Why does crude oil seep out of the ground on this beautiful Caribbean Island?
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- Oil and gas production are typically associated with specific regions of the Earth, and Caribbean Islands aren't one of those. Despite this fact, one small but very unique Caribbean Island has an active onshore oil and gas industry due to its very unique geology. Specific plate tectonic details have combined to make this island emerge from the sea, and the same processes have generated oil and gas in the rocks underneath the island. This video talks about this unique place and the geology that forms it. A cool "sandbox model" is used to demonstrate a key process, which is also illustrated live with a Microsoft Paint diagram.
I don't know whats more impressive, his vast knowledge or the skill in MS Paint
MS Paint skills, definitely. Universities around the world are pumping out bright geology students every semester.
His knowledge is AWESOME.
THANKS for EDUCATING
my paint skills cower to his.
TH-cam brought me here but man was this informative. I’m Barbadian 🇧🇧🇧🇧
Nice!
I am actually from Barbados and I always knew we were different from the other islands geologically mainly because they are volcanic while Barbados is mostly limestone. I also heard the mountain range explanation but this video has taught me so much more about how my island actually formed and got its deposits of oil and natural gas. To be unique in the caribbean is one thing but globally? It is really fascinating!
outstanding!
I live in Barbados and knew we were unique limestone and that we have oil and gas but what I want to know is what other Island country or continent is like us geologically?
From Bim as well. This guy knows more about the geology of barbados than me. Before I could finish watching, I had to share it with the geography teacher at my school. Thanks for sharing.
@@nicholasbedford487 that's great. I'm glad it has reached the island!
@@afafnithmaathatap306 It's a good question. Perhaps check out Siberut Island in Indonesia. It, along with its neighbors, are islands formed where an accretionary prism has grown enough to emerge from the ocean. They are, however, associated with Sumatra, which is a large land mass compared to the more isolated arc volcanoes of St Lucia, St V and G, Grenada, etc. Indonesia in general has several islands formed from accretionary prisms, but the overall nature of the Earth's crust/colliding plates is a bit different from Barbados' surroundings.
I swear this guy is the Bob Ross of MS Paint. I'm just waiting for him to draw a happy little island.
Lol it's amazing, I can't draw for crap with a mouse in ms paint
Yeah, he's good. And he's good at using it to explain.
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Actually, check his Mariana's Trench video. He draws an islands, then puts some volcanic activity on it. As he does, he notes, "Don't worry, they got everybody off in time."
@@77thTrombone I saw that one too.
What a great way to understand a complicated science ,with a master instructor. Deserves tons of subscribers.
thanks! glad you liked it. tell your friends!
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After 30 years in mining, I have just been taken to geology kindergarten and showed my wife your awesome painting. She smiled politely and said, “isn’t that nice,” before returning to making dinner. I feel like a kid again! This was insanely fun and I can’t wait to watch more of your videos.
Reminds me of the Eager Space channel for all things related to the space industry
Dude I love your videos and nonchalant delivery. Discovered this channel a couple days ago. I never thought I’d be this into geology.
Same
Besides the interesting geology, the people here are awesome. A great place to visit.
I love Barbados, and I love geology. Thanks for putting this together for us to learn from. Cheers!
Extremely interesting. Now I know why when walking on the beach on the east coast of Barbados you very often see black tarry sand that sticks to your feet like glue.
Interesting as always. And timely too. I met a sailor from Barbados last weekend who was telling me that Barbados is the most windward of the Windward Isles, and that it juts out from the island chain. Now I know why!
Indeed!
...although we don't really consider ourselves be actually part of the windwards.
Barbados is100 miles out into the Atlantic Ocean. The Caribbean Sea is in a line up the Western side of the islands in the chain forming the arc. All of that stuff that you were just shown under Barbados is capped with a coral layer that is 6 or 700,000 years old. Come and see our lovely little island soon. You will love it.
Also meant to say, the oil well shown at the start of the video is 200 yards from my home.
Your area was once part of ancient Atlantis, it existed in the central Atlantic Ocean until about fifty thousand years ago.
love ur vids man, nothing else like em on youtube i really appreciate all the effort and time
Love this! I'm from Barbados, doing deep-sea biology, and I'm studying our deep-sea ecosystems such as mud volcanoes (which host very interesting organisms). The papers describing how these mud volcanoes are formed as a result of our accretionary prism have been complicated to say the least, and this makes things so much easier to understand. Thanks a lot!
