Forester: What beautiful Stone ! This banded rock will make a beautiful fireplace. Geologist: Interesting Rhyolite, but this damn banding gets in the way of determining mineralization ! 😂
In the past this would all have been gibberish to me. Now, I hang on every word and follow along nicely all because of your efforts to share in this media. I have learned much.
I had never even heard of Rhyolite. I had to look it up "Rhyolitic tuff has been extensively used for construction. Obsidian, which is rhyolitic volcanic glass, has been used for tools from prehistoric times to the present day because it can be shaped to an extremely sharp edge. Rhyolitic pumice finds use as an abrasive, in concrete, and as a soil amendment."
Just wanted to say, a friend put me onto your podcast after I told her I started my second degree majoring in applied Geology after working in finance for 10 years, and I’m slowly falling in love with everything geology and your podcast and these videos are so nice to have ❤️
Welcome to the geology family, Alex. Once I retired from being a pathologist, I got hooked on geology and Nick Zentner's livestreams. You will love your new path!! Nick did his livestreaming of the exotic terranes last winter and he had a huge following - we would all talk to each other on the chat. Those bi-weekly sessions helped all of us get through that Covid winter, an I still have my notes and refer to them at times. Geology is absolutely fascinating - with its many, many facets. So, again, welcome!!! Lorraine
I have to say that I am not a geologist, I study EE, but this guy's ability to generally describe what he theorizes without claiming "absolute truths" has turned me onto geology immensely.
My Dad was a metalergist with a love for Geology, I became a Chemical Engineer who ended up with a career in the army with a love of Geology. My middle Daughter is a silver smith with a love of Geology. I remember taking walks (drves) when I was young and dad stopping and peering at interesting formations throughout California. I hadn't realized how much I had learned until I took a couple of years of Geology in the early 70's. Alot has changed since then! Really enjoy your channel, keep it going. I was through Mt Lassen, Oregon and Washington just 3 months ago and had inadvertently traveled around to many areas you have talked about. Good job!
Another comment: thanks to you, Our Professor Zentner, I was actually able to get through some of Mike Eddy’s papers on the Migration of the Triple Junction!!
Nick I really enjoy your geology studies and lectures! I am an engineer with the UnionPacific in Spokane,I’ve always been intrigued by the Missoula Flood. Your lectures have inspired a growing interest in geology. My runs north and south from Spokane take me from Eastport I’d. to Hermiston Ore. Basically traveling 90% of the flood path! I can keep myself alert on those long days studying the passing geology! Thanks for the inspiration!
My dear Professor! Your videos capture my curiosity about our beautiful Cascades and surrounding environs! Camping at Kachess and exploring the Teanaway basalt s on the east ridges also. I've got the bug!
im fascinated by the cool quarry near cool california if you ever get a chance to make a video of the history and would be an honor to meet you.thank you
We live in a trachyandesite quarry in the dead Otago voclano, New Zealand, and these rocks are their twins, right down to the banding, circular forms, the brittle fracturing, the clasts etc. Our rock was used for railway foundations and some building.
You ain't 25 no more. I used to love navigating unstable talus. So much fun, and descending these things, balancing on the mini-landslides, was good down-hill skiing practice. I think, even at age 72, I might like to try it again sometime. Except I ain't 25 no more.
Some of those smooth round cobble rocks you were standing near towards the end of the video looked very suspicious. I wonder if there is an ancient streambed there.
I LOVE these walks with you just as much as all your other videos!! I feel like I'm right out there with you enjoying your company and geology. Can never thank you enough!!
Man O' Man Nick... I wish you would take a field trip to Walker Creek/Walker Valley ORV area. If you haven't been already... you would be like a kid in a candy store. One of the most geologically diverse areas I've been to in Washington State.
I'm watching this with my cinnamon roll and coffee. When you showed us that first "cinnamon roll" rock, it made my day. I love your walks and how we can "skooch our bottoms" down the slope with you.
Thanks Nick! I even Took the scientific paper and added some notes on! Can’t describe the feeling as a kind of « magic » one that cheers up each time, there is something special ! Love you dear professor ! Glad to follow and thanks for sharing all as you do!
It is not a Forest Service Road, it is part of the Teanaway Community Forest and belongs to DNR. The rock was used by a private timber company that owned the 52,000 acres the DNR bought in 2013. The timber companies used it to make their roads. DNR has also used it since they purchased the land, it is on the new Lick Creek road. If you continue on up Middle Creek you will find more outcroppings of it that are in road cuts.
