When Tasmania Collided & Joined With Australia

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มี.ค. 2023
  • #geology #geography #tasmania #hobart #melbourne #victoria #volcaniceruptions #tectoniccollision #tectonic #tectonicplates #australia #rift #tectonicrift #antarctica #gondwana #mountread #volcanicbelt #volcanic #volcanoes #volcano #mountread
    Tasmania is a very ancient land. Most people don't realize that its formation was completely separate from that of Australias. And that it's actually derived from two completely separate continents that bare absolutely no relation to Australia itself.
    Infact, Tasmania, is more closely related to East Antarctica, and to North America's Arizona, then it is to anything in Australia.
    The incredible thing about Tasmania, though, is the fact that it's actually around 1 billion years older than every state in eastern Australia. From Queenslands, down to New South Wales, and to Victoria, the construction of these landmasses actually began coincidentally around the time that Tasmania collided with Victoria, 500 million years ago. Tasmania begun it's construct at some point around 1750 million years ago, though, and it was nothing more than a weathered byproduct derived from eroded sedimentary material, carried by the rivers of ancient Antarctica and America, out to the deep ocean sedimentary basin, that would, after tectonic interference, see itself uplifted out of the ocean, becoming the present day landmass of Tasmania.
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  • @utha2665
    @utha2665 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    I knew Tasmania was much older than the Eastern seaboard of Australia, but I never realised just how far it has travelled over the eons. That was really interesting, thanks.

    • @serena-yu
      @serena-yu ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Since it was a thousand million years ago, things are not so clear. There are different models. Some models claim Tasmania travelled to southeast Australia (Pisarevski et al., 2003), whereas some others proposed that Tasmania stayed at about the same spot relative to Australia, as it was the original junction point of Australia, Antartica and Laurentia (North America) (Hoffman, 1991, Pisarevski et al., 2003)

    • @garynewton1263
      @garynewton1263 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Its not older than any part of mainland Australia. Wherever you got that shit from is 100% wrong.
      Gondwanna Land is all the same age.

    • @johnrobinson8941
      @johnrobinson8941 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Everything this mans says is wrong! Tasmania never collided with mainland Australia! Tasmania is part of mainland Australia, it always has been, New Guinea is also part of the continent, what he has said is simply made up! He has been caught out on here time and time again making stuff up like the tsunami which washed over southern Australia and Tasmania because if the shape of the rocks, that is simply made up! He posted a video where he walked into the bush and found a volcano all by himself, that again was made up I'm a retired Geologist and have been calling him out for aged now, please stop watching him he is unqualified.

    • @blerghflurg4327
      @blerghflurg4327 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It hasn't traveled at all. The Expanding Earth makes it painfully clear.

    • @utha2665
      @utha2665 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@johnrobinson8941 Well his theory is backed up by qualified geologists as well, if you care to check. Have a look at the following link: th-cam.com/video/_f_Hcyfv5rU/w-d-xo.html

  • @calebkraeplin24
    @calebkraeplin24 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    I was born in, and have lived in Dallas, Texas my whole life! I’ve kept up with your channel for a while. Im not a student or someone with any basal knowledge of how to access research papers. Your videos have been illuminating and interesting, as well as very much appreciated. Im glad you keep making them :)

    • @OzGeologyOfficial
      @OzGeologyOfficial  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That is awesome! Thanks for sharing! I'm so glad you're enjoying this :)

    • @harrietharlow9929
      @harrietharlow9929 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hi from Chevy Chase MD! Apparently the western arm of the Midcontinent Rift has been found to extend as far as TX. This is important in N. American geology because if the rift had not failed, there might be an ocean--or least geological evidence of a past ocean in mid-America today.
      This leads to the exciting probability that at least part of Texas was connected to Antarctica. I say this because rocks from the Midcontinent Rift are a match with rocks in Antarctica.

    • @cedarwaxwing3509
      @cedarwaxwing3509 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@harrietharlow9929 There is plenty of evidence for multiple periods of oceanic sedimentation in “mid America.” In fact, virtually every sedimentary rock (sandstones, shales, limestones) in North America was deposited in a marine environment. Magmas that were deposited within the mid-continent rift often show “pillow structures,” indicating that at least some were erupted under water, which makes sense; look at the Red Sea - when continental crust rifts apart, any nearby ocean will fill the rift if it can obtain access. As far as “rocks matching” between Texas and Antarctica, do you mean rock type, continent shape (which has changed drastically over the years), fossil content, geochemical signatures, or what?

