Kobuk Valley National Park is one of the least visited National Parks in the United States. Yet, it is still quite spectacular and geologically interesting. Also, tomorrow's video will cover the Tanaga and Takawangha volcanoes due to new information and the fact that their alert levels were BOTH raised from yellow to orange on March 9th 2023. Correction: at 2:17 in this video I mistakenly displayed “1/256” when I meant to show “1/16 of a mm”
Any chance you could do a video on Crater Lake in Northern California? We stumbled on it when we were in the area and couldn’t find much information on it or it’s eruptive history from searching online. Pretty cool little volcanic lake though
Oh yea, it's striking how arc volcanoes go from 0-10 in a matter of a few wks to a month, then sometimes they just say, I'm just playing, I'm gonna go back to sleep....lol we'll see, my $ is on Trident though..
@@theandrew1375 , you mean clear lake volcano? Crater Lake is in Oregon. Clear Lake is a fascinating volcano and surprised a lot of volcanologist, it has one of the largest bodies of melt or mush zones of volcanoes in US other than Yellowstone or Long Valley volcano. It's had some pretty good sized eruptions in its past, VEI 5+ and certainly is capable of eruption in future. Very beautiful area of California. You have to search for scientific papers on clear lake to get decent info.
@@GeologyHubI’m not sure the name of the mountain, it’s in Lassen National Forest I know. It’s got like a 28 acre lake inside a cindercone with a small campground beside it, and allows non motorized boats and fishing. We were driving through the area and saw a sign, decided to make the detour. The road was almost impassable in our rental car at the time, but it was really cool when we got there. It helped that we hadn’t made it to the more famous Crater Lake at that time yet, since the Oregon one is so breathtaking.
There is also a small desert 🏜 in The Yukon. It is very close to the Town of Carcross, which is by the highway to Skagway, Alaska. Mountains all around and I went skydiving there. Spectacular scenery. I believe it is the smallest desert in the world.
33333. "No, I do not mean that all 300,000 caribou will be in Kobuk Valley National Park at the same time" The universe smirks, and near all 300k caribou hold what amounts to a caribou convention in the park right as you visit.
Sand dunes don’t necessarily indicate a desert. We have them here in New England, and along the coast they are quite common. Many we’re deposited by the glacier
Nice Explanation! I believe that similar explanation might be applicable for Hunder in Ladakh, India. I was quite surprised and fascinated seeing 25-30 ft high dunes at those altitudes and cold climates. And, it does seem to align with locked between highlands on all sides
2:15 SAND "grain size generally accepted to be between 1/16 of a mm and 2 mm" ("1/16th was erroneously expressed on the screen as "1/256th" which later turns out the be the lower end of "silt" (1/256th - 1/16mm), while granule is 2mm-4mm. THANKS, was recently wondering about "sand size" as someone was talking about how many galaxies would be covered by "a grain of sand held at arms length" B-)
There’s another set of huge sand dunes on the shore of Lake Athabaska in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. They are so big that you can see them on Google Earth very easily.
I'd love to learn why and how there is a place in Arkansas, USA, of all places, with a state park called the Crater of Diamonds. Apparently people still find diamonds there fairly regularly. The fact that it's SO far away from ANY kind of volcano is what's so bizarre to me!
Some say that sand deposited somewhat inland around the Indin Ocean (including the PErth area) came from a comet (?) that hit the ocean 5000 years ago.
Are the great sand dunes in Colorado formed by glacially deposited material or is it just the wind blowing the sand in from the south west? Cool video!
From the US national park service -“The dunes were formed by the right combinations of wind, water, and sediment. Creeks and streams brought in large amounts of sediment and sand into the valley. Wind then blew the sand toward the bend in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, where opposing storm winds helped squeeze the sand into the tall dunes you see today.”
There's another orphan mini desert on the subtropical island of Santa Maria in the Azores, the only island in the archipelago that is not an active volcano.
Now that you covered Alaska and it's sand dunes could you show what kind of unusual things have been found in Antarctic so far (not counting volcanoes covered on this channel in the past). What is buried under the ice for millions of years and now discovered by geological expeditions ? Anything odd to what lies beneath?
