There Are Mountains Deep Within the Earth
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- čas přidán 7. 08. 2024
- Scientists think they’ve discovered some peaks taller than Mt Everest deep beneath the earth’s crust, and this range might be the key to one of the biggest mysteries in geology!
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Wait, there are missing elements deep inside the Earth?
Did someone barium?
sigh
Lmfao dead
Caught me off guard.
❤️
😂😂😂😂
Yes, where else do you think Gandalf defeated the Balrog?
Tell me, where is Gandalf? For I much desire to speak with him.
@@henryhn9792 A Balrog of Morgoth...
Animals is underrated tbh
@@shadesilverwing0 What did you say?
In Hell
As someone who processes reflection seismic data for a living...I can tell you that the error bars are large
How large?
@@maxwellsimon4538 I was debating whether to be more despicable than usual, yet you did it for me. My hero XD
@@maxwellsimon4538 depth of target = 660 km. Height of "bumps" = 1-3 km. Implies 0.2-0.4% accuracy in their resolution of the velocity structure. An industrial 3D seismic survey will be acquired with 1000x the density, using controlled sources, and designed to image targets < 10 km deep. Even then, 0.2% is an upper limit on resolution of the velocity structure. I'm unable to read the referenced study from the provided links, so I can't comment further. Suffice it to say that crustal-scale imaging remains a "highly interpretive" field.
That said, the deep structures could be real. There are smart people working in that field. And to be fair, the video doesn't claim that the conclusions are unequivocal.
@@MorganBrown so what you're saying is that the study that this video is based on could be completely wrong because of how inaccurate the measuring tool is.
@@S1baar hard to say because I can’t read the actual study. But, confidently detecting 1-3 km high “bumps” at 660 km depth, using a sparse passive array and only 13 earthquake sources...that pushes the limits of plausibility. IMO, fwiw, etc, etc
Ah yes. I'm the first one here to say it. The floor here is made out of floor.
Nice one bugs lightsaber
🎖🏅🥇
Ah yes floor is made from roof
Wait.. I thought the floor was lava??? 😆
Our planet is like a pizza. Made of many layers and has a crust
Is Lovecraft writing your titles? Some of been getting pretty ominous
That's not nearly flowery enough language to be Lovecraft's. No hint of prejudice either.
@@nickv1212 True, maybe August Derleth on an off-day
Ah yes, I remember classics like "Anal Teeth over Innsmouth"
It sounded more Tolkien to me.
@@QaRajhCreations Ahh yes, if it's not bad stuff, it's butt stuff, that is unless it's bad butt stuff.
In geology, this place is also known as "graveyard of the plates".
Did anyone actually ever teach that the layers of the earth were smooth, or is that just a smooth-brained interpretation from the elementary school textbook artist renditions taken at a scale that wouldn't show any bumps? The layers of the earth, from the inner core to the outer mantle, are all fluids so of course they have waves and eddies, peaks and troughs.
If you're taught that the earth is layers of liquid rock and metal surrounding a spherical core with gravity pulling everything into the centre of the sphere it makes sense you might think those layers are relatively flat.
I'm pretty sure no one learns or teaches that the layers are smooth.
How do you know what they are 😆
The thing about reality is that it's just a bunch of stuff happening. There are no neat boxes, categories, or boundaries, it's all just a bunch of stuff happening. Categories and boxes and boundaries are just our human way of understanding reality. It's important to remember this when you think that what you're experiencing is the world.
I really like this
have you seen the hanging slabs from old subduction events the data on that is wicked
"mountains deep within the Earth"
Of course there are. That's where Godzilla, Baragon, and all their kaiju brethren live!
😉😆
No..its where the Elder Ones sleep...
The hollow earth!
Let’s all plan a journey to the mantle. I’ll bring chips and water.
I'm in! I'll bring handheld fans
ill bring the cups!
What kind of sandwichs do y'all want? I'm in.
@@louiswilkins9624 pbjs for sure.
I'll do paper plates and napkins!
Humans: "Is it too much to ask that the core be just spherical?"
The Universe: "Yes, it is too much to ask."
Some other humans: "Is it too much to ask that the core be just flat?"
The Universe: "gtfo"
Considering that the mantle is ~2900km thick, a 40km mountain would be a small bump.
It wouldn't surprise me if it turns out one day that we're only here because of those subterranean mountain ranges. Because everything seems to be essential to us being here in one way or another. It's ludicrous how unlikely we are.
