Fun-sized Columns on Babcock Bench
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- Опубликовано: 20 май 2022
- CWU's Nick Zentner offers a variety platter on Babcock Bench at the mouth of Potholes Coulee. Lodgestick video: • Lodgestick Bluff with ...
Columns site: goo.gl/maps/dZGAv9vCsFu5cxGz5
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Professor. Please please please just do what you like. I can't speak for everyone but I know I for one really enjoy you doing all of it. I know a few youtubers that quit because they started doing what the viewer wanted and they didn't like doing that stuff so they quit . I love that area and will never be able to visit , so please do what makes you happy and we`ll keep watching! Thank you sir
"Polished lectures", backyard series, classroom series, impromptu nature walks, field studies with Geologists... I'm down for all of it, and more. I just appreciate the time, energy and knowledge you're willing to share with us.
Thanx, Nick! 😍🤩
When I was in third grade in California, our teacher Mrs. Beatty was a geologist that settled down and married a rodeo bronc rider turned rodeo clown. 2 weeks after school started she and her husband took 3rd,4th,5th graders in school buses up into the Sierras on a field trip to Devils Post Pile National Monument. I was so mesmerized by the columns as she described the process that formed them. Her husband took a pick hammer and played them like a xylophone. Each one had a different sound. She was a great teacher and a wonderful person and I always remember her when watching your videos. Her favorite spot on earth was Dry Falls as she grew up near Orondo / Waterville, she had home movies and lots of pictures of the Dry Falls precipice. I visited that area several times in my travels and always thought of her. Thank you for what you do.
The field trips are important Nick. Taking your camera out into the places that would take awhile for us to get to or to inspire future field trips to the places less traveled is helpful and very educational. Don't stop the field trips. Being from somewhere else, I've lived in Washington the last 45 yrs and never knew the story behind the Big Black Boring Rock until about 15 yrs ago as most of the locals that grew up in Spokane didn't even know about their own state. They knew Mt Rainier, Adams, Hood,. Baker, St Helens were all volcanos but that's about it. There wasn't a whole lot of public lectures out there until you started filming your lectures from Ellensburg as public outreach for CWU. Now I refer people to your lectures when they ask. thanks.
I concur with Seriously? Really? Nick.
For, possibly, disparate reasons. My current state of health and mobility makes it difficult to walk 🚶♂️ very far at any great speed. Your trips into the back of beyond (he he) is a way for me to continue my education and enjoyment of the state I was born into. Please, don't stop now!
Holy smokes, this is crazy. I was in this exact place on Friday as well, maybe moments before you. Those rocks you show at 6:45, I climbed on top and took pictures. Those were my boot prints on the trail. FYI - I work at the vineyard up on the bluff and when I get a chance I explore the area.
Nick, what you are doing is very important! I am an amateur, yet I have never stopped learning. Geology has been my passion most of my life. No degrees, but a life long interest and journey in learning. I have so enjoyed your field trips, seeing the rocks through your eyes and sometimes through the eyes of your students. I also love the lectures in your classroom. You are the consummate educator. I no longer live in WA state, but you have given me new insight into my home state and its geology and I will be forever grateful. Don't stop.
I have watched your videos over the past few months and I have learnt more than I have ever seen before. I cannot thankyou enough. Don't ever change your explorations and the way you conduct your filming and education. Thankyou again
I love the "works in progress" the most real the most raw. Thank you to those who allowed 'us' to take a peak. So many thanks.
The field trip format allows me to travel without leaving home. It's very satisfying. Thank you for all your efforts.
These impromptu sessions are very important. You are reaching so many more people this way. Thank you for all you do.
I, for one, appreciate the 'voyage of discovery' process; also appreciate your humble "I don't knows" now and again. . thx!
I started watching the downtown lectures and really enjoyed them but I feel like I'm there hiking where I'll never be able to actually go with these casual videos. Thanks for letting me tag along
Nick…I am a total amateur and 70 years old. I not only enjoy everything, all the styles from free-lancing to Geol 101, I ALWAYS learn. The free-lance feels like I am actually out in the field on an interpretive walk…and I am in Western Mass so it is all so new. You could read the phone book (😳what did you say) and it would be great! Please never stop! I would be out taking classes if the commute weren’t such a killer. Love you too and good bye.
It's always (!) a pleasure to find a new video: learning about spots to enjoy, and areas with big geological conundrums, meeting educators, hearing about new field research and theories, being introduced to those making history....it's a privilege to see into this fascinating world. Thank you.