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I learned a lot about my island🇧🇧! Thank you for this additional insight! Your passion for your work is evident. subscribed!
That was a fascinating insight into a complex situation, simplified. Thank you for the video.
Glad you liked it!
The MS Paint diagrams are so instructive. Appreciate watching his ease I'm making this drawings. Excellent info too.
Thanks
Always good to learn something new at 73 years of age. Thanks for what you do!
Thanks for the video, I'm also from Barbados, growing up in School i was taught Barbados isn't a Caribbean Island but in the Atlantic Ocean, this video demonstrates it more.
Who taught you that? I’m from Barbados and although we are not in the Caribbean Sea, we are definitely a Caribbean Island. There are about 4 definitions of the Caribbean by the way.
@jt19933 Yes we are a Caribbean Island because of culture, just like Guyana, but we aren't in the Caribbean, just like Guyana.
Fun Fact: In the early 20th century Manjack mining in the parish of St. Andrew in Barbados' rugged Scotland District was an important area of economic activity.
As a matter of fact, the petroleum-laced manjack "rock" exported from Barbados was sometimes used in the painting process in some early models of Ford cars perhaps including the Model T. 🇧🇧
Interesting information about our Island will look into this. Thanks
I learned more watching you draw in Ms paint than I did in the geology classes I took in college. You have a new subscriber!
This channel is a really good resource for learning- Thank you for makin stuff like this!!
You're very welcome!
Thank you so much for this imformation on my beautiful island barbados🇧🇧🇧🇧i have learn quite a bit from this vlog that i did not know of my island thank you👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏
dude, this is the best channel i've found on youtube. this is geology class, and i'm super happy to have stumbled into it
Thanks so much!
Many years ago, I saw seismic lines across Barbados. At 15:22 of the video, the edge of the wrinkled pile is the toe thrust from the sediment pile sliding to the east. The wrinkles behind the toe thrust are a series of thrust faulted anticlines caused by the compression of the sediment package sliding east.
Always great to see others point out how unique my home is, as the uniqueness provides many challenges and opportunities and we can be quite unlike many of our neighbours.
It is a remarkable place
I’m glad you took that geology vacation in my island Barbados or should I say Ichirouganaim since we originated from the Orinoco river.😊 Truly enjoyed this bit of information ❤
Appreciate this video, it was soo refreshing. I had a general idea of our geology but the detail and graphic was top tier.
Wow. as Johnny Carson would say, "I did not know that." Very interesting, thanks!
Our island is a blessed island .never forget
Excellent video! I am from Mississippi. I think a lot about how gas and oil were created. Just for example, I live near Shale Oil Road.
The Orinoco River answered a question I had about the vegetatiion deposits that would have been required to produce that type of oil deposit! Fascinating!
I am from barbados... an as a kid on the eastside of the island, that's in conset bay you could see it rising out of the ground an some parts of the sand was black.
Thanks for that educational insight on my island!
Pleasure!
Thank you for including metric system units in your videos! Love your work. Greetings from Argentina!
Warm welcome from island Barbados 🇧🇧 thanks amazing videos
Blessings my friend. I am glad you enjoy them, and I will be making more!
Love your laid back way of explaining things. Been wanting a geology follow that wasn’t too nerdy. Subbed.
Thanks for this unique prospective on Barbados' geography with illustrations. Superbly informative.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent description - clearly explained! The comment about the fragmented pile that comprises the Barbados mountain range at the 11min mark suggests that not only may oil matter bubble up to the island surface but may also be able to leak out the sides directly into the ocean water.
this is a video i have wanted for so long!!!!!!!!
Fun fact Saint Lucia won their 1ST GOLD MEDAL 🥇 EVER in the Paris Olympics the other day. And it was in highly competitive Women's 100m dash.
I wanted to give a full athlete shout out, but the list is long. I admit I watched Kirani James in the 400 semis right before I recorded this vid. Maybe have to find a reason to do a Grenada vid.
@@TheGeoModelsgreat video.. I am on the island of St.kitts.. I am curious about a layer of black grainy material below the soil outside my village it's like 8ft below what you would call the regular. Dirt .. if I send you some pics could you help cure my curiosity 😅
Please..looking forward to your Grenada vid. 🇬🇩 Thank you.
I'm from Barbados. This has been highly educational. That you have actually visited the island lends even more credence to your presentation. I'm a new subscriber now and I will surely refer my son, who's studying Geography, to you.