Is this like the great sand dunes in Colorado and the Athabasca sand dunes in northern Alberta? I’ve been to the ones in Colorado and had the chance to drive the ice roads up to the athabasca but I ran out of time…
I wonder about the gold content in the base layers of these dunes or a few feet under it since it's a huge catch basin .... I do know Alaska probably has more resources than nearly all other states combined. Too bad gov says hands off....for now.
No, very different. The Sahara desert used to be a more fertile region, but the process of plate tectonics gradually changed the climate of what would later become the Sahara. Part of the region was also under water as part of the Tethys Sea 7 million years ago. When the African continent began to collide with Asia the Tethys Sea shrank to become the Mediterranean Sea. This led the northern part of Africa to become more arid and like a desert. There is more to this story, but that is the general outline.
I've caribou hunted from the Dallas creek airstrip just north of the dunes. I didnt know they were. I was hunting to the south and came across the almost white, dune. I got 2 caribou right next to the white sand edge, they would not cross it. Trapper Scotty, Alaskan
What if the island's of Norway was flopped out of the black sea and Spain island lifted out from next to it and ended up where it is. Find out if similar topography in the sea as comparison to the land of Norway and the entire shape of the island. Same with Spain. Where was entry point and exit apparently two massive pieces of land flopped out and upsidedown, are you interested in knowing if that is possible? I am
I meant to say the Mediterranean sea, not the black sea. Google earth view seams to be similar shape for Mediterranean sea and the darker island that contains Norway and it's other countries on the island or peninsula? Has anyone else seen that resemblance? Could be the place where the moon popped out like a zit? 😆
Love your channel dude but you really need to get rid of the red banner in the thumbnail. It makes it look like I've already watched your video. I think you're probably hurting your views a bit as people skip over it quickly. Best of luck!
Can you be less judgmental?? New viewers occasionally make such knee jerk reactions to this channel until they give it time and find the narrator relaxing to listen to.
Kobuk Valley National Park is one of the least visited National Parks in the United States. Yet, it is still quite spectacular and geologically interesting.
Also, tomorrow's video will cover the Tanaga and Takawangha volcanoes due to new information and the fact that their alert levels were BOTH raised from yellow to orange on March 9th 2023.
Correction: at 2:17 in this video I mistakenly displayed “1/256” when I meant to show “1/16 of a mm”
Any chance you could do a video on Crater Lake in Northern California? We stumbled on it when we were in the area and couldn’t find much information on it or it’s eruptive history from searching online. Pretty cool little volcanic lake though
@@theandrew1375 Was this by chance at Crater Mountain?
Oh yea, it's striking how arc volcanoes go from 0-10 in a matter of a few wks to a month, then sometimes they just say, I'm just playing, I'm gonna go back to sleep....lol we'll see, my $ is on Trident though..
@@theandrew1375 , you mean clear lake volcano? Crater Lake is in Oregon. Clear Lake is a fascinating volcano and surprised a lot of volcanologist, it has one of the largest bodies of melt or mush zones of volcanoes in US other than Yellowstone or Long Valley volcano. It's had some pretty good sized eruptions in its past, VEI 5+ and certainly is capable of eruption in future. Very beautiful area of California. You have to search for scientific papers on clear lake to get decent info.
@@GeologyHubI’m not sure the name of the mountain, it’s in Lassen National Forest I know. It’s got like a 28 acre lake inside a cindercone with a small campground beside it, and allows non motorized boats and fishing. We were driving through the area and saw a sign, decided to make the detour. The road was almost impassable in our rental car at the time, but it was really cool when we got there. It helped that we hadn’t made it to the more famous Crater Lake at that time yet, since the Oregon one is so breathtaking.
I lived in AK for two years and I never had a clue those were there. Learned something new. So fascinating.
Thanks!
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@@GeologyHub keep on doing your thing. Informative, interesting educational.
Excellent! And fascinating, and completely new to me. Thank you so much for making my evening. Cheers from England.
There is also a small desert 🏜 in The Yukon. It is very close to the Town of Carcross, which is by the highway to Skagway, Alaska. Mountains all around and I went skydiving there. Spectacular scenery. I believe it is the smallest desert in the world.
