Considering 70% of the planet is covered in water, and the ocean floor is recycled every 300 million years or so, there have probably been multiple times our planet was hit by a large asteroid or comet that we'll never know about..
remarkably similar to the Younger Dryas impact: Hit 3km of water (YD: 1-2km of frozen water), didn't leave a crater, did leave a layer of rare elements typical for asteroids, caused global cooling
@@Itsjustme-Justme the younger dryas impact is hotly debate and likely didn’t even cause it at all What caused it was a collapse of the AMOC due to melt water from the Laurentide ice sheet
I was thinking it was remarkably similar to the Burckle Crater incident. Which lines up with a lot of the flood myths in that area around 5,000 years ago.
The Eltanin impactor was 4km in diameter. If it hit Earth today, more than 8 billion people would die from the resulting impact winter. A couple billion would die within the first few hours from ejecta reentry triggering firestorms across South America and also causing heat stroke across the rest of the planet for anyone outdoors. Younger Dyras impact, if it even happened, was just a firecracker in comparison.
@@chriscastagnettawhat’s more likely, is a series of impacts over a period of time, with volcanic activity devastating the atmosphere along side the destruction of these impacts. Volcanic activity is heavily linked to previous extinctions, and it is thought that the extinction of the dinosaurs was a combination of a cosmic impact and volcanic activity.
Perhaps once ice sheets are formed, and the planet starts to warm up, the melting interrupts the sea currents that distribute heat around the globe, leading to more ice sheets, and so on.
@@RonaldoWeigand it's more associated with position of cratons. Right now it's just right for an interglacial period. That and the milenkavich. cycle. Spelled it wrong oh well.
True Wich explain recurrence but big volcanic eruption meteor impact or a change of see current can act as a trigger, once the ice cover is their the albedo changes drastically and most sunrays gets reflected back in space thus iceage continues
It is said that it takes water about one thousand years of travel for water to complete the ocean current system. What if it disrupted the "El Nion/La Nina" Pacific Oscillation system?" How long would it take for the oceans circulations to return to normal? The length of time that it was chaotic might have been a major factor, I think?
the Earth is currently in a major ice age called the Quaternary ice age it has lasted 2.6 million years, so far ice ages cycle through glaciations and interglacials colloquially, glaciations are referred to as ice ages but, really it’s just one long one we are currently in an interglacial phase of our ice age called the Holocene interglacial it has lasted 12,000 years, so far
That's why global warming worries me so much , we have no guarantee that this is just an interglacial or even if it would just have been one if we where not affecting our environment so drastically. It is an under considered fact that a full third of our co2 emissions are directly from slash and burn agriculture. The verry processes that by nature lock up carbon are the ones we keep burning.
@johnvoelker4345 We are still in a melt phase of this stage of ice age, and our climate isn't infinitely stable. But ignorance makes people believe it is unchanging, and climate change is the causality of humans alone. We may have in a hand in helping speed things up, but it is something that can not be avoided. Speeding things up means it will be ready to start a new ice age 15000-20000 years. Not as we are being scared into believing that it will happen in our lives or our childrens. This is all part and parcel of global warming. Just because we are not happy doesn't mean the earth is ill.
Happy Holidays you amazing teacher and scientist Anton! Thank you for all these incredible years of excellence in broadcasting! You must be getting so many people loving science and considering delving deeper. Hello to everyone! You Wonderful People 🎉😊
Love learning from your videos Anton 😉. Now I need one explaining how scientists discover and study ancient tsunamis 😳. Hope you and your family have a wonderful person Merry Christmas!!!
@@josephc3276 so they study sediment layers. it's not at all hard pun intended.. anyway when a tsunami accrues there are obvious sediment deposits. Check out Nick on the rocks. He is a great professor of geology.
@@Broken_robot1986Perhaps you should read the comment you are responding to more carefully. And here's a question for you - do you think all tsunamis are caused by impacts?
Thank you friend. You are my favorite science educator, with Clint's Reptiles and Gut Sick Gibbon following close behind. Not that science education should ever be a popularity contest, but I am culturally that way, to list favorites. I like how you cover a broad scope of topics and explain things in a way that is easy to follow without strings of empty meaningless phrases and at the same time don't dumb things down. You give the significant points and encourage people to read the publication. Most importantly you explain what has not been discovered on each topic, encouraging the next generation of scientists that there's so much more knowledge for humans to discern.
Impact on low point on southern hemisphere may have created a slight deviation in the wobble of earth, however slight it may be, a little has a lot of affect.
@corinnecivish7673 .1 degrees or even a 1mm is more than enough to have significant effect on planet. Plus this could even be a factor as to why the southern hemisphere is closer to the sun than the northern hemisphere. Subtle can significant.
2.6 million years ago, that's around the same time as Homo Sapien started evolving. Is it possible that that impact gave us the tilt of the Earth and that we are continually going through the orbit of the debris of a capture in order to make it a repetitive cycle? The most terrifying thought of this is when is the next cycle?
What titled the earth was 4.5 billion years ago, if an asteroid 2.5 million years ago tilted earth, it would have been so strong we’d not be here Also our species first appeared 300,000 years ago in Africa and didn’t leave until 70,000 years ago I think you meant the genus Homo
The timing of impact and Homo sapiens evolution is likely a coincidence. The Entinin impact was too small to give Earth its tilt. For that you need a larger mass striking at a shallow angle with low relative velocity (not 40 km/s) otherwise Earth might have fragmented.
*You* are the product of 4+ Billion years of evolution, _since whatever started it all happened,_ not a few million... 😎 And, whatever comes next has already started - just like the dinosaurs didn't see shrews as any sort of competition, we won't even see it coming...! Happy Solstice 🤣
I know a recent study showed that there might be two cores at the center of the Earth or maybe one is the remnants of the Proto planet early in earth history and I wonder if the asteroid hit the Earth could it have caused that toggle around causing gyroscopic effect?
