Niagara Falls: how much water? - Geology of a Waterfall
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2024
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Niagara Falls is the largest waterfall in North America, and perhaps the most spectacular in the whole world. But how did Niagara Falls come to be? Why is it there, and when will Niagara Falls cease to exist? Join me as we learn about the geological processes that let Niagara Falls come to be, and dive into the deep ancient history of when its rocks were first deposited 400 million years ago. If you like science and nature, you'll enjoy this documentary on the geology of Niagara Falls.
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Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart
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00:00 Intro to Niagara
00:55 Niagara Escarpment
01:59 Depositional environment
05:30 Ice Ages
06:25 Niagara has moved!
07:06 How Niagara Falls will cease to exist
08:09 The wonders through geological time
08:57 Salute to Canada
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As a Niagara Falls resident and tour guide, this is an EXCELLENT synopsis! Even standing at the brinks doesn't capture the vastness of the Niagara region. Well done, sir!! I feel so blessed to live here. Anyone visiting the US side in 2024, look me up with 5 Star Niagara Falls Tours - I LOVE sharing the extra history of this beautiful area!
I always enjoy these science videos!
Deeply flattered to have you as a viewer, my friend! This is just the appetizer for what is to come, but living in the most beautiful part of the continent, you hardly need me to tell you so. Rock on.
I took my family to Niagara Fall this past August. It's awesome that my fav. linguist on the tubes just decided to talk about it.
As a history geek i first fell in love with your channel about the deep dive and analysis of ancient greek pronunciation and its historic changes but now im also interested about your geology videos very much so
Greetings from a geology student from Greece
Ευχαριστώ! I’m really glad you like the geology stuff, it’s another one of my passions that I’m eager to share with my audience.
I grew up where the Niagara Escapement reaches Georgian Bay. In high school, for geology class, we collected samples of dolomite and oil shale that had been deposited in the Silurian period as well as granite and quartz that were brought by the glaciers, from the Laurentian Shield, during the ice ages.
Ah that’s so cool. What a great high school!
As a geologist from Austria, I am excited to learn more about the geology of North America. 😊
I would love to learn about the geology of Australia in person some day! What a beautiful country.
@@polyMATHY_LukeI see what you did here 🥸
@@polyMATHY_LukeLMAO
Ha! I live near there, and even just crossed that gorge yesterday on my way back from a vacation. Fun little linguistic thing about Niagara Falls: the Canadian side (the one Luke didn't go to in this video) is a famous tourist attraction around the world, so, as you walk along the walkway on top of that side of the gorge, you can listen to little samples of a variety of languages being used around you & try to count how many different ones you might have been able to identify. (It's also easier to see the overall structure of the gorge & its waterfalls from there.)
Yes, I didn’t have time to get over to the Canadian side I’m afraid, that will be for next time!
Speaking of waterfalls that don't exist anymore, Dry Falls in eastern Washington would have been a spectacular sight when active during the ice age Missoula floods!
It certainly would have been! That’s a great place for a future mini documentary.
The footage at the start reminds me of the time I visited Iceland and saw a similar huge waterfall. It's so beautiful, I wanna go back now 😍
That will be a beautiful place to do a documentary video like this some day!
This video about Niagara Falls was great, but Im excited to see the Berringer Meteor Crater video shown briefly at the end. Geology and astronomy coming together! Seems like theres a whole US geology tour series of videos is coming based on those clips. How does Luke find time to go to these places and make all these videos?
Absolutely! A way to propel the geology content into outer space, as it were. I hope you enjoy the upcoming series! It was a blast to make.
The short answer to your question is that we recorded these over several weeks, the goal of the journey being to make these documentaries.
Luke's a cool guy. As a geologist who took four semesters of Latin in college, Luke is my intellectual kin.
You are indeed my kin, sir. Very proud to have you here.
In that brief section of what's up and coming I saw so many of my favorite places. I can't wait for the next episode. Geology was my minor in college; I've been hooked on it since I was 13 years old. A major quarry of Silurian limestone and dolomite is located near where I live: Thornton Quarry. It is magnificent.
That’s an impressive quarry! I’m really glad you like the video, and I hope you enjoy the whole series. Geology really does rock.
Another excellent educational video, thank you for posting.
Thanks so much for watching! Please share it with anyone you think may like it
We took a two month trip out west last summer and I am so excited to hear your discussions of so many place we went! We also saw Niagara this past summer. Mirabilis!!
Sophōs! I think you’ll really like the videos to come.
You are such a wholesome delight. Thank you for making so many videos about so many things!
Thanks for watching them! Share this one with a friend who likes nature and science videos.
Che meraviglia! ❤ Adoro questi video informativi babby, sono molto interessanti anche per me che non capisco niente di geologia! 🪨
Grazie a te, amorcule mī! Sei la regista più brava che ci sia. ❤️🎥
Found you through language interest, but, oh, I love geology too!
Wonderful! I’m glad; I think you’ll really like the videos to come.
