What a treat to see these knowledgeable people in the field, looking, discussing, digging, thinking out loud. A rare opportunity to see them at work. Thank you Nick (and the group of workers & Glenn)!
Seeing a gathering of such luminaries makes my eyes water a bit. Just fantastic to witness you all in one place, chasing leads in a reeeeally cold case!
Nick, there are no words to express how exciting it is to listen to and watch this interaction. If you have any further video of this day's outing, please post it! This is field science at its best! Thanks so much!
Absolutely thrilling to see all of you visiting Bretz sites together! I became a bit emotional watching this. These geologists field trips visiting sites and hashing over ideas are my absolute favorite, and this one tops them all. Thank you Nick for bringing us along, thank you Glen for helping put this together, and most of all thank you to all the geologists who participated. Love this!!.
Absolutely! That is a lot of brainpower on the hoof, thank you all for the gripping analysis that looked like a great party, Skye's canooooe 🛶 had me dying 💀I love you all
This is helping me so much believe it or not. I grew up around the Canadian river in Texas. I saw when I was a kid, the flood waters of the Canadian sometimes a mile wide in places. Thank you again for this video.
Really enjoyed this. Wish it was longer. Still undergoing withdrawal from the ending of A-Z. Thanks to the crew for undertaking this two-day adventure. Isn’t it amazing that Bretz found these places.
Vic Baker's analysis is brilliant as he speaks at the Mondovi cut regarding what we see, how it formed, the minds that came before, and the progress of scientific investigation. So cool.
Wow Nick what an amazing experience you have brought us. Thank You and Gang. I’m tingling from the rolling thought process of all these Genius Minds working cohesive together. Just Simply Amazing guys!!
Once again Nick, your bringing GSA to the garden variety geologist is great. Listening to these guys think out loud is so worthy of contemplation; and to remember that knowing the extent of the glacial ice can influence knowing the extent of beds that then inform economic geologists thinking. Thanks.
Thanks Glenn and Nick for making this happen. It's great seeing this 'outcrop' of geologist in action. So, Bretz (an others) were seeing something and calling it till. There folks are seeing something, but it doesn't fit neatly into known categories/processes/etc. But it's old (pre-Wisconsin). Interesting.
Didn't expect Jerome to be the "no till buzz kill" in this group 😉. Seriously, absolutely fascinating to see such a knowledgeable group in the field working over the stones.
It’s what I would call a backwater area, a collector area that’s not agitated very often. Not disturbed much… a dumping ground. Thank you, I enjoy these “out and about” investigations so much…. Sky and Jerome ❤
It’s amazing what a single person can invoke, to see so many skilled talented people curiously looking into this problem, interacting and bouncing ideas off each other is so interesting!
Glenn has dedicated an incredible amount of effort to this community, and it’s truly remarkable to witness him taking the lead in field exploration with his expertise on the Bretz sites. It’s a blessing for us to have him, and it must be a gratifying experience for Glenn to see his investment in Google Earth pay off. Thank you, Nick.
I work with Jim, Lydia, and Ralph. I am not a geologist, I am their IT specialist, I work in the USGS Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics office in Spokane. I always find it fascinating to see them in the field working, I usually only get to see them when they're having computer problems. Thanks for the insight.
It is a great gift to eavesdrop on the geologists' discussions! I love hearing them thoroughly question what they're seeing. The whole process is interesting.
This was so cool…to see geologists working in the field, figuring out what’s what. I’ve seen archeologists digging and sifting, etc., but this is a first for me. I truly appreciate being able to see this part of the process. Thank you.
It has to be amazing being around so many knowledgeable people from the same community and hearing everyone’s theories and perspectives. Great video as always.
It is extremely interesting to watch geology experts doing their thing. An informative and educational experience. I love it. Thank you Nick for videoing this for us. =)
I am a bit late to the "party" so to say but......What an amazing amount of Geologists to have in such a small area concentrating on the same thing, amazing. Well done sir. So what do we call a group of Geologists together? I would love to answer that but i have no idea, but other viewers and yourself will have some really good names , of that i am sure. Continue the good work, we love you.