    • @Rusty_Gold85
      @Rusty_Gold85 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've lived in Adelaide my whole life

    • @Rusty_Gold85
      @Rusty_Gold85 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cedarwaxwing3509 It used to be 2 halves 100m ya( not accurate ) . with Pterydactyls floating on hot currents over the Gulf

  • @AndisweatherCenter
    @AndisweatherCenter ปีที่แล้ว +45

    This is absolutely amazing! The fact that Tasmania is not only an island but it’s also its own continent that is connected to an island that is also a continent.

    • @johnrobinson8941
      @johnrobinson8941 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Everything this mans says is wrong! Tasmania never collided with mainland Australia! Tasmania is part of mainland Australia, it always has been, New Guinea is also part of the continent, what he has said is simply made up! He has been caught out on here time and time again making stuff up like the tsunami which washed over southern Australia and Tasmania because if the shape of the rocks, that is simply made up! He posted a video where he walked into the bush and found a volcano all by himself, that again was made up I'm a retired Geologist and have been calling him out for aged now, please stop watching him he is unqualified.

    • @thejollygreendragon8394
      @thejollygreendragon8394 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Most of us Tasmanians have always known that Tasmania is a continent and Australia is an Island connected to Tasmania, so this is nothing new for us Tasmanians, but for you other peoples, well you have learnt something 😊

    • @georgeriddell9356
      @georgeriddell9356 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Get off ma show

  • @faenethlorhalien
    @faenethlorhalien ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Wasn't expecting Tasmania to be related in any way to Arizona. Wow.

    • @astra6712
      @astra6712 ปีที่แล้ว

      Take it with a huge grain of salt

  • @briancrowther3272
    @briancrowther3272 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Thankyou once again. Nice. This has peeked my interest again. As you know I was a petroleum geologist and did a alot of work in the Bass Strait, between Tassi and Victoria, Australia's most prolific oil and gas fields. For this we needed to work out the geologic history but only so far back as say the splitting of Gondwana starting about 180 mya. Part of this is as you say the splitting off of Antartica (I did do a project to see if the Eyre Basin offshore SW of Adelaide in the Australian Bite would be economic for oil and gas and this was heavily influenced by that split, was great to do). Tassi was an aborted attempt at that split, that is what formed the Bass Strait and the structral settings for the oil and gas to accumultae, much like the North Sea was an aborted Atlantic, giving rise to the oil and gas there.
    The land bridge you talk of is much later say the last 100,000 to 2000yrs (latter no a guess ie geolicially so small a time ago that it is almost today anyway and the structures in that regard have not moved so the flooding of that narrow bridge of land was totally due to sea level rise as the ice metled after the last age, not plate tectonics, ie land sinking etc, have to be careful on this on the UK the land sunk due to the ice and then rose and is still rising in the NW half of the UK due to the ice melting and sinking on the SE half, that is one reason the Thames Barrier had to be made, plus sea level rise recently due to global warming. But there I think was so little ice in Tassie and Victoria this would not be anywhere near as significant in Tassie, so I'm dismissing that as a cause for flooding of the bridge).
    One guy below reckons Tassie was between America and Scotland in Nuna times, that has got me pondering. Scotland was joined to America back then but choofed off eventually to join Europe (Im goijng to check my Uk book now and will get back to writing this after). Ive checked that now, Scotland joined Euope, well England and Wales (Avalonia). That was much later about 400mya. SO Tassie could well have been joined to America in a position close to where Scotland was in the Nuna continent, say 1.6 BYA (1600Mya). Hmmm! Where is Eurpoe and Asia in that Nuna Map shown here, it seems missing. From wikki it maybe in that brown blob down the left hand side labelled as Ameirca. That is where it appears in Wikki.
    So loads could have happened between 1600 mya of Nuna and Scotland joining England and Wales (Avalonia) as they crashed into America (500Mya). In the meantime Tassi had gone a wondering away to Antartica (again) and Australia (which became joined) to get stuck between the two.
    Its a bloody teaser. There are some good short youtuubes on Tassi and this one from Hobart Uni. Ill see if I can find them and re watch them. I have to keep going over this stuff to see it in my minds eye and get it correct, its a 4D jig saw puzzle. Love it.
    Thanks
    Ah ha, found one of the ones I was talking about heres the link
    th-cam.com/video/_f_Hcyfv5rU/w-d-xo.html
    Also when searching for that came across this, it says that the Kimberly region of WA Australia was also part the American continent Luaratia at that time that they were joined moved around together then split up then rejoined to make Nuna (this is amazing).
    geodynamics.curtin.edu.au/research/research-highlights/supercontinent-nuna-formed-two-stages/
    A guy/lady below said that Nth Qld bits were also joined to America in NUna's time and I searched and found he/she was correct.
    geodynamics.curtin.edu.au/research/research-highlights/supercontinent-nuna-formed-two-stages/
    If you root around you will find that maps of Nuna have bits of Australia up against Lauratia (America) during that time along with Antartica. Plus this shows that as well as the zircon shown in the ABC article that paleaomagnetic evidence supports the zircon data. Even more cool. ie it shows where the land was relative to the magnetic poles over time and thus how the land wanders and where it was at any time.
    So it does look like Tassi in Nuna's time was not there until a basin formed between the LAuratia and Antartica and sediment poured into them from each forming the rocks that make those we see in the ABC movie, ie sedimentray deep sea rocks (turbidites, there are some beauties on the west Wales coast and Devons coast, at Nundal near Tamworth in NSW and in the Vicotrian Alps north of Sale. There would be laods more eg around jenolan Caves west of Sydeny but have seen all these but they are all way younger than the Tassie ones, sayeg 400 mya).
    So thanks Oceangraphics due to your cast I have explored and learnt heaps. You may want to add the detail about the recent land bridge between Tassi and Victoria as I explained above.
    What I'd like to know is if Tassi is where it is and the Australian eastern coastline was west of Tassi's present position right up till say the Silurian (I am playing with ideas here and soome facts might not be quite spot on eg ages of where the eastern coastline was in detail at times) was west of Tassi's preent position. So where was Tassi then, one its own to the south and east of most of Australia (Australia acrrted from west to east from about and about a third has been added steadily eastwards since the cambrian about 500mya.
    This was my career, so people do not feel like you are stupid for not knowing this or being able to mucj around with ideas like this. What you are seeing here is how geologists work things out. It takes work. But it is lots of fun.

