Just amazing crowd science on display again! Thanks for consolidating all of this for us Nick 🎉
@RussellSenior Жыл бұрын
I just drove over the Chehalis outwash today, family and I took a 13 hour roundtrip Portland to Seattle and back to visit the Art Museum on "free day" to see their Calder and Hokusai exhibits, and eat at my favorite Seattle restaurant.
@Siletzia Жыл бұрын
As a student of history and geology, this series has become fascinating from both perspectives. In history, this would fall under historiography and in the other, I'm tempted to say, "historical geology," but it's becoming an exhaustive, crowd-sourced literature review. Well done, Professor Nick. You continue to amaze and enlighten.
@swirvinbirds1971 Жыл бұрын
Awesome to hear Mossback is watching your stuff. I love both history and Geology.
@mbvoelker8448 Жыл бұрын
It's insane how this community comes together to assist in what has become a massive project.
@9x6x9x Жыл бұрын
ya thnaks i almost feel like i dont assist u guys or nick but i love the format and nick teatching i like i have a community here
@johnnash5118 Жыл бұрын
Nick, You don't have to apologize for being out of Central Washington; I know you don't apologize to your students in class, so please recognize your internet audience are also your pupils, we love you and are just as loyal. Your Astoria, Chehalis and Gorge episodes were great! Keep it up, but without worrying about being out of your dad gum back yard. Eventually you're going to have to address areas you have skipped over and we'll be excited to see it! After all, when you talk about "Northwest" Geology, ya gotta include areas outside your focused location.
@glenncarr194711 ай бұрын
Catching up. Thanks
@christopherrichey9137 Жыл бұрын
Nick, thank you. I am a geology nerd but I am no academic. However, I've learned SO much from you about the geologic history of the Earth, point in fact, even though you focus mostly on the Pacific North West. I've searched for a South Eastern equivalent to you, but, alas, there is none. Alabama born with a complicated geology. If you don't have the time, do you know who may? Asking for a few thousand friends.
@janicemartin158011 ай бұрын
I feel the same about New Mexico! It has amazing geologic history but all of the youtube presenters are so boring! I started watching Nick because I grew up in PNW, most of my family still lives there. I wish I had known all this fascinating geology when I lived & hiked there.
@marsharose2301 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for all the amazing information from all the viewers!
@georgegrader9038 Жыл бұрын
Having briefly taught this stuff [& field camps] was psyched to watch two of Nicks vids with Brian Atwater. Even when i lived in the PNW, getting to any of these places was an all day affair. And its still an Affaire from Afar.
@OVTraveller Жыл бұрын
Thank you Nick for this series so far which will represent a huge volume of developing data delivered by you, your excellent guests and contributing viewers. I believe this is making geological history, in depth, breadth and interest. We are lucky to have shared it with you. Cheers from Melbourne, Australia.
@mwseed40159 ай бұрын
Couldn't agree with you more, Nick! Ahoy from a lowly high school teacher in Coos Bay! Go Pirates!
@rayray6548 Жыл бұрын
Bonjour from Quebec, Nick! 🍁 Just wanted to 'layer' on the praise for your 'gneiss' content and 'rock-solid' teaching skills! Your videos are like the 'bedrock' of my geology education, and your explanations are 'clastic' - breaking down concepts like a rockstar! Ever consider exploring the Canadian Shield? It would be an 'epicentre' of awesomeness in the geological saga you've got going! 🌋
@stevesmith997 Жыл бұрын
Vancouver and Fraser/Pitt Valley was also submerged as the ice retreated. It took time for the land to bounce back and then the Fraser River built out the delta, and that process continues.
@montpelier3 Жыл бұрын
I smile every x you say Champlain
@watersfamily4 Жыл бұрын
Love your lectures from Dallas Texas!
@LewisDawson-agau Жыл бұрын
These streaming programs leave me famished. The references to Vindman's backery (you gotta love it), the German chocolate cake, the trail of bread crumbs.....
