I love this guy. ❤️. Thank you so much for taking me here. You incredulated me! ❤️❤️❤️ I saw incredible after incredible. Those layers were mind blowing, all dried & separated, WOW! But that very last shot! We'd all love to have that pattern to decorate with! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Just stupendous!!! ❤️
It would be awesome to see an animated rendition of what this landscape looked like during the eruption phase. Keep up the great videos. I’m really enjoying your work!
I live in Idaho and have been in the area, but never at this location. Craters of the moon is a phenomenal site and kind of helps people understand what happens during these kind of eruptions. Great information and enjoyed the tour!
Camped at the camp ground at Craters of the Moon around 1990 with family. Stayed a couple of days and wandered just about every where they allowed you to go. Was back there in the summer of 2020. Still fascinating!
Every so often I stumble across something very worthwhile and fascinating on UA-cam! Thank you so much for this short yet highly informative video, I've been to Craters of the Moon but I think I'll visit that area again and spend a little more time!
Excellent video, lots to learn. Drove through C of the M many times in my youth; now the explanations are frosting on that cake. You have a teaching gift.
Love your videos! I found you because I watched Nick Z. Thank you for making the journey into geology so interesting. Funny rocks got exciting when I hit my 60’s, boosted by news being so intolerable. 😂 Thank you for all the hard work. It is appreciated!
Learning even more about basalt and lava flows, thank you Shawn! Interesting about pipe vesicles..plus seeing the patterns lava can make dripping back on the walls.
Was there the night before that fantastic solar eclipse back a few years back. OMG, I can't put into words the beauty of the night sky with no light pollution. Those black expanses reflected no light and the new moon made the stars so bright and it seemed like one could travel to the outer edge of the universe with your eyes. You have to experience it to know what I'm saying.
Just tumbled over your video. Thank you for sharing. I had no idea that Idaho has such fascinating volcanic history and such geological beautiful sites. Thanks again and wish you a happy new year :)
I have hiked around craters of the moon. Was fun checking out some of the old lava tubes. Was really suprised at how volcanically active Idaho was in history.
Thanks for this video. I didn't really that this flow was so recent. I visited Craters of the Moon in the late 70s. It is such a fascinating place. That trip was my first introduction to different lava types.
Another great video, out west geology is so amazing to me, all I see around me in KY and WV is sedimentary and all of that is covered in near jungle like vegetation or snow depending on the season lol
this is interesting to see how much has changed since I was there in the 80's all the rocks and boulders in the low areas were sitting on a layer of ice even in August the ice extended into the floor of small ponds where the snow is there and when you entered the fissure where the snow is you could see the thickness of the ice one layer above the other going down into a very deep pit not far back into the fissure which was closed above due to large boulders having fallen in and wedged above ...Spooky ..!
There is a seven year old video on YT that shows drone footage. It is a spectacular view from that vantage point . Nice going back to this rare place in North America Shawn.
Two and a half thousand years ago is very, very recent in a geological timescale. Amazing to think about the geolocal forces at work in what is almost the present landscape. Here in the UK we think of the last ice age which ended ten thousand years ago as "recent" geology. Impressive landscape. Thanks for your informative videos.
Wow, I actually learned a lot about lava, and volcanoes, that I did not no. The land looks so strange, well I live in Western North Carolina, so of course it looks strange to me. Thanks for teaching, and visiting that park
Oh man, great stuff. I like to multi task when watching informative vids - but again had to put my pencil down and just watch. It was also a walk down memory lane - I walked the area when the mammoths were still around. 😂😂 More craters of the moon - please maybe on the west side - didn’t make it there - THANK YOU
If its cold enough to support snow I doubt you have to worry about snakes down there they don't like the cold being ectotherms. Still dangerous though!
I have a question. If you go 17 miles south of Kings bowl on Google Earth you can see some striations running sort of east and west. They run from about Dietrich in the west to Terreton in the east and beyond. What caused these marks?