    • @wizzard5442
      @wizzard5442 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      For all the effort you put into your comment, no-one - especially Oceanographics - gave you either a like or reply. But I'll give you a like.

  • @dylang1090
    @dylang1090 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    As a Tasmanian I found this really interesting had no idea about half of the information you provided top job

    • @whyyes6428
      @whyyes6428 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh look another person starting a comment with 'as a'

  • @tolrem
    @tolrem ปีที่แล้ว +14

    My cousin's husband is a jeweller and he told me that miners found a lode of some precious metal/stone [I don't recall now] in south west India...so they realized that that part of the subcontinent used to be connected to Mozambique.They figured that the lode/vein or whatever would continue over there for exploration purposes.

    • @briancrowther3272
      @briancrowther3272 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      We do the same when looking for oil and gas, eg oil was predicted off Canada's east coast as it would have been joined to Europe where oil and gas had been found in large quanities in the North Sea, so they/we looked and found it in Canada.

  • @aussietaipan8700
    @aussietaipan8700 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks Tassie for lifting the land that would become Melbourne, you guys are just awesome.

  • @gregwmanning
    @gregwmanning ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Mainlander saying nice things about tassie. Thumbs up

  • @SJR_Media_Group
    @SJR_Media_Group ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Looking at a map, it would be easy to see Tasmania being connected to Australia with only a shallow body of water separating the two. It never dawned on me just how different geologically could be. Now I know... thank you.

    • @johnrobinson8941
      @johnrobinson8941 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Everything this mans says is wrong! Tasmania never collided with mainland Australia! Tasmania is part of mainland Australia, it always has been, New Guinea is also part of the continent, what he has said is simply made up! He has been caught out on here time and time again making stuff up like the tsunami which washed over southern Australia and Tasmania because if the shape of the rocks, that is simply made up! He posted a video where he walked into the bush and found a volcano all by himself, that again was made up I'm a retired Geologist and have been calling him out for aged now, please stop watching him he is unqualified.

    • @SJR_Media_Group
      @SJR_Media_Group ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johnrobinson8941 Thanks for comment. I was taught the same, both from same source.

    • @johnrobinson8941
      @johnrobinson8941 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@SJR_Media_Group the man is not a Geologist he has said so many things on here which are simply made up and he is getting away with it, Tasmania is part of the continent just put the question into Google, it clearly shows it is part of the mainland and so is Papua New Guinea

    • @SJR_Media_Group
      @SJR_Media_Group ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johnrobinson8941 Thanks for comment. Yeah, he isn't a PhD in Geology. But he is rather accurate in many ways. I too questioned Tasmania. In some mapping programs you can see the seabed. Looks like Tasmania sit right on top of same plate.

