OMG ! I was up there on a New Moon nite. No light pollution at all with that volcanic darkness. You can see forever beyond the stars and more stars and more.... and then you wake up in the morning. Wish I could have been there with you !
Tony! you are getting closer to my beloved home of Washington state. My dad always talked about how cool craters of the moon are, but I haven't been there yet. So for now I will live vicariously through you as usual.
Thanks Tony for giving us an intimate glimpse into the beauty of natural history and and the various forms of plants that sprung up out of this earth over millions of years. Miraculous all.
Tony, I am so proud. Along with 3 books I was able to botanize Eriogonum augustifolium in my "disturbed Meadow" where most of the plants are invasives. It feels just great!
God bless you man. Some of the stuff you say takes me right out of my hell hole and bring me out there with ya. The video alone couldn’t do that. Thanks for making stuff feel normal and cool. God bless you man.
So cool, will have to visit. Ive always loved nature and would "stop to smell the roses," but ever since I found you, I now stop and just observe all the different plants in depth and for way too long,, especially if I'm in a new location. Thanks for all ya do
Funny mentioning High Times magazine, I've always been a plant guy, and even before I started smoking the plant I would love flipping through my buddies magazine and just admiring the gorgeous shots of the plants in full bloom with all their late life colors coming through. Truly an amazing plant for more than just the fun stuff!
I remember exploring this place on Google earth and reading about the local geological history of the area. Thanks for taking us there to see it close up!
I love basalt fields like this, but they freaked me the fuck out as a kid. I had no concept of geologic time, so I took all the evidence of volcanism in the PacNW as a sign that volcanos had recently erupted and could absolutely erupt again at any moment. I also thought that the conifer trees east of the Cascades were shorter and more puny looking because volcanos had wiped out the big trees and they were only just growing back. I could not figure out why my parents were always dragging me out to this potential death zone for vacation.
@@browngreen933 Actually, just before last recess for our, in her younger days, interlocutor, Susie B. And why parents should talk and listen to their children to disabuse them of their unfounded fears and scare them with the well founded ones which they should beware of.
I was terrified the whole time I was camping on Mt St Helens as a kid, not helped by the visitor center which at the time had an exhibit where it looked like there were cracks beneath your feet showing molten magma. I knew they had to be fake, but a voice in my head was asking 'what if'. I played it cool, though, since my parents weren't concerned. But I've never been back despite living nearby for many years
This episode features pahoehoe, glandular sepals, penstemon, furry balls (pika), and a bloody finger. Extra dose of geology made my day. Excellent igneous illustration!
Good morning to you my loudmouth botanist friend That basalt was definitely very interesting to see all the different plant species that are dwelling within it And awesome little toothpaste analogy good for you for trying to keep it simple for the simpleton minds Have yourself a wonderful day and try not to cut yourself too much those things can be quite Sharp as you already know
I really hope you come to Washington Joey! Would love to see you do your thang in my neck of the woods. Love the geology lesson with the botany, goes hand in hand. You and Nick Zentner are some of my favorite people. Thanks for what you do! ♥️🌱♥️🌱♥️🌱♥️🌱♥️
You wouldn't believe how may people really do ask us rangers who plants the flowers, when we feed the bears, etc. Nothing is real, everywhere is Disneyland.
@@Totalinternalreflection the USA spends more than anyone. That’s the problem. It’s been corrupted & coopted. We need to localize schools again. Our system is so broken... especially in cities.
These flood basalts in and around the Craters of the Moon NP have an interesting geological quandary, if you look closely on some of the more smooth surfaces of the basalt, there is a thin blue layer that has been named "blue dragon" by a couple of geoscientists back in '73. They theorize it's caused by a titanian magnetite glass like compound. I have a few chunks from just outside the NP, its got some crazy blue colors in the sun. You can catch some glimpses in the video here and there if you keep your eyes out.
