I found a Mud Volcano in California

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Why are there holes all over the southern California desert? This area is a unique basin that should actually be 20,000 ft below sea level. So I traveled there and spent 4 hrs looking for muddy holes in the ground.
The moving mud puddle:
• World's Only Moving Mu...
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[@physicsgirl]

Cool to see so many German-speaking viewers! I should make translation errors more often. **ahem** Correction: Graben is the German word for ditch or trench. Makes sense. How do you say, thanks guys, in German? Edit: Danke Leute!

[@alexanderabildsten9092]

Thanks is danke, if i remember correctly.

[@arvindhram5964]

Danke Leute!

[@lphaetaamma291]

"thanks guys" = "Danke, Leute"

[@numinous510]

"graben" is also be a verb that translates to "digging", so "Ich grabe einen Graben." would translate to "I am digging a ditch." and like others aleady said "Thanks guys" would be "Danke Leute".

[@Bhalforii]

Meh, true and not true. Graben and grab share the same etymological history.

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[@TheRandomInternetGuy]

Minor correction: The german word for grave is "Grab". "Graben" ist an entirely different word with can be translated as ditch, moat or trench.

[@brmben8221]

Du sagst es, Bruder! 😉

[@janina90]

But then again, "Graben" does in fact have the same origin as "Grab"..

[@PixieStixx]

@@janina90 well you have to dig a grave or.. du musst ein Grab graben 😉

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@@PixieStixx Or you dig a trench.. „einen Graben graben“👆🏼😄

[@franziska-isabellabuttner6214]

Thank you, I wanted to write this as well

[@SeanHodgins]

I have no clue as to why, but I have the urge to stick my hand into one of those. The mud looks like it would be so soothing on your skin.

[@juffurey]

Sure, your "hand"

[@a1r592]

Very soothing, probably the last thing you’ll feel on that part of your skin. Of course, after it has boiled off.

[@gemfyre855]

@@a1r592 I think these mud volcanoes are actually cool, being powered by bubbling CO2. Don't quote me on that though.

[@BackYardScience2000]

I've had 3rd degree burns over 60% of my right hand. That's what I imagine this would feel like.

[@twonumber22]

Either a great discovery or a Darwin award awaits. 😂

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[@physicsgirl]

Nice username, bierrollerful. Or should i say GIERTZ!?

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I sense a collaboration in the future.

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Please team up and be our new overlords

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@@physicsgirl Well I dare you to *say* "GIERTZ" if you can XD

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@@Zapski Physics + robots => Skynet. I, for one, welcome our new overlords.

[@Ilander86]

"How to defeat Simone Giertz" "I see you have chosen DEATH" but srsly, she's too powerful, but if she could be turned, she could be a powerful ally.

[@philipp_]

"Graben" is actually German for ditch or trench it can also be translated to "dig" the word for grave would be "Grab"

[@PixieStixx]

Danke, wollte ich auch grade schreiben.

[@Zyhmet]

yeah just wanted to say that... would be quite surprised if it really came from Grab.... I mean I guess the word Grab (grave) and Graben(ditch) are basically the same in German... but yeah

[@PixieStixx]

@@Zyhmet yeah because you have to graben a grab aka dig a grave 😏

[@philipp_]

@@Zyhmet are "Grab" and "Graben" the same in German?

[@janina90]

But then again, "Graben" does in fact have the same origin as "Grab"..

[@awkweird_panda]

Dianna is having too much fun with mud. First it was a puddle, now it's a volcano. God mud is fascinating!!!

[@doxielain2231]

Next, sea? Then ocean, and obviously, planet.

[@nkronert]

Yeah yeah, we know where this is going - mud bath, mud wrestling, ... 😉

[@DrewNorthup]

@@nkronert Let's leave the noodle wrestling out of it.

[@DrewNorthup]

When was the last time you watched kids play in puddles?

[@nkronert]

@@DrewNorthup that was probably when I was a kid myself, which is ages ago. I have no idea what noodle wrestling is and I'm too scared to look it up 😊

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Why would anyone want to defeat Simone?!

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eXactLy! what did Simone ever do to Physics Girl??? I may have to unsubscribe

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No one can

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@@galiciaart cuz you know she's gonna build something that won't defeat you, per se, but will still twist your head so much that you won't be able to even continue on your plan for world domination...right Brain?

[@Ninjalectual]

Well we all know that brain cancer can't do it. Its just prudent to look for her weaknesses before she grows too powerful

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1:32 "how to defeat Simone Giertz"?? What- a magic incantation? An Orb Of Power? A hero sword?

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2:15

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Dianna looking for mud volcanoes: "Occam was a fool! This way, into the shrubbery!"