  • @matthewpettit7130
    @matthewpettit7130 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    As a Tasmanian I found that most enlightening. Thanks for sharing. I enjoy your content. Keep it up.👍

  • @aussieatheist960
    @aussieatheist960 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks Tassie!! 🤘

  • @shaunpaulcroft
    @shaunpaulcroft ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Plate tectonics is fascinating. While this is only one of several models explaining this event, every one of them has rocks, continents and supercontinents tearing themselves apart, moving great distances and slamming into one another.
    Thanks for another great video Oz

    • @OzGeologyOfficial
      @OzGeologyOfficial  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well said! Thanks for watching!

    • @guyskillen
      @guyskillen ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@TH-cam_Zukz that's because very few 'scientific people' refuse to use evidence to reach conclusions.

  • @QuickFixTips
    @QuickFixTips ปีที่แล้ว +3

    How cool is that??? I guess that makes us Yanks and Tazmanians family! HA! Just one more place I need to visit now, thanks Oz!

  • @JaseC80
    @JaseC80 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thankyou, this was amazing. Wonder where all will be in the next 40+ million years.

  • @harrietharlow9929
    @harrietharlow9929 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Very interesting. At one point, part of Australia was indeed attached to North America. If I'm not mistaken, North American rock has also been found in the northern tip of Queensland. It's really cool to see how far rocks have traveled.

    • @edwardlulofs444
      @edwardlulofs444 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The rocks in Joshua Tree National Park here in south central California have rocks from when it was attached to Australia.
      It was great to hear about Tasmania and its part in this process.

    • @harrietharlow9929
      @harrietharlow9929 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@edwardlulofs444 Agree. It's fascinating to learn how fact rocks can travel over time.

    • @edwardlulofs444
      @edwardlulofs444 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@harrietharlow9929 It is! I use these speeds to think about the tectonics of the southern San Andreas as it merges into the Gulf of California Rift Zone (GCRZ). I drive the area frequently.

    • @edwardlulofs444
      @edwardlulofs444 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@harrietharlow9929 Also, Have you heard:? Just as West CA, Baja is moving north, geologists are *debating* if a piece of Mexico moved up to Washington and another piece might have moved to Alaska.
      And the speed record for me is how India split from Africa and "raced" north into Asia(maybe 5" a year?). Check the TH-cam channels of past tectonic movements.

    • @harrietharlow9929
      @harrietharlow9929 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@edwardlulofs444 No, I haven't but I will check for those. Thank you for the information!

  • @PseudoAus
    @PseudoAus ปีที่แล้ว +5

    As a Geologist who grew up, has lived in, studied, and works in Tasmania, well done on conveying this info in an informative yet fun way. There so much more you could talk about with the Jurassic dolerites covering 1/3 of Tasmania's surface, to the different granite intrusions on the west and east coast that all make up the mountains and landforms that tourists often flock to see, like Freycinet and Cradle Mountain. Looking forward to a part 2 haha.

    • @moaningpheromones
      @moaningpheromones ปีที่แล้ว

      shut up nerd.
      someone had to say it 😜😜

    • @SenorTucano
      @SenorTucano 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Surely they’re basalts if there found at surface?

  • @Roddles
    @Roddles ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great video

  • @robmcelwee389
    @robmcelwee389 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Some really neat rocks there. Ultra mafic rocks to with strange plant communities.

  • @josephhalligan1712
    @josephhalligan1712 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    wow that was relay interesting....
    thanks ...!

  • @Aaron_Hanson
    @Aaron_Hanson ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I’m blown away by the way you can make me understand the most complicated of topics understood 😂
    Great content mate, cheers 🍻🇦🇺

    • @OzGeologyOfficial
      @OzGeologyOfficial  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks! 😃That's a huge compliment! I really do appreciate that!

    • @Aaron_Hanson
      @Aaron_Hanson ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@OzGeologyOfficial “huge compliment?” That’s an understatement 😂
      I’m so dense I make blue gum seem malleable 🤦‍♂️

  • @outthere9370
    @outthere9370 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very good. Thanks.

  • @wizardcrystal
    @wizardcrystal ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fascinating! Thank you

  • @peace.love.light8856
    @peace.love.light8856 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow!! So interesting. Thanks Oz Geo 👏👏👏

  • @lynamor6266
    @lynamor6266 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting,,,,,

  • @SB-qm5wg
    @SB-qm5wg ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Tasmania and Arizona USA. i would of *never* guessed that connection.

  • @Luk844
    @Luk844 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Well presented your doing an awesome job with your channel and have a good selection of topical varying , keep up the good work 👍

    • @OzGeologyOfficial
      @OzGeologyOfficial  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you very much!

