‘Nick From Home’ Livestream #9 - Supercontinents

[@cmiller2544]

Watches this Nick From Home series as I missed it originally. I have watched the three A to Z series. Loving it and learning so much! Thank you , Nick! Keep doing what your doing!

[@karenmann4825]

You are absolutely the best instructor ever!?!

[@russell3380]

I don't like missing your live streams but at least I get to watch the videos. The pre lecture is great IMHO. Thank you for what you do.

[@gooba0]

I used to hate school. Why couldn’t I have a teacher like nick.

[@avonellehamilton8500]

Great update! Thanks to you and your teaching style. You are one of the real teachers! Be well.

[@larrygrimaldi1400]

I think this was the best, and I watch them all repeatedly

[@tamaraschmidt8160]

“Pause for dramatic effect!” ...my new favorite line. Loved the video! Thx from Folsom, Ca.

[@nickynockyknackynoo2346]

Brilliant. Nice and clear Nick! I'm glad I was able to catch up later in the UK.

[@susanliebermann5721]

Very exciting lecture! You drew the line-margin right through my house in eastern Washington! Thanks!

[@chrissr318]

"I haven't given you that information yet but if you are a smart ass commentor you already have jumped the gun good for you." 🤣🤣🤣 great series. I just found it after rewatching some CWU lectures

[@stevenkaeser8583]

You stay home ad safe. Good to see you.

[@stevedavis7588]

It would be nice if things would start a little earlier than 10-12 minutes into the show that Nick finally gets started...Great information Nick. Thank you!

[@lizj5740]

Nick has told us he starts at 6:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. If you don't like helping with the set-up (which is what is going on during those "pre-show" minutes), then don't tune in until 6:00 p.m. If you're watching after the live chat, it shouldn't be too hard to slide along the video until you see an image of Nick standing at the board. Or sometimes someone will comment that the "start" occurs at x.xx.

[@jwardcomo]

Thank you!!

[@vanessaengelbrecht4212]

Hey there, watching from Cape Town South Africa

[@swirvinbirds1971]

Muffler Boy! 😆 You crack me up Nick. Thanks!

[@larrygrimaldi1400]

Best yet!

[@1234j]

Excellent stuff from Nick.

[@CAMacKenzie]

Good Morning (now) glad to see you are up and well! Looks cold up there, where's a hat? Rock on!

[@mpetersen6]

Nice Belushi imitation 👍 I see from your bio that you were awarded the Shea Award as was John McPhee. McPhee's Annals of the Former World is the work who really sparked my interest as a lay man in geology. My portion of NA (and Nick's home child hood stamping grounds) was welded to NA during the assembly of Columbia. Any evidence in terms an oregeny or other process is long gone or buried under miles of sedinents. Im in SE Wisconsin and under the glacial morraines, drumlins etc its pretty much limestone. Farther north up by the UP there are the remains of the Goebebic Oregeny. Thats from a crustal block that got suttured in a seperate event to my area. The assembly of the Craton of North America was pretty much finished circa 1.6 Ba. The oldest parts of the Craton go back past 4 Ba. Thats parts of the Canadian Shield and the Wyoming block. Call the Belt Tiramisu

[@roastbunny]

Pinehurst, NC Found you last year. Hooked. Became a rock groupie 10 years ago. Wrote school papers every year about earthquakes and volcanos from grammar school on. Told in 6th grade that continents were never connected and invention of flowers may have killed dinosaurs because they could not digest them( veggiesaurs).😷

[@brett327]

Has Nick explained why he's doing these outside? I'm imagining a scene where Nick tells his wife that he's going to turn their living room into a TV studio, then he is subsequently banished to the backyard. :)

[@briane173]

Extraordinary times called for extraordinary measures. For which we are all eternally grateful. So we should give a nod of thanks to Liz as much as Nick for inviting us to their home to conduct some Geo 101 and even some post-grad work while we were all locked down and unable to breathe let alone go anywhere, including school.

[@therealanyaku]

In 1960 I had a middle school geograpy teacher who used a text book about Wegener, and he taught basically, "the evidence is there, he has to be right."

