Finally a video that begins to describe the huge volcanic past and hint of the volcanic future of Idaho. Still, there is more. Southeastern Idaho too has craters and lava flows. Just yesterday we were standing on the flow that diverted the Bear River from its westerly flow into the Snake River and the Columbia River Basin to, instead, the Great Basin and Ancient Lake Bonneville. The result of this was a great expansion of this ancient lake. Then after several hundred years (?) The monstrous lake broke into the Columbia River Basin at Red Rock Pass, Idaho, sending a great flood into ancient Idaho and down the Snake River.

@GeologyHub

8 ай бұрын

Do not forget the (primarily) basaltic Blackfoot lava field and its 3 ~60,000ish year old rhyolite lava domes!

@landontruman3632

8 ай бұрын

I've been to some of those places too. Lake Bonneville has a fascinating history. It would have been a sight to see both the lake and it breaking thru Red Rock Pass and flooding the area.

Can you imagine if this volcanic complex was active today? What a tourist draw! It would be epic to see these flows.

@christiannavarro7989

8 ай бұрын

I hope I had flows like those within my country. But just explosive mountains here, full of heavy, sticky and thick lava that does not generate flows 😢

@Vesuviusisking

8 ай бұрын

@@christiannavarro7989at least you aren’t from Italy

@metatechnologist

8 ай бұрын

He literally said there would be another eruption in the future in this complex. Go-to 5:50

@supertornadogun1690

8 ай бұрын

It will be eventually, lets hope we live long enough to see it.

@landontruman3632

8 ай бұрын

Living just east of these lava fields, I'd have to disagree lol. But even now the flows are fascinating to see. Its hard to imagine these erupting again but I guess they're still active so they will eventually.

You have answered many questions I have had swimming in my head about several areas here in Idaho. I can't thank you enough! I have been trying to find information in reference to Sand Butte. Was also inside one of Black Butte's many lava tubes over the summer. Thank you for all that you do! ❤

Thanks! The area with various unusual lava flow structures are the most interesting! Idaho is also where one of the Yellowstone Hotspots' largest explosive eruptions occurred, the Grey's Landing Supereruption! This supereruption ejected at least 2,800 cubic kilometers of material! The McMullen supereruption and many other supereruptions or caldera- forming eruptions of the Yellowstone Hotspot also occured in Idaho.

Idaho’s lava field areas are surprisingly cool places to drive through.

I didn't forget about them. I love the Craters of the Moon!

The really scary thing about Craters of the Moon is that it is very near ARCO's Idaho National Laboratory where there are more than 50 experimental nuclear reactors from the 1950s and 60s...

@Backroad_Junkie

8 ай бұрын

Not really scary, but there's a reason it's in the middle of nowhere. For instance, EBR-1 (experimental breeder reactor 1, open to the public) is a very low powered reactor that barely runs a lightbulb. You can pretty much stand next to the core. A lot of the Navy's power plants were developed there. (If you're going between say, Yellowstone and Craters, a stop at EBR-1 is right on the way, and it's very cool...) Arco is the city there, the first to be electrified by nuclear power. The official name of the area is the "Idaho National Environmental Research Park", which is part of the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory.

I live in Blackfoot, Idaho which sits on the eastern boundary of the lava fields. I spent my childhood and teenage years hunting and running all over them raising all kinds of hell. It was a great place to grow up. There are countless little areas that are hidden from sight being in a hole with lava rock all around the edges. Kids used these for parties away from the prying eyes of parents and the sheriffs department and probably still do lol. There are many more lava fields that aren't visible in this video. They're actually quite extensive in the areas west of Blackfoot, Shelley and Idaho Falls. They're probably older and have been cover by some dirt but if you're close to them, they're easily visible.

I was in Idaho last year and went to craters of the moon and walking threw the lava fields and seeing down some of the vents was awe inspiring. We also drove threw some of the others and it was pretty amazing to see the different landscapes.

Greetings from the BIG SKY. I've been through Idaho many times and I've seen a lot of basalt rock all over the place every time.

Craters of the Moon and basically the entire Snake River plain are geologically fascinating! So many dramatic and exciting events in the area’s history and so relatively recent too. Shawn Willsey, geology professor, has a great channel with lots of deep dives in the region.

I hope you know that your voice is impeccably suited for narration. 100% unique-i have never heard someone who sounds like you, but also very calming and easy on the ears. Cheers.

@landontruman3632

8 ай бұрын

I agree!

@brucekuehn4031

8 ай бұрын

I’m not sure why, but there have been a lot of negative comments on voice lately. Count me as a fan also!

