Hello! Thank you for the video! I am from Russia and it's very nice to hear we don't have volcanoes only on Kamchatka 😄 Although I didn't find the name "Jom Bolok" used to call this system. We simply know it as Volcano Valley or sometimes Khi Gol. Khi Gol (as Jom Bolok) is a river.
Yeah it's a rift lake within the rift zone known as the Baikal rift zone where the Amur plate is splitting away from the Eurasian plate. The tectonics around the Amur plate are interesting you have rifting to the west a zone of largely translational faulting with lots of Earthquakes the full away basin which separates mainland Eurasia from the Korean peninsula with the northern half of Japan being in part due to a triple convergence boundary between the two continental affinity plates the Amur plate, an ancient proterozoic aged cratonic core and surrounding terrains formerly part of Gondwana prior to the formation of Pangaea, & the Okhotsk plate, an old severed off chunk of North America, and the oceanic Pacific plate which is subducting beneath these two colliding continental plates.
Yeah. As a kid I thought that such features were super rare, now I learn that there are such rifts in East Africa, Palestine (Dead Sea) and now Lake Baikal. And for all of those to exist there must be subduction zones at other places.
@@donaldduck830 Yeah there are a few more rift zones too to account for. In particular there is also a rift complex in Antarctica where west Antarctica is splitting away from East Antarctica which are why the ice is so much less stable there compared to the eastern part of the continent with the crust also able to much more rapidly rebound to ice loss because it is relatively thin and hot there. I can't help but be concerned with the implications of the loss of ice in his region since similar deglaciation in volcanically active areas has resulted in a short lived major spike in volcanic activity as the weight of ice suppressing volcanic activity is removed. North America has some major active extension too though with a different character involving more of clockwise rotation which seems to be related to the relative difference in motion of the North American and Pacific plates. You have the Rio Grande rift zone which separates the Basin and Range province from the more stable eastern half of the Continent. There is an even more sharp rift like zone of deformation in California where the rigid Great Valley Sierra Nevada crustal block is in the process of getting sheared off of the continent proper and if it weren't for the Colorado river delta blocking off the Pacific Ocean the ocean would be able to reach all the way into Palm Springs California as both the Salton trough and Death Valley are well below sea level. I should note that these features all lie along the lower than average density slow sheer velocity zone in the upper mantle which corresponds to the East Pacific Rise so the rifting in NA might better be thought of as a consequence of NA crossing the deeply rooted fast spreading ridge. For more info on that check into Nick Zentner's A to Z livestreams for the Crazy Eocene and Baja BC if you have the time or at least look at the papers which cover these topics and the new emerging geological picture. There are probably some other ones out there too as Earth is a complicated place.
Kimberlite diamond pipes, volcanic in origin, also occur in Yakutia. Though the kimberlite up in Mirny was buried by half a kilometer of permafrost. Russians, in their inevitable way, exposed it by detonating a nuclear explosive to clear off the ice and rock to expose the diamond-bearing ore. And leukemia rates in that small Arctic town reflect that unfortunate fact to this very day.
To aid viewers, who want to further explore these volcanic locations on Google Maps or Google Earth, it would be very helpful if you included the coordinates of a major feature in the description.
I vaguely knew that Lake Baikal was as related to a rifting episode, but mistakenly thought it was an inactive "failed rift" like the one in North America that is related to the Great Lakes. Interesting to find out that Siberia has an active rift.
Wow, really? I always thought the Great Lakes had been scooped out by glaciers, like the Bodensee in Germany, the Fjords in Norway or similar. A "failed rift". Thank you for teaching me in addition to GeoHub!
@@donaldduck830 They were scooped out by glaciers, but there is a failed rift in North America that provided a general path for the glaciers to follow. It's all very complicated though with a lot of factors interacting.
Thanks as always! This volcano, along with the Baikal rift is interesting because of the possibility that Eurasia may split along the Baikal rift in the future. I may be misinterpreting things however, so please correct me on this. I wonder if there are more lava flows nearby.
If the split reached the Himalayan Plateau, I'd think it would need to turn -- westward maybe? I think direction changes in faults means rifting slows down. OTOH, rifting that plateau would be pretty amazing! But maybe the Indian plate will drive the two apart.⚙💔
Thank you so much for the work you do. You are a trust worthy source of news I choose to listen to. I have very strict rules when deciding what outlets to consume news related media from, and I feel safe and confident using you as a source of geology related news. I am obsessed with geology, I have been volcano watching using live feeds for over 12 years now. Earthquakes, volcanoes, and how the earth operates is the most interesting topic to study. I wish I could make a living with something geology related, but sadly, canada for some reasons doesnt care for geology related science even though its got the best features to study
How deeply was this area covered during the last glacial maximum? I would think that isostatic rebound would put a great deal of stress on any underlying faults, especially if different sides of the fault system had differing amounts of ice.
I'm wondering if this field has any connection with the Gakkel Ridge & Laptev Rifts. I followed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge once on a map and it seems to hit the Siberian mainland to the north.
