It is up for debate as to whether volcanoes can be "overdue" for an eruption. While the majority cannot, I have seen countless examples of volcanoes which truly do have repeatable eruptive periods such as Mount Parker, Mount Pinatubo, Quilotoa, and Craters of the Moon. In this case, the case for a repetition is a bit weak, although the pattern is still present.

@Vulcano7965

2 жыл бұрын

The issue here is meaningful precision. And I think that is not solved for any volcanic system.

@briane173

2 жыл бұрын

@@Vulcano7965 Nor earthquake faults. Science has developed reliable slip rates and recurrence intervals for the San Andreas Fault and the Cascadia Margin, for example; but they're no better than _averages._ And no guarantees as to which _section_ of a fault might rupture at any given interval -- only statistical probabilities. We may never get a firm handle on predicting a future eruption or earthquake with any degree of certainty; but we can at least know it's inevitable and use that inevitability to _prepare_ to the extent that we can.

@Vulcano7965

2 жыл бұрын

@@briane173 very well put

@MonkeyspankO

2 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful desolation. I had no idea this sort of landscape exists in the continental US.

@edwardlulofs444

2 жыл бұрын

Has Poisson statistics been applied to earthquakes and volcanoes? That's the stats of infrequent events.

I’ve lived within 40 miles of Craters of the Moon almost my entire life (even taking school trips there) and had no idea that it was still technically an active volcano range.

I've been there and it is *absolutely* worth the visit. Its incredibly obscure and totally overshadowed by the other geologic features of the region. But those vast fields of lava and closely packed cinder and spatter cones that you can just explore are wonderful. Not to mention the vast number of lava tubes that are also open for exploring. Its an incredibly unique and cool landscape, not to mention the interesting geology of the place.

@TheGryfonclaw

2 жыл бұрын

I was there a couple of years ago, in July (my mistake) and it was beautiful. However, I made the mistake of trying to climb Inferno cone trail, which is a big mound of just black volcanic ash. That day, I was reminded of my previously-latent-for-20-years asthma. Great pictures though. The lava tubes are amazing as well.

@infledermaus

2 жыл бұрын

Have also been there. I enjoyed my visit. There is a snall cone near the visitor's center that I looked into. This was in the month of August or early September. There was still snow in rhe bottom of it. I guess lava is a good insulator!

@StuffandThings_

2 жыл бұрын

@@infledermaus I think I know what you're talking about. There's a few nice spatter cones and a rather large cinder cone (really more of a mound of loose cinders, can't see the distinct cone shape all too well) to hike up and around near the visitors center. Wonderful place. I remember some ice in one of the lava tube caves, its surprising considering how much heat the black lava absorbs under the hot sun. But just a little bit down and in the shade it is quite cold. Hot lava flows do take years to cool down after all, so its not terribly surprising that its got such good insulating properties. Still surprising to witness something like ice in a sweltering summer landscape in person though!

@AKUSUXs

2 жыл бұрын

@@infledermaus Standing next to that cone feels so good. When you go there, when it's hot, it is hard to leave. 😁😁

@andrewfleenor7459

2 жыл бұрын

I was there last summer, 2021, during the wildfires that filled the air in the entire region with ash. With the grey sky and crazy broken ground, it looked and felt like I'd gone to Mordor. I mean, this video talks about the big features, but the individual lava rocks are often amazing, almost like broken chunks of trees that had lava for sap. The lava tubes are also delightful.

I lived in Idaho my entire life. Craters of the Moon is well worth the visit. There's a cinder cone that always has snow/ice in it and on 100 degree days it feels so good standing next to it. There's also a place nearby where a river called the Big and Little Lost Rivers disappear into the ground. The water then shows up about a 100 miles away at Thousands Springs in Hagerman, another awesome feat of nature. Also in the middle of another lava flow, North of Shoshone, ID the is a cave called... Shoshone Ice Cave. Inside the cave which is really a lava tube it freezing and there is an actual glacier inside. Again, on 100 degree days you go in this cave and need a coat to stay warm. Finally, during the training of the Apollo Missions, astronauts came here to practice because of the similar terrain of the moon.