I just bought one of those hammers! Your edu-ventures always teach me how I can ask questions and investigate the nature of rock and features in my own region so I can explore its geological stories here. There's always something to take away and use to expand on, even being reminded to look for any documents, maps or charts publicly available about our own areas.
I am sooooo happy you are making a channel!! Been watching your geology chats for years. Amateur explorer of nature geology in the PNW. Spent a lot of time in the endless bush of the Caribou for years. Glaciation is amazing. Crazy depositions. Anyways I'm so happy and wish you the best! Will keep watching thank you!
There is a videographer of the volcano in Iceland. Roman shows the same interest in the lava as Nick does but Roman is not a geologist. He’s noted the different lava expelled from the volcano. These two could have a lot to talk about if they met I think. His videos are on RUclips under the name of Gutn Tog.
I've been following the RUclips video on the Iceland valcano. GutnTog has been filming there from the beginning in March. From what I've learned watching Nick's videos I find I understand better what I'm seeing in Iceland even though the mechanics are fastly different than Washington state valcanos.
So very interesting. Thanks Nick, for a truly mysterious piece of the geology of central Washington. Best of all it's presented as a leisurely walk in the woods! #gooutside
Love your Spence of humor Nick! That’s Rhyolite? Well, Gee! I have seen that in Eastern Oregon while my dad.and brothers went fishing and mother and I walked and collected stuff. I didn’t pay attention to this at all.
Isn't a "huh? That's strange" the reason we keep doing what we do? So many questions in this world that remain unanswered and waiting to be found. Thanks for all you do from the Green River Gorge.
Mike Eddy Paper, Table 1: Sample NC-MPE-418 is ~3.3 miles NW of Sample NC-MPE-417A (in video). Just past Twentynine Pines Campground take 1st left onto NF-9701, then left on 1st Spur almost to end. See middle of left-hand column on page 432 for an explanation of these 2 Samples: "In an attempt to date...".
Thanks so much for letting us follow you on this walk, Nick. I've ripped the seat out of more than one pair of pants on slopes like that - hope you had some spares in the car :D Looking forward to updates on this formation.
Thank you , everything about the paper’s just mesmerizing. The student’s work is a miracle just the SCALE of geological time and the sheer SIZE of these places are confounding lol! anything can happen eek! Super)
Plenty of basalt around Like the pit ECP has on the lookout Or even look at peoh point This is a good one Nick Short and sweet And coincidentally If you can get way west of that quarry Like almost behind cle elum There's quite and interesting formation Not so much banded like what you've got here
Thanks, Nick. Always enjoy your treks in the field. It’s still so blasted hot down here in SoCal. It’s kept me from spending time in the field exploring our complex geology. Nice to hear that your weather was enjoyable:-)
I’d like to know a bit of the history of the quarry. Who developed the quarry and why? How old is the excavated quarry? Is there any (archaeological) evidence that the rhyolite was used by people that predate modern use?
Thank you for taking us along on another interesting field trip trip. Be careful on that talus slope. I also use the rear end technique when all else fails. A few scratches and bruises are always better than a broken leg etc
That pink rock sure looks familiar here in the caldera that houses our giant gold mine near Round Mountain, NV. It is all over the ground here in the town site they created with muck from the mine.
Growing up on the west side we spend a lot of time near ashford and adventure all the roads in the hills and have been to many pits over here that look just like this. Iv never known what they were for we just would call it shale but we don’t know what it really is, now I’m really wondering
That rhyolitic tuff is only about 5 miles by road from this quarry location to the NW. Except for the age, I wonder if they could be related to some series of events between 24 and 26 Ma? That would be interesting to learn since their location and age are so close in relation to the rest of the unit.
In the days when I could do such things, we walked quickly kinda on the horizontal on talus slopes. And we could go up or down almost gracefully. Our rocks might have been bigger.
Forester: What beautiful Stone ! This banded rock will make a beautiful fireplace. Geologist: Interesting Rhyolite, but this damn banding gets in the way of determining mineralization ! 😂
Crazy location for the intrusion.
Thank you Nick. When I am having a difficult day I find myself circling back to your videos. It's the kind little gestures that see me through.
