A few days ago I posted about how, while "debunking" can be nice, just showing how things work can be better. I mentioned showing geology to someone who thinks the earth can't be 4 billion years old. Here is a great video about how exactly we know that that there was once a sea that split North America in two. I love how Dr. Cook is careful to explain not only what he knows but HOW he knows it in a way anyone can follow.
The scale of North American geography boggles my tiny British mind, but we can see lots of similar features squished into the north of England, and meeting up with glacial deposits in the parts of Lancashire that I'm familiar with.
Preston is boulder clay/till over sandstone, turning to sand and gravel, and meeting mudstones and shales nearer the sea where they had a go at fracking until a small quake got it shut down 😎
@futurebird Thank you for this great example of #scicomm (just subscribed the channel).
And thank you for waking me up (I forget it so often) that debunking often needs so much time and energy that we could use them for talking about the important and fascinating topics like he does!
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