The Volcano Inside a Major City; Pilot Butte

[@GeologyHub]

As you might guess, Pilot Butte is long extinct and will never erupt again. However, I want everyone to note (maybe on Google Earth) that the area where it’s basaltic andesite lava flow was emplaced to the N-NNW is 7-8 m higher than the surrounding landscape today. This is not a coincidence :).

[@robertperry4439]

A volcano inside a city? My city will not even allow me to keep a chicken coop.

[@ArtByKarenEHaley]

​@@robertperry4439 I wonder who was on the board who declined having chickens in town. That's a bummer.

[@RickMacLennan]

I'm from Edinburgh, Scotland where the city is built around the extinct Arthur's Seat. I knew as a young kid that it was a volcano, and always worried that it would erupt again... and then I learned a little about geology. But climbing the volcano made me fall in love with geology, so definitely a win, despite early anxiety.

[@robertperry4439]

@@ArtByKarenEHaley I neglected to add a smiley emoji, but other people realized that it was a joke.

[@BoilerRoomRadio]

You need to prelude all of your videos with the phrase...'All of my videos are simply a hypothesis'... as you cannot PROVE any of the things you say.

[@atomdent]

Shout out to the great Lawrence Chitwood, a USGS geologist who studied this and many central Oregon volcanos. Who died of a heart attack climbing this local landmark! RIP!

[@shanehebert3237]

Is it weird I see Pilot Butte and think "What an adorable little volcano!"

[@EatsLikeADuck]

Weird? Yes. A sentiment shared by many here? Also yes.

[@ArtByKarenEHaley]

It IS pretty cute to be fair. I like Pilot Butte.

[@robertperry4439]

A volcano inside a city? My city will not even allow me to keep a chicken coop. 😏

[@disposabull]

Try Campi Flegeri or Santorini some time to see a volcano inside of a city...

[@blacktee64]

I live in Auckland, NZ which contains 53 volcanoes.

[@josephmclennan1229]

I would move , if you can not have chickens

[@StuffandThings_]

@@blacktee64 *53 cones. The "volcano" is the entire volcanic field, which is basically directly under all the urbanized parts of Auckland and is very much so still active. Quite the place for a city...

[@robertb6889]

Chickens can’t have coupes. How would they drive one? They need at least 4 doors.

[@ashtonmarsh9907]

I live on Pilot Butte! I walk along a path next to it every day!

[@StuffandThings_]

Bend is a geologic wonderland, and an incredibly well designed city as well. Definitely worth a visit! Probably the nicest town in all of the eastern PNW.

[@deanfirnatine7814]

It was MUCH nicer before its population exploded

[@LNKCLZ]

Not anymore.

[@xwiick]

Thanks for all the hard work on these videos

[@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx]

Thanks as always, Geology Hub!

[@diamondvideos1061]

Your picture of Mt. Adams is actually Mt. Rainier. That is the view from near the Eatonville area.

[@VentureNW]

Very good point - and definitely from Eatonville to boot. Was at the Plazamarket the other day - always a good view from there.

[@grantduffy7373]

The picture of Mt. Baker is actually Mt. Shuksan too haha, people are always mixing them up

[@diamondvideos1061]

@@VentureNW reminds me of back home at Cranberry Lake

[@diamondvideos1061]

@@grantduffy7373 I thought that didn't look like Baker.

[@VentureNW]

@@diamondvideos1061 Deception Pass? Been a bit since I've been up that way

[@Ksweetpea]

I love seeing my town in volcano videos 😂 drove by pilot butte a couple hours ago. Used to live in the apartments at the base and walk up and down the trail a few times a week. Great views of the cascades from the top

[@susiesue3141]

Thank you Sir for sharing! Interesting! I never knew about vthis volcano! 😊

[@rogerscottcathey]

Portland and suburbs have several extinct volcanoes. Mount Tabor, Mount Sylvania . . .

[@robertreynolds1044]

Fun Fact, Bend is home to the last Blockbuster video store, I was just there for a bucket list goal. My name is Bicycle Bob and I approved this message.

