Mt Rainier’s Osceola MudFlow | Nick on the Rocks

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  • čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
  • 5600 years ago, a Mt Rainier eruption sent a wall of mud careening down the White River Valley to Tacoma. The Osceola Mudflow created the Enumclaw Plain by burying a formerly rugged Puget Lowland with hundreds of feet of volcanic mud - a plain now home to over 500,000 people.
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Komentáře • 40

  • @kaybrower1252
    @kaybrower1252 Před 5 měsíci

    Had Professor Pringle 10+ years ago for a geology class based on possible natural catastrophic events in the western Washington area. Awesome professor and great guy to talk to about volcanoes and earthquakes.

  • @woodzy575
    @woodzy575 Před 3 lety +5

    Thanks for not killing us with ads. I appreciate it

    • @ericb8304
      @ericb8304 Před 3 lety +1

      Facts, also here a fun fact, I used to watch CZcams on the internet browser on my Wii U, but when an ad appeared the console would freeze and I would have to restart it and it was very annoying.

  • @JETZcorp
    @JETZcorp Před rokem +1

    It's the Osceola...
    Of ROCK and ROLLA!!

  • @lynnmitzy1643
    @lynnmitzy1643 Před 4 lety +7

    I just don't get tired of learning 📚ya make it easy , professor 😎thank you

  • @marianrooth9514
    @marianrooth9514 Před 5 lety +11

    I watched some of the videos that others have put on CZcams but they don't have your passion for your subject. You got this old gal interested in geology. Wow I never had earth sciences when I was in school.

  • @garycampbell9986
    @garycampbell9986 Před 3 lety +4

    Love your concise videos!
    Your excellent lectures are wonderful service for learners!
    I live in Tijuana and I know Baha is an area of intrest to you
    and i marval every time I ride through the cuts in the freeways. The beautiful layering of millions of years of deposits! i point them out to my friends!
    love your work!
    thank you!

  • @croakingfrog3173
    @croakingfrog3173 Před 3 lety +3

    Thanks for the video! But one minor correction- Mt Rainier was not necessarily ever any taller than it is today. In the 1890s Geologist I.C. Russell proposed that the sloping sides of Mt Rainier once projected up to a point higher than the current summit, and in the 1960s other geologists refined Russell's idea and concluded that the summit was once about 15,300 feet high. However, to quote the work of a local geologist "There are significant problems with these contentions of a higher summit, as they do not take into account a more modern understanding of how stratovolcanos are built... there is no reason to assume [that the lava flows which form the side of the mountain] ever would have joined at a common summit. This volcano has not had a simple history of 'grow big, fall apart, grow a little more.' " From "Geology Underfoot in Western Washington" by Dave Tucker, p. 144.

  • @darlenericotta7550
    @darlenericotta7550 Před rokem

    awesome! thank you.

  • @davidgrech4574
    @davidgrech4574 Před rokem +1

    Thank you for sharing your knowledge and hope you know that I appreciate your channel considerably 🙏🌎

  • @edmoon360
    @edmoon360 Před 3 lety +4

    So brilliant. Very much miss the full lecture though. I wonder why it was removed from CZcams

  • @stevecockerham4088
    @stevecockerham4088 Před 3 lety +2

    Really enjoy your work.

  • @robertfritz9916
    @robertfritz9916 Před 5 lety +2

    Your work is exemplary and I enjoy every video. But you must admit being a geologist in an area with young, dynamic, and in the case of the Ice Age Flood, unprecedentedly dramatic, provides you with a lot of great story lines. I can''t imagine Iowa, Ohio, or West Virginia (where I grew up) would be nearly as dramatic. Keep up the good work.

    • @Ellensburg44
      @Ellensburg44 Před 5 lety +1

      Thanks Robert! I was raised in Wisconsin...and quickly learned that I needed to be our here.

  • @SCW1060
    @SCW1060 Před 7 lety +3

    I loved your full lecture on Mt Stewart. Im still a tilt in place kinda guy

    • @Ellensburg44
      @Ellensburg44 Před 6 lety +1

      Thanks Scott. Am putting a new terranes lecture together for Winter 2018.

  • @warrenhunt2970
    @warrenhunt2970 Před 6 lety +4

    I notice alot of earthquakes this month Mt Rainier, is that a sign that the mountain is starting to wake up

    • @Ellensburg44
      @Ellensburg44 Před 6 lety

      Nothing dramatically different in the past. No signs of impending eruptions. Thanks.

  • @francisdeocares2407
    @francisdeocares2407 Před 3 lety +2

    What is the positive and negative effects of mud flow

  • @MikMoen
    @MikMoen Před 3 lety +1

    3:09 Literally has my apartment on camera. That's actually weird to think about.

  • @joesanders6898
    @joesanders6898 Před rokem +1

    I couldn't help but notice the price of gasoline. $2.65 a gallon. :O

  • @ThomasSmith-os4zc
    @ThomasSmith-os4zc Před 2 lety +1

    How did a mudflow in Mt. RAINIER get the name of a Seminole Indian from Florida?

  • @raybon7939
    @raybon7939 Před 4 lety +2

    2:10 you have to be a top flight socialite to live 10 feet from your neighbor.

  • @melofran5842
    @melofran5842 Před 7 lety +4

    Don't want to be anywhere near Rainier when it next blows ...

    • @Ellensburg44
      @Ellensburg44 Před 7 lety +4

      Same here.

    • @SpeedNoodles
      @SpeedNoodles Před 6 lety

      Yeah.....but I'm still going to retire on the Olympic Peninsula in a few years and spend time visiting lots of time visiting places that I've learned about from Nick!

  • @galactictravels224
    @galactictravels224 Před 5 lety +3

    Hey Nick off topic but can you explain the deep sea canyons cut off of the continental shelf right down to the bottom of the pacific ?

    • @amacuro
      @amacuro Před 3 lety

      Not sure i know exactly what you mean, but deep sea canyons are mostly incised valleys within the continental shelf that formed during severe sea level drops, like the one we had 20,000 years ago. Sea level goes down, continental shelves get exposed to the air and undergo fluvial erosion towards the new sea level.

  • @SCW1060
    @SCW1060 Před 7 lety

    An eruption or a Lahar will cut us off from our kids in Tacoma we live in Burien. I also work in Tacoma so we are buying a couple ham radios just in case of either Rainier or Cascadia events

  • @motionsick
    @motionsick Před 6 lety

    I'm just glad I live in Buckley.

    • @Ellensburg44
      @Ellensburg44 Před 6 lety +2

      Maybe not out of the woods...

    • @spenceisthebest1
      @spenceisthebest1 Před 3 lety

      Hopefully Mud mountain dam can protect us. Idk if it could from an Osceola size event though.

  • @genevieveyork7275
    @genevieveyork7275 Před 4 lety

    You lost me when you said "Warshington"

    • @standunitedorfall1863
      @standunitedorfall1863 Před 2 lety

      So regional accents keep you from learning? You must be easily influenced.

    • @genevieveyork7275
      @genevieveyork7275 Před 2 lety

      @@standunitedorfall1863 lol, nerve struck or something? 🤣