If I saw this title from anyone else, I would not have watched it. But this is from a most wonderful person who has earned both my respect and my trust. Stay wonderful, Anton.
@@SSGLGamesVlogs Pretty much, yea... Sadly even some respectable channels use clickbait titles or thumbnails. When I come across them I make a point to (civilly) tell them that it hurts their credit... but that's assuming they even *care* and aren't just in it for the $$, as there's plenty of dupes who don't know any better and will click on anything (thereby, unfortunately, justifying such behavior). 😞
To be fair it's probably been doing this for millions of years and caused so little trouble that we didnt even know about it. Not something to get worried about
Couple'a thoughts - A drip from a water faucet (or the pitch experiment) has a singular, round point of separation, while the crust's dive towards the mantle wouldn't be round, it'd be a stretch of lateral material. So unless the piece of crust breaking free were to have been reorganized to a point, the corresponding surface reaction wouldn't be a circular depression or a circular rebound uplift, it'd be lateral groove or a length of uplift. Also, the melted crust must still be heavier than the surrounding magma, and still chemically cohesive enough to maintain its own integrity rather than combining with surrounding magma, at least for a time, in order for a "drip" to occur.
In 1980 Walter T Brown in his book "In The Beginning Compelling Evidence" talks about the properties of magma under various pressures. Magma, produced by shearing friction in the mantle at a depth less than 220 miles, the crossover depth, can expand and become bouyant and rise through more shearing friction. Likewise magma produced by shearing deeper than 220miles, the crossover pressure, will compress to half it's volume so the same volume will be twice as heavy and with gravity cause it to migrate downward toward the outer core The expanding magma produces earthquakes as it makes it's way upward to larger pockets or magma chambers. Anton,These two ideas trying to explain geologic processes both sound the same to me!
No, this is NOT a newly discovered geological process. Lithospheric drips have been known about for 20 years at least. The Wikipedia article on the subject has a reference to a 2004 paper.
These are new discoveries in the sense that these locations were this seems to actually happen weren't known until recently. The theoretical background, such as calculations of rheology and thermal gradients are significantly older. So this discovery is an observation of a previously predicted phenomenon. Vertical tectonics were theorized to have been the dominant type of tectonics during the Hadean and Archean, and probably still had global effects even after modern type horizontal tectonics became dominant. Vertical tectonics in archean geological settings recently gained a lot of support from new observations and interpretations of terrains preserving archean geology. These new observations of "drips" lend further credibility to archean vertical tectonics, and in some sense, this IS vertical geology that still occurs (albeit at a miniscule scale compared to the past). Fascinating stuff, I remember reading about the theorized archean vertical tectonics and wishing I could timetravel just to collect data from the archean. As it turns out, it's still might be happening to some degree. It's a bit like seeing a horseshoe crab, a living example of ancient lineage!
@@hamstsorkxxor, @whatdamath Dr. Nick Zenter CWU Geology Professor had a online video about this/or similar concept a few years ago - referencing the work of other field geologist's who had used data from seismic monitoring stations to map the crust at plate boundaries. Wish I had a book mark of it as Anton would probably enjoy it and expand on it. Good stuff either way,
As a retired geologist i will definitely look at these papers. You only mentioned once in the video the key concept. Density. Of the top of my head, were these ophiolitic complexes or very mafic regions. They would need to be denser than the mantle they were to descend into which is pretty dense in comparison to the crust which is typically less dense. Unless of course there were a hot pool of trapped felsic material floating atop the mantle…. Ah guess i will look into the papers….
This is fascinating and raises many questions in my mind. For instance, you said this drip action seems to be vertical and may be the reason this geological phenomenon hasn’t been discovered until now because it is much easier to discover horizontal crust movement affects on the surface than vertical ones. But doesn’t the mantle spin around the center of the earth at a greater rate than the crust? And if so, wouldn’t it drag the hundred+ mile crust droplet in the direction of its movement? I could be seeing this all wrong but picturing how a massive crust drip pushing down into the liquid mantle for hundreds and hundreds of miles, I can’t help but wonder how the drop doesn’t completely disintegrate long before it forms such a massive drop that causes it to separate from the crust by sheer weight of the droplet.
