Geology of Mount Shasta (California, USA)

In this episode of Solomon's Outdoor Adventures, Solomon dives deep into the geology of California's deadliest volcano, Mount Shasta. Learn all about the volcanic history of this stunning 14,179' high active volcano, as well as what would happen in it were to erupt!

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[MrLee-ueiu]

Before Mt. Saint Helens, I was part of a team setting up monitors on Mt. Shasta, which was showing signs of unrest. After Saint Helens, Shasta calmed down and the project was forgotten.

[AzimuthAviation]

I'm a NorCal kid Boomer. It was pure magic road tripping to Oregon to drive past this majestic "Candyland" mountain. My initial years as an airline pilot flying a turboprop in and out of San Francisco allowed me opportunities to "tour" the Cascades and her peaks with a top down perspective as a rockhound and a former dreamer of becoming a geologist or astronomer as a future astronaut. This kid hasn't gotten but 41, 000' closer to the Moon, lol! I've skirted Mt. Shasta with ATC permission various times of year studying its structure and state of remaining glaciers. It's a magic mountain at any distance. Thank you for the beautiful work here!

[shospulecolupis]

Amazing! The flow stopped right at the edge of the Disaster narrowly averted!! Whew!

[pat]

Love the content, but please leave pictures that have text on the screen for longer. Some of these slides are onscreen so short a time that I don’t even have time to hit pause. And invariably, the next slide is shown for far longer.

[soaringbob]

Finally, a 'Nick on the Rocks' to cover more of California! Now we need another Nick to cover southern California's volcanic activity. Good stuff. Wish I had paid more attention to geology in school.

[BobGriff-zf]

This is kinda like geology hub's older videos. Love it

[newpickupsstore]

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[tarzanoftheapes]

Great information. I have climbed the "Mountain" 17 times over the last 20 years. The active steam (Hydrogen Sulfide Gas) vents near the summit have remained quite small and melt an area of approximately 20 Square yards of snow and ice on average in late May. I have sat amongst the vents and observed small, 8 ounce pools of hot water. Just before summiting one is assailed by the gas.

[captain]

Black Butte has fascinated me ever since I can remember. I grew up in Seattle and my Grandparents were in Redding, California and San Mateo and driving to their homes was a common occurrence. I always was captivated by our proximity to what seemed to me, a volcanic cone! Only as an adult did I learn that it was!

[MarieJackson-spbe]

The magnetic history has to be taken from "in situ" lava. In situ rock is that which is still in its original depositional setting. That you show a piece of rock obviously now detached from the in situ lava might be confusing to non-geologists. They might conclude that any old rock will tell the true direction of north (or south, depending on which polar flip was in force) at that time. By the way, polar flips do not coincide with mass extinctions. I could only correlate roughly, but it's worth some vulcanologist or geophysicist looking into this in depth. (I am a Boomer geologist, too. Happily retired but still loving geology.) Love, love, love your podcast! ❤❤❤

[newscoulomb]

One of the other impacts to consider would be the effect an eruption would have on U.S. air traffic. Not only is it directly in line with a busy north-south flight corridor, the prevailing winds would also carry ash eastward over Denver and Chicago. Possibly all the way to Washington DC and New York.

[just_kos]

Mt Shasta sure rivals my beloved Mt Rainier in beauty! Didn't know that much about her till now, thank you.

[carlinglin]

Thanks. Very interesting. Haven't gotten up that way in a long time. I need to do some exploring one of these summers. There's a lot of interesting geology between Shasta and Lassen.

[charlesmaroon]

Yours is an excellent explanation of the geology of this part of California, and of the Cascade Range.

[ShastaTodd]

Great video, documenting my home of 41 years... but that was not the local Ski Park!

[zapot]

Awesome narrative insight on this beautiful volcano ... My old hiking ground. I didn't know much about this mountainous area until I watched this video. Truly intriguing. Thank you for your video 😊

[martin_b]

Thank you, great info !. Now I really want to visit Mount Shasta. Hopefully we will be able to make in the next two years. Keep up the great videos!

[cynergy]

Entertaining and informative. Some of the graphics could be left up a little longer. I remember being on a road trip when I was little with my family driving past Shasta. I was asleep but my dad woke me up to see it, and it was majestic!

[SweetSunrising]

This was awesome I learned a ton of interesting stuff about Shasta and can’t wait to get into your resources posted for more, thanks! The entire subduction zone on the west coast going on is really fascinating.

Gotta love Mt Shasta for it being a place for spiritual pilgrimages and retreats while at the same time a highly active volcano

[patroberts]

Thank you for this informative video. My brother and I (Always fans of JRR Tolkien) always call this beautiful mountain The Lonely Mountain where the dragon Smaug lives and the treasure he guards😉 Maybe 12 dwarfs, a hobbit and a wizard have visited it too!