Supervolcanoes in the Pacific Northwest

From 2019: CWU's Nick Zentner lectures in downtown Ellensburg, Washington, USA.

[@williamogrady8216]

He sticks to the topic like no one I ever heard. And somehow brings hundreds of thousands of years of history to life before your eyes with nothing but a blackboard. Astounding.

[@chrissr318]

I can’t get enough of these. I know more about the geology of the northwest than I do where I live

[@glenkelley6048]

I can only agree 100% with you! The man has the energy of a six year old and the knowledge and understanding of many experts! It's a pleasure to listen to him from the quiet hills of West Virginia.

[@tanyaphillips4518]

Are you Chris from Olympia Washington???

[@tanyaphillips4518]

Sorry hit wrong button!

[@tanyaphillips4518]

Are you Chris from Olympia, Washington??

[@tanyaphillips4518]

Are you Chris from Olympia, Washington???

[@angeluomo]

This guy is absolutely brilliant. I am a geologist, and I can confirm that he does a fantastic job of explaining these complex topics.

[@stevenwiederholt7000]

He is Such A Good Teacher.

[@YogiMcCaw]

I'm so glad PBS picked this guy up. If ever a science educator deserved national exposure, it is Nick. He should adopt the stage name "Nick Rocks" LOL

[@maryg.7790]

Nick Zentner is the best!❤

[@christophermiles6999]

Professor Zetner thank you so much for making geology so entertaining and easy to learn your lectures have rekindled my interest in the science 😀

[@befuddled2010]

Expert communicator = Expert educator. Thank you Nick for making science accessible and understandable!

[@harrietharlow9929]

As always, Professor Zentner Rocks and Rules! From him, Myron Cook and others, I am getting an absolutely fabulous late-life geological education. Thank you so much for all you do!

[@johnfraser9753]

😊

[@MaggieG121]

Ash also landed here in Idaho! You make learning fun - thanks.

[@tthappyrock368]

Professor Zentner, I will never forget that day! We lived in Hermiston. The skies above us were bright blue as you describe. Looking to our north, the sky roiled with angry black lightning-filled clouds of ash. Ash fall that night was very light. My dad scooped up some ash that had fallen in Umatilla. That ash-filled jar sits in my living room today. I should probably put it in something other than the Planter's peanut jar 😅!

[@dbrandt515]

I was waiting tables at Breckenridge and when I got off I was going to garden. Plans changed.

[@hermesbrookover285]

I love the enthusiasm. This guy is a great teacher.

[@rickhoughtellingjr2797]

Love this guy makes me want to go back to college and just take his classes

[@johnplong3644]

I am watching this again as Review I am also watching this with friends of mine who have never seen a Lecture from Nick Zentner ….

[@jaytolbert7538]

I keep coming back to his presentations, have been watching for a few years. But 2020 has been a gold mine of geology treasures.

[@sgage2743]

I'm from Seattle and remember watching the ash from Mt St Helens plume. I was supposed to go to Battleground Wa, which is right near Mt St Helens, that very day and had changed my mind.

[@SDCornishman]

Coming from SoCal but having lived in Washington I enjoy the lectures that show the dynamics of the world we live in. Thank you for your work, and making a thrilling presentation out of something that we should not be taking so much for granite.

[@moosemcguillicutty554]

😅😅

[@colettevick4346]

This is so interesting, I lived much of my life in Bend, Oregon and there is so much great information. Thank you for showing.

[@kensmith1522]

That was just fun! Exploring geologically, my childhood playground is icing on a lifelong cake…

[@markwhite6782]

We got dusted in Oklahoma in 1980 with St. Helens ash. Wasn't thick but everything had a gray dust on it. If you washed your car by sunrise it was covered in dust. Amazing!

[@jglantz08]

this one, along with the flood basalt episode, are the two best among a sea of almost as amazing Nick lectures!

[@edward1005]

I've been watching Nick for a long time now, and I still can't get over what a great educator he is! His enthusiasm is infectious, and it's very obvious that he loves what he does. I think that's what makes his videos such a pleasure to watch.

[@SeattleDinghyer]

Man is an intellectual hero. Thank you for great content.

[@lidarman2]

large audience today. Gotta say, One thing I love about KZbin is the availability to watch talks and learn. This is top notch.

