I have well established career in architecture/construction but I recently found these original short-form videos you had made years back and I suddenly became OBSESSED with geology . Now I listen to your lectures as a weekend hobby . Thank you!
Nick, you are a gift to geologists everywhere. Your video tours that pull together disparate outcrops and sweeping vistas are a treasure to those of us who have spent days crisscrossing the landscape often forgetting how what we just saw fits into the bigger picture. A toast from a Montana Geologist who spent time at Wazzu and with your series of coordinated studies is finding a new appreciation for Washington Geology. Well done kind sir.
His incredible talent to explain complex research data about our earth's past in an elegant way is simply amazing! His passion is contagious. I wish we had more professors like him!
Professor Zentner, you have really upped your game. I was going to listen and work but I was captivated and impressed with this video. It is interesting, has Beautiful graphics and is very clearly explained.
I spend a lot of time walking around the forests and mountains of Washington State,and as I walk around I look for all the things you have explained, you've been one of my favorite guides/ teacher. Thanks for sharing.
Ditto for me and my husband in our late 60's now and our boys in their mid and late 30's. Have lived in Missoula and Coeur d'Alene area since 2001. We've all been following Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock for bout 10 years now. Love so learning about another open minded and passionate hearted geologists (Hancock honorary) perspectives on this subject with fearless/zero ego, objective perspectives. We all dearly hope you all may collaborate someday very soon. A Joe Rogan dream team symposium!
Outstanding Nick! Was just in the Channel Scablands last week and checked HU Ranch Coulee and Palouse Falls during sunset. Beautiful, dramatic and breathtaking. Thank you for extending my knowledge on one of my favourite subject matters... PNW Geology!! I LOVE it all and can’t get enough of it. Cheers
Great video Nick. Having done a simple 10 minute video, I can somewhat appreciate the work it takes to produce and edit these videos. Masterfully done and very educational.
Years ago I read a book about Glacial Lake Missoula. Afterwards I was able to fly over the scablands in a Cessna 182. Was pretty neat to see it all from the air.
I am planning a trip to America to visit family in Washington state in a couple of years from now. These videos are giving me an appetite for what to consume while I am there. I am excited and will be able to interpret what I am looking at when I look out at the valleys and plains from a more educated point of view. Thanks in advance.
I had a teacher like you, first year of university. Unfortunately he died early, I think of him once in a while with great affection and renew my respect for those like yourself who have this amazing gift of teaching.
I just Laughed when Randal Carlton acted like he was the first to discover this a couple years ago. Its been common knowledge for 100 years as you point out. Thanks for sharing
I always had a interest in geology - as I grew up in the Lake District in the UK, which has a n interesting geological history - but until I came across Nicks Backyard Lectures during the pandemic, it was nothing more than that - so thank you Nick for all the work you've done on this.
Wonderful video, so clearly presented and captivating. The impact of floods upon Oregon's Willamette Valley would be another interesting addition to the story. I live not too far from Irish Bend on the Willamette in Benton County where the east shore embankments exhibit layers left behind by the floods.
We have more recently gotten confirmation that there was a GLOF 1100k years ago in the Atiplano of the Andes, which mostly destroyed a civilization (tiwanaku) it was a mystery for a long time (mainly because Bolivia doesn't have a GIS), not only strange geological formations. The work done on the Missoula, Bonneville, and Agassiz and geographical atifacts in Washington/ Oregon was used to help seal the arguement. It was called Lake Tuaca, and seems to have been part of a larger former lake. When it burst a whole ancient megalithic civilization was is it's way...luckily it was far far less that the Glacial Lake Missoula, which is still considered to be the biggest GLOF recorded. Thanks for reposting this!
I'm from back east originally. I'm used to thinking in terms of 600-300 mya sedimentary rocks, limestone, etc. I moved to Oregon in 2014 and continue to be both amazed and terrified at the majesty and power of the geology out here. It's absolutely awe inspiring.