This commentator said it better than I could. Just thankyou for hours and hours loneliness fighting learning.
Maintaining academic research integrity and simultaneously fostering trust by sharing preliminary hypotheses with the wider world is a noble deed.
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I like The Downtown Lecture Series format, and I also like this raw and unscripted stuff.
At 60 and not having to feel the effort of the hike, i can smell the sage and drying lichen under foot. i imagine endless hours of childish FUN in a million different worlds! Those are the coolest kid sized Basalt columns i've ever seen !:-) Thanks Dr. Z
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Totally enjoy the raw unscripted versions as well as the classroom material. Exploring ideas about geology has been rewarding for me too!
I'm sort of the antithesis of a "trained geologist," just a retired history history teacher, and at 77 (78 in August), I'm not seriously considering another career. I've learned from, and enjoyed all the platforms you've used, all the types of presentations, just because I find the subject (especially the Ice Age floods) interesting - fascinating sometimes.
I like the field trips and you go out and show us what we over the years have seen you presenting to us in the youtube classes. You are a very inspiring teacher. Thank you
I enjoy these little walks with you Nick as much as anything else! :)
Thanks Nick! Love what you're doing. I think it is extraordinary that you speak to others while midway in their work and that they would, as you say, share that with you. It really shows the comraderie between peers and is fascinating to be able to see a little into the process as it is happening. I like the unscripted excursions especially the kitchen sink ones! Keep up the good work!
Aloha, Wayne
Love that little grove of mini columns. Encountered them on a Babcock Bench traverse last spring, the area is lush and much less disturbed than other parts of the area. Folks who go visit this patch, please be mindful of not busting the biocrust and lichen communities on these rocks. Lichens grow by the millimeter and die by the foot.
As a geologist whose career has taken me away from field work, I really appreciate these videos!
I LOVE these unscripted vids! Thanks for taking us on your adventures. I appreciate all the varieties of your videos. Thanks for all you do!!
Nick-I am an avocational paleontologist but a background in geology is essential to my hobbie. Eastern Washington has some incredable vistas! So good of you to take us on yet another grand journey!
I love your lectures, but there is nothing like you talking about somethings and pointing it out right then and there. Makes 100% sense to me because I can truly visualize what you are saying.
So that’s what a coolie looks like up close. A great example of a lava flow complete with different layers. Kids would love scrambling over the mini outcropping. Thanks again Nick for an sharing this with us especially those who are living in different parts of the world and will never get to see things in the flesh.
I really enjoy the diversity of video formats on your channel. These stream of consciousness videos, the field trips with folks working something, interviews with experts, 1 part lectures, multipart lectures, etc... Just do what you enjoy and we'll be along for the ride.
Beautiful country. I can see how such an environment inspires, be it art, science, or whatever. Thanks for the hike, Nick.
Pretty cool outcrop of mini columns! Thank you for bringing us along. I enjoy all of your videos, whether they be formal presentations or impromptu field trips. Each is a learning opportunity. It's fun to learn new things.
Hello Nick. George here. I truly enjoy your humble grace and wit combined with your accumulation of intelligence. In other words, I bet it would be fun to hike and crack rocks with you. Right on, nicely done Nick.
Hello Nick Zentnerr, I was born and raised all over Washington State. Your content, all of your content is food for my soul. I have loved rocks my whole life but only as an amateur. You have opened my eyes and understanding of the rocks i played on, Thank you.
I'm paying attention to what you've got to impart, Nick, regardless of the format. There's a place for all of them -- in an auditorium, classroom, or out in the field; chalkboards, heads-up displays, videos, on-site presentations, whatever. It all works. And I think your videos promoting the Geology Dept among others IS working, as well as your own reputation and those of your colleagues in the Geology Dept. CWU owns a reputation for being one of the premier venues for the Geology field, and that is due in no small part to the work your colleagues are doing behind the chalkboards as well as your work in front of them.
Let us know when and where you're scheduling the next pop-up; wanna make sure I can get there for one of these.
Nick you're my hero!
I'm in Wenatchee. Stuck on bed rest this weekend after knee surgery. And I'm not taking it well. I want to be outside. But your outside is even better than my outside. Thank god for field study! 😍
I SO wish you'd come here to study Saddlerock, Castlerock, and Rooster Comb.
