The Impact Crater in Canada; Manicouagan Reservoir
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- One of the most spectacular impact craters on the planet is located northeast of Quebec City within Canada. The impact crater in question measures more than 100 kilometer or 62 miles wide and occurs within a remote section of forest. The impact crater in question is called Manicouagan Reservoir, which formed from a massive asteroid slammed into the planet more than 200 million years ago. This video will discuss how this ancient impact crater formed, and how frequently similar impacts occur on the planet.
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[1] G. Collins & others, "A numerical assessment of simple airblast models of impact...", Meteoritics & Planetary Science, doi.org/10.1111/maps.12873 (2017), CC BY 4.0
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When I become an evil wizard I'm going to build my castle there.
You'll have to defeat the Legendary Pike first.
You'll love it. The region is full of bears and winged moose.
Go Badgers , eh
Already has a built in moat
@@dumoulin11 What's a winged moose?
I first "discovered" this unusual formation while flying over it on a commercial flight from Europe to the US about ten years ago. It was very striking and I wondered what the story of it was. I assumed it was an impact crater but never learned the details. Excellent video! Thanks for the information.
There is an other crater a LOT more massive and a bit strange looking on the north-west of the province (or to the south of the Hudson Bay), you really can't miss it when you look at the map of Quebec. In the middle of the "crater" there is some funny looking islands shaped with some wavy patterns. I never saw any other islands like these anywhere else... I really suggest to take a look at those islands in google map or google earth:
... /maps/@56.1870628,-78.762936,428634m/data=!3m1!1e3
I have a similar experience in flights heading to Asia.
I think I found it messing around on Google Maps/Earth. I feel like I should have known about this, being a Canadian. But nope. They didn't teach us about it.
@@Reth_Hard those islands are the belcher islands, and it isnt a impact crater (its called the Nastapoka arc
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@@h.f6364
It's not an impact crater?
Can you prove it?
Dinosaurs: Whew close one. Hopefully that doesn't happen again.
*seinfeld theme plays*
Haha
🤣🤣
I fly over this geologic structure every time I fly from Europe to Chicago. The first time I did, I was dumbfounded by the nearly perfect circular shape. Thanks for the explanation and history of this amazing feature.
From deep in outer space this asteroid brought poutine to earth.
I like it!!!
It's one of the best explanations for for that disgusting food that I have ever heard
cheese gravy and spuds is disgusting lol?
@@x2gaming149 I must have this food!!
Lmaooooo good one
@@x2gaming149 have you tryed Putin or are you just assuming?
Quebec has few impact crater, this is one of the most notable, I am planning to discuss this in my Canadian Landscape Series. Great information.
Went to go see it. Hard to judge on the ground.
If winter hasn't recked too badly the roads I'll be going back again since its just a few hour drive from my place.(can also go by air but thats less fun)
@@CartoonWeasel Thanks. Love to see it one day.
Went there. Hookers had great impact craters.
The Charlesvoix Astroblem is another region made of an old crater
Good stuff yes 👍
I grew up in Quebec "relatively" near the lake and am glad you talked about it. By the way, the right way to pronounce the lake's name is Manikwagan.
It's computer text-to-speech audio, so I guess it just did it phnetically
@@heymadam wait thats not a human talking ?
@@heymadam i dont think thats a computer man...
@@djvic4u It may not be a computer man, but is it a computer, man?
@@aloneiplay26 lmao you got what i meant anyways 😂
4,000 years for the rock beneath the impact to cool !!! Whoa, that puts some things into perspective. So fascinating to learn about these geologic , well Astro geologic too, events. Thank you!!’
I was born in a small city just up north of this large lake. There was no road to get there... it was possible by train or by plane only. It is called ''Gagnon'' and the central economic activity was an iron mine. The city closed in the mid 80s. Everything have been destroyed and burried: houses, church, hospital, etc. There was only a few thousands of person living there.
Cool info.
grew up in Hauterive , father worked at Manic 1 as a power plant operator at the McCormick central , don't you just hate how he constantly mispronounces Manicouagan as manicoogan ...
Driving thru that area now is kinda spooky. Theres sidewalks and driveways along main street and there's no buildings...
Why did they destroy the buildings?
@@jayadinash9102 We drove there a couple of times from Labrador when I was a kid back in the 80's before it shut down - there was a road there from our town, but it it didn't connect to anywhere else, and it was just a gravel service road for the train tracks, so it was quite the drive. Once it was demolished and a road was completed connecting it to the St. Lawrence, it really did look bizarre - like the other commenter from Labrador said ( at least I assume he or she is a Labradorian with big land in the name :) You'd be driving for miles and miles of nothing along a winding dirt road and then suddenly: paved streets, parking lots, and even traffic islands in the road, but no buildings, people or any other hint of civilization to be seen.
