My wife had family up there. We used to visit all the time. A shame over-use of the river caused stagnation and I suspect the golf course helped with the algae blooms that stunk to high heaven.
@Mike80528 what, no? I'm not sure what river you're talking about, but the lake went stagnant because of the Nice/Lucerne cutoff. Golf course? No, the wineries that weren't there 25 years ago are the problem for runoff now.
@@rusty4134 The primary river feeding into the lake. I don't recall the name, but my understanding was more and more got diverted for drinking water. This was over 20 years ago...
I’ve been to Clear Lake many times. It is a volcanic wonderland. About 5 years ago I was driving on a forest service road on the eastern hills of the lake. It was raining and the road was good and wet. I came across a stretch of road about 40 feet of which steam was rising. This was about 5 miles from Knonocti. I’ve also hiked to the top of Knonocti twice. You can see Mt. Shasta from there. Thank you for this video
I wish that people had been successful in finding the rumored lava caves (which supposedly were discovered during a severe drought in the late 19th Century). I know it probably doesn't exist, but the mere prospect of a vast, empty volcanic cavern beneath the summit of Mt. Konocti is the stuff of dreams (or nightmares).
Buckingham mt. Fell into the lake, years ago. Yet every peak is a lava dome with a coldren with in there a at least a few lakes in Konocti!!! Look at video 1 out of 2 drone video. There are large pools of water, on some of the cliffs.!!¡?!
Just looking at the amount of volcanic knowledge that humans have gathered within the last 100 years is absolutely amazing. We had no idea what caused volcanos, what they even were, or why they formed less than 2 centuries ago.
Humans have had innumerable pre-historical and historical interactions with volcanos. While plate tectonics and hot spots, as the primary drivers of volcanos, are a fairly recent finding, to say that humans were essentially clueless about volcanos is a major exaggeration of our supposed ignorance.
@@vanguard9067 No, you're just wrong. Humans had no idea what caused volcanoes and made up crazy things like Yahweh to explain them. Now we have facts when all they had was bs they made up.
@@vanguard9067 Pretty sure that for most of humanities history, volcanos were associated with gods or the will of god or something like that. we knew they were dangerous but thought it was because (insert various god here) was upset about something or man was wicked or that god wanted a sacrifice
This is one of my favorite volcanoes. And in my opinion one of the more scary volcanoes on the west Coast. Volcanic complexes like this that have long episodes of dormancy make me think of big eruptions being possible. But statistics say highly unlikely but I still think about this one. And it has a huge amount of magma at depth. Great video
I cannot imagine how bad an actual volcanic event of any kind would be for the town of Clear Lake and the surrounding developed areas. The terrain almost all very densely covered with trees and brush. The volcanic event would need to be very tame and maybe take place in the lake or during a very wet season?... to keep it from causing a likely catastrophic brush fire(s) in the local area. Hopefully we have a couple thousand years on that one still...
I live there, and there are lava bombs six feet tall and at least as wide along the lake shore and up to seven miles away down Morgan Valler Rd. There are geysers and vents and a geothermal energy plant between Cobb and Middletown. Sulfur occasionally leaks through the ground in the city of Clearlake. And there are lava flows in valleys outside of Lower Lake off Sruce Grove Rd.
Driven through there to get from Redding to the Bay Area. It was always great to stop and take pictures of the Cone from across the Lake in Lucerne. I also drove around the hills of Sonoma passing many old Lava flows. It's a great treat to have area I've personally been to featured.
Used to go through that area a lot when my dad lived in Ukiah. Boy it's been a few decades.... Thanks for the great video on the vulcanism of the Clear Lake area.
So I can go to this golf course and play a round in a maar. Pretty cool Congratulations on pronouncing Konocti right The Geysers definitely powers my condo as I only live an hour away from them
You should do a video covering the Mt Holyoke Mountain range that was created around d the break up of pangea via basalt eruptions. It's unique in that that range goes east to west in Massachusetts, unlike other mountain ranges in the western half of the state
Yep. Dacite is quite a common lithology near Konocti. The majority of the more recent mafic volcanism is clustered to the NE of the rhyodacite domes in the central and southern regions of the volcanic field.
