Grand canyon is unique because it was formed in semi arid region with very little erosion from rain or ice. As a result the cuts made by the river is almost vertical.
It's also relatively flat on top, giving a much better impression of scale than just being a valley between up and down mountains. Also avoid the cop out of "up to" depth just going by the tallest mountain along the valley, while much of the valley is substantially lower vs the Grand Canyon depth being fairly uniform.
Grubby little toxic waste gutter canyon. Nothing Grand about it. You need to look outside your self obsessed goldfish bowl. And stop being geology and paleoclimate deniers. Yes it was formed by glaciotectonic processes. 🙄🤭
When I was in Afghanistan, we would fly over mountain ranges that were so steep and raw that they looked like crystals and there were huge valleys that had twisting river cut chasms that looked like they had been cut with a band saw. You couldn't even see the bottom. That whole region is the most geologically spectacular area of Earth.
I have always thought it sad that such a beautiful place has always been under thumb of evil. The people there could benefit greatly from the tourism that it would recieve.
Even that is not true as uniformitarianism is nearly always wrong regarding geologic features we see. 1 large earthquake moves land upwards/downwards tens to hundreds of meters at a time. Look at Japan's coast in 2011, it dropped 2m and one of the reasons the water innundation tsunami was so bad. Alaska's earthquake in 1947? Saw 20m land slips all over the place and new jutting rock formations. 1 large mega water event creates what we see as the erosion rate is 10,000X greater than any uniformitarian baloney which essentially does nothing. Uplift per century is like watching the Hudson bay empty out due to thousands of meters of ice vanishing over it and the isostataic pressure is pushing the Bottom of Hudson Bay upwards of 3cm a year.
@@w8stral New Zealand sees huge vertical and horizontal displacements from a single earthquake. I think the record was 10 meters vertical and 15 meters horizontal at one go during the Kaikoura quake.
I told the Ranger there that The Grand Canyon is without doubt the worst case of soil erosion I have ever visited. She obviously had no sense of humour!
The National Park Service estimates the volume of the Grand Canyon to be about 5.45 trillion cubic yards. With plain concrete running over $100 per cubic yard (probably well over that since it's a remote site), that will be a very expensive fix. 🙂
Could you include the definition of a canyon? Is it is only created by water and measured from a plain, or can its depth include mountain peaks created by folding? Are those nearby prominences folded mountains or just mature erosional features, or is there not a difference?
Thanks as always, Geology Hub! I remember this canyon, but never heard of how it actually formed. Once again, thanks for covering this canyon, and I hope you will cover other aspects of the mountain ranges around the world.
The Grand Canyon isn't "unique" though. There's other canyons formed via the same erosion process on plateaus such as the Fish River Canyon (Namibia), Canyonlands (Utah), Goosenecks State Park (Utah), etc. In my opinion, this Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon mentioned in the video is much more unique in the fact it's the deepest canyon embedded in the highest and most expansive mountain range on Earth.
@@vxyz5219 High mountain rangers are already slashed by gorges beneath towering peaks so there's no mean level with which to compare depth like canyons cut in flat land.
@@longlakeshore Lacking a mean level doesn't invalidate depth comparisons or measurements in mountain ranges though. No matter how you slice it, the Yarlung Tsangpo is a deeper canyon and the Grand Canyon isn't unique (albeit very incredible).
@@vxyz5219 The only way Yarlung can be said to be 19K feet deep is to measure from the tops of mountain peaks. Same goes for depth of the other mountain canyons he lists. Measuring from mountain peaks introduces bias in the measurement because as I've said gorges already existed between the peaks before the mass erosion event began. That's why a mean elevation is required to get an accurate depth. Even the depth of Grand Canyon depends on where it's measured. The North Rim is higher than the South Rim so measuring depth from the mean between them gives a more accurate figure. If Yarlung was on a flat plateau cut 19K feet deep then I would accept it in comparison to Grand Canyon.
1:17 A few years ago I almost flew over this canyon randomly while playing Flight Sim 2020. The Napalese mountain range is just crazy from one end to the other.
Another very deep canyon not to far from that is Tiger Leaping Gorge, which is a it deeper than 12,000 feet deep, and the horizontal distance from the peak of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain to the canyon bottom is only around 6 miles, making the view up from the bottom of the canyon spectacular.
Fascinating. I followed the river, and it's the same as the Brahmaputra, a massive river that's the backbone of Northeast India and Bangladesh. If you follow it to the west, it goes on and on and on the full length of Nepal. Puts the depth of the canyon in perspective knowing that they canyon is over a thousand kilometers downstream from the source.
Depending on how you define a canyon, lake Chelan in Washington State is slightly deeper than hell's canyon. Lake Chelan is almost 1500 feet deep and the nearby mountains are over 6600 feet above the lake surface.
No comparison, A river with a mountain nearby and a river with vertical walls. Grand Canyon, Snake Canyon, Zion Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Canyon De Chelly - all have nice vertical walls and are a sight to behold.
There is a comparison though. Simply put, those canyons mentioned aren't as deep as the Yarlung Tsangpo. Personally, I'd rather see Yarlung Tsangpo in the Himalayas rather than any canyon in the western US.
@@Stan_in_Shelton_WA Canton isn't a geologic term. It's exclusively a territorial subdivision. So what exactly was your point? Everything listed above is a canyon.
