Thank you for educating us about this. I’m from the Reykjanes peninsula but live abroad. My family members in Grindavik have evacuated but I still have family in the surrounding towns and it’s been very confusing and scary. Your videos help calm me down so thank you so so much!!
Thank you for the non-dramatic coverage. I would've enjoyed taking your classes. I'm in my 70's, so that ship has sailed! My heart is with the people there.
Your never too old to learn. I used to travel a lot the West Coast and I followed a number of channels covering Earthquakes and Volcanic stuff. Thx to Dutchsinse, Mary Greeley, EarthMaster, Terry Rempel, Shawn and others for igniting my brain for this stuff.
Let me thank you for getting me interested into geology. Many decades ago we had geology in high school but i think the teacher didn't sell it all too well. Or perhaps we had other things on our minds.... Your explanations are too the point and very understandable. Please keep going into all the small details and keep pointing out what is exceptional or just plain textbook. Cheers.
I am a brain scientist by trade, but 30 years ago I was always reading the astronomy and geology articles first when the new issue of "Science" arrived. A friend described me as being in the gutter but looking at the stars.
All about attitude! My friend started learning to track animals at the age of 92, was taking classes and leading bird watching trips. Don’t let your age define who you are.😊
I really love these updates. I feel like I'm back at uni and want to go to the library and find some more info after your lecture. I will probably never get a degree, but you have reminded me how much I love to learn.
Thank you Shawn. Im 55yrs old and have been enjoying the education you are providing to all these fantastic questions . I've been taking in every single second. My heart goes out to those from Grindavik.
The way you answered the question about air temperature shows that you are likely a good teacher. There are no dumb questions, only dumb answers, and curiosity needs to be rewarded, not punished. While the answer may be a resounding "NO," These kinds of questions are how we continuously examine and re-examine our reality and our knowledge and suppositions about it. And they can lead to major breakthroughs in understanding just because someone thought to ask a seemingly obvious question, or asked it in a different way.
Very grateful for your videos,we learn so much about this geological movement happening in Iceland ,prayers for the people in Grindavik that they can return to their homes soon ,very interesting questions and illuminating answers we all win here,thanks Shawn !
Certainly learning a lot from the questions and your answers..for laypeople who have an interest like myself it’s just fascinating…thanks for all your hard work..
Hey Shawn another great presentation! I just want to share some information to the answer on the Blue Lagoon. The water composition is actually a ratio of 65% geothermal seawater from the power plant to 35% freshwater. Like in Hawaii, the surrounding ocean constantly wants to force it's way into the basaltic substructure of the island. To offset that, abundant rainfall and the glacial melt from the glaciers capping the volcano ranges of the northeastern and central regions supply the freshwater that filters through the basalt and keeps the ocean at bay. As a side note, the basalt filtered freshwater of Iceland and Hawaii are purer than bottled water. But the geothermal seawater used by the geothermal plant is actually brackish water drawn from the zone where ocean and ground water mix. The water in the Blue Lagoon is constantly replaced every 2 days so stays very clean, in fact people have to shower before they enter the lagoon.
Really appreciate your clear explanations, which are consistently interesting! I might need to review the info provided about fault types more than once, however, haha! So amazing that the moon’s gravity has an effect on magma.
Thank you so much! I am looking forward to your updates every day. I was actually in an interview yesterday and we were chatting about you and I shared your site😊
Thanks Rocktor Willsey! I'm downstream from you in Boise. I own your books and watch your channel but didn't realize RUclips Willsey and Author Willsey were the same Willsey untill the other day, at which point I said to myself, "Well I'll be damned." There seems to be a good deal of folks who stick around beyond the headlines for the educational content that contextualizes the former. 👍🏼 Keep doing it.
Hello Shawn, My name is Cynthia. Thank you for your updates on the Iceland situation! CAN YOU PLEASE TURN ON CLOSED CAPTIONING AS SOON AS YOU POST?? IT WOULD HELP SO MUCH! THANK YOU! ALL THE RESIDENTS ARE IN OUR PRAYERS!!