Nick negotiating the talus slope = Pure gold
I bet your logger friend fireplace was amazing.
In the past this would all have been gibberish to me. Now, I hang on every word and follow along nicely all because of your efforts to share in this media. I have learned much.
I had never even heard of Rhyolite. I had to look it up
"Rhyolitic tuff has been extensively used for construction. Obsidian, which is rhyolitic volcanic glass, has been used for tools from prehistoric times to the present day because it can be shaped to an extremely sharp edge. Rhyolitic pumice finds use as an abrasive, in concrete, and as a soil amendment."
As always excellent! Thanks Nick 🙏💜
Just wanted to say, a friend put me onto your podcast after I told her I started my second degree majoring in applied Geology after working in finance for 10 years, and I’m slowly falling in love with everything geology and your podcast and these videos are so nice to have ❤️
Welcome to the geology family, Alex. Once I retired from being a pathologist, I got hooked on geology and Nick Zentner's livestreams. You will love your new path!! Nick did his livestreaming of the exotic terranes last winter and he had a huge following - we would all talk to each other on the chat. Those bi-weekly sessions helped all of us get through that Covid winter, an I still have my notes and refer to them at times. Geology is absolutely fascinating - with its many, many facets. So, again, welcome!!! Lorraine
I have to say that I am not a geologist, I study EE, but this guy's ability to generally describe what he theorizes without claiming "absolute truths" has turned me onto geology immensely.
I forgot to add. I am none the wiser but, I am getting to appreciate you enjoy doing that to those of us, 'who are easily confused'.
Thank you Nick for taking us townies on your walk. I'm grateful it wasn't my butt sliding down on those sharp rocks.
My Dad was a metalergist with a love for Geology, I became a Chemical Engineer who ended up with a career in the army with a love of Geology. My middle Daughter is a silver smith with a love of Geology. I remember taking walks (drves) when I was young and dad stopping and peering at interesting formations throughout California. I hadn't realized how much I had learned until I took a couple of years of Geology in the early 70's. Alot has changed since then! Really enjoy your channel, keep it going. I was through Mt Lassen, Oregon and Washington just 3 months ago and had inadvertently traveled around to many areas you have talked about. Good job!
A gneiss little walk in the good weather.
Another comment: thanks to you, Our Professor Zentner, I was actually able to get through some of Mike Eddy’s papers on the Migration of the Triple Junction!!
The inside of the rocks looks like the rings of a tree. Very cool video. Keep em coming. 👍🏻👍🏻
I keep expecting to hear comments from the students. I bet the fireplace is beautiful! Thank you Nick! Your curiosity educates us all!
Nick I really enjoy your geology studies and lectures!
I am an engineer with the UnionPacific in Spokane,I’ve always been intrigued by the Missoula Flood. Your lectures have inspired a growing interest in geology. My runs north and south from Spokane take me from Eastport I’d. to Hermiston Ore. Basically traveling 90% of the flood path! I can keep myself alert on those long days studying the passing geology!
Thanks for the inspiration!
“Breath through your nose?” Thanks for the lovely fireplace backstory.
My dear Professor! Your videos capture my curiosity about our beautiful Cascades and surrounding environs! Camping at Kachess and exploring the Teanaway basalt s on the east ridges also. I've got the bug!
im fascinated by the cool quarry near cool california if you ever get a chance to make a video of the history and would be an honor to meet you.thank you
We live in a trachyandesite quarry in the dead Otago voclano, New Zealand, and these rocks are their twins, right down to the banding, circular forms, the brittle fracturing, the clasts etc. Our rock was used for railway foundations and some building.
Good evening ,Nick thanks again for sharing.
You ain't 25 no more.
I used to love navigating unstable talus.
So much fun, and descending these things, balancing on the mini-landslides, was good down-hill skiing practice.
I think, even at age 72, I might like to try it again sometime.
Except I ain't 25 no more.
Some of those smooth round cobble rocks you were standing near towards the end of the video looked very suspicious. I wonder if there is an ancient streambed there.
I LOVE these walks with you just as much as all your other videos!! I feel like I'm right out there with you enjoying your company and geology. Can never thank you enough!!
Man O' Man Nick... I wish you would take a field trip to Walker Creek/Walker Valley ORV area. If you haven't been already... you would be like a kid in a candy store. One of the most geologically diverse areas I've been to in Washington State.
