I lived on Lanzarote five years ,and I'm hoping to go back there to live , but things are complicated at the moment . Lanzarote has a wonderful , beautiful landscape ,and I miss it very much 😭

Yeah only thing that I hate about Lanzarote is there's not a sprout of grass anywhere just rock, sand and ash

@@NoaVanSnick sounds a bit like arizona (where I live). A lot less young lava flows here though.

​@@GeologyHub I think this short video gives you a good idea of what it looks like: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l59lhc-cx6mRp6M.html

​@@NoaVanSnick Someone like me I see that as a plus. Having a seasonal allergy is a big deal. Barren and sunny places like these are heavens for me. Planning to visit Lanzarote next year.

Ooh, roasting chicken on those sounds fun. I’d hope that geothermal power plants are common on the island, as I didn’t check what the islands power source was

​@@GeologyHub Nope. Mostly diesel oil generators and increasingly wind power. Some scientists have been trying out surface thermoelectric generators, but I doubt they could produce any meaningful amount of power. Being a national park, there are huge hurdles to allow any sort of drilling and construction. There were some 2000m holes drilled in the late 1970s and they found temperatures of over 300ºC a few metres under the soil in some places, but it was mostly due to dry air rising from a cooling magmatic chamber. The power was estimated to be just a few hundred kilowatts worth. To contradict these results, there have also been scientists who claim the existence of a huge underground water reserve, but proving it is complicated if you aren't allowed to drill. I know of a resort outside of the national park (Club La Santa) which has Spain's largest geothermal installation, which they use to heat the pools and power the air conditioning. tl;dr: probably no meaningful geothermal hotspots, but too much red tape to know for sure.

you may have climbed in a volcano but not in Timanfaya, outside the park...

@@fr3ddog yes, that was outside the park

@@fr3ddog yes, that was outside the park

@@emzu690 cool! thats awesome! i did the volcan de la corona up north in ye. also the one in playa blanca where everyone spells their names with rocks.. i lived there for 12 years

when i was younger we came here on holiday and visited the geysers. can remember being fascinated as we drove in a coach through the roads carved out of the dried lava rocks. awesome stuff, would love to revisit

Maybe an update on the Iceland volcano and it's strange behavior?

Thanks so much for making this edition , im fortunate to be able to call lanzarote home & every day I am amazed , inspired , mesmerized & left in awe by its natural beauty .. maybe you could do one on the rift valley & how its tearing Africa apart , of course there's a lot going on there in this case with ngorongoro & Kilimanjaro being involved .. cheers ..

Maybe a video on Askja? The other likely eruption in Iceland. It seems the rate of inflation has increased from 7 cm to 9 cm. Magma seems to be accumulating there at a depth of a few kilometres.

Could the recent eruptions be a case of "rejuvenated stage" volcanic activity?

Is there a Volcano on Gran Canaria?

Yeah I remember reading that too looking it up it does appear some work has shown that geochemically they are being fed by plume material but from seismic tomography it is very indirect as the plume is being tilted horizontally with some material rising up through cracks wherever possible in the region. Its an interesting and complex tectonic setting for sure the fracture zone is definitely a part of the story. Honestly I wonder how this tectonic setting will evolve given that the Azores Gibraltar Transform Fault Zone (AGTZ) is currently undergoing a transformation into a subduction zone with the Canary islands being on the side of the fault that is being folded under and thus will be experiencing a northward component of motion. How will the hot spot and the various associated fractures it has been using as a conduit to the surface will the magma still follow these fractures or other will fractures and or conduits for release be involved? The islands themselves are likely to ultimately end up as accreted terrains assuming the subduction zone transformation gets finished which seems likely as the compression.

Hawaii is very different because all the the Canary Islands still have volcanic eruptions and there’s only 2 Hawaii islands that can erupt.

@@bigrooster6893 thats what is interesting about the canaries, instead of just being the west island (the African plate is moving north) that are active is the whole island chain , but the formation of the island follows a hawai trend, Lanzarote first then it moves west.

But hawaii is a Hotspot. Not a plate boundary. Are these islands formed do to plates moving away from each other? Fagradalsfjall is similar to these volcano/lava fields, yea?

@@bigrooster6893 While Lö'ihi is not yet an island, it is also active in the Hawaiian chain.

