Just finished last shift of the year at the bakery, and now home and looking for something to relax and watch. Found it! Thanks Nick, and all the best to you and the family. 🎄
As for 19 year-olds being unsure of their futures, I am 73, retired, and still unsure what I will do when I grow up. "Growing Up", to me, sounds scary and stagnant at the same time. Why, at my age, am I so fascinated by a subject I never studied before? Stay curious, keep learning, and life will take care of itself.
I learned some geology but I also learned about the generosity and goodness that still exists in todays world, thank you Adele and Merry Christmas to everyone.
Each livestream showcases not only your expertise at distilling the complex into the understandable, but also illuminates the beautiful community that you have built. This is literally the only youtube channel that I ever watch live, and it is because of the community. Thank you Nick and Jeff for your time and thank you all those who enliven the chat with questions and information. I am truly grateful.
I believe the conduit you have created here which is bringing geologists of all disciplines together that didn't know each other is a phenomenal professional accomplishment! The fact that it wasn't ever the goal of this channel makes it all the more special. So glad to hear Liz is recovering well. Merry Christmas to you Nick and your family and Merry Christmas to all in this wonderful community.
Complicated stuff, nicely explained, but I'll have to watch this a couple times. So grateful Jeff is such a willing and generous addition to these teachings! Teachers are so underestimated. Without this free education, my interest in geology did not exist before those backyard covid episodes. Had I any clue 40 or 50 years ago, my formal education could have easily involved geology and geochemistry. Thank you!
I am living vicariously through all these episodes Nick. Thank you and Happy Holidays. I graduated with a degree in Geography from USF in 1981, and have had an interest in Geology from early in life growing up in the PNW in Tillamook, OR. I enjoy learning with you through these episodes and the Alphabet Series. Keep it up, and I wish you and your family a happy and healthy New Year.
LOL, I missed the Live stream, but, as always, am enjoying the episode… just started, and totally enjoyed Nick “busting some sick moves” in his outside walk! You might expand the audience even more if you sprinkle a little “twerking” into your repertoire, Nick! 😂. Always a highlight of my day when I see a new Zentner video up!!!
Dang, Pam's question about the spreading center being part of the slab breakoff really seemed intuitive. Excellent question, Pam, I hope we explore that in future letters!
😃✨A great livestreaming it turned out to be! Nick, I appreciate you very much when you stumble and/or when you try one another way to teach towards our intended goal of understanding, because it increases my chances of understanding in real time, and I get to feel good about myself, thamk you!! Oh Jeff's help in the chat was also fantastic, thank you!! Nowadays, I have more opportunities to teach little ones, and I'm figuring out whether they pay real attentions is a huge deal in their understanding, so...😆✨💞💗
It is a great episode, and a great chat ! I got a bit distracted by the latter during the livestream... I have plans : watch the video and the chat again, take my time to (re)watch and understand "Breakoff Geochemistry" with Jeff Tepper, who is absolutely excellent, and read carefully the papers/abstracts/posters, so I will be prepared for the next video on Thursday. I don't know when I will find the time to do all this with Christmas in between. Happy Holydays to our wonderful teachers and to fellow Zentners !
I am revising a geochemistry manual for this but it ain't easy... Hubby asks "But why??" Trying to explain I want to keep watching these videos but without studying I haven't a chance to understand 😮.
I am 65 years old, and I am here to learn all I can because the older I get the more I become aware of how much I don't know. something for everyone of all ages and education level.
Merry Christmas Nick to you, Liz and family. Thanks for making these dark days so bright. Learning, laughing, being part of something.. a great Christmas gift. thanks
Merry Christmas! The stumble over the arc rocks in the mix of volcanics from the breakoff period was informative. It seems like one of two things is going on. Either there is a more complexity to the Ta/Nb depletion marker, or there is cascade arc volcanism before there should be based on how subduction zones normally work. This would have been a pretty unique situation: a triple point nearby, a mantle plume nearby and "approaching" (relatively), and recent localized slab failure. Very interesting material to mull over.
Nick, Teanaway Basalt coming up through the Swauk formation; reminds me of a certain "Liberty Gold" lecture from years past! What I didn't know was the breakoff magma story. Great Stuff! Just catching up on all the lectures as of now. Thanks so much!