    • @Luk844
      @Luk844 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@OzGeologyOfficial your welcome👍🇭🇲

  • @iftekharahmed6990
    @iftekharahmed6990 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is so cool. Tasmania ❤

  • @fortymillioncoins9066
    @fortymillioncoins9066 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Micro Continent Tassie- I love it!

  • @gregmac8268
    @gregmac8268 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great video about where I live. The people are different, mostly in a good way :)

  • @dazfromtaz.2406
    @dazfromtaz.2406 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The best place on the planet. 🌏

  • @bigred8438
    @bigred8438 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Excellent, learned a lot more about Tas, than the knowledge l gained in 1st year geology back in '95.😊

  • @davidhart5344
    @davidhart5344 ปีที่แล้ว

    Such a beautiful place that everyone should try to visit

  • @lithiumvalleyrocksprospect9792
    @lithiumvalleyrocksprospect9792 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video mate 👍

  • @matthewhooper4686
    @matthewhooper4686 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What can I say. I was looking forward to this video and it didn't disappoint. Five stars.

  • @rodneymiddleton1044
    @rodneymiddleton1044 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video and I had no idea of this.

  • @beaverbuoy3011
    @beaverbuoy3011 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great!

  • @chopppacalamari
    @chopppacalamari ปีที่แล้ว

    Good luck saving up for your rock crusher. I just saved up and purchased a Mini Rock crusher that works with an angle grinder. Only to discover it is not mini enough to work with an affordable battery powered angle grinder. So I am back to making the 4 hour hike with a backpack full of ore and crushing in my shed. There’s not enough gold to pay for the petrol but it is so much fun and it is keeping this old fella fit. Northern NSW.

  • @ninjamoves3642
    @ninjamoves3642 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    mind blown...it really is a mini continent

  • @SG-Gody
    @SG-Gody ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks for posting. Very interesting as usual. Great work keep it up.

  • @evanwilliams4790
    @evanwilliams4790 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Should’ve mentioned that the Mt. Read volcanics forming orogen was a very complex continent-arc collision! The formation of the western half of Tasmania during the Tyennan orogeny is very, very complicated and interesting.

  • @CartoonHero1986
    @CartoonHero1986 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Intro got me laughing pretty hard. Gonna have to send this to my Tazie friends since they'll get a kick out of the "strange in other ways" comment.

  • @bryanp4827
    @bryanp4827 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've always LOVED the map of Tasmania!😜😜

  • @MrConspark
    @MrConspark ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very interesting video, we love travelling our home island and finding new and fantastic looking geology. Thanks for the very informative video Oz, cheers mate

  • @maxwalker1159
    @maxwalker1159 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cool

  • @amyayanitagraff-salem690
    @amyayanitagraff-salem690 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazing how far this little chunk of lad has travelled and how wild the landscape would have looked when it was still attached to North America then to Antarctica.

  • @jamesatherton1853
    @jamesatherton1853 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow, I've often wondered about how Tasmania could be connected to Victoria. As you fly from Melbourne you can see just how flat the Victorian landscape is, compared to how hilly and mountainous Tasmania is. Now I know that there not from the same landmass at all and it makes so much more sense!

    • @johnrobinson8941
      @johnrobinson8941 ปีที่แล้ว

      Everything this mans says is wrong! Tasmania never collided with mainland Australia! Tasmania is part of mainland Australia, it always has been, New Guinea is also part of the continent, what he has said is simply made up! He has been caught out on here time and time again making stuff up like the tsunami which washed over southern Australia and Tasmania because if the shape of the rocks, that is simply made up! He posted a video where he walked into the bush and found a volcano all by himself, that again was made up I'm a retired Geologist and have been calling him out for aged now, please stop watching him he is unqualified.

    • @jamesatherton1853
      @jamesatherton1853 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johnrobinson8941 oh damn really? This is the first video I've seen by him. I guess I have no idea who he is and if he's right or not.

  • @leandabee
    @leandabee ปีที่แล้ว +13

    You explained it beautifully 👌. When I was at the Grand Canyon a few years ago, I had already known we were part of there once, and I thought how amazing the earth is 😳❤

    • @peterlyall2848
      @peterlyall2848 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Hello from Tasmania nice know my home state Tasmania was part of North America well over a billion years ago. As an a Tasmanian any chance of me getting dual citizenship of America LOL.

    • @blerghflurg4327
      @blerghflurg4327 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@peterlyall2848 Expanding Earth explains it much better that this.