All this ties back to Nick Zentner's controversial lecture on the Rockies being the result of a continent-continent collision starting from 100 million years ago instead of the Farallon plate's shallow angle subduction. Sevier and Laramide orogenies look similar to the overthrusts and folding at 3:16. Karin Sigloch et al also found broken slab remnants far to the east of the Rockies, as if an island arc hit western North America as it moved westward and the subducting slab broke off, just like in this animation. The story of the Rockies might be closer to that of India, Tibet and the Himalayas, instead of flat slab orogeny like in the Andes.
What makes the Grand Canyon spectacular and unique compared to the other canyons is the sheer cliff faces along the edge, along with the unique rock. That being said, Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon sounds magnificent as well, for it's sheer size and remoteness.
i had always thought the deepest area was the dead sea region in Israel and Jordan. But I never really bothered to find out through publicly available geological writings either. So… yah. Glad to learn!
It's amazing that the river that runs through the canyon starts out on the North side of the Himalayas as the Yarlung, then it cuts through the Himalayas as the Zangbo, then it exits the Himalayas as the Brahmaputra (where it joins with the Ganges in the world's largest river delta). That's quite a river!
Those of you who keep calling this a valley: “A canyon may also refer to a rift between two mountain peaks, such as those in ranges including the Rocky Mountains, the Alps, the Himalayas or the Andes. Usually, a river or stream carves out such splits between mountains.”
@geologyhub. I have always been curious about the speed that the Indian plate moved North to collide with the Eurasian plate. On animations showing how Pangea broke up and the continents separated, the Indian plate appears to move around twice the speed of the other plates. Do you know of any reason for this?
That whole area is so odd to me. I remember it coming up in one of Jeremy Wade's books. They went up the Mekong looking for a specific fish and debated about fishing in the Yellow and Yangtze rivers since there was an area where they were only like 40 miles from each other, but after asking around the border situation combined with the insane terrain caused them to abandon the idea. I think the area in question is called "the three rivers" area?
Canyons that form in places of little elevation change should be compared differently to canyons where the highest point of a nearby mountain is the start of the elevation drop
The other side of that though is that as a measure of erosion in an uplift region, the whole thickness from at least the top of the mountain to the bottom of the canyon was eroded away.
The canyons and gorges in the Dasu and Patan region of Northern Pakistan are imo the deepest, most fantastic and most terrifying gorges in the world. The mighty Indus River passes through them with tremendous energy. Seeing is believing, and I hope y'all can see the sight of those gorges yourself. It'll blow your brains and everything else off, especially at night :)
According to this definition, it’s a canyon. “A canyon may also refer to a rift between two mountain peaks, such as those in ranges including the Rocky Mountains, the Alps, the Himalayas or the Andes. Usually, a river or stream carves out such splits between mountains.”
@@AnontheGOAT It's a valley, get over it, your definition is wrong and does not apply to a flat grounded valley, you only see a river and claim its a canyon...that's your misperception, this is a common mistake, even valleys have rivers.
@@AnontheGOAT Ok....anon...have fun with that. I'm not going to play you're little immature troll game where you have to feel you're right everytime and somebody has to be wrong everytime, grow up, get out of peoples comments while trying to pretend you're the most intelligent person on the planet. I've met your type before, you're all lonely as hell and have no social skills. Subversive manipulation doesn't work on me, to me you're just a "know-it-all" that relies solely on what he can find on the web, go touch grass. I make my comments and leave, you feel it's your priority in life to correct people, the difference between you an me is I don't pretend to be nice, I don't pretend I'm an authority to be correct all the damn time, you do, and it shows because you're still here and you still will respond because your ego is to damn big. Thats why you hide behind such a cowardly name AnonthGOAT, just another Narcissistic Machiavellian.
None of those mountain valleys should be called a canyon...there are deep mountain valleys with rivers in them all around the world. The GC is a true canyon imo, and there are many others like it throughout the world, where rivers have cut deep gorges in high plateaus or Plains. Jmo though.
Interesting there are no large stratovolcanoes in or around the Himalayas. In other parts of the world, when a chunk of crust snaps off, often magma shoots into the gap and volcanoes form.
I have forever wondered how india was able to move so quickly over the span of those millions of years. I keep hearing the theory that it had to do with it went over a hot spot. I don't know if that theory holds any credence. Is there anything in the literature that explains its sudden movement north?
I saw this valley on a Civ 6 huge earth map and didn’t think much of it. Maybe it was just a way to move around the region. But then it shows up in this video and I realize “oh… that’s a real canyon…”
I wonder how many years of geological history the lowermost part of such a deep canyon stretches back in time... would it be one single timespan with unconformities or several different layers folded on top of each other to provide layers of repeated geology from the same eras...
Oceanic crust is more dense than continental crust, so where the two meet, the continental plate ends up overriding the oceanic plate, creating a subduction zone that produces volcanoes. In the case of the Himalayas, it's a collision of two continental plates of similar density, so instead of one being subducted, they crumple up like two cars colliding, pushing up mountains without creating volcanism.
@@brians2808Nortyfiner summed it up pretty well. The Himalayas involve two continents which, because they're less dense then oceanic crustal rock, don't subduct. As a note, this collision between India and Asia started some 50 million years ago. Before then, the oceanic crust between them would have been subducted and produced volcanism. India, before colliding with Asia, would have been surrounded by oceanic crust. As India moved north ward, this oceanic crust subducted beneath Asia producing volcanoes and eruptions. That stopped once India itself started to collide with Asia.
