The line between hydrothermal explosions and phreatic eruptions can be pretty fuzzy. Both are caused by volcanic activity, throw large boulders of rock several kilometers, and leave behind explosion craters. Yet, the hydrothermal explosions described in this video are not volcanic eruptions.
The 90°C figure at 2:34 along with the voice-over is quite inaccurate. The groundwater is actually heated to way higher temperatures and gradually cools down as it makes its way up. To take an extreme example, a part of Norris Geyser Basin in Yellowstone was recorded at a temperature of 237°C at 330 meters during research hole drilling. Another research drill hole had temperatures of 205°C at just 80-odd meters before it was abandoned as it threatened to explode the drill rig itself. The latter had its side effects, too, as it disturbed the area enough to the point new springs showed up surrounding the rig. If I recall correctly, comparable temperatures but at a greater depth occur in other major basins (thus rendering the area a tad more peaceful), that being the Upper, Midway and Lower Geyser Basins. The 90°C figure is generally only recorded near or at the mouth of a spring or geyser. Going deeper the temperature increases.
I've seen man-made steam explosions in NYC when old steam pipes fail under a road. One of the largest I saw was the size of a city bus, roughly 40 ft. across.
MARK I LIVED ON 57th Street AND LEXINGTON AVENUE AND THERE WAS THIS MASSIVE CON EDISON STEAM PIPE EXPLOSION THAT HAPPENED BY GRAND CENTRAL STATION ON LEXINGTON AND INJURED TWO PEOPLE BADLY - AND WE THOUGHT IT WAS ANOTHER TERRORIST ATTACK AFTER WITNESSING SEPTEMBER 11th, 2001 - DO YOU REMEMBER THIS ONE I AM TALKING ABOUT?
I witnessed a small, but deadly, man-made steam explosion in NYC's Grammercy Park neighborhood back in the late 80's. NYC has steam pipes. One was ruptured by a construction backhoe. It threw the backhoe into the air and ejected mud and pavement about 600 feet. One woman was steamed to death while taking a nap on the sixth floor of her building. The debris rained down on the cars parked for about a block and smashed them totally flat. Fortunately I was a few blocks away. The entire area was coated in asbestos particles from the steam pipe insulation. Gives me a good idea about how powerful the volcanic phreatic and hydrothermal explosions you talk about in your videos must be!
@@riverAmazonNZ yeah, I was taking a welding course a few years back, and some guys from the pipefitter's union came by "recruiting". I honestly think they were trying to scare us off though, 'cause they spent almost the entire time talking about how dangerous steam leaks/explosions were. They had some pretty nasty horror stories too.
I recognize Mary bay from driving out of the park last summer. The highway is beside Yellowstone Lake there and people were walking into the Lake and I kept thinking, oh hell no. There was a significant hydrothermal vent just up the curve from there too. There are other lakes and streams in the park that are much safer for aquatic activities than the caldera lake IMO. :)
Southern California has a few fun young volcanoes. Just take a trip to the southern Salton sea and you can see fumaroles and active mud pots! (Salton Buttes volcano)
I know they are out there and I have driven past the area before but never stopped. I know the San Andreas starts out that way so if that area has a big earthquake, then I’ll worry, lol.
Excllent, useful information as usual, and unironic kudos for careful and audible vocalization of the initial 's' in 'specific'. I can use the clip of that from this video to convince a friend that the voice-over is provided by a carbon, rather than silicon based entity, something I have been unable to do so far. Doing all the work that gets this or any other author to the final production stage where initial s's matter, is a challenge that many who haven't tried it would find too daunting. So instead they pick apart the product from a recumbent position (as I am doing right now), just for kicks (which I hope I am not doing right now), or on rare occaisons they observe and applaud the creator along with a friendly poke in the rhetorical ribs (as I am attempring to do here).* *Provided here becaus irony is dead and 'facetiousness' is now illegal in Florida.
If anyone should be worried about a super volcano going up, it is the one that Naples, Italy sits on. Thing has been swelling forever. To be fair though they did decide to build the city ontop of the ashes that buried Pompii and knew full well the area was geologically active, hence Mt Vesuvius.
@@samiam619 Igloolik, Nunavut. From what I've seen about 1,000 years ago this island was still below sea level. It's a limestone island and the amount of fossils we find is UNBELIEVEABLE. It's gotten boring! Finding fossils shouldn't be boring!
