The Active Volcano in the Caribbean; Morne Watt

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The most recent volcanic eruption on the island of Dominica occurred in 1997. This consisted of a phreatic explosion in a region with numerous hot springs and fumaroles referred to as the Valley of Desolation. However, this eruption was smaller than what occurred in 1880, when an eruption an order of magnitude more powerful occurred. While this volcano which consists of several smaller eruptive centers has not erupted magma in a fairly long time, it has the potential to create lava domes and pyroclastic flows in the future.

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Sources/Citations:
[1] UWIseismic
[2] Jan M. Lindsay, Alan L. Smith, M. John Roobol, Mark V. Stasiuk, "Dominica", Volcanic Hazard Atlas of the Lesser Antilles
[3] Smith, Alan & Roobol, Michael & Mattioli, Glen & Fryxell, Joan & Daly, George & Fernandez, L.A.. (2013). The Volcanic Geology of the Mid-Arc Island of Dominica, Lesser Antilles—The Surface Expression of an Island-Arc Batholith. Special Paper of the Geological Society of America. 496. 249. 10.1130/2013.2496.

0:00 A Mysterious Blast
1:12 Dominica's Volcanoes
1:52 Morne Watt
2:31 Boiling Lake
4:04 Conclusion

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may i suggest a video topic of the sounds of volcanoes?

RiddleBoxBree

I’ve visited Dominica (btw, pronounced dom-ih-NEE-ka, just to confuse us). One must walk through the Valley of Desolation to get to the Boiling Lake. It’s a strenuous trip over that mountainous terrain you mentioned, but well worth the effort. The Valley is crisscrossed with volcanic hot streams, some with black stream beds, some with white. Occasionally one of each will come together and for a short time the resultant stream is black on one side, white in the other.

willhandy

"Valley of Desolation? Professor, are we even allowed there!"

"Why of course! It's just a name... like the Boiling Lake. Or Dead Man's Ravine. All the places have names like that on the Island of Dominica."

scottritomanaksimonscott

The Valley of Desolation? Isn't that the feature that eventually narrows down to the legendary Gorge of Eternal Peril, which can only be crossed by a primitive wood and rope structure called the Bridge of Death, and only after correctly answering fiv ... I mean three, questions posed by the bridge keeper to those foolhardy enough to make the attempt?

whiteknightcat

Do more videos on Dominica's volcanoes.

Eventhorizon

Caribbean islands are so beautiful 🤩If I may, "Morne" is just pronounced /morn/, as in "mourn". You don't need to say the final E.

soly-dp-colo

you should make a video on the volcanic activity that stretched from Oklahoma to Lake Superior almost a billion years ago, it lasted for a few million years and caused a large change in the environment in the area

bartsimpson

You should make a video on the largest impact crater in uk located under Scotland, its 1.2 billion years old and its one of the largest impact crater on earth

JaxsonLeviathanGames

These Volcanoes w really long repose between eruptions are the ones in my opinion should be very closely studied and monitored. They seem to eventually blow themselves up completely in plinian eruptions. I would not be surprised if this Volcano has had a plinian eruption before human inhabitants. I look sideways at these Volcanoes lol.

mistysowards

May I suggest the Callander Bay Complex in Ontario, Canada?

ian

I imagine this Valley of Desolation is, if not sparsely populated, then completely uninhabited. I mean, what with all the Noxious games, and the potential for an Eruption at any time...

petermiller