Most northern desert. Lived there lol. Best miniature bakery in Carcross though. Hope you stopped there!
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There’s massive sand dunes in Kansas and Nebraska.
Agreed, and the Kansas dunes are also largely wind blown (in terms of how they formed)
@@GeologyHub how about a video on aeolian landforms?
In Colorado too
@@GeologyHub I love the intense storms here in Missouri
Right on I live in Alaska and have seen the dunes on google earth. I wondered how those formed. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
33333.
"No, I do not mean that all 300,000 caribou will be in Kobuk Valley National Park at the same time"
The universe smirks, and near all 300k caribou hold what amounts to a caribou convention in the park right as you visit.
One of my favorite movies - Lawrence of Alaska
As always your videos are a must watch. Thank you. I note that Iceland is having ssome very interesting earth quake storms.
Had never heard of the sand dunes in Alaska! It stands to reason that there would be some because of the glaciation. Cool!
That's a very amazing and unsuspected oddity. Thank you.
Denmark and the Netherlands also have areas with big sand dunes in a landscape that superficially resembles deserts.
Sand dunes don’t necessarily indicate a desert. We have them here in New England, and along the coast they are quite common. Many we’re deposited by the glacier
Reminds me of the "Carcross Desert" near Whitehorse B.C. which is of course not actually a desert - just more sand dunes.
I skydrived there. Breath-taking scenery. Unbelievable thrill. I got closet to the maker. It was my first time skydiving. I miss The Yukon so much.
It's a desert, called "The Carcross Desert:
Please please please don’t stop covering Alaska. It’s a wonderful place and my new home. I love learning everything I can about this state
Great video. In the future could you possibly do a video about the Glasshouse Mountains on the sunshine coast?
Australia
I could eventually cover this. Am I compiling 6 video topics for a future Australia only week. One topic I will cover is the Tower Hill maar
Nice Explanation!
I believe that similar explanation might be applicable for Hunder in Ladakh, India.
I was quite surprised and fascinated seeing 25-30 ft high dunes at those altitudes and cold climates.
And, it does seem to align with locked between highlands on all sides
2:15 SAND "grain size generally accepted to be between 1/16 of a mm and 2 mm" ("1/16th was erroneously expressed on the screen as "1/256th" which later turns out the be the lower end of "silt" (1/256th - 1/16mm), while granule is 2mm-4mm. THANKS, was recently wondering about "sand size" as someone was talking about how many galaxies would be covered by "a grain of sand held at arms length" B-)
Could you do a video on Lençóis Maranhenses? The park in Brazil with sand dunes and lagoons.
That's a lot of sand and Caribou🤙🏼
Kinda reminds me of Great Sand Dunes in CO
I had no idea these even existed! That's pretty neat. (:
There’s another set of huge sand dunes on the shore of Lake Athabaska in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. They are so big that you can see them on Google Earth very easily.
I'd love to learn why and how there is a place in Arkansas, USA, of all places, with a state park called the Crater of Diamonds. Apparently people still find diamonds there fairly regularly. The fact that it's SO far away from ANY kind of volcano is what's so bizarre to me!
I have an older video which discusses this subject. Link: m.ua-cam.com/video/kM4LyDxk6G8/v-deo.html
There is a diamond pipe formation there which yields an occasional small, gem grade chocolate or dark yellow diamond
Some say that sand deposited somewhat inland around the Indin Ocean (including the PErth area) came from a comet (?) that hit the ocean 5000 years ago.
Are the great sand dunes in Colorado formed by glacially deposited material or is it just the wind blowing the sand in from the south west? Cool video!
From the US national park service -“The dunes were formed by the right combinations of wind, water, and sediment. Creeks and streams brought in large amounts of sediment and sand into the valley. Wind then blew the sand toward the bend in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, where opposing storm winds helped squeeze the sand into the tall dunes you see today.”
Could you do an update on Mt ST Helens?
There are also sand dunes along the shore of Lake Michigan in Indiana and SW Michigan.
in western mass there a lot of glacial sand deposits in the hill towns, nothing of this scale though.
Technically desert doesn't mean hot. It just means barren.
