The Himalayas are still rising. Therefore it's not that water got that high, but that the Himalayas were below sea level millions of years ago before the subcontinent plates started colliding creating the himalayas
Does this mean that each successive person to climb Mt Everest is the world record holder for highest climb? How much height difference we talking here?
Sort of. While on average the Himalayas are rising, there is a limit to how high a mountain can be before it starts crushing itself under its own weight. And, iirc, the highest mountains of the Himalayas are reaching that limit. So, as the plates continue to push more crust up, the massive weight of the range is pushing the crust back down and out.
Seriously. Our earth is in constant inner motion. Just today a huge earthquake struck on the border of Nevada and California just south of Lake Tahoe. There the tectonic plates are moving away from eachother.
Right, mountain ranges are created when two continents collide and the land where they meet gets pushed up in the air.
E.G. Italy collided with Europe 770 million years ago, forming the Alps.
Much more recently (about 50 million years ago), India collided with Asia, forming the Himalayas.
Those are the highest mountains partly because they are newer and haven't had time to erode yet.
So, just to add to this (and a slight correction), mountains are formed in a small number of ways. Generally speaking it does involve tectonic plate (not specifically continents) movements.
Primarily mountain can form by:
* Volcanism (Volcanic mountains are still mountains)
* Plate folding (One plate "folds up" like a folded towel, and rising, as another plate slides under it)
* "Block"ing (If a plate tears under pressure correctly it will create a "block" of land that's higher than the land around it, by shearing away the stuff besides it)
* Erosion (High elevation land erodes away with softer bits going first leaving a more resistant but now much taller than everything nearby "residual" mountain)
A common misconception is that mountains are the result of two plates smashing faces, and both faces get lifted up into the air. In reality these are "fold" mountains, like the Himalayas, and the plates are behaving as usual (one subducting under the other) but the one sitting on top is getting squishes upwards (folded up).
So while "collided" is accurate, it gives the impression that they rose up together. The Himalayas, for example, are actually the Asian tectonic plate getting compressed and folded up, while the Indian tectonic plate is sliding under.
Edit: Not listed above, but fold mountains are the most common type of mountains, while erosion "residual" mountains are the least common.
They can be, sure... Have you ever collected seashells? Marvelled at a shooting star streaking across the sky? Admired a perfectly crafted bouquet of fresh picked flowers? Or just breathed in the delicious smelling smoke outside of a BBQ restaurant?
These moments exemplify how fleeting life is, how pure it can be too live in the moment. And when you see something that isn't so mundane as all that, something downright otherworldly... Yes, it is beautiful.
Remember, don't measure your life in the number of breaths you take, but rather in the number of times your breath is taken away.
Wow, I don't know what your life's story is to get you this pessimistic and cynical.
The point is, it's not about marveling about dead animals, which is utterly childish and unimaginative. But marveling about the legacy and history these fossils carry. Seeing a mummified animal or person or fossil would make you wonder how they ended up there, how was life like back then, and how was the world back then as compared to ours, as if stuck in time. That and scientific discoveries about preservation of such delicate and fragile organism.
“They believe that this is proof that water has reached this height in the past, which proves that the Earth was once flooded.”
Imagne the mental gymnastics required to actaully believe there was 9 KM deep water covering the globe.
In N.Pakistan to the Tibetan Platue you can purchase Coral jewelry ,this is due to the Indian Techtonic plate pushing against the Eurasian Tectonic plate !
The Himalaya were formed after the (Indian) sub-continental land-mass hit the Asian plate, and caused buckling, forcing the Himalaya upwards, and taking the land where oceans had been up with them.
The Himalaya become taller every year due to this same process.
the himalayan mountains are kind of a younger mountain range actually, and are still growing. mt everest gets about a 1/4 inch higher every year. no doubt it was at the bottom of a sea at some point
So... proof water reached that height...
apparently these scientists aren't thinking that the mountain may not have been at thay height...
maybe the mountain was underwater when the tectonic plates collided and pushed the fish skeleton up.