We have been observing a similar blue hue, in flowtop breakouts, in the active Icelandic fissure eruption as well-the difference is it weathers quickly. And the Icelandic lava geochem shows its pretty Ti-poor. I found the following on an oregon state webpage: “When first erupted, p-type pahoehoe has a distinct shiny blue color. During weathering it develops a patchy ochre coating.” P-type pahoehoe is lava that loses its volatile content while sitting within the flow, before it breaks out of the flow top and cools flat, smooth, and blue. (P for “pipe vesicles”). This as opposed to the usual “s-type pahoehoe” (s for “sponge-y”), which is very vesicle/volatile rich and tends to form the ropey structures. Like I said though, these smooth, silvery blue p-type pahoehoe flows weather quickly and turn ochre when altered. Craters of the moon has been there too long to be unaltered, though the precipitation is much less than Iceland... probably unrelated phenomena, but interesting how outwardly similar the color and texture are. anyway I was immediately reminded of this by your comment. More info: volcano.oregonstate.edu/lava-tubes
I was thinking the same thing. I can’t recall exactly but is basin and range extension due to the oblique collision of the Pacific and North American plates and clockwise rotation? That plus the migration of the N. Am. Plate moving over the Yellowstone hotspot, leading to dike swarms and the basalt flows? And I never really understood bi-modal volcanism Zentner talked about. I have to rewatch those videos. I did find a paper by Shervais et al. Called Origin and Evolution of the western Snake River Plain, that said something about the SRP graben “…formed in response to thermal tumescence above the Yellowstone plume head as it rose under eastern Oregon and Washington.” Yep. Thermal tumescence.
this is all really interesting geology. I know you're a botanist, but I always love your little geology interludes. Also as a grad student with a biochem background being throw into geochemistry, that little graphic of yours at 3:13 is very helpful
I grew up in that area. One plant that must have escaped you was a prickly pear cacti? I'm a carpenter and as you have pointed out, botany doesn't pay so I wouldn't know the real name! Out west of Idaho Falls I think the rock is much more red in color, and this reminds me of Hells Half Acre just west of Blackfoot. We had many keg parties back in the 1980's out there! As a word of caution, always wear long pants and gloves if you can. Those rocks are the equivalent to a human cheese grater! Thanks for traveling out there so I don't have to! Edit: also stay close to the known paths. Those tooth paste tubes are underneath you and can open up and send you on a unpredictable journey if you bust thru!
Haven't smelt _Chamaebatiaria_ , but I find the aroma of the lookalike relative _Chamaebatia australis_ downright pleasant. Like an air freshener that's trying to smell like a tropical vacation.
Tony, I’m so sad today. My “brilliant” neighbor is cutting down one of the few old growth White Oak tree next to my property line because she says it might drop branches in her driveway. I gave her ten good reasons to save the money & keep it. I am sitting vigil in the front yard to say goodbye to the old Monarch. I’d love to count the rings before they grind the stump. Thank you for all you do…especially your perspective on the “blight” of humanity’s ignorance. The warblers, woodpeckers, squirrels, cicadas & countless other cuties have been evicted.
I googled it: "Another type of "blue rock" is a blue-glassy pahoehoe only found in small, thin flows at the base of tumuli such as in the current Kīlauea eruption flow field. The shade of blue of this rock is closer to gun-metal and is probably caused by the refractive index of the glass. Eventually, with exposure to the elements, the color of the rock turns to black".
this was so awesome. i would love to see you do more videos in idaho. so many cool places in southern idaho, you could even show where the desert starts turning into forests. such a cool environment.
You’ll have to come back up in the spring. I was camping northwest of the moon out high five rd over the fourth and you may have commentaried in my head a few times. The lupine is still in bloom and with the fires of late, baby sage brush scattered amongst slow elk pies. Stay cool. Hope you get to explore more of Idaho before we sell it all to California!
this video is the perfect compliment to the last few weeks of Icelandic lava flows I've been watching, all the while wondering how the various types of flow will be when cool.
👍👍 Cool! I was just looking at a rock I have and said to myself where did This one come from!? Now I remember it was Craters of the moon, I've been there a few times! ☺️ Long time ago I don't remember all them plants though Beautiful!!! Go to Yellowstone! 🙏
Craters of the moon is one of the most incredible places on earth. That blue stuff is called "blue dragon lava." It's caused by titanium magnetite crystals in the upper layers of basalt. My wife's a geologist, and we spent a lot of summers out in that park exploring lava tubes. Glad you made it up that way!
