The Active Volcano in the Canary Islands; Lanzarote
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- Within the Canary Islands are 6 active volcanoes. One of these, La Palma, is erupting right now. However, the eruptions from La Palma tend to be quite small. This is not the case for the island of Lanzarote, which has erupted twice in historic times. One of its eruptions covered more than 200 square kilometers of the island over a span of 6 years. This video will discuss this volcano, and mention what its future hazards are.
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So much packed into a 4 minute video. As is often the case, I find myself pausing the video to go back and check on maps or geologic info. Fabulous stuff.
The Lanzarote volcano is one of the most active volcanoes in the Canary Islands, but this was not always the case. Its recent eruptions could simply be a fluke, however (in terms of a long term trend).
Maybe an update on the Iceland volcano and it's strange behavior?
Thanks so much for making this edition , im fortunate to be able to call lanzarote home & every day I am amazed , inspired , mesmerized & left in awe by its natural beauty .. maybe you could do one on the rift valley & how its tearing Africa apart , of course there's a lot going on there in this case with ngorongoro & Kilimanjaro being involved .. cheers ..
Maybe a video on Askja? The other likely eruption in Iceland. It seems the rate of inflation has increased from 7 cm to 9 cm. Magma seems to be accumulating there at a depth of a few kilometres.
Could the recent eruptions be a case of "rejuvenated stage" volcanic activity?
Is there a Volcano on Gran Canaria?
I have been to Lanzarote, the Timanfaya lava field national park and climbed one of the cinder cones, I was impressed by volcanic landscape of the island, is great to learn that originally they were three islands, thank you I really enjoyed this video because it made me remember this beautiful island, very educational.
you may have climbed in a volcano but not in Timanfaya, outside the park...
@@fr3ddog yes, that was outside the park
@@fr3ddog yes, that was outside the park
@@emzu690 cool! thats awesome! i did the volcan de la corona up north in ye. also the one in playa blanca where everyone spells their names with rocks.. i lived there for 12 years
when i was younger we came here on holiday and visited the geysers. can remember being fascinated as we drove in a coach through the roads carved out of the dried lava rocks. awesome stuff, would love to revisit
Yep, went there a few years back, well worth a visit, theres a lot of small pockets of ground where the heat is really intense. They cook food like roast chicken on one of these pockets at the resturant near the top of a crater.
Ooh, roasting chicken on those sounds fun. I’d hope that geothermal power plants are common on the island, as I didn’t check what the islands power source was
@@GeologyHub Nope. Mostly diesel oil generators and increasingly wind power. Some scientists have been trying out surface thermoelectric generators, but I doubt they could produce any meaningful amount of power. Being a national park, there are huge hurdles to allow any sort of drilling and construction. There were some 2000m holes drilled in the late 1970s and they found temperatures of over 300ºC a few metres under the soil in some places, but it was mostly due to dry air rising from a cooling magmatic chamber. The power was estimated to be just a few hundred kilowatts worth. To contradict these results, there have also been scientists who claim the existence of a huge underground water reserve, but proving it is complicated if you aren't allowed to drill. I know of a resort outside of the national park (Club La Santa) which has Spain's largest geothermal installation, which they use to heat the pools and power the air conditioning.
tl;dr: probably no meaningful geothermal hotspots, but too much red tape to know for sure.
I'm from Lanzarote. I'm used to the landscape but sometimes I do look at other places in the world then look back at Lanzarote and think: "wow this place really does look alien, huh?"-
I lived on Lanzarote five years ,and I'm hoping to go back there to live , but things are complicated at the moment . Lanzarote has a wonderful , beautiful landscape ,and I miss it very much 😭
Yeah only thing that I hate about Lanzarote is there's not a sprout of grass anywhere just rock, sand and ash
@@NoaVanSnick sounds a bit like arizona (where I live). A lot less young lava flows here though.