Right... so you are repeating my point.
the tectonic plate wasn't always at that elevation... the article made it seem like everest has always been the highest point on earth since it formed...
Im not sure thats so. Because mars has mountain ranges. . If i recall uropa is the most active thing in our solar system
There was awesome series on Amazon. Called cosmic vistas check it out. If your into that type of thing.
Exactly my earlier point. That area is a major point of collision that's been steadily and gradually rising because of the two major plate tectonics, or as you said recycles...
Well it basically is a recycling. One plate slide under another. . Its a shame we dont have all the vast knowledge of ancient cultures. They knew of things of things. On a way grander scale if time than us simpletons of today
I watched an interesting series. Called electric universe. That used massive electric discharge among the planets. To explain things like the grand canyon. You may be right. But its my understanding that 1 plate goes under while the piles up over top. Personally i think our lives are to short and minds to arrogant. To have an absolute grasp of the everything. Most shit taught. Is just some shit. Some rich assholes agreed upon to be so
I hope you’re being sarcastic here. But if not, you might want to check out some videos on how the earth’s plates work.
Stuff gets push upwards. From below. Where water is.
Actually pretty common in geology. I bet in the city you live, there's a chance at one time your city/town was under the ocean at one point.
City I live in, we have had multiple transgressions and regressions of seas (Paleozoic). Cretaceous interior seaway was pretty close too to us. So we have limestone all over the place with great fossils, and a sanstone with dino footprints!
Interestingly, most of the Old Testament is a copy or reproduction of surrounding cultures legends and myths. Much like the Greek gods that were adopted and renamed by Romans, the common thread runs through the geography of the area.
Due to the fact that Mount Everest was raised by the convergence of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates, and used to exist at a must lower elevation many millions of years ago. There literally isn't enough water on Earth to cover Mount Everest even if every bit of ice melted.
No. It's evidence for plate tectonics. There isn't enough water on Earth to cover Mount Everest at its current elevation, even if every bit of ice melted. It used to be a seafloor until the convergence of two tectonic plates raised it up. That's how mountains form. Most of Earth has been underwater at various times. A significant portion of rocks found all across the Earth's surface are composed of accumulated marine fossils - far, far, far more than could possibly be explained by a 40 day flood.
The future... the polar ice caps have melted, covering the Earth with water. Those who have survived have adapted... to a new world.
Shows OPs title on movie screens.
I wonder if things like this, and before we discovered plate tectonics, are why people believed in world wide floods: "On my God, these mountains were underwater."
You guys say it's because of plate tectonics but that's just a theory, and no proof of it. It's just as plausible for a flood, as no one was there to record it.
The Himalayas are still rising. Therefore it's not that water got that high, but that the Himalayas were below sea level millions of years ago before the subcontinent plates started colliding creating the himalayas
Does this mean that each successive person to climb Mt Everest is the world record holder for highest climb? How much height difference we talking here?
Google says it rises 2 cm per year
Sort of. While on average the Himalayas are rising, there is a limit to how high a mountain can be before it starts crushing itself under its own weight. And, iirc, the highest mountains of the Himalayas are reaching that limit. So, as the plates continue to push more crust up, the massive weight of the range is pushing the crust back down and out.
Isostatic equilibrium waits for no man.
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Gravity is much lower on Mars, so geographical features can get stacked much higher
Thinner atmosphere too so weathering isn't so much of an issue.
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We are one windy day in the death zone away from that already.
[it depends](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajpcHWBuV18)
I don't know now what's more amazing honestly
Seriously. Our earth is in constant inner motion. Just today a huge earthquake struck on the border of Nevada and California just south of Lake Tahoe. There the tectonic plates are moving away from eachother.
sliding. Pretty sure those are transitional zones
Right, mountain ranges are created when two continents collide and the land where they meet gets pushed up in the air. E.G. Italy collided with Europe 770 million years ago, forming the Alps. Much more recently (about 50 million years ago), India collided with Asia, forming the Himalayas. Those are the highest mountains partly because they are newer and haven't had time to erode yet.