What you describe is so amazing! Impressive how these events can be discerned from the deposits that are left behind. Thanks for telling these remarkable stories!
There were impressive round boulders deposited near Wilsonville, OR. Some of these were uncovered during the mass excavation of the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility project in 2000.
In Google Maps bring up Loomis WA, switch to terrain mode and follow the path of the Similkameen River out of Canada, 6 separate canyons paths carved to the Okanogan river, 2 near Conconully, at Fish lake going east, a huge flow past Loomis through both Spectacle Lake and Horse Spring Coulee out past Aeneas Lake, the current path through Nighthawk and another path into Osoyoos Lake. I'd like to know which path the river took before the ice age? It must have been under the ice for the duration of the ice age but I imagine it had it's share of floods during the melting stage.
oops better add a path through Ollala in BC. I have another question, which carved the canyon paths, the ice or the water under the ice? Combination of both i suppose.
absolutely awesome presentation Professor! You are a dynamo of exciting, informative geologic discussions, this video is really well done, raised the bar of your achievements considerably sir!
This is the perfect subject for me right now! I live in Wenatchee. For the last 2 months, I've been living right below Ohme Garden, right on the river. Spent a lot of time out Swakane Canyon, up Burch Mtn, and in everywhere between Wenatchee, Monitor, Cashmere, Leavenworth, Plain, and Lake Wenatchee. I've been watching Nick's videos for ages. But this massive basalt flow has really been astounding me lately. It really hit me hard when I realized that every single bit of vegetation on the north side of Hwy 2, from Wenatchee, all the way to lake Wenatchee, is only skin deep. I started to notice that there are countless areas where you can see the basalt clearly exposed, and you go a bit further, and then there's green everywhere. It dawned on me all that rock had to be volcanic and flood caused. But haven't been able to figure out the the exact process. This video is such an illuminating discussion. Thank you, Professor!
Strange coincidence, Tuesday we were driving from wenatchee to Spokane. Going through the basin and of course looking at the flood geology I thought when I get home on Wednesday I need to start reading in my new geology books about the ice age floods. My goal to prepare for Nick's up coming coverage of this topic. Low and behold, 2 videos since I got home from Nick on the ice age floods!
I wonder, Nick, if you're familiar with Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide character Slartibartfast? He was a coastline designer for The Earth who designed Fjords. Adams' was fascinated by the wonderous effects of ice on areas of our planet. He would have loved what you do/explain.
I became interested in geology just a decade or so ago when going through the Colorado National Monument, and while I’m but a rank amateur, I love the subject. Your lectures fascinate me and teach me volumes, so I thank you for that. 😊🌹
Thank you so much for answering so many questions my mind has pondered for decades... Any idea how deep the water got in the Willamette Valley around Salem Oregon? The one thing you have yet to talk about as far as I've seen (so far)
I've always had a big interest in geography and geology. Cascadia and the scab-lands were always intriguing to me and I was impressed by your videos which I found about a decade back. Keep them coming, from an Irish admirer.👍
The heap of boulders mashed together is a mind blowing way to visulize at minimum just how gigantic and powerful the water was many times.. turning big boulders into sand, just tossed around..
I love your show. You are intelligent articulate and interesting using actual visual on site tools. Thank you. Is there a tour of these places for folks to see for themselves?
This has to be the best video around that explains the landforms associated with the Missoula and Bonneville floods. It would be nice to see an animation showing how a typical Missoula flood progressed from ice dam failure to the water reaching the ocean.
Professor, I would like to know your thoughts as to why the Missoula flood took a northward path along what is now Pend Oreille River instead of south through the Purcell trench into Spokane and down the Spokane River drainage to the Columbia. Perhaps both scenarios are possible?
Thanks Professor, As always, the information you provide always amazes me. Keep up the amazing work sir. Take care, all the best, and God bless. Sincerely, A retired North Pacific, Bering Sea, and West Coast Commercial Fisherman, and survivor, ✝️🇺🇸🗽🌊⛴🌊⚓️
Your passion and energy really comes through well and the way the info is presented is done very well! I'm away from the PNW for the next few years so your videos help me mentally are very much appreciated!
