The Ground Beneath You Is Moving! | 100-Minute Relaxing Earth Documentary

A long, calm journey across the moving face of our planet. Four Earth Ages films play one after another: how Pangaea came together and broke apart, how India crossed an ocean and raised the Himalayas, the forests that once grew in Antarctica, and how Australia formed and set off north on its own. 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 continents are in no hurry. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome: settle in 0:58 Film 1: Pangaea: How the Supercontinent Formed and Broke Apart 25:13 Film 2: How the Himalayas Formed: When India Hit Asia 49:18 Film 3: Antarctica Was Once a Forest. Here's What Happened 1:14:03 Film 4: How Australia Formed: The Continent That Drifted Alone 1:39:24 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): • 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 • Everest: Luca Galuzzi (CC BY-SA 2.5) and Pavel Novak (CC BY-SA 2.5) • 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 • Fagus, Mount Field National Park: Will Hore-Lacy, CC BY-SA 4.0 • Fagus leaves: MrAnderson603, CC BY-SA 4.0 • Cradle Mountain, Dove Lake circuit: Tropical Treks, CC BY-SA 4.0 • Antarctic hair grass: Lomvi2, CC BY-SA 3.0 • Hannah Point, Livingston Island: Godot13, CC BY-SA 4.0 • RV Polarstern: DLR/NASA/Jess Bunchek, CC BY 3.0 DE • Transantarctic Mountains: John Hardin, CC BY 4.0 • Wright Valley, Dry Valleys: David Saul, public domain • Vertebraria root: James St. John, CC BY 2.0 • Glossopteris leaves (two): James St. John, CC BY 2.0 • Seymour Island geologic map: Crame et al. (2014), PLoS ONE, CC BY-SA 4.0 • Glacial pavement, Hallett Cove: Vmenkov, CC BY-SA 3.0 • Hallett Cove panorama: Rok Krope, public domain • Kata Tjuta from the ISS: NASA / Soichi Noguchi (JAXA), ISS crew Earth observation, public domain • The Pilbara and Mount Whaleback: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team, public domain • The Jack Hills from orbit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team, public domain • Kalgoorlie-Boulder: NASA/JPL-Caltech, public domain • The Flinders Ranges, 1975: NASA/JSC, public domain • Wave Rock: Jonathan LaRocca, CC BY 2.0 • The Hazards, Freycinet: brewbooks, CC BY-SA 2.0 • Umoonasaurus ("Eric"): Geekgecko, CC0 • Puncak Jaya: NASA astronaut photograph via Gergyl, CC BY-SA 3.0 • Wilpena Pound: Cathcartw, CC BY-SA 4.0 • The Totem Pole and the Candlestick: Ed Dunens, CC BY 2.0 • Precious opal: Robert M. Lavinsky, CC BY-SA 3.0 • Banded iron, Dales Gorge: Graeme Churchard, CC BY 2.0 • Jack Hills zircons: Aaron Cavosie and John Valley, public domain • Ediacaran golden spike: Bahudhara, 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. 🌍 Earth Ages: the 4.5-billion-year story of our planet, told in order. Subscribe for new episodes every two days:    / @earthageshistory   #EarthHistory #GeologicTime #EarthAges #Sleep #EarthHistory #PlateTectonics