I've been waiting for this one for a while craters is one of my favorite places to visit in Idaho.

I visited Hell's Half Acre in Idaho when we traveled out west this past Summer, it's the first Lava field I have seen in person and it was fascinating. The best part is how the ground was split open with fissures and deep sinkholes where the rock had collapsed in some places.

@GeologyHub

2 жыл бұрын

That means that lava tubes were like abundant! :)

That part of idaho also has numerous faults and cracks due to past calderas of the yellowstone supervocano. The region is completely basalt, you can even spot old cinder cones across the landscape. It's all basalt, and the craters of the moon and the other black lava flows consist of the youngest basalts from there. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I only live two hours away from craters of the moon. I drive through the area at least twice a year. Such a geologically fascinating area. I have yet to explore the area. I need to this Summer. What an event it would be if the area awakened.

Wow, I lived in Spokane for 17 years. I knew about “The moon park”, but not it’s volcanic history. Thank you for the enlightenment!

Specific topic idea: In the area called "Clarno" in central Oregon, only 15 miles from the infamous 80's cult's location of Rajneeshpuram, made by the Rajneeshis, is an area I've visted that has what looks like dried volcanic mud everywhere and there is a high degree of agates and some thunder eggs found at the site. If you look on google earth/maps, just about 2-3 miles north of the bridge over the John Day River at Clarno, you can see the stratified layers of the soil and it is very similar to the Painted Hills further to the south, but smaller and less known.

@GeologyHub

2 жыл бұрын

Seems to be a rhyolite deposit associated with the potentially Yellowstone hotspot linked Crooked River Caldera.

I was always a bit freaked out when my parents brought me there as a child-so much lava! I was sure that a new eruption was going to happen and flow all the way to my house in Boise. I’m better now. I’m really fascinated by the Snake River basalts and the extent of the flood basalts in Oregon/Washington as well. I hope you take those on in one of these very interesting videos.

@edwardlulofs444

2 жыл бұрын

I studied the flood basalts of WA/OR ( as a hobbyist) for the 13 years that I lived there. Opinions have changed a lot. There are lots of ideas but little consensus. I read and listen to any geologists about this as I can. Fascinating geology.

I grew up near here:) It was 1 of 2 field trips we got to go on growing up. We’ve experienced a couple of really big earthquakes. I love my state❤️ Thank you for making this video. I didn’t know this much or that we are on the short list for future eruption list.

@AKUSUXs

2 жыл бұрын

I totally agree, as a lifelong Idahoan, I don't think I could ever leave. 😎

Used to drive through there for work a couple times a week. Always cool. Even in mid summer (which regularly hits 90°+) you can look (or even walk down into some of the larger lava tubes) and find snow. Those tubes surrounded by porous lava rock make great insulators. Gotta watch yur step though - lots of rattlesnakes love the area too. ☠

Great to see this because dad took me there in the 70s and I knew nothing in this video. I hadn't really thought about its origin. Dad took us to all kinds of geological features in Oregon, so I've seen a lot of lava 🌼I do know that there were Columbian mammoths, camels, and giant sloths right there when it erupted. My sister was part of a nearby mammoth dig, which is why we were at Craters of the Moon. 🦣 Science is awesome. 💚 Cheers to the other Pacific NW folks here. Please do not promote your favorite fishing, camping, and rock-hounding sites on social media. 🤫 🤔

Well that just spreads my crust! 😉 Great channel! 👍 Thanks to you that I am learning so much about a topic that has fascinated me for a lifetime, but never had the time or resources to explore.

Wow! I live in SE Idaho right next to Craters, we look at it a lot in my geo program. Insane seeing it here on this channel.

I've been through dozens of times and it's a very cool place.