@@barnacleburrito3728 They're just little ones. All you can see is a bit of an upwell. th-cam.com/video/XT-Lwib30Y4/w-d-xo.html Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with this video. Also: I seem to remember a tiny little island with an even tinier little warm seep in the middle of it down near Clear Lake Oaks. But I'm not 100% sure that it's not a product of an overactive imagination.
Thank you for this information, it’s much appreciated. Question what’s the likelihood of an eruption of the Mammoth volcano and Big Bear Basin? A few years ago, while traveling to Denver, we flew directly over the Mammoth volcano basin and could see rather alarmingly that the caldera is still quite active.
Between the lack of information from USGS, and multiple femur wholes making magma movement unnoticable (Lack of earth quakes..) please take a closer look. Between the crackes in my walls to the 30 footer 1/2inch wide in the dirt drive way. Yes we have some ground lift....
Just to give a correction, the Burdell Mountain deposit lies upon melange and schistose deposits and was deposited within a former valley. A vent is not present there
Random thought... Do maars give off any warnings before exploding? For example, the maars that went off in Alaska approximately 50 years ago, did seismolographic equipment happen to pick up minor tremors or harmonic tremors before the explosions occurred?
Although not specifically mentioned in video, there are obsidian deposits around Sonoma Mountain (i.e. one ridge to the east of Tolay Volcanics, as marked in the video) and perhaps in some of the other hills in the area. It's mostly private property though, so don't go rock hounding without permission of property owners.
those would be lake county diamonds. Not actual diamonds. However actual diamonds are also worthless, they are artificially kept scarce by you know who
Because it is still active and the magma chamber still moves and fluctuates. It has very small increases of movements that give off small tremors and quakes from time to time.
Most people do not understand volcanism and the volcanic systems that run up and down the entire western side of the US. Especially that of the Pacific Northwest (which includes Northern California all the way up into Canada and Alaska. In the Lassen Volcanic system there are approximately 36 "active" volcanos. Of which if your an avid hiker you can visit and hike almost all of them. We all can only hope one of these don't go off in our lifetime. Any of our volcanos here in Northern California can be catastrophic if it is any of the larger ones or those with violent explosive histories. If you have driven the Northern California I-5 corridor from Redding towards Sacramento you will see in all those fields volcanic rock strewn everywhere. Some fairly large pieces.but they scatter all across the region southward of Lassen. That is because one of Lassens largest eruptions threw that type of material that far. Crater Lake in Southern Oregon is still active..it formed from a violent eruption explosion some 7700 years ago. And while that lake is near some 2000 feet deep and the water very cold on its surface..down at the bottom near the vents and the island region, the water is boiling. Here is an interesting fact of another volcanic region. Just north of us as you head into Oregon you will pass by the Three Sisters volcanos. Each formed as the magma chamber has shifted south easteward. In more recent years an area even farther south easteward of those has gradually been uplifting. This due to the magma chamber has moved and slowly been pushing upward. Eventually it will break through and form an entirely new completely different volcano. I haven't had the chance to explore the region here around the ClearLake system as of yet since I moved out here. But I love volcanism and geology..so I have hiked, camped, explored almost all of every volcano and systems from those near Chico to those throughout Oregon. Been on and hiked somewhere near 50 something volcanos. Most people have no idea how active the volcano systems truly are in Northern California and upwards going up into Oregon, Washington and following up around into Alaska. We have these because we live where the Pacific Plate is being pushed up and underneath the North American Plate. Where they meet is how these mountain ranges and volcanos form. It is a week spot for the magma deep below to find it's way upward.
The chefs kiss, is the fact that we moved to Clearlake in part because it sits among a small cluster of counties west of the Sierras; which happen to be one of the few safe places in the entire United States. Safe from what you ask? Nuclear fallout. Maybe shoulda watched this first. 😑
Nowhere in the world is truly safe from everything. Ironically billionaires just _love_ New Zealand as their little bunker, meanwhile it has almost every geologic risk known to mankind in abundance and is vulnerable to almost every kind of extreme weather too. "Safe" places are often more so just a perception. Coastal California is probably alright for fallout, though if that sort of scenario occurs you'll have far more to worry about anyways. Enjoy the nice landscapes, cool geology, and decent weather I guess.