Thank you for addressing the “overdue” destruction of N America from Yellowstone. No one covers geology and volcanic activity better than you do. As always, thank you for this and all your videos.
Thank you for clarifying this. A lot of people, unaware of the minor Pleistocene/Holocene activity in the area, seem to be deeply afraid that any explosion/eruption in Yellowstone is the start of "the Biggie".
@@lilredwagon5311 This already happened -- in 1959, there was an M7.3 on a fault just west of the National Park (that was the largest earthquake every recorded in the Intermountain West). It shook up the geysers (those have pretty fragile plumbing systems), but that's all. The article at www.usgs.gov/news/60-years-1959-m73-hebgen-lake-earthquake-its-history-and-effects-yellowstone-region has more information.
I don't think you have to worry about the Yellowstone National Park running out of steam anytime soon. The North American plate is so slowly moving over the hotspot that has caused all this volcanic geothermal activity in the first place it will be enjoyed for another couple of thousand years to come.
Thanks for the level headed reporting of the unlikeliness of a super volcano eruption in the “near to moderate term.” Too many try to stir up fear in order to bolster their views.
Thanks for the geology lesson. I was very surprised to find so many people living in and on the Taal Volcano in the Philippines, south of Manila, when it erupted.
Of course many people lived there because that lake used to be connected to the sea around 250+ years ago (before the 1700s eruption) so cities there flourished as it became a hub for trading with the Arabic, Chinese, Japanese merchants, etc. So over time, the population grew as well. You'll be surprised that the cities of Lipa and Tanauan, which are now currently located on top of a plateau far away from the lake, used to be located at the shores of Taal lake. Talisay used to be Tanauan's main town and the Mataasnakahoy area used to be Lipa. Nearby town of Sala was abandoned and merged with Tanauan.
Thanks for the informative videos. Geology is fascinating. I do have a suggestion for a topic. Im curious about the formation of dendritic gold, and would love to see a video explaining it.
Great video as always. I recently read a few stories about a volcano near the Orca seamount off of Antarctica undergoing a massive earthquake swarm but little other info. Any news about it, they said things that normally take place over geological time frames are happening in months, unfortunately that's about all they said in the articles I read. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.
My brain is having issues with the volcanic eruption with the island in the 90's it's on the on my mind but I can't spell it out here it starts with a M. It's was big news and the island is still thriving but it has a off limits area and the half the island is buried in molten lava in the middle of it.
I'm curious if you would cover the Volcano explosion that changed the Eurphrates river in Turkey nearly 7000 years ago around 4500 BC and may be the inspiration for the biblical flood story as well as several apocalyptic predictions if it explodes again..
Great video. Can you please do the Chachani volcano in the Andes mountain range next? I saw it in the news section on Facebook and I would like to know more about it. Thank you and have a great week!
So it was ….3 Kablamos for the price of one …. Lake Yellowstone also has some very beautiful black sand beaches and pumice formations ..thanks for mentioning Duck Lake as we had a wonderful hike there and were the only people …Rare for Yellowstone …
We missed all the cool steam explosions at Yellowstone. How about we pour thousands of cubic meters of concrete down opening of Old Faithful? That might be a great, once in a lifetime steam explosion witnessed by People, Elk, and Bears. .. (kidding).
What are the warnings for phreatic or hydrothermal explosions? I have seen a number of phreatic craters around the world, some in random spots that may not seem volcanic or erupting at the time. So what kind of warning might we have if something like this were imminent?
Very difficult to say. Some of these hydrothermal explosions seem to happen after being triggered by an external event. For example, new research (about to be published in GSA Bulletin) suggests that the Mary Bay explosion was triggered by a rapid change in lake level (due to a faulting event on the lake floor), which changed the confining pressure on the hydrothermal system and allowed subsurface water to flash to steam. After the 1959 Hebgen Lake M7.3 earthquake, there were a huge number of thermal features that erupted as geysers fir the first time in recorded history, perhaps for similar reasons -- the shaking changed pressure conditions or broke thermal plumbing systems, allowing for sudden steam generation. There would be very little warning in such situations (although the triggering event -- like an earthquake -- would indicate heightened possibility of such activity). But in other cases, there have been years of changes that indicate a system might be moving towards an explosive finale. The classic example is the 1989 explosion of Porkchop Geyser, which was preceded by several years of evolving activity (details on that at www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/day-porkchop-geyser-exploded).
