Palouse Falls and Dry Falls

CWU's Nick Zentner presents 'Palouse Falls and Dry Falls' - the 11th talk in his ongoing Downtown Geology Lecture Series. Recorded at Hal Holmes Center on June 12, 2013 in Ellensburg, Washington, USA. www.nickzentner.com

[@mikeleppan8635]

Wish we had someone here in South Africa with your charisma and passion to explain the wonderful geology of this area. Most of what I’ve found on KZbin relating to Southern Africa is drier than the Sahara Desert in its telling. You bring the subject to life

[@daveyyc9784]

I wish there were geology lectures like this available for all places in the world. No matter where I go I always wish I had a geologist with me to explain the story behind what I am looking at.

[@russwoodward8251]

"The river came in at the last minute and posed for pictures..." Too funny. What a great presentation. Thank you so much for producing this.

[@hertzer2000]

Just discovering Nick's lectures. I wish all teachers had his enthusiasm and sense of humor.

[@Ellensburg44]

Thank you!

[@jeffparryncc1701]

It would of made going to school worthwhile and interesting.

[@FishNFoolLures]

Hey Nick, Love your lectures, very well presented. I live over in N. Idaho right in the middle of a flood path on the bank of a old Pend Oreille river channel that currently makes Hoodoo Valley. I'm amazed by all the different colors of polished river rock I have on my place from a beautiful green and purple to tan and white, as well as a lot of granite. One subject that you have never talked about to my knowledge is the Spokane Aquifer. I think it would be a great lecture on how it was formed and how it works. Oh if you could post the link to the the BBC story with Alice Roberts. I'd like to watch it too.

[@raymondperry2291]

He makes geology much more interesting than anyone else can.😳

[@roop298]

@@raymondperry2291 He is a great presenter but to be fair he's got a lot of great geology to pick from.

[@mformaverick3030]

I've been watching Nick's lectures for a couple of weeks now. I absolutely want to hike all across the state of Washington now. Such a fascinating state!

[@TheViettan28]

Best teacher ever!

[@kevinklingner3098]

This was another great topic Nick. I totally get it An.love it.

[@johndunne1920]

What an amazing lecture series and delivery. I am in Ireland wishing I could book a holiday there now.

[@timothytaylor8870]

Sir, I studied psychology at Marshall University, pre-med at WV State University, pre-med and art at WVU. Finally after 10 years of changing majors I got BFA in Painting and Printmaking. Went to Notre Dame on scholarship to study painting and art history obtaining my MFA in 1977. Obviously, as a result of this unusually extended course of study, I had a lot of professors in both the humanities and the sciences. And it Sir you are among the very best I was blessed to experience.. Your lectures are simply marvelous. Thanks so much! I live in West Virginia but you have kindle a desire to traverse the continent and see the exciting areas you describe! Thanks again!

[@wainedodd8055]

This was Awesome. Being able to visualize it is powerful indeed. I Must also go and see the Alice Roberts one. Because she is also a great Science communicator of ours.

[@brianwaller6968]

Blessings from Northeast England ❤️🌟👁🇬🇧#Alcatraz....😜🧐😂Love All of your Presentations Nick 🙏Thankyou

[@ChristopherJohnston]

I love these lectures. Can't wait to move to Seattle and spend my weekends exploring these areas.

[@ttonysbirds]

Thank you

[@e020443]

This guy is a large part of why I haven't lost all faith in today's education system.

[@GottaWannaDance]

Some republican is bound to get offended by something Nick says or does and he'll be banned by some politician or some state like Florida or Texas. Sad.

[@markviereck4547]

I have watched every one of these lectures. Absolutely educational and entertaining. I live in Florida and now want to move to Washington. When I was a kid I wanted to be a geologist. I collected rocks and studied basic geology. I’m 62 now and want to come see this in person.

[@Ellensburg44]

Thanks for watching, Ian. Come visit!

[@markviereck4547]

Nick Zentner as soon as I get my SSD I’ll be there. Hopefully soon. Thanks Nick

[@yeahright7212]

You know there is a rhino that was buried up in the sun lakes area. I would love to see you do a lecture on that one!

[@orchidjewels4823]

Great lecture. I learned a lot. I love Nick's teaching style.

[@Swede_4_DragonBeliever]

Greetings from Sweden. Fanastic lectures, and soooo fun!

[@PilgrimofMatter]

Binge-watching geology lectures ... must go to bed now...

[@Ellensburg44]

Ha!

[@ElinT13]

No, don't! Just one more! ;-) Me too - I love them all. Greetings from Germany!

[@KainusGulch]

Eventually ... eventually....

[@UpcycleElectronics]

11:10pm....must....not...watch.... another (tonight)

[@BSokler1]

kolobite Love this!