@yukigatlin9358 Жыл бұрын
OMGoodness!!!😃✨💗Nick has done it again, I'm officially hooked!!! Thank you SO much for every viewers just like us and experts alike to willingly contributing to Nick's fruitful investigations along Bretz's life and his explorations of Ice Age Floods!!!✨💞💗
@Jay-dr9co Жыл бұрын
I have dug the blonde and red pebbles SW of Goldendale at about 1600 ft and on old Hwy 30 in Oregon at 250 ft They would have been insignificant had I not watched Your lectures,
@kylekuntz5302 Жыл бұрын
Trying to keep up, but played hooky on the last couple videos. I fell into reading the paper I downloaded about my local area, North Central Montana's, Milk River Valley, and the way it relates to everything on this channel. The paper is, THE MONTANA LOBE OF THE KEEWATIN ICE SHEET, by FRED. H.H. CALHOUN, 1906. My former high school science teacher, retired, now part time and about to retire again, will be giving a talk on The Geology of the Milk River Valley next month at our local county museum. A big part of the story is the Missouri River, or the watershed it drained, use to flow through what is the current Milk River Valley East of Havre Montana. An ice sheet blocked and moved that drainage to the current path of the Missouri River. I am without any doubt more Geological study could be done to better understand all the evidence relating to this event.
@davec9244 Жыл бұрын
It is always easier to learn when you are interested and entertained. Also, if you have more questions than answers, you are invested, in your learning. Thank you for entertaining us and ALL the questions I now have! stay safe!
@Rachel.4644 Жыл бұрын
You're teasing out and following fascinating threads. I love how your questioning is evolving the story.
@sidbemus4625 Жыл бұрын
Finally... watching in reply...Gotta Luv It.
@jacotacomorocco Жыл бұрын
Thanks for answering my question Ned! Another great afternoon spent learning together.
@frankbarnwell____ Жыл бұрын
Thanks Nick. ned
@thomasrodman1796 Жыл бұрын
If you’re watching this video and enjoy the content, please like and subscribe! That helps get the word out and grow the community.
@9x6x9x Жыл бұрын
hey brother nick peace health love and long life to u and thanks i watch u now not only for the data crumbs and thnx for those lol and thnx for your hole fam of teatchers i enjoy how u think its ammazing brudda u a house hold name at my house nick lol we all love what udo i wish i could take your class ......... n e way u are great nick!
@joelroberts3743 Жыл бұрын
Hey Professor, Love the face on the rock outside your window. The only problem is it's not smiling.
@HugsView Жыл бұрын
Howdy from San Antonio
@greggwilson5221 Жыл бұрын
R. W. Chaney became a paleobotanist and was famous in finding the "Living Fossil" metasequoia in the 1940s
@spamletspamley672 Жыл бұрын
When you have an odd week when you are stuck for ideas ( ;) ), Nick, it would be interesting to hear from someone who can guest speak on how the west was triangulated and mapped, and who were the pioneers who dragged all the heavy gear up mountains in what must have often been hostile conditions, to make the base maps that the geology pioneers could then begin 'colouring in' ( ;) ). Oh, and don't get overwhelmed by all the related information that is being collected as a result of all the enthusiasm for history and science that you are generating, I'm sure that there will also be keen librarians and historical societies who would like to help catalogue it all for use by later generations of historians and scientists, for uses not yet imagined (There are lots of really good historians on here that could put you on to the right people to go through it all. Heather Cox Richardson is particularly enthusiastic and prolific, and a great speaker and blogger.)
@kathleensayce6035 Жыл бұрын
Neim and Neim have hypothesized multiple historic Columbia River pathways in NW Oregon, based on Miocene basalts. The bigger picture of all ancient Columbia River paths from the Cascades west is not at all well known.
@kylekuntz5302 Жыл бұрын
I have to consider it providence that I wrote my comment about the Calhoun paper and the shifting path of the Missouri River before I got to this videos mention of the possible shifting of the Columbia River.
@danluke592_Middleton_Idaho Жыл бұрын
NICK I used OBS at my Church I found that if you had the volume up to far sometimes your voice would cause the meter to jump into the RED. You might want to reduce the volume Then test when we are online with you so we can let you know if the crackle is gone.
@AggroPhene Жыл бұрын
Agreed, it sounds like peaks getting clipped. Something preamplification (OBS) is cranked too high.
