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They lived in the cave until 1921. I remember visiting it when I was a boy. At that time there were no structures there. They rebuilt it in 2017 and now it looks very similar to how it was 100 years ago.
You have such great geological story-telling skills. The content is so interesting and I appreciate the filming/editing: dropping into the map, viewing the geography and then entering and introducing yourself. So pro! Thank you for sharing geology education, professor.
Very interesting! Hey, while you're in Iceland -- if you haven't previously -- talk about the massive flood basalts that form the high and eroded platform across northern Iceland. There's a great cinder cone that's breached by a lava flow near Bifrost: the Grabrok cone. Safe travels!
You also come across such an outcrop when you Hike the route A on Fagradalsfjall or from the parking lot 1. Altghough here the pillow lavas are much more pronounced.
Interesting that ash formed between the pillow lava and the ice. Looks like a white clothe sculpture turning in the distance too. Second time to catch this video or one like it. Thanks Shawn.
@@shawnwillsey Fair enough. Hopefully with the interest stirred by the situation near Grindavik, some of these earlier videos will garner the attention they deserve!
Now How Kool is that! Leave it to Shawn Wilsey to show us a one of a kind eclectic feature, just wow. A house built into a carved volcanic Tuft feature, man made karst dug cave. Let a brave noble man make his home within the rock. So unique but probably not so stable? Who would have thought. Love it ❤
Great basalt fridays. Here in Colombia we have a lot of pillow lavas interbedded with hyaloclastites and some basalts showing columnar jointing in the Western Cordillera. Quite beautiful landscape.
You walked right by an undercut overhang in the side of the Gulley without comment. Is that a shallow siil intrusion or a much earlier surface flow, to be stronger than the surrounding layers?
@shawnwillsey Thanks for reposting your video about the pillow lavas near Laugarvatnshellir, in Iceland! (I watched it again, I just love pillow lavas... and Iceland! ;)
I see the thumbnail photo: ‘Hmm, looks like a pile of gray rocks.’ Actual Video: hair raising narration of wildly violent eruptions under glaciers, leaving spectacular rock formations, all shown live in a remote and wild setting, including a house built into a lava cliff. 😮 Final thoughts: Wow! Excellent! Thanks for yet another fun and expert video! (How do we know it wasn’t a troll house? 😂)
CSI Rocks. Sounds like a crime show. Sorry Shawn, it just occurred to me College of Sourthern Idaho. (CSI) Back to point Where can we find glacier pillow lavas in Idaho area?
A tindar would generate a lot of meltwater. Is there any evidence of subglacial flooding in the geological record around Laugarvatnsvellir? Could the gully you filmed be a result of subglacial erosion? My apologies if someone else asked this question.
Ok, several times in the video you catch that over hanging ledge in the background, but you never say anything about it! In fact it’s one of the first things you see at the start of the video, after the map zoom. I have so many questions. Was that formed by a layer deposited when there was no ice? Is it a different composition than the other lava? It’s holding unknown tons of rock and ash above it. It’s got to be incredibly strong. The fact it sticks out like that shows it’s eroding at a much slower rate than the layers below it. It looked like there were other areas where the same layer was being undercut. What’s up with that?!?
Good attempt at the name! The correct pronunciation is something like Løyg-ar-vahtns-het-lir. 🙂 The øy sound is a pretty hard vowel sound that we don't have in English and is pronounced kind of like uh-ee but all as one quick vowel sound. The g is soft and at the back of the throat and the i in hellir is like the i in it. Double L in Icelandic is pronounced tl out the side of your mouth. Not the easiest language pronunciation wise! Laugarvatn is a nearby lake that's name translates to "hot pool lake" or "bath lake" (vatn means water or lake) and hellir is just the Icelandic word for cave so all together it just means "cave of the hot pool lake". Otherwise very interesting video!
These have taken place many times, at varying intervals, in the long history of the earth. Detection of mirror-image bands of reversed magnetism on either side of the mid-Atlantic ridge was critical to establishing the validity of plate tectonic theory fifty years ago. There's plenty of info out there on the web to read, but I recommend you stick to real science sites, and avoid chicken little clickbait and conspiracy theories. No courage required.
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They lived in the cave until 1921. I remember visiting it when I was a boy. At that time there were no structures there. They rebuilt it in 2017 and now it looks very similar to how it was 100 years ago.
You have such great geological story-telling skills. The content is so interesting and I appreciate the filming/editing: dropping into the map, viewing the geography and then entering and introducing yourself. So pro! Thank you for sharing geology education, professor.
Amazing Mother Nature! That pillow lava was intriguing.
Thank you Shawn great lesson fascinating 👏 👍 😊
Really loved this. Beautiful pillow lava, ive never seen that before and adore the little homestead. ❤
Very cool pillow lava, sure do hope to get to Iceland someday.
That cave house was cool af
Thank you Shawn. I greatly enjoyed the tour and exploration.
This was just before my first trip last year! It never ceases to amaze me what the landscape looks like after an eruption.
Shawn, you can turn a desolate landscape into an intriguing geologic study and bring in the human factor as well. Absolutely fantastic!
