I had fun visiting this geologic oddity in person!
@TheGryfonclaw
Жыл бұрын
Now I want to, LOL. I love stuff like this. Thanks for the video!
@stevejohnson3357
Жыл бұрын
A tough job but you did it for us.
@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
Жыл бұрын
I am glad that you enjoyed!
@PlayNowWorkLater
Жыл бұрын
Nice addition to your Yukon visit!
@renate2068
Жыл бұрын
Was that the Tanana River and or the Yukon?
@jimmyjames2022
Жыл бұрын
Also note that South Saskatchewan has several large areas of partially vegetated dunes, known as "Sand Hills". The dunes advance over time burying trees and fences, albeit slowly.
@donchilders1087
Жыл бұрын
I live in forested sand dunes in north Idaho there are sinkholes from the blocks of ice under the sand that melted.i have wondered how it became forested birds dropping seeds and probably seed locked in ice however the encroachment of the forest from the perimeter makes a great deal of sense also thanks for the video
@joewalker2152
Жыл бұрын
Now that was........................................... interesting! This makes a great change! Keep up the great work my friend!
@hawkterb78clips29
Жыл бұрын
I get to visit this place a lot since I live in Whitehorse, the Desert is really odd but really cool to visit. The huge hill is really fun for sledding
@PlayNowWorkLater
Жыл бұрын
Hey, fellow Whitehorse resident
@hawkterb78clips29
Жыл бұрын
@@PlayNowWorkLater hello
@RobertGaut1
Жыл бұрын
Great, we were there in June and thanks to give us more explanation about that sand formation.
@wbrucesimpson
Жыл бұрын
I have been here. It was beautiful. stayed in Whitehorse. made a trip up to Skagway. Had a very tasty fresh Halibut fry in Carcross@Carcrosscorners. visited with Neil Byblow, a fabulous and much underrated Canadian drummer from Manitoba originally. Yukon, NWT, Northern BC and Alaska all beautiful.
@brucevanderzanden9638
Жыл бұрын
Really liked this video! Thank you!
@floramew
Жыл бұрын
Don't often comment but I've really enjoyed all the videos I've seen of yours lately, shorts and longer ones both. I love geology but haven't touched it much since leaving school, it's nice to have a dose of it again.
@Barnaclebeard
Жыл бұрын
A desert is not just any old pile of sand! A desert doesn't need to have ANY sand. A desert certainly doesn't have enough water to support large coniferous trees!! This is something other than a desert.
@thestonewind2308
Жыл бұрын
Hello. I absolutely love your volcano updates. I am not a geologist, but rather a "volcano hobbyist". LOL, if such a thing exists. I have a favor to ask: I would appreciate it if you wouldn't talk so fast during your vids. Although American English is my native (and only) language, I often have so much difficulty understanding what you are saying that I end up turning the video off when it is only half way through. Toning down the background music - or leaving it out altogether - might also help, as the music often drowns out your voice. Thank you, and keep up the good work.
@Archzenom
Жыл бұрын
Anakin: I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating - and it gets everywhere.
@gregalbert4033
Жыл бұрын
Once again, Bravo sir! I consider myself somewhat adept with geology, more than the average layperson, but I learn something damn near everytime I watch! Thank you.
@eliinthewolverinestate6729
Жыл бұрын
As glaciers grow so do deserts. The Antarctic and Arctic are the largest deserts on the planet. Great video.
@michaelcap9550
Жыл бұрын
Al Gore will latch onto that.
@kathysmith6413
Жыл бұрын
i used to live nearr there and this is the BEST explanation in condensed form i have heard.
@Nightscape_
Жыл бұрын
Pretty cool to see the biospheres effect on the local geology first-hand like in the Carcross Desert.
@sassa82
Жыл бұрын
This is so beautiful site!
@penguinuprighter6231
Жыл бұрын
Have been there..a very cool spot. Some great people in the town.
@markwentz8332
Жыл бұрын
on location video, awesome!
