How Diamonds Caused Earth's Most Extreme Temperatures in 100 Million Years

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  • Опубліковано 16 жов 2024

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  • @GeologyHub
    @GeologyHub  Рік тому +25

    So, do you support this theory on the cause of the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum?

    • @quantumcat7673
      @quantumcat7673 Рік тому +6

      Actually no! The best hypotheses for me is that the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) occurred during the opening of the north Atlantic which produced numerous volcanic eruptions in the north Atlantic region under water that destabilised methane clathrates, releasing an enormous quantity of methane in the atmosphere. Measurements indicate that the carbon released during the PETM was depleted in carbon 13 just like the clathrates would be. However, diamonds are made from a deep source of carbon not depleted in carbon 13. So it cannot be the source of co2 that would have caused the PETM.

    • @petermiller4953
      @petermiller4953 Рік тому +2

      Can volcanos release methane gas in addition to carbon dioxide, sulpher dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide?

    • @Celeste-in-Oz
      @Celeste-in-Oz Рік тому +1

      Sounds plausible to me. It would be a very unusual and unfortunate event for organisms at the time, but cool to imagine!

    • @jorgesuspenso5105
      @jorgesuspenso5105 Рік тому

      So this theory is actually supporting the Verneshot theory proppossed by Jason Phips Morgan. This theory explains that there is never occurred big asteroid impact events like Chixhulub, but the're was enormous kimberlite eruptions linked with flood basalts and gennerating for extension, mass extictions. I actually find more logic this theory than the asteroid impact theory

    • @Joe-Dead
      @Joe-Dead Рік тому +2

      @@petermiller4953 no, which is why they produce CO2 and water vapor instead, what methane breaks down into.

  • @interstellarsurfer
    @interstellarsurfer Рік тому +15

    Of course it was Canada's fault. They have been apologizing ever since.

    • @LadyAnuB
      @LadyAnuB Рік тому +2

      😂

    • @jimjackson4256
      @jimjackson4256 Рік тому

      I’m expecting Trudeau will stand up in the house of commons and ask for the worlds forgiveness and of course there will be lawsuits and depositions.

  • @Itssmial_Ova
    @Itssmial_Ova Рік тому +1

    I just want to say I appreciate your emphasis that this is a theory rather than objective fact.

  • @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
    @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx Рік тому +23

    Thanks as always! As I have said on a previous video, I first heard of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum from PBS Eons and Sci Show. The climate of that time must have been truly sweltering! Due to the warm climate and the dispersal of the continents due the breakup of Pangea, sea levels were significantly higher.
    The Eocene started with the Earth's average temperature at around 33 degrees Celsius, but it ended with the average temperature dropping sufficiently to allow the current ice age to begin.
    This may be controversial, but the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum gives somewhat of a perspective on how rapidly we humans are artificially warming the climate nowadays! We are pumping greenhouse gases at a much higher rate than the rate at which greenhouse gases were pumped out at the peak of the Paleocene-Eocen Thermal Maximum!

    • @acmichels1970
      @acmichels1970 Рік тому

      Please explain this warming and all these dramatic effects?

    • @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
      @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx Рік тому

      @@acmichels1970 Which warming?

    • @acmichels1970
      @acmichels1970 Рік тому

      Currently. They say there is more severe weather but I don't see it. All seems relatively normal but pollution concentrations still increasing.

    • @mikelouis9389
      @mikelouis9389 Рік тому +1

      ​@@acmichels1970None are so blind as he who refuses to see.

  • @ThatOpalGuy
    @ThatOpalGuy Рік тому +2

    great content. bravo, i loved learning this.

  • @cyrilio
    @cyrilio Рік тому

    I wouldn’t mind these videos being up to 10 minutes. Love your content.

  • @debdiemer3749
    @debdiemer3749 Рік тому

    This is a really interesting hypothesis! Thank you!

  • @DavidOfWhitehills
    @DavidOfWhitehills Рік тому +7

    This is fascinating, but what created that concentration of kimberlite, and why did it all spume off in such a short (devastatingly short) timespan?

    • @jorgesuspenso5105
      @jorgesuspenso5105 Рік тому +1

      Una pluma de manto fue lo que originó esta mega explosión kimberlítica. De hecho creo que esta teoría es capaz de reescribir la extinción de los dinosaurios, a saber, qué fue lo que realmente acabó con ellos

  • @briz1965
    @briz1965 Рік тому +3

    I 100% agree. Lived in Kirkland Lake Northern Ontario for 10+ years and there is a range of kimberlite pipes @ 100-140 Mya I believe in the area close by, Diamond Lake and Crystal Beach on the Larder Lake streatch. The theory is the prior mountain range took about 100 Mya to wear aware, releasing the compressed carbon under the range that finally released. Cheers.

    • @gordonbyron5145
      @gordonbyron5145 Рік тому

      The pipes in the kirkland area actually contain very few diamonds.