I'm watching this with my cinnamon roll and coffee. When you showed us that first "cinnamon roll" rock, it made my day. I love your walks and how we can "skooch our bottoms" down the slope with you.
Thanks Nick!
I even Took the scientific paper and added some notes on!
Can’t describe the feeling as a kind of « magic » one that cheers up each time, there is something special !
Love you dear professor ! Glad to follow and thanks for sharing all as you do!
Interesting, as usual, even when much of it is far over my head. Thanks, for taking us along, Professor…
Thanks, Nick (B. Barto here) for taking us along. This is really interesting.
Enjoy your talks very illuminating for people who want to learn
Thanks it’s always fun to be in the field with you!
In the Carolinas in the Piedmont there is Rhyolite that the indigenous people used that chipped like Chert. Also a Welded Tuff that worked the same.
Thank you Professor Zentner
It is not a Forest Service Road, it is part of the Teanaway Community Forest and belongs to DNR. The rock was used by a private timber company that owned the 52,000 acres the DNR bought in 2013. The timber companies used it to make their roads. DNR has also used it since they purchased the land, it is on the new Lick Creek road. If you continue on up Middle Creek you will find more outcroppings of it that are in road cuts.
Hi there, there's a quarry up here in easton wa with very similar rock.
Enjoyed it as I have been for many years! Hope that you will do a follow up on these rather mysterious rhyolites and explain their story, thanks!
Thank you Nick. I don't know much about geology but it was extremely interesting. Please keep making these
Thank you Nick! It does look like it would make a great stone fireplace.
I just bought one of those hammers! Your edu-ventures always teach me how I can ask questions and investigate the nature of rock and features in my own region so I can explore its geological stories here. There's always something to take away and use to expand on, even being reminded to look for any documents, maps or charts publicly available about our own areas.
I'm still enjoying all your podcasts, even if I'm not catching them live anymore. Stay safe!
I would love to build a fire place with that banded beauty! Thanks for letting us tag along!!!!
Thanks for posting Nick, love you too.
I am sooooo happy you are making a channel!! Been watching your geology chats for years. Amateur explorer of nature geology in the PNW. Spent a lot of time in the endless bush of the Caribou for years. Glaciation is amazing. Crazy depositions. Anyways I'm so happy and wish you the best! Will keep watching thank you!
Thanks Nick! You've inspired my interest for 20 years!
I was doing some gold prospecting in the volcanic field near Yuma, AZ area and picked up a very interesting pink rock. I believe it is rhyolite.
I found Creek worn pieces all the way down by mineral springs camp ground. Thank you for clarifying what it is and where it came from.👍🐍
There is a videographer of the volcano in Iceland. Roman shows the same interest in the lava as Nick does but Roman is not a geologist. He’s noted the different lava expelled from the volcano. These two could have a lot to talk about if they met I think. His videos are on RUclips under the name of Gutn Tog.
I've been following the RUclips video on the Iceland valcano. GutnTog has been filming there from the beginning in March. From what I've learned watching Nick's videos I find I understand better what I'm seeing in Iceland even though the mechanics are fastly different than Washington state valcanos.
So very interesting. Thanks Nick, for a truly mysterious piece of the geology of central Washington.
Best of all it's presented as a leisurely walk in the woods!
#gooutside
Love you too 🤗 You silly ole Scootcher
And thanks!
Love your Spence of humor Nick!
That’s Rhyolite? Well, Gee! I have seen that in Eastern Oregon while my dad.and brothers went fishing and mother and I walked and collected stuff. I didn’t pay attention to this at all.
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Thank you for your videos Nick. We appreciate them and you.
Isn't a "huh? That's strange" the reason we keep doing what we do? So many questions in this world that remain unanswered and waiting to be found. Thanks for all you do from the Green River Gorge.
Excellent. Close up of rocks really effective - informative. You're helping me to learn to read hand specimens better.
Thank you.
Hi Nick. Love your stuff. Never a dull moment.
You fall down cliffs very gracefully professor!
Mike Eddy Paper, Table 1: Sample NC-MPE-418 is ~3.3 miles NW of Sample NC-MPE-417A (in video). Just past Twentynine Pines Campground take 1st left onto NF-9701, then left on 1st Spur almost to end.
See middle of left-hand column on page 432 for an explanation of these 2 Samples: "In an attempt to date...".
