Chumstick Formation with Erin Donaghy

Geologist Erin Donaghy (Purdue PhD student) is featured. Nick tags along with Erin and her advisor Michael Eddy (Purdue) as they look for new Chumstick Formation samples. Ralph Haugerud (USGS) also in the group.
Filmed on July 15, 2021.

[@GeologyNick]

Your homework: Chumstick I lecture: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6aslX58h7-taNE Chumstick II lecture: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o33Cg5uAptaLZq8

[@tooligan113]

I beleave I received a selfevaluation of A+ during the Zentnerd GEOL. 351 2021 AND I'm closely monitoring Geldingadalir Volcano, Iceland So No Chumstick Formation Homework! I'm watching the "Effusive Fagradalsfjall Formation" or "Mondlukaka Cake" flow over the Tundra. A new appreciation for the CRB's German Chocolate Cake

[@briane173]

@@tooligan113 Your focus on Fagradalsfjall has aged well, sir, after 2 years. Grindavik and areas just outside of town has been a busy place of late.

[@nancyhainline2517]

That terrain was fantastic. Made my knees hurt to watch. I admire the dedication of all of you to study the composition of that tuff outcropping.

[@robertdufour2456]

Thank you again Professor Nick! It is exciting to learn that there is still so much to learn!

[@mardinecampbell2870]

Gorgeous views. Because of 351 class I actual understood what was being discussed. Thanks for taking us along. Going to be a fun summer for you, Nick.

[@steel1182]

Cool to tag along thanks nick… after 101&351 I was almost keeping up and then Erin spoke and I realized how little I know …what a cool person !

[@donnacsuti4980]

Thanks for taking us with you. Interesting discussion, beautiful country, and fun looking at and breaking rocks

[@garypaull9382]

Wow! What an all-star cast! Great to see Ralph out there with his ice axe and learning more from Erin and Ralph

[@lindsaymalone9371]

I was just thinking a similar thought Gary: Oh to go all the places Ralph's ice ax has been!

[@briane173]

Ralph is a DAWG. Super nice guy too. I'm drawn to research scientists and instructors who don't exhibit the haughtiness, sanctimony, and arrogance usually associated with scientists and teachers who are obviously brilliant but can't tie their own shoes, yet carry themselves as "elitist." This group here, including our host, possess none of that. These are the scientists and instructors I wanna hang with; I feel smarter than I am by just being around them.

[@lindsaymalone9371]

This field excursion is SO awesome! It's fantastic to see geologists figuring out things in the field. Seeing Erin, Mike, and Ralph feels the thrill of encountering celebrities. I want to bring them my favorite papers or maps and have them autograph 'hem. 🤩

[@tooligan113]

Thanks Prof. "Z" for the field report update, It is great to see Michael, Erin, Ralph and Sam, Sam 'The Geologist Man' From about half way through 351I have been closely monitoring LIVE: from the Geldingadalir Volcano, Iceland; watching a shield volcano form. Watching Geology happen in 'Human Time I can follow day by day. I just returned from Iceland, marking the Geldingadalir Volcano as the third active effusive basaltic lava flow volcano I have witnessed.

[@StereoSpace]

Gorgeous stretch of landscape there. Gives you a sense of the difficulty of getting to these field sites, and then finding things once you're there. Looks like fun though.

[@Engineer1980]

Hard not to be tremendously impressed by Erin’s knowledge, experience, and passion for the Chumstick! Great video. Fabulous scenery. One can only wish the best of luck to Mike and Erin as their research continues!!

[@briane173]

I sit here and wonder how a research geologist home-based at Perdue couldn't fall so in love with the terrain being researched that she pulls chocks and moves to WA. As geology goes, Perdue might be a mecca for studying and processing geochemistry, but the area has some pretty boring geology by comparison to the North Cascades. I live right near the Columbia Gorge and Mt St. Helens and just can't get enough of the geology here.

[@charliebartholomew1564]

wonderful to see Nick and Ralph again Erin and Michael too here we are again in the Chumstick yay!

[@gordonormiston3233]

Thanks for sharing your field trip with us. Easy to see the difficulties facing field geologists in procuring samples. As Nick said after 40 odd million years these things aren’t just lying around. Thanks Erin for sharing your experiences and future plans with us

[@fallsupmtns]

Seeing this detective work sure makes me regret dropping out of college because I wasn't determined or focused enough to become a geologist! What an awesome combination of cool science and field research!

