This retired geologist loves Nick Zentner for his contribution to the science. No one has used technology better and presented it in such a logically consistent and understandable while making it entertaining. The best, the very best, KZfaq can be is in videos that provide instruction by a dynamic and interesting speaker.
@goodmorninggilw28362 жыл бұрын
I want to put in my two cents… All of you who were there… I hope none of you feels uncomfortable about being on video, because to me you are all heroes and amazing groovy people. The live footage makes me feel a little bit like I got to hang out with you and I am grateful indeed
@judischarns45092 жыл бұрын
One of these days I'm going to drive for 2 days to one of these events. The opportunity to meet Nick and my fellow Zentnerds would be awesome. In the meantime I'm enjoying the community every chance I get.
@99boiledeggs572 жыл бұрын
It's the most beautiful place in the world in the springtime here.
@briane1732 жыл бұрын
Hah! You've struck gold with that moniker: Zentnerds. I'm a proud Zentnerd, and I hope once again to make it to Nick's next pop-up with my fellow Zentnerds. First two just didn't work out logistically and so I'm chomping at the bit to get out for the next one. Peace.
@brenomachado28452 жыл бұрын
You are lucky that you are only going to drive for 2 days, I am seriously considering flying from australia.
@faithijn83382 жыл бұрын
@@brenomachado2845 👍🏼🎯You would NOT regret that one moment! I garuntee!
@faithijn83382 жыл бұрын
Judi I love this entire topic I grew up in Eastern Wash in Spokane now stuck in Southern Oregon Coast. I hope you make it for one of Nick’s POP UPS!
@maricogan29032 жыл бұрын
I'm a nurse who loves geology, tectonics & archeology. I love Nick Zenter's presentations. His conversations make geology sound like the most interesting topic on the planet. Thank you.
@goodmorninggilw28362 жыл бұрын
Hey man, I thank you so much for addressing the home or Internet audience in these recent pop ups. I live in Southern California, and I can't even travel too far aside from work because my car is old. It means a lot to me to connect with you and also the group of enthusiasts who live local to you. Thank you so much !
@briangarrow4482 жыл бұрын
One of the two best extras about my son’s attendance at Central Washington university was the opportunity for getting treats at Vindmans bakery and fly fishing in the Yakima River Canyon. Oh, and visiting my son was nice also.
@IceAgeFloodscapes2 жыл бұрын
For those wanting to take a deeper dive into erratic behavior... here's a link to my study on Rattlesnake Mountain, mentioned in Nick's latest pop-up geology: doi.org/10.3285/eg.63.1.03 (go to "article" file)
@faithijn83382 жыл бұрын
Thank you Bruce! 👍🏼HELP! Uh I found your paper but it’s in GERMAN! My German is beyond rusty! I need it in English but can’t find it translated! 🤷🏻♀️ Danke’ Schoen!
@billc21472 жыл бұрын
If you look at the videos from France during the Lahore’s they had 5-10 years ago, small streams and creeks were shown to move incredibly large stones, 10-40 tons, with astonishing speed. The creation of the Columbia river as we know it today would have carried unimaginable amounts of material and floating erratics of incredible size.
@dennissalisbury4962 жыл бұрын
University-level lectures without the inconvenience and cost of attending university, thank you.
@johnnash51182 жыл бұрын
An accurate measurement of the rafting potential of these floods are the erratics beached hundreds of miles down stream. If the bergs were indeed 7-20 times the mass of the boulders, then they were at least 630-1,800 tons, judging from the 90 ton Argillite Willamette Erratic from Canada.
@nailbender60792 жыл бұрын
Two things 1 - The Willamette Valley in Oregon has Glacial Erratics from the Missoula Floods, Erratic Rock State Natural Site State Park features a 40 ton rock on a foothill overlooking the Willamette Valley between Sheridan and McMinnville Oregon Coordinates 45°08′24″N 123°17′35″W (short walk up hill from the parking area) 2 - Thanks for addressing the Haystack Rocks in the QnA
@johnnash51182 жыл бұрын
The sign at the site states that Oregon geologists claim it’s 90 tons and used to be @160 tons before native Americans and tourists removed @70 tons. The Wiki page may be incorrect.