I just discovered your channel the other day, and can't stop watching as I am a major geology nut. Amazing content! Could you do a video on any of the flood basalt eruptions and the possibility of this type of event happening in the future?

@GeologyHub

2 жыл бұрын

I can. I have a recent video on the flood basalts in Oregon, and the mini-flood basalts which occasionally occur in Iceland.

@joshuastahle

2 жыл бұрын

@@GeologyHub I just came across the Siberian traps video, now I'm going to dig around for the Columbia River Flood Basalts one since you mentioned it! Really am enjoying the videos! Especially all the Alaska volcanoes, but I'm an Alaskan so I may be biased!

@edwardlulofs444

2 жыл бұрын

@@GeologyHub Since I'm in California now, I started with the volcanoes of CA. Wonderful. I'll watch OR basalts playlist next.

As a kid my parents would take us on driving vacations over summer break. We camped here at Craters of the Moon more than once and hiking around and in the lava field was amazing (at least to this kid). Hiking up piles of ash was an effort. As an adult I find it Interesting the Craters is part of the Yellowstone complex.

@edwardlulofs444

2 жыл бұрын

How lucky you are. I would have loved that. My parents' idea of a vacation was to drive 100 miles and camp in a crowded state park. I can't recall what we did while camped. Maybe sit around and eat.

@ronaldjones6548

2 жыл бұрын

@@edwardlulofs444 We also did that kind of camping. Nothing like the really drunk guy at the Yosemite campground barfing on our tent. So crowded on the trails it was hard to hike

@edwardlulofs444

2 жыл бұрын

@@ronaldjones6548 Yeah, Even years ago, January, February were the only times Yosemite wasn't crowded. So then I went to north of Yosemite, Sonora area. Now my favorite camping/volcano watching is Lassen, Shasta, Modoc counties. I find new lava flows, volcanoes every trip.

I fly over this area all the time and have always wondered what was going on down there! Great video!

Cool. I’m 45 already. LETS GO!! I was a bit young to enjoy St. Helen’s.

I lived in Darby, Mt. We always had quakes coming out of Stanley. There is also a hot springs up Lolo pass that we used to hike to.

I live in northern New Mexico and I know there was volcanic activity in the past and that the Rio Grande gorge is a rift, slowly spread apart. Do you have future plans to ever talk about New Mexico at all? It would be interesting to hear what you have to say about it.

@btaos1625

2 жыл бұрын

Me too! I live in Taos..would live to hear about the are..rift, faults and volcanos.

@oscarmedina1303

2 жыл бұрын

Here you go: kzread.info?search_query=geology+hub+volcano+in+new+mexico

@GeologyHub

2 жыл бұрын

I have two (remade) dedicated videos on Carrizozo and Zuni Bandera. Also have an upcoming video on Mount Taylor. I have a few older videos on the rift which loosely cover it such as the Socorro Magma body, or my Valles caldera video.

The craters of the moon is such a cool park, recommend visiting it.

As Informative and enjoyable as ever. Many thanks

I used to live in Idaho Falls and made a few trips out to Craters of the Moon. It's fascinating really.

Now that would be an interesting sight

Thank you for posting this video about Craters of the Moon. It's one I've certainly been. Looking forward to. Idaho is chock full of geologic wonders and this is one of the highlights. I'm hoping we do get an eruption sometime in the near future because I would relish the chance to see it in action.

@AKUSUXs

2 жыл бұрын

I think it would be so awesome to see an eruption too. I've heard rumors that some people say they have seen steam coming out of the lava field near the Shoshone Ice Caves in the winter.

@GrandmasterBBC

2 жыл бұрын

@@AKUSUXs I could not afford flying to Iceland to watch the recent eruption, but I could sure as heck drive 3 hours to see one close to home. ;-)

@suitt1

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, its all fun and games til people lose their property or worse, their lives🤦🏽‍♀️🥴🙄😒

@GrandmasterBBC

2 жыл бұрын

@@suitt1 Did you actually watch the video? This area is in the middle of nowhere. These are not explosive types of eruptions. The chance of anyone losing their property or their lives is next to nothing. You can relax.

