Rhyolite Quarry in the Teanaway

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  • Опубликовано: 28 авг 2021
  • Nick visits a rhyolite quarry in the Teanaway Valley. Filmed on August 22, 2021.
    GPS location for quarry: 47.297722, -120.821472
    Mike Eddy's 2015 paper: www.geology.cwu.edu/facstaff/...

Комментарии • 213

  • @sleeplessstu
    @sleeplessstu 7 месяцев назад +3

    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 ! 😂

  • @dnomyarnostaw
    @dnomyarnostaw 2 года назад +14

    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."

  • @mikebjornstad5855
    @mikebjornstad5855 2 года назад +16

    Thank you Nick for taking us townies on your walk. I'm grateful it wasn't my butt sliding down on those sharp rocks.

  • @tastiger91
    @tastiger91 2 года назад +13

    A gneiss little walk in the good weather.

  • @alexcope4144
    @alexcope4144 2 года назад +40

    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 ❤️

    • @lorrainewaters6189
      @lorrainewaters6189 2 года назад +4

      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

    • @roldy1584
      @roldy1584 2 года назад +2

      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.

  • @kimberleehall3143
    @kimberleehall3143 2 года назад +21

    I keep expecting to hear comments from the students. I bet the fireplace is beautiful! Thank you Nick! Your curiosity educates us all!

  • @craighoover1495
    @craighoover1495 2 года назад +13

    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.

  • @18Bees
    @18Bees 2 года назад +11

    “Breath through your nose?” Thanks for the lovely fireplace backstory.

  • @complimentary_voucher
    @complimentary_voucher 2 года назад +6

    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.

  • @dhubbard9728
    @dhubbard9728 2 года назад +11

    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!

  • @maryseeker7590
    @maryseeker7590 2 года назад +5

    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!!

  • @dannymack1196
    @dannymack1196 2 года назад +3

    The inside of the rocks looks like the rings of a tree. Very cool video. Keep em coming. 👍🏻👍🏻

  • @haganquillen8852
    @haganquillen8852 2 года назад +14

    Enjoy your talks very illuminating for people who want to learn

  • @nicholasnewton6775
    @nicholasnewton6775 2 года назад +2

    I bet your logger friend fireplace was amazing.

  • @tonyabenton4656
    @tonyabenton4656 2 года назад +2

    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!

  • @ThomasSmith-os4zc
    @ThomasSmith-os4zc 2 года назад +2

    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.

  • @annsherwood7852
    @annsherwood7852 3 месяца назад +1

    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.

  • @rayschoch5882
    @rayschoch5882 2 года назад +11

    Interesting, as usual, even when much of it is far over my head. Thanks, for taking us along, Professor…

  • @mikeweeks4669
    @mikeweeks4669 2 года назад +7

    Good evening ,Nick thanks again for sharing.

  • @kyleroth1025
    @kyleroth1025 2 года назад +7

    Thank you Professor Zentner

  • @lordofthieves8200
    @lordofthieves8200 2 года назад +2

    Careful on those slopes Nick, leave it to experts like me. Expert rock licker and taker of dangerous paths

  • @vhhawk
    @vhhawk 2 года назад +2

    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.

  • @johnmatlack7177
    @johnmatlack7177 2 года назад +4

    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!

  • @d.t.4523
    @d.t.4523 2 года назад +5

    Thank you Nick! It does look like it would make a great stone fireplace.

  • @andywomack3414
    @andywomack3414 2 года назад +3

    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.

  • @maryseeker7590
    @maryseeker7590 2 года назад +3

    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!

  • @oscarmedina1303
    @oscarmedina1303 2 года назад +2

    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.

  • @screens1979
    @screens1979 2 года назад +2

    Love you too 🤗 You silly ole Scootcher
    And thanks!

  • @sharonhoward4957
    @sharonhoward4957 2 года назад +6

    Thanks it’s always fun to be in the field with you!

  • @rattlesnakeprospecting875
    @rattlesnakeprospecting875 2 года назад +4

    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.👍🐍

  • @patriciakavanaugh5300
    @patriciakavanaugh5300 2 года назад +5

    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.

  • @cerberus2881
    @cerberus2881 Год назад +2

    Noticing river cobbles at your feet there at the end of the video.

  • @zazouisa_runaway4371
    @zazouisa_runaway4371 2 года назад +5

    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!