From my home.. I see large releases of steam. Clearing out rocks. This tons of water, goes over the Rockies. Picks up tons of moisture. Heat from dryer states. Push it up & together.. what happens next?.. 😮😢
While it's good that the Geysers geothermal plant is running, I think they handled the construction and implementation very badly. This was a very popular hot spring area, heavily used by local people and by visitors from all over the country and world. I grew up going there in the '70s and it was a great place, with lots of natural beauty and a lot of different places to soak and swim in different water temperatures. When they expanded the geothermal plant they closed everything off to the public, but instead they should have kept an area open for hot spring use as that had been a long established activity and use of the area. Another aspect that is questionable is the pumping in of only partially treated wastewater to generate steam. The water is supposed to be fully treated, but it isn't. They started doing this because the power generation had started to fall as the water reserves had been depleted.
I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND THIS DANGEROUS REGION. I worked up at the Geysers for 4 years.. Right next to the blazing hot wellhead. To the more dangerous cooling towers. Where the deadly. H2S gas is. If you smell it too late.
Day 24 of requesting The Meers fault in Oklahoma and talk about other intraplate faults and how large earthquakes can hit away from plate boundaries Also the geologic setting for this volcano is interesting I also read an old article that stated that some Geologists think that this volcanic field was in a Pre caldera Stage Is that true ?
Que Dios bendiga los servicios de Olivia K. Gunda, ella ha cambiado miles de vidas en todo el mundo (Estados Unidos, Colombia, Argentina, México, Ecuador, España, Perú y muchos lugares) que un buen nombre es mejor que la plata o el oro.
Thank you, I have been asking for more on this Volcanic complex as I grew up on this Lake. And now I have it
My wife had family up there. We used to visit all the time. A shame over-use of the river caused stagnation and I suspect the golf course helped with the algae blooms that stunk to high heaven.
@Mike80528 what, no? I'm not sure what river you're talking about, but the lake went stagnant because of the Nice/Lucerne cutoff. Golf course? No, the wineries that weren't there 25 years ago are the problem for runoff now.
Rusty its D. Volcanoes??
@rusty- the cartel marijuana farms have just as much impact if not more. they make zero effort to contain runoff
@@rusty4134 The primary river feeding into the lake. I don't recall the name, but my understanding was more and more got diverted for drinking water. This was over 20 years ago...
I’ve been to Clear Lake many times. It is a volcanic wonderland. About 5 years ago I was driving on a forest service road on the eastern hills of the lake. It was raining and the road was good and wet. I came across a stretch of road about 40 feet of which steam was rising. This was about 5 miles from Knonocti. I’ve also hiked to the top of Knonocti twice. You can see Mt. Shasta from there. Thank you for this video
I wish that people had been successful in finding the rumored lava caves (which supposedly were discovered during a severe drought in the late 19th Century). I know it probably doesn't exist, but the mere prospect of a vast, empty volcanic cavern beneath the summit of Mt. Konocti is the stuff of dreams (or nightmares).
I mean lava domes do tend to have caves in and under them 🤷♂️
Well you do have some of the largest lava caves in the world in Lassen.
@@drscopeifyyeah, but… in Hawaii, there is awesome roadside fruit and shave ice stands near lava tunnels, even if not so big!😄
Buckingham mt. Fell into the lake, years ago. Yet every peak is a lava dome with a coldren with in there a at least a few lakes in Konocti!!! Look at video 1 out of 2 drone video. There are large pools of water, on some of the cliffs.!!¡?!
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To the north of Clearlake there are numerous mudpots where local artists go to get clay for their pottery. They’re quite secretive of them.
A golf course inside a volcanic crater. I did not expect to hear that today.
I will take the penalty rather then try to play out of the lava trap …….
Just looking at the amount of volcanic knowledge that humans have gathered within the last 100 years is absolutely amazing. We had no idea what caused volcanos, what they even were, or why they formed less than 2 centuries ago.
Humans have had innumerable pre-historical and historical interactions with volcanos. While plate tectonics and hot spots, as the primary drivers of volcanos, are a fairly recent finding, to say that humans were essentially clueless about volcanos is a major exaggeration of our supposed ignorance.