Nick, your style is unique, and whether it’s in series form, or individual self contained episodes, your style comes through, and it’s an absolute pleasure. We learn, we laugh, we cry, and we share. It’s a magical think you have created, and we, your community, love you for it. Happy holidays, friend.
In re: your series, I love your series that take me deeply into a topic over time. I also love Shawn Wilsey's field videos and real-time volcano analysis. And Geology Hub's 5 minute summaries. And Myron Cook's Socratic explorations. This is the golden era of geology education for the public!!!!!
Adele - I’m in north Seattle. You beat me to the punch and I assume you are closer to Harborview. Ready to help if needed in the future. Battery Fully Charged.
Nick, I hope it didn't seem trivial, but adding a few cities to break off map really helped me understand where you were referring. Thank you very much. PS: Once my nephew gets his house built here on the ranch, hopefully I'll have bees again and be Honey Greg once again. He's got a strong back and able to pick up the honey boxes. 😉
Great stuff, playing catch up on the beach! Naches Fmn is fascinating, though I never knew that's what it was I was walking on north of Snoqualmie Pass.
Is it possible that when the plate broke off, there was a rebound of the crust? I would imagine that with the loss of that mass somewhat attached to subducting Siletzia, post-break land atop the breakoff zone may "rebound", causing perhaps Some of the uplift process.
Have been watching Myron Cook on the Absaroka Mtns. which were active 53 - 46.1. Makes me wonder how solid (hard) Siletzia hit and how far rangeing. Going to look back at eocine series and also Tepper geochem info. Have a great Christmas all!
Please accept this honorary PhD in video production from me and my kitchen. Any scientific organization would do well to replicate your results as there is so much science online with terrible production.
I’ve been watching the Cascades A2Z, mostly not live (sorry but other aspects of life got in the way). Just watched Session G when a thought occurred to me. We’ve been looking at what happened at the eastern side of the Pacific. Since those oceanic plates first form at the mid-ocean spreading ridge(s), surely something very similar may have happened at the other side of the Pacific. Do you know if anybody has studied the volcanic rocks in the mountains of Japan or other areas over there that might reflect similar results?
Hi Nick, sorry it took me so long to view G. But, I have a question about the subduction zone you show going under Wa and Or. You say that the rivers all flowed toward the pacific and it was a quiet time, but there was a subduction zone going under the rivers. Where are the arc volcanos of this time? And there should have been a costal range of mountains and a valley between the ocean and the arc volcanic chain. Can you explain the discrepancy between the sluggish quiet river systems flowing to the pacific vs a subduction zone going under this region. There should have been a chain of arc volcanos a valley and a costal range of mountains in the way of the river systems you describe.
Is that fault line actually the subduction line, and that's why the west moves north and the east is stationary?. Just my brain seeing it able to work that way.
I if I understand correctly, when the Indian sub-continent smashed into Asia, it broke off. Would that create breakoff magmas, or not, since it's 2 continental crusts colliding?
Just finished last shift of the year at the bakery, and now home and looking for something to relax and watch. Found it! Thanks Nick, and all the best to you and the family. 🎄
It’s the best “television”
show… ❤
As for 19 year-olds being unsure of their futures, I am 73, retired, and still unsure what I will do when I grow up. "Growing Up", to me, sounds scary and stagnant at the same time. Why, at my age, am I so fascinated by a subject I never studied before? Stay curious, keep learning, and life will take care of itself.
I learned some geology but I also learned about the generosity and goodness that still exists in todays world, thank you Adele and Merry Christmas to everyone.
Dang. Missed the live. Merry Christmas Nick and family, and fellow Zentnerds.
Each livestream showcases not only your expertise at distilling the complex into the understandable, but also illuminates the beautiful community that you have built. This is literally the only youtube channel that I ever watch live, and it is because of the community. Thank you Nick and Jeff for your time and thank you all those who enliven the chat with questions and information. I am truly grateful.
Thanks to all who participates in an way in this eposide G Loved it and Happy Holidays to all
I believe the conduit you have created here which is bringing geologists of all disciplines together that didn't know each other is a phenomenal professional accomplishment! The fact that it wasn't ever the goal of this channel makes it all the more special. So glad to hear Liz is recovering well. Merry Christmas to you Nick and your family and Merry Christmas to all in this wonderful community.
