Australia's Version of the Himalayan Mountains That Eroded To Form Uluru
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
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Uluru (Ayer's Rock) and Kata Tjuta (The Olgas) are large and famous monolithic rocks that exist in the southern part of the Northern Territory in Central Australia. Both of these beautiful rocks owe their origin from the The Petermann Ranges, which was a mountain range that was as high as the Himalayas in its peak and was lengthwise similar to the whole Himalayan mountain range. As the Petermann Ranges eroded, large alluvial deposits formed, and at least two of these alluvial fans would, in time, become Uluru and Kata Tjuta in present day. In this video, I will cover how this came to be, and we will dive into how Uluru and Kata Tjuta formed.
Uluru was formally known as Ayres Rock and Kata Tjuta was known as The Olgas and the origin of both of these Australian landmarks is truly extraordinary, stretching for over 600 million years when the mountain that created these two landforms begun its existence.
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I like the series! It's like a geology teacher that teaches obscure things. Thanks for hours of entertaining content!
Glad you enjoy it!
I like it too! But it’s not obscure. I learnt this stuff when I was a kid in geography class
I like it too, did Geology in 1980s. Not obscure for Aussies.
Wow, so Uluru isn't even the remains of a mountain, but the remains of the remains of a mountain range ... every day a school day.
Remains
@@PetesTools.BiggestFan Ta, I'm dyslexic, I'd never have spotted that, much appreciated!
@@the_grand_tourer hahahah onya bro. No stress just noticed sum funny spelling
@@PetesTools.BiggestFan Some
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On my way back to Australia ( coming from over seas trip, ) the plane I was on flew close to this area, I saw both and I was amazed at the closeness of both and could not take my eyes of them sitting on the flat plain in the setting sun ,I felt so lucky to see them this way ,these rocks so old so ancient from the very beginnings of this continent .I felt I was looking at something hallowed and was something that spoke of time and the secrets of the earth .
Pick up a. pice of gravel from any road
most likely the same age as the big rock maybe older only crushed to make a road or airstrip.
Geography and the time frame things take to change are mind boggling 😮
Awesome vids
As an older Australian, I’m annoyed that we weren’t taught these type of events during our early school days. I’d always thought Australia was boring in terms of geography. Not so, as I’m learning after all these years.
It was the first continent to brake away from Pangaea millions of years ago. We have the oldest rocks on this planet, geologist love this place to study the deep past knowing how landmasses form & break away etc.
I get annoyed at Australians of any age talking as if their own education is a litmus test for every other citizen. YOU weren’t taught, perhaps, or didn’t learn. WE were taught.
I went to school in the 70s and early 80s I'm wondering if they knew as much about it back then
Not to mention the Supervolcano under South Australia
@@natebenham9603 first I've heard of that one
Now I understand Uluru and Kata Djuta! Yes, I have been lucky enough to visit them both, as well as the area around Alice Springs, and the majestic Watarrka, back in 1998.
Noontu wunka Pitjantjajatjara ?
@@James-kv6kb No, unfortunately. I prefer to use the Pitjantjatjara names for those sacred places. Apart from English, I speak Cebuano, and conversational French. While I visited Uluru in 1998, I purchased timpilyapa (mulga wood clap sticks) at the Cultural Centre there.
@@gaufrid1956 I can't really find any videos of the traditional aboriginal people calling at that . But anyway Noontu wunka Pitjantjajatjara is ,you speak Pitjantjajatjara? Been learning from RUclips videos and went to the South Australian communities as an entertainer . I can say hello in 14 languages ,know a little bit of German and even less Spanish but Palya is hello in the pit language
@@James-kv6kb Daghang salamat! Thanks very much in Cebuano. I don't speak either German or Spanish, but I understand a lot, especially Spanish because I studied Latin and French to university level. In Cebuano, which is the main spoken language here in Mindanao Philippines, there are many loan words from Spanish. For example, we count past ten in Spanish. My wife is a Higaonon tribeswoman, a native of Bukidnon province near here. She speaks Cebuano, Tagalog, English, Boholano, Hiligaynon and of course her tribal language, Higaonon Binukid. I understand Tagalog, and I can sing in Cebuano and Tagalog, as well as French and Spanish. My wife has taught me some of the common sayings in her tribal language. For example, "G'day" is "Maayad hu anlaw". "How are you?" is "Musta kad on?". If you want to reply that you are very well today, you say "Maayad tungkay siak iman anlawa" (literally "Good really I this day"). Aren't languages wonderful?
