Love it! Serpentinite is so cool... The time scales are so difficult to grasp that our minds just tend to give up and focus on the numbers. I've found one way to bring the vast time scales to life is to use the Milky Way as a kind of clock. It takes our solar system approximately 230 million years to orbit once around the galactic center, so we've moved 1 degree of rotation/motion in approximately 640,000 years. Since the Solar system formed, 4.5 billion years ago, it has circled the Milky Way roughly 19 times.
Every time I watch these on location lessons I'm blown away by how much land was moved from so far away in an incredible amount of time. And this time you are standing in one time location with one foot, yet standing almost 100 mil yrs difference with the other foot. Just Wow.
it did rain while I was on the Stuart glacier on Friday, I hid under a boulder while cannon balls of rock went smashing by. I was just stumbling around in the Ingals terrain - maybe Nick could use fish terrain for a food analogy- like headcheese but with a ocean theme.
Great audio and spot to stop at ( 8:35)....." Go west young man, go west and find those catywhompus rocks (23:58)..Ya Gotta Love It! All kidding aside excellent imagery Nick.
Hey Nick I'm starting to get a little more wrapped around this stuff. Thank you Your keep it interesting teaching skills are great. I have a piece of Serpentanite in my garden that I love. I think you would too. In NOTF #2 at 13 min. you talked about the three different events you could see at the same time. The color map you show in NOTF#15 here finally hit me up side of the head and I now understand what you were saying. Keep it up we love it. And thanks for speaking with my father about the ice caves by Vantage. I've heard the story for ever.lol.
This makes me think of a study I did on the basement of the Klamath Mountains. I found that serpentinite was characteristic with suture zones of convergent boundaries. Mafic-ultramafic rocks at subduction boundaries were lifted and broken to a mélenge, then subducted to undergo metamorphosis and create serpentinite. Although the basement terranes are different, the process would still be there same.
Woo! Ophiolite sequences and serpentinite!! lol Love the green coloration of the rocks. We've got similar ophiolite sequences here in the Blue Ridge Mtns. Thought to be accreted terrain from a volcanic island chain that was then metamorphosed and pushed to the surface during several orogeny events.
Nick, can you visit the Illinois river down near Southern Oregon, near Grants Pass? It's a huge area of exotic terrane that isn't covered up by basalt!
I had a fruitcake my grandmother left to me that I kept in several refrigerators for close to thirty years. My kids got into it at a sleepover and l thought I had committed manslaughter. But they all survived. I think it a worthy comparison.
Parquet floor works. It's fancy work wood working with tiny bits of different hardwood pieced together to make a floor. It's stuff for rich folks to show off. Crazy quilt might also work. Parquet also fits the exotic nature of the terranes.
Really interesting to see another puzzle piece and you talking about what you are finding with the field guide. The lapel mike is Magic-it works so well in highlighting your voice in the ambient sound of highway and stream. That helps make your video so much more accessible. Thanks!
I do like the fruitcake analogy. I think it describes best the mix of rocks we can see here. Thank you for the video. I do like these field trip videos. So satisfying. Thank you Nick. 😎
Your formal students are remarkably fortunate. I am grateful that your urge to teach and share is so unbounded that you make all these videos. I just made a run thru the Minnesota River valley: different geological story, for sure, I didn't see everything, but what I did see, and what I chose to seek out was greatly enhanced by the knowledge you shared with everyone.
Just finished listening to a podcast he posted on Nick's Facebook page. Q & A about his history and why he is in Washington. Fun listening to a very fast half hour.
Hi Nick, years ago I used to camp in that area with my family (cir. 1976) I love the rock and the pyrite and the gold mine caves. I want to go back and see the serpentite rock and see it again. Love geology just for fun, thanks Nick, love your vlogs!
I wish that you could do a series on the southern Willamette and Northern umpqua valleys I understand the ice age floods filled the whole area and I would love to learn more
Love the Ingalls serpentinite! One of our favorite rocks and places to hike. Your phone captured its beauty nicely. Plus it was fun to learn more about how the rocks in the area formed and how they got here. Thanks for another great lesson, Nick! We love you!
I don't know if Washington Rocks are softer: When Nick hits a rock, a nice piece usually breaks off. Up here in Vermont I have been collecting samples of erratics, and some I have pounded and pounded, and I only get a small piece off! I think it a phyllite with lots of mica.
Hi I live in Oakland Calif our east bay hills in Oakland have this same history ( ocean floor origin) and rock type in the park areas (exposed in large formations). I live on the Rock Ridge near mt view cemetery on top of this type of rock. Very good presentation, thank you Donna
Nick, I've loved geology since my undergrad days back in the 60's-70's and often you remind me of the wonder and questions the science presents. I got a real chuckle in this, as a graduate student in the mid 70s, I often used the fruitcake analogy. It is a good one, I think...