@paulbugnacki71072 жыл бұрын
I love it when the authors of papers you’re talking about end up contributing to the discussion in chat. Very rich.
@drscopeify2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely fantastic as always!! You go by the area and the more videos Nick makes the more I get to learn and appreciate the area. It's great to see the confluence of great geological events from the deep past and as recent as the last ice age all meet and interact and you get the privilege to see and enjoy it's current calm state. It's almost too easy for myself to picture a calm yet thundering roar of cold melted ice water baring ice bergs roaring down the Columbia and flooding the entire area, fantastic!
@davec92442 жыл бұрын
What kind of sick mind watches and listens to all this! That is simple, me, and a whole lot more! We are trying to expand our minds, and keep an open mind Thank you Mr. Zentner for that! ALL stay safe
@briane1732 жыл бұрын
Indeed. If it's a choice between getting wrapped up in all the ancillary political BS across the country masquerading as academics, and getting a dose of pure science from a teacher as gifted as Nick, I'll take the latter any day of the week and twice on Sunday. If that's a sick mind, I'm a proud sicko.
@johnjunge69892 жыл бұрын
Another great, informative session. Ryan and Bruce's information makes this area a curiosity to me, loved the visualization of how it happened. Wouldn't it have been great to have been on top of the highest point watching it happen?
@j.ericswede70842 жыл бұрын
Love to hear a discussion of the Climatic conditions which predated the first breakout Missoula Flood. What conditions allowed for the formation of this massive Ice Sheet, etc... And a discussion on the presumed "reforming" of Glacial Lake Missoula again and again and again. I always fall back on J Harlan Bretz and his being blackballed for his views of the "catastrophic formation of the Channeled Scablands". But Bretz was absolutely correct. Observation, Assumptions, Hypothesis, Theory, Fact. Thanks for taking us to these interesting Geologic locations Nick.
@larrygrimaldi14002 жыл бұрын
If he wasn't so arrogant to Pardee, it might have become accepted decades earlier, oooop, shouldn't have said that...
@larrygrimaldi14002 жыл бұрын
Really love popups best, you get a whole lecture but not in the boring classroom, but out in the real geology itself!
@lindakilmer25482 жыл бұрын
If I planned a geology conference at CWU, Vinnman’s Bakery could cater it!!
@kicknazz42482 жыл бұрын
GRATEFUL YOUR GOIING “LIVE” WE’VE ALL MISSED YOU SO…🍻
@lynneallan86372 жыл бұрын
I agree. We too want to make one of Nicks events. He is just great to listen and learn from. Thank you Nick.
@geoffreynewton58392 жыл бұрын
12.30am? I think I’ll watch it it replay! Thanks for sharing. From Northern Territory, Australia.
@beedosbackyard63412 жыл бұрын
Just came across your lecture. Very well done, I look forward to learning much more from you and your students. Thank you!
@MrBonners2 жыл бұрын
A berg caught in a side pool and dropping rocks would dig it's own hole from water washing by, swirling around and rocks of all sizes would collect and dig more by throwing out smaller gravel, hence clusters of various big rocks. Undermining the erratic would roll over every now and then, constantly dig deeper in.
@melissamybubbles61392 жыл бұрын
It's fun to be able to watch these. Thank you.
@DS-fx2jn2 жыл бұрын
It was a great day. Thanks for the invite and presentation. Well worth the hike!!!!
@myrachurchman50132 жыл бұрын
Thoroughly enjoyed the story of the ice age floods, thanks Nick!
@okiejammer27362 жыл бұрын
Gotta love it! ❤ Watching from Oklahoma and so enjoy ALL the videos!
@erichughes90982 жыл бұрын
Thank you Nick I always enjoy your videos 😎👍
@wesleycoulter33462 жыл бұрын
Thank you Nick. Wes from Granite Falls.
@allthingsharbor2 жыл бұрын
Love the presentation ! Thank you !
@jayolson5782 жыл бұрын
I’m setting an alarm for this. Always great to see a video notification from our favorite Geologist.
