How North America got its shape - Peter J. Haproff
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2016
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North America didn’t always have its familiar shape, nor its famed mountains, canyons, and plains: all of that was once contained in an unrecognizable mass, buried deep in Rodinia, a huge supercontinent that lay on the face of the Earth. Peter J. Haproff explains how it took millions of years and some incredible plate tectonics to forge the continent we know today.
Lesson by Peter J. Haproff, animation by Globizco.
Basically a video about how the western US got it's shape, with a brief aside for the Appalachians. No mention of the Great Lakes, the Hudson Basin, or anything south of the Rio Grande.
A continent is not a landmass really, it is more like a piece of a jigsaw that makes up the outer crust of the earth. And the west part of the continental plate is where all of the stuff happened to shape it while the east has remained pretty simaler for a while
I can't wait to be alive in 200M years to see how the world looks.
it will be covered with our junk 1km thick
@@joshuapartridge5092 no it wont
México is North America too, TED. What about the Pico de Orizaba or the Popocatépetl ??
Or Mt. Logan in Canada ??
Nobody cares about them, because 'Murica.
because discusting murrica UFA
Time restraints ... target audience ...
Wow most Mexicans say the opposite finally some1 has some sense!
I was hoping the video would cover when the middle of the USA was covered by shallow seas that created all the sedimentary rock.
That was 500 years ago - you'll find it documented in historic records - this video is for idiots.
@@WhirledPublishing LOL
You mean the western interior seaway?
Same!
@@johnperic6860 Your one sources is right and thousands are wrong - is that what you're here to say?
Would have been nice to cover the Ice Ages and how they led to the creation of the Great Lakes. Also interesting fact: Hudson bay is slowly bulging upward, it's still rebounding from the compression due to the mass of all the glacier ice during the last Ice Age
"How North America got its shape" precedes to talk for the entire video about the U.S. west coast.
Luca Munch they talked about the Appalachia!
Hi
Still interesting 👍
@@charlemagne996 Lies are not interesting - they're lies. Those who want the true timeline for our continents, oceans, mountains, Earth's expansion, Earth's cataclysms, etc., will find it clearly detailed in hundreds of independent historic records, written in Chinese, Japanese, Latin, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, French, Russian, etc.
All that matters !
so this basically a video about how the US got its shape no Mexico and Canada
yea not even all of it, its only western usa nothing about the east
yep
Umm, the Rockies go into Canada and Mexico. Otherwise, Canada and Mexico have less significant features.
Canada has the Great Canadian Shield, and both Canada and Mexico have interesting shaped landmasses.
The Hudson Bay, in Canada, is assumed to have once been a giant super volcano which left the rich sources of rock and metal in the Canadian Shield which stretches through Nunavut, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec. And the St. Laurence river is suspected to have let massive amounts of fresh water into the ocean causing an Ice Age in what is now Europe.
I don't know much about Mexico, but I have been there once.
+Scott89878 But they wouldn't have mentioned the Rockies if it wasn't in the US. I'm sure there are many interesting geological features outside the US.
Title: "How North America got its shape"
Proceeds to talk about only the US
This guy is a true American citizen.
The guy speaking it is American, yes, but he doesn't write the script. TED is a Canadian company, so it's there fault really
Facts!
A more accurate title would be how the U.S. got its shape.
More like How U.S' West Coast got its shape.
+Leon Isaac Jimenez Vergara lol literally not a word on east coast US, Canada, or Mexico
+Space Face Appalachian Mountains
A more accurate titled would be: How Idiots Play Guessing Games
Since the true timeline for our Earth's history includes the broken and subducted tectonic plates, the formation of our ocean trenches and archipelago islands, since the history of our Earth includes the timeline for our continents, oceans, mountains, cataclysms, our Earth's peninsulas and seas, as well as our Earth's expansion, Earth's ice sheets, Earth's climate, etc., and since the timeline for all of this is documented in hundreds of historic records, written in over a dozen languages from all across our Earth by people living several centuries apart and in different parts of the world, since they tell us the timeline - and forces responsible - for the massive water erosion across our continents and islands, and since this timeline is corroborated by thousands of other independent sources from all across our Earth which includes maps of the sonar images of the landslide debris on the seafloor that displaced massive volumes of seawater that launched colossal tsunami waves that decimated the lands and since that destruction is recorded in the old literature and on old historic documents - with the dates on them - the adolescent wild imaginings of the fake experts are exposed as idiotic nonsense.
Those who want to know the true timeline, the true physics and true chemistry of our Earth can find it clearly documented in hundreds of historic records while those that are satisfied with living a life of lies are free to forget I mentioned it and go back to what they were doing.