  • @ccwestman
    @ccwestman 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    wow, ty

  • @fionairvine2403
    @fionairvine2403 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes, I’ve watched this doco before and it is a mini supercontinent and I am at home 🤟

    • @fionairvine2403
      @fionairvine2403 ปีที่แล้ว

      Actually the doco I watched was from the abc and spoke more about the geology from Canada that matches Tassie geology which does not match mainland Aus...

  • @vandiemenadventures
    @vandiemenadventures ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great video mate if you'd like some Tasmanian stones for your videos feel free to get in contact

  • @maxwellb.4453
    @maxwellb.4453 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video thank you although I must say the music sounds like the score to a tim and eric infomercial

  • @brockachoo
    @brockachoo 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Our state is pretty awesome

  • @janetdTas
    @janetdTas ปีที่แล้ว

    There was a program on ABC a couple of years ago that found rocks on Frenchman's Cap (mountain range in Northwest Tasmania), which are the same as some rocks in China

  • @carlpeachey484
    @carlpeachey484 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So... Tasmania is adopted.... Makes a lot of sense.

  • @ofaux3282
    @ofaux3282 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Keen to watch this.. I heard that rocks on the coast of Tassie match up with parts of North America?!?! Forgive me if my memory is off 😬 .. what’s cool about that to me is that there were native indigenous populations in Tasmania before colonisation.. I wonder if they came from there and spread to mainland Australia, or other way around, or perhaps had unique genetics altogether - I’m sure answers exist to already.. I’m just not across it.. very cool nonetheless

    • @ofaux3282
      @ofaux3282 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Watched the video.. I reakon I wouldn’t even score half points at the local bowls club trivia!! 😂

  • @TasdazDownunder
    @TasdazDownunder ปีที่แล้ว

    We are special and I wouldn't change a thing about us or this state (especially the food we have).

  • @nicejob5386
    @nicejob5386 ปีที่แล้ว

    I live in Tasmania it’s beautiful

  • @calebkraeplin24
    @calebkraeplin24 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Do volcanoes and/or their processes cause rare elements to congregate in their outcomes due to density within magma essentially?

    • @vandiemenadventures
      @vandiemenadventures ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yes alot of volcanic plug on the east coast that produce zircons sapphires and topaz

  • @patricksee10
    @patricksee10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Interesting theory. What is your source?

  • @BMW1M
    @BMW1M ปีที่แล้ว

    After meeting several Tasmanians, this explains a lot.

    • @alwilliams8882
      @alwilliams8882 ปีที่แล้ว

      We say. You can tell a mainlander;
      but you can't tell them much...
      Interesting how slowly they drive...
      How close to crests and curves they park...
      Slightly ignorant, perhaps...
      ...

    • @BMW1M
      @BMW1M ปีที่แล้ว

      @@alwilliams8882 touche

  • @saintessa
    @saintessa ปีที่แล้ว

    Love u 2

  • @BailTRB1111
    @BailTRB1111 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm from here
    Its cold ❄❄❄

  • @procactus9109
    @procactus9109 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is my idea of a short video. Always a pleasure watching these ones.

  • @quantumcat7673
    @quantumcat7673 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice video! I think the music is a tiny little bit too loud.

  • @vandiemenadventures
    @vandiemenadventures ปีที่แล้ว +2

    just about to watch this but i mine and cut sapphires and on the east coast of Tasmania

  • @maxl3189
    @maxl3189 ปีที่แล้ว

    Apparently when the bass straight was formed the school shark changed into the gummy shark because it's diet was changed from mainly fish to crustaceans

  • @mickgatz214
    @mickgatz214 ปีที่แล้ว

    So, tell me. When Captain Cook navigated Australia and named it New Holland, Tasmania was joined to Australia. Oh well, that's what history taught me......

  • @Rusty_Gold85
    @Rusty_Gold85 ปีที่แล้ว

    I still want to see someone Interpret tectonic plate movement over the millennia, on the possible way the planet looked , using 3d Graphics

  • @stuartr547
    @stuartr547 ปีที่แล้ว

    I would suggest Tasmania was joined to mainland Australia, mainland Australia is moving north with a slight clockwise turn, tazmania was left behind .

  • @Hossak
    @Hossak ปีที่แล้ว +10

    "Some scientists consider Tasmania as a micro-continent in its own right." OMG don't let them know that :( - Great video!

    • @einfelder8262
      @einfelder8262 ปีที่แล้ว

      Too late - I'm one of them and now I know things......😀

    • @Hossak
      @Hossak ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@einfelder8262 NOoooooooooooo!!!! Put a pin on this video - like when Spicks and Specks pointed out that the Men at Work song had that old scout song theme in it :(

    • @lilliankeane5731
      @lilliankeane5731 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ha ha too late . 😜.

