Strange Lava Squeeze-Ups and Explosive Eruptions of Kings Bowl, Craters of the Moon, Idaho 

Thank you! Fascinating!💖

I'm curious about your thoughts about the theory that the Earth is Expanding.

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At the lake there are large mouth bass and yellow perch. We would from a canoe. Also fishing through ice.

allowed u to go ?

Another excellent geology channel is Nick on the Rocks ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PMeFXD3rJKY.html

We did email each other. We also went to same grad school: Northern Arizona University.

@@shawnwillsey Oh awesome!!! Hope that works out. I messaged Myron mentioning you as well. Looking forward to seeing that one day and hearing the discussion.

@@shawnwillsey read other comment.. anyhoo. nanmadol..vesticles. cut from top of volcano, to build a city on marsh,coral. interesting story from the natives..allways amazes me, all the volcanic eruptions, over millions of yrs, spewing onto the surface, makes you think theres hell cavities in the earth. wheres the material come from, if the earth is getting bigger, the centre is getting hollow,er..or is it like mixing a clay ball, same material just different positions. like bread doe. other story of pompii,,it was purposly buried..both cities.. & fyi, dino, did not die out 65 m yrs ago, or we, wouldnt be here, iether. why do they hide the caves in the grand canyon, upsets the mainstream bs id say..allways been interested in vulcanology, space,ect.. but, i find a lot of bs going on..great vids, 👍🦘. ausie..

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Craters of the moon is in one of the old collapsed calderas from the Yellowstone supervolcano hot spot.

Love it, "jungle like vegetation"! Can relate. Here in rural se MI too!

You bet. Thanks for watching and learning with me.

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Thanks for the tip! This was shot in spring of 2021 and I think I've improved a bit from these early days.

Phreatomagmatic. Sure to impress folks.

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Thanks! Will do!

Glad it was helpful!

If its cold enough to support snow I doubt you have to worry about snakes down there they don't like the cold being ectotherms. Still dangerous though!

Awesome, Greg. Enjoy the book, the learning, and the adventure of discovery.

@@shawnwillsey You'll find this funny. I got the Geology Underfoot book at the Twin Falls Visitor's Center. I was so enthralled when I got to the COTM, I was at their book store and bought it again. My grandson (9) will get the second copy when he gets a little older. I want to bring him out to the PNW to see the volcanoes, ice floods, Sawtooths, etc., when he gets to be a teenager and can appreciate it more.

@Kiwigeo not according to the scans they did a few years ago. That plume covers parts of 5 states. All those different magma chambers are interconnected to the same plume.

This is obviously a late response to this comment chain but from the papers I was introduced to via Nick Zentner's previous A to Z livestream series on the crazy Eocene and Baja BC and the rabbit hole chain of the literature that followed it appears that like Iceland the Yellowstone hotspot had been located along the East Pacific Rise prior to both of them becoming overridden by North America which can be seen in the chemical signature of the accreted oceanic plateau known as Siletzia and Yakutat which are now understood to be two pieces of the former ridge line plateau out in the Pacific ocean. From seismic tomography of the upper mantle the thermal upwelling signature of slow sheer velocity propagation can still be observed below the western US where it ultimately connects the Juan De Fuca Ridge to Yellowstone and the East Pacific Rise as it cuts through northern California, south eastern Oregon, Idaho Colorado, western Texas New Mexico and Arizona in the process with the junction around Yellowstone looking very similar to what is seen around Iceland and the Azores respectively. Notably this pretty much perfectly underlies the Basin and Range and the Colorado Plateau with all the fast sheer velocity anomalies being confined to the north and east of this boundary and the clockwise rotation of the crust being seen along this region and the Cascadia Subduction zone which are both more or less anchored to the East Pacific Rise frame of reference. The consequence of all this is that the Yellowstone plume is not simple the snake river plain remains the easiest outlet for the plume material though the heat flux of the plume appears to be melting through the subducted slabs on the underside of North America and melting/tearing off the section of the former North American craton known as the Colorado Plateau it will probably erupt more lava into Idaho again in the future. The East Pacific Rise is practically a hotspot on its own even discounting Yellowstone as the thermal discontinuity extends deep into the mantle and it is currently the fastest spreading ridge on Earth with a spreading rate depending on location of 6-16 cm (3-6 in) annually. In fact the overlay of recent Basin and Range volcanism is an extremely good fit for the underlying ridge continuous discontinuity with older volcanism matching up with this boundary in time as North America has moved over the ridge. In this newer emerging picture I can't help but suspect that the otherwise mysterious geologically recent reactivation of the New Madrid and adjacent reactivated old faults of the midwestern US might be connected to the strain of this deep mantle structure pushing up against the old North American Craton as it continues to get pulled southwest up and over the EPR/YSHS frame.

Yes, very dry climate = little soil development = little vegetation = landscape looks similar to when eruption occurred.

The arid climate slows soil development and vegetation growth.

Good question. I would estimate it as just a few feet. Maybe 6 ft max based on comparison with surrounding topography.

@Kiwigeo I'm not so sure about that. It sounds a lot like the flood basalts in eastern Washington. We wouldn't know about those columns if it wasn't for the great ice age floods.

Nice observation and question. These are windblown deposits of loess (mainly silt sized). You can see them in a few places in the Snake River Plain. The whole plain was covered with them prior to agricultural development.

@@shawnwillsey Thanks

Yes, indeed. Very similar features in San Francisco volcanic field. I went to NAU for grad school so I am familiar with it as well. I also did a video on SP crater that you might enjoy: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-s-z2-dBFoDI.html

I knew it! I graduated from NAU in 1999! I recognized you name! Dr. Nations was my Professor!

@@tomolson1320 Very cool! I graduated in 2000. Grad research in Baja and Paul Umhoefer was my grad advisor.

Yes, I know Nick. We were on a Hells Canyon trip together a few years ago. Snake River Plain is considered active but no evidence that magma lies in subsurface. Rather, magma may get generated and rise in future due to Basin and Range extension and prior passage of this region over Yellowstone hot spot.

Good observation. So apparently the east side of the "bowl" is largely devoid of any large boulders blasted during eruption because locals pushed or moved them into the bowl. Note the east side has road access.

No because sulfur is present in many other rock types.