@@biblebasher9364 the Canaries is a hotspot

That was actually a mistake; I deleted Pavlof to post another day. It was scheduled for 2 days from now but KZfaq (the overall website) is having difficulties right now. It placed my scheduled videos out of order

@@GeologyHub earthquakes would be a natural progression for your channel , but volcanoes ,impacts & gemstones are the so called bread & butter that this channel is founded upon & earthquakes & rock formations are always a good backup . Absolutely brilliant channel been here from the start and the sky's the limit .I really appreciate you taking the time to do these videos regardless of the subject matter.

0:48 Every tourist who was there has a picture like this I guess. ;)

Very convenient for cooking indeed

Oops, that was a mistake on my part.

@@GeologyHub so many speech & pronunciation experts on here lol maybe you should take a vacation & let's see their videos & pronunciation efforts 🤣🤣There's always a critic ,or several !!! Just pronounce the way you think 🌋🔥💥

@@johnmccartan939 well some people speak spanish john lol

Someone mentioned up above there’s a theory the crust has many fractures in that region, allowing lava to well up even on the edges of the hotspot. It’s interesting because it’s fairly different from the Hawaiian islands. This would be like Oahu having a large eruption today.

(Please)

It’s a stratovolcano! It erupts more viscous lava which does not travel very far. Similar to comparing pouring honey to pouring water on a flat surface. The honey will begin to pile up over time. Relevant video I made on Teide: m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qpqKjJmD3d_VmHU.html

@@GeologyHub thanks a lot for your time and the fast reply!!! have a nice day =) i really love your education-related videos!

Also, Tenerife is at the stage of It's greatest size , the islands to the West of Tenerife are generally younger and closer to the Canary hotspot ,and so have yet to be built up by more eruptive episodes . The Islands to the East and South East are older islands , and erosion , weathering and less volcanic activity has, over time decreased the size of these Islands . It's possible that when the Eastern islands were the same age and location ( relative to the hotspot ) ,as Tenerife they could have been a similar size . In fact Tenerife was actually higher than its present size prior to the great plinian event ( more or less about one million years ago)that formed the Las Cañadas Caldera that circles Mount Teide on the upper area of Tenerife .

The apparent motions of hotspots is somewhat misleading. They are not moving, but the crust above them is. For Yellowstone, the hotspot is not moving but the North American crust is moving west. This is why another hotspot in the same plate (Nazko hotspot, Canada) follows the exact same trend

other than the axis of rotation, maybe a geostationary orbit.

I recommend to you a book on the science of Volcanoes ,it is called "Volcanoes" written by Dr Peter Francis . This book has all the answers including the maths ,it is absolutely fascinating and a joy to read 👍

@@linsayspence7070 Coool, will look into it, Thanks!

it last erupted in 1824 hence meeting the classification of being active

Timanfaya isn’t extinct. If it was it wouldn’t still be cooking the food for the cafe at the national park. It’s active.

That eruption you’re on about was on La Palma from a volcano known as Teneguía in 1971. It started on 26th October and finished 28th November.

Spain

Also lanzarote isn’t pronounced lanzarowtay.

@@danielledewitt1 yeah

thats from La Palma

These volcanos are related to the Canary Hotspot

@@galacticadventurer6694 thanks 🙏🏼 but how connected to Mid-Atlantic Ridge

@@GumriRN the Canary volcanoes are not connected to Mid Atlantic rift . The Icelandic volcano are . The rift passes through Iceland . Rift easy path for lava to move up

@@galacticadventurer6694 🙏🏼

why would it?

A little egotistical, eh bub?

Really 😂

@@johnmccartan939 I love everything about this channel except for his outro, it makes my SKIN CRAWL!!!

Huh? No. Teide is pronounced "Teh-ee-deh" amd Lanzarote is very similar to how he pronounced it but depending on the accent is "Lan-sah-roh-teh" or "Lan-tha-roh-teh" ("th" as in "thought" not "the")

@@nerner266 you are quite wrong! Its certainly not TIDE at any rate!

really? in which regional dialect of english, and from which country, do your examples make sense?

why do you assume he is not talking normally?

@@daos3300 he's reading from notes, not that it's a problem. But when you use the method to emphasise something on every sentence instead of sometimes, it just doesn't work. It becomes almost mechanical. It's like a communication course where they teach one thing and then overuse it. Just doesn't work

@@CyberBeep_kenshi like i said. it's his voice, it's the way he talks, notes or not.

You do the videos then lol & i bet you'll get the same texts about pronunciation .

theses videos are about geology, not linguistics