Seems fairly reasonable to speculate this new hotspring comes as a result of exceptionally wet winter California had this year. More water seeping into the crust, creating a higher than average water table, while overlaying the hotspot seems logical that it would create a new hotspring. If this is the case I would assume it would be temporary until the water table drops to background levels once again.
@aaronjackman4037 it would be bad if an entire river were to get unimpeded access to the magma chamber, but that kind of thing only happens in an Amazon Prime version of Lord of the Rings. In real life, water seeps, reaches a level where temperatures are high enough to boil it, then it rises back to the surface as a fumarole or a geyser or a hotspring.
I used to swim in Hot Creek right there where those hot blue pools are, but in 1973 those pools were not there. There was an area too hot to swim in next to the swimming area. Over the years it started being too hot and the underwater rocks would burn people's bare feet. In 2004 after a geyser event I heard they closed Hot Creek to swimming. It can still geyser now and then, it's not a big geyser, just boils up 3 or 4 feet. I did see a video of one that shot up about 15-20 feet in the air. I can't find the video anymore.
I remember going there several times as a kid as well, and I'd heard about the closure. However there are a number of recent videos of people swimming there anyway.
@@nooneherebutuschickens5201 Well they closed it in 2004, are you sure? I mean can you see those blue pools in the background or were they further up the creek? Where I heard it is still cool enough to swim, but a big ticket if you get caught.
We used to swim in Hot Creek; it was great because one could find spots in the river where the cold water mixed with the hot water to the perfect temperature. Swimming was banned after a late night Earthquake caused temperatures in the river to suddenly spike. Fortunately, no one was swimming at the time, or they would have boiled alive. After that incident, swimming in Hot Creek was banned.
Not a new Hot spring, it's a new vent to the same hot springs. Happens a lot in this particular stretch of Hot Creek. Mostly it's caused by the intrusion of large amount of water from big snow years, which we just had.
Interesting, I was there over memorial weekend and thought the vents were more active. Maybe because of the extra water this year? At overlook to Hot Creek, there was a vent that I had not noticed before 😊 If you haven’t visited this area (including the Owens valley), you should. Drive up onion valley road (Independence) into the Sierra 😮
Should've seen it in the 1970s, no blue pools and some boiling pots and fumaroles here and there up the canyon. I used to camp out there up the creek a ways, no restrictions then and hard boil eggs in the boiling pots.
Like most things, these are temporary. I just remembered a relatively recent event on the Haida Gwaii archipelago. The springs on Hot Spring Island, which had sparked logging protest leading to the creation of a national park, stopped after a small earth quake. It may have started again but if not, poor tourist industry.
Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve, Parks Canada ... May 2017, " The three pools were built thanks to a joint, 2016 funding announcement between the Haida Nation and Government of Canada and the elbow work of Gwaii Haanas asset management crew. The three new hot pools delighted visitors from near and far, many happy to experience the hot pools once again. The hot pools drained in October 2012 after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook Haida Gwaii. Hot water has been slowly returning to the area ever since and we look forward to once again offering natural hot water bathing.
Thanks for this. I was not aware of how new geothermal features could form! I hope tabloids do not sensationalize this; If they do, it will be frustrating!
You mentioned the deposition of travertine. That’s very interesting. The exterior of the Colosseum in Rome was originally covered with slabs of travertine (long ago taken [mined?] to be put to use in other projects.) I had always assumed travertine formed the same way limestone or marble does from the buildup over millions of years of calcium carbonate, usually on a sea floor.
When I visited Yellowstone in 2013, it was clear to see some areas that had been full of geyser activity that were now quiet - no steam, no boiling water. But the yellow/white soil was left behind.
I swam in Hot Creek in the early '70's. It was common knowledge then(warning signs posted) that new hot springs formed all the time. People animals had been injured or killed, repeatedly , over the years. Walk off trail, at your peril- at risk of falling in to a hot spring "sinkhole". I forgot when it was closed to swimming, but it was decades ago.
Yes, and you did NOT want to be anywhere nearby in the 80's when they had that series of quakes there--many of them geysered and overall flow for them went up 10X for a short time.