For more information on many of these features and more. Look up Shawn Willsey, he is a geology professor at College of Southern Idaho and he has a great channel where he takes viewers on location to some of these spots and talks about the geologic history in simple terms. Also Menan is pronounced Men-Ann locally (I know it's inconsequential and but I thought I would give a heads up)

I visited Craters of the Moon a few years ago. It was an absolutely stunning place and I was really looking forward to the hike through the lava tubes. Unfortunately, they were closed due to recent magmatic earthquake activity. If you get a chance to visit, I absolutely recommend it.

Outside of Albuquerque's west side are a series of small fissure cones. Thr Rio Grande valley has 10k to 15k feet of sand the lava had to travel through. Could you explain had lava travels through 2 to 3 miles of sand?

Always love the content, thanks bro

Very interesting. I had no idea all these volcanoes were there.

I lived in Boise, and it was crazy when my elementary school class was talking about volcanoes, and I was thinking about the ones in Hawaii (thanks Reading Rainbow!), and my teacher said "Oh, we have some here in Idaho; they just aren't erupting." We later got to go on a field trip to somewhere, and we passed this old shield volcano. My 8 year old mind was blown. We'd drive into Oregon on I-84 sometimes (no sales tax, lol), and there's an extinct cone that you can see in the distance from the freeway before you drive into the valley (Malheur Butte). Still lots of hot springs all over Idaho/eastern Oregon. I got to go to Givens hot springs back in elementary school.

The rift zones in the Eastern Snake River Plain are closely correlated with normal faults formed by the crustal extension of the basin-and-range province. The hotspot provides the magma, and the faults provide the weak points.

@Dragrath1

8 ай бұрын

Yeah this is definitely linked to the Basin and Range province but really all the activity out west seems to be connected as the mantle upwelling discontinuity in the solid mantle beneath the lithosphere connects to both the Juan de Fuca Ridge Yellowstone and the East Pacific Rise while more or less perfectly outlining the Basin and Range Province and Colorado plateau. Yellowstone is a bit special but it appears to be on a junction and or the easternmost leading edge of this ridge line like structure in the mantle and I can't help but wonder what sort of evolutionary past has happened here. Its probably not possible to glean everything but if modern GPS data is anything to go by everything in the Basin range or proximity to the Cascadia subduction zone complex appears to be moving more in line with the Pacific plate to the degree allowed by the crustal integrity and deformation as it's still partly connected to the larger North American continent.

@OdinsChosen208

8 ай бұрын

@@Dragrath1 yeah basically the basin and range extends from the seirras to the tetons

Thank you very much for this highly informative video. There are so many unknown volcanic features in this area and this video does a great job at highlighting them.

Those volcanos may be forgotten but I will never forget that amazing vegan burger with the purple onions at Boise Fry Co, with a side of blueberry ketchup and purple curly fries. Beats In-n-Out any day of the week.

@LadyAnuB

8 ай бұрын

Where is this at and when did it open? (I worked at the Chicago Connection on Fairview from 94-96.)

@Ms_Cheesecake

8 ай бұрын

@@LadyAnuB I think there are 3 in the Boise area, and it opened back in mid-late '00s or early '10s, iirc. "Fries with burgers on the side." I loved eating there. They'd have several different types of fries (like purple sweet potato, russet, etc) and lots of different seasonings/sauces.

@LadyAnuB

8 ай бұрын

@@Ms_Cheesecake Cool option for up there

@Phoenix-J81

8 ай бұрын

Born and raised Idahoan here. What the hell is -In-n-out? Must be a California thing? 🙄

@Ms_Cheesecake

8 ай бұрын

@@Phoenix-J81 If not being sarcastic the way Idahoans tend to be about Californians (and explaining for anyone who genuinely does not know what In-n-Out is), yes, it's a fast food burger joint in CA that's hugely popular there. Now, to anger the Californians, it's not great but not terrible either. 😂They have a short menu, so it means they can focus on what they serve, just like Boise Fry Company can, rather than trying to be a "We have everything here" food place. Got to eat there when bf and I stayed in Visalia CA for a few days, and it wasn't too bad for what it offered. Now to move on and anger the Texans, I liked In-n-Out more than Whataburger. 🤣

Very cool. Thank you.

As a teenager, I believed that the reason so much attention was given to the volcanic features of the USA in educational, volcano-themed media was because the USA is a rich country with the money to study them and because media tend to have a USA-centric bias. However, the older I get, the more I realize that while these things may play a factor, the USA also simply has some of the most unique volcanic features in the entire world. Whether it's Yellowstone, the Colombia River Basalts, Cascadia (admittedly somewhat more standard in terms of volcanoes) or the many monogenetic fields both at the Snake River Plain, in Oregon, and in the Great Rift Basin. Truly a fascinating geological setting.

After you mentioned a volcano in Idaho like last year or the year before I went looking for it only to see vast lava fields of multiple volcanoes.