@AKUSUXs

2 жыл бұрын

@@suitt1 Exactly what I was going to say. There's hardly anything out there!

Thank you for asking answering my question ☺️

I just learned something new. Thank you.

I love your videos! You aiways say to put something in the comments about a specific topic. I'd like to know more about Mt. Fuji and how it ties into the subduction zones (and if there is any connections between it and the massive quakes around Tokyo) near Tokyo as well as it's last eruption and projected future eruptions. Thanks! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Plus ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐!

I love this channel and the host. I would really like to see a series of terminology videos that show us what something is (or was) and showing it in real life if possible. For example, what is a cinder cone? Etc.

Fantastic learning more about this rather unique volcanic area in North America. Please note this, be very careful where you walk! Lava tubes.

I highly recommend checking Craters of the Moon out! I know the Geology Club at Boise State were doing trips out there - or at least they were before I graduated.

been there several times and plan to go back. it is fascinating, definitely worth the trip for anyone interested in geology.

Love Craters of the Moon area...rode my motorcycle through there...fascinating area.

I love this channel. So interesting

Thank you! I had somewhat assumed that Craters of the Moon were connected with the Yellowstone hotspot and were much much older. Live and learn!

@cyberhornthedragon

2 жыл бұрын

its a result of the hotspots movement to where it is now southern idaho shows a lot of the hotspots travel the craters of the moon is just north of where it went by to get to its current location via several thousand years time

Thank you

Been to Craters of the Moon. There are lava tubes that you can go into. Interesting place but be careful when you walk on lava field

I had no idea Craters of the Moon was still active. I remember going there as a kid with my parents on an RV trip, and the RV park we stayed at was completely surrounded by lava. Climbing around on the rocks there was tricky because everything was so sharp. I remember falling and barely hitting my knee on one of the rocks and it got cut up way worse than the fall would seem capable of. That was also my first time getting to walk inside a lava tube. It was crazy how cold the tubes are. It was well over 100 degrees F when we visited, and I had to bundle up in many layers of summer clothes and was still shivering inside the tube. The place is aptly named. That RV camp we stayed at really didn't look like anywhere I'd ever seen on Earth before.

Wow. I didn't know any of this. Another intra-continental rift zone. A strange idea occurred to me: convective motion in solids. The big idea of my lifetime was plate tectonics. I wonder what the rest of you would say is the big idea of your lifetime. Thanks for this video.

I live not too far from there. It is an awesome place to visit. All of these comments are spot on. The year round snow in some places, there are giant lava bubbles I've been in. There is a nice trail system throughout the lava flows. Pretty sweet place. Great vid.

One year we went to Yellowstone and visited Craters of the Moon on the way home. I don't remember much about it because it was steadily raining. Probably a better idea to go there during the summer than late September (although Yellowstone was absolutely fantastic).

Hi GeologyHub. Been waiting for a video requesting you to go over how the Ossipee Mountains in New Hampshire formed and what your thoughts are on the distant, but growing magma chamber under New England. Will there be a new volcano in New Hampshire/MA in the next few million years? Would love to hear your perspective and research on this, as Iive in MA and am super curious about this. Thanks!

The best time to visit is in the spring. The park is covered in wildflowers. And it’s not too hot to hike.

Very interesting video, could you do one on Campi Flegrei's status and possibility of the Vesuvio erupting?

I’d like to hear your thoughts on the opal deposits near Spencer. I believe they are unique in that they were formed from hydrothermal activity. Great content btw!

I hike and walk there often, today I saw fresh mountain lion tracks and some scat. Amazing that anything can live in that environment.

I went there as a kid and its stuck with me since. There is no actually explaining how amazing it is. To see real lava and the landscape created by it is beyond words. I highly recommend a walk through if your in the area

Oh wow! There is also a Craters of the Moon in Taupō, NZ!

