SciShow: The Riddle of Mt. Olympus: 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. Stefan and Alexis are headed to Olympic National Park in Washington state to bring you some of the coolest geology stories there. This week, they explore why Mount Olympus should be taller than Mount Everest. 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, KatieMarie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, 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: https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/tectonic.html https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224962324_Late_Cenozoic_exhumation_of_the_Cascadia_accretionary_wedge_in_the_Olympic_Mountains_northwest_Washington_State https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6c07/ee442352300fbd2a75713c0a513b72d3943b.pdf https://pnsn.org/blog/2016/08/15/why-aren-t-there-any-volcanoes-in-the-olympic-mountains https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geosc10/node/1813 https://archive.usgs.gov/archive/sites/geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/parks/olym/olym21.html https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2001JB000288 https://books.google.com/books?id=JpO0Gq0mdkQC&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&dq=isostatic+rebound+olympic+peninsula&source=bl&ots=o6hLKFRWxM&sig=ACfU3U3cx-_pC1VF4moEinGj8SCWECuVWA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiEp62tg6jmAhXOuZ4KHRZ5D7IQ6AEwBHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=isostatic%20rebound%20olympic%20peninsula&f=false http://faculty.washington.edu/dbooth/Booth%201987%20optimized.pdf http://cascadiageo.org/documentation/literature/cascadia_papers/james_etal_2000_postglacial_rebound_NCSZ.pdf http://www.tectonics.caltech.edu/meetings/journal_club/session4/Willett1999JGR.pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.298.3364&rep=rep1&type=pdf https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/501127/why-pacific-northwest-so-rainy https://www.burkemuseum.org/geo_history_wa/Cascade%20Episode.htm Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/mount-olympus-3d-render-topographic-map-horizon-gm1071039786-286609233 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/hurricane-ridge-olympic-national-park-gm186752559-27359206 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/mt-olympus-in-the-olympic-national-park-gm1133720864-300997802


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