[@ramblerclassicman221]

+Nick Zentner. I recently flew over eastern Washington in my way home from Seattle, and as I had a window seat, I got to see the formations in the earth you discussed here. My father and I were discussing possibilities for the reasons behind the creation of the escarpments, and your lectures help greatly to explain the details of the ice age floods. I love to see geological features and know how they are created. Thank you for making these videos and posting them to the web.

[@Ellensburg44]

Memorable comment. Thanks.

[@wesdonze2014]

ah right - I remember seeing professor Roberts program on the BBC a few years ago now - good to get the connection here

[@thavvolf9157]

To be honest if I’d had Prof Nick as a teacher in college I would have change my major

[@lynnmitzy1643]

Re watching all your lectures 👏🏼👏🏼♥️can't wait til April 👍🏼

[@KubotaManDan]

This years 2020 fly-in was held in Methow Valley WA near Winthrop.

[@jpd777]

always a fun and interesting lecture by Nick

[@jonglewongle3438]

33:38 - the top of that ' ridge ' in the center of that image was the level of the land surface for the entire region [ which comprised the rolling hills of which he spoke ] prior to the 91 Missoula Floods, and so looking at either side of that ridge you get an idea of the phenomonal amounts of erosion which those floods created from after the Bonneville Flood at 13,700 BC through to just before 10,900 BC in a period of about 2700 years implying that a Flood occurred on average every 30 years.

[@astrokmb1]

What a great instructional video! Such a great intro to someone who knows nothing about the geology in this part of the world. I'm brand new to WA (I moved to the Tri-Cities just 3 weeks ago) and am super eager to get out and explore all of these places (have wanted to visit parts of the scablands since I first learned about it during a NOVA episode). Looks like my first priority will be buying those 2 books--On the Trail of the Ice Age Flood (I and II)! Nick is an AMAZING lecturer! He should do a Ted Talk :-) I just wish I lived close enough to attend these lectures.

[@Ellensburg44]

Welcome to Washington and thanks for the feedback! I'm speaking in Kennewick in early August. Email me if interested in details. If you haven't yet, visit HUGEfloods.com for tons of great stuff. That site is run by a Pasco guy.

[@astrokmb1]

***** Nick! Yes please! I'd love to know when/where you'll be in Kennewick. I made it to Palouse Falls 2 weeks ago and 3 weeks ago to Dry Falls. I'd love to do a photography study of the basalt... I got that book about hiking around the flood areas. I'd love to find some exceptional examples of basalt columns.

[@Ellensburg44]

astrokmb1 7105 W. 10th ave at the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Kennewick. Aug 6 at 7:00 pm. Lakeside Gem and Mineral Club. I'm sure you'd be welcome. 'Ellensburg Blue Agates'.

[@Twangg1]

One thing that has always fascinated me about Palouse Falls is the row of teeth to the north of the actual fall as evident at the 40 min mark during Tabbart's fly over... is this merely the roots of the basalt flow that was being eaten away by the floodwaters?

[@Ellensburg44]

It's possible to hike to the bottom of Palouse Falls from the viewpoint, Stubbs. Have done it a couple of times with a friend. Steep descent, but if I can do it, you can do it!

[@olechuga2]

Nick Zentner. Mr. Zentner, thank you Sir, very much for putting these lectures together, but mostly, for presenting these classes with a good amount of zeal, and at the same time, presenting these events as funny episodes. I just love your presentations so much Mr. Zentner, that my wife is starting to "categorize" them. I wonder Mr. Zander if she is allowed to copy your lectures via youTube for free, to then, in turn, make a showing of your work and of the Geology involving the great North/NorthWest of )our CountryI

[@stormytrails]

Just love your talks, Nick. Absolutely mesmerizing! I wanna go back to Washington. Looks like we might be heading to Alaska?

[@alphalunamare]

Hilariously Brilliant and Informative! The 'conversation' at 20:45 just plain cracked me up :-)

[@tarvismickelson4057]

Hello everyone. Is it possible there could be gold in the touchet river from these floods?

[@joetrueblood7663]

Love this channel!!!

[@Ellensburg44]

Thanks Joe!

[@linkingsoundtomeditationfo395]

Nick I love your lectures

[@jordancraig8911]

So good !

[@donaldpowers5557]

thank you what absolutely informative delightful video📽👏

[@Ellensburg44]

Thanks Donald.

[@caleanderson5164]

Thank you for these videos! - I now know more about Washington's geology than Minnesota's! haha (my home state)

[@kathrynamos9956]

I'm from MN, too! What part are you from?

[@caleanderson5164]

@@kathrynamos9956 Anoka

[@michaelhusar3668]

I'm from Indiana, home of the well, not very interesting geology. We have about 300 feet of relativity flat Canadian top soil we use to grow corn. Below that bedrock that used to be a shallow Ocean.

