FLIGHTSEEING // Anchorage → Seattle (Clearer Skies Version) // SCENIC FULL FLIGHT скачать в хорошем качестве

FLIGHTSEEING // Anchorage → Seattle (Clearer Skies Version) // SCENIC FULL FLIGHT

This is a fantastic route. Flying the Alaska Airlines 'milk run' down the subduction zone offers some of the cleanest, most dramatic geology in North America. --- 🔥 Flight 4: Down the Ring of Fire Route: Anchorage, Alaska → Seattle, Washington Aircraft: Boeing 737 View: Right Side (F seats) --- Hey, welcome aboard! We are flying one of North America's most visually stunning routes: a journey down the *Ring of Fire*, from Anchorage, Alaska, to Seattle, Washington. You picked the *right side*—trust me, you've got the best view of the whole volcano chain! We're flying in the late afternoon sun, which should perfectly illuminate the glaciers and the slopes of those giant volcanoes. As we lift out of Anchorage, look down at the beautiful, twisting water body—that's *Turnagain Arm*. Notice how steep the slopes are all around us, especially in the *Chugach Mountains*? That dramatic landscape is all thanks to colossal *Pleistocene ice sheets*. They acted like giant sandpaper, grinding and carving those fjords and valleys thousands of feet deep. --- The Great Geological Dive Now, look out! This entire flight is essentially a giant, 2,000-mile geology lesson. We are flying right over a **subduction zone**. Imagine the *Pacific Tectonic Plate*—it's huge—slowly, inexorably diving, or "subducting," beneath the edge of the *North American Plate*. As the Pacific Plate sinks deeper, the rock heats up, melts, and eventually that magma rises back to the surface... as a *volcano*! Look out your window, and you'll see the direct result of this process: the *Aleutian–Alaska Volcanic Arc*. --- Giants on the Right If you look closely, you should start spotting some of the giants: First, the nearly perfect cone of Mount Redoubt*, an active stratovolcano famous for an ash cloud in 2009 that reached jet cruising altitudes—right where we are now! Next to it, there’s *Mount Iliamna*, and further out, the island volcano *Augustine*. Each one of these is a vent, a release valve for the tremendous pressure and heat of that Pacific Plate diving beneath us. It’s some of the *cleanest aerial geology you will ever see. We’re flying over a highly strategic part of the world, too. The Gulf of Alaska down below is essential for international shipping and North Pacific defense. That massive tectonic crunch we just talked about doesn't just make volcanoes—it makes earthquakes. We're flying near the site of the 1964 Good Friday earthquake, one of the most powerful ever recorded. Everything you see is constantly being shaped by these titanic forces.