What Did Pangaea Look like?
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200 million years ago, the planet looked very different than it did now. Plate tectonics had arranged the world's continents into a single massive landmasses: Pangaea. Today I attempt to use my knowledge of geography to create a basic map of what this land might have looked like.
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Me at 3:00 am: Brain - "Wanna find out what Pangaea looked like?" Me - "Why?" Brain - "You gotta"
This Bitch don't know 'bout Pangaea? Brain, plz......
that's literally me right now, and yes it is 3:00 AM LOL!
@@Varsityathelete61 Brain: Brain can sure use a sprite
@@DrPizka I'm at 3pm on a Monday. I thought I was interested but I'm not.
Cute. But the more accurate depiction of what happened was 3:00 bired, slaving away on KZhead KZhead: Wana watch this video Sure
I remember being so excited when I saw that South America and Africa fit together but then I realized that people already knew that...
@Humble 9300 Yeah I heard of something like that. I suggest you research about that cause imma do the same. Its pretty interesting
Same lmfaöö
Same as a kid
Yea, i remember when I was younger I made plenty of "discoveries"/ came up with inventions until I found out they already existed. For a moment i thought that my brain was being monitored and they were stealing my ideas
@@SkyShrimp_ I wouldn’t be discouraged. You worked it out yourself at a young age. You’re brilliant for making the connection
I am a geologist. This is a very well done video. It would have made my university days much easier as we had to visualize cerebrally. Some of my classmates printed t-shirts with the phrase "Reunite Gondwana!" over a graphic as just a silly way to get reactions. Keep up the good work!
How did Pangaea form ?
I just rewatched this and in German, "Urkontinent" more accurately translates to English as "original continent". Other than that, small detail, a very good video. Excellent job, Atlas Pro!
primeval continent..
@@ItsMe-yg4yi Thank you for the correction, though I have also seen it translated as above.
it was not supposed as a correction.. just wanted to give some feedback :) @@harrietharlow9929
Ur - just mean first.
Another word is ‘ursprache’ meaning original speech. It is the term German linguists use for the reconstructed language ancestral to some variety, say the Romance languages which would be Old Latin.
-Talks about one image trading accuracy for aesthetic. -Uses that as the thumbnail. *Sneak 100*
Tbh I do like the fact that he didn't just give it away in the thumbnail
FLYMB we had to work for it lol
It’s how KZhead works you need a catchy thumbnail or else your video won’t do good
Spaceorca would you prefer a thumbnail with fake-shock or some exaggerated facial expression that isn’t actually in the video?
Spaceorca Because his map is like this 12:21. very simplistic
Just imagine being lost in thoughts, letting your eyes wander across your map, when you suddenly notice that two entire continents look as if they fit together..
@Fair Criticism I saw it too! Had this little earth globe with a lamp inside I'd always roll around a bit before bed :)
@Fair Criticism I saw it as a kid too. But you are totally on point. Like old maps were pretty decent, but there were few of them. Lot of bad maps also. So in my mind he would have to find many many maps from different cities to combine them and then the aww moment.
@Fair Criticism That match was probably noticed long before Wegener. His main achievement however is coming up with a hypothesis for a physical mechanism that can explain why the plates moved. And he did that with very little data being available at the time, as in 1920s we had essentially no idea about the internal structure of our planet. In fact his ideas were so far ahead of our data collection abilities, that it took 30 years for his hypothesis to even being considered testable and then found true by geologists/seismologists. So it's quite extraordinary in this sense, and similar to how Einsteins theory of general relativity took 4 years and a solar eclipse to find positive experimental support.
Ireland and West Coast of England and Scotland also joined before. Just look. Wonder when that split happened?
Didn't this happen to you when you were a child looking at the map?
I've always wondered how mountain ranges exist where there isn't a continental division now, eg. the Scottish Highlands, thanks for explaining it!