@vanguard- sorry bro he's correct. at least 95% of scientific understanding of volcanism emerged within the past century
@@vanguard9067 No, you're just wrong. Humans had no idea what caused volcanoes and made up crazy things like Yahweh to explain them. Now we have facts when all they had was bs they made up.
@@vanguard9067 Pretty sure that for most of humanities history, volcanos were associated with gods or the will of god or something like that. we knew they were dangerous but thought it was because (insert various god here) was upset about something or man was wicked or that god wanted a sacrifice
Thank You for looking in to our Volcano you Rock and are the most profound and Knowledgable.
Creighton from NorCal.
Thank you for this wonderful message!
Amazing! Loved the details in this video! I close by and always like to hear updates about this volcanic field
Thank you for the info. I have several family members living in this area. I often worry about this. Since the last time it has erupted.
This is one of my favorite volcanoes. And in my opinion one of the more scary volcanoes on the west Coast.
Volcanic complexes like this that have long episodes of dormancy make me think of big eruptions being possible. But statistics say highly unlikely but I still think about this one. And it has a huge amount of magma at depth.
Great video
Thanks for all the hard work on these videos!
Thanks as always, Geology Hub!
I have family thar used to live in this area. They have since sold and moved up to Mt Shata to retire. From one volcano to another.
I have been there, it's a beautiful place to explore. Come up and visit if you want some great nature and wine
Since we're talking about California, can you make a video on Amboy Crater?
Another quality video
Thank you for sharing!😊
I cannot imagine how bad an actual volcanic event of any kind would be for the town of Clear Lake and the surrounding developed areas. The terrain almost all very densely covered with trees and brush. The volcanic event would need to be very tame and maybe take place in the lake or during a very wet season?... to keep it from causing a likely catastrophic brush fire(s) in the local area. Hopefully we have a couple thousand years on that one still...
Don't worry. A maar is caused by a steam explosion, so no fire.
Interesting thanks.
There's a youtube video of kids climbing down the throat of Konocti. Pretty interesting stuff.
I live there, and there are lava bombs six feet tall and at least as wide along the lake shore and up to seven miles away down Morgan Valler Rd. There are geysers and vents and a geothermal energy plant between Cobb and Middletown. Sulfur occasionally leaks through the ground in the city of Clearlake. And there are lava flows in valleys outside of Lower Lake off Sruce Grove Rd.
holy cow. thanks for pronouncing Konocti properly. Much love from Sonoma/Lake counties.
Can you, or have you, do a presentation on Mammoth Mountain active volcano in CA?
Driven through there to get from Redding to the Bay Area. It was always great to stop and take pictures of the Cone from across the Lake in Lucerne. I also drove around the hills of Sonoma passing many old Lava flows. It's a great treat to have area I've personally been to featured.
Used to go through that area a lot when my dad lived in Ukiah. Boy it's been a few decades....
Thanks for the great video on the vulcanism of the Clear Lake area.
So I can go to this golf course and play a round in a maar. Pretty cool
Congratulations on pronouncing Konocti right
The Geysers definitely powers my condo as I only live an hour away from them
I finally got to go up there last year. It’s great to see how the craters overlay the landscape
Nother great video by Marr bro.
Clear Lake has the best volcanic bass fishing on Earth.
Very Interesting, thank you.
Thanks.
You should do a video covering the Mt Holyoke Mountain range that was created around d the break up of pangea via basalt eruptions.
It's unique in that that range goes east to west in Massachusetts, unlike other mountain ranges in the western half of the state
Love your channel. Is there any chance you can make the small window boxes of text? Any larger? Thanks so much!.
Clear lake is a great place.
PS the fog in Niece( north side of our lake) in the winter is actually steam coming off the lake in the mornings!!!
Had a bunch of family in the area. There are cuts on the side of the road where you can just pick up huge chunks of obsidian.
AhHa this the exact field I wanted to know about, thank you VOG (voice of geology)
It still could create dacite lava domes.
Yep. Dacite is quite a common lithology near Konocti. The majority of the more recent mafic volcanism is clustered to the NE of the rhyodacite domes in the central and southern regions of the volcanic field.