@petercollingwood5222 жыл бұрын
That was an awesome presentation Nick. Wish I could have been there. Not just the subject matter and how well it was presented but the location. Quite beautiful. I'm from Phoenix AZ and notice all the people sitting comfortably on the ground. Not overheating and nothing looking like it's sharp, stingy, or bitey to ruin your day. What an excellent location for this kind of thing. You are most fortunate in that part of the country.
@RG-rl6hj2 жыл бұрын
Seriously the coolest thing I have seen. LOVE my fellow geologists and enthusiasts
@goodmorninggilw28362 жыл бұрын
I'm sure you don't need reinforcement on this, but I love your back pocket stick. It is a wonderful simple teaching miracle. Like a magic trick, but with actual facts instead of utter mystery. I have known teachers with your skill level, and I am grateful for all of you. Keep on keeping on sir, you are definitely inspiring the future
@goodmorninggilw28362 жыл бұрын
I don't know how it strikes the legal folks or yourself, but I do indeed like the guy on the quad. I like everybody frankly because I have learned through you that geology enthusiasts or a funky Bunch. It reinforces my experience in the basic class in college. My teacher was one of the coolest teachers I ever met… He lectured daily about the pollution of petro chemical industry.For a couple minutes every day he would talk about it to some degree. That was a beautiful thing that I will always appreciate.
@99boiledeggs572 жыл бұрын
At 7:00 minutes in, I realized that zombies were approaching.
@Qossuth2 жыл бұрын
I was going to post the following comment but after checking the replies I see you beat me to it! Weird that at 7:30 Nick doesn't seem to notice the Zombies slowly trudging toward the group :)
@99boiledeggs572 жыл бұрын
@@Qossuth I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed. I don't want to be disrespectful to Nicks video. And by no means am I trolling, but it really looks like zombies on the horizon!
@mbvoelker84482 жыл бұрын
Wonderful! I'm stuck in bed with bronchitis and bored out of my mind. This was exactly what I needed.
@grifftech2 жыл бұрын
Nick is a national treasure and must be protected at all costs
@briane173 Жыл бұрын
The City of Ellensburg oughta carve Nick's face into the side of Craig's Hill and name it Mount Nickmore or Mount Zentmore.
@MrBonners2 жыл бұрын
Calgary Alberta: We got erratics all over the south to the US border. Really big ones. Ours are evenly scattered on flat terrain, no valleys for 10s to 50s of miles, so melt back of ice walls fall out. A few clusters that would indicate an ice pack conveyer belt stall for several 100 years and dumped.
@goodmorninggilw28362 жыл бұрын
I just cranked her up, and as always you are awesome. I'm excited, having seen other descriptions by you of this very feature. I love your dedication to this bakery and I have relatives up there… If I ever get up there I will certainly take them to the bakery! Beautiful stuff❤️👍
@danielcruz83472 жыл бұрын
Loved this presentation great panoramic location....thank you for teaching, sharing and entertaining!! Peace
@hestheMaster2 жыл бұрын
You definitely put Vineman's Bakery in the spotlight here Nick. Now everybody's going to want some when pasing through Ellensberg ,WA! Great looking day and location.
@seanthorntonmd39082 жыл бұрын
Removed question, as you answered it later in the show. Good anticipation!
@ppj02412 жыл бұрын
Fantastic talk! As a fellow Badger, I must say you make this subject very interesting.
@kyleroth10252 жыл бұрын
Thank you Professor Zentner
@BGraves2 жыл бұрын
You can logically conclude that an erratic is a likely candidate to be an erratic multiple times as it is resting on top of the soil and more likely to be enclosed by the next freezing. I'll bet some of these erratics were brought down on multiple trips from deep inside of Canada.
@Graybeard_2 жыл бұрын
I just drove from Portland (OR) to Biggs, to Goldendale, to Toppenish, to Ellensburg, to Vantage, to Wenatchee, to Oroville, to Molson. A geologists' dream drive!