@dkbros1592
Жыл бұрын
It's cool to see dessert becoming forest again
@ryanbudney3356
6 ай бұрын
A lot of Canada is very sandy. Not quite like this, but the southern prairies and Northern Ontario (which isn't very far north if you look on a map) are all very sandy.
@troublekaliman
Жыл бұрын
Very cool. thank you!
@xxxxxxxxxxxx_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Жыл бұрын
Been past there many times, but I was always racing so didn't have time to stop and check it out. Thanks for the video!
@carnakthemagnificent336
Жыл бұрын
Very cool video. Gracias!
@sassycat
Жыл бұрын
There's also the Kobuk valley desert in Alaska.
@Celeste-in-Oz
Жыл бұрын
That was great! More geologic oddities please 🙏 I enjoy the stories of their formation! 🤓
@dsma2023
Жыл бұрын
I like the music!
@j2kerrigan
Жыл бұрын
Can you do the one in Alaska? Super bizarre and large sand dunes.
@willottevanger7225
Жыл бұрын
You should visit the "Loonse en Drunense Duinen" in the Netherlands. It is truly desert-like even though it has normal rainfall.
@ashergoney
Жыл бұрын
From Survey Enquiry Of Canadians Passing Through the Region..
@scott-qk8sm
Жыл бұрын
Great info and presentation
@mbvoelker8448
Жыл бұрын
P.S. The music is not unpleasant, but I have a hearing problem so I lost your voice into that background.
@steph_7775
Жыл бұрын
Looks like the vegetation is slowly claiming the sand like where I live (near the 49e parallel in eastern Canada). There's a layer of lichen about 3-4 inches deep and under a massive amount of sand and gravel over a massive area, mostly flat ground tho, some hills but no mountain.
@ryanstewart4444
2 ай бұрын
This is not a desert. It is no different than the Sandbanks Provincial Park in Ontario though I can appreciate why we (yes, I live in the Yukon) promote it as such. A Desert is defined by the amount of precipitation it receives, and this area is above that number (it's about 280mm/annual). It may look like a desert, and tourists love calling it that, and Carcross has certainly cashed in because of it (a great stopover for tourists from the port at Skagway Alaska and Whitehorse). An oddity? Yes. A desert? No. More accurately, most of the Yukon falls into the Steppe category, and this is no different. It's just a Steppe that has been covered with a large amount of fine grain sands as was correctly described.
@josephmccarthy6098
Жыл бұрын
Do mammoth dunes in Wisconsin
@rdbchase
Жыл бұрын
"... sand that completely covers ... towering sand dunes" -- you don't say!
@malcolmyoung7866
Жыл бұрын
Was hoping for a bucket and spade interlude but...alas....
@koharumi1
Жыл бұрын
Again... Please give metric units on screen when using imperial units.
@JonMartinYXD
Жыл бұрын
It makes me sad to see it covered in vehicle tracks.
@flamencoprof
Жыл бұрын
I was going to comment myself along the lines of "Nice to see the sport of Nature Bashing is alive and well."
@phonehenge
Жыл бұрын
Fascinating. And it is thought we can control climatic change.
@zve482
Жыл бұрын
Stone grinding epicenter. 👍🏻
@DrewWithington
Жыл бұрын
Maybe I could go there for my summer holiday and eat ice cream.
@genericalfishtycoon3853
Жыл бұрын
Moose, pine trees, desert, you could've told me it was Maine and I'd of been convinced.
@genericalfishtycoon3853
Жыл бұрын
Just missing a camel. 🐫
@ebo360
Жыл бұрын
Has there been gold found in that sand? It seems like the perfect conditions to concentrate very fine gold that would have been carried into the lakes. The fact that it doesn’t appear to have been mined makes me think no, or at least not in quantities that are commercially viable.
@PlayNowWorkLater
Жыл бұрын
Not really. I’ve panned some of it. There’s a fair amount of black sand, that you would find in the bottom when gold panning. Sadly no gold.
@ralbiruni
Жыл бұрын
Enfin un non-fanatique je m'abonne! qui ne raconte pas de conneries inspirées du fanatique GIEC!
@snarky_user
Жыл бұрын
Horked pinkie.