The blue is 1 of 3 things copper nickel or magnesium. I love you're videos very informative. Oh my college teacher said I have to many pictures of plants on my phone and 70% of them are ones you showed. The last 30% are fruit or vegetables and im attempting to dry farm im half way there 😅
I was reading over plant specs, came across the latin name for it, and unintentionally read it in Tony Santoro's voice and accent. Does this mean I'm a true fan now? 🤔🤣
Watch your step on the unexplored parts out there! Had me on edge with some of those spots I kept thinking you were gonna bust through a lava tube and drop into the meat grinder.
awesome! could you look into the vegetation around the boise river inside the city? some places get flooded yearly and have a very interesting mix of trees and brushes cool video!
Think you'll ever visit the Rocky Mountains in Colorado? We have a ton of interesting stuff and the tundra has so many cool flowers in the spring and summer
I adore pikas and I’ve only seen them once, briefly, at a rest stop somewhere between Missoula and Spokane. I was glad they made a little cameo here :)
Was out a little further west along I-84 last year in the snake river plain the basalt flows are incredible geologic form. It is a real wild enviorment for the plants and the animals on them.
Volcanic plateaus have always amazed me. After Mt. St. Helens blew up, they were saying that nothing would grow back for hundreds of years, but if you look at it now, it's practically thriving. "Life will find a way" indeed, eh?
Ya know, for a botany guy he's pretty good with the geology stuff too. Thanks for this, I took geo courses from Nick Zentner and Doc Bentley who hipped me to how hot this region once was. Cooler now, which is why I live in eastern Washington.
I've been watching its progress everyday. It also makes you realize what the flood basalts in OR and WA were like. Was there an asteroid impact in the corner of WA, OR and Idaho? Will we ever find out?
Damn first vid I’ve watched with the new camera, mooooooney shots galore Assuming I’m not seeing stars and you got it a while back. Yeah I guess ive been in a research dungeon trying to finish my thesis and stop disappointing my chair/colleagues with my add ass
The blue color is due to intense blue light being reflected from clusters of tiny titanian magnetite crystals, which, together with crystallites of plagioclase and olivine, are dispersed throughout an outer layer of clear brown glass. It is proposed that Fe2+ → Fe3+, and probably Fe2+ → Ti4+, electron transfer processes are responsible for the blue color.
Gordon H. Faye, Roy M. Miller; “Blue Dragon” basalt from Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho: Origin of Color. American Mineralogist 1973;; 58 (11-12)
If you can get to Black Hills in SD you gotta check out DUGOUT GULCH BOTANICAL TRAIL. Near by are rhyolite domes and the amazing Devil's Tower. At the base of the tower are Prunus americana trees with fruits maturing in August. 15-20 minutes away from the botanical trail is Vore Buffalo Jump. Black Hills used to be my favorite place on the planet, before it was so obvious it's all for sale and development.
"Its hard to believe that thing is alive" - That is what my wife says when I try to attack with my soldier. But honestly she usually says "tiny thing"...
Thanks Joey, nice perspective on this place. I am interested to see you found so many different kinds of plants. I am left wondering what brought them there and where the next biggest population of each is located in relation to the monument area. Hope you check out the stars at night, you are in a good place for that.
Hey! If you’re in Idaho you should come over to Montana! I want to take a nature walk with you and hear you break down the flora and fauna. I live in a very interesting geological place
Those fields of basalt gravel with mostly just that silvery buckwheat growing on them is wild looking. Almost looks unnatural, like a big outdoor art installation.
I do have to add that the amount of botanical recovery is very slow compared to Hawaii. It might be due to the native plants adapted to the recovery part for the most part. Climate also has a huge effect. The more native species of that latitude aren't so well adapted for those conditions. It amazed me when I first moved to Hawaii that 50 to 100 year old flows could have so much growth and diversity ( invasive species helped with some of that).
OMG ! I was up there on a New Moon nite. No light pollution at all with that volcanic darkness. You can see forever beyond the stars and more stars and more.... and then you wake up in the morning. Wish I could have been there with you !
Tony! you are getting closer to my beloved home of Washington state. My dad always talked about how cool craters of the moon are, but I haven't been there yet. So for now I will live vicariously through you as usual.
Thanks Tony for giving us an intimate glimpse into the beauty of natural history and and the various forms of plants that sprung up out of this earth over millions of years. Miraculous all.
Wow, Idaho is now on my wish list to visit. Amazing flood basalt with amazingly adapted plants.
Tony, I am so proud. Along with 3 books I was able to botanize Eriogonum augustifolium in my "disturbed Meadow" where most of the plants are invasives. It feels just great!