Sections of crust move in many different directions with respect to the mantle, but the crust and mantle basically spin at the same rate. Perhaps you're thinking of the inner core.
Thanks for a deeper look at lithospheric drip or drip subduction. I first heard of this late last year and have been interested in this process. Studies point to drip subduction happening during the Archean Eon, playing a role in accretionary events. Just when we think we're figuring out plate tectonics, a long lost chapter on subduction suddenly forces us to re-examine earth processes! Always learning!
Wouldn't a drip suggest that there is a substantial gap between the bottom of the crust and top of the mantle? Maybe they occur next to mountain ranges, where the mantle hasn't yet rebounded after going under a mountain's root. Just a thought...probably Dunning-Kruger, though
Wow! This allows me to understand uplifting much easier. I couldn't quite understand how every uplift was bc of two plates coming together due to the varying locations
So dripping creates a series of long depressions ( shallow lakes and rivers)... Until it drips, then the crust rebounds upward and pushes mountains and hills up (thus causing deep mountainous lakes and mountainous river valleys). That is what i took from this. But Lithospheric Drip just became my new favorite thing to work into a conversation.
In about 2010 I had a geology prof who pointed at a big block of granite and said, "See that rock? Given enough time that big block of hard granite will pancake due to gravity. Given enough time."
Just a guess, but the answer is... *drive* , plus the relative rigidity above. Components behaving like lower viscosity anything are expelled downward - the easiest place to go compared to a return to surface. You ever grabbed a tube of toothpaste with a hole in it you didn't know about? Its like that: squeeze, and it finds all exits. For the kids, do a simple oil & water demo - easy visual of process concept. Closed jar, shake it up, then let it stand to witness phase separation of water to the bottom - happens every time [and thankfully does not take a million years].
If I was a geologist, I'd be looking at earthquake zones that don't correspond to plate tectonics. One example would be the New Madrid earthquake zone in western Kentucky and western Tennessee.
The mantle material moving in to replace the drip can be expected bring/cause lava. I would expect that a drip would eventually create a volcano or two most of the time.
. . Notice that the clock (appears) to run backwards ...caught me the first time. . If analogue clock is slow by 1 sec a day . the time lapse will show 1/2 min loss per month. . A close up showing "the snap" of breaking drop would be excellent. .
Phase changes and astronomical energy density defibrillating intervention needs no time to form or shap The ability to simulate earths morphology without time as a restricted frame of reference truly helps us get shit done but it is cool that they found an experiment to squeeze out something
So this was theorized, and logically deduced; people were unsure if the crusts moved contiguously as a soft melt sheet colliding like the top plates or as drips and globs where they collide and mix together, but now it’s proven I guess?
Gravity/mass is not as constant as many have been led to believe. Once you get how Karma works to clump positive and negative matter and drive the largest collections of them to separate, you'll discover a whole multiverse of possible applications for antigravity engines.
If you could speed up time around you, there are a lot of things that would become liquid. My favorite example being glass or the land masses of earth. Heres a thought. In the same scenario would currently liquid things become solid?
when this geothermic area was covered in ice, large numbers of ions entered into the atmosphere generating microwave 5x reflected off the ice, generating steam pockets driven downward under the crust creating these geothermic pockets, the pitch oil can drip into,
Im thinking That would mean an enormous drip caused the east cost of turtle island and the center would be the huge underwater ridge to the east of turtle islands coast
Always wondered if the core and mantle melted in one place, then moved and hardened elsewhere as the plates move on liquid earth, drifting and quaking.
Perhaps someone should investigate the possibility of this lithospheric drip on Mars. May have created the conditions for a massive uplift creating the Olympus Mons and the other two large volcanoes?