Nice observation and question. These are windblown deposits of loess (mainly silt sized). You can see them in a few places in the Snake River Plain. The whole plain was covered with them prior to agricultural development.
Thanks for posting Coach!! I missed the spelling for the word of the day: frigatomagmatic(?) My closed caption interpreted it as Freedom magmatic. I don’t think either is close🤣
@@shawnwillsey Oh awesome!!! Hope that works out. I messaged Myron mentioning you as well. Looking forward to seeing that one day and hearing the discussion.
@@shawnwillsey read other comment.. anyhoo. nanmadol..vesticles. cut from top of volcano, to build a city on marsh,coral. interesting story from the natives..allways amazes me, all the volcanic eruptions, over millions of yrs, spewing onto the surface, makes you think theres hell cavities in the earth. wheres the material come from, if the earth is getting bigger, the centre is getting hollow,er..or is it like mixing a clay ball, same material just different positions. like bread doe. other story of pompii,,it was purposly buried..both cities.. & fyi, dino, did not die out 65 m yrs ago, or we, wouldnt be here, iether. why do they hide the caves in the grand canyon, upsets the mainstream bs id say..allways been interested in vulcanology, space,ect.. but, i find a lot of bs going on..great vids, 👍🦘. ausie..
@@shawnwillsey You'll find this funny. I got the Geology Underfoot book at the Twin Falls Visitor's Center. I was so enthralled when I got to the COTM, I was at their book store and bought it again. My grandson (9) will get the second copy when he gets a little older. I want to bring him out to the PNW to see the volcanoes, ice floods, Sawtooths, etc., when he gets to be a teenager and can appreciate it more.
The fun part is that this area was/is supplied by the same massive magma chamber that feeds the Yellowstone caldera. And since there is evidence that Yellowstone can go active again, there is a chance that this area of Idaho can become active again as well.
@Kiwigeo not according to the scans they did a few years ago. That plume covers parts of 5 states. All those different magma chambers are interconnected to the same plume.
This is obviously a late response to this comment chain but from the papers I was introduced to via Nick Zentner's previous A to Z livestream series on the crazy Eocene and Baja BC and the rabbit hole chain of the literature that followed it appears that like Iceland the Yellowstone hotspot had been located along the East Pacific Rise prior to both of them becoming overridden by North America which can be seen in the chemical signature of the accreted oceanic plateau known as Siletzia and Yakutat which are now understood to be two pieces of the former ridge line plateau out in the Pacific ocean. From seismic tomography of the upper mantle the thermal upwelling signature of slow sheer velocity propagation can still be observed below the western US where it ultimately connects the Juan De Fuca Ridge to Yellowstone and the East Pacific Rise as it cuts through northern California, south eastern Oregon, Idaho Colorado, western Texas New Mexico and Arizona in the process with the junction around Yellowstone looking very similar to what is seen around Iceland and the Azores respectively. Notably this pretty much perfectly underlies the Basin and Range and the Colorado Plateau with all the fast sheer velocity anomalies being confined to the north and east of this boundary and the clockwise rotation of the crust being seen along this region and the Cascadia Subduction zone which are both more or less anchored to the East Pacific Rise frame of reference. The consequence of all this is that the Yellowstone plume is not simple the snake river plain remains the easiest outlet for the plume material though the heat flux of the plume appears to be melting through the subducted slabs on the underside of North America and melting/tearing off the section of the former North American craton known as the Colorado Plateau it will probably erupt more lava into Idaho again in the future. The East Pacific Rise is practically a hotspot on its own even discounting Yellowstone as the thermal discontinuity extends deep into the mantle and it is currently the fastest spreading ridge on Earth with a spreading rate depending on location of 6-16 cm (3-6 in) annually. In fact the overlay of recent Basin and Range volcanism is an extremely good fit for the underlying ridge continuous discontinuity with older volcanism matching up with this boundary in time as North America has moved over the ridge. In this newer emerging picture I can't help but suspect that the otherwise mysterious geologically recent reactivation of the New Madrid and adjacent reactivated old faults of the midwestern US might be connected to the strain of this deep mantle structure pushing up against the old North American Craton as it continues to get pulled southwest up and over the EPR/YSHS frame.