I have a problem with that runaway reflectivity argument. Large parts of Canada and Russia are fully snow covered for part of the year. While also having warm enough summers. In continental climate further from shores in particular. One doesn't stop other from happening. Vapor condenses very quickly as the temperature drops. And 1km³ dust - is that really that much distributed around the Earth?
I'll give you another question. How can polar ice & snow have any significant effect on albedo? The angle of reflectivity or refraction for water is ~71° so light hitting at anything lower angle than that will simply bounce off. not contributing to warming at all. (or very little) So all that really matters is albedo where light comes in at lower angles. Which begs the question - how did the 'runaway' happen until ice & snow got down into lower latitudes?
@@markmcd2780 Yeah... no idea. The more energy Earth receives, the more it irradiates back. In the space there's only one cooling solution and the Earth already uses it. We have certain balance here. Sure, albedo does change things a bit and so does dust and greenhouse effect. Also all that is very tricky non linear math. And when it's simplified, it isn't accurate anymore. What I was personally more curious about is whether 1km³ of dust is a serious issue at the scale. Because water vapor is of minute value here considering dew point and us talking cooling not heating? Also water vapor is considered having greenhouse effect afaik? Not a cooling one. Cloudy winter is so much warmer than the one with clear skies. Also nights in the desert - freezing. So - at first it got very hot (impact energy, water vapor, dust), somehow didn't runaway to Venus and then somehow got very cold and covered everything in snow creating albedo and runaway to Mars. Not trying to mock the topic, climate is important. But I'm not sure it's completely thought thru. Setting significant part of Antarctic ice free and sending into ocean where it's forced to melt consuming energy could have a lot colder effect. But then is that possible at all?
@@markmcd2780 Water is rarely flat, the effect of waves is to roughen the surface, much of the light will hit the faces of waves and be absorbed. If you do a lot of sailing, you can often see incoming gusts/squalls as darker patches in the water.
Interesting... but... it's the closure of North- and South-America plus the opening between Antarctica and South-America that helped bring about the ice-ages through the changes in heat distribution due to changing ocean currents. But it could indeed have been the last straw. That would be the best descriptor.
@chriscastagnetta does the creation of the Panama canal cause perhaps some kind of disruption to currents? They are building another competing canal aswell and there's the suez one I have always wondered about these
Panama canal will not cause any currents as it uses a series of lochs which steady the flow of water. It's not just a continuous channel all the way through so there is no need to worry.
How many Ice Ages, northern hemisphere glaciations have there been in the the last 800k years? Answer: 9,..with the periods between glacial and interglacial at approx. 85 thousand years.
Yeah, that’s kinda how ice ages work, I’m sure the 4 other ice ages in the last 4 billion years had similar cycles due to milankovitch cycles amplified by co2 changes
So if an object 1-4 km across, traveling at 40 KPS, hits the ocean where it is 3 km deep, and does not reach the seabed, what would it take to do so? That is a pretty big rock moving pretty fast.
I’ve always felt that the Drake Passage was at one time a land bridge. I also theorize that it was destroyed by a catastrophic event, possibly this event .
The CO2 level has been in a nose dive for the last 40 million years. This is because calcifying marine organisms sequester CO2 (indirectly.) It got colder the whole time. The Milankovich cycles drive the periods of mass glaciation.
@@littlefish9305 Google AI had this to say: Over the last 40 million years, Earth's temperature has generally been trending downwards from a significantly warmer period, with the most notable warm spike occurring around 56 million years ago during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), where global temperatures rose by 5-8°C (9-14°F) compared to today; this warm period was characterized by high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and is considered one of the most rapid climate change events in Earth's history.
about 2.3MYA, the isthmus of Panama closed off. before then, then warm equatorial currents flowed across the Atlantic into the Caribbean sea through the gap between Central and South America. Afterwards, the warm current flowed into the Gulf of Mexico, out the Florida Strait into the North Atlantic. While this did warm western europe, the warm water greatly increased evaporation and snow fall. Once there is enough snow on the ground to persist through summer, the albedo effect is great
Sounds to me that Eltanin may have been one of those "gravitationally bound flying gravel piles" that we have explored and thrown things at. I say this because there is no apparent impact crater which begs the question, if we go out to where we think it hit at and bore down, would we find a layer of 'cooked' gravel?
@@leonardhopper857 actually the most vast surface of earth is ocean bed. Non is older than like 2 million years or 2 hundred million but dodgy on it. Been a while since I was in class anyway. So major impacts older than that would be recycled by now.
@@leadbreastplate7496 Average age of oceanic floor is roughly 64 million years with parts of the Pacific being upwards of 200 million. Think there is a good chance that we might still find something.
Tho tbh, the main reason we entered the quaternary ice age was decreasing co2 levels from chemical weathering But very interesting video 9:16 co2 levels are really low, the only way the ice age ends and we re enter a hot house is if co2 levels sky rocket either from volcanism or human activity
CO2 keeps going down because of sea shell creatures. Millions of years ago they were half the size of a VW car. This accumulated as limestone. Look at all of it in Italy, Vietnam and China in Karsts. Coal burning SAVED the planet. FACT.
its the other way around. a cold planet will absorb more co2 into the oceans. a warm planet will outgas co2. the solubility of co2 in water is inversely proportional to its temperature. if you are saying that lower co2 cool the oceans then the cold oceans will absorb more co2 which will cool the oceans which will absorb more co2... until you have no co2 and a frozen world. the earth is not an linearly unstable planet, it is a mathematically chaotic world. if you don;t believe me you can do your own experiment. open 2 cans of fizzy drink. put one in the fridge, the other on a table, which one out gases its co2 and goes flat first?
3 millions years ago North and South America connected each other, preventing oceanic currents to pass from Pacific tropic to North Atlantic to warm up the northern hemisphere, giving it continental climates. the same story happened 30 millions years ago when Antarctica became fully isolated, it ended covered by ice. plus the fact continents keep on growing, Asia connected with Middle East South Asia and Europe, Europe and North America grew during the last tens millions of years before this event. isn't it enough to explain the ice ages? interglacial periods being just the hottest points on the Milankovitch cycles, but those cycles exist since ever. BTW Anton if you read me, thanks for your videos, you're the best!
considering the constant cooling of Earth surface temperature since at least a billion years , one could think the slowing of Earth rotation resulted in reaching an unstable state of increasing cycles of warm and cold periods , the Milankovich cycles were not present until the cooling phase got critical
It would be great to watch you do a review on the first climate paper written by Svante Arrhenius in 1896: "On the influence of carbonic acid in the air upon the temperature of the ground."
