Facinating, particularly to an Australian. When driving the road south of Cooma NSW I’m always intrigued by the exposed “cushion lava” on the small area of treeless plains.
Tears are flowing and my heart is racing..really don't know why. Suffice it to say just very emotionally impactful to me. Thank you for your production..particularly enjoyed the close up of the basalt columns.
Very nice presentation, and I believe the theme music sets a relaxing mood for viewing and learning. Bruce, I have developed a simple mathematical model that predicts the forces/stresses to create various n sided columns. As I recall, its x-y axis graphic form shows the lowest energy is needed for a 6 sided fracture and, of course more energy for the 4,5, and 7 sided columns. As was no doubt already suspected, it is energy conservation that drives the number of sides. If you would like more information on it, just let me know. Your excellent graphic analysis at 8:58, reminded me of the equation. Thank you.
There is plenty of soil there. This is eastern Washington state, most of which is desert. Not much rainfall, hence the lack of green vegetation. It's not ALL "the evergreen state"!
Your channel is fantastic, been a subscriber for a little while now. I happen to live right smack in the middle of this region, and have been fascinated with it for at least a decade. Even more specifically, I live along a portion of crab creek. Since I've moved here, I've wondered how the flood waters managed to make it up into this area and carve out the canyons I drive through on a daily basis. If I 'm understanding your video correctly, where I live was at the bottom of the Colombia River when the ice dam build up reached a point that the river diverted, in the same the grand coulee diversion occurs, the crab creek outlet is just much further up river. Is this correct? Love the work!
@@bjornstad51 Not too far down the road from the Billy Clap lake dam. Previously my thoughts were the flood waters had entered the region by way of this access point headed south And then split east to west along crab creek/wilson creek, washing up into the lower regions to the east and carving out those canyons. But it sounds like I actually had that wrong. It sounds like crab creek was actually connected to the Colombia river while the glacier was present, and as the basin east of the glacier built up it spilt off into crab creek.
@@lindakautzman7388 I think it was the right combination for this video. Anyone wanting to take in the majesty of this place, the music is going to send sight and sound straight into the deepest recesses of your soul and spirit. The words went slowly so anyone wanting to focus on facts and history can, but this music + what you see is is a cathartic experience.
Beautiful petrified tree stump at 4:30, and as usual, it comes with the usual textbook explanation of "hexagonal basalt columns". Read about Assyrian in Ezekiel 31. Notice the perfectly flat tops on the petrified tree stumps? Book of Enoch Chapter 66 says the fallen angels labored at the trees, which seems to indicate they were cut down somehow, and that is why they tops are perfectly flat. There were giants on the earth in those days... yes there were giant floods too, but I'll never believe that basalt can form into such perfectly hexagonal columns.