  • @darrenmarney8577
    @darrenmarney8577 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That was totally amazing information in regards to Tasmania's development 👌 3 activities I'm interested in Tasmania are gold , rock climbing & surfing ❤ Must plan a trip in the near future 👌 The Dove River area has some interesting gold history 👍

    • @OzGeologyOfficial
      @OzGeologyOfficial  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Glad it was helpful! Best of luck!

    • @darrenmarney8577
      @darrenmarney8577 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hopefully your crusher project is going to plan 😃 If the results are mathematically viable for good production 🙏 Your Vlog's will share knowledge with people that the potential still exists 😃

    • @briancrowther3272
      @briancrowther3272 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Fly fishing for trout is good in Tassie, Im envious its not so good in NSW.

  • @joanndavidson2769
    @joanndavidson2769 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Tasmania was joined to South Australia.

  • @kingmalu39
    @kingmalu39 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    it feels like if you put tasmania part of north america you wouldnt see the differents.

  • @carlbennett2417
    @carlbennett2417 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As a Tasmanian I often feel more kinship with the Kiwis than I do for the mainland Australians. Maybe it's an island consciousness more than geology.

  • @annastark3786
    @annastark3786 ปีที่แล้ว

    Never knew that. And I'm a 51 y.o. aussie

  • @Eric_Hutton.1980
    @Eric_Hutton.1980 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    From watching Nick Zentner I know Australia or at least parts of it were once connected to North America. Also from what I have learned, Alaska didn't exist until sometime in the last 100 million years give or take.

    • @harrietharlow9929
      @harrietharlow9929 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nick Zentner rules! I remember seeing that in one of his videos in the "Nick From Home" series. If you haven't already done so, may I suggest that you check out his "Eocene A to Z" series?

    • @Eric_Hutton.1980
      @Eric_Hutton.1980 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@harrietharlow9929 I've been there from the start. Nick in his backyard. Bijou the cat, Muffler boy and the three frogs on the wall.

    • @harrietharlow9929
      @harrietharlow9929 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Eric_Hutton.1980 Cool! I would love to be be able to audit some of his classes. Luckily I have tons of Nick Zentner videos. When you see him, please give him my best. He really is a very cool guy.

  • @basilbrushbooshieboosh5302
    @basilbrushbooshieboosh5302 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Interesting. As you said, there's a bit of speculation as to where it was so long ago.
    Some 5 years ago I heard it was jammed between Scotland and the New England/Nova Scotia part of the US, before that area was split by plate separation. This was based on similar rock types I think.
    I see it's just as likely/unlikely to be further south down a spinning portion of the North American land mass.

    • @sam27ellsmere
      @sam27ellsmere ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's interesting as some whorled agates I find in Tasmania are nearly identical to some Scottish whorled agates I've seen from the Isle of Mull and I haven't seen examples anywhere else.

    • @briancrowther3272
      @briancrowther3272 ปีที่แล้ว

      NOw that is interesting, I am from the UK did my geology degree at Sheffield Uni there and then got a job looking for oil and gas in 81 in Oz (much of the time between Tassie and Victoria) and never left Oz.
      I knew Scotland was part of the North American continent and that did make me wonder re Tassie as it looks from this to be in the position where Scotland would have been. But I am wondering where Europe and Asia fit into the information presented here and to sort out this quandrie we need to know where it is as Scotland moved off to join Europe. So maybe Tassie was between Scotland and America like shown here but, if so then how does Europe get into the picture with Antartica in the way. Hmmmmmm!!!

    • @basilbrushbooshieboosh5302
      @basilbrushbooshieboosh5302 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@briancrowther3272
      Yeah, I was born in Glasgow and my parents emigrated over here when I was three months old.
      I agree, such a mystery how Tassie is this tiny chunk of land completely foreign to the rest of Oz, and travelling such a long way to sidle up beside it. Almost like it had its very own continental plate to scoot around on.

  • @wynnschaible
    @wynnschaible ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I visited Tas some 10 years ago. A magical place -- but not all the magic was the good kind.

  • @brodylockwood14
    @brodylockwood14 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey mate, our little island is very symbolic. It actually separated from the mainland as Gods symbolism of having our second head removed.
    But on a serious note, we are actually one of the first places in the world to go carbon neutral so that's an achievement I guess.

    • @alwilliams8882
      @alwilliams8882 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not so comforting, however, to realise humanity is the carbon they intend to neutralize.
      Maybe be thankful for hydro electricity...