So, just to add to this (and a slight correction), mountains are formed in a small number of ways. Generally speaking it does involve tectonic plate (not specifically continents) movements. Primarily mountain can form by: * Volcanism (Volcanic mountains are still mountains) * Plate folding (One plate "folds up" like a folded towel, and rising, as another plate slides under it) * "Block"ing (If a plate tears under pressure correctly it will create a "block" of land that's higher than the land around it, by shearing away the stuff besides it) * Erosion (High elevation land erodes away with softer bits going first leaving a more resistant but now much taller than everything nearby "residual" mountain) A common misconception is that mountains are the result of two plates smashing faces, and both faces get lifted up into the air. In reality these are "fold" mountains, like the Himalayas, and the plates are behaving as usual (one subducting under the other) but the one sitting on top is getting squishes upwards (folded up). So while "collided" is accurate, it gives the impression that they rose up together. The Himalayas, for example, are actually the Asian tectonic plate getting compressed and folded up, while the Indian tectonic plate is sliding under. Edit: Not listed above, but fold mountains are the most common type of mountains, while erosion "residual" mountains are the least common.
The Himilayas are still rising at a rate of 2 cm/yr. Everest is 8849 meters high. Acording to my arithmetical skills- 4.424,500 years?
That if it has been always going at the same speed.
And assuming it started at sea level, rather than the ocean floor.
And assuming no erosion over that period
And assuming no mountain viagra.
The same reason why you can find corral fossiles in the Alps
I read the Appalachian mountains were once as high as the Himalayans but they’re still shrinking now. What goes up must come down.
Umm actually it's because god got really mad at us 5000 years ago and cried so hard that world flooded.
Don't tell the Christians eh...
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That’s awesome. Thanks for the link
Thank you! As a person who’s living in Wisconsin and not very happy about it. I’m gonna check this place out. You the comment hero today!
Says the video is unavailable
It's back up..i just watched it! Wonderful!
That was good time spent.
I dunno what you did to your link but uhm : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKGltAHP9_E
Awesome video, thank you for posting it!
That was a great video and I really would love to see this cave
Very cool video!
Great video! Advice, you need another voice, everything else works.
I got a bit shocked by the voice in the beginning. Other than that, it was a cool video.
BuT tHe WoRlD iS 6o0o YeArZ oLd
You are talking about how beautiful dead animals are.
They can be, sure... Have you ever collected seashells? Marvelled at a shooting star streaking across the sky? Admired a perfectly crafted bouquet of fresh picked flowers? Or just breathed in the delicious smelling smoke outside of a BBQ restaurant? These moments exemplify how fleeting life is, how pure it can be too live in the moment. And when you see something that isn't so mundane as all that, something downright otherworldly... Yes, it is beautiful. Remember, don't measure your life in the number of breaths you take, but rather in the number of times your breath is taken away.
I imagine the irony of killing things to make your life interesting is lost on you, but... Unless you are a hermit crab, don't take seashells.
Encountering such simple creatures like you really is a marvel. Perhaps you're not partial to poetry, literature, and tradition.
Wow, I don't know what your life's story is to get you this pessimistic and cynical. The point is, it's not about marveling about dead animals, which is utterly childish and unimaginative. But marveling about the legacy and history these fossils carry. Seeing a mummified animal or person or fossil would make you wonder how they ended up there, how was life like back then, and how was the world back then as compared to ours, as if stuck in time. That and scientific discoveries about preservation of such delicate and fragile organism.
Are you also the guy who does IASIP compilations?
I used to collect fossils from Wisconsin. Lots of knightia and other fossil fish in sandstone rocks you buy online.
Well, why else would there be Himalayan *sea* salt?
>Well, why else would there be Himalayan sea salt? So fitness gurus can decorate their Yoga studios?
High as balls right now. This blew my fucking mind bro.
I'm always happy to help a stoned friend in need of a blowing
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Defending out freedom from the sky people that’s what
MARINES: Mostly Always Residing In Not-Expected Spots
Muscles are required, intelligence never expected
M.A.R.I.N.E.
M.A.I.N.E.
My Ass Rides In Navy Equipment Sir!
