How a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic’s Coolest Fossils
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One of the most dynamic, transformative, and potentially dangerous features in North America is also responsible for some of the continent’s most amazing fossil deposits. It’s a supervolcano we now call Yellowstone.
Thanks to Rick Otto and the Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park for their help with this episode!
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Katie Fichtner, Aldo Espinosa Zúñiga, Kelby Reid, Steph Summerfield, Todd Dittman, Betsy Radley, Svetlana Pylaeva, Colin Sylvester, Philip Slingerland, John Vanek, Jose Garcia, Noah offitzer, Eric Vonk, Tony Wamsley, Henrik Peteri, Jonathan Wright, Wilco Verweij, Jon Monteiro, James Bording, Brad Nicholls, Miles Chaston, Michael McClellan, Elysha Nygård, Jeff Graham, Maria Humphrey, Nathan Paskett, Connor Jensen, Ehit Dinesh Agarwal, Sapjes, Daisuke Goto, Zachary Winkler, Hubert Rady, Yuntao Zhou, Gregory Kintz, Tyson Cleary, Chandler Bass, Maly Lor, Joao Ascensao, Tsee Lee, Sarah Fritts, Ruben Winter, Ron Harvey Jr, Joshua Mitchell, Johnny Li, Jacob Gerke, Katie M Vasilescu, Brandon Burke, Alex Yan
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References:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/300919200_The_geology_and_paleontology_of_Ashfall_Fossil_Beds_a_late_Miocene_Clarendonian_mass-death_assemblage_Antelope_County_and_adjacent_Knox_County_Nebraska_USA
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/587650
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14711425
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2013JB010483
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1684053
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/92GL00703
https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/yellowstone_sub_page_54.html
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/files/1013/9447/0047/bulletin-Mihlbachlerlowres.pdf
https://peerj.com/articles/4880/
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0044205
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-secrets-of-supervolca-2006-06/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00445-007-0140-7
https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70117448
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/120148
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280296629_An_introduction_to_the_stratigraphy_structural_geology_and_hydrogeology_of_the_Columbia_River_Flood-Basalt_Province_A_primer_for_the_GSA_Columbia_River_Basalt_Group_field_trips
http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/columbia-river-flood-basalts
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/298429576_Volcanic_Ash_Layers_in_the_Miocene_Lake_Clarkia_Beds_Geochemistry_Regional_Correlation_and_Age_of_the_Clarkia_Flora
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article/62/8/907/4450/mold-of-a-rhinoceros-in-basalt-lower-grand-coulee
Mustoe, George. “Washington’s Fossil Forests.” 2001
http://www.dnr.wa.gov/Publications/ger_washington_geology_1988_v16_no4.pdf
Thanks to Rick Otto and the Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park for their help with this episode!
Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios: http://youtube.com/pbsdigitalstudios
Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible:
Katie Fichtner, Aldo Espinosa Zúñiga, Kelby Reid, Steph Summerfield, Todd Dittman, Betsy Radley, Svetlana Pylaeva, Colin Sylvester, Philip Slingerland, John Vanek, Jose Garcia, Noah offitzer, Eric Vonk, Tony Wamsley, Henrik Peteri, Jonathan Wright, Wilco Verweij, Jon Monteiro, James Bording, Brad Nicholls, Miles Chaston, Michael McClellan, Elysha Nygård, Jeff Graham, Maria Humphrey, Nathan Paskett, Connor Jensen, Ehit Dinesh Agarwal, Sapjes, Daisuke Goto, Zachary Winkler, Hubert Rady, Yuntao Zhou, Gregory Kintz, Tyson Cleary, Chandler Bass, Maly Lor, Joao Ascensao, Tsee Lee, Sarah Fritts, Ruben Winter, Ron Harvey Jr, Joshua Mitchell, Johnny Li, Jacob Gerke, Katie M Vasilescu, Brandon Burke, Alex Yan
If you'd like to support the channel, head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards!
Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet?
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/eonsshow
Twitter - https://twitter.com/eonsshow
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References:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/300919200_The_geology_and_paleontology_of_Ashfall_Fossil_Beds_a_late_Miocene_Clarendonian_mass-death_assemblage_Antelope_County_and_adjacent_Knox_County_Nebraska_USA
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/587650
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14711425
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2013JB010483
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1684053
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/92GL00703
https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/yellowstone_sub_page_54.html
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/files/1013/9447/0047/bulletin-Mihlbachlerlowres.pdf
https://peerj.com/articles/4880/
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0044205
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-secrets-of-supervolca-2006-06/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00445-007-0140-7
https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70117448
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/120148
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280296629_An_introduction_to_the_stratigraphy_structural_geology_and_hydrogeology_of_the_Columbia_River_Flood-Basalt_Province_A_primer_for_the_GSA_Columbia_River_Basalt_Group_field_trips
http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/columbia-river-flood-basalts
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/298429576_Volcanic_Ash_Layers_in_the_Miocene_Lake_Clarkia_Beds_Geochemistry_Regional_Correlation_and_Age_of_the_Clarkia_Flora
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article/62/8/907/4450/mold-of-a-rhinoceros-in-basalt-lower-grand-coulee
Mustoe, George. “Washington’s Fossil Forests.” 2001
http://www.dnr.wa.gov/Publications/ger_washington_geology_1988_v16_no4.pdf
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