Great setting for a movie scene.
Thx Prof ✌🏻 cool trip
Very interesting! Hey, while you're in Iceland -- if you haven't previously -- talk about the massive flood basalts that form the high and eroded platform across northern Iceland. There's a great cinder cone that's breached by a lava flow near Bifrost: the Grabrok cone. Safe travels!
BTW, the Grabrok cone is on Rte 1 at 64.77142, -21.53854
You also come across such an outcrop when you Hike the route A on Fagradalsfjall or from the parking lot 1. Altghough here the pillow lavas are much more pronounced.
Interesting that ash formed between the pillow lava and the ice. Looks like a white clothe sculpture turning in the distance too. Second time to catch this video or one like it. Thanks Shawn.
Looks like there are also “micro” columns in that material. “Radial fractures” make pinwheel columns?
It seems like this one was posted several months ago. But even if that was the case, well worth a second look!
Yep, just resurrecting a few older, less viewed videos and giving them another chance to shine.
@@shawnwillsey Fair enough. Hopefully with the interest stirred by the situation near Grindavik, some of these earlier videos will garner the attention they deserve!
Now How Kool is that!
Leave it to Shawn Wilsey to show us a one of a kind eclectic feature, just wow.
A house built into a carved volcanic Tuft feature, man made karst dug cave. Let a brave noble man make his home within the rock. So unique but probably not so stable? Who would have thought. Love it ❤
I'm not a geologist, but I love to collect neat rocks. I would love one of those radial fractured ones to put in my garden!
Thanks for sharing! 😊
Thanks!
Great basalt fridays. Here in Colombia we have a lot of pillow lavas interbedded with hyaloclastites and some basalts showing columnar jointing in the Western Cordillera. Quite beautiful landscape.
Thanks for my continuing education!
You walked right by an undercut overhang in the side of the Gulley without comment. Is that a shallow siil intrusion or a much earlier surface flow, to be stronger than the surrounding layers?
Thank you Shawn, love this video and the wee house.
@shawnwillsey Thanks for reposting your video about the pillow lavas near Laugarvatnshellir, in Iceland! (I watched it again, I just love pillow lavas... and Iceland! ;)
I love the house 😊 great video, thanks Shawn ❤
Thanks for the videos.
I see the thumbnail photo: ‘Hmm, looks like a pile of gray rocks.’
Actual Video: hair raising narration of wildly violent eruptions under glaciers, leaving spectacular rock formations, all shown live in a remote and wild setting, including a house built into a lava cliff. 😮
Final thoughts: Wow! Excellent! Thanks for yet another fun and expert video! (How do we know it wasn’t a troll house? 😂)
Cave dwelling? I’ve seen video of similar structures in the volcanic cliffs on LaPalma.
The radial fractures in the large pillow you scrambled to remind me of mini columnar basalt columns. I guess shrinkage is shrinkage.
Shrinkage happens.
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CSI Rocks. Sounds like a crime show. Sorry Shawn, it just occurred to me College of Sourthern Idaho. (CSI) Back to point Where can we find glacier pillow lavas in Idaho area?
Several places in southern Idaho for pillow lava from eruptions in lakes. I don't think we have any subglacial pillows though.
A tindar would generate a lot of meltwater. Is there any evidence of subglacial flooding in the geological record around Laugarvatnsvellir? Could the gully you filmed be a result of subglacial erosion? My apologies if someone else asked this question.
Breccia lava? Really? I thought it was a bread. It is a bread. Oh and after looking it up I see that it's also a lava.
Ok, several times in the video you catch that over hanging ledge in the background, but you never say anything about it! In fact it’s one of the first things you see at the start of the video, after the map zoom. I have so many questions. Was that formed by a layer deposited when there was no ice? Is it a different composition than the other lava? It’s holding unknown tons of rock and ash above it. It’s got to be incredibly strong. The fact it sticks out like that shows it’s eroding at a much slower rate than the layers below it. It looked like there were other areas where the same layer was being undercut. What’s up with that?!?
Good attempt at the name! The correct pronunciation is something like Løyg-ar-vahtns-het-lir. 🙂 The øy sound is a pretty hard vowel sound that we don't have in English and is pronounced kind of like uh-ee but all as one quick vowel sound. The g is soft and at the back of the throat and the i in hellir is like the i in it. Double L in Icelandic is pronounced tl out the side of your mouth. Not the easiest language pronunciation wise! Laugarvatn is a nearby lake that's name translates to "hot pool lake" or "bath lake" (vatn means water or lake) and hellir is just the Icelandic word for cave so all together it just means "cave of the hot pool lake". Otherwise very interesting video!
who will be brave enough tk talk magnetic pole reversal
These have taken place many times, at varying intervals, in the long history of the earth. Detection of mirror-image bands of reversed magnetism on either side of the mid-Atlantic ridge was critical to establishing the validity of plate tectonic theory fifty years ago. There's plenty of info out there on the web to read, but I recommend you stick to real science sites, and avoid chicken little clickbait and conspiracy theories.
No courage required.