@@GeologyHub I think this short video gives you a good idea of what it looks like: th-cam.com/video/a95RlkbC-wo/w-d-xo.html
@@NoaVanSnick Someone like me I see that as a plus. Having a seasonal allergy is a big deal. Barren and sunny places like these are heavens for me.
Planning to visit Lanzarote next year.
Two videos in one day. How nice. Thank you. Could you please do a video about the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755. Please and thank you.
That was actually a mistake; I deleted Pavlof to post another day. It was scheduled for 2 days from now but TH-cam (the overall website) is having difficulties right now. It placed my scheduled videos out of order
@@GeologyHub earthquakes would be a natural progression for your channel , but volcanoes ,impacts & gemstones are the so called bread & butter that this channel is founded upon & earthquakes & rock formations are always a good backup . Absolutely brilliant channel been here from the start and the sky's the limit .I really appreciate you taking the time to do these videos regardless of the subject matter.
I find this volcano interesting because Lanzarote was created 20 million years ago, compared to the 2.5 million years of La Palma and even with that is active thought is at the beginning of the hotspot (very different to Hawai). Also can you talk about El Hierro erpution of 2011.
Hawaii is very different because all the the Canary Islands still have volcanic eruptions and there’s only 2 Hawaii islands that can erupt.
@@bigrooster6893 thats what is interesting about the canaries, instead of just being the west island (the African plate is moving north) that are active is the whole island chain , but the formation of the island follows a hawai trend, Lanzarote first then it moves west.
But hawaii is a Hotspot. Not a plate boundary.
Are these islands formed do to plates moving away from each other?
Fagradalsfjall is similar to these volcano/lava fields, yea?
@@bigrooster6893 While Lö'ihi is not yet an island, it is also active in the Hawaiian chain.
@@biblebasher9364 the Canaries is a hotspot
It’s funny how he says Lanzarote different
Teide is pronounced "TAY-deh"
Oops, that was a mistake on my part.
@@GeologyHub so many speech & pronunciation experts on here lol maybe you should take a vacation & let's see their videos & pronunciation efforts 🤣🤣There's always a critic ,or several !!! Just pronounce the way you think 🌋🔥💥
@@johnmccartan939 well some people speak spanish john lol
A 'almost related' laugh to share? Washed a colourful tea towel somehow aquired because it was bright never used., I only ever used as a dust cover for a rarely used kitchen appliance. Ironing it realized it a tourist holiday memento and for the first time looked at what was the large printed image on white with a narrow red border. IT was the island of Tenerife!! topo map with its own dominating volcano. I laughed having been on line when Palma started knowing it was expected and following since. Now my map is cleaned and ironed.
If the hotspot has moved to the west, why are the eastern islands still so active? Has a spreading rift formed?
Someone mentioned up above there’s a theory the crust has many fractures in that region, allowing lava to well up even on the edges of the hotspot. It’s interesting because it’s fairly different from the Hawaiian islands. This would be like Oahu having a large eruption today.
I've read that one explanation for the Canary islands is a zone of fractures along the oceanic crust which helps the magma rise up in those particular locations, and explains the imperfect hotspot track and volcanism on older islands
Yeah I remember reading that too looking it up it does appear some work has shown that geochemically they are being fed by plume material but from seismic tomography it is very indirect as the plume is being tilted horizontally with some material rising up through cracks wherever possible in the region. Its an interesting and complex tectonic setting for sure the fracture zone is definitely a part of the story.
Honestly I wonder how this tectonic setting will evolve given that the Azores Gibraltar Transform Fault Zone (AGTZ) is currently undergoing a transformation into a subduction zone with the Canary islands being on the side of the fault that is being folded under and thus will be experiencing a northward component of motion. How will the hot spot and the various associated fractures it has been using as a conduit to the surface will the magma still follow these fractures or other will fractures and or conduits for release be involved? The islands themselves are likely to ultimately end up as accreted terrains assuming the subduction zone transformation gets finished which seems likely as the compression.
