US/Mexico Border Volcanoes

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

at 2:58 I say the farallon plate began moving Northwest but the arrow I put is pointing northeast, just imagine it's pointing northwest 😅

[@vhhawk]

Me, an absolute sucker for ancient rift zones and the western interior sea. Edit: would like to see more good stuff about New Mexico rifts. Have spent a little time every year in the volcanic fields around Capulin and Union County NM. Love it all.

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

the capulin volcanism is slightly different than the rift zone volcanism of central new mexico; I sadly haven't gotten myself out there, but I would like to say i'm gonna make that trip before the end of the year. I really wanted to visit the Jornada del Muerto Volcano because of its close proximity to the the trinity site. Also the el malpais region has been on my list for quite some time. Long story short: I will be doing a lot more videos about new mexico in the future

[@vhhawk]

@@thenaturalexperience2140 I look forward to it!

[@marthawhite2387]

Thanks Jack. Felt like I was with you the whole time. Great job!

[@FrankChibu]

best video I've seen form a 5K subscribe lister since Macie Jay. Keep it up bro!!

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

really appreciate that!

[@FrankChibu]

@@thenaturalexperience2140 right on, keep it like you do! good approach, and its nice to hear a real voice not AI BS!! ? Great subject matter too

[@jarniwoop]

Very interesting. I live in the northern part of the Rio Grande rift and there are volcanic cones all over. I’m just north of the Valles caldera. I’ll head south to see this area

[@SuperKbunk]

Have you seen the Nick Zentner A to Z?

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

I saw some in his cascades series, he is a brilliant teacher; for more involved geology students I definitely recommend his stuff

[@JimArnoldPhoto]

@@thenaturalexperience2140still going on through Feb. He is getting very close to discussing the tectonics influencing the western Cordillera that may have influenced this region during the time this volcanism was active.

[@JimArnoldPhoto]

I visited kilborne hole back in 1985 when I was TA’ing with the SRSU field camp. Very interesting area with deep mantle peridotite inclusions in basalt.

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

wow, it was hard to get to nowadays; can't believe how hard it must've been to get to back then. It is truly a marvelous place to view some volcanic rocks

[@jennifersensiba4449]

I’d really like to learn more about how Lake Cabeza de Vaca interacted with these volcanoes. It only drained away, leaving the lakebeds in Mexico, between 750 kya and 1mya. At maximum stand, the lake had shorelines right against the Potrillos and covered most of the lowlands in the region.

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

That's an interesting one, the western US was once abundant with a myriad of huge lakes that now have been reduced to dusty basins. Increased flow from the rio grande and other rivers created the huge Lake Cabeza de Vaca; and its size was sustained by a vastly different/wetter climate and many ice ages that provided abundant ice melt. I noticed, when I was in the area, the massive abundance of dry lake basins. If you look up some pictures, sometimes these basins can host large shallow lakes during heavy rains; sort of like shadows of what lake cabeza once was

[@lIlIANONYMOUSIlIl]

Is there suspicion that hot spots from the subducted Faralon could cause future activity?

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

@@lIlIANONYMOUSIlIl yes partial melting from the farallon is suspected to be promoting some rising magma in the region; but it is largely speculative

[@ulrichraymond8372]

Any possibility of geothermal power plant?

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

I would say it's unlikely, other areas of the rift zone may be able to provide some, like up further north in the Valles Caldera. In the Potrillos, volcanism is highly infrequent with a deep magma chamber and relatively lacking ground water table to sustain hot spring hydrothermal activity. You need hot material to be closer to the surface preferably with some hydrothermal pairing in order to sufficiently produce geothermal energy

[@JoelWelter]

You mentioned that we should visit that area, but that it was a "sketchy part of the country". Do you mean difficult to get to or that it is a possible crime area? Thanks.

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

Definitely quite difficult to get to, you need a 4 wheel drive. That is what I meant, although there also is potential cartel activity because it is in a remote place along the US/Mexico border near Juarez

[@DuneJumper]

Will the trump admin activate these to protect the border?

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

@@DuneJumper you never know 😂