That's just nessie and family 😂
It's from when the flat earth was folded up in its box
There's a comedian from Tennessee who went to Scotland and tweeted about how much it resembled the Smoky Mountains he was familiar with who ended up being blown away when the internet responded by letting him know they are essentially the same mountains.
@@lonesparrow Along with segments of the South Wales Valleys and Pennsylvania. That’s why they recruited Welsh miners as it was essentially the same rock types. I don’t know the correlation for which sections of the more southern part of the Appalachias.
this was really interesting. I wonder if you could do something similar with where the continents will be in the future? Like, I've heard Africa will eventually hit Europe, closing the Mediterranean ocean.
The mediteranean ocean?
@@iulia1690 whoops. doent know where that came from.
@@DoomMomDot in the future it'll become the Mediterranean lake before closing up entirely
@@benhicks9481 lol
@@Onestonedbake then the Mediterranean Pond and Puddle, guess a mountian range will then appear there a be the Mediterranean Mounts.
Its not what you intended, but this video is actually very helpful for creating fantasy world maps.
I never understood prevailing winds nor water currents until this video, both of which are basically essential for truly understanding climatography haha
TAmari like Francisco said, Artifexian explains all of this very well, and his hot earth - cold earth climate video came out recently, you should check it out
I was thinking that as well. Definitely using this as a resource
Literally this is why I started watching these videos
I've been using this channel for worldbuilding, but looks like I have another to check out now too lol
Ok. This awoke a geography nerd in me that I didn't even know I had.
wow your so geeky and smart and quirky xD
wow your so geeky and smart and quirky xD
wow your so geeky and smart and quirky xD
wow your so geeky and smart and quirky xD
Me to bro me too
Wow, your blog is mesmerizing 🔥 You spell out stuff that was incredibly hard to understand before. Thanks for helping me and other folks explore the world
As someone attempting to map out a fantasy Earth-like world, your videos are wonderful and truly inspiring!
Possible video ideas: What would a completely terraformed Mars or Venus look like?
Earth
There is a game called TerraGenesis that is about terraforming rocky celestial bodies. If you terraform Venus and Mars, you'll find out
I nice place to move to.
You could read the trilogy about by colonizing mars by Kim Stanley Robinson I believe. He includes fairly detailed maps. Not sure how accurate they are.....but really, how accurate could anyone be about the terraforming of a landmass we know relatively so little about. Lol.
You ever play terragenisis? You can play it on your phone. Terraform Mars, Venus, Mercury, Moon, Earth, and with some dlc other planets(moons) in the solar system
The music sounds like I'm on hold.
fax
Mr. Paterson we could not match the information on the card so unfortunately you still broke
😂🤣🤣🤣 I zoned out, wairing for the content to return.
The thumping is kinda driving me nuts.
I hate that, I'm on hold an average of an hour a week
So, I almost always learn something new here on Atlas Pro, but pretty much EVERYTHING covered in this episode was unknown to me prior to viewing. Good show, young chap. Good show. Bravo, and thank-you!
Awesome video!! So many of these concepts (like plate tectonics, ocean currents, and the rainshadow effect) are concepts I recently learned in my environmental science class, so seeing how these concepts can be applied practically is fascinating.
I sometimes forget how recently we have acquired this type of knowledge. Continental drift wasn`t accepted until 1968. The same year men first orbited the Moon.
But we didnt orbit or even go on the moon
@@wpggsauce6921 we did mate..
@@wpggsauce6921 What is your confidence that what you believe is true, say out of 100?
@@2opler Don't feed the troll.
And we were still dealing with whether or not to allow colored people in the same facilities as whites. It seemed so long ago but you’re right it’s pretty recent in the grand scheme of things.
What about the rivers of Pangaea?
Yeah, would love to know about rivers as well.
Same, especially as a worldbuilder/writer. Climate, geography, ecosystems, and rivers literally dictate *everything*
there probably doesn't exist enough evidence to map it.
Usually rivers form from ice/snow melt from mountains, so they would probably form around there.
