Geologists explain why Tasmania is different
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- We always thought Tasmania was different, and now geology can explain why. New discoveries from Tasmania’s oldest rocks at Rocky Cape reveal that about 1.5 billion years ago Tasmania was not part of Australia, but wedged between two other continents. The geology of north-western Tasmania may have more to do with North America and Antarctica than it does with the rest of the Australian mainland.
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1:45 that dinosaur looks like a good boy.
Lmao thank you for the time stamp I was pouring coffee when that part played and I missed it. But yes a very good doggosaurus there
Curious people with good tools are my favorite people.
Serial killers?
@@asktheetruscans9857
lmao
are they curious though?
@@meino6465 Yes. "Gee, I've always wondered what that guy's intestines look like..."
That's t-shirt worthy
@@asktheetruscans9857 I just smashed a box of Corn Flakes with a Fiskars sledge hammer because I wondered what would happen. I guess that makes me a curious person with good tools who's a cereal killer.
A great short presentation. I would really enjoy similar presentations on how different parts of Australia were formed.
I know it's intuitive, but I have seen enough Precambrian boulders and rocks in the Laurentian Shield of Canada to see their eerie similarity with the rocks we see in Tasmania...
And we just bought 40 acres of land in Arizona that's got about a billion and a half year old outcrops in the desert - and when they started talking about ages in Tasmania I perked up. Damn, we own a piece of what used to be Tasmania. How cool is that?
@@mommachupacabra damn I wish I owned rocks that are billions of years old!
@@mommachupacabra Yes, you "own" the billion year old rocks indeed ;)
@@kayzeaza well to be honest "billions of years" is a really long time, so you'd just need to go to a place with outcrops of rocks that fit that time scale and break a bit off
Edit: depending on where you live this might get expensive and/or time consuming
Yeah I have no idea about any type of geology besides Hawaiian volcanism because I’ve only lived in Hawaii
I love how the geologists went to the trouble of drawing a diagram in the sand, and the cameraman only filmed it with north orientated downwards...
That's because the earth's magnetic poles would have been flipped that long ago. And also it was so long ago that the earth was still flat. It hadn't pulled itself into a sphere yet, science! 😎
The cameraman must have been Australian, they are upside down
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@@roncantrell2836 Comedy Einstein
@@jiminitin oh yeah I think I read that in the Bible
Antarctica, Tasmania, Arizona all hanging out a bazillion (technical term) years ago! Crazy to think the Grand Canyon in US and Rocky Cape in Tasmania could have been joined.
Well they weren’t, since the Grand Canyon hadn’t formed yet.
After seeing this video I now understand exactly how zircon crystals are used to date rocks. Well done.
When I lived in Hobart I met a visitor from Helena Montana who told me Tassie reminded him of North West America ! Years later I was watching Yellowstone tv series and I thought where have I seen this scenery before ?? Well now you know folks !
You seriously call it "Tassie"? That's worse than calling San Francisco "Frisco"!
@@oriraykai3610 i think you'll find that lots of people call Tasmania 'Tassie', especially the locals. The same as Australia is 'Aussie'.
That's great but north-west USA isn't anywhere near Arizona. Or Yellowstone.
A few years ago I read that a small area of Queensland is related to Canada, I think it was.
@@oriraykai3610 I’m an Australian and call it tassie all the time
@@stephanieyee9784 NO WAY in this whole wide WORLD 💯 percent 👎
Everyone's getting this recommended now... Lol. 5 year's later.
And I was in Tassie on the 2nd of April. Quick, chuck your phone's out, lol.
Only replyed because I wanted to be...
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Yep 👍
Fascinating
Now I can tell my Aussie friend that we use to be neighbors. I’ll drink to that.
Built different
This is so cool I love learning about this magnificent place we live, science is fantastic. Rocks rock! Geology is very fascinating
Huh gaaaaayyyyyyy
Geologists are rock lickers!
Okay Hank from breaking bad, come out from your real account.
I really love your enthusiasm for life
I think you might be the kid who has written GEOLOGY ROCKS on his backpack🥹
Wow, my favourite topic--geology! I understand that at one point, Australia and, based on recent discoveries, Antarctica as well were attached to North America. The story is a long and exciting one, at least to me.
Very interesting and informative presentation! Thank you!!! 😊
Excellent program! Thank you for sharing.