@inappropriatejohnson
Жыл бұрын
Deserts, by definition, recieve less than 25cm (9-13/16 inches) of precipitation per year. Is this truely a desert?
@Mitchellisawesome100
Жыл бұрын
Nope, I don’t think it is. Although when you look it up, says only about 12 mm of precipitation a year. It’s classified as a subarctic/subalpine climate
@g3heathen209
Жыл бұрын
like the dessert of maine.
@briankirton9636
Жыл бұрын
Dune field Yes Desert: No
@vinnartaigh2076
Жыл бұрын
should have mentioned the hornet
@R0BL0X14N3
Жыл бұрын
Please do suoh volcano in Indonesia i already subscribe and activate the bell
@AtarahDerek
Жыл бұрын
So what is the highest true desert in the world?
@davec9244
Жыл бұрын
sand in a bottle
@CelticDruidess1
Жыл бұрын
Q. Is this the same story as to how the inland desert in northern Saskatchewan formed as well???
@вікторКалитин-е8м
Жыл бұрын
Looks like a minecraft biome)
@junkyardgamer911
Жыл бұрын
What’s wrong with your finger? 😳
@andreweirthug2588
Жыл бұрын
I think I prefer no music but will watch regardless
@darrenmarney8577
Жыл бұрын
That area was amazing 👌 Thinking that there could be some good rock climbing available 🤙
@watashiandroid8314
Жыл бұрын
For those wondering, this is not a true desert (defined by rainfall). It however does receive less rain than surrounding areas and might be considered a semi-arid desert. If you really want an exact answer, you will have to look into it yourself; I stopped when I was satisfied with the accuracy I reached.
@PlayNowWorkLater
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I live close by. Definitely not a real desert. There used to be a sign by the side of the road that referred to it as “Carcross Desert, affectionately known as the worlds smallest desert.” They have since removed the sign to avoid further confusion.
@ben4life988
Жыл бұрын
Like how you added music in the background
@JudyMenzel7
Жыл бұрын
Interesting!
@brandontingley7059
Жыл бұрын
There's also a similar feature in northern Denmark called Råbjerg Mile -- a very large migrating sand dune in this case
@deanlawson6880
Жыл бұрын
Wow! That's really fascinating! I never even knew this existed. What a really fascinating look into the geologic history of his this odd desert came to be. Very nicely done! Thanks for this.
@TheMAXAnswer
Жыл бұрын
Loving the Geologic oddity series as usual, another very good video! Personally I have to say I find the added background music to be a bit distracting from listening to the always excellent presentation of facts you deliver to us. Might be just personal preference though, keep up the great work either way!
@kathysmith6413
Жыл бұрын
i didn't even notice and i am an old lady.
@timweather3847
Жыл бұрын
I agree with you. I find the addition of irrelevant music to almost everything irritating and incomprehensible.
@PedroGuilhermeSchneider
Жыл бұрын
I disagree, and the tune choice is great. But I understand that, considering the length of his usual videos and the density of information given, music can be somewhat feel intrusive. Maybe just adding music for “vacation videos”? This way, most content stays with no music, and every once in a while we have a bit of a change. 😊
@michaireneuszjakubowski5289
Жыл бұрын
As for "deserts in unexpected places" - once, I had the pleasure to drive around in Poland with exchange students from the US. I told them we were driving close to a desert, and asked them if they wanted to see it. Even mentioned it was the place Afrika Korps trained at before they were sent to, well Africa. They refused to believe there is a desert in Poland - "But it rains here all the time!" And yet, there it is: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C5%82%C4%99d%C3%B3w_Desert It's called "Pustynia Błędowska" ("Błędów Desert") and IIRC is the largest desert in Europe. I have NO idea why it's there, but well, it's there.
@chaoticchem
Жыл бұрын
That's cool as hell! Thanks for sharing! 😃
@b.a.erlebacher1139
Жыл бұрын
The wikipedia article explains it. It's a glacial sand deposit that had had time to get forested. Then people cut down the forest, mostly to make charcoal for metal working. The deforestation dropped the water table below the level that plants could reach it, and it returned to its post-glacial state of bare sand. It's gradually being revegetated now.