And if large amounts of material can move between crust and mantle, and these materials are of quite different temperatures, there can be large heat fluxes moving from hotter deeper layers to cooler more superficial layers. It might take thousands of years for such heat to be detected on the surface, but perhaps we have one more possible driver of climate change, other than carbon dioxide.
It makes you wonder how earthquake effect this,not to mention the moon and the asteroid that hit on the exact opposite side of the earth to the decan traps
Isn't some similar kind of rebound - resulting from a "delamination" (and its wholesale "drop"/melt into the mantle) of the underlying lithospere - responsible for the (much larger) Tibetan plateau? (I seem to recall some analysis of the "orogeny" of that plateau a few years back...)
If I saw this title from anyone else, I would not have watched it. But this is from a most wonderful person who has earned both my respect and my trust.
Stay wonderful, Anton.
100% agree, but this speaks to Anton Petrov honor, he has never made clickbait or used any of the other stupid tricks.
Anyone else? Wow.
Well said!
@@SSGLGamesVlogs Pretty much, yea... Sadly even some respectable channels use clickbait titles or thumbnails. When I come across them I make a point to (civilly) tell them that it hurts their credit... but that's assuming they even *care* and aren't just in it for the $$, as there's plenty of dupes who don't know any better and will click on anything (thereby, unfortunately, justifying such behavior). 😞
Forget about continental drift, embrace continental drip
"Wait What?! Earth's Crust Is Dripping Into the Mantle, Causing Weird Effects." Great. Just great.
😂 just another coincidence.
To be precise, it's pitch "dripping" into lava.
@@barbarian1111in the middle of an election year no less… typical!
Throw it on the pile....
To be fair it's probably been doing this for millions of years and caused so little trouble that we didnt even know about it. Not something to get worried about
Fun fact, the 100 year pitch experiment is where the phrase “wait for it” originated.
How did this Fun Fact Person get here?
waaaaaaaaait foooor iiiit......
Lava Lamp Earth!
Yep
Like whoa man
That's what I was thinking. That's what it should be called. Lava lamp affect
Lava Lamp is the most important thing humans ever invented.
If only they understood how to use it.
I like to think of it as a simmering soup.
That thin crust that builds up after a while is where we live.
Bubbles = volcanoes.
Fascinating as always Anton -- you are a wonderful educator in the sciences
Couple'a thoughts -
A drip from a water faucet (or the pitch experiment) has a singular, round point of separation, while the crust's dive towards the mantle wouldn't be round, it'd be a stretch of lateral material. So unless the piece of crust breaking free were to have been reorganized to a point, the corresponding surface reaction wouldn't be a circular depression or a circular rebound uplift, it'd be lateral groove or a length of uplift.
Also, the melted crust must still be heavier than the surrounding magma, and still chemically cohesive enough to maintain its own integrity rather than combining with surrounding magma, at least for a time, in order for a "drip" to occur.
That explains that sinking feeling 😮.
It's confirmed. Earth does indeed have drip😎😎😎
🔥🔥🔥
Always has been 😎
This weird dripping is a possible explanation for these strange relatively flat areas in the middle of a mountain range, such as the Tibetan Plateau.
ice is also extremely powerful . when you have an ice age and its glaciers every 100000 years . a blink in geological time.
The Tibetan plateau is caused by the sub continent of India pushing north.
Are ther other long term experiments still going ... it was fascinating to see the one set up so long ago.
Fascinating video. Thanks
There is one experiment called the Beal Seed Experiment. That one is very interesting and I highly recommend you read about it
Geologist here! so... interesting video incoming!
😂😂😂
Drip tectonics has been known for decades. It was the only tectonics a billion years ago, before plate tectonics kicked off.
In 1980 Walter T Brown in his book "In The Beginning Compelling Evidence" talks about the properties of magma under various pressures. Magma, produced by shearing friction in the mantle at a depth less than 220 miles, the crossover depth, can expand and become bouyant and rise through more shearing friction. Likewise magma produced by shearing deeper than 220miles, the crossover pressure, will compress to half it's volume so the same volume will be twice as heavy and with gravity cause it to migrate downward toward the outer core The expanding magma produces earthquakes as it makes it's way upward to larger pockets or magma chambers. Anton,These two ideas trying to explain geologic processes both sound the same to me!