Thank you, Shawn! I visited the place years before, finally the explanation! One question: why is the vegetation so scarce? Too dry? Not enough erosion? In other parts of the world plants seem to like lava. During my visit, a guy played didgeridoo in a lava tube under my feet! That was a fantastic sound!
That's really cool (pardon the pun)! Is that what the fissures in OR and WA flood basalts would have looked like when they were erupting? I noted a lack of columns. Is that due to the way it cooled or different chemistry in the basalt? Or is it possible there's columns way down that just hasn't been exposed yet?
@Kiwigeo I'm not so sure about that. It sounds a lot like the flood basalts in eastern Washington. We wouldn't know about those columns if it wasn't for the great ice age floods.
Yes, the Snake River Plain is still considered active to geologists, meaning it is likely to produce future eruptions in the next few hundreds of years.
Shawn, cool area, wanted to get by there a few Year's ago but had to change my plans. Great explanation on the various flows. How come there are no Pillows, none of it former under the lake?
well done, very interesting. went thru there in the early 70s but wasn't too impressed. looks like i will have to pay another visit, with an older but more appreciative set of eyes
Regarding the soils that accumulated between separate lava flows. Did you observe the top part of the soil layer to show a burnt appearance from high heat of the upper lava layer flow??? I find this topic so fascinating. 128 like ................... Thanks again Shawn, for all the detailed information.
Hi Shawn, if you can smell sulfer coming out of a river bed with pumice stoner that exact location, is that an active vent? I remember finding this possible vent in a place called Borrodale in England which was an active region along time ago.
There's a hidden lava tube cave a few miles north of Kings Bowl I like to visit when I go out there. There's usually a rock rolled over the entrance. The entrance is a drop down a 2' vent (I use a rope ladder), then I think it's about 1/2 mile of lava tube. Anyway, I came across your video because I plan to go out there this summer and make a video and I was wondering if Kings Crater was still open. Lmk if you'd like to meet up and do a lava tube video.
the Malpais in New Mexico have several year round ice caves out of the sun deep enough to keep the water frozen it's weird walking around a day in July and finding the ice cave with it's cold and shade New Mexico is the Land of Enchantment
Thanks, good job. I have an interesting question for you to research. In the 1940's when the nucleal research, at Arco was started, they needed to know where the water from the big and little lost rivers was going. They dumped blue and red die into the rivers and were expecting the die to show up at 1000 springs near Twin falls, maybe it did, but 25 years later it came up in Yellowstone park ????? (blue & red = green if they mixed) I knew someone involved with this and I don't think it was ever made public.
I noticed that the ground was smooth on the other side of kings bowl from where you were standing with few boulders or rocks. The explanation for that if you have.
Good observation. So apparently the east side of the "bowl" is largely devoid of any large boulders blasted during eruption because locals pushed or moved them into the bowl. Note the east side has road access.
Ever watch Nick Zenther from Washington State? I follow him. Glad to see you are in the field. You got my attention too. Is this area still active??? Meaning...is there still magma down there someplace???
Yes, I know Nick. We were on a Hells Canyon trip together a few years ago. Snake River Plain is considered active but no evidence that magma lies in subsurface. Rather, magma may get generated and rise in future due to Basin and Range extension and prior passage of this region over Yellowstone hot spot.
Yes, indeed. Very similar features in San Francisco volcanic field. I went to NAU for grad school so I am familiar with it as well. I also did a video on SP crater that you might enjoy: ua-cam.com/video/s-z2-dBFoDI/v-deo.html
Is there a way that all of that would have been caused by a world wide glide flood? As it looks really similar to maybe of the canyons that still have water running through….. maybe the Teton dam break will give you some idea of how fast the land can change…. And how quickly….. so back to your statement about lava and what not…… wouldn’t a global flood say the same thing…. Based on the density of rock and sediment in the area? Nice shirt by the way/
These are volcanic rocks formed by lava cooling and crystallizing. There is no erosional evidence to suggest moving water of any volume at this location.