@michaireneuszjakubowski5289
Жыл бұрын
@@b.a.erlebacher1139 It may, but by now I've heard like six theories on why it's there, including an act of God and a curse of the devil. Well, those two may be local legends, but I've read a paper some time ago positing that there might be a grain of truth to the "devil and the silver mine" legend. Not the devil part of course, but the silver mine might've punched a hole through the bottom of the basin into a permeable layer below, dropping the water table. The paper came out some time ago, shortly after the desert started to disappear, and some surveys showed that there might indeed be a hole in the bedrock at a low point in the basin, but apparead covered/plugged by some other material of lower permeability (the paper suggested organic detritus or something like that). I should note that the reason the sand is there is pretty uncontoversial (there's glacial sand deposits all over the place, hell I literally live on one), it's the low water table situation and increased permeability that spurs some controversy. Also, as for the revegetation, it's indeed happening, but to my knowledge steps are being taken to preserve the desert in its current state. Unless something has changed, trees are being cut away regularly. PS: I'm just relaying the info I read or was told, I'm not a geologist so I don't really have the ground to have an opinion here. The wiki article may very well be right, though, as I've said, there are dissenting voices that it omits.
@b.a.erlebacher1139
Жыл бұрын
@@michaireneuszjakubowski5289 Thanks. I'm not a geologist either, and the wiki article is pretty short.
@michaireneuszjakubowski5289
Жыл бұрын
@@b.a.erlebacher1139 Yeah, an most information available on the subject is in Polish, so it isn't very accessible to an international audience.
@lagniappe7303
Жыл бұрын
About 6-7 years ago on the TV show Gold Rush, Parker is working one of Tony Beets claims. Parker hits a layer of sand that yields good gold. Tony knows something about these sand layers and tells Parker he may have found some big gold. Parker mines one section of the sand layer and does quite well. Tony never explains why abundant gold can be found in the sands. Could there be a connection with the quartzite?
@ecurewitz
Жыл бұрын
Sand dunes do not necessarily imo,y that the place is a desert. Plenty of sand dunes here in New England, many of which are covered by vegetation
@garyruss3529
Жыл бұрын
Another great informative video but the music was quite distracting and made it difficult to clearly hear your narration.
@CitrusFaux
Жыл бұрын
So it’s not an ecological desert but a desert resembling feature? Sounds like a temperate dune?
@jameslewis1605
Жыл бұрын
Is this where Mr. Sandman lives. You know like in the song.
@Flugmorph
Жыл бұрын
really liked the new presenation style of this video.
@dunnkruger8825
Жыл бұрын
Thanks
@benwinkel
Жыл бұрын
I hate all the tire tracks in these places!
@flamencoprof
Жыл бұрын
I was going to comment myself along the lines of "Nice to see the sport of Nature Bashing is alive and well."
@benwinkel
Жыл бұрын
@@flamencoprof I guess thats why its called Carcross desert.
@barbietrink4984
Жыл бұрын
I went sky diving there. I am so impressed that you went to the smallest in the world. Unbelievable experience from high in the sky. I landed closest to the specific spot marked in the desert 🏜 Thank you for exploring The Yukon's beauty.
@PlayNowWorkLater
Жыл бұрын
I may have been there watching. A few friends of mine have been skydiving in Carcross over the years. Been a few times. Pretty cool to watch from below.
@JoeVideoed
Жыл бұрын
I remember the TV show "Stargate Atlantis" doing an episode involving a flashback Col. Sheppard had during his days in Gulf War II in Iraq. It was obviously done in a desert climate but since the show was shot in Canada I figured for a change they mixed things up & went out of the country to get the desert shots (maybe in Arizona, my former home state). I'm starting to think maybe they went here instead (after all Canadian film tax credits are a powerful incentive).
@ImpendingJoker
Жыл бұрын
Whoa, that weird music at the end was jarring as it was completely unexpected.
@TheGryfonclaw
Жыл бұрын
I want to go here so bad
@carnakthemagnificent336
Жыл бұрын
22,000 years ago, 83% of the Yukon Territory was covered in more than a kilometer of ice. Whose SUV caused all that melting?