@@chriscastagnetta measuring effects of co2 in air is not the same as measuring co2 effects in the atmosphere. the atmosphere has substantial water vapour up to 40,000 ppm which Arrhenius did not include in his experiments. Arrhenius was erroneous.
I think there were multiple times with no ice or at least no year-round ice at the poles. One video I believe is called When Antarctica Was Green by channel PBS Eons. The Geo Girl channel has a climate playlist, too, but her videos are a bit more involved. Good luck!
There are tree stumps at the edge of the Arctic. It was warmer and melted in summer when the planet was at MAX tilt. So ZERO to do with CO2 GloBULL warming. I think the Earth orbit was more evenly round as well.
The combined effects of 500 million years of calcium carbonate deposits depleting the atmosphere of carbon dioxide faster than new carbon dioxide has become available.
It's amazing to think that without this impact we might not have finished our evolutionary journey or if we did we would have probably evolved quite differently in a warmer earth.
That was part of it, it was mainly due to decreasing co2 levels from chemical weathering and changing ocean current from the Americas joining together which cooled the planet absorbing more co2 into the oceans and causing more global cooling
I knew that there had been megatsunamis affecting Australia in the past, but I didn't know about this asteroid impact. It does make me wonder how many times asteroids might have impacted the oceans, especially the Pacific Ocean.
You used the term Ice Age correctly when you first mentioned it. It was the beginning of a series of glacial and intergacials which started between 2m and 3m years ago. But then you described this period as ice ages. In other words, suggesting that the cold periods over the past ~2.5m years are each an ice age. If we are to call glacial periods, Ice ages then we need another term for this 2.5m year period in which there were somewhere between 30 and 50 glacial - interglacial cycles.
At 7:20: "Back then (before 2.5 MYA) . . ice sheets were barely present in Antarctica." Everything I've read says that the Antarctic ice sheet began forming 34 MYA.
The impact likely caused a deviation of the ocean currents to what we see today. It's entirely possible that the currents prior to the impact were significantly different and kept temperatures stable around the planet. By changing the currents, cooling the atmosphere and surface, and triggering colder temperatures in the polar regions, this impact set the stage for the repeating glaciations experienced since. Basically, creating a repeating "feedback loop" that has been in operation since. The effect of this massive impact on the axial tilt of the planet hasn't been explored, either it seems. The Chichalub impact being closer to the equator wouldn't have the same effect as a massive impact closer to a pole that displaced significantly more water, thereby disrupting the "balance" of the planet. Just a thought.
In reckon, by volume, over all, that we have added 14% aerosol content to the atmosphere to date. If adding chemicals to the water, and removing ground ground and throwing it in the air in fishbowl does nothing, let me know… if you have gills.
Hay it's an interesting subject .if an ice age comes back .with melting permafrost and the massive release of methane.causeing weakness in the ozone layer doesn't this allow global warming.not the the fossil fuels.their for without the ability to shield some of sun power also creates a global cooling machine.just food for thought.great show it's appreciated thank you.
Methane and the byproducts of burning fossil fuels don't shield the planet from solar radiation to any significant degree. This is evidenced by the fact that the lower atmosphere is continuing to warm, while the temperature of the upper atmosphere remains bone chillingly cold and stable. If enough fresh melt water from the north polar regions is dumped into the north Atlantic over a short period of time, it will disrupt the thermohaline circulation, or Atlantic conveyor belt as it is sometimes called. The entire thermohaline circulation system is about 40,000 miles long and meanders throughout the oceans of the planet like one continuous very long river. A disruption in the north Atlantic might cause it to change it's course regionally, or it might stop completely for a time. We can't be sure. It is known that any interruption in the flow of warm equatorial water into the north Atlantic will trigger dire environmental consequences for the people living in the northern hemisphere, and especially Europe in the early stages.
@@JonnyCobra nope and no. Your talking about geological events. It's not like ohh Christmas falls on Thanksgiving... Thousands and hundreds of thousands of years... Not coincidentally relevant
There are certainly far more impacts than we have craters for. The major detractors for the younger/older dryas potential impact(s) are rejecting the idea because there are no impact craters. Considering it was likely an airburst that vaporized large portions of the North American ice sheet. Time lines up. Tribal stories line up. Archeology lines up because they are unable to find anything along the projected path of the water flow across the pacific northwest
See those spikes after the main peaks? I hypothesize that enough materials made it into orbit to create rings around Earth. Occasionally enough would for larger objects and fall out of orbit creating those spikes. I call it Ring fall.
So. Is this Eltanin Impact be considered as the beginning of the ice age cycle?? If true, we can say the impact changed the earths rotation around the suns orbit? Slightly. If true. Not bad from Captain Kirk.
That's like economic war in the interstellar age - you shove an asteroid into an ocean and the planet goes dark for quite a long time. The interesting thing is how you reverse it.
@chriscastagnetta start with the magnetic polar field stops all the harmful rays of the solar winds ,then the balanced axis rotation of the planet and balanced revolution around the sun. That's the first few off the top of my head; any disturbance of those could lead to a catastrophic cataclysm/existing events ......so, yes any substantial change with the polar magnetic fields could cause problems for life on earth.