Lmao that would be so hard I think to find out. Just look at mountains where it starts and where sea ends. I think they were huge. Lakes are more interesting tbh
Oh my god I can’t express how helpful this video has been!! Not only did it sate my curiosity but it also provided a plethora of information regarding how environments form depending on certain elements like water and wind currents!! This video will undoubtedly help me with my map making skills!
Pangaea has always fascinated me...and, is so obvious. I clicked right away and subscribed. I love good science channels and look forward to more👍
The breakup of Pangea: The messied divorce ever. We're still paying.
They will reconcile around 250 million years
@@xaraxen Gondwana and Laurasia getting back to together in their old age. I guarantee you, there will be a lot of friction between them two. But some great orogeny on the side too. Probably.
Notice how it split into seven, polygamy/open relationships is just not the way
@Yazmeli Ayzol Yeah right mom is burned out from trying orgies. Dad will be back soon with some smokes... The kids tied up the baby sitter and have trashed the place
Their divorce ended up ruining Tethis's life forever
I love to look at these maps and imagine how civilizations might have formed had this been the world we lived in. This video gives me some really cool ideas.
He didn't put rivers in there
@E mem just go to a pet shop and get one
The Flintstones?
Nobody would want to live on the middle part lol
Another way to get such world-building ideas is to take a globe and move the poles. Imagine having one pole at Mt Everest - EPIC arctic exploration.
It would be awesome if there was a collective project where scientists from all the different fields of study could add their expertise to a singular understanding of the history of our planet. It would be a single database to which all scientists add their little pieces, and the pieces begin forming a bigger picture that can inform everyone. It would also make it easier to find discrepancies in current understanding when one theory clashes with another, sparking further study to discover the third option that clears up the discrepancy.
This is an amazing video! There were so many geological phenomenons that I never understood but the way you explained it makes perfect sense! Thank you!!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
A sign I've been absorbing too much geology lately: 50 million years sounded quick to me.
Why must this be relatable
that's cool considering the earth is only a few thousand years old
@@daniellawing3779 😐
@@daniellawing3779 😂😂😂😂 Yeah and pigs fly
@@daniellawing3779 found the Bible nerd who doesn’t understand basic science
Just a little correction: “Urkontinent” doesn’t translate well to “super continent”. The prefix Ur- mostly means that something is very old or the start of something, or a stage before something else. Great grandfather in German is “Urgroßvater” as he has been there before the Großvater. In case of Urkontinent, ur- means primordial, the continent that preceded other continents, the one that is the origin of all other continents. I know this comment is now irrelevant cause this video is 2 years old but I figured I could clarify that
I searched for this comment.
@@admiral_alman8671 too
Proto-continent maybe?
@@Lingu42yeah that's kinda the translation
@@admiral_alman8671 ich auch bro ich auch
I love that theres actual smart people trying to make fun youtube videos
Wow, this was a very interesting watch and I imagine it took quite a bit of time to put together. So, thank you!
Urkontinent means something like "the first continent" or "original continent", not supercontinent. Edit: It can also mean something like ancient continent!
Ur- means ancestor/progenitor/elder... so it basically means the ancient continent. But yeah, nothing like supercontinent.
I was searching for that comment immediately. :D
"Oercontinent" in Dutch. "Oer-" is pronounced almost the same as the German "Ur-" and it means something is very old. So definitely not "supercontinent". But they don't use such descriptive language in English so they had to make up a word.
Urkontinent uber alles
There was many super continents before Pangaea so how is it the first?
Urkontinent means something like "first continent" or "ancient continent", not super continent.
true.. prehistoric continent
Urkontinent=Old or ancient continent
Yes that is correct
yep
@Dovyeon Lol Try telling that to a professor at uni. "It's my sources' fault."
This is a truly excellent video. Thank you for putting in the work to figure all of this out and make it so interesting.
This is one of the most interesting videos I’ve ever watched. Awesome job!