The craters of the Moon in Arizona outside of Flagstaff is one of the places where NASA trained for the Apollo missions.... Nice place to visit so you can understand the ancient ruins around San Francisco peak I've already studied where you're at through Idaho you might be surprised old ancient ruins you'll never even notice really because they're so atomically blown up very few get to see that aftermath of atomic wars......... Past nuclear wars...... Bullhead City Arizona and up out of Flagstaff is where NASA trained for the polo missions to the Moon.......
I wonder if heat from an eruption generates thunderstorms & rainshowers... I don't hear of many eruptions in winter; could have been lots of snow on the ground.
Thumbs up Shawn! It’s interesting how a location in the NA Craton (my auto-correct wants to change it to “carton, cartoon or crayon”😄) East of the .706 Line can produce mafic magma despite the felsic nature of the crust i.e., Craters of the Moon and New Mexico Rift basalts, while areas in mafic cordilleran crust West of the .706 Line can produce felsic magma, i.e., Crooked River Caldera, OR. rhyolite.
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Thank you! Fascinating!💖
I'm curious about your thoughts about the theory that the Earth is Expanding.
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Loved having him as a professor. And why I still watch to this day.
I love this guy. ❤️. Thank you so much for taking me here. You incredulated me! ❤️❤️❤️ I saw incredible after incredible. Those layers were mind blowing, all dried & separated, WOW! But that very last shot! We'd all love to have that pattern to decorate with! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Just stupendous!!! ❤️
It would be awesome to see an animated rendition of what this landscape looked like during the eruption phase. Keep up the great videos. I’m really enjoying your work!
I live in Idaho and have been in the area, but never at this location. Craters of the moon is a phenomenal site and kind of helps people understand what happens during these kind of eruptions. Great information and enjoyed the tour!
The landscape really comes alive with your details, thanks!
Thanks for the look at this. Merry Christmas from Homedale, ID. TAKE CARE..
That is the most comprehensive video I have seen of Kings Bowl. Definitely on my must visit list. Thanks Shawn.
Camped at the camp ground at Craters of the Moon around 1990 with family. Stayed a couple of days and wandered just about every where they allowed you to go. Was back there in the summer of 2020. Still fascinating!
At the lake there are large mouth bass and yellow perch. We would from a canoe. Also fishing through ice.
allowed u to go ?
I'm so grateful for your videos.. you have made me an absolute geography nerd! I just am so captivated by your teaching!! ❤thank you
Much appreciated. Glad my style suits you.
I've been dying to go to King's Bowl! Such a geologic wonder!!!
This was just like being back in college for my geology field trips! Loved it! Thank you.
Every so often I stumble across something very worthwhile and fascinating on UA-cam! Thank you so much for this short yet highly informative video, I've been to Craters of the Moon but I think I'll visit that area again and spend a little more time!
Excellent video, lots to learn. Drove through C of the M many times in my youth; now the explanations are frosting on that cake. You have a teaching gift.
Glad you enjoyed it
I haven’t seen these! Wuhu! Liked and saved for later. Thanks for the rework and vid drop! Happy Holidays.
Love your videos! I found you because I watched Nick Z. Thank you for making the journey into geology so interesting. Funny rocks got exciting when I hit my 60’s, boosted by news being so intolerable. 😂 Thank you for all the hard work. It is appreciated!
Welcome aboard!
I love u!
Learning even more about basalt and lava flows, thank you Shawn! Interesting about pipe vesicles..plus seeing the patterns lava can make dripping back on the walls.
Fantastic information and very informative. Thanks. 👍🌄
Watching lots of these lately =) I’ve always loved geology but he makes me love it even more
Glad you like them!
Was there the night before that fantastic solar eclipse back a few years back. OMG, I can't put into words the beauty of the night sky with no light pollution. Those black expanses reflected no light and the new moon made the stars so bright and it seemed like one could travel to the outer edge of the universe with your eyes. You have to experience it to know what I'm saying.
