Years ago, we stopped at the Ephrata fan area (close to the airport) and marveled at the thousands of mostly round boulders. Walked among them for hours speculating on how it all happened and where they came from. Mystery solved! Thank you.
The ice age floods and the geology of all of Washington state are so cool. Big thanks to Nick Zentner for making so much amazing information so accessible!
Brilliant presentation of a complex geological phenomenon! Thank you for sharing this informative video. Washington State is the most interesting geological place to live.
Also if you practice other natural sciences. My preparation is in archaeology, ethno-botany, and regional history - all in the PNW -and Dr. Z relentlessly builds my understanding of my own fields.
Thank you so much for a great presentation!!! I was visiting Dry Falls Area last August and was so impressed !!! I love geology of WA!!! Its so unique. You explained so many interesting facts!!! I wish I had teacher like you when studied geography in Poland many years ago.....
I love learning about geology. Took a class in geology at Everett community college in 1980...Just no jobs in the field back then...so I got a degree in civil engineering. Geology really helps in the understanding of soils, foundations and drainage.
Dry Falls is an amazing place. Had the privilege of visiting there a few years ago along with Mt. Rainier, Lake Chelan, Seattle and all points in between. Great video.
I remember browsing in a bookstore 7-8 years ago (a Borders, remember those?-); I happened to pick up a book called "Bretz's Flood". I read the entire thing over the next four hours in their coffee hangout, transfixed by the story of these ice age floods, and have been fascinated by the events ever since. This is a great presentation, Nick, really gives you a great feeling for their power and scale. Keep up the excellent videos!
Great video and the perfect length. We don't have much for rocks here in Florida but it's fascinating stuff. Like a good detective story but real. Thanks!
Grew up in this area back in the 50s and hiked and camped in all these places. Always was very curious myself about all these unusual formation. This series is one of favorites and Nick is my all time favorite geology teachers. Rich Deline
Wow, did I enjoy this video. I'm an eastern Washington native, but rarely get back to visit. Had a fascination with Dry Falls from my youth; what a great explanation of what I remember seeing. Thank you so much!
Outstanding video and explanation. I first encountered the fascinating story of the ice age floods many years ago when I read of the life and explorations of J Harlan Bretz. Your videos are so informative and interesting. Thank you.
There's geology all over the world, but Washington is a geologist's playground. The volcanic and ice age features are fascinating. Taking that thought full circle, I would guess the entire world is a playground for Nick Zentner!
When I was little I use to find miniture potholes in big rocks on the north fork river east of Salem going up Hwy 22. You could see rocks at the bottom swirling around slowly carving out the potholes.
Below Niagara Falls in the Niagara Gorge/Glen you can find drilled potholes, remnants of the old falls location further downriver. But these are small, just a couple of feet in diameter and a foot or two deep. Nothing like those of Dry Falls. The scale is amazing.
Even more amazing is that, after carving up the entire eastern half of Washington state, these floods still had the power to carve out the dramatic Columbia Gorge, flood the valleys of the Columbia and the Willamette rivers from the current site of the Portland metro area down to Salem, Oregon, and north into Longview, Washington under several hundred feet of water, and wash a huge sediment fan hundreds of miles out into the Pacific from the mouth of the Columbia River.
Now you can use Drones instead Of finding a gyrocopter and pilot to film from above. Nick, the presentation was well done. I have had many questions answered in your lectures and roadside geology. Thank you.
Aerial photography is marvelous! Is that you flying that tiny thing, Nick? Superb vistas and fascinating geological commentary make for a unique presentation on Washington, in all its splendor!
If one were to wish to go back in time and witness these catastrophic events, you had better have some some research because appearing out of a time machine 20,000 years ago during potentially a cataclysmic event would be a very day day. You sure as heck wouldn't want to be at the base of the valley during an ice age flood.
The scale and force of these events is just beyond imagination. You could nuke Grand Coulee Dam and the resulting catastrophe would be like a light summer rain shower compared to the ice age floods.
Thankyou for doing this video. The Soap Lake area is of great interest to me. So what is the story about the alkaline waters? I saw in the movie, There Will Be Blood the alkaline waters are associated with oil? Thanks again.
I wonder how many grazing Ice Age animals were caught up in those floods...and how many of their bones, teeth, and tusks we might find buried in flood deposits! Also, you have to wonder if the earliest Native Americans were there to see it happen.
