The California Volcano Which Split in 2 & Moved 200 Miles Apart; The Neenach Volcano

"Did the Earth move for you, Neenach??" (lol)

It will always be "Mount Lassen" to us locals. Sure, Mt. Lassen had a peak (a pointy top,) - but it blew up. We're baffled why USGS calls it such.
You'll score major points with the locals if you call it by it's true name - should you ever visit. (And you should! It's amazing!)
But don't call it a peak or you're gonna get branded as an ignorant tourist. :)

Pinnacles is a great national park. Awesome hiking trails and the talus caves are great features to explore with the family. Thank you for covering it. Everybody goes to Yosemite in California but there are so many other great national and state parks.

That's fascinating!!!

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Thank you for showing us this feature. There is so much about California I didn’t know, even though I was born there and my father and me crawled all over it. You’ve taught us so much about the amazing geologic history of California and it is always a great treat to watch. I wish my dad could’ve seen your videos with me.
Take care!

In the description and map of plate movement the volcano halves are in the wrong direction. The Pacific plate should be driving the western half Northward. Why is the western half so far south of the eastern half? Shouldn't it be the other way around?

I wonder when Governor Newsome will start taxing any and all lands which may have been part of california in the last 500M years. Could the Olympic Penninsula claim to have only been a visitor travelling through the state on its way from baja to WA?

NEE NACK not Née noch 🤦‍♂️ ugh get it right!! This is actually a little unnerving because the split volcano is right next to me lol. West of Lancaster is Palmdale where I live.

I live just a few miles from the southern half and didn’t know about until looking through Google Maps one day for anything interesting. I saw a marker for Neenach Volcano and got pretty excited to go check it out. Turns out we just got a somewhat rockier chunk of desert with no roads for miles around; NorCal ended up with a national park.

I grew up near Lancaster. I never knew that was an extinction volcano.

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What I find interesting is how a volcano did form along the slip fault. Which makes me wonder if one can unexpectantly form along it again. I mean they are generally NOT associated with slip faults. So I guess if an upwelling down deep happens to occur right under a weakened part of the slip fault then it might pressure it's way up and through the rock, create a chamber, and then follow normal volcano life. But the odds of that happening are likely very very very low.

Hey Lancaster is tht connected to Scotland England ?

I'd love to see a video on the Alleghanian orogeny (aka, the Appalachian orogeny), and the other events that helped form these mountains and hills that we currently have today. I've found all kinds of marine fossils, even on top of the highest mountain in Kentucky, Black mountain, and have a very nice collection. I'd also like to see how the geodes and stuff like that were formed in Kentucky, even the agate that was formed in Kentucky way back then. It would be sweet to see explanations of all of this as I think that it all ties in together, but I may be wrong on that. Kentucky has some extremely cool geology to learn about and I'd even be willing to provide pictures and samples that you could use for the video.

I love your channel, great work ❤ amazing….

Could you also do a video on the underwater canyon in the Monterey Bay?

As well as Point Reyes & Tehachapi Mountains.


It is really cool to have such direct examples of plate tectonics in action.

I'm so glad you did a video on this volcano! I've been to Pinnacles National Park twice. It's quite scenic!

At one minute and 28 seconds into this video you showed the city I live in just north of Ferndale on your map! We have felt many earthquakes here. Every time I look at my fingernails growing from now on I'll imagine the land moving along the fault line along with it and I'll tell people that interesting fact!

There are also a number of lava tube caves around the Pinnacles (locals don't call it Neenach) which house bats. During winter they tend to flood and get closed off, but also get closed off when the bats are giving birth and raising pups.

In Québec, there's a series of mountains that have volcanic origins and just look really out of place in the landscape. That includes the famous Mont Royal which is at the center of Montreal. I would like to know more about them.

Topic: Picacho Peak in Arizona. A landmark in the commute between Tucson and Phoenix. Looks like a volcano core where the outside eroded away. But instead, I understand that it was a more complicated system splitting from the rest of the Picacho mountains. I heard that it was also used by pilots for military training as a target some years ago.

She took half of the volcano in the divorce

I hope to see more information about the Mount Stuart northward movement that Nick Zentner has talked so much about. I know it takes time sometimes, but that is a very interesting case.