[@billotto602]

I would SOOOOO love to sit in on one of these ! God bless you professor. Your students should be HONORED to have you as their teacher. You are a pure platinum level teacher. 🙏♥️🙏♥️🙏♥️ 🫡 🇺🇸

[@joshuaboulee8190]

Wonderful presentation! The very excitement and passion in your delivery drew me in even though this is generally not a topic I find to be of any special fascination. You've earned another subscriber.

[@micheleupchurch3725]

Thank you!❤❤❤

[@sevenravens]

I was in Yakima at the Army training center in the middle of the desert with no communication. When the sky turned pitch black at 11 am I was praying hard.

[@RS-bn9rx]

Fascinating continuing lecture series.. well done

[@martimorris6489]

Loved this program.

[@dumbcat]

on May 18, 1980 our Sunday school class took a rare outdoor trip in a bus to a park for class. there was a new teacher who was very beautiful, in her early 20's. she was about to tell her testimony and was on the verge of spilling the beans on all the bad things she had done before repenting. the boys in our group were waiting breathlessly. suddenly a black cloud that covered the entire horizon came rushing toward us. the leaders shouted for us to get in the bus and they hurried us back to church. i have never been so disappointed by the timing of a volcano eruption in my life

[@WhisperedHistory]

I absolutely could watch Nick explain any subject.

[@robertdufour2456]

Thank you, Professor! Thoroughly enjoyed your lecture - the time frames of eons blows me away

[@tinkmarshino]

I am with Chris Sr.. I just can't get enough.. once covid is done and gone I think I will take the motor home to ellensburg and attend some of his classes or at least some of these lectures!

[@sheilatruax6172]

I still have a small jar of 1980 Mt. St. Helen's ash. Time flies!

[@Tweakerbell528PhxAZ]

I miss my Sunday morning lectures. I would like to, when all this pandemic crap is over is attend one of your public lectures on a vacation up there. Now I'm restarting watching A to Z as well. Have a happy holidays Nick. Looking forward to the next series.

[@mt.sylvania9218]

I had seen Nick’s 5 min. Nick On the Rocks programs but a friend told me to check out this Supervolcano lecture 18 months ago. Then I looked at the Ghost Volcano lecture. The west side of Mt. Rainier is very scenic but the really interesting stuff is on the east side. Cowlitz Chimneys, Fife’s Peak, Tieton lava flow, Goat Rocks, etc. We dropped what we were doing to go up to Rainier to check out the East side of Rainier for the first time then for a few days.

[@iamnegan1515]

Excellent as well as interesting. you're one of a kind Nick.

[@doncook3584]

Clearly, the best presenter and the best educator I’ve ever seen

[@regular-joe]

I enjoy all these lectures, many of them twice or more. Thanks, Nick!!

[@stevecastle1730]

So excited to see more of these incredible lectures drop.

[@wiretrap1035]

Absolutely on the level. Thank you for such a charismatic and fascinating lecture.

[@mikegoff7506]

Awesome lecture Nick. The researchers on the Tonga eruption a couple years ago have discovered that it is a caldera. It's underwater, thus the unknown existence of the cauldera. Fascinating stuff

[@pattyc7222]

What a great speaker! Had me hooked in the first 3 minutes.

[@johnjunge6989]

rewatched this to refresh my memory. Found your notation on volcanic Ash used to make cement. I use to work for a construction company that owned its own concrete business. We used Fly-ash from the local power plant, material left over from the coal they used. We added it to the cement in certain cases, I'm sure it worked like ash.

[@donr416]

I live in Colorado, wish I knew the geology here as well as the Pacific NW. Nick is a treasure.

[@neverlearnitall]

Professor Zentner, this was fascinating! I've never heard anyone talk about super volcanos in Idaho! I currently live in Pocatello. I knew we had a history of volcanic activity. Craters of the Moon comes to mind. I appreciate your wisdom and expertise!❤

[@erinncarl9294]

I was a very small newspaper delivery girl in Montesano, WA when the eruption started. I had to slog through two feet of wet, slippery volcanic ash. It was crazy!

[@lynnmitzy1643]

Love these lectures, thank you.

[@melmack2003]

Several days after Mt. St. Helens erupted, I found ash on my car on the other side of the continent.....In Nova Scotia, eastern Canada. It was heavy enough that I could write my name in it.

[@SyrDoN]

He is one of the best professors. I don't care what he teaches or to whom, he is a professor.