@chriscastagnetta well why don't you go look up earth's magnetic polar fields and how they protect the earth; and what would happen if the field was not there or compromised & while you're at it look up gravity and the repercussions if there was a change -I'd have to go look it up to explain it to you and there might be a communication error so to stop any confusion? ,you got look it up ;I've given you the direction you just gotta start taking steps "......put one foot in front of the other..." right Rudolf
@ sounds like you don’t know lol But don’t worry I’ll look it up, but I doubt magnetic pole reverses have any impact on the climate, considering you can’t even explain it
@MyraSeavy ok. Classes in what? Having children doesn't teach you about geology. Physical chemistry. Math. Besides perhaps keeping track of how many you have had,-)
So this impact made us - humans. After this event the brain of our ancestors started to grow vey fast - because this event made possible to our ancestors to become a hunters.
@@Aleiza_49 it’s when during an interglacial period, feedback loops that caused post glacial warming stabilize earth’s temperature as we enter an interglacial period. This event is completely unrelated
The video is interesting but possibly premature. A review of the sources that you list appears to suggest that this theory is in it's early stages of investigation and interpretation with a lot of uncertainty. Also, the Pleistocene glacial epoch started around 2.58 Ma, not 2.5 Ma.
Looking in that area of the sea floor on my map app, I can see a flattened area. If the meteor exploded, the shock wave would have pushed the water away and flattened the see floor, maybe, instead of leaving a crater.
Anton for years Japan dumped thousands of barrel's of nuclear waste in the southern Waters There is much vision of this 40 years latter it must be making changes, check it out
I suppose a reasonable hypothesis could be the impact occured in such a way and place it nudged the planet into a slighty changed orbit - initiating the Milankovich cycles. After all, the Milankovich process had to start somewhere. Good video, thank you.
We’ve had the milankovitch cycles since earth formed, caused by gravitonal forces by our planets in our solar system, they only effect earth’s climate when it’s in an ice age like now Perhaps it impacted it a bit, but it didn’t start it
This is the thing I don't like about alot of these studies done with the help of computer models.... when they plug in info... don't get the result the expect... then modify the simulation till they get the data that most resembles their original hypothesis. These computer models depend on data being input... perfect set up.for bias...
We are all a chemical equal and opposite reaction to our chemical environment. So do you think that maybe we were evolved to warm the climate up eventually ending the ice age kinda in the same way waterbears ended snowball earth by adding peroxide to the sea
Considering 70% of the planet is covered in water, and the ocean floor is recycled every 300 million years or so, there have probably been multiple times our planet was hit by a large asteroid or comet that we'll never know about..
We've got rock billions of years old in our bedrock here in Newfoundland. Not everything gets recycled that fast.
@@Zyo117that’s why the key word is “ocean floor” not the whole surface
@@Zyo117the oldest know ocean crust is 340 million years old in the Mediterranean
Major meteor impacts occur about every 30 milliion years.
The oldest known impact crater is on Australia, 2.2 billion years.
I am always amazed and entertained by this channel.
_Edutainment!_
remarkably similar to the Younger Dryas impact: Hit 3km of water (YD: 1-2km of frozen water), didn't leave a crater, did leave a layer of rare elements typical for asteroids, caused global cooling
@@Itsjustme-Justme the younger dryas impact is hotly debate and likely didn’t even cause it at all
What caused it was a collapse of the AMOC due to melt water from the Laurentide ice sheet
I would think an meteor hitting 2km of ice would produce a bunch of fresh water instantly
I was thinking it was remarkably similar to the Burckle Crater incident. Which lines up with a lot of the flood myths in that area around 5,000 years ago.
The Eltanin impactor was 4km in diameter. If it hit Earth today, more than 8 billion people would die from the resulting impact winter. A couple billion would die within the first few hours from ejecta reentry triggering firestorms across South America and also causing heat stroke across the rest of the planet for anyone outdoors.
Younger Dyras impact, if it even happened, was just a firecracker in comparison.
@@chriscastagnettawhat’s more likely, is a series of impacts over a period of time, with volcanic activity devastating the atmosphere along side the destruction of these impacts. Volcanic activity is heavily linked to previous extinctions, and it is thought that the extinction of the dinosaurs was a combination of a cosmic impact and volcanic activity.
Perhaps once ice sheets are formed, and the planet starts to warm up, the melting interrupts the sea currents that distribute heat around the globe, leading to more ice sheets, and so on.
@@RonaldoWeigand it's more associated with position of cratons. Right now it's just right for an interglacial period. That and the milenkavich. cycle. Spelled it wrong oh well.
That’s not how that works
On short time scales yes
But what causes glacial interglacial transitions is milankovitch cycles amplified by co2
A chilling incident.
@@fearthehoneybadger ice ages? Chilling.. I get it. So punny
that was cold
Milankovich cycles 3 factors, distance from the sun, orbital tilt & inclination, poles moving
Congrats?
Also, the terms are orbital eccentricity, precession, and obliquity
Poles moving isn’t one of them
And inclination?
@@chriscastagnetta At least he has heard about the Milankovich Cycles, a lot of people haven't.
@@speakeroftruth1952 true, wish paleoclimatology and positional astronomy was taught in schools
True Wich explain recurrence but big volcanic eruption meteor impact or a change of see current can act as a trigger, once the ice cover is their the albedo changes drastically and most sunrays gets reflected back in space thus iceage continues
How often does distance from the sun and orbital tilt change?
It is said that it takes water about one thousand years of travel for water to complete the ocean current system. What if it disrupted the "El Nion/La Nina" Pacific Oscillation system?" How long would it take for the oceans circulations to return to normal? The length of time that it was chaotic might have been a major factor, I think?
Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. ✌️😉
Happy Holidays to you and your family Anton.
the Earth is currently in a major ice age
called the Quaternary ice age
it has lasted 2.6 million years, so far
ice ages cycle through glaciations and interglacials
colloquially, glaciations are referred to as ice ages
but, really it’s just one long one
we are currently in an interglacial phase of our ice age
called the Holocene interglacial
it has lasted 12,000 years, so far
That's why global warming worries me so much , we have no guarantee that this is just an interglacial or even if it would just have been one if we where not affecting our environment so drastically. It is an under considered fact that a full third of our co2 emissions are directly from slash and burn agriculture. The verry processes that by nature lock up carbon are the ones we keep burning.
