It's like a "present" at the end of the day to find a new edition of PNW geology from Nick. THANK YOU!

Awesome to see a notification that there is a Nick Zentner video. Highlight of my day.

Nick you are the kind of teachers that are needed

🎉🎉 Thank you Nick! That was “gneiss” of you to take us along!

Keep following your instincts Nick, strongly believe this concept is the future of teaching. Future generations will "stand on the shoulders of giants" to make connections and accomplishments based on information that is this accessible and delivered in a way any enthusiastic person can engage with. Very grateful for each of these, and absolutely love when you connect , reinforce, and solidify ideas and thoughts back into the bigger themes so effortlessly.

Great stuff Nick! As a Mechanical Engineer I'm not much of a "Rock Licker" - but heck, I'm almost willing to give them 'taste' when watching your videos. It's quite exciting to step out of once's area of expertise and learn something new. If for no other reason than to be humbled by how little we still know and understand about the big living rock we all live on. Thanks for dedicating your time and effort to share your knoweledge, expertise and passion on the subject.

Thanks for taking your time, demonstrating how to look at the scene, how to break the rock and then how to dissect the components. It’s teaching at its best (and I’m learning more and more).

Thank you for your programs I am sharing them with my 8-year-old niece we're going to go camping this year and see what we can find all of a sudden she's really into agates

Ok so its now thursday morning, 2am mpls Swakane Gneiss and also opened nick's Exotic S from one year ago, also the Swakane Gneiss with both open now listening to my favorite person talking Geology with examples; what fun! thanks Nick.

I'm incredibly excited for the next lecture series! Thanx for the appetizer, Prof. Nick. 😍🤩

Thank you Nick. This was a very interesting presentation.

Thank you Professor Zentner

Quite the appetizer! Looking forward to next winters sessions. Thanks Nick, for taking us on this journey of discovery.

NICK THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERY HIKE, TOUR OR LECTURE! I thoroughly each and every one it is like I' right there with you except you are doing the panting and I'm in my recliner :) God Bless YOU.

I really like the way you teach. For me context and understanding has allway been the way i learn

Great segment 👏

Boy, I can't wait for the winter for another wonderful AtoZ series

On a roll and the swakane Thank you for a great clsss🤗👍

This was an awesome video Nick! It’s so exciting to imagine those rocks moving along from down in the Mojave or even Baja. They’re so beautiful too, with their cool stripes. Thank you so much!!

Good video again. Thanks. Im driving thru there on the 10th and hope to have time to take a look for what I'm learning. The only humble suggestion I have is when breaking open the rock with your hammer I find "Hassan Chop!!" tends to work better than a simple "Haiyah!!"

the road was well built. hanging thar all the years, curving, guard rails. the air has the strength to hold the flavor. see the fine ground sands, all dry by this early morn.

Thank you Nick! Fascinating as usual. These are wonderful. I love when you have us look at the rock close up.

So Cool. Thank You Nick.

I lived on up that road for a few months in '84 .

Stunning gneiss and such an immersive look at it!

This is really interesting, thank you! Not only is it pretty and historically intriguing, but "swakane biotite gneiss" is the one term I remembered from Charlie Mason's WVC adult ed class years ago. (Not that I understood it.... 😉 ) Joy!! 🌞

Nick Nick Nick! Thank you brother. I appreciate you very much. You have turned me on to a whole new exploration of nature. I hike pretty regularly in Santa Clarita California, and the geology is very different here, but I am listening and watching to your videos, and applying what I can in my explorations locally. It is so exciting man, thank you very much!

Fun video. Wish this type of sharing was the main thing the internet was about these days.

Mind blown!

Thank you so much for this.

Went to bed too early! At least I got to wake up to Geology class! Thanks again Nick for another look at the Swakane Gneiss which is now embedded in my word suggestions but had my closed captions on and it still hasn't figured out what we are talking about. That is what I get for watching historical Chinese Costume Dramas. Happy Anniversary Baja-BC!🎆🎉🎊! Again, Nick, thanks, and I'm looking forward to the class next semester!

My brother from Scotland is no following you and he’s jealous I get to see all of this beauty and he can only see it on KZfaq

Dem rocks they keep on a rollin ...

Ah ha, Mount Stuart with some snow.

Beautiful! I love Rocks! I have them every where around my yard & home.. they are fascinating to me. That layering is gorgeous!😍 This Baja BC/ Mojave BC is absolutely fascinating! Can’t wait for the continued reveal!

Did you see Noraly going over the lava flows? A new record for falls, one tough gal !!