I would like to know where these dates are based on, for example the transaharan seaway why is that in the late cretacious all I sea is solid indication that is was way and way later and like the tectonic plates the movement of those is likewise to have happened but the periods are just arbitrary how is that measured based on the maybe 100 solid years of measurement of geologic movement etc
Make sure to take the tour that goes into the Grand Canyon when visiting. It was rather underwhelming viewing it from the top only. I actually thought the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff was more interesting.
How solid is this geological theory? See what i did there. Geology is solid and liquid. But seriously, the data source must be very comprehensive. A lot must come from resource research.
Why don’t you make a video explaining in depth how it’s possible for plate tectonics to consistently create lichtenberg fractals in the majority of mountain ranges? Lichtenberg fractals only occur when there’s electricity, either something burning when electricity moves through an organic material that’s conductive, or when an organic living being is powered by electricity such as with trees roosts and branches, or the human nervous system/arterial and venous systems, River systems because of the static electrical charge from the moving water, etc. I’ve heard theories that it’s rain and melt, but this isn’t true because you see it even in regions that have no precipitation for thousands of years, or have been frozen for millennia, and on mountainous terrain that has no sign of water erosion. To me, a person who’s gone to university for physics, these mountains are impossible if it’s indeed true that plate tectonics causes mountains to form, leading me to the conclusion that these are the result of an entirely different process.
Bravo......hey there is one deeper 26,000......ft........begins with a g ........hey do u know how deep the north pole is........?.......18,000 ft........cheers
I'd feel sorry for any yak that would be pressed into lugging tourists up and down a much deeper canyon like the mules do in the Grand Canyon National Park. Definitely wouldn't be a day trip. More like a week trip with far warmer clothing.
interesting. but this doesn't seem like a good comparison. Grand Canyon is a canyon with a river in the bottom. that thing on China is a river next to a 20,000 ft tall mountain.
I don't understand why people always take everything in a negative way, it's my feedback and suggestion for him to make videos more watchable and entertaining. So it matters to me how he speaks if you still happen to disagree with me then it's alright.
Good riddance then. A minor example of natural selection at work, since someone more intelligent than you would have either A realised that GH was probably autistic and refrained from exposing your prejudices publicly. B simply have muted the video and followed it on the transcript, or C both of the above.
As a priest of the religion of science, you can erase all of my replies with a solid foundation. By censoring others, your integrity and honesty are compromised and your “scientific” illusions are still just that, fantasies.
1.84 billion years old… 😂😂😂 What a croak load of BS. Some people will believe anything that they are told without any proof or checking better sources. Unbelievable!
@@xwiick When I was a clueless and uninformed child I relied on my parents and had no problems believing in “Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy” among many others. When I became an adult, I believed on the things that I could see myself with my own eyes, what other people had written about the subject at hand, considering, but never accepting them as “experts,” until their arguments and proofs satisfied my God given intelligence and intellectual capabilities, logic, and PLAIN common sense and applying Occam’s Razor Law. When I became spiritually ALIVE, I met the actual Creator who loves to converse with His kids and offers REAL wisdom, guidance , and knowledge, NOT religion or the OPINIONS of those religious purveyors of denominations, sects, and cults making a handsome profit off gullible and naive “believers.” If you ever get where I am, you’ll find out and understand what I am talking about, and if you ever see the Canyon itself, your mere common sense would tell you about the ridiculous theories that a ribbon of water like the Colorado River made such carving miles wide. I wouldn’t waste my time giving you my own deductions and personal judgment because it REQUIRES an open mind and a LOT of own personal research. There’s another way for the mentally lazy person and it’s called a research link, and this channel has one to bring to you hundreds if not thousands of videos of other geological experts that do NOT practice the RELIGION of science, NOR are their priests. You can also visit the Mount Saint Helen area when in 1987, a mini Grand Canyon was created in a mere HALF HOUR when the melted snow was carving its way down. And with that, I bid you farewell and happy intellectual hunting!
@@vxyz5219 I’ll just copy you with my response to another person who asked virtually the same thing: “When I was a clueless and uninformed child I relied on my parents and had no problems believing in “Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy” among many others. When I became an adult, I believed on the things that I could see myself with my own eyes, what other people had written about the subject at hand, considering, but never accepting them as “experts,” until their arguments and proofs satisfied my God given intelligence and intellectual capabilities, logic, and PLAIN common sense and applying Occam’s Razor Law. When I became spiritually ALIVE, I met the actual Creator who loves to converse with His kids and offers REAL wisdom, guidance , and knowledge, NOT religion or the OPINIONS of those religious purveyors of denominations, sects, and cults making a handsome profit off gullible and naive “believers.” If you ever get where I am, you’ll find out and understand what I am talking about, and if you ever see the Canyon itself, your mere common sense would tell you about the ridiculous theories that a ribbon of water like the Colorado River made such carving miles wide. I wouldn’t waste my time giving you my own deductions and personal judgment because it REQUIRES an open mind and a LOT of own personal research. There’s another way for the mentally lazy person and it’s called a research link, and this channel has one to bring to you hundreds if not thousands of videos of other geological experts that do NOT practice the RELIGION of science, NOR are their priests. You can also visit the Mount Saint Helen area when in 1987, a mini Grand Canyon was created in a mere HALF HOUR when the melted snow was carving its way down. And with that, I bid you farewell and happy intellectual hunting!”