There are, you just need to learn how to turn them on. Its different depending if you're using a phone or desktop. Top right click on gear cog image, select the CC function.
Your updates are kind of a obligatory daily date! I went to Iceland ten years ago and it was love at first sight. Thank you Shawn, and... stay strong, Iceland! Ciao 👋from Italy, 900 km (560 miles) north of Campi Flegrei
love these q and a sessions, you are probably answering more questions in your answers that have yet to be asked. Great job. We are all a bit better informed and have a better understanding of the situation. Thank you for putting the time in.
The Iceland Authorities have prevented the Iceland RUclips Creators like Shawn from reporting from inside the danger zone With and without drones from getting accurate info to the Global community…kinda sad. Gutntog was a huge asset over the past few years in Iceland. The Ghost Volcanoes underneath the Flood Basalts in Eastern Washington and Oregon are Re-Activating Volcanically and could get interesting down the road.
I've been interested in volcanology and seismology for decades now. I really appreciate your talk about the seismological aspect of the the Iceland activity which really can be applied any place that experiences seismicity. Tensors and focal mechanisms are super complicated. But I appreciate your explanation. Thank you so much!
All your lessons from field trips, road cut geology, rocks/minerals, and vulcanology in action--so informative and well presented, and with such caring for the people affected, humility, and humor. Absolutely, you are a 5 star professor! Question: if the borecutting hit the magma chamber, would it be explosive or a danger, or so small a hole that nothing happens?
Thank you for investing extra time today with this update. My wife was very interested as I watched yesterday’s once more earlier today. The bore analysis is very interesting…so was the compression and dilation model. I remember some of this stuff from high school some 45 years ago…
Thank you for the beach ball discussion! This wasn't mentioned in my structural geology class in the early 1980's and I have always wondered what they meant when I examined earthquakes in western Texas.
Earthquakes follow a pattern from a area near Fiji to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The Seismic Energy/flow follows the edge of the North American Craton…drill points create weaknesses in the crust that attract that Seismic Energy to drop off quakes in West Texas due to Oil and Gas. The millions of drill points may be delaying a Mega Quake in California by diverting some of that flow away from CA especially.
@@charlesrichter3854 Seriously?? Earthquakes keep striking Oil and Gas drilling areas in multiple states. When you search RUclips for videos debunking Dutchsinse you don’t find any videos that effectively debunk him. Mocking someone isn’t debunking them. There are multiple RUclipsrs including Shawn that should be thanking Dutch for getting people interested in these subjects. Multiple RUclips creators have been exposing the USGS (USBS)(4.9 Society) for years as being corrupt. Mary Greeley runs circles around the USGS and the Yellowstone Volcanic Observatory for instance. The USGS has created Academic Fraud by downgrading low 5s to upper 4s, Terry Rempel has exposed them for downgrading Magnitude 9 Earthquakes many times to 7s. The PNSN routinely misleads the public by turning off monitoring stations whenever the data might get concerning…No Image Found…Mt Baker and Crater Lake are notorious sites for this.
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Hi Shawn, just wanted to let you know that we’ve been watching your videos every day for the past week & plan to continue doing so. It’s so refreshing to have well communicated, science based information about the current issues in Iceland. We have a trip to Iceland planned for next month, so we’re very interested in keeping up-dated on the situation. Thanks so much.
Thanks for this! I think your explanations are spot on, and even the questions that others asked were great. I always love to learn new stuff. Keep up the great work!
Thank you for these educational videos. I really appreciate learning the science behind what's going on in Iceland now and about its geologic history. I have a big family in Iceland so I've visited and learned a lot over the years, but now I have a much better understanding of the geology and volcanic activity from your videos. The info about earthquakes and plate movements also helps me understand better our local earthquake activity in California. Learning how the science works actually makes events in both places feel less scary!
