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How Rain Might Make Mountains Grow
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- Опубликовано: 24 янв 2021
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Geologists have a few ideas as to how rain affects mountains. But could rain also help mountains grow?
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Snow packs make the mountains shrink due to the weight. The past few years there was a study on the sierra mountain range.
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Can confirm, I forgot to water my mountain over the holidays, and it died :(
Beautiful reply
If you buy another one maybe they won't notice...
do you call them your twin peaks?
Man, I really wish my elementary school self could shove this in the face of the science teacher that basically made fun of me for asking “what makes mountains grow so tall” (something along those lines, it’s been 15 years 😅)... because they obviously didn’t know the answer - just didn’t want to be bothered to try.
Shouldn't your teacher have at least known about plate tectonics? It's been in curriculum for decades.
Seems like that teacher did not either know or appreciate what science is about. Science is searching for answers and applying methods of study or testing. But if you don't accept questions then you'd miss out on searching for the answers.
I had the same experience when I asked why we need to sleep. He responded "so, don't sleep and see what happens duh".
I wonder if this is what became of pet rocks that ran away 😂
No, it passed away. You have to come to terms with it's death. It's been 15 years. You have to let go! (cue emotional movie soundtrack)
They told me not to flush them. I apologize.😔
@@jaredpatterson1701 Every year, pet rocks grow into boulders and clog up New York sewers! Don't flush pet rocks!
Crab Check:
No. There were no crabs in this video.
I can't wait for a part two when the findings come out
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Cow
One time in my high school ancient history class, we were talking about Hannibal's crossing of the Alps with a huge army and war elephants during the Second Punic War. My friend didn't understand why this was such a big deal and he asked the teacher, "wouldn't the Alps have been a lot smaller back then?" She asked what he meant, and his attempt to explain made it clear that he thought mountains were like plants, and that they start out as little hills, and then grow over time from being exposed to sunlight and rain. We've been roasting him over this for years. But now I guess in a way he wasn't entirely wrong.
Now THAT'S exciting Science!! After your explanation, it made perfect sense.
I'm out here watering my plants while god watering mountains.
Lol nah!
Please do an episode on weather modification, it's fascinating. So much info available now. They even declassified operation popeye when they were controlling a monsoon in the Vietnam war. The stuff they can do today is amazing. Now that's science and cool
When you feel you understand things, science comes along and slaps you in the face with a wet fish with new knowledge... :P
@Sic Show Sod off...
Since you mentioned wet fish I feel compelled to share this.
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Isn't that just the best!
Before watching the video I thought it would be rain depositing minerals on mountains faster than eroding them. But this is cool too.
The mass eroded by rivers and rain seems too small Compared to the whole mass of the mountain itself, that is the parts away from the river valleys.
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"come on every body knows mountains are just petrified tree stumps"
Glad to see my boy Richard P. Feynman get a shout out.
that was the most interesting 5 minutes about rain eroding mountains. I look forward to your 90-minute TEDtalk on glaciers
I thought he was going to discuss how hydration of minerals in mountains would increase their size. I’m not sure if that is something that happens, since I don’t know much about those kinds of processes, but it seemed like a good hypothesis to me.
That’s an excellent hypothesis! It may have not even been explored yet.
My guess would be that a lot of minerals are water soluble, so they would dissolve and erode away easier, and not absord water since it wouldn't react with the minerals in a way that the chemical structure would be affected
A mountain of gypsum perhaps, but otherwise water just fills gaps in the crystal structure much like how opal has better color when its been recently hydrated.
Mountains are just giant stalagmites.
@@pessien8474 An amusing notion but stalagmites are formed from carbonates dripping from the ceiling, its a constructive and not destructive process. This video is about destruction of mountains making them taller because of becoming lighter weight.
Lu-Tze was right to use his watering can with his bonsi mountains!
You're just a cherub for writing this. Thanks ...
Yay! I vote for more geology on sci show!
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Oh how i miss you on tangents good sir :)
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@@mischarowe The podcast SciShow Tangents. Stefan was one of the hosts up until the start of this year, and we miss him.
@@ShirinRose Okay. I don't know anything about the podcasts, so thanks.