@adamcollegeman2 Жыл бұрын
crackle can be from 3 things probably, 1.oversaturated audio if mic input volume is too high, a inline device or setting called a audio compressor can be used, a lower mic setting or auto mic setting can be used , 2.mic rubbing on cloth, 3.mic cord, mic connector, or mic plug, is dirty or cable wearing out and has intermittent connection etc issues. good work! I support you love love love
@AggroPhene Жыл бұрын
@adamcollegeman2 yes, a bad cable could cause a variety of issues, including clipping, due to 'saturation' as stated.
@jackiepeterson4318 ай бұрын
Of course the history and geology intersect and connect, and they should, that's where the story is, othewise it's just data. Humans influeneced the funding to do field work, to help charge the passion of Bretz and future students. Its the humans and their interactions that make it juicy and alive and real. Why do they do it? Why do they stick with it (or not) when challenged. Sometimes a hodgepodge of loose ends brought together inspire new thinking and possible connections. You don't have to tie up all the loose ends. In the UK whenever anything, particularly gov't inspired projects, but other large developments always have to have archaeologists along if they find something (bones, an old structure, etc.) I don't know if geologists (I'm sure they are on some level) but in the sense of historical geology, should be. Bring it on! Great stuff!!
@georgegrader9038 Жыл бұрын
Breadcrumbs Lol! [see Bretz Crumbs below]! ... so where does the wicked witch live? Love the high school teacher discussion/ remarkable personal karma.
@pdriot9424 Жыл бұрын
Soldier on sir!!!
@jamesdownard1510 Жыл бұрын
Great perspective in all respects on the 1919 Bretz view and its context.
@sidbemus4625 Жыл бұрын
AT 20:33..... say again 20:33. Here is a message for all our friends in the occupied Free Thought And Discourse Geology Zone. "The fruit does not fall far from the tree; repeating ;The fruit does not fall far from the tree" ..... " Molasses tomorrow will bring forth Cognac; repeating ; Molasses tomorrow will bring forth Cognac "
@scottowens1535 Жыл бұрын
Hi Nick..Late or Something Here. Happy New Year 🎉🎉🎉 We made it yet Again 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Let's Do This Thang!!! Where's the white cortsite in the Puget Sound coming From? I rockhound from Olympia to Vashon Island and west up the hood canal. It's everywhere. Does this story go even further with the main outlet being the Puget Sound and Strait of Juan de Fuca? Possibly pushed south with ice advances and static depression due to the weight of the ice? Seems with the uplifting,volcanic activity and folding skew the story. I can picture water all the way up the Columbia. From the Dalls down looks like Puget Sound wetlands exactly!
@robertfarrimond3369 Жыл бұрын
Walter A Bowers U of Chicago member of the Track Team 1920
@douginorlando6260 Жыл бұрын
1… I would think there are ways to differentiate where ocean shorelines were versus lake shorelines (salt vs fresh, salt water ocean microscopic shells vs fresh water shells, ocean isotope ratios of sodium, potassium, calcium). 2…. Is there a way to determine the deposit date of alluvial materials on shorelines? Seems to me that would help dating chronology vs elevation of Ocean levels. 3…. Does luminescence dating work for erratics that sank in the ocean? Is there an adjustment to readings based on the depth which luminescence dating samples were buried/submerged?
@frankbarnwell____ Жыл бұрын
I'm late. Work schedules... but doing ketchup crew, or replay. It'll be good, so 👍, already.
@danniegibbs6535 Жыл бұрын
This explains the lake Erie salt mine
@danielstevens5135 Жыл бұрын
WAS THE BARABOO CLASS A PER-REQUISITE FOR THE EASTERN WASHINGTON TRIP?
@robertfarrimond3369 Жыл бұрын
Ralph Works Chaney, Paleo Botanist. alma mater-> University of Chicago
@RussellSenior Жыл бұрын
The thing you were pointing at at 19m10s was The Dalles, not Hood River. Hood River is the next drainage west. Not important, but as an Oregonian I am obliged to say something, lol.
@aaronfulwider779 Жыл бұрын
The valleys of the Chehalis, Willapa, and Columbia Rivers, when viewed from space, all follow the same "S" shaped pattern to the sea.
@amacuro Жыл бұрын
clockwise rotation, eh?
