What's the Biggest Canyon on Earth?
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2020
- Last time we learned about Mars' great Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the solar system. But what about here on Earth, is the Grand Canyon really the biggest? What I thought to be a simple question turns into an 11 minute video, buckle up!
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I feel like the Grand Canyon is so famous because it is a giant gorge surrounded by mostly flat terrain, the ones in the Andes and Himalayas are just a gap between two gradually sloping mountains. So the "6000 meter height" is just in comparison to the next mountaintop, not to the overall surrounding terrain
It's more visually "in your face" for sure. Most of the examples he mentioned could easily be named valleys too.
Yes. Starting with a definition of a canyon would help. In my mind it's a steep sided valley cutting across a fairly flat landscape. Which would make most of the examples quoted river valleys but not canyons. Also the Valles Marineris if a rift valley and there are some pretty big ones of those on Earth as well. Can't help thinking this was a thought provoking but not very well thought out video.
Yep, he's missing the mountains for the canyon. He's measuring the size of prominences instead of the depth of the canyon. The rivers are there as drainages that were incidental to the mountain building.
@@Markle2k prominence, thats the term I was looking for, thank you
@@jonas1015119 I think you're right in what made it famous in the US in the first place. But why is it so famous all over the world? My guess is:
- It has a very recognizable name. Including "Canyon" in its name was a big win (great SEO).
- And of course American media! Everybody I know has seen it on TV several times, and I had never heard anyone talking about any other canyons before this video.
It seems like cheating having a canyon between mountains
INDEED! I call those VALLEYS. To me, a canyon is the result of erosion.
@@Hippiekinkster So are valleys.
I suppose they could technically count as canyons, but it definitely feels wrong. It's similar to when people say the tallest mountain on Earth is that one in Hawaii that's almost completely under the ocean, or that the largest desert on Earth is technically the Antarctic
@@lmilne2635 But a valley is not a canyon...or is the ho-hum cousin fo a canyon.
@@kaiishere016 Mauna Loa, 60% covered by water, is definitely the tallest. But Mount Everest reaches far *higher.*
Antarctica may be the largest desert, but it cannot be the largest *hot desert.* It comes down to common understanding, I suppose.
9:47 "with depths reaching three thousand kilometers down"
Right through the mantle!
he did say it was deep
as opposed to depths that reach up
Canyons above the sea level, canyons below, then canyons filled with magma.
He might have meant 3 kilometers
The thing that makes the Grand Canyon cooler than the ones you mention in the Andes and Himalayas is that it is the feature. In other words, the canyons you mention in South America and China are defined by the mountain peaks or ranges that surround it, whereas the Grand Canyon is a huge hole in an otherwise featureless plateau.
That, and the history and geography that actually made the Grand Canyon (The whole part of the continent has experienced uplift) is pretty unique. As far as I know. I would however be interested to know if there are similar features around the world.
its like a there is a massive dip in the horizon line. it looks so unique. definitely Crown Desert Jewel of America
9:45 apparently, the Zhemchug reaches halfway to Earth's core.
definitely reached the outer core lol
yeah to the core its 6,371km down, making the canyon just under half way down, sounds fucking hard to believe but its true...
Edit: seems like he cocked up and said 3k km, i thought it was off but took his word for it lmao
Yeah I was like bruh
Its 3km deep not 3 thousand km dude
@@chattw6885 "with depths reaching nearly three thousand kilometers down and a span of approximately one hundred kilometers" go back and watch it pal.
Edit: never mind, just checked. added an edit to the comment
I read this as "What's the biggest crayon on Earth?"
Needless to say I was pretty perplexed for a moment there
The largest crayon measures 5.21 m (17 ft 1.1 in) long and 0.45 m (1 ft 5.7 in) in diameter and was achieved by Ashrita Furman (USA) in Jamaica, New York, USA verified on 10 October 2017. (Taken from Guinness World Records)
There's your answer!
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@@LemurMaster Blue. It was in honour of someone's 86th birthday.
The answer would be "America's current president."
It's funny how we all keep comparing major canyons to the Grand Canyon. We shot a video on the Gelada Baboons in Ethiopia and there, all the locals used to call the Simien Mountains "Africa's Grand Canyon".