[@shockwaveawa5368]

Cant believe we got footage from that long ago

[@Dragrath1]

Hmm while this vent might be a one off I wouldn't rule out the possibility of another volcanic eruption in the area given the high lava plains are a region that is either the back arc of the cascades or more likely based on the abrupt termination of the subducted slab with a abnormally buoyant warm region seen via seismic tomography which appears to be contiguous in the solid mantle below through transform offset zones out to and a joining with the Gouda Ridge volcanic activity in the area is certainly possible. If you look at the map of these buoyant offset zones from one of those A to Z lecture series of Nick Zentner's some years back(I forget which one) the offset liniment follows the path of motion of the North American plate so the most reasonable explanation is that NA has through contact with the Juan de Fuca slab been carrying the region of the East Pacific Rise southwest with it. Its possible it could die activity wise seeing as there is apparently a lineament through the Northern Cascades (of which the Boring Volcanic Field, Mt. St Helens Indian Heaven volcanic field and Mt Adams among others are part of) where Yellowstone hotspot composition magma like seen in the Snake river plain has begun to appear in the last 5 million years associated with localized slab thinning suggesting the East pacific Rise may be reasserting its original trajectory but in a subduction zone I'm quite skeptical on saying any volcano is dead so long as subduction persists as subduction is very hard to stop once it gets started. In fact I wouldn't be surprised that even if the ridge does reroute and kill the Gouda Ridge and High lava plains MOR magma component(there is still a subduction melt component in the high lava plains too) that the Subduction would continue eating away at the remnants of the then fused dead/dying ocean ridge section and beginning to subduct the Pacific slab proper forming a subduction front within the effective Pacific basin as the Basin and Range Province detaches from North America. In such a scenario we might see the newly detached subduction zone and the torn off continental crust behind it move west out into the Pacific over millions and millions of years possibly becoming something similar to New Zealand in the Northern Hemisphere. This is of course speculation based on known tectonic processes in the newer emerging picture of western NA geology. Anywise by that point in time I'm pretty sure none of the current cities will still exist even if humanity does get its act together enough to persist into the geological future.

[@sooskavee9680]

Pilot Butte is very cool. You can drive (or hike) to the top where there is a brass plate engraved with the names, directions and distances of all the mountains, buttes, etc that you can see. The whole Newberry National Volcanic Monument is amazing to visit (hope it doesn’t come alive.)

[@bowenzhou5264]

All in all , Bend OR is a gem 💎 of a little city these days , and when you look at a good map , its location more or less makes it "Volcano Central" for the whole state .. but in addition to the copious majestic volcanic scenery , be sure to come visit for the skiing , fishing , golf , microbrews , and the stunningly varied rockhounding across the Northern High Desert region !

[@susanfender307]

I'm guessing corundum is one of the major draws? Looks like it would be a fun visit :x

[@deanfirnatine7814]

If you like it now you would have loved it not that long ago when it was less than 20,000 people

[@NatureShy]

A note, your clip of Adams at the start is actually Mt Rainier and your picture of Mt Baker is actually Mt Shuksan (which is not a volcano). Oregon’s volcanoes are so interesting!

[@e.k.4508]

The picture of Mt. Baker for sure is Mt. Shuksan. But isn't the picture of Mt. Adams one of Mt Saint Helens? (To confuse anyone further 😅)

[@quillaja]

@@e.k.4508 No, way too much ice for St Helens. And as others have said, the one labeled Adams is part of the western aspect of Rainier. The 3 "peaks" are Liberty Cap, the summit, and Point Success, left to right. However, just after the "Adams" clip, the unlabeled aerial footage of a mountain sticking out of a sea of clouds is actually Adams.

[@JeffJ337]

I am so happy to see some central oregon love here 😊

[@Threetails]

There's one in Portland too. Mt. Tabor.

[@Cerbera66]

Can you perhaps make a video about Kilimanjaro? They say the volcano is not yet extinct.

[@ikbalikbal769]

He's already make the video

[@Cerbera66]

@@ikbalikbal769 oh, I didn't see it. Thx for the hint.

[@chriswren1825]

Your picture of Baker is actually Mt Shuksan, which is near Baker

[@Damoinion]

Had a good look at the layout of our collection of volcano types scattered throughout the city of Auckland NZ?

[@weridebikes1000]

Pilot Butte gets lit on fire every July 4th!

[@DuneJumper]

You should do one on the flows north of Phoenix

[@flashgordon3715]

I lived at the bottom of Pilot Butte. It's pretty cool

[@user-zk5jn4br7u]

A yearly race to the top is held every year on Pilot butte.

[@mfluder15]

What is your opinion of the Canaan Valley WV super volcano? I’m curious, how deep is the hot spot beneath it?

[@rickiefuwanfui145]

Don't forget Mt. Tabor, Portland Oregon

[@donjohnson3701]

Let us not forget the city built atop an extinct volcano! Jackson, Mississippi !