@johnvoelker4345
We are still in a melt phase of this stage of ice age, and our climate isn't infinitely stable. But ignorance makes people believe it is unchanging, and climate change is the causality of humans alone. We may have in a hand in helping speed things up, but it is something that can not be avoided.
Speeding things up means it will be ready to start a new ice age 15000-20000 years. Not as we are being scared into believing that it will happen in our lives or our childrens. This is all part and parcel of global warming. Just because we are not happy doesn't mean the earth is ill.
Always interesting to know more about in the future,thanks Anton👍❤
Happy Holidays you amazing teacher and scientist Anton! Thank you for all these incredible years of excellence in broadcasting! You must be getting so many people loving science and considering delving deeper. Hello to everyone! You Wonderful People 🎉😊
Love learning from your videos Anton 😉. Now I need one explaining how scientists discover and study ancient tsunamis 😳. Hope you and your family have a wonderful person Merry Christmas!!!
@@josephc3276 so they study sediment layers. it's not at all hard pun intended.. anyway when a tsunami accrues there are obvious sediment deposits. Check out Nick on the rocks. He is a great professor of geology.
They discovered iridium isotopes found in comets. Anton explained this in the first 2 minutes. Pay better attention and you can have better questions.
@@Broken_robot1986Perhaps you should read the comment you are responding to more carefully. And here's a question for you - do you think all tsunamis are caused by impacts?
Good question, @@PeterS-r4o
The problem with this idea is that the Antarctic ice sheet began to seriously advance 5 million years ago.
Thank you Anton, interesting subject event.
Happy Winter Solstice! And whatever you upside down people are up to idk!
*"Summer is Coming"* - Ned Stark, _never..._
Firing up the barbeque while fighting bushfires, over the summer solstice and holiday period, is what we're up to, thanks.
Fascinating!
Super! Very interesting 😊
Thank you friend. You are my favorite science educator, with Clint's Reptiles and Gut Sick Gibbon following close behind. Not that science education should ever be a popularity contest, but I am culturally that way, to list favorites. I like how you cover a broad scope of topics and explain things in a way that is easy to follow without strings of empty meaningless phrases and at the same time don't dumb things down. You give the significant points and encourage people to read the publication. Most importantly you explain what has not been discovered on each topic, encouraging the next generation of scientists that there's so much more knowledge for humans to discern.
Impact on low point on southern hemisphere may have created a slight deviation in the wobble of earth, however slight it may be, a little has a lot of affect.
That was my first thought. But a strike big enough to effect the axial wobble... Wouldn't it have been more catastrophic?
@corinnecivish7673
.1 degrees or even a 1mm is more than enough to have significant effect on planet. Plus this could even be a factor as to why the southern hemisphere is closer to the sun than the northern hemisphere.
Subtle can significant.
Was the iridium enamel found on the sharp teeth of these carnivores tree sponges and how are they doing these days for tooth decay issues?
@@GadZookz they don't have dental insurance so we may never know,-)
I love all the different ways people pronounce 'Chile'
Chee- lay.
Interesting. Thanks.
2.6 million years ago, that's around the same time as Homo Sapien started evolving. Is it possible that that impact gave us the tilt of the Earth and that we are continually going through the orbit of the debris of a capture in order to make it a repetitive cycle? The most terrifying thought of this is when is the next cycle?
What titled the earth was 4.5 billion years ago, if an asteroid 2.5 million years ago tilted earth, it would have been so strong we’d not be here
Also our species first appeared 300,000 years ago in Africa and didn’t leave until 70,000 years ago
I think you meant the genus Homo
The timing of impact and Homo sapiens evolution is likely a coincidence. The Entinin impact was too small to give Earth its tilt. For that you need a larger mass striking at a shallow angle with low relative velocity (not 40 km/s) otherwise Earth might have fragmented.
*You* are the product of 4+ Billion years of evolution, _since whatever started it all happened,_ not a few million... 😎
And, whatever comes next has already started - just like the dinosaurs didn't see shrews as any sort of competition, we won't even see it coming...!
Happy Solstice 🤣
@@hervigdewilde3599 CDS is evidence of the next major species development after Homo Sapiens... CDS = Cat Distribution System...
I know a recent study showed that there might be two cores at the center of the Earth or maybe one is the remnants of the Proto planet early in earth history and I wonder if the asteroid hit the Earth could it have caused that toggle around causing gyroscopic effect?
I have a problem with that runaway reflectivity argument. Large parts of Canada and Russia are fully snow covered for part of the year. While also having warm enough summers. In continental climate further from shores in particular. One doesn't stop other from happening. Vapor condenses very quickly as the temperature drops. And 1km³ dust - is that really that much distributed around the Earth?
I'll give you another question. How can polar ice & snow have any significant effect on albedo? The angle of reflectivity or refraction for water is ~71° so light hitting at anything lower angle than that will simply bounce off. not contributing to warming at all. (or very little) So all that really matters is albedo where light comes in at lower angles.
Which begs the question - how did the 'runaway' happen until ice & snow got down into lower latitudes?
@@markmcd2780 Yeah... no idea.
The more energy Earth receives, the more it irradiates back. In the space there's only one cooling solution and the Earth already uses it. We have certain balance here. Sure, albedo does change things a bit and so does dust and greenhouse effect. Also all that is very tricky non linear math. And when it's simplified, it isn't accurate anymore.
What I was personally more curious about is whether 1km³ of dust is a serious issue at the scale. Because water vapor is of minute value here considering dew point and us talking cooling not heating? Also water vapor is considered having greenhouse effect afaik? Not a cooling one. Cloudy winter is so much warmer than the one with clear skies. Also nights in the desert - freezing.
So - at first it got very hot (impact energy, water vapor, dust), somehow didn't runaway to Venus and then somehow got very cold and covered everything in snow creating albedo and runaway to Mars.
Not trying to mock the topic, climate is important. But I'm not sure it's completely thought thru.
Setting significant part of Antarctic ice free and sending into ocean where it's forced to melt consuming energy could have a lot colder effect. But then is that possible at all?