New Sub. You have answered so many questions that I’ve had about the terrain, living in Central Washington. I was under the impression that there was only one great flood.
Would love to see a video of the scablands south of Cheney, WA. Very interesting land around Bonnie, Rock, Badger, Williams and Fishtrap lakes. Rock Creek between Bonnie and Rock lakes as well. Great video!
The image at @15:07 is a bit puzzling. Between the Bonneville Flood sediments and the Missoula Flood sediments we see a conglomerate layer with big boulders in it. From the colour it looks like it belongs to the Bonneville Flood. But this seems illogical to me as this conglomerate in my view should be deposited at the beginning of a flood where the water has high energy and not the end of it. So am I right in assuming this conglomerate is part of the first Missoula Flood? Or is the conglomerate layer the deposit of the Bonneville flood and the finer-grained sediments below it are something else? Or am I completely wrong with my thinking and something happened with the Bonneville Flood that caused the big boulders to be deposited at the end of the flood rather than at the beginning.
Question about volcanic hot spots: I was looking at the map of the western US and wondered why there aren't any gold deposits along its path. Neither does Hawaii's shield volcanos have any. You'd think that coming directly up from the mantel it would presented more precious metals.
mantel magma is just a mixture of everything melted together so you only have extremely tiny traces of those elements in basalt. you get things like cold when they make it to the crust and through some means get eroded and concentrated into veins in specific locations do to specific conditions.
Been following the content for years... the additions to this one I did notice like the added pictures and names of the geologists who added information on the subject...
If I'd met a teacher like you 40 years ago...I'd be doing what you're doing...thank you!
@@debbylou5729 UH---, it was a thank you- go back under the bridge now please
Very cool!
What an honor to Tom Foster's vision. Thanks for this, Nick.
I have well established career in architecture/construction but I recently found these original short-form videos you had made years back and I suddenly became OBSESSED with geology . Now I listen to your lectures as a weekend hobby . Thank you!
The BEST instructor! My whole family has become your geological groupies! Thank you for giving us laymen understandable information. You rock!!!
Nick, you are a gift to geologists everywhere. Your video tours that pull together disparate outcrops and sweeping vistas are a treasure to those of us who have spent days crisscrossing the landscape often forgetting how what we just saw fits into the bigger picture. A toast from a Montana Geologist who spent time at Wazzu and with your series of coordinated studies is finding a new appreciation for Washington Geology. Well done kind sir.
so glad to see this again, thanks Nick and Tom Fosters friends for this movie
I get a little thrill up my spine whenever Nick starts talking geology! lol...What a great teacher! Thanks Nick!
Absolutely love this format. Quick and to the point. Thanks Nick.
Another magnificent video with clear explanations. Accessible, informative, and with beautiful photos.
I love classic Nick. These are wonderful
All of you geology bloggers are much appreciated..You are inspiring many future
rock heads...
Great watch thanks Nick.
His incredible talent to explain complex research data about our earth's past in an elegant way is simply amazing! His passion is contagious. I wish we had more professors like him!
Learned a few new things that I will look out for the next time I travel through this area. Fantastic!
You've made washington come alive for this transplant. Thank you!
Professor Zentner, you have really upped your game. I was going to listen and work but I was captivated and impressed with this video. It is interesting, has Beautiful graphics and is very clearly explained.
I spend a lot of time walking around the forests and mountains of Washington State,and as I walk around I look for all the things you have explained, you've been one of my favorite guides/ teacher.
Thanks for sharing.
That's right. That's amazing! Well said Nick. I brought students to that outcrop once. Mind blowing.