There are also geothermal vents within the lake itself.
bro please elaborate
@@barnacleburrito3728 They're just little ones. All you can see is a bit of an upwell. th-cam.com/video/XT-Lwib30Y4/w-d-xo.html
Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with this video.
Also: I seem to remember a tiny little island with an even tinier little warm seep in the middle of it down near Clear Lake Oaks. But I'm not 100% sure that it's not a product of an overactive imagination.
Thank you for this information, it’s much appreciated. Question what’s the likelihood of an eruption of the Mammoth volcano and Big Bear Basin?
A few years ago, while traveling to Denver, we flew directly over the Mammoth volcano basin and could see rather alarmingly that the caldera is still quite active.
Between the lack of information from USGS, and multiple femur wholes making magma movement unnoticable (Lack of earth quakes..) please take a closer look.
Between the crackes in my walls to the 30 footer 1/2inch wide in the dirt drive way. Yes we have some ground lift....
Just to give a correction, the Burdell Mountain deposit lies upon melange and schistose deposits and was deposited within a former valley. A vent is not present there
Cool.
Random thought... Do maars give off any warnings before exploding? For example, the maars that went off in Alaska approximately 50 years ago, did seismolographic equipment happen to pick up minor tremors or harmonic tremors before the explosions occurred?
Although not specifically mentioned in video, there are obsidian deposits around Sonoma Mountain (i.e. one ridge to the east of Tolay Volcanics, as marked in the video) and perhaps in some of the other hills in the area. It's mostly private property though, so don't go rock hounding without permission of property owners.
We used to pick up low grade diamonds around the base of Mt. konocktie at clear lake!
those would be lake county diamonds. Not actual diamonds. However actual diamonds are also worthless, they are artificially kept scarce by you know who
@@barnacleburrito3728 No we don;t know who. Could you explain your bigotry and ignorance further?
Why do we think it will erupt again? And, if it has been 9000 years since the last time, will the next time be bigger?
Because it is still active and the magma chamber still moves and fluctuates. It has very small increases of movements that give off small tremors and quakes from time to time.
Hwy 101 Geyserville California.
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Most people do not understand volcanism and the volcanic systems that run up and down the entire western side of the US. Especially that of the Pacific Northwest (which includes Northern California all the way up into Canada and Alaska.
In the Lassen Volcanic system there are approximately 36 "active" volcanos. Of which if your an avid hiker you can visit and hike almost all of them.
We all can only hope one of these don't go off in our lifetime.
Any of our volcanos here in Northern California can be catastrophic if it is any of the larger ones or those with violent explosive histories.
If you have driven the Northern California I-5 corridor from Redding towards Sacramento you will see in all those fields volcanic rock strewn everywhere. Some fairly large pieces.but they scatter all across the region southward of Lassen. That is because one of Lassens largest eruptions threw that type of material that far.
Crater Lake in Southern Oregon is still active..it formed from a violent eruption explosion some 7700 years ago. And while that lake is near some 2000 feet deep and the water very cold on its surface..down at the bottom near the vents and the island region, the water is boiling.
Here is an interesting fact of another volcanic region. Just north of us as you head into Oregon you will pass by the Three Sisters volcanos. Each formed as the magma chamber has shifted south easteward. In more recent years an area even farther south easteward of those has gradually been uplifting. This due to the magma chamber has moved and slowly been pushing upward. Eventually it will break through and form an entirely new completely different volcano.
I haven't had the chance to explore the region here around the ClearLake system as of yet since I moved out here.
But I love volcanism and geology..so I have hiked, camped, explored almost all of every volcano and systems from those near Chico to those throughout Oregon. Been on and hiked somewhere near 50 something volcanos.
Most people have no idea how active the volcano systems truly are in Northern California and upwards going up into Oregon, Washington and following up around into Alaska.
We have these because we live where the Pacific Plate is being pushed up and underneath the North American Plate. Where they meet is how these mountain ranges and volcanos form. It is a week spot for the magma deep below to find it's way upward.