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It's a challenge with respect to Yellowstone's hydrothermal explosions, since there is very little material that can be dated in the explosion deposits -- hydrothermal sinter doesn't contain the right sorts of materials for dating. But there are a few techniques that do work. Some deposits have associated charcoal or organic material, which can be dated. There are also cosmogenic dating methods that can determine how long a deposit or rock has been exposed to cosmic rays (in other words, sitting at the surface). And there are "marker beds" throughout Yellowstone -- for example, an eruption of Glacier Peak, in WA, left a distinct ash layer that we know to be 13,600 years old, and the eruption of Mount Mazama that led to the formation of Crater Lake left an ash layer that is 7,700 years old. These marker beds can help to establish the relative ages of deposits. And finally, if we know something about the rate of sediment accumulation in Yellowstone Lake (which we do, thanks to some of the aforementioned marker beds), we can use that to identify explosion deposits as layers in the sedimentary deposits on the bottom of the lake and determine roughly when these deposits formed. It's an ongoing subject of research, given that it is not straightforward.
Any day pass... is a gift, the nature not view all our techlogogy like a "OMG"... NO... we are insignificant things and sooner or later, like many times before, nature wake up and remind all this.
GH is this why the GVP dropped the four phreatic explosions from Yellowstone's Holocene Era activity? Or because the USGS doesn't consider phreatic eruptions as Volcanic? Yet the GVP considers Whakaari/White Island's 2019 phreatic eruption in its assessment as an eruption.
The Holocene hydrothermal explosions at Yellowstone, like those that created Mary Bay, Turbid Lake, Elliott's Crater, Pocket Basin, etc., did not involve magma. They were solely a result of water flashing to steam. Still hazardous, but not caused by magmatic activity.
@@michaelpoland529 I know that, but they are still caused by magma heating the ground water and used to be listed in the GVP's eruption list like White Island still is. I'd like to know why one, but not the other?
@@MountainFisher The groundwater at Yellowstone is heated by magma (mostly solid at this point), but the initiation of explosions at Yellowstone doesn't have anything to do with magma -- instead, things like Mary Bay were triggered by sudden pressure changes in the hydrothermal system. There's a paper that is about to come out in GSA Bulletin that describes this process (the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory will do a "Caldera Chronicles" article describing the research as soon as it is published -- hopefully within a few weeks). The hypothesis for Mary Bay was that there was a seismic event that triggered a local tsunami on Yellowstone Lake (there are a bunch of large faults on the lake bottom), and which eroded the lake's outlet channel, causing the lake level to decrease suddenly. The sudden drop in lake level reduced the pressure on the hydrothermal area that was located in the vicinity of what was to become Mary Bay. This depressurization caused hot water in the system to flash into steam , which resulted in a 100x increase in volume and the ensuing explosion. Mary Bay is on the extreme (large) end of such explosions, but smaller ones happen all the time. For example, the 1989 explosion of Porkchop Geyser (www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/day-porkchop-geyser-exploded). Also Excelsior Geyser in the late 1800s, and Ear Spring, near Old Faithful, in 2018 (www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/changes-are-afoot-yellowstones-upper-geyser-basin). White Island, in contrast, was related to magma coming into direct contact with groundwater (or water suddenly coming into contact with hot rock that was heated by magma) and flashing to steam. So a fundamentally different mechanism than the process by which hydrothermal explosions occur at Yellowstone.
@@michaelpoland529 Like GH says in his comment, "it's a fuzzy line". I'll read that report when it comes out. BTW have you seen any Hot Creek geysers in California?
@@MountainFisher Are you referring to Hot Creek in Long Valley? It's been a long time since I've been there. But of course I have colleagues with the California Volcano Observatory who visit the area regularly!
If the heat from the Yellowstone valcano were used to make electric energy, I would think it could take care of a huge amount of the US needs. Would that be like 10% or 110%?
If Yellowstone exploded like Toba, the USA would become an archipelago like Indonesia but in reality it is not. The volcano that literally splits the mainland into an archipelago is a volcano from Indonesia. Because 60% of Indonesia was originally a land not an archipelago called SUNDALAND, but due to a very large volcanic explosion, 60% of Indonesia's land collapsed into an archipelago. Remaining 500 volcanoes (including active, inactive and under the sea), initially in Indonesia had more than 1000 volcanoes but some of them all collapsed into the ocean.