I would guess that the rocks were of mid ocean ridge or island arc complex origin. All smeared onto the continent. Lots of quartz veins. The bright green serpentinite slickensides were beautiful. My friend, you are having way too much fun! I wish I could be there with you. My degrees are in Physics & Geology. Worked 40 years as a Geophysicist.
Nick, this is a late question. Could it "the Smith rock uplift"., is the regurgitation of the Juan de Fuca plate being consumed by the North American plate., pushed east northeaet by thePacific plate ?Maybe expelling the mix of the old Farralon plate !?
Stargazer, FWIIW, this geologist doesn't think so as the Smith Rock feature was described as rhyolitic or "continental crust" being regurgitated... I believe most consider the Faralon plate to be an oceanic plate which would have caused it to be more basaltic, and less "continental or granitic" as a rhyolite. Good question though, if I understood it properly. The Faralon has long fascinated me for its hydrothermal solution derived metals deposits...
Nick😁😁😁can you please make a video of the Lake Roosavelt area in WA. So beautiful and looks to have a great exploration for the look of the area. Thank you for all your work and teachings😁😁😁
There are so many exotic terrains... so much complexity...the Earth seems almost like one big mixture. Will I make sense of this one day if I keep studying geology?
21:19 the parquet floor metaphor (metafloor[?] I'm a poet n I donno it...) works for me except for the regularity of the wood bits... so the parquet works...when you mentioned it, I thought of the parquet studiolo of Federico of Montefeltro in Urbino....far more intricate and varied in composition, and then you went on to explain the overlay of gym mats as the deposits that time has left on top, and that idea fell apart, because the studiolo is all about walls...
Interesting to watch the process, listen to the mental gears engaging, and just enjoy a summer morning in central WA. Being a non-geologist, I don't understand most of the terminology, and couldn't do the chemistry if my life depended on it, but I liked both the parquet floor and fruitcake analogies - I have no idea which, if either, seems closer to the truth.
Nick - great video. On the map from the USGS publication you used you had the Stuart Batholoth intruded into the Ophiolite suite and then this was juxtaposed with much younger sedimentary facies. Have you visited or maybe you could visit an outcrop that displays the junction between the younger sediments and the older ophiolite? I am imagining obduction of ocean floor onto the US west coast margins but am curious as to how this junction is classified?
John from Illinois. Took my grandson to the oldest stone (it's limestone) fort east of the Mississippi and showed him the rock quarries next to them. Was not impressed, would Granite help?? lol
@@mauserdave Agree. When we are clear of Covid-19, take your kids to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Hall of Minerals. The Hope Diamond will get them in the door; they'll hang around for the geodes, the jade, ....
So... what was the green, slick appearing rock at the beginning of this episode? serpentinite? think I've seen it in driveway gravel here in Delaware. My guess is that it probably came from Pennsylvania.
Peri dough becomes peri dough tite. I am intrigued how he totally changes the syllable emphasis in the shift from mineral to rock mix as though it is something else.
Can one get access to such USGS surveys online? It would be nice to have a book like you have in this video to explain things like this terrane geologically. After watching your channel for a while I’m finally starting to understand some of these technical terms and I want to broaden my knowledge beyond the basics.
Look for the rocks near there that you cant break with your hammer. Those might be the (pyroxine/vesuvianite/grossular) rodingites, bowenites, pumpellyites and nephrites that a specific gravity test would be good to do. The source of the Teanaway jade is unknown but Ingalls ophiolite is a possible suspect and a Baha Calif origin story would make sense if no Canadian ice sheets were ever there. IMHO.
Batholyths float up thru the surrounding material.. it must be lighter than surrounding material. perhaps that is why Mt Stewart did not get subducted.. the material is lighter than the surrounding material.. so it floats..
The BG noise always isnt a problem here ( Gleno in Australia ) in this vid, and when your " muffler bloke " goes past your house etc in your other vids. You voice audio is louder, and over rides any BG noises. Dont stress about it.
Nick, you'll have to tone down the analogies to one or the crowd gets distracted from the geology and the great outdoors and start getting silly...🙄 I've been rewatching your field excursions until the weather warms up and I can get the peas and beans planted. Thats my indicator that the avg temps have warmed up enough that I can brave the hiking trails without risk of running into near-freezing rain. I can take a snow flurry and rain but not the dreaded freezing rain🙁.