@hestheMaster
Жыл бұрын
This mystery involves both paleomagnetism and geology in the form of transport of a penisula travelling from where the most northern part of the present day Baja penisula of Mexico travelled west and then north all the way up to the southern edge of Alaska to Washington state and collided with the then coast. The sand is more likely 90 million years old as this transportation took from 90 to 50 million years to travel to where it is now. See the June 2001 issue of GSA Today by the Geological Society of America
@enormousfirecracker
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the info. And very interesting facts about how the world's smallest desert formed. Due to the crushing glaciers during the ice age.
@LadyCatFelineTheSeventh
Жыл бұрын
"Desert of Maine" would be an interesting topic. I visited in the 90's. If I remember right it was uncovered by a farmer who found sand instead of dirt. I think it was from an ancient desert.
@Leyrann
Жыл бұрын
If any collection of sand dunes without vegetation is a desert, I've got a desert practically in my backyard here in the Netherlands, some 20 km away. I highly doubt this area meets the meteorological definition of a desert as an area that receives less than 250 mm of rain per year.
@haroldwilkes598
Жыл бұрын
Too far away? Check out the St Anthony sand dunes in Idaho...interesting place.
@Gosudar
Жыл бұрын
Great as always. I could do without the background music, though. It's a bit distracting.
@loisraymcinnis6006
Жыл бұрын
Thank you. 04-AUG-2023. 3:53 PM FRIDAY.
@MDC_1985
Жыл бұрын
This guys voice has to be an affectation, right? No one actually sounds like this naturally, do they?
@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
Жыл бұрын
Thanks! I am glad that you enjoyed your visit. As another commentor remarked, the video has music! I love the music, because it gave a more uplifting feel to the video. That being said, I wonder if similar features could be found elsewhere in the world. Glaciers truly alter the landscapes they cover! From depressing the land due to their weight to creating seemingly put-of place deserts such as the ones you covered in a previous video, their effects on the geography are truly staggering!
@PlayNowWorkLater
Жыл бұрын
And the Yukon has tonnes of interesting geology to tell some of those stories
@aperson1
Жыл бұрын
There's a bunch of other pseudo-deserts all over: Athabasca Sand Dunes & Great Sand hilles, both in Saskatchewan, Oleshky Sands in Ukraine, and many others. Anywhere there were glaciers and lots of evaporated water, you'll find these in some amount.
@PlayNowWorkLater
Жыл бұрын
@@aperson1 I think it’s definitely an interesting topic, given it’s widespread occurrence in the Northern hemisphere. The last ice age wasn’t really that long ago.
@kathysmith6413
Жыл бұрын
@@aperson1 this one just happens to be further north than most and NEVER has any grass in it.
@b.a.erlebacher1139
Жыл бұрын
The actions of glaciers pretty much define the topography of areas that were under the continental ice sheets. Here in Ontario they essentially bulldozed the sediments from the Canadian shield leaving it as mostly shallow or exposed bedrock, and dumped it in the south in the form of drumlins, moraines, eskers, kettle lakes, etc. Little rivers run through steep walled broad valleys that were spillways for runoff of melting ice sheets. Once you learn to identify these features, the landscape speaks to you. The Great Lakes drained in several different ways while the St. Lawrence was blocked by ice. The history of the Great Lakes over the past 12-15,000 years is really complex and interesting.
@theothermrsaturn
Жыл бұрын
First time to hear a music in your video btw very informative
@justice_1337
Жыл бұрын
My backyard in Wisconsin could classify as a desert too given how sandy it is 😥
@RoddyChannel
Жыл бұрын
This looks so cool. ANd I loved the music at the ending xD
@genuinetuffguy1854
Жыл бұрын
Very cool little desert. The brass musical ensemble at the end was different…
@KatheHanna
Жыл бұрын
I was just there in spring, so cool to see snow and sand dunes and the animal footprints in the sand
@Super1337357
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for pointing out that the sand was under the lake instead of on top of it. :)
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