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As a kid I was a crazy space nerd. Since I began studying geosciences however, it became more and more clear, that the most interesting celestial body is not visible when you look up the night sky, but rather look down to your feet. The Earth is so much more complex and interesting than any other planet I know, it is mind boggling. I still like space and everything about it, but I came to be that Earth is my favorite planetary body by FAR.
+Rígille Maybe, but the Earth is still way more complex than say the mars. The lack of plate tectonics and the lack of water in the atmosphere makes a huge difference in how complex for example weathering processes are. The amount of science and know how there is for a theme field like for example plate tectonics and the resulting science about subduction zones and fire rings and the different compositions of different types of magma and what we can say about the origins of that magma or the processes that lead to its surfacing based on that composition...I could go on the whole day. :D Many of those fields are pretty much nonexistent on other planets, because there isn't even a thing as plate tectonics. Or sedimentology. On mars you have aeolian transport at best. On Earth it is a field with hundreds of different processes and hundreds of sedimentary rocks to study.
Good idea to add Hypsometric Curve to the title, makes it much easier to find. Also, great description, always adds a bit extra info on the subject :) .
Isn't it due to pressure? Under sea level there will be more pressure making rocks fuse together or stick closer to each other? I'm talking about atomic level.
I also heard there is Ice in some places at the bottom of the sea, due to pressure, making water molecules stick closer to each other and behaving like ice.
annonym surfer That sounds plausible. But maybe the causality is the other way round. That that crust was denser in the first place and that caused it to be under water.
Two questions left: 1) what happens when two oceanic plates meet? Do they go up or down? 2) When a plate sinks under the earths crust i has to be replaced by new rock somewhere else. Is that only oceanic rock then? Does this mean that the continental rock gets less?
1. Depends, but probably they will go up. In the deep ocean mountain ranges does exists, 2. Depends, I mean there's always a cycle. When those two meet, the zone where they collided called 'subduction zone' this zone creates high temperature and pressure that cause the rocks to melt and form volcanic arc along the plate. Movement of plates divided into 3: transform, divergent and convergent. If two plates collide they will reach the condition I've mentioned above (divergent). If 2 plates move apart (convergent) they create a gap, this gap will be filled magma from the mantle thus create what we called 'oceanic ridge'. tl;dr - it's not oceanic rock, it's magma that come from the mantle. continental can get less or more depending the interaction between one and another plates, oh and also the supply of magma. I might interpreting this wrong, but this what i understand from my study. I suggest you read basic Geology books, it helps a lot.
Great questions! I think it makes sense to answer Q #2 first: It's true that new plates have to be created if old ones are being destroyed - if you check out the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on Google Earth, you can see a seam/ridge-looking thing where two oceanic plates are diverging, and magma from below is rising up to create new ocean crust. These "mid-ocean ridges" run all over the planet - you can trace them pretty easily on Google Earth. And as new ocean crust moves away from the ridge and gets older, it also gets denser...which brings us to Q #1: when two oceanic plates collide, the older, denser one gets forced under (or "subducts"). Oh, and as for new continental crust - ironically, new continental crust gets formed where old ocean crust gets destroyed. I know this doesn't sound like it makes sense, but keep your eyes peeled for our next geology video, which is about this very thing!
I've been wondering about this a lot lately, thank you!! I just started thinking one day, how weird is it that we have both huge areas of deep, open ocean and huge areas of low-lying, relatively-flat land masses above the waterline, all bunched together? How weird is it that we have this idea of continents, as opposed to just randomly scattered land and water at all kinds of elevations?
The guy that is less attractive does anything for the hot one so he sinks down to the ground for them. The other example in the vid is about those relationships with both being equally atractive so they go 'up' and get married more often. In this example going up is good and going down (like in the first example) is bad.