I enjoy listening to you Nick but Sorry to say this but where is are safety goggles when we hit are Rock? Protect your eyesight. Thanks. For the video. Appreciate it.
Oh my gosh! Finally caught up with all Nick At Home videos, time to join the Live crowd of fellow Zentnerds! Wooohooo!
Love it! Serpentinite is so cool...
The time scales are so difficult to grasp that our minds just tend to give up and focus on the numbers. I've found one way to bring the vast time scales to life is to use the Milky Way as a kind of clock.
It takes our solar system approximately 230 million years to orbit once around the galactic center, so we've moved 1 degree of rotation/motion in approximately 640,000 years.
Since the Solar system formed, 4.5 billion years ago, it has circled the Milky Way roughly 19 times.
Every time I watch these on location lessons I'm blown away by how much land was moved from so far away in an incredible amount of time.
And this time you are standing in one time location with one foot, yet standing almost 100 mil yrs difference with the other foot.
Just Wow.
Yay! Nick 2 days in a row after a 7 day drought! The rains have come!
Lol, great analogy, Kathy!
And another one coming up!
it did rain while I was on the Stuart glacier on Friday, I hid under a boulder while cannon balls of rock went smashing by. I was just stumbling around in the Ingals terrain - maybe Nick could use fish terrain for a food analogy- like headcheese but with a ocean theme.
Great audio and spot to stop at ( 8:35)....." Go west young man, go west and find those catywhompus rocks (23:58)..Ya Gotta Love It! All kidding aside excellent imagery Nick.
Brilliant ,as ever Nick ,many thanks .
Incredibly generous of you to do these field trips and explorations/explanations for us. Thank you so much. Love them.
Hey Nick
I'm starting to get a little more wrapped around this stuff.
Thank you
Your keep it interesting teaching skills are great. I have a piece of Serpentanite in my garden that I love. I think you would too. In NOTF #2 at 13 min. you talked about the three different events you could see at the same time. The color map you show in NOTF#15 here finally hit me up side of the head and I now understand what you were saying. Keep it up we love it.
And thanks for speaking with my father about the ice caves by Vantage. I've heard the story for ever.lol.
Never thought that rock types would be the drawing card for visiting strange places. Oh yeah, and bakeries serving certain types of cakes.
This makes me think of a study I did on the basement of the Klamath Mountains. I found that serpentinite was characteristic with suture zones of convergent boundaries. Mafic-ultramafic rocks at subduction boundaries were lifted and broken to a mélenge, then subducted to undergo metamorphosis and create serpentinite. Although the basement terranes are different, the process would still be there same.
my understanding is that Serpentinite is found all along the pacific/ america boundary peaks?
Thanks Nick
Dr. Z's right. I always need to see more rocks.
Woo! Ophiolite sequences and serpentinite!! lol Love the green coloration of the rocks. We've got similar ophiolite sequences here in the Blue Ridge Mtns. Thought to be accreted terrain from a volcanic island chain that was then metamorphosed and pushed to the surface during several orogeny events.
The parquet floor analogy really helped me visualize the best! It’s a keeper. The ocean floor, you got love it!
Nice work/fun. Love all your vids.
So very interesting, Nick. Made my day here in a wet and stormy land, England. Cheers from Jane in Hereford.
Nick, can you visit the Illinois river down near Southern Oregon, near Grants Pass? It's a huge area of exotic terrane that isn't covered up by basalt!
I live 20 minutes from there and drive past that I’m glad you got to look at the beaver dam that I’ve always been curious about
I had a fruitcake my grandmother left to me that I kept in several refrigerators for close to thirty years. My kids got into it at a sleepover and l thought I had committed manslaughter.
But they all survived. I think it a worthy comparison.
Tom Hall 😂😂😂😂😂
Fruit cake lasts forever perfect emergency food
Thank-you for your excellent video Nick :), safe travels!
Love the parquet floor analogy.
I love ophiolites! I remember that someone posted about the Ingalls ophiolites over on reddit a few months ago. :)
I like the FRUITCAKE analogy
Parquet floor works. It's fancy work wood working with tiny bits of different hardwood pieced together to make a floor. It's stuff for rich folks to show off. Crazy quilt might also work. Parquet also fits the exotic nature of the terranes.
Really interesting to see another puzzle piece and you talking about what you are finding with the field guide. The lapel mike is Magic-it works so well in highlighting your voice in the ambient sound of highway and stream. That helps make your video so much more accessible. Thanks!
I do like the fruitcake analogy. I think it describes best the mix of rocks we can see here. Thank you for the video. I do like these field trip videos. So satisfying.
