‘Nick From Home’ Livestream #6 - Flood Basalts

[@swatchgirl2]

I'm back for an anniversary watch! My husband and I cherish our Nick from Home memories from 2020. We have all learned so much as a result, probably you most of all. Thanks for bringing us along on this terrific journey.

[@katherinebirkett4706]

I had to pause the video after "I can't get the cake off my drill, man!" to recover my senses and sanity, because I was enveloped in a severe paroxysm of uncontrollable laughter!!!!!! Have you ever given thought to coming to the UK and presenting the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures? You'd be EXCELLENT at delivering them!

[@jameshughes8745]

Great discussion again. Cheers!

[@wildwolfwind6557]

I recently saw a different science show that indicated that after the Yellowstone eruption 640,000 years ago, it did have basalt flows until about 100,000 years ago- which supports the Yellowstone idea for the Columbia Basalt flows. As for the fissures getting younger as they go north, I wonder if the clockwise rotation has anything to do with it.

[@slateslavens]

interesting that the first cracks/eruptions seem to correspond to the yellowstone hotspot at that time.

[@SCW1060]

Thank you Nick for keeping our minds on a more pleasant topic

[@juleswestphalen4753]

Thank you Nick Bless you

[@wildedibles819]

This is making more sense now:) Even for Ontario a bit I know we are in land but long ago Hudson and James bay was different and the great lakes and the st Lawrence seaway Very interesting to put some ideas together

[@anderswegge6828]

Time zones prevent me from watching live, but you have at least one viewer from Denmark. I really appreciate the chance of refreshing my knowledge about the PNW geology!

[@1234j]

Saturday evening catch-up viewing, woohoo! Thanks again from Hereford, England. Excellent again.

[@renekelleway9343]

Fantastic job, thanks from the UK :-)

[@caseyjude5472]

Darn, I’ll be at work (I’m “essential”) & will miss the live stream. But I’m looking forward to having something good to watch over dinner when I get home. Thank you for doing these Nick, thanks so much!

[@smcic]

12:45 start

[@marynelson3634]

I love Nick's dry sense of humor. Mary

[@LuciHerb]

Love your lectures! Glad I found your KZbin channel! Wish I could join in on the live streams!

[@mmk5638]

Tornado cake 🤣🤣🤣 glad the cookie sheet emerged unscathed!

[@vanessaengelbrecht4212]

Hi there, watching from Cape Town, South Africa

[@caseyker1]

I always have admired the way you clean your chalkboard Nick! So thorough! 😁

[@maurenemorgan5814]

Great to see you back!

[@swirvinbirds1971]

I've hiked Smith Rock in Oregon before. Beautiful spot in a rather barren area with lots of rock climbing to be had on it's cliffs and spires. Kinda cool to think I may have been inside an old Yellowstone Supervolcano caldera. 😎

[@be1tube]

The drill wins the Internet. I haven't laughed so hard in a week and I don't think I'll ever forget how we know the Washington flood basalts are 3 miles thick.

[@thirstfast1025]

Do the fissures correlate at all with Baja B.C. movement?

[@lourias]

Amazing, cannot sleep, and watching university level geology! For FREE, less the cost of my computer and internet service! LOL I wish you could do some really cool teaching for Texas!

[@robchristiansen1710]

Nick, you need to mount that map on a cardboard backing.

[@MD-gk7eo]

Nick...could it be that 16.7 million years ago the mantle plume and magma chamber were under unstable ground beneath the cracks that became the basalt fissures?

[@timteevin4517]

Timing and placement of beginning is on your side. I get that. But directions and silica content are not. ??? Looks like the intersection was a coincidence. Huh?

[@marynelson3634]

Yes!!!

[@RevelationNowatHand]

Just an idea.. understanding the ysh sourced the Siletzia chocolate gumball. And understanding the accretion of the western most lands to the north American craton. And understanding the continental movement of the craton together with the rotational movement of the accreted portions. It would seem plausible that the yhs (being stationary) has a straight path from under Siletzia to current Yellowstone. With the portion of that path from Tillamook to the craton boundary traveling clockwise (I believe you referenced in another video a rotation of one degree every million years?) At the point of intersection 17.5Ma of the hotspot with the craton, the boundary with the accreted lands, having already natural cracks allowed hotspot magma unable to pass under the craton with the main body of the hotspot to pass along said boundary producing the "German chocolate cake" flood basalt lava flows until the point where the hotspot magma separated from the yhs source cooled enough to no longer produce the massive flows of the past. Nick, I know nothing more than some of the things I've watched you share online here in your from home videos and some other lectures from cwu. So, I would not be surprised if there is some major element of geology that shoots down my idea altogether. But hey, for a geology 099 student it is fun to think about these things. (Well, maybe geology 098 - this is called a rock!) Oh, boy!! I just watched the last part of #11 and the straight line part of this idea with the clockwise rotation is something you have discussed.

[@arthurballs7083]

Did you see the flood basalts, lava rivers and lava flood plains protrayed on the planet Navarro in the Mandalorian, mostly in episode 7 and 8? Be interested to hear you views on their accuracy

[@martinwells7719]

Are the basalt cracks related to what we know as HELLS CANYON?

[@wildedibles819]

How did you explain to your wife about the drilling of the cake lol You definitely keep us interested lol

[@Valkyrie801]

Can the rock that form the crust, over time, be like liquid flowing, only it happens over time in such a way our lives are too short to view it? Like the clockwise rotation, and the hot-spot are interacting along with rises and plate boundaries in the same way as an atmospheric weather pattern, all in motion, only in stone? Volcanoes, magma caldera, and flowing lava the evidence of the dynamic motions in the geologic 'atmosphere' of the planet.

[@davidbarrass]

Could these fissures be evidence of a failed rift. Something that almost lead to an island off the W coast in the same way Madagascar lies off Africa?

[@alwedworth]

Hwy 505 California in my Feightliner truck

[@marynelson3634]

I'M IN SAN DIEGO.

[@nohandle257]

Hey, I've done most of your modern vids and am now satisfying my addiction with your early stuff. I suspect, and this is just me who is mostly ignorant about real geology, that the old Yellowstone hotspot set off a migration of basalt along the original NA Craton that traveled up from SE Oregon area and progressively worked it's way up to the Washington German Chocolate Cake area. Just my guess.

[@matthewpadilla109]

Hey nick just wondering if you have ever heard of Randall Carlson and his research on the ice age mega floods in our state?

[@inqwit1]

Forever embeded: Gemman Chocolate cake. Spinniing......

[@ryznglascastle1995]

good thing your a good teacher, you handle a drill like a "nube"... LMAO "Drill That Cake" "Drill That Cake" "Drill That Cake"

[@beachbum200009]

Driven by giant convection cells in the mantle of the Earth below, the crust around us began to rip apart in a roughly east-west direction about 20 to 15 million years ago. In this torn fabric, from Montana to Mexico, great blocks of crustal rock started to settle downward and form vast valleys. www.gemland.com/geohistory.htm Valley of the Sun and Superstition Mountains Nick does this have anything to do with your story?? Thanks

[@KathyWilliamsDevries]

Scaring the cat with your nasty drill, you horrible, horrible person! 🤣😆

[@martinwells7719]

Spokane

[@marynelson3634]

1/2 mi!

[@antoniofurriolo9404]

Q

[@MrFmiller]

Your cake is shrinking.

[@ralphgehteha9924]

Germany.

[@jureteoman]

Cake! :)

[@ryznglascastle1995]

Sorry I thought I had mt phone on SILENT.