  • @Nightscape_
    @Nightscape_ Рік тому +2

    This video was too short - I want to know more!

  • @stevejohnson3357
    @stevejohnson3357 Рік тому +7

    Now this is a video for our times. Release a vast quantity of carbon dioxide to get to the tipping point that leads to the release of methane from the ocean floor. What does that sound like?
    And if there were no copywrite laws, you could of included a snippet of Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend at 1 point.

  • @Ptaku93
    @Ptaku93 Рік тому +4

    0:44 there weren't many "towering dinosaurs" in the early Triassic, that would be Jurassic

  • @johnthomas2485
    @johnthomas2485 Рік тому +5

    Keeping out the weird politics of the forming of the Diamond National Park (not its real name) in Arkansas, can you go into the geological reasons for the only large diamond area in the America's?

  • @jakeaurod
    @jakeaurod Рік тому +1

    Can we still get Kimberlite pipe eruptions? And if so, how much warning would we have?

  • @esmeesmeralda701
    @esmeesmeralda701 Рік тому +1

    I need to watch this when I get homeeeee

  • @titan941234
    @titan941234 Рік тому +4

    No body:
    Absolutely no one:
    Earth: Let's burn some diamonds to cause global warming LMAO

  • @iviewthetube
    @iviewthetube Рік тому +2

    Did this event inspire one of the Beatles' songs?

  • @patrickjanecke5894
    @patrickjanecke5894 Рік тому +1

    I'm not buying the methane release part. The timeframe needed to warm the deep ocean enough for a significant, continuous spike in methane release would exceed the 50,000 years of the thermal maximum, especially since the oceanic currents would have been even less prone to mixing than it is now.

  • @jimmyjames2022
    @jimmyjames2022 Рік тому +3

    If Kimberlite had 40% CO2 and caused a bunch of plinian eruptions along with the heating effect of so much CO2, don't you also get the cooling effect of all that atmospheric particulate? But then I guess the heating feedback loop is effective over a longer timespan than the eventual settling out of the particulate.

    • @TheDanEdwards
      @TheDanEdwards Рік тому +4

      Particulates precipitate quickly while CO2 has a long life in the atmosphere.

  • @b.a.erlebacher1139
    @b.a.erlebacher1139 Рік тому +4

    Interesting. I had assumed the diamonds in NWT were of the same origin as the ones in northern Ontario, really old kimberlite pipes that had finally eroded to the surface. These diamonds are almost entirely industrial grade, so it makes sense that the gem diamonds now coming out of the NWT are of a different origin. The P-E thermal maximum idea is interesting. What do they think caused all this stuff to suddenly break through some of the oldest and thickest continental crust on the planet?

    • @matthewgillies7509
      @matthewgillies7509 Рік тому

      The Northwest Territories straddles part of the Canadian shield but some regions aren't as dense or as old as the regions around Hudson's Bay, northern Ontario and Quebec. There is/has been periods geological activity in NWT and the Yukon related to rift zones and magma intrusions. I find this theory plausible and agree that this was the likely culprit for that period of warming.

    • @b.a.erlebacher1139
      @b.a.erlebacher1139 Рік тому

      @@matthewgillies7509 Thanks. I assumed from the satellite photo in the video that the deposit was on the shield, but probably I'm not able to distinguish recently glaciated shield terrain from recently glaciated non-shield terrain. I don't know much about the geology of the western part of the NWT.

    • @matthewgillies7509
      @matthewgillies7509 Рік тому

      @@b.a.erlebacher1139 Fair, I didn't learn much about northern Canada in my geography courses. But one of his more recent videos examines the topography of the Yukon and NWT area. It is worth checking out as I learned a few new things.

  • @JonathanJRichter
    @JonathanJRichter Рік тому +2

    Carbon dioxide is linear!

  • @JustaReadingguy
    @JustaReadingguy Рік тому +1

    How did these gasses get removed in a short time?

    • @StuffandThings_
      @StuffandThings_ Рік тому +3

      Likely due to the "Azolla event," where freshwater ferns colonized the entirety of the Arctic Ocean during that time (it was largely cut off from the rest of the oceans, and high precipitation allowed for a freshwater layer to form). They very effectively removed and subsequently buried carbon, since they did not decay once they died and sank to the ocean floor.

  • @StuffandThings_
    @StuffandThings_ Рік тому +1

    Why did volcanism occur there? It seems like a very odd spot for a volcano, even during the PETM it looks like that area was still far from any plate boundaries or hotspots.

    • @briz1965
      @briz1965 Рік тому +3

      Northern Ontario is pure Canadian Shield 3.2-2.7Bya, the split between Matachewan and Larder Lake is considered to be one of the first major faults. Many, many rare metals in the area.