It is truly amazing. What the media doesn’t tell you is that Plate Tectonics causes many of the wildfires especially on the West Coast. There is still minor Volcanic Activity in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. You have Long Valley Super Volcano along with Mammoth Mountain. Reno sits in the center of a Unclassified ancient Super Volcano, but has everything to be declared as such. Another possible Super Volcano sits above Bakersfield CA. A Ancient Caldera sits between Downtown LA and San Bernardino that Terry Rempel has talked about, but doesn’t have a name yet the activity is similar to Mt. Shasta With Volcanic Re-Activation.
@@RetailMixUSA2.0 How does plate tectonics cause wildfires? Living in a high risk fire area, I follow fire info closely and attend webinars and meetings on brush fire resilience. I've never heard that.
@@vicki90272 Magma doesn’t have to reach the surface in order to cause a Wildfire…just the heat. Dutchsinse has connected Hot Spots seen thru the Dupage site satellite links, Earthquakes, Old Volcanic features and then fires that erupted in the vicinity. All the Wildfires that erupt along the West Coast are along the “Ring of Fire.” He caught the Military using DEW or Direct Energy Weapons to start fires. It’s just not Dutch it is others confronting these issues and more. There is Widespread Volcanic Reactivation along the entire North American Coast at least for a few years now and your saying the increase in Wildfires have nothing to do with it…yeah right.
Hi. If I got you right, you were wondering yesterday why they called a protection wall also a dike: I'm interpreter for German and French and in German the word Deich is a protection wall against tide and flooding. I guess it is the same in Icelandic.
Thank you so much Shawn for another superb presentation. The beach ball explanation was perfect and I now understand them much better. I can totally relate to the "warm fuzzy feeling" you get when teaching people who want to hear. It's what keeps me going in the classroom too.
Truly interesting. If not politics/business which I had to do, my real love: geology. I'm from New Zealand and grew up with Mt Ruapehu (erupts frequently) outside my window.
Thank you for your time studying all of this and breaking it down into layman's language! I've learned so much from you in the last week(s). I also appreciate you coming into the Live from Iceland site to answer questions also.
Thank you for the updates and input for us that do not know. Live in Iceland is a great RUclips channel that I've been watching and suggested that those there listen to your channel. I'm glad you've been checking in with them. They are awesome and you make what they say understandable. Geophysicists, and seismologists start talking and my head goes fuzzy! You make is easy to understand. Thank you.
Take a well deserved break for this Saturday, Shawn! Do something else and get away from it all for a bit of time. It all boils down to being a waiting game as we try to understand what is happening. But I for one, can wait until Monday or Tuesday, and if things have changed by then, well we will all be happy to say we had a little break for today, at the very least. LOL Thank you so much for enduring with all of us, and providing such good information.
You are providing a great service to people everywhere, including Iceland. As a fellow scientist, I enjoy listening to your updates with evidence complied from a variety of reliable sources. Kudos!
Checking in down here (again) to vote for the Q&A format. A lot of really great questions today. You have seemed to have attracted an audience of concerned and smart people, Shawn. Thank you for your efforts, much appreciated.
Love the updates AND the T Shirt! I studied geology in college long, long ago. I never did work in the field but still love it. I’m going to have to check you back catalog and see if you’ve done anything on the Ouachita Mountains. I used to spend a lot of time backpacking there and in the Ozarks. They’re both beautiful, but the geology of the Ouachitas is more interesting with all its strata and the folding it has undergone.
There is the New Madrid Fault and Earthquake Zone and then there is the New New Madrid area that is more Oklahoma, Arkansas and parts of Texas…just my gut here…I think the Millions of Drill points across the nation are delaying bigger destructive Earthquakes both in CA and the New Madrid by attracting that Seismic flow to drop off smaller quakes in Texas and Oklahoma for instance.
Shawn, answering questions is great, I do a bit of astronomy outreach and understand how passing on knowledge empowers people to better understand the world, science and complex topics. You are doing a great job and it is clearly appreciated by a lot of people. I would suggest that regular Q&As will be very popular, Fraser Caine does them weekly (he is the publisher of Universe Today and can be found on RUclips). You are doing a fantastic job.
Thank you for all the useful info. I imagine your students learn a lot, you do an amazing job explaining things in layman's terms. Keep up the good work and know the knowledge you impart is appreciated.
