Episode #090: Randall Carlson

We have a fantastic discussion with the one and only Randall Carlson about vulcanism, ancient mysteries, extinction events, the Younger Dryas, the Missoula Flood, Drumlins, Carolina Bays, the Great Chicago Fire, and much more! We also discuss the upcoming Contact at the Cabin event with Randall and the guys from Grimerica in late May, which we will be attending, to go on field trips to sites of geological and archaeological interest. Enjoy!  

 

Glaciers carrying thick sediment layers

 

Isostatic Rebound causing multiple shorelines

 

Isostatic Depression and Rebound

 

Fossil Shoreline of Lake Bonneville visible on mountains in Utah

 

Fossil Shoreline in Utah

 

Enormous volcanic ash layer

 

Non-uniform volcanic ash layers, indicating catastrophic change interspersed with massive eruptions

 

Diagram of Wisconsin Glaciation

 

The Laurentide and Cordilleran Ice Sheet during the Wisconsin Glaciation

 

Modern day glacial outburst flood

 

Modern Glacial outburst flood

 

Outburst Flood

 

Outburst flooding

 

1980s Mt. St. Helens eruption

 

St. Helens Cloud

 

St. Helens Cloud

 

St. Helens Cloud from far away   Mt. St. Helens just before the eruption

 

Mt. St. Helens from the same spot as above, four months after the eruption

 

Helens explosive blast effect on nearby forests

 

Destruction from Helens

 

Helens forest devastation

 

Forests destroyed

 

Helens Aftermath   Car buried in Helens ash fall

 

Shattered tree trunk, Helens aftermath

 

Mt. St. Helens today, forest and ecosystem recovered

 

 

Carolina Bays LIDAR

 

Carolina Bays

 

Carolina Bays   Original survey collage that showed Carolina Bays

 

Lunar crater chain, possibly from disintegrating comet   Lunar Crater chain

 

Lake Superior, with Lake Nipigon possible impact crater to the north

 

Lake Nipigon

 

Nipigon southern boundary flood zone

 

Nipigon flood zone empties into north lake Superior   Isle Royale in Lake Superior, with clear flood flow etching of the basaltic bedrock

 

Terrain view of Isle Royale

 

Chicago Fire, Artist rendition

 

Chicago fire, art

 

Chicago fire, Art   Chicago fire aftermath

 

Hinckley fire,"The Suicide Express"

 

Hinckley Fire Memorial

 

Hinckley Fire paper   Peshtigo Fire, art

 

Peshtigo fire, survivor's testimonies

 

Peshtigo fire, well marker

 

Peshtigo fire cemetary marker   Peshtigo fire mass grave marker

 

2017 Napa Valley fire

 

2017 fire aftermath