Here’s a copy of my response to the both of you: “When I was a clueless and uninformed child I relied on my parents and had no problems believing in “Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy” among many others. When I became an adult, I believed on the things that I could see myself with my own eyes, what other people had written about the subject at hand, considering, but never accepting them as “experts,” until their arguments and proofs satisfied my God given intelligence and intellectual capabilities, logic, and PLAIN common sense and applying Occam’s Razor Law. When I became spiritually ALIVE, I met the actual Creator who loves to converse with His kids and offers REAL wisdom, guidance , and knowledge, NOT religion or the OPINIONS of those religious purveyors of denominations, sects, and cults making a handsome profit off gullible and naive “believers.” If you ever get where I am, you’ll find out and understand what I am talking about, and if you ever see the Canyon itself, your mere common sense would tell you about the ridiculous theories that a ribbon of water like the Colorado River made such carving miles wide. I wouldn’t waste my time giving you my own deductions and personal judgment because it REQUIRES an open mind and a LOT of your OWN personal research. There’s another way for the mentally lazy person and it’s called a research link, and this channel has one to bring to you hundreds if not thousands of videos of other geological experts that do NOT practice the RELIGION of science, NOR are their priests. You can also visit the Mount Saint Helen area when in 1987, a mini Grand Canyon was created in a mere HALF HOUR when the melted snow was carving its way down. And with that, I bid you farewell and happy intellectual hunting!”
Grand canyon is unique because it was formed in semi arid region with very little erosion from rain or ice. As a result the cuts made by the river is almost vertical.
He had an agenda to hate on the Grand Canyon me thinks lol.
@javierclement3047 It is beautiful. Vertical drop almost a km. All other canyons are covered in vegetation and have a gebtke slope.
@@javierclement3047that's just your negative disposition projecting
It's also relatively flat on top, giving a much better impression of scale than just being a valley between up and down mountains. Also avoid the cop out of "up to" depth just going by the tallest mountain along the valley, while much of the valley is substantially lower vs the Grand Canyon depth being fairly uniform.
Grubby little toxic waste gutter canyon. Nothing Grand about it.
You need to look outside your self obsessed goldfish bowl.
And stop being geology and paleoclimate deniers.
Yes it was formed by glaciotectonic processes. 🙄🤭
When I was in Afghanistan, we would fly over mountain ranges that were so steep and raw that they looked like crystals and there were huge valleys that had twisting river cut chasms that looked like they had been cut with a band saw. You couldn't even see the bottom. That whole region is the most geologically spectacular area of Earth.
I have always thought it sad that such a beautiful place has always been under thumb of evil. The people there could benefit greatly from the tourism that it would recieve.
@@harlandeke Ironically they think the same thing about you. No, they very much do not want tourist.
@@obsidianjane4413 I have noticed that about poor people, they love being poor, no doctors, no food, etc.
@@thomaswayneward Are you stupid?
@@thomaswayneward It's less about them being poor and more because 95% of their population support a medieval religious band of thugs in charge.
Three meters of uplift per century?!? That is like light-speed in geological time.
Parts of the Himalayas are rocketing upwards, probably from continent to continent collision causing thrust faults.
Even that is not true as uniformitarianism is nearly always wrong regarding geologic features we see. 1 large earthquake moves land upwards/downwards tens to hundreds of meters at a time. Look at Japan's coast in 2011, it dropped 2m and one of the reasons the water innundation tsunami was so bad. Alaska's earthquake in 1947? Saw 20m land slips all over the place and new jutting rock formations. 1 large mega water event creates what we see as the erosion rate is 10,000X greater than any uniformitarian baloney which essentially does nothing. Uplift per century is like watching the Hudson bay empty out due to thousands of meters of ice vanishing over it and the isostataic pressure is pushing the Bottom of Hudson Bay upwards of 3cm a year.
@@w8stral New Zealand sees huge vertical and horizontal displacements from a single earthquake. I think the record was 10 meters vertical and 15 meters horizontal at one go during the Kaikoura quake.
I thought he was going to show an underwater canyon. I was incorrect and pleasantly surprised.
There are some that are deeper that are underwater.
@@TheSpiritombsableye I know, lol that's why I thought for sure it would be underwater. I've never heard of this canyon in the Himalayas.
Same.
@@MountainFisher, this one is the deepest on land though.
I was thinking the same!
I told the Ranger there that The Grand Canyon is without doubt the worst case of soil erosion I have ever visited. She obviously had no sense of humour!
The National Park Service estimates the volume of the Grand Canyon to be about 5.45 trillion cubic yards. With plain concrete running over $100 per cubic yard (probably well over that since it's a remote site), that will be a very expensive fix. 🙂
She's probably heard that one a few dozen times already just from the geologists who work there ..
This made me laugh, i can imagine the ranger thinking dont you talk about my canyon like that.
is humour a geogical pun of some sort that my non-geology brain has literally zero frame of reference to?
Could you include the definition of a canyon? Is it is only created by water and measured from a plain, or can its depth include mountain peaks created by folding? Are those nearby prominences folded mountains or just mature erosional features, or is there not a difference?
Where I am in we have lava tubes, and sometimes they collapse and we call the result canyons, so I assume a river isn't required, but I could be wrong
Thanks as always, Geology Hub! I remember this canyon, but never heard of how it actually formed. Once again, thanks for covering this canyon, and I hope you will cover other aspects of the mountain ranges around the world.