Complicated stuff, nicely explained, but I'll have to watch this a couple times. So grateful Jeff is such a willing and generous addition to these teachings! Teachers are so underestimated. Without this free education, my interest in geology did not exist before those backyard covid episodes. Had I any clue 40 or 50 years ago, my formal education could have easily involved geology and geochemistry. Thank you!
I am living vicariously through all these episodes Nick. Thank you and Happy Holidays. I graduated with a degree in Geography from USF in 1981, and have had an interest in Geology from early in life growing up in the PNW in Tillamook, OR. I enjoy learning with you through these episodes and the Alphabet Series. Keep it up, and I wish you and your family a happy and healthy New Year.
Great talk! Jazzercise!! (1:09)
Thanks Nick, its all starting to sink in after a year trying to make sense of it all! Thanks to your teaching methods! ❤
LOL, I missed the Live stream, but, as always, am enjoying the episode… just started, and totally enjoyed Nick “busting some sick moves” in his outside walk! You might expand the audience even more if you sprinkle a little “twerking” into your repertoire, Nick! 😂.
Always a highlight of my day when I see a new Zentner video up!!!
Merry Yule! Blessed Be! Another great episode- watching from Wintergardens CA
Thanks for all the hard work on these videos!
Thanks for this Nick (Saint Nick?). The GeoChem really helped me solidify some ideas. See you on Boxing Day - cheers.
Dang, Pam's question about the spreading center being part of the slab breakoff really seemed intuitive. Excellent question, Pam, I hope we explore that in future letters!
Lindsay Malone: Thanks for sharing those photos!
😃✨A great livestreaming it turned out to be! Nick, I appreciate you very much when you stumble and/or when you try one another way to teach towards our intended goal of understanding, because it increases my chances of understanding in real time, and I get to feel good about myself, thamk you!! Oh Jeff's help in the chat was also fantastic, thank you!! Nowadays, I have more opportunities to teach little ones, and I'm figuring out whether they pay real attentions is a huge deal in their understanding, so...😆✨💞💗
Sorry I missed your live broadcast, I had family commitments. Watching the video now😊
So glad to hear that Liz is doing better. Love you Nick, and have a Merry Christmas!
It is a great episode, and a great chat ! I got a bit distracted by the latter during the livestream... I have plans : watch the video and the chat again, take my time to (re)watch and understand "Breakoff Geochemistry" with Jeff Tepper, who is absolutely excellent, and read carefully the papers/abstracts/posters, so I will be prepared for the next video on Thursday. I don't know when I will find the time to do all this with Christmas in between. Happy Holydays to our wonderful teachers and to fellow Zentners !
I am revising a geochemistry manual for this but it ain't easy... Hubby asks "But why??" Trying to explain I want to keep watching these videos but without studying I haven't a chance to understand 😮.
I am 65 years old, and I am here to learn all I can because the older I get the more I become aware of how much I don't know. something for everyone of all ages and education level.
Merry Christmas Nick to you, Liz and family. Thanks for making these dark days so bright. Learning, laughing, being part of something.. a great Christmas gift. thanks
Merry Christmas! The stumble over the arc rocks in the mix of volcanics from the breakoff period was informative. It seems like one of two things is going on. Either there is a more complexity to the Ta/Nb depletion marker, or there is cascade arc volcanism before there should be based on how subduction zones normally work. This would have been a pretty unique situation: a triple point nearby, a mantle plume nearby and "approaching" (relatively), and recent localized slab failure. Very interesting material to mull over.
Nick,
Teanaway Basalt coming up through the Swauk formation; reminds me of a certain "Liberty Gold" lecture from years past! What I didn't know was the breakoff magma story. Great Stuff! Just catching up on all the lectures as of now. Thanks so much!
Nick, your style is unique, and whether it’s in series form, or individual self contained episodes, your style comes through, and it’s an absolute pleasure. We learn, we laugh, we cry, and we share. It’s a magical think you have created, and we, your community, love you for it. Happy holidays, friend.
I for one appreciate you going through the geochem, so thanks for that.
❤❤ late but not missing the "rerun"... thank you all again for keeping an old mind engaged.
In re: your series,
I love your series that take me deeply into a topic over time.
I also love Shawn Wilsey's field videos and real-time volcano analysis.
And Geology Hub's 5 minute summaries.
And Myron Cook's Socratic explorations.
