This is a reminder for me that even within a country that is considered hot, if a peak is tall enough, it could have snow and ice.

@hello-rq8kf

Жыл бұрын

there are glaciers on the equator for this very reason

@BKF0

Жыл бұрын

Just saw snow up on Mauna Kea last week

@koharumi1

Жыл бұрын

Mt Kilimanjaro is a great example, on the equator with frozen water on the top

@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

Жыл бұрын

Yeah.

@fallinginthed33p

Жыл бұрын

Papua New Guinea has glaciers on mountains over twelve thousand feet high.

i live in London but i was in Arizona until Monday... and there was still a lot of snow in Flagstaff at the snow bowl last week when i drove by on Thursday! In fact there's been so much snow this year that Oak Creek in Sedona is at 20 years high right now and when i spoke to the Ranger at the Grand Canyon South Rim a week ago he said that the North Rim opening was being delayed by a month until Mid July. There was still snow at the top of the South Rim as well including on the trails at the top. Lake Powell expects an increase of +177% of water vs the normal average to come in in the next few months on the back of that snow... which is much needed given the state of the Colorado River.

Gotta say, as a person who grew up in the Pacific Northwest within visual distance of the Cascade's glaciers, it was really surreal when I worked for a couple season in Arizona and saw the San Francisco Mountain complex. The mountain complex had all the features I expected to see for mountains of that height, except they looked mostly brown instead of covered in dense conifer forests and the peaks had no glaciers.

@DuneJumper

Жыл бұрын

After the snow this year it sure looks like the cascades. My MIL visited here for the first time and found it weird how it was just the exact same scenery.

@relwalretep

Жыл бұрын

*twitch* THE "PACIFIC 'NORTHWEST'" IS IN THE NORTH EAST OF THE PACIFIC *twitch*

@Leyrann

Жыл бұрын

@@relwalretep The term is ambiguous, so the confusion is understandable, but it's meant to be read the other way around. "Pacific Northwest" is a sub-section of "Northwest". Basically, you take the North-Western part of the United States, and then narrow it down further to the Pacific(-adjacent) part of it - the western parts of Washington and Oregon. As opposed to the regular Northwest which would include all of those states as well as Idaho and perhaps even more.

@MaryAnnNytowl

Жыл бұрын

​@@relwalretep but... it's hard to "grow up" in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. And so, since there's a great bigass continent alongside it, and there's land to live on and grow up on, AND 😊there's enough of it to have a Northeast, Atlantic Coast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest, Upper Midwest, Central or Midwest, Gulf states, and... Pacific Northwest (which can also include the entire coastline, for that matter), you'll just have to deal with it. 😄

@MaryAnnNytowl

Жыл бұрын

Rachel, there's a fantastic channel on here called Nick Zentner, who covers all sorts of really cool stuff about the Pacific Northwest geology! It's amazing! I love it, and I don't even live there! 😄

Makes sense. I've seen snow near Flagstaff in late May.

That short clip of clouds rolling like waves of water against the mountain was awesome. Fluid dynamics.

Very interested to hear you speak about some of the oddities in and around Prescott. Granite Dells, Granite Mountain, Thumb Butte, etc. Love the videos keep up the good work!

@DuneJumper

Жыл бұрын

Also North Phoenix is full of ancient basalt flows, but it's hard to find any info about them.

@GmamaBear1987

Жыл бұрын

I hear the rocks in Granite Dells are about....1.4 billion years old?!!!! Blew my mind when I learned that.

I love learning about ancient glaciers. Would love to see more videos like this

Geology lesson: A desert is an area that gets less than 6 inch of moisture a year. Arizona was forested mountains and savannahs till colonization. Thanks to ranchers, the mountains are being reforested. But, the mesquite, which took over valley floors should remain because it's a very high quality feed for all herbivores. Leaves are equal to clover, and the beans 34% protein. In season, all animals eat the pods, which are high in sugars. Mesquite was always queen of the gardens from ancient times because it's light shade, human and animal food, and a legume. It doesn't do well in deserts, 'mano. BTW, where I live, 45 miles north of Tucson, we get up to 16 inches of rain/year.

Excellent video! The topic was explained very well.

I'd like a lifespan of tens of thousands of years purely so I could see and experience everything that our planet is capable of. There's so much humanity has figured out, yet no-one has seen. I want to see glaciers in Arizona and huge glacial lakes in the Pacific North West. I want to see sea levels drop and Doggerland reappear in the North Sea. A land bridge between Australia and Indonesia. Dreams, when they come, will have to suffice. 😊

That would be a long ski trip.... 🙃 Great video. I love the maps and charts, looks nice!

@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

Жыл бұрын

Imagine skiing down!

The glacier shown at 23 seconds looks awfully similar to exit glacier in Seward Alaska.I only mentioned it because I live there. Pretty cool. Great channel to btw

@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

Жыл бұрын

I think it actually is.

@erikmoore7402

Жыл бұрын

@The Space Enthusiast I know it is I just didn't want to be Mr. know it all in the youtube comment section. Lol

@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

Жыл бұрын

That is okay.

@kazeshi2

Жыл бұрын

that's exactly what I was thinking. been about 30 years since i was there but it was awesome to visit. there were SO many giant mosquitoes on the way up to the glacier from the parking lot but as you get close to it they just suddenly vanished (from the cold i assume). i even still have a small chunk of that glacier i brought back home for show and tell. a google search shows it has receded a LOT over the last few decades =(

Great article. Well researched and most informative! Thank you very much for doing this piece.

