Settle in for some boring geography for sleep as we drift along the west coast of South America and let plate tectonics do the storytelling. In this Sleepless Geographer style episode, we follow how plate subduction, where the oceanic Nazca Plate slips beneath the South American Plate, built the towering Andes Mountains over millions of years.

You will gently explore mountain building, earthquakes, volcanoes, deep ocean trenches, and the high, dry extremes of the Altiplano and Atacama Desert. If you want calm narration, slow science, and relaxing landscapes while still learning how Earth shapes itself, this is the perfect background video to watch, or fall asleep to.

📚 Chapters:
0:00:00 Night on the Pacific Edge
0:13:00 The Slow Dive Beneath the Continent
0:26:00 A Line of Volcanoes, Mostly Sleeping
0:39:01 Mountains Made by Pressure
0:52:01 Erosion: The Patient Sculptor
1:05:01 High Plateaus and Thin Air
1:18:02 The Desert Next to the Sea
1:31:02 Glaciers, Snowfields, and Meltwater
1:44:02 People on a Moving Planet
1:57:03 The Long, Unfinished Mountain

Drift off with calm, boring geography as we wander through the weird landscape of the Okavango Delta, a massive inland delta that spreads into the Kalahari instead of reaching the sea. In true Sleepless Geographer style, we keep it slow, factual, and soothing, with gentle descriptions of channels, floodplains, islands, and the quiet rhythms of seasonal water.

Along the way we explore more unusual geography, from strange landforms and extreme environments to the forces that shape Earth over time, including tectonics, erosion, sediment, and climate. If you like sleep-friendly documentaries, relaxing narration, and oddly fascinating facts about rivers, deserts, wetlands, and geological formations, this is the perfect video to put on and let your brain power down.

📚 Chapters:
0:00:00 Nightfall Over a River That Doesn’t Hurry
0:12:18 A Delta That Never Meets the Ocean
0:24:36 Channels, Reeds, and the Art of Taking the Long Way
0:36:54 Quiet Islands Built From Dust, Plants, and Time
0:49:12 Salt, Sunlight, and the Pale Edges of Water
1:01:30 The Flood That Arrives on a Delay
1:13:48 The Kalahari’s Gentle Grip
1:26:06 Where Ocean Fog Feeds a Desert (Namib Coast)
1:38:24 Ice That Carves Like a Slow Bulldozer (Glaciers and Fjords)
1:50:42 Rivers as Gentle Demolition (Canyons, Deltas, and Time)

Drift off with calm, slow geography as we travel to the Afar Triangle, a blistering desert where three tectonic plates pull apart and the Earth is literally ripping open. Learn why this region is one of the planet’s most dangerous locations, from intense heat and toxic volcanic gases to earthquakes, rifting, and surreal lava landscapes.

In classic Sleepless Geographer style, we explore how the East African Rift is reshaping the Horn of Africa, creating new crust, salt flats, and otherworldly volcanic features. Put this on for sleep, relaxation, or quiet curiosity, and let soothing, boring geography turn Earth’s most extreme environments into the perfect bedtime story.

📚 Chapters:
0:00:00 Warm Desert Night, Restless Ground
0:12:46 Afar Triangle: Where Earth is Tearing Open
0:25:32 Fire in the Distance: Volcanoes and Quiet Eruptions
0:38:19 Salt, Steam, and Bitter Lakes
0:51:05 From Rift to Ocean: A Future Coastline
1:03:51 Rivers: The World’s Slow Demolition Crew
1:16:38 Coasts That Never Hold Still
1:29:24 Ice: The Slow Weight That Remakes Land
1:42:10 Deserts: Wind, Time, and the Art of Wearing Things Down
1:54:57 The Long Loop: A Calm View of Deep Time