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"how to defeat simone Giertz"?!?!?! Do you have a collab planned?! Yes please!

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They've done collabs before in the past. Would love to see more!

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@@jasonremy1627 I have seen a couple of them. I would love to see more!

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They've done several already. And... twitter.com/SimoneGiertz/status/992505475437551617

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1:15 "Not the person" 😂 good to know! The editing is great

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She survived a brain tumor, and kicked Adam and Laura's asses in a Mad Max melee, I'm not entirely convinced you can defeat her.

[@monsternside1509]

Totally not your fault, you are "Physics Girl" not "Lead a Production Team to Mud Pots Girl"

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Scientific ventures like this never fail to blow my mind

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9 likes? Damn Sad day

[@redtski]

Im fascinated that youre seemingly everywhere. Hope youve a good day/night

[@ayeshadequeiroz4857]

I live downwind of that stinkpot. It’s only bad in the later half of the summer. What you said about sediment and tectonic plates is interesting to me for a specific reason. As a Southern California native I’ve experienced the full range of earthquakes (I slept through Sylmar as an infant) and I’ve never felt earthquakes as I have since living in the desert. It’s like bogey boarding on a sand dune, you can feel the house shifting on sand, rather than being jolted as I have experienced elsewhere. I can hear them coming, it’s so bizarre. When we’ve had earthquakes from a different direction, it feels completely different. I can now tell if they come from Nevada or west of from me just from the waves.

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[@rickseiden1]

1:32 Made me laugh out loud--literally! Thanks, I needed that!

[@rickseiden1]

Also, the mud pots remind me of The Bog of Stench!

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I'm not saying Dianna's videos are better without PBS studio... but like they're really more fun

[@ABCantonese]

They are. 😁

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Yeah. You can go ahead and say it.

[@whiteboard1335]

No one Diana: let's go mudding Louis Litt: 🥲

[@damoser]

There's a giant mud volcano in Colombia that i got to take a mud bath in. It was wonderful. You cannot sink because the mud is so dense, and it's really warm.

[@Maazin5]

1:32 👀 what are you planning?

[@superuser3026]

Always a good day when Dianna uploads!

[@bjarnes.4423]

"Graben" is German for Trench (and digging) "Grab" means Grave 2:39

[@janethouckanderson265]

In the '50s we used to water ski on the Salton Sea. It was salty but ok . Then within about 10 years or so we just couldn't stand the saltier lake. It would not be good for the boats either. So we drove the extra miles down to the Colorado River at Blythe. Good Times.

[@janegael]

Your videos are so interesting and fun. Thanks for taking one for the team to make this one. Mud volcanos are fascinating.

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WOW, the aesthetics in this video… ✨✨✨ ……absolutely stunning

[@LTV_inc]

Mmm it’s so gggood….🤤

[@oscarmedina1303]

You were just a few hundred yards from Obsidian Mount. A low hill that is made up almost completely, of obsidian from the last volcanic eruption in the area. Maybe next visit. The area is in the gap between the start of the San Andreas fault and the spreading ridge in the Gulf of California. The area is the interface where two plates are spreading apart and the motion converts to the northwest movement of the Pacific Plate. The volcano under your feet is called the Salton Buttes. A great place to generate electricity from hydrothermal action. Cool video. Thanks for posting.

[@TheSlyMouse]

Absolutely love the newest videos you have been making

[@drogers5511]

I drove right past those, but thought they were leftover piles from the mines nearby

[@HiopX]

I never heard "Graben" as a reference for a grave. The noun the best translation would be a ditch, but it could also be a verb (when it's not capitalized) that means "to dig".

[@lphaetaamma291]

yes, she confused it with "Grab" (=grave)

[@ZetaFuzzMachine]

It's so refreshing to watch these short vids. Love em!

[@jimsvideos7201]

Good on you and your team for being persistent in getting all of this for us!

[@eccentricOrange]

No one: Diana: Imma go look for mud volcanos!! Me: Can I come along?

[@HarryBalzak]

Lots of people are into stuff like that. My buddy once said, "There was just a fire in the hills. All the vegitation is burnt or dead. I am going to go look at some rocks", and three other people, myself included, wanted to go along.

[@Assassam1]

A "Grab" is a grave, a "Graben" is a trench in German. Different words. As a verb "graben" means digging, that's probably the origin of both other words.

[@GeoffBarrett]

These last two videos have been so interesting. I never in my life would have known any of this but here I am enjoying watching bubbling mud puddles.

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Loving these videos, keep’en coming.

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1:33 : “how to defeat Simone Giertz”. I see what you did there, shame on you 🧐

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I remember a girl wondering what to do with a physics degree...