[@mpetersen6]

I think th hey should establish a major scientific prize called the Wegener for those individuals that establish theories that are ridiculed but later proven right.

[@briane173]

@@mpetersen6 If they did, J. Harlen Bretz would've been the plank-owner.

[@mpetersen6]

​@@briane173 Wegener and Bretz both faced public scorn at basically the same time.

[@smcic]

10:53 start

[@mpetersen6]

The Western Margin is also known as the the 706 Line. The 706 from ratios of Strontium isotopes.

[@marinangeli3250]

This time I found my way here about halfway through the segment... but still hoped to ask a question. Silly me, I couldn't think of a credible question to ask! Surely a testament to your teaching skills. Undaunted, I pondered for sometime after this session, what question could I ask? Finally, Eureka! So, here's my question... I live in Bellevue, Idaho, near Ketchum, and travel regularly through the Camas Prairie on my way to Mt. Home and Boise. Are there any surface remains in this area, of the Columbian deposits of 1800-1400 ma, that I can explore? This region of the Snake River Plain, and all the way up into the Camas Prairie, is overlain by multiple basalt flows so I'm not sure if anything is exposed... or what to look for. Thanks so much for all you do... you are a sanity saver, my friend. In better days, my companion and I had hoped to catch one of your live lectures... my 85 year old mom lives in Valley, Wa. and we planned to time our next visit in such a way as to allow a trip to Ellensburg. That future is quite uncertain now, with our quiet little Wood River Valley erupting as Idaho's COVID-19 hotspot (almost half the statewide cases, and 2 of the state's 6 deaths, so far, all in the span of 2 weeks). If these two old farts make it through this, we'll get there someday. In the meantime, tell Muffler Boy to take a chill pill... or at least feather the gas as he passes your lovely, vintage home (that style, known as the early 20th century "bungalow", is my favorite). Cheers to you, Nick, and that mouthwatering Washington apple... we love you too!

[@philbuglass4857]

Can you give any tips for connecting to these live? I am subscribed to Nick's youtube channel, but I don't get any notifications. I tried going to the channel last night, when he would normally be online, but couldn't see any sign of how to connect...

[@marinangeli3250]

@@philbuglass4857 Hello Phil, and please accept my apology for being slow to get back to you... I didn't find this message until last night. I wish I had a tip for you but, other than a notification in my KZbin messages box, that seems to arrive right when the new episode begins, and is invisible unless you are signed in to KZbin, I haven't found a way to get notified any earlier. I check Nick's KZbin channel daily and, if there is a show coming up, he usually posts a "scheduled event" about 24 hours, or so, ahead of time. If you join the Zentnerd study group, members post a heads-up for any upcoming episodes, as soon as they learn of new ones on the way. If you would like to join, the email for the administrator of the study group (Nancy Hultquist) is: [e-mail]. Once you do find a live feed, sign in to KZbin and use the drop down menu next to the video, on the upper right hand side of the page, to join the chat (you probably know all this, but I thought I'd include it, just in case...). All the best, good luck and welcome to the group!!! Laura

[@philbuglass4857]

@@marinangeli3250 Thanks for the info. I actually received an alert when the stream went live last night. I couldn't get there until about an hour later, but at least it's a start. I have been following Nick for several years after coming across one of his downtown lectures. Unfortunately I was following the University page and not his personal channel, so I didn't know about his 'at home' stuff until last week. I am currently bingewatching them from the start, but am only up to about 14 or so. I thought it would be nice to be there for some of the livestreams, to maybe ask a question or two. Last night it seemed to be a lot more advanced, from what I saw, though. I probably won't make it for all the live ones, but will keep trying to catch up.

[@jameshughes8745]

Bravo

[@PrincessTS01]

Since 1492 when Columbus sailed across the Atlantic, through to this year 2020. The Atlantic ocean has gotten 176 feet wider.

[@touchtoomuch1000]

I believe the correct term is continental social distancing.