The level of the conversations is amazing, and not easily followed. It occurs that either nothing much could happen from the examination of these exposures, or they could lead to new studies of thses areas.
What? Glenn teases us with the "boulder" that Bretz saw at the RR tracks and, oh nooooo, this wonderful video ended. I hope, Nick it will be in the next video. This was terrific, thank you all! Cheers from Fern in MN Oh, I typed too soon, here's the RR bridge and there's the boulder. Will there be more from this last area? Thanks again!
We live north of Spokane on a property that has a cliff filled w/ shells of mussels that's at the 3000' level, 3 mi from the Columbia as the crow flies. Very interesting area.
42:30 you can also have a River or a subterranean outlet from a glacier transport striated coasts that were part of an older till…. There were 2.5 million years of ice ages before the last two…
🤣at 1:55, before Nick had even mentioned who was along on the outing, I could tell by the aggressive raking with his hand hoe, that that was Skye Cooley on the slope! God would I have loved to be standing in the middle of that group. Thanks for giving me the next best thing NIck! ❤❤
This was excellent. I am quite curious to see what their conclusions were on the 2nd stop where they just kept digging. Just by looking at things, there were at least 4-5 different beds of silt deposits below that dark clayish mixed layer. Could it be fluvial deposits from the original Columbia Basin before the basalt layer? But then again, if it was fluvial, the river would need to have been moving a lot slower for it to have sedimentation deposition like that right? ..Or a larger basin (thinking Mississippi River basin) but on a smaller scale and a much much slower flow rate? Or could it even be early glacial outwash with the water moving at a slow rate, which would loosely deposit stones throughout within the stratified layers right?? ...soo many questions. 🤔
Thank you Nick, even this Fort girl can understand geology in whatever teaching model you use. It really is something when car sick Jean is confident at this level of understanding. Love this. (Just remember Fort thought Trendsetters bonkers in their Riverwalk fiasco.) If the world was flat the tourists would be all at the edge taking pictures. 😉
We are looking at soil here of great age? I’ve had time to contemplate on this video. Has any of the great geologists there come up with any ideas of this area? Very interesting. Rocks recovered in this stuff was of great variation I have noticed. I saw rounded smooth rocks to sharp jagged to crumbly ones that could be broken apart. Was this an ancient river bank soil? What would cause the clay? More questions
Interesting. You were mentioning the clay in the Cheney area with interest. Does clay deposits signify something that you could speak more about? Mostly south of US 2 near Reardan we have some heavy clay deposits that don't seem to be in the Palouse.
Love all of the episodes but this one was awesome with all the geologists! Sky digging so precise! I do have a question about the flour soil. Does it still occur or is what is out in Washington state all old?
Nick, @31:48 Could that old deposit continue down and be mostly inaccessible below grade without machinery and in fact be the expected size for an old glacial till deposit, but is partially buried by younger deposits? It's perplexing how possibly "Blue" or older glacial till can be dismissed so easily just by what is readily observed with a scraper, but without a more robust effort. Did anyone there have enough interest to probe further?
We (our glacial erratics group) have spent much time looking at the evidence of the glaciation in our area, the Midlands of England. The surface and deep has been so disturbed by quarrying, mining and building the glacial till (as used to be called boulder clay) is much disturbed. However, many large glacial erratics were not so east to move and we have researched these boulders, as have others from the 1890s, as proof of the extent of glaciation in the English Midlands.
@@Poppageno Yes I could see how the burrow date would just give you the date of the burrow which isn't maybe geologically interesting but, since they seemed convinced of the great age of the layers they were looking at, the 60,000-year limit on C-14 dating might be a reason?