When I was in elementary, I also noticed it, it’s like a jigsaw puzzle, without knowing the Pangea
for me the eye opener was South America and africa. they really do fit together so neatly.
@@onometre yup me too i just assumed it was a coincidence as a kid until I learned about plate tectonics
@@jjcoola998 same
@@onometre for me too!
I did this with actual puzzle pieces.
0:28 the German prefix "Ur-" means "old", "original", "ancient" or "first". So Urkontinent translates to "Old continent" or "First continent"
Thank you for this explanation. That was bothering me too :)
yepp! "super continent" would translate back into German as "Superkontinent"...
@@FlawlessFailer Bitte :)
We use it in Norway too to describe the native sami people in the north. Urfolk, urbefolkning.
*_Rodinia has entered the chat_*
Your art is so beautiful! I watched this while working out and was so focused on this video it helped the time pass by
If possible, as a sequel, predict what the world will look like in 200 million years
Box V5 easy, just draw a big black circle. The sun will go supernova, destroying earth in the process.
@@TXP9 That's in 7 to 10 billion years comrade. And it won't go supernova. It will go red giant then white dwarf. Supernova is seconds long explosion.
A plastic garbage patch.
Actually there is a theory that in 200 million years all the continent's would again combine and form a new supercontinent which scientists have named "Pangaea ultima". I came across this video again without realising iv seen it before then I saw my comment here and I was like what?
@@darthrevan5976 Precisely the point of the original comment. It's not a very creative name, though....
The moon was a lot closer back then as well. Just imagine the super tides!
The moon moves away from Earth at 4cm per year. That means 210 million years ago, the moon was 8,400km closer to Earth than it is now. Currently, the distance from the Earth to the moon is 384,400km, so the moon was only 2.2% closer during that time than it is now. The moon's orbit is also not a perfect sphere, but elliptical. At it's closest, the moon is 50,000km closer to Earth than it is at its furthest. The tides would have been bigger, but not by much.
@@johnperic6860 Thanks you two for making this clarification!!
Earth is not flat though
@@johnperic6860 The determining factor of tide is not only astronomical but also geographical and how the ocean basins look like. If there were major river systems on the East coast of the continent, it would mean a lot of eroded materials would be carried from the mountain ranges to the Tethys Ocean, creating a shallower basin. Combine this with the shape of the Ocean, this could lead to much higher tides on the East coast than the West, and definitely higher than what one could get from astronomical estimation alone.
@@wwvvvvvww Plus tide is a gravitational effect, thus it varies with Square of the distance. So changes over time are exponential rather than just linear. :)
I really love this video, and would love to see you cover some other time periods, before and after, and also, future projected continental positions, leading up to the assortment of different possibilities for the next supercontinent - Amasia, Novopangaea, Pangaea Ultima, etc. It's super fascinating stuff to me.
I loved this. So much fascinating information regarding our planet packed in one topic.
I would like to see a non-mercator map, esp. a revolving globe. It's hard to get a feel for what the northern end of the map works out to proportionately.
Same, also this type of Pangea is more wider and shorter than it actually was
technically not mercator, but close enough(mercator has things closer to the poles stretch vertically, like how greenland is the size of africa in mercator projections)
Damn, we didn’t know a lot but we were really doing the most
Azimuthal plane projection is the most accurate. Hence why major govt bodies use it.
The projection in the video is equirectangular. I agree though, I'd love to at least see a north pole projection along with the equirectangular map.
I edited this comment so the replies make no sense :)
It is
Yup, check outs. I just searched the definiton of HQ on the urban dictionary. I got a link to this page.
For someone never studied climatology, this is an "OK for effort but clearly wrong for the most part" answer.
Oui wee
@@bobbart4198 look for my replies below. They are there. I don't want to bury important information in a reply to another reply.
Revisiting this video after 2 years of not watching your channel. Gives me a sense of nostalgia because I've been a subscriber since 'What's the Longest River on Earth' video from 5 years ago.
Best recommended video I've seen in a while. Great job!