  • @chloewinkworthlizardqueen
    @chloewinkworthlizardqueen ปีที่แล้ว +1

    its a vast SCALE of time..(scale,music reference lol)

  • @wizzard5442
    @wizzard5442 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    But we're still moving, or at least mainland Australia is: 7cm north every year.

  • @bobcatman3844
    @bobcatman3844 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’ve known this for years and I have told people that .not everyone believed me

  • @garynewton1263
    @garynewton1263 ปีที่แล้ว

    Basically part of Victoria anyway so we own it.

  • @hollybyrd6186
    @hollybyrd6186 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So Arizona and Tasmania are cousins

  • @blerghflurg4327
    @blerghflurg4327 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Expanding Earth makes a gazillion more sense than that tectonic plates basically floating around acting like bumper cars.

    • @OzGeologyOfficial
      @OzGeologyOfficial  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It really, really doesn't.

    • @blerghflurg4327
      @blerghflurg4327 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@OzGeologyOfficial Yes, it really does.

  • @marinvidovic763
    @marinvidovic763 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice narative but
    I would rather prefere an animation of those
    Land masses moving on the acreen ... and naration in tune with picture.
    It is very hard to follow what you are saying and simultaneously watch some drone futage ...
    Waiting to crush into the scenary.
    I am kidding... but yep...
    All the best.

  • @aaronmckechnie7611
    @aaronmckechnie7611 ปีที่แล้ว

    If you took the water out of the oceans aren't all continents connected by land? The continents aren't floating around and if the continents changed over time wouldn't it be the sea levels or the continental shoulders breaking and falling away? Something to consider anyway

  • @matt54321100
    @matt54321100 ปีที่แล้ว

    Tasmania and Arizona were as closely connected as Tasmanian siblings/couples.

  • @parkaparid7549
    @parkaparid7549 ปีที่แล้ว

    You were there to see this?

  • @sarahmcleod2673
    @sarahmcleod2673 ปีที่แล้ว

    We who live in Tasmania do not see ourselves as part of that other island "Australia".

  • @MelodyMan69
    @MelodyMan69 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I beg to differ. My understand is that New Zealand, Tasmania, Australia and New Guinea were all connected.??

    • @OzGeologyOfficial
      @OzGeologyOfficial  ปีที่แล้ว

      Nope, Tasmania was its own boss till 500 million years ago :)

  • @doradosurfcharters
    @doradosurfcharters ปีที่แล้ว

    It’s all speculation at the end off the day but interesting anyway 👍🍻

    • @OzGeologyOfficial
      @OzGeologyOfficial  ปีที่แล้ว

      Not true. The only real speculation is the positioning during Nuna. The rocks, however, don't lie.

  • @berenscott8999
    @berenscott8999 ปีที่แล้ว

    All in favour of kicking Tasmania out of Australia? I agree completely.

  • @bjnslc
    @bjnslc ปีที่แล้ว

    Music is very distracting, and volume is too high.

  • @aljuric5887
    @aljuric5887 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please note; this is all a theory.

  • @jabcreations
    @jabcreations ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just an FYI: inanimate objects don't live such as stars, continents and microcontinents. Would have liked to have seen more maps over the course of hundreds of millions of years. Still, good video.

    • @OzGeologyOfficial
      @OzGeologyOfficial  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I'm aware of that. But mapping something this old is quite difficult so that's why I stuck to my garbo paint "art" instead hahaha.

    • @robertwalker7924
      @robertwalker7924 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      our Sun is a star and its life will end one day, it lives. also, continents and microcontinents have lives.

    • @Aaron_Hanson
      @Aaron_Hanson ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So the Great Barrier Reef isn’t a living organism?

    • @jabcreations
      @jabcreations ปีที่แล้ว

      @@OzGeologyOfficial Fair enough. There are some videos that give a good sense: th-cam.com/video/OGdPqpzYD4o/w-d-xo.html

    • @jabcreations
      @jabcreations ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Aaron_Hanson No, it's a mass of decaying coral. You can think of it like a building, there are living people in the building. The materials the building is made out of might contain material from creatures that used to be alive. Obviously in a reef there are creatures that are stationary unlike humans. Language when used correctly is used like math and if it is not used logically then things don't add up.

  • @SenorTucano
    @SenorTucano 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Such a shame Melbourne didn’t remain below the sea

  • @erichtomanek4739
    @erichtomanek4739 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    New Guinea has been connected to Australia longer than Tasmania.

  • @briansims1987
    @briansims1987 ปีที่แล้ว

    And I thought Tasmania was joined to Victoria by a big cable, silly me.