SciShow: Hotter Than Death Valley | Weird Places

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Content of the Lesson: With acidic puddles, lava lakes, and one of the most important early hominid discoveries, the Danakil Depression is home to all of the extremes. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1023.8204&rep=rep1&type=pdf [PDF] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6380227/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44440-8 https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/41/6/635/131210/mantle-upwelling-and-initiation-of-rift https://www.britannica.com/place/Denakil-Plain http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160614-the-people-and-creatures-living-in-earths-hottest-place http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141127-lucy-fossil-revealed-our-origins http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170803-in-earths-hottest-place-life-has-been-found-in-pure-acid https://www.ajol.info/index.php/mejs/article/view/134809 https://www.wired.com/story/ethiopia-datakil-desert-photos/ https://www.sciencealert.com/weird-microbes-in-the-crusted-salt-on-a-volcano-show-how-life-could-survive-on-mars http://www.thestoryinstitute.com/danakil https://www.thoughtco.com/the-danakil-depression-4154294 https://matadornetwork.com/read/hottest-place-earth-uncomfortable-dangerous-beautiful/ https://geology.com/below-sea-level/#6 https://geology.com/stories/13/dallol/ https://geology.com/plate-tectonics.shtml http://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:5945/Selamawit.pdf [PDF] https://courses.washington.edu/tesc243/rift_valley/Main_Page.shtml https://iho.asu.edu/about/lucys-story https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781942658344 https://www2.palomar.edu/anthro/hominid/australo_2.htm


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