I went there in 1971-72-73 all the time. There wasn't many signs that I remember and the swimming area where those blue pools are now had a too hot area right next to it. Some people's dog jumped into the 180 degree water, it was horrible, but that was the only super hot area of the creek. Dog went down stream and was out of the hot water quickly, but it was burned with blisters. There was also a rock underwater that would burn your feet if you stepped on it hard enough, but you could feel rumbling on some rocks from water boiling up. Luckily for the dog the hot water was mostly on the North bank and cold water shot around on the South side. I used to camp out upstream from the hot part, but there were boiling pots and a few fumaroles up the creek for quite some distance. They closed Hot Creek in 2004 after a geyser event with boiling hot water in the middle of the creek. There is still an area where you can swim, but they don't allow it cuz of stupidity. They have signs saying to leash your animals and I've seen people let their dogs loose with boiling pots and fumaroles all over.
@@MountainFisherGrew up in the area and I remember my science teacher saying the same story, but not with a happy ending... A lot of dogs jump into the hot springs 😢
You are important to this history! Thank you for the knowledge-sharing. Does the NPS have a way to record these historical community knowledge? That would be cool
@@francoloma2971 I wouldn't worry. It's common lore among avid fly fishermen, local rangers, NPS visitor center , local and county Chambers, Geologic knowledge base. Plenty in print, digital.and other utube chan's And Movie> search: TRUE GRIT outlaw cabin location ... or add HOT CREEK to that search.
There's a dying patch of forest near a small lake just north of Mammoth Mountain. The ground started venting a toxic gas. I can't recall which. The area's alive but pretty chill for now.
It was carbon dioxide, that, being heavier than air, could suffocate you if you fell into something like a tree well and got trapped, or went into a unventilated basement. USGS later determined it was due to a dike intrusion at depth that never reached the surface.
@@stevopusser9093 I thought it might be that but I'm not smart enough to commit. Thanks for the info. Yellowstone loses animals to that occasionally iirc. I love the whole Mammoth/395 area.
Visited Hot Creek in the early '90s soaking in one of the pools you could stick your finger in the sand and it was burning hot just a couple inches down. There were three hot springs on the opposite bank and I remember looking in amazement at the flow rate boiling water just pouring out.
What I'm wondering is how much the weight from the water affects the volcano? Obviously the Eastern Sierra recieved record snowfall (Mammoth Mountain will be open for July 4th 😂🎉), but between the snow pushing down and the geothermal vent pushing up, I'm wondering how much pressure it puts on the rocks? Maybe we'll see an increase of earthquakes or a new lava dome forming too?
I know that spot, the guysers there change temp day to day sometimes More than likely one of us avid fishermen in the area reported it or the game warden. Back in the 90's they closed the springs for swimming the mammoth earthquake now it burps in the middle.
Its a fascinating volcanic system but yeah changes to the hydrothermal system don't say much about the overall magmatic system at least not independent of other measurements. That said regarding melt fraction technically its possible for such a volcano to produce a relatively small eruption even if the overall melt fraction is low because real world magma chambers are heterogenous in their composition and melt fractions and thus you can get pockets which do exceed the threshold to produce an eruption. Also if the stuff related to the geochemistry/geophysics leading up to Taupo's last super eruption is any indicator this kind of system can in principal with the right(i.e. wrong) circumstances transition into an eruptive state from a relatively stable magmatic system with a timescale of only decades to centuries (i.e. less than a thousand years). I that case apparently 4 different compositionally/thermodynamically distinct magma bodies/intrusions appear to have been brought into contact, likely via a major strike slip fault rupture, ultimately initiating vigorous convection which allowed for rapid crystal fractionalization as the latent heat and incompatible elements could be transferred elsewhere in the magmatic system. That latent heat then can lead to huge build ups of pressure on timescales too short for hydrothermal or magmatic systems to release the energy via less explosive means.
Ooh this is neat. Maybe the next time I'm traveling through there I can take a peek at it. From a safe distance, of course. One of my favorite regions of California for volcanic reasons.
I am going to show this video on my program tonight. We will be talking about Long Valley Volcano. I want everyone to know exactly what is going on. No more exaggeration about this volcano and rumors... You spelled it out. Thank you!
The last time I was at Hot Creek near the Long Valley Supervolcano in 1983 I was sitting next to the creek and a new hot spring formed right under where I was sitting. It was perfectly dry when I sat down.
I was wondering if you could give a better explanation for the hot springs in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas? The official explanation for the hot springs is decaying radioactive material deep under Hot Spring Mountain. But that doesn't explain the other hot springs over Garland and Montgomery Counties in Arkansas. I believe there is a better explanation considering the ancient volcanic activity in the Ouachita Mts of Arkansas.
Just went to hot creek geological site outside of Mammoth Lakes, CA in early June!! That’s awesome didn’t know we were witnessing a new hot spring, they were beautiful but definitely couldn’t swim there, they were boiling.