@@lonestarr1490 It wouldn't surprise me if humans made it their business to try and extract minerals from these mountains, only to find out they were essential for a properly functioning core and mantle and hence electromagnetic shielding from the worst of the solar wind, and on top of climate change we end up stripping our entire atmosphere because of it.
@@PinataOblongata understand that the silicon and other heavy elements under there, not to mention the coveted uranium could easily be worth tens of billions of dollars. could you imagine how that would sky rocket the world economy ? prosperity levels would be unimaginable. would you object to such a grand gift "just" incase of a maybe 1 in 1000 year event ?
wait until some weird obsidian rectangle has a near transparent purple plane in it, and when you enter that weird thing you found le nether
Even if the seismic methods are not very accurate, it is an eye opener. Thank you !
So what I'm hearing is "dig a little deeper"
Just like onions the earth has layers.
The Earth is an Ogre confirmed.
@@im_aleey I was going to say "ogres, too!" 🤣🤣🤣
I've always thought that the layers of earth are purposely shown as smooth and even just to make it look uniform.
And knew that the crust isn't really smooth so I kinda went off and thought the same to the deeper layers.
Neat.
In a book that was written about 14 hundred years ago, there is mention of very large mountains deep inside the earth that were placed there to stabilize the earth. I'm not sure if those are the same mountains the book was talking about. Have you read that book? it's really popular.
not at all mostly scholars use word peg and firm both doesn't suits for this mountains
0:27 obviously, since there's not enough silicon chips for things anymore.
just liked this for your name lol
There's plenty of silicon around, manufacturing of chips cheaply is the bottleneck
@@IFearlessINinja I kinda meant it as a joke, but getting .999999999 pure silicon from sand is also part of the bottleneck. It takes time and energy (=money, not small amounts of it). Cheaply is relative, after inflation the wafer prices haven't changed much in 40 years, just the number of fets per sq mm, and that growth will be coming to an end at some point, probably in the next 20 years when 1nm node is hit (when carbon nanotubes/graphene replace copper/silicon ). Sad part even that caps out about about 50X faster than the best now. Given the difficulty/expense of manufacturing those vs silicon I doubt even prosumers will able to afford them, even w/o shortages.
lets hope theres no sinkholes deep within earth
Imagine if one day Australia just sunk. Or like the middle of Africa just sunk. Literally a continent worth of land gone, becoming the sea floor.
"And it is with the scattering of seismic waves that we will one day detect the location of Satan's throne in the depths of the Earth. WE WILL FIND OUT HOW HE'S BEEN HIDING THIS LONG."
Would be super cool
Upscale nightclub In LA where he hangs out between freelance detective work.
He's probably trapped and can only communicate through rock music.
He is coming sooner than you think. REPENT!
Lol
I find the idea that there might be silicon-based life down there intriguing, and this makes me wonder about the world they might inhabit
The update mountain and cave is completed 1.17 is on playable now .. don't dig down or you will die on falling
What?
@@kateapple1 playing Minecraft
I believe “neat, concentric circles” means “near, concentric spheres”.
Too right they do-calling a sphere a circle is like calling a cube a square.
3:18 Who else heard "further disproving the idea that Earth is made of meat"?
I didn't but now I can't unhear it
I wish I didn't read this before he said it. Yet at the same time, it might make for good dream material.
*neat* concentric circles
@@Redactedredacted5837 Disproving the idea that Earth is made of meat. No one's saying the earth is made of meat (here).
Hope they find that silicon soon so I can get a damn gpu for MSRP.
I've watched videos recently about Earth's layers, it's pretty interesting stuff actually.
I did my PhD on this topic, namely numerical modelling of how the 660 discontinuity as a crustal graveyard and how it affects convection across it. Deflections of the 660 discontinuity is commonly associated with rising plumes and subduction slabs, but it can just as easily be caused by compositional variations. Depleted and primitive mantle also has a very complicated thermodynamic relation to density in this region, because removing aluminium, calcium and iron removes garnet immediately below the 660 discontinuity, forcing a larger volume fraction of the comparatively denser perovskite phase in the assemblage. Depleted mantle may thus be denser than primitive, which is the opposite of what goes at shallower depths.
Journey 2 the centre of the Earth was a documentary
about mountain climbing.
If only we put as much effort into exploring below as we do above.
As above so below
I have been saying this is the reason we have variations in our earth's EM field. These slow and redirect the flow causing EM differences.
Wrong boundary layer. Our em field is generated in the liquid outer core not the lower mantle/upper mantle boundary
Me too. Been saying that for years. Wait, what’s an EM field?
i never assumed from those images that anyone believed they were smooth sphere.