Speaking of unusual sand dunes, have you seen the Dune de Pilat in western France? It's rather neat
I would love to visit there someday. I can only imagine how beautiful the starry night sky must be there
Great sand dune national park in colorado??? The highest elevation sand dune in north america. Would love you to cover this.
Always pay more attention to the Alaska ones because I lived there for so long.
There's another orphan mini desert on the subtropical island of Santa Maria in the Azores, the only island in the archipelago that is not an active volcano.
Now that you covered Alaska and it's sand dunes could you show what kind of unusual things have been found in
Antarctic so far (not counting volcanoes covered on this channel in the past). What is buried under the ice for millions
of years and now discovered by geological expeditions ? Anything odd to what lies beneath?
Is this like the great sand dunes in Colorado and the Athabasca sand dunes in northern Alberta? I’ve been to the ones in Colorado and had the chance to drive the ice roads up to the athabasca but I ran out of time…
Thanks.
I was scrolling google Earth and yellow spot in the middle of Alaska caught my eye. Now I'm here.
I've been to the Carcross "desert" in Canada. I think it was formed in the same way. I don't know for sure though.
Sand dunes in the Arctic? I wouldn't have believed possible ... until now.
Similar to how the Palouse hills in Washington state were formed.
if i remember right cape cod was created by a glacial deposit.
How do you "protect" a sand dune?
🙏💗
I wonder about the gold content in the base layers of these dunes or a few feet under it since it's a huge catch basin .... I do know Alaska probably has more resources than nearly all other states combined. Too bad gov says hands off....for now.
Boooo
I wonder how different that looks under a microscope vs beach sand.
Could this be the same thing that caused The Sleeping Bear sand dunes that are up by Traverse City, Michigan?
Interesting
Is Sahara created in the same way as this?
No, very different. The Sahara desert used to be a more fertile region, but the process of plate tectonics gradually changed the climate of what would later become the Sahara. Part of the region was also under water as part of the Tethys Sea 7 million years ago. When the African continent began to collide with Asia the Tethys Sea shrank to become the Mediterranean Sea. This led the northern part of Africa to become more arid and like a desert. There is more to this story, but that is the general outline.
Always good, but, inside the Arctic Circle it is a desert, receiving no moisture for most of the year. And now I'll 'butt-out". Viva Azrizona!
How about a story on "the barking sand" dunes on Long Islands north shore ? or the red Garnet sand beaches adjacent to them ?
Interesting. You'd think after 10,000 years there would be more (bigger) trees...
I've caribou hunted from the Dallas creek airstrip just north of the dunes. I didnt know they were. I was hunting to the south and came across the almost white, dune. I got 2 caribou right next to the white sand edge, they would not cross it. Trapper Scotty, Alaskan
Save me some of that sand for later
This makes no sense… if its crushed rocks then how is it all uniform in size?
Ínteresting
interesting
What if the island's of Norway was flopped out of the black sea and Spain island lifted out from next to it and ended up where it is. Find out if similar topography in the sea as comparison to the land of Norway and the entire shape of the island. Same with Spain. Where was entry point and exit apparently two massive pieces of land flopped out and upsidedown, are you interested in knowing if that is possible? I am
I meant to say the Mediterranean sea, not the black sea. Google earth view seams to be similar shape for Mediterranean sea and the darker island that contains Norway and it's other countries on the island or peninsula? Has anyone else seen that resemblance? Could be the place where the moon popped out like a zit? 😆
Love your channel dude but you really need to get rid of the red banner in the thumbnail. It makes it look like I've already watched your video. I think you're probably hurting your views a bit as people skip over it quickly. Best of luck!
Sandworms and iceworms and bigfoot oh my.
Helpful travel tip. If you don't have the correct insect repellent or none. You will most likely go insane or worse.
gg very nice like to see that
When you put weird seed numbers in before generating a world.
There is another possible answer to the sand, but you will not like it. ;)
You do know that that,
ALASKA WAS A DESERT,
A LONG TIME AGO!
Okey I take down to listen to your videos youre wrong and you know it see Suspicious observers on their yt channel for truth
Bye
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Oh no global warming
Can you be a little more Robotic?
Can you be less judgmental?? New viewers occasionally make such knee jerk reactions to this channel until they give it time and find the narrator relaxing to listen to.