Professor Nick, Learning Pacific Northwest Geology from your presentations is like comfort food for the soul. 🙂
Ditto for me and my husband in our late 60's now and our boys in their mid and late 30's. Have lived in Missoula and Coeur d'Alene area since 2001. We've all been following Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock for bout 10 years now. Love so learning about another open minded and passionate hearted geologists (Hancock honorary) perspectives on this subject with fearless/zero ego, objective perspectives.
We all dearly hope you all may collaborate someday very soon. A Joe Rogan dream team symposium!
You're the greatest, Nick, keep 'em coming!
so many answers, yet so many questions....... Nick, you have always done an awesome job....... thank you for your tireless service
Thank you. Lived in the basin many years ago. was curious about the geology but didn't know who to ask locally
Two days in a row. You’re always welcome in Friesland, Nick. Thanks.
Outstanding Nick! Was just in the Channel Scablands last week and checked HU Ranch Coulee and Palouse Falls during sunset. Beautiful, dramatic and breathtaking. Thank you for extending my knowledge on one of my favourite subject matters... PNW Geology!! I LOVE it all and can’t get enough of it. Cheers
Now THAT is a recruiting video if I have ever seen one!
Damn, Nick. You are good. I love your stuff, and I am just a dilettante. Keep em coming, please!
Thanks, Nick, for all these amazing presentations. You are simply a blessing
Good morning Nick from sunny England thankyou for another fab video, love your work, have an awesome day.
Thanks Nick great maps and photos very informative
Thanks for your commitment to producing informative and entertaining videos!
Binge watching again. You've been missed and I'm glad you are back!
Great video Nick. Having done a simple 10 minute video, I can somewhat appreciate the work it takes to produce and edit these videos. Masterfully done and very educational.
As I started to look at the video ,I could not stop thinking of Tom Foster. He did amazing work It is bittersweet looking at this
Wowww. I keep saying Wowww... 2nd time watching this. Thank you.
thank you professor! love your videos! very educational
Years ago I read a book about Glacial Lake Missoula. Afterwards I was able to fly over the scablands in a Cessna 182. Was pretty neat to see it all from the air.
I am planning a trip to America to visit family in Washington state in a couple of years from now. These videos are giving me an appetite for what to consume while I am there. I am excited and will be able to interpret what I am looking at when I look out at the valleys and plains from a more educated point of view. Thanks in advance.
You're going to have such a good time.
Always a good watch. Thanks Nick.
Thanks Mick well done.
I had a teacher like you, first year of university. Unfortunately he died early, I think of him once in a while with great affection and renew my respect for those like yourself who have this amazing gift of teaching.
Good job. Filling in the information that we needed.
I just Laughed when Randal Carlton acted like he was the first to discover this a couple years ago. Its been common knowledge for 100 years as you point out. Thanks for sharing
Randall Carlson?
Appreciated your explanations of natural events. From New Zealand, well done.
Nick ! You are the best! Thanx for this. 👍🙏
Thank you for the Nick fix...just in time. Hopefully I'll make it to the next one😉
Top notch presentation!
Thank you Professor Zentner
I always had a interest in geology - as I grew up in the Lake District in the UK, which has a n interesting geological history - but until I came across Nicks Backyard Lectures during the pandemic, it was nothing more than that - so thank you Nick for all the work you've done on this.
Wonderful video, so clearly presented and captivating. The impact of floods upon Oregon's Willamette Valley would be another interesting addition to the story. I live not too far from Irish Bend on the Willamette in Benton County where the east shore embankments exhibit layers left behind by the floods.
WOW! Thank you from Vancouver Island!
We have more recently gotten confirmation that there was a GLOF 1100k years ago in the Atiplano of the Andes, which mostly destroyed a civilization (tiwanaku) it was a mystery for a long time (mainly because Bolivia doesn't have a GIS), not only strange geological formations. The work done on the Missoula, Bonneville, and Agassiz and geographical atifacts in Washington/ Oregon was used to help seal the arguement. It was called Lake Tuaca, and seems to have been part of a larger former lake. When it burst a whole ancient megalithic civilization was is it's way...luckily it was far far less that the Glacial Lake Missoula, which is still considered to be the biggest GLOF recorded. Thanks for reposting this!