@@markmcd2780 Water is rarely flat, the effect of waves is to roughen the surface, much of the light will hit the faces of waves and be absorbed. If you do a lot of sailing, you can often see incoming gusts/squalls as darker patches in the water.
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Interesting... but... it's the closure of North- and South-America plus the opening between Antarctica and South-America that helped bring about the ice-ages through the changes in heat distribution due to changing ocean currents. But it could indeed have been the last straw. That would be the best descriptor.
And also chemical weathering
@chriscastagnetta does the creation of the Panama canal cause perhaps some kind of disruption to currents? They are building another competing canal aswell and there's the suez one I have always wondered about these
@ no, not even close
Panama canal will not cause any currents as it uses a series of lochs which steady the flow of water. It's not just a continuous channel all the way through so there is no need to worry.
How many Ice Ages, northern hemisphere glaciations have there been in the the last 800k years? Answer: 9,..with the periods between glacial and interglacial at approx. 85 thousand years.
Yeah, that’s kinda how ice ages work, I’m sure the 4 other ice ages in the last 4 billion years had similar cycles due to milankovitch cycles amplified by co2 changes
So if an object 1-4 km across, traveling at 40 KPS, hits the ocean where it is 3 km deep, and does not reach the seabed, what would it take to do so? That is a pretty big rock moving pretty fast.
A bullet stops in 2 feet of water. LOL.
I’ve always felt that the Drake Passage was at one time a land bridge. I also theorize that it was destroyed by a catastrophic event, possibly this event .
Thank you. Very interesting
Спасибо, Тоха. Держи в курсе. :)
The CO2 level has been in a nose dive for the last 40 million years. This is because calcifying marine organisms sequester CO2 (indirectly.) It got colder the whole time.
The Milankovich cycles drive the periods of mass glaciation.
no, the temperature remained largely baseline stable.
@@littlefish9305 He's right. CO2 levels and temperatures were on a steady decline from the Eocene up until industrial times
@@littlefish9305 Google AI had this to say:
Over the last 40 million years, Earth's temperature has generally been trending downwards from a significantly warmer period, with the most notable warm spike occurring around 56 million years ago during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), where global temperatures rose by 5-8°C (9-14°F) compared to today; this warm period was characterized by high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and is considered one of the most rapid climate change events in Earth's history.
@@john2001plus ask it to graph temperature and co2 over the last 250 million years. btw, chatgtp put the holocene at 200 million years ago.
about 2.3MYA, the isthmus of Panama closed off. before then, then warm equatorial currents flowed across the Atlantic into the Caribbean sea through the gap between Central and South America. Afterwards, the warm current flowed into the Gulf of Mexico, out the Florida Strait into the North Atlantic. While this did warm western europe, the warm water greatly increased evaporation and snow fall. Once there is enough snow on the ground to persist through summer, the albedo effect is great
Sounds to me that Eltanin may have been one of those "gravitationally bound flying gravel piles" that we have explored and thrown things at. I say this because there is no apparent impact crater which begs the question, if we go out to where we think it hit at and bore down, would we find a layer of 'cooked' gravel?
@@leonardhopper857 actually the most vast surface of earth is ocean bed. Non is older than like 2 million years or 2 hundred million but dodgy on it. Been a while since I was in class anyway. So major impacts older than that would be recycled by now.
It was probably moving too fast to leave intact rocks. Vaporized the thing. At 40 km per second, it's turning into superheated gas.
@@leadbreastplate7496 Average age of oceanic floor is roughly 64 million years with parts of the Pacific being upwards of 200 million. Think there is a good chance that we might still find something.
You got a shoutout on Cool Worlds latest video about AI, at 15:52. 😁😁
The energy of the asteroid colliding is stored in the cycle.
Tho tbh, the main reason we entered the quaternary ice age was decreasing co2 levels from chemical weathering
But very interesting video
9:16 co2 levels are really low, the only way the ice age ends and we re enter a hot house is if co2 levels sky rocket either from volcanism or human activity
CO2 keeps going down because of sea shell creatures. Millions of years ago they were half the size of a VW car. This accumulated as limestone. Look at all of it in Italy, Vietnam and China in Karsts.
Coal burning SAVED the planet. FACT.
its the other way around. a cold planet will absorb more co2 into the oceans. a warm planet will outgas co2. the solubility of co2 in water is inversely proportional to its temperature. if you are saying that lower co2 cool the oceans then the cold oceans will absorb more co2 which will cool the oceans which will absorb more co2... until you have no co2 and a frozen world. the earth is not an linearly unstable planet, it is a mathematically chaotic world. if you don;t believe me you can do your own experiment. open 2 cans of fizzy drink. put one in the fridge, the other on a table, which one out gases its co2 and goes flat first?
3 millions years ago North and South America connected each other, preventing oceanic currents to pass from Pacific tropic to North Atlantic to warm up the northern hemisphere, giving it continental climates. the same story happened 30 millions years ago when Antarctica became fully isolated, it ended covered by ice. plus the fact continents keep on growing, Asia connected with Middle East South Asia and Europe, Europe and North America grew during the last tens millions of years before this event. isn't it enough to explain the ice ages? interglacial periods being just the hottest points on the Milankovitch cycles, but those cycles exist since ever.
BTW Anton if you read me, thanks for your videos, you're the best!
I think perhaps the next age of exploration must include the sea floor of our planet. Just too much we do not know about it!
Thank you, Anton!
considering the constant cooling of Earth surface temperature since at least a billion years ,
one could think the slowing of Earth rotation resulted in reaching an unstable state of increasing cycles of warm and cold periods ,
the Milankovich cycles were not present until the cooling phase got critical
It would be great to watch you do a review on the first climate paper written by Svante Arrhenius in 1896: "On the influence of carbonic acid in the air upon the temperature of the ground."
Quackery.
@@GordoGambler?
@@chriscastagnetta he didn't include water vapour in his experiment.
@@littlefish9305 no, I just don’t understand what the other guy meant
@@chriscastagnetta measuring effects of co2 in air is not the same as measuring co2 effects in the atmosphere. the atmosphere has substantial water vapour up to 40,000 ppm which Arrhenius did not include in his experiments. Arrhenius was erroneous.