Keep going! The first one's the hardest!
That chicory family one looked like candles on a birthday cake
So pretty and cool
Love your channel
Thanks
Cup of coffee, slice of pie and knowledge washing over me. What a fabulous Sunday morning!
Making macaroni and listening to Tony, not a bad Sunday night!
I got a deep dish on the bed 🤪 ayeee
God bless you man. Some of the stuff you say takes me right out of my hell hole and bring me out there with ya. The video alone couldn’t do that. Thanks for making stuff feel normal and cool. God bless you man.
Brother, please find your grove…the world is amazing and the earth tells magnificent stories when your shoes touch her❤
Knowledge and vulgarity. A beautiful combo!
So cool, will have to visit. Ive always loved nature and would "stop to smell the roses," but ever since I found you, I now stop and just observe all the different plants in depth and for way too long,, especially if I'm in a new location. Thanks for all ya do
Funny mentioning High Times magazine, I've always been a plant guy, and even before I started smoking the plant I would love flipping through my buddies magazine and just admiring the gorgeous shots of the plants in full bloom with all their late life colors coming through. Truly an amazing plant for more than just the fun stuff!
Full frontal plant porn
what a beautiful rock garden
Thank you for your time.
NPS says "The blue color comes from a thin outer layer of lava that contains titanium magnetite crystals."
Thanks, Scott.
I remember exploring this place on Google earth and reading about the local geological history of the area. Thanks for taking us there to see it close up!
I love the crunch when you walk!
“What’s the cause of that?!?!”
I think this sums up Tony in a single sentence.
"How's it do dat?!" would not be a fun drinking game while watching Crime Pays...
Ferns get around is a good sounding title of a book
I love basalt fields like this, but they freaked me the fuck out as a kid. I had no concept of geologic time, so I took all the evidence of volcanism in the PacNW as a sign that volcanos had recently erupted and could absolutely erupt again at any moment. I also thought that the conifer trees east of the Cascades were shorter and more puny looking because volcanos had wiped out the big trees and they were only just growing back.
I could not figure out why my parents were always dragging me out to this potential death zone for vacation.
you have probably watched Nick Zenter's (Central Washington University) geology videos...
This is such a great picture, thanks for sharing your childhood trauma
He said these flows are 15,000 years old ‐- basically yesterday in geologic time.
@@browngreen933 Actually, just before last recess for our, in her younger days, interlocutor, Susie B. And why parents should talk and listen to their children to disabuse them of their unfounded fears and scare them with the well founded ones which they should beware of.
I was terrified the whole time I was camping on Mt St Helens as a kid, not helped by the visitor center which at the time had an exhibit where it looked like there were cracks beneath your feet showing molten magma. I knew they had to be fake, but a voice in my head was asking 'what if'. I played it cool, though, since my parents weren't concerned. But I've never been back despite living nearby for many years
Thank you for the education. Very effective teaching plant morphology for me at least.
I really look up to u for taken the time to teach and reach so many people with your vast knowledge,,,thank you😉💜
This episode features pahoehoe, glandular sepals, penstemon, furry balls (pika), and a bloody finger. Extra dose of geology made my day. Excellent igneous illustration!
Love a bloody finger
Good morning to you my loudmouth botanist friend
That basalt was definitely very interesting to see all the different plant species that are dwelling within it
And awesome little toothpaste analogy good for you for trying to keep it simple for the simpleton minds
Have yourself a wonderful day and try not to cut yourself too much those things can be quite Sharp as you already know
I really hope you come to Washington Joey! Would love to see you do your thang in my neck of the woods. Love the geology lesson with the botany, goes hand in hand. You and Nick Zentner are some of my favorite people. Thanks for what you do!
♥️🌱♥️🌱♥️🌱♥️🌱♥️
You have a good day too great video
You know a Basalt Botany tour is going to be good when ya gotta tell the audience "don't mind the blood"
Lacy Foliage oOoo!
he knows we don't
You wouldn't believe how may people really do ask us rangers who plants the flowers, when we feed the bears, etc. Nothing is real, everywhere is Disneyland.
😦🤭😥
That is tragic...
You should direct them to the gift shop after...
America really needs to better fund education, it’s so bizarre to anyone from other countries when we see that level of ignorance.
@@Totalinternalreflection the USA spends more than anyone. That’s the problem. It’s been corrupted & coopted. We need to localize schools again. Our system is so broken... especially in cities.