The doomsayers here in UA-cam try and lead their viewers into believing it’s “all or nothing.” A big hydrothermal explosion could wreck havoc locally, but it’s not the apocalypse the doomsayers think will happen…..or want to happen!
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Put an anode and a cathode in PVC pipes taped together + - attached to a six volt dry cell battery over six volts will turn electrons into protons so six iis perfect it will evaporate the water out of the magma and add energized electrons to our magnetic field and strengthen the shield from the universe
The ground has actually been going up and down at Yellowstone. It doesn't only go up (even though tabloids and misinformation sources like to claim otherwise -- it helps drive their dishonest narrative that something is amiss at Yellowstone). For example, the caldera was rising during 2004-2010, then it subsided during 2010-2014. It rose again during 2014-2015, and since 2015 the ground has been subsiding (the rates of uplift and subsidence are in the rage of 1-2 inches per year). Some geologists have described this as Yellowstone "breathing". Examination of terraces on the shores of Yellowstone Lake allows geologists to look back in time for thousands of years at what the caldera has been doing, and it's apparent that over the last 10,000 years or so, Yellowstone caldera has actually experienced a net subsidence -- by about 100 feet all told! The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory did a short video on exactly this topic if you'd like t know more. There's even information on where you can go to look at the data. That video is at ua-cam.com/video/y0yq3DtR5Y4/v-deo.html.
Look up the horrible stories of people falling into the boiling sulphur pools,, trying to rescue a dog etc,, they dissolve into nothing before they are found,,crazy
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The line between hydrothermal explosions and phreatic eruptions can be pretty fuzzy. Both are caused by volcanic activity, throw large boulders of rock several kilometers, and leave behind explosion craters. Yet, the hydrothermal explosions described in this video are not volcanic eruptions.
Have any hydrothermal explosions happened in Greece since 1850 ?
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The 90°C figure at 2:34 along with the voice-over is quite inaccurate. The groundwater is actually heated to way higher temperatures and gradually cools down as it makes its way up. To take an extreme example, a part of Norris Geyser Basin in Yellowstone was recorded at a temperature of 237°C at 330 meters during research hole drilling. Another research drill hole had temperatures of 205°C at just 80-odd meters before it was abandoned as it threatened to explode the drill rig itself. The latter had its side effects, too, as it disturbed the area enough to the point new springs showed up surrounding the rig. If I recall correctly, comparable temperatures but at a greater depth occur in other major basins (thus rendering the area a tad more peaceful), that being the Upper, Midway and Lower Geyser Basins. The 90°C figure is generally only recorded near or at the mouth of a spring or geyser. Going deeper the temperature increases.
Mammoth Hot springs and it’s formations are quite fascinating I’m not exactly sure quite why ….even the Elk like to hang out there …
I've seen man-made steam explosions in NYC when old steam pipes fail under a road. One of the largest I saw was the size of a city bus, roughly 40 ft. across.
lol. I told him about the one in Grammercy Park back in the 80s.
MARK I LIVED ON 57th Street AND LEXINGTON AVENUE AND THERE WAS THIS MASSIVE CON EDISON STEAM PIPE EXPLOSION THAT HAPPENED BY GRAND CENTRAL STATION ON LEXINGTON AND INJURED TWO PEOPLE BADLY - AND WE THOUGHT IT WAS ANOTHER TERRORIST ATTACK AFTER WITNESSING SEPTEMBER 11th, 2001 - DO YOU REMEMBER THIS ONE I AM TALKING ABOUT?
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I witnessed a small, but deadly, man-made steam explosion in NYC's Grammercy Park neighborhood back in the late 80's. NYC has steam pipes. One was ruptured by a construction backhoe. It threw the backhoe into the air and ejected mud and pavement about 600 feet. One woman was steamed to death while taking a nap on the sixth floor of her building. The debris rained down on the cars parked for about a block and smashed them totally flat. Fortunately I was a few blocks away. The entire area was coated in asbestos particles from the steam pipe insulation. Gives me a good idea about how powerful the volcanic phreatic and hydrothermal explosions you talk about in your videos must be!
How awful! I got a steam burn while cooking yesterday, and though tiny, it was painful! That poor woman.