I'm so lucky to live next to the Appalachians! Knowing what we know about them, they are such a spiritual place to visit when you realize they're one of the oldest ranges on Earth. It's an incredible twist of fate that so many people of Scottish descent made their way to the Appalachian region and felt like they had come home, because geologically-speaking they had. You pointed out how the Highlands of Scotland and the Appalachians were a part of the same range hundreds of millions of years ago. Perhaps there was a sort of primordial sense of home in those Scots and Irish who settled here.
Okay
There was a lot of tangential, practical, short-term reasons for this as well. Immigrants couldn't fit in the settled eastern coastal plains, so they had to go west. The Germans went to the Midwest to farm the plan and there. The Scots/Irish following the same path saw the mountains and decided "We can make this work."
@@JayJayKz 💀
@@kjj26k Yes. Probably much more of a factor than a New Age skip through the daisies was.
Remember the lyrics “older than the trees”
Really thought there was goin to be a sponsorship at the end of this video when he started talking about working in groups haha
@drsupremo88 Don't forget Real Life Lore.
And Nico??
Why the heck fire do you have a moldy banana as your profile pic? Why not a cool United States superior airfighter plane meant for dominating?
"but you know what was around the times of pangea as well? that's rigth, skillshare, with ski..."
A shoutout to #TeamTrees would have fit perfectly!
Sir , that was one of the best quick videos on this subject yet ! I learned a lot . Thanks for educating us , bringing out out inner geological nerd for a bit !
It isn't well known, but here in Maine we actually have a desert (literally called the Desert of Maine) that is said to have been formed by a large deposit of sand being dumped here by glaciers. Looking at your map it's easy to imagine glaciers cutting through Canada, picking up a bunch of sand and dropping it off as they melted here (which is also how we got our excess of ground water). Now, obviously this was 10K years ago not 200M years, and the Desert of Maine was once covered in top soil until farm mismanagement allowed it to erode away leaving just the sand, but if this map is accurate then what was left in Maine may have been actual desert sand rather than glacier silt. I would imagine it wouldn't be hard to take a core sample in Canada and see if there's any sand or compressed sandstone underground
We actually visited the desert..it is so cool
Why is this teaching me more than school
Because school teaches you in a way you will remember. You will probably have forgotten everything you learned from this already.
@@Zaire82 No
@@Zaire82 I forgot what i learned in school
@@whosskully5498 Then it's either been many years or you weren't paying attention. Otherwise, you just have horrible memory.
Cause history class only talk about slave and Boston tea party 😂
its crazy how we’re literally standing on what used to be this
Hawaiians be like: Well, yes, but technically no.
@@Nukepositive hehe mountain went boom
That was quite fascinating. Nice work!
Fun fact: While palm trees are considered sub-tropical/tropical plants. They can be planted and grown in temperate regions, even in some temperate desert areas like In and around Nampa and Boise Idaho which is considered a temperate shrub stepp (which gets an average of anywhere from 5-10 inches of precipitation per year) similar to where I live in eastern Washington.
Can you do more video like this? This periods and supercontinents that existed.
Here, check this one first before you ask for more garbage from this channel kzhead.info/sun/oq6fcrebbZdthIk/bejne.html
@@fixedguitar47 I like this more
@@fixedguitar47 an expanding earth? Seriously?
Billy Da Squid by far most amazing video
Fixedguitar no need to disrespect his content smh
I can just imagine the size of hurricanes that traveled along the equator
Raphael Soria The Eye of Earth. Just like Venus, Jupiter, and Neptune.
Yep
That open Sea!!
@@nordicfalcon venus has no spot like that does it?
Mike Barnes A stone spot? I can’t say. I was referring to the twin storms on the south of Venus. Saturn has a cool ass hexagonal one at its north.
This video was incredibly helpful for me when it comes to constructing the earth 1 million years from now, thank you so much!
Somehow this is one of my favorite KZhead video's. From time to time I rewatch it.