Thank you Nick. 😎
Your formal students are remarkably fortunate. I am grateful that your urge to teach and share is so unbounded that you make all these videos.
I just made a run thru the Minnesota River valley: different geological story, for sure, I didn't see everything, but what I did see, and what I chose to seek out was greatly enhanced by the knowledge you shared with everyone.
Parquet floors...now I get it. Thanks.
I enjoy your rock enthusiasm!
Really enjoyed the rocks and the variety of them. @Binford-Bell Black Lake, nm
YOU GOTTA LOVE IT !
Just finished listening to a podcast he posted on Nick's Facebook page. Q & A about his history and why he is in Washington. Fun listening to a very fast half hour.
My 7yo and I watch your content and head out shortly after to the locations highlighted in your videos. Thank you for all you do!
Hi Nick, years ago I used to camp in that area with my family (cir. 1976) I love the rock and the pyrite and the gold mine caves. I want to go back and see the serpentite rock and see it again. Love geology just for fun, thanks Nick, love your vlogs!
I wish that you could do a series on the southern Willamette and Northern umpqua valleys I understand the ice age floods filled the whole area and I would love to learn more
Love the Ingalls serpentinite! One of our favorite rocks and places to hike. Your phone captured its beauty nicely. Plus it was fun to learn more about how the rocks in the area formed and how they got here.
Thanks for another great lesson, Nick! We love you!
Thank you 😊
That looks like the middle of my old mining claim HeavyMetal :)
Love your analogies. This is what makes you a great teacher...
I don't know if Washington Rocks are softer: When Nick hits a rock, a nice piece usually breaks off. Up here in Vermont I have been collecting samples of erratics, and some I have pounded and pounded, and I only get a small piece off! I think it a phyllite with lots of mica.
Mineral Hardness Act of 1923.
Hi I live in Oakland Calif our east bay hills in Oakland have this same history ( ocean floor origin) and rock type in the park areas (exposed in large formations). I live on the Rock Ridge near mt view cemetery on top of this type of rock. Very good presentation, thank you Donna
Love the rock explanations, I hiked that area years ago many times, was really excited when I identified the green/waxey rock.
Nick, I've loved geology since my undergrad days back in the 60's-70's and often you remind me of the wonder and questions the science presents. I got a real chuckle in this, as a graduate student in the mid 70s, I often used the fruitcake analogy. It is a good one, I think...
I watch you on Oregon Public Broadcasting. I like it when you teach me about my beloved Oregon's geologic history. Much obliged.
Cool video nick! Looking forward to the next one.
Absolutely gorgeous rock.
I can't believe it. I am becoming interested in geology. Nick you make this so interesting.
I would guess that the rocks were of mid ocean ridge or island arc complex origin. All smeared onto the continent. Lots of quartz veins. The bright green serpentinite slickensides were beautiful. My friend, you are having way too much fun! I wish I could be there with you. My degrees are in Physics & Geology. Worked 40 years as a Geophysicist.
Nick, this is a late question.
Could it "the Smith rock uplift"., is the regurgitation of the Juan de Fuca plate being consumed by the North American plate., pushed east northeaet by thePacific plate ?Maybe expelling the mix of the old Farralon plate !?
Stargazer, FWIIW, this geologist doesn't think so as the Smith Rock feature was described as rhyolitic or "continental crust" being regurgitated... I believe most consider the Faralon plate to be an oceanic plate which would have caused it to be more basaltic, and less "continental or granitic" as a rhyolite. Good question though, if I understood it properly. The Faralon has long fascinated me for its hydrothermal solution derived metals deposits...
Nick😁😁😁can you please make a video of the Lake Roosavelt area in WA. So beautiful and looks to have a great exploration for the look of the area. Thank you for all your work and teachings😁😁😁
Very cool...Thank you..
I've stopped at this spot before and collected some rocks. Wonderful stuff!
Most interesting...
There are so many exotic terrains... so much complexity...the Earth seems almost like one big mixture. Will I make sense of this one day if I keep studying geology?
Btw, were there any trout in that creek? Rocks and fish can keep me amused for a long time, especially if they're together.
yay he's back!
21:19 the parquet floor metaphor (metafloor[?] I'm a poet n I donno it...) works for me except for the regularity
of the wood bits... so the parquet works...when you mentioned it, I thought of the
parquet studiolo of Federico of Montefeltro in Urbino....far more intricate and varied in composition,
and then you went on to explain the overlay of gym mats as the deposits that time has left on top,
and that idea fell apart, because the studiolo is all about walls...