No, the timeline is not 10,000 years - if the truth had ever been on your priority list, you would have done the research instead of playing juvenile guessing games - like the others that are satisfied with "theories" because the truth is irrelevant to them - and this is because they have no conscience.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the Canadian shield
tto be fair they only talke about the us of a but.
This video should have also mentioned:
- Mississippi River / Delta
- Formation of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
- Formation of the Great Lakes
- The Chixulub Crater
+DERPALERT I agree. Also the formation of the Gulf
That's what happens when you think the story of NA starts with the breakup of Rodinia and you pretty much gloss over everything except "and these continents moved again!" and an attempt to explain the western third of the US.
¯\_㋛_/¯ But hey, TED is sooo educational.
Francis Kolárik
All the way to YEllowsr42je
this is just the states...what about canada and mexico?
Or Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bonaire, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Clipperton Island, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Monserrat, Navassa Island, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saba, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Kitts and Neivis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent of the Grenadines, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands and the Virgin Islands.
@Lutra Nereis , these countries are from Central America and they are a completely different story, involving a different tectonic plate
+DelContra I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say we're only talking about the North American plate. That still leaves out Greenland, Cuba, the Bahamas, the Azores, Turks and Caicos Islands, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and parts of Russia, Iceland, Guatemala and Belize, as well as the aforementioned Canada and Mexico.
DelContra You can't seem to make up your mind. If we're talking about North America, then every country I mentioned in my first comment are a part of North America and are relevant. If we're talking about the North American plate, then the countries that are mentioned in my second comment are all a part of the North American plate, and thus are relevant. Either way, your reply makes no sense.
DelContra No, the video is obviously only considering the United States. You're trying desperately to spin this in a way that makes sense, but the three ways you've tried to define "North America" still leaves out countries that weren't mentioned in the video. It's kind of funny, actually.
I love your videos, they're so interesting...can you make more of your 'riddle' videos, I've watched them all and I just can't wait until you upload another one to go into that playlist! Thank you for making these videos! 😀Xx
+TᑌᖇTᒪE ᒪOᐯEᖇ riddles yes
Riddles needed!
I LOVE the artwork in this video, especially on the Yellowstone and Sierra Nevada artwork.
*+TED-Ed* This was a great lesson, geology-wise! I hope it's accurate enough because I liked everything about it. *P.S.-* It'd be great if similar lessons pop up about other continents and land masses explaining their _special_ geography...
From that intro, I be there will be.
"On this episode we'll be focusing on -The USA- _North America_"
@@brendanrisney2449 it can't be because the west coast of the USA has the most tectonic plate action going on...
Thank you for teaching us!
You're great teacher.
Wow, the art of this is absolutely gorgeous!
Even though this was not exactly what I was looking for, it drew me in so much I couldn't stop watching, and I learned a lot. Thanks!
The animation on this is so nice
I’ve always thought the Americas were shaped like some kind of monster, and the Caribbean Islands were its prey.
• Great Lakes: an eye
• Gulf of Mexico: the mouth
• Central America: the neck
• Brazil: the stomach
• Chile and Argentina: the tail
• Honduras and Nicaragua: the beast’s most recent victim, just swallowed
wow
Many thanks for this video and greetings from Czech! :-)
Can you please do this with other continents? There are a lot of people from other places that watch this channel and it will be nice.
Please re title this to "How USA got its shape"
Canada is aLso part of north America
Great video!
I would like to see this for the other continents as well.
Awesome, more geology please!!! (its for me and the little ones ;) thanks.
The only word I can think of for this is awesome!
TED ED NEEDS MORE VIEWS
Very good video.!it is very helpful for me.to know the about geography about North America
Everyone is saying what happened to Mexico and Canada and didn't realize that he only talked about Western United States... I might have a guess to where this guy is from
Why spend almost the whole video on the west coast? The multiple orogenies that formed the Eastern Seaboard (and basically the entirety of the Northeastern Megalopolis) were extremely influential to the current geology/geography of the area. True, they aren't doing much more than eroding away now, but still, why not talk about them?
The Farallon plate, Phoenix plate, Izanagi plate all formed when Australia and Antarctica both moved away from Laurentia, that caused the breakup of supercontinent Rodinia.
Very awesome and educational video Sir I appreciate it I'm Peter from Hamilton Ontario Canada
Ted Ed, ideas so worth sharing that Tedx talks don’t have comments.
what a good depiction, thx
Cartons not even mentioned? Great video, will you make a similar one for France or Spain or The UK?
yes this is why i love ted ed
i want more videos like this
more of this pls
This was super interesting
I always thought it was so interesting learning about glaciers coming down over the Great Lakes and flattening parts of the Midwest. Specifically, the northern 2/3 of Indiana is very flat while the southern 1/3 is more hilly.