Hi Sean, I’ve been watching your fantastic videos on Iceland- what a great idea!and found your explanations clear and insightful. I wanted to share a thought/question regarding the ascent of magma, nit picking really so forgive me :-) In the video, you mentioned a few times that magma rises due to its buoyancy compared to the surrounding rock. I know this is broadly correct, but is the ascent of magma better described as the interplay of hydrostatic and lithostatic pressures. (I guess Diapiric intrusions may be an exception). The hydrostatic pressure, exerted by the magma column itself, is typically lower than the total lithostatic pressure of the surrounding rock. This pressure difference is measured at a deeper hydrostatic compensation level (sometimes the upper mantle or a deep magma chamber) and this difference is a key factor driving the magma upwards (I guess volume increase due to near-surface vesiculation is also “ a thing) The ascent of magma will halt when the hydrostatic pressure of the magma column equals the lithostatic pressure of the surrounding rock. The point is that this may sometimes occur well above the level where the density contrast between magma and wall rock is equalized and why thinking in terms of buoyancy can be confusing though not strickly incorrect. Otherwise how would magma rise into high level magma chambers hundreds of meters above the surrounding surface level. Or high lava fountains in Iceland. See? Nit picking on the margins of near perfection :-) Your videos have a wonderful way of making complex topics accessible, and as a lifetime educator and lover of all things geology I really want to thank you for all the work this takes. Keep up the great work, and I’m looking forward to your next video! Best regards, David
Thank you for educating us about this. I’m from the Reykjanes peninsula but live abroad. My family members in Grindavik have evacuated but I still have family in the surrounding towns and it’s been very confusing and scary. Your videos help calm me down so thank you so so much!!
Best wishes for your family through this time.
It's so good to see there are still people doing and reporting on "real" science.
Yes but very long winded.
Well, he sums it off right off the bat. You dont have to watch the entire video. I could listen to him talk for days.
Love this is well spoken and calmly.❤
lmao and is the "fake science" in the room with us now?
It might be.
Thank you Shawn. I am an oldie just fascinated with all things geological and your style of teaching has helped my understanding so much🙏🏻
Thank you for giving up your time to answer our questions!
These Q&A sessions are excellent. Thanks for putting in the time.
Thanks for taking the time to educate and update us.
Thank you for the non-dramatic coverage. I would've enjoyed taking your classes. I'm in my 70's, so that ship has sailed! My heart is with the people there.
Your never too old to learn. I used to travel a lot the West Coast and I followed a number of channels covering Earthquakes and Volcanic stuff. Thx to Dutchsinse, Mary Greeley, EarthMaster, Terry Rempel, Shawn and others for igniting my brain for this stuff.
Let me thank you for getting me interested into geology. Many decades ago we had geology in high school but i think the teacher didn't sell it all too well. Or perhaps we had other things on our minds....
Your explanations are too the point and very understandable. Please keep going into all the small details and keep pointing out what is exceptional or just plain textbook.
Cheers.
I’m 65 years of age, bit late for starting to study Geology. Love your factual videos and your dedication - Thank You.
You’re never too old!! I’m 67 and taking the Geology courses at CSI where Shawn teaches! Tons of fun!
I am a brain scientist by trade, but 30 years ago I was always reading the astronomy and geology articles first when the new issue of "Science" arrived. A friend described me as being in the gutter but looking at the stars.
I'm 79 and have just started studying geology with Prof. Shawn as my guide. Of course, you can!
All about attitude! My friend started learning to track animals at the age of 92, was taking classes and leading bird watching trips. Don’t let your age define who you are.😊
I had an amazing 91 year old, retired USAF colonel in my GEOL 101 class a few semesters ago. Top notch student.
I really love these updates. I feel like I'm back at uni and want to go to the library and find some more info after your lecture. I will probably never get a degree, but you have reminded me how much I love to learn.
Thank you for taking the time to educate us (non scientists but interested in volcanos). Saludos desde 🇲🇽
Thank you Shawn. Im 55yrs old and have been enjoying the education you are providing to all these fantastic questions . I've been taking in every single second. My heart goes out to those from Grindavik.