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Wow, talk about a bad break-up.

Thank you for such an interesting video on an extinct volcano that has been split in 2 by a fault line. I didn't think that could ever happen!
Um. Since you asked, can you do a video on the extinct volcanoes in Central Texas along the Balcones Fault line? I've heard there's around 16, but I've only heard about Pilots Knob, just SE of Austin, Texas that was active around 63 million years ago, when the dinosaurs were still around and this area was a shallow sea around Austin. Thanks!!

Amazing!
I was doing some tree cutting at the top of Pine Mountain east of hwy 101 in Mendocino county and was looking at the ground.
It was a red dirt that was soft and had rocks of all different colors....how you spell chirt? Churt? With granite jutting out in places. I discovered a piece of round obsidian, I learned called Apaches Tears.
I couldn't figure out what was so odd about this obsidian until I realized that it had no sharp edges!
Looking at it, seemed normal but something was off...it had never been broken before and then I wrapped my head around the fact that almost every piece of obsidian is just a piece, but what I have is a whole glob of obsidian that cooled before it hit the ground.
We are north of the lake county volcanos.

Lousy sound.

This voice sounds mechanical I can't listen

Is this Kipp from Napolean dynamite narrating?

Hamblin Mountain is in Nevada, not Arizona.

I've been going to the Pinnacles site all my life - very cool park.

Ice Ages are a t he o r y conjured up by low IQ lunatics that don't have the intelligence to compile the evidence that clearly shows the massive water erosion across North America - and the British Isles - was the result of sea water - not glacial water - if you aim to be intelligent, learn the difference between theory and fact - if you prefer to live a life of lies, you are detached from reality - which is insanity - please do the research and stop regurgitating adolescent nonsense.

a similar 'volcano/vent' is in NEW ZEALAND ..... conical in shape ... iron red in colour ..... and perfectly split in half ... and now the two halves are hundreds of kms apart

I wonder how tall it was during it's lifetime?

how did someone figure this out

As the north american continent does move. It is not moving south for one... it is moving clock wise to the north west... the only land that is slipping is southern far west coast... that is moving north. So this guy is very wrong with it comes to where the volcano was located at when it was erupting. Try a tiny bit to the south west from the southern most part of it. Most all other geology info here is pretty accurate!

I LOVE the volcanoes of the Owens Valley! There are so many volcanoes in California from the southern border to the border with Oregon..

i can add the pinnacles to volcanoes i've visited. thank you.

Guess i wont be watching your videos any more. If i want fairy tales ill go watch videos on evolution!

Nothing about Minnesota's volcanic eruption

Not really an oddity, but I think the fountain formation in southwest Colorado is very interesting. It's up to 3,000 feet thick at some points and you end up driving through it on your way to teller county. Very cool formation

Are there any volcanoes you know of that are active right now and in a position to potentially split like this? Possibly something in the Azores or Iceland? Could make an interesting video.

The plates move. I’m sure since the core is liquid the heat finds the east way out. That entire 500 mile area is cracked from a million earthquake….

I am not paid for this

For some reason I always confuse Pinnacles with the lava fields in the northeast corner of the state.

not knowing your examples are from ABOVE really confused me how a drawing with vertical arrows could be horizontal. Had to rerun those 22 seconds many times to even begin to grasp the idea.

Another great video. Thank you.
I was recently visiting Yosemite National Park And one of the newer displays are of the different make ups of the huge basalt batholiths. Does this mean that different areas of the valley or pushed up at different times? Were they all made at the same time but came from different sources or are they from different times thus creating the different makeup of each batholith.
😬I hope this makes sense.

Also I was a sag wagon driver from a cycle Oregon event and was learning more about the geology of the Wallowas, Hells Canyon and the travel marks of the Yellowstone caldera. This blows me away every time I think about it, it might be fun to highlight.

My last request is about an off shore geological weirdness which I have written to many in an attempt to get answers but have only met with silence.

Just west of a part of Baja California is an island called Cedros Island. In the ocean just northeast of this island is some very eyebrow raising ocean floor geology - can you help me learn what I am seeing??

I think I missed this first time around, but the moment i saw the video title, I just knew this volcano had the misfortune to emerge right on top of the SAF

Would be nice to see a video on the creation of the New Mexico highlands.