A Smorgasbord of Eocene Rocks, Summerland and Naramata BC

[@over60withdeb57]

Fantastic video! As a CPA and armchair geology nut, I'm also a big fan of Zentner's (and others) geology videos. I really appreciate the way you included Google Earth maps, points of interest, and your use of stills and videos. Exceptional! I really like your close-ups of the outcrops, too, but can I suggest you please slow them way down so we can get a really good look without your camera moving on too soon. I'm so pleased I stumbled upon your video and am looking forward to more from you.

[@afootontherocks5990]

Thank you. You're right, I'm still learning ...

[@myrachurchman5013]

Thank you for taking the time to make this video. I follow Nick Zentner also and I am thrilled to find your contribution to the geology of BC

[@aryu-bts613]

Great video! Fellow Zentnerd here! Big fan of Nick's came across him by fluke in covid '20 time...been hooked ever since. Love the maps and Penticton area beautiful! Need to get more up close next time to the rocks there.

[@kingswayguitar]

thanks cool video. must have been lots of work

[@lanicej5172]

Fascinating! How I wish I could be there to see in person.... hopefully 2022!

[@dheerajrs]

Thanks for the informative video. Loved the jointed rock and leaf fossils. Please make and share more such videos when you have the time.

[@robert-wr6md]

What an excellent video, loved the pan across the Canada postboxes, very funny. I will be using your suggestions as I ride around from Oliver today. Thats for your work. Very lovely details shown in the rocks.

[@damianabbate4423]

Thanks so much for sharing this. Appreciate you sharing and commenting on local geology, and history and the interesting locations to go and see.

[@douglasproctor418]

Excellent video. There's a lot to see in the Valley. Including rattlesnakes and Black Widow spider's ... I'm a geologist also. I was at the Naramata with my writer wife to see the vineyards but spoke with the vineyard owners about the terroir influence on wine flavors. I was interested to hear the higher quality wines come from further up the slopes, where gravel size rock from the hill granites is more common. The flatter, lower portions are of course further from the edge of the sides of the kame terraces that are the Naramata bench and have much finer rock elements. I've had similar discussions of terroir with vineyard owners from Germany and Chile, which they are enthusiastic about as they experience something geologists know about technically. Covers up my lack of knowledge about wines! Age-relared: There is an Eocene outcrop near Clinton, B.C. which is a metasomatized ocean plate, hard but carvable. (I care stone) Outside Coos Bay, Oregon on the coast is a Eocene volcanic ash dominated estuary like Chesapeake Bay, with fossil oysters and sand dollars. Also excellent obvious tidal couplets. Lots of stories in rock for those who wish to hear them.

[@afootontherocks5990]

The guidebook I mentioned "Okanagan Geology South" by Murray Roed and Robert Fulton has a chapter on "Geology and Wine". Mr Roed has a website geoscapes.ca. I should also add that revenue from his books are endowed to geology students at UBC Okanagan.

[@PlayNowWorkLater]

Hello fellow Zentnerd. Thanks for showing us your neighborhood.

[@rodneyjsnider8540]

Thanks for sharing your general knowledge of the geology of the Okanagan, I've pulled some nice red jasper and white/ivory onyx on the west side of the bridge on top and south of the Richardson Ridge. Mount Boo has had slight purple amethyst shards found on the west side of the mountain. There are gem sites published in Okanagan Geology edited by, Murray A. Roed and John D. Greenough. Please keep your studies coming they help put additional pieces on this geological and beautiful puzzle.

[@pj1378]

Another Nick watcher, I enjoyed your video, thank you for making it. I live to the north near Vernon but often drive down to Penticton area. Will enjoy finding some of your spots.

[@alicemiller3139]

Enjoying this video and I too am a fan of Nick. You know more more about the area and rocks than I know. Lived in NJ my entire live and about 7 years ago to Western NC. Never been to Canada. Was the purplish colored rocks. Also is is safe for me to assume the sandstone is eroding faster than the country rock of granite conglomerate, etc and if there were homes above the stand stone, they will fall down one day?

[@afootontherocks5990]

Hi Alice. Sort of two questions here. The silt cliffs shown at eg. 21:55 are recent - a consequence of glaciation. They are not lithified, i.e. it's just mud. Because our climate is quite dry ( 11 inches/ 35 cm annual precipitation ) people are willing to gamble and build below them, along the lakeshore. As far as forming the valley, as the rift developed ( eocene ), the graben filled with sediment and lava which were also folded and faulted. Consequently the rift-fill was more readily eroded than the granites and metamorphic rock of the valley walls. With glaciation, the valley continued to be eroded. In fact the bedrock scour at the base of Okanagan Lake is BELOW sea level!

[@mathewvanhorn2433]

Great job, enjoyed the google maps for reference, interesting plant fossils in the conglomerate series. Any invertebrates in the limestone? I would like to see a cross section thru this area showing the fault. Again, very well done

[@afootontherocks5990]

I don't think this outcrop has been studied. Others to the west have some Paleozoic fossils, but metamorphism complicates that.

[@janetcollins1129]

funny...fantastic was also my impression great maps good pace thank u

[@roneldridge7991]

14:19 is the calcite fluorescent?

[@afootontherocks5990]

I don't have a UV lamp ...

[@asidhu4550]

great informative video! thanks

[@linsfruit5240]

Well done 👏👏