@@gaufrid1956 wow that's very impressive ,languages certainly are wonderful . My sister-in-law comes from the Philippines but I'm not sure which languages she spoke .
Great episode! Thanks.
This reminds me of being in science class and instead of teaching the curriculum the teacher would just go on these long tangents about interesting science stuff
The movement of the earth is fascinating.
Just imagine how fertile Australia would be if this range stay here today. All of the glaciers would be fed rivers rivaling the Ganges and Yangze
Quite astutely narrated & edited video. This is the type of geological history which has led me to become a closet geologist/paleontologist.
Well done!
Can you do one about the land bridge that once connected Australia to south East Asia 🙏🏽
I'm no expert but I think you'll find that there wasn't actually a land bridge as a continuous strip of land. But before the ice age broke the sea levels were a lot lower and so more land was exposed and the sea between these were quite shallow and probably calm as a result, at low tide it may have been possible to wade through to the next island, but even in an unseaworthy craft it would not have been difficult to travel towards what is Australia.
I came here after seeing the suggestion for this video on a different recommended video. No particular interest in the exacts of geoscience, but learning how geography interacts is useful for fictional world building.
I had no idea about this history of the lonely Australia. Intriguing!
You haven't really got anything to say have you ?but you just want everybody to know that it's you thats saying nothing
@@James-kv6kb what's your problem?
@@ChronoSquare I don't have a problem Iol I was educated by humans not machines. If you're going to write something make a point
5:48 That's interesting that the Alice Springs mountains never got as tall as the Petermann ranges. I thought all continental collision mountains reached that point, but maybe the erosion was greater in the area during the time of the Alice Springs orogeny?
This is extremely interesting, thank you for the knowledge you bring forward .
Love and respect to all
You are so welcome 🙏 thank you for watching :)
I went on holiday to the Northern Territory in the 80’s. We climbed Uluru as was the normal tourist thing to do back then. We also had a guided tour around the bottom of Uluru through some of the caves with indigenous artwork in them. It really was a awesome experience.
Truly fascinating, mate. Incredible vid - lapped it up!
@OzGeographics - if you have time, there's an addendum video I'd love to watch, where you combine this with the story from your other video about the meteorite impacts, to explain how those impacts may have affected the erosion of these mountains ... there was some overlap of these time periods wasn't there? I'm very curious to know
Such mindblowing immensity in physical scale and time. The earth orbiting the sun _hundreds of millions_ of times.
Quick question @0:50 is that why Australia is so mineral rich? All these minerals were pushed up into the crust by the forming mountains and as they eroded away they settled in relatively shallow earth?
What is that big mesa off to the east of Uluru? Is it related to Kata Juta and Uluru?
Ayers rock is an awesome landmark
The Olgas and Ayers Rock are lovely places.
Incredible and fascinating 🎉
Awesome. This is great.
Great video and simple explanations of geological processes 👍
Australia is the perfect example of a large scale plasma/electric event.
Somehow at...62... after listening to this...I don't feel so old now.
Yes if you were a mountain you’d be very young and reduce to the size of your big toe in 10M years
I was there,it’s amazing, unfortunately,it rained and we were not allowed to climb,some did. However we went to,Kata Tuja? Or the Olga’s. Amazing,it was the best.climbed and back down to an amazing BBQ.
My spelling of Kata Tuja wrong,forgive me. Thank you for the best trip of my life.🇨🇦❤️🇦🇺
I very curious as how Mt Augustus was formed if it was a way similiar to Uluru and Kata Kuta,
Fascinating. I was there last week, and wondered how we know how high the Peterman ranges were. Still do
They're truly spectacular
Great flic. A few maps of the locations of the orgenesis' would have been helpful.
You are using German illustrations? Do you speak any German?
Fascinating stuff.
Can you do a series on the great dividing range??
*_Today, there are rich deposits of Iron Ore in Australia.. the red we see is Iron Oxide (rust)._*
@@paulfri1569 Thanks for comment I think because Australia is a combination of 3 or 4 different continental plates. The collision caused many unique geological formations in certain regions of Australia. The Iron Ore formed eons ago at the bottom of ocean. Colliding plates pushed this are under water to dry present day Australia.