[@paulg6268]

We have cinder cone volcanoes all over AZ.

[@kennycarter5682]

Do any modern volcanos have lava like this that erupt more then once?

[@shumana54]

How about the three inside the city limits of Hurricane Utah?

[@whiteknightcat]

"A loud rumbling soon became audible as molten rock rose through the gap created by these explosions." If nobody is present to hear a volcano, does it make a sound?

[@b.a.erlebacher1139]

Animals have ears! 😊

[@alphax4785]

I've been to the top of this volcano, the views are quite spectacular.

[@olliesmith2890]

Hmmm i am getting creepy vibes of the disaster movie Volcano here, eerily similar how you describe it.

[@AdamHarrisonEros]

FYI... This video is being labelled as "altered or synthetic content".

[@gnomespace]

Currently DORMANT, extinct is a fairly bold claim.

[@KriegAdler09]

“Rising by 6 inches.” Hmm… what else can rise by 6 inches? 🤭

[@BrianPellerin]

I always assume the Flood 4,226 years ago was the last eruption of most "ancient" volcanoes

[@TheDanEdwards]

Why would you do that?

[@mq172]

Look, I genuinely desire not to be a troll, but the vocal inflections of the reader are quite so irritating that I simply can't watch these videos without turning off the sound and using the CC. This is a situation tailor-made for AI. Let *it* read for you. They now have a number of much more pleasant speech models. Sorry - I sincerely do like these videos - and I have been a geology hound for years and years. But, I just can't listen to this speaking voice. anymore

[@whiteknightcat]

SECOND!

[@kurofune.uragabay]

_"...erupting at a rate of 57.5 m3/s, within only 24 hrs this cone had grown to a height of 57 m or 187'..."_ It still baffles me how you can't see how *every-time* you say something stupid like this (for anyone else: there is NO WAY he can know with that degree of certainty as there were no witnesses to this event, much less scientific instrumental observations, and A LOT of stuff has happened to any geological evidence of it in the intervening millenia) it damages your overall credibility... (Maybe your dream career would be writing fiction?...)

[@Andy-zj3dc]

like black butte nearby

[@hanspade]

And Oregon's *largest* city, Portland, also contains an extinct volcano within it's limits, namely Mount Tabor. Apparently we are the only state in the U.S. with two such cities.

[@hanspade]

In fact Diamond Head in Honolulu and Jackson Volcano in Jackson, Miss, are the only two others.

[@BrettVarve]

​@@hanspadethe only two other volcanoes located within the limits of a city??

[@KatharineOsborne]

@@hanspade Isn't there two extinct volcanoes in Honolulu? Diamond Head AND Punchbowl?

[@hanspade]

You're right. I should have simply said that Honolulu and Jackson were the only other cities (that I know of). Portland also has another, Rocky Butte.

[@bw-leftturnracing7779]

I'm planning on going to Bend in August, we're gonna go to the top of Pilot Butte

[@LNKCLZ]

You can drive, just don’t at sunset. It’s a shitshow.

[@robertreynolds1044]

@bw-leftturnracing7779 also check out the last Blockbuster. My name is Bicycle Bob and I approved this message.

[@quillaja]

You should go to a similar, younger cone called "Lava Butte" just south of Bend and the nearby "Lava River Cave" which is the longest (known) lava tube in Oregon. Both have some fees as they are federal sites.

[@karlwiklund2108]

Neat! I live close to Georgenberg in Reutlingen, an extinct volcano that was active during the Miocene. I often go at least partway up for my daily exercise. It's got nice view too.

[@outlawbillionairez9780]

My living room window view was Pilot Butte. Lightning strikes would just pound that thing!!

[@notozknows]

You show beautiful views, I always go back after you're done. I remember, tho, that good people help with the cost of the use. Thats also nice!

[@Jesusisyhwh]

I've been to the top of Pilot Butte. There is a volcano observatory up there. Also, Portland Oregon has several cinder cone volcanoes.

[@SevereWeatherCenter]

Awesome informative videos! I love this channel so much. I’ve been watching this channel since 2021, for 3 years.

[@cacogenicist]

Speaking of Bend, the Tumalo Volcanic Center would make for an interesting topic.

[@SagebrushRebel]

I live on Pilot Butte, sometimes hike around it and up. There are dozens of other buttes in central Oregon.

[@patriciahansen6032]

There's also Mt. Tabor in Portland.

[@chimknee]

Thanks.