Can you imagine, watering mountains like they’re plants, hoping for growth? 😅
No but I can imagine a lot of innuendo in the comments
I am imagining it now, and want to grow a mountain
No
I can imagine some sort of nature deity watering the mountains and talking to them xD
That’s one big watering can
How would peeing on a mountain effect it? I just want want to help.
Isostatic Equilibrium...
I still remember that test in geophysics. I think only 4 of us passed that exam
For what it's worth, I'm loving the Moons of Jupiter song in that album. Haven't had a chance to listen to the others, but I'm super digging it.
Yeeeesss another video to flex my knowledge later
I'm wondering also if added rainfall contributes to higher quantities of biomass that then become layers of soil compacted over time. For instance would mountains in a rainforest grow taller and larger faster than same mountains in a desert climate with similar tectonic activity.
Very interesting and worthwhile video.
Rain makes mountains?... if that were true, don’t you think there would be mountains in Florida?
We've proved that rain erodes the mountain, making it lighter so it gets a bit taller... What do we do with this information?
Exactly
The most random findings can make a difference in different fields of science
One application I can think of would be in helping predicting landslides.
You know rainfall produces erosion.
You potentially link that to mountain uplift.
Mountain uplift may result in tilting as the mountain grows.
Tilting steepens the slope on one side of the mountain and steepness is a big factor in slope stability.
I'm sure there are other more immediate uses but understanding geological mechanisms helps in many ways.
I'm sure people asked the same question to those playing with magnets and electricity.
@Wemple Same thing with gorillas and billi apes. They were considered cryptids for years, in the billi apes case over 100 years of people not believing locals and their experiences until 2003 when a specimen was found. That being said, I saw ape-like creatures in san diego about 3 years ago. I am absolutely sure that we have a local ape that people haven't researched.
But even through rivers, the material does not move from the mountain to the ocean floor overnight: Most of the material remain on the bed (If not the banks) of the river for thousands of years and even if it makes it to the mouth of the river and to the sea/ocean, most tectonic plates stretch out for kilometers into the sea, so if it drops there it is still on the same plate and contributing the same weight to that plate; not to mention that all that is only for rivers that make it to the sea (Taking the Canadian Rockies as an example: Only a few rivers on the western side of the rockies make it to the ocean, many fall inwards to lakes between the mountain and many others fall eastward toward the praries, so all that material indefinitly satys on the same tectonic plate!). The insignificant amount, even over the milleniums, can't make THAT much of a difference (Plus, given that it is widely accepted that much of what is now part of the western mountainous edge of Canada use to be a series of Islands on the Pacific plate, those land masses probably compasate for what was lost and creates a barrier for "river material" to reach the ocean; this would not apply everywhere, of course, but other processes elsewhere are probably often present).
The overall picture of the presentation seems to be quite lacking in scope!
It's amazing what science discovers about our planet. Thank you for the daily dose of wonder!
I miss you on SciSchow Tangents 😢
Wouldn't glacial melt still ultimately be considered "rain"?
I've tried that album Music for scientists. I've heard many science songs and this album is the worst. I had to play race for space to fix my mood.
Yeah; I was wondering ... scientists are a sub-set of humanity; and surely they have as many different needs from their music as the rest of us? Metal scientists, harp music scientists, medieval requiem scientists; heck Super Massive Black Hole by Muse is a go-to for science music. The album is a contrivance ...
Thank you for the upload, it fits perfectly with middle school earth science unit.
The new makeup, it burns my eyes!
Car shock absorbers can be placed inside the walls of a timber house, to absorb earthquake energy.
The rocks we live on in this city are springing back up, every few years we get a 5 earthquake as the area jumps up. A combination of an ancient mountain range and the ice age ice still having an effect.
Canada?
@@lurking_silhouette5802 Ottawa Canada and the mountains are the Laurentians.
How do mountains grow on plants and moons where it doesn't rain ?
Bring me the 20 people who disliked this in the first hour; I have questions for these individuals
Thanks Scishow team :)
Topic and beginning of video are interesting but I fell asleep at 4:00 once everything was clear. Could have been shorter.
@@sebastienh1100 You fell asleep because your attention span is not long enough; as with every scichow ep. there was information at every turn; none of it repeated, concisely put and eloquently said.
