That Time the American West Blew Up

Was Wawa part of this?

The way the area around Mount Saint Helens came back after the eruption was mine boggling.
That being said, I remember my sixth grade teacher talking about still getting ash out of his gutter a decade after the eruption.

If this is pbs, which is funded by Americans and made for an almost exclusively American audience, why do y'all insist on using meters and Celsius instead of feet and fahrenheit??? Metric is for Europeans so use the standard

Destruction creates and creation destroys. Nature is a perfect cycle.

One question I have:

It's been posited that some of the past mass extinctions were in part due to mass volcanic activity blocking off sunlight and resulting in global cooling periods. For eruptions of this size, wouldn't something similar happen?

In other words: Even if you survive the ash, wouldn't the biosphere be massively impacted?

I'm sure it felt pretty catastrophic to the animals living in the immediate areas around the eruptions...

I feel sorry for that poor rabbit trying to exist on those tiny far-spaced sprigs of green. If it lasted that long though I expect it went on to make lots of rabbit babies whose great great great grandkids live there today.

This is why I don’t believe climate change nonsense . Volcanoes 🌋 have been changing climate for Billions of years .

Epoch Ash Holes... 😆

With all the hand motions done in these PBS Eons videos, it makes sense for the speakers to use sign language. Or just stop with the hands. I don't get it.

So where are the dinos?

Could you imagine waking from hibernation after an eruption of that magnitude; like wtf happened aha

All of us "lava" you too Eons 💖

i have 1 question , What is Blinket ?

I have a fear that Russia or some other nuclear powered enemy will target Yellowstone or the canary island that will hit us with a giant tsunami.

maybe this should be titled 'North American' ? Or are we intentionally blurring geography and political borders just for a simplified video title?

I'm gonna build a time machine to murder Jeff Goldblum so I never have to hear that stupid line ever again.

Cool or should I say awesome!

Hi PBS, enjoy the Eons series. But please, if you are hell bent on using SI units, please include standard units as well. It isn't the worst, but having to convert meters and Celsius to feet and Fahrenheit takes a little enjoyment out of watching your videos. And who who know, maybe this will make it so us dummies start to appreciate SI units more!

wouldnt the volcanoes release carbon dioxide into the air and cause global warming

This is why I don't go outside

wow. still trying to wrap my head around the time scale. Last week was ages ago to me, I'll be 60 in a couple of weeks, the earth is 4.5 billion. 60 years- understandable. 4.5 billion -🤯

Western toads: “… bro I just took a nap wtf happened???”

As kurzgesagt said: not every eruption from a super volcano is a super eruption

I love eons. Whenever im tryng to sleep early i start watching eons and then i fall asleep like 5 minutes later. (I dont know why, by hearing people explain stuff at 11 pm puts me to sleep).

MUCH BETTER than the usual tectonics/magma lecture. You've worked in Geology, Zoology, and Chemistry. Nevertheless, I'm glad I'm 600 miles from Yellowstone.

I have a question- for this time period would it more appropriate to use different maps? Is that the same time as the continents were the big Pangaea or was that even farther back?

Love the ending. Such high quality content and love when you have fun with it, read off some jokes, or just do Dr. Evil impressions. Fantastic!!! 10/10!!!

this made me almost wanna puke out some lava

I'm curious about why the same thing didn't happen from the extinction that killed the Dinosaurs!

This was a great video for me. I'm camped at the eastern edge of these ignimbrite deposits. Most of the hills around me are (if I'm reading the geologic maps correctly) part of the Carpenter Ridge Tuff, but there are some exposures of the Fish Canyon Tuff here too. In fact, I have a chunk of the Fish Canyon Tuff sitting by my keyboard right now. Not the prettiest rock I've ever seen, but it's real interesting to hold part of a 28 million year old pyroclastic flow.

I'm a sub-academic geology fan, so I've been trying to understand the landscape here, and this video filled in some of the gaps, like how the Farallon Plate's behavior led to this period of volcanism. Good job, PBS Eons!

bruv these jokes ain’t funny

where Tom Cruise climbed up and down 😋

"Life, uh, finds a way." Bravo!

I believe mud volcanos spewing like the one of Indonesia.

"No matter how much ash Earth throws our way"
Permian: am I a joke to you?

The opening discussion of the Farallon Plate and the formation of the Rocky Mountains is the "standard" (old) view. Paleomagnetic data suggests a more complex process, including the probability that Farallon was a small continent rather than just a subducting plate, and that the top was sheared off to form part of Western British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and Northern California with the oceanic "plate" being folded and sinking down into the mantle, with the northern 2/3 of the Rockies formed in a different process.

HEY PBS! BRING BACK ANTIQUES ROADSHOW!

Imagine going to sleep to a nice sunny landscape then waking up to an ashy view

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can it even be called cataclysmic event if it doesn't cause a cataclysm?

Let the Sunshine In.

The Sun that Rises everyday...

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