I, for one, LOVE this kind of video.
I have to confess, I left school after 10th grade, and only got a G.E.D.
I have watched endless hours of your university lectures. You are a phenomenal teacher.
These field videos, however, let us fully experience your hidden personality. It is delightful to see you get frustrated in the classroom. I love your chalkboard maps. I get a kick out of watching you try to get your sketch just right. The whole time, I'm thinking, "okay, I follow you. Yes I can totally see that on Google maps in my mind." When you're trying to stay on the teaching plan, it makes me wish I could hear you just speak freely. I watched your videos last summer. But you seem a bit more cheeky this year.
I am praying for you to come across some Nobel prize winning discovery!
6:10...... When you mentioned Quincy, I REALLY think you need to come look at East Wenatchee. I live on the west side of the river.
I was just sitting at the North of town 2 days ago, looking towards Badger Mtn, and out towards Waterville/ Orondo... I think you'll find that East Wenatchee is right in line with where you were yesterday and today.
I think you might find tootsie rolls around Saddlerock.
And I think just north of where you are, there used to be a ridge that extended across the Columbia, to connect with Rooster Comb.
Yesterday, I met another Washingtonian on our local news Facebook page.
Your video yesterday came up in my comments. He said he'd have to try to find the video. I shared it to him. He commented today, that he had spent the day watching your videos.
You will SURELY inspire people either with zero exposure, to become interested. And those who are already interested, to dive head first into the rabbit hole.
I don't have any interest in ever being published. I hate money. And I'm a hardcore introvert. I'd rather just spend my entire life watching and waiting, and have someone else validate or refute everything that I hypothesize.
To credit CWU, my son was a tech major. He graduated high school in 2015 with college transfer credits. He was working on enrolling in CWU for 2016. Autumn. He passed away in September 2016 from cardiomyopathy.
I am really grateful that I found your videos, because it's probably the closest my son will ever get to his dream. 💙 PLEASE never stop being YOU. I am unemployed due to disability. Everything is about looking for new direction.
Just one suggestion.
I've seen your videos so many times, I could pick you out of a lineup. But for those who have just discovered you, it would be delightful if you started the first couple seconds of the video by showing your congenial face. A stranger might just walk up to you in a car park somewhere and say, "hey, I saw you on RUclips!" 😊
I find it so amazing how the columns are hexagonal like that, naturally. You're right, Nick, no one else brings the regular Joe into the magical works of geology like you. Make the synapses fire up. THANK YOU FOR SHARING, please don't ever stop😎
I alaways love these walks of yours because there are many of us who will never be able to visit these places but we already have "with you". Thank you so much.
This was so cool I didn't realize the "white petrified tree" was so close to the West Bar ripples and the amphitheatre etc... neat! The fun size columns look a bit like the Giants Causeway steps in Ireland on the edge of the land/Atlantic ocean
I really appreciate your approach to the field trips, and the pop ups, as well as your classroom lectures.
not exactly sure where you were going with the comments about what we viewers think of your varied efforts to bring us geology. But I will offer that you are fabulously effective in bringing geology down to earth in understandable terms for us ordinary joes. None of us ordinary types are going to hunt up and read or view published materials about geology because it is invariably in technical jargon we cannot understand and frankly it is to us dry as dust. You are the intermediary, bringing information to us in a way we can understand and it is truly entertaining. Most of us can't get out to these locations nor attend your classroom and lecture hall events so production of videos for us to watch is wonderfully beneficial to us all. I guess it goes without saying that the many varieties in the way you share geology with us keeps it interesting, it promotes an appetite for more of your wonderfully gifted work. We are blessed to have you. I want to add that what you do, the energetic and enthusiastic sharing should be more on the minds of other geologists. I sense there is an aversion to public access, a closed and competitive environment among geologists to the extent the public is really being shut out. It ought not to be a "private" domain for these professionals, after all much of what they do, their life's work is bought and paid for by public funds paying their salaries and financing the institutions in which they pursue their work.
Thank you so much for sharing these videos, and commentary. I studied Geology at WWU over 20 years ago, so these have been incredibly insightful and a great refresher. I'm reminded of all the reasons I love geology. I told my family that this content is everything I wish I would have had as a student. Your videos are the best to watch!
I do like the polished lectures but I love these field trips! They let me see places I'll probably never. The panorama views help me to see the massive scales so much better than pictures. I enjoy listening to the thought process In all honesty, I'll be absorbing the information in any format you choose. Thank you to you and all your guests for taking personal time to help educate so many of us.