My beautiful Tasmania!!!!!🇦🇺
Very interesting, but the title should read "Geologists explain why Tasmania is different to the rest of Australia"
Well, it is a video uploaded by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. I would have thought that was a bit obvious.
@@ij7267 It's a grammatical error, an incomplete comparison. I would have thought that was a bit obvious.
The inlaws and outlaws....
You were just chomping at the bit to get that one out into the world, weren’t you @fins59? 😂
Correct
Best geology documentary til date i have ever seen
Can ABC do a documentary to explain why Queensland is different?
It's where people from Sydney's western suburbs go to retire
I think that would require more psychological research than ever done before (Coming from a Queenslander...) and the results would be too disturbing to share with viewers under the age of dead.
@@croccles4680 snotty.
That's pretty easy, you just have to look at the history of formation for Queensland to understand why it's people are different than the other eastern states.
Because we have a communist premier
Thanks for defining tectonics of Tasmania
When geologists calculate erosion do they take into account geologists with hammers?
😂😂😂
They actually do. Sometimes they even take into account whether people walk barefoot or with boots. Amateur geologists, mineral and fossil collectors and normal tursits are a huge problem in some areas.
3:32 The progression of this background music reminded me of how "Tony's Theme" in _Scar Face_ starts.
*_I have always loved Australia and Tasmania...now I love them even MORE..._*
Looking at a map, it is obvious that Australia and Tasmania is connected. During the Ice Ages when sea levels were much lower, you could walk from one to the other.
I have been studying the Geology in Australia. It has some of the oldest bedrock in the world. It's Geology is grand on an epic scale. There are so many wonderful geological treasures it's hard to know where to start.
*_Guess I need to get up to speed with Tasmania, she too holds many mysteries..._*
Tasmania is definitely on my revised bucket list.
I have crawled all over it ,one lovely place
Very interesting, kinda makes sense, especially when one looks at the location of South America to Antarctica...
At 5:35 in this video it is an incorrect assumption to say that the downward slope (the dip) of these layers would indicate the direction of the flow of the water and the sediment transport. These layers contain 2 unconformities and have been subject to tilting and probably also folding more than once.
I chuckled at that statement myself.
You do see directional action in the mudrock, but I love where huge chunks of it are sagging under its own weight, slumping at the base under compression. I like seeing the ripples on the surface from gravity pulling the mud down slopes. I love the caves formed where debris has been trapped- through all layers of sediment/ showing it was all wet at the same time, or else the layers preceding in the zillions of years would have filled in those caves, each megasequence layer. I love in each cave you see impressions in the roof and walls, of the debris that was trapped in there- as the mud oozed down the inclines these caves were just mud or sand and minerals, marine creatures smashed up , that trapped any kind of debris. The impressions are like injection molding/ compressed into the debris, so we are left with distinct amazing shapes in every cave. And pebbles and inclusions on the roof, and inner surfaces.
It's abundantly clear that this sediment with its foot prints if dinosaurs which were running for their lives- similar to the giant mass dinosaur burials sites in the US, was from the global flood. It was all under water for a year. The ocean floor did most of the work- " the fountains of the deep openned up." Genesis.
Take a look at the ring of fire- volcanic action around the plates. Why are their hardly any now still active compared to in the early times? Ring of fire shows massive event tectonic upheaval. Could millions of years explain the number of volcano's back then? There is a reason it was so volcanic- the tectonics rearranged the earth, during the flood. Look at the megasequence layers. Forget your stupid sclience , the dates are fabricated to uphold the lie.
Good luck with which way you swing. It matters.
Jake
I’m pretty sure she’s implying that there is cross bedding formed by dunes or ripples. I trust an expert more than a random CZcams comment lol
@@UserRandJ Global flood?? Says who?
Outside of Christian apologetic circles, I have yet to see geologist come to a consensus that there was a global flood. In fact, the consensus is that there was NOT a global flood. And then, laughably, they claim the dinosaurs were alive during the time of the Noah Ark flood myth…and where are the human remains in with dinosaur fossils? (This is ignoring the people who baselessly claim there were dinosaurs on the Ark; which, yiu have to prove an Ark to begin with)
Then there are the anthropologists, linguistics, biologists, marine biologists, evolutionary biologists, geneticist, climate scientists, and so many other fields of study that say a global flood, that left only 8 people alive according to the mythology, did NOT happen.