This rift tranfers to a transform fault to the east and later meets another transform fault at (which is a part of Gakkel ridge, yes it turns in transform fault) at triple junction at Chersky Range
No, first - hotspots are thought to exist for ~100 million years and then die down, the Siberian Traps (along with Emeishan Traps) happened 270 - 252 million years ago; second - hotspots are stationary and Siberia was approximately in tropics when the Great Dying happened then drifted north
Thank you for this clear description. Yet another volcano Ive never heard of. Are there any seismic tremours or are they only existant in curently moving magma situations.?
@@jjMcCartan9686Quit being pretentious and exclusive! This site is open to those who are less highly educated, dyslexic etc, or have English as very much a second language, and it is not for you to make them unwelcome.
Any information on lava composition. Long distance of flow suggests a very fluid lava. An intraplate rift and fluid lava , maybe Lake Kivu in East Africa is an analogue.
The narrator names the volcano as Jom Bolok, like the name of the local river. Russian wiki page says the word “JomBolok” could be translated from native buryatsky language as left (jom) spring head (bolok)
Hello! Thank you for the video! I am from Russia and it's very nice to hear we don't have volcanoes only on Kamchatka 😄 Although I didn't find the name "Jom Bolok" used to call this system. We simply know it as Volcano Valley or sometimes Khi Gol. Khi Gol (as Jom Bolok) is a river.
Just learned Baikal was a part of a rift zone very cool! This channel is the best! Thank you Geology Hub!
Yeah it's a rift lake within the rift zone known as the Baikal rift zone where the Amur plate is splitting away from the Eurasian plate. The tectonics around the Amur plate are interesting you have rifting to the west a zone of largely translational faulting with lots of Earthquakes the full away basin which separates mainland Eurasia from the Korean peninsula with the northern half of Japan being in part due to a triple convergence boundary between the two continental affinity plates the Amur plate, an ancient proterozoic aged cratonic core and surrounding terrains formerly part of Gondwana prior to the formation of Pangaea, & the Okhotsk plate, an old severed off chunk of North America, and the oceanic Pacific plate which is subducting beneath these two colliding continental plates.
I'm a long time fan of your content I swear I've learned more off the Internet than anywhere else but I love it that way
Would be neat to have a full video on Lake Baikal.
Yeah. As a kid I thought that such features were super rare, now I learn that there are such rifts in East Africa, Palestine (Dead Sea) and now Lake Baikal. And for all of those to exist there must be subduction zones at other places.
@@donaldduck830 Yeah there are a few more rift zones too to account for. In particular there is also a rift complex in Antarctica where west Antarctica is splitting away from East Antarctica which are why the ice is so much less stable there compared to the eastern part of the continent with the crust also able to much more rapidly rebound to ice loss because it is relatively thin and hot there. I can't help but be concerned with the implications of the loss of ice in his region since similar deglaciation in volcanically active areas has resulted in a short lived major spike in volcanic activity as the weight of ice suppressing volcanic activity is removed.
North America has some major active extension too though with a different character involving more of clockwise rotation which seems to be related to the relative difference in motion of the North American and Pacific plates. You have the Rio Grande rift zone which separates the Basin and Range province from the more stable eastern half of the Continent. There is an even more sharp rift like zone of deformation in California where the rigid Great Valley Sierra Nevada crustal block is in the process of getting sheared off of the continent proper and if it weren't for the Colorado river delta blocking off the Pacific Ocean the ocean would be able to reach all the way into Palm Springs California as both the Salton trough and Death Valley are well below sea level. I should note that these features all lie along the lower than average density slow sheer velocity zone in the upper mantle which corresponds to the East Pacific Rise so the rifting in NA might better be thought of as a consequence of NA crossing the deeply rooted fast spreading ridge. For more info on that check into Nick Zentner's A to Z livestreams for the Crazy Eocene and Baja BC if you have the time or at least look at the papers which cover these topics and the new emerging geological picture.
There are probably some other ones out there too as Earth is a complicated place.
It’s creepy to think of the poisonous gases snaking their way through canyons for 100 km. Yikes.
Kimberlite diamond pipes, volcanic in origin, also occur in Yakutia. Though the kimberlite up in Mirny was buried by half a kilometer of permafrost. Russians, in their inevitable way, exposed it by detonating a nuclear explosive to clear off the ice and rock to expose the diamond-bearing ore. And leukemia rates in that small Arctic town reflect that unfortunate fact to this very day.
Unbelievable. A nuke to clear ice and snow?
In the Republic of Yakutia (Russia), there is a single, single volcano "Balagan-Tas"
To aid viewers, who want to further explore these volcanic locations on Google Maps or Google Earth, it would be very helpful if you included the coordinates of a major feature in the description.
He gave the name of the area.i found it in 2 mins.
@@jjMcCartan9686 Yep. That's how I found it, too. But sometimes Google has trouble with feature names.
He also shows its location in relation to Lake Baikal, and Google Maps or Earth should be able to locate that in 2 seconds.