We did not have ices ages before 2.5M years ago ? Howmany have we had ? Is there a period when no ice exists on the poles ?
I think there were multiple times with no ice or at least no year-round ice at the poles. One video I believe is called When Antarctica Was Green by channel PBS Eons. The Geo Girl channel has a climate playlist, too, but her videos are a bit more involved. Good luck!
There are tree stumps at the edge of the Arctic. It was warmer and melted in summer when the planet was at MAX tilt. So ZERO to do with CO2 GloBULL warming. I think the Earth orbit was more evenly round as well.
I'm starting to wonder, maybe the reason why Earth doesn't look like Venus right now is from impacts.
for the majority of the last billion years, there was no ice at the poles
@@Itsjustme-Justme Those days are long gone. Another thing is the planet is GROWING from matter falling from space. This is slowing the spin a LOT.
The combined effects of 500 million years of calcium carbonate deposits depleting the atmosphere of carbon dioxide faster than new carbon dioxide has become available.
It's amazing to think that without this impact we might not have finished our evolutionary journey or if we did we would have probably evolved quite differently in a warmer earth.
What happened to Milankowicz cycles?
What’s your question?
@@chriscastagnetta isn't it the go to place for climate cultists.
@@littlefish9305 huh?
I thought it was Central America closing from plate tectonics and changing the ocean currents.
That was part of it, it was mainly due to decreasing co2 levels from chemical weathering and changing ocean current from the Americas joining together which cooled the planet absorbing more co2 into the oceans and causing more global cooling
I knew that there had been megatsunamis affecting Australia in the past, but I didn't know about this asteroid impact. It does make me wonder how many times asteroids might have impacted the oceans, especially the Pacific Ocean.
You used the term Ice Age correctly when you first mentioned it. It was the beginning of a series of glacial and intergacials which started between 2m and 3m years ago. But then you described this period as ice ages. In other words, suggesting that the cold periods over the past ~2.5m years are each an ice age. If we are to call glacial periods, Ice ages then we need another term for this 2.5m year period in which there were somewhere between 30 and 50 glacial - interglacial cycles.
At 7:20: "Back then (before 2.5 MYA) . . ice sheets were barely present in Antarctica." Everything I've read says that the Antarctic ice sheet began forming 34 MYA.
The impact likely caused a deviation of the ocean currents to what we see today. It's entirely possible that the currents prior to the impact were significantly different and kept temperatures stable around the planet. By changing the currents, cooling the atmosphere and surface, and triggering colder temperatures in the polar regions, this impact set the stage for the repeating glaciations experienced since. Basically, creating a repeating "feedback loop" that has been in operation since. The effect of this massive impact on the axial tilt of the planet hasn't been explored, either it seems. The Chichalub impact being closer to the equator wouldn't have the same effect as a massive impact closer to a pole that displaced significantly more water, thereby disrupting the "balance" of the planet. Just a thought.
Great channel and I love science but your voice is giving me shivers like chalk on a blackboard.
impacts? what haven't they done for us?
In reckon, by volume, over all, that we have added 14% aerosol content to the atmosphere to date. If adding chemicals to the water, and removing ground ground and throwing it in the air in fishbowl does nothing, let me know… if you have gills.
I can't be the only one who laughed at "ping pong tree sponge".😂
Hay it's an interesting subject .if an ice age comes back .with melting permafrost and the massive release of methane.causeing weakness in the ozone layer doesn't this allow global warming.not the the fossil fuels.their for without the ability to shield some of sun power also creates a global cooling machine.just food for thought.great show it's appreciated thank you.
Methane and the byproducts of burning fossil fuels don't shield the planet from solar radiation to any significant degree. This is evidenced by the fact that the lower atmosphere is continuing to warm, while the temperature of the upper atmosphere remains bone chillingly cold and stable. If enough fresh melt water from the north polar regions is dumped into the north Atlantic over a short period of time, it will disrupt the thermohaline circulation, or Atlantic conveyor belt as it is sometimes called. The entire thermohaline circulation system is about 40,000 miles long and meanders throughout the oceans of the planet like one continuous very long river. A disruption in the north Atlantic might cause it to change it's course regionally, or it might stop completely for a time. We can't be sure. It is known that any interruption in the flow of warm equatorial water into the north Atlantic will trigger dire environmental consequences for the people living in the northern hemisphere, and especially Europe in the early stages.
An interesting story with precious little evidence to support the conclusions.
It might have had an effect or created the gravitational anomaly not to far from that area....just saying. Thanks Anton!
40km/s delta v is the biggest factor here. That's fast even for meteors.
It would be interesting to know if the Eltanin event coincided with a magnetic excursion event...
@@JonnyCobra nope and no. Your talking about geological events. It's not like ohh Christmas falls on Thanksgiving... Thousands and hundreds of thousands of years... Not coincidentally relevant
How come?
Berkel crater in indian ocean. 3,150 bc. ( sumerian tablet? ) there is a corresponding bottleneck or founder event in the geonome of Eurasia/Scythia
There are certainly far more impacts than we have craters for. The major detractors for the younger/older dryas potential impact(s) are rejecting the idea because there are no impact craters. Considering it was likely an airburst that vaporized large portions of the North American ice sheet. Time lines up. Tribal stories line up. Archeology lines up because they are unable to find anything along the projected path of the water flow across the pacific northwest
EL-tuhnin, accent on first syllable, Arabic for the "dragon's head"
See those spikes after the main peaks? I hypothesize that enough materials made it into orbit to create rings around Earth. Occasionally enough would for larger objects and fall out of orbit creating those spikes. I call it Ring fall.
It changed the earths rotation. We use to spin clockwise and the sun orbited earth. It’s in a lot of earlier books. if you ever read you wood know.
And you would know how to spell "would".
Where are you getting this info from? Did you ever take a geology or astronomy class?
@@chriscastagnetta velikovski probably.
@@littlefish9305 huh?