Do one on hot springs north Carolina, I have been there always wondered what was going on I never thought hot springs could be that high in the mountains
I have fond memories of swimming in Hot Creek after camping at the Virginia Lakes North of Lee Vining for a week during the summer. Last time was in 1975 when we moved to Northern California. Sorry swimming got banned. They should have built a large pool where the inflow of cold and hot could be regulated!!!!
as you know, japan have a big culture with hotspring, one of these use, is the "ashiyu", or foot bath, they bring hotspring water on a 4 inch bassin, and next to bench, it help people to keep their barefeet warm on cold night, or after a good hike, they often put a woodbox next for pay as you want for the service. it could be cool to do the same, instead forvbidde people to approach, just do a bit of plumbery and with a bit of rock cement, you can propose unic foot relaxation to all the hikers!
The changes in volcanic activity on the surface of the earth overtime suggests a heat source changing within the center of the earth. Has anyone investigated this?
Interesting as always. I know in the past you have done computer models of how tall these volcanoes were before they blew out. How tall long valley caldera what do you think. I was thinking 18,000 because it did a Lahore over the Sierras and went down to San Joaquin River, my dad swears he has a book from the '70s and said it was 22 to 24. We have both vigorously looked for this book around his house and we still cannot find it yet.
Super volcanoes don't typically make a tall strato-peak at least Long Valley they do not think had one single peak. But I can find nothing that says how big the volcano that made the LVC other than it was probably just a raised area like the Yellowstone eruptions came from. It is spelled Lahar btw.
@@MountainFisher and you could be right, but having a lahara go over the Sierra something had to be tall there. You know this book my dad tells me about he was he was as early twenties back in the '70s so he could be remembering wrong too
@@dougc190 I thought about not mentioning it, but lahore sounds wrong. I was going to write spelt, but everyone thinks it's wrong, but it ain't. Spelt is the past tense of spell and is in the dictionary.
It's doubtful that it would have been dramatically higher than Mt. Whitney, if at all. 16-18'000 feet seems more logical, but the caldera would've just extended the Sierras a bit.
My favorite place to soak. The rumbling when you get your ears under water is so deep and scary tremendous rumbling like huge boulders tumbling in a massive chambre. But may be the nearby magma chambre . Thank you
What causes some hot springs to be entered vs others? Obviously their chemical makeup but curious about the science behind it all. Thanks as always as I love your stuff!
Thank you for informing us of the real amount of molten rock in the diverse magma chambers. If there is not enough molten rock you have only the danger of phreatic explosions, they may be bad, but not "super".¥
It's all about framing. We're very attuned to thinking in terms of human lifespans. One thousand years is barely a blink in planetary science, where there are processes that can take billions of years to manifest. So over the course of one billion years, that thousand year process will have cycled and manifested one million times. While not initially intuitive, that feels like "usual" planetary behavior to me. However, by adjacent logic, one thousand years makes for an event that can essentially only ever happen once in a human lifetime, and at less than a ten percent chance to even happen at all. I'd call that an unusual event in the eyes of a human.
@@glershnern5300 I generally agree that people often tend to get overly semantic, but that's really not what we're dealing with here. It's simply incorrect to call something both common and unusual. That's not just going overboard with semantics, it's patently wrong. I don't mean to come down on you or anything, I was just initially pointing out that I find such timescale perspective shifts interesting, and your reply happens to be problematic. No worries, I hope this finds you well!
I'm generally inclined to take both melt fraction estimates of particular systems, and the standard views as to what is or isn't an eruptiple melt fraction, with a grain of salt.
@@AB-tc8lx - I'm not talking about Yellowstone, or any particular volcanic system. I'm saying that, the more we learn about magma systems, the more complex they are, and the more variables we find. And the spatial resolution with the available geophysical survey methods are still somewhat shitty. Etc. And, yeah, Yellowstone might not produce another VEI-8 for half a million years. Unlikely in the next 100k.
Hey I got a question. I found this crater like structure in my home state. There is really no info on it. Doesn't look volcanic but might be a meteor crater. Thoughts?
As a geology student years ago, burned my hand on steam vent at China Lake Weapons Testing Range. Chipping away a small cliff that was producing steam from cracks. Looking for crystalline sulfur. I accidentally opened a vent w geo pick and pssst! ouch
I think its cosmic rays from space focused on that fault for sputtering discharge, constantly melting rock and boiling water. Might be a good spot for a pyramid?