Wow you managed to uncover a misconception I had: whenever I read "oceanic plates are denser" I thought it meant that the water is denser than the earth, I never thought it meant the crust of oceanic plates is denser than the crust of continental plates
We wouldn't need the Internet because we'd be able to shout across an entire sea. Which is good because it would be hard for us to get into the iron age.
@Cöri what they mean isn't that we personally would be mermaids, but that the planet would evolve a sentient species similar to mermaids (or something else aquatic, probably octopi) that would become the ruler of the planet, similar to humans.
It might have been interesting to include the age difference of the tectonic plates in the video. The oldest piece of oceanic plate is just about 180 million years old. The ocean floor is getting progressively more recent when you are moving to the mid-oceanic ridges. The age of the continental plates, on the other hand (excluding those small parts modified by volcanic activity) ranges between 1 and 4 billion years. Could the different ages in which they were formed have something to do with the difference in density?
This also means that since most land is just above sea level, a small change in the water level makes a huge change in the amount of livable land. Global warming is going to cause population pressure to Skyrocket as land disappears.
That's not true. The polar ice caps have been melting and regrowing for thousands of years and nothing terrible has happened. Global warming has been coming under serious scrutiny lately, especially since Nasa has admitted to tampering with data to cover over the recent cooling period.
@@markfox1545 not all farmers live in the tundra, climate change causes some areas to get more frequent and harsher droughts and some parts get heavy floods. Climate change will impact the the yields of those farmers, and a lot of farmers only grow crops just for themselves and their live stock to eat. It doesn't matter that the tundra would be useable since literally no one lives there. That is why i also mentioned about refugees because people have to move from their homes just to survive. Stop ignoring the problem by trying to find a solution that only you yourself thought off inside your head. It's true that there would be more usable land when the permafrost melts but not everyone gets their food in the grocery store or can just import food from distant countries to survive
Well presumably that due to the fact that there is only so much water the amount of land above it would remain relatively similar to what it is now, it’s just that more of it would be mountainous regions instead of flat lands like we can get now.
Are oceanic plates denser bc they have the weight and pressure from the ocean on them? Or are they denser because the rock forms in water which allows more gas to escape during formulation? Or are they denser for some other reason?
Greg Belcher Think about it, if oceanic plates have oceans on top, then continental plates have continents on top of them that are heavier than the oceans because they are both denser than water and taller than sea level. Clearly that explanation fails.
Greg Belcher the ocean crust is denser because it is a different rock type, made of different elements. More Fe (iron, a dense metal) and less Si (silicon, a light metal).
Heat, pressure and cooling time can effect the structure of mineral crystals and therefore the density of the rock. I wasn't suggesting that the weight of the ocean can make existing rock more dense. I haven't taken geology in decades but I do recall that fact. My question was more geared more towards people who study this stuff and have an answer but I appreciate the response.
Earth doesn't have 2 types of rock, Earth has many types of rock. Now if you're asking why do denser rock types primarily exist at a lower level than less dense rocks the answer is the Earth was liquified when it was struck by a Mars-sized planet billions of years ago and in a liquid where everything can flow and mix freely the denser materials sank and the less dense ones floated, so most of the really dense materials sunk to the core, and the least dense to the surface. Now because there are convection currents caused by the intense heat of the core there is constant movement and mixing so some of the denser materials get pushed up and out via volcanic activity, this mostly happens on the sea floor so deeper/denser materials get pushed up to the sea floors and very little of this dense material ends up on the surface since the surface plates don't get cycled back into the mantle.
maybe 2 types of rock they're referring to are Acidic Rocks and Basaltic Rocks. Normally basaltic rocks are heavier than acidic rocks. Acidic rocks mostly composed of SiO2 while basaltic mostly composed by metal compounds and minerals (iron ore, magnetite, calcic plagioclase, olivin, etc)
Just rattle a container of nuts or different sized rocks and the biggest rocks float to the surface and the smallest rocks float to the bottom. It's a self filtration medium always. So the higher density is always on the bottom since there is less packing space between the smaller pieces of material and more packing space between the bigger pieces. And then you account for pressure and it doubles this relationship.