  • @guiart1553
    @guiart1553 2 года назад +5

    I would love to build a fire place with that banded beauty! Thanks for letting us tag along!!!!

  • @AdrielG.
    @AdrielG. Год назад +1

    Thank you Nick. I don't know much about geology but it was extremely interesting. Please keep making these

  • @SweetSunrising
    @SweetSunrising 2 года назад +5

    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.

  • @reginaromsey
    @reginaromsey 2 года назад +6

    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.

  • @whitby910
    @whitby910 2 года назад +2

    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'.

  • @recombinantgems
    @recombinantgems 2 года назад +4

    Thank you for the clip

  • @lindaneilsen5604
    @lindaneilsen5604 2 года назад +4

    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.

    • @michaelhusar3668
      @michaelhusar3668 2 года назад +1

      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.

  • @jamesdriscoll_tmp1515
    @jamesdriscoll_tmp1515 2 года назад +9

    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

  • @derrith1877
    @derrith1877 2 года назад +3

    I'm still enjoying all your podcasts, even if I'm not catching them live anymore. Stay safe!

  • @MineralMiller
    @MineralMiller 2 года назад +1

    Nick negotiating the talus slope = Pure gold

  • @mwhitelaw8569
    @mwhitelaw8569 2 года назад +1

    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

  • @FromenthalMedia
    @FromenthalMedia 2 года назад +3

    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.

  • @FiddleyBits
    @FiddleyBits 2 года назад +5

    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!!

  • @zachbarlow25
    @zachbarlow25 2 года назад +6

    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.

  • @neebeeshaabookwayg6027
    @neebeeshaabookwayg6027 2 года назад +2

    wow!!! I sure miss you!! forest service roads are nice... okay going to listen.., will check back in, 😊😉🙂

  • @bonblue4993
    @bonblue4993 2 года назад +2

    Thanks, Nick (B. Barto here) for taking us along. This is really interesting.

  • @cavalonja
    @cavalonja 2 года назад +1

    Love your videos, as always. Thanks, Nick! ❤

  • @tarapaul8212
    @tarapaul8212 2 года назад +3

    Your videos always leave more curious. I just love the geology around here.

  • @julicaru4812
    @julicaru4812 2 года назад +1

    Thank you , Nick! Endlessly fascinating stuff, love your work! all the best Jules.

  • @mardinecampbell2870
    @mardinecampbell2870 2 года назад +3

    Entertaining as usual, Nick. Thanks

  • @turkfiles
    @turkfiles 2 года назад +2

    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:-)

  • @deantheot7296
    @deantheot7296 2 года назад +1

    Thanks for the walk Nick, Take care

  • @billy-go9kx
    @billy-go9kx 2 года назад +1

    Thanks Nick, for taking us on your investigation!!!

  • @thegoodscientistsdaughter7236
    @thegoodscientistsdaughter7236 2 года назад +2

    You fall down cliffs very gracefully professor!

  • @scottwolf1238
    @scottwolf1238 2 года назад +4

    Thank you for your videos Nick. We appreciate them and you.

  • @Mrsnamor
    @Mrsnamor 2 года назад +4

    Hi Nick. Love your stuff. Never a dull moment.

  • @cindyleehaddock3551
    @cindyleehaddock3551 2 года назад +2

    Cool! Another bit of info to add to our 351 data.....thanks for another informative hike and some more questions to ponder..... 🙂

  • @kenmunozatmmrrailroad6853
    @kenmunozatmmrrailroad6853 2 года назад +1

    A real joy before bed here in SoCal- thanks Nick!

  • @mattrichards1492
    @mattrichards1492 2 года назад +4

    Nick, I CANNOT get enough of this stuff! I am so hooked on Teanaway!

  • @realjaxon
    @realjaxon 2 года назад +4

    Thank you Nick. I always enjoy your videos.

  • @raychelparks
    @raychelparks 2 года назад +1

    I can't wait to go see it! Thank you for sharing!💗

  • @watewut3246
    @watewut3246 2 года назад +4

    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)

  • @dardar1862
    @dardar1862 2 года назад +2

    As always excellent! Thanks Nick 🙏💜

  • @lorrainewaters6189
    @lorrainewaters6189 2 года назад +3

    Excellent. Close up of rocks really effective - informative. You're helping me to learn to read hand specimens better.