This is the golden era of geology education for the public!!!!!
Merry Christmas from Macdoel California!:-)
Good to hear about Liz, Merry Christmas🎄
Merry Christmas Nick and Family
Adele was amazing to open her home. Thanks for helping out Adele!
Adele - I’m in north Seattle. You beat me to the punch and I assume you are closer to Harborview. Ready to help if needed in the future. Battery Fully Charged.
Have a very merry Christmas, Nick. And healing wishes for your wife.
Nick, I hope it didn't seem trivial, but adding a few cities to break off map really helped me understand where you were referring. Thank you very much.
PS: Once my nephew gets his house built here on the ranch, hopefully I'll have bees again and be Honey Greg once again. He's got a strong back and able to pick up the honey boxes. 😉
Huge smile on my face. Can’t wait for my Boxing Day present…TEANAWAY!!!! Near and dear to my heart. Battery Fully Charged.
Great stuff, playing catch up on the beach! Naches Fmn is fascinating, though I never knew that's what it was I was walking on north of Snoqualmie Pass.
A Merry Christmas to you & your family!
Thanks so much teaching us all appreciate you and liz
Wahooo Happy Winter Solstice from Dallas
Colorblind Mike Eddy and the Mayor of Tepperland. ;-)
Merry Christmas to all.
Is it possible that when the plate broke off, there was a rebound of the crust? I would imagine that with the loss of that mass somewhat attached to subducting Siletzia, post-break land atop the breakoff zone may "rebound", causing perhaps Some of the uplift process.
Have been watching Myron Cook on the Absaroka Mtns. which were active 53 - 46.1. Makes me wonder how solid (hard) Siletzia hit and how far rangeing. Going to look back at eocine series and also Tepper geochem info.
Have a great Christmas all!
Please accept this honorary PhD in video production from me and my kitchen. Any scientific organization would do well to replicate your results as there is so much science online with terrible production.
Imagine if Nick eventually retires with a PHD awarded on that last day...
I'm waiting with anticipation for the Chat. A solstice gift!
9:39 Demonstration of the hurkey Jurkey starts..
🎄🎄🎄
"You can do anything, but you can't do everything." --me
I find myself wondering how many, how severe were the earthquakes associated with the breaking of the Farallon Plate?
From Sacramento CA
THE BEST SERIES ON ANY PLATFORM… your series has replaced my tv viewing. I am better for it!!
Puyallup. Merry Christmas!
Hotel Murano! #yougottaloveit
I’ve been watching the Cascades A2Z, mostly not live (sorry but other aspects of life got in the way). Just watched Session G when a thought occurred to me. We’ve been looking at what happened at the eastern side of the Pacific. Since those oceanic plates first form at the mid-ocean spreading ridge(s), surely something very similar may have happened at the other side of the Pacific. Do you know if anybody has studied the volcanic rocks in the mountains of Japan or other areas over there that might reflect similar results?
Mantle decompression holy moly.
So, theoretically, if you had the conditions that generate ark magma, but none of them ever made it to surface, could you call that a "plutark"?
Mmmm... that is a philosophical question...
Hi Nick, sorry it took me so long to view G. But, I have a question about the subduction zone you show going under Wa and Or. You say that the rivers all flowed toward the pacific and it was a quiet time, but there was a subduction zone going under the rivers. Where are the arc volcanos of this time? And there should have been a costal range of mountains and a valley between the ocean and the arc volcanic chain. Can you explain the discrepancy between the sluggish quiet river systems flowing to the pacific vs a subduction zone going under this region. There should have been a chain of arc volcanos a valley and a costal range of mountains in the way of the river systems you describe.
Is that fault line actually the subduction line, and that's why the west moves north and the east is stationary?. Just my brain seeing it able to work that way.
Rick in Costa Rica!,
Aren't there also edocites involved with subduction rocks?
I if I understand correctly, when the Indian sub-continent smashed into Asia, it broke off. Would that create breakoff magmas, or not, since it's 2 continental crusts colliding?
Why thankyou even if I do say so myself
Lilyjean- Victoria Australia 😊
Ted -Honolulu VIA White Salmon Wa
Heres to Liz's recovery :)
U could lay an egg and itd be fine. Nick you look extremely distinguished and very much non aged because you are only as old as you feel
Thank you, @pasulliv1