"Yo mama so big she look like pangea" -some kid probably
😂😂😂😂
"You're eyes so far apart it looks like Pangea has split" -Some kid probably
@Zapid Damn savage lol
Yo mama should be like pangea -Some kid probaly British empire: fuk u
Yo mama so fat she broke apart Pangaea- some kid probably
Pangea: *Exists* British Empire: Its free real estate!!!!!
Romans came first
@@flobeeonekinobee2353 This is not important in the slightest. Britain is know for colonization of all over earth. The Roman Empire was not, although it was know for being big, but not for colonization.
Pangaea*
Siddharth Arora hahahahahah funny meme its funny ahajhahaajha
@@johncurtis118 Colonization wasnt a thing when the romans where alive. But if they would have stayed until the time the British empire got big, they sure as hell would have done the same.
Amazing! A reasonably thought out reconstruction.
Really excellent! Well reasoned and clearly presented.
Hey, what kind of river systems would Pangaea have had? I reckon it would have altered the physical features of the continent quite a bit. It would probably be impossible to determine but this is a pretty good map nonetheless.
Good question. Rivers would've played a major role in the terrain and climate.
They would have started in the mountains and lead to the oceans. The large rainy areas would have large volume rivers like the Amazon.
@@Zakmmr You just hit on one of my pet peeves. "They would have started in the mountains and ***LED*** to the oceans." L-E-A-D is *not* the past tense of "to lead". Sorry, but this drives me absolutely insane to see this mistake again and again, even from people whose livelihood is writing! But now that I'm done with my tantrum, I think you are right. The rivers would start as snow melt up in the mountains.
@@CopiousJohn the correct one is actually "Leaden". You have to learn better English.
@@CopiousJohn yea I’m pretty sure the word you were looking for was “leaden”. Good try tho
I can't even imagine how much research and effort went into the creation of this video. Fantastic job 👍
Very nicely done, generalized just enough to provide meaningful information without oversimplifying. It explains in large part, for instance, the location of present-day fossil fuel deposits.
I'd love to see a longer and more detailed version of this, with examples of each thing he discusses. Everytime my interest was peaked he had to move on to the next topic because there was so much to cover. Such a great video though.
I learned this in school already. It’s a theory like evolution.
These days are those days when Greenland actually is a *Greenland*
And Iceland is actually ice land
and it would have been much more south
Glad to see Indian Username in comment section.🤔
Vikings: ima end this mans whole career
"Ur" does not mean "super" in German. Its more like "Grand" like in "Grandpa"
ClemensAlive good to hear
Ur ass
I would say it means more like "ancient" or "original"
@@ajayempee exactly! Cheers from Germany
"primal" or "first" is a better def
Loved rewatching this
I was so amazed of learning this when I was younger. Right now I’m learning it again and now my teacher is saying that Alfred wegener is his great great heart grandfather
So for all who dont speak german: „Ur“- doesnt mean „Super“- . Its more like: Urgroßvater means great-grandfather.
JulisJauchegrube also means oldest
@@Serkant75 yes but not exactly "super-"
Urkontinent means something like source continent. The prefix Ur says that you are at the source of something that something else derived from / can be traced back to. It's just like a river that comes from a spring.
You showed him bro
Ur- : origin, first, proto-
Urkontinent does not mean "super" continent..."Ur" means roughly Prehistoric! Not "super"...
That is exactly what I wanted to point out! Hopefully the rest is more accurate.
maybe back in the day "Ur" meant something else that it does today??? 5heads
@@relaxingrain2694 No, it didn't.
In Dutch, the prefix oer, while in some cases used in reference to prehistoric times, has more the meaning of ‘original, the first one, from at the beginning’. For example, we call the big bang ‘oerknal’, because it was the first one and it was at the very beginning. And an ‘oerbos’ is an ancient forest that hasn’t been altered by humans.
Original continent
Great video. Thank you for your hard work.
Fantastic video - thank you!
points at a butterfly: "is this an Artfexian video?"
