• 2017
GeologyHub

Summary This is planet Earth at its fieriest and most exciting. In contrast to geological changes that take millions of years to notice, volcanoes erupt every day. Here are their stories. View more details

  • 2017

GeologyHub

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Stars : Timothy C. Catron

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Genres : Documentary News

Release date : Sep 23, 2017

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official YouTube Channel

Language : English

Summary This is planet Earth at its fieriest and most exciting. In contrast to geological changes that take millions of years to notice, volcanoes erupt every day. Here are their stories. View more details

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Genres : Documentary News

Release date : Sep 23, 2017

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official YouTube Channel

Language : English

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GeologyHub (2017)

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Aug 22, 2019
What is "Tanzanite"? A December Birthstone
Tanzanite is a Calcium Aluminum Silicate mineral, known as Zoisite, with vanadium impurities giving is a deep blue or violet color.
Aug 31, 2019
Wulfenite, the State Mineral of Arizona!
Wulfenite is a brilliant orange to red mineral and gemstone of Lead and Molybdenum.
Oct 18, 2019
The Hundreds of Forgotten Volcanoes within Idaho
Along the Snake River in Idaho lies a field of volcanoes associated with the Yellowstone hotpot 500 miles away.
Jan 19, 2020
What Happens when a Hurricane & Volcanic Eruption Combine?
Tim responds to some insightful questions from his viewers about volcanoes.
Oct 29, 2020
Buyer Beware! 10 Misnamed Gemstones
Marketers often capitalize on the names of valuable gemstones to market there much more common products by adding an adjective that makes them sound special. Here are ten flagrant examples.
Dec 09, 2020
The Active Volcano in Hawaii; The Next Island
Hawaii is not done building islands. To the east of the big island deep underwater a Lo'ihi is working on the foundation of the next island.
Dec 14, 2020
The Forgotten Active Volcano in Hawaii
Kaena Volcano is an extinct submerged volcano once connected to the west of Oahu, far from the active volcanoes on Hawaii. Yet in 1955 and 1956 if belched sulfurous gas and pumice which were discovered at the surface of the ocean.
Dec 16, 2020
The Active Volcano in California; Mammoth Mountain
Mammoth Mountain is the lava dome of an active volcano. While eruptions are rare it releases large amounts of carbon dioxide that has killed large amounts of vegetation and caused the occasional suffocation of campers.
Dec 19, 2020
What is Amazonite? What is it Worth?
Amazonite is a variety of feldspar with a greenish color due to the presence of lead. It is found worldwide.
Jan 09, 2021
The Ancient Volcano in Wyoming; Devils Tower
One theory of the formation of Devils Tower is it the eroded remnant of a lake of lava. the lava cooled from the top down forming hexagonal columns that resisted erosion better than the surrounds leaving the butte.
Jun 13, 2021
The Geologic Oddity in California; Half Dome
Half Dome is a magma plume that never reached the surface. Solidifying as large crystaline granodiorite, it eroded slowly relative to its surrounds.
Sep 03, 2021
The Geologic Oddity in Hawaii; Green Gemstone Filled Beach
Papakolea beach on the island of Hawaii is one of four green sand beaches in the world. The sand is comprised of peridot crystals brought up from the Earth's Mantle by Mauna Loa volcano.
Mar 26, 2022
The Most Recent Volcanic Eruption on Mars; 50,000 Years Ago
Indications of a pyroclastic eruption on Mars in the past quarter million years are evident at Cerberus Fossae volcano. The cause of the eruption has yet (2022) to be confirmed but on possibility is the meteor impact that formed the nearby Zunil Crater.
Apr 05, 2022
The Impact Crater in Idaho & Montana; Beaverhead Crater
Approximatly 600 million years ago a 9 kilometer wide asteroid stuck what is now Idaho, then attached to Antarctica. Its impact through debris up to two thousand kilometers away leaving a crater 60 km wide and 12 km deep. This fifth largest known impact may have contributed to the End-Ediacaran extinction which preceded the Cambrian explosion.
Apr 08, 2022
The Supervolcano in Hong Kong; The High Island Caldera
Hong Kond was the setting of a super volcano eruption 148 million years ago.
May 03, 2022
The Impact Crater which Triggered the Ice Age; Eltanin Crater
