SciShow: The Ancient Island That Transformed Washington: A SciShow Field Trip

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Content of the Lesson: Thanks to Subaru for partnering with us on this episode. Head to https://www.subaru.com/vehicles/outback/ to learn more about the all-new 2020 Subaru Outback. Even though there are no volcanoes on the Olympic Peninsula, you can find lots of volcanic rocks on the beaches. This bizarre circumstance might have to do with how the ancient island transformed Washington state. Series episode 1: https://youtu.be/nRDrqAWXiG0 Hosted by: Stefan Chin, Alexis Dahl SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, KatieMarie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Avi Yashchin, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Correspondence with Dr. Ray Wells http://geoprisms.org/wpdemo/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Cascadia2012_Wells.pdf https://pnsn.org/outreach/about-earthquakes/plate-tectonics https://phys.org/news/2017-10-siletzia-oceanic-center-bremerton.html https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geosphere/article/10/4/692/132166/Geologic-history-of-Siletzia-a-large-igneous https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article-abstract/86/3/421/201836/New-Analyses-of-Eocene-Basalt-from-the-Olympic?redirectedFrom=PDF http://www.dnr.wa.gov/publications/ger_gm50_geol_map_nw_wa_250k.pdf https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/UnitRefs/CrescentRefs_5110.html https://pnsn.org/blog/2016/08/15/why-aren-t-there-any-volcanoes-in-the-olympic-mountains https://pnsn.org/outreach/about-earthquakes/plate-tectonics https://www.universetoday.com/43822/subduction-zone/ Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/mount-olympus-and-the-rugged-olympic-mountains-gm503245592-82422003 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/rialto-beach-sunset-gm489630466-74756835


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