04:56 I’m just watching The discussion about it not being till because it’s not compact enough. I’ve been out exploring in my neck of the woods, The Yukon, and looking at what local geologist have identified as Till, and it looks a lot like what the till from various of Nick’s videos where whoever is on the field is pointing it out. Unsorted, with large and small coasts mixed with silt, clay. Everything. But the stuff around here is quite soft. Falls apart easily, like it is in this video. I’ve brought this up with a number of geologists from the Yukon geological Survey and they all assure me that it’s till. I’m confused because I’m almost all the videos on this channel, the Till is Hard. Very hard. Maybe this is the wrong place put this out into the universe and hope for a response, but I really am curious about different types of till and the conditions that lead to them. As far as large jagged clasts versus rounded ones, I can make sense of that. One travelled further. But the hardness I’m having trouble figuring out what co dictions dictate that. Dries out quicker? Moist environment. Maybe something to do with permafrost. I know that plays a big part up here. We still have a lot of permafrost in areas
Video ends at railroad crossing that looks more like till. Old weathered fluvial seds mantled by early (& late?) loess = Sediments of Bovill correlative. Apparently with some 'blue' or 'red' ? flood margin sediment on top.
Well what fun! Seven or eight geologist - - - ten or twelve opinions! By the way, have you loooked into Skye Cooley's background? He certainly seems to be part Badger (Go Wisconsin) !
An honor to call these geologists friends. Thank you Glenn and Nick for making it happen!
Very interesting watching you pros proving Bretz right or wrong good stuff.Thanks for sharing
I am a simple man. A new video from Nick comes out and I click 'play'.
Like 👍 and play ▶️
Right there with you!! Love how he “teaches” without even breaking a sweat. Such a joy to watch and learn.
What a treat to see these knowledgeable people in the field, looking, discussing, digging, thinking out loud. A rare opportunity to see them at work.
Thank you Nick (and the group of workers & Glenn)!
I love it when the pros say “I don’t know”. Lots of questions to answer.
Seeing these experts work in the field is priceless.
Seeing a gathering of such luminaries makes my eyes water a bit. Just fantastic to witness you all in one place, chasing leads in a reeeeally cold case!
Nick, there are no words to express how exciting it is to listen to and watch this interaction. If you have any further video of this day's outing, please post it! This is field science at its best! Thanks so much!
I love watching things like this, seeing the scientific process at work with on-site observations! Thanks for posting this fascinating video.
What an exciting collection of geologists.A very enjoyable video, thank you.
That was like watching the best rock band in the world. Love from Australia.
Absolutely thrilling to see all of you visiting Bretz sites together! I became a bit emotional watching this. These geologists field trips visiting sites and hashing over ideas are my absolute favorite, and this one tops them all. Thank you Nick for bringing us along, thank you Glen for helping put this together, and most of all thank you to all the geologists who participated. Love this!!.
The key Ice Age geologists are all there, and Glenn!✨😉 What a fun time!!😃✨💙💞💗
Absolutely! That is a lot of brainpower on the hoof, thank you all for the gripping analysis that looked like a great party, Skye's canooooe 🛶 had me dying 💀I love you all
I'd be so starstruck hanging out with such rockstar geologists. Lucky man Nick.
This is helping me so much believe it or not. I grew up around the Canadian river in Texas. I saw when I was a kid, the flood waters of the Canadian sometimes a mile wide in places. Thank you again for this video.
Really enjoyed this. Wish it was longer. Still undergoing withdrawal from the ending of A-Z. Thanks to the crew for undertaking this two-day adventure. Isn’t it amazing that Bretz found these places.
Vic Baker's analysis is brilliant as he speaks at the Mondovi cut regarding what we see, how it formed, the minds that came before, and the progress of scientific investigation. So cool.
Wow Nick what an amazing experience you have brought us. Thank You and Gang. I’m tingling from the rolling thought process of all these Genius Minds working cohesive together. Just Simply Amazing guys!!