The asteroid Vesta's storied past includes and ancient collision that broke of debris that reformed into a smaller asteroid destined for earth. It's impact just over two million years ago started the current ice age.
Jun 24, 2022
The Geologic Oddity in Australia; Uluru/Ayers Rock
Uluru, the famous red rock in Australia, and nearby Kata Tjuta formed from material from the once substantial but now eroded Peterman Mountain Range.
Jul 25, 2022
The Massive Tsunami that Hit the British Isles; The Storegga Slide
In 6150 B.C. the massive submarine Storrega slide inundated island and coastlines along the North Sea. It was caused by the collapse of loose moraine deposits from glaciers in the prior ice age. Geologists have evidence this is a common event in the area following ice ages.
Oct 25, 2022
The Geologic Oddity in New Zealand; The Banks Peninsula
New Zealand's Banks Peninsula is a rugged volcanic region formed when the Zealandia tectonic plate separated form Australia and further deformed by a geologic fault through its center.
Jan 02, 2023
The Great Lakes of Canada; Why they Occur Along a Straight Line
Canada has four large lakes, comparable in size to the widely know Great Lakes, that lie along the Canadian Shield craton.
Jan 09, 2023
The Impact Crater in Alaska; Sithylemenkat Lake
The three mile Sithylemenkat Lake in Alaska looks suspiciously like an impact crater. Here's the inconclusive evidence.
Jan 11, 2023
The Oasis Volcano in the Saharan Desert; Waw an Namus in Libya
In the middle of the Sahara desert in Libya is an unusual oasis. It is the caldera of Waw an Namus the bottom of which lies below the water table. How it formed is still uncertain but here are some possibilities.
Jan 12, 2023
The 2nd Impact Crater which Wiped out the Dinosaurs; Nadir Crater
The asteroid that formed the Chicxulub crater and lead to a mass extinction may have been a binary asteroid with the second object falling in the ocean off the west coast of Africa creating the submarine Nadir crater.
Jan 13, 2023
A Large Magma Chamber was Found Underneath a Volcano in Greece; Kolumbo
Tim examines recent papers describing the magma chamber of the Kolumbo volcano near Santorini that last erupted in 1650.
Jan 22, 2023
The Cataclysm Which Split Oahu in Half; The Nu'uanu Slide
The island of Oahu was formed from the eruptions of two volcano. A bit over a million years ago once side of the northeastern volcano, Koolau, collapsed into the ocean in a huge landslide and associated tsunami.
Jan 23, 2023
The Erupting Volcano that Joined Two Islands; Dukono in Indonesia
Dukono is a continuously erupting volcano on the Indonesian island of Halmahera. It is prone to large lava flows that have, in one case, destroyed the city of Tolo. In 1550 an eruption produced sufficient lava to fill a bay joining Halmahera with an adjacent island.
Jan 24, 2023
The Geologic Oddity in Hawaii; The Great Crack
As magma rises it puts pressure on the crust above. Until the magma finds an outlet it can cause cracks in the crust that can get fairly large. A good place to see them is on the slopes of Hawaii's Kiluea volcano.
Jan 25, 2023
The 5th Volcano on Hawaii's Big Island; Kohala Volcano
The extinct volcano Kohala is the oldest on the big island of Hawaii. It has a storied history which includes forming the oldest portion of the island still above sea level.
Jan 26, 2023
The Geologic Oddity in Hawaii; Molokini Volcano
The crescent shaped island of molokini bears witness to the volcanic eruption at the site roughly half a million years ago. It is a Tuff cone formed form ash rather than lava.
Feb 10, 2023
The Largest Volcanic Eruption to Ever Occur; The VEI 9 Toba Eruption
75 thousand year ago Mount Toba on Sumatra exploded in what seems to require the addition of a level 9 to the Volcano Explosivity Index. The ashfall likely covered not just SouthEast Asia but the Indian subcontinent and northern Indian Ocean.
Mar 09, 2023
The Strange Fields of Sand Dunes in Alaska; A Geologic Oddity
Alaska have several fields of sand dunes caused by the action of glaciers grinding the rock below them until the glaciers eventually retreated.
Mar 16, 2023
The Geologic Oddity in Iceland; Kerid Crater
Kerid crater was the last of the cider dome volcanoes formed as tectonic plates continue to separate on Iceland.
Mar 17, 2023
The California Volcano Which Split in 2 & Moved 200 Miles Apart; The Neenach Volcano
The Neenach Volcano formed on the San Andreas fault in California. As the fault continued to move over millions of years it split the volcano until now the two halves are nearly 200 miles apart.