There is no outlet to Soap Lake so the mineral content builds up and when the wind blows waves onto the shore it creates foam which looks like soap bubbles to some.
@@sandybowman9638 I've noticed that same foam on Priest Lake in Idaho. Always wondered what it was but now it makes total sense. There is a ton of sediments deposited into that lake by the many creeks and rivers that feed into it from the Selkirk Mountains. Thanks for the info!
tremendous! great vid!THANKS! wHEN R U COMING THRU GRANGEVILLE? I'll treat lunch dinner etc. The whitebird grade and battlefield monument. Is a geo museum w breccias porpjry intrusions mafic layeres bifs regional metemorph U name it you can see many different historys in the road cuts^ the suture zone is here we have thrust fault next to deep basin extensional. and a freind owns a property near town 10 miles that was a working gold mine ore carts and all, I WOULD like to know its connection to your geology. LMK THANKS JAMES
I was wondering you gave the date of the floods the 40 floods and as 15,000 to 17000 years ago I was wondering Randall Carlson puts a 12900 years ago and I was wondering if you could comment on mr. Carlson and his ideas for the sudden melting of the ice Continental ice sheet thank you
I'm watching but I just too inquisitive...sometimes. how deep are the depressions that water sets in just over the edge of dry falls. so at the end of the glacier floors they must of been less destructive to carve the holes just GUESSING.....BUT STILL MASSIVE.....GREAT VIDEO THANKS FOR WHAT YOU DO
The potholes are not from erosion or water. The winning Dr. Nick should think a lot more about what he's explaining. The marks and terrain reflect the geography of interstellar plasma cuts from an electrically driven universe. Those types of clean "craters" are also in Alaska and all over the Carolinas, Plus they are on the moons, Mars, comets. Also, this destruction happened way more recently than "millions" of years. Wasn't gradual as is being sold. The gravity paradigm doesn't model what's happening in front of our eyes or our radio-telescopes. Time to snap out of it.
Wow, Bob. The fact that you actually believe that is utterly astounding. Please tell me you didn't enlist in any government testing programs that involved Kool-Aid.
I have never cared about geology, but Nick Zentner makes it interesting. Great video, too.
That's nice comment, Mike. Thank you.
Years ago, we stopped at the Ephrata fan area (close to the airport) and marveled at the thousands of mostly round boulders. Walked among them for hours speculating on how it all happened and where they came from. Mystery solved! Thank you.
The ice age floods and the geology of all of Washington state are so cool. Big thanks to Nick Zentner for making so much amazing information so accessible!
Brilliant presentation of a complex geological phenomenon! Thank you for sharing this informative video. Washington State is the most interesting geological place to live.
Hard to resist these videos if you are a curious person.
Memorable comment. Thank you!
Also if you practice other natural sciences. My preparation is in archaeology, ethno-botany, and regional history - all in the PNW -and Dr. Z relentlessly builds my understanding of my own fields.
Washington state has the most interesting geology in the US. I'm a truck driver and love driving in Washington.
Thank you so much for a great presentation!!! I was visiting Dry Falls Area last August and was so impressed !!! I love geology of WA!!! Its so unique. You explained so many interesting facts!!! I wish I had teacher like you when studied geography in Poland many years ago.....
wealth of knowledge and yes cannot stop watching these geology videos
Great tutorials on our natural wonders. Thank you!
Great stuff Mr. Zentner. Thank you.
I love learning about geology. Took a class in geology at Everett community college in 1980...Just no jobs in the field back then...so I got a degree in civil engineering. Geology really helps in the understanding of soils, foundations and drainage.
Thanks Fred. Lots of jobs now....was different for us back in the 80's.
Great photography and a cool story
Dry Falls is an amazing place. Had the privilege of visiting there a few years ago along with Mt. Rainier, Lake Chelan, Seattle and all points in between. Great video.
I remember browsing in a bookstore 7-8 years ago (a Borders, remember those?-); I happened to pick up a book called "Bretz's Flood". I read the entire thing over the next four hours in their coffee hangout, transfixed by the story of these ice age floods, and have been fascinated by the events ever since. This is a great presentation, Nick, really gives you a great feeling for their power and scale. Keep up the excellent videos!
