diff --git "a/subtitle/Ry2dJuJ-9UE.srt" "b/subtitle/Ry2dJuJ-9UE.srt" new file mode 100644--- /dev/null +++ "b/subtitle/Ry2dJuJ-9UE.srt" @@ -0,0 +1,4440 @@ +1 +00:00:01,490 --> 00:00:07,230 +[Music] + +2 +00:00:07,279 --> 00:00:12,480 +mounted zisa in northwestern canada is a + +3 +00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:14,960 +member of one of the most elite classes + +4 +00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:18,240 +of mountain on the planet + +5 +00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:22,600 +called glacial volcanoes volcanoes that + +6 +00:00:18,240 --> 00:00:22,600 +erupt in contact with glaciers + +7 +00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:28,420 +[Music] + +8 +00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:42,559 +born from the union of incompatible + +9 +00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:45,680 +parents + +10 +00:00:42,559 --> 00:00:49,039 +the conjugal mixing of flowing magma + +11 +00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:50,559 +and rock hard glaciers + +12 +00:00:49,039 --> 00:00:54,600 +the union + +13 +00:00:50,559 --> 00:00:54,600 +of ice and fire + +14 +00:01:00,559 --> 00:01:06,799 +and yet the mountain in its evolution + +15 +00:01:02,879 --> 00:01:06,799 +would change the course of early man + +16 +00:01:07,119 --> 00:01:12,159 +and incubate from its devastation + +17 +00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:13,840 +some of the earth's most primitive life + +18 +00:01:12,159 --> 00:01:16,320 +forms + +19 +00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:18,799 +this is the story of the consequences of + +20 +00:01:16,320 --> 00:01:20,880 +joining fire and ice + +21 +00:01:18,799 --> 00:01:23,880 +and the life that sprang from their + +22 +00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:23,880 +ashes + +23 +00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:34,320 +at zaisa is a complex of 50 volcanoes + +24 +00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:36,799 +a symphony of epic proportions + +25 +00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:40,520 +written in a script of geology upon a + +26 +00:01:36,799 --> 00:01:40,520 +parchment of time + +27 +00:01:42,479 --> 00:01:47,840 +[Music] + +28 +00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:49,030 +from the escarpment-built layer upon + +29 +00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,479 +lava flow layers + +30 +00:01:49,030 --> 00:01:53,759 +[Music] + +31 +00:01:50,479 --> 00:01:56,640 +reaching back across vast basalt aprons + +32 +00:01:53,759 --> 00:01:59,119 +punctuated by volcanic cones + +33 +00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:01,840 +ascending finally to the crowning + +34 +00:01:59,119 --> 00:02:04,159 +citadel of stone spires + +35 +00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:05,600 +it is an opus of tranquility and + +36 +00:02:04,159 --> 00:02:09,639 +splendor + +37 +00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:47,680 +composed from violence and chaos + +38 +00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:47,680 +[Music] + +39 +00:02:53,579 --> 00:03:15,300 +[Music] + +40 +00:03:17,540 --> 00:03:56,319 +[Music] + +41 +00:04:03,100 --> 00:04:07,380 +[Music] + +42 +00:04:11,690 --> 00:04:14,770 +[Music] + +43 +00:04:25,070 --> 00:04:37,360 +[Music] + +44 +00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:39,759 +using geological techniques such as + +45 +00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:41,840 +carbon 14 dating of rocks + +46 +00:04:39,759 --> 00:04:44,479 +we can form an outline of the mountain's + +47 +00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:44,479 +evolution + +48 +00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:50,479 +the aziza volcanic complex is part of + +49 +00:04:48,159 --> 00:04:52,560 +the stikeen seismic belt + +50 +00:04:50,479 --> 00:04:55,120 +running north south along the interior + +51 +00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:56,960 +west coast of british columbia and into + +52 +00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:59,759 +the yukon + +53 +00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:02,240 +this volcanic belt was the result of the + +54 +00:04:59,759 --> 00:05:04,160 +subduction of the pacific plate sliding + +55 +00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:06,080 +beneath the advancing north american + +56 +00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:08,560 +continent + +57 +00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:11,520 +it is believed that the first volcanic + +58 +00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:13,280 +activity in the aziza region began eight + +59 +00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:16,720 +million years ago + +60 +00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:20,479 +midway along the complex damning a river + +61 +00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:20,479 +creating a lake in its lee + +62 +00:05:21,039 --> 00:05:25,360 +volcanic vents opened beneath the lake + +63 +00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,400 +creating sub-aquatic mounds of basalt + +64 +00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,639 +pillows + +65 +00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:30,320 +that grew until the lava rose above the + +66 +00:05:28,639 --> 00:05:34,479 +lake's surface + +67 +00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:36,720 +eventually filling and draining it + +68 +00:05:34,479 --> 00:05:39,759 +following a period of dormancy + +69 +00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:42,159 +a new series of steam vents geysers and + +70 +00:05:39,759 --> 00:05:43,759 +mud pots began to appear on the flanks + +71 +00:05:42,159 --> 00:05:45,520 +of the first eruption + +72 +00:05:43,759 --> 00:05:48,400 +heralding the second period of + +73 +00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:48,400 +vulcanization + +74 +00:05:48,479 --> 00:05:54,560 +magma soon flowed to the west and south + +75 +00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:56,960 +until even the earlier formations were + +76 +00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:56,960 +buried + +77 +00:05:57,759 --> 00:06:03,120 +the most extensive volcanic events on at + +78 +00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:06,000 +zaisa called the neato period were not + +79 +00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:08,639 +localized to a single volcano as magma + +80 +00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:11,360 +flowed out of six major volcanic cones + +81 +00:06:08,639 --> 00:06:14,400 +and dozens of lesser formations covering + +82 +00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:14,400 +much of the complex + +83 +00:06:14,479 --> 00:06:17,919 +fire fountains of gases and magma were + +84 +00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:20,400 +common + +85 +00:06:17,919 --> 00:06:23,280 +and ash vents darkened the sky and + +86 +00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:23,280 +masked the sun + +87 +00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:28,960 +after a long period of glaciation + +88 +00:06:26,639 --> 00:06:31,680 +another major vent opened spilling + +89 +00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:34,159 +sticky viscous lava that adhered to the + +90 +00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:36,720 +sides of the volcano + +91 +00:06:34,159 --> 00:06:39,600 +building a mountain that is today + +92 +00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:39,600 +mounted sizer + +93 +00:06:40,639 --> 00:06:45,919 +at the zenith of this volcano's growth + +94 +00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:47,199 +it formed a peak rising at least 600 + +95 +00:06:45,919 --> 00:06:48,400 +meters + +96 +00:06:47,199 --> 00:06:50,639 +then suddenly + +97 +00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:52,960 +the mountain blew its top demolishing + +98 +00:06:50,639 --> 00:06:56,639 +the upper regions of the cone weakening + +99 +00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:58,560 +the eastern flank of the crater + +100 +00:06:56,639 --> 00:07:00,639 +lava lakes formed in what was left of + +101 +00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:03,120 +the mounted size of cone + +102 +00:07:00,639 --> 00:07:05,520 +and again pressure built up in the magma + +103 +00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:07,360 +chamber below until it blew out the + +104 +00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:12,479 +eastern wall + +105 +00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:12,479 +exposing the caldera to glacial erosion + +106 +00:07:14,319 --> 00:07:19,360 +there was a period of half a million + +107 +00:07:16,319 --> 00:07:21,840 +years of semi-dormancy before a new + +108 +00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:23,840 +series of volcanic activities began + +109 +00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:26,720 +throughout the complex + +110 +00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:31,560 +sending vast blankets of fluid basalt + +111 +00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:31,560 +and ash flowing across the apron + +112 +00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:37,840 +as the lava flow subsided + +113 +00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:40,319 +great cinder cones formed as the parent + +114 +00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:45,400 +vent spewed mountains of ash and pumice + +115 +00:07:40,319 --> 00:07:45,400 +around the flanks of the adzisa complex + +116 +00:07:56,479 --> 00:08:02,560 +edsiza is a mountain of mystery + +117 +00:07:59,199 --> 00:08:04,160 +both spiritually and scientifically + +118 +00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:06,879 +and though we have learned much about + +119 +00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:09,599 +its origins there are still intriguing + +120 +00:08:06,879 --> 00:08:13,199 +questions about what happens when nature + +121 +00:08:09,599 --> 00:08:14,160 +mixes fire and ice is it possible for + +122 +00:08:13,199 --> 00:08:16,240 +example + +123 +00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:19,440 +that some forms of life actually + +124 +00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:22,240 +flourish because of this combination + +125 +00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:24,240 +mount edsiza obsidian is thought to be + +126 +00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:26,960 +some of the best in the world + +127 +00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:29,599 +is it possible to fingerprint it by + +128 +00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:32,240 +using advanced technology to map native + +129 +00:08:29,599 --> 00:08:36,240 +trade trails from their source to the + +130 +00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:36,240 +far reaches of the artifacts journey + +131 +00:08:37,279 --> 00:08:40,719 +also although the surrounding mountains + +132 +00:08:39,519 --> 00:08:44,800 +are granite + +133 +00:08:40,719 --> 00:08:47,519 +the aziza complex is a mountain of glass + +134 +00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:49,839 +raising the question why + +135 +00:08:47,519 --> 00:08:52,480 +what is it about the consistency of its + +136 +00:08:49,839 --> 00:08:55,839 +subterranean magma vaults that creates a + +137 +00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:55,839 +landscape so unique + +138 +00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:01,200 +to address these questions a diverse + +139 +00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:02,640 +team of scientists made up of a + +140 +00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:05,839 +volcanologist + +141 +00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:08,480 +archaeologists and even a lycanologist + +142 +00:09:05,839 --> 00:09:11,600 +converged upon this volcanic complex + +143 +00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:11,600 +to look for answers + +144 +00:09:12,560 --> 00:09:17,040 +it is not the way the lava flows + +145 +00:09:14,959 --> 00:09:19,360 +but the way it cools that changes + +146 +00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:22,080 +landscapes + +147 +00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:24,399 +by studying the way lava cools we can + +148 +00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:27,040 +understand the details of the mountain's + +149 +00:09:24,399 --> 00:09:27,040 +evolution + +150 +00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:31,440 +ben edwards is a volcanologist who has + +151 +00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:34,839 +studied around the world the bizarre + +152 +00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:36,959 +consequences of mixing fire and + +153 +00:09:34,839 --> 00:09:39,040 +ice one of the things we have to have + +154 +00:09:36,959 --> 00:09:40,959 +happen before a volcano can erupt is we + +155 +00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:43,519 +have to find a way to get the liquid + +156 +00:09:40,959 --> 00:09:45,360 +rock the magma up to the surface to form + +157 +00:09:43,519 --> 00:09:46,880 +a lava flow + +158 +00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:48,160 +and one of the most common ways that + +159 +00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:50,720 +happens + +160 +00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:53,200 +is that the earth actually cracks open + +161 +00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:55,600 +and then the magma or liquid rock can + +162 +00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:56,959 +come up through the fracture + +163 +00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:59,920 +and here at pillow ridge we have some + +164 +00:09:56,959 --> 00:10:02,880 +really spectacular examples of that + +165 +00:09:59,920 --> 00:10:05,279 +so this wall of rock right next to me + +166 +00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:07,600 +looks like it's a vertical face + +167 +00:10:05,279 --> 00:10:09,120 +but as you look in this direction + +168 +00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:10,800 +and down in this direction you can see + +169 +00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:12,560 +it's continuous + +170 +00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:14,399 +and this is something that we call in + +171 +00:10:12,560 --> 00:10:16,800 +geology of dyke + +172 +00:10:14,399 --> 00:10:19,760 +it's a fracture that's opened up + +173 +00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:22,000 +it's cut through the the layering in the + +174 +00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:23,680 +rocks and it's it's vertically + +175 +00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,760 +transporting + +176 +00:10:23,680 --> 00:10:28,880 +liquid rock up to the surface to form + +177 +00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:31,360 +pillow lavas or lava flows + +178 +00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:33,279 +a lot of times when a volcano erupts we + +179 +00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:34,959 +think about the volcano shaping the + +180 +00:10:33,279 --> 00:10:36,560 +surface of the earth + +181 +00:10:34,959 --> 00:10:38,480 +and what you don't always think about is + +182 +00:10:36,560 --> 00:10:40,720 +it actually sometimes the the surface of + +183 +00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:43,600 +the earth affects the volcano when it + +184 +00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:45,920 +erupts and so if you go to the ocean + +185 +00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:47,839 +floor or if you go to hawaii where lava + +186 +00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:50,160 +flows are coming into the water we + +187 +00:10:47,839 --> 00:10:52,320 +actually find a special kind of lava + +188 +00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:54,640 +that is recording the fact that the lava + +189 +00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:57,440 +is going into water + +190 +00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:59,519 +and that's called a pillow lava so you + +191 +00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:02,160 +might wonder why we're talking about + +192 +00:10:59,519 --> 00:11:04,079 +pillow lavas up here at 7 000 plus feet + +193 +00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:06,000 +above elevation on the north flank of + +194 +00:11:04,079 --> 00:11:07,839 +mounted zaisa because certainly we're a + +195 +00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,680 +long ways from from water at least + +196 +00:11:07,839 --> 00:11:10,399 +that's what you'd think + +197 +00:11:09,680 --> 00:11:12,640 +but + +198 +00:11:10,399 --> 00:11:14,560 +this is actually a pillow lava + +199 +00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:16,640 +and this is a pillow lava just like the + +200 +00:11:14,560 --> 00:11:18,399 +ones that are in the ocean floor or off + +201 +00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:19,440 +the coast of hawaii that formed into + +202 +00:11:18,399 --> 00:11:21,040 +water + +203 +00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:23,279 +and + +204 +00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:25,600 +how did a pillow lava get here + +205 +00:11:23,279 --> 00:11:28,160 +we're so far above the water this is + +206 +00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,360 +there's a mystery about the volcano + +207 +00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:31,200 +and + +208 +00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:33,200 +there's really only one way that you can + +209 +00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:36,000 +get water up this high + +210 +00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:38,079 +and that is to have ice around + +211 +00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:40,160 +because when you have a glacier even if + +212 +00:11:38,079 --> 00:11:41,680 +you're up this high if you melt the + +213 +00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:44,160 +glacier + +214 +00:11:41,680 --> 00:11:47,040 +it can form a lake + +215 +00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:49,600 +a new vent opened and hot magma ate away + +216 +00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:51,760 +at the glacier cap producing a lake out + +217 +00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:55,519 +of which an elongated bridge called a + +218 +00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:57,440 +pillow ridge formed beneath the lake + +219 +00:11:55,519 --> 00:11:58,880 +now pillow lavas when they go into water + +220 +00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:01,360 +because the water + +221 +00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:02,880 +makes the lava cool faster the lava + +222 +00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:03,920 +tends to take a shape that's more + +223 +00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:05,600 +rounded + +224 +00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:07,839 +and it actually a pillow lava is almost + +225 +00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,200 +like a tube of lava that's going out + +226 +00:12:07,839 --> 00:12:10,880 +into the water + +227 +00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:11,839 +and the very edge of the tube is covered + +228 +00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:14,480 +by + +229 +00:12:11,839 --> 00:12:16,240 +volcanic glass because it it cools in + +230 +00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:18,880 +such a way that crystals can't form + +231 +00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:21,360 +before it solidifies this is a typical + +232 +00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:23,040 +cross section through pillow lava + +233 +00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:24,800 +and it shows us lots of things about + +234 +00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:26,480 +what was happening during the course of + +235 +00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:28,800 +the eruption + +236 +00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:30,959 +most most lavas to get to the surface of + +237 +00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:32,320 +the earth they have to have some gas in + +238 +00:12:30,959 --> 00:12:34,079 +them and that's one of the ways that + +239 +00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:35,440 +they can come up the earth's surface and + +240 +00:12:34,079 --> 00:12:37,680 +as they get closer to the earth's + +241 +00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:40,000 +surface it's sort of like taking a + +242 +00:12:37,680 --> 00:12:41,600 +bottle of soda and slowly unscrewing the + +243 +00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:43,200 +lid you can hear the hiss of the gas + +244 +00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:45,839 +that's being released + +245 +00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:47,760 +well in lava the same thing happens when + +246 +00:12:45,839 --> 00:12:50,000 +it's down deep in the earth we call it + +247 +00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:51,680 +magma and it's got gas in it and as it + +248 +00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,800 +comes closer and closer to the surface + +249 +00:12:51,680 --> 00:12:54,800 +it's sort of like you're slowly + +250 +00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:56,560 +unscrewing the bottle on your soda and + +251 +00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:58,000 +gas starts to leak out + +252 +00:12:56,560 --> 00:12:59,200 +now some of that gas actually comes to + +253 +00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:01,360 +the surface and that's one of the ways + +254 +00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:02,959 +we can monitor active volcanoes you can + +255 +00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:04,839 +actually detect the gas that's coming + +256 +00:13:02,959 --> 00:13:07,360 +out even while the lava is down deep + +257 +00:13:04,839 --> 00:13:11,680 +below we can actually record some of the + +258 +00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:14,639 +changes in pressure as this lava pillow + +259 +00:13:11,680 --> 00:13:16,399 +was came into water and then stopped and + +260 +00:13:14,639 --> 00:13:18,399 +slowly cooled and crystallized because + +261 +00:13:16,399 --> 00:13:20,480 +you can see these rings of bubbles that + +262 +00:13:18,399 --> 00:13:22,480 +formed at different times as the magma + +263 +00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,920 +was slowly cooling from this outer edge + +264 +00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:26,639 +which actually has a thin rhine to + +265 +00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:28,560 +volcanic glass up into the middle now + +266 +00:13:26,639 --> 00:13:30,320 +this this pillow is actually very very + +267 +00:13:28,560 --> 00:13:32,720 +interesting because the pillow lavas + +268 +00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:34,000 +actually act as tubes for more lava to + +269 +00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:35,440 +flow through them so it can go out + +270 +00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:37,360 +further in the water + +271 +00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:38,959 +and you can see a couple interesting + +272 +00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:40,959 +things in this one there's actually a + +273 +00:13:38,959 --> 00:13:43,120 +hollow i can stick my hand way back up + +274 +00:13:40,959 --> 00:13:45,360 +in here and what that means is this + +275 +00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:47,120 +pillow tube acted like a + +276 +00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:49,040 +a conduit for lava to keep flowing + +277 +00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:50,480 +through and in the end when the + +278 +00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:52,399 +solidified + +279 +00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:53,839 +it wasn't filled with lava so some of + +280 +00:13:52,399 --> 00:13:56,480 +the lava had drained out and it left + +281 +00:13:53,839 --> 00:13:58,720 +this lava tube inside + +282 +00:13:56,480 --> 00:14:00,560 +besides forming melt lakes that alter + +283 +00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:02,880 +the way lava cools + +284 +00:14:00,560 --> 00:14:06,800 +glaciers also influence volcanic + +285 +00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:06,800 +activity by their sheer weight + +286 +00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:13,600 +when you load + +287 +00:14:12,399 --> 00:14:15,360 +the crust + +288 +00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:18,480 +crust of north america the continental + +289 +00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:20,560 +crust with large amounts of ice when we + +290 +00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:23,120 +had the ice ages you formed big ice + +291 +00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:25,839 +sheets that covered canada + +292 +00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:28,160 +and when you load the crust with all + +293 +00:14:25,839 --> 00:14:30,800 +that ice you actually press the crust + +294 +00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:33,839 +down it's remarkable that thickness of + +295 +00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:35,440 +ice can depress the crust + +296 +00:14:33,839 --> 00:14:36,320 +hundreds of meters + +297 +00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:39,760 +and + +298 +00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:42,079 +that creates stresses in the crust + +299 +00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:45,199 +which will cause the rocks to fracture + +300 +00:14:42,079 --> 00:14:48,560 +actually and you can imagine in a place + +301 +00:14:45,199 --> 00:14:52,079 +where you're at the threshold of uh the + +302 +00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:54,160 +release of uh lavas uh magmas from + +303 +00:14:52,079 --> 00:14:57,279 +shallow depths in the crust if you + +304 +00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:59,680 +create those external forces the uh + +305 +00:14:57,279 --> 00:15:02,959 +loading of the crust that it will + +306 +00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:05,680 +trigger volcanic activity in the case of + +307 +00:15:02,959 --> 00:15:07,519 +mounted zaisa you get a lot of evidence + +308 +00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:11,040 +that + +309 +00:15:07,519 --> 00:15:13,680 +eruptions occurred when there was + +310 +00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:16,240 +glaciers in the landscape and + +311 +00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:18,880 +that's not coincidence it's this kind of + +312 +00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:21,839 +association between the loading and the + +313 +00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:24,959 +unloading that is probably triggering a + +314 +00:15:21,839 --> 00:15:27,199 +lot of this volcanic activity + +315 +00:15:24,959 --> 00:15:30,240 +ice can also serve as a record of + +316 +00:15:27,199 --> 00:15:30,240 +volcanic events + +317 +00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:34,320 +but mountain aziza has a two-fold + +318 +00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:38,079 +history + +319 +00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:41,199 +sometimes it erupts basalt lava flows + +320 +00:15:38,079 --> 00:15:43,440 +which are very fluid can travel very far + +321 +00:15:41,199 --> 00:15:44,160 +but other times it erupts lava flows + +322 +00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:46,160 +that + +323 +00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:48,399 +tend to be explosive like mount st + +324 +00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:50,240 +helens like mount pinatubo and those + +325 +00:15:48,399 --> 00:15:52,240 +lavas that are explosive tend to have a + +326 +00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:53,920 +different chemical composition and + +327 +00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:55,519 +that's one of the reasons why they're + +328 +00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:58,160 +more explosive + +329 +00:15:55,519 --> 00:16:01,199 +and malaza has a history with at least + +330 +00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:03,120 +five different episodes where you had + +331 +00:16:01,199 --> 00:16:05,279 +basaltic eruptions + +332 +00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:06,480 +forming large lava flows that filled + +333 +00:16:05,279 --> 00:16:09,440 +valleys + +334 +00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:11,440 +followed by lava flows that were much + +335 +00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:14,560 +thicker didn't travel as far and + +336 +00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:16,639 +sometimes were explosive + +337 +00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:19,680 +another key to unlocking the mysteries + +338 +00:16:16,639 --> 00:16:23,279 +of mounted sizes evolution is written on + +339 +00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:27,279 +the glaciers themselves + +340 +00:16:23,279 --> 00:16:29,199 +so ice can preserve records of volcanism + +341 +00:16:27,279 --> 00:16:31,440 +and one of the ways it can happen is + +342 +00:16:29,199 --> 00:16:34,880 +that when a volcano erupts and produces + +343 +00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:36,800 +an ash layer that covers the ice + +344 +00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:39,279 +more snow falls on top of the ash and + +345 +00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:41,040 +then the ash gets trapped inside the ice + +346 +00:16:39,279 --> 00:16:42,000 +and we see this in lots of places in the + +347 +00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:44,480 +world + +348 +00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:46,480 +so that may well be what we're seeing in + +349 +00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:48,240 +at least some of the layers in this + +350 +00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:50,160 +stranded chunk of ice here in this + +351 +00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:52,079 +moraine + +352 +00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:55,279 +some of the layers may be + +353 +00:16:52,079 --> 00:16:58,240 +layers of ash that are recording + +354 +00:16:55,279 --> 00:17:00,880 +explosive eruptions that happened + +355 +00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:02,480 +in the history of the volcano the most + +356 +00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:04,720 +recent history + +357 +00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:07,039 +so for example when you look around this + +358 +00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:09,839 +terrain this is very classic for what we + +359 +00:17:07,039 --> 00:17:12,079 +call ground moraine it's material that + +360 +00:17:09,839 --> 00:17:14,400 +would have melted out of a glacier as + +361 +00:17:12,079 --> 00:17:16,079 +the glacier was slowly retreating back + +362 +00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:19,039 +up to the mountain + +363 +00:17:16,079 --> 00:17:21,359 +but this ground moraine is special and + +364 +00:17:19,039 --> 00:17:23,199 +kind of interesting because it actually + +365 +00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:25,119 +still has some ice + +366 +00:17:23,199 --> 00:17:26,400 +so if we look across at the wall behind + +367 +00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:28,240 +me + +368 +00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:31,200 +all of these lineations that you see in + +369 +00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:33,360 +the ice are layers of dirt that formed + +370 +00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:35,039 +on the surface of the ice and then were + +371 +00:17:33,360 --> 00:17:37,679 +buried by more snow + +372 +00:17:35,039 --> 00:17:39,520 +which turned eventually to ice + +373 +00:17:37,679 --> 00:17:41,520 +one of the special things about this + +374 +00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:44,000 +particular ground moraine + +375 +00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:45,520 +is that it holds clues to a very + +376 +00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,919 +important + +377 +00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:49,600 +part of the volcanic history of mounted + +378 +00:17:47,919 --> 00:17:51,440 +ziza + +379 +00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:55,200 +many of the eruptions that mounted zaisa + +380 +00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:56,799 +produced lava flows and maybe small + +381 +00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:58,480 +fire fountain interruptions like we see + +382 +00:17:56,799 --> 00:18:00,720 +in hawaii where you may get ash and + +383 +00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:02,799 +tepra thrown into the air for maybe a + +384 +00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:04,240 +kilometer maybe less + +385 +00:18:02,799 --> 00:18:06,080 +but we know + +386 +00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:08,799 +from looking at the ground around us and + +387 +00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:11,440 +the material in that ice that mounted + +388 +00:18:08,799 --> 00:18:14,000 +zisa sometimes doesn't erupt + +389 +00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:15,679 +in a passive way like hawaii and + +390 +00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:18,240 +sometimes it actually has explosive + +391 +00:18:15,679 --> 00:18:24,440 +eruptions where rocks get shot up into + +392 +00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:24,440 +the air for 5 10 even 15 kilometers + +393 +00:18:35,360 --> 00:18:40,160 +while the geological history of exisa is + +394 +00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:43,360 +mapped in millions of years + +395 +00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:44,720 +its natural history is both spartan and + +396 +00:18:43,360 --> 00:18:47,200 +recent + +397 +00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:49,600 +wildlife on the complex is infrequent + +398 +00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:51,679 +and often limited to a few nannies with + +399 +00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:54,080 +kids finding sanctuary in the basalt + +400 +00:18:51,679 --> 00:18:56,799 +cliffs + +401 +00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:59,520 +or a cow caribou and calf on the vast + +402 +00:18:56,799 --> 00:19:04,200 +isolated pumice plains where predators + +403 +00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:04,200 +can be seen kilometers away + +404 +00:19:11,120 --> 00:19:14,240 +plants survive by sheer acts of their + +405 +00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:16,799 +will + +406 +00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:19,280 +and are often isolated to small oasis + +407 +00:19:16,799 --> 00:19:23,320 +streams that vet out the sides of barren + +408 +00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:23,320 +hills of ash and pumice + +409 +00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:29,130 +[Music] + +410 +00:19:31,180 --> 00:19:56,160 +[Music] + +411 +00:19:53,679 --> 00:19:59,280 +human history on mounted zeiss has been + +412 +00:19:56,160 --> 00:20:01,600 +confined to the last few thousand years + +413 +00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:03,760 +and it is believed that early migration + +414 +00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:06,799 +routes of the hunter gatherer passed + +415 +00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:08,960 +along the west flank of mounted sizer + +416 +00:20:06,799 --> 00:20:11,679 +leading to the first discovery of the + +417 +00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:14,000 +mountain's obsidian sites + +418 +00:20:11,679 --> 00:20:15,440 +this material would prove invaluable for + +419 +00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,480 +making tools + +420 +00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:18,080 +weapons + +421 +00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:20,640 +and would become the basis of a + +422 +00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:23,440 +flourishing trade network + +423 +00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:26,320 +for suddenly paleolithic man had a + +424 +00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:29,679 +substance so sharp that it could pierce + +425 +00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:31,679 +even the toughest of animal hides + +426 +00:20:29,679 --> 00:20:33,679 +the first europeans to venture into the + +427 +00:20:31,679 --> 00:20:35,600 +northwest came with the discovery of + +428 +00:20:33,679 --> 00:20:39,200 +gold in the surrounding cassiar + +429 +00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:41,280 +mountains in the mid-1800s + +430 +00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:43,440 +in 1866 + +431 +00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:45,679 +the collins telegraph line to connect + +432 +00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:49,679 +north america with europe was strung + +433 +00:20:45,679 --> 00:20:51,679 +through its eyes raspberry pass + +434 +00:20:49,679 --> 00:20:53,679 +the line never reached russia + +435 +00:20:51,679 --> 00:20:56,880 +due to the successful completion of the + +436 +00:20:53,679 --> 00:20:56,880 +transatlantic cable + +437 +00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:02,799 +in 1972 the mounted size of volcanic + +438 +00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:04,720 +complex was made into a provincial + +439 +00:21:02,799 --> 00:21:06,720 +wilderness park + +440 +00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:08,320 +there are no services available + +441 +00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:11,039 +requiring backpackers to be + +442 +00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:13,600 +self-sufficient and carry both food and + +443 +00:21:11,039 --> 00:21:15,679 +shelter for treks that range from 5 to + +444 +00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:17,840 +10 days + +445 +00:21:15,679 --> 00:21:20,799 +access to the park is by float plane to + +446 +00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:22,320 +one of the three trail heads + +447 +00:21:20,799 --> 00:21:24,880 +buckley lake at the north end of the + +448 +00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:24,880 +complex + +449 +00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:29,760 +modadi lake midway along the eastern + +450 +00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:31,840 +side + +451 +00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:34,159 +and little ball lake at the southern + +452 +00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:36,480 +extremity + +453 +00:21:34,159 --> 00:21:38,720 +starting at buckley lake the first + +454 +00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:41,120 +section of the trail serpentines through + +455 +00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:43,520 +a vast labyrinth of lava beds less than + +456 +00:21:41,120 --> 00:21:45,039 +2 000 years old + +457 +00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:47,360 +[Music] + +458 +00:21:45,039 --> 00:21:50,320 +on eroded by glaciers it is the + +459 +00:21:47,360 --> 00:21:53,320 +landscape of cinder cones and gargoyle + +460 +00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,320 +gardens + +461 +00:21:53,350 --> 00:21:59,980 +[Music] + +462 +00:22:00,799 --> 00:22:04,799 +the trail through the midsection of the + +463 +00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:06,720 +complex skirts the main peaks to the + +464 +00:22:04,799 --> 00:22:10,240 +west + +465 +00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:12,799 +arching around tongues of glaciers + +466 +00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:14,559 +before giving way to a great moonscape + +467 +00:22:12,799 --> 00:22:18,400 +desert + +468 +00:22:14,559 --> 00:22:18,400 +where plant life is the exception + +469 +00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:23,520 +unlike other great deserts of sand + +470 +00:22:21,679 --> 00:22:26,159 +this section is covered with pumice + +471 +00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:29,039 +dunes sandwiched between great ash and + +472 +00:22:26,159 --> 00:22:29,039 +cinder cones + +473 +00:22:29,679 --> 00:22:33,960 +the southern terminus of the park is the + +474 +00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:36,640 +spectrum range named for its + +475 +00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:38,840 +kaleidoscopic splendor a geological + +476 +00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:42,200 +palette of brilliant earth + +477 +00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:51,099 +tones rust red irons + +478 +00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:51,099 +[Music] + +479 +00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:17,200 +the iconic jewel in the cluster of + +480 +00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:19,679 +volcanic brilliance + +481 +00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:23,840 +is kumagu mountain + +482 +00:23:19,679 --> 00:23:23,840 +towering above little ball lake + +483 +00:23:26,559 --> 00:23:31,520 +the influence of mixing glaciers and + +484 +00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:34,400 +vulcanization is not limited to creating + +485 +00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:37,520 +or destroying mountains + +486 +00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:39,760 +glaciers are depositories of the wind + +487 +00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:43,360 +not just ash and pumice + +488 +00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:45,440 +but also life forms such as seeds spores + +489 +00:23:43,360 --> 00:23:48,880 +and pollen from around the world are + +490 +00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,880 +deposited on glaciers + +491 +00:23:49,279 --> 00:23:54,640 +as glaciers recede the potential life + +492 +00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:56,960 +forms often settle into an alien and + +493 +00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:58,240 +inhospitable environment and never take + +494 +00:23:56,960 --> 00:24:00,080 +root + +495 +00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:02,840 +but what happens when they settle into a + +496 +00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:06,000 +volcanic hot + +497 +00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:08,320 +springs lyconologist patrick williston + +498 +00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:10,799 +came to mount aziza to explore this + +499 +00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:10,799 +question + +500 +00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:15,600 +hot springs are often evident by the + +501 +00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:18,159 +formation of outcrops of pure mineral + +502 +00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:20,480 +salts + +503 +00:24:18,159 --> 00:24:23,600 +water from glaciers filters down through + +504 +00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:27,360 +the porous mineral-rich layers of lava + +505 +00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:29,279 +where it is heated by subsurface vents + +506 +00:24:27,360 --> 00:24:32,080 +causing the hot water to dissolve the + +507 +00:24:29,279 --> 00:24:34,240 +minerals such as magnesium + +508 +00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:36,400 +once upon the surface this salt + +509 +00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:39,279 +saturated soup flows out over the + +510 +00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:42,159 +vegetation slowly crystallizing and + +511 +00:24:39,279 --> 00:24:44,720 +fossilizing the plants in its path + +512 +00:24:42,159 --> 00:24:47,039 +so what's happening right around here + +513 +00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:48,960 +is that + +514 +00:24:47,039 --> 00:24:51,360 +the seepage is coming over + +515 +00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:53,279 +and flowing over some of the plants like + +516 +00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:56,000 +this this grass + +517 +00:24:53,279 --> 00:24:58,640 +and in certain places it will + +518 +00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:02,159 +precipitate around the grass + +519 +00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:04,640 +and effectively petrify the vegetation + +520 +00:25:02,159 --> 00:25:06,559 +so you have this + +521 +00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,760 +in this case a sedge it looks like a + +522 +00:25:06,559 --> 00:25:09,760 +sedge that's + +523 +00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:11,279 +now turned to stone + +524 +00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:15,200 +so what we have here + +525 +00:25:11,279 --> 00:25:18,000 +is some recent mineral mineralization + +526 +00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:21,039 +on the actual stems of the monkey flower + +527 +00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:23,440 +so the monkey flower is laying down + +528 +00:25:21,039 --> 00:25:24,320 +and getting coated in the minerals + +529 +00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,799 +and then + +530 +00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:29,039 +the plants perish leaving behind what is + +531 +00:25:26,799 --> 00:25:30,559 +effectively petrified + +532 +00:25:29,039 --> 00:25:32,240 +plant remains + +533 +00:25:30,559 --> 00:25:34,000 +right there + +534 +00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:36,000 +so these stems have just laid down and + +535 +00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:39,600 +already some of them are + +536 +00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,600 +turning into stone right here + +537 +00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:44,799 +but the real miracle of volcanic hot + +538 +00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:48,039 +springs is the amazing life that emerges + +539 +00:25:44,799 --> 00:25:48,039 +from them + +540 +00:25:49,100 --> 00:26:55,439 +[Music] + +541 +00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:59,840 +is it possible for primitive life forms + +542 +00:26:57,679 --> 00:27:04,000 +released from receding glaciers to + +543 +00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:04,000 +survive in these volcanic hot springs + +544 +00:27:04,159 --> 00:27:07,840 +to answer this question water + +545 +00:27:05,919 --> 00:27:09,840 +temperature of individual hot springs + +546 +00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:12,000 +was taken + +547 +00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:14,400 +and algae samples were collected for + +548 +00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:16,799 +analysis + +549 +00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:18,000 +i'm an aquatic ecologist and i study + +550 +00:27:16,799 --> 00:27:20,799 +fresh water + +551 +00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:24,000 +and my phd thesis in university was on a + +552 +00:27:20,799 --> 00:27:26,000 +thermal spring and i learned a lot about + +553 +00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:30,480 +thermal tolerance of + +554 +00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:33,120 +small living algae and it's amazing the + +555 +00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:36,559 +variety