I just want to say I absolutely Love these field trips. I am making my overnight rockhounding and geology field trip list and they include many of these areas THANK YOU!
Nick if your having fun were having fun, I for one really appreciate the effort you put into these videos, Thanks.
Yes! Loved this video and all of it, please do continue doing it your way; from a senior citizen who enjoys learning and just discovered geology: the bedrock natural science! thank you so much. Actually, because of your videos, I will visit Eastern WA to see some of these things, and that
brings beneficial economic returns to the towns there.
You be you and do what you do Nick. Thanks for teaching us.
When I discovered your videos a few years ago, I wished so badly that I would have studied geology and not accounting. I took geology 101 with a phenomenal instructor, and the field has kept my attention ever since. I've invested too much time and money into my accounting career, so I'll live vicariously through your videos!
What causes the columns and only feet away the basalt is in millions of pieces? What beautiful landscape. Colours, textures. What an amazing walk.
I’m such a fan of all of your videos and lectures. Over the past year I’ve learned so much from you. Thank you so much!!!
I absolutely LOVE the balance of casual and professional video settings, just hope the value of the polished videos and effort involved is still worth the time and devotion, I think those reach more people and love to repeatedly rewatch Downtown Geology Lecture Series. Those polished videos have so much Enthusiasm and dense systematic information, its very easy to share them with newer people and see them easily captivated by the performance and ideas that come thick and fast.
I feel like I am hiking with you. Thank you for explaining to me what I am seeing.
Love the current ripples. Giant ones especially so. Lodge stick was very clear. 5x5 in Philly.
"If I ever get back to the downtown lectures".... PLEASE, I know you did what you had to do to teach your classes thru the virus but your lecture hall presentations are THE BEST.
My first real introduction to geology - despite YEARS of looking at it and loving it - was a book that said that in the desert you can see the bones of the land. WOW! That really hit home for me. I love your pop up geologies and your going out into the field geologies. Partly because I'm now too disabled to hike far and mostly because I'm in Texas! Yes, we can see the bones here in places. In fact, just west of Austin the Hill Country allows it and it is an easy drive. Most of it is private land, but looking from the road is allowed.
Not heard of the " toothpick" fossilized log on those cliffs. Thanks for revealing that. My 1846, 47, 52 and 53 Oregon Territory pioneer family must have passed that way. Interesting to think all of those people may have gazed upon that vista. Thanks!
I really enjoy your more formal lectures, but I also really enjoy being exposed to how scientists work. The sausages and the sausage making are both interesting. And the field trips are great, because, as much as I love a good chalk board lecture (go chalk!), getting eyes on examples of what’s being discussed is hugely valuable.
Don't let the critics and the naysayers push you into making choices that run counter to you instincts. What you do has value. Furthermore, what you do is excellent. Do you have all the answers all the time? Most definitely not, but you bravely let us know your limits and that is part of the fun of the "journey". Damn it man I don't need to listen to a know-it-all. Your interest in educating yourself is inspiring and should be a work-in-process performance piece that inspires future students to want to "figure it out". I like your polished lectures too but I don't have a preference. At the core of things I think I share something with many of your viewers I like the man behind and in front of the camera. That is ALL your FAULT. I guess there are worse things than being likable. Nick, its obvious to MOST; YOU are the reason these things are so successful.
So glad I chanced across 2 excellent geology channels today! Thanks for sharing.
I love these video I have watch you public lecture they all are wonderful. Please keep them coming. Thanks for taking the time to make them.
Field trip with Nick! Thanks, Nick! I love having you do the walking as I can't do it anymore but you're showing us what it would be like if we were there. :D
Thanks Nick. I’m in Spain right now - homesick for these views, being familiar with them. But more than anything else - I imagine the smell of the sagebrush… ummm heaven!
Nick it's not a matter of how much but how dry the geology content was for the uninitiated novice, which is what makes your presentations so valuable to to the demographic you created. Thank you for the exposure, from me and I'm sure the townies that have been following you lecturers since 2009.
Once again thank you for taking me along on your scenic treks. I regret I am to ancient to take these hikes any longer, but I certainly enjoy tagging along in your back back!
Love the fadeout ending!