Crust drip is not on the 2024 bingo list? Someone fix it pls
Naw... you got to be creative. It's the bingo card of "Opening up mining resources and deregulation".
Great content! Every episode is a combination of professionalism and interesting material. Thank you so much!🎰🦉😮
Damn I had no idea the Earth had this much drip
✌️😎🌎
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Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. 😊
There has to be lower density and pressure below the crust for a drip of super viscous material to drip.
Mine it, before it drips away.
Right, relatively cold oceanic crust, particularly after it has subducted and boiled off all the lighter materials, is denser than hot mantle.
Every video on your channel is a little work of art. I look forward to the new episodes!😆🍸💘
Would love more earth science videos, Anton. Thanks!
No, this is NOT a newly discovered geological process.
Lithospheric drips have been known about for 20 years at least. The Wikipedia article on the subject has a reference to a 2004 paper.
These are new discoveries in the sense that these locations were this seems to actually happen weren't known until recently.
The theoretical background, such as calculations of rheology and thermal gradients are significantly older. So this discovery is an observation of a previously predicted phenomenon.
Vertical tectonics were theorized to have been the dominant type of tectonics during the Hadean and Archean, and probably still had global effects even after modern type horizontal tectonics became dominant.
Vertical tectonics in archean geological settings recently gained a lot of support from new observations and interpretations of terrains preserving archean geology. These new observations of "drips" lend further credibility to archean vertical tectonics, and in some sense, this IS vertical geology that still occurs (albeit at a miniscule scale compared to the past).
Fascinating stuff, I remember reading about the theorized archean vertical tectonics and wishing I could timetravel just to collect data from the archean. As it turns out, it's still might be happening to some degree. It's a bit like seeing a horseshoe crab, a living example of ancient lineage!
@@hamstsorkxxor, @whatdamath
Dr. Nick Zenter CWU Geology Professor had a online video about this/or similar concept a few years ago - referencing the work of other field geologist's who had used data from seismic monitoring stations to map the crust at plate boundaries. Wish I had a book mark of it as Anton would probably enjoy it and expand on it. Good stuff either way,
As a retired geologist i will definitely look at these papers. You only mentioned once in the video the key concept. Density. Of the top of my head, were these ophiolitic complexes or very mafic regions. They would need to be denser than the mantle they were to descend into which is pretty dense in comparison to the crust which is typically less dense. Unless of course there were a hot pool of trapped felsic material floating atop the mantle…. Ah guess i will look into the papers….
Earth 2024: “Drip drip boyz”.
This is fascinating and raises many questions in my mind. For instance, you said this drip action seems to be vertical and may be the reason this geological phenomenon hasn’t been discovered until now because it is much easier to discover horizontal crust movement affects on the surface than vertical ones. But doesn’t the mantle spin around the center of the earth at a greater rate than the crust? And if so, wouldn’t it drag the hundred+ mile crust droplet in the direction of its movement? I could be seeing this all wrong but picturing how a massive crust drip pushing down into the liquid mantle for hundreds and hundreds of miles, I can’t help but wonder how the drop doesn’t completely disintegrate long before it forms such a massive drop that causes it to separate from the crust by sheer weight of the droplet.
Like a slowly spinning lava lamp, spinning end over end, rather than twisting.
Sections of crust move in many different directions with respect to the mantle, but the crust and mantle basically spin at the same rate. Perhaps you're thinking of the inner core.
Thanks for a deeper look at lithospheric drip or drip subduction. I first heard of this late last year and have been interested in this process. Studies point to drip subduction happening during the Archean Eon, playing a role in accretionary events. Just when we think we're figuring out plate tectonics, a long lost chapter on subduction suddenly forces us to re-examine earth processes! Always learning!
It's just always so interesting on your channel. Thank you, man.
Who else is kept awake by the drip?