Love the musical score! Where can I listen to it?
it's not even talking about all of USA.....just the west coast. i would have liked to learn more about the entire north america.
Part 2 would be nice
It's fascinating that we know all of this from rocks.
My first thought when I saw the title was "this could be interesting". My second thought was "I bet they don't mention Canada or Mexico".
can any prediction be made regarding motion of continental plates?
Bob had an ocean named after him! (any Percy Jackson fans out there)
Sure are. Hi!
OMG BOB THE TITAN JANITOR
wHY
Brilliant Peter !!! Brilliant !!!
Wheres the next how the -continent name- video!?????? I'm waitingN i hope to see one😅
Thanks for the CliffsNotes+ version.....but how did the rest of North America get its shape?
thanks!
Thank you for mentioning Canada
I love you Addison
The Yellowstone super volcano can erupt at anytime and end humanity. So go ahead, crack open a beer and ask that cute girl out.
And then ask her friend too.....ya never know!
what a great video
i liked it because it was easy to understand
Do this to every continent please
this video should have been called how America got its shape since that's all you talked about
America takes up a lot of the North American continent and is in the middle of it so yeah, they talked about it. Judging by your name I'm assuming you're a butt hurt Canadian.
Hey You If they had just made the title "How America got its shape" there would be nothing wrong with that but you can't claim to talk about the whole continent when you only bring up the one country leaving out Mexico and Canada which make up 2 thirds of the continent. I'm sure you can see my issue with that
then make your own video
TIL that Noth America is the center of the earth. USA! USA! USA!
No wonder America is in a hot situation right now
No it's USA Canada USA Canada!! .never ever forget Canada usa is not the only country in North America 😡
+Misha Patel you forgot Mexico
+Misha Patel Nice try Canada... America is the only country in the world. USA USA USA USA
+Contajus00 To suffer with obesity and pathetic political runners.
*USA! USA! USA!*
MANGO! MANGO! MANGO!
***** Clinton or Nye?
+Hayley Musgrave OI OI OI
+Maryland BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY
+Chief Penguin Bill Nye the science guy!
I don't understand how mountains as big as the Rockies happened through thickening when it's follows such a distinct path through the continent and is very focused. The Great Plains start so abruptly it can't just be through thickening
Personally I hoped this would touch more on the Laurentian side of things and orientation relative to equator/axis
plz do all other continents if u havent :)
Before the vid i was like continental drift!
I have.somequestions
FIRST: How you thing that the pressure made from water pressuring the two pieces of land is rough and enough to merige and scratch inner areas of land to make mountains like that and how could rain and heavywind not drop these rocks when you said it was in the soft age (before crystalization ) because i think water goes and return do to gravity of moon etc.... but cant create enough pressure
SECOND :If so what you say ,then why the rough Hiroshima earthquake didnt make a higher land like a small mountain or maybe hill
I think the things you mentioned is nust alegend
MIND BLOWN !!!!!!!
"North America"
thanks to science class i already actually knew most of this. man, i love science.
Science is my favorite subject. Only history comes close to how much you can learn about.... everything, really.
+Brendan Risney Yeah I drink to that.
@tedex please make more can you solve these riddles
dear north America, I am in love with the shape of you.
I wonder how much of the forests we see today are new and have been previously cut down?
wish there was an interactive map of the world like this somewhere
Geacron, probably.
Much of the land east of the Rockies was an inland sea millions of years ago. This video doesn't mention that at all.
You Guys, that Yellowstone Supervolcano is creeping the heck out of me
The only thing I heard was that we're screwed if the super volcano blows.
Love from milwaukee
Can you do a video about a coma and what goes on in your body/brain during one? Maybe talk about the longest somebody was in a coma and woke up?
What about the east cost and places like hadson bay?
Will you do Australia???
Plz do others
I want something really detailed.
If anyone knows of something like that I would love to see it.
Can we have more puzzles like the temple and zombie ones?
Jason Quinn is a good English teacher
woow.. so there is he
Change the title to USA please
Any chance you can make a video of how the Canadian rockies were formed? ;)
The claims in this video are nothing but insanity - it's fiction, delusion, fantasy, wild imaginings, guesses - this lunatic doesn't know how North America was formed - he's just desperate for recognition - if you want the true timeline for our Earth's continents, mountains, oceans, Earth's expansion, Earth's cataclysms, Earth's climate, Earth's tectonic plates, ocean trenches, archipelago islands, etc., you'll find it documented - by our ancestors - in hundreds of independent historic documents, written in Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Latin, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, German, Russian, French, etc., going back several hundred years with reports going back to our Earth's early beginnings - if you prefer theories from lunatics, forget I mentioned it and go back to what you were doing.
