I had no idea how fascinating geology is until I found Nick Zentner 💖

Professor Zentner, you are a treasure! Thank you so much for these fascinating lectures. I can only imagine how many lucky CWU students you have entertained, educated and inspired in your career.

This is so enlightening. Also, way better than Netflix. TY Dr. Zentner.

Zentnering: To take an already interesting topic and make it even better!

Always interesting.

I was fortunate enough to meet and guide George Stanley to an unknown and undated fossil site on Vancouver Island near Tahsis in the late 90's. It turned out to be 208Ma Sutton Formation(Triassic) of which replicates fossils in Mexico. I ended up donating my entire marine fossil collection to the University of Montana. My participation(geology enthusiast) in advancing earth science is definitely a highlite in my life so far.

Helping out for people who are in Livestream Withdraw. Thank you Again for your time and effort over the years.Both your Livestreams and Town Hall are very satisfieing. To You and Family Safe and Happy Holidays. Same to all fellow Zentnerds. Cheers from Mike and Ellie Red Deer Alberta Canada 🇨🇦

thank you nick! your lectures are keeping my brian distracted and interested enough to keep me from going crazy in this terrible year

Nick, thanks for posting. I've been watching you since April and enjoyed you and the Zentnerds. Look forward to what's next. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, time and talent ... you are loved ...

I always learn so much watching your class. Thank you for being a GREAT teacher!

These lectures are where I first discovered Nick Zentner. I'll gladly watch them all again and enjoy every moment.

I watched the whole Exotic Terranes series and this was a wonderful summary! A very concise telling of the series of Terrane derailments that gave us every thing West of John Stockton's house. To those geologisst out there that are willing to accept the break up of Pangea but can't handle a little slice of Mexico coming north, I say Baja Humbug!

What a great present for the Exotic A-Z crowd! 🎄Merry Christmas 🎄

Oregon’s Exotic Terranes discovered so far are the Siletz (named after the Siltetz River and tribe,) Wallowa, Baker, “Olds Ferry,” Izee (Blue Mtn. Province,) Galice, Western Klamath, Condrey Mtn. Rattlesnake Cr., May Cr. (Klamath Province,) and Franciscan. Still, with the many Terranes identified, half of Oregon is still unknown; either buried under thousands of feet of basalt, or obliterated by volcanic or hydrothermal events. Between the clockwise rotation, Terranes, super volcanoes, flood basalt flows, calderas, deepest canyon, graphic coastal formations, and the undiscovered; Oregon has enough curiosities to keep any geologist or fanatic such as myself out of trouble for a lifetime.

As someone who lives in Vancouver, I always get excited when he talks about British Columbia. Geology does not recognise the 49th Parallel.

I wish there was a Nick Zentner for AZ/NV/UT geology!

Just found him today and he is a😊s tier lecturer

I'm a bio-engineer, a degree in both, but I also took a couple of geology courses while picking up my prerequisites. I enjoyed geology, but was in SoCal at UC Riverside. Had a lot of degenerated granite. We studied the San Andreas Fault for half of one semester and the Punch Bowl Fault right next to the San Andreas at the base of the San Gabriel mountains. The Punch Bowl is shorter than the San Andreas. The Mountains are a mish mash of up thrusts with the Cucamonga fault on the west side of the Mountains while the San Andreas is at the base of the east side of the mountains on the edge of the Mojave desert. One can see the upthrust from the desert side is easily seen as the smog isn't as bad as the west side. We spent our whole second semester studying the upthrusts of the San Gabriel Mts., there is one after another. Practically every mountain top is a separate upthrust, but it looks like one mountain range. All this rock is headed up north to the San Francisco Bay Area. The Coastal Range is all west of the San Andreas. Been to the spot on Mt San Jacinto he was showing near Palm Springs. All that rock is moving north. I went to college in the 70s and had a professor who believed in plate tectonics which wasn't universally accepted then.

Very well done:) Happy holidays

Wow, watching video from the back of the auditorium I feel right at home. All the grey hair and bald spots.BTW I was at a dinosaur dig up on Dry Mesa in Colorado and dynamite was used to remove the overburden. Great talks. Hope to see some new talks soon.

For anyone wondering, Nick is from a exotic Terrane himself, though much older than these discussed. Wisconsin turns out to be almost entirely made up of the same kind of Terranes as Western Washington state! Here's a slide show put together by Stephen Dutch about the Rocks of Wisconsin, Terranes, batholiths, rift zones, interesting stuff under all those dairy farms! slideplayer.com/slide/13065739/

Bijou, Pizza Boxes , Green Beans, Vinman's Fruitcake, Muffler Boi... all unknown to the live audience. Check out A to Z to reveal these mysteries and more! Zentnerd4life!!

Do oceanic spreading ridge plumes passively migrate with their respective plates, or does their centerline maintain a stationary position in the asthenosphere somewhat like hotspots? The Gorda-Juan De Fuca-Explorer transfer faults indicate to me that spreading ridge plumes can be manipulated to migrate and even fragment through a subduction process; but could they also make adjustments to restore their somewhat linear centerline? If this is all confusing, here's an example: The Gorda sub plate centerline is off-set @150 miles eastward from the Juan De Fuca sub plate centerline; but could this off-set be just temporary by "self correcting" by slowing the migration of the Gorda sub plate and accelerating the Juan De Fuca sub plate like a jockeying horse race? The East Pacific Rise mantle turbulence mechanism below California and BC may not have been obliterated by subduction, but switched into a different manipulative environmental mechanism below the continents; which could perhaps explain the Salinian Terrane’s (San Andreas) Northerly migration, basin and range extension, NW clockwise rotation, and the Yellowstone hotspot (perhaps a converted spreading ridge fragment producing rhyolite instead of basalt.)

We don’t have dinosaurs because we have been chiseled out of them by Montana!

9:45 This gets me every time when I watch this... Who build the boat? The dinos? Otherwise great lecture.

Professor Nick: I know you like to use common food analogies, so if you go to this video about Blommers Chocolates production in Ohio, between 1:08 - 1:16, you will see a great analogy for terranes being scraped off a subduction zone - in this case, chocolate kisses being scraped off a conveyor belt prior to packaging. I never knew exotic terranes could be so delicious! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eKxkmbJ80bq0pYU.html

What is the title of the 'new paper which came out' referred to at 59:04?

Does that also mean that Oregon was from Mexico, too ?

"Put people on it. Wait, don't do that, its the Mesozoic." **Draws boat** Me: "Ah, people don't exists in the Mesozoic, but boats do. Got it."

These look remastered

Chuckanut sandstone near Bellingham has dinosaur bird footprints in it. WWU geology has a big one..

I finely get it Washington is an illegal immigrant, migrating north with out papers A-Ha-ha-ha-ha

Devils tower?

nick i would like to bring to attention the bands of limestone and caves that lie on vancouver island. is this evidence of the terranes you are speaking about?

There were fossils found in fossil lake (dry) outside of Christmas Valley Oregon