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Ya out here in Hawaii people call the island of Kaui "the grand canyon of the south pacific"
“Hidden forever beneath ice”
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Underrated comment. And you should have said 'muricans', really, all other nations are trying to do something at least...
Have u seem Australian pathetic efforts? XD
They oughtta hurry it up really. I'd like to see the canyon in all its splendor.
@@finding_aether I see you didn't mention China or India.
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I think the best way to measure the size of a canyon, a three-dimensional feature, would be by volume. That way you would get the grandest overall, not just the longest, or deepest, or widest, but the most overall
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@@jackboyden1368 no
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@@jackboyden1368 Why? Its GEOGRAPHY!
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I couldn t say it better
Now you have me wondering canyon vs valley? Many of the examples you gave are what I would call valleys. What is the difference?
they are valleys idk why they said that
Canyons are typically carved out by rivers while valleys aren’t.
A canyon cannot be exited by walking or scrambling up the sides of it, like most "canyons' (valley's) in the USA
@@eldorito3491 You haven’t seen too many canyons then. I’ve done it twice
@@venomlink2033 That's a big assumption there you definitely got wrong. What have you done twice? Canyoning?
The aged and distressed look on the Wikipedia screenshot so it looks like an old newspaper clipping was a nice touch!
Wouldn't the African Rift Valley be a better comparison?
Thats what I thought. The process creating it is at least similar to what occurred on Mars.
i think part of what makes Arizona's Grand Canyon so spectacular is that it's surrounded by a flat plateau. A river cutting between mountain peaks doesn't feel quite as canyon-like to me. But a river cutting through flat land? Definitely a canyon. Definitely spectacular.
I think the Grand Canyon is so useful as a benchmark because of how flat the land surrounding it is. The flat land makes it easy to realize the scale of its depth and width in person, and length and width from the air/space. Canyon boundaries in mountain ranges are much more ambiguous due to the numerous changes in elevation of the land surrounding them, and canyons underwater and buried beneath ice can only be seen via instruments.
Never thought I’d find a video about canyons so interesting
Have you seen his video about litteral dirt?
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Before I watch the movie, I'm going to submit a guess: the biggest canyon is the one under Greenland's glaciers, or possibly the Mariana Trench. China has a way bigger canyon than the US in the Himalayas, so I know it's not the grand Canyon.
Edit after watching: it's neither, sort of, so I learned something new today. Good job, Atlas dude
u still knew tons. i thought it was THE GRAND CANYON US
I thought it was the mariana trench as soon as I saw the title
lol himalayas is located in Nepal not china🙄🙄🙄
@@Stann99 The Himalayas are located in Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan and China/Tibet. The Kaligandaki gorge lies in Nepal, the Yarlung Tsangpo canyon lies in Tibet/China.
@@Stann99 yeah mate, but isnt nepal officially a part of china ? so its still technically china
Mountain "canyons" shouldn't count. The water didn't put the mountains there, the mountains put the water there.
Agreed, the grand canyon for example was caused by erosion by the Colorado River. Canyons at higher elevations are mostly just rivers filled with meltwater running through gaps in mountains, rather than being valleys carved out by the actual water flow
@@JPREEDY77 yeah, we know you're one of those creationist types after saying that the Earth is about 5 million years old xD
@@martijn9568 by all means, speak of something stupid! What you mentioned has no merit in scientific discussion. God is an IR ELEPHANT! aka irrelevant! I speak, "proof"........."evidence"...........and here comes the quick witt schitt stick telling me he's a chocolate banana. Shutup
James Reedy Grand Canyon could have been formed by drainage of the Laurentide ice sheet during the events that took place at the younger dryas boundary. Maybe this unconfirmed hypothesis would aid in your research. It could have also been formed by tectonic activity as a Rift Valley. There are so many non gradualist explanations that you can use which are much less drastic than what you have described. And this is despite the fact that this formation can be formed by long term erosion, and not just sudden events.
