Cosmic Journeys - Supervolcanoes
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They are eruptions so vast, so Earth-shattering, they have changed the history of our planet. Climate collapse. Toxic turmoil. Mass extinction. Worse than a killer asteroid, or nuclear war, they are Earth's most destructive Supervolcanoes. North America, the time was six hundred and forty thousand years ago, long before humans arrived on the continent. Amid one of nature's great mountain building projects, the Rockies, vast columns of smoke began to rise high into the atmosphere. And soon a smokey haze wrapped the globe. A thick blanket of ashe spread over the western United States. Geologists have traced this event to a depression in the land known as a caldera, in the heart of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. Today, we venture to Yellowstone to admire its spectacles of steam and boiling mud. Visitors to Yellowstone may never suspect they are atop one of the world's largest active volcanoes. The last time it blew, it sent an estimated 1000 cubic kilometers of dirt, rocks, ashe, dust, and soot into the atmosphere. But that's small compared to Earth's largest super volcanoes. Find out what made Toba, Siberian Traps, Deccan Traps and other super eruptions so powerful.
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First time I have ever heard LIPs (Large Igneous Provinces) mentioned in a documentary, so kudos to this video. Also, very informative covering all of the known Supervolcanoes, as a geologist, learning about these megaeruptions is purely fascinating.
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Geysers - Nature's Tea Kettle
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Good video dude I like it
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Could harvesting geothermal energy help stabilize those areas?
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I wonder what Earth would look like if the great extinction didn't happen there would be so much more life around us :(
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very very interesting to learn Rafat Yusufi
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what if...what if...what if....gimme fuckin oxygen
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lol dick rodstein
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This video is actually rather quite depressing if you think about it, I imagine myself, with my family all being very close together, all dying together in one spot. Or an earthquake happens, and one of them falls or even worse scenarios! :(
Thusforth why I do NOT like visiting or thinking about Yellowstone, Toba, and more... -
11:24 starts a piano theme in the background. So touching
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11:24 anyone know the background music?
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Iraq?
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This channel is amazing. My Nephews, Nieces, and myself all thank you for your brilliant videos. PLEASE. Keep up the good work!
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now you know how your "apocalypse" will look like
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Timeline is completely off. Earth HAS NOT been around for millions of years, not even 100,000 years and the dinosaurs didn't die out because of an asteroid. Noahs flood is what happened and pot flood the dinosaurs likely didnt adapt well. Sooo your history and science is way off. Js
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Amazed at the shear size of the eruptions. Very interesting video.
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