@HugsView Жыл бұрын
Quaritze is so neat.
@amacuro Жыл бұрын
Hahaha so funny about the Hansel and Gretel thing, because I did think about it, I did think that you thought you came up with it before anybody else, but didn't say anything hahaha
@Tervicz Жыл бұрын
A toast to you, background characters!
@johnschmitt7957 Жыл бұрын
The idea that this Ned Zinger guy would think it is a good idea to leave bits of food in the forest as his guide home makes me glad he is not a field geologist.
@HavanaWoody Жыл бұрын
Nick, It looks like to me his advanced students and their spouses went on the field trip and thats the classes listed, field classes?
@bryansavage970011 ай бұрын
like how it is broke down in easy to understand language
@matthewgrivalsky799210 ай бұрын
Hey Nick love your energy and knowledge... Have you ever given any consideration to investing Mel Waters Hole??? Sounds like quite the geological enigma...
@jmbreece Жыл бұрын
@nickz, if a large area were up under ocean water for an extended length of time, you would find a lot of evidence of sea life. Has anyone looked for that?
@Steviepinhead Жыл бұрын
As Nick indicated more than once in this episode, there is no evidentiary reason to believe there was a saltwater incursion of this magnitude: Bretz (and his predecessors) were right about the various lakes and other indications of large amounts of water, and a source in the ocean was just Bretz's first stab at sourcing all that water. His continued investigations led him to the realization that there was a freshwater glacial source, not a saltwater ocean one.
@amacuro Жыл бұрын
I mean, it makes perfect sense. Most humans live in places close to the sea, whereas no human has ever seen an glacial flood. Or at least none that taught geology.@@Steviepinhead
@Steviepinhead Жыл бұрын
@@amacuro Plenty of people have seen glacial outbursts (Iceland, etc.). None since the start of science have witnessed a megaflood, though, for sure. The point I was making is not that Bretz's initial seawater incursion hypothesis was irrational or unreasonable, but that we have known for a 100 years that it was incorrect. People kept asking Nick why, in CURRENT time, geologists were not looking for salt deposits and marine fossils. Those people were simply not paying attention.
@amacuro Жыл бұрын
Ah i see, that makes sense, thank you for explaining@@Steviepinhead
@brianlhughes Жыл бұрын
old puget lobe forced columbia south and while there carved the current path through the mountain range?
@ggtgp Жыл бұрын
Rotate mike plug if it’s a male connector, fixes failing wire from being pulled.
@audreynims4940 Жыл бұрын
Landslide instead of ice from Hood? Bonneville landslide blocked the columbia river circa 1400....
@jeffbybee5207 Жыл бұрын
What mechinism would be credited to cause the columbia and champagne submergences? Thankyou
@MrRmeadows Жыл бұрын
I love watching NIck lean how to use the bird to zoom in Google Earth. Watch past the end to see that.
@ritaswedia399 Жыл бұрын
👍👍👍👍
@jonathanblubaugh5049 Жыл бұрын
@Eric Hutton Hable "Meriwether Lewis"?
@heathertaylor4677 Жыл бұрын
NICK, COULD THE COLUMBIA RIVER COURSE(S) HAVE BEEN ALTERED BY THE BASALT FLOWS? MAYBE I AM MIXING TIME INAPPROPRIATELY. ALSO, IF YOU HAVE A CAT, YOU HAVE CAT HAIR!😂
@crownhouse2466 Жыл бұрын
there is a downtown lecture by Nick from a couple of years ago, called "Ancient rivers of the Pacific North West" explaining this in quite detail. Its on this channel, highly recommended!
@teacherdustinpnw Жыл бұрын
@@crownhouse2466 I loved that episode!!! What am I saying, I've loved them all...
@Steviepinhead Жыл бұрын
I thought Nick gave a date for the resumption of the Friday lectures at Disco Hall, but now I'm not finding it. Did anyone catch that date, please?
@LewisDawson-agau Жыл бұрын
Talk Friday started today, 1/5/2024. No talk next Friday ; 3 day weekend.
@Steviepinhead Жыл бұрын
@@LewisDawson-agau Thanks, he showed the calendar to the camera at the end of today's lecture, so I've got the upcoming dates now!
