Fall Asleep to the Entire History of Earth | 2-Hour Relaxing Documentary

Two hours of calm narration through the deep past of the planet beneath us. Five Earth Ages films play one after another: the whole 4.5-billion-year story of Earth, the making and breaking of Pangaea, the first life, the asteroid that ended the age of the dinosaurs, and India's long journey into Asia that raised the Himalayas. The music is soft, there are no sound effects or sudden breaks, and the films fade gently from one to the next. If you drift off along the way, that's fine. The rocks will wait. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome: settle in 1:01 Film 1: 4.5 Billion Years of Earth's History, Explained 24:50 Film 2: Pangaea: How the Supercontinent Formed and Broke Apart 49:06 Film 3: The First Life on Earth: How Rock Became Alive 1:13:29 Film 4: Chicxulub: The Asteroid That Ended the Dinosaurs, Minute by Minute 1:37:21 Film 5: How the Himalayas Formed: When India Hit Asia 2:01:25 Goodnight SOURCES Each film's full source list is in its own description on this channel. CREDITS Paleogeography: PALEOMAP PaleoDEMs, C.R. Scotese & N.M. Wright (2018), CC BY 4.0 Photos (Wikimedia Commons unless noted): • Stromatolites, Shark Bay: Paul Harrison, CC BY-SA 3.0 • Pilbara stromatolites: NASA/JPL-Caltech • Banded iron formation, Karijini: Graeme Churchard, CC BY 2.0 • Acasta Gneiss: Mike Beauregard, CC BY 2.0 • Dickinsonia (YPM IP 035465) and Tiktaalik cast (YPM VP 058578): Yale Peabody Museum, CC0 • Grand Canyon: Mgimelfarb, CC0 • White Cliffs of Dover: Immanuel Giel, CC BY-SA 3.0 • Everest: Luca Galuzzi (CC BY-SA 2.5) and Pavel Novak (CC BY-SA 2.5) • K-Pg boundary: Eurico Zimbres (CC BY-SA 3.0) and Glenlarson (public domain) • Putorana Plateau: jxandreani, CC BY 2.0 • Griffinfly fossil: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0 • Kilauea lava fountain: J.D. Griggs, USGS, public domain • Apollo 15 Moon rock sample 15205: NASA • Ross Ice Shelf: Michael Van Woert, NOAA NESDIS, public domain • Scott's party at the South Pole, 1912: Henry Bowers, public domain • Glossopteris leaf: James St. John, CC BY 2.0 • Typus Orbis Terrarum, 1570: Abraham Ortelius, Library of Congress scan, public domain • Alfred Wegener: unknown photographer (Bildarchiv Foto Marburg), public domain • Greenland ice sheet: NASA / Operation IceBridge • Mesosaurus: FunkMonk, CC BY-SA 3.0 • Lystrosaurus: Daderot, public domain • Cynognathus skull NHMUK PV R 3580: © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London, photo Michael O Day, CC BY 4.0 • Þingvellir: Ville Miettinen, CC BY 2.0 • The Palisades: PointsofNoReturn, CC BY-SA 4.0 • Land's End granite: Roger D Kidd, CC BY-SA 2.0 • Checkerboard Mesa, Zion: Kirt Edblom, CC BY-SA 2.0 • Organ Pipes, kunanyi / Mount Wellington: Graeme Bartlett, CC BY-SA 3.0 • Beardmore Glacier: Cdr John Bortniak, NOAA Corps, public domain • GPS station: Liz Westby, USGS, public domain • Age of the ocean floor: NOAA NGDC, public domain • Lost City hydrothermal field: NOAA Ocean Exploration and NOAA Photo Library (Lost City 2005), public domain • Asteroid Bennu sample: NASA • Ribosome illustration: David S. Goodsell, RCSB PDB, CC BY 4.0 • Strelley Pool stromatolite: James St. John, CC BY 2.0 • Yellowstone microbial mats: GyozaDumpling, CC BY-SA 4.0 • Barberton greenstone belt: MaruAttwood, CC BY-SA 4.0 • Gunflint chert microfossils: E. S. Barghoorn, NASA SP-56, public domain • Grand Prismatic Spring: Jim Peaco, National Park Service, public domain • Hamelin Pool stromatolites: Paul Harrison, CC BY-SA 3.0 • Pilbara fieldwork: NASA/JPL-Caltech • Impact spherules, Gorgonilla Island: Hermann Bermúdez, CC BY 4.0 • Hell Creek Formation badlands: Joseph H. Hartman, CC0 • Deccan Traps: Shyamal L., CC0 • K–T boundary clay, Colorado: James St. John, CC BY 2.0 • Shocked quartz: Martin Schmieder, CC BY 3.0 • Yucatán shaded relief (PIA03379): NASA/JPL-Caltech • Cenote Zací: Bernard Dupont, CC BY-SA 2.0 • Bottaccione Gorge: Picenus, CC BY-SA 4.0 • Stevns Klint: kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0 • K–T boundary, Trinidad Lake State Park: Nationalparks, CC BY-SA 2.5 • Drumheller badlands: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0 • Suture zone, Ladakh: AryaTethys, CC BY-SA 4.0 • Indus valley near Leh: KennyOMG, CC BY-SA 3.0 • Tso Moriri: Ingo Mehling, CC BY-SA 3.0 • Ground movement, April 2015: ESA, contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2015), CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO • Kathmandu reconstruction: Rajesh Dhungana, CC BY-SA 4.0 • Kali Gandaki at Jomsom: Saddam19, CC BY-SA 4.0 • Shaligrams: AswiniKP, CC BY-SA 4.0 • Langza, Spiti: Sumita Roy Dutta, CC BY-SA 4.0 • Shivalik Fossil Park: Vjdchauhan, CC BY-SA 3.0 Maps of present-day relief from the PALEOMAP 0 Ma DEM. Animation, graphics and music: original, made for Earth Ages. Reconstructions and models are labelled as such. Narration: an AI voice (Google Gemini text-to-speech) reading original scripts written and fact-checked for this channel. Made by a civil engineer in Tasmania, Australia. Subscribe:    / @earthageshistory   #Sleep #EarthHistory #DeepTime