I think because it was so isolated, once the mine shut down there was no other lifeline that was going to revive it. Knowing there were never going to be people ever living there again, they just chose to bulldoze everything instead of leaving everything a mess of junk to rot and fall apart. So they flattened it clean away. Of course, they're not going to go through the trouble of taking up all the concrete and everything, so they left the ground alone.
That's my guess as someone familiar with the area. Perhaps someone else more in the know might have a more official reason.
Kinda sad to think there was once a thriving community there and it's been completely erased from the surface of the Earth but that's how it goes, I guess. Some little remote cabins here and there in the area now I think, but that's it. The crater impact sight has a massive hydroelectric dam just downriver that's pretty impressive.
Been there for fishing, it was awesome. Note: it didn't look like a Crater before it was flooded because of the Manic 5 Dam. It was just a river. I Still have old topographic maps dating before the Dam.
That is seriously cool. Thanks for the info
@@lj6284 yep you can see it as my profile picture, that was the shape of both lakes Mouchalagane and Manicouagan prior to Manic 5
Being from the Northeast, I've always seen this crater via satellite when planning road trips. Always fascinated me how there was a perfectly circular lake with a landmass in the middle. Very cool to hear more about it.
“Giant flying reptiles known as *pppert*-terosaurs”… nailed that pronunciation.
i cringed.... so hard
So much emphasis on the P
pah tauro saur hurr
And then later he pronounces gneiss correctly. Not as gah-neiss, like his pah-terosaur.
@@trentbielefeldt …..I thought the P was supposed to be silent……as in bath!
Having flown over this a few times I really appreciate this... it is huge! Have you ever done a video on the mysterious Richat Structure (Eye of the Sahara)? :)
I might cover it in the future :)
I was born here and have never flown over it, nor any other Quebecer I know. You never flown over it a few times. You just pretend you did. Pathetic.
@@lecourvoisier1096 how the hell do you think you know? Perhaps he flies much more than you, which might be never…..go back to sleep little man.
@@kerrytodd3753 You must have been sleepwalking all your life little laddie. Get over it.
I believe the Richat structure/Eye of the Sahara is the single best possible location of the mythical Atlantis. The Bright Insight channel has several well done videos which one should reference if interested in the topic.
This is quick and to the point, never stop doing these man, thank you.
So, what are your thoughts on this massive impact crater?
Very interesting, I love seeing how old things erode away through time. It looks like a natural lake!
love how unique the formation of the crater
How does this impact event compare to Gosse’s bluff in central Australia?
Now that's a hole!
Glad I wasn't there. That left a mark!
I can not get enough of your videos. I respect your fact filled delivery. so many things I had no idea of, like this crater in eastern Canada. Amazing
I’ve seen this feature on maps many times and suspected that it must be an impact crater due to its shape. Thanks for the information.
Thank you once more for the incredible job you do with this channel. 👍🏼👍🏼
You do the best impact crater videos. Much appreciated
Always enjoy these videos. Thanks for all your work...
been waiting for a vid on this spot. nice work
Speaking of huge Canadian craters, have you done Sudbury?
Sudbury originally was even bigger than Manicouagan.
This caused people to speak french. Also like sudbury. (Alien language?)
The miners from Sudbury brought the Nickleback to the surface
@@666t Sudbury. You fear to go into those mines. The miners dug too greedily and too deep.
Sudbury is 30% larger than this one.
There is also Misstassini lake in Quebec, situated at 50degrees 48"50'N 73degrees 29"59'W that is considered as one of the largest crator on earth.
Finally, some concise directions!
Aren't those just weird rock formations not impact craters? Correct me if im wrong
@@ferdtheterd3897 the lake was made by glacier not from impact
@@kak8chak Yeah that's what it is thanks!
@@kak8chak The one ring lake is a manmade reservoir caused by a massive hydro-electric dam built in the 60s, it made the crater become obvious but it was there a long long time before any ice ages ever happened.
Thank you. I'm really loving your videos. 👍
I live in Québec and I look at the Qc map often. When I first noticed it, I knew right away what it was, but had never known about the event. Thanks for the video!
"Hey, there's some high-grade metamorphic rock over here."
Geologist: *Dabs* "Gneiss!"
Very interesting piece but the pronunciation is closer to man-i-coo-AH-gahn.
to be fair its not a easy one
Next thing you'll tell me is that it's not pronounced "Cue-beck"
@@theendofmyropemydude It's pronounced kay-bek though.
@@amarrgalente9395 that'sthejoke.jpg
no worse than kenahda getting to be canada.
I'm an atlas and satellite map geek and always wondered what the story was behind this feature. Such a HUGE asteroid impact lake. Surprised it didn't affect life all over the planet. Thanks for researching and uploading the video!