@richardhigginbotham84132 жыл бұрын
Nick I have always loved geology my wife and I love watching everything you do always learning We live Pueblo Colorado but I am a native of Hermiston Or and it is great to see the Pacific Northwest and Columbia Basin
@jerryharder66812 жыл бұрын
diving into erratic behavior is like diving into a swimming pool full of assumtions
@howardr90072 жыл бұрын
I own a vineyard in the Willamette Valley west southwest of Salem, where we discovered numerous side table size rounded chunks of granite on a west facing hillside. I presume they are Missoula Flood erratics.
@gregoryhoefer36602 жыл бұрын
Another great class outdoors about one of my favorite subjects. Thanks Nick
@faithijn83382 жыл бұрын
Nick Tekoa is pronounced Tee-KO! Fascinating lecture! It was finding out about the Ice Age Lake Missoula Floods that really jettisoned me into my love of Washington Oregon Geology of the Columbia Gorge, the Palouse Country Gravel Bars. I also grew up in the Spokane Valley and the rocky fields littered with boulders of all sizes said to be from the Lake Missoula Floods. Carry on Nick! GODs Speed!
@susanliebermann57212 жыл бұрын
For a world class excursion into a glacial erratic deposit in northeast Washington, go to Curlew, WA, turn right on Boulder Creek Road, go to the summit, where there is a parking lot called Deer Creek Ski Area. Park there. Thousands upon thousands of rounded granite boulders sitting on top of the summit of this mountain range. Many are the size of several Volkswagons. The region was burned to a crisp in 2015, decimating the forest, but revealing this enormous deposit of ice sheet-dropped erratics. Thrilling! (Great hiking trails!)
@colleennobbs72182 жыл бұрын
Thank you Nick. 🥳
@lawaincooley67882 жыл бұрын
Those donuts look incredible!!!!!!
@1.41422 жыл бұрын
Nice finds from the bakery.
@Rocket39Smoke142 жыл бұрын
Great presentation. -Tucson, AZ. Look for shiny metal parts and pieces of one of those classroom disrupting Naval Aircraft on the north side of Sentinel Mountain of the Saddle Mountains. Pilots use to play chicken with that mountain. Sometimes the mountain would win.
@sheilatruax61722 жыл бұрын
I don't think it's from the Navy. He's not far north of Moses Lake AFB. My aunt and uncle were based there in the 60s. But, AF pilots are just as nuts as the Navy. It's a fighter pilot thing.
@66kbm2 жыл бұрын
I love that last idea of the Granite coming from Mexico. There were more than 1 Ice Age. That boulder could have some serious travel attributed to it even if it is not from Mexico.
@ronlarson65302 жыл бұрын
Cosmic Ray's penetrate the surface of earth to great depths! You all sat in cosmic ray showers during the lecture. Fortunately, the sun is very active right now, solar winds push away most of the cosmic rays. You all were pelted with X-rays from a M Class solar flare! Loved the video Nick, as always.
@petercollingwood5222 жыл бұрын
I was wondering about that. If rays penetrate everything so easily how is it that the cosmic ray clock only starts on these erratics when the ice melts? Does ice as as a shield against cosmic rays like lead against X-Rays? Doesn't seem likely.
@ronlarson65302 жыл бұрын
I have no clue, I doesn't sound right to me either. I will at some point read about their method of dating. I don't doubt them, I just think the Ray's move thru matter more than a few inches.
@RussellSenior2 жыл бұрын
You should explain how rocks get into the glacier ice. Having visted the Mer de Glace in France, it was pretty obvious that lots of rocks fall onto the ice from the peaks on either side.
@mattrichards14922 жыл бұрын
Wish I could be there in person. Work is always in the way!
@r.deeblanche6939 Жыл бұрын
Funny how someone is always flashing yummy food when you’re on a diet; and I figured geology was safe 😂
@charleshohn36722 жыл бұрын
so much information about how the ice age worked this should be in middle school curriculum I feel that they can handle it. if I can handle this visually and imaginatively and I'm the smartest. they would benefit soooo much from this this needs to be there for them to ignite the passions of this rock we call home works....beautiful, 👏 👏 👏 👏
@gregburkhart97642 жыл бұрын
I like the way you used that camera. A most interesting hour.