[@briane173]

I find myself feeling the same regret at times. Looking back there were lots of reasons why I didn't stick with college that had a lot to do with some fundamental "flaws" in my character -- the arrogance of youth being one of them, along with some ADD and perhaps a dose of depression. Had I been more mentally disciplined I might have discovered geology at an early enough age where I could've done something with it, because it has certainly piqued my interest now in my old(er) age. We can always say "it's never too late;" but nowadays it is so cost-prohibitive I couldn't even _start_ now, let alone finish. But hangin' vicariously with Nick and these preeminent scientists is the next best thing, and it's kept me alive after losing my wife of 42 years. Keeps my head on straight and my brain flexed.

[@dardar1862]

Thank you Erin!! You are an amazing inspiration to the future of geology!!!🙏

[@littlebear8331]

Thank you for bringing this report From the Field. At first, I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me since the timestamp showed that it just had been posted. Your camera shots over the mountain ridges were absolutely stunning but you could easily see this was not just a "walk in the park". Thanks again for giving us more than just food for thought on a late Saturday evening!

[@kyleroth1025]

Thanks Professor Zentner. Thank everyone on camera from all us Zentnerds

[@oscarmedina1303]

Thank you Nick for bringing along us "townies". A very interesting hike and discussion.

[@rosemariemann1719]

I love these videos of field trips : it's so interesting, and it's like joining them in a lovely walk in the countryside. 😊🇺🇲⭐🌎🎹💕🇬🇧😊

[@kaytaylor3721]

So interesting and so beautiful!! Thank you so much for taking us along.

[@lcampbell5352]

The scenery in the background never fails to amaze me. Gotta find a way to get out west and experience the majesty of mountains again! Keep up the great work Nick!

[@jacquesblaque7728]

No shortage of dramatic terrain from N. Georgia to Maine. Been in place a bit longer. One trail covers the distance for those so inclined.

[@hiker1658]

It would be helpful to have a Nick from Home style explanation of the trip: What you're looking for and the techniques you're going to employ. And maybe another session that's a wrap up of what you found. Additional material might include the tools you bring with you. How you prepare for this kind of trip. And what's in those big backpacks? Great video! Just makes me curious and jealous.

[@kimberleehall3143]

Thank you Nick for taking us along! What an interesting crowd to be with! I'm still reading Erin's Master Thesis; it's lovely to hear her talking about it. Sam, you're gonna learn so much! Looking forward to what Mike and the whole team discovers! Always love hearing Ralph, such a insightful resource! We live on an amazing planet and the Pacific Northwest Rocks!

[@tick_magnetedschaper5611]

WOW! Ralph really gets around. I'm impressed. Hiking with him would be a team come true.

[@gerritroeterdink]

Thanks Erin, Mike, Ralph, Nick and the other geologist.

[@bagoquarks]

Sam from Purdue.

[@gerritroeterdink]

@@bagoquarks Thanks

[@lockedine]

I really enjoyed this ridge and the rocks that were found. This is why geology is still a popular major.

[@cindyleehaddock3551]

Still laughing. I had captions on because I've been watching foreign dramas and it translated Swakane Gneiss to soaking mice.....It needs to learn GeoSpeak. Great seeking all you guys get together to locate things so we can find them later! Thanks for another fun and informative adventure!

[@sidbemus4625]

L M A O... Nothing can go wrong ; go wrong ; go wrong

[@donnacsuti4980]

Lol ya doesn't do well with any scientific jargon. Often very funny results

[@kidchalleen4250]

OMG thank you for this! I love my Nick on the Rocks! Seriously guy, you GOTTA keep making these!

[@glg3945]

This was educational and entertaining. Thank you. Peace and good fortune and good health to you all. ❤

[@warrenlayne1594]

Off topic, ... until the time I saw you write it on a board, I always wondered who Wanda Fuca was. Every time I walk, end up with rocks in my pockets. Hats off sir, keep up the good work.

[@gailroberts3842]

What a treat! Always fun to learn more about the Chumstick...ye ol' backyard. Very interesting to go into the field with these experts. Thank you!

[@dardar1862]

Thanks Nick! I love seeing my beautiful North 🥰🥰🥰🙏

[@colleennobbs7218]

Wow, what a beautiful hike. Thank you Nick. Fascinating!

[@johnwinskie7911]

Wow! Super fascinating! Now I have a somewhat better idea what the tuffs look like! Thanks to all for including us!

What a special treat!! Thanks Nick!

[@johnjunge6989]

Wonderful walk, a shame they did not find, for sure, what they were looking for. View is beautiful, surprised how rounded it is. Hard to believe so many experts could not find something unusual up there. Great session!

[@Rick-uk4yi]

Just got back from the eastern Sierra and had to look for a new Nick video. Nice to find one!

[@sheetmetalhead]

Thanks Nick, love the views, love the geology talk, love to see the passion in people. Keep it up man!

[@NUGGETSHOOTER]

Absolutely beautiful, much different, and way greener than our Arizona Desert. We have seen very little rain the last 2 years here...

