The Active Volcano in Portugal; Madeira
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- One of the largest and most beautiful Portuguese islands is the island of Madeira. Yet, few people who live on this island realize that this volcano is still active. It erupted in the last 10,000 years and will certainly erupt again. This video will discuss this volcano and mention what its future hazards are.
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Madeira actually means Wood in Portuguese. The island was so named because it was very densely wooded when it was discovered.
@Henrique Capela And Madeira's capital city of Funchal was named due to the abundance in the region of "funcho" (fennel).
It was called purple islands before the Portuguese
I'm loving the Portugal series, as a descendant, this is the closes to home it could get.
Same.
The island of Madeira could be best classified as in the waning stages of shield volcano related activity. Its eruptions are now rather infrequent, as the last one occurred in 4500 BC and was small.
What would you consider to be the oldest active volcano? Google says its Mt Etna
@@projectaks4745 Mount Cameroon
@GeologyHub Do you think Madeira could go into the the strato cons building stage or just extinct altogether in a similar pattern to the Hawaiian islands?
@@filledwithvariousknowledge1065 extinct altogether in a manner similar to the Hawaiian islands.
My beautiful Portugal, i hope you're finding the research on our vulcanoes interesting, love your work!
Can you talk about the history and origins of the Corcovado and Pão de Açúcar formations in Rio de Janeiro? Keep up the great work from a brasilian fan.
@Henrique Bastos 🙂I would like to see that too......those are 2 very emblematic and famous landmarks of Brasil💙💛💚
I could eventually cover it. Is largely a remnant of an ancient magma chamber or igneous intrusions (it’s granite).
Went there 2000. Fantastic.
I have had the privilege of visiting Madeira back just after the terrible flash floods which killed several dozen people. The island is a volcanologists dream and you cannot miss the physical evidence of how it was created. The topography is absolutely stunning and is such that the airport had to be built on stilts across a bay due to the lack of available land. Landing there is an experience in itself… I spent most of my time driving around the island, a challenge to get anywhere in a short time such is the difficulty of the terrain. Having said that the road networks and countless tunnels is very good just negated by the topography. The northern coastline is incredible with verticals cliffs of 400m plus rising straight up from the sea… I would go back there in a heartbeat…
I think its classified as one of the most dangerous airports in the world
Wow! Thank you GeologyHub, I requested this video and you delivered. It was so interesting and I learnt a lot, including the fact that the rock at Porto Da Cruz was once a volcano (unless I’m misunderstanding) as I always thought it was. I love visiting this island and do so as frequently as I can but I didn’t know that the volcano of Madeira was still active and that there sounds to be a reasonable chance it could erupt again. Thank you!
An amazing video! Thank you for these amazing updates
Suggestion: The Tectonic Setting and Geology of Puerto Rico and Its Surrounding Seafloor, even tho is a volcanic island, there’s no volcanos there, I wonder why? Thanks for the video, you’re doing a great job and happy holidays.
Puerto Rico was indeed volcanic but hasn't erupted for about 20-60 million years and its movement from the east pacific into its current postion caused its volcanic peaks to like be warped and form a sort of system of valleys and ridges we see on it today(theory)
@@KaiserStormTracking accuratr.
I've been having a great time watching your Volcanoes of the World playlist and since this is the only one on the list I have actually been to (without knowing it was still classified as active at the time), I thought I'd leave a comment on this one! I find all the videos really interesting, but learning something new about a place I visited recently just makes it even more enjoyable! The simple joy of seeing the picture of the natural pools of Porto Moniz and getting to say "oh hey I stood there too". Didn't know it was the result of a lava flow at the time, though!
Wow!
You should make a video about cities next to still active volcanoes built right on top of lava flows from previous eruptions. The island you're showing in this video looks like La Palma rotated to a different angle, and like La Palma it has a city that's built where lava flowed the last time that will likely get buried in lava the next time the volcano erupts. I also see a lot of islands where there are cities built on flat areas left by previous collapses or areas previously hit by pyroclastic flows. It doesn't seem like a good idea for people to choose these areas of these islands to build cities. It's like a set up for future disaster, in my opinion. Almost every inhabited volcanic island has one of these cities which were most likely built where they were located because it was the only part of the island that was flat. But I'd rather live in a hilly city than directly in the path of a lava flow.
As a native Madeiran, this video was very interesting and entertaining to watch! Because of its volcanic origins, there is a lot of basalt in Madeira island, though I did not know until months ago that the island is still volcanically active. Thank your for your detailed explanations as well!
Odds of one in fifteen thousand of an eruption will put this volcano squarely on my 'don't worry about it' list!! 🌋
Portugal is one of those sountries you don't think about when talking about vulcanos, bit it has quite a few.