@charleshohn36722 жыл бұрын
the ice age never looked like this in some these 📚
@OttawaOldFart2 жыл бұрын
You mentioned Quebec. Just north of where I live in Ottawa Canada is an old mountain chain with plenty of trails and there are eratics right by the trails, huge ones. We also get earthquakes 5.0 to 5.5 every 5 years or so as both the mountains erode and we are still rebounding from the incredible weight of the glacier that sat here.
@wesdonze201411 ай бұрын
There are Jökulhlaups in Iceland which are big floods from glaciers sometimes caused when an ice dam bursts and sometimes due to volcanic activity and they have been seen to carry icebergs
@malcolmcog2 жыл бұрын
I love glacial erratics ! I help run a group investigating and publicising the glacial erratic boulders of South West Birmingham UK. We have many boulders from the wilds of Wales almost 100 miles away in our neighbourhood, we are making trails to see the boulders that are mostly (not all !) Ordovician Felsic Tuffs from Snowdonia. The local geology is Triassic Sandstone so these boulders are not where they should be ! We do have evidence of ice sheets where the erratics are but not exactly with some moraines and till (once called boulder clay) not correlating with the erratic boulders
@Marco-fn6kg2 жыл бұрын
this man knows his stuff!!
@MrChappy392 жыл бұрын
This BC boy is hooked on this channel.
@kendallturnage90582 жыл бұрын
Have any of the turbidites located in offshore canyons (or accounted for in subduction zone earthquake research) been correlated to the major ice age flood events? That is an incredible amount of floodwater.
@larrygrimaldi14002 жыл бұрын
You mean the extra water coming down periodically to the ocean? New thought.
@BGraves2 жыл бұрын
We have a 40ton erratic all the way down here west of Salem Oregon. Erratic Rock State Natural Site. Wikipedia says: "It is also the only rock of its type outside of Canada."
@dc5grl2 жыл бұрын
Fingers crossed - will be in WA in a couple weeks - hope to catch one while I'm visiting my brother !
@jackthereefer12 жыл бұрын
Except for the dog I don't see much diversity in that crowd. Vinnmin's bakery products look very good. Thank you for the video sir.
@Earlywinters092 жыл бұрын
Fantastic!
@susanliebermann57212 жыл бұрын
Great lecture, Nick! Thank you!
@jmbreece2 жыл бұрын
It's just not fair that us watching from a distance don't get any of those beautiful baked goods!
@lethaleefox60172 жыл бұрын
Comments are up too.
@mwilson142 жыл бұрын
Man. I wish I could have made it. Sarah and I have made this area one of our favorite rockhounding spots in the state. I've got a doctor's appointment, and my wife has to work, so today was a no-go. :(
@maxinee12672 жыл бұрын
wow seeing the expanse of the region and location of the middle of the flood, was really helpful in visualizing that muddy onslaught of flooding. with icebergs in it too boot. geez a huge enormous event. thank you Nick you never disappoint. quite a turnout of fans too. that's impressive. So wondering if people were washed away, animals for sure.
@briane173 Жыл бұрын
One would have to think that yeah, probably several First Nations villages and encampments were probably in the path of these floods, which is a terrible visual but we're only talking 13-22,000 years ago and I'm quite certain eastern WA was populated with tribes of some origin.
@floydt20292 жыл бұрын
Vewry nice show Nick!
@cvx2dog5492 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the informative talk!
@BG-ez1jm2 жыл бұрын
You gotta love it!!🦘
@mattrichards14922 жыл бұрын
With all of the water, ice and rock flowing through, how is Sentinel gap not larger than it is? Seems like the volume and velocity of the flow that carved the landscape through the CRB's would also carve a larger gap.
@hiker16582 жыл бұрын
Although it doesn't have quite the presence of a live video, it was a good bargain to trade off from live video with quality issues to have an excellent recording 👍. Nick is much more relaxed 😎
@Poppageno2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the presentation Nick, excellent! Can the origin of the erratics be determined by palomag, zircon dating, chemical comp all being combined to connect with the source rock?
@whitby9102 жыл бұрын
Excellent, thank you.
