The Volcano in Owens Valley California; The Big Pine Volcanic Field

Within Owens Valley in California there is a seemingly obvious volcano which is somewhat largely ignored. What I am referring to are a series of approximately 40 vents that are largely cinder cones which last produced a volcanic eruption a mere 17,000 years ago. As a result, it is quite likely that a portion of the Big Pine Volcanic Field will one day erupt again. Thumbnail Photo Credit: This work “OwensValley1“, is a derivative of a photo (resized, cropped, text overlay, image saturation increased, brightness increased, more red added in to the photo via color balance, overlaid with text, overlaid with GeologyHub made graphics (the GeologyHub logo and the image border)) from “2012_01_02_owens-valley_149“, by: Doc Searls, docsearls, 2012, Posted on Flickr, Flickr account link: , Photo link: , CC BY 2.0. “OwensValley1“ is used & licensed under CC BY 2.0 by If you would like to support this channel, consider using one of the following links: (Patreon: ) (YouTube membership: ) (Gemstone & Mineral Etsy store: ) (GeologyHub Merch Etsy store: ) Google Earth imagery used in this video: ©Google & Data Providers This video is protected under “fair use“. If you see an image and/or video which is your own in this video, and/or think my discussion of a scientific paper (and/or discussion/mentioning of the data/information within a scientific paper) does not fall under the fair use doctrine, and wish for it to be censored or removed, contact me by email at tccatron@ and I will make the necessary changes. Various licenses used in sections of this video (not the entire video, this video as a whole does not completely fall under one of these licenses) and/or in this video’s thumbnail image: Public Domain: CC BY 2.0: CC BY 3.0: CC BY 4.0: Sources/Citations: [1] U.S. Geological Survey [2] The Google Earth KMZ file used in this video used to show the Geologic Map of California was downloaded from: U.S. Geological Survey, California geologic map data, at [3] Vazquez, J. A., and Woolford, J. M. (2015), Late Pleistocene ages for the most recent volcanism and glacial-pluvial deposits at Big Pine volcanic field, California, USA, from cosmogenic 36Cl dating, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 16, 2812– 2828, doi: [4] Adamo, Nasrat & Al-Ansari, Nadhir & Sissakian, Varoujan. (2021). Review of Climate Change Impacts on Human Environment: Past, Present and Future Projections. Engineering. 13. 605-630. , CC BY 4.0 [5] Varnell, Ashley. “Petrology and Geochemistry of the Big Pine Volcanic Field Inyo County, California.” (2006). [6] YouTube Creative Commons, Video at 0:18-0:21 of Salton Sea mudpots: CC BY 3.0 license 0:00 Volcanoes in California 0:44 Big Pine Volcanic Field 1:50 Geologic Setting 3:17 Rhyolite Dome 3:28 Crater Mountain 4:06 Conclusion