of algae but also their + +556 +00:27:33,120 --> 00:27:37,760 +tolerance each algae species has a + +557 +00:27:36,559 --> 00:27:40,320 +specific + +558 +00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:41,919 +range of temperature tolerance + +559 +00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,360 +if you take them and you put them in a + +560 +00:27:41,919 --> 00:27:46,240 +cold water + +561 +00:27:43,360 --> 00:27:48,159 +they probably would not survive they are + +562 +00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:52,880 +specifically thermophilic which means + +563 +00:27:48,159 --> 00:27:54,880 +they've grown over centuries millennia + +564 +00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:57,440 +millions of years in a thermal + +565 +00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:59,600 +environment and are adapted to that this + +566 +00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,880 +the algae that had been identified from + +567 +00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,720 +there + +568 +00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:05,600 +when i looked at them + +569 +00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:07,760 +the the list they were algae not from + +570 +00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,799 +lakes but they were algae from + +571 +00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:11,440 +from a + +572 +00:28:08,799 --> 00:28:13,919 +generally a very warm climate + +573 +00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:15,039 +and a very high thermal tolerance the + +574 +00:28:13,919 --> 00:28:16,399 +question of + +575 +00:28:15,039 --> 00:28:19,039 +how do algae get + +576 +00:28:16,399 --> 00:28:21,200 +to where they can live and what if they + +577 +00:28:19,039 --> 00:28:22,240 +land in a hostile environment and don't + +578 +00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,480 +survive + +579 +00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:26,720 +algae are very have many means of + +580 +00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:28,159 +transportation they are + +581 +00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:31,120 +mobile + +582 +00:28:28,159 --> 00:28:32,799 +that's important how did they get to + +583 +00:28:31,120 --> 00:28:34,799 +these hot springs + +584 +00:28:32,799 --> 00:28:36,720 +well they had to have come + +585 +00:28:34,799 --> 00:28:39,600 +probably by air + +586 +00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:42,399 +aerial invasion it seems to me that we + +587 +00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:43,679 +have algae that can survive being frozen + +588 +00:28:42,399 --> 00:28:46,720 +in glaciers + +589 +00:28:43,679 --> 00:28:48,320 +we have algae that can survive nearly 50 + +590 +00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:51,200 +to 60 degrees + +591 +00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:53,440 +celsius in hot springs + +592 +00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:55,120 +why shouldn't they be able to survive in + +593 +00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,640 +the jet stream + +594 +00:28:55,120 --> 00:29:00,640 +we have found them + +595 +00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:03,120 +under ice in the antarctic in the arctic + +596 +00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:06,640 +uh it was the early divers that that + +597 +00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:09,279 +risks the the cold to go and look up + +598 +00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:11,279 +at the ice layer from below + +599 +00:29:09,279 --> 00:29:14,000 +that were amazed at the + +600 +00:29:11,279 --> 00:29:16,960 +beautiful green glow of the ice and the + +601 +00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:18,159 +algae growing there i i cite this as an + +602 +00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:21,520 +exa as an + +603 +00:29:18,159 --> 00:29:25,200 +example of just how extremely variable + +604 +00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:27,120 +algae are in in all types of environment + +605 +00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,480 +whether it be sea water + +606 +00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,919 +fresh lakes + +607 +00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:32,720 +hot springs + +608 +00:29:29,919 --> 00:29:35,360 +air they have a unique ability to + +609 +00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:37,120 +survive so it's not surprising to me in + +610 +00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,480 +mount ed zaisa + +611 +00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:41,279 +that to see + +612 +00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:43,120 +living algae at hot springs that you + +613 +00:29:41,279 --> 00:29:44,480 +recorded a temperature of 50 degrees + +614 +00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,960 +celsius + +615 +00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:49,600 +it's not surprising at all + +616 +00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:50,880 +because they are extremely + +617 +00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:54,159 +extremely + +618 +00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:57,279 +resistant to both cold + +619 +00:29:54,159 --> 00:29:59,840 +to burial without oxygen + +620 +00:29:57,279 --> 00:30:03,440 +and of course to high temperature + +621 +00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:06,240 +it's entirely possible that the algae + +622 +00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:08,799 +were brought to the mountain + +623 +00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:11,120 +during glacial recession and i see + +624 +00:30:08,799 --> 00:30:12,080 +absolutely no reason that you shouldn't + +625 +00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:14,080 +then + +626 +00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:17,120 +have a viable + +627 +00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:19,440 +population of photosynthetic algae in + +628 +00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:22,399 +these springs as i + +629 +00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:24,000 +was looking over the list of the species + +630 +00:30:22,399 --> 00:30:26,080 +that occur + +631 +00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,760 +in all of the samples from your hot + +632 +00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:30,240 +springs + +633 +00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:33,279 +i'm not surprised + +634 +00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:35,520 +the most dominant and abundant + +635 +00:30:33,279 --> 00:30:37,679 +are the most primitive i was a little + +636 +00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:40,159 +surprised by the diversity + +637 +00:30:37,679 --> 00:30:42,640 +of diatoms + +638 +00:30:40,159 --> 00:30:44,720 +the uniqueness of this environment and + +639 +00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,919 +such what is seemingly such a hostile + +640 +00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:48,320 +environment + +641 +00:30:45,919 --> 00:30:50,799 +with the diversity i see here is very + +642 +00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:53,120 +surprising indeed + +643 +00:30:50,799 --> 00:30:55,360 +among the diversity of algae discovered + +644 +00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:57,519 +in the volcanic hot springs + +645 +00:30:55,360 --> 00:31:00,159 +was one rare species from the far + +646 +00:30:57,519 --> 00:31:03,360 +himalaya and another species from + +647 +00:31:00,159 --> 00:31:03,360 +southern california + +648 +00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:08,080 +while the interaction of fire and ice + +649 +00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:10,080 +resulted in an abundance of algae + +650 +00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:13,200 +species flourishing + +651 +00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:16,320 +the consequences of this unlikely union + +652 +00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:18,159 +produced the volcanic glass obsidian + +653 +00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:22,519 +that would permanently change the + +654 +00:31:18,159 --> 00:31:22,519 +hunting habits of early man + +655 +00:31:35,279 --> 00:31:41,039 +my english name is oscar james dennis uh + +656 +00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:42,159 +that's what i'm registered as in canada + +657 +00:31:41,039 --> 00:31:44,960 +uh + +658 +00:31:42,159 --> 00:31:47,519 +and uh we're sitting on this diet you + +659 +00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:48,559 +know it's referred you know referred to + +660 +00:31:47,519 --> 00:31:50,640 +by + +661 +00:31:48,559 --> 00:31:52,880 +most as mounted zaidza i have a + +662 +00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:55,039 +difficult time calling it mounted + +663 +00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:56,320 +it's this dye and it just star refers to + +664 +00:31:55,039 --> 00:31:58,559 +uh + +665 +00:31:56,320 --> 00:32:00,960 +to some of the areas where you have the + +666 +00:31:58,559 --> 00:32:03,519 +cones and you have the hollowness + +667 +00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:05,679 +underneath from the lava flows and the + +668 +00:32:03,519 --> 00:32:07,200 +the surface solidify + +669 +00:32:05,679 --> 00:32:08,799 +and then you have the hollowness with + +670 +00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:11,279 +the rocks the burnt out rocks and when + +671 +00:32:08,799 --> 00:32:13,279 +you walk on the rocks + +672 +00:32:11,279 --> 00:32:15,279 +it makes the sound in combination with + +673 +00:32:13,279 --> 00:32:16,480 +the hollowness of the mountain + +674 +00:32:15,279 --> 00:32:19,679 +and uh + +675 +00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:21,919 +that's what this dar refers to it refers + +676 +00:32:19,679 --> 00:32:24,799 +to the crunch and the hollow combined + +677 +00:32:21,919 --> 00:32:27,440 +the thing that amazes me about this this + +678 +00:32:24,799 --> 00:32:29,519 +you know all the all the outcrops and + +679 +00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:31,440 +wherever you see this obsidian scattered + +680 +00:32:29,519 --> 00:32:33,279 +all over the ground is the thing that + +681 +00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,399 +amazes me is that you tend to think that + +682 +00:32:33,279 --> 00:32:36,159 +it's + +683 +00:32:34,399 --> 00:32:38,880 +all over like this place is just like + +684 +00:32:36,159 --> 00:32:40,960 +this but it's not it is only uh not only + +685 +00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,640 +the only place you find these is is near + +686 +00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,440 +the pipes and there's one right over + +687 +00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,200 +here + +688 +00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,960 +and that's what fascinates me about this + +689 +00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,799 +area and you look around one of the + +690 +00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:51,360 +things that my one of my grandmothers + +691 +00:32:48,799 --> 00:32:53,519 +told me when i was a young man she told + +692 +00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:54,799 +me that in order for anyone to come onto + +693 +00:32:53,519 --> 00:32:56,320 +this mountain + +694 +00:32:54,799 --> 00:32:58,720 +they would have to go through eight + +695 +00:32:56,320 --> 00:33:01,039 +months of ritual celebi eight months of + +696 +00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:03,760 +celibacy within the ritual and it + +697 +00:33:01,039 --> 00:33:05,919 +involved sleeping on one side for four + +698 +00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:07,600 +months sleeping on the other side for + +699 +00:33:05,919 --> 00:33:08,640 +the other four months + +700 +00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:10,320 +and + +701 +00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:13,600 +every morning you would cleanse and you + +702 +00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:15,919 +would bathe and uh in preparation for uh + +703 +00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:17,440 +for your trek onto this mountain and + +704 +00:33:15,919 --> 00:33:18,960 +then she also said when you came onto + +705 +00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:21,600 +the mountain it was believed that the + +706 +00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:23,360 +mountain was alive so therefore whenever + +707 +00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:25,279 +you were you were + +708 +00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:28,000 +you were coming to a pipe you know like + +709 +00:33:25,279 --> 00:33:30,880 +one of these pipes you would have to uh + +710 +00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:33,120 +approach it from downwind like an animal + +711 +00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:34,799 +you couldn't approach it from upwind + +712 +00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,760 +then once you get to obsidian there was + +713 +00:33:34,799 --> 00:33:37,600 +uh + +714 +00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:39,919 +you you would harvest it but you notice + +715 +00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:41,760 +there's flakes like there's rook flakes + +716 +00:33:39,919 --> 00:33:43,760 +wherever you look and the reason why + +717 +00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:46,320 +there's all these work flakes is because + +718 +00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:48,720 +they had to carry it down by you know by + +719 +00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:51,360 +by dog pack or or by they had to carry + +720 +00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:52,480 +themselves so to carry a huge piece like + +721 +00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:54,399 +this + +722 +00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:55,200 +wouldn't be very strategic because you + +723 +00:33:54,399 --> 00:33:56,799 +you + +724 +00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:58,640 +you could only carry so many pieces like + +725 +00:33:56,799 --> 00:34:01,519 +this so what they would do is they would + +726 +00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:03,440 +work the pieces down to to uh not to + +727 +00:34:01,519 --> 00:34:05,440 +finish products but or maybe in some + +728 +00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,559 +cases they did but a lot of the times + +729 +00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,079 +they would just work it down to + +730 +00:34:06,559 --> 00:34:10,079 +manageable pieces and then they would + +731 +00:34:08,079 --> 00:34:12,480 +take it down the way this is worked is + +732 +00:34:10,079 --> 00:34:14,079 +they use antler and there's three stages + +733 +00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:16,320 +i don't have the second two or the last + +734 +00:34:14,079 --> 00:34:18,639 +the third tool is when you like when you + +735 +00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:21,040 +get it down to you know a blade then you + +736 +00:34:18,639 --> 00:34:22,639 +have to switch from from using these + +737 +00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:24,960 +these antlers + +738 +00:34:22,639 --> 00:34:26,800 +this is taken from a moose horn so when + +739 +00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:29,119 +you're using this tool you don't hold it + +740 +00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:30,639 +like tight tightly like this and bang + +741 +00:34:29,119 --> 00:34:32,159 +the glass you don't do that you allow + +742 +00:34:30,639 --> 00:34:33,599 +this to drop + +743 +00:34:32,159 --> 00:34:34,719 +it's sort of like you're allowing it to + +744 +00:34:33,599 --> 00:34:36,719 +free fall + +745 +00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:39,040 +but you could also put pressure and and + +746 +00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:41,199 +also velocity to it so i would leave it + +747 +00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:43,280 +on my lap in my hand and then i would + +748 +00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:44,800 +let it drop that's why this is bigger + +749 +00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:46,159 +than when it gets to a certain point i + +750 +00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:48,239 +couldn't when i break it down to a + +751 +00:34:46,159 --> 00:34:50,320 +certain point i would switch weights so + +752 +00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:53,040 +this is a lighter piece so then i would + +753 +00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:54,719 +switch to this weight and then i would i + +754 +00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:56,879 +would keep striking it and control the + +755 +00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:59,200 +brake so that's how it works this is a + +756 +00:34:56,879 --> 00:35:01,760 +this is a bi-face it's an artifact that + +757 +00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:03,599 +was made by my grandfather it was found + +758 +00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:07,119 +by my uncle he passed away last year he + +759 +00:35:03,599 --> 00:35:08,240 +was in his 85 almost 90 and he gave this + +760 +00:35:07,119 --> 00:35:09,599 +to me + +761 +00:35:08,240 --> 00:35:11,440 +and he when he found that i was + +762 +00:35:09,599 --> 00:35:13,520 +interested in doing this so this has + +763 +00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:15,599 +been worked and you see how how that + +764 +00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:17,359 +center line is down the center well i + +765 +00:35:15,599 --> 00:35:19,040 +got this piece + +766 +00:35:17,359 --> 00:35:20,960 +on this side + +767 +00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:23,440 +almost centered once i have it centered + +768 +00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:24,960 +like like this then i just need to + +769 +00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:26,000 +remove axes + +770 +00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:29,040 +so + +771 +00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:30,720 +i almost have this this is a blank so + +772 +00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:33,599 +this is a bi-face this is a blank and + +773 +00:35:30,720 --> 00:35:33,599 +this is the core + +774 +00:35:36,240 --> 00:35:39,680 +see that + +775 +00:35:37,839 --> 00:35:41,760 +look at this + +776 +00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:43,520 +so that's how you carve it down + +777 +00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:45,119 +the thing that really i mean + +778 +00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:47,200 +the thing that just dawned on me doing + +779 +00:35:45,119 --> 00:35:49,839 +this up here + +780 +00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:52,640 +i'm adding my + +781 +00:35:49,839 --> 00:35:55,040 +these flakes that i've worked + +782 +00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:58,320 +is gonna be left up here for the next 10 + +783 +00:35:55,040 --> 00:36:00,560 +000 years i'll always know that i have a + +784 +00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:03,520 +piece of rock in my bag but + +785 +00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,520 +it doesn't really matter + +786 +00:36:05,599 --> 00:36:08,960 +this creates a surface for you to hit + +787 +00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,400 +when you do that + +788 +00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:12,560 +and you see how + +789 +00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:15,040 +there's this indentation here it makes + +790 +00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:16,960 +the line go this way it's real nice when + +791 +00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:18,640 +that happens because here's a lump here + +792 +00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:20,560 +that needs to come off + +793 +00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:23,119 +and then you take it off you just take + +794 +00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:23,119 +it off like + +795 +00:36:24,720 --> 00:36:29,760 +like that and that lump's gone you see + +796 +00:36:28,079 --> 00:36:32,560 +here's this huge hump here but i have to + +797 +00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:36,079 +take this off before i could get at this + +798 +00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:36,079 +then you switch it around + +799 +00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:39,440 +you take that off like that that was + +800 +00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:41,280 +beautiful + +801 +00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:43,440 +you know if you hold those those blades + +802 +00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:46,800 +up to the sunlight + +803 +00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:49,119 +it would show this real nice green + +804 +00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:52,320 +green hue and that's that's sort of that + +805 +00:36:49,119 --> 00:36:54,800 +was the way that they used to identify + +806 +00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:59,359 +this job obsidian + +807 +00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:59,359 +that this jar do not stealth in + +808 +00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:09,240 +so here it is + +809 +00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:14,400 +it's amazing to be here on the flank of + +810 +00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:16,240 +ed zaidza + +811 +00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:19,839 +which was really the mother lode for + +812 +00:37:16,240 --> 00:37:22,400 +obsidian volcanic glass that traded + +813 +00:37:19,839 --> 00:37:24,160 +all over the country + +814 +00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,680 +the thought that you know + +815 +00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:28,560 +pieces of glass + +816 +00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:30,400 +worked on this very flat here + +817 +00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:31,810 +would have been traded as far as haida + +818 +00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,960 +gwaii + +819 +00:37:31,810 --> 00:37:35,200 +[Music] + +820 +00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:36,640 +east across the rockies + +821 +00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:39,760 +certainly south into middle british + +822 +00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:40,640 +columbia possibly as far as california + +823 +00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,800 +and + +824 +00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,920 +it's kind of magical to sort of be here + +825 +00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,599 +and know + +826 +00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,440 +that obsidian has been worked on this + +827 +00:37:45,599 --> 00:37:50,160 +mountain not for a thousand years but + +828 +00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:52,160 +for eight thousand five hundred years + +829 +00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:54,240 +now this particular + +830 +00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:56,000 +place would have been covered by ice at + +831 +00:37:54,240 --> 00:37:58,640 +that time but there would have been + +832 +00:37:56,000 --> 00:38:01,040 +great boulders of obsidian spat out by + +833 +00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:03,119 +the mountain in a sense and the the + +834 +00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:06,079 +original peoples must have walked up + +835 +00:38:03,119 --> 00:38:08,079 +these valleys found those great + +836 +00:38:06,079 --> 00:38:10,480 +treasures because you have to think + +837 +00:38:08,079 --> 00:38:11,760 +these were paleolithic hunters and + +838 +00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:14,560 +gatherers + +839 +00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:17,119 +they depended on the hunt they needed a + +840 +00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:18,960 +tool that could pierce hide the height + +841 +00:38:17,119 --> 00:38:21,520 +of a caribou the height of a sheep the + +842 +00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:24,000 +height of even a grizzly bear + +843 +00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:26,720 +and when you could take something like a + +844 +00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:29,040 +piece of obsidian glass + +845 +00:38:26,720 --> 00:38:30,160 +which we know is the sharpest known + +846 +00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,440 +substance + +847 +00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:34,720 +on earth + +848 +00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:38,079 +you this would have represented + +849 +00:38:34,720 --> 00:38:40,880 +a treasury of wealth beyond any other + +850 +00:38:38,079 --> 00:38:42,480 +element in the paleolithic toolkit and + +851 +00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:44,960 +so who controlled + +852 +00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:48,960 +the source would have been amongst the + +853 +00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:51,280 +most powerful and richest + +854 +00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:53,040 +people of their era whether that era was + +855 +00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:55,839 +four thousand years ago two thousand + +856 +00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:57,839 +years ago or a thousand years ago + +857 +00:38:55,839 --> 00:39:00,480 +and so they would have come up here and + +858 +00:38:57,839 --> 00:39:02,800 +they would have found these great cores + +859 +00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:04,320 +of obsidian now this is a tiny one some + +860 +00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:06,400 +of these things can be + +861 +00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,920 +as broad as your arms can reach + +862 +00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:10,480 +and they would have slowly worked this + +863 +00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:11,520 +until they had a a kind of a a piece + +864 +00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,040 +that they could + +865 +00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:15,440 +a blank as it's called that you could + +866 +00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,960 +carry down off the mountain with you or + +867 +00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:19,200 +you could continue to work it until you + +868 +00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:20,240 +had a perfect bi-face here on the + +869 +00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,760 +mountain + +870 +00:39:20,240 --> 00:39:22,640 +but a core + +871 +00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:23,839 +of + +872 +00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:25,359 +obsidian + +873 +00:39:23,839 --> 00:39:27,760 +would have been like a lump of gold + +874 +00:39:25,359 --> 00:39:29,520 +today carried along the trade routes + +875 +00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:30,960 +throughout the country + +876 +00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:32,960 +and one of the things you know when you + +877 +00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:35,520 +walk across at zaidza + +878 +00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:38,320 +you can sometimes walk for kilometers at + +879 +00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:40,720 +a time where it seems like 25 of the + +880 +00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:42,640 +ground cover is charged of obsidian and + +881 +00:39:40,720 --> 00:39:45,839 +your first thought is + +882 +00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:46,960 +that can't be all of human creation but + +883 +00:39:45,839 --> 00:39:49,599 +it is + +884 +00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:51,119 +and having just watched oscar + +885 +00:39:49,599 --> 00:39:54,160 +take a + +886 +00:39:51,119 --> 00:39:56,400 +a core of obsidian and turn + +887 +00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:58,400 +turn it into this sort of blank this is + +888 +00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,520 +a very piece he chipped + +889 +00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:02,720 +and + +890 +00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:04,240 +all around him remain the elements of + +891 +00:40:02,720 --> 00:40:06,640 +what had been the core + +892 +00:40:04,240 --> 00:40:08,880 +and so if you multiply that by + +893 +00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:12,160 +thousands of people over thousands of + +894 +00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:13,839 +years working this mother lode + +895 +00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:16,000 +it becomes the sort of carpet of the + +896 +00:40:13,839 --> 00:40:18,480 +human imagination and technology spread + +897 +00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:21,640 +across the mountain that is sacred to + +898 +00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:21,640 +the tultan + +899 +00:40:30,720 --> 00:40:34,240 +the second question about the + +900 +00:40:32,079 --> 00:40:36,960 +intersection of ice and fire that the + +901 +00:40:34,240 --> 00:40:39,040 +team of scientists focused upon + +902 +00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:41,359 +was the distribution of obsidian by + +903 +00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:43,520 +native cultures + +904 +00:40:41,359 --> 00:40:45,359 +to determine just how far ed zeiss + +905 +00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:47,599 +obsidian was traded + +906 +00:40:45,359 --> 00:40:49,359 +dr rudy reimer brought an advanced + +907 +00:40:47,599 --> 00:40:51,680 +detection device called x-ray + +908 +00:40:49,359 --> 00:40:56,240 +fluorescence to the mountain to capture + +909 +00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:56,240 +exisa obsidian's unique fingerprint + +910 +00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:02,640 +we're here at mounted zaisa + +911 +00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:04,640 +looking and hunting for obsidian + +912 +00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:07,920 +and this place + +913 +00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:09,040 +mounted zisa is an incredible + +914 +00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:12,240 +large + +915 +00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:14,480 +and very culturally important source of + +916 +00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:16,720 +this volcanic glass + +917 +00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:17,760 +what makes mounted zaisa obsidian so + +918 +00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:19,440 +unique + +919 +00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:21,680 +is that our multiple flows all + +920 +00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:23,920 +throughout the volcanic complex that we + +921 +00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:26,640 +can analyze with our portable x-ray + +922 +00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:28,880 +fluorescence instrument here + +923 +00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:30,240 +and this allows us to do this analysis + +924 +00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:32,720 +in the field + +925 +00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:35,440 +and apply it elsewhere in our research + +926 +00:41:32,720 --> 00:41:38,000 +to understand the broader scale + +927 +00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:40,240 +in which this material was distributed + +928 +00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:42,960 +so the work that we do here close to the + +929 +00:41:40,240 --> 00:41:45,040 +source to characterize + +930 +00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:46,319 +and obtain elemental fingerprints of + +931 +00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:48,880 +this material + +932 +00:41:46,319 --> 00:41:50,720 +is of the utmost importance not only for + +933 +00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,680 +archaeologists but for first nations + +934 +00:41:50,720 --> 00:41:53,920 +people + +935 +00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:56,960 +who have been utilizing this place for + +936 +00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:58,960 +up to ten thousand years + +937 +00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:00,319 +so one of the advantages of newer + +938 +00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:03,440 +technology + +939 +00:42:00,319 --> 00:42:05,119 +such as this portable xrf handheld unit + +940 +00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,560 +is that we can bring the instrument into + +941 +00:42:05,119 --> 00:42:09,520 +the field + +942 +00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:11,680 +and this is opposed to 20 30 years ago + +943 +00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:13,760 +where we had to come out on long + +944 +00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:16,240 +expeditions collect a large number of + +945 +00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:18,319 +samples pack them out and bring them + +946 +00:42:16,240 --> 00:42:20,880 +back to our labs + +947 +00:42:18,319 --> 00:42:22,160 +and many of those analysis took long + +948 +00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:24,400 +time + +949 +00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:25,839 +the computing power wasn't as good as it + +950 +00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:28,079 +is nowadays + +951 +00:42:25,839 --> 00:42:29,359 +and in other techniques it would destroy + +952 +00:42:28,079 --> 00:42:30,960 +the artifact + +953 +00:42:29,359 --> 00:42:32,720 +the benefits we have now is it's + +954 +00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:35,200 +portable quick + +955 +00:42:32,720 --> 00:42:37,440 +and non-destructive so we can do mass + +956 +00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:39,200 +analysis either in the lab + +957 +00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:41,119 +or here in the field + +958 +00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:45,040 +so now we're going to do a test on this + +959 +00:42:41,119 --> 00:42:48,000 +large boulder of obsidian just be able + +960 +00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:49,599 +to compare its chemical signature to + +961 +00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:52,160 +other samples throughout the volcanic + +962 +00:42:49,599 --> 00:42:52,160 +complex + +963 +00:42:54,079 --> 00:42:58,960 +and so here we're at the headwaters of + +964 +00:42:56,480 --> 00:43:01,119 +this creek which would have provided a + +965 +00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:03,520 +nice travel corridor + +966 +00:43:01,119 --> 00:43:05,040 +up to goat mountain there that is known + +967 +00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:06,960 +as one of the main quarry sites + +968 +00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:09,440 +throughout the complex + +969 +00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:11,599 +we're here at an archaeological site + +970 +00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:14,160 +just above the creek where we were + +971 +00:43:11,599 --> 00:43:16,319 +earlier doing some tests + +972 +00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:18,880 +most of the material down there were raw + +973 +00:43:16,319 --> 00:43:20,800 +nodules probably eroded down by the + +974 +00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:21,680 +glaciers in the creek + +975 +00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:24,800 +from + +976 +00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:26,640 +higher up where the source outcrops are + +977 +00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:28,480 +in and around goat mountain + +978 +00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:30,319 +but this is much different what we're + +979 +00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:32,400 +looking at here is a result of human + +980 +00:43:30,319 --> 00:43:34,319 +activity + +981 +00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:35,760 +and we as archaeologists + +982 +00:43:34,319 --> 00:43:38,240 +can recognize + +983 +00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:40,240 +the breakage patterns of obsidian + +984 +00:43:38,240 --> 00:43:42,640 +and the way people worked this + +985 +00:43:40,240 --> 00:43:43,520 +incredible material thousands of years + +986 +00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:46,640 +ago + +987 +00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:49,920 +and it's the patterning of the breakage + +988 +00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:51,920 +in flakes and debris such as we see here + +989 +00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:53,040 +that distinguishes it from natural + +990 +00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:55,200 +breakage + +991 +00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:58,319 +and so when we find concentrations of + +992 +00:43:55,200 --> 00:44:00,880 +flakes and tools and cores + +993 +00:43:58,319 --> 00:44:02,720 +such as this lithic scatter we can be + +994 +00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:04,800 +very confident that this is the result + +995 +00:44:02,720 --> 00:44:06,960 +of human activity + +996 +00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:08,480 +hi my name is jordan hanley and i'm an + +997 +00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:10,720 +undergraduate student here at simon + +998 +00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:13,200 +fraser university i'm currently working + +999 +00:44:10,720 --> 00:44:15,200 +with dr rudy reimer establishing the + +1000 +00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:17,440 +obsidian trade trails + +1001 +00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:20,480 +from mount and saisa and throughout + +1002 +00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:23,280 +bc and alberta + +1003 +00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:25,280 +so now we're ready for analysis of some + +1004 +00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:27,200 +obsidian that we're not sure where it's + +1005 +00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:29,440 +from but we can + +1006 +00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:31,520 +obtain elemental spectra + +1007 +00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:34,640 +and match it to a known source and + +1008 +00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:37,839 +compare it to other sources that we have + +1009 +00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:37,839 +in our reference library + +1010 +00:44:38,720 --> 00:44:44,480 +now that we've run a sample + +1011 +00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:46,720 +we can examine the spectra of elements + +1012 +00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:48,079 +that appear within that sample + +1013 +00:44:46,720 --> 00:44:50,640 +most notable + +1014 +00:44:48,079 --> 00:44:51,760 +are these two large peaks here + +1015 +00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,200 +which + +1016 +00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:55,839 +are iron + +1017 +00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:58,079 +and this other very large peak here + +1018 +00:44:55,839 --> 00:45:01,599 +which is zirconium + +1019 +00:44:58,079 --> 00:45:04,560 +and these two peaks are very distinctive + +1020 +00:45:01,599 --> 00:45:06,880 +to the mounted zaisa source it allows us + +1021 +00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:08,880 +to compare this spectra + +1022 +00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:10,079 +to other spectra + +1023 +00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:12,720 +of + +1024 +00:45:10,079 --> 00:45:14,160 +obsidians that occur across western + +1025 +00:45:12,720 --> 00:45:16,079 +north america + +1026 +00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:18,480 +so for example + +1027 +00:45:16,079 --> 00:45:21,040 +i can move mounted zaisa into the + +1028 +00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:21,920 +background which is now and outlined in + +1029 +00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:23,359 +blue + +1030 +00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:26,000 +and compare it + +1031 +00:45:23,359 --> 00:45:28,960 +to another obsidian source in southern + +1032 +00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:30,800 +oregon known as john day reservoir + +1033 +00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:32,640 +and instantly you can see the same + +1034 +00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:34,319 +elements all have different + +1035 +00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:36,079 +concentrations + +1036 +00:45:34,319 --> 00:45:38,800 +and we can compare + +1037 +00:45:36,079 --> 00:45:41,599 +these spectral peaks to one another to + +1038 +00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:44,720 +distinguish geological samples and + +1039 +00:45:41,599 --> 00:45:44,720 +archaeological sites + +1040 +00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:49,440 +once the fingerprint of its isa obsidian + +1041 +00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:52,400 +had been collected in the field + +1042 +00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:54,240 +and verified in the laboratory + +1043 +00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:55,920 +artifacts from archaeological + +1044 +00:45:54,240 --> 00:45:58,720 +collections across the continental + +1045 +00:45:55,920 --> 00:46:00,640 +northwest were sampled + +1046 +00:45:58,720 --> 00:46:03,839 +and an early pattern of native trade + +1047 +00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:03,839 +routes began to emerge + +1048 +00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:09,680 +past geochemical studies have + +1049 +00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:11,839 +established that the obsidian is + +1050 +00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:13,839 +in northern alberta + +1051 +00:46:11,839 --> 00:46:16,960 +all the way up to yukon and alaska + +1052 +00:46:13,839 --> 00:46:19,760 +throughout interior and central bc and + +1053 +00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:21,359 +all the way down the coast so we hope to + +1054 +00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:23,839 +expand those understandings of that + +1055 +00:46:21,359 --> 00:46:26,160 +distribution + +1056 +00:46:23,839 --> 00:46:29,400 +the story of mounted saiza is the story + +1057 +00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:29,400 +of flow + +1058 +00:46:30,720 --> 00:46:34,960 +water flows just as glaciers flow + +1059 +00:46:35,119 --> 00:46:40,560 +rocks turn to fluid lava rivers + +1060 +00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:43,839 +superheated steam flows out of the + +1061 +00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:47,359 +volcanic vents + +1062 +00:46:43,839 --> 00:46:49,920 +but most of all time flows + +1063 +00:46:47,359 --> 00:46:52,079 +and over a period of eight million years + +1064 +00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:55,079 +it created today's mounted size a + +1065 +00:46:52,079 --> 00:46:55,079 +complex + +1066 +00:46:57,330 --> 00:47:03,119 +[Music] + +1067 +00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:06,319 +to enter the heart of the caldera to + +1068 +00:47:03,119 --> 00:47:08,960 +take its pulse understand its soul + +1069 +00:47:06,319 --> 00:47:11,839 +one soon realizes that they are the + +1070 +00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:11,839 +solitary soul + +1071 +00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:16,480 +the sole speck of life in an ancient + +1072 +00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:18,560 +cathedral + +1073 +00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:20,640 +not the call of a bird + +1074 +00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:23,040 +the hum of an insect + +1075 +00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:26,400 +not even the track of an animal + +1076 +00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:26,400 +marks the moving moraine + +1077 +00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:31,359 +and yet here in the heart of the + +1078 +00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:33,200 +mountain king + +1079 +00:47:31,359 --> 00:47:36,079 +surrounded by towering walls of + +1080 +00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:36,079 +breathless beauty + +1081 +00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:41,440 +where shrouds of mist spike with the + +1082 +00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:44,559 +smell of fresh sulfur + +1083 +00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:47,040 +and vast yawning crevasse caverns inhale + +1084 +00:47:44,559 --> 00:47:48,480 +the thunder of water cascading from the + +1085 +00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:50,079 +rim rock + +1086 +00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:53,119 +one realizes + +1087 +00:47:50,079 --> 00:47:55,680 +that the mountain itself is alive + +1088 +00:47:53,119 --> 00:47:58,000 +and has been long before the coming of + +1089 +00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:58,000 +man + +1090 +00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:06,079 +but what is the mountain's future + +1091 +00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:08,400 +presently it is semi-dormant but it is + +1092 +00:48:06,079 --> 00:48:10,400 +certainly not dead + +1093 +00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:12,240 +it is likely that mounted zaisa will + +1094 +00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:13,359 +continue to erupt + +1095 +00:48:12,240 --> 00:48:14,960 +but when + +1096 +00:48:13,359 --> 00:48:17,200 +is not certain + +1097 +00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:18,240 +mount ziza is still active + +1098 +00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:19,920 +and there's + +1099 +00:48:18,240 --> 00:48:22,240 +a good chance at some point in the + +1100 +00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:24,559 +future maybe in 10 years maybe in a + +1101 +00:48:22,240 --> 00:48:26,000 +hundred years maybe in a thousand years + +1102 +00:48:24,559 --> 00:48:28,240 +the amount of zeiss is going to produce + +1103 +00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:30,880 +more eruptions + +1104 +00:48:28,240 --> 00:48:33,440 +what is certain is that vulcanization is + +1105 +00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:35,520 +one of the few primary forces in nature + +1106 +00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:37,920 +that is not controlled or even + +1107 +00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:41,040 +influenced by humans + +1108 +00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:44,160 +and whatever the future of the mountain + +1109 +00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:48,440 +it will continue on its charted course + +1110 +00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:48,440 +oblivious to human endeavor +