[@davied5496]

Thanks Nick for taking us along on the field observation it was very interesting just to see how it all works.

[@Poppageno]

Erin and Sam(?) had quite the backpacks. What size sample do they need to take back? golf ball, baseball, softball, basketball? Nice to know that even the pros have to break open a rock to see what it is. Thanks Nick, I've learned so much from you and your guests!

[@thirstfast1025]

A cruiser vest is much more practical most of the time (for me anyway, as a prospector). It allows you to distribute your load across your whole torso instead of putting it all on your back. Notice her difficulty maintaining balance on soft, uneven ground (4:22). For me (so probably not the same as what they're doing) a typical sample would be a couple softballs. We often take 2 at a time, one to analyze (ie assay, and therefore destroy), one to keep as reference. I can carry ~30 samples in my vest, which I guess would be about 60 softballs worth of volume (though rock is typically going to be denser than a softball LOL!). Cheers!

[@davec9244]

I am so impressed with all the young people , you work with ,and your students! we can be assured of grate success, from the future generation, and thank you for all you do

[@GratefulNachos]

This reminds me of my time at field camp. Treasured memories!

[@briangarrow448]

The chumstick is what you use to beat the bottom of the chumbucket when you are fishing off the coast of the Olympic Peninsula! The only music acceptable is what-??? Chumbawumba! Pissing the night away 🎶

[@NickandRachel]

Beautiful scenery out there!

[@AvanaVana]

At 13:15 there is a bright white, tuffaceous looking cliff under the ridge in the background. Then you head over there and look back, I think, and you’re looking past Mike Eddy at 22:55 when you zoom in, and there it is, what sure looks like a nice cliff of that ridge supporting, silicified tuff facies that Erin was talking about, right under the ridge you must have walked on but couldn’t see from the top... Hope they got some good samples. Erin seems like a skier, the way she navigates all the loose talus. I noticed Ralph had some highly developed footwork on the loose terrain too.

[@ginfonte3386]

I'm guessing that's why Mike and Erin decided to drop straight down off the promising ridge for a few more samples.

[@danielirvin4420]

Just about to go to bed... it can wait a half hour...

[@Rachel.4644]

This is extremely interesting, as Clark Cyn, Eagle Creek, Chumstick Hwy are all very familiar areas. Thanks too, to hear more of Erin's history. Cool to see Prof Haugerud, and Mike Eddy also. Thank you!!

[@davelamore6309]

Hi Rachel

[@MrMarkar1959]

👍🏼 nice walk in the park😎

[@justinsimpson436]

So interesting to hear about Erin's work. We're lucky she chooses to lend her expertise to Washington. Mike too! Thanks for sharing, Nick!!

[@otismilo1qaz]

Thanks Nick!

[@greybone777]

Some day check out sears creek up the little Wenatchee. Soda springs and soap stone.

[@jw4620]

Good movie, Ned!

[@lorrainewaters6189]

I love it when he shows a rock up close.

[@PlayNowWorkLater]

This was a nice follow up after you went with your 351 class in this area.

[@LockStoppageSandwich]

You lucky sausage…………………..such beautiful countryside

[@killsalive1]

What do they call a meeting of Geologists? A Geocache !!! yuk yuk yuk

[@stevenbernier4206]

That is in my backyard. There are some huge sandstone outcroppings right around where the tracks go under the ridge it would be on the west side of the highway south of Mary canyon road. Used to ride the dirt bike up there.

[@markwhite6782]

Why have a gym membership when you can go to the field with Nick.

[@MrFmiller]

I had to go take a nap after watching it.

[@zazouisa_runaway4371]

Thanks Nick

[@raylancaster5886]

Thank you Nick

[@sharonhoward4957]

Fun to tag along!

[@davelamore6309]

Hi Sharon

[@wesdonze2014]

Great spot - but I have no head for heights so would not be a lot of use in these environments!

[@bagoquarks]

*RALPH'S WALKING STICK* knew where the tuff formation was the whole time. It was just waiting for the humans to figure it out.

[@lorrainewaters6189]

Funny: I took out my hammer and banged against rocks here in Vermont, and boy!, Metamorphic rock are nigh impossible to open! That was a lesson.

[@peterdanzl-tauer5970]

All rocks will break, you just need a bigger persuasive device! A large sledge hammer should do the trick.

[@longcastle4863]

22:29... From watching a lot of geology videos -- including Nick's -- can't help wondering how that big boulder lower right got there... Glaciers?

[@eidrith493]

This place is just so beautiful. It is important to preserve the native vegetation in these areas and have no old growth logging.

[@thomashart1560]

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[@thirstfast1025]

Good to see John Hammond is still active in the field.

