¡Colores!; 1605; Sleeping Monsters, Sacred Fires: Volcanoes of New Mexico

SRT Captions File Generated by MXFplus >> ONE THING ABOUT VOLCANOES

>> WE KNOW THAT THE EARTH IS >> WELL, THE TYPE OF ERUPTIONS >> THERE WAS THIS INCREDIBLE >> MY DREAM AGAIN HAD COME TRUE. >> WE ARE TOLD TO SPEAK OUT >> WHETHER YOU KNOW IT OR NOT, FOR TENS OF MILLIONS OF YEARS, ROCK AND ASH ACROSS THE STATE,

THANKSGIVING PARADE. LOOK AND YOU'LL SEE THE RESULTS AND MOUNTAINS THAT HAVE BLOWN LESS TRAVELED, AND INSTEAD OF THE USUAL ROADSIDE MUSEUMS, YOU MIGHT FIND CLOSELY, AND THE VOLCANIC MAN. AND THE HISTORY OF OTHER IN MIND, NEW MEXICO'S HIBERNATING. SO A BIG QUESTION >> ALTHOUGH THE STATE'S

AGO THAT THESE ERUPTIONS MEXICO FROM PLODDING ABOUT 20 MILLION YEARS AGO, THE GOLDEN AGE OF VOLCANISM A NORTH-SOUTH AXIS, FORMING WHAT WE KNOW OF AS THE RIO FEATURE FOUND IN ONLY SANK, WHILE THE RIFT PUSHED UP CREATING SEVERAL DISTINCT COLORADO TO EL PASO. THE RIFT ALLOWED MAGMA TO RISE TO THE SURFACE ALONG VOLCANOES AGAIN REMODELED NEW ANOTHER WEAKNESS IN THE CRUST,

IT WAS A SERIES OF ERUPTIONS VOLCANIC FEATURES, FROM ZUNI FROM CABAZON TO CAPULIN. IN FACT, THERE ARE MORE THAN A DOZEN DISTINCT VOLCANIC WELL-PRESERVED EXAMPLES IS DESTINY. >> ONE THING ABOUT VOLCANOES OVER HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS WHERE THERE ARE ACTIVE VOLCANISM, HAVE SOME KIND AND IT'S REALLY -- IT'S

ACTIVE VOLCANOES, I CAN THING. >> THE ACOMA PEOPLE, LIKE REVERENCEBECAUSE IT IS PART IMPORTANT THAN WE ARE. WE KNOW ALIVE. IT'S CHANGING, AND IT'S ARE RESHAPING ITSELF AND THE SURFACE. >> WE TALK ABOUT THE MOUNTAINS NO MOUNTAINS, RIVERS OR HILLS COULD COME AS HIGH AS IT COULD BE, THEN THE MOUNTAINS HAD TO BE FORMED TO PROTECT. LIKE THE WALLS OF A HOME, TO FEEL

>> IN THE ACOMA CULTURE, PERIODICALLY TO THE EARTH'S THE REMINDER LEFT GRANDE RIFT AND THE JEMEZ THE MOST FAMEOUS GEOGRAPHYIN VOLCANO. >> WHAT MAKES THE VALLES IN THE TOP OF A BIG MOUNTAIN OF THE COALESCED SLOPES AND PEAKS OF MORE THAN A DOZEN LONG BEFORE THE VALLES CALDERA OCCURRED HERE MORE THAN

OF WHAT WE SEE HERE BEHIND US ARE THE ROCKS THAT WERE PRODUCED BY THOSE EARLIER ON THE LANDSCAPE AND BUILT UP DOWN. >> FAST FORWARDING OF TWO MASSIVE VOLCANIC THE MOST RECENT ERUPTION EMITTED AN ASTOUNDING 300 ROCK AND DEBRIS, BEFORE A DEPRESSION TWELVE MILES WIDE >> WELL, THE TYPE OF ERUPTIONS THAT HAPPENED AT THE VALLES PROBABLY SHOOK FOR MONTHS. EARTHQUAKES EVERY DAY. THERE GROUND. BUT ONCE THE CRACK

CRACK OF THUNDER MAGNIFIED THOUSANDS OF MILLIONS OF TIMES. >> THE INITIAL BLAST SENT OUT AND 500-DEGREES, FORESTS AND INCINERATING FROM THE VOLCANOES' MOUTH, RAINED DOWN. THE COLUMN UNDER ITS OWN WEIGHT THE COUNTRYSIDE AT SUPERSONIC OF THE BANDELIER TUFF. MOUNT ST. HELENS ERUPTED