Just tumbled over your video. Thank you for sharing. I had no idea that Idaho has such fascinating volcanic history and such geological beautiful sites. Thanks again and wish you a happy new year :)
I have hiked around craters of the moon. Was fun checking out some of the old lava tubes. Was really suprised at how volcanically active Idaho was in history.
Craters of the moon is in one of the old collapsed calderas from the Yellowstone supervolcano hot spot.
What an amazing piece of geology. ty for this.
Thanks for this video. I didn't really that this flow was so recent. I visited Craters of the Moon in the late 70s. It is such a fascinating place. That trip was my first introduction to different lava types.
This is amazing!!!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🙏
Thanks!
Another great video, out west geology is so amazing to me, all I see around me in KY and WV is sedimentary and all of that is covered in near jungle like vegetation or snow depending on the season lol
Love it, "jungle like vegetation"! Can relate. Here in rural se MI too!
This whole area is one of those places on Earth that just looks like a whole other planet, love it.
Geology 101!! Thank you. It was informative.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for this excellent teaching and scenic hike.
You bet. Thanks for watching and learning with me.
Fantastic, Shawn, I love the fissure!
Thanks Shawn, very informative. I really enjoyed it
I love this video very good information, I worked at the Craters of The Moon for 28: years been to Kings Bowl several time hike down I the bowl once.
this is interesting to see how much has changed since I was there in the 80's all the rocks and boulders in the low areas were sitting on a layer of ice even in August the ice extended into the floor of small ponds where the snow is there and when you entered the fissure where the snow is you could see the thickness of the ice one layer above the other going down into a very deep pit not far back into the fissure which was closed above due to large boulders having fallen in and wedged above ...Spooky ..!
Thank you for the tour. I would never make it out of there on my own.
Thank you
Your the best! Keep up the great work 👍
Thanks! Will do!
I love your explanations, you are a wonderful teacher!
Thank you! 😃
7:53 Interesting shoe choice for ambling around on an old lava flow
Incredibly knowledgeable. Thank you. Very interesting.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank YOU GREAT JOB!
Wow, I've never even heard of this place before.
There is a seven year old video on YT that shows drone footage. It is a spectacular view from that vantage point .
Nice going back to this rare place in North America Shawn.
Great video! Looking forward to exploring and identifying these features. Thanks!
Two and a half thousand years ago is very, very recent in a geological timescale. Amazing to think about the geolocal forces at work in what is almost the present landscape. Here in the UK we think of the last ice age which ended ten thousand years ago as "recent" geology. Impressive landscape. Thanks for your informative videos.
Wow, I actually learned a lot about lava, and volcanoes, that I did not no. The land looks so strange, well I live in Western North Carolina, so of course it looks strange to me. Thanks for teaching, and visiting that park
Cool stuff!
Oh man, great stuff. I like to multi task when watching informative vids - but again had to put my pencil down and just watch. It was also a walk down memory lane - I walked the area when the mammoths were still around. 😂😂 More craters of the moon - please maybe on the west side - didn’t make it there - THANK YOU
wow, that is really cool about the raining boulders. ima have to check that out
I've seen the video of King's Hole. Very interesting, few geology videos go down into fissures. Top looked like an area to beware of rattlesnakes in.
If its cold enough to support snow I doubt you have to worry about snakes down there they don't like the cold being ectotherms. Still dangerous though!
Do you know how deep the lava lake was?
Good question. I would estimate it as just a few feet. Maybe 6 ft max based on comparison with surrounding topography.
Excellent as usual! Suggestion: move the camera a little more slowly so we can focus on what you point out. Thanks as always!
Thanks for the tip! This was shot in spring of 2021 and I think I've improved a bit from these early days.
I have a question. If you go 17 miles south of Kings bowl on Google Earth you can see some striations running sort of east and west. They run from about Dietrich in the west to Terreton in the east and beyond. What caused these marks?