You're definitely in the right profession! Well done!
Hi from Nova Scotia Canada 🇨🇦
Thanks for the info you’ve been providing I’ve been learning a lot 😊
Loving the updates and the t-shirts. Thankyou.
Thank you for the indepth images and geo info! So much to learn from this event!
Thank you again. I am 70+ and love to learn. Prayers for certain.❣️🦋❣️🙏🥰
Listening to you with these explanations is like taking a GEO131 course. Thanks for all you do.
Always great to get an update from you 👍
The way you answered the question about air temperature shows that you are likely a good teacher. There are no dumb questions, only dumb answers, and curiosity needs to be rewarded, not punished. While the answer may be a resounding "NO," These kinds of questions are how we continuously examine and re-examine our reality and our knowledge and suppositions about it. And they can lead to major breakthroughs in understanding just because someone thought to ask a seemingly obvious question, or asked it in a different way.
Very grateful for your videos,we learn so much about this geological movement happening in Iceland ,prayers for the people in Grindavik that they can return to their homes soon ,very interesting questions and illuminating answers we all win here,thanks Shawn !
Lots of good questions - Thank you for spending time with them.
Really appreciate your type of coverage TYM
I’ve never had any geology courses but I easily understood your teaching about faults! Great explanation!
Thanks for these videos! These videos are the geology classes I never got to take!
Certainly learning a lot from the questions and your answers..for laypeople who have an interest like myself it’s just fascinating…thanks for all your hard work..
Hey Shawn another great presentation! I just want to share some information to the answer on the Blue Lagoon. The water composition is actually a ratio of 65% geothermal seawater from the power plant to 35% freshwater. Like in Hawaii, the surrounding ocean constantly wants to force it's way into the basaltic substructure of the island. To offset that, abundant rainfall and the glacial melt from the glaciers capping the volcano ranges of the northeastern and central regions supply the freshwater that filters through the basalt and keeps the ocean at bay. As a side note, the basalt filtered freshwater of Iceland and Hawaii are purer than bottled water. But the geothermal seawater used by the geothermal plant is actually brackish water drawn from the zone where ocean and ground water mix. The water in the Blue Lagoon is constantly replaced every 2 days so stays very clean, in fact people have to shower before they enter the lagoon.
Excellent explanations Shawn, thank you. Have a wonderful day.
I've been enjoying your back catalogue. Great stuff! Not only great explanations of Iceland's geology, but the US too
Great job. Thanks.
Thank you for the updates you have been doing. These Q and A sessions are very informative and would love to see more if you plan more.
Hi from New Zealand, Great work Shawn
Great format. Thank you!
Really appreciate your clear explanations, which are consistently interesting! I might need to review the info provided about fault types more than once, however, haha! So amazing that the moon’s gravity has an effect on magma.
Thank you so much! I am looking forward to your updates every day. I was actually in an interview yesterday and we were chatting about you and I shared your site😊
Wonderful! Thanks.
AWESOME t-shirt today! Very educational!
Thanks for the insights Shawn!! I look forward to your daily updates!
Thanks Rocktor Willsey!
I'm downstream from you in Boise. I own your books and watch your channel but didn't realize RUclips Willsey and Author Willsey were the same Willsey untill the other day, at which point I said to myself,
"Well I'll be damned."
There seems to be a good deal of folks who stick around beyond the headlines for the educational content that contextualizes the former. 👍🏼 Keep doing it.
Very helpful. The Q and A was very good.
Hello Shawn, My name is Cynthia. Thank you for your updates on the Iceland situation! CAN YOU PLEASE TURN ON CLOSED CAPTIONING AS SOON AS YOU POST?? IT WOULD HELP SO MUCH! THANK YOU! ALL THE RESIDENTS ARE IN OUR PRAYERS!!
There are, you just need to learn how to turn them on. Its different depending if you're using a phone or desktop.
Top right click on gear cog image, select the CC function.