The fact of the matter is that truly intellectually honest scientist follow scientific evidences and data where it leads regardless of personal beliefs while theologists muddy the waters to make the evidence fit around their beliefs. Cherry picking and ignoring the science to fit a world view. And theologists can’t even agree on the epistemological questions of a divine being!!! Wouldn’t that be the MOST self evident thing that would be backed up by science?!? Stick a Catholic, Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, Jehovah Witness and a Mormon in a room and ask them to agree on God…
No. The only thing that says there was a global flood is a series of books written in a Bronze Age by semi literate goat herds living in a time of great ignorance.
@@UserRandJ What a load of utter nonsense 🤦🏾♀️
Thank you for sharing
So Tasmania was Iceland back in the day, on the rift between two continental boundaries in the northern hemisphere.
These "scientists" are monsters.
First bludgeoned by hammers, then vaporized by powerful lasers. Those poor, innocent rocks!
This video has inspired me to found a new organization called
PETER: People for The Ethical Treatment of Endemic Rocks
Sign me up. Where do I send my check ? $$
PETER you mean People who Experiment and Test Endemic Rocks?
Hahahahahaha
Fittingly, Peter comes from the Greek word for rock
I wish I could see Antarctica once the snow and ice melts. I bet it's amazing.
And much of it will be below sea level. That is NOT just because of sea levels rising from the melting ice either. The mass of the ice currently on top of Antarctica is pressing it downwards. This land will not spring back (isostatic rebound) until much longer after the ice melts.
This is what may have happened in SE US where the Grand Canyon is. The mass of ice pushed the land downwards. The river was already flowing in the direction it currently is. As the ice melted, the land rose and the river cut its channel.
Haaaaaa good one, clever. Thumbs up.
@@rickkwitkoski1976 much like what’s happen with Canada and Europe right now Antarctica will over time move up. Because all that pressure has been released and they can finally unsquish themselves.
Tasmania is one of the best places to live and I'm glad I live in Hobart Tasmania
I agree, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else :)
Hobart is the worst part of tassie i'd rather live in shorewell
Probably have the Dutch to thank for that 😂
@DoctorProfessor The Dutch didn't even bother setting foot anywhere on 'Australia', they just sailed by and went 'oh, look'. Same with the Frenchman de Bougainville on his circumnavigation of the globe.
It took the British to actually DO something, anything! So no, the Tassies have the British to thank for that... which is why they speak English there! 😂
@@sunnyjim1355 yes, upon further inspection it was the Brits in 1830 that cleared things up, my mistake 😂
The Tasmania / Arizona connection is mind blowing 😲
I found some pegmatite on King Island coastline, and had a good search around and found some nice black tourmaline crystals :)
I understand that Errol Flynn was originally from Tasmania.
Coming from Québec city, those rocks look the same as some on Orléans Island just nearby!
The Tasmanian movie called the Nightingale was surprisingly really good. That movie is disturbing and really controversial around the world.
Where in Arizona do the Tasmanian isotopes match?
I love that Tasmania is its own little self born between two giants and floating away to bump into another one.
Tasmania truly built different
That’s great stuff !!!
Needs to show more maps of Tasmania!
Every girls got one! :-D
ESBK - Every School Boy Knows... how to look for maps for themselves!
@@philiphicks1273 not these days.
These are the first images of Tasmania that I’ve ever see. I really thought everything would be full of devil shaped holes.
Lol loony toons reference
People actually lived there until the genocide by european humans happened.
@@meanscene914 In the 2016 Australian census, more than 23,000 Tasmanians identified as Aboriginal, representing 4.6% of the population - higher than the national rate, where 3.3% of Australians identified as Aboriginal. What makes you think they’re not human?
🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍
@@jonathansturm4163 But are those 23,000 descendants of Aboriginal Tasmanians, or descendants of Aboriginal mainland Australians who moved to Tasmania in modern times? I thought the Aboriginal Tasmanians were completely wiped out by Europeans.
love his budget bunnings mallet. if it works, well it works.
Never understood what the mean by the age of a rock. Ok for sedimentary rocks it must be the age when the particles came together, but aren’t they measuring the age of those particles here, not the formation? Wouldn’t everything be the “age” of the coalescing earth? What about igneous rocks? Is the age of a newly formed rock shelf on the Big Island considered to be 4 weeks if the lava flow was last month? What about the individual particles within that newly formed rock? What starts the clock?
When it hardens and it's chemical composition is set relative to that of the outside world.