That's horrifying 😳
@@riverAmazonNZ yeah, I was taking a welding course a few years back, and some guys from the pipefitter's union came by "recruiting". I honestly think they were trying to scare us off though, 'cause they spent almost the entire time talking about how dangerous steam leaks/explosions were. They had some pretty nasty horror stories too.
i think that was in a version of thousand ways to die
I recognize Mary bay from driving out of the park last summer. The highway is beside Yellowstone Lake there and people were walking into the Lake and I kept thinking, oh hell no. There was a significant hydrothermal vent just up the curve from there too. There are other lakes and streams in the park that are much safer for aquatic activities than the caldera lake IMO. :)
Keep living in fear. Yellowstone Lake is great for recreation.
@@coloneljan she said Caldera Lake not Yellowstone Lake
@@coloneljan You have issues, child.
Thank you for the update. Even though I live in Southern California, any information you provide is extremely appreciated. God bless.
Southern California has a few fun young volcanoes. Just take a trip to the southern Salton sea and you can see fumaroles and active mud pots! (Salton Buttes volcano)
I know they are out there and I have driven past the area before but never stopped. I know the San Andreas starts out that way so if that area has a big earthquake, then I’ll worry, lol.
Don’t worry! We have our own super volcano as well! It is called the Long Valley Caldera!
@@GeologyHub As a result of NA over-riding the East Pacific Rise mantle upwelling.
-Spreading Ridge John
@@GeologyHubThe timing of this video today couldn’t have been better. It’s one of the videos I have not viewed before today. 👍
Today I learned the difference between a phreatic volcanic eruption and a hydrothermal explosion!
The power to throw car size boulders 2+ miles away is just mind blowing.
might see more of these explosions in greenland and antarctic
As a resident of Lake in Yellowstone I especially enjoyed todays video.
Excllent, useful information as usual, and unironic kudos for careful and audible vocalization of the initial 's' in 'specific'. I can use the clip of that from this video to convince a friend that the voice-over is provided by a carbon, rather than silicon based entity, something I have been unable to do so far.
Doing all the work that gets this or any other author to the final production stage where initial s's matter, is a challenge that many who haven't tried it would find too daunting. So instead they pick apart the product from a recumbent position (as I am doing right now), just for kicks (which I hope I am not doing right now), or on rare occaisons they observe and applaud the creator along with a friendly poke in the rhetorical ribs (as I am attempring to do here).*
*Provided here becaus irony is dead and 'facetiousness' is now illegal in Florida.
You better stay away from the “G” word! I’m in Michigan so I can get away with it. Gay gay…gay!
If anyone should be worried about a super volcano going up, it is the one that Naples, Italy sits on.
Thing has been swelling forever.
To be fair though they did decide to build the city ontop of the ashes that buried Pompii and knew full well the area was geologically active, hence Mt Vesuvius.
My little arctic island is still rising out of the sea due to crust uplift it's pretty cool. Hopefully we rise faster than the sea levels 😬
Where might that be? If you are allowed to say, that is…
@@samiam619 Igloolik, Nunavut. From what I've seen about 1,000 years ago this island was still below sea level.
It's a limestone island and the amount of fossils we find is UNBELIEVEABLE. It's gotten boring! Finding fossils shouldn't be boring!
Very interesting! I was not aware of this phenomenon
Whew, but 💥🤯so glad that I stumbled across this channel.
This week, I am fascinated by the Molucca Sea Plate and the Jordan Rift Valley, whose only similarity is that both are below sea level.🤔
Thank you for addressing the “overdue” destruction of N America from Yellowstone. No one covers geology and volcanic activity better than you do. As always, thank you for this and all your videos.
Well if we get destoryed we coming for london son.
Canada is coming with us once she goes off
Thank you for clarifying this. A lot of people, unaware of the minor Pleistocene/Holocene activity in the area, seem to be deeply afraid that any explosion/eruption in Yellowstone is the start of "the Biggie".
What happens when the fault line running right beside Yellowstone let's go? That fault has been known to let out some big quakes.
@@lilredwagon5311 This already happened -- in 1959, there was an M7.3 on a fault just west of the National Park (that was the largest earthquake every recorded in the Intermountain West). It shook up the geysers (those have pretty fragile plumbing systems), but that's all. The article at www.usgs.gov/news/60-years-1959-m73-hebgen-lake-earthquake-its-history-and-effects-yellowstone-region has more information.
I don't think you have to worry about the Yellowstone National Park running out of steam anytime soon. The North
American plate is so slowly moving over the hotspot that has caused all this volcanic geothermal activity in the first
place it will be enjoyed for another couple of thousand years to come.