Once again Nick, your bringing GSA to the garden variety geologist is great. Listening to these guys think out loud is so worthy of contemplation; and to remember that knowing the extent of the glacial ice can influence knowing the extent of beds that then inform economic geologists thinking. Thanks.
Thanks Glenn and Nick for making this happen. It's great seeing this 'outcrop' of geologist in action.
So, Bretz (an others) were seeing something and calling it till. There folks are seeing something, but it doesn't fit neatly into known categories/processes/etc. But it's old (pre-Wisconsin). Interesting.
I have never clicked on a video so fast! The cliffhanger tension is real, I was about to grab a shovel drive over there and bother some folks 😛
Didn't expect Jerome to be the "no till buzz kill" in this group 😉. Seriously, absolutely fascinating to see such a knowledgeable group in the field working over the stones.
These folks are like kids on a field trip! This is a really fun video.
Really love your educational posts
What a gathering ! Listening to them was not only treasure trove of knowledge but also entertaining. Thanks Nick for brightening my day.🐻
Excellent field trip to follow up on Bretz's journeys. Great to see so many generation of geologist all working together.
It’s what I would call a backwater area, a collector area that’s not agitated very often. Not disturbed much… a dumping ground.
Thank you, I enjoy these “out and about” investigations so much…. Sky and Jerome ❤
It’s amazing what a single person can invoke, to see so many skilled talented people curiously looking into this problem, interacting and bouncing ideas off each other is so interesting!
Glenn has dedicated an incredible amount of effort to this community, and it’s truly remarkable to witness him taking the lead in field exploration with his expertise on the Bretz sites. It’s a blessing for us to have him, and it must be a gratifying experience for Glenn to see his investment in Google Earth pay off. Thank you, Nick.
This video should be two hours long. One of the best you have made.
I work with Jim, Lydia, and Ralph. I am not a geologist, I am their IT specialist, I work in the USGS Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics office in Spokane. I always find it fascinating to see them in the field working, I usually only get to see them when they're having computer problems. Thanks for the insight.
It is a great gift to eavesdrop on the geologists' discussions! I love hearing them thoroughly question what they're seeing. The whole process is interesting.
This is amazing! To get the specialists AND the words of Bettz, is really great.
I really appreciated Karin Siglock! The deeper plates are so complicated! I watch you on tv RUclips so I’m not online during your live videos.
Oh to be a fly in a room full of geologists talking glacial till! Great mic work!! Thanks Nick.
Thanks for bringing us along, Nick. 😊
This was so cool…to see geologists working in the field, figuring out what’s what. I’ve seen archeologists digging and sifting, etc., but this is a first for me. I truly appreciate being able to see this part of the process. Thank you.
This video made my weekend spectacular. Thank you so much.
❤❤❤. Thank you, Nick and all you brainiacs.
So cool!! Thank you for sharing
This is science in action by world class geologists. Very Cool.
It has to be amazing being around so many knowledgeable people from the same community and hearing everyone’s theories and perspectives. Great video as always.
There was a fair amount of agree to disagree
Love Vic Bakers ideas and observations about shelving ice. Absolutely smashing. Looking fwd to the RR bridge crossing in that day's pm.
Thank you for letting us in on this!!
I have been looking forward to this since you started looking at this in depth. Thanks for putting all this together Nick!
This is great! Thank you, Mr. Zentner.
This was awesome! Thank you Nick for bringing us along!!
It is extremely interesting to watch geology experts doing their thing. An informative and educational experience. I love it. Thank you Nick for videoing this for us. =)
Was this fun for anyone else!? Interesting conversations, I like hearing different perspectives.. But thank you for sharing this video
Many thanks to Glenn too
Wooooooo new nick happy memorial day weekend, fellow Americans and a good normal weekend to the rest of the world.
I love watching Skye going nuts clearing off a surface and getting a clean face to view.
Probably good he doesn’t have his own backhoe company. 😊
One heck of a group! Pretty darn cool as Glenn likes to say.