@@John-dh1gh
Or smart TV 😊
@@joelunchbucketOh geeze, teaching my non tech father about youtube on his smart tv .... like teaching a child to tie their laces 🤣
If you are on mobile device tap the screen and cc is on the top right just tap it. It's working on my end, hope that was helpful.
Or click ..more link then scroll down and click "show transcript" and you can scroll back and forth through the transcript
Your updates are kind of a obligatory daily date!
I went to Iceland ten years ago and it was love at first sight.
Thank you Shawn, and... stay strong, Iceland!
Ciao 👋from Italy, 900 km (560 miles) north of Campi Flegrei
love these q and a sessions, you are probably answering more questions in your answers that have yet to be asked. Great job. We are all a bit better informed and have a better understanding of the situation. Thank you for putting the time in.
The Iceland Authorities have prevented the Iceland RUclips Creators like Shawn from reporting from inside the danger zone With and without drones from getting accurate info to the Global community…kinda sad. Gutntog was a huge asset over the past few years in Iceland. The Ghost Volcanoes underneath the Flood Basalts in Eastern Washington and Oregon are Re-Activating Volcanically and could get interesting down the road.
I've been interested in volcanology and seismology for decades now. I really appreciate your talk about the seismological aspect of the the Iceland activity which really can be applied any place that experiences seismicity. Tensors and focal mechanisms are super complicated. But I appreciate your explanation. Thank you so much!
All your lessons from field trips, road cut geology, rocks/minerals, and vulcanology in action--so informative and well presented, and with such caring for the people affected, humility, and humor. Absolutely, you are a 5 star professor!
Question: if the borecutting hit the magma chamber, would it be explosive or a danger, or so small a hole that nothing happens?
This is brilliant Shawn like all your shows.
Appreciate your fine work
I watched Nick last night and He Mentioned you by territory Huge fan of both of you, and I am Hooked on rocks because of you two,! Thank you.
Thanks for making these updates and for the education :)
Awesome!!!! Would love to audit one of your classes if I lived in Idaho.
Yes this was helpful because it helped solidify what I learned in class.
Enjoyed the information you shared. Thank you.
Thanks for the explanation about faults!
Thank you for investing extra time today with this update. My wife was very interested as I watched yesterday’s once more earlier today. The bore analysis is very interesting…so was the compression and dilation model. I remember some of this stuff from high school some 45 years ago…
Thank you for the beach ball discussion! This wasn't mentioned in my structural geology class in the early 1980's and I have always wondered what they meant when I examined earthquakes in western Texas.
Earthquakes follow a pattern from a area near Fiji to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The Seismic Energy/flow follows the edge of the North American Craton…drill points create weaknesses in the crust that attract that Seismic Energy to drop off quakes in West Texas due to Oil and Gas. The millions of drill points may be delaying a Mega Quake in California by diverting some of that flow away from CA especially.
@@charlesrichter3854 Seriously?? Earthquakes keep striking Oil and Gas drilling areas in multiple states. When you search RUclips for videos debunking Dutchsinse you don’t find any videos that effectively debunk him. Mocking someone isn’t debunking them. There are multiple RUclipsrs including Shawn that should be thanking Dutch for getting people interested in these subjects. Multiple RUclips creators have been exposing the USGS (USBS)(4.9 Society) for years as being corrupt. Mary Greeley runs circles around the USGS and the Yellowstone Volcanic Observatory for instance. The USGS has created Academic Fraud by downgrading low 5s to upper 4s, Terry Rempel has exposed them for downgrading Magnitude 9 Earthquakes many times to 7s. The PNSN routinely misleads the public by turning off monitoring stations whenever the data might get concerning…No Image Found…Mt Baker and Crater Lake are notorious sites for this.
I really enjoyed this video and the classroom style
Love this so much. Thanks Shawn and Hi from Australia
Thank you for doing these updates.
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Loved the Q&A session. More please.
Hi Shawn, just wanted to let you know that we’ve been watching your videos every day for the past week & plan to continue doing so. It’s so refreshing to have well communicated, science based information about the current issues in Iceland. We have a trip to Iceland planned for next month, so we’re very interested in keeping up-dated on the situation. Thanks so much.