The chefs kiss, is the fact that we moved to Clearlake in part because it sits among a small cluster of counties west of the Sierras; which happen to be one of the few safe places in the entire United States. Safe from what you ask?
Nuclear fallout.
Maybe shoulda watched this first. 😑
Nowhere in the world is truly safe from everything. Ironically billionaires just _love_ New Zealand as their little bunker, meanwhile it has almost every geologic risk known to mankind in abundance and is vulnerable to almost every kind of extreme weather too. "Safe" places are often more so just a perception. Coastal California is probably alright for fallout, though if that sort of scenario occurs you'll have far more to worry about anyways. Enjoy the nice landscapes, cool geology, and decent weather I guess.
From my home.. I see large releases of steam. Clearing out rocks. This tons of water, goes over the Rockies. Picks up tons of moisture. Heat from dryer states. Push it up & together.. what happens next?.. 😮😢
While it's good that the Geysers geothermal plant is running, I think they handled the construction and implementation very badly.
This was a very popular hot spring area, heavily used by local people and by visitors from all over the country and world. I grew up going there in the '70s and it was a great place, with lots of natural beauty and a lot of different places to soak and swim in different water temperatures.
When they expanded the geothermal plant they closed everything off to the public, but instead they should have kept an area open for hot spring use as that had been a long established activity and use of the area.
Another aspect that is questionable is the pumping in of only partially treated wastewater to generate steam. The water is supposed to be fully treated, but it isn't. They started doing this because the power generation had started to fall as the water reserves had been depleted.
So would this be the source of "Clear Lake Diamonds" (quartz crystals you can find all over the area)...
Yep. Tons of obsidian around Lake County too. You’ll find it just about everywhere here.
I live next to it.
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The geysers is the world's largest Geothermal complex in the world...😊
Not to mention that the lake is 2.5 million years old
As the first and most rain falls. Enjoy the steam Vents!!! threw out lake county!!!!!!
Long valley is South West Yellowstone is north east in between is a mantle plume
I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND THIS DANGEROUS REGION. I worked up at the Geysers for 4 years.. Right next to the blazing hot wellhead. To the more dangerous cooling towers. Where the deadly. H2S gas is. If you smell it too late.
You do not if you think it's dangerous lol.
Kilo kilometers like because it's cubed??
Geothermal for electric, the intelligent choice.
How can you call it active when it's be 1000s years ago?😊
This is geology. Thousands of years is yesterday.
Thousands of years is nothing compared to the near 14 billion years the planet has been around.
@@merlindraper6176 it is 4.54 ± 0.05 billion years.
Great I'm going to California tomorrow morning 😂
Be careful. Make sure you NEVER go within 200 miles of clear lake! For your own safetu
It’s gonna destroy a lot of mobile homes if it erupts any time soon
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Day 24 of requesting
The Meers fault in Oklahoma and talk about other intraplate faults and how large earthquakes can hit away from plate boundaries
Also the geologic setting for this volcano is interesting
I also read an old article that stated that some Geologists think that this volcanic field was in a Pre caldera Stage
Is that true ?
Nor cal. Is a bomb. SoCal is also.. where did the tar pits come from?..🤔🥴
😂😂😂😂 oh wouldnt that be ironic❤❤❤
Ponce golf an a volc😂😂😂😂😂
They realy would go ping if went off😂😂😂😂❤❤❤👍👍🙏🙏🎃🎃🇬🇧🇬🇧💎💎
good thing my Aunt and cousin moved away from there.
*¡Yo estoy feliz, 42000 dólares cada mes! Ahora puedo retribuir a la gente de mi comunidad y también apoyar las obras de Dios y la iglesia.*
Dios te bendiga más abundantemente por tu generosidad.
Cómo lo haces por favor?
Gracias a la señora Olivia K. Gunda
¡¡¡SÍ!!! Ese es exactamente su nombre (Olivia K. Gunda) por lo que mucha gente la ha recomendado mucho y recién estoy empezando con ella.
Que Dios bendiga los servicios de Olivia K. Gunda, ella ha cambiado miles de vidas en todo el mundo (Estados Unidos, Colombia, Argentina, México, Ecuador, España, Perú y muchos lugares) que un buen nombre es mejor que la plata o el oro.