Absolutely fascinated with canary islands geology/volcanology 🌋😊
Most of the area covered in lava in 1730-1736 is a protected national park, but the Caldera Blanca is accessible. A great hike through this large see of lava.
sorry this is unrelated but I am having a lot of trouble finding information on a caldera called the "lam teuba caldera" and was hoping that I could ask if you knew anything about it. thank you
very interesting! Could you tell us more about the teide mountain on teneriffe and why it is so high compared to the other surrounding islands and also something about that huge caldera? Would be so nice of you!!
(Please)
It’s a stratovolcano! It erupts more viscous lava which does not travel very far. Similar to comparing pouring honey to pouring water on a flat surface. The honey will begin to pile up over time.
Relevant video I made on Teide: m.th-cam.com/video/t4ZY6RxyqhA/w-d-xo.html
@@GeologyHub thanks a lot for your time and the fast reply!!! have a nice day =) i really love your education-related videos!
Also, Tenerife is at the stage of It's greatest size , the islands to the West of Tenerife are generally younger and closer to the Canary hotspot ,and so have yet to be built up by more eruptive episodes . The Islands to the East and South East are older islands , and erosion , weathering and less volcanic activity has, over time decreased the size of these Islands . It's possible that when the Eastern islands were the same age and location ( relative to the hotspot ) ,as Tenerife they could have been a similar size .
In fact Tenerife was actually higher than its present size prior to the great plinian event ( more or less about one million years ago)that formed the Las Cañadas Caldera that circles Mount Teide on the upper area of Tenerife .
I'm a recent subscriber. This is great stuff! My question is whether the world's hot spots (Canary Islands, Yellowstone, others?) are in motion relative to each other. Is so, then what accounts for that? Is there any deep planetary feature (in addition to the two poles of Earth's axis) which would be a good candidate to establish an absolute reference system to describe the movement of continental plates in geologic time?
The apparent motions of hotspots is somewhat misleading. They are not moving, but the crust above them is. For Yellowstone, the hotspot is not moving but the North American crust is moving west. This is why another hotspot in the same plate (Nazko hotspot, Canada) follows the exact same trend
other than the axis of rotation, maybe a geostationary orbit.
I'm from Malaysia. As most would know my country is basically tectonically stable. We however do have a supposedly dormant volcano called Bombalai Hill located in the state of Sabah in Borneo. Not much information can be found regarding this volcano unfortunately so I was hoping you could find any extra information such eruption risk etc. Thanks.
How about telling us about the volcanos that eventually connected North and South America?
the canaries are fantastic, recommend a visit.
Didn't it erupt in the early 1970's?
That eruption you’re on about was on La Palma from a volcano known as Teneguía in 1971. It started on 26th October and finished 28th November.
At the end of this video the narrator ask for suggestions for Other Videos !
I think that it would be Interesting to Know Where there are active " Geo Thermal "
places on the Earth ! Especially in North America !
If there such a thing as a geological volcano eruption "season"? I feel like they are erupting more often in recent years, but I might just not have noticed before because I don't live near a volcano.
Please do a video on Mount Teide and its future hazards
That 'steam rich geyser' you mention around 4:20 isn't actually a geyser, but created by pooring water down a hole; heat in this erea is indeed very close to the surface and used here to prepare food ;-)
0:48 Every tourist who was there has a picture like this I guess. ;)
Very convenient for cooking indeed
Good stuff. I will pass it along
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it's not pronounced like tide, it's pronounced like tay-de
Also lanzarote isn’t pronounced lanzarowtay.
@@danielledewitt1 yeah
Teedy, Teide is pronounced Teedy.
Anytime buddy. 🙏🏴👍🏻
Lanzarote my paradise....Papagayo beach " Timanfaya" Volcano is increíble
I really doubt Caldera Blanca was formed due to magma entering a lake. Do you know how arid it is in Lanzarote? There is barely any vegetation. When it rains it is usually torrential rain, which easily washes away the soil.