I know I am
NOW I am
The earth is just a lava lamp.
At 1:57 the spiky flash you see is actually red, green and silver garland decorations on and around the experiment.
Wouldn't a drip suggest that there is a substantial gap between the bottom of the crust and top of the mantle? Maybe they occur next to mountain ranges, where the mantle hasn't yet rebounded after going under a mountain's root.
Just a thought...probably Dunning-Kruger, though
no it’s differences in density, there’s no gaps
Dripping? Call my plumber!! Anton, your a great host. Ive learned a lot from you. Thanks.
So, that's where Folgers got the saying, "Good to the last drip."😂
Wow! This allows me to understand uplifting much easier. I couldn't quite understand how every uplift was bc of two plates coming together due to the varying locations
I can always count on my boy to bring the dopest info thank you Anton 😊
Thank you Anton
That is frickin' weird! Thanks! I've read that glass is actually a liquid. The bottom of middle-aged windows is actually thicker than the top.
So dripping creates a series of long depressions ( shallow lakes and rivers)... Until it drips, then the crust rebounds upward and pushes mountains and hills up (thus causing deep mountainous lakes and mountainous river valleys).
That is what i took from this. But Lithospheric Drip just became my new favorite thing to work into a conversation.
In about 2010 I had a geology prof who pointed at a big block of granite and said, "See that rock? Given enough time that big block of hard granite will pancake due to gravity. Given enough time."
Even glass drips over time, look at old buildings with original glass and it will be thicker on the bottom.
Make you stop and think about our concepts of different states of matter, gas, liquid, solid etc.
How solid is solid really?
@@axle.studentit's not.
How is a lower density crust dripping into higher density mantel? I guess this process requires very specific conditions.
Just a guess, but the answer is... *drive* , plus the relative rigidity above. Components behaving like lower viscosity anything are expelled downward - the easiest place to go compared to a return to surface. You ever grabbed a tube of toothpaste with a hole in it you didn't know about? Its like that: squeeze, and it finds all exits. For the kids, do a simple oil & water demo - easy visual of process concept. Closed jar, shake it up, then let it stand to witness phase separation of water to the bottom - happens every time [and thankfully does not take a million years].
I was thinking about that too. I guess like convection, the colder material is more dense than the hotter material, but it seams a bit weird.
Think Lava lamp
Soon enough there will be Nestlé funding digging efforts to get to such water and monopolize it lmao
There's been other observations of craton delaminating over the mantle as well.
Your videos always stand out for their quality and originality. Thank you for your contribution!🟣🎳💧
the Wonderful Person t-shirt is the only drip we need
I love your science and thoughts. Thank you
Wow this is super interresting, thank you for presenting it :)
I thought the perpetual motion/battery experiment was the longest running experiment.this is very intriguing
Very interesting on how it happens 😮
Earth got D R I P before GTA VI.
Jokes aside this is an amazing discovery.
Thank you Anton, great topic
Surprenant! Merci pour l'info! 😁
If I was a geologist, I'd be looking at earthquake zones that don't correspond to plate tectonics. One example would be the New Madrid earthquake zone in western Kentucky and western Tennessee.
The Thing wears his lithospheric drip when he fights crime in the fantastic 4
Expanding Earth Theory by Neal Adams (among others)... doesn't sound so "strange" now, does it?
Hay COUZ - maybe the ROCKS are Sad - the lithosphere iz CRYING
🌺🍀⚜️🇨🇦⚜️🍀🌺
😂😂😂
🎉 might explain the massive uplift in central Siberia. Last time I looked at it it wasn't volcanic as in volcanoes it wasn't uplift from the bottom
The mantle material moving in to replace the drip can be expected bring/cause lava. I would expect that a drip would eventually create a volcano or two most of the time.
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. Notice that the clock (appears) to run backwards ...caught me the first time.
. If analogue clock is slow by 1 sec a day
. the time lapse will show 1/2 min loss per month.
. A close up showing "the snap" of breaking drop would be excellent.