[@pmm1044]

Nick RE Erin work in Olympics. I did see conglomerates on Buckhorn Mountain and thought they must have formed after Silesia accretion.

[@jeffbransky7966]

I’m curious about the ridge top they walked on and the steep ravines on either side. I just have to settle for appreciating the beautiful scenery. This was unlike Nick’s lectures I have been watching.

[@davidappel5840]

Great Video!

[@whitby910]

Thank you all. Can visualise the geology better now.

[@barrettl2473]

Loved this

[@greenoregonian2907]

Thanks for sharing

[@cyndikarp3368]

Thanks for bringing us along for this hike. Was the formation of white steep rock off in the distance, part of the Chumstick formation?

[@davelamore6309]

Hello

[@sidbemus4625]

Thank You All.Good luck on the Olympic Peninsula.

[@robertwhite6939]

Thanks.

[@geoffgeoff143]

These videos are great. Between these and Geohug who needs TV.

[@katiekane5247]

Check out Joey/Tony Santoro on "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't". His video yesterday had him finding tons of leaf fossils in Utah. Another underrated channel.

[@CaptMikey-vc4ym]

Sorry, Pr. Nick; Do modern field geologists use GPS now to map contacts and dip and strike?

[@richardmourdock2719]

Hey Hey.. Boiler UP! Nice to see Erin in this. Purdue has a great program though largely unheralded. Too bad it wasn't nearly as a deep a program in igneous petrology when Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan were there...but then they probably would have still just focused on the aviation engineering program... but, that worked well for them.

[@phemmeke]

It looks like alot of places I Elk hunt in CO. Walking ridges is the superhighway of the mountains. Probably have 1000 miles lifetime.

[@timothytaylor8870]

Nick, Dr Victor Camp gave a KZbin lecture titled “ The Yellowstone Hotspot Track and the Origins of the Columbia River Basalt”. Many of the ideas you have already taught us but there is some new info and I would love you to do your magic and provide an overview and Ventnerized presentation of this work. I hope you can find it on KZbin I would have sent it to you but I couldn’t find your email. All the best Tim

[@jamesparker6876]

That is the lady who reset all the dates.

[@Borsuk3344]

Quite tough to find this tuff!

[@DisVietVetUSA]

Interesting thank you

[@40mes]

"Pass me another chumstick, mate."

[@timothyarmstrong5987]

North Cascades cool I hope Nick and Mike check out Ruby hill.

[@jodybourgeois8813]

I tramped some of these ridges with the Ph.D. student from the 1980s, namely Jim Evans (I haven't heard him named in the video, though his work and maps and sections are praised). I wonder if anyone tried to contact him and ask him how/where to look.

[@charlesward8196]

So what was that big white boulder at the top of the ridge where they were sampling the mottled tuff? Tonalite from the Mt Stewart batholith? Glacial erratic?

[@DarrylWilletttoy4rn85]

Have you considered ever having geology alumni or other guest speakers to come give public lectures to go along with any future public lectures you may give?

[@Don.Challenger]

At 01:34, Nick hesitantly says: "Oh, my God, I think I see some geologists in the clearing" The question of course becomes: Are these Grizzly geologists or just your run of the mill grizzled ones?

[@CaptMikey-vc4ym]

Y'know, Prof Nick, sometimes a tuff is not so very tough. Thanks, just sayin'.

[@bevinbrush4822]

What process did occur for a Mass Spec. Analysis?

[@snoosebaum995]

geology = an excuse to go for a hike

[@1101millie97]

What is her educational background? I am under the impression Erin is one of your former (undergrad) students, given the mutual familiarity of a teacher and his former pupil. A success story of yours, if you will. She's young enough, I think.

[@complimentary_voucher]

When I hear the word Chumstick I see something shaped like a Kentucky Fried Chicken drum made out of cotton wool. Thanks, synaesthesia!

[@LockStoppageSandwich]

What camera/lens Nick ?

[@corneilusdonaldson1858]

I think it's a camera phone Probably an iPhone

[@sean_b_drummer]

iPhone 11 with a gimbal mount

[@LockStoppageSandwich]

@@corneilusdonaldson1858 Decent quality video for a phone.

[@lordofthieves8200]

@@LockStoppageSandwich yes its his phone with his gadget, I've seen him use it. Very great quality considering its just hand held

[@LockStoppageSandwich]

@@lordofthieves8200 Thank you all for your responses

[@jdmcarandmotorcycle]

Erin красава

[@charlotte1791]

Bigfoot is probably walking behind y’all while you’re looking at rocks.

[@d.t.4523]

It was looking at them from behind the fabeled outcrop. 👍

[@gordongadbois1179]

THOUGHT THAT TITLE WAS CLICKBAIT. NEVER HEARD IT CALLED A CHUMSTICK BEFORE, LOL.