Cool to hear we have proof now tho.
It’s been really hard to find a use case for a four minute video currently I don’t have a car so I don’t really watch a lot of CZcams I listen to podcast when I’m at work but I found this video was very very good to watch in my Uber ride home or my bus ride home
I've wondered this for quite some time.
This man's talk of boundary lines have the Eye of the Wicked Lord going nuts somewhere
Fascinating
This looks just like rock floating as icebergs but superslowly and giving a lot of time for more ice to form
Doesnt this also mean the crust that borders the mantle also has its own upside down rocky mountains inverted to fit those of the mantle?
Mountains, oceans beneath the Earth's crust. Okay so Jules Verne did reached the Centure of the Earth and the story wasn't fictional. 😳
Except... it was fictional because it's way too hot and dense down there
Don't forget that it's also raining in the core. A video on Scishow Space talks about this one, along with exoplanets light enough to float in Earth's oceans.
Don’t forget that on human timescales it is essentially solid rock
I truly believe in Corey Good's experience that when he had an out of body experience he went into the center of the earth and was met by beings that have lived there for thousands of years. There have been a few other reputable people throughout history, like Admiral Byrd for example, that have talked about both poles having entrances to inner earth. But if you look at what the news has said scientists have found in the past 10 years; that there is 2x the amount of water than our surface ocean that was found in the inner mantle ( or between I think?) and now they are finding mountains? Seems to me they ( the Cabal) are gonna come forward with sinister disclosure, but have an underlying, alternative motive to announcing all of these things, including aliens.
@@lecorawillis lmao are you kidding me
When ever I watch a video like this... I think of the thousands of kids who learned about the Earth's layers yesterday... and how much they are going to have to re-learn from how far behind the school systems are.
Wouldn't be the only disproven thing they had to re-learn-there's the geological time scale (specifically the Cenozoic and Pre-Cambrian eras); the tongue map (there are no such things as taste zones); Pluto having the same fate as Ceres; etc.
@@JamesDavy2009 So true! Thanks for the interesting examples :)
So the inside of the planet is...lumpy
Stefan's hoodie drawstrings are breathing.
exciting
40 km over the size of the earth likely is as smooth as presented in text books when you shrink it down a gazillion times.
Im sold, lets start digging!
This is one of the better ones.
So now they have to add the new mountain biomes to the nether.
This just in: Top cryptologists deciphering comment on video.
"they just sit there" - i can relate!
Such deep science 😎
Scishow been playing too much of the new Minecraft update I see
Geology can be so deep.
It does rock.
Some WILD concepts here
I love the "literally where on earth..." bit
Ok I think we need a video explaining how they used earthquakes to map the mantle because that sounds mad
Look up pressure waves (p-waves) and shear waves (s-waves).
I wonder if these mountains are somehow related to where hot spots are, or aren't.
Did anyone actually think that the layers beneath the earth were actually neat concentric circles?
Hey I saw the movie. It’s true.
Now someone needs a good shoveling and get to work. No excuses.
Wonder if water can get so deep it produces anti gravity vibrations to higher levels.
I still think Kelpler 22b is more likely a very small black hole
How on Earth could water produce "anti gravity vibrations"?
only one answer, *Rock Monsters*
GORIGNAK, GORIGNAK!
This guy is excellent!
He should do WAY more vids.
Thank you, sir.
Time to watch "THE CORE" movie again
Why? Wasn't once more than enough? It contains hardly any science outside the fantasy realm.
Its 2021 and their videos still using read-along styles
Well, makes perfect sense to me. But, when compared to a cue ball, which is smoother/rougher?
Got a link to the video on the mantle? I've searched and don't know where to look.
oooh boy the trolls REALLY have the rest of the elements
(Bad troll hunters joke)
Now do one on those hot spots, plumes from the deep, like Yellowstone and Hawaii.
Cue the hollow earth nuts
there are also oceans under ground too
I would love to go down there some day.
The Crystal Caves in Mexico give a clue to the possibilities.
In 2010 my teacher thought i was stupid for asking weather there were mountains in the crust.
I never thought earth was made of neat concentric circles of stuff...
Oh ok, I was wondering where King was in hollow earth.
Lol
How cool would it be if we could computer model the earth, and the shape and composition of every layer, well enough to predict the streams of its magnetic fields.. or even.. when they’ll flip again.. I wonder if the core literally over-wobbles every some thousand years and does a full-on somersault.. like one of those gyroscopic doodads for exercising forearm and wrist strength.. in supreme slow mo.. molten and semi-molten orange hot mountain ranges raking against each other .. a white hot viscous cyclone churning beneath our feet, that gradually settles back into an epoch-long lull.. hot damn i got goosebumps
-Phill, Las Vegas
Maybe there's a whole new world down there: Lava Monsters.