Interesting to watch the process, listen to the mental gears engaging, and just enjoy a summer morning in central WA. Being a non-geologist, I don't understand most of the terminology, and couldn't do the chemistry if my life depended on it, but I liked both the parquet floor and fruitcake analogies - I have no idea which, if either, seems closer to the truth.
Nice rock. Missed the live feed....but I swim along there at mile 76.5
Nick, I wish I could watch your latest iteration of this channel. Unfortunately I suffer from motion sickness. Nuff' said.
Can we get a link to the USGS document you are reading from ? Is it online at all?
When I was at Central the smooth green rock in the Ingalls drainage was called serpentine. What is Ophiolite? Why switch nomenclature?
Nick - great video.
On the map from the USGS publication you used you had the Stuart Batholoth intruded into the Ophiolite suite and then this was juxtaposed with much younger sedimentary facies.
Have you visited or maybe you could visit an outcrop that displays the junction between the younger sediments and the older ophiolite? I am imagining obduction of ocean floor onto the US west coast margins but am curious as to how this junction is classified?
John from Illinois. Took my grandson to the oldest stone (it's limestone) fort east of the Mississippi and showed him the rock quarries next to them. Was not impressed, would Granite help?? lol
Take him to Niagara Falls and ask, "Why is this here? Why is Lake Erie so much higher than the Saint Lawrence River?"
Kids love crystals. Take him somewhere to find a quartz point or two. Or any other crystals. Calcite, Fluorite, Pyrite. It will start him off.
@@mauserdave Agree. When we are clear of Covid-19, take your kids to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Hall of Minerals. The Hope Diamond will get them in the door; they'll hang around for the geodes, the jade, ....
Yeah! Another Ned on the ropes!!
So... what was the green, slick appearing rock at the beginning of this episode? serpentinite? think I've seen it in driveway gravel here in Delaware. My guess is that it probably came from Pennsylvania.
yes, Serpentinite and it is in the Appalachia mountains too.
Kool.Will catch it e a r l y Tuesday AM.
Peri dough becomes peri dough tite. I am intrigued how he totally changes the syllable emphasis in the shift from mineral to rock mix as though it is something else.
Woot!!!
Woot indeed.
Can one get access to such USGS surveys online? It would be nice to have a book like you have in this video to explain things like this terrane geologically. After watching your channel for a while I’m finally starting to understand some of these technical terms and I want to broaden my knowledge beyond the basics.
Good by Kathy and Patrick
The big question: Where is the placer gold on Ingalls Creek?
Look for the rocks near there that you cant break with your hammer. Those might be the (pyroxine/vesuvianite/grossular) rodingites, bowenites, pumpellyites and nephrites that a specific gravity test would be good to do. The source of the Teanaway jade is unknown but Ingalls ophiolite is a possible suspect and a Baha Calif origin story would make sense if no Canadian ice sheets were ever there. IMHO.
How I celebrate the day your class is on its Ingalls serpentinite exploration.
I see clays stuck on the dozer blade of the continent as it rides up and over the denser basalts
Alarm Set if I do not fall asleep.
Next week I need to swing by the geology dept on campus and find some literature for the area
Batholyths float up thru the surrounding material.. it must be lighter than surrounding material. perhaps that is why Mt Stewart did not get subducted.. the material is lighter than the surrounding material.. so it floats..
A little overcast protecting the morning here, did not hear any rain last night.
It's that a trace of iron?
Exotic terraine😮Mexico 😮
Can it substitute for graphite? Might make useful pencils ✏️
I've stopped there to pick up rock before.
Nick new Hammer?
The BG noise always isnt a problem here ( Gleno in Australia ) in this vid, and when your " muffler bloke " goes past your house etc in your other vids. You voice audio is louder, and over rides any BG noises. Dont stress about it.
Dang it, I missed the whole thing! I'll do better next time ...
Do the Celtics pay rent for the space they occupy?
Greedy geologists? And here I thought wanting another piece of breakfast bacon was bad 😁
FRDK-Funny Rock Don’t Know. Common log entry.
Serpentenite?
How bout pizza. Tastes better than fruit cake. Supreme pizza that is! 😆
Nick, you'll have to tone down the analogies to one or the crowd gets distracted from the geology and the great outdoors and start getting silly...🙄 I've been rewatching your field excursions until the weather warms up and I can get the peas and beans planted. Thats my indicator that the avg temps have warmed up enough that I can brave the hiking trails without risk of running into near-freezing rain. I can take a snow flurry and rain but not the dreaded freezing rain🙁.
I enjoy listening to you Nick but
Sorry to say this but where is are safety goggles when we hit are
Rock? Protect your eyesight.
Thanks. For the video.
Appreciate it.
I like fruit cake.