Apparently as far as the dinosaurs were concerned, the Chicxulub asteroid hit in the wrong place. Shallow sea with lots of Gypsum which together with everything else that went into the air created a poisonous atmosphere blocking out the sun and causing massive loss of plant life.
The rest is history but they reckon a few minutes earlier or later and it would have hit deep ocean with large Tsunami and some loss of life, but not on the scale that occurred.
This was a cool video. I actually found this impact crater by mistake on google maps. I was bored looking at rural Canada when I saw the odd too perfectly round lake. I knew I had to research it to find out what exactly I was looking at.
i found it on a map randomly and never seen pictures or videos on it till now, thanks
Asteroid: Y E E T *Rams itself into Earth.*
Thank you for sharing. Exellent video and info.
Very informative I loved this thank you !
Thank you I always wondered about the origin of that structure.
The lake is the result of the Manic 5 hydro dam, the dam itself is huge over a kilometer across. When the gates of the damnwere closed after construction it took 12 years for the reservoir to fill completely. Ive canoed in the area, flying north by bush plane and then taking 2 weeks to canoe back down to the reservoir. Beautiful wild country.
Damn I live in Ontario (right beside Quebec) and had no clue about this, I definitely gotta check this out for myself sometime!
Wow! I believe I need to look into a summers long canoe or kayak trip. Water, cool rock hounding, can't go wrong!!!!
Thank you for sharing this video that was very interesting.
I actually flew over this impact site in 2014, it looked pretty awesome.
I used to live in a town near that crater. (Actually the nearest town to this crater) I once travelled to a station next to the Manicouagan reservoir. This place is so peaceful and deep in the wild forest
Was the town call Gagnon
I've been waiting for a video on this crater! I've always had questions I was too lazy to Google lol
Wow.. This is amazing
Super cool I would like to visit this place!
Great video as usual, can you explorer the Nastapoka arc located in Hudson Bay please, thanks.
Awesome video. Thanks!
I was going to paddle the reservoir loop in 2020 but the border closed due to you-know-what. A series of hydroelectric dams built from the 60s onward produce the full annular body of water. I still look forward to paddling the 120 mile plus loop someday.
I have had the chance to see The reservoir manicouagan in person, roads are bad over theyre but the view you get is amazing
I've driven past this crater a few times and flown over it several times. I didn't know anything about the history or statistics, but I did reognize it instantly from the thumbnail.
Seems like the perfect place for a kayaking trip!
Best thing ive learned in a while💯
...not gunna lie👍
Tyvm 😃
I have driven beside the crater many times.. it’s quite the site. Matter fact,, the whole hwy 389,, is an amazing drive. Abandon old town,, huge dam,, a lot of wildlife… it’s beautiful
We studied this in high school in the 1970s [in Canada]. Our teacher pronounced the name as "MAN-uhh-Coe-AH-gun". I hope this helps. What a story of the asteroid impact! Thanks.
you get it wrong too.
It's Mani-coo-ah-gan (an as in ant without the t)
Great info, thanks
So you know all details about this? 214 million Years ago this happened and you have managed to find out such a lot of details including where the asteroid came from, its size and what it was made of. That Incredible
Do they have schools where you come from?
@@danielduncan6806 Sure do
He just used data from other geologists on the impact and just shrunk that info into something we could understand without a mental overload
thank you very much for the video, im from quebec and i saw this often and always wonder what the hell it was there
389 is a glorious road to drive. Especially as a truck driver.
I'm looking at photos now. That's spectacular scenery.
I had wanted to do a canoe trip "around" that lake, then I learned about the weather and waves on it!
I suggest to go there in the summer. It last long enough to circle around a couple of time...
if you stay close to shore you'll be fine
Sail an ice boat around it in the winter. No waves…. 😎
excellent sponge analogy
I know it's not a volcano but could you do a video about (Mount Denali) in the middle of Alaska
Your take on the Chicxulub crater would be interesting.
This video was very gneiss. Subscribed 👍🏻
Have you done a vid of the crater discovered under Greenland ice? It is thought to have melted huge amounts of ice, liquid until it hit the ground at which time it froze. This is thought to be involved in the Younger-Dryas age, wiping out megafauna in N America.
I was thinking the same thing. Great minds think alike.
You should make a video about the Vredefort impact crater, the largest known impact crater on the surface of the Earth (99 to 186 miles across).
Lots of gold there.
It was a cold wintery day 2 billion years ago because the earth had recently been frozen over due to the "recent" Theia Collision. As the tiny Microbial life that existed at that point looked up at the sky thinking to themselves "thank god this day can't get much worse" they would soon realise this wouldn't be the only time this planet showed it's wicked sense of humour.