I have been mapping the vents in Idaho for sometime now. I'm most interested in the ones that are just north of the Snake River Plain in more mountainous terrain. The furthest one so far can be found here 44° 7'44.51"N 113°28'44.14"W. It seems some of the basaltic melt is occurring further north below the extensional valleys which some say is the northern most extent of the Basin and Range located in Idaho.

In 2014, I was invited to participate in an expedition through Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve (COTM) by that NPS unit’s then-Superintendent. We walked through the Wapi flow, climbed Pilar Butte, walked across the “Big Desert” to the main volcanic complex which includes the Blue Dragon Flow and many other lava flows and volcanic features, generally following the Great Rift north-northwest. Our progress through this spectacular but extremely rugged landscape was frequently measured in hours per mile. We melted ice from lava pits and tubes for water. By the end of the trip, we had added eight previously uncatalogued lava caves to the Monument’s inventory and noted the scattered remains of a bootlegger’s distillery. At the end, I threw my shredded boots in the trash. Craters manages to be both incredibly beautiful and brutal.

Thank you 🙏

Again, scores of active but dormant volcanos all over the continental USA, but they almost never erupt. I guess that's a good thing.

Would love to know the local native stories of the area. Also, has Idaho considered tapping the underlying heat for geothermal energy production?

I'll send this to Doc. Thank you

fun fact all the lava fissures correspond with the basin and range mountain fault lines on the north and south side of the snake river plain meaning all the mountains use to connect through the plain but now the extension of the faults is the weak spot for the magma to rise

I wish I'd had these facts when I visited Craters of the Moon (really interesting!) years ago on the way to Jellystone. I wish I had time to stumble around these other sites you mention. Can't wait to go to Carrizo Plain to stand right on the San Andreas Fault. Having lived in California for many years both in the Bay area and the Los Angeles area I just have to do it. "Here I am ya big brute! Go ahead and rupture!" 😂😂😂 Earthquakes and volcanoes are a great hobby! I love learning this stuff. Makes me wish I'd studied geology. There are other people who post volcano info, but yours is the ONLY information I trust! Love your channel.

There was also extensive vulcanism south east of Pocatello outside the snake river plane. Likely from the same process that created the plain lava fields. Look up China Hat to see large Lava domes as well as various dikes and cinder cones. Interesting to note is that the remnants of the lava flows are what caused the bear river to flow to the Great Salt Lake instead of the snake river. Also present in the area from the eruptions are hot springs and large areas where the groundwater is saturated with CO2 (Soda Springs, Idaho)

As the North American plate moves south southwest expect different types of volcanic activity but mostly effusive magmatic intrusions with new faults forming in the southern Montana area within the next million years. The Yellowstone supervolcano will probably erupt once during that time period most assuredly but Mt. Rainier and Mt. St. Helens is far more likely and sooner to erupt again. We will get plenty of warnings about either one happening. I bet most of us may never see that happen in our lifetimes.

An uncountable number in the whole Northwest and the West Coast. If a hill looks like a volcano it likely is. Northern California is covered with old volcanos. They don’t have to be large. Of course most are dormant, old vents.

Looks like beautiful scenery in that area and a great place to look around if you love geology (as I do!). The large number of vents in a small area reminds me of the Auckland volcanic field here in New Zealand.

Thanks.

Thank you for yet another fantastic video. Would it be possible to get a sequel to this video, one that discusses why some of the terrain appears farmable, but not other parts? How long does it typically take for plants to colonize volcanic fields, and why? Thanks :)

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I feel the craters of the moon should be a national park

@foxymacadoo

8 ай бұрын

It is a park but I don’t know if it is a National Park

@ThatOpalGuy

8 ай бұрын

@@foxymacadoo its merely a national monument

@foxymacadoo

8 ай бұрын

@@ThatOpalGuy OK Thanks. It should be a National Park

@ThatOpalGuy

8 ай бұрын

@@foxymacadoo I completely agree.

Note that going off what I've learned from Nick Zentner's channel as well as my own reading, thanks to the seismic tomography data of the mantle below the crust there appears to be a more general slow velocity sheerzone discontinuity which connects both Yellowstone and the Juan de Fuca ridge, the Colorado plateau, Rio Grande rift zone before meandering back west and joining with the East Pacific Rise in the Gulf of California. The Igneous petrology also supports the link between the snake river plain and Yellowstone but while the primary magma type is ocean island basalt associated with hotspots it does have a bit of mid ocean ridge basalt contribution much like Iceland does. I suspect the ridge zone is boosting the intensity of activity along this zone. The Ridge like upwelling component of the mantle notably seems to play a huge role in the formation and evolution of the Basin and Range fascinating and underappreciated.

How do geologist map and create models of the under ground used in these videos? Can they actually see what is below the lava?

These look like these have something to do with the mystery formation of the Rockies.