It’s practically impossible to accurately date rocks without massive assumptions, especially over any period of time. They can only assume. It’s something often overlooked. It’s true that scientists are expected to know how old things are but they rarely do for long time spans. Dinosaurs with DNA found in them are supposed to be 100+ million years old, yet the half life of DNA is 500 years…
There is a starting point. The solar system in which we reside went through the "Late Heavy Bombardment" about 3.9 billion years ago when Earth's surface became molten (Hadean era), when the Earth cooled enough to solidify s rocks would be a good starting point.
“These rocks are so special” *jumpcut to me smashing rocks with a hammer*
Sounds to me like there a ton of guess work in trying to figure out the age of rocks and even more guess work in trying to figure out what the earth looked like just going back 500 mill years ago
Sedimentation has alternating lighter colored layers ( summer ), and darker colored ( winter ) layers. The micro organisms eat the summer layers when it is warm enough to be active, and reproduce a lot. In the winter it is too cold, so the darker sediments settle to the ocean floor without being eaten by the micro organisms. Generally, the summer layers are thicker, and the winter layers are thinner.
ALSO: The Rocks from the Colorado River in the US were deposited on the slopes of the Mountains in New Zealand, when they were joined, and before the Pacific Plate Moved a thin strip of Mexico North and cut off the material access to New Zealand. Then the two continents ( Zealandia ), and North America drifted apart. ( Way apart ). Zealandia is mostly submerged and is about 1/3 rd the surface area of Australia.
You are not wrong, except it happened during the global flood.
@@UserRandJ Still waiting for your evidence of a global flood….
@@thelostone6981 Perfect. Only it's the weekend here, so if you are happy I'll catch you Monday. It's awesome stuff, I guarantee it
Jake
This is a neat little video, but as a former rock-climber I wonder how come the east coast of Tassie - particularly the Freycinet Peninsula - is so alike the Wilson's Prom area if we are not connected? Or should that part of the north island be seen as part of Tasmania? 😉
You've gotta love those dolomite cliffs at Cape Raoul ! Only a maniac would climb them. But they do. Domite is volcanic lava that's punched up into columns through sediment layers.
You know why there are sediment layers across the globe that buried all things? Because Genesis is 100 percent truth.
Jake
@@UserRandJ Can’t even get out of the first 2 chapters of Genesis with out a lot of massive contradictions! And yet, some how, you believe that a magical being (that has too many interpretations to count) piled up a bunch of dirt and breathed life into it to create man??? Let’s grow up and not believe in fairy tales. Genesis is NOT 100% truth. It’s a mythogy, nothing more.
@@thelostone6981 You're dreaming.
@@thelostone6981 I can tell you will be fun
Mt Saint Helens went through a period after the collapse where giant slabs were rising to the surface and coming right ▶️ it of the lava.
Continental Drift is the most interesting part of this planet… using the magnetic field of rocks, fossil locations, and dating techniques to discover where the land masses were millions of years ago
Look at the thickness of the individual layers at around 5:55 on this video. These are individual annual depositional Layers. Notice that there are thousands of these layers, and they are around 1 cm thick.
There is no way on earth anybody can look at lichen covered outcrops, without knowing anything about sedimentology, petrology and stratigraphy of the area and be able to determine the sedimentation rate. They could be one year, one day or a thousand years. Just trust the geologists that actually work there.
@@GP-qi1ve You're in denial. Just trust the experts. We know that the experts have got us in their hands. Global flood happened
J
@@UserRandJ mate, I am the expert, I am a sedimentologist. You are in denial, as well as the guy who wrote this comment and claims to be able to distinguish "annual deposition layers". Why would you consider the moron who wrote that comment an expert and not me? FFS
what show is this? is there a full episode?
I’m pretty sure this has been a well accepted fact for some time.
ABC: “we are going way back in time”
Me getting recommended the video 6 years later: “ I feel this”
Good Video though!!! Thanks
This is super cool
But you would think rock/continents so old would have been eventually subducted at one fault line or another.
Continental crust is more buoyant than oceanic crust so it doesn’t really get subducted. Instead it just gets smushed on the side of a continent.
What I do know is that Tasmania is one of the most beautiful Islands on Earth.
It’s in the top ten ... sorry ... I just gave a soft spot for Vancouver Island 🇨🇦 .
@Nate Cross I visited Tasmania last year just before lock down.