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[@zacjdavis]

I visited the same spot in January. Super cool. Except I immediately noped out on the new mud pots and went directly to the old ones. Haha.

[@john-or9cf]

And here I thought all the mud was centered in Sacramento.

[@henray76]

She perfectly described how my toe nails grow

[@Eyes0penNoFear]

Mine too. I tracked it, and they actually grow faster around the full moon.

[@loumauve]

so cool. love these kinds of videos. (and I'm sure it was still a fun expedition, even if you didn't get to where you originally wanted to go)

[@MostPowerfulPMofIndia]

Volcano was waiting for you So it was happy bubbling What a cute little volcano

[@thatsuspiciouswhalenut]

I could look at these guys making mud bubbles for hours. Something about the viscosity of the mud is just so very pleasing to the eye

[@gorgeous1fangirl]

I’m graduating this week with my Master’s in Geotechnical Engineering and I’ve really appreciated these last two videos!

[@mauriciot.p.3576]

I'd love to see those things in person, it looks so crazy

[@BlinkinFirefly]

Me too! So cool

[@mauriciot.p.3576]

@@BlinkinFirefly :)

[@clydecessna737]

I was flying a small plane in the area and it was really weird to see the altimeter go negative as I skimmed the Salton Sea.

[@robertdiehl1281]

Such a very cool video. There’s a stark beauty to that area. Thanks for sharing

[@CherylMotherofSeven]

That mud looks like perfect molding clay!

[@gastonmarian7261]

Between this and the moving mud puddle, I have learned that geology is wild and we have so much to learn about the ground under our feet

[@bfish89ryuhayabusa]

I'm reminded of one of my mapping projects at field camp (10 years ago as of the past few weeks), where it was 90% bentonite clay and it had just rained, which is not a great combination for walking on. It's slippery yet sticks to your shoes, so you have to knock off the clay every so often so your shoes don't become too heavy to walk.

[@leddyb]

I’ve been to these exact same ones and they are very cool. Loved seeing them and it felt surreal seeing them in real life.

[@diegodcolton]

I love the video and I'll be honest, I missed this kind of video so much. I'm glad you get to do what you want. Good for you.

[@dukeshaver199]

Cannot wait for you to get better and start making videos again!!!! You're in my prayers!

[@SS-_.1]

For anyone thinking of taking a bath in them. Please don't that vapor you see is not just steam but it's dangerous fumes. Please don't approach them or climb them.

[@PandoraMadness]

There are also hot springs in the area as well...there are also more mud pots on the other side of salton sea lake

[@kidnamedfinger8060]

They look like popping spots that regenerate and pop over and over again.

[@kerielwatson3197]

The fluid dynamics is fascinating

[@rkond]

Mud pots are theorized to be a place where first life emerged. They usually have ionic composition not unlike cell cytoplasm, can concentrate and compartmentalise certain organic compounds and provide solid catalysts for important reactions. Modern mud pots don’t work like this because of all the oxygen around but in the early atmosphere their chemistry was different.

[@smartass0124]

The moving mud. It's chemicals with energy . If dirt partials are taking shapes not pacific shapes except similar shapes in the mud that's information

[@Tedd755]

Goddamnit Dianna, these mud videos are so fascinating. Love your topics! Keep it up grrl!

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[@timothythompson7167]

As I recall, the LA basin sits on about 30,000 feet of sediment, washed out of the coastal mountains (different from faulting, so no mud pots). I have spent a few days working at Salton Sea, but never knew about the mud pots. And I can testify that going there in the absence of need requires insatiable curiosity :) .

[@SS_DT]

I saw these in Rotorua, New Zealand a few years ago, and I was so fascinated by them. They look like something out of a sci-fi novel. Earth is amazing. When the aliens finally talk to us, we’re going to have more to share than most of us realize. haha

[@maxng7211]

Fun fact! If you drive around SF you'll occasionally see little brick circles in the road. They're underground water cisterns that were put there after several fires in the 1850's. In 1906 the quake disrupted the ability to transport water around the city, which is one of the reasons the fires lasted for so long. Luckily they were able to use the cisterns to help fight the fires, and the city has been maintaining them ever since (even adding new ones on occasion).

[@jordansjournal1324]

Every time I see a new upload from this channel it makes my day

[@josephsage3524]

Great little lesson in geology and exploration

[@sharadkumarsingh4802]

I have Pica, and looking at that extremely smooth mud arouses me

[@AKknapper]

Alaska has a semi-frozen mass of plant and soil material that is slowly moving towards the Dalton Highway. It'd be pretty awesome if you get a chance, to do a video about that!