[@YoLo-bb2vc]

its on the west coast of america so when i hear it being called extinct i always am sceptical as to "how" extinct it really is or if it would ever have a potential reactivation event. and if it ever does reactivate i would feel sorry for the people of bend.

[@Texas40years]

On the southeastern area of Austin, Texas, we have Pilot Knob, an extinct, several million year old remnant of a volcano.

[@Jefuslives]

Dang! I wish i'd known this before I was in Bend a few years ago. I'd've gone exploring.

[@flamencoprof]

Pffft! That's nothing! you should have a look at Auckland, New Zealand, where we have built on a volcanic field of approximately 53 volcanoes which have produced a diverse array of maars, tuff rings, scoria cones, and lava flows. I am glad I moved about 20km from the city centre in the mid-seventies. 😀

[@gg.1739]

Thank you for putting the subtitles back! Your work is much appreciated. It really helps me out as a viewer so please keep adding them in the future!!!!!!

[@deanfirnatine7814]

Everything around Bend is a Volcano, the funny thing is since 80-90% of the population there are newcomers to the area most there probably have no clue.

[@heinmadsen-leipoldt2341]

It's so interesting to know how many volcanoes there really is in the USA, I was astonished to hear about volcanoes in I think Nevada and Arizona, all the caldera, volcano fields etc etc, I love your videos and enjoy everything you teach me and the others watching your videos, I once asked you if we in South Africa have volcanoes? We have an extinct volcano known as the pilansberg mountains but sun city or known as the lost city is build on its outer rims, this is what was told to me, I don't know how true this is but yeah hope you can one day debunked this for me

[@swainscheps]

Oh man…on long international flights after I’ve been in my seat for 6-7 hours? I get a serious case of pilot butte too. Baby powder helps.

[@heatherblack9491]

What makes a volcano monogenetic? How do we know what's going to only erupt once and what's going to erupt multiple times?

[@majirayne1063]

Do you think that immediate volcanoes that happened after glacial melting stops because it only had such an easy time in "squishy ground" swamped and not as solid stopping when the lavas cap it? I wonder why the eruption period after deglaciation is brief.

[@donadams8345]

For those of you who drive or walk to the top of Pilot Butte, you can get a nice view of a number of Cascade stratovolcanoes from the top.

[@FraoYoutubeChannel]

Mount Vesuvius: how about me?

[@phprofYT]

You may either truncate at 1400 or round up to 1500 and would be well within the margin of uncertainty.

[@codedGiraffe]

We just had a fireworks show off of Pilot Butte and I watched from Bessie Butte outside of town closer to Newberry

[@rayzielonka7856]

Lava lamp footage, yeah!

[@adamantium1983]

My dad lives in Bend and he use to live next to it, now he lives a mile from it.

[@trimbalemrbale575]

now do round butte just west of madras oregon.

[@johnfaulders9880]

Is Pilot Butte monogenetic?!

[@Le_epic_eclipse]

2:52 is that la palma

[@richardkev3077]

Key word: extinct.

[@Tankeryanker339]

Love central Oregon

[@12bigredd]

quite cool actually

[@ascaddenokeefe]

hi, can you make a video about Port Chamlers and Mount Cargill next? (As its also an extinct volcano.)

[@jaydeister9305]

[@02air]

Take a look at Cliff Park in Spokane. Looks like a cinder cone there too.

[@snowblind.]

Nah. Where do you see that?? I jog the area daily. Great view of the city though.

[@02air]

@@snowblind. It is at Cliff Park. One can take steps up and overlook the city. Not along the drive.

[@snowblind.]

@@02air the basalt mound?? Anyway, steptoe butte would be interesting to learn the formation of.

[@CrimsonSw1ft]

Just the one? Here in Auckland, New Zealand we have 53 😅

[@StuffandThings_]

53 volcanic vents, one volcano, the Auckland Volcanic Field. And unlike this, while each individual vent may be extinct and monogenetic, the field as a whole is very much so active

[@CrimsonSw1ft]

​@@StuffandThings_ The ALF is what all of these volcanoes sit on top of, yes, there's definitely more than one volcano lol Mt Eden, Mt Albert, One Tree Hill and Mount Victoria (All dormant) are just a few of the ones within an hours drive of me 🤷‍♂️

[@Bigfoot-px9gj]

Whoever is doing the talking in this video is putting me to sleep... I turned it off less than a third of the way through.

[@davidcranstone9044]

Perhaps you should learn to judge a scientific video by its content, not by the voice of its creator.