As a footnote, when I studied Geography at secondary school my class visited and did research on an oil seepage in the more northerly St. Andrew/St. Peter area of the island.
ms paint skills are unparalleled
Amazing Paint skills. Cheers from a Fellow Brazilian geologist
Power to the people in the best way. Thank you.
I fell in love with Geology when I started making jewelry from semi precious stones. I also found out that I could take a Geology class in college to replace Biology! Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Rocks was ideal for me! I wanted to learn to identify rocks and how they were formed. This really helps if you want to find your own rocks to turn into jewelry! I learned so much from that class and it was taught by a Geologist Dennis Fryes. He was awesome! Oil naturally seeping out of the ground is why I think it is super important to pull it out before it messes up and contaminates land! All oil will eventually find it's way to the surface, escpecially where ground water can push it up! Better to remove oil than let it naturally leave the ground. A lot of seepage is occuring in the Gulf of Mexico - not from oil rigs but naturally escaping on the bottom of the Gulf.
Fantastic video. Great level of detail and expertise AF
So epically drawn and explained sir. Thank you for a wonderful lesson. I am sure many people like myself did not know these fact about the geology and oil explination of this island.
Regards from South Africa
Thanks for watching! Exciting to see it reaching folks around the world!
Thanks for explaining… now I understand
Your MS Paint skills are godly.
Thanks! Trying to tighten them up a bit with each video!
Awesome video as usual. Keep up the great work!
Thats pretty cool. Had no idea that was going on down in Barbados. I know you're fond of the Appalachians, but your diversions around the globe are pretty fascinating. Thanks for putting these out
I learned about accretionary wedges from Nick Zenter's programs. I really enjoyed this. I live in Texas where all the refineries are located and I used to be a doodlebugger planting geophones in the swamps of Louisiana. I guess you could say that the area between the volcanic islands and the accretionary wedge is the forearc basin.
indeed you could!
I love all the unique patterns and landscapes our earth creates
A fascinating, well done presentation 👍
5:08 Accretionary prism. Your little sketches do much to help me understand geologic processes.
I live on the Canary Islands.
Could make for an interesting video. Volcanic archipiélago built upon one the oldest regions of Earth's oceanic crust (175-147 Ma), part of the slow-moving African Plate, in the continental rise section of northwest Africa's passive continental margin.
2 recent eruptions: La Restinga underwater and Tajogaite on La Palma. Teide being the tallest peak in all of Spain and Timanfaya on Lanzarote 300 years ago, lasting 6 years and ejecting a huge volume of lava.
Also on Lanzarote a lava tube that formed during an ice age when sea levels were lower that has since been flooded by sea water.
Well done! I know that many people think the islands of the Western Atlantic and Caribbean are the same in makeup through geologic history. The Bahamas (where I lived for 4 years) are coral-based islands, also non-volcanic, like Barbados. Having great teachers, like yourself, helps us all discover the details that escape a quick glance at maps.
Thanks! Awesome part of the planet.
Thanks for the video. It leaves me with more questions. Always heard that the oil and gas (like the coal) we harvest was from sediments laid down during the carboniferous period. This video would indicate that these deposits are always in production by geologic processes, although at higher or lower rates. Is that a fair statement? It also seems fair to say that we are currently harvesting these resources at a faster rate than they are being laid down. Are there any really good estimates as to when we will reach "peak oil"? Estimates that account for the economics of recover-ability, if that's a word. It seems we have been talking about peak oil since at least the 1960's. And of course we may peak out because we transition to other energy sources and or the population levels out or crashes or maybe other reasons. I guess I'm wondering if we are really at risk of running out of oil and gas in the next 50 years, or 100 years, or when?
We will never run out, what will happen is it will become too expensive and technically impossible to reach/extract until technology catches up, thing about technology is; it runs on the energy of oil and gas.
I'd argue we have long past peak oil if you use technology as the base to gauge it on.
The Olympic Peninsula in Washington State is also a large accretion. Coal has been mined from the edge of the accretion area but not from the main area. It's speculated to have been an archipelago of a triple point, so a lot of solid rock too.
And the Olympics come full circle!
Very interesting presentation. Thankyou. Hopefully we can find a real big oil / gas supply under or next to us
As a geologist.......I'm impressed with your presentation......😊
Fantastic video! I’m almost as impressed that such a small island has so many residents commenting on this video! lol. Awesome!