Nice observation and question. These are windblown deposits of loess (mainly silt sized). You can see them in a few places in the Snake River Plain. The whole plain was covered with them prior to agricultural development.
@@shawnwillsey Thanks
Thanks for posting Coach!! I missed the spelling for the word of the day: frigatomagmatic(?) My closed caption interpreted it as Freedom magmatic. I don’t think either is close🤣
Phreatomagmatic. Sure to impress folks.
Been watching a lot of your vids and also Myron Cook's vids and I tell you what...Absolutely love both channels!!! A collaboration would be SWWEEET!!!
Another excellent geology channel is Nick on the Rocks ua-cam.com/video/PMeFXD3rJKY/v-deo.html
We did email each other. We also went to same grad school: Northern Arizona University.
@@shawnwillsey Oh awesome!!! Hope that works out. I messaged Myron mentioning you as well. Looking forward to seeing that one day and hearing the discussion.
@@shawnwillsey read other comment.. anyhoo. nanmadol..vesticles. cut from top of volcano, to build a city on marsh,coral. interesting story from the natives..allways amazes me, all the volcanic eruptions, over millions of yrs, spewing onto the surface, makes you think theres hell cavities in the earth. wheres the material come from, if the earth is getting bigger, the centre is getting hollow,er..or is it like mixing a clay ball, same material just different positions. like bread doe. other story of pompii,,it was purposly buried..both cities.. & fyi, dino, did not die out 65 m yrs ago, or we, wouldnt be here, iether. why do they hide the caves in the grand canyon, upsets the mainstream bs id say..allways been interested in vulcanology, space,ect.. but, i find a lot of bs going on..great vids, 👍🦘. ausie..
Well you taught me some more stuff today I love your videos their places I know about but didn't know nothing about you up to you I appreciate you
Great video. Why so little weathering/vegetation after 2200 years?
The arid climate slows soil development and vegetation growth.
I got my Roadside Geology of ID yesterday. I'm anxious to get back out there next fall and look around some more. Happy new year!😀
Awesome, Greg. Enjoy the book, the learning, and the adventure of discovery.
@@shawnwillsey You'll find this funny. I got the Geology Underfoot book at the Twin Falls Visitor's Center. I was so enthralled when I got to the COTM, I was at their book store and bought it again. My grandson (9) will get the second copy when he gets a little older. I want to bring him out to the PNW to see the volcanoes, ice floods, Sawtooths, etc., when he gets to be a teenager and can appreciate it more.
It really is! I'd like to visit this place! ❤️
The fun part is that this area was/is supplied by the same massive magma chamber that feeds the Yellowstone caldera. And since there is evidence that Yellowstone can go active again, there is a chance that this area of Idaho can become active again as well.
@Kiwigeo not according to the scans they did a few years ago. That plume covers parts of 5 states. All those different magma chambers are interconnected to the same plume.
This is obviously a late response to this comment chain but from the papers I was introduced to via Nick Zentner's previous A to Z livestream series on the crazy Eocene and Baja BC and the rabbit hole chain of the literature that followed it appears that like Iceland the Yellowstone hotspot had been located along the East Pacific Rise prior to both of them becoming overridden by North America which can be seen in the chemical signature of the accreted oceanic plateau known as Siletzia and Yakutat which are now understood to be two pieces of the former ridge line plateau out in the Pacific ocean.
From seismic tomography of the upper mantle the thermal upwelling signature of slow sheer velocity propagation can still be observed below the western US where it ultimately connects the Juan De Fuca Ridge to Yellowstone and the East Pacific Rise as it cuts through northern California, south eastern Oregon, Idaho Colorado, western Texas New Mexico and Arizona in the process with the junction around Yellowstone looking very similar to what is seen around Iceland and the Azores respectively. Notably this pretty much perfectly underlies the Basin and Range and the Colorado Plateau with all the fast sheer velocity anomalies being confined to the north and east of this boundary and the clockwise rotation of the crust being seen along this region and the Cascadia Subduction zone which are both more or less anchored to the East Pacific Rise frame of reference.