[@mpetersen6]

Currently Antarctica is doing a Garno imitation. "I vant to be alone." 😂

[@mpetersen6]

The thing about Supercontinents. People tend to think of them as landmasses accumulated in large clump. In reality I am of the opinion that we are currently in a Supercontinent phase right now. The reason I say this is Africa, Eurasia, the Indian Subcontinent and North America are currently joined into one continuous continental mass. Ignore those minor shallow areas of sea. One needs to look at the continental margins. In fact the Euraisian* and North American plates have a plate boundry that lies in Eastern Siberia. Also I dont think that the sea floor spreading centers are what drives plate tectonics. I'm of the opinion that it's the mid ocean subduction zones that form when really old ocean crust being colder and denser begins to sink into the mantle. As analogy think of a table cloth hanging over the edge. As the tablecloth is pulled down it drags everything with it. *Eurasia as a continent is an accumulation of how many different continental plates. At some point in the distant future Eurasia will rift apart

[@mgould100]

At what point on the "body" graphic did oxygen become prevalent in the atmosphere? Also, does the weight of the oceans affect plate behavior?

[@spook_dad]

even the tide retreating allows the crust beneath it to rise up, I'm not sure off the top of my head how much, 10 to 20cm for a ten meter tide i think but don't quote me.

[@timteevin4517]

Like he said: "It's amazing stuff."

[@kurtsteinbach4927]

Alfred Wegener: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wegener

[@KathyWilliamsDevries]

This evidence for Australia being Continent X would have to be found way inland in Oz as the coast of eastern Australia used to be a lot further west

[@larrygrimaldi1400]

I get an email on gmail, and I get a little KZbin box on the lower right of the screen no matter what page I'm on.that tells me you're live...don't know how I got that. I am never on facebook in any way. I watch it on replay when I don't dare stay up to 10PM because I have to be at work too early in AM

[@mgould100]

My notes show the oldest ocean rock is 200 million years old due to recycling. DO YOU KNOW OF OLDER OCEAN ROCKS AND IF SO, WHERE WERE THEY FOUND?

[@annann294]

Plz comment on the latest earthquake.

[@ffieditor]

Talk to Alec Peters. He run Axanar, A Star Trek Fan Production. He can tell you how to do that. he also switch to different streaming software. I do have a story about my dad. He was Crane, TX. He went to TX AM. Where he earn a BA in oil Eng so I though. He join Texaco in 54. He would talk about wells they did. He did a gas well in 1970's, Leo 9. where it kill 11 on the rig and on-site eng, using a TX cal and sent the well head off. When they cross 15K feet, he went to well. In 30 min after reviewing he work and he used a slide ruler, told the eng this is where he made his mistake and sent the well head off in the wrong direction. My best well story. In 2004, we were seeing him in TX. I was look in his office when I saw he had not 1 but 2 BA on the wall from AM. What made him a very good oil eng was he also held a BS in Geol. When I bumped into ur shows. To date I have watch more then 2 dozen of them.

[@francesdielmann3278]

Black Forest Cake (Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte)

[@kurtsteinbach4927]

I would like to see reference material sources and links in the live stream description. Such as this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZDMdoqsqbCWq7M

[@lauram9478]

❤

[@raywalker724]

when are you gona have rob back on here he is a very smart man

[@raywalker724]

and a very good friend i injoy spending time with rob

[@satanofficial3902]

Without proper training, trains can't become truly trained.

[@caseyjude5472]

I love how you tell the stories of the Earth! People have been led to believe that modern humans frolicked among the baby stromatolites in the Pilbara, so I can see why your “teacher voice” pops up occasionally. There is a knowledge gap, partly due to the 6000 year old earth & other dogmas. They have more influence than we care to admit. Sigh.

[@jato791]

Super continent Rodina? Rodina is what ethnic Russians call Russia... It means, more or less, Motherland

[@nothanks3236]

Rodinia. You're missing an i.

[@jimrayl8411]

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[@daltongrowley5280]

Not gonna say you are the geology you tuber but you seem to be the geology you tube guy...being a general geology you tuber isnt the worst thing ever.... maybe finding a place in the you tube community to be the geology guy maybe has a place....