Love your videos Nick. Wish there was someone doing similar videos in my neck of the woods. If you come to Muskoka, you'll need a heavier hammer.

Well that's a lot of stuff going on in one road cut. The metamorphic rx there might be cousin to those in the Siskiyous, or California or Mexico? Could the quartz vein be similar to the mineralization that produced the copper mine up at Holden? Nice stuff.

Olalla, BC. comes from the chinook jargon for berries. A refernce to the abundance of Saskatoon berries.

Wow --this is great. I was a geology student at SOU --years ago. We did a field class to the Grand Canyon with a side trip to that slice of granite pluton in Arizona that makes one see these intriguing connections. I've been fascinated with these exotic terranes ever since. Looking forward to the Baja.

Great job, enjoyed the informative video.

Really really nice to see you continuing your series. I love how you explain things. can you do a set on Oregon geology? if not can you recommend someone who dose?

I can't help but think that determining the center of tectonic movement is almost as hard as determining the center of the universe.

Bravo! What a great teaser for November. I especially enjoyed the opportunity to describe the gneiss.

Boom - The sounds my mind makes when understanding the implications lol. Conveyor Belt? Thanks for showing us how to "Gneiss and Chill" Swakane style. look forward to learning more. Mr Z is okay with me

super cool!

NICE GNEISS!

Thank You very much for all you do. Looking forward to November. I was out this winter and collected samples of POR really Gneiss looking stuff.

Thanks so much Nick. Looking forward to November. As a BC'er I am sure my descendents will be very happy to welcome our new residents as Washington State slips across the 49th parallel. 😁

Nick, I am looking at upgrading my phone, what do you use in your videos?

It was very Gneiss of you to post this Nick!

Dig the yellow hat and the rocks !

Gneiss video, Nick!

I raise my hand and say "here" as though I am in class again.

I can't wait until he gets into the Baja BC stuff to explain how it travels up across a subduction plate

Seriously need to make a shirt that says "Geology" "Some Days are Gneiss, Some Days are Schist"

Everybody should have an Earl in their life to keep life interesting.

Gneiss presentation Nick. Oh Gawd, I need to work on my material , that was a Schist joke.

Would love to know about other places on Earth where rocks along plate margins have been translated 1000 miles.

Very pleasant surprise, mid- week class with the "Rock king "Mr. Nick. So how fast, or slow did the Baja Xpress, move? How big are we talking about? And how did it manage to stay relatively intact? Yes, I know too much too soon thank you ALL stay safe

Even the rocks are fleeing California!

What happens in 'Óh La La! Canyon' stays in 'Óh La La! Canyon'.

I enjoy geology because the first question I ask is "WHY"

G'day from old stable Australia. There is a huge movement story in the geology of W and NW North America. Not much going on here, if you discount Australia crashing into SE Asia in the future. Maybe we could drive from Melbourne to Siberia and reverse the path of our indigenous peoples.

Here's another article from these guys. "Provenance and metamorphism of the Swakane Gneiss: Implications for incorporation of sediment into the deep levels of the North Cascades continental magmatic arc, Washington" Kirsten B. Sauer; Stacia M. Gordon; Robert B. Miller; Jeffrey D. Vervoort; Christopher M. Fisher Lithosphere (2018) 10 (3): 460-477. Fascinating article with maps I followed while listening to your lecture until you brought out your map (then I came back).

Gneiss schist!!!!

I don’t think I’d call it “Mojave BC”-“Baja BC” comes from the fact that if the theory is true, part of BC would have traveled northward on a continental-scale dextral transcurrent fault, which is exactly analogous to the way “Baja California” has migrated northward on the dextral San Andreas fault. It can’t be “Mojave BC” because it’s the migration of “Baja California” that the theory is referring to, not the Mojave.

Around 1:40 it looks like there is a very dark grey layer of hard rock up the slope a bit, with much lighter rock below. Is this all Swakane Gneiss? What accounts for the very different colors/albedo?

I need to get a rock hammer. Those things do work.

Ooooo La La!!! Is that French?

Considering the minimum of transport, could the Swakane be part of the missing link between the rotated Klamath and Blue Mtn.Terranes? (Mathematically, the distance is @390 miles to S. Oregon- 47.64 deg. N. minus 42 deg. N.= 5.64 deg. One full degree equals @69 miles. Of course, this doesn’t account for topographic variations. -Rain Man.)

Gneiss seeing you again! The sandstone came later?

SOoooo ....Ingalls Ophiolite next stop?

I think this Nick guy likes Geology?? I may be wrong but I doubt it

I love to learn about this but hate the metric numbers. I liked it better when he spoke in English.

So much more than sex rocks