This Long Valley SuperVolcano Area Isvtge Big potential Future Thermal power Generator stations to be Construction for Providing Enough Electric powered to homes.
I am curious about the Liard Hotspings in The Yukon and Northern British Columbia. This area has its own biological anomaly. Is it from the same situation as this video. Is the area volcanic? I have asked this question many times. What about the other Hotsprings around the Rocky Mountains?
Thanks could you do a vid on Zircon as I believe they are the oldest gemstones, also they can indicate when the earth began to have water. is this true and why.
Very good information scientifically described. It calms my nerves. when I think of all the other coverage of Yellowstone erupting and destroying the Earth.
I remember about 10 years ago a geologist raise the possibility of a volcanic eruption in Mammoth Lakes, ca. Home prices fell dramatically and everybody was screwed by the guy. Prices came back. I should had taken a loan out and bought property back them, I wold be a multimillionaire now.
The volcano alert was issued in the early 80s. Much earlier than 10 years ago. I owned a real estate office in Mammoth Lakes, and home prices were essentially cut in half. Sadly, after living there for 7 years, I had to close the office and move to Sacramento. Had the volcano alert not been issued I would probably still live there. Back then Hot Springs was a fun place to go in the evening to take in the warm water, while looking up at the stars.
@@augustolobo2280 The pressure involved is immense, millions of tonnes, think like a bottle of coke after you've shaken it, its still coke in the bottle but if you open it . The thing is with super volcanoes they are a high impact low frequency event .Not something to lose sleep over .
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I lived near Yellowstone for about 35 years, it was interesting to go in every spring to see what had changed.
You can't go into the Yellowstone springs, that would be deadly.
@@RedRoseSeptember22that’s the joke
@@RedRoseSeptember22I think they meant the season.
Which one finally did you in?
They meant the season SPRING❤
Seems fairly reasonable to speculate this new hotspring comes as a result of exceptionally wet winter California had this year. More water seeping into the crust, creating a higher than average water table, while overlaying the hotspot seems logical that it would create a new hotspring. If this is the case I would assume it would be temporary until the water table drops to background levels once again.
Note how they are reporting " alarming ocean floor crustal seepage off the coast, lubrication for crystal slippage" or something. Idk
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@@matthewkashnig3061If water is getting into a supervolcano. Wouldnt that turn into steam and build pressure?
@@matthewkashnig3061 That isn't alarming at all, that happens all over the ocean, just like on land.
@aaronjackman4037 it would be bad if an entire river were to get unimpeded access to the magma chamber, but that kind of thing only happens in an Amazon Prime version of Lord of the Rings.
In real life, water seeps, reaches a level where temperatures are high enough to boil it, then it rises back to the surface as a fumarole or a geyser or a hotspring.
I used to swim in Hot Creek right there where those hot blue pools are, but in 1973 those pools were not there. There was an area too hot to swim in next to the swimming area. Over the years it started being too hot and the underwater rocks would burn people's bare feet. In 2004 after a geyser event I heard they closed Hot Creek to swimming. It can still geyser now and then, it's not a big geyser, just boils up 3 or 4 feet. I did see a video of one that shot up about 15-20 feet in the air. I can't find the video anymore.
And, that’s why I would never swim in a hot spring in that are. Too afraid of a geyser burning my britches.
I remember going there several times as a kid as well, and I'd heard about the closure. However there are a number of recent videos of people swimming there anyway.
@@nooneherebutuschickens5201 Well they closed it in 2004, are you sure? I mean can you see those blue pools in the background or were they further up the creek? Where I heard it is still cool enough to swim, but a big ticket if you get caught.
@@float32t's a spicy bidet.
California: "why just make money from taxes when we can _shut_ _down_ nature and collect fees on enforcing the law".
We used to swim in Hot Creek; it was great because one could find spots in the river where the cold water mixed with the hot water to the perfect temperature. Swimming was banned after a late night Earthquake caused temperatures in the river to suddenly spike. Fortunately, no one was swimming at the time, or they would have boiled alive. After that incident, swimming in Hot Creek was banned.
And the fish nibbling at our toes
Not a new Hot spring, it's a new vent to the same hot springs. Happens a lot in this particular stretch of Hot Creek. Mostly it's caused by the intrusion of large amount of water from big snow years, which we just had.