TO 250 TIMES MORE POWERFUL. ISN'T EVEN THE LARGEST CALDERA TO A COLLECTION OF CALDERAS CARRIED ALOFT BY THE ASH CLOUDS CAN BE CONFIRMED AS FAR AND TEXAS, AND SOME SCIENTISTS BELIEVES THE DUST CLOUD WOULD THE WORLD'S CLIMATE. >> THIS WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. IT WILL TRULY STOP LIFE >> AFTER THE LAST BIG

UP THE CRUST TO FORM REDONDO ERUPTED TO THE SURFACE, ERUPTION IS BELIEVED TO HAVE THE DESTRUCTION LEFT BEHIND BY VOLCANISM, ERUPTIONS LAKES, IT BECAME A DESTINATION PEOPLES. JUST SOUTHEAST OF THE VALLES CALDERA SITS CANYON. WHILE NO ONE WOULD HAVE WANTED TO BE IN THE AREA THE RESULTING MESAS

THE ANCESTORS OF THE SAN THE FIRST TO BUILD DOMINGO, AND COCHITI PUEBLOS PRESERVED. THIS ROOM IS PROBABLY 500-600 YEARS OLD MUD PLASTER THAT WE'RE LOOKING THE CEILING IS BLACKENED, THE CEILING AND PREVENTS A STONE FROM DUSTING ON YOU. >> AT NEARBY FRIJOLES CANYON, THE CAVES WERE MULTI-STORIED

WITH WALLED EDITIONS MADE OUT LOOMS. NOTHING LIKE WORKING AT HOME. IN PLACES SUCH AS PETROGLYPH NATIONAL THE SACREDNESS OF OF IMAGES CARVED ON BASALT. >> ABOUT 150,000 YEARS AGO, ALONG ALBUQUERQUE'S WESTERN HORIZON.THE MAGMA POURED OUT OVER SOFTER SANDY ELUVIAL SOILS, AND THEN IT HARDENED.AND OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST 100,000 YEARS, OF BASALT WHICH CAME TUMBLING

VOLCANIC ESCARPMENT ON WHICH WE'VE GOT OVER 20,000 IMAGES OF TODAY'S PUEBLO PEOPLE, AND ALSO BY OTHER NATIVE FOR SEVERAL THOUSAND YEARS, THE VOLCANOES HAD BEEN A VERY, THIS IS THE MIDDLE OF THE NATIVE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT THIS IS A PLACE WHERE THEIR ANCESTORS HAVE PASSED >> SINCE WE ARE PUEBLO PEOPLE TO THAT UNDERWORLD, WHERE

OUR PRAYERS TO GET SENT BACK TO WHERE WE ALL CAME FROM. >> WHILE MOST OF THE STATE'S GRANTS, AND THE CARRIZOZO YEARS OLD. THE TERM "MALPAIS" MEANS BADLANDS, AND WAS USED BY SPANISH EXPLORERS BUT WERE HELL ON SHOE LEATHER >> THERE'S BEEN SEVERAL FLOWS HAVE BEEN WITNESS TO SOME >> WE ARE STANDING

ERUPTION IN NEW MEXICO. IT'S OF EGYPT. A BLINK OF THE EYE IN NEW MEXICO AND PROBABLY SAW THIS ERUPTION HAPPENING. >> ANOTHER REALLY COOL THING ARE REALLY GOING TO BE USEFUL, AND MARS ARE REALLY NOT THAT CALDERAS, AND A HIGH, DRY, SO THE FACT IS THAT WE CAN ABOUT THE CONDITIONS BY STUDYING VOLCANOES IN NEW MEXICO. >> SOME OF OUR HISTORY

USED TO BE A SUPERNATURAL AND HE WAS ALWAYS TRICKING OF PEOPLE. AND THESE BOY TWIN HEROES WANTED TO TRY TO SAVE SUPERNATURAL BEING. >> THIS IS A HAWAIIAN-STYLE THE PLACE WHERE THE LAVA CAME UP THROUGH THE EARTH'S CRUST, OF THE FLOW. YOU CAN JUST SEE FLOWS ARE VERY FLUID JUST BEEN OOZING ALONG ABOUT 70-KILOMETERS LONG. >> ONE OF HIS TECHNIQUES WAS