Yeah I was hoping it would get to people down there. Seems like the algorithm got the message!
There are 280-300 thousand of us 😂
Thank you for that explanation! While I did not know that Barbados had that oil situation ,I did wonder why it was so separate from the other obvious volcanic island chain system. I actually lived for 2+years on Barbados in very early 70's. My first home as a young married woman. I re-visited it via Google earth years later and time traveled the changes. Thats when I realized it was not part of the volcanic chain and it was an oddity that made me wonder why... so again , thank you for answering that question and giving me new information that answers question about posted restricted areas that I wondered about. As well as stirring up very happy memories from my early married life. Am throughly enjoying your channel. 👍👍
Nice presentation! Thank you, for using metric system units.
thank you for teaching me so much about my island home.
thank you for watching!
Thanking you from Bim 🇧🇧!
Bless up
The colored sand experiment is totally awesome lol.
This is very informative and enjoyable to watch. I enjoy your videos, and hopefully, you can find some similar soon.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is very interesting. There is hope for the future. Thanks for sharing. ❤we always thought that Barbados was different now we know.
A lot of effort. Thanks.
Randomly recommended the Mariana Trench vid the other day.. subbed.. now watching my second vid... Seriously, absolutely fascinating stuff, and so well explained!! 👏
Love these videos man.
Wish i was as smart as this guy 😮 👍
Sup, Mr .geo dude , i got a suggestion. Can you do an explanation of the Venezuela-Trinidad-Guyanese oil field and its 2 asphalt lake outputs
Very informative, thanks
The Barbadian historian Dr. Sylvan Spooner did his Doctoral research on the History of Petroleum Exploration on that island between 1865 and 1985.
Fascinating topic!
@@TheGeoModels It is
I am originally from the area near Cape Mendocino, on the northern California coast. That is where the North American plate overrides the Pacific plate, and there are many natural oil and gas seeps there.
Coal Oil Point seeps large amounts of Oil and gas each day.
Longshore currents take it all the way to Los Angeles. Very common to get petroleum on your feet walking So Cal beaches.
As a Barbadian this was very insightful, thank you
I am glad you found the video!
Answering questions I've been curious about for a long time. Do Blake Nose next!
Thank you for the wonderful video!! So, would this have anything to do with the massive discovery of oil off the coast of Guyana?
Possibly a similar source rock? Burial of said rock to generate oil would be different, though.
Greetings from St. Kitts and Nevis.....very informative video !!!
Dude!!
Yesterday I watched this vid, and paid close attention to your awesome graphic of accretionary prism formation and then...
that 7.1 quake hit late last night in the sea east of Miyazaki, Japan, so now I'm reading all about the Ninkai Trough. In the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article it's called "...one of Earth's best examples of accretionary prism." I damn near fist-pumped with comprehension.
Bro, it was your Paint skills that made me realize.
Insert "100" emoji here...
That's awesome. Also cool that it's in the Wikipedia write-up. I think the Nankai is the "most famous" accretionary prism...no clue why. Used to hear about it constantly in grad school courses. Barbados definitely as good, and legitimately huskier!
Went to school in barbados my entire life and not one Geography class held my attention like this one
Outstanding. Glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks for this video. We have harvested some of this tarry liquid from some high land in the Scotland District of Barbados. We call it Manjack and centuries ago it was said to contain medicinal or mineral properties useful for health. There is also a light fizzy type of water that comes to thr surface nearby these bubbling areas of tar.
Wow!! This is massively interesting. I did not know ANY of this, and I thought I knew everything meaningful there is to know about Barbados. I’m Barbadian-American, and I know some of the areas you pointed to on the Barbados map really well. Traversed through there for years while trekking to High School from the South to west (in St John).
I know some relatively sizeable landowners in that Christ Church area. If oil is a few miles deep, no time better than the present millennium to get a few shovels and start digging.😅
Great comprehensive video!!! Love the paint board displays/analogies, really helps process whats going on for a simple minded guy like myself.