Interesting, I was there over memorial weekend and thought the vents were more active. Maybe because of the extra water this year? At overlook to Hot Creek, there was a vent that I had not noticed before 😊 If you haven’t visited this area (including the Owens valley), you should. Drive up onion valley road (Independence) into the Sierra 😮
Should've seen it in the 1970s, no blue pools and some boiling pots and fumaroles here and there up the canyon. I used to camp out there up the creek a ways, no restrictions then and hard boil eggs in the boiling pots.
On bucket list, if California survives.....
@@mistysowards7365 Eastern Cali isn't like Western Cali. Owens Valley never developed much because LA stole all their water.
I wish!!
Like most things, these are temporary. I just remembered a relatively recent event on the Haida Gwaii archipelago. The springs on Hot Spring Island, which had sparked logging protest leading to the creation of a national park, stopped after a small earth quake. It may have started again but if not, poor tourist industry.
I remember that incident. Didn't some wise guy say something like: "This too shall pass."
Sounds PERFECT !
Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve, Parks Canada ... May 2017, " The three pools were built thanks to a joint, 2016 funding announcement between the Haida Nation and Government of Canada and the elbow work of Gwaii Haanas asset management crew.
The three new hot pools delighted visitors from near and far, many happy to experience the hot pools once again.
The hot pools drained in October 2012 after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook Haida Gwaii. Hot water has been slowly returning to the area ever since and we look forward to once again offering natural hot water bathing.
@@diffrntlytwistd7442 Thank you for the update. Did not know it had been restored.
Thanks for this. I was not aware of how new geothermal features could form! I hope tabloids do not sensationalize this; If they do, it will be frustrating!
This past winter in California was exceptionally rainy and snowy, I wonder if that might have had something to do with that.
You mentioned the deposition of travertine. That’s very interesting. The exterior of the Colosseum in Rome was originally covered with slabs of travertine (long ago taken [mined?] to be put to use in other projects.) I had always assumed travertine formed the same way limestone or marble does from the buildup over millions of years of calcium carbonate, usually on a sea floor.
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When I visited Yellowstone in 2013, it was clear to see some areas that had been full of geyser activity that were now quiet - no steam, no boiling water. But the yellow/white soil was left behind.
I swam in Hot Creek in the early '70's.
It was common knowledge then(warning signs posted) that new hot springs formed all the time.
People animals had been injured or killed, repeatedly , over the years.
Walk off trail, at your peril- at risk of falling in to a hot spring "sinkhole".
I forgot when it was closed to swimming, but it was decades ago.
Yes, and you did NOT want to be anywhere nearby in the 80's when they had that series of quakes there--many of them geysered and overall flow for them went up 10X for a short time.
I went there in 1971-72-73 all the time. There wasn't many signs that I remember and the swimming area where those blue pools are now had a too hot area right next to it. Some people's dog jumped into the 180 degree water, it was horrible, but that was the only super hot area of the creek. Dog went down stream and was out of the hot water quickly, but it was burned with blisters. There was also a rock underwater that would burn your feet if you stepped on it hard enough, but you could feel rumbling on some rocks from water boiling up. Luckily for the dog the hot water was mostly on the North bank and cold water shot around on the South side. I used to camp out upstream from the hot part, but there were boiling pots and a few fumaroles up the creek for quite some distance.
They closed Hot Creek in 2004 after a geyser event with boiling hot water in the middle of the creek. There is still an area where you can swim, but they don't allow it cuz of stupidity. They have signs saying to leash your animals and I've seen people let their dogs loose with boiling pots and fumaroles all over.
@@MountainFisherGrew up in the area and I remember my science teacher saying the same story, but not with a happy ending... A lot of dogs jump into the hot springs 😢
You are important to this history! Thank you for the knowledge-sharing. Does the NPS have a way to record these historical community knowledge? That would be cool
@@francoloma2971 I wouldn't worry. It's common lore among avid fly fishermen, local rangers, NPS visitor center , local and county Chambers, Geologic knowledge base.
Plenty in print, digital.and other utube chan's
And Movie> search: TRUE GRIT outlaw cabin location ... or add HOT CREEK to that search.
There's a dying patch of forest near a small lake just north of Mammoth Mountain. The ground started venting a toxic gas. I can't recall which. The area's alive but pretty chill for now.
It was carbon dioxide, that, being heavier than air, could suffocate you if you fell into something like a tree well and got trapped, or went into a unventilated basement. USGS later determined it was due to a dike intrusion at depth that never reached the surface.
@@stevopusser9093 I thought it might be that but I'm not smart enough to commit. Thanks for the info. Yellowstone loses animals to that occasionally iirc. I love the whole Mammoth/395 area.