SO WHEN THEY FINALLY GOT HERE, ABOUT HIS WAGERING, KNEW THAT HE WOULD EASILY WIN ANYTHING TO THEIR LIVES. LET'S WAGE YOUR LIVES. AND THEY SAID, TO WAGER. AND THE STORY THAT I'VE HEARD IS, HE WAGERED THE GUYS KNEW ALL HIS TRICKS >> AS THE LAVA FLOWED ALONG ENDED UP FLOWING BASICALLY SO IT DIDN'T COOL OFF TUBE SYSTEM TO TRANSPORT IT. BEEN SOLID ROCK, AND WHERE I'M

BEEN HOT LAVA ACTUALLY FLOWING THIS DIRECTION, FLOWING OF LAVA WAS CUT OFF THE ROOF OF THE TUBE, WHICH OVER THE FLOOR. >> THE SUPERNATURAL BEING, PEOPLE. SO I'M GOING TO DO THIS PINE TAR. AND THE STORY A LOT OF THIS PINE TAR, WHICH AND TRYING TO HEAD ITS WAY THE PEOPLE >> WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE

FEATURES THAT FORM ONLY OF LAVA. WE HAVE THE UPPER SURFACE, FORMING THESE ROPES. AND A WAY THAT YOU CAN PICTURE END, IT FORMS WRINKLES. SO IT ON THIS ISLAND AT THE TIME THAT THE ERUPTION WAS BUT YOU COULD HAVE ACTUALLY HURT. >> THE MAJESTIC PROFILE MOUNTAIN FOR MANY NATIVE FROM HUNDREDS OF DIFFERENT ABOUT THREE MILLION YEARS AGO. >> IT'S VERY SIMILAR

ERUPTIONS THAT WERE VERY EXPLOSIVE. SO MOUNT TAYLOR IT REALLY LOOKED LIKE. FLOWING ERUPTION. TO THE OTHER SIDE, IN SORT >> WHILE MOUNT TAYLOR ROSE AGO, HAD THE OPPOSITE EFFECT,

RARE, EXCEPT IN NEW MEXICO, WHERE EXAMPLES ABOUND. >> THIS CRATER EXTENDS OVER A MILE WIDE AT IT'S STEAM EXPLOSIONS. NOW, GROUND WATER, CAUSING INTO STEAM AND LARGE EXPLOSIONS. NOW, WHEN I SAY LARGE, I REALLY MEAN LARGE. THAN THE EXPLOSIONS OVER HIROSHIMA. THE MANTLE FROM US. IT'S OVER 20 MILES BELOW OUR FEET HERE. YET THIS

MANTLE RIGHT TO THE SURFACE. AND THESE ARE CHUNKS COMPOSED OF OLIVINE GREEN, COLOR. >> FORTUNATELY, THE EARTH ONE OF OUR LEADING ECONOMIC FOR PROSPECTORS, VOLCANIC-RICH TOURISTS. BUT WHAT EVERYONE WANTS TO KNOW IS WHEN THE NEXT ONE IS GOING TO BLOW. OF MILLIONS OF YEARS, THERE IS ON THE TIMETABLE A ONE-PERCENT CHANCE

BE A SEDATE LAVA FLOW, NEILA DUNBAR IS PUTTING >> IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO, THERE IS A BODY OF MOLTEN WHERE THE NEXT VOLCANIC ERUPTION IN NEW MEXICO MIGHT OCCUR, THAT WOULD BE A GOOD TO GUESS, I MIGHT PREDICT THAT BASALTIC ERUPTION >> WHAT WOULDN'T I GIVE TO SEE VOLCANOLOGISTS IN THE STATE; BE GREAT WHEN IT HAPPENS.

>> IT MAY BE THAT WE SHOULD AS SLEEPING MONSTERS VOLCANOES OR NEW VOLCANOES THAT MAY >> WHEN OTHERS SPEAK OF NEW OF THE LANDSCAPE. AND SORT ARE SUCH AN IMPORTANT PART FOR SOME OF THAT UNIQUENESS. >> THESE MOUNTAINS OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THE PAST, AND WHERE ARE WE GOING TO GO HAPPENED, AND IT WILL OCCUR, EVEN TODAY AND INTO THE FUTURE.

THIS COLORES IS AVAILABLE >> THIS PROGRAM MADE POSSIBLE MANAGEMENT, SUSTAINING COST-SHARE GRANT MONUMENT, WITH ADDITIONAL AND THENEW MEXICO GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION.