"New Mexico's Dynamic Geology" – W. Scott Baldridge
"New Mexico's Dynamic Geology" – W. Scott Baldridge
The Santa Fe Science Café for Young Thinkers presents Scott Baldridge, guest scientist at LANL, discussing “New Mexico’s Dynamic Geology” Date: February 23, 2017. The Café is sponsored by the Santa Fe Alliance for Science, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and the Santa Fe Public Schools.
@56:40 The crust of our Earth was broken and subducted – for the first time – along the coasts of Italy a little over 600 years ago – all the other tectonic plates were broken after that – this includes the tectonic plates along the Pacific Ring of Fire, the tectonic plates along Antarctica, the tectonic plates beneath the Himalayan Mountains, etc. – this is documented in old records by our ancestors – the forces that broke and subducted the tectonic plates also documented – the rapid rise in the elevations above the mountains is not a mystery.
To those that might design a geology curriculum in the future: the geology course I took in college was MWF-classwork and labs on Tuesday. I will never forget that my first lab assignment was to find the weight of the earth. Seriously? How is this supposed to get me interested in geology? That kind of thing sounds like something geo majors with nothing better to do would do as a dare.
For clarification: As a kid I was into dinosaurs, but I took it to the nexr level, studying geology, oceanology and meteorology because all three overlap. If there had been geology in high school and junior high-I would have taken it, but instead I had biology forced on me. Do you think that I care that there are 5 million species of butterfly with orange wings? A butterfly is a butterfly is a butterfly. Yawn. Biology did teach me that a lot of today’s "science" is way overblown. The media will blast headlines that a species of butterfly is about to die out. Really? That will leave 4,999,999 species of butterfly. Is there a shortage? By no means. Nature abhors a vacuum. Also, science seems to discover new species all the time. About ten years ago I read a press release that science "discovered" a new species of bug, but they’ve been around since the age of dinosaurs. Well, no shit Sherlock. I played with that same type of bug 55 years ago and you’re just now figuring it out?
I think Nick Zetner has ruined me on Geology lectures. This is interesting on what’s said, not however the presentation, and that’s a opinion. Another Opinion is this guy needs a red bull or two.
Are any of these volcanos dangerous? If the Yellowstone or Mt. Rainer blows will they cause other volcano to blow by pushing the tectonic plates?
New Mexico’s Volcanoes aren’t done yet! That you can count on.. More will likely also be born. Its really gonna be Something.
@51:50 North American has DOZENS of supervolcanoes – the names of these dozens of supervolcanoes are listed under my video titled: Supervolcanoes of America – they all erupted in the same night as thousands of smaller volcanoes erupted across three continents – this is documented in historic records in different languages by people more than 16,000 km – with the exact date – and then corroborated by numerous witnesses in several more languages – the languages include Russian, Japanese, French, etc.
At 20:06, Can anybody tell me the specific name and location of the tabletop rocks that are just sitting on top of the vertical column rock?
Thank you w Scott baldridge.
This man is an excellent speaker. Sure taught me a bunch of interesting idea’s and concepts about the geology of our great state…. Thank you.
at 19:29, where the heck did ALL that soil that eroded from around Ship Rock go? 🙂
Such a great presentation for people interested in know the whole picture of the geology and physiography of the NM State. Interesting the fact that there is lot to cover in terms of geologic research. Thanks a lot!
Digging around just looking for information on what would happen if the Rio grande rift fully separated.. and would it be similar to the creation of the Siberian trap’s? 🤔🧐.
I don’t understand why this gets so many downvotes…
@3:30 Your chart proves nothing – the true timeline for Earth’s continents, oceans, mountains, expansion, cataclysms, etc., is documented in historic records, written in over a dozen languages from all across our Earth – this includes the timeline for the broken and subducted tectonic plates, the timeline for the ocean trenches and archipelago islands, the timeline for Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and the eruptions of dozens of other supervolcanoes and the timeline for thousands of other volcanic eruptions, since the documentation also includes the timeline for the Siberian and Deccan Traps, Nuuanu, Eltanin, etc. – do the research instead of clinging to guesses, speculation, wild imaginings, theories and other lunacy – your lack of professionalism and insanely adolescent immaturity is intolerable.
Very fascinating presentation. Retired Geologist here. When I was a kid, we drove by Capulin Volcano all the time but Dad would never turn off the highway for us to go look at it. BTW, Nevada is pronounced just like you spell it with "ad" in the middle, not Nev-Odd-Uh. Thanks for posting; loved it.