Please don't mention such things .we've got enough billionaires digging holes in this country which will eventually throw the Earth's balance of lol
@@James-kv6kb Thanks for comment.... agree, only so much environmental damage Australia can take before it's irreversible.
Thank you for the great effort and work you do. We love it! Recommending to our Australian Home Education Network sites ❤
Great work.
57 yr old and thinking wow if they had of taught this and like this well ....possibilities endless and doors numerous.
Thanks
Thank you so much for the generous donation Martha! We appreciate it so much 😊
@@OzGeologyOfficial I would appreciate a long video on Arizona’s geology, as much as you appreciate that 8 dollar donation.
very good
Thank you! Cheers!
Australia's Appalachians. The Appalachian Mountains are beautiful. So if you ever should be here and somebody asked you if you want Himalayan stew just politely decline. It is called Himalayan stew because whatever's in it they found him a layin' by the road
Lol
Wow, I had suspicion of this one; Thank you for sharing 👍 Please, I have a special desire for an explanation for friends of the newer New Guinea section of the continent including any explanation if known why deposits like Ertsberg, Grasberg and the Fly exist.
Uluru is rock that has fallen over the layers once horizontal are now vertical. ( non- geologist)
Have the same formation out from the beach where we live.
Half of Australia would be as dry as Peru if those mountains were there today.
You mean Australia could become EVEN DRYER than it already is???
@@ChronoSquare No because that mountain range isn't there now. I don't think it's coming back anytime.
But think about the Sahara, no rain means no plants at all, but in Australia we do still have saltbushes, spinifex and small trees in our deserts, even on the Nullarbor Plains an ancient seabed . . . but no trees there although there are small bushes.
Most of the country is bone dry and any good land is now been destroyed by farmers removing trees
For your beginning you made the formation of Australia sound like an oceanic gyre.
😊
I remember learning geology and geography in elementary school, many, many years ago. It was still called Ayer’s Rock then. We were taught that Uluru was formed by a volcano.
That doesn't even make sense, it's sandstone.
I got the pleasure of taking a helicopter over the Bungle Bungles once. Took about 20 minutes or so to get there and along the way you could see the earth slowly moving upwards until the Bungle Bungles where its pointing directly up. Its amazing to see where two giant plates would've smashed together and made it. Really put into perspective the size of these things and how mountains are formed.
🤣🤣🤣 seen them for the first time on and old Malcolm Douglas film he made in the 70s when he was out with the real indigenous Australians of Australia. 🙈🤣 if only the things he/they saw today. He was telling us in the 70s this will one day be one of Australia's major tourism destinations 🤣🤣 #no
The wild thing about Uluru is that it is laying on its side.
Been to the top of Ayres Rock 4 times 1966, 1968, 1983, and 1986
I climbed Ayers Rock back in the late 80s or early 90s.
Incredibly interesting. I now know 4 times more geology than before watching this vid
So is Uluru an insulberg or is it joined below to Kata Tjuṯa? Is water erosion able to penetrate between the sedimentary layers and would this create underground water paths which would filter minerals? I’ve read a lot of what you included, but I didn’t comprehend the information until your explanation. That was great thanks❤
That’s so interesting. Did you know that Tasmania was a part of the Grand Canyon? Crazy stuff.
California geology matches the NE Tasmanian coastline it was annouced recently on an ABC doco. They didn't go further into the geology of Nth America. Yes it is crazy that Tasmania wasn't an original part of Australia and along with New Zealand is the reason for the formation of SE Australia and intern its mineral wealth deposits.
I'd be interested in a history of the Flinders Ranges/My Lofty Ranges orogeny.
Nice vid
So Ayers Rock the Olga's are sedimentary waste from a huge mountain range
Cue up "Great Southern Land" by Icehouse
Aren't those hills eroding quickly vs. slowly?
"Located near Alice Springs"
Only 450km away lol
Was the south continent that collided with the northern one the Gawler craton?
Ok so it took them 50,000 years to chisel down some mountains. I thought they just fished and had fun.
I thought this was Ayer’s Rock. When did this change?
Uluru is the original Aboriginal name
It changed from Uluru when Mr Ayers first saw it and called it after himself . Since then the true original name was reintroduced in line with the respect for the Aboriginals who consider it sacred .