@@joeofoysterbay7197 Horseshoe Lake.
Visited Hot Creek in the early '90s soaking in one of the pools you could stick your finger in the sand and it was burning hot just a couple inches down. There were three hot springs on the opposite bank and I remember looking in amazement at the flow rate boiling water just pouring out.
What I'm wondering is how much the weight from the water affects the volcano? Obviously the Eastern Sierra recieved record snowfall (Mammoth Mountain will be open for July 4th 😂🎉), but between the snow pushing down and the geothermal vent pushing up, I'm wondering how much pressure it puts on the rocks? Maybe we'll see an increase of earthquakes or a new lava dome forming too?
Getting my attention with all of this talk about volcanoes. 10-4
I know that spot, the guysers there change temp day to day sometimes More than likely one of us avid fishermen in the area reported it or the game warden. Back in the 90's they closed the springs for swimming the mammoth earthquake now it burps in the middle.
Its a fascinating volcanic system but yeah changes to the hydrothermal system don't say much about the overall magmatic system at least not independent of other measurements.
That said regarding melt fraction technically its possible for such a volcano to produce a relatively small eruption even if the overall melt fraction is low because real world magma chambers are heterogenous in their composition and melt fractions and thus you can get pockets which do exceed the threshold to produce an eruption.
Also if the stuff related to the geochemistry/geophysics leading up to Taupo's last super eruption is any indicator this kind of system can in principal with the right(i.e. wrong) circumstances transition into an eruptive state from a relatively stable magmatic system with a timescale of only decades to centuries (i.e. less than a thousand years).
I that case apparently 4 different compositionally/thermodynamically distinct magma bodies/intrusions appear to have been brought into contact, likely via a major strike slip fault rupture, ultimately initiating vigorous convection which allowed for rapid crystal fractionalization as the latent heat and incompatible elements could be transferred elsewhere in the magmatic system. That latent heat then can lead to huge build ups of pressure on timescales too short for hydrothermal or magmatic systems to release the energy via less explosive means.
Ooh this is neat. Maybe the next time I'm traveling through there I can take a peek at it. From a safe distance, of course. One of my favorite regions of California for volcanic reasons.
I am going to show this video on my program tonight. We will be talking about Long Valley Volcano. I want everyone to know exactly what is going on. No more exaggeration about this volcano and rumors... You spelled it out. Thank you!
When I Lived in California I Loved Going Out to the Eastern Sierras & Camping out at the Various Hot Springs...
Thanks for posting this update.
I love the zoom in on earth shots
The last time I was at Hot Creek near the Long Valley Supervolcano in 1983 I was sitting next to the creek and a new hot spring formed right under where I was sitting. It was perfectly dry when I sat down.
Hi, can you tell about the oddity that forms the system of Georgia and Sandwich islands? or any link?
Speaking of Yellowstone, Hot Creek is where one can find Yellowstone rock. So interesting is that whole Long Valley Caldera area! Geology is fun 👍🏻😊
Excellent graphics with explanation.
Interesting. Did not know this. Thanks!
My question is how do you make geology so interesting? :) My partner and I love your channel!
I was wondering if you could give a better explanation for the hot springs in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas? The official explanation for the hot springs is decaying radioactive material deep under Hot Spring Mountain. But that doesn't explain the other hot springs over Garland and Montgomery Counties in Arkansas. I believe there is a better explanation considering the ancient volcanic activity in the Ouachita Mts of Arkansas.
Just went to hot creek geological site outside of Mammoth Lakes, CA in early June!! That’s awesome didn’t know we were witnessing a new hot spring, they were beautiful but definitely couldn’t swim there, they were boiling.
I really loved seeing the Yellowstone Time Lapse
Great video. Thank you. When did this new hot appear? I’ll go look it up.
I've been to this area and it is really cool.
Do one on hot springs north Carolina, I have been there always wondered what was going on I never thought hot springs could be that high in the mountains
I have fond memories of swimming in Hot Creek after camping at the Virginia Lakes North of Lee Vining for a week during the summer. Last time was in 1975 when we moved to Northern California. Sorry swimming got banned. They should have built a large pool where the inflow of cold and hot could be regulated!!!!
We used to go here fairly often back in the 1960’s. I noticed that the cabin scene from the old True Grit Movie with John Wayne was filmed here.
Very interesting watching the changes in vegetation in the end example!