I have seen the top of the mountains and they are good
Earth confirmed hollow. Thanks, SciShow!
"You can watch that other episode right after this"
Sure I could, if there was a link to it.....
I wonder if there is life around hydrothermal vents in deep down fresh water aquifers. What would it look like being so isolated?
Is like Mount Doom under our feet!
Topography of Mantle....
Whoo interesting
The thumbnail for this video looks like Grogu's crib.
One would imagine that, during subduction, irregularities such as tall mountains would just sheer off. Was that considered?
Where are these mountains located? Wouldn't it make the surface above it cooler than in other locations...?
I wonder if the uneven surface below could somehow effect the temperature at the surface. Maybe as things shift around. Considering it's pretty hot down there. If parts of it are sometimes nearer the surface I would think it would change the temperature up here. For example, what if a mountain under there used to be covered by a mountain on top? The hot lower mountain would be insulated. But what happens when the mountain at the surface erodes away? The mountain underneath would be closer to the surface. Less insulated. And more inner heat would escape to the surface. The same thing if a giant earthquake up here opens a crack above a mountain below. Less thickness of upper layer to insulate the mountain top below. Or maybe the stuff underneath, (lower mantle), moves around, too, like the stuff at the surface, (upper mantle), does. Just an idea. But it makes sense to me. Could help explain the huge climate changes throughout the history of the Earth.
I guess I could just look this up, but at any point have any oil deposited been subducted and like caught fire or anything cool?
Dude looks like he owns a van with free candy written on the side
Can we get a Crash Course: Geology soon?
Welcome to Jotunheim.
Wonder if these should count as plates
algorithmic punch!
Well, I never thought about those layers as perfect smooth spheres at all. It made no sense.
The deepest hole recorded is about 7 miles... the earths’s crust is a mystery beyond that.
Who the heck is drilling in miles? Wait, I know; it must be the Foot-clan using the evil power of Shredder's new toy/mechanical henchman Drillhead, who weighs exactly 27 stones. Imperial stones that is, we don't want just anyone to use senseable measuring units, now do we?
This is certainly not true. While we haven't drilled further than you mentioned, the volcanic products we find at the surface tell us a lot about what's going on at greater depths. For instance, most minerals form at much greater depths than we find them today, meaning that they can record the geochemical signature of the mantle or crustal material in which it formed. This is especially true for melt or fluid inclusions in these minerals, which aren't as susceptible to contamination of it's geochemistry from the crust as the mineral moves towards the surface. Furthermore, ophiolites (pieces of oceanic crust which are now found at the surface) can show us the geology of the lower (oceanic) crust and in some cases even the mantle!
@@HalfBewolktBestondAl it's only clues though. It could be that there is a sect of the keebler elves mixing batches of magma up down there just to keep us guessing. It's so highly unlikely that it's a virtual impossibility, but it's still technically possible because we haven't been there to check it out.
Could this be correlative to the 'gravity hole' in the middle of the Indian Ocean possibly ????
For some reason this scares me.
I’ve always kind of though this was true ever since I heard the theory of how our moon came to be with a large-ish body hitting the early earth. If that’s true then the insides of both bodies (the earth and moon) will be irregular-shaped while the outer areas will only appear to be more regular-shaped. That all depends on how quickly things cooled down as well though. But all the irregularities under the crust make a good bit of sense. It’s not perfectly balanced. It’s more like a bowling ball. Regular on the outside but irregular on the inside. The irregularities inside the ball help keep the ball spinning on a particular axis but will still wobble ever-so-slightly, just like the earth does.
That’s also partially why the moon is tidally locked. The heavier side of the moon is facing away from the earth. If it weren’t tidally locked and was spinning faster than it’s orbit you would see it wobble on its axis.
I thought they determined that silicon and other elements were moreso transferred to the moon when it formed due to significant differences in cooling rates of the two molten masses after the mega collision? Almost like a distillation column from earth to the moon.
Flat earthers:
Hollow earthers:Nice!
Why do they show a ball earth with these ridiculous layers ? They cannot even drill past 8 miles, but tell us everything to the core ? No way
At the mountains of madness
So if these Mountains are 40km high, and Olympus Mons on Mars is only 21km high. Does that mean Earth has the highest known mountains in the solar system?.
Lowest. :)