@@renatoantonelli3894 Uluru certainly isn’t it’s original name, rather more like it’s penultimate name. Humans have been in Australia for something like 60,000 years. In that time probably a few thousand distinct cultures owned that land and had their own names for it. I guess we in the US should recognize New York no longer, but Nieuw Amsterdam in stead…Mediolanum instead of Milan…Constantinople rather than Istanbul.
I’ve heard ancient Giant Termite Mounds…
Fallen over with time..
Those mountains existed to produce Uluru today. Such an old soul.
😁😁😁
Similar story to Devil’s Tower in the states.
Isn't Alice Springs, located in a astriod crater..?
Just think, this may be the fate of the Himalayas one day too 😢
You'll have to wait for it! Presently that range is still rising at about 50cm/yr. I think it was but don't quote me on it. 🤔 You could Google it though! 😉
The same thing happened to Ayrs rock
Rebuild the mountain!
I clicked to find out what an Uluru is. I see it's Ayers Rock.
Australia gave it to the aboriginal people "Uluru" is what it's always been called.
@@brucestratford5838no Uluru was invented by the white Aborigines .The Pitjantjajatjara didn't call it that at all , no one seems to what they called it because we're not allowed to go anywhere near them and just have to accept what we're told by the Canberra Aborigines who have never been anywhere near the place
was ayres rock originally horizontal?
This looks a lot like Ayers rock
Hey. Unless they have changed, what elevation makes a mountain a mountain. Technically, there are 0 mountains in Australia.
More likely it was a huge plateau, and perpetual rain eroded its edges into pillars that collapsed and eroded into red soil over a billion plus years. That would suggest Uluru sat on mount Connor, and an asteroid hit catapulted it West.
Air’s rock made of sandstone and tipped on its side ?
You really think slow pluvial, fluvial and aerial erosion ate mount Ozzerest down to those hills? What would have eventually stopped the tectonic movements that formed the australian mountain range in the first place? As much as I like your videos, this-one is not yet really convincing.
Definitely. But mainly because of the lack of vegetation that existed back then. Tectonic movements all eventually cease, there's a myriad of reasons why this could occur but the rate of erosion on very tall mountain ranges is quite pronounced, even with vegetation, but without it, to say the increase is beyond dramatic would be an understatement.
@@OzGeologyOfficial I agree that 550 my are enough time for erosion.
Random comment
Keep in mind this is only a theory.
hehehehe he said erogeny. 😊😊 heehehehe
Should have put that in your hashtags. From now on would you do that for all your videos? geographically defining Orogeny can be your equivalent of "Chubyemu's Emia"
Great video, just one thing though, it's Aus-tralia NOT Aush-tralia
No he's pronouncing it correctly
@@calus_bath_water For a four year old maybe
You're lucky that Ayers Rock isn't in Victoria or the Daniel Andrews / Jacinta Allan Government would have sold it to the Chinese for them to mine, all for a few million dollars, if that!
Pretty sure a liberal government rented out the port of Darwin to Chinese companies for 100 years....not labour
Yeah it's a story.
An epic story.
Uluru was formed by and ancient riverbed. Over time the river bed was buried and a lake formed over the top. The weight of water in the lake snapped the ancient compressed stone river bed below and popped up Ulru at one end. And the other end is the Bungle Bugles.
Sorry... hang on... where did all that eroded dirt and dust go? Blown away, I suppose? During an Ice Age...? Something's not making sense here.
It’s deposited and still exists in situ today.
uluru ? Oh, you mean Ayres Rock 😂
🙄
No it's uluru
*Aryes Rock
Uluru is a better name than Arse Rock.
Its uluru.
Uluru is lame, western australia has a bigger monolith, possibly the biggest of the southern hemisphere.
talking too fast.
Go to settings and change your playback speed.
It's Ayres Rock .
No it's not
This seems to be a bit of a reach. So confident in history when nobody can remember.😂
You don't seem to understand the science behind this, do you?
@@OzGeologyOfficial isn’t the rock sandstone? Then it would have first been sediment. I climbed it in 75 as a 5 year old.
It’s Ayers Rock
Fyi actual Australians call it Ayers Rock. 😊
Fyi actual Australians call it Uluru.
Biggest load of crap... pathetic theory, very unscientific
Are you aboriginal? Aborigines call it Uluru while caucasians call it Ayres rock
I am Caucasian and l call it ULURU because l beleive in and respect the Aboriginal people . Maybe you do not ?