Thanks Phil. All of my stuff is at nickzentner.com
Excellent presentation! Thank you.
Thank you, William!
Great video and the perfect length. We don't have much for rocks here in Florida but it's fascinating stuff. Like a good detective story but real. Thanks!
Nice comment, Rick. Thank you.
I love Your Doc/Vids. I watch them twice sometimes. There has been an amazing history here in Washington. .
Thnaks Randell. Appreciate the comment.
Grew up in this area back in the 50s and hiked and camped in all these places. Always was very curious myself about all these unusual formation. This series is one of favorites and Nick is my all time favorite geology teachers.
Rich Deline
Wow, did I enjoy this video. I'm an eastern Washington native, but rarely get back to visit. Had a fascination with Dry Falls from my youth; what a great explanation of what I remember seeing. Thank you so much!
Thanks Chris!
Awesome. To my eye, it looks as if this happened yesterday. Thanks Nick!!!
Interesting comment, Russell. Yes....very recent to our eyes too.
what a great series,great great instructor
Outstanding video and explanation. I first encountered the fascinating story of the ice age floods many years ago when I read of the life and explorations of J Harlan Bretz. Your videos are so informative and interesting. Thank you.
I'm lichen your entire series Nick.
I see what you did there...
He was mossly kidding.
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing this.
Glad you found this. Thanks.
Great video Doc! I'd love to see you do a comparison between the Great Missoula Floods and the Bonneville Flood.
Too funny! I wrote this, and just today I watched your "3 Floods: Lava, Ice, & Water" video. It gave me EXACTLY what I was wanting to learn. Ha ha ha!
This was great. Thank you.
There's geology all over the world, but Washington is a geologist's playground. The volcanic and ice age features are fascinating. Taking that thought full circle, I would guess the entire world is a playground for Nick Zentner!
Thanks Mark. Yes, lots of geology around the globe of course, the the PNW is outstanding in that regard.
When I was little I use to find miniture potholes in big rocks on the north fork river east of Salem going up Hwy 22. You could see rocks at the bottom swirling around slowly carving out the potholes.
Thank you professor 📚
Below Niagara Falls in the Niagara Gorge/Glen you can find drilled potholes, remnants of the old falls location further downriver. But these are small, just a couple of feet in diameter and a foot or two deep. Nothing like those of Dry Falls. The scale is amazing.
Even more amazing is that, after carving up the entire eastern half of Washington state, these floods still had the power to carve out the dramatic Columbia Gorge, flood the valleys of the Columbia and the Willamette rivers from the current site of the Portland metro area down to Salem, Oregon, and north into Longview, Washington under several hundred feet of water, and wash a huge sediment fan hundreds of miles out into the Pacific from the mouth of the Columbia River.
Now you can use Drones instead
Of finding a gyrocopter and pilot to film from above.
Nick, the presentation was well done.
I have had many questions answered in your lectures and roadside geology.
Thank you.
Nice to hear. Thanks.
Well done! Thanks for the videos!
Thanks Joseph!
Aerial photography is marvelous! Is that you flying that tiny thing, Nick? Superb vistas and fascinating geological commentary make for a unique presentation on Washington, in all its splendor!
Thanks much. Friend Tom Tabbert from Spokane flying his ultralight.
i love the series, now i want one for around Acton, CA. Come on down!
Ha! Glad that you are enjoying these. Thanks.
Great video.
Very interesting!
loved it. Amazing info.
So the falls started down by Soap Lake and the flood dug them back to dry falls over time, I'm guessing.
I have a new addiction and I'm learning.
Nice.
If one were to wish to go back in time and witness these catastrophic events, you had better have some some research because appearing out of a time machine 20,000 years ago during potentially a cataclysmic event would be a very day day. You sure as heck wouldn't want to be at the base of the valley during an ice age flood.
The scale and force of these events is just beyond imagination. You could nuke Grand Coulee Dam and the resulting catastrophe would be like a light summer rain shower compared to the ice age floods.
Thankyou for doing this video. The Soap Lake area is of great interest to me. So what is the story about the alkaline waters? I saw in the movie, There Will Be Blood the alkaline waters are associated with oil? Thanks again.
wow .
Thanks .
