonald5732

8 ай бұрын

The Caledonian Canal does indeed constitute a watery barrier.

This is so interesting! I thought they were together but slid away. Who would have thought they came from different places and collided !

Thanks for sharing this interesting news. Although i’m not living on the island it is still interesting. Please share more wrt other countries

I live in Scotland and I didn’t know this

@scottishrc7857

3 жыл бұрын

Same!

funny thing, lots of people say that the only modern border between 2 countries that makes logical sense is the one between scotland and england because the type of rocks left over from these different mega continents promote different kinds of plant growth which in turn promotes different fauna and thus different cultures form around them

@ChrispyNut

3 жыл бұрын

Lots of people say the Earth's flat.

@ulrichkalber9039

3 жыл бұрын

@@ChrispyNut Lots of people say the Earth's not flat.

@alisoncircus

3 жыл бұрын

Except this isn't anywhere near the Scotland/England border. There is a different fault that is near - but not on - that border, which is not nearly as obvious as this. Basically you don't know what tf you're talking about and are repeating things half heard and totally misunderstood. Are you actually a Scotsman? Because this fault runs from Fort William to Inverness. If you think that's the border with England, you are entirely by yourself in that belief. Also, if you think the type of rocks dictates national demarcation, you clearly think of Scotland as at least 5 different countries.

@ChrispyNut

3 жыл бұрын

@@ulrichkalber9039 Exactly. "Lots of people say" is meaningless (unless you're Trump, in which case it's the most valuable thing ever, when it's what he wants people to believe, otherwise it's trash).

@Kyle-gw6qp

3 жыл бұрын

Nope. The Scottish border is like a hundred miles south of the Great Glen. Edinburgh (and possibly Glasgow as well?) Is south of the Great Glen.

Thank you. Very interesting explanation. Cheers.

That's really cool, I didnt know that and now I do. Thanks.

An interest addition to this video is that the geology on each side of the straight fault line is widely different...different rock types, different formations, different fossil remains and different rivers which stop at the fault, never crossing it. I believe that one side clearly matches Labrador on the other side of the Atlantic.

@russellparratt9859

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for writing that. It was the question on my mind as soon as I watched this youtube.

@MauriatOttolink

3 жыл бұрын

@@russellparratt9859 Hi Russell. No trained expert I, but a fascinated reader. Can't offer proof but what I have read over the years. (We don't keep confirmed evidence of that, do we?) That mapped straight line caught my attention years ago.

@MauriatOttolink

3 жыл бұрын

@Alboito Einschtien No. There is a WIDE difference (wide variation) in geology, not a WILD one. Didn't you mean to put a question mark on the end of yours? Thanks Alboito.

@russellparratt9859

3 жыл бұрын

@@MauriatOttolink I mainly read history, but I have always had an interest in various aspects of science, including geology and palaeontology, even if I don't have the time to pursue these things via books these days. There is only so much time in a day.......

@MauriatOttolink

3 жыл бұрын

@@russellparratt9859 Hi Russell.. We find great unexpected gems for which, time of day just HAS to be expanded.