Thanks! One of my favorite channel

I'm learning a ton more about this stuff because of a channel I found, Nick Zentner! He concentrates on the Pacific Northwest, but has so many great videos, of actual college class lectures! He is a fantastic teacher, too, so if anyon3 wants to dive into a really fun geology "class," you'll find it there! LOL, no I'm not getting paid to say this, either! It's just the truth! You're still a fantastic channel, though! ❤️❤️

Love your graph at the end, such changes.

I live in Arizona and I find this fascinating 😊

Mt Rainer was also 16,000 feet high before a collapse and landslide

@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

Жыл бұрын

Yes.

You took great pictures in Iceland. So glad you were able to go.

Global warming or global cooling somethings never change

@TheDanEdwards

Жыл бұрын

"Global warming or global cooling somethings never change" - but we are much more rapidly changing the climate than what happened during the Pleistocene.

@--julian_

Жыл бұрын

except now it is done by humans...

@johnperic6860

8 ай бұрын

@@TheDanEdwards Well, that's not true; during the Wisconsinian glacial maxima, there were at least 25 periods of warming matching or exceeding our modern one in both scale and speed.

"Grug say great ice wall melting, need stop make so many bonfire" "That crazy talk. Great ice wall melt for long time. Bonfire have nothing to do with it"

Man, I miss living in Arizona....

I believe it. Even today, the San Francisco Peaks are very cold for most of the year.

I'd love to see a video about the caldera around the superstition mountains near superior az. If I'm not mistaken there's a pretty large volcanic field dating to about 18 million years ago

#suggestion. I would like introductions to vulcanologists. A bit about their work. A story. A different sort of job. Once in a while... Also tools of their trade. I enjoy your videos. I could do no better. I tend binge, so using the same pictures distracts me as I remember then reboard the video. thx!

Fascinating..

There was something bubbling off the coast of South Carolina in the ocean what was that?

@erikjohnson9075

Жыл бұрын

Probably destabilized methane hydrates

@TheCoon1975

Жыл бұрын

Cthulhu

@theComputerVoice

Жыл бұрын

huh, i live in SC and hadn't heard of anything -- I'll look it up. i doubt it's anything though, we just get hurricanes lol

@Me3stR

Жыл бұрын

Burrito for Lunch. Sorry

It's not even really an oddity with how high AZ's mountains are, most people just don't realize how big they are.

Moved to flagstaff after spending most of my life in Tucson and I remember looking at the weather n seeing "-8 degrees" while walking to my math final*. Bit of a weather change! 😂 4 hours away from each other *Failed it and failed the class even though I had a B. Just btw. 🕊

Please make a video about uranium and copper deposits in the Grand Canyon in breccia pipes

We also have more than two volcanic fields. Those two are the most known.

Nine thousand years is only a couple minutes on the geologic time-line.

Imagine that, climates fluctuate up and down.

@nunyabeeswax2575

Жыл бұрын

Note on video: Climate Change by United Nations. Climate change refers to long term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, mainly caused by human activities, especially the burni g of fossil fuels......................WHAT THE FRACKING FECK DID HUMANS DO 9,000 YRS AGO TO GET 8 DEGREES CELSIUS TEMPERATURE CHANGE FROM THEN TO NOW? DIG SOME HOLES AND SET THE COAL SEAMS AND OIL RESERVES ON FIRE WITH SPARKS FROM A BOW DRILL OR FLINT AND PYRITES? GET OUTTA HERE!!

that is cold!

Calling a mountain complex in Arizona San Francisco, that's CONFUSING!

Interesting 🙂🤔🧐

wow arizona is so hot where i live called new zealand the hottest weather was 42 degrees celsius.

A whole mile

Damn industry and cars making the state warm up and melt all the glaciers.

@TheDanEdwards

Жыл бұрын

"Damn industry and cars making the state warm up and melt all the glaciers." - are you in denial of what we humans are doing?

@ducthman4737

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. It is much better to have a mile thick ice sheet over all of Canada what would have been the normal for most of the last 800 000 years.

@DISOPtv

Жыл бұрын

@@ducthman4737 Exactly, but no, we have to have cars 10,000 years ago.

Damn, those glaciers melted 9.000 years ago??? Most probably due to global warming........🤣🤣😂😂...!!! Great video.

@lmwlmw4468

Жыл бұрын

@@rickt.1870 🤣🤣🤣😂😂.....

@johnperic6860

8 ай бұрын

I mean yeah, it was global warming.

So your telling me glaciers have been melting for thousands of years... 😅

@johnperic6860

8 ай бұрын

Yes and no, they were melting, then growing, then melting, then growing, etc., and now they're melting again.

Andesite.

so,temperatures have been warming for a million years .. give or take? damn those cavemen for starting global warming

@johnperic6860

8 ай бұрын

No, they've mostly been cooling for millions of years. The last 400,000 years are one of the coldest periods in Earth's history. Temperatures in our current warm period have only been rising for 300 years, which defies the 8000-year-long general downward trend since the Holocene Optimum, which followed the 3000-year upward trend from the Younger Dryas, etc.

Who knew that climate fluctuated before the industrial revolution ? Oh yeah, just about everyone who knows history and geology.

Any volcanoes in Québec?