@@ValeriePallaoro - I love the channel, I can still be allowed not to find everything perfect all the time... and I was just answering the question from the other guy about why some dislikes.
Creationists trolling for the devil's science videos? That's my guess, anyway.
Random fact
In Svalbard,a remote Norwegian island,it is illegal to die
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Also, some mountains collect water runoff in karst deposits, which act like a giant sponge.
I love you Stefan
Hopefully
Someone get my mans a towel or something to dap all that oil
Just going to ask this, isn’t there still water in the river beds. Water still has weight so I’m not really getting the lifting plates part. Not really answered besides just saying it. Seems like the story is really rain cause most erosion, more study needed to see if it grows mountains. 🤷🏼♂️
Great video!
Water a mountain to make it grow
👏👏👏 More b.s from scishow. Thank you so much, may I have some more?
Love the videos, might want to change lighting a bit or something his face was very shiny
Isn't Stefan's face always shiny though? I didn't notice it more on this vid
@@ValeriePallaoro maybe it's my first time seeing him but I do watch sci show randomly. Used to watch a lot more when Hank Green was doing most of them
Why are there no Volcanoes in the Himalayan Mnts. ?
It's because of the way the tectonic plates move against each other. There is little subduction of one plate under the other which causes the plate to melt and form lava producing volcanoes. Instead they just crash into each other.
Charge of flowing water. Electrostatic forces of rock breaking. Where is that? Like somewhere the scientists won't go. Electric earth
I'mma water an ant mound so i can have my own mountain
Water is a human right, Boycott Nestle & any water bottle brands!
Water is as important as Air, it is not a commodity.
Stand for something or fall for anything! Stand together with Water rights!
Bigger if true!
I'm having a hard time understanding the dating technique described here. Does more beryllium 10 mean faster erosion or slower?
they said beryllium 10 doesn't form much below the surface, and the researchers took samples of eroded rock to make the measurements. after the rocks are "eroded out", new rock is exposed in the mountain, and the rock pieces are left to accumulate that beryllium variety, so the more they have the longer they've been left out (if there's new rock eroded it'll have less of the beryllium 10, because it sat there for less time). does that make sense?
Hopefully it doesnt tip over
This episode is a bit absurd because it does not explain what is the reference level taken to measure the height of a mountain. The erosion impact is interesting though and new to me.
i chuckled my way right the way thru .. proper funny scientific guy's .. F^ckin SUPERB !
Okay vote time,
Option 1-big rip
Option 1.5-big bounce
Option 2-big crunch
Option 3-heat death
Ladies and gentle nerds. Lend me your choices.
Solid State
Heat death
Yo Mama will exponentially expand and the whole universe will be yo mama. This universe is someone else’s Mama.
I'm hoping it's 1.5, which seems the most fun option.
Okay, I pick three
Try again
One?
Go higher
Five?
Too high
Three?
You already said three.
Six?
There is no six.
Two?
Double it
Four!
As you wish, sir
To tell you the power of water
And yet on rocky planets without water, mountains are much, much taller, astrogeophysicists speculating that water softens stone, limiting mountain height on wet worlds. A paradox.
Been thinking about this for a while: How does the weight of carbon in the atmosphere affect the earth as a whole?
What are you looking for? Carbon in the atmosphere is attached to oxygen molecules and is gaseous. So are you talking about the weight of the world to the Karman line or to the troposphere because three quarters of the atmosphere's mass is there and it's probably easiest to measure. And does this mean you think the weight of the world is measured to the edge of outer-space ... *sigh*
@@ValeriePallaoro Although carbon is in a gaseous state, it was solid and in the the ground, mostly. The weight of the carbon in the air has to be adding pressure to the earth, I'm guessing, just as the weight of water adds atmospheres as you sink in the ocean. I am wondering if the weight of the carbon in the air is having an effect on the physical structure of the Earth.
You deserve a ChinCoin for this one
Erosion is a rockhounds best friend. Circes up buckaroo.
Did you mean cirques? Because glacial erosion is pretty useful!
@@terrafirma5327 I sure did.
Your skin is beautiful. 🤩
I want a bonsai mountain
Next, we'll be feeding our pet rocks!