Get kids outa government schools period. You’ll be off.
These flood basalts in and around the Craters of the Moon NP have an interesting geological quandary, if you look closely on some of the more smooth surfaces of the basalt, there is a thin blue layer that has been named "blue dragon" by a couple of geoscientists back in '73. They theorize it's caused by a titanian magnetite glass like compound. I have a few chunks from just outside the NP, its got some crazy blue colors in the sun. You can catch some glimpses in the video here and there if you keep your eyes out.
i shoulda read this before i guessed cobalt
We have been observing a similar blue hue, in flowtop breakouts, in the active Icelandic fissure eruption as well-the difference is it weathers quickly. And the Icelandic lava geochem shows its pretty Ti-poor. I found the following on an oregon state webpage: “When first erupted, p-type pahoehoe has a distinct shiny blue color. During weathering it develops a patchy ochre coating.” P-type pahoehoe is lava that loses its volatile content while sitting within the flow, before it breaks out of the flow top and cools flat, smooth, and blue. (P for “pipe vesicles”). This as opposed to the usual “s-type pahoehoe” (s for “sponge-y”), which is very vesicle/volatile rich and tends to form the ropey structures. Like I said though, these smooth, silvery blue p-type pahoehoe flows weather quickly and turn ochre when altered. Craters of the moon has been there too long to be unaltered, though the precipitation is much less than Iceland... probably unrelated phenomena, but interesting how outwardly similar the color and texture are. anyway I was immediately reminded of this by your comment. More info: volcano.oregonstate.edu/lava-tubes
good morning uncle tony. hope you're having a good day in some fresh air and not in some urban hell hole.
Truly and criminally underated UA-cam channel.
“Kinda hate hydrangeas, but I like the family.”
plants are not so different from people really
Sweet. I love Idaho. There is a lot of beautiful diversity here. 💖
Dang! I live an hour from Craters! Would have bought ya’ a beer, dude! Thanks for the rad videos like usual.
Check out professor Nick Zenter’s videos on the flood basalts and the ice dam floods that scoured them
I have seen his work, it's amazing.
I was thinking the same thing. I can’t recall exactly but is basin and range extension due to the oblique collision of the Pacific and North American plates and clockwise rotation? That plus the migration of the N. Am. Plate moving over the Yellowstone hotspot, leading to dike swarms and the basalt flows? And I never really understood bi-modal volcanism Zentner talked about. I have to rewatch those videos. I did find a paper by Shervais et al. Called Origin and Evolution of the western Snake River Plain, that said something about the SRP graben “…formed in response to thermal tumescence above the Yellowstone plume head as it rose under eastern Oregon and Washington.” Yep. Thermal tumescence.
this is all really interesting geology. I know you're a botanist, but I always love your little geology interludes. Also as a grad student with a biochem background being throw into geochemistry, that little graphic of yours at 3:13 is very helpful
Good to know that even the gassiest landscapes are beautiful to somebody. There's hope for me yet.
"It's not a bug. It's a feature."
-- someone's kink somewhere
'Deranged Popcorn' is going to be the name of my first album!
I grew up in that area. One plant that must have escaped you was a prickly pear cacti? I'm a carpenter and as you have pointed out, botany doesn't pay so I wouldn't know the real name! Out west of Idaho Falls I think the rock is much more red in color, and this reminds me of Hells Half Acre just west of Blackfoot. We had many keg parties back in the 1980's out there! As a word of caution, always wear long pants and gloves if you can. Those rocks are the equivalent to a human cheese grater! Thanks for traveling out there so I don't have to! Edit: also stay close to the known paths. Those tooth paste tubes are underneath you and can open up and send you on a unpredictable journey if you bust thru!
That's wild man
If Nick zentner had mad a surprise appearance that woulda been pretty sweet.
I would love to see a Nick Zentner x CPBBD field trip out maybe in the channeled scablands or camas prairie.
@@AvanaVana keeping the "sorry Patrick's" to a minimum might make the botany part a little weird but I'd watch.
Comments from a week ago on a video posted minutes ago. WTF?
He has broken the space time continuum. Thanks again.
Ps. Nice raacks! GFY.bye.
Videos come out on Patreon first
"Go fuck ya self bye."
Me: will do Joey.
I love these tours!
