That Time the American West Blew Up
- Episode aired Mar 7, 2023
- 11m
Fifty million years ago the Farallon oceanic plate began sliding under the North American plate creating an explosive mix of magma and melted crust leading to super volcano eruptions roughly... Read allFifty million years ago the Farallon oceanic plate began sliding under the North American plate creating an explosive mix of magma and melted crust leading to super volcano eruptions roughly ten thousand years apart for over ten million years. Yet biomes thrived.Fifty million years ago the Farallon oceanic plate began sliding under the North American plate creating an explosive mix of magma and melted crust leading to super volcano eruptions roughly ten thousand years apart for over ten million years. Yet biomes thrived.