As someone born and raised in Seattle, I've never known any of this information. Thanks for this

Nick is the coolest guy ever. I took a couple of his classes at CWU about 8 years ago. I still tell/show people what I have learned from him almost every single day. What he has taught me has stuck with me. His knowledge is amazing :)

I just returned to NJ from an 8 day trip to Olympia and Seattle. All thanks to your videos- I hiked up (partially lol) Mt. Rainier, visited Puget Sound in various locations, went to Snoqualmie Falls, and drove out the Olympic Peninsula. Your videos have sparked a newly found love and respect for geology, particularly the Pacific North West and I have decided to move to the Seattle area to further my education.... Thank you for your videos, I really enjoy the information and you deliver the content in a fantastic way.

Because of its hills, Seattle also had cable cars like those still operating in San Francisco. (So did nearby Tacoma, and for the same reason: Hills too steep for trolley cars.) Electric trolleys were used in flatter areas, but the cable cars stayed in use until all streetcars were replaced by buses in 1940 and 41. The last cable line ran on Yesler Way until the summer of 1940. If they had survived past World War II, Seattle's cable cars might have become a tourist attraction like San Francisco's. It should be noted that the cable car on display in the Smithsonian is a grip car from Yesler Way.

You know you've watched a good video when you want to know more...

I visited Seattle a couple of times in the late 1980s and liked it very much. I had no idea that the ridges like First Hill were drumlins. Thanks! Great video. Glad to see the Farmers Market is still there.

Hey, I took a geology course with Zentner! Ha, very cool. Fun teacher with real passion for the subject matter. He's perfect for this kind of thing. So cool to see this.

This dude is great. I love his videos.

I'll bet you have fun making these.

Lived in South King County for 30 years, and never knew this. Passing this on to my daughter who is a geology major. She'll definitely enjoy this!

These are great videos! I lived in the Seattle area for 10 years and I have always been fascinated about the geology of the region. You make learning very entertaining! Well done :)

There's no city like Seattle in the world! PERIOD

Glad I found your channel, new subscriber, proud Seattlelite.

Lived here My whole life and didn't know most of this stuff... Thank you for the education!

This is SO COOL

Thank you, it is very helpful for non-native English speaker like me. I have zero knowledge in geology and quiz about Ice Age Floods in two days. Watching video is the best way to get basic understanding of what is this topic about. Especially when I am not familiar with USA map at all.

Thanks. Very compact yet full of history and noteworthy observation.

I LOVE these videos!!

Great video as usual! Keep them coming!

This is great information and these are awesome videos, thanks for doing all the hard work just to have the passion to share!THUMBS UP

Amazing work, thank you

Awesome as usual...

Really interesting knowing how the city was formed around the geology of the landscape.

This is AWESOME! I love my chosen home in the Seattle area. Glad I found this

hello from the eastern end of I-90----Boston Massachusetts. also a highly engineered city. we too have a drumlin field. and a beautiful harbor, the islands of which are the tops of drumlins. most of our drumlins survive though often in altered form. We also have a Beacon Hill, a combined morain and drumlin combined. our state house sits atop the hill which was lowered about 30 feet back in the 1700s and 1800s.... enjoying this channel. I also have long been interested Glacial Lake Missoula and have watched your video on that incredible series of events. Now, back to your videos........

SO interesting!!! I've been looking for something just like this, not sure how I finally found but THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! As a 37 year old Seattle native thank you for all the awesome info!!!

I watched this and your other videos before moving to this amazing beautiful state of Washington. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and passion.

Great video! Thanks for making this!

Awesome Nick! How I missed this one, I'll never know. Great stuff! I wish every teacher I've ever had was just like you.

This was very information, thank you!

I enjoyed the video so much and it's informative, thanks!

I love these videos, and thanks for continuing to make them! I will be glued to the I-90 series...I live in northern Idaho, just past Spokane. Been reading books about the ice age and ice dam that let loose all of great lake Missoula, which left a devastating torrent of destruction behind these regions. In my town of Post Falls, we have gravels 600 feet deep along the Rathdrum prairie, and anything native was completely flushed out by the floods.

Extremely well made! Thanks!

Very well produced. Thanks!

This makes my I-90 commute from Seattle to Redmond suck a little bit less!

Super cool, thank you for the information

Great video!

Thanks for this recommendation! I like Seattle very much and I believe one day this amazing city will become my home.

This is amazing. Thank you.

Beautiful 4-wheeling area....mud mountains rocks and streams

I love your channel. Very informative and very well done. Thank you!

Go Hawks! Thank you for sharing, Nick! I know people in Seattle and surrounds, so worry about their safety at times... Cheers from Australia, Chris

Really informative video. Thank you!

Super informative, thanks!

Awesome video!!!

You have some seriously interesting an informative videos. This one was awesome!

Wow, that was great to watch! I am sending this link to a couple friends. I think it is amazing that we built that stadium on landfill. But since we tend to build stadium every 10 years or so here, (kingdom, key arena, etc) I'm sure there will be another in a few years anyway. haha

Excellent, thanks a lot. Looking forward to watching the rest of your series now too.

Brilliant! Thank you

Great job, Nick!

Nice video thanks for sharing this . . . Very interesting.

KZfaq recommended this to me, and oh boy was this interesting.