[@jaymacpherson8167]

Mt St Helens ash piled up several feet deep by wind in a ditch off the west side of Rt 97 about 4 miles south of Toppenish saved me from a bad accident in 1986 when I went from the northbound lane, that was in sunshine just a few minutes after dawn, into the shadowed southbound lane to pass a slow moving farm vehicle. The southbound lane was covered in black ice, allowing the pickup I drove to continue at 55 mph in a straight line into the ditch. It was like landing on a pillow. The only vehicle damage was a persistent electrical short from ash that worked its way into the smallest nooks and crannies of the engine compartment.

[@richardlawton1023]

I caught one with a 6' wing span in Larsen Bay Alaska. Took a bit over 1 hours. I used a rod I made and a 2 speed reel. Thanks for the videos.

[@martincotterill823]

Fantastic educator! Thanks Nick!

[@robertdufour2456]

Professor! What an amazing presentation! I also appreciate the joy and enthusiasm you convey in this and your other lectures. I live in the Bronx, we have rock outcrops and north of here red flat rocks that are angled - and those amazing pallisades (sp?) over in New jersey . . . You have inspired me to learn about them.

[@harrietharlow9929]

You'll find that the NYC and New Jersey areas have an interesting geological history. And the Palisades, from what I've been able to gather, are an actual relic from the breakup of Pangea. A good pace to start is Wikipedia. Their pages on the Palisades and other geology tend to be quite good.

[@mvanderbilt]

I enjoyed watching this on a dark and rainy December day. It makes me thankful the Super Volcano isn't piling on to our sorrows in 2020. Keep up the great work and publicly accessible videos

[@markbell9742]

So, I am only 13 seconds into this: another 'Blast From The Past' (Central Washington University: Apr 25, 2019). So, just thanks for re-posting this Nick. Cheers, Mark

[@geotownie3247]

I kept waiting for him to say "Sorry Patrick."

[@user-zs7vr5ds4m]

The walls can talk. We just don’t know the language. Love to drift the canyons with you. Thanks

[@johnjunge6989]

Well you went back to the stage I first found you. I'll get to enjoy more Nick on the Rocks/Home! Congrats John

[@chromabotia]

This is great Nick, as I have just recently completed your "Exotic Terranes A to Z" 2020 series. These presentations fill in, flesh out and expand what I learned in the A to Z series. Thanks.

[@jamiedawson7060]

I'm not sure how I came across this video but I'm glad I did. Excellent communicator on a fascinating topic!

[@mrright1068]

What an excellent instructor. I learned so much tonight. Thank you!

[@kurtsteinbach4927]

Wow. A younger crowd than I've seen attending other of Nick's lectures. It is a solid field of white hair.

[@Tiffany-6910]

And plaid lovers as well!

[@lilidiaconu9910]

Thank you,love it. From Romania,many thanks.Lili

[@timbo4374]

This upload is a repeat. I've seen it before, but I love this series so much I watched it again. Nick is probably the best teacher I've ever seen. He knows how to hold your attention. I know more about the Pacific NW than I do about my local geology here in NYS. I'm fascinated by volcanoes though so that's no surprise. Besides, I have yet to see anyone really go in depth about the NE US geology, at least in depth like Nick does in the NW.

[@rabidbigdog]

So well said. I never knew I was interested in rocks until I came across Nick's covid-lockdown vids. Now more than anything I want to revisit Washington (state) and Seattle. Nick should be an international eco-tourism ambassador for Washington.

[@kelvinnance8371]

Superb presentation, Sir. Totally engaging, and it left me far more curious on a number of points. Off to the Stacks I go! Thank you very much.

[@tunneloflight]

You can also find some of the Saddle Mountain tuff layer on the east side of the Columbia across from Hanford in the refuge.

[@donnacsuti4980]

Thanks for posting this Nick

[@malcolmcog]

Thank You for this. It has opened my eye up to the geology of ht North West States.

[@docaylsw]

Thank you. I always wondered why that rock near Selah was so red/orange, and now I know.

[@rogerdudra178]

I woke up and looked out my sliding glass door to my 100 foot long by 20 feet wide garden and it was all 'white' like we'd had a frost. It was ash. I was in Bozeman, Mt.