Superb video - and would have been great just to watch this excellent group in action
I am a bit late to the "party" so to say but......What an amazing amount of Geologists to have in such a small area concentrating on the same thing, amazing. Well done sir. So what do we call a group of Geologists together? I would love to answer that but i have no idea, but other viewers and yourself will have some really good names , of that i am sure. Continue the good work, we love you.
Love this kind of stuff Nick more please
I am thinking of moving to this area.. I love these videos. Been watching for a long time. Love you Nick.
Much appreciation in seeing the discovery process…
I love this video. The mystery in the soil and possible explanations. Any chance of a follow-up?
Real excitement to have this crew avaliable. 😊
Enjoyed the field trip, thanks!
Skye starts digging things start happening!! Cool stuff!!! Wish I was there..,
The level of the conversations is amazing, and not easily followed. It occurs that either nothing much could happen from the examination of these exposures, or they could lead to new studies of thses areas.
What? Glenn teases us with the "boulder" that Bretz saw at the RR tracks and, oh nooooo, this wonderful video ended. I hope, Nick it will be in the next video. This was terrific, thank you all! Cheers from Fern in MN Oh, I typed too soon, here's the RR bridge and there's the boulder. Will there be more from this last area? Thanks again!
We live north of Spokane on a property that has a cliff filled w/ shells of mussels that's at the 3000' level, 3 mi from the Columbia as the crow flies. Very interesting area.
It might have been interesting to have had a view of the terrain over the top of the cut they are looking at.
My hard pan till has 3-5 foot diameter Douglas Firs growing through it and other goodies from Canada.
Classic road cut field stop, clawing for a fresh surface, everyone staring it done.
If I were driving by, I would stop!
What a geology treasure, the people 😊
Wow, what a team and to be included, fantastic. Thank you.
42:30 you can also have a River or a subterranean outlet from a glacier transport striated coasts that were part of an older till…. There were 2.5 million years of ice ages before the last two…
Look, a herd of geologists in their native habitat.
That's hilarious! Good job!
🤣at 1:55, before Nick had even mentioned who was along on the outing, I could tell by the aggressive raking with his hand hoe, that that was Skye Cooley on the slope! God would I have loved to be standing in the middle of that group. Thanks for giving me the next best thing NIck! ❤❤
Love how Sky Cooley excavates a big heart emoji at 49:55. Seriously tho, it's great seeing Geologists at work !
damn, that was interesting, to see the minds working.
This was excellent. I am quite curious to see what their conclusions were on the 2nd stop where they just kept digging. Just by looking at things, there were at least 4-5 different beds of silt deposits below that dark clayish mixed layer. Could it be fluvial deposits from the original Columbia Basin before the basalt layer? But then again, if it was fluvial, the river would need to have been moving a lot slower for it to have sedimentation deposition like that right? ..Or a larger basin (thinking Mississippi River basin) but on a smaller scale and a much much slower flow rate? Or could it even be early glacial outwash with the water moving at a slow rate, which would loosely deposit stones throughout within the stratified layers right?? ...soo many questions. 🤔
The scientific process IN ACTION!
Thank you Nick, even this Fort girl can understand geology in whatever teaching model you use. It really is something when car sick Jean is confident at this level of understanding. Love this. (Just remember Fort thought Trendsetters bonkers in their Riverwalk fiasco.) If the world was flat the tourists would be all at the edge taking pictures. 😉
We are looking at soil here of great age? I’ve had time to contemplate on this video. Has any of the great geologists there come up with any ideas of this area? Very interesting. Rocks recovered in this stuff was of great variation I have noticed. I saw rounded smooth rocks to sharp jagged to crumbly ones that could be broken apart. Was this an ancient river bank soil? What would cause the clay? More questions
I am now shiver listen to Glenn...geologist seing with double attention what Bretz saw
You lead a rich and exciting life!