Boy do I love this city.I stayed in Sedro Woolley. I love my Seahawks. I think about it all the time

Nice production!

Another remarkable travel adventure with a geology slant; these are marvelous videos!

I love your videos. We have our own drumlins here in West Cork Ireland. Apart from the faults we seem so similar in landscape and climate .

Holy shit why did they only teach me about the scablands in school, the Western Washington part is just as fascinating

Best lecture yet! Keep up the good work.

Reasons why, among other things, the Puget Sound area has such an abundance of gravel. Big/huge gravel quarries all over the place, which also spawned many many cement factories. So if you want to build a house there's a huge abundance of concrete... AND billions of trees alongside the Cascade range.

Great series of videos. Learning so much about the area ahead of visiting in 2018. Thanks for such interesting content.

Another great video and expertly put together. Thank you.

Very cool. Thanks. Would love to see you do one on Portland.

Loved watching this and shared it with friends. Looking forward to watching the others. Thanks!

Nicely done.

Great video i learned a lot

Ive been enjoying youre videos and the way you present them, sharing with family & friends

nicely produced.

This was really good!

Old Settler's Song (Acres of Clams)" is a Northwest United States folk song written by Francis D. Henry around 1874. The lyrics are sung to the tune "Old Rosin the Beau." The song also goes by the names "Acres of Clams", “Lay of the Old Settler,” “Old Settler’s Song,” while the melody is known as “Rosin the Beau,” "Old Rosin the Beau," "Rosin the Bow," "Mrs. Kenny," "A Hayseed Like Me," "My Lodging's on the Cold, Cold Ground." The tune was also used for the song "Denver", which was recorded by The New Christy Minstrels in their 1963 album 'In Person'. The first recorded reference to this song was in the Olympia, Washington newspaper the Washington Standard in April 1877. Although no official record exists, "The Old Settler's Song" was thought to be the state song of Washington according to The People's Song Bulletin until it was decided the lyrics were not dignified enough.[1] The song achieved prominence decades later when radio-show singer Ivar Haglund used it as the theme song for his Seattle, Washington radio show. Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie said that they taught the song to Haglund. Haglund went on to name the Seattle restaurant "Ivar's Acres of Clams" after the last line from the ballad.[2]

Fascinating. Hope to visit there someday.

Outstanding Presentations, Sir! You know your stuff and communicate it very well! Thank you!

Great show. Seattle, we traveled there in 62 from california most o my memory is of the rains through Oregon and Washington. An American dollar was worth 1.20 canadian.

so for Early (White Folks) Seattle, try the book "Pig-Tail Days in Old Seattle" by Sophie Frye Bass, Grand-daughter of Arthur Denny It was "Alki Point" pronounced "alkee" originally, that the Denny Party landed at from the Schooner Exact, but an overland relative had built a still-roofless cabin: "The women wept." Dutch farming Van Asselt and Mapel / Maple families were already around what is now Boeing Field, where the 1860s oxen-wagon grade route of Military Road was later made, Oregon to BC... In 1995 the wife and I were listening to the Mariners baseball game in the Kingdome, as announced by Dave Niehaus, when the earthquake hit Dave ran, leaving an open mic; the crowd gave a deep roar believing they were doomed; Ken Griffey Jr was pointing at his family to run out, "knowing" he could not escape from Center Field~~~ So years later, I watched the Kingdome implosion, where the current Seahawks Stadium stands... Since 2001 Ash Wednesday Earthquake, I was involved in several Seismic Retrofit projects on Seattle buildings, learning a lot about pre-WW2 + pre-Great War construction methods and materials.

Great video, thank you for posting...

this vid was fun and informative...great job...

Very informative

Great video and very accurate!

I learned more (practical stuff) from this video than from a whole semester of college geotech engineering

i think this is the best video ever

fascinating subject matter, thank you for making this.

Checking into this because of the recent earthquake south of Alaska - I imagine it altered the stresses underground here ...

FASCINATING!

love it. thanks

I love KZfaq and by KZfaq I mean the content creators like this guy ...SUBD!!!!

These are great!!!

Love your channel, you are the second-greatest history-teacher I've had so far, and that is just to the credit of my grade-school teacher who was totally fantastic. You two shared the most important skill: making history and learning fun! Keep making these videos. Myself I come from the Baltic "High-coast" near Örnsköldsvik in sunny and warm (nooot) Sweden, where isostatic rebound makes the land rise between a centimeter and two inches every year, and resulting in steep coastal cliffs of some of the oldest granite on the planet. Do you have any such areas in the US west coast where you have large land-rise from isostatic rebound, or do you only get land-rise from oceanic subduction?

Very interesting history of that area. sounds like day are numbered.

Nice video! Very informative. Thanks

Fantastic teacher Thank you!

Really enjoyed this informative video !

This guy is awesome! Right on man!

Excellent 😎🙏

Wonderful video, just moved here and great to learn about the area!

Giants stadium was built on fill as well. they had Sand geysers in the parking lot during the 1989 earthquake...

I love this

Visited your lovely city and environs last year; I wish I'd seen this video first!

I come from a little green village in England, I find these terrains and Mount Rainier terrifying but also fascinating, love these vids... Sara 🇬🇧 🤗 xxxxxx

As I am watching this, you currently have 301+ views. Congradulations!

I'm 5 seconds in.. but the retro synth has got me hooked already.

Good stuff.