@@chriscastagnetta yep!
That was the 10,000 year chart for the CO² vostok.
carnivorous sponge? tell me we're not out of krabby patties!
So. Is this Eltanin Impact be considered as the beginning of the ice age cycle?? If true, we can say the impact changed the earths rotation around the suns orbit? Slightly. If true. Not bad from Captain Kirk.
No, but it may have played a role in kick starting the glacial interglacial cycles
I am a little sad you didnt greet me as a wonderful person today.😢
That's like economic war in the interstellar age - you shove an asteroid into an ocean and the planet goes dark for quite a long time. The interesting thing is how you reverse it.
....and add in a magnetic polar reversal every thousands or millions of years ;the planet has endured the test of time so far
The magnetic pole reversal doesn’t impact the climate
But I maybe wrong, can you explain to me the mechanism on how that would work?
@chriscastagnetta start with the magnetic polar field stops all the harmful rays of the solar winds ,then the balanced axis rotation of the planet and balanced revolution around the sun. That's the first few off the top of my head; any disturbance of those could lead to a catastrophic cataclysm/existing events ......so, yes any substantial change with the polar magnetic fields could cause problems for life on earth.
@@there_can_only_be_one__unicorn you didn’t explain how it effects the climate
@chriscastagnetta well why don't you go look up earth's magnetic polar fields and how they protect the earth; and what would happen if the field was not there or compromised & while you're at it look up gravity and the repercussions if there was a change -I'd have to go look it up to explain it to you and there might be a communication error so to stop any confusion? ,you got look it up ;I've given you the direction you just gotta start taking steps "......put one foot in front of the other..." right Rudolf
@ sounds like you don’t know lol
But don’t worry I’ll look it up, but I doubt magnetic pole reverses have any impact on the climate, considering you can’t even explain it
It's amazing the things people can figure out that happened so long ago! 😊
@@MyraSeavy not really that amazing. Have you taken any classes in college? Or even perhaps graduated highschool?
@leadbreastplate7496 I had 2 years of college, then had 4 children! Im 71 and still learning! 😊
@MyraSeavy ok. Classes in what? Having children doesn't teach you about geology. Physical chemistry. Math. Besides perhaps keeping track of how many you have had,-)
@leadbreastplate7496 Well that's what amazes me! I wasn't able to continue my schooling! But I still enjoy learning! 😊🎄
When mind link can do, a virtual ride on the ocean while the tsunami passes. Surface and through wave
Imagine if we have plate techtonics wrong, how hard of an impact would it take to break the elastic bound between the crust and mantle 🤔
So this impact made us - humans. After this event the brain of our ancestors started to grow vey fast - because this event made possible to our ancestors to become a hunters.
@@eeetube1234 are you having a medical issue? Sentence structure is all over the place. Might want to have someone check your vitals.
@@leadbreastplate7496 go outside
@@leadbreastplate7496 Sorry, English is not my native language
Maybe for some reason, the equilibrium of Earth's climate still hasn't been resolved since the impact?
No
@@chriscastagnetta saying 'no' doesn't explain anything. Why do you think not?
@@Aleiza_49 do you even know what “equilibrium” is in the context of paleo climatology
@@chriscastagnetta NO, I'm not a climatologist. That's why I'm asking.
@@Aleiza_49 it’s when during an interglacial period, feedback loops that caused post glacial warming stabilize earth’s temperature as we enter an interglacial period. This event is completely unrelated
Very interesting
What about the Burkle crater. It's much younger. And modern humans where around to witness it.
That chondroitin looks like an Indian dorje weapon !
Im gonna make you strong says the ice age
Can draw a correlation between the outcomes of this impact event and the effects of the Younger Dryas (that you dismissed in a previous video)
after this impact, Africa is covered with sand, and the first floors of old houses are covered with a cultural layer ))
The video is interesting but possibly premature. A review of the sources that you list appears to suggest that this theory is in it's early stages of investigation and interpretation with a lot of uncertainty. Also, the Pleistocene glacial epoch started around 2.58 Ma, not 2.5 Ma.
Looking in that area of the sea floor on my map app, I can see a flattened area.
If the meteor exploded, the shock wave would have pushed the water away and flattened the see floor, maybe, instead of leaving a crater.
It altered the ocean currents.
Our planet still has ice caps and glaciers. We are technically still in an ice age. There have been times when the planet has been devoid of ice.
Probably just a coincidence! A little hard to explain the Ice age cycles based on an one time impact!
"Antenna" does not look very much like what it was identified to be.
The climate cycles like a bell being rung after every strike from above...
What about Pangea?
About 600 million years before this. See Geo Girl. She does a great job on this stuff.
Must have been another crossing from Nibiru
Anton for years Japan dumped thousands of barrel's of nuclear waste in the southern Waters
There is much vision of this 40 years latter it must be making changes, check it out
10:48 Ya did good kid…ya did good. 🤌
This means that Char could really start a nuclear winter if Axis hit the Earth.
I suppose a reasonable hypothesis could be the impact occured in such a way and place it nudged the planet into a slighty changed orbit - initiating the Milankovich cycles. After all, the Milankovich process had to start somewhere. Good video, thank you.
I wonder how much angular momentum that asteroid left,,at that angle it could have put that Wobble in the precession of earths axis,,
We’ve had the milankovitch cycles since earth formed, caused by gravitonal forces by our planets in our solar system, they only effect earth’s climate when it’s in an ice age like now
Perhaps it impacted it a bit, but it didn’t start it
And impact place is very strange place in geology perspective. Look Google Earth map about area.
Very strange "flowing" plate structure.
This is the thing I don't like about alot of these studies done with the help of computer models.... when they plug in info... don't get the result the expect... then modify the simulation till they get the data that most resembles their original hypothesis. These computer models depend on data being input... perfect set up.for bias...
We are all a chemical equal and opposite reaction to our chemical environment. So do you think that maybe we were evolved to warm the climate up eventually ending the ice age kinda in the same way waterbears ended snowball earth by adding peroxide to the sea