I'm from back east originally. I'm used to thinking in terms of 600-300 mya sedimentary rocks, limestone, etc. I moved to Oregon in 2014 and continue to be both amazed and terrified at the majesty and power of the geology out here. It's absolutely awe inspiring.
What you describe is so amazing! Impressive how these events can be discerned from the deposits that are left behind. Thanks for telling these remarkable stories!
Great to see a new video out! I really like how you tied the three events together in this one. Bravo!
What a great video!!!!
Well done!!!!
Congratulations......
Sydney Australia
Does anyone know the location of the twin mesas at 0:30 in the video? I’d like to visit those some day. Thanks. Great presentation as always Nick!
Nicely put together!! Thanks Nick.
There were impressive round boulders deposited near Wilsonville, OR. Some of these were uncovered during the mass excavation of the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility project in 2000.
In Google Maps bring up Loomis WA, switch to terrain mode and follow the path of the Similkameen River out of Canada, 6 separate canyons paths carved to the Okanogan river, 2 near Conconully, at Fish lake going east, a huge flow past Loomis through both Spectacle Lake and Horse Spring Coulee out past Aeneas Lake, the current path through Nighthawk and another path into Osoyoos Lake. I'd like to know which path the river took before the ice age? It must have been under the ice for the duration of the ice age but I imagine it had it's share of floods during the melting stage.
oops better add a path through Ollala in BC. I have another question, which carved the canyon paths, the ice or the water under the ice? Combination of both i suppose.
Really informative! The forces described here also occurred in places of the eastern US where i was living.
absolutely awesome presentation Professor! You are a dynamo of exciting, informative geologic discussions, this video is really well done, raised the bar of your achievements considerably sir!
A big Shout out from a residence of the Moses Coulee!!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Arn, would you please email me? nick@geology.cwu.edu
Wow, the episodes seem to go by so quickly
Very informative, thank you for the pics and information.
This is the perfect subject for me right now! I live in Wenatchee. For the last 2 months, I've been living right below Ohme Garden, right on the river. Spent a lot of time out Swakane Canyon, up Burch Mtn, and in everywhere between Wenatchee, Monitor, Cashmere, Leavenworth, Plain, and Lake Wenatchee. I've been watching Nick's videos for ages. But this massive basalt flow has really been astounding me lately. It really hit me hard when I realized that every single bit of vegetation on the north side of Hwy 2, from Wenatchee, all the way to lake Wenatchee, is only skin deep. I started to notice that there are countless areas where you can see the basalt clearly exposed, and you go a bit further, and then there's green everywhere. It dawned on me all that rock had to be volcanic and flood caused. But haven't been able to figure out the the exact process. This video is such an illuminating discussion.
Thank you, Professor!
Excellent presentation of how Eastern Washington and Southern Idaho Geology was formed over the years.
Strange coincidence, Tuesday we were driving from wenatchee to Spokane. Going through the basin and of course looking at the flood geology I thought when I get home on Wednesday I need to start reading in my new geology books about the ice age floods. My goal to prepare for Nick's up coming coverage of this topic. Low and behold, 2 videos since I got home from Nick on the ice age floods!
I wonder, Nick, if you're familiar with Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide character Slartibartfast? He was a coastline designer for The Earth who designed Fjords. Adams' was fascinated by the wonderous effects of ice on areas of our planet. He would have loved what you do/explain.
Great lecture voice. I mean that very sincerely. Makes listening so easy.😻
I became interested in geology just a decade or so ago when going through the Colorado National Monument, and while I’m but a rank amateur, I love the subject. Your lectures fascinate me and teach me volumes, so I thank you for that. 😊🌹
Always luv your presentation. Wish I had you when I was in academy
Thank you so much for answering so many questions my mind has pondered for decades... Any idea how deep the water got in the Willamette Valley around Salem Oregon? The one thing you have yet to talk about as far as I've seen (so far)
I've always had a big interest in geography and geology. Cascadia and the scab-lands were always intriguing to me and I was impressed by your videos which I found about a decade back.