Would love to know your take on the oil seepage off of Santa Barbara, CA near Coal Point. Thats been going on for years
Thank you so much for this very interesting document….👏🏾🇧🇧
thank you! it is a pleasure to do it
Philip, your MS Paint game is 💪
As to the original source of the sediments, I wonder if there was not mass transport from the Orinoco delta? I don’t have a sense of distances, but in the GoM we see turbidites several hundred miles from shore. Makes me wonder about other deep water analogs north of Trinidad to the Guyana fields
(Edit: serves me right to post before the video finishes. 😂 you addressed my issue near the end)
ah ha I hear you! Yep, I think the turb sands are a favored reservoir. Lots of squabble over Orinoco-delivered vs more widespread Cretaceous source. Several papers talk about terrigenous kerogen, but several that came later like older marine stuff that makes the margin to the south look good. Don't think about the Orinoco being that big of a player, but apparently it's really been loading the oceanic crust up. The thickness of the accreting sediment cover starts to taper pretty quickly north of Barbados.
Very interesting geology lesson, thank you,Oil and gas deep [ 4000m ] under Cuba also.🙃 Maybe you could talk about oil/gas in northern South Australia. ?
Always had this mountain idea
I’ve been to that area a number of times. Barbados is so different from St Vincent and the Grenadines which are very mountainous and volcanic. What I find interesting about Barbados is it’s so flat and low above the sea surface. I would expect a mountain being pushed from the sea to have more of a rise, but Barbados is very flat atop that sea mount.
It's very erodible material, and is sort of arching up from below instead of having material "piled" onto it like a volcano. The Barbados Prism is almost unbelievably wide and thin. The rock it is made of is quite weak (geologically speaking), and the fluid conditions deep inside of the prism make it even harder for it to support steep slopes (kind of like a really weak foundation on a building). It's also been beveled off by the sea in the geo past. I should probably compare the prism's scale to some other mountain range. It's probably quite different! Thanks so much for the watch and comment!
@@TheGeoModels Thank you for the video explanation. I have long wondered why Barbados was so different from the Windward islands. I have observed their glaring difference from the air.
@@TheGeoModelsGreat video explanation! I live here and the majority of land area is coral capped with thick limestone bedrock, however a small rugged portion on the east coast ‘Scotland District’ area remains exposed with direct access to oceanic sedimentary rocks/clays at the surface.
That was fascinating, thank you. Lived in Barbados most of my life, and we used to play around an old manjack mine on the east coast of the island where it just seeped out the earth. Probably still there.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fascinating 👊 well done
Love your videos. What is the actual material that the oil and gas under Barbadoes derives from? It would have to be organic but I didn’t hear anything mentioned in the video and I am 15 minutes in.
it’s about 17:15 or so. just a basic treatment in this video. in short, it’s microscopic particles of material produced by photosynthesis. this can be phytoplankton, algae, pollen and spores, or even pulverized and degraded plant material washed in from land (though not intact wood, leaves,etc, as such). photosynthetic origin is key.
I've always wondered about this, thank you.
Happy you mentioned it's not a volcanic thing because that was the first thing on my mind...Great video👊🏼
Yes! Thank you!
I almost stopped watching when he opened MSPaint, but I was suprised by how well he drew the diagram.
Sometimes they get fast-forwarded. Glad you liked how it came out.
Flying along the coast of South America from Guyana to the ABC islands you can clearly see the plumes of sediment in the ocean. On the island of Barbados the surface is highlighted by rows of so-called old sea cliffs which are crescent in shape and on the eastern side of the island the sedimentary rocks are in a vertical plane which gives me the impression that the seafloor was struck by a meteor in the area known as the Scotland District which helped pushed the island out of the sea floor and gave the island it's unique shape.
Barbados is probably one of the places with the best resources to use supplemental co2 sequestration. They could burn fuels in efficient turbines and put the exhaust into greenhouses at about 1200ppm to double crop yeilds. Another benefit of greenhouses in the tropics is that they can easily be kept drier and less humid than the local conditions, avoiding fungal crop losses, possibly enabling grain production that most of the carribean sorely lacks.
That's a pretty interesting thought
They are focusing more on Solar Technology in Barbados, and wind power, 90% of the water heaters in Barbados are powered by sun power, and they are at about 15% of electricity from Sun light, they are trying to reach 30% by 2030, few greenhouses exist, but it's definitely a good idea the government should focus on.
Our target is 100% RE. 30% was close to a decade ago. We aren't focused on solar and wind but those are our most easily implemented RE options since we lack major surface run off (karat landscape on top of the acc. prism)
I recall seeing an oil refinery on Aruba when I visited years ago. Could the same process be happening there as well?
I would love to see you do a video on the pock marks that are off the American shore of The Gulf of Mexico. I have never seen any formations like that any where else on Google Earth. Was it the Metor strike that created it?