The Active Volcano near Lake Baikal in Russia; Jom Bolok

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West of Lake Baikal, the world's deepest lake, is an active volcano which few people have ever heard of. Known as Jom Bolok, this volcano last erupted in the 12th century, with another recent eruption ranking in as one of the planet's largest effusive eruptions in the last 10,000 years. This is the story of the Jom Bolok volcano, which has produced several glacial river valley filling lava flows in the last 15,000 years.

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[1] Ivanov, Alexei & Arzhannikov, S.G. & Demonterova, Elena & Arzhannikova, Anastasia & Orlova, Lyubov. (2011). Jom-Bolok Holocene volcanic field in the East Sayan Mts., Siberia, Russia: Structure, style of eruptions, magma compositions, and radiocarbon dating. Bulletin of Volcanology. 73. 1279-1294. 10.1007/s00445-011-0485-9.
[3] U.S. Geological Survey

0:00 Siberia's Volcanoes
1:08 Lake Baikal Rift
1:32 Eruptive History
2:24 Atkinson Lava Flow
3:39 Future Hazards

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Just learned Baikal was a part of a rift zone very cool! This channel is the best! Thank you Geology Hub!

mikeyd

Hello! Thank you for the video! I am from Russia and it's very nice to hear we don't have volcanoes only on Kamchatka 😄 Although I didn't find the name "Jom Bolok" used to call this system. We simply know it as Volcano Valley or sometimes Khi Gol. Khi Gol (as Jom Bolok) is a river.

marielundi

I'm a long time fan of your content I swear I've learned more off the Internet than anywhere else but I love it that way

thatperson

Would be neat to have a full video on Lake Baikal.

tHebUm

In the Republic of Yakutia (Russia), there is a single, single volcano "Balagan-Tas"

arrionelton

Kimberlite diamond pipes, volcanic in origin, also occur in Yakutia. Though the kimberlite up in Mirny was buried by half a kilometer of permafrost. Russians, in their inevitable way, exposed it by detonating a nuclear explosive to clear off the ice and rock to expose the diamond-bearing ore. And leukemia rates in that small Arctic town reflect that unfortunate fact to this very day.

NH

It’s creepy to think of the poisonous gases snaking their way through canyons for 100 km. Yikes.

maurasmith-mitsky

To aid viewers, who want to further explore these volcanic locations on Google Maps or Google Earth, it would be very helpful if you included the coordinates of a major feature in the description.

jpopelish

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slimebuck

I vaguely knew that Lake Baikal was as related to a rifting episode, but mistakenly thought it was an inactive "failed rift" like the one in North America that is related to the Great Lakes.

Interesting to find out that Siberia has an active rift.

mbvoelker

well one thing is for sure the earth is always changing even if we were not there to see it

murrayf

Thanks as always! This volcano, along with the Baikal rift is interesting because of the possibility that Eurasia may split along the Baikal rift in the future. I may be misinterpreting things however, so please correct me on this.
I wonder if there are more lava flows nearby.

TheSpaceEnthusiast-vlwx

@ASMR Geographica, your favorite lake got even more interesting

AllTheHappySquirrels

Я в шоке! Даже не знал, что прям так недавно были вулканы прям в центре Сибири

ЯзьЯзевич-яю

How deeply was this area covered during the last glacial maximum? I would think that isostatic rebound would put a great deal of stress on any underlying faults, especially if different sides of the fault system had differing amounts of ice.

dennisenright