@@siar073 Don't worry! I commented a comment 3 years late on a game review I liked, the review was bad because the guy doing it somehow didn't know to switch your weapon, AKA the thing that you need to do to even win. Oh, and also it tells you the first time you play it and the AI shows in in the title screen. How come that guy never mashed his controller to see what he was missing? (BTW the game is called Prismatic Solid)
Just found this video and it made information I learned in grade school actually understandable. I'm now wondering what would happen when Pangaea forms again.
So if one level is the surface of the ocean, and the other level is the dense oceanic crust, how are there elevations below the second level as the graph shows? Why is there even a bump corresponding to sea level?
If we took all the dirt on planet Earth and dumped it into the ocean so that we tried to make earth as smooth as possible I wonder how high the sea level would be above the floor of the smoothness where all the rocks are?
0:12 Can we not use body parts when measuring something? Can we use the standard like meter and kilogramms and liters? If Mr 'Merica wants to be different then they should go and Trump themselfs!
I'm sure every aspect of the earth is projected onto other planets for comparison. Being thorough is the main strength in science unless or until it's being used for making money then all that academic rigor goes out the window real quick.
Once presence of liquid water and a thick atmosphere was the reason why earth is unique. Then liquid water and atmosphere is found on some other planets/moons. Now we're discovering more ways of why our home planet is unique: presence of a good amount of phosphorus in earth crust, a weird bi-modal distribution of planet surface due to specific dichotomy in crust composition etc. Wish soon these will become common enough and we'll find more ways how Earth is unique.
I used to wonder how does one continental shelf sinks into the earth and other climbs over it after looking at the earthquake hotspots pictures. This video solved the mystery for me! 😉
In a nutshell, plates can be thought to "float" on the mantle (even though the mantle is solid). For continents their density means that they're suited to around 0-1km above sea level, while the oceanic crust (dense and with water) is most stable at around -4km. A more common example of this phenomenon is when icebergs float in water - only around 5-10% of the ice actually sticks out.
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Hey, where's Emily????? The girl with a hyena!
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For anybody curious, this is known as a bimodal distribution.
Allen Faure Wtf! How can it be bisexual???
Chua Stephen There is nothing wrong with being bisexual
I remember that from math class.
You had class about being bisexual? Hmm times have changed.
Can't tell if joking or legit
As a kid I was a crazy space nerd. Since I began studying geosciences however, it became more and more clear, that the most interesting celestial body is not visible when you look up the night sky, but rather look down to your feet.
The Earth is so much more complex and interesting than any other planet I know, it is mind boggling. I still like space and everything about it, but I came to be that Earth is my favorite planetary body by FAR.
Earth is amazing but is also the most studied planetary body. Maybe it seems cooler because we know so much more about it?
Yet it is claimed that we know more about space than our ocean floor.
+Rígille Maybe, but the Earth is still way more complex than say the mars. The lack of plate tectonics and the lack of water in the atmosphere makes a huge difference in how complex for example weathering processes are. The amount of science and know how there is for a theme field like for example plate tectonics and the resulting science about subduction zones and fire rings and the different compositions of different types of magma and what we can say about the origins of that magma or the processes that lead to its surfacing based on that composition...I could go on the whole day. :D Many of those fields are pretty much nonexistent on other planets, because there isn't even a thing as plate tectonics. Or sedimentology. On mars you have aeolian transport at best. On Earth it is a field with hundreds of different processes and hundreds of sedimentary rocks to study.
Wow that was well said.
Yes same except i am a kid
I love how earth blushes when you mention its multiple "humps."
Thanks for the wonderful video as always!
my humps my humps
Humpity humps
2 humps
Earth chan is real confirmed
Im confused
Looks like puns are less dense in this video
Sorry ... we had a lot on our plates!
Jesus Crust your puns suck.