"Don't mind the blood on my hands.." Boy, if I had a nickel every time I've heard that.
Thank you for the adventure
Haven't smelt _Chamaebatiaria_ , but I find the aroma of the lookalike relative _Chamaebatia australis_ downright pleasant. Like an air freshener that's trying to smell like a tropical vacation.
Tony, I’m so sad today. My “brilliant” neighbor is cutting down one of the few old growth White Oak tree next to my property line because she says it might drop branches in her driveway. I gave her ten good reasons to save the money & keep it. I am sitting vigil in the front yard to say goodbye to the old Monarch. I’d love to count the rings before they grind the stump. Thank you for all you do…especially your perspective on the “blight” of humanity’s ignorance. The warblers, woodpeckers, squirrels, cicadas & countless other cuties have been evicted.
a whole feild of bathsalts....crazy that shit was sold at every gas station for a while
I googled it: "Another type of "blue rock" is a blue-glassy pahoehoe only found in small, thin flows at the base of tumuli such as in the current Kīlauea eruption flow field. The shade of blue of this rock is closer to gun-metal and is probably caused by the refractive index of the glass. Eventually, with exposure to the elements, the color of the rock turns to black".
this was so awesome. i would love to see you do more videos in idaho. so many cool places in southern idaho, you could even show where the desert starts turning into forests. such a cool environment.
You’ll have to come back up in the spring. I was camping northwest of the moon out high five rd over the fourth and you may have commentaried in my head a few times. The lupine is still in bloom and with the fires of late, baby sage brush scattered amongst slow elk pies. Stay cool. Hope you get to explore more of Idaho before we sell it all to California!
Power to you, Tony.
Thanks for the knowledge.
this video is the perfect compliment to the last few weeks of Icelandic lava flows I've been watching, all the while wondering how the various types of flow will be when cool.
Fascinating as always, thank you
👍👍 Cool!
I was just looking at a rock I have and said to myself where did This one come from!?
Now I remember it was Craters of the moon, I've been there a few times! ☺️
Long time ago I don't remember all them plants though
Beautiful!!!
Go to Yellowstone! 🙏
The picas (sp?) were why the hawk was pissed at you. You scared his dinner
My favorite episode to date
Craters of the moon is one of the most incredible places on earth. That blue stuff is called "blue dragon lava." It's caused by titanium magnetite crystals in the upper layers of basalt. My wife's a geologist, and we spent a lot of summers out in that park exploring lava tubes. Glad you made it up that way!
Seen so much of this on Maui. Rips apart any shoes you choose.
The blue is 1 of 3 things copper nickel or magnesium.
I love you're videos very informative.
Oh my college teacher said I have to many pictures of plants on my phone and 70% of them are ones you showed.
The last 30% are fruit or vegetables and im attempting to dry farm im half way there 😅
Tony. I tell you what man. Your channel reminds me of the old Car Talk show but instead of cars it's plants. Somebody give this man a radio show!
Love all your videos.
This one, Tony.....really gets my Lava Tubes hot if you know what I mean.....
Those are the "Blue Dragon" basalts and the blue is from titanian magentite
Thank you! I was thinking he needs to find a gruff geologist from philly to run around with him and fill in the info gaps.
Love your face ❤❤❤ keep up dispensing the knowledge
Wow, never know Idaho had basalt flows at all. from the beginning alone, thought you were on big island, hi
South Idaho is very volcanic, there's a belt from west Oregon to Yellowstone caused by the continent moving over the Yellowstone hotspot
So nice to see infant flood basalt when your NJ basalt is 200 million years old
I was reading over plant specs, came across the latin name for it, and unintentionally read it in Tony Santoro's voice and accent. Does this mean I'm a true fan now? 🤔🤣
Yep.
Watch your step on the unexplored parts out there! Had me on edge with some of those spots I kept thinking you were gonna bust through a lava tube and drop into the meat grinder.
awesome!
could you look into the vegetation around the boise river inside the city?
some places get flooded yearly and have a very interesting mix of trees and brushes
cool video!
Think you'll ever visit the Rocky Mountains in Colorado? We have a ton of interesting stuff and the tundra has so many cool flowers in the spring and summer
I adore pikas and I’ve only seen them once, briefly, at a rest stop somewhere between Missoula and Spokane. I was glad they made a little cameo here :)
Was out a little further west along I-84 last year in the snake river plain the basalt flows are incredible geologic form. It is a real wild enviorment for the plants and the animals on them.