Kings canyon is a very underrated national park, definitely worth a visit.
The Grand Canyon is unique because it formed in the middle of a flat plateau not in the middle of a mountain range.
rumour has it that it was made by Las Vegas as a tourist attraction probably
The Grand Canyon isn't "unique" though. There's other canyons formed via the same erosion process on plateaus such as the Fish River Canyon (Namibia), Canyonlands (Utah), Goosenecks State Park (Utah), etc. In my opinion, this Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon mentioned in the video is much more unique in the fact it's the deepest canyon embedded in the highest and most expansive mountain range on Earth.
@@vxyz5219 High mountain rangers are already slashed by gorges beneath towering peaks so there's no mean level with which to compare depth like canyons cut in flat land.
@@longlakeshore Lacking a mean level doesn't invalidate depth comparisons or measurements in mountain ranges though. No matter how you slice it, the Yarlung Tsangpo is a deeper canyon and the Grand Canyon isn't unique (albeit very incredible).
@@vxyz5219 The only way Yarlung can be said to be 19K feet deep is to measure from the tops of mountain peaks. Same goes for depth of the other mountain canyons he lists. Measuring from mountain peaks introduces bias in the measurement because as I've said gorges already existed between the peaks before the mass erosion event began. That's why a mean elevation is required to get an accurate depth. Even the depth of Grand Canyon depends on where it's measured. The North Rim is higher than the South Rim so measuring depth from the mean between them gives a more accurate figure. If Yarlung was on a flat plateau cut 19K feet deep then I would accept it in comparison to Grand Canyon.
1:17 A few years ago I almost flew over this canyon randomly while playing Flight Sim 2020. The Napalese mountain range is just crazy from one end to the other.
Who plays Sim City anymore. Lame. U suck.
I find it deeply disturbing that 2020 was a few years ago
@@paulocezar8833 Nah 2020 was only a year and a half ago. 2021/2022 don't exist, you are allowed to count this decade as having 8 years.
Thanks for all of your hard work man!
Another very deep canyon not to far from that is Tiger Leaping Gorge, which is a it deeper than 12,000 feet deep, and the horizontal distance from the peak of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain to the canyon bottom is only around 6 miles, making the view up from the bottom of the canyon spectacular.
It's at the eastern, not western end of the Himalayas. One of the largest alpine glaciers lies not far from there near the Gongga Shan massif.
@@fallinginthed33p Eastern edge, not Western edge
A bit of education with my lunch? Absolutely and Thank you. Have a great weekend GH!!
So what’s the difference between a canyon and a valley? Just looking at it, I would refer the this Himilayan feature as a valley.
A canyon is a result of weather and erosion from a river. It’s much much narrower vs a valley.
Fascinating. I followed the river, and it's the same as the Brahmaputra, a massive river that's the backbone of Northeast India and Bangladesh. If you follow it to the west, it goes on and on and on the full length of Nepal. Puts the depth of the canyon in perspective knowing that they canyon is over a thousand kilometers downstream from the source.
Great video. I've never heard about this canyon before. Thank you.
Depending on how you define a canyon, lake Chelan in Washington State is slightly deeper than hell's canyon. Lake Chelan is almost 1500 feet deep and the nearby mountains are over 6600 feet above the lake surface.
Lake Chelan is not a river.
Always learning off your videos. Thanks Greg. 😊.
You are amazing, never stop what youre doing!
We have deep canyons here in Hawaii but were all formed by volcanos and then erosion, which is still occurring…
No comparison, A river with a mountain nearby and a river with vertical walls. Grand Canyon, Snake Canyon, Zion Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Canyon De Chelly - all have nice vertical walls and are a sight to behold.
There is a comparison though. Simply put, those canyons mentioned aren't as deep as the Yarlung Tsangpo. Personally, I'd rather see Yarlung Tsangpo in the Himalayas rather than any canyon in the western US.
@@vxyz5219Cantons vs valleys was my point. Stop talking and go.
@@Stan_in_Shelton_WA Canton isn't a geologic term. It's exclusively a territorial subdivision. So what exactly was your point? Everything listed above is a canyon.
@@vxyz5219 lol
@@vxyz5219 lol it was a typo.
I didn't realize that Hell's canyon was deeper than the Grand canyon!
All this ties back to Nick Zentner's controversial lecture on the Rockies being the result of a continent-continent collision starting from 100 million years ago instead of the Farallon plate's shallow angle subduction.
Sevier and Laramide orogenies look similar to the overthrusts and folding at 3:16. Karin Sigloch et al also found broken slab remnants far to the east of the Rockies, as if an island arc hit western North America as it moved westward and the subducting slab broke off, just like in this animation. The story of the Rockies might be closer to that of India, Tibet and the Himalayas, instead of flat slab orogeny like in the Andes.
What makes the Grand Canyon spectacular and unique compared to the other canyons is the sheer cliff faces along the edge, along with the unique rock. That being said, Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon sounds magnificent as well, for it's sheer size and remoteness.
i had always thought the deepest area was the dead sea region in Israel and Jordan. But I never really bothered to find out through publicly available geological writings either. So… yah. Glad to learn!
There is a great documentary on this river called Sky River of the Himalayas on Curiosity Stream
It's amazing that the river that runs through the canyon starts out on the North side of the Himalayas as the Yarlung, then it cuts through the Himalayas as the Zangbo, then it exits the Himalayas as the Brahmaputra (where it joins with the Ganges in the world's largest river delta). That's quite a river!