Nice video! How did the volcano become dormant for several millions of years and then erupt again?
It would be interesting how the different types of lava are formed so close to each other. Thank you
If you ever get the time, could you please do a geologic history of Cotapaxi??
Thx.
Common sense? You are talking about tourists, right? Common sense doesn't exist in a large portion of the population of earth.
I have been to Lanzarote It was a cool place
I was wondering if you have anything on the location of the 9 mile fissure on la Palma.....there seems to be alot of confusion.
Question: how is the hotspot moving? I thought hot spots stayed still and just the plate moved creating the illusion of a moving hotspot to make an island chain
If you require any credibility, please check your appalling pronunciation!
**deletes all uppity, sanctimonious comments whining about pronunciation**
The hotspot doesn^t obey the theory, such a giant basaltic effusion is against the wandering of the hotspot westward
Wow, my distant ancestors fled the islands around that time. I wasn't aware that it was this bad.
Been up timanfaya volcano in lalzarote it a must see great video
Volcanic Math:
Could Geology Hub take a known Volcanic explosion with very good video, and could you tell us what is happening during the volcanic process and what type of math is at hand. The initial explosion usually has a blast with a visible shock wave, that type of math. How much stuff got spit out of the volcano, type of rock, what it is doing today, what causes all that dust moving over the volcano, etc.
I recommend to you a book on the science of Volcanoes ,it is called "Volcanoes" written by Dr Peter Francis . This book has all the answers including the maths ,it is absolutely fascinating and a joy to read 👍
@@linsayspence7070 Coool, will look into it, Thanks!
Your pronunciation of "lanzerote" is shocking.
Hopefully the island won’t split and cause a tidal wave.
The volcano at timanfaya national park is called timanfaya.
Ive seen them cooking food on air heated via volcanics in lanzarote
I love Lanzarote I went there on holiday it was an awesome desert island
Lanzarote is being pronounced wrong 😂😂😂😂😂😂
1:01 dozes of volcanoes! Who would want to live there.
The perfect place for Nobel prize awardees to retire, lol!
Just so you know, it's pronounced 'Teeday' or 'Teedee'
Do the Island of El Heirro in the Canaries next.
Lanzarotay lollll
Now u area will like japan California
Its not pronounced Tide its Tea ade de or Tea aid de
I shivered every time I Heard Lanzarote,😂
60km fissure? Lord have mercy
can’t even pronounce the name right
Thanks very informative
very good! from Lanzarote. I suggest a documentary about the formation of Lanzarote. It is said it was green and taller like Tenerife. But I guess its a hard topic to come up with. Thanks
Really enjoying your volcano videos. You mentioned sulphur dioxide. It seems there is a poorly understood link between SO2 emissivity and cooling impacts. As well as the follow on issues of floods, famines and diseases. I appreciate that you are presenting facts as best as they are known. I wonder if it might be possible to explain the current state of correlation and prediction as well.
There was a period of cold and famine during the War of the Spanish Succession. Might it have been linked to Mount Fuji activity?
Is there any possible volcanic link to the North American drought of the “Dirty Thirties”? Thank You
Hii, would so love a video on the magnitude 6.0 earthquake in Melbourne Australia which has somehow been felt over 1000km away in Sydney and as far south as Hobart. So curious!
Great video as usual! Not related to the recent videos on the Canary Islands, but I would love to hear you discuss Crowley's Ridge in Arkansas, USA. I remember being very confused when I was driving through the Mississippi Embayment and came across this extremely odd prominence out of nowhere.
Why does he talk so funny?
Really interesting and informative. Could you please do for Madeira Island and its potential to erupt. Many say the volcanoes are extinct, however I tend to not believe it as when they excavated some deep tunnels on the island they found hot water. Also geologically speaking Madeira had volcano activity relatively recently.
Thank you. I found your video just chance & I'm glad I did, as it was very informative.