@graysonchip Жыл бұрын
How do we know the Columbia ocean submergence idea is wrong? Can’t we have huge glacial floods and gentle glacial floods after glacial maximums, and then in glacial minimums with high sea levels have saltwater covering the Columbia valleys? Is it a lack of marine fossils younger than 2mya found in those valleys?
@maryseaman312 Жыл бұрын
If the rocks that Nick is holding up is quartzite, then the rocks on our ranch at the southern end of Willipa Bay are NOT quartzite ... nor, are/were they that small ... they were two to three times the size of those cobbles, and more yellow, even some were red.
@maryseaman312 Жыл бұрын
speaking of what Nick was showing at 32:45 and following
@danniegibbs6535 Жыл бұрын
Nick you are a Z square 😂
@rogerdudra178 Жыл бұрын
Poke and hope works well unless you're hunting bears.
@jonathanblubaugh5049 Жыл бұрын
@John Ogden Alpine glaciologists
@BudKnocka Жыл бұрын
I’m looking at the CRB map and there are two fingers of it pointing directly at both Grays Harbor and Willapa Bay. However that was 15 mya or so…the Columbia got pushed to the margins of the basalt to the north n west in eastern Washington. Seems that would be the same in western Washington too. Uncrank the 15 degrees of Siletzia. Drop the Willapa hills and the Cascades which Mt Rainier being part of the lily formation of 2.9 mya. So the cascades being pushed up over 2.9 MYA hmmm coincides with our Ice ages there Nick. Now Oregon got hit first by Siletzia our Large Igneous Province. Lifted Oregon up higher first then Washington. Washington being being lower n Oregon being higher the darn Columbia took a turn not north but northwest because of the clockwise rotation. This makes the PENEPLAIN comments seem more robust if that 15mya the Columbia got pushed north and west by those CRB fingers in Willapa and Grays Harbor. During those times the Cowlitz divide wouldn’t even had been existent to block the Columbia from flowing north right into Puget sound. Then as the land uplifted the Columbia followed the low spots got blocked at Puget sound by uplift 2.9 MYA first bunch of glaciers blocking Puget Sound mt rainier mt hood mt St. Helens mt adams etc then made the Chehalis valley an outlet more uplift then out Willapa bay more uplift you get your Cowlitz divide plus the Willapa hills Columbia gets dropped into its current channel. I’m saying 2.9 MYA the Columbia dumped into Puget sound then an ice age happened pushed all the gravels down the sound to Olympia by black lake forcing the Columbia down the Chehalis. Hell the only thing poking up 15MYA was the Cascade crystalline core. Lake Chelan could have been a viable channel to the Pacific Ocean. Take 15 degrees off of it remove the volcanic cascades n hmmm nice path to the ocean. Those volcanos growing blocking moving the Columbia around to where it got boxed into.
@georgegrader9038 Жыл бұрын
Sounds compelling; but a bit surprised about cascade age....
@BudKnocka Жыл бұрын
@@georgegrader9038 I looked it up
@georgegrader9038 Жыл бұрын
Interesting questions.
@georgegrader9038 Жыл бұрын
Starting point paper? wpg.forestry.oregonstate.edu/sites/wpg/files/seminars/Hammond_1979_Tectonic%20Evo%20Cascade.pdf
@davied5496 Жыл бұрын
Maybe with Google Earth you can go through the path that Bretts went step by step.
@glenncruickshank2859 Жыл бұрын
The placenames are in his walking order for field notes, GE will take you on a "tour" of each location by selecting the folder for the year in the Places box, then in the lower right hand corner of the places box is a button (little folder) for "tour" and that will fly from stop to stop
@davec9244 Жыл бұрын
and late yet again
@BudKnocka Жыл бұрын
Good Lord Nick! YOU GOT OVER 82,000 ZENTNERDS THAT LOVE GEOLOGY 🪨 AND SKILLS YOU AINT GOT. We are all willing to help as needed to push the understanding of Northwest geology 🪨. Active chores we all are willing to do and contribute to the the program. How does one eat an Elephant;NICK? ONE BITE AT A TIME for anyone else! ZENTNERDS EAT THE ELEPHANT AT 82,000 BITES AT A TIME.