Why Australia’s Most Dangerous River Is Actually a Geological Trap

It looks like nothing more than a dry, cracked creek bed cutting through empty outback country. But this river system has been killing and stranding people for over 160 years, and the reason has nothing to do with rapids or crocodiles. In this video we break down the real geology behind Australia's Channel Country: how a 60-million-year-old tectonic sag basin created a river that can be bone dry under a clear sky while a flood from a storm hundreds of kilometres away is already on its way toward you.