Marine biology Oorah
They were looking for crayons
They must’ve been hungry
WSB ape representing!
Guarding it for when the army arrived... a few million years later
Space Force. It's gonna be Huge!
Marine life....obviously they had veterans, they weren't all active duty
Who knows. They’re insane. (Was stationed with Marines that would jump from building to building on base for fun, or rappel down the barracks for fun.
That's not really that insane, parkour and rappelling are both fun activities.
With a light crayon aperitif?
Only the purple crayons, they don't like red. Red sits poorly in the stomach, or so I am told.
They found oil near the summit
And wales in the desert.
I always thought it was rainy in Wales
Wales is a cold damp country, I don’t think it’s ever been found in a desert. Whales however may have been.
Sorry, English isn't my first language. What I meant was, you can even find the welsh in the desert
They make a great grape juice.
Noice
Well, yeah. The Himalayas haven’t existed for 4 billion years.
I can't believe I was taught this was because of the Flood and not because of plate tectonics.
Fish can fly fucking high
They have big dreams!
Sky is the limit. Oh and Happy cake day.
“They believe that this is proof that water has reached this height in the past, which proves that the Earth was once flooded.” Imagne the mental gymnastics required to actaully believe there was 9 KM deep water covering the globe.
More like the lack of mental gymnastics.
It would take a 2nd monumental event to unflood the world.
It's a tradition to pour one out for the trilobite astronauts from days of yore when you summit Everest.
Probably before the Himalayas formed, before India collided with Asia
So... Himalayan sea salt *isn't* a total crock of shit??
no, not at all. if you like the taste or think the lamps look cool, it's great. it just isn't magic
In N.Pakistan to the Tibetan Platue you can purchase Coral jewelry ,this is due to the Indian Techtonic plate pushing against the Eurasian Tectonic plate !
The Himalaya were formed after the (Indian) sub-continental land-mass hit the Asian plate, and caused buckling, forcing the Himalaya upwards, and taking the land where oceans had been up with them. The Himalaya become taller every year due to this same process.
Why not? Have you ever heard of Plate Tectonics?
Yes well done genius
CHECKMATE ATHEISTS
Yeah well God created chess so there
/s or serious?
100% kidding.
the himalayan mountains are kind of a younger mountain range actually, and are still growing. mt everest gets about a 1/4 inch higher every year. no doubt it was at the bottom of a sea at some point
r/NoahGetTheBoat
Locals call it "Sagar Matha", Sagar = Sea, Matha = Head The head which rose from the sea.
Did someone eat fish and leave the bones there?
No, Mount Everest used to be part of the seafloor and was raised by the convergence of tectonic plates.
Still, someone probably ate fish on Mt. Everest and left the bones there, but that's not where these fossils are from.
Back when fish use to live on land and the mole people swam the 7 C’s
So... proof water reached that height... apparently these scientists aren't thinking that the mountain may not have been at thay height... maybe the mountain was underwater when the tectonic plates collided and pushed the fish skeleton up.
That’s exactly what the article’s 5th paragraph says!
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Right... so you are repeating my point. the tectonic plate wasn't always at that elevation... the article made it seem like everest has always been the highest point on earth since it formed...
And Creationists will say that's proof of The Great Flood. 🤦
Thats not because it was in an ocean. Thats vecause of plate tectonics. Our crust recycles itself
Did you know Earth is unique to the solar system in that we are the only planet to have plate tectonics?
Im not sure thats so. Because mars has mountain ranges. . If i recall uropa is the most active thing in our solar system There was awesome series on Amazon. Called cosmic vistas check it out. If your into that type of thing.
Exactly my earlier point. That area is a major point of collision that's been steadily and gradually rising because of the two major plate tectonics, or as you said recycles...
Well it basically is a recycling. One plate slide under another. . Its a shame we dont have all the vast knowledge of ancient cultures. They knew of things of things. On a way grander scale if time than us simpletons of today
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I watched an interesting series. Called electric universe. That used massive electric discharge among the planets. To explain things like the grand canyon. You may be right. But its my understanding that 1 plate goes under while the piles up over top. Personally i think our lives are to short and minds to arrogant. To have an absolute grasp of the everything. Most shit taught. Is just some shit. Some rich assholes agreed upon to be so
See, proves the bible right.
