Busting 5 Common Geology Myths

There are numerous commonly held beliefs involving geologic subjects that are in fact scientifically incorrect. This video will disprove 5 of those myths, including topics covering the Yellowstone supervolcano, diamonds, coal, gold, platinum, amber, and more!

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Sources/Citations:
[1] Sin-Mei Wu, Hsin-Hua Huang, Fan-Chi Lin, Jamie Farrell, Brandon Schmandt, Extreme seismic anisotropy indicates shallow accumulation of magmatic sills beneath Yellowstone caldera, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 616, 2023, 118244, ISSN 0012-821X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118244. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X23002571), CC BY 4.0
[2] U.S. Geological Survey
[3] VEIs, dates/years, composition, tephra layer name, DRE estimates, and bulk tephra volume estimates for volcanic eruptions shown in this video which were assigned a VEI 4 or larger without an asterisk after their name are sourced from the LaMEVE database (British Geological Survey © UKRI), https://www2.bgs.ac.uk/vogripa/view/controller.cfc?method=lameve, Used with Permission
[4] Source of Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) methodology and criteria: Newhall, C. G., and Self, S. (1982), The volcanic explosivity index (VEI) an estimate of explosive magnitude for historical volcanism, J. Geophys. Res., 87(C2), 1231–1238, doi:10.1029/JC087iC02p01231. Accessed / Read by Youtube.com/GeologyHub on Oct 5th, 2022.

0:00 Geologic Myths
0:25 Myth #1, Platinum
1:46 Myth #2, Diamonds
2:37 Myth #3, Volcanic Eruption Rates
3:55 Myth #4, Yellowstone
4:42 Myth #5, Amber
5:05 Conclusion