@@Akechi_The_Phantom_Detective more like earth was on the receiving end of another prank by sol.
@@daos3300 lol that's a good way of putting it. I swear to got the chain of these impact events must've set-up by a sitcom writer.
I worked on rené levasseur island ( island crater) circa 2005 for forestry operation … cool experience
Awesome video
Thank you
I always wondered this !
Good fishing in Quebec, Sudbury is another impact crater, near Letterkenny.
Wow, i see that reservoir since many years, i never hear the history about it!
great video!!!
Do you have anything on the Sudbury basin?
You are a great professor 🏅
Great vid👍
Thanks, very interesting. How about the Siljan lake and impact crater in Sweden!? Can you do something regarding that event?
Fascinating!
Thanks GH
So awesome
As a Canadian speaking for my fellow Canadians we would like to say “Sorry” for this 😅
Sorry? Why would be need to apologize for this?
@@AngelofDeath333Because we killed all the Dinosaurs lmao smh
@@GuyWithAEpicHat that sounds probably true, we also burned the White House down so I’m sure us Canadian could accomplish anything
Pffff, as a Quebecois, i say you diserve it. Live with it...
@@lovermcgrabber5098 Quebec is not recognized as a apart of Canada by western Canadians.
Good content, I liked it
I love the power of the universe. Awesome.
I've been wanting to go there ever since I first saw it.
Impressive!
Far northwest Iowa has an area in which a meteor hit it millions of years ago. There are some parts of that area in which they can’t drill for water because of the deformation of the ground.
I really really hope there is a boat race around this thing. I don't care if it's paddle, sail or power...
It would probably be more scarier if we knew every impact because 65% of them hit in the ocean. So it’s probably more like 15 million years between them.
I assume your talking about massive impacts but, we literally travel through an asteroid belt twice a year. Then we go through different comet streams on a few years cycles for those. Stats from nasa: every day the earth is hit by hundreds of tons of tiny dust sized particles that burn up in the atmosphere, about once a year a car sized asteroid enters the atmosphere and blows up in the sky, every 2,000 years a football sized meteoroid hits and causes significant damage, then once every few million years something hits with the potential to wipe out civilization.
Not to mention Yellowstone supposedly blows on a average of 800,000 years. So you gotta survive that as well.
@@calebmahoney2448 Yellowstone is great for fear mongers. Super eruptions are really not that bad especially Yellowstone because Yellowstone has small VEI-8 eruptions compared to other super volcanoes.
@@bigrooster6893 I was just pointing out one other thing you would need to survive bud. But to the original point we are struck by meteoroids way more often than 15 million years. And to your second point good luck surviving a super volcano. Lol.
I've always wanted to get a big boat and just drive around it in circles.
My favorite impact site. Quebec is beautiful place too.
Chub crater is way nicer
@@tomjones2121 Nah, I like the island in the middle.
@@p4p3rm4t3 which island , there's islands on the island ,
is the circular feature directly north of it also an impact crater?
The size of the crater was also affected by glaciation.
It totally looks like a sleeping face! Great videos, especially the space-related ones!
So so so cool!!!!
Awesome!!
It’s amazing how you lived 215 million years ago and we’re able to jot down all the info!
Don't need to be there to read information, Ray Comfort
@@RideAcrossTheRiver hey, that’s what your mom calls me too!
@@XX-bo5pb You're lame. Ray Comfort is a buffoon young Earth creationist religion-peddler. Grow up, now
@@RideAcrossTheRiver tells me to grow up and is calling people names like buffoon. You’re certainly a shining example.
That rock formation you called Gneiss. I’ve seen those patterns here all over where I live. Very different from the other rock patterns. I’m in Ontario.
The explanation of the rising center was the exact same excerpt for the other Quebec impact create lakes. You even named both mountains as Mt Babel.
i was fishing here yesterday!
I've been here, went salmon fishing, camped on the shores for a couple of weeks. Gorgeous place, took about 3.5 hours to drive there from Quebec City. It's hard to imagine the power unleashed to create it, 32-million megatons is just such an absurdly huge number.
From Mtl to Qc city it's about 3hrs, so from Qc city to Manicouagan in 3,5hrs it's impossible... (by road)
@@JOE_XD Your right it's an 8 hour drive. It's close to 3 hours just from Baie Comeau
"known as macooh-g'han reservoir", wait, what? No, you are mistaken, that name should sound more like "mah nik'wa g'han". Aside for that, awesome video! :)
Just about spit my tea out when he said the name. lol I'm not from Quebec but I grew up with Cree names everywhere (Northern MB) and would have sworn it was pronounced Manik-oo-AH-gun. So glad there are corrections being made in the comments section. Thanks! :)
after going on google earth you can really see the size of the reservoir, very impressive.
Could you do the Sudbury basin impact!!!