Feel like your editing skills have been getting a bit more polished over the last two years for some crazy reason
*insert sarcastic smile here*
Thank you for a nice field trip video. I like these on-the-fly videos because it is a good way of seeing geology from another continent ( I am from Norway) and it puts what you read in text books and papers in context. Keep up the good work!!!
PLEASE don’t stop making these!!! I can’t access the places you go and the people you talk to bc of brain injuries and poverty so it means a lot that you’re out there making these areas accessible. I grew up during the realization that plate tectonics is real and hearing stories of the Missoula flood from my childhood back in the 60s, and as I’ve aged the scope of the matter has become magnitudes larger and it’s pretty clear there aren’t enough people working on our geologic history in the minutia that brings true clarity. speaking of which, the lower Columbia seems to be greatly neglected in the Missoula flood story. I think I finally got a partial grip on the geology and some of the tectonics thanks to your awesome videos, but I’m bothered by the dearth of data on the lower Columbia flood.
my kids and I just bought a parcel of land and I plan to map the soil layers when we start excavating to build, because I feel like the floodwaters had to have been higher than accepted in the approach to Longview (DISCLOSURE: I AM NOT A GEOLOGIST I’M A ROCKHOUND SO COULD BE FULL OF IT) and even west of Longview, after looking at LIDAR of the area of the Clatskanie river. if I find erratics I’ll do my best to catalogue them (it will take 2-3 years before I can start digging. it’s pretty remote for being a stone’s throw from the Columbia river).
the parcel is in a creek valley not far from the headwaters but it’s got a lot of sediment in it. I haven’t paid as much attention to uplift as I have subduction in my life, so it’s not easy for me to understand. and here’s where one of the things you brought up comes in: I generally have to wait until things are published and hope that they aren’t behind a paywall! so if there is nothing published about the typical shapes of uplifted stream valleys, I have nothing to go on (I’m not sure yet if there is, I just got to this point in this journey). I just have great difficulty believing the floodwaters didn’t overtop the coastal mountains when low spots were encountered, and I’m also having difficulty finding much that addresses the ice-age coastline as being a component in backing up water. maybe I’m nuts! but my curiosity is making me nuts! GEOLOGY IS AWESOME!!!
P.S.: I like both of your presentation formats. The field trips are a great introduction to be able to visualize what you are talking about. I'm 81 and would love to take your class, but no. 1 - don't want to take space from a young person looking to make a career, and no. 2 - am half way across the country from WA. Soo, your you tube presentations are both instructional and enjoyable.
Nick, I Love what you are doing here in the field and bridging the gap with the boots on the ground people. This is the nuts and bolts man. I would never get a chance to observe something like this if it was not for your efforts. For that thank you and all the other geologists that are willing.
The field trip videos are the best. Thank you.
I love the formal lectures, and I love these informal trips very much as well. Keep them up!
I can only speak for myself, so,
I am perfectly pleased to watch and listen to what you have to show,
whenever and however, you want to show it,
formally *and* informally
We love the field vids and also the ones with the classes out in the field. We just really love it all.
I love your field trips. Now I am retiredfrom a a lifetime of writing computer programs I can devote time to investigating our local glacial erratic boulders and the Ordivician and Silurian !
Love the raw, unscripted, impromptu, totally connected format but you are a successful communicator in either theater so it's all good. Thanks!
Thank you for the walk along Babcock Bench. Beautiful.
What? No rattlesnakes? No ground squirrels? Nice walk in the park, Nick. Thank you for these.
I really enjoy the field trips, i am a very visual learner so i find it much easier to understand
You really nailed the zoomed in video of the petrified tree! Good job Nick!
I love your videos. I’ve never had a formal education on geology but am fascinated with it. I spend a lot of time in the outdoors and constantly look at rocks and geological features and try to imagine what, how or why. Im in central Pa on the edge of the Appalachian plateau and the ridge and valley formations. Blows my mind that these mountains may have been as high as the Himalayans.
Amazing. The patterns all over the place...wow. I'm interested in what you have to tell us..and show us. Love being in nature, listening to your footsteps. Ever since I read about the Ice Age floods, it took hold of me. Wanting to know more. I just kept thinking...'can you even imagine what that looked like'? And you're showing me what happened after it passed through.
Thanks for sharing your efforts and insight, I wouldn’t miss it for the world; now that’s some paradox.🤔
I'm not a geologist or even a scientist but I love these musings on geologic history and I love your interest in other scientific disciplines (like biology). Your curiosity is inspiring, Nick.