That crunching sound of the rocks is delightful.
Hooray, for flood basalts!
Those rocks are very cool.
Volcanic plateaus have always amazed me. After Mt. St. Helens blew up, they were saying that nothing would grow back for hundreds of years, but if you look at it now, it's practically thriving. "Life will find a way" indeed, eh?
Life thrives when people get out of the way.
;-)
@@Lazy_Fish_Keeper Indeed. Humans: A virus with legs lol.
If only we had been watching them these 1500 years
I appreciate the blood loss for our learning.
Ya know, for a botany guy he's pretty good with the geology stuff too. Thanks for this, I took geo courses from Nick Zentner and Doc Bentley who hipped me to how hot this region once was. Cooler now, which is why I live in eastern Washington.
Thanks Tony!
Check out the volcano going off in Iceland right now you’ll see how this was formed. Thanks for showing me where I was born, Tony! I da ho baby!
I've been watching its progress everyday. It also makes you realize what the flood basalts in OR and WA were like. Was there an asteroid impact in the corner of WA, OR and Idaho? Will we ever find out?
Damn first vid I’ve watched with the new camera, mooooooney shots galore
Assuming I’m not seeing stars and you got it a while back. Yeah I guess ive been in a research dungeon trying to finish my thesis and stop disappointing my chair/colleagues with my add ass
EBD
Good luck!
Once you are finished, it takes a few months to get back to a semi-normal concept of time, space, and the continuum
The blue color is due to intense blue light being reflected from clusters of tiny titanian magnetite crystals, which, together with crystallites of plagioclase and olivine, are dispersed throughout an outer layer of clear brown glass. It is proposed that Fe2+ → Fe3+, and probably Fe2+ → Ti4+, electron transfer processes are responsible for the blue color.
Gordon H. Faye, Roy M. Miller; “Blue Dragon” basalt from Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho: Origin of Color. American Mineralogist 1973;; 58 (11-12)
@@copiapoa thank you!!!!
I saw picas for the first time in Rocky Mountain national park at 12,000 feet above sea level. Saw some marmots on the way up too.
If you can get to Black Hills in SD you gotta check out DUGOUT GULCH BOTANICAL TRAIL. Near by are rhyolite domes and the amazing Devil's Tower. At the base of the tower are Prunus americana trees with fruits maturing in August. 15-20 minutes away from the botanical trail is Vore Buffalo Jump.
Black Hills used to be my favorite place on the planet, before it was so obvious it's all for sale and development.
#LandBack
I never realized pahoehoe was prounoced any other way
Tony if you ever settle down you should open up seasonal botany classes where chumps like me would pay to go on some hikes with your commentary ahah
"Its hard to believe that thing is alive" - That is what my wife says when I try to attack with my soldier. But honestly she usually says "tiny thing"...
Basalt Nice.
That's rad that you found a fernbush.
I’m from the south side of Chicago… I live in Washington state now… it’s hilarious at the amount of people here who correct every pronunciation
Been here. It is crazy lookin.
Thanks Joey, nice perspective on this place. I am interested to see you found so many different kinds of plants. I am left wondering what brought them there and where the next biggest population of each is located in relation to the monument area. Hope you check out the stars at night, you are in a good place for that.
We got some flows like that on the Rio grandest down here in toas and were moving big horn sheep down there
Hey! If you’re in Idaho you should come over to Montana! I want to take a nature walk with you and hear you break down the flora and fauna. I live in a very interesting geological place
Those fields of basalt gravel with mostly just that silvery buckwheat growing on them is wild looking. Almost looks unnatural, like a big outdoor art installation.
thank you for this king
I was looking at that sharp as glass volcanic rock and totally understood why you left Jack back with the car. Missed seeing him though.
Had to look up the “proper” pronunciation of pahoehoe. Can’t say I’m disappointed either way you say it. What a funny word.
Welcome to Idaho!!!!!
I do have to add that the amount of botanical recovery is very slow compared to Hawaii. It might be due to the native plants adapted to the recovery part for the most part. Climate also has a huge effect.
The more native species of that latitude aren't so well adapted for those conditions.
It amazed me when I first moved to Hawaii that 50 to 100 year old flows could have so much growth and diversity ( invasive species helped with some of that).