I had been told that it far more resembles New Zealand than Australia with its landscape and greenery. I am from Scotland and it felt very much like home but much warmer.
Geology rocks, but Geography is where it's at.
"Tassie's a little bit special. The coastlines are unique." Immediately start smashing it with hammers.
Surely they put those rocks they laid out back.
I want a piece of that Rock.
I need to know more about how mass spectrum analyzer, same thing dea, border patrol use to detect drugs hidden in paint, papers etc...
The machine is amazing.
Very interesting!!!!
As a geologist I can confirm it do be like that 😩
Capaldi's Doctor Who made a tongue in cheek comment about Australia and India kind of colliding in the future... maybe he wasn't so far wrong? :)
I mean Australia is moving north 70 mm per year. So, yeah it may or might not. We’ll never live to see it anyways
He's not wrong but we're heading to Indonesia first. So quite literally, you could say that the whole of Australia is heading to Bali.
India and Australia are actually on the exact same continental plate. Where one drifts, the other always follows. If the plate breaks, the current unsubmerged continental crust making up India and Australia might collide one day. In the VERY very distant future.
Short of the crust breaking though, it's unlikely they will meet up. Crust can bend and flex, but I don't know of any situations where it bent to the point of erasing the current equivalent of the Indian Ocean (which, interestingly, is continental/felsic rather than oceanic/mafic) and allowing the tips to merge or collide. Though, who knows? Maybe it used to happen all the time, we just don't have the probable evidence that it does happen, yet, cause it has not happened in a few billion years.
@@evilcam what? If you looked at a map you’d see they’re very much not on the same plate. What are you on about?
@@brianisme6498 It's not my claim, it's what geologists are saying/proving. If you don't like it, take it up with them.
I know this has nothing to do with the video but I don’t think I’ve ever skipped a Mint Mobile advertisement… even the ones I’ve seen already.
Stupendous
I’ve always been fascinated by geology and I learned Tasmanians are Arizonianantarcticans or are Arizonans Tasmanian
I remember when dirt was brand-new
Joe Dirt..... bruh.
Yeah. Now we have all this new rocks, crystal and sand. Nobody appreciates the good old day when it was just dirt
Nice recommendation, 6 years a later
Northern Europe (Baltica) was a neighbor to South America (Amazonia) and West Africa.
But zircon was formed before the rock was...sedimentary????
Yep! Zircon formed in igneous rocks then weather out with other minerals and rocks to form sedimentary rocks.
@@columnarbasalt4677 In fact, the world's oldest known zircon, and thus rock remnants, is in Western Australia. The oldest still remnant rocks are either in Canada's Northwest Territories or Greenland (they both fall within each other's radio-carbon dating "plus-minus" overlap, so we don't know which is oldest).
@@andyjay729 Radiocarbon dating isn't used on zircons as they contain no carbon and are way, WAY too old.
@@filonin2 I was talking about the oldest still-extant rocks, as opposed to rock remnants.
That’s so cool. I live in Arizona.
Tasmania is far enough away from Mainland Australia that people there live a more relaxed lifestyle. Only 2 ways to get there; boat or plane and both take time. Tasmania has always been a favorite of mine. Another beautiful State of Australia.
Educational
Why am i only just seeing this now god tassie is beautiful
Come visit NZ!
Naughty boy.
@@deltadesign5697 I agree go to NZ tassie sucks a$$ I live here, all the mainland liberal Yobbos have come down here trying to make it just like Melbourne, they only care about money, it’s just development after development ruining the state, my entire family 4th generation Tasmanians are looking to immigrate to NZ after Covid.
Ok boomer
@@charliecrome207 I'm 19 XD
Tasmania: Australia's Australia
Regarding radioactive dating of Uranuim in the crystals, is there an assumption that all of the Uranium in the entire world has a common origin and common age?
It doesn't matter how old the uranium is or where exactly it came from - it always decays at the same rate, and zircons don't contain any lead when they form because it doesn't fit properly in the crystalline structure. And by decaying at the same rate I mean any given uranium atom has a tiny but fixed % chance of decaying at any given moment, whether it's 10 billion years old or just formed yesterday.
@@brucetucker4847 So all Uranium is at the same stage of decay at some starting point in the past? Or is all Uranium in the world at the same stage of decay at any point in time and it’s the quantity present that makes a difference? Is it the ration of Uranium to Lead that is measured so absolute quantity doesn’t matter? How does this work?