In Azores, not in Madeira. This video is not totally correct. That part about the formation off Madeira is correct, but the rest...
many thanks for this video in particular, as well as for the rest.
Can you talk about about Porto Santo Island volcanics and the carbonate Sea shelf platform and central island carbonate sand deposits.
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
So small and with 20 volcanoes......damn...!!!
Have you ever considered doing an episode on the Ritter island volcano? (Or what's left of it)
I have considered covering it! Already thoroughly researched the volcano. Now just need to reverse engineer exactly how large it once was. Will attempt to figure out what the island once looked like pre-collapse
I live in Montreal and would love if you would do an episode on Mount Royal and the corresponding Monteregian Hills / Great Meteor Hotspot Track
I have a question about volvanic eruptions in general:
There was an age of more intensity on volcanic eruptions around the world? Or its just the amount of time during reuptions that seem less when you talk on million years...
Thanks for the video! 😁
By accident, I've found an interesting article on the Internet, that says Norway and New England are expected to have volcanoes within a few million years. Do you think this asssessment is credible, and if so, maybe consider making a video about this topic?
Norway already has 1 volcano (beerenberg). As for New England it’s quite possible (deep magmatic activity) but unsure when in the distance future eruptions will occur. Definitely several million years from now at a minimum
I know the information might be scarce, but I’d really like to know more about the origins of the Manitou islands and Callander bay volcanic pipes in Lake Nipissing in Ontario
It seems like a few volcanos started to showed active activities beside La Palma and Semeru.
I was thinking of this one after the video from yesterday. Thanks :)
Could you do a video on the Zuidwal and Mulciber volcanoes in the Netherlands? :D
How about of the hot springs in Arkansas? Arkansas have diamond fields.
He did that one
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Not all gems are diamonds.
It's Faial, not Fayal. And that volcano in that island has the name of Capelinhos.
liked video 🌋😮👍
Interesting, but which is more dangerous the underwater volcano or the ones above sea level the ones we can see? I used to ask that but always got dismissed by adults back then yeah I know real nice ones
depends on the situation.. for shipping submarine volcanoes can be very dangerous.. but on a global impact scale surface volcanoes have the potential to be worse. to use as an example, the submarine volcano near Madagascar had been erupting for a few years and no one had any clue it was happening other than a couple earthquakes being felt in Mayotte.
For all? Inner earth.
Have you covered Suwanosejima?
Do volcanos grow larger in water, verses on land?
Yes. The above water ones are due to many many many deep roots to inner Earth's lava source.
Hay tres grandes Volcanes en los archipielagos, de la region llamada " Macaronesia" que significa , islas de felicidad.
Do pico en Azores de unos 2.300. De altitud
Teide en Canarias 3.718 m sobre el nivel del mar y 4.000 m bajo el mar, lo que le situa en el tercer lugar de los edificios volcanicos mas altos del planeta, si se tiene en cuenta la medicion desde el lecho del Oceano.
Do fogo en cabo verde, de unos 2.800 m.sobre el nivel del mar. Todos en el Atlantico.
@GeologyHub Could This island contain gold?
How can a volcano that last erupted in 4,500 BC (6,500 years ago, be still classified as active?
there is a threshold of 10,000s of no volcanic activity or any geothermal activity fueled by magma to exist for a volcano to not be active(with the exceptions of cinder cones that are monogenetic and once they stop erupting they are classified as extinct by default)
Because it was awakened. Again.
And a third. As all good things come in 3.
Why are the Azores having such explosive volcanoes such as the furnas Caldera?
My family decended from there and travelled to the USA during the eruption as refugees.
I am angry of the thrift.
What kind of eruption is dangerous?
The most? The ones self made selfmade self-made
Never went to Madeira, i hope I'll be there someday.
21 celsius all year round basically, its a beautiful island with an amzing climate but it has one big fault, it lacks beaches.
@@sjwarialaw8155 They have them... Just not like in the mainland.
@@theprophecy11 they are very tiny and the sand is quite meh
I will.
Volcanoes can sleep 40000 years and the wake
Time is a thread. Simply.
Interesting content. However the narrator sounds like a computer and was distracting for me.
Açores - Madeira - Cabo Verde - Canary Islands = MACARONÉSIA
MACARONESIA = Islas de la Felicidad.
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Is this really for real... 🤔🤔🤔
There a street in my city name Madeira
Now do Agua De Pau
CR7... ⚽
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Starting to experiment on FX i see.
Madeira definitely isn't active, false claims
Yo
Shoot some fire out of the dirt or water and do it now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Interesting you demand.
abaz tudo mentira