The consequence of all this is that the Yellowstone plume is not simple the snake river plain remains the easiest outlet for the plume material though the heat flux of the plume appears to be melting through the subducted slabs on the underside of North America and melting/tearing off the section of the former North American craton known as the Colorado Plateau it will probably erupt more lava into Idaho again in the future.
The East Pacific Rise is practically a hotspot on its own even discounting Yellowstone as the thermal discontinuity extends deep into the mantle and it is currently the fastest spreading ridge on Earth with a spreading rate depending on location of 6-16 cm (3-6 in) annually. In fact the overlay of recent Basin and Range volcanism is an extremely good fit for the underlying ridge continuous discontinuity with older volcanism matching up with this boundary in time as North America has moved over the ridge.
In this newer emerging picture I can't help but suspect that the otherwise mysterious geologically recent reactivation of the New Madrid and adjacent reactivated old faults of the midwestern US might be connected to the strain of this deep mantle structure pushing up against the old North American Craton as it continues to get pulled southwest up and over the EPR/YSHS frame.
Never been inside a volcanic vent. Ammmmazing!
Thank you, Shawn! I visited the place years before, finally the explanation! One question: why is the vegetation so scarce? Too dry? Not enough erosion? In other parts of the world plants seem to like lava. During my visit, a guy played didgeridoo in a lava tube under my feet! That was a fantastic sound!
Yes, very dry climate = little soil development = little vegetation = landscape looks similar to when eruption occurred.
That's really cool (pardon the pun)! Is that what the fissures in OR and WA flood basalts would have looked like when they were erupting? I noted a lack of columns. Is that due to the way it cooled or different chemistry in the basalt? Or is it possible there's columns way down that just hasn't been exposed yet?
@Kiwigeo I'm not so sure about that. It sounds a lot like the flood basalts in eastern Washington. We wouldn't know about those columns if it wasn't for the great ice age floods.
So,is this area still classified as being volcanically active?
Yes, the Snake River Plain is still considered active to geologists, meaning it is likely to produce future eruptions in the next few hundreds of years.
Shawn, cool area, wanted to get by there a few Year's ago but had to change my plans. Great explanation on the various flows. How come there are no Pillows, none of it former under the lake?
Why is the fissure not filled with cooled lava itself? I an not clear on that.
I wish it was running lava and give Idaho more character looks pretty solid and firm nowadays
well done, very interesting. went thru there in the early 70s but wasn't too impressed. looks like i will have to pay another visit, with an older but more appreciative set of eyes
Regarding the soils that accumulated between separate lava flows. Did you observe the top part of the soil layer to show a burnt appearance from high heat of the upper lava layer flow??? I find this topic so fascinating. 128 like ................... Thanks again Shawn, for all the detailed information.
Love your shirt . The best
Hi Shawn, if you can smell sulfer coming out of a river bed with pumice stoner that exact location, is that an active vent? I remember finding this possible vent in a place called Borrodale in England which was an active region along time ago.
No because sulfur is present in many other rock types.
Seen this L. flow near Shoshoe area.
There's a hidden lava tube cave a few miles north of Kings Bowl I like to visit when I go out there. There's usually a rock rolled over the entrance. The entrance is a drop down a 2' vent (I use a rope ladder), then I think it's about 1/2 mile of lava tube. Anyway, I came across your video because I plan to go out there this summer and make a video and I was wondering if Kings Crater was still open. Lmk if you'd like to meet up and do a lava tube video.
Great video thank you Shawn
the Malpais in New Mexico have several year round ice caves out of the sun deep enough to keep the water frozen it's weird walking around a day in July and finding the ice cave with it's cold and shade New Mexico is the Land of Enchantment
Professor… which volcano should we worry that might change our atmosphere temperature?
Thanks, good job. I have an interesting question for you to research. In the 1940's when the nucleal research, at Arco was started, they needed to know where the water from the big and little lost rivers was going. They dumped blue and red die into the rivers and were expecting the die to show up at 1000 springs near Twin falls, maybe it did, but 25 years later it came up in Yellowstone park ????? (blue & red = green if they mixed) I knew someone involved with this and I don't think it was ever made public.