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Phase changes and astronomical energy density defibrillating intervention needs no time to form or shap
The ability to simulate earths morphology without time as a restricted frame of reference truly helps us get shit done but it is cool that they found an experiment to squeeze out something
Amazing information!
Hi Anton
I suspect that a 'drip' will be found somewhere in the vicinty of Italy. Coinciding with the subsidence of Venice.
Fascinating and really cool.
Dang! Earth's crust be drippin'.
So this was theorized, and logically deduced; people were unsure if the crusts moved contiguously as a soft melt sheet colliding like the top plates or as drips and globs where they collide and mix together, but now it’s proven I guess?
So you're telling me the Earth has drip?
Earth, would you mind telling me what you're doing with that lithospheric drip.
Sir, giving the mantle back their crust.
Good explaination.
❤Anton, I hope you’re doing well
If you've got a drip you got to get that thing checked out buddy.... 😂
People of the Past: I bet the Future will be amazing
People in 2024: The Earth has unusual drip
This may be but a drop in the ocean of knowledge but it feels like it will have seismic effects in research
Gravity/mass is not as constant as many have been led to believe. Once you get how Karma works to clump positive and negative matter and drive the largest collections of them to separate, you'll discover a whole multiverse of possible applications for antigravity engines.
Himalayan drip. That's amazing.
Ever since the Russia Bore Hole, I like to think of the Mantle as Play-dough.....
If you could speed up time around you, there are a lot of things that would become liquid.
My favorite example being glass or the land masses of earth.
Heres a thought. In the same scenario would currently liquid things become solid?
Depending on surrounding connectedness a section could break free and we get ---
Honey wake up, new pitch just dropped!
when this geothermic area was covered in ice, large numbers of ions entered into the atmosphere generating microwave 5x reflected off the ice, generating steam pockets driven downward under the crust creating these geothermic pockets, the pitch oil can drip into,
Im thinking That would mean an enormous drip caused the east cost of turtle island and the center would be the huge underwater ridge to the east of turtle islands coast
Isn't the thinnest earths crust spot on the planet in the continental USA??
Thinnest crust is at the mid ocean ridges, where the crust is formed.
That to bad
Would explain a lot tbh
It was happening right under our noses, and we did not see it!
Always wondered if the core and mantle melted in one place, then moved and hardened elsewhere as the plates move on liquid earth, drifting and quaking.
Perhaps someone should investigate the possibility of this lithospheric drip on Mars. May have created the conditions for a massive uplift creating the Olympus Mons and the other two large volcanoes?
Thank You .
As a side-effect, the "pitch experiment" also proves that glass is NOT a liquid! For those who still argue about that.
That crust be drippin
This might explain the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, which are the result of recent uplift occurring in the last 10 million years.
What about the Great Basin, Yellowstone, and the Rocky Mountains?
And if large amounts of material can move between crust and mantle, and these materials are of quite different temperatures, there can be large heat fluxes moving from hotter deeper layers to cooler more superficial layers. It might take thousands of years for such heat to be detected on the surface, but perhaps we have one more possible driver of climate change, other than carbon dioxide.
So large enough masses of solids are just really really slow liquids?
And does that mean gases are just really fast liquids too?
It makes you wonder how earthquake effect this,not to mention the moon and the asteroid that hit on the exact opposite side of the earth to the decan traps
Just got done with a Quartz, Lithium and Hurricane Helene rabbit hole, why not a dripping crust before bed.
Wait a second.... why is the clock running backwards in that time lapse?
Earth is drippy!
Stained Glass are "melting" but just a very long time for it to become noticeable.
While ago we detected signs of water deep within the earth, where it shouldn't be. This could explain it.
So we could all go straight to hell one day toasted.
Isn't some similar kind of rebound - resulting from a "delamination" (and its wholesale "drop"/melt into the mantle) of the underlying lithospere - responsible for the (much larger) Tibetan plateau? (I seem to recall some analysis of the "orogeny" of that plateau a few years back...)
The crust forces down and melts...uhhh duh! Am i missing something? We knew this