I love your videos man Im always learning new things 😊
Dat lava lamp footage though 1:56
I was thinking ... if the Super Volcano vented enough, would it lessen the power of the explosion when it does erupt?
as you know, japan have a big culture with hotspring, one of these use, is the "ashiyu", or foot bath, they bring hotspring water on a 4 inch bassin, and next to bench, it help people to keep their barefeet warm on cold night, or after a good hike, they often put a woodbox next for pay as you want for the service.
it could be cool to do the same, instead forvbidde people to approach, just do a bit of plumbery and with a bit of rock cement, you can propose unic foot relaxation to all the hikers!
Cool! I'm visiting Hot Creek Geo site this summer. Thanks for the info.
Given the record snow year and all the extra water introduced to the basin, this seems fairly unsurprising.
The changes in volcanic activity on the surface of the earth overtime suggests a heat source changing within the center of the earth. Has anyone investigated this?
I'm surprised that long valley has more potential for eruption than yellow stone, considering how much Yellowstone is talked about.
very cool, our planet lives 😊
I'm hoping new hot springs form where I live...the ones here are too crowded. 🔥💧
The new spring was visible on my trip in may
Good place to get a geothermal generating station up and using all that heat.
Have you ever covered the Lone Cone in Colorado? I was fascinated by it as a kid growing up in Colorado.
Woah was the Valles Caldera a few years ago. Didn’t know it was still “active.”
Interesting as always. I know in the past you have done computer models of how tall these volcanoes were before they blew out. How tall long valley caldera what do you think. I was thinking 18,000 because it did a Lahore over the Sierras and went down to San Joaquin River, my dad swears he has a book from the '70s and said it was 22 to 24. We have both vigorously looked for this book around his house and we still cannot find it yet.
Super volcanoes don't typically make a tall strato-peak at least Long Valley they do not think had one single peak. But I can find nothing that says how big the volcano that made the LVC other than it was probably just a raised area like the Yellowstone eruptions came from. It is spelled Lahar btw.
@@MountainFisher and you could be right, but having a lahara go over the Sierra something had to be tall there. You know this book my dad tells me about he was he was as early twenties back in the '70s so he could be remembering wrong too
@@MountainFisher and you can think the misspelling from speech to text 😜
@@dougc190 I thought about not mentioning it, but lahore sounds wrong. I was going to write spelt, but everyone thinks it's wrong, but it ain't. Spelt is the past tense of spell and is in the dictionary.
It's doubtful that it would have been dramatically higher than Mt. Whitney, if at all. 16-18'000 feet seems more logical, but the caldera would've just extended the Sierras a bit.
My favorite place to soak. The rumbling when you get your ears under water is so deep and scary tremendous rumbling like huge boulders tumbling in a massive chambre. But may be the nearby magma chambre . Thank you
We used to go swimming here all the time - had to watch because it was always shifting
I would to know more about the geology of the Medicine Bow Range in SE Wyoming. I used to live near there.
What causes some hot springs to be entered vs others? Obviously their chemical makeup but curious about the science behind it all.
Thanks as always as I love your stuff!
Thank you for informing us of the real amount of molten rock in the diverse magma chambers. If there is not enough molten rock you have only the danger of phreatic explosions, they may be bad, but not "super".¥
If something takes a 1000 years to happen, I'd say it's considered "unusual"
It's all about framing. We're very attuned to thinking in terms of human lifespans. One thousand years is barely a blink in planetary science, where there are processes that can take billions of years to manifest. So over the course of one billion years, that thousand year process will have cycled and manifested one million times. While not initially intuitive, that feels like "usual" planetary behavior to me. However, by adjacent logic, one thousand years makes for an event that can essentially only ever happen once in a human lifetime, and at less than a ten percent chance to even happen at all. I'd call that an unusual event in the eyes of a human.
@@liquidpzait's a common occurrence. It is unusual. This more of a matter of language technicalities rather than arguing whether it's going to erupt
@@glershnern5300 I generally agree that people often tend to get overly semantic, but that's really not what we're dealing with here. It's simply incorrect to call something both common and unusual. That's not just going overboard with semantics, it's patently wrong. I don't mean to come down on you or anything, I was just initially pointing out that I find such timescale perspective shifts interesting, and your reply happens to be problematic. No worries, I hope this finds you well!
@@liquidpza funny thing. The narrator of the video called it "unusual a minute into the video" then "not unusual" 4 minutes in.
Found well I are
I been IN hot creek.
Good times
How old is the Long Valley Caldera?
3:20 makes sense and well explained.