[@dstubby82]

It's an awesome vista, just wish I could get down in there.

[@edstingrey1757]

Thank God for brilliant teachers like Nick. So much valuable and interesting information. Fascinating. I thought I could learn something about this subject by watching The Smithsonian's Aerial Washington. All I saw was Microsoft, Boeing and a couple of the Mountains. No mention of Eastern Washington except a short segment on the Yakima Valley and the cleanup of the Hanford works. Absolutly nothing else in Eastern Washington before going back to Seattle Also, in the Smithsonian's Aerial American Waterways. Again, no mention of the Columbia River, Coulee Dam....NOTHING! Very disappointing. Thanks again, Nick

[@Ellensburg44]

Thanks for watching, Ed.

[@craigroberts1670]

I have a new addiction: Lectures with Nick Zentner. I hate it when he says "thank you for coming" today. Its like losing a good friend!!

[@jodymaley3674]

Excellent, I so want to visit

[@Ellensburg44]

Come visit.

[@GIB6138]

Do you have a lecture on the failing of the ice dam that released the high water of the Great Salt Lake? Outstanding series!

[@maxdude4645]

Nick, It would be interesting if you could do a lecture/video about when and how the glacial floods took different paths down the existing Columbia river channel vs the Moses Coulee vs The Grand Coulee and the scablands as the Okanogan lobe advanced and retreated over time.

[@Ellensburg44]

"Did Humans Witness the Ice Age Floods?" lecture on KZbin. Thanks.

[@mojoriden]

I am hooked on these talks haha

[@Ellensburg44]

There are worse things to be hooked on!

[@mojoriden]

Now I look for these things all over Central Washington. In fact, I was wondering, are the large rock formations around Mansfield, WA erratics or from something else? There is one that is 3 stories tall heading west into town. Grimes and Jameson Lake are interesting as well.

[@jimthayer9837]

Me too . Love the history and explanations

[@drcthru7672]

Always love your talks, Nick. How can I get on your email list?

[@priscillapastimes]

Wonder if Soap Lake was made of soapstone? LOL I just love these videos. I love geology although I don't know all that much + I'm older than dirt! I spent my rockhounding time in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, 2 weeks at a time until retirement. Now I can barely make it to the mailbox.

[@Ellensburg44]

Thanks! That's why I love KZbin and the ability to spread these lectures. Free and available to all.

[@robchristiansen1710]

How do I sign up for email links?

[@GrocMax]

Nick- Sorry, but every time you touch that projector screen and it goes wiggly and wavy, it initiates acid flashbacks. STOP IT!!!!!!!! ;)

[@aussieaeromodeler]

you too huh ?

[@slinginleaddownrange223]

Palouse rivers headwaters are in idaho near emida/Harvard on white pine pass

[@Ellensburg44]

Good to know. Thanks.

[@maryseeker7590]

Question: Is it true that the sea floors of the oceans of the world are made of basaltic crust? And if that is true, then are they as fractured and cracked as the flood basalt on land???

[@timothytaylor8870]

Helps to add the email

[@KubotaManDan]

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[@nobody8328]

💖

[@lynnmitzy1643]

See ya in class 2morrow 🖐😁

[@stormytrails]

People should be hit with pop quizzes at these info centers.

[@johnacord5664]

I stumbled upon these lectures a week ago. I still like to keep the flood of Noah in the back of my mind.

[@Ellensburg44]

Thanks for watching, John.

[@timothytaylor8870]

Please add me to your email list! So love your work!

[@BFjordsman]

so watching Alice after this

[@Ellensburg44]

Great. She's good!

[@BFjordsman]

Nick Zentner her Darwin Day lecture "origins of us" was brilliant

[@georgewohl1126]

So?is the earth round or flat

[@Ellensburg44]

Round.

[@jackiemowery5243]

Cats are proof the world is round. If it were flat, cats would have pushed everything off the edge long ago.

[@airkuna]

a university teacher is giving lectures to 80 year old people????? :DDDDDDDD how?????

[@jonglewongle3438]

Continuing education stuff. Community college. Retired seniors largely finished with their capitalist vocationalism since finding amusement in learning about stuff. Nick Zentner's official brief would be to operate that particular branch of the University's activities, but he would also have a hand in teaching and lecturing for career degrees. Those old fuddies would know a fair bit about Washington, Oregon, Montana, etc and all the roads and highways there and the geology of it, whereas I from outside the USA could not tell east from west in that region or where the hell I was at any point or what the hell I was looking at.

[@donaldpowers5557]

inquiring minds want to know......

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[@Pearlygates-guardian]

Hey Nick, great video. I happened to see the Alice version before I saw this and frankly preferred your version. Can't see any scientific advantage to seeing Alice at the end of a rope. Way better content in your version.

