SciShow Tangents is the lightly competitive knowledge showcase from the geniuses behind the YouTube series SciShow. Every other Tuesday, join Hank Green, Ceri Riley, and Sam Schultz as they try to one-up and amaze each other with weird and funny scientific research... while not getting distracted. There will be tangents about video games, music, weird smells, surprisingly deep insights about life, and of course, poop, but it always comes back to the science.
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episode 29: Volcanoes
In this truly explosive episode that will have you erupting with laughter, we share our lava of volcanoes! This is a hot one, folks!
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Sources:
[Hear Ye]
Round 1 Audio
Source: NOAA Ocean Exploration
https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/06fire/logs/april29/media/movies/spectragram.html
Round 2 Audio
Audio Credit: Robin Matoza
Citation: Matoza, R.S., D. Fee, M.A. Garces, J.M. Seiner, P.A. Ramon, and M.A.H. Hedlin (2009), Infrasonic jet noise from volcanic eruptions, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L08303, doi:10.1029/2008GL036486
Round 3 Audio
Audio Credit: Robin Matooza
Citation: Matoza, R.S., D. Fee, M.A. Garces, J.M. Seiner, P.A. Ramon, and M.A.H. Hedlin (2009), Infrasonic jet noise from volcanic eruptions, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L08303, doi:10.1029/2008GL036486
Round 3 Audio - Airplane
Credit: PDX Aviation
PDX Aviation - https://www.youtube.com/user/buybygb
[Fact Off]
Elephant salt mining in extinct volcano
http://faculty.jsd.claremont.edu/dmcfarlane/MtElgon/index.htm
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240675138_Formation_of_cave_salts_and_utilization_by_elephants_in_the_Mount_Elgon_region_Kenya
https://eawildlife.org/east-african-wildlife-societys-mount-elgon-elephant-project-eawls-meep/
https://volcano.oregonstate.edu/faq/how-volcano-defined-being-active-dormant-or-extinct
https://theconversation.com/how-volcanoes-recycle-the-earths-crust-to-uncover-rare-metals-that-are-vital-to-green-technology-125159
https://en.unesco.org/biosphere/africa/mount-elgon-uganda
Parícutin volcano
http://www.unmuseum.org/7wonders/mob/paricutin.htm
http://sci.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/Paricutin.html
[Ask the Science Couch]
Preventing volcano eruptions
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-can-we-tell-when-a-volcano-will-erupt
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/865376
https://theconversation.com/explainer-why-volcanoes-erupt-44732
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/can-we-drill-yellowstone-stop-it-erupting?qt-news_science_products=0
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robinandrews/2018/05/28/why-cant-we-artificially-drain-magma-chambers-to-stop-volcanic-eruptions/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02600367
https://www.usgs.gov/center-news/volcano-watch-did-aerial-bombing-stop-1935-mauna-loa-lava-flow
[Butt One More Thing]
Ardley island penguin poop
https://www.audubon.org/news/how-millennia-old-penguin-poo-led-scientists-volcanic-discovery