JoaoG R He has only 3 featured channels and artifexian is one of them so I assume there is some influence there.
No, it's #Guadeloupe 😛
If geology was this interesting maybe I would've given more of my attention
It's somewhat difficult to do this at high school level beyond which you never learn it. But I agree, it would be nice to learn this sort of thing as part of physical geography/geology before you depart for university. I never learned it until the first year of my degree.
I’m so jealous of the kids who are in school now so many tech at their disposal
@@chriss790 wait a minute are you people saying they don't teach about Pangea nowadays to kids in grade school or even high school ? Am I missing something here ?
@@gardensofthegods I certainly have not been taught specifically about Pangaea in geography. The only time I was taught anything remotely close to Earth history (and we weren't taught about its different eras either, only knew what Jurassic meant because of the movies) was a part of the module on tectonic plates and hazards associated with different plate margins (i.e. where you'd preferentially get volcanoes erupting or earthquakes occurring). Not a peep about Pangaea or other supercontinents until I began my geology degree at the university. But I study in the UK. And maybe it's that my particular high school curriculum board was rubbish.
I am a 6th grade science teacher and Pangaea is part of my curriculum. I cover Alfred Wegener and how he came up with Continental Drift, though his ideas were rejected at the time. He was a meteorologist and did not have a degree in Geology. Many other scientists wanted better proof than what he was able to provide and he died in search of that proof. I was not until 1960, when Harry Hess connected the dots that mid-ocean ridges spewed molten material onto the sea floor, adding new material, and subduction at deep ocean trenches pulled the old Sea-Floor back into the Earth. This confirmed that Continents could move. Convection currents in the Mantle pull hot, less dense material upward, to the mid ocean ridges. Some of the material escapes at this point as volcanoes on the ocean floor, but most is blocked by the crust, and is diverted along the oceanic crust. The friction also pulls the crust, but as the mantle material cools, it becomes dense and starts to sink. Oceanic crust also becomes dense and heavier the further away it is from the mid-ocean ridge. It sinks below less dense continental crust and creates trenches (think marianas trench). As the subducting plate goes back into the Mantle, some of it melts and magma plumes rise up and form volcanoes. The most famous and prominent places to see this happen are along the Ring of Fire around the Pacific plate. There was your crash course in 6th grade science. Stay tuned for my oceans unit! Lol!
There might have been springs, rivers, lakes, etc on the interior which might extend the Forrest and Savannah sections further. At least in lines or pockets in the middle of the desert. Similar to the Nile, where plants could grow along the river and it would get continuously more arid as distance from said water sources increased
That would have had to dive into wind and stuff
i remember learning this on grade 3 it was so fun to learn about this it was super easy and this just made me more interested in learning the giant continent!
A suggestion for a Patreon reward: A framed version of your final image, as if it were on a globe or atlas(pun intended).
#nopun
As someone who lives up in the UK's highlands. It was mindblowing to look outside and think of the history of the mountains I live in. How far they spread.
Cheers from the Appalachians
Fascinating - thanks so much for doing this :)
10:55 That's the most interesting thing.. i can definitely say I've learned something. I had no idea the correlation between cold water currents on west coasts and arid regions, nor warm water currents on eastern coasts creating more humidity. That's awesome and so obvious now when i look at the world map
I love how the amazon and the sahara of south america and africa were inverted! The sahara became a rainforest while the amzon became a desert! But also you forgot to put rivers,lakes and other bodies of water but i guess it would be a longer video to research and edit about! But i think it would also affect the climate!
Then as now, water flowed down hill. So rivers would have flowed from mountains to the sea and the size of rivers would be proportional to the area they drain. There probably would have been a major Amazon/Congo-type river system fed by the moutains that are now the Appalachian Mts. and the hills that are now on the NE Coast of South America that would flow down to the Tethys Ocean. The other ranges would probably have fed smaller systems. Lakes are much more difficult to imagine as they would depend on topographical detail that is probably not easily reconstructed today.
do not forget the dry sahara NOW sends dust over to Amazon, making it more fertile. 5000 yrs ago when the Sahara was green, there was less dust, and so less life to the Amazon basin. And that kind of thing is hard to figure.