Here it comes
*T H I C C R O C K*
@@jacklonghearse9821 holy
*that's a bit rude*
You mean there's a level 2? I thought this level was hard enough!
In a way, this is level 2 (or 3 if you're counting the trenches)
Perhaps that's the problem
are these pun intended????
they need to nerf the human skill tree . This game was better in the Big Bang era
Expert mode isn’t that hard, it’s easy
Gitgud
I have a PhD in Geology and taught university Geosciences for 28 years. Your video is great! I would welcome it in my classroom. Thanks.
The faces on those rocks had me dying haahah
I know! Everything just looks so sad! Or mad. Why is Minute Earth so good at putting emotion onto _every_ random thing they draw...? :P
The smile as they were floating away :D !
That's the one that made me giggle. They looked so happy and carefree.
1:51 is my favourite. I don't know why but that's the funniest illustration I've seen in a long time.
There are some great rock faces in this video!
The drawings in this one were particularly adorable!
The expressive/emotional illustrations in these videos are awesome.
Good idea to add Hypsometric Curve to the title, makes it much easier to find. Also, great description, always adds a bit extra info on the subject :) .
Lovely way of explaining topics in such simple terms! Keep up the great work!
They taught me this at school years ago... Where was this video when I needed it?
Do we know why those two types of crust exist and how they formed?
Isn't it due to pressure? Under sea level there will be more pressure making rocks fuse together or stick closer to each other? I'm talking about atomic level.
I also heard there is Ice in some places at the bottom of the sea, due to pressure, making water molecules stick closer to each other and behaving like ice.
But isn't water the most dense at 4°Celsius? So that ice theory does not seem to make sense.
It's not a theory.
It's a fact, i don't remember where i heard it. It's denser due to pressure not temperature.
annonym surfer That sounds plausible. But maybe the causality is the other way round. That that crust was denser in the first place and that caused it to be under water.
Two questions left:
1) what happens when two oceanic plates meet? Do they go up or down?
2) When a plate sinks under the earths crust i has to be replaced by new rock somewhere else. Is that only oceanic rock then? Does this mean that the continental rock gets less?
1. Depends, but probably they will go up. In the deep ocean mountain ranges does exists,
2. Depends, I mean there's always a cycle. When those two meet, the zone where they collided called 'subduction zone' this zone creates high temperature and pressure that cause the rocks to melt and form volcanic arc along the plate. Movement of plates divided into 3: transform, divergent and convergent. If two plates collide they will reach the condition I've mentioned above (divergent). If 2 plates move apart (convergent) they create a gap, this gap will be filled magma from the mantle thus create what we called 'oceanic ridge'.
tl;dr - it's not oceanic rock, it's magma that come from the mantle. continental can get less or more depending the interaction between one and another plates, oh and also the supply of magma.
I might interpreting this wrong, but this what i understand from my study. I suggest you read basic Geology books, it helps a lot.
Great questions! I think it makes sense to answer Q #2 first: It's true that new plates have to be created if old ones are being destroyed - if you check out the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on Google Earth, you can see a seam/ridge-looking thing where two oceanic plates are diverging, and magma from below is rising up to create new ocean crust. These "mid-ocean ridges" run all over the planet - you can trace them pretty easily on Google Earth. And as new ocean crust moves away from the ridge and gets older, it also gets denser...which brings us to Q #1: when two oceanic plates collide, the older, denser one gets forced under (or "subducts").
Oh, and as for new continental crust - ironically, new continental crust gets formed where old ocean crust gets destroyed. I know this doesn't sound like it makes sense, but keep your eyes peeled for our next geology video, which is about this very thing!
Other way around: divergent plates move apart (creating new oceanic crust), and convergent plates slam together. Otherwise correct, to my knowledge.
If I remember correct the Marianna Trench is two plates both bending downwards.
Wow ...I had never seen such spectaculous explanation. ...simply awesome and I am deeply impressed ....