Free spa. Loved it. 😍
I'm generally inclined to take both melt fraction estimates of particular systems, and the standard views as to what is or isn't an eruptiple melt fraction, with a grain of salt.
Get over it, Yellowstone is not It's going to erupt it has the least amount of melt of any Volcano in the entire world.
@@AB-tc8lx - I'm not talking about Yellowstone, or any particular volcanic system. I'm saying that, the more we learn about magma systems, the more complex they are, and the more variables we find. And the spatial resolution with the available geophysical survey methods are still somewhat shitty. Etc.
And, yeah, Yellowstone might not produce another VEI-8 for half a million years. Unlikely in the next 100k.
Do they do any geothermal energy production over there? Seems like a good spot for it.
I've been going there since the late 80's.
Does the U.S. have any onsen/hot springs like Japan, where people can go for relaxation?
Hey I got a question. I found this crater like structure in my home state. There is really no info on it. Doesn't look volcanic but might be a meteor crater. Thoughts?
I have pictures from Google maps and Google earth
New hot spring just dropped
As a geology student years ago, burned my hand on steam vent at China Lake Weapons Testing Range. Chipping away a small cliff that was producing steam from cracks. Looking for crystalline sulfur. I accidentally opened a vent w geo pick and pssst! ouch
Hey, wouldn't that partially explain why the Steambooat Geyser (in Yellowstone) sometimes drastically does 150m eruptions, 1-4 times a year?
I think its cosmic rays from space focused on that fault for sputtering discharge, constantly melting rock and boiling water. Might be a good spot for a pyramid?
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This Long Valley SuperVolcano Area Isvtge Big potential Future Thermal power Generator stations to be Construction for Providing Enough Electric powered to homes.
Yellowstone was remeasured recently, the new estimates for the upper chamber are 28% melt. Your data is either out of date or mistaken.
ok but can we go skinny dipping at this hot spring?
I am curious about the Liard Hotspings in The Yukon and Northern British Columbia. This area has its own biological anomaly. Is it from the same situation as this video. Is the area volcanic? I have asked this question many times. What about the other Hotsprings around the Rocky Mountains?
Sounds dangerous to toy with 😮
Thank you ❤
Thanks could you do a vid on Zircon as I believe they are the oldest gemstones, also they can indicate when the earth began to have water. is this true and why.
what is Lake Toba molten magma percentage?
Damn turtles had a better chance making it with all the trash on the ground to distract the birds
I miss the hot springs by Mount konocti
Very good information scientifically described. It calms my nerves. when I think of all the other coverage of Yellowstone erupting and destroying the Earth.
Fascinating!
More likely from the historic snowpack last winter.
I swam in Hot Creek back in the early 90s...
Wooo! We're none of us safe from these huge volvanoes if one decides to erupt.
THE LAVA IS COMING GET READY!!!!
@@amuroray1085😮
The Earth reshapes itself, ready to erase the scars we left behind on its thin skin.
Yellowstone has more than 5-15% melt. You are incorrect. Latest advanced studies has shown it to be between 15-25% me3lted.
which mean the magma underground is so active. that it might build a pressure soon to explode.
I remember about 10 years ago a geologist raise the possibility of a volcanic eruption in Mammoth Lakes, ca. Home prices fell dramatically and everybody was screwed by the guy. Prices came back. I should had taken a loan out and bought property back them, I wold be a multimillionaire now.
The volcano alert was issued in the early 80s. Much earlier than 10 years ago. I owned a real estate office in Mammoth Lakes, and home prices were essentially cut in half. Sadly, after living there for 7 years, I had to close the office and move to Sacramento. Had the volcano alert not been issued I would probably still live there. Back then Hot Springs was a fun place to go in the evening to take in the warm water, while looking up at the stars.
Please cover the Grand Canyon.
He has. Uinkaret volcanic field.
man i love hot springs.... so good for thew skin
"This, too, shall pass."
How does this melt thing work? I mean, how can be magma be solidified and still be magma?
Pressure...
@@stephenjones6500 But if it is solidified, how can it still be magma?
@@augustolobo2280 The pressure involved is immense, millions of tonnes, think like a bottle of coke after you've shaken it, its still coke in the bottle but if you open it . The thing is with super volcanoes they are a high impact low frequency event .Not something to lose sleep over .
could record rainfall have contributed to this spring?
All they need is a major earthquake to see an eruption. This is impossible to predict.
Same dudes surprised a phone charges if you plug it in.
we use miles in the US.
Hi, Mammoth local. ❤