The Longest Lava Flow on Earth

Find out where and when the longest lava flows on earth occured! How does the ocean and plate tectonics affects these flows? Thanks to Steve Self for all the help! Thanks to AAPG for the support in making this video Credits Written by Steve Self, RJ Stern, Zach Clowdus Hosted by Ali Sealander Edited by Zach Clowdus, Ning Wang Music: Six Seasons - Unicorn Heads References Bryan, SE, Peate IU, Peate DW, Self S, Jerram DA, Mawby MR, Marsh JA, Miller JA, The largest volcanic eruptions on Earth. Earth Science Reviews 102, 207-229, 2010. Fendley IM, Sprain CJ, Renne PR, Arenillas I, Arz JA, Gilabert V, Self S, Vanderkluysen L, Pande K, Smit J, Mittal T, No Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary in Exposed Rajahmundry Traps: A Refined Chronology of the Longest Deccan Lava Flows From 40Ar/39Ar Dates, Magnetostratigraphy, and Biostratigraphy. Geochem. Geophys. Geosystems (AGU) 8/2020, doi: 10.1029/2020GC009149, 2020. Self S, Jay AE, Widdowson M, Keszthelyi LP, Correlation of the Deccan and Rajamundry Trap lavas: are these the longest and largest lava flows on Earth? J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res. [Special Issue on Large Igneous Provinces] 172, 2-19, 2008. Self S, L Keszthelyi, Th Thordarson, The importance of pāhoehoe, Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 26, 81-110, 1998. Hooper, P. R., The Pomona Flow, Columbia River Basalt Group: the longest documented terrestrial flow? Paper presented at Large Basalt Flow Symposium, Univ. of Queensland, Australia, 1996 Hooper, P. R., The Columbia River flood basalt provinces; current status, in Large Igneous Provinces; Continental, Oceanic, and Planetary Flood Volcanism, American Geophysical Union Geophysical Monograph, 1997, Vol. 100, pp. 1-27 Footage Lava Flow - USGS (https://www.usgs.gov/media/videos/p-h...) Lava Lamp - Anthony from Pexels Water Flowing - Castorly Stock from Pexels Molasses - SeriousEats.com (https://www.seriouseats.com/what-is-b...) Lava Stream Pouring Into Ocean – USGS (https://www.usgs.gov/media/videos/ope...) Earth Tectonics over time via dinosaurpics.org (https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-...) - Plate tectonic and paleogeographic maps by C.R. Scotese, PALEOMAP Project. Visualization developed by Ian Webster Plate Tectonics Model - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY6D1... Merdith, A,S., Williams, S.E., Collins, A.S. Tetley, M.G., Mulder, J.A., Blades, M.L., Young, A., Armistead, S.E., Cannon, J., Zahirovic, S., and Müller, R.D., 2021. Extending full-plate tectonic models into deep time: Linking the Neoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic. Earth-Science Reviews, Volume 214, 103477, ISSN 0012-8252, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2... Images Deccan Traps Lava flows by Mark Richards (https://news.berkeley.edu/2015/04/30/...) Flood Basalt Lava Flows near Mosier, OR by Westby, Liz. Public domain (https://www.usgs.gov/media/videos/k-l...) Lava Entering Ocean – Public Domain (https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/ha...) Depoe Bay Pillow Basalts (https://www.beachconnection.net/news/...) Furby Images – I'm not gonna provide a citation for each Furby pic I pulled from google lol