Cant wait to see more of this! Always been an earth systems nerd as much as a human culture nerd too. When I was a kid I remember vividly not understanding how lakes and rivers worked. First it was “why do rivers flow towards the sea and not towards lakes?” Followed by “if rivers flow from lakes, how on earth do all lakes not eventually empty themselves?” 😂
To be honest, part of me still wonders how such a huge amount of water is contained in our inland seas. More recently, I’ve hoped to finally learn more about specifically how such a long chain of depressions in the earths surface were formed beyond the simple “glacial erosion” explanation. Why are some much deeper than others? What made them take that exact shape? What conditions caused the landscape to become deep enough for the lakes to stay in place while so many other proglacial lakes eventually emptied themselves into lakes many scales of magnitude smaller than the Great Lakes!
That's awesome, I'm so glad to have a fan who feels the same way I do about earth science and human history.
Those ore terrific questions. I hope to find answers to them in these videos, and if I don't, I hope you'll remind me in the comments!
I've read that there were giant waterfalls at Gibraltar and at the Bosphorus. Pretty cool stuff!
9:04 Hi neighbour, you’re always welcome to come and revel in Tim Horton’s, poutine and British English spelling, God save the King 🇨🇦
Seriously though, great series, I’m learning alot about a subject I know nothing about
I would love to visit the great land to the north! 🇨🇦 🤝 🇺🇸 Thanks, my man, more coming soon.
Interesting.
Awesome video, as always Luke. Waterfalls like this are unique.
Thanks for watching! They are indeed.
really weird for me to see so many buildings around a waterfall. None in Cymru . We have many falls but not many people. I have a little one 3.5 m high on the river at the top of my orchard possibly once used in the local copper industry a few 100 years ago.
That sounds like a majestic country! I shall have to visit it some day.
Oh man you were in this neck of the woods! I live in Buffalo just some 30 minutes from there!
Going to niagara falls after visiting Iguazu Falls in Argentina then in Brazil shocks me how tiny and sad it is.
Iguazu is impressive, but Niagara actually has almost twice the amount of flow of water as Iguazu.
You are fascinating Luke!! I'm really positively surprised that you also talk about geology, besides Latin/languages and rockets!! All of them fascinating subjects, and together your great communicating skills is awesome!! You are great man!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thanks so much, Jordi!
As a geology student I think you're the best RUclipsr ever :) I'm also very interested in dinosaurs as I want to study paleontology later :D
That's super kind of you. I'm really glad to have a fellow geologist here! That's awesome that you'll be studying paleontology too, one of my favorites.
Che spettacolo naturale! Il video molto interessante!
Grazie, Maria!
1:18 Dolomite, the tough black mineral that won't cop out when there's heat all about!
Good video and footage of the falls! I have some photos of Niagara Falls that my mom took framed on my wall. Amazing place!
Awesome series!
Thanks! Share it with a friend
I'm really excited and waiting to see a video like this on the Foz do Iguaçu falls.
Please come to South America and make it happen 😅
That would be fun!
8:42 I love the geology of Utah! I very much hope you’ll be able to do it justice
It shall be difficult to do justice to such a beautiful place, but I’ll do my best.
@@polyMATHY_Luke I can’t wait! I was born in Utah so I’m a little biased, but I honestly believe it has the most beauty per square mile of any state in the Union. It’s almost unfair that Arches, Bryce Canyon, Cache Valley, and the Wasatch Range are all in the same state.
When my fiancée and I got to see it along with many other places of splendor in the US last summer, we both came to the same conclusion: Utah beats them all.
@@polyMATHY_Luke I’m glad to hear that. And congratulations on your upcoming marriage!
Love these informative videos
Thanks for watching!
Can you explain water cycle in one of your videos. Is the earth currently in balance in terms that the total amount of water rivers bring to sea is equal to the amount that rains on land or are underground storages depleting over time?
That’s a fascinating topic. Thanks for the suggestion!
I really wanted this to be in Latin. :)
That’s coming. But it wouldn’t be on this channel, since this is not a Latin channel, but a general studies channel. ScorpioMartianus is my channel for content in ancient languages
...a cool video keep up the great content.. Thank you…
Thanks! I think you’ll enjoy this series.
@@polyMATHY_Luke Thank you very mutch... have a nice day.... see you….
How did you get interested in this Luke?
And hhhhwhere, and hhhwhen! ❤
Glad you appreciate my old fashioned pronunciation
wow! geology slaps
It really does!
Random question - how difficult is it for Americans to get into Canada if you live right close to the border? Like are you able to just visit for an afternoon and then cross back? As an Australian the idea of another entire country being just...right there...is very weird to me.
Heh and we similarly are astounded by how Europeans are so close to their neighboring countries. It is possible to go there, but some sort of international travel document, like a passport or a passport card, is necessary to get back into the US.
We here in new York have the option to obtain a different version of a driver's license called an enhanced license that allows us to travel to Canada without the need for a passport. This is very easy to obtain, only needing to pay some extra money when getting a driver's license
I prefer the Iguazu Falls in Argentina/Brasil.
Iguaçu just reached 24 million liters per second
Lūcius, quī linguam Latīnam regnat, est princeps quoque geōlogiae.
Nōn prīnceps, sōlum discipulus avidus! Grātiās
Tuās explicātiōnēs rērum omnium admīror. @@polyMATHY_Luke
Grātiās, amīce!
You’ve never been to Canada??You were so close😢
The view of the falls is better on our side.
Indeed! Sadly something I could not do this time, but next time! I look forward to my first trip there.
One thing I noticed that eroded is Luke’s mustache.
Lol. It’ll be back.