@@WhirledPublishing and what does a bunch of ancient people who didn't even have toilets and thought they were the center of the universe know about tectonic plates and how mountains, valleys, etc. where formed?
what about the Sudbury Basin?
O.K., Ted ed, I know you’re partially Canadian, so when you do a history on the geography of North America, it means it includes ALL, of North America, Not! Just the United States of America, including Canada!, and seeing as though the Canadian Shield is the oldest land mass in North America, maybe, just maybe, you might just want to give it a mention!!😐, among other geographical wonders that Canada has!!😑, perhaps a mention on Mexico, since it is also a part of the CONTINENT!!!😤
This isn’t political. They’re just listing out general and notable geological observations. They didn’t even cover all of American geological history; so quite frankly I’m not sure why you’re offended
And Mexico, Mexico still been north america :,v
I know people are talking about Canada and México, but what about Greenland and the Caribbean isles?
They are not part of north america
@@Quirkykitty they are part of the north american continent
I wonder how the people who believe in 6000yr old earth would comment about this.
They would probably say the Earth has always looked as it does now.
Nah, we'd say that most of it came about from the great flood.
+Ben Larsen Actually, no. Young earth creationists agree that there once was likely a single continent that broke apart. It's actually really consistent with the geological effects you would see from a world-wide flood (i.e. -Noah's). Also, the Bible mentions a man named Peleg, who lived shortly after Noah, and says that in his lifetime the world split apart.
+Katie Katie Sure. Look how fast the landforms around a Mount St. Helens changed after it erupted. Now imagine an immensely larger catastrophe. It would have an immensely larger effect in reshaping landforms.
Pretty easily actually. Look at the island Surtsey, which has a landscape that resembles millions of years to make and yet it only took less then a decade.
How about the earlier days? The Keweenawan Rift?
The Greenville Orogeny?
The Canadian Shield: Home to Earth's oldest rocks!
What do you mean today, usually these videos are one-offs with no sequels
Canadians and Mexicans disapprove of this video
There was a meteor that made the Yucatan peninsula
The timeline orange thing reminds me of Destiny
Very lovely nice
Great film,thank you.I learn more about our world.
Happy Independence Day
At one time the Rocky Mountains were under the ocean. To this day there are places up in the highest mountains where there are fossils of sea shells. You can go up to some of the tourist traps, and buy those type of fossils. The way this documentary shows it, the Rocky's pushed up from the middle of DRY land. Right here in northern Colorado, there are places where you can go out on the planes, and find sea shells. Salt Lake City in Utah has the last remaining salt water lake that was once this very ocean.
Let's see if I'm understanding you: Fossils of sea creatures are found up on the highest mountains - worldwide - even in Antarctica - and you conclude that this proves these mountains were on the seafloor? Is that how you jump to your conclusions?
@@SoulfulTruth no thats not how it works he meant the land itself was under water before tectonic plates nd other gelogical phenomena thrusted up high into a mountain also antartica was once joined with the continents....
@@Mark-Wilson Since you don't have over 50 years of research on this topic - as I have - since you're not a Doctoral Scholar who's tested off the WAIS-R, served as an Expert Witness for the Court Judges and who is also a member of an international research group - as I am - since you don't know when or how the tectonic plates were formed - and since you don't know when or how the Rocky Mountains were formed - because you never cared about the truth enough to do the research which is clearly documented in historic records, I suggest you learn to stop imagining you're the smart one - and stop copying off the work of idiots - because all you've done is expose yourself as someone who is delusional - and since your reply suggests that you don't even know how to compose a sentence, your delusions of intellectual superiority are further exacerbated here - for all the world to see.
If you had passion for the truth - rather than a passion for imagining you're the smart one - you could have found documented in old records the timeline for the formation of the Rocky Mountains - since the timeline for the land beneath the Rocky Mountains is also documented in historic records, since that land WAS on the seafloor but the MOUNTAINS were NOT, since all of this is documented by our ancestors, all the theories about this are hurled into the rubbish - those who prefer guessing games over evidence from hundreds of independent sources are free to carry on with their detachment from reality. Those who want the truth are invited to study hundreds of historic records - because the entire timeline for our Earth's continents, oceans, mountains, cataclysms, Earth's expansion, Earth's origins, Earth's climate, etc., is all documented by our ancestors in old records.
@@SoulfulTruth so because you have some degree you can make false claims about something you have no expertise in
got it
@@Mark-Wilson Thank you for letting us know you prefer to concoct lies rather than study the thousands of sources I referred to - your comments speak volumes about your lack of a conscience.