@@jeffbransky7966 It's the ratio of lead to uranium. How the dating works is this: when zircon crystals form they can contain uranium but they cannot contain lead. But when a uranium atom inside a zircon decays to lead, the lead atom still remains locked inside. Therefore any lead found in zircons must be uranium atoms that underwent radioactive decay at some point since the zircon crystal formed. Uranium-238 has a half-life of about 4.5 billion years, meaning that if you have a gram of it today in 4.5 billion years half of it will have decayed to lead. So if you crack open a bunch of zircons and find that the ratio of uranium to lead is 1:1, the zircon must have formed about 4.5 billion years ago.
How much of that deposit of uranium had already decayed to lead when the zircon formed doesn't matter, because any lead in the molten rock won't be incorporated into the zircon's crystalline lattice. That's why they're using the microscope to isolate individual zircon crystals from the surrounding rock, because the surrounding rock could contain other lead or uranium that would skew the ratio.
(This is a simplified description, for instance, there's more than one naturally occurring isotope of uranium and they have different decay rates, but hopefully it's close enough for you to understand the principle.)
@@brucetucker4847 Thanks. Great explanation.
Superb explanation Bruce. I never got why Zircon was used for the dating - the lattice doesn’t incorporate lead! Brilliant. Many thanks 🙏
Fantastic!
How could this be case if it was once exposed to the mainland around 10-12,000 years ago? and technically still is connected underwater. Go look at any 3d map that separates shallow from deeper oceans and you can clearly tell.
Deposition and volcanoes. Just like the very ancient parts of north America are in the middle of Canada. Also, plates can have both oceanic and continental crust.
@@vedangsinghal4754 I think you can partially tell through extinct volcanoes, but both Tasmania, as well as the mainland also had them millions of years ago.
Even it was from somewhere else; I'd say it was probably still part of Australia's mainland, imo. Also given the fact the continental crust is virtually the same throughout most of the country, except for central Australia, which seems more realistic.
The geologists in this vid are mainly talking about coastal areas where some rocks look somewhat distinct from other parts of the world which could maybe tell a different story but it's still not evident.
@@darrellm9915 Your opinion is irrelevant as the evidence disagrees. Science.
@not today I would think that they just discussed that in this video.
You could watch the video first and then have a better question I assume.
Darrell, the position of Tasmania in relation to Australia would be virtually identical 10,000 years ago.
On a plate tectonic time scale, that was yesterday.
I imagine it must be satisfying to press a literal “Fire Laser” button
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1750 Ma is close. In Colorado, USA, there is a batch of rocks that is between 1780 Ma, and 1700 Ma, with a median of 1740 Ma.
1740 - 66 ( Last extinction event ) = 1674. 1674 / 9 = 186.0 ( See: A Correlated History of the Earth from the Black Hills Institute ), a wall
chart. Their cyclicity of extinction Events is based on 186.0 Million years per cycle. 66, 252, 438, 624, 810, 996, 1182, 1368, 1554, 1740, and on back to 4530. I did another one based on 186.6 million years per cycle. 66, 252.6, 439.2, 625,4, 812.4, 999.0 , 1185.6, 1372.2, 1558.6, 1745.4, and on back to 4544.4 Ma. This is based on the recession rate of the Moon away from the Earth, ( 2 X 4544.4 = 9.0888 E 9 ). The Earth Grows faster than the Moon, and its increasing gravity accelerates the Moon to a Higher Velocity, and a greater orbital distance from the Earth. It is a small amount, around 1 mm of increasing radius of the Earth per year, which is about 10^15 kg per year increase in Earth's mass
each year. A small amount of increase over a vast time period made the Earth what it is today, 6,371,008,000 mm Radius. 1780 Ma, to 1700 Ma was one of those fast growing time periods. Centimeters per Year, not millimeters per year.
I thought the title said "why Tasmania hits different"
That is where we can get Dragon glass.
Ah, Tasmania. The Nepal of Nuna.
shouldnt it be "geneticist explains why Tasmania is different"?
G'day from New Zealand
Nice! But still need to be improved with subtitles
One question. Why are modern scientists still working with microscopes where right is left and left is right?
Tazmania: I'm built different
Wow!
So even 1.5 billion years ago you could not escape the influence of America....Ugh!
Kkona
Question. Where's that gonna' leave everybody?
the algorithm wanted me to see this....
Super cooool!
Damn, Tasmania just built different
The weeds pretty good too