  • @StagnantMizu
    @StagnantMizu Рік тому +2

    wait 1100 billion tons of CO2 is insane right? 1000km3 co2 weights only like 1.8 billion ton which is VEI 8? or am I missing something here?

    • @StagnantMizu
      @StagnantMizu Рік тому +3

      even if it is over the span of 10 years that would mean around an equivalent of 600+ VEI 8's.

    • @jorgesuspenso5105
      @jorgesuspenso5105 Рік тому

      ​@@StagnantMizuVEI 10!

    • @gorantev
      @gorantev Рік тому +2

      @@StagnantMizu It actually happened in 10000 years, so not *that* frequent. But still, that's a lot of carbon in geologically short time.

    • @brianorca
      @brianorca Рік тому +1

      VEI 8 is 1000km3 of all ejecta, not just the CO2.

    • @StagnantMizu
      @StagnantMizu Рік тому +1

      @@gorantev oops missed the k after 10

  • @Celeste-in-Oz
    @Celeste-in-Oz Рік тому

    Now you’ve whet my appetite for talking diamonds. Is it still unknown what makes pink ones pink?

  • @David-f2p5m
    @David-f2p5m Рік тому

    And ..yes it makes perfect sense. So I support it. Just like if there were too much ice on earth it would still be quite cold.

  • @colinclavel4393
    @colinclavel4393 Рік тому

    Yes

  • @Iambrendanjames
    @Iambrendanjames Рік тому +1

    That's rather analogous to human activity almost.

  • @LEDewey_MD
    @LEDewey_MD Рік тому

    Whoa!!

  • @grhinson
    @grhinson Рік тому +1

    If you put the stones together then the diamonds inside will start to glow...

  • @louisegogel7973
    @louisegogel7973 Рік тому

    Hmmm, could someone put this in simple plain language because I am puzzled in trying to follow along…

  • @davec9244
    @davec9244 Рік тому

    BUT the planet was coved in ice, and volcanic eruption under the ice, may have trapped large amounts of gases that were suddenly released. Or the perfect storm a comet broke the ice layer causing the gas release. In other words I don't know what I am talking about thank you. stay safe ALL

  • @residentenigma7141
    @residentenigma7141 Рік тому

    The paleocene-eocene: a girl's best friend

  • @curious5887
    @curious5887 Рік тому

    Hi

  • @ragnapodewski4694
    @ragnapodewski4694 Рік тому

    But where are the diamonds?

  • @digitaldreamer5481
    @digitaldreamer5481 Рік тому

    Thus, Diamond Head Crater was formed on the beautiful island of Oahu…NOT! 😂🤣😂

  • @arctic_haze
    @arctic_haze Рік тому

    It is actually not a new hypothesis. It was first stated in a paper by Petterson and Francis in 2013. I wonder if there are any new evidence for this or is it just old news.

  • @dk3062
    @dk3062 Рік тому

    How do scientists know temperatures from millions of years ago?

  • @sheesh1991
    @sheesh1991 Рік тому +1

    I have…a really stupid question. My parents heard your voice when I showed them one of your Yellowstone videos(since we’re going there during our trip to Montana on the 12th of this month). And my dad is convinced that your voice is not real, that it’s AI generated. XD
    So stupid question is…is this your real voice?

    • @elainelucero2752
      @elainelucero2752 Рік тому

      I love his voice and intelligent use of language.

    • @b.a.erlebacher1139
      @b.a.erlebacher1139 Рік тому

      It's his real voice. He explained its unusual nature some time ago.

  • @Flyingdutchy33
    @Flyingdutchy33 Рік тому

    And for the alarmists: We now have a global average temperature of just 14 degrees C.

  • @gordonbyron5145
    @gordonbyron5145 Рік тому

    Seems very far fetched.

  • @SevereWeatherCenter
    @SevereWeatherCenter Рік тому

    Diamonds have a huge amount of carbon dioxide, trapped inside them, so it would make sense if diamonds are responsible for a huge rise in global temperatures.
    I haven’t watch the video, but my assumption is that when CO2 from diamonds is released likely through volcanic activity, it causes an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. I’m just speculating here since I haven’t even watched a video yet as I’m getting blasted by ads lol.

    • @CTP1111
      @CTP1111 Рік тому

      co2 lags temperature increases though

    • @greenmanofkent
      @greenmanofkent Рік тому +3

      Diamonds don't contain CO2. They are high-pressure high-temperature forms of carbon, in almost-pure crystalline structure.

    • @b.a.erlebacher1139
      @b.a.erlebacher1139 Рік тому

      ​@@greenmanofkentDiamonds ignite and burn quite readily at a reasonably high temperature.

    • @greenmanofkent
      @greenmanofkent Рік тому +2

      @@b.a.erlebacher1139 Yes, they do. But the resulting CO2 does not come from within the diamonds - it is formed when the carbon in the diamond combines with the oxygen in the atmosphere.