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That's so sad, you can clearly see on their faces how traumatic it was
I don't remember learning this in Earth Science class... which is why I love you guys for teaching the stuff not taught in schools! ;)
I've been wondering about this a lot lately, thank you!!
I just started thinking one day, how weird is it that we have both huge areas of deep, open ocean and huge areas of low-lying, relatively-flat land masses above the waterline, all bunched together? How weird is it that we have this idea of continents, as opposed to just randomly scattered land and water at all kinds of elevations?
Today, while planning our day with no technology, my nine y/o said, "what will I do without minute earth". Thank you all! 🙏🏼❤
"There's nothing normal about Earth"
I love this😍
Super interesting as always! I have been wondering this exact thing for a couple years now - thanks for informing me!
Refreshing start of the day with some awesome knowledge!
I really like that graphing technique. Made me warm inside for some reason.
1:36
Looks like a normal human relationship.
thebahooplamaster I can’t not watch this as though she was being sarcastic the whole time now😭😭😭😭
Orlando Bispo Dont understand why but ok
XD I get it
Succ
The guy that is less attractive does anything for the hot one so he sinks down to the ground for them. The other example in the vid is about those relationships with both being equally atractive so they go 'up' and get married more often. In this example going up is good and going down (like in the first example) is bad.
Amazing video as always....
0:46 The Earth is so adorable.
Wow you managed to uncover a misconception I had: whenever I read "oceanic plates are denser" I thought it meant that the water is denser than the earth, I never thought it meant the crust of oceanic plates is denser than the crust of continental plates
Nice... A geoblocking ad after a geology video.
1:24 D’aww, they look so happy!
Damn mods keep level capping the server
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Justin Y. Hi again
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Fascinating...Never thought about it, but it makes so much sense.
No problem! If most of the earth had been covered in water, we would have evolved into mermaids
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Yeah, actually. Although I wonder how we might evolve like that.
That's not how evolution works...
We wouldn't need the Internet because we'd be able to shout across an entire sea. Which is good because it would be hard for us to get into the iron age.
@Cöri what they mean isn't that we personally would be mermaids, but that the planet would evolve a sentient species similar to mermaids (or something else aquatic, probably octopi) that would become the ruler of the planet, similar to humans.
Octopodes will be lucky to tend the gardens of their superior cuttlefish guardians and luminaries. I will fight you.
It might have been interesting to include the age difference of the tectonic plates in the video. The oldest piece of oceanic plate is just about 180 million years old. The ocean floor is getting progressively more recent when you are moving to the mid-oceanic ridges.
The age of the continental plates, on the other hand (excluding those small parts modified by volcanic activity) ranges between 1 and 4 billion years. Could the different ages in which they were formed have something to do with the difference in density?
No. The difference in density comes from the difference of the composition.
This also means that since most land is just above sea level, a small change in the water level makes a huge change in the amount of livable land. Global warming is going to cause population pressure to Skyrocket as land disappears.
This is true, but for the wrong reasons
Auriam actually the famines will happen because of the change of climate. The increasing sea level just makes a bunch of refugees
@@jivanjovan - what famines? As some farmland becomes poorer (maybe) then tundra becomes useable.
That's not true. The polar ice caps have been melting and regrowing for thousands of years and nothing terrible has happened. Global warming has been coming under serious scrutiny lately, especially since Nasa has admitted to tampering with data to cover over the recent cooling period.
@@markfox1545 not all farmers live in the tundra, climate change causes some areas to get more frequent and harsher droughts and some parts get heavy floods. Climate change will impact the the yields of those farmers, and a lot of farmers only grow crops just for themselves and their live stock to eat. It doesn't matter that the tundra would be useable since literally no one lives there. That is why i also mentioned about refugees because people have to move from their homes just to survive. Stop ignoring the problem by trying to find a solution that only you yourself thought off inside your head. It's true that there would be more usable land when the permafrost melts but not everyone gets their food in the grocery store or can just import food from distant countries to survive
Well presumably that due to the fact that there is only so much water the amount of land above it would remain relatively similar to what it is now, it’s just that more of it would be mountainous regions instead of flat lands like we can get now.
that sigh already explained about me 2:21
Absolutely loving the faces on the terrian, brilliant artwork
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Sarp Kaplan *LET'S FIND OUT*
Sarp Kaplan 7/367864 xp
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Wow I didn't understand any of this. This is super amazing! Thumbs up!