Verry verry cool
it seems the complexly bit was directed at me based on a comment i made on a previous video. cool to see someone paid enough attention to it to foment the complexly suggestion.
do rain make mountain grow? huge if true
But I thought the exact opposite is happening? Like erosion
They explain it in video and address that
@@logic9140 I have this weird habit where i comment videos before i watch them fully ://
How about a simple correlation study of age of mountains vs height. My hypothesis is old mountains are low, young mountains are higher. Plot, correlate, Ta Da!! Young, high mountains erode to low, old mountains then throw in rainfall vs height and rock hardness vs height correlations. Draw conclusions. My is rainfall does not make mountains higher. Sorry John Denver.
Scientists that thing rain makes mountains grow taller,
what are you on?
So it's not that mountains are taller, it's that there is less land below, right?
Not exactly, because there is less material around the mountain, the whole area weighs less and the mountain gains some buoyancy so it can "float" a little higher.
There is some evidence that the Himalayas bobbed up when a large molten blob of tectonic plate let go underneath and sank into the mantle.
The more you know..
Hello
Computer. Are there anymore Beryllium spheres on board?....
But I thought a little fall of rain would make the flowers grow
Seems like mountains would get taller more on dimensional
Does have a bearing on how much is eroded away though; they can rise due to isostatic rebound and plate tectonic collision, but if they are being eroded at the same rate as they rise then it's a steady state, if they are eroded more than they rise, they get smaller
What have you got on your face? lol It's all shiny LOL
Anyone else started tilting their head to offset?
So... faith can move mountains, but fitness can make them taller?
Do you feel okay man you look rough
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Speaking of rain, you need a bit more make up with those intense lights 😏 Love the video anyway though
You need Jesus
Wtf
Best
Idk about this. Seems pretty wrong lol
So rain is a pencil sharpener and mountains are getting pointier and pointier.
Fascinating stuff. Also, is it just me, or was Stefan rather sweaty in this video?
Tallest mountains in the solar system? Mars.
Amount of rain on Mars. Zero.
Hm.
However, it most likely once rained on Mars, given the amount of hidden water.
@@theironsword1954 Mmm good point. I wonder if it was still raining when Mars was still geoactive.
@@SlimThrull I've heard that recently, Mars was found to be actually *still* geoactive instead of being geologically dead, so... Probably!
Mountains are plants
27th, and 17th like.
"Rain makes mountains grow". The bible thumpers are gonna love this.
How so? I thought they'd like it better if more people started believing God exists, TBW...
@@thstroyur Because the Bible teaches that mountains rose out of the ground after Noah's Flood. And they're so accustomed to taking things out of context, they'd use the tagline "rain makes mountains grow" as a way of saying the Flood is real.
@@zuttoaragi8349 "Because the Bible teaches that mountains rose out of the ground after Noah's Flood" Really? Where?
"And they're so accustomed to taking things out of context, they'd use the tagline "rain makes mountains grow" as a way of saying the Flood is real" Yeah, I get their hermenutics isn't exactly always stellar, but you sound as though you know the Flood isn't real; how come?
@@thstroyur I don't have to try and prove a negative. All the available evidence points to the Flood having not happened, and little, if any, points to the opposite.
@@zuttoaragi8349 Yeah, no. As someone who grew up homeschooled in a Creationist household, I can say that that is only partially true at best.
Firstly, the Bible _does_ _not_ say that the mountains rose after the Flood. What it does say in Genesis, Chapter 7, is that the Flood covered the mountains to a depth of fifteen cubits (or a bit under seven meters). It also says, in the following chapter, that the "fountains of the deep" had opened.
Now, do some Creationists claim that the mountains used to be shorter? Yes, but they attribute that to tectonic activity, just like everyone else.
To be clear, I don't 100% agree with everything I was taught as a kid anymore. The Creationist answer to how starlight could be here if the Earth is less than 10,000 years old never made much sense to me, for example. But I also won't ignore obvious misunderstandings (or worse, lies) about that line of thinking.
Mmm. The biggest stalagmites
Eeep! 2 views. Also....interesting. I love how the counter-intuitive data points to the amazing complexities of reality. I.e., continents float.
I checked out the album and every song sucked - i want actual decent music for me to do science to
What happened to the other guy I liked him better
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