Craters of the Moon wins the award for best volcano name for sure :D.

0:57, can you do a video on Spirit Lake? Used to be a tourist hotstop. Wish I could see it before the 1980 eruption

Would love to hike upwind of the future eruption. Question - are there possible volcanoes in the northeast USA that haven’t been found yet?

are there more rifts, older as the Yellowstone hot spot, was covered by the north American plate? thank you

Very curious regarding the possibility of eruption near Sonoma. I know people who live in the area & one person says they see the increased steam emitting on their daily drive.

Can you do an episode on the Craters of the Moon in New Zealand please?

@XyphirOoi

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! That would be awesome! Particularly if it went into the cultural history, too. I would love a video about the Auckland Volcanic Field. I used to watch one up the Sky Tower when I was running tours and it showed the order the 52 volcanoes erupted, in about 15 seconds. It was so fascinating

What is the technique used to date these volcanoes? So many dates within a short span; I am curious.

I have to ask. Is La Garita really extinct? Because there are resorts in that area that are (claimed) to have geothermically heated hot springs. If that is the case, it would seem to me that it hasn't given up the ghost yet.

terrific :^< home! you should have said exactly just how vey close YS is! You might want to review the Jordan Craters W Ore. very much to visit like Craters of the Moon. bty where many years ago they use to send astronauts to train.

How do we know how many year ago the eruption happened? Or how do we Measure the years

It would be really cool if you made a video of the volcanic activity on io

I live in Idaho falls and ive been multiple times, altho I had no idea it was still active!!

What’s Fumarole Butte in Utah?

Is this a repost or an update from the last time you posted about Craters of the Moon? A few years ago a park ranger told me Craters was extinct.

Was LaPamba a Rift Volcano becit had 7 vents?

Have you ever heard of finger rock in the small town of yampa Colorado?

As person who lives within a 3 hr drive of craters of the moon. I would leave My dog in the car because of the fact that the craters of the moon is pretty much 100% black surface from basalt this would burn a dogs foot pad.As far as going through the caverns they get very very hot and sometimes there is outgassing that could make people pass out. Due to Covid the tubes have been closed off for visitors.

If that thing decides to go instantaneously the biggest tourist destination in the US.

How about the volcano near Wausau WI that produced moonstone.

@samuelkorger3567

2 жыл бұрын

We have a volcano in our state?

@losh330

2 жыл бұрын

@@samuelkorger3567 long extinct.

Are there any signs of increasing activity in that area?

Interesting. Would this delay or forclude a Yellowstone super eruption?

@chrisrifkin3670

2 жыл бұрын

Kinda a different system even though it's fed by the same hot spot This area gets the magma straight from the mantle ..Yellows just collects and purifies into rhyolite

specific topic idea: Fisher caldera on Unimak Island

How about a video on the South Sandwich Islands.

What's the source of these rifts?

this is a great place to go camping but, speaking from experience, august ISNT the optimal time for such things.(unless you want a really dark place to watch the perseid meteor shower)

Could you make a video about the oldest active volcanoes in the world? When you google that question, every site says "Etna", but you've discussed myriad volcanoes on your channel that are active and much much older. I'd love to know what the oldest is!

@scrubjay93

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think there is an answer to that question because of the extent of geological change and volcanic activity that has happened on Earth in the last billion years. There is no one *oldest* volcano. You could imagine one, but it wouldn't have a name or location and it no longer exists. The continents as we know them didn't exist. Maybe you mean in human history?

@genegray9895

2 жыл бұрын

@@scrubjay93 I specifically mean the oldest active volcanoes, ie those that have erupted in the last 10,000 years but first erupted many millions of years ago

@XyphirOoi

2 жыл бұрын

The oldest volcano in the Auckland (NZ) Volcanic Field is Pukekawa (Pooh-key-car-wah) / The Domain. We have "Christmas in the Park" every year in the crater and no one really knows what/where the are sitting. The youngest volcano in Auckland Volcaic Field is Rangitoto (Rang-Ee-tow-tow) which is only about 700 years old.