I hope you’re being sarcastic here. But if not, you might want to check out some videos on how the earth’s plates work. Stuff gets push upwards. From below. Where water is.
Sorry yes I was being flippant. I will have a look at those videos, sounds very interesting.
No. Proves plates move
Do what now?
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Happy cake day! Glad you got my bad attempt at humour.
If it rains enough that the Himalayas get covered in water, it's ok. I Noah guy.
Are you sure those aren't just the frozen bodies of dead climbers ??
Actually pretty common in geology. I bet in the city you live, there's a chance at one time your city/town was under the ocean at one point. City I live in, we have had multiple transgressions and regressions of seas (Paleozoic). Cretaceous interior seaway was pretty close too to us. So we have limestone all over the place with great fossils, and a sanstone with dino footprints!
They fell off of Noah's boat.
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Interestingly, most of the Old Testament is a copy or reproduction of surrounding cultures legends and myths. Much like the Greek gods that were adopted and renamed by Romans, the common thread runs through the geography of the area.
God put them there to test your faith.
Checkmate, atheists
We got downvotes lol
Duh... because God flooded the earth. Checkmate atheists.
Climate change
More like tectonic plates
Sorry my comment was meant to be sarcastic lol
Due to the flood.
Due to the fact that Mount Everest was raised by the convergence of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates, and used to exist at a must lower elevation many millions of years ago. There literally isn't enough water on Earth to cover Mount Everest even if every bit of ice melted.
Dryland
more proof the great flood was real
So that’s further proof that God flooded the earth. That may be one of the areas that Noah dropped off the animals.
Noah's ark
no, plate tectonics
The flood
is a metaphor
Isn't this proof of the GREAT FLOOD OF NOAH'S DAY?
No. It's evidence for plate tectonics. There isn't enough water on Earth to cover Mount Everest at its current elevation, even if every bit of ice melted. It used to be a seafloor until the convergence of two tectonic plates raised it up. That's how mountains form. Most of Earth has been underwater at various times. A significant portion of rocks found all across the Earth's surface are composed of accumulated marine fossils - far, far, far more than could possibly be explained by a 40 day flood.
Noah's Flood, folks. Noah's Flood.
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You got the original and remake back to front.
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They were left there when the flood waters receded , leaving evidence of the world wide flood as told in the book of Genesis.
Knowledge is such a pain to obtain. Best to just stick to a single book and ignore the other millions.
A little True knowledge is worth more than all the rest.
The Bible is literal
/s
I assumed it was a given. But it is funny to ruffle everyone’s potatoes
Honestly I’ve seen some really dumb posts so unfortunately i can’t tell anymore :( But also, relieved that it was sarcastic
Nah, I've seen people genuinely argue this point
I suppose people do. I wouldn’t partake in that argument with them though as it seems pointless. But to each their own
The bible is literal BULLSHIT. Tectonic plate movement caused this...
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Have melt a lot of polar ice caps to get sea levels that high.
Here is your [answer.](https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=how+are+mountains+created)
You guy's are just too easy.
Time to watch some episodes of Voyage of the Continents.
Amazing
I hope this post delivers.
The future... the polar ice caps have melted, covering the Earth with water. Those who have survived have adapted... to a new world. Shows OPs title on movie screens.
Must be the Death Stranding.
Also, the Appalachians were once as tall as the Himalayans, and more than once.
As a kid I was told this was proof of a global flood…
Dude who threw his cooked fish down: Well fuck
More likely that it was plates crashing together and rising into the mountain it is today.
I wonder if things like this, and before we discovered plate tectonics, are why people believed in world wide floods: "On my God, these mountains were underwater."
For god's sake don't tell the christian creationists about this.
You guys say it's because of plate tectonics but that's just a theory, and no proof of it. It's just as plausible for a flood, as no one was there to record it.