Interesting. You were mentioning the clay in the Cheney area with interest. Does clay deposits signify something that you could speak more about? Mostly south of US 2 near Reardan we have some heavy clay deposits that don't seem to be in the Palouse.
big howdy from Montreal
Love all of the episodes but this one was awesome with all the geologists! Sky digging so precise! I do have a question about the flour soil. Does it still occur or is what is out in Washington state all old?
Nick,
@31:48 Could that old deposit continue down and be mostly inaccessible below grade without machinery and in fact be the expected size for an old glacial till deposit, but is partially buried by younger deposits? It's perplexing how possibly "Blue" or older glacial till can be dismissed so easily just by what is readily observed with a scraper, but without a more robust effort. Did anyone there have enough interest to probe further?
It's an interesting insight into how an experienced geologist eyes up an unknown and hedges bets with colleagues present...
We (our glacial erratics group) have spent much time looking at the evidence of the glaciation in our area, the Midlands of England. The surface and deep has been so disturbed by quarrying, mining and building the glacial till (as used to be called boulder clay) is much disturbed. However, many large glacial erratics were not so east to move and we have researched these boulders, as have others from the 1890s, as proof of the extent of glaciation in the English Midlands.
This was so interesting! Would have loved to tag along.
at 51 mins they find that fluffy grey stuff that looks like mold. Lydia says their is a piece of wood in it. Can we get that wood carbon dated?
also they found charcoal if I heard right, however carbon-14 goes back only 60,000 years unf
@@knutanderswik7562 I was surprised no-one was interested in the charcoal.
@@Poppageno Yes I could see how the burrow date would just give you the date of the burrow which isn't maybe geologically interesting but, since they seemed convinced of the great age of the layers they were looking at, the 60,000-year limit on C-14 dating might be a reason?
Way to go, Glenn!
04:56 I’m just watching The discussion about it not being till because it’s not compact enough. I’ve been out exploring in my neck of the woods, The Yukon, and looking at what local geologist have identified as Till, and it looks a lot like what the till from various of Nick’s videos where whoever is on the field is pointing it out. Unsorted, with large and small coasts mixed with silt, clay. Everything. But the stuff around here is quite soft. Falls apart easily, like it is in this video. I’ve brought this up with a number of geologists from the Yukon geological Survey and they all assure me that it’s till. I’m confused because I’m almost all the videos on this channel, the Till is Hard. Very hard. Maybe this is the wrong place put this out into the universe and hope for a response, but I really am curious about different types of till and the conditions that lead to them. As far as large jagged clasts versus rounded ones, I can make sense of that. One travelled further. But the hardness I’m having trouble figuring out what co dictions dictate that. Dries out quicker? Moist environment. Maybe something to do with permafrost. I know that plays a big part up here. We still have a lot of permafrost in areas
Way cool. A bit jealous that it seems to be so much cooler there than here in Missouri.😊
Distinguished scientists lick rocks. This is the good stuff!
Trying to follow along on Google Maps. I wish you could provide coordinates.
See link above.
@@glenncruickshank2859 What link? I don't see any link with coordinates.
www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1IEwqKas2rcxTqdEdzJf6pXo_kZ52sOU&usp=sharing Each pin is one of the stops.
Getting them all together is a Hoot , meaning this is pretty cool Yeh they are all there including Jerome
Video ends at railroad crossing that looks more like till. Old weathered fluvial seds mantled by early (& late?) loess = Sediments of Bovill correlative. Apparently with some 'blue' or 'red' ? flood margin sediment on top.
Nick when is the next upcoming glaciar maxima? and what stage are we in currently?
Are there or were there any acidy Rhyolite volcano around there. At that time it was to acidy
I love smart people.
Those glacial tills can be found on the southern edge of Liberty Lake. Go to Liberty lake park! I lived there. I've seen them myself.
Show me some time!
Well what fun! Seven or eight geologist - - - ten or twelve opinions! By the way, have you loooked into Skye Cooley's background? He certainly seems to be part Badger (Go Wisconsin) !