It was pretty understandable. I thought she did a great job explaining.
This channel is great and deserves more views
The faces are so cute!
I knew about ocean crust and continental crust, but I didn’t know about this.
Very interesting!
Can you do more earth subjects :3
Are oceanic plates denser bc they have the weight and pressure from the ocean on them? Or are they denser because the rock forms in water which allows more gas to escape during formulation? Or are they denser for some other reason?
Greg Belcher Think about it, if oceanic plates have oceans on top, then continental plates have continents on top of them that are heavier than the oceans because they are both denser than water and taller than sea level. Clearly that explanation fails.
Greg Belcher the ocean crust is denser because it is a different rock type, made of different elements. More Fe (iron, a dense metal) and less Si (silicon, a light metal).
Heat, pressure and cooling time can effect the structure of mineral crystals and therefore the density of the rock. I wasn't suggesting that the weight of the ocean can make existing rock more dense. I haven't taken geology in decades but I do recall that fact. My question was more geared more towards people who study this stuff and have an answer but I appreciate the response.
Now the follow up question is, why does earth have 2 types of rock...
Earth doesn't have 2 types of rock, Earth has many types of rock. Now if you're asking why do denser rock types primarily exist at a lower level than less dense rocks the answer is the Earth was liquified when it was struck by a Mars-sized planet billions of years ago and in a liquid where everything can flow and mix freely the denser materials sank and the less dense ones floated, so most of the really dense materials sunk to the core, and the least dense to the surface. Now because there are convection currents caused by the intense heat of the core there is constant movement and mixing so some of the denser materials get pushed up and out via volcanic activity, this mostly happens on the sea floor so deeper/denser materials get pushed up to the sea floors and very little of this dense material ends up on the surface since the surface plates don't get cycled back into the mantle.
maybe 2 types of rock they're referring to are Acidic Rocks and Basaltic Rocks. Normally basaltic rocks are heavier than acidic rocks. Acidic rocks mostly composed of SiO2 while basaltic mostly composed by metal compounds and minerals (iron ore, magnetite, calcic plagioclase, olivin, etc)
Just rattle a container of nuts or different sized rocks and the biggest rocks float to the surface and the smallest rocks float to the bottom. It's a self filtration medium always. So the higher density is always on the bottom since there is less packing space between the smaller pieces of material and more packing space between the bigger pieces. And then you account for pressure and it doubles this relationship.
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2:25
Kawaii Earth is so cute OMG :3
0:43 i love earth's face
Finally a sponsor I'd actually consider looking into
Very interesting. The graphics were fun also. Thank you.
The Earth is not flat or round. It's a camel!
WRONG! It's a potato.
*me realizing this comment us a year late* :0
@@siar073 Don't worry! I commented a comment 3 years late on a game review I liked, the review was bad because the guy doing it somehow didn't know to switch your weapon, AKA the thing that you need to do to even win.
Oh, and also it tells you the first time you play it and the AI shows in in the title screen. How come that guy never mashed his controller to see what he was missing? (BTW the game is called Prismatic Solid)
Just found this video and it made information I learned in grade school actually understandable.
I'm now wondering what would happen when Pangaea forms again.
oh man the crusts are the cutest shit ever
Never knew this despite taking Geology AO level at school many eons ago....
Thank you.
We live on the big hump in the middle
uhh.. You said hump... lol
Jeffery Williams you did too lmao so funny
So if one level is the surface of the ocean, and the other level is the dense oceanic crust, how are there elevations below the second level as the graph shows? Why is there even a bump corresponding to sea level?