Craters Of The Moon is a National Park and not forgotten!

Can I make a suggestion for a video idea? In Elliott county, Kentucky there are what seems to be 3 Kimberlite dikes that have very little information open to the public and aren't very well known at all and very little in terms of pictures where you can even view what's there or to suggest how they were formed and when. I suspect that there were formed at some point during the formation of ghe Appalachian mountains, or maybe even before then. I live within 30 minutes of the site, but it looks as if it's on private land and at least from google maps it looks like it's mostly on hillsides or being eroded into the creeks next to the road. I would imagine that samples could be found in said creeks and drainage runoffs of the kimberlite and its contents that could he studied. I know that no diamonds have been found in the intrusions so far, but garnetts, serpentine and olivine has been found in the area surrounded by sedimentary limestone, sandstone, shale and coal from the Carboniferous period. I have a geologic quadrangle map of the area and can send pictures of the spots I am referring to as well as the GPS coordinates for each spot. I just find them fascinating and it's probably one of the rarest types of rock formations in the entire state and it would be awesome to see your explanation and interpretation of the data and maybe some insight into the whole thing if you're willing to cover such a small thing in a geologic setting. If so, I'd be glad to show you everything I know about the subject to get the research going. 🙂

Hi there! Pico de Orizaba, Mexico ❤ Chichinautzin Volcanic Field (you can find pahoehoe lava flows there, so that could probably be hawaiian type volcanism, but not sure, I am not an expert) There are also tons of forgotten volcanoes in Mexico people don't even know about. Greetings!

@Vesuviusisking

8 ай бұрын

El popo is the most famous volcano

@That_One_Alaska_airlines_guy

8 ай бұрын

I think Pico de Orizaba should be in a video

Looking at even older flows that intersect with the Wayan formation along the Idaho-wyoming border, sections of the ash beds are nearly a mile deep, covering a large bay in the shallow north american sea dating to the Cretaceous period. In the region along the Wayan-ashbed interface, many dinosaur burrows can be found, fossils indicate that these dinosaurs reached about 4 meters in length. Tyranosauroids are known from a single fossil located along the interface.

The city of rexburg is built ontop of a large shield volcano.

I'm gonna be back in 30 millions years or so to check out maze of towers there that'll look really cool.

...Nick (Zentner) sent me.... 😉

@fallinginthed33p

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, Nick's recent talks and videos covered the Idaho batholith, the Western Idaho Shear Zone and how magmatism in the state could have been caused by the subduction of Siletzia. I assume the rift zone vents are younger structures caused by the Yellowstone hotspot.

❤

0:58 Looks like Saitama and Genos were training here.

Oh buddy, you are only scratching the top of the forgotten Volcanos here. The south hills is a red Ryholytic/basaltic complex south of Twin. The Bennet moutain range is all volcanic. If you go south west of Castleford there's old Yellowstone hotspot activity as far as the Jarbridge Mountains! Deep creek canyon shows you the layers and different composition of the eruptions. Some quite explosive! Its all lava rock west to the Ohwyees Mountains south of Boise!

Borkum Rift Zone? Is there any connection with the Scandinavian tobacco brand, Borkum Riff?

We Idahoans haven't forgotten. 😉

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Forgotten

i know the craaters of the moon volcano

Go hiking in Craters, and you'll find yourself surrounded by black. It's kinda eerie. It's the complete opposite of say, Death Valley or White Sands, where everything is blindingly white....

so could those rift ones be called a pressure valve fpr Yellowstone???

@michaelpoland529

8 ай бұрын

No, they aren't directly connected. The magma sources are independent.

@kathysmith6413

8 ай бұрын

@@michaelpoland529 thank you

This is completely irrelevant but I just ate the most amazing orange ever

I just want to say....hot potato!!!

@landontruman3632

8 ай бұрын

That's what I had for dinner. I live in Idaho.

Don't get excited Maine potato farmers ... as long as Idaho remains, you're just going to have to deal with the competition.

They predicted Vesuvius will erupt in 2024 or 2025

@cook1ezz

8 ай бұрын

And I predict that a magnitude 9 earthquake will happen tomorrow at 7:32pm off the Eastern coast of Florida. Anyone can make a prediction, that doesn't mean it's at all reliable lmao. Also who is "they?"

@Vesuviusisking

8 ай бұрын

@@cook1ezzgeologist

@foxymacadoo

8 ай бұрын

@@VesuviusiskingWhich Geologist? Who are they? What is their names?

@Vesuviusisking

8 ай бұрын

@@foxymacadoothe one in Naples Italy

@foxymacadoo

8 ай бұрын

@@Vesuviusisking So you say it is only one Geologist and can’t name him? Ok

Please, do something about these mouth clicks. Your audio became unbearable.

Neat