Thanks for this! I think your explanations are spot on, and even the questions that others asked were great. I always love to learn new stuff. Keep up the great work!
Thank You, that was fascinating..
Thank you so much for answering those questions.
I always learn so much from these videos
Thank you for these educational videos. I really appreciate learning the science behind what's going on in Iceland now and about its geologic history. I have a big family in Iceland so I've visited and learned a lot over the years, but now I have a much better understanding of the geology and volcanic activity from your videos. The info about earthquakes and plate movements also helps me understand better our local earthquake activity in California. Learning how the science works actually makes events in both places feel less scary!
It is truly amazing. What the media doesn’t tell you is that Plate Tectonics causes many of the wildfires especially on the West Coast. There is still minor Volcanic Activity in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. You have Long Valley Super Volcano along with Mammoth Mountain. Reno sits in the center of a Unclassified ancient Super Volcano, but has everything to be declared as such. Another possible Super Volcano sits above Bakersfield CA. A Ancient Caldera sits between Downtown LA and San Bernardino that Terry Rempel has talked about, but doesn’t have a name yet the activity is similar to Mt. Shasta With Volcanic Re-Activation.
@@RetailMixUSA2.0 How does plate tectonics cause wildfires? Living in a high risk fire area, I follow fire info closely and attend webinars and meetings on brush fire resilience. I've never heard that.
@@vicki90272 Magma doesn’t have to reach the surface in order to cause a Wildfire…just the heat. Dutchsinse has connected Hot Spots seen thru the Dupage site satellite links, Earthquakes, Old Volcanic features and then fires that erupted in the vicinity. All the Wildfires that erupt along the West Coast are along the “Ring of Fire.” He caught the Military using DEW or Direct Energy Weapons to start fires. It’s just not Dutch it is others confronting these issues and more. There is Widespread Volcanic Reactivation along the entire North American Coast at least for a few years now and your saying the increase in Wildfires have nothing to do with it…yeah right.
Thank you, Shawn, this has been great! Please do more 🙂
Really enjoy the question and answer segment. Thanks.
Hi. If I got you right, you were wondering yesterday why they called a protection wall also a dike: I'm interpreter for German and French and in German the word Deich is a protection wall against tide and flooding. I guess it is the same in Icelandic.
This is great, thank you so much, again 😀
*super* interesting!
i feel like i am taking a second year geology course, minus the exams ;)
TY for sharing!
Thank you so much Shawn for another superb presentation.
The beach ball explanation was perfect and I now understand them much better.
I can totally relate to the "warm fuzzy feeling" you get when teaching people who want to hear. It's what keeps me going in the classroom too.
Truly interesting. If not politics/business which I had to do, my real love: geology. I'm from New Zealand and grew up with Mt Ruapehu (erupts frequently) outside my window.
Thank you for your time studying all of this and breaking it down into layman's language! I've learned so much from you in the last week(s). I also appreciate you coming into the Live from Iceland site to answer questions also.
Thank you for the updates and input for us that do not know. Live in Iceland is a great RUclips channel that I've been watching and suggested that those there listen to your channel. I'm glad you've been checking in with them. They are awesome and you make what they say understandable. Geophysicists, and seismologists start talking and my head goes fuzzy! You make is easy to understand. Thank you.
Watching from Alaska !!
Hi Shawn. My name is Pieter and is from Namibia. Cant wait for your up loads, factual and to the point.
Have a great weekend.
Take a well deserved break for this Saturday, Shawn! Do something else and get away from it all for a bit of time. It all boils down to being a waiting game as we try to understand what is happening. But I for one, can wait until Monday or Tuesday, and if things have changed by then, well we will all be happy to say we had a little break for today, at the very least. LOL Thank you so much for enduring with all of us, and providing such good information.
I think educators just gotta educate!👏👏👏
True@@holly50575
You are providing a great service to people everywhere, including Iceland. As a fellow scientist, I enjoy listening to your updates with evidence complied from a variety of reliable sources. Kudos!