Pretty amazing, alright. Thanks, one again, Timothy
Those of you who keep calling this a valley: “A canyon may also refer to a rift between two mountain peaks, such as those in ranges including the Rocky Mountains, the Alps, the Himalayas or the Andes. Usually, a river or stream carves out such splits between mountains.”
@geologyhub. I have always been curious about the speed that the Indian plate moved North to collide with the Eurasian plate. On animations showing how Pangea broke up and the continents separated, the Indian plate appears to move around twice the speed of the other plates. Do you know of any reason for this?
Thank you
That whole area is so odd to me. I remember it coming up in one of Jeremy Wade's books. They went up the Mekong looking for a specific fish and debated about fishing in the Yellow and Yangtze rivers since there was an area where they were only like 40 miles from each other, but after asking around the border situation combined with the insane terrain caused them to abandon the idea. I think the area in question is called "the three rivers" area?
I really thought we were going into the oceans, such as the Mauritian Trench (sp) or something like that.
Mountains with a river in-between: is that a canyon?
in Texas we have the Palo Duro and it’s pretty cool from what I hear but, Texas is huge and I still ain’t been there yet.
At 2:16 I think that’s Mount Blanc, not the Himalayas.
Canyons that form in places of little elevation change should be compared differently to canyons where the highest point of a nearby mountain is the start of the elevation drop
The other side of that though is that as a measure of erosion in an uplift region, the whole thickness from at least the top of the mountain to the bottom of the canyon was eroded away.
2:13 Is that how you pronounce Himalayan? Have I been saying it wrong?
I think he mispronounces things just to see if we’re paying attention
I had the same reaction. What was that?
"Him ah ley an" is how it's pronounced but like all proper names it is immaterial.
Something that has always been odd to me is how it seems compared to other volcanic arcs, the cascade volcanos don't erupt hardly at all
The canyons and gorges in the Dasu and Patan region of Northern Pakistan are imo the deepest, most fantastic and most terrifying gorges in the world. The mighty Indus River passes through them with tremendous energy. Seeing is believing, and I hope y'all can see the sight of those gorges yourself. It'll blow your brains and everything else off, especially at night :)
Maybe this one should be titled; The World's Deepest Gorge?
Guess what another name for a gorge is?
Thanks for this. This Canyon is in Occupied Tibet and not in China. this Canyon’s name is Tsangpo and not zangpo..
What many people dont realize is that grand canyon south and north rims are 6-8000ft in elevation
....thats not a canyon, thats classified as a valley.
According to this definition, it’s a canyon.
“A canyon may also refer to a rift between two mountain peaks, such as those in ranges including the Rocky Mountains, the Alps, the Himalayas or the Andes. Usually, a river or stream carves out such splits between mountains.”
@@AnontheGOAT It's a valley, get over it, your definition is wrong and does not apply to a flat grounded valley, you only see a river and claim its a canyon...that's your misperception, this is a common mistake, even valleys have rivers.
@@Anamnesis-Apotheosis89 nope. I’m not wrong. It’s not my definition but the definition I found from multiple sources.
@@AnontheGOAT Ok....anon...have fun with that. I'm not going to play you're little immature troll game where you have to feel you're right everytime and somebody has to be wrong everytime, grow up, get out of peoples comments while trying to pretend you're the most intelligent person on the planet. I've met your type before, you're all lonely as hell and have no social skills. Subversive manipulation doesn't work on me, to me you're just a "know-it-all" that relies solely on what he can find on the web, go touch grass. I make my comments and leave, you feel it's your priority in life to correct people, the difference between you an me is I don't pretend to be nice, I don't pretend I'm an authority to be correct all the damn time, you do, and it shows because you're still here and you still will respond because your ego is to damn big. Thats why you hide behind such a cowardly name AnonthGOAT, just another Narcissistic Machiavellian.
There is a large circular area in southwestern Oregon that im wondering about. Its NE of Crater Lake and W of Silver Lake. Anybody got ideas?
I would guarantee that in Greenland there are canyons that are close to or over 20k ft in depth... if that is , you removed 3 miles of ice from it.
Q, definition of a canyon should be a that ppl live on flat part and drop off is a canyon. Different than a ravine which is on the side of a mountain.
None of those mountain valleys should be called a canyon...there are deep mountain valleys with rivers in them all around the world.
The GC is a true canyon imo, and there are many others like it throughout the world, where rivers have cut deep gorges in high plateaus or Plains.
Jmo though.
What's the difference between a gorge and a canyon?
Interesting there are no large stratovolcanoes in or around the Himalayas. In other parts of the world, when a chunk of crust snaps off, often magma shoots into the gap and volcanoes form.
I have forever wondered how india was able to move so quickly over the span of those millions of years. I keep hearing the theory that it had to do with it went over a hot spot. I don't know if that theory holds any credence. Is there anything in the literature that explains its sudden movement north?
I saw this valley on a Civ 6 huge earth map and didn’t think much of it. Maybe it was just a way to move around the region. But then it shows up in this video and I realize “oh… that’s a real canyon…”
I wonder how many years of geological history the lowermost part of such a deep canyon stretches back in time... would it be one single timespan with unconformities or several different layers folded on top of each other to provide layers of repeated geology from the same eras...
Are the canyons also below sea level??
