00:00I dare you to find somebody who hasn't, at some point in their life, uttered the words,
00:05Ooh, cool rock! Those three little words connect you to powerful forces that shape the world,
00:10people who lived thousands of years ago and the squirmy little kid inside you never grew up.
00:15Because let's face it, rocks are cool! We've transported them across long distances as far
00:21back as prehistoric times. We've admired them, traded them, built pyramids and skyscrapers out
00:26of them. And to this day, even a tiny pebble is part of a bigger story that began long before
00:32us
00:32and will continue on long after we're gone. Hi, I'm Sage, and this is Crash Course Geology.
00:38I'm an artist and a creator who is obsessed with earth science. You might know me from my YouTube
00:43channel, Sage the Bad Naturalist, where I make videos about fascinating fungi and scary sludge
00:49and various experiments that never go exactly to plan. And I love a cool rock. But geology is so
00:56much more than that. In 25 episodes, we'll dig deep into the forces that shape our planet from
01:01the inside out. We'll dial back the clock to Earth's fire youth, journey into its center,
01:05and uncover the churning dynamic forces that sculpt its surface, making it possible for you
01:11and me to exist at all. We'll discover how fossils and layers of rock clue us into what
01:16happened before humans showed up, fashionably late to the party. And, uh, Dwayne the Pet Rock
01:22will catch us up on all the lore we missed. Huh? Oh, what's that? Girl, Earth did what now?
01:27But geology isn't just about the deep past. It's also about the present and the future.
01:32It's about the gems that decorate our fingers and the minerals that power electric cars.
01:37It's about clean water, healthy soil, and preparing for hazards like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
01:42It's about tapping Earth's geothermal energy and finding rocks to store excess carbon.
01:47Geology puts our lives in a whole new perspective, because it's not just microscopic minerals and
01:52enormous mountains. It's asteroids and deep-sea trenches and worlds beyond our own. One tiny,
01:59ordinary pebble can teach us about our current moment and the enormous timescales that stretch
02:04beyond us. So meet me back here to check out some cool rocks and much more together.
02:10Thanks for watching this episode of Crash Course Geology. It was filmed at our studio in Indianapolis,
02:16Indiana, which is made with the help of these groovy people. If you want to help us keep Crash
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