[@Mmierks]

I don't know about moving mud volcanoes but our farm had moving springs that would get our tractors stuck for an hour then dry off and let them out.

[@rdizzy1]

That must be where they got the idea in movies that earthquakes tend to frequently tear open large, long cracks in the ground and swallow people and buildings whole.

[@CuriousDoc]

That's a lot of effort to find some bubbling mud, but no doubt worth it :)

[@Adrian.M.Narine]

We've quite a few here! They're great to soak in!

[@IamMrT]

"der Graben" is more like a ditch not a grave which is "das Grab". We also have a verb "graben" which means to dig a hole (or a ditch).

[@tillson8686]

Me: A Mud Volcano? Wow, I wonder how that looks like! *clicks video* Video: bloop bleep blaap Me: I don't know what I expected

[@IngeniousOutdoors]

Every single time I see a video on mud volcano's, my brain immediately goes "man that looks like top tier clay you could collect for making top tier pottery" and I'll bet some native americans did just that. I'm not even a potter but every single time without fail, my mind goes there.

[@kidakitten800]

:OO I was watching your videos. Funny you posted today :) I like this channel.

[@minne_music]

Really love these geology videos!

[@tonydagostino6158]

Keep up the good geological work! Love it

[@tomatenmagnet]

love this (new) content! anything geography related will have me clicking at lightning speed

[@jayspenceranderson]

How about if you complete the trifecta and create a video about the volcano (active?) at Red Hill Marina? BTW we spent Sunday looking at the San Andreas fault around Wrightwood. Thank you so much for this video. I want to see the mud volcanos!

[@AshrakAhmed]

@2:00 So Los Angeles will reach San Francisco before the High Speed Rail project is done!

[@shamik_sathe]

Whoa, those mud pots are so much fun to watch.

[@megamanx466]

This is the sort of quirky, out of the way science I like to see! It's still entertainment, but teases the mind to dig deeper! 😃

[@0311Mushroom]

Geothermal features move all the time, just not normally this fast. If you go to Yellowstone, you can see the remnants of many all over, some that are dead now that I remember seeing active. The unstable geology there is probably the cause.

[@MisterItchy]

Oh, your Google search had me dying!

[@HalSchirmer]

There's ALSO something interesting about 20,000 feet of sediment- it's all 'shallow water sediment' which you can use to track weather patterns. On the other side of the continent, the Newark Basin is about 11.000 feet deep, which allows scientist to work backwards to calculate Earth's orbital cycles and precession of the poles. Check out "The Geological Orrery"

[@seanc6128]

Thanks for making the video about the thing that I was thinking "gee I hope she makes a video about that".

[@wwtoonlinkfan]

It seems that the mud volcanoes that they tried to go to first are marked as the "New Mud Pots" on Google Maps. The concrete blocks at 1:11 are the same ones blocking off Red Hill Rd at the intersection with Garst Rd. The Red Island Volcano, a dormant lava dome volcano, is located off Garst Rd before the intersection, so if you're interested in visiting the area, you could see not one but two peculiar geologic features in one trip. The Red Island Volcano seems much more accessible by road than the mud volcanoes - there's a campground and parking lot on the volcano itself. The road to it is still dirt, so probably don't go in the winter, when it rains the most in southern California.

[@noneofyourbusines9976]

The ones you tried to find were under water until 2012 or so....they're called the new mud pots.. much more active,much larger area.

[@markchd]

I just got my perk from the Project for Awesome and it is so much better than I expected.

[@ce8084]

I’m an old grandma! I love your videos. Your just a cutie, thank you for something fun and educational!

[@BubblewrapHighway]

I first heard about mud volcanoes from a GN episode on Azerbaijan. "Mud volcano temperatures can range from near 100 °C (212 °F) to occasionally 2 °C (36 °F), some being used as popular "mud baths".[citation needed]"

[@vuvffufg]

3:52 is a very interesting clip, mud volcano and expanding marsh/sea with a power plant in the background. I wonder how many people would be impacted by that power plant failing.

[@christinacody8653]

The power plant is likely a geothermal plant given it's located close to those pots.

[@anjaneyjain7147]

Ma'am, I have a query to ask, it is believed that energy cannot be created or destroyed. So, therefore energy should be a constant value. It is also true that the universe is expanding and accelerating its expantion, which needs force. A constant force or energy can only accelerate an object to a specific velocity. But here the universe seems to accelerate to an infinite velocity. The query is that, from where does this energy coming which causes this acceleration, if energy is constant. It seems as if energy is being created in this process. Dark energy should also be a constant force. Also, if the things discovered till now are true, than the acceleration of the universe should stop at some time. Kindly revert to my query. Thank you