Why aren’t there a bunch of active volcanoes in the Himalayas is this because the Indian plate broke off?
Oceanic crust is more dense than continental crust, so where the two meet, the continental plate ends up overriding the oceanic plate, creating a subduction zone that produces volcanoes. In the case of the Himalayas, it's a collision of two continental plates of similar density, so instead of one being subducted, they crumple up like two cars colliding, pushing up mountains without creating volcanism.
@@nortyfiner Thanks! Really interesting! I’d like to know more, maybe a vid topic for Geologyhub 😊
@@brians2808Nortyfiner summed it up pretty well. The Himalayas involve two continents which, because they're less dense then oceanic crustal rock, don't subduct.
As a note, this collision between India and Asia started some 50 million years ago. Before then, the oceanic crust between them would have been subducted and produced volcanism. India, before colliding with Asia, would have been surrounded by oceanic crust. As India moved north ward, this oceanic crust subducted beneath Asia producing volcanoes and eruptions. That stopped once India itself started to collide with Asia.
Guess the Grand Canyon is more like the Mediocre Canyon.
The Indus gorge is deeper. At its deepest the local relief exceeds 20,000 feet. I have been there.
Would this be the largest and shortest distance/most abrupt change in climate anywhere on earth then?
Deeper than Mariner Valley on Mars?
what are you
@@shatterscape Aaron's Geography World, a youtuber with 1.5 K subs that makes mostly geography videos
@@AaronGeo how to video? Sorry im only 15
Yeah, he must of thought you to be some kind of Martian, Aaron…🤣😂🤣😵💫🤣🤪😂
Finally, someone else who's not afraid to use non-Latin names on Mars.
The "Hymolian" mountain range?
I would like to know where these dates are based on, for example the transaharan seaway why is that in the late cretacious all I sea is solid indication that is was way and way later and like the tectonic plates the movement of those is likewise to have happened but the periods are just arbitrary how is that measured based on the maybe 100 solid years of measurement of geologic movement etc
Canyon or valley, it really depends on the gradient.
Make sure to take the tour that goes into the Grand Canyon when visiting. It was rather underwhelming viewing it from the top only. I actually thought the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff was more interesting.
Underwhelming? Seriously? A shallow assessment if I've ever heard one.
The grand canyon
I think we should block it at one end.. and fill it full of water.
How solid is this geological theory?
See what i did there. Geology is solid and liquid.
But seriously, the data source must be very comprehensive.
A lot must come from resource research.
The deepest is Kali gandaki gorge?
Why don’t you make a video explaining in depth how it’s possible for plate tectonics to consistently create lichtenberg fractals in the majority of mountain ranges? Lichtenberg fractals only occur when there’s electricity, either something burning when electricity moves through an organic material that’s conductive, or when an organic living being is powered by electricity such as with trees roosts and branches, or the human nervous system/arterial and venous systems, River systems because of the static electrical charge from the moving water, etc. I’ve heard theories that it’s rain and melt, but this isn’t true because you see it even in regions that have no precipitation for thousands of years, or have been frozen for millennia, and on mountainous terrain that has no sign of water erosion. To me, a person who’s gone to university for physics, these mountains are impossible if it’s indeed true that plate tectonics causes mountains to form, leading me to the conclusion that these are the result of an entirely different process.
I don't think you know what a sign of water erosion looks like
Thunderbolt Project.
It's one of the most beautiful places in the world, the alps look minuscule compared to this!!!
Fun fact: The Grand Canyon isn't even the deepest canyon in the US, that goes to Hell's Canyon in Idaho.
Fun fact: He says that in the video.
Thats a valley at like 50° bro
Bravo......hey there is one deeper 26,000......ft........begins with a g ........hey do u know how deep the north pole is........?.......18,000 ft........cheers
Rokaposhi valley in Pakistan has a greater height differential
Martians: pffft. That ain't nuthin.
I'd feel sorry for any yak that would be pressed into lugging tourists up and down a much deeper canyon like the mules do in the Grand Canyon National Park.
Definitely wouldn't be a day trip. More like a week trip with far warmer clothing.
Wait wait....wait wait wait. Is it really pronounced "Himawlia" and not "Him-uh-lay-uh"?
Yea but is it as STEEP as the Grand Canyon?
Is the deepest in to the earth crust
Colca canyon is better than any of them, and its in a safe country.
Flooding
I’m assuming we will get a video today of the lava overtopping and spilling over the walls in Iceland.
@TheHappinessOfThePursuit lol I just realized my username is similar to that
Please... Him-A-Lay-Anne
Have you considered getting a better mic? Sounds like you're speaking into a tube.
lol, not to scale
How do you keep your voice so monotone?
Autism.
This canyon will undoubtedly become the site of the world's largest hydroelectric dam. I think that China has already started building it
You speak about depth but you never reference the actual sea level.
Himalian🤣😂🤣
interesting. but this doesn't seem like a good comparison.
Grand Canyon is a canyon with a river in the bottom. that thing on China is a river next to a 20,000 ft tall mountain.
The only comparison is the depth of the valley which is a perfectly reasonable comparison. The Grand Canyon is not as deep. Simple as that.
Why use an AI voice ? It completely destroys the video
Love your work but recommend you get help in rhetoric and narration.
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I might have watched but you started speaking! You sound ridiculous
Good riddance then. And see my reply to someone else a few replies up (if you sort by newest), I can't be bothered to repeat it for the likes of you.