The coordinates are also available to copy-and-paste on Wikipedia.
Zooming into it with lake Baikal in view is quite clear, should be very easy to find.
Much appreciated, once again, GH
Thanks for all of your hard work man!
I vaguely knew that Lake Baikal was as related to a rifting episode, but mistakenly thought it was an inactive "failed rift" like the one in North America that is related to the Great Lakes.
Interesting to find out that Siberia has an active rift.
Wow, really? I always thought the Great Lakes had been scooped out by glaciers, like the Bodensee in Germany, the Fjords in Norway or similar.
A "failed rift". Thank you for teaching me in addition to GeoHub!
@@donaldduck830 They were scooped out by glaciers, but there is a failed rift in North America that provided a general path for the glaciers to follow.
It's all very complicated though with a lot of factors interacting.
@@mbvoelker8448 Ah, ok. As always, the world is even more complicated ;)
Thanks as always! This volcano, along with the Baikal rift is interesting because of the possibility that Eurasia may split along the Baikal rift in the future. I may be misinterpreting things however, so please correct me on this.
I wonder if there are more lava flows nearby.
It wouldn't split. There's a huge magma chamber under it, which would make more land with lava. Sort of like Iceland.
If the split reached the Himalayan Plateau, I'd think it would need to turn -- westward maybe? I think direction changes in faults means rifting slows down.
OTOH, rifting that plateau would be pretty amazing!
But maybe the Indian plate will drive the two apart.⚙💔
Thank you so much for the work you do. You are a trust worthy source of news I choose to listen to. I have very strict rules when deciding what outlets to consume news related media from, and I feel safe and confident using you as a source of geology related news.
I am obsessed with geology, I have been volcano watching using live feeds for over 12 years now. Earthquakes, volcanoes, and how the earth operates is the most interesting topic to study. I wish I could make a living with something geology related, but sadly, canada for some reasons doesnt care for geology related science even though its got the best features to study
Thank you!
Amazing and beautiful 🥹🌋
well one thing is for sure the earth is always changing even if we were not there to see it
How deeply was this area covered during the last glacial maximum? I would think that isostatic rebound would put a great deal of stress on any underlying faults, especially if different sides of the fault system had differing amounts of ice.
Я в шоке! Даже не знал, что прям так недавно были вулканы прям в центре Сибири
@ASMR Geographica, your favorite lake got even more interesting
A historical update, thanks, Greg.😊.
this guy's name is tim not greg
@@SrirachaChugChallenge747-jq7byI think @user... is giving his own name, in which case he is probably correct. 😇
Can you do a video on the Kie Besi volcano on Malian island in Indonesia?It has produced some pretty deadly eruptions in the past.
I'm wondering if this field has any connection with the Gakkel Ridge & Laptev Rifts. I followed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge once on a map and it seems to hit the Siberian mainland to the north.
This rift tranfers to a transform fault to the east and later meets another transform fault at (which is a part of Gakkel ridge, yes it turns in transform fault) at triple junction at Chersky Range
Could this rift zone be asociated with the ancient hotspot wich triggered the Siberian Traps?
No, first - hotspots are thought to exist for ~100 million years and then die down, the Siberian Traps (along with Emeishan Traps) happened 270 - 252 million years ago; second - hotspots are stationary and Siberia was approximately in tropics when the Great Dying happened then drifted north
Thank you for this clear description. Yet another volcano Ive never heard of. Are there any seismic tremours or are they only existant in curently moving magma situations.?
Are there anyone who can spell tremors & existent properly..Oh me 👍
@@jjMcCartan9686Quit being pretentious and exclusive! This site is open to those who are less highly educated, dyslexic etc, or have English as very much a second language, and it is not for you to make them unwelcome.
That'sa runny lava! Just the way I like it!
Well who put that there?
What? A Siberian volcano that barfs lava all over the place? Unheard of!
Any information on lava composition. Long distance of flow suggests a very fluid lava. An intraplate rift and fluid lava , maybe Lake Kivu in East Africa is an analogue.
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Do sutter buttes near Sacramento calif
He did a few years ago, search it
4:32 Very funny: "the people ... would have to be evacuated", like Russia has money left to monitor these remote volcanoes?
In indonesian jom means 'come on' and bolok means 'block' couldn't find any russian translation.
Perhaps the name is from one of the native languages in Siberia. 🤷♂️
@@OpaSpielt yes, could also be somebodies name. Would be interesting to find out as it could be historical as well as linguustic.
The narrator names the volcano as Jom Bolok, like the name of the local river. Russian wiki page says the word “JomBolok” could be translated from native buryatsky language as left (jom) spring head (bolok)
How close is this volcano to the Ukrainian border?
A very long way.
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Loser 😂😂😂😂😂😂
The TH-cam "First!" Game is getting a little stale these days. Surely there are better ways to entertain yourself?
Nobody cares
@@SrirachaChugChallenge747-jq7by And yet you took the time to bang out those words.
Terrible narrator. I had to quit.
Your vids are too short -_-