  • @guiart1553
    @guiart1553 2 года назад +1

    Also love the tinkling sounds from the wind!

  • @tgmccoy1556
    @tgmccoy1556 2 года назад +1

    Thanks, Nick.

  • @TimInSeattle
    @TimInSeattle 2 года назад +2

    Yet another site I've been to many years ago. I wish I knew then what Nick is teaching me now.

  • @wendygerrish4964
    @wendygerrish4964 2 года назад +1

    A mystery. Love your video Nick . It is so fun to be in that gizmo on an outing with you!

  • @csrouse33
    @csrouse33 2 года назад +2

    Crazy location for the intrusion.

  • @whitby910
    @whitby910 2 года назад +1

    Thank you.

  • @myrachurchman5013
    @myrachurchman5013 2 года назад +3

    Thanks for posting Nick, love you too.

  • @Me-ei8yd
    @Me-ei8yd 2 года назад +2

    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!

  • @susandoerr3896
    @susandoerr3896 2 года назад +3

    Thanks for your effort, it was fun and interesting.

  • @jeffjacobsen4605
    @jeffjacobsen4605 2 года назад +2

    Thanks Nick! You've inspired my interest for 20 years!

  • @Sally4th_
    @Sally4th_ 2 года назад +1

    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.

  • @donnacsuti4980
    @donnacsuti4980 2 года назад +2

    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

  • @sean_b_drummer
    @sean_b_drummer 2 года назад +3

    Plus or minus 14,000 years?!?! That's incredible!!!

    • @marbleman52
      @marbleman52 2 года назад +1

      Sean Bowen I was wondering what that decimal number meant in years but too lazy to do the math...lol...so thanks..!!

    • @sean_b_drummer
      @sean_b_drummer 2 года назад

      @@marbleman52
      😂 Sure

  • @cowboygeologist7772
    @cowboygeologist7772 Год назад +1

    Thanks for posting.

  • @jamespmurray4059
    @jamespmurray4059 2 года назад +1

    So glad to see you.

  • @Rachel.4644
    @Rachel.4644 2 года назад +1

    Fun time with you, and curious. I'll check my printout of Mike's paper. 💗

  • @hollynoellewallen5607
    @hollynoellewallen5607 2 года назад +1

    Thanks so much for your Washington State Geology and History research. ❤ Thanks for sharing with the world. 🌎
    Liked 👍. Shared on MeWe 👍.

  • @d2sfavs
    @d2sfavs 10 месяцев назад +1

    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

  • @KathyWilliamsDevries
    @KathyWilliamsDevries 2 года назад +1

    Good to see your happy smiling face 😃

  • @Valkyrie801
    @Valkyrie801 2 года назад +1

    Thank You, Professor Nick :)

  • @grandparocky
    @grandparocky 2 года назад +3

    This summer we collected this Rhyolite material in the middle of the Idaho Batholith. Beautiful rock but certainly out of place for its surroundings!

  • @lwdocter
    @lwdocter 2 года назад +2

    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!

  • @frankuhler1514
    @frankuhler1514 2 года назад +2

    Thanks Nick. Just got back from Colville. Check it out some time.

  • @frenchysandi
    @frenchysandi 2 года назад +1

    Interesting video. A puzzle for sure.

  • @kidchalleen4250
    @kidchalleen4250 2 года назад +1

    Love these!

  • @cyndikarp3368
    @cyndikarp3368 2 года назад +1

    Time Lining will help us understand & ask more questions.

  • @lonthrall5613
    @lonthrall5613 2 года назад +1

    Interesting! Thank you!

  • @glennlarson9343
    @glennlarson9343 2 года назад +1

    Thanks

  • @joechiaretti4131
    @joechiaretti4131 2 месяца назад +1

    Looks like liesegand banding in a porous rhyolitic air-fall tuff. Aka "wonderstone"

  • @canadiangemstones7636
    @canadiangemstones7636 2 года назад +2

    Love what you do. Wonder if that beautifully banded material would take a polish, it’s a fine gemstone if it’s hard enough.

  • @ktlean
    @ktlean 2 года назад +2

    I think I saw some rhyolite on my hike today in Revelstoke National Park (British Columbia)!

  • @alanharwood1636
    @alanharwood1636 2 года назад +2

    Enjoyable .... The banding looks like Liesegang rings.

  • @evelynmoyer9069
    @evelynmoyer9069 2 года назад +1

    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.