@@ayandas874All we have to do is crack any flat surface and dump water onto it. Just because water goes into the cracks doesn't mean they were cut that way. The hardest part of this project are the maps. Visualizing the whole thing is the easy part. But when getting into regional geology one must remain very cautious not to cherry pick what fits and what doesn't. Geology currently does this. "what we still don't know", is not acceptable in teaching. Look up instant fossilization and I hope you become more curious about Who/What Medusa actually was. Then take into account that the Moon moves away from the Earth at ~2"/yr. If you reverse time, then the Moon came from earth. 1600mi/dia is the next big hint.
The grand canyon is coolest though because of how the surrounding landscape drops into it. It's just a big hole in the ground and people appreciate that.
It’s also cool how visible it all is. Its a lot to take in. I just visited a week ago for the first time and so spent 3 hours staring, it felt like moments. Time just stops when you stare at it.
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@@wallywallendo why 😭😂
9:45 3000 km? Is that meant to be 3000 m?
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@@JWhisp That was my point, haha, sorry if it wasn't clear!
I am from Arizona, I have been to the Grand Canyon many times. When I was 16, we spent a week hiking and camping at the bottom of the canyon, it was amazing.
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But if the Valles Marineris is so big, why won't it fight me?
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The graphics and descriptions in this episode were amazing! How the underwater canyons formed really got me off on a serious geography tangent!
If you are looking for something relatively similar in volume to Valles Marineris on Earth, consider the Mediterranean and Black Seas, together totalling about 4,300,000km³
So good video!! I love how you present your research through effective use of visuals. It felt like a real experience, i need more of this stuff ;D
As always great content, I await eagerly for your next installment!
Love to learn how that canyon in the Bahamas formed. All the rest I could understand, but the size of the Bahamas canyon relative to the surrounding land boggles my mind as there shouldn't be enough surface area to collect and funnel much water through the canyon to drive erosion. Has to be more to the story!
It would be interesting to see your take on the largest landslides / landslips on Earth. There are some ominously massive slides off of the Hawaiian and Canary islands. Love your channel.
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Love this format and the Mars vids!
It's so interesting to see what are the critirias of canyons
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What about the Mariana Trench :) its just as much a Canyon as is Valles Marineris on mars :)
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. But maybe he didn't include it because it wasn't formed like a canyon. Just a thought
Probably going by water erosion formation vs. tectonic plate formation.
No, because he mentioned that seas hold the largest canyons for that exact reason because of the plates. I really don't know what makes it a trench over a canyon
@@jjkusaf If that's true then earth has the largest Canyon in our system, Valles Marineris is not formed by water :)
@@drake000666 fair enough. I don't think there is a consensus on how Valles Marineris was formed ... magma, water, rift faults ... or a combination of any two (or all three). I was merely talking about this video where all the features were formed by water. :)
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Maybe it's just because my parents and grandparents are Colorado River whitewater raft guides, but I still feel the Grand Canyon is the most "Canyon-y," maybe it's the steepness or isolation, or probably just familiarity, but it's got something that can't be beat, unless you go to Mars.
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I love your videos! What would i love to see you do would be a video on the geography of future earth and what it would look like with projected plate tectonics and theoretical climates.
9:47 "Three thousand kilometers down"
Damn, that's deep!
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I'm really really thankful to you that are using units that I can understand without having to stop the video a hundred times to google everything in S.I.
Really thought you were gonna talk about Lake Baikal or other rift valleys. It'd be cool to have a whole video on Lake Baikal though!
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Great job, but it seems you got a little bit confused with the height of the Zhemchug, you said "3.000 KILOmeters" ;-)
Ya
I love these types of videos! Maybe you could compare all of our solar systems planets topographies next?
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9:48 3,000 kilometers down? Wowee!
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By this definition can't the whole pacific ocean be a massive canyon as its a deep gap between two massive continental shelfs
Shit.... He's right
I'm guessing that the outer portions of the canyon can't be obscured by Earth's curvature.
No? Because they're not caused by river erosion?
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The Yangykala in Turkmenistan isn’t the biggest but it is absolutely beautiful. Respect to President Gurbanguly
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"Never to be seen, under miles of ice" Oh, just give it a few years. Itll look like the canyon in Arizona before the century is out.
It'll probably look like a lake 😂
@@gianb3952 Atlantropa that lake! give us our canyon!
You think a nearly 2 mile thick 1,710,000 km2 ice-cap will melt in less than a century? LMAO!