I guess his predictions were pretty accurate because we know the Sahara did used to be a rainforest before the Himalayas formed and blocked hot moist air from the pacific from reaching North Africa!
Correction: 0:30 Ur - Kontinent Ur -> Old/Ancient
Jup!
Exactly
@The Big Game Theory Uralt Alt - Old Ur - Ancient
@The Big Game Theory ur can't really mean first or beginning tho Urgroßvater means great grandfather but he was surely not the First
@The Big Game Theory yeah exactly, it's actually real easy to look it up but it doesnt make any sense to assume that of all the possible uses beginning or first is meant because the guy who called it urkontinent probably knew there were earlier ones.
you have changed my observation about Pangea. I think you are correct!
Excellent Explanations 🔥🔥
Congrats on 400k subs! Always excited for an upload
The research alone is amazing! Nice work!
..but why (@4:40) does he want to talk about the "vaginal orgy" ?
Thank you. This is something I'm sure many of us have wondered about, and as research enlarges it seems there will be a fairly accurate picture of Pangaea.
Fascinating stuff. Thanks.
Well that makes being Appalachian a bit more interesting...
I did some wildland firefighting with a couple geologists in the George Washington National Forest some years ago. There is some really interesting history to the Appalachian range. The valleys in the area I worked were caused by soft sandstone in the middle of the mountain back when it was young and very tall like the Colorado mountains. It wore down over time and caused the mountain to collapse such that there are hills on either side of the valley now - if you look at the direction of the layered rock on either side they both point to a common center where the peak of the mountain used to be. You live in the mausoleuic ruins of a once great mountain - how cool is that?
@robustus all that quartz littering the Appalachians all over the trails and woods? That's the heart-rock of the ancient mountains. It's also why there's such deep deposits of coal, from living foliage at the time. "Life is old here, older than the trees, younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze"
@@TheWastelander86 Of course we got our country roads reference in.
People's attitude: "There's always more tuna in the Tethys, there's always more fishes in the sea."
This great very well explained thank you
Thx for your information!
This is the best explanation I've seen on Pangeae. Scientifically explained with the hot and cold air/deserts and forests plus with the mountain ranges and rain shadows. I think your video is awesome, and the visuals of where our current countries used to be helps.
It blew my mind after hearing how the Himalaya mountains were actually generated. Woooow. Also was very interesting to hear about the influence of the Panthalassa Ocean in creating climate in the regions. As a non-scientist I always underestimate the factor of wind (think about the Chernobyl disaster and how the wind spread the particles of radioactive elements to the western Europe) and this video explained very clearly the effects of two factors (wind and diversion of water flows). Thanks a lot for your hard work in producing this video!
Dope video bro 😎
Very interesting. Thanks for this video.
I could see the Earth as a jigsaw puzzle when I was a child. I remember saying Daddy look they fit together! :-)
My mind is too dirty for this shit
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love this as a concept and would love to see this for more time periods. maybe even the future! this is 100% series material.
Not to mention the Mc Gillycuddy Reeks in County Kerry, South West, Ireland! Our mountain ranges have rocks dating back to the Sulurian ages. Mount Carrauntoohil in County Kerry predates Mount Everest to over 400 and 50 million years! An ancient crash of continents still available for all to see. Magical to witness
what a fantastic video & idea. As a kid i used to love prehistory but that eroded away when i realised i sucked at science, still i think the fantasy of what old environments looked like was built up especially with the dinosaur magazines and Walking with monsters series, probably made me wonder what the world look like in Pangea, since it was so huge and looked so little like modern day continents that it’d be hard to make any conclusions of similar climates
Atlas this is my definition of what content on KZhead should be like. Keep up the great work