Question: it's my understanding and don't wanna b leeve something is not true about a Volcano, but it's my understanding it's either Mauna Loa or Mauna Kea on Big Island whose purple line of magma goes all the way to the center of Earth's thermal core Is that True?

@TheDanEdwards

2 жыл бұрын

The Hawaii hotspot generates the lava from near the crust. What you may be thinking about is the energy flow. Hotspots are hotter than the average upper mantle temperature, and the extra heat is believed to flow preferentially up from the mantle-core boundary.

Craters of the moon is a must-do stop if you are visiting Yellowstone.

I wonder if there is any geothermal activity in this volcanic field

I have a subject. what about Greece volcanic history

another channel i watch they do construction here in idaho on BLM roads they used cinders from some of these cones to repave the roads around the region for both fire control and recreational use

Yikes 😬😳😵😱🥺

I live in this area and I think you do not know the true scope of this Volcano. theres basalt lava flows going as far West as Hagurman to the Snake river canyon. All the Buttes here are cinder cones. On the South West side of the canyon you get into where the Old Yellowstone Volcano was with reddish orange Andesite stone. Flat Top Butte and Notch Butte by Shoshone and Jerome are probably the oldest in the complex as it is covered in a several foot layer of loamy sand dirt. Theres spots of exposed basalt in Gooding. There are maars and lava tubes collapses all over. I do not know if the basalt in the Mountain Home area is related to the craters of the Moon

I better go again before it blows! Maybe next weekend. I need to go alone because everyone I know is lame and won't walk much. 🤨

Ik this volcano and craters of the moon has lava flows and multiple craters produced lava flows and rhey are basalt

Just a side note, the federal government has a nuclear facility in between Craters of the Moon and Idaho Falls. 🤔

@kristianfagerstrom7011

2 жыл бұрын

Somehow I don't think (erupting) volcanoes and nuclear power plants play well together...

@RoxnDox

2 жыл бұрын

@@kristianfagerstrom7011 it isn’t a power plant, it’s a research office with small reactor facilities. The site was chosen back in WW2 because of its remote location. Made security easier, and since it was out in the middle of nowhere there was less risk of anyone being affected if there was an accident. They developed a lot of nuclear reactors designs for naval vessels and submarines.

@paintfatpurple7394

2 жыл бұрын

Oh boy!

@jerroldkazynski5480

2 жыл бұрын

@@RoxnDox Like we say about Minidoka: it's not the middle of nowhere, but you can see it from here.

@oilmoney42

2 жыл бұрын

@@kristianfagerstrom7011 Arco Idaho first city powered by nuclear power.

Can we all just stop and appreciate that a cinder cone called SILENT HILL exists?

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Probably baked potatoes would rain down initially. 🥔🥔🥔🥔

@suitt1

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Why does the lava flow not have any vegetation on it after all this time?

@Dragrath1

2 жыл бұрын

One it is a very arid region and two it is geologically quite young the older parts do have plants growing in them where there is enough moisture to support them.

The volcanoes of the Philippines

I wonder if the local indigenous people have stories/myths about this place.

Is this volcano currently active this very moment? Somebody here is trying to tell me this is old news. I'm the past. I told him this post is 2hrs old

@pbanther3902

2 жыл бұрын

No, it us just a report. It us very close ti Yellow Stone on the West Side look it up.

This is a supervolcano?

the DEFCON LEVEL TODAY IS ?.??

That's one way to get baked potatoes.

No worries. At the rate this country is going we won't be here in 900 yrs.

Ethiopia is breaking apart,,,any new volcanos from that?

Silent Hill cinder cone? I'm guessing that this where the Silent Hill video games are near and why the games look like ash covered? Sounds like right before the game starts there is a huge volcanic eruption? Man I love those games!