I can only speak for myself, and at 66 years of age, but I enjoy a bit of both styles you've done over the years. Sure, the "Nick on the Rocks" series, and "2 Minute Geology" have to be scripted, and that's a great choice for that program. But, the idea of being a "fly on the wall" as you, and others go through the learning process is a great thing to see, too.
More like, a petrified tree on the wall 😂
I appreciate you these videos your posting sharing your work and discoveries as they happen. I can see and hear the passion you have for your work. Keep up the work and keep doing what you’re doing. Look forward to more. Subscribed
Please don't give up on this format, it gives those of us who can no longer venture out in person, a chance to feel like we are trouping along with you. Great video.
Thoroughly enjoy these georambles! They make me wish I’d had a teacher with your style and passion to guide my formal geological education - now long ago (and far away)… Still and all, with your help, the education continues! Thank you.
Cute! Washington has it's own mini version of Giant's Causeway! Wonder how many local rock groups have taken band photos on those....😉🎵🎶
Thanks, Nick for another fun geohike! Am enjoying all of your vids, but especially the ones with fellow scientists out in the field! Keep following your muse! I haven't seen a dud video yet, even the ones with tech problems. If nothing else, as a former film student, even your goofs to me are informative!
They would be cool to see on a record album!
I love the pace of your outdoor hike commentary. I hike myself, and since I have been watching your videos and become intrigued by geology, I look around me while I am hiking at the landscape, informing my gaze with a book on the local geology and stuff I see from you and others online. It makes my exercise also an enriching intellectual experience.
Thanks! I hadn't seen that area since the late '60s. Glorious!
Good walking with you. I appreciate the last two episodes, being able to see field work being done demonstrates how the mind of a geologist works. The presentation of final works leave out the fact gathering, hypothesis building and testing process.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!! I Enjoy every second of what ya do!! It’s important and meaningful work!!
I like both your polished lectures and the raw field talks!
So i presume that these columns are what is left after the Ice age floods went through here? Obviously so much more was there before the floods. Has anyone looked into the pre Ice age floods to evaluate the position/elevation of the land at that time and has anyone done a representation in 3d animation to show so? I am an Englishman living in the Netherlands, anything over 50m is a mountain...I wish there were more "clones" of you working Worldwide on each individuals topographical area. Your work and your Videos are appreciated Worldwide Mr Zentner.
The Ice Age floods passed right by your nose dude.
What do you think created the English Channel?
You are a great teacher with a love of geology, you pass the research of others so we can understand. Keep making videos and we will keep watching. I am looking forward to next winter and BAJA TO BC, I have thoughts and can't wait to see if they fit. I am just a tramway mechanic with a background in ultrasound (think sound wave) and crack properties, heat effects on material (metamorphosis). And spent 40 years working in a alpine setting so am familiar with snow fields and glasers(there is a difference). See your engineering material guy you will find a lot in common. Agin I love what you are doing.
Zentnerding out on this little excursion! No one on google earth came close enough to show these mini basaltic columns.
These little exploration trips like here at Potholes Coulee , are absolutely wonderful Nick.
No, continue with the raw stuff I like watching. Though I like your class stuff too. Let's face it you're an interesting guy. I love the way you present. Rock on, Nick!
Nick, I’m sitting here in the Far North of Australia and will probably never set foot on Babcock bench, but thanks to you I started looking across the river looking for the Lodge Stick. Even before you mentioned it! And I knew of the Gorge amphitheater as well.
What I’m trying to say is that your videos are remarkable as entertainment, education and promotion of your part of the world. thanks again.
Nick, raw, impromptu, unscripted videos are fine with me! I got the chance to meet you in Moses Lake at the museum in March 2020, just before the lockdown. I appreciate and enjoy the scripted talks also. Just go with your gut, and you'll be fine. You are a fantastic teacher, and why I have been a geology nut for the last 5 years!
The columns were pretty cool looking to me. 👍🏼
I hope I'm not annoying, but I am at 12 minutes and you speak of the early stages of discovery. You referred to Sky Cooley. I totally got that feeling from him, and that is really exciting! Clearly, as long as we apply scientific principles, and seek confirmations, and even question our own motivations and procedures. So long as we do all these scientific processes, discovery is thrilling and meaningful .
I think the best thing about showing all the stages is that if there is appropriation of anyone's work, original ownership has been documented and shown. Transparency is the way to go.