我有记忆起有一次面对大疫情，不知是否是鼠疫（英国因鼠疫死上千万人，其他国家也大概如此吧），全世界进行大戒严。我家里的米只剩六个月食量供十个人吃的。还好救援队去采购米成功，有买到供我们区及救援队合计约两千个人一起吃两年的量，价格是两亿元。同等量白米价格不断上升之后六个月价格起至五十亿元。
I wonder how many grazing Ice Age animals were caught up in those floods...and how many of their bones, teeth, and tusks we might find buried in flood deposits! Also, you have to wonder if the earliest Native Americans were there to see it happen.
i wonder how much each flood raised sea level.
Lots of water....but not nearly enough to raise sea level worldwide.
you want boulders? we got boulders lol
我记忆起在美国与家人朋友设立美国政府机构时，有一次面对饥荒（蚱蜢吃光稻米田地使一切植物消失，500里已开辟的耕耘地都变沙漠尘土，当时一百万美国居留者面对严重饥荒至人吃人的恐怖事件），我们的约一百人存米量-是可吃一年的，但储存的包装袋不紧绷，有透风，一部分白米坏掉了，真可惜。所以米粒的包装最要紧是烘干后把空气抽出，可耐存15年以上，而且包装2KG每一小包就好。
I'd like to know how Soap Lake got it's name.
Kind of murky to me. Dissolved minerals in water give lake water a soothing feel....but unclear to me why.
priscillapastimes ,,do you mean,,,,taking a bath
There is no outlet to Soap Lake so the mineral content builds up and when the wind blows waves onto the shore it creates foam which looks like soap bubbles to some.
@@sandybowman9638 I've noticed that same foam on Priest Lake in Idaho. Always wondered what it was but now it makes total sense. There is a ton of sediments deposited into that lake by the many creeks and rivers that feed into it from the Selkirk Mountains. Thanks for the info!
Where did the granite boulders come from?
Grand Coulee Dam area at minimum.
tremendous! great vid!THANKS! wHEN R U COMING THRU GRANGEVILLE? I'll treat lunch dinner etc. The whitebird grade and battlefield monument. Is a geo museum w breccias porpjry intrusions mafic layeres bifs regional metemorph U name it you can see many different historys in the road cuts^ the suture zone is here we have thrust fault next to deep basin extensional. and a freind owns a property near town 10 miles that was a working gold mine ore carts and all, I WOULD like to know its connection to your geology. LMK THANKS JAMES
Thanks much, James. I was in the Grangeville area for a couple of days two years ago....wish I'd seen this before the trip.
I was wondering you gave the date of the floods the 40 floods and as 15,000 to 17000 years ago I was wondering Randall Carlson puts a 12900 years ago and I was wondering if you could comment on mr. Carlson and his ideas for the sudden melting of the ice Continental ice sheet thank you
All eyes on me
Younger Dryas Impact on the Ice cap. NOT FLOODS.
what's that called? 02:00 min
I'm watching but I just too inquisitive...sometimes. how deep are the depressions that water sets in just over the edge of dry falls.
so at the end of the glacier floors they must of been less destructive to carve the holes just GUESSING.....BUT STILL MASSIVE.....GREAT VIDEO THANKS FOR WHAT YOU DO
Thanks for the comments, Donald. 50 foot deep potholes in the bedrock above the Dry Falls cliff. Cliff is 350 feet high.
DO YOU HAVE A COUNTERPART IN COLORADO?
06:13 min ...wee~~~
The potholes are not from erosion or water. The winning Dr. Nick should think a lot more about what he's explaining. The marks and terrain reflect the geography of interstellar plasma cuts from an electrically driven universe. Those types of clean "craters" are also in Alaska and all over the Carolinas, Plus they are on the moons, Mars, comets. Also, this destruction happened way more recently than "millions" of years. Wasn't gradual as is being sold. The gravity paradigm doesn't model what's happening in front of our eyes or our radio-telescopes. Time to snap out of it.
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Watch the video, Bob, before spouting off here. You're way off base.
Wow, Bob. The fact that you actually believe that is utterly astounding. Please tell me you didn't enlist in any government testing programs that involved Kool-Aid.
Darn it, I wasn't wearing my tinfoil hat before reading your comment Bob. I'll be more careful next time !!
Hold on to that hammer, you could drop it down a basalt crack if you aren't careful.
Ha!
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Old, I know. But a river cut the grand canyon!?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Its amazing to me that we used to believe that.