Please bro speak more lively I beg you 🙏
Why does it matter
Speaks ok to me.. show some respect.
He uses his normal voice. Stop being a dick I beg you
He honestly has since I started watching two years ago
I don't understand why people always take everything in a negative way, it's my feedback and suggestion for him to make videos more watchable and entertaining.
So it matters to me how he speaks if you still happen to disagree with me then it's alright.
I will not watch your videos because of your voice
Good riddance then. A minor example of natural selection at work, since someone more intelligent than you would have either
A realised that GH was probably autistic and refrained from exposing your prejudices publicly.
B simply have muted the video and followed it on the transcript, or
C both of the above.
Adios.
Bye bye
What a Karen.
How this isn't harrasment i will never understand
As a priest of the religion of science, you can erase all of my replies with a solid foundation.
By censoring others, your integrity and honesty are compromised and your “scientific” illusions are still just that, fantasies.
Don't blame this man for what Alphabet does
1.84 billion years old…
😂😂😂
What a croak load of BS.
Some people will believe anything that they are told without any proof or checking better sources. Unbelievable!
More proof of this than anything "god" related.
What do you consider a "better" source?
@@xwiick
When I was a clueless and uninformed child I relied on my parents and had no problems believing in “Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy” among many others.
When I became an adult, I believed on the things that I could see myself with my own eyes, what other people had written about the subject at hand, considering, but never accepting them as “experts,” until their arguments and proofs satisfied my God given intelligence and intellectual capabilities, logic, and PLAIN common sense and applying Occam’s Razor Law.
When I became spiritually ALIVE, I met the actual Creator who loves to converse with His kids and offers REAL wisdom, guidance , and knowledge, NOT religion or the OPINIONS of those religious purveyors of denominations, sects, and cults making a handsome profit off gullible and naive “believers.”
If you ever get where I am, you’ll find out and understand what I am talking about, and if you ever see the Canyon itself, your mere common sense would tell you about the ridiculous theories that a ribbon of water like the Colorado River made such carving miles wide. I wouldn’t waste my time giving you my own deductions and personal judgment because it REQUIRES an open mind and a LOT of own personal research.
There’s another way for the mentally lazy person and it’s called a research link, and this channel has one to bring to you hundreds if not thousands of videos of other geological experts that do NOT practice the RELIGION of science, NOR are their priests. You can also visit the Mount Saint Helen area when in 1987, a mini Grand Canyon was created in a mere HALF HOUR when the melted snow was carving its way down.
And with that, I bid you farewell and happy intellectual hunting!
@@vxyz5219
I’ll just copy you with my response to another person who asked virtually the same thing:
“When I was a clueless and uninformed child I relied on my parents and had no problems believing in “Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy” among many others.
When I became an adult, I believed on the things that I could see myself with my own eyes, what other people had written about the subject at hand, considering, but never accepting them as “experts,” until their arguments and proofs satisfied my God given intelligence and intellectual capabilities, logic, and PLAIN common sense and applying Occam’s Razor Law.
When I became spiritually ALIVE, I met the actual Creator who loves to converse with His kids and offers REAL wisdom, guidance , and knowledge, NOT religion or the OPINIONS of those religious purveyors of denominations, sects, and cults making a handsome profit off gullible and naive “believers.”
If you ever get where I am, you’ll find out and understand what I am talking about, and if you ever see the Canyon itself, your mere common sense would tell you about the ridiculous theories that a ribbon of water like the Colorado River made such carving miles wide. I wouldn’t waste my time giving you my own deductions and personal judgment because it REQUIRES an open mind and a LOT of own personal research.
There’s another way for the mentally lazy person and it’s called a research link, and this channel has one to bring to you hundreds if not thousands of videos of other geological experts that do NOT practice the RELIGION of science, NOR are their priests. You can also visit the Mount Saint Helen area when in 1987, a mini Grand Canyon was created in a mere HALF HOUR when the melted snow was carving its way down.
And with that, I bid you farewell and happy intellectual hunting!”
Here’s a copy of my response to the both of you:
“When I was a clueless and uninformed child I relied on my parents and had no problems believing in “Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy” among many others.
When I became an adult, I believed on the things that I could see myself with my own eyes, what other people had written about the subject at hand, considering, but never accepting them as “experts,” until their arguments and proofs satisfied my God given intelligence and intellectual capabilities, logic, and PLAIN common sense and applying Occam’s Razor Law.
When I became spiritually ALIVE, I met the actual Creator who loves to converse with His kids and offers REAL wisdom, guidance , and knowledge, NOT religion or the OPINIONS of those religious purveyors of denominations, sects, and cults making a handsome profit off gullible and naive “believers.”
If you ever get where I am, you’ll find out and understand what I am talking about, and if you ever see the Canyon itself, your mere common sense would tell you about the ridiculous theories that a ribbon of water like the Colorado River made such carving miles wide. I wouldn’t waste my time giving you my own deductions and personal judgment because it REQUIRES an open mind and a LOT of your OWN personal research.
There’s another way for the mentally lazy person and it’s called a research link, and this channel has one to bring to you hundreds if not thousands of videos of other geological experts that do NOT practice the RELIGION of science, NOR are their priests. You can also visit the Mount Saint Helen area when in 1987, a mini Grand Canyon was created in a mere HALF HOUR when the melted snow was carving its way down.
And with that, I bid you farewell and happy intellectual hunting!”