@@torianholt2752 you heard of hyperbole? Ĺol Greenland has lost a lot of ice coverage in recent years, so its only a matter of time before that actually happens.
@@tankjr84 Maybe, but everyone alive today will be long dead before that's even a remote possibility.
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9:45 ...depth reaching 3000 km... Oo
What about starting with a definition of "canyon"?
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Ok, but what's the largest area/volume canyon you can actually reasonably visit? The ocean and Greenland canyons are cool and all, but I don't care much about a canyon I can't really see.
Probably the Grand Canyon in Arizona, it’s one of the few you can see, feel, and then actually go down to. They deliver mail by mule down it. And it’s accessible to nearly everyone. The other canyons in the Himalayas or Andes are surrounded by too many mountains, which means you can probably only get some plane views or if you’re a really risky boy you could climb up.
Seeing all of reality if you really wanted to actually turn the Grand Canyon into a giant City you technically could because all you would need is just while the cave Canyon walls you just used the canyon walls as pretty much structure and then you build from the inside out and you can use that way to build it into a city not to mention you'll be able to see from I don't know a lot of things have changed the Grand Canyon has a very very good water supply
Back in the late 80s, I was studying the Grand Canyon. I'll never forget my dad walking up to me at the kitchen table and asking me what I was working on.
After I told him, he told me something that was hard for me to believe. He told me that the Grand Canyon wasn't the deepest nor the longest Canyon in the world. This really took me by surprise and made me even ask my school teacher if it was true. I mean if it isn't 1 of these things, why are we talking about it and not the others?? My teacher told me that she didn't know and that wasn't what we were studying.... It's no surprise to wonder why I hated school so much. If I couldn't ask questions to learn, then there was no need.
But my dad was right and it took me all these years to find out the truth. Lol. I honestly haven't thought about it and went on with my life. Today I was watching a TV show with my son called The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. In this episode the Falcon is flying a Canyon and the conversion popped into my head after all of these years. I had to pause the episode to fact check my dad.
My dad has since passed away and I can't call him to tell him he was right. But I'm pretty sure that he already knew he was. He was one of the smartest people I have ever met. This says a lot considering some of the people I know and have met. Anyway, knowledge is power and the more you know in life can be shared not only with others but to your kids most importantly. Take care and God Speed to you.
The last generation had a lot of smart people. My dad was very smart when it came to geography and history. It's sad that all those great people are no longer with us. 😢
I had to go back and put the video in 1x speed because that intro looked so awesome! Love these videos!
9:45 "nearly 3000 KILOMETERS"? Wikipedia says 2600 METERS.
From the title I just know the Grand Canyon isn’t the biggest
Great video! It's also worth noting that many what are today submarine canyons would have been formed at a time when that section of land was at least partly if not completely above sea level.
For example, Perth Canyon (a submarine canyon which is a continuation of the Swan River in Western Australia) features the world's largest known plunge pool i.e. an eroded depression in a stream bed at the base of a waterfall. This plunge pool is 2000m long x 6000m wide by 300m deep. It would have been one hell of a sight to see in when it was being carved out some time in prehistory!
Great video, thank you for your thorough research :)
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The Grand isn't even in the top two in the U.S. Hell's Canyon and the Salmon River Canyon both deeper.
My vacation to Grand canyon was cancelled because of Covid :(
It's worth seeing, so don't let it slide. At the other end of the state, there's the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, outside Tucson. In the southwest corner, there's the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, and in the southeast corner, there's the truly weird town of Bisbee.
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More of this series please!
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These might all be the biggest canyons in one way or another but where is the most beautiful? There must be an objective answer.
No, there is not an objective answer when with talk about "the most beautiful" whatever.
I'd say theres gotta be sub categories for climates cause Utah has some of the most beautiful desert canyon, theres an entire place called Canyonlands National Park however there are some stunning mountainous canyons, forest canyons, etc
Grand Canyon, AZ
Valles Marineris
Objective as in "seen with the eyes"?
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Not particularly happy with the video as you didn't define "Canyon" at the beginning and it left me conflicted; thinking that many of the "canyons" were just mountain valleys.
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Awesome video. This was so cool to see.