Mar 23, 2023
Three Sisters Volcano Update; Ongoing Magma Intrusion Composition Determined
An ongoing magma intrusion continues in Oregon but does not seem to be a major risk at present.
Mar 24, 2023
The Geologic Oddity in Australia; The Glass House Mountains
Australia's Glass House Mountains are magma plumes from a hotspot under a moving tectonic plate. the surrounds have eroded down leaving monoliths of the extinct volcanoes.
Mar 26, 2023
The Platinum Rich Geologic Oddity in Russia; Kondyor Massif
Kondyor Massif is a large circular structure resembling a caldera but it has a more complex and unusual origin associated with the Siberean Traps.
Apr 05, 2023
The Geologic Oddity in Australia; Ball's Pyramid
Ball's Pyramid off the coast of New South Wales is the hard volcanic rock remains of a a volcanic island that eroded away.
Apr 06, 2023
Asteroid Mystery Solved; The Largest Recent Impact Crater was Found
Scatter around Australasia are tektites from a major asteroid impact 780 thousand years ago. It's impact crater was finally found filled with lava in the Bolaven Volcanic Field of Laos.
Apr 09, 2023
The Recent Submarine Volcanic Eruption of Mauna Loa
Occassionaly Hawaii's volcanoes erupt under water. Her are some notable events.
Apr 12, 2023
The Geologic Oddity in Hawaii; What Caused the Hawaiian Hotspot Chain to Bend?
The Hawaiian Islands are one of several island chains in the Pacific Ocean that were formed by volcanoes associated with hot spots as the Pacific Tectonic Plate moved. But there are noticeable bends in the island chains' dating to about 45 million years ago. Geologists have several hypotheses about why this happened.
Apr 23, 2023
The Largest Impact Crater on the Planet; Hidden in Antarctica & 300 Miles Wide
The author posits that a massive asteroid impact that created the hypothesized Wilkes Land Crater under the Antarctic ice may have caused the formation of the Siberian traps that lead to the mass extinction know as the Great Dying, An asteroid impact on the planet Mercury caused a similar effect antipodal to the impact location.
May 16, 2023
A Large Landslide Occurred at Mount Saint Helens; Major Road Closed
A recent landslide on Mount Saint Helens resulted from hydrothermal alteration of already unstable ashy rock rather than from volcanic activity.
May 18, 2023
The Geologic Oddity in Arizona; The Wave
"The Wave" is n artistic rain carved formation in the Navajo Sandstone in northern Arizona formed from dessert sand dunes during the time of Pangea.
Jun 04, 2023
1.2 Billion Years of Rock is Missing; The Mystery of the Great Unconformity
During the Crygenian Period the earth was largely covered with thick ice. Geologists suspect that the ice sheets caused so much erosion that they swept over a billion years worth of deposited rock into the oceans. The result is the Great Unconformity where 520 million year old sandstone appears directly over 1.7 billion year old rock in places like the Grand Canyon.
Sep 12, 2023
The Impact Crater in Lake Superior; The Slate Islands Cataclysm
The Slate Islands in Lake Superior are the remains of the central peak of one of the massive meteor impacts during the Ordovician Meteor Event ultimately caused by the destructive collision of two asteroids sending debris throughout the inner solar system.
Sep 13, 2023
One of the World's Most Dangerous Volcanoes is Now Even More Concerning
Mount Agung on Bali erupts roughly every century. It's most powerful eruptions tend to occur in sequence so a repeat of the VI5 eruption in 1963 is deemed likely in this populated area within the next hundred years.
Sep 24, 2023
Buried by a 330 Foot High Wall of Water; The Greenland Megatsunami Which Just Occurred
Glacial retreat is exposing unstable mountainsides creating a risk of landslides and subsequent tsunamis. A 2023 landslide in Greenland is an example.
Oct 06, 2023
A Geologic Oddity; Naturally Formed Plutonium & Neptunium
Despite what you learned in school uranium is not the heaviest element in Earth's crust. Natural Uranium undergoes nuclear reactions that produce rather long lasting isotopes of heavier Neptunium and Plutonium.
Oct 09, 2023
We have a Supervolcano Problem
What is a supervolcano? Geologists aren't sure anymore.
Oct 22, 2023
Canada Has a Missing Volcano; The 1898 Mystery Eruption
Timithoy believes the is an unidentified volcano that erupted in 1898 near the community of Atlin, British Columbia and is looking for viewers who may be able to help locate it.

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