Awesome, we need more people celebrating weirdness :)
Quentin Lightner uretevrutjgtham
There are lots of us!!!
Excellent work. Well explained.
*Proud to be weird*
I would be proud for doing something good but not really for being weird. :D
Loved that pun at the end, so genius!
Bottom line earth is thicc
If we took all the dirt on planet Earth and dumped it into the ocean so that we tried to make earth as smooth as possible I wonder how high the sea level would be above the floor of the smoothness where all the rocks are?
0:12 Can we not use body parts when measuring something? Can we use the standard like meter and kilogramms and liters? If Mr 'Merica wants to be different then they should go and Trump themselfs!
The video says 20 km.....
Next you'll be complaining that the foreign language videos aren't in English.... Entitled much?
John Rielley Right? These foreigners can kiss my ass. I was a foreigner once too :)
feet = body parts lmao.. I see what you did there. I don't know why we use the Imperial STANDARD rather than the Metric System.
Just use a converter for every time you see imperial measurements. Soon enough you'll be able to estimate it quite well on your own.
in these 3 minutes i just learned more than i did in school today.
This is posted 1 min ago but the comments are from 4-11 hours ago... Go home UA-cam, you are drunk.
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Nice. Not new information, really, but an unusual way of looking at it and connecting the dots ..
Ok, the plate drama cracked me up. Good illustrator.
I wonder if by looking at this patter on other planets we could find if they have active plate tectonics or some other usefull information
I'm sure every aspect of the earth is projected onto other planets for comparison. Being thorough is the main strength in science unless or until it's being used for making money then all that academic rigor goes out the window real quick.
What an interesting test for determining plate tectonics on an exoplanet, or exomoon.
Hey minuteEarth I want to know how dry ice became dry! Please make a vid about it someday. I really want to know about it
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Why are the crusts so angry? Somebody bake them a cake!
Interesting information and cute graphics. Thanks for sharing this with us.
So why are the (heavy) radioactive elements concentrated in the lighter continental crust? (As mapped by neutrino emission.)
Once presence of liquid water and a thick atmosphere was the reason why earth is unique. Then liquid water and atmosphere is found on some other planets/moons. Now we're discovering more ways of why our home planet is unique: presence of a good amount of phosphorus in earth crust, a weird bi-modal distribution of planet surface due to specific dichotomy in crust composition etc. Wish soon these will become common enough and we'll find more ways how Earth is unique.
that is so cool, loved this video, thank you for making it
What if it was a normal distribution, but the hump is on or above sea level?
Oh my god all the drawings of the planets and the rocks were so cute!
Just learned something. Thanks for that!
Great art in this video!
Great video and explanation.
Thanks for this episode. Really good!
I enjoy your videos so much! Please keep going on!
I didn't know that! Thanks! 🤗
I used to wonder how does one continental shelf sinks into the earth and other climbs over it after looking at the earthquake hotspots pictures. This video solved the mystery for me! 😉
For anyone wanting to know more about this: Look up crustal isostasy. That's the reason behind this distribution.
In a nutshell, plates can be thought to "float" on the mantle (even though the mantle is solid). For continents their density means that they're suited to around 0-1km above sea level, while the oceanic crust (dense and with water) is most stable at around -4km. A more common example of this phenomenon is when icebergs float in water - only around 5-10% of the ice actually sticks out.
This was a really cute one! It put a smile on my face.
great video
i learned more about what I thought I already knew
fun animations
First rate explanation and demonstration.
I really like the earth. Great place to live. Wouldn't change it for anything in the world.
this animation is beautiful :D
Thank you, that was very good.
I learned something new. Thank you!
Hi does that last calculation of 5% land above sea level, include that the sea level would be lower because of the "hole" from the land?
I learned something new here. Thanx =)
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So have we used this information to see if other planets in our solar system have or have had tectonic movement