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Massive Blobs Inside Earth May Be Responsible For Extinction Events

2025-07-22 Science & Technology
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Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads) Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http://paypal.me/whatdamath Get a Wonderful Person Tee: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath More cool designs are on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QFIrFX Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about new discoveries about LLSVP and their effects on life on Earth Links: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02482-z https://theconversation.com/where-do-giant-volcanic-eruptions-come-from-new-study-finds-missing-link-to-blobs-deep-within-earth-259804 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08322-y https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-88931-3 Previous videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-EZjEJc8Bo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-7RvQU2s7Y #llsvp #earth #blobs 0:00 LLSVP - Large Low Sheet Velocity Provinces 1:30 Could this be a result of Theia collision? 2:30 Studies of wave damping and unusual results 3:55 New study suggests they are made from continents 6:00 Major effects on Earth 6:40 Volcanic eruptions and superplumes 7:55 BLOBS - they move! 8:50 Extinctions 9:50 Predicting eruptions and findings diamonds 10:50 Conclusions Enjoy and please subscribe Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4 or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships Credit: Sanne.cottaar CC BY-SA 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_low-shear-velocity_provinces#/media/File:LLSVP.gif Brews ohare CC BY-SA 3.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantle_plume#/media/File:Lower_Mantle_Superplume.PNG French & Romanowicz, 2014 https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/2020/03/04/should-we-still-study-llsvps/ https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Global-maps-of-the-LLSVPs-Seismic-shear-wave-velocity-anomalies-dVs-are-those-of-the_fig3_342546843 KDS4444 CC BY SA 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subduction#/media/File:Subduction-en.svg Licenses used: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and relevant Creative Commons licenses

Top Comments (10)

@kristinaplays2924 2025-07-22

We really need to use geothermal energy more, we're living on a ball of lava, tons of energy to be tapped

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@davidwilson6577 2025-07-22

Yeah we're going to need a timelapse with the previous related extinction events pointed out along the way so we can become properly paranoid about the next one please.

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@tortysoft 2025-07-23

NEW actual discoveries are rare. This is one. Well done Anton.

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@josdelijster4505 2025-07-23

As always thank you Anton🙋‍♂️

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@Scaleo3 2025-12-27

Anton Petrov delivers again, jesus christ, this guy could've single handedly saved discovery channel back when the corporations enshittified it. He's everything I loved about that channel back when I was a kid.

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@Why-Is-The-Cat-Wet 2025-07-23

No hello wonderful person?...... That's fine cause you good sir are a wonderful person. Your time is appreciated, thank you Anton!

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@gregorysmull8068 2025-07-23

This is fascinating and explains a great many things with a simple but elegant concept. The Tethys and Pacific oceans may be gone or shrinking, but they do not go quietly. Their plates sink deep into the mantle, slowly melt into these blobs and then burp back up as deep mantle plumes. These plumes then create island chains like Hawaii, supervolcanoes like Yellowstone, and mid-ocean ridges: which create entirely new oceans like the Atlantic, and the new ocean forming in East Africa.

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@cagard 2025-07-24

So cool to find a new Earth substructure!

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@asmallphd9648 2025-07-23

So earth is a spherical lava lamp.

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@kydeshou 2025-07-23

Hell yeah, the LLVSP's are so interesting.

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