Would it be possible to more videos on volcanoes in the UK?
Yes it would be great 👍
Are there any volcanoes in the UK?
Tamu massif volcano plzzzz
Thanks for the level headed reporting of the unlikeliness of a super volcano eruption in the “near to moderate term.” Too many try to stir up fear in order to bolster their views.
Thanks for the geology lesson. I was very surprised to find so many people living in and on the Taal Volcano in the Philippines, south of Manila, when it erupted.
Of course many people lived there because that lake used to be connected to the sea around 250+ years ago (before the 1700s eruption) so cities there flourished as it became a hub for trading with the Arabic, Chinese, Japanese merchants, etc. So over time, the population grew as well. You'll be surprised that the cities of Lipa and Tanauan, which are now currently located on top of a plateau far away from the lake, used to be located at the shores of Taal lake. Talisay used to be Tanauan's main town and the Mataasnakahoy area used to be Lipa. Nearby town of Sala was abandoned and merged with Tanauan.
Yellowstone has no real chance of having a massive eruption, but that sure doesn't stop people from making speculations
Thanks for the informative videos. Geology is fascinating. I do have a suggestion for a topic. Im curious about the formation of dendritic gold, and would love to see a video explaining it.
I now feel like visiting Yellowstone park....from a distance!
Thank you for your interesting videos--I learn so much. Have you ever investigated Lake Tahoe in California?
Great video as always. I recently read a few stories about a volcano near the Orca seamount off of Antarctica undergoing a massive earthquake swarm but little other info. Any news about it, they said things that normally take place over geological time frames are happening in months, unfortunately that's about all they said in the articles I read. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Can you do mt konocti volcanic field? Plsplspls
He's already done it but it's actually the Clear Lake Volcano: ua-cam.com/video/PNV9_uaL4C0/v-deo.html
thank you for this. very close to home so all the more interesting.
Thank you for what you guys do
One spot where a hydrothermal explosion would make a huge mess is Mammoth Hot Springs.
My brain is having issues with the volcanic eruption with the island in the 90's it's on the on my mind but I can't spell it out here it starts with a M. It's was big news and the island is still thriving but it has a off limits area and the half the island is buried in molten lava in the middle of it.
Montserrat is the island…
@@marilyncrowley3303 Yes yes yes oh that's the one I would love a video about this one.
Could you talk about the thermal vents in the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico?
could this happen to iceland? the glaciers are going away and there are vulcanoes underneath
I'm curious if you would cover the Volcano explosion that changed the Eurphrates river in Turkey nearly 7000 years ago around 4500 BC and may be the inspiration for the biblical flood story as well as several apocalyptic predictions if it explodes again..
Great video. Can you please do the Chachani volcano in the Andes mountain range next? I saw it in the news section on Facebook and I would like to know more about it. Thank you and have a great week!
The thumbnail is not Yellowstone, the volcano in the thumbnail was the Taal volcano crater.
the picture 0:24 is an eruption of Excelsior Geyser, not a hydrothermal explosion. in fact, it's the only known picture of said geyser in eruption.
Wondering what is your take on Earthquake Lights?
So it was ….3 Kablamos for the price of one …. Lake Yellowstone also has some very beautiful black sand beaches and pumice formations ..thanks for mentioning Duck Lake as we had a wonderful hike there and were the only people …Rare for Yellowstone …
Lewis Lake is my favorite for black sand.
We missed all the cool steam explosions at Yellowstone. How about we pour thousands of cubic meters of concrete down opening of Old Faithful? That might be a great, once in a lifetime steam explosion witnessed by People, Elk, and Bears. .. (kidding).
Large boulders the size of small boulders.
|Now that's interesting Thank you so much!
What are the warnings for phreatic or hydrothermal explosions? I have seen a number of phreatic craters around the world, some in random spots that may not seem volcanic or erupting at the time. So what kind of warning might we have if something like this were imminent?
Very difficult to say. Some of these hydrothermal explosions seem to happen after being triggered by an external event. For example, new research (about to be published in GSA Bulletin) suggests that the Mary Bay explosion was triggered by a rapid change in lake level (due to a faulting event on the lake floor), which changed the confining pressure on the hydrothermal system and allowed subsurface water to flash to steam. After the 1959 Hebgen Lake M7.3 earthquake, there were a huge number of thermal features that erupted as geysers fir the first time in recorded history, perhaps for similar reasons -- the shaking changed pressure conditions or broke thermal plumbing systems, allowing for sudden steam generation. There would be very little warning in such situations (although the triggering event -- like an earthquake -- would indicate heightened possibility of such activity). But in other cases, there have been years of changes that indicate a system might be moving towards an explosive finale. The classic example is the 1989 explosion of Porkchop Geyser, which was preceded by several years of evolving activity (details on that at www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/day-porkchop-geyser-exploded).