Keep them coming,
from an Irish admirer.👍
The heap of boulders mashed together is a mind blowing way to visulize at minimum just how gigantic and powerful the water was many times.. turning big boulders into sand, just tossed around..
One of the very first videos I saw before becoming a Zentner fanboy 🤓 Big thanks Nick! Appreciate you
Fascinating stuff. Thanks for this.
I love your show. You are intelligent articulate and interesting using actual visual on site tools. Thank you. Is there a tour of these places for folks to see for themselves?
It's a great video. Thank you Nick!
This has to be the best video around that explains the landforms associated with the Missoula and Bonneville floods. It would be nice to see an animation showing how a typical Missoula flood progressed from ice dam failure to the water reaching the ocean.
Professor, I would like to know your thoughts as to why the Missoula flood took a northward path along what is now Pend Oreille River instead of south through the Purcell trench into Spokane and down the Spokane River drainage to the Columbia. Perhaps both scenarios are possible?
Wow , fantastic knowledge,thank you for sharing
Thanks Nick always so informative and entertaining!
I loved this. I've always wondered about these things while I drive from Washington, through Idaho, and into Utah. Thank you!
Could it be that the comets of the Younger-Dryas period melted the glaciers at a spectacular pace to create these amazing landscapes?
Thanks Professor,
As always, the information you provide always amazes me.
Keep up the amazing work sir. Take care, all the best, and God bless.
Sincerely,
A retired North Pacific, Bering Sea, and West Coast Commercial Fisherman, and survivor,
✝️🇺🇸🗽🌊⛴🌊⚓️
great style, sublime video
Your passion and energy really comes through well and the way the info is presented is done very well! I'm away from the PNW for the next few years so your videos help me mentally are very much appreciated!
NICK, YOOU ARE THE BEST!
New Sub. You have answered so many questions that I’ve had about the terrain, living in Central Washington.
I was under the impression that there was only one great flood.
14:53 The size of that gravel bar raises the hair on my neck.
Only, WOW!! Thanks again. You explain the unbelievable into the believable.
Would love to see a video of the scablands south of Cheney, WA. Very interesting land around Bonnie, Rock, Badger, Williams and Fishtrap lakes. Rock Creek between Bonnie and Rock lakes as well.
Great video!
The scale of the floods is mind boggling.
Thank you Professor.
Holy Cow Nick. You are psychic.Thank you.
production value 📈‼️❣️
Nick, what are your thoughts on the Younger Dryas Impact theory, the Carolina Bays and that having a possible connection to the Channeled Scablands?
I am curious as to his answer as IMO it has everything to do with it.
The image at @15:07 is a bit puzzling. Between the Bonneville Flood sediments and the Missoula Flood sediments we see a conglomerate layer with big boulders in it. From the colour it looks like it belongs to the Bonneville Flood. But this seems illogical to me as this conglomerate in my view should be deposited at the beginning of a flood where the water has high energy and not the end of it.
So am I right in assuming this conglomerate is part of the first Missoula Flood? Or is the conglomerate layer the deposit of the Bonneville flood and the finer-grained sediments below it are something else? Or am I completely wrong with my thinking and something happened with the Bonneville Flood that caused the big boulders to be deposited at the end of the flood rather than at the beginning.
Question about volcanic hot spots: I was looking at the map of the western US and wondered why there aren't any gold deposits along its path. Neither does Hawaii's shield volcanos have any. You'd think that coming directly up from the mantel it would presented more precious metals.
mantel magma is just a mixture of everything melted together so you only have extremely tiny traces of those elements in basalt. you get things like cold when they make it to the crust and through some means get eroded and concentrated into veins in specific locations do to specific conditions.
Been following the content for years... the additions to this one I did notice like the added pictures and names of the geologists who added information on the subject...