Also love the tinkling sounds from the wind!
Nick, I CANNOT get enough of this stuff! I am so hooked on Teanaway!
Plus or minus 14,000 years?!?! That's incredible!!!
Sean Bowen I was wondering what that decimal number meant in years but too lazy to do the math...lol...so thanks..!!
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😂 Sure
Thanks so much for letting us follow you on this walk, Nick. I've ripped the seat out of more than one pair of pants on slopes like that - hope you had some spares in the car :D Looking forward to updates on this formation.
Would love to see a picture of that guy's fireplace.
A mystery. Love your video Nick . It is so fun to be in that gizmo on an outing with you!
Thank you , everything about the paper’s just mesmerizing. The student’s work is a miracle just the SCALE of geological time and the sheer SIZE of these places are confounding lol! anything can happen eek! Super)
Cool! Another bit of info to add to our 351 data.....thanks for another informative hike and some more questions to ponder..... 🙂
Your videos always leave more curious. I just love the geology around here.
Plenty of basalt around
Like the pit ECP has on the lookout
Or even look at peoh point
This is a good one Nick
Short and sweet
And coincidentally
If you can get way west of that quarry
Like almost behind cle elum
There's quite and interesting formation
Not so much banded like what you've got here
Time Lining will help us understand & ask more questions.
It's very satisfying to see those rocks smashed open. :-)
Thank you , Nick! Endlessly fascinating stuff, love your work! all the best Jules.
Thanks Nick. Just got back from Colville. Check it out some time.
Thank you for the clip
Thanks, Nick. Always enjoy your treks in the field. It’s still so blasted hot down here in SoCal. It’s kept me from spending time in the field exploring our complex geology. Nice to hear that your weather was enjoyable:-)
Yet another site I've been to many years ago. I wish I knew then what Nick is teaching me now.
Love what you do. Wonder if that beautifully banded material would take a polish, it’s a fine gemstone if it’s hard enough.
Enjoyable .... The banding looks like Liesegang rings.
I’d like to know a bit of the history of the quarry. Who developed the quarry and why? How old is the excavated quarry? Is there any (archaeological) evidence that the rhyolite was used by people that predate modern use?
I am really interested I'm these answers at well!
Thank you for taking us along on another interesting field trip trip. Be careful on that talus slope. I also use the rear end technique when all else fails. A few scratches and bruises are always better than a broken leg etc
There’s some of that stuff coming out at the top of the Chelan Falls road.
Are there agates in that area of the teanaway?
A real joy before bed here in SoCal- thanks Nick!
Love your videos, as always. Thanks, Nick! ❤
That pink rock sure looks familiar here in the caldera that houses our giant gold mine near Round Mountain, NV. It is all over the ground here in the town site they created with muck from the mine.
Looks like liesegand banding in a porous rhyolitic air-fall tuff. Aka "wonderstone"
Nick, I wanna send you one of my hammocks to use on your hikes
Leftover fracture from Teanaway formation it appears. Cascade Volcanics started popping off…the pressure got released there.
Thanks Nick, for taking us on your investigation!!!
I suspect there are some interesting geological bits around Mt baker in restricted areas.
Growing up on the west side we spend a lot of time near ashford and adventure all the roads in the hills and have been to many pits over here that look just like this. Iv never known what they were for we just would call it shale but we don’t know what it really is, now I’m really wondering
That rhyolitic tuff is only about 5 miles by road from this quarry location to the NW. Except for the age, I wonder if they could be related to some series of events between 24 and 26 Ma? That would be interesting to learn since their location and age are so close in relation to the rest of the unit.
psyched for the Tuff vid!
Mysteries is bread and butter for curious mind.
Refreshing to have truth seeking acivity in nature.
Way to go!
47 ma with 24ma side by side!
I think I saw some rhyolite on my hike today in Revelstoke National Park (British Columbia)!
Thanks for the walk Nick, Take care
Thanks, Nick.
Careful on those slopes Nick, leave it to experts like me. Expert rock licker and taker of dangerous paths
Thanks for your effort, it was fun and interesting.
Entertaining as usual, Nick. Thanks
In the days when I could do such things,
we walked quickly kinda on the horizontal on talus slopes.
And we could go up or down almost gracefully.
Our rocks might have been bigger.
Interesting video. A puzzle for sure.