*THANK YOU* for not pronouncing it "geezers"! (2:40 or so)
I may be older than dirt, but *all those other guys* don't *have* to rub my nose in it!
2:42 What that hell is that? It looks like chemical deposits precipitating out of water, but how does it form those shelves with such regularity?
Mammoth Hot Springs on the north side of Yellowstone. Just calcium carbonate hot springs built up over thousands of years.
@@kimm6589 - Does this feature, or do these types of structures have an actual designation in geology?
@@kimm6589 - Never mind. I found it: travertine terraces.
@@brentwilbur Yup. They do exist around other hot springs in the worl as well. Pretty cool.
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I have more of a question than comment. I am not trying to be rude. I just want to know who are you, are you a professional or amateur like most of us. I am not wanting to seem as though I am belittling you in any way! Could you make a short introduction video of yourself?
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How do you determine how long ago these eruptions occur?
It's a challenge with respect to Yellowstone's hydrothermal explosions, since there is very little material that can be dated in the explosion deposits -- hydrothermal sinter doesn't contain the right sorts of materials for dating. But there are a few techniques that do work. Some deposits have associated charcoal or organic material, which can be dated. There are also cosmogenic dating methods that can determine how long a deposit or rock has been exposed to cosmic rays (in other words, sitting at the surface). And there are "marker beds" throughout Yellowstone -- for example, an eruption of Glacier Peak, in WA, left a distinct ash layer that we know to be 13,600 years old, and the eruption of Mount Mazama that led to the formation of Crater Lake left an ash layer that is 7,700 years old. These marker beds can help to establish the relative ages of deposits. And finally, if we know something about the rate of sediment accumulation in Yellowstone Lake (which we do, thanks to some of the aforementioned marker beds), we can use that to identify explosion deposits as layers in the sedimentary deposits on the bottom of the lake and determine roughly when these deposits formed.
It's an ongoing subject of research, given that it is not straightforward.
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I don’t hear any chime
I think you're alone on hearing a chime bud
Any day pass... is a gift, the nature not view all our techlogogy like a "OMG"... NO... we are insignificant things and sooner or later, like many times before, nature wake up and remind all this.
Is there a supervolcano in Oklahoma?
no
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So it's like when a pressure-cooker blows up in a kitchen.
Its cycle average is long past, that means its time for a new eruption, wow, guess there's a magic cycle killer somewhere.....
GH is this why the GVP dropped the four phreatic explosions from Yellowstone's Holocene Era activity? Or because the USGS doesn't consider phreatic eruptions as Volcanic? Yet the GVP considers Whakaari/White Island's 2019 phreatic eruption in its assessment as an eruption.
The Holocene hydrothermal explosions at Yellowstone, like those that created Mary Bay, Turbid Lake, Elliott's Crater, Pocket Basin, etc., did not involve magma. They were solely a result of water flashing to steam. Still hazardous, but not caused by magmatic activity.
@@michaelpoland529 I know that, but they are still caused by magma heating the ground water and used to be listed in the GVP's eruption list like White Island still is. I'd like to know why one, but not the other?
@@MountainFisher The groundwater at Yellowstone is heated by magma (mostly solid at this point), but the initiation of explosions at Yellowstone doesn't have anything to do with magma -- instead, things like Mary Bay were triggered by sudden pressure changes in the hydrothermal system. There's a paper that is about to come out in GSA Bulletin that describes this process (the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory will do a "Caldera Chronicles" article describing the research as soon as it is published -- hopefully within a few weeks). The hypothesis for Mary Bay was that there was a seismic event that triggered a local tsunami on Yellowstone Lake (there are a bunch of large faults on the lake bottom), and which eroded the lake's outlet channel, causing the lake level to decrease suddenly. The sudden drop in lake level reduced the pressure on the hydrothermal area that was located in the vicinity of what was to become Mary Bay. This depressurization caused hot water in the system to flash into steam , which resulted in a 100x increase in volume and the ensuing explosion. Mary Bay is on the extreme (large) end of such explosions, but smaller ones happen all the time. For example, the 1989 explosion of Porkchop Geyser (www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/day-porkchop-geyser-exploded). Also Excelsior Geyser in the late 1800s, and Ear Spring, near Old Faithful, in 2018 (www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/changes-are-afoot-yellowstones-upper-geyser-basin).