I noticed that the ground was smooth on the other side of kings bowl from where you were standing with few boulders or rocks. The explanation for that if you have.
Good observation. So apparently the east side of the "bowl" is largely devoid of any large boulders blasted during eruption because locals pushed or moved them into the bowl. Note the east side has road access.
Ever watch Nick Zenther from Washington State? I follow him. Glad to see you are in the field. You got my attention too. Is this area still active??? Meaning...is there still magma down there someplace???
Yes, I know Nick. We were on a Hells Canyon trip together a few years ago. Snake River Plain is considered active but no evidence that magma lies in subsurface. Rather, magma may get generated and rise in future due to Basin and Range extension and prior passage of this region over Yellowstone hot spot.
We have the same in Northwest Arizona!
Yes, indeed. Very similar features in San Francisco volcanic field. I went to NAU for grad school so I am familiar with it as well. I also did a video on SP crater that you might enjoy: ua-cam.com/video/s-z2-dBFoDI/v-deo.html
I knew it! I graduated from NAU in 1999! I recognized you name! Dr. Nations was my Professor!
@@tomolson1320 Very cool! I graduated in 2000. Grad research in Baja and Paul Umhoefer was my grad advisor.
Is there a way that all of that would have been caused by a world wide glide flood? As it looks really similar to maybe of the canyons that still have water running through….. maybe the Teton dam break will give you some idea of how fast the land can change…. And how quickly….. so back to your statement about lava and what not…… wouldn’t a global flood say the same thing…. Based on the density of rock and sediment in the area? Nice shirt by the way/
These are volcanic rocks formed by lava cooling and crystallizing. There is no erosional evidence to suggest moving water of any volume at this location.
In Iceland the fissure has filled with glacial water and you can snorkel in it. One side is North American plate and the other is European plate.
Interesting video!!! Has anyone interviewed native Americans, on what has been included in their history???
Makes me wonder if the pressure forcing the last eruption was dissipated toward another crust fracture.
Is gold in this lava or where are at now?
Is there a timeline for the layers of eruptions going down through the Kings Bowl?
I don't think each flow has been dated.
The craters of the Moon in Arizona outside of Flagstaff is one of the places where NASA trained for the Apollo missions....
Nice place to visit so you can understand the ancient ruins around San Francisco peak I've already studied where you're at through Idaho you might be surprised old ancient ruins you'll never even notice really because they're so atomically blown up very few get to see that aftermath of atomic wars......... Past nuclear wars...... Bullhead City Arizona and up out of Flagstaff is where NASA trained for the polo missions to the Moon.......
Would these fissures be unlikely to erupt again in the same spot?
I wonder if heat from an eruption generates thunderstorms & rainshowers... I don't hear of many eruptions in winter; could have been lots of snow on the ground.
Interesting, good visual….
So cool. I need to check out places in Texas.
Did you just uncover the early development of a newly formed volcano? Is it possible that this is how volcanoes form?
I would love to see those blue boulders not sure which park
This is at southern end of Craters of the Moon National Monument.
Excellent
We found a large pumice area close to Idaho falls
great presentation but at first i thought you wore your nasa pj's to the craters of the moon. 👍
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Thumbs up Shawn!
It’s interesting how a location in the NA Craton (my auto-correct wants to change it to “carton, cartoon or crayon”😄) East of the .706 Line can produce mafic magma despite the felsic nature of the crust i.e., Craters of the Moon and New Mexico Rift basalts, while areas in mafic cordilleran crust West of the .706 Line can produce felsic magma, i.e., Crooked River Caldera, OR. rhyolite.
Extremely interesting
Craters of the moon also happens to be one of the old calderas from the Yellowstone hot spot.
Happy New Year to you as well and glad you found my channel. Enjoy perusing the existing collection of videos I have.
@@shawnwillsey Thanks for making them.