When Volcanoes Erupt Metallic Lava; A Geologic Oddity
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Published 2024-05-14
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0:00 Iron Lavas
1:20 El Laco Deposit
2:09 Other Iron Deposits
3:01 Ol Doinyo Lengai
3:24 Scientific Model
All Comments (21)
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That's kinda metal
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New lava just dropped
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That must make for one hell of a magnetic anomaly
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You’re one of the most underrated channels
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Iron mountain in southwest Utah is a magnitite intrusion being mined for Iron ore.
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A new achievement has been discovered: you have studied iron volcanoes.
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Would be cool if you wanted to talk about the unique geology of the Kiruna mine, especially since a recent survey established that there are significant REE deposits in an adjacent ore body
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"This may surprise even volcanologists, since silica is the basis for 1,349 of Earth's 1,350 volcanoes." Made me snort my drink in surprised laughter. I love your dry turn of phrase.
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A volcano that did this consistently with Molten Iron or other commonly used metal would be so useful
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Love this type of video. Please do more!
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I'm not usually into geology, but I gotta admit that this fascinated me to learn about! Thanks for making this video about such a rarity!
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Wow I bet those lava flows will mess with your compass needles.
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I would Like on more of your videos if you had a longer outro to give me a chance to grab my TV remote and give it to ya. With the short cutoff, I get no chance. Thanks for all the hard work narrating and the interesting topics/material and the accurate, professional facts of the matters at hand. Good job, man.
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What an awesome video.
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Thanks for the geological lesson which covers volcanos.I am learning much.Keep up the informative, well presented video.Greg 😊.
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That was amazing. Thank you for explaining and showing a completely new (to me) geological phenomenon!
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Ol Doinyo Lengai and this volcano are truly strange.
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Thanks for all of your hard work man!
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Nice and fascinating presentation .
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The Geldingadalir 2021 eruption produced 2 types of lava basaltic black then the eruption output was normal, and metallic grey then it was doing the pauses with the big fountains and that lava it was forming pools if you remember. It was different lava from deeper source I believe You can see it on the cooled lava field, it is one black and one grey lava
