Quickly Uplifted by 6,900 Feet; Oregon's Blue Mountains

There is a towering mountain range within Oregon, Washington, and Idaho which quickly rose 6,900 feet from the ground. Known as the Blue Mountains, these formed due to an unusual response to one of the planet's largest repeated floods of lavas around 16 million years ago. Today's video discusses how this isolated mountain range formed.

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Sources/Citations:
[1] U.S. Geological Survey
[2] Hales, T.C. & Abt, D & Humphreys, Eugene & Roering, Josh. (2006). A lithospheric instability origin for Columbia River flood basalts and Wallowa Mountains uplift in northeast Oregon. Nature. 438. 842-5. 10.1038/nature04313.

0:00 Blue Mountains
1:27 Flood Basalts
3:23 Uplift
3:54 Erosion