The hotspot is moving? Isn't more correct to say that the continental plate which is above the hotspot is moving?
Thank you for featuring my favourite place in the world, it’s spectacular 💛💙
Except for imaginary time used to plot the eruptions through history, very interesting.😉
I appreciate your work very much, I will support as soon as I can afford that.
Have a very nice day.
Hey there, love the channel. Could you consider doing a video on the Lagoa das Sete Cidades in the Azores?
why am i here...idk
Can you do a video on the loess hills in iowa please, it’s day 35 of asking you ;(
Best compact volcano videos.
Get the low down without all the waffle.
Hello From Lanzarote "puerto del CArmzn"
Spain
The Tourism office insists that the volcano on Lanzarote is extinct in one of its leaflets.
it last erupted in 1824 hence meeting the classification of being active
Timanfaya isn’t extinct. If it was it wouldn’t still be cooking the food for the cafe at the national park. It’s active.
What about the 1971 eruption ?
thats from La Palma
Fascinating as always! 👍🌋🌋🌋
Pronunciation: _rote as in rotten
Opps
How “connected” are all these
Volcanoes 🌋 to the Mid-Atlantic Rifts?
These volcanos are related to the Canary Hotspot
@@galacticadventurer6694 thanks 🙏🏼 but how connected to Mid-Atlantic Ridge
@@GumriRN the Canary volcanoes are not connected to Mid Atlantic rift . The Icelandic volcano are . The rift passes through Iceland . Rift easy path for lava to move up
@@galacticadventurer6694 🙏🏼
Mount Teide is pronounced "Tay-day". And Lanzarote is pronounced "Lanza-rotty". The Spanish word for mountain, is pronounced montan-ya. Rather spoils your very interesting video.
Huh? No. Teide is pronounced "Teh-ee-deh" amd Lanzarote is very similar to how he pronounced it but depending on the accent is "Lan-sah-roh-teh" or "Lan-tha-roh-teh" ("th" as in "thought" not "the")
@@nerner266 you are quite wrong! Its certainly not TIDE at any rate!
really? in which regional dialect of english, and from which country, do your examples make sense?
Please learn to pronounce the names of the places you mention, it grinds my gears. It is really simple, one Google search away. e.g. Teide is pronounced like Tay day, not tide.
best take the Canary Islands off my to do list
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Really 😂
@@johnmccartan939 I love everything about this channel except for his outro, it makes my SKIN CRAWL!!!
This channel is really the most informative I found so far regarding the ongoing La Palma eruptions. Well done! But I would really appreciate a less 'American' accent of the narrator. A real, aka British English would certainly be more appropriate for an international audience.
why would it?
A little egotistical, eh bub?
Terrible synthetic voice. This video is made to please robots.
Please stop pausing and emphasising the last word of EVERY SENTENCE. Just talk as you normally talk
why do you assume he is not talking normally?
@@daos3300 he's reading from notes, not that it's a problem. But when you use the method to emphasise something on every sentence instead of sometimes, it just doesn't work. It becomes almost mechanical. It's like a communication course where they teach one thing and then overuse it. Just doesn't work
@@CyberBeep_kenshi like i said. it's his voice, it's the way he talks, notes or not.
"Lanz-a-rot-eh".....Please do a video on the correct pronunciation of place names around the globe.....there have been several howlers just recently......Luckily you have the appropriate pronunciation at the click of your mouse.....
You do the videos then lol & i bet you'll get the same texts about pronunciation .
theses videos are about geology, not linguistics
Lucky enough to live on fuerteventura & I remember my first visit there at 19 years old and I was lucky enough to get over to the small island of Lobo's with its cinder cone blown out towards the west ,it was later closed off from tourists & only a select few are permitted to visit there now & also on Lanzarote literally 2 kilometres from the hotel I was staying in you turn left up over a short steep trail and there were all sorts of seismic metres buried into the black volvanic landscape because of ongoing deep activity . Absolutely wouldn't leave the Canary Islands.