[@Ellensburg44]

Thanks for the comment, Peter. The Alice productions reach a wide audience with high production values. These lectures probably work for geology enthusiasts only - on a shoestring budget. Both have a place.

[@deltuttle9335]

Hi Nick I have enjoyed all your geological videos on KZbin - BUT my questions are as follows: I hope that you would agree that the same amount of water on earth and its atmosphere has remained the same quantity since the creation of this planet in this solar system. There is no possible way that it could be diminished - as all evaporation is recycled as rainfall some were on the earth. The same water that the dino's drink - we recycle and drink - then flush. Being that this is true - without dispute - How could all the water that is allegedly creating these Massive ice caps - that are hundred of feet deep and thousands of square miles - how can they possible be created? How can that much water be evaporated and All Fall as rain/sleet on ONLY the top of the globe? Especially when the remainder of the earth is at least more moderate in temperature? What caused these ice caps to melt with so much rapiticity that could cause such massive flooding to cause this extensive erosion of these massive rock formations? That seems to me to be factually impossible to create - to begin with - and far more impossible to sustain for even a decade - little alone for thousands/millions of years. Even IF the earth moved further away from the Sun - It would appear to me that the total earth would be effected - not just the top third of the earth. But even there - there is no evidence that the earth’s solar rotation has ever changed its normal 365 day cycle around the sun. None! is there? There is also extensive evidences that top of the world had tropical vegetation and warm blooded animals that are even now found under the present ice fields. So how did this happen? Ice caps and tropical climates are not compatible with one another - they are opposites with extreme temperature with a possible 100 + degrees difference. For me there are many unanswered questions that just do not jive with reality - and just saying it happened does not give me justifiable evidences. Also how in the world can you even guessitmate the ages of different time periods of animals - vegetation and minerals- in millions of years? What are the evidences? Who left any record to verify that these actions actually occurred? NO PERSON! So how are ages determined?How did: top soils - clay - sand - of various composition's - and different rocks develop? What are your views on the Genesis World Wide Flood that destroyed the Antediluvian world- and its relations to your geological studies and views? Please reply - or make a justifying video for us all to understand these vast discrepancies that Do Exist. Thanks neighbor D Tuttle -Topeka-Tecumseh Ks. The land of limestone and shale.

[@Ellensburg44]

Thanks for watching, Del. Too many questions to address here.....but personally, I am active in the Catholic Church plus I am a geologist. The age of these rock layers are carefully determined in the laboratory - they are not guesses. I will make a lecture about the process one of these days.....it's important to present, even though I know that it will be a major problem for many. There is also excellent evidence that the continents of our planets have been at different locations through time. Beyond that, I am not sure I can satisfy you with long answers.

[@jphughes9452]

Nick Zentner Age of the earth and Gods time vs mans perception of time, for sure a hot topic amongst theologians and the common believer.

[@kurtj.hoffmanmining7612]

Something to think about. Take a look at any University affiliated with a Church of any denomination. Then see if the Geology department teaches that the Earth is 6000 years old. I have looked and can't find that one exists any where in the World. Also, your questions are so diverse and extensive it would take a whole class and text book to explain them. You have internet access look it up.

[@kurtj.hoffmanmining7612]

Take a basic high school chemistry class. Water is H2O Hydrogen and Oxygen. The hydrogen and oxygen can be separated back into separate molecules. It is demonstrated everyday in schools around the world I can't believe you are that ignorant.

[@kurtj.hoffmanmining7612]

I can't believe how ignorant your comment is about water. You realize that the oxygen molecules can be separated from water and combined with carbon to create CO2 Carbon Dioxide or CO carbon monoxide. The Hydrogen molecules can be separated from water to become Hydrogen gas which is explosive or it can be combined with sulfur to make Hydrogen Sulfide. Everyone of your comments is just plain stupid.

[@philiphorner31]

Thankfully back in the Ice Age there weren't any Democrats or they would have made Dry Falls Wet Falls.

[@alexbradmckay]

A lot of gray hair in the audience. Too bad not a lot of younger people take an interest in this.

[@bob_frazier]

Did I miss something here? I heard almost no discussion and no visuals on the amount of water that it must have taken to produce these features, only a mention of a lake and an ice dam. Was volume even mentioned? Maybe I got what I paid for too!

[@jimthayer9837]

Different lectures that previously laid the background for this sub

[@jimthayer9837]

Look up Great Lake Missoula

[@jimthayer9837]

Excuse me look up Glacial Lake Missoula

[@bob_frazier]

@@jimthayer9837 Thanks Jim. I too found the answers in other videos I had missed.

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[@vaughnlonganecker986]

Enthusiasm and humor, but his timing is way off. Take a listen to Michael ordered on the Missoula flood.