White Island, in contrast, was related to magma coming into direct contact with groundwater (or water suddenly coming into contact with hot rock that was heated by magma) and flashing to steam. So a fundamentally different mechanism than the process by which hydrothermal explosions occur at Yellowstone.
@@michaelpoland529 Like GH says in his comment, "it's a fuzzy line".
I'll read that report when it comes out. BTW have you seen any Hot Creek geysers in California?
@@MountainFisher Are you referring to Hot Creek in Long Valley? It's been a long time since I've been there. But of course I have colleagues with the California Volcano Observatory who visit the area regularly!
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So a phriatic explosion is basically an earth fart.....
If the heat from the Yellowstone valcano were used to make electric energy, I would think it could take care of a huge amount of the US needs. Would that be like 10% or 110%?
I think that would be impossible, as Yellowstone is a National Park.
@@muhammadnursyahmi9440 It's very possible, it's just not probable for the reason you stated.
@@muhammadnursyahmi9440 Yep. Unlike to happen. But probably one of the best places for geothermal on earth.
@@putteslaintxtbks5166 agreed.
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If Yellowstone exploded like Toba, the USA would become an archipelago like Indonesia but in reality it is not. The volcano that literally splits the mainland into an archipelago is a volcano from Indonesia. Because 60% of Indonesia was originally a land not an archipelago called SUNDALAND, but due to a very large volcanic explosion, 60% of Indonesia's land collapsed into an archipelago. Remaining 500 volcanoes (including active, inactive and under the sea), initially in Indonesia had more than 1000 volcanoes but some of them all collapsed into the ocean.
This one look small I see bigger explore
The doomsayers here in UA-cam try and lead their viewers into believing it’s “all or nothing.” A big hydrothermal explosion could wreck havoc locally, but it’s not the apocalypse the doomsayers think will happen…..or want to happen!
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Bet this rn all out nothing, Yellowstone will erupt by or before 2029
Put an anode and a cathode in PVC pipes taped together + - attached to a six volt dry cell battery over six volts will turn electrons into protons so six iis perfect it will evaporate the water out of the magma and add energized electrons to our magnetic field and strengthen the shield from the universe
Um.... than why is the ground raised sense the 1970's ?
The ground has actually been going up and down at Yellowstone. It doesn't only go up (even though tabloids and misinformation sources like to claim otherwise -- it helps drive their dishonest narrative that something is amiss at Yellowstone). For example, the caldera was rising during 2004-2010, then it subsided during 2010-2014. It rose again during 2014-2015, and since 2015 the ground has been subsiding (the rates of uplift and subsidence are in the rage of 1-2 inches per year). Some geologists have described this as Yellowstone "breathing". Examination of terraces on the shores of Yellowstone Lake allows geologists to look back in time for thousands of years at what the caldera has been doing, and it's apparent that over the last 10,000 years or so, Yellowstone caldera has actually experienced a net subsidence -- by about 100 feet all told!
The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory did a short video on exactly this topic if you'd like t know more. There's even information on where you can go to look at the data. That video is at ua-cam.com/video/y0yq3DtR5Y4/v-deo.html.
Look up the horrible stories of people falling into the boiling sulphur pools,, trying to rescue a dog etc,, they dissolve into nothing before they are found,,crazy
Are you sure it was 14,000 years ago and not 11,040 years ago? If you don’t know how measure and validate that measure - you really are guessing.
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And 2014 was the first time I've ever used a cellphone or was it 2016 I think it was 2016 that's the first time I ever had to use a cell phone
The cause....very politically in correct! But when gotten by the balls, best to sit on the cause
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I am not convinced that earth is a glob,
It is, deal whit.
@@simracer8142 No, i am not convinced.
@@desmomotodesmomoto2033, sunrise and sunset proves a round rotation planet, deal whit.
do you believe in Evolution?
@@desmomotodesmomoto2033, yes it as been proved, and that as nothing to do whit the Earth been round, so, try again kid
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It’s a meteor!!! You’ll notice rocks on the edge so that has to be a meteor…..
No is not.
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