@@renatoantonelli3894 I have many close friends I've known for decades that are aboriginal. It's got nothing to do with not respecting Aboriginals. It was called Ayres to I when I was growing up and I'll continue to call it Ayres rock. Just like how I'd still call it planet earth if scientists turned around and tried telling us that we're actually living on Pluto
@@brettg82au in that case Brett maybe you need to take on board some humility and acquiesce that your world view perhaps is somewhat topsy turvy from the standpoint that white european emigrees are in fact johnny come lately intruders who are appropriating the land of ancient peoples who had an ancient name Uluru for what you have innocently called Ayers rock until you were enlightened . It 's up to you to face up to the difficult truth if you can ...
@@brettg82auI bet when you were growing up you didn't have internet, if your so stuck in your ways then why use RUclips? Your clearly capable of f change, you just don't like recognition of first nations places/ people.
Officially this Rock is Call Ayers Rock. No one in Australian calls it Uluru.
You need to step outside your house more.
@@OzGeologyOfficialI do. Only the Natives call it Uluru. But All White Australians especially of British Ancestry call it by its Proper Name which is Ayers Rock. And why not. They discovered it years ago, long before the Natives.😂
Dont talk rubbish mate !! The Australian Abbo's have a continuous 40 thousand year old culture ... the modern Ozzys on the other hand are complete newcomers who as we all know were deported from Britain and more recently were £1 Poms ... Thats why you call it Ayers Rock and the original natives call it Uluru . Even l know this and l live in the Uk so how come you who live there are ignorant of this proves the lack of awareness prevalent in some corners of Australia !! Get a grip mate and study your history ...
@@OzGeologyOfficial
People I know call it Uluru Ayres Rock as one name.
Definitely Uluru. It’s 2024 and we’ve grown up a bit. Except for some.
The Bible proves itself to be the Inspired Words of the Almighty Creator. The chronology of it proves the entire earth was created close to 6,023 years ago.
If that seems hard to believe, please consider
it is impossible anything popped itself into existence, gravity, quarks, centrifugal force, light, carbon, water and all.
It is Impossible those began their own existence and close enough in time and space to cooperate in modifying themselves to higher states.
And without consciousness.
But anything can pop into existence by magic 🧐
OMG........wake up dudette...! You obviously didn't listen.
Peterman Rangers? That sounds a little bit too European, how about we call them the Ooboouru Rangers?
Alice Springs? WTF is with that name, better change that to Jumbleumble springs.
Righto mate, whatever you say.
Do you mean ranges, as in mountain ranges?
Sounds like someone needs to go back to primary school and learn some respect as well as some writing skills
@@Isxiros100 it's ok simp, calm the fuck down 😂😂😂
@@Isxiros100 sounds like someone is a simpboy 😂😂😂😂
Bro, your videos are full of ads advertising butane gas lighters that are apparently Plasma lighters designed by the Australian special forces 😂. Nothing but scammer shit.
Hahaha I don’t pick the ads. Google does 😂
It's ears rock. it's never been called uluru until just recently as more bs coming up to cover up the real history of Australia
Ears Rock??? Try "Ayers Rock." I went to school in the 1980s and remember it being called both "Ayers Rock" and "Uluru" back then, so I don't know where your information comes from... - another Dreamtime perhaps? 🤣
@MixedGaugeVideos well then you better look into your history as aborigines aren't native to Australia.
Nobody is native or indigenous to any country there's always been someone there before.
So why does any country say there's indigenous people is a cover up for something and billions of taxpayers money going to waste on some big fat lie
I'm not arguing about who was here first. My comment was on the fact that you called it "ears rock" instead of Ayers Rock. To me it IS Ayers Rock and as it's actually just a few billion tonnes of iron ore, I don't see why it's so sacred, and why I can't climb it! 😕
@MixedGaugeVideos because of today's world there's to meany idiots and no common sense anymore
Its been called uluru for thousands of years what are you on about
🤣🤣🤣 you can't say scientific facts.. that's racist 🤣. They expect you to believe it's and elders spirit or some rubbish
Its called Ayers Rock , it belongs to all Australian's 🇦🇺🦘
It's called Uluru, and Ayer's Rock. No need to be a bigot.
Only the ignorant still call it Ayers rock because it has been sacred to the original owners and it is known as ULURU by them and all of us who respect their culture .
You should be proud and honoured to live there , maybe even get off your high horse and investigate the amazing survival skills and culture of the people who share their land with you .