@vipertwenty2492 жыл бұрын
You seem to have a whole box of erratics there - we hope they're not vintage!
@jenniferfrykman390 Жыл бұрын
Are Mima mounds ( as seen at Olympia) associated with Ice age glacial processes? Thanks, Nick Sensei. you are a regional marvel and a treasure. Jenn Frykman
@seriouslyreally54132 жыл бұрын
Tekoa is pronounced "Tee-ko" the "a" is silent.
@vinmansbakery2 жыл бұрын
Yep. Learned that from the Tee-ko / Oaksdale school up that way.
@judgegixxer2 жыл бұрын
So if you stood at where that HWY 2 is 25000 ya and walked or boated North, would the edge of the ice sheet be short as in just step onto it and start walking up at some kind of angle of repose until you're on a km of ice.......Or would the leading edge literally be a 100 or 1000 or 3000 or 9000 foot vertical wall that you could base jump off of?
@marknewman26832 жыл бұрын
Excellent show as usual Nick I have a question is it possible that the granite that you're standing next to came from the caldera of a ghost volcano thanks for everything Nick
@briane1732 жыл бұрын
No, I'm not Nick, just another geo-nerd; but if I'm following Nick's logic from the last question in the video, I don't think it's possible that granites from a ghost volcano would be able to make it over the ridges to that very point, just because of the topography between the Cascades and where they're standing. And that would be a pretty good distance from where any ghost volcano would've once stood.
@marknewman26832 жыл бұрын
@@briane173 hi Brian nice to talk to you good point but it seems to me if I remember right from the geology 3:51 at Central where Nick teaches maybe 50 million years ago the shoreline of the Pacific Ocean pretty much parallel the Washington Idaho border before silencia came in and when silencia came in it created subduction zones and that's where volcanoes form and that's where I was thinking that maybe the granite came from the caldera of a ghost volcano that was left over from that. Sure would be nice if we could ask the big guy LOL what he thinks of what we're talking about but for now I'm going to go make some homemade bread have a good one
@briane1732 жыл бұрын
@@marknewman2683 Ahh yeah good point, so you're talking PRE-accretion - which incidentally dovetails with the Baja-BC question. Yeah I see your point - a lot could be answered, then, by determining the age of these erratics and whether their chemical composition is similar to either Cascades volcanics or the North America craton. If you and I happen to show up at one of his pop-ups we'll have to raise the question, although by then it might not be the subject of the pop-up. Take care.
@winnieg1002 жыл бұрын
Yum yum yum. Let me get my coffee!🥰
@overthemoon36142 жыл бұрын
Did the ice dams collapse from the top down, or blow out at the bottom? If at the bottom, at what level of hydro logic pressure does ice give way? How deep can the lakes get next to a dam before it has a catastrophic failure?
@vinmansbakery2 жыл бұрын
I think it blew out the bottom from the pressure.
@youtube70762 жыл бұрын
i saw food in the thumbnail image, is this going to be a sequel to the x-mas cake episode?
@runninonempty8202 жыл бұрын
This was great nick thank you. I would very much like to watch an animation of the ice age floods that you were talking about. Does one exist? Is something like that even possible? It would help so much with the visualization. It must have been just tremendous!
@nelssorenson50732 жыл бұрын
There’s an animation in one of the Nick On The Rocks PBS episodes: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eNSJnbWl1NmafGw.html
@runninonempty8202 жыл бұрын
@@nelssorenson5073 I just watched the animation that you found for me. That was pretty cool, just wish it was a bit longer. Also, Nick talked about the icebergs stuck in circling eddys, dropping the erratics. But really, thank you so much for finding the video for me.
@jeffbrooks80242 жыл бұрын
Love the social distancing….lol
@michelecharlton18712 жыл бұрын
One of these days, we are going to join you on one of your outings.
@charleshohn36722 жыл бұрын
Mr. Cooley rocks
@laureneolsen86242 жыл бұрын
I noticed one person on a 4 wheel thing. That looked good for us oldies with bad knees. Maybe we could borrow our son’s side by side. I don’t know what to call it .😂