I really appreciate these factual updates and the questions being answered in the video
Checking in down here (again) to vote for the Q&A format. A lot of really great questions today. You have seemed to have attracted an audience of concerned and smart people, Shawn. Thank you for your efforts, much appreciated.
Love the updates AND the T Shirt!
I studied geology in college long, long ago. I never did work in the field but still love it. I’m going to have to check you back catalog and see if you’ve done anything on the Ouachita Mountains. I used to spend a lot of time backpacking there and in the Ozarks.
They’re both beautiful, but the geology of the Ouachitas is more interesting with all its strata and the folding it has undergone.
There is the New Madrid Fault and Earthquake Zone and then there is the New New Madrid area that is more Oklahoma, Arkansas and parts of Texas…just my gut here…I think the Millions of Drill points across the nation are delaying bigger destructive Earthquakes both in CA and the New Madrid by attracting that Seismic flow to drop off smaller quakes in Texas and Oklahoma for instance.
Shawn, answering questions is great, I do a bit of astronomy outreach and understand how passing on knowledge empowers people to better understand the world, science and complex topics. You are doing a great job and it is clearly appreciated by a lot of people. I would suggest that regular Q&As will be very popular, Fraser Caine does them weekly (he is the publisher of Universe Today and can be found on RUclips). You are doing a fantastic job.
Love this session. Keep it up!
Thank you! Someone else asked my question in a much better way and you answered it. These vids are so fascinating.
His light going off cracks me up everytime. 😂
It’s a co-star at this point.
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Thank you so much for those interesting videos. Please, please keep doing those educational videos, they are so great!
Thanks
Thank you.
Dang, I'm learning so much from you. I really appreciate the time and effort you put into these.
Fascinating information, thanks so much! I’m hooked!!
definitely like this kind of qna, please dont stop! :)
Watching from Poland, thanks for your videos!
If I lived in Iceland, I'd live in a big RV so that when the ground becomes unsafe, I could move all my creature comforts to a safe area.
Great informative show! Enjoyed learning so much about the geology of what is going on. Thanks!
Found the tideal question interesting 🤔
Thank you for all the useful info. I imagine your students learn a lot, you do an amazing job explaining things in layman's terms. Keep up the good work and know the knowledge you impart is appreciated.
Love the questions. Keep lt. up.
Thanks for all the interesting answers to interesting questions! You're due some time off now! 🙂
Thanks!
Hi Sean,
I’ve been watching your fantastic videos on Iceland- what a great idea!and found your explanations clear and insightful.
I wanted to share a thought/question regarding the ascent of magma, nit picking really so forgive me :-)
In the video, you mentioned a few times that magma rises due to its buoyancy compared to the surrounding rock. I know this is broadly correct, but is the ascent of magma better described as the interplay of hydrostatic and lithostatic pressures. (I guess Diapiric intrusions may be an exception).
The hydrostatic pressure, exerted by the magma column itself, is typically lower than the total lithostatic pressure of the surrounding rock. This pressure difference is measured at a deeper hydrostatic compensation level (sometimes the upper mantle or a deep magma chamber) and this difference is a key factor driving the magma upwards (I guess volume increase due to near-surface vesiculation is also “ a thing) The ascent of magma will halt when the hydrostatic pressure of the magma column equals the lithostatic pressure of the surrounding rock. The point is that this may sometimes occur well above the level where the density contrast between magma and wall rock is equalized and why thinking in terms of buoyancy can be confusing though not strickly incorrect. Otherwise how would magma rise into high level magma chambers hundreds of meters above the surrounding surface level. Or high lava fountains in Iceland.
See? Nit picking on the margins of near perfection :-)
Your videos have a wonderful way of making complex topics accessible, and as a lifetime educator and lover of all things geology I really want to thank you for all the work this takes.
Keep up the great work, and I’m looking forward to your next video!
Best regards,
David
Another stellar report, Shawn! Son and I are "diggin" it bigtime 😃
Thanks a lot!