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

That fossil-filled park in Nebraska is on my bucket list! This whole video was really interesting, too, but that's my favorite bit. 😁

[@katherinemclean7103]

30 years ago my furnace caught fire and I called the fite department and grabbed my fire extinguisher and danced around the room trying to get it to work. I pulled the pin ok, but I couldn't get the squeeze part right to get it to work. Thankfully, it was facing away from me when I finally set it off. I sprayed the furnace and it appeared to extinguish the fire. At that point, I grabbed my cats and started stuffing them in my carriers, one and two to a carrier and closing them and literally throwing them off the front porch. I had all the carriers into my car and grabbed my purse and had the car across the street by the time the fire department arrived! I instituted a number of emergency procedures agter that experience. I removed the screw from the front of the furnace (I learned that that screw was only to keep thevfront on while they transported my mobile home). I also bought a few more carriers to make sure that there was at least ONE in every room that the cats had access to. I have an emergency bugout bag in the front closet nearest the front door. 😰❤🙄

[@TeemarkConvair]

so well presented

[@hertzer2000]

I'll watch every damn video! Sorry, Patrick.

[@levisavage6568]

This guy... I wish all teachers could grab attention and convey thoughts as well as nick does. I'd never leave school. Lol.

[@alexbourdeau4438]

Toba's last eruption was ca. 75,000 years ago, pretty sure there were at least two species of humans around to see that.

[@jamesreilly6612]

Yes, and Homo erectus at least had reached Indonesia. Also Taupo's Oruanui eruption was only 26,500 years ago, although no humans had reached New Zealand by then.

[@dennistate5953]

Thank you!

[@robertray1284]

Thank You

[@hirundine44]

It came to S East BC Creston also... the wildflowers were spectacular that year...

[@immrnoidall]

Fire on the mountain , The Grateful Dead, live, with Mt. St. Helens, smoking in the background.

[@richardstephens3642]

I was living about 65 miles from St. Hellens in 1980, that ash did NOT blow doe East, it blew Northeasterly, the west face of Mt. Rainer was almost dark gray because the ash cloud of Hellens went directly over Rainer

[@DutchFR1908]

Hello, Thank you for this nice video i enjoyed watching it. i was wondering and hoping if you might have time to show or make a lecture about campi flegrei. I and perhaps others are too very interested to hear more from this supervolcano since it's one that might erupt in the near future atleast it shows a lot of data and events that I don't see about other super volcanoes. thanks for all the video's though very interesting

[@simonwalker6825]

Best demo yet 👌

[@usaturnuranus]

I just want to say thanks to TYT and particularly to Cenk, Jessica, and Mark for covering this issue in a clear and concise way. This is a really worrying aspect of modern technology that is only going to get worse as time goes on, we all need to be on guard or we are going to watch our rights and legal protections continue to erode in very direct and personal ways with immediate costs to ourselves and the nation.

[@talanigreywolf7110]

We have one of those here in California called Long Valley.

[@joeo6378]

That "chalk drop" moment. 10/10

[@Ukraineisawesone]

I learned tonight. I’m hooked.

[@JohnDoe-jq5wy]

Magma chamber that "fueled" the super volcano event was fed by the magma storage that is below YELLOWSTONE AREA

[@JohnDoe-jq5wy]

Southern Idaho event.... Ash moved north and the ash cloud was slowed and possibly stopped by a cold weather front

[@richardlawton1023]

I lived in Auburn Maine then. We had little black bots and ash landing on the cars.

[@HE-pu3nt]

29:45 jeez, that is a lot of bald heads. Great series Professor.

[@MustangsTrainsMowers]

Just before a volcano erupts it announces “ok everyone, you can all kiss my ash”!! 🤪🤪🤪🤪

[@shaunhall960]

If you ever get a chance visit Bandelier National Park. Amazing place!

[@sandymorrison1400]

I have a friend who lives in SE Oregon. His house is made of volcanic rock - 1' thick.

[@kelsoosu1]

Dr zentner any future plans for the spring or summer 2021 of coming back to Smith rocks for some field days ?? Love the content and so would the community .

[@richardstephens3642]

Did you know that the ash cloud from St.Hellens went around the earth several times, I can't remember the exact number of times except that it was 3 and 6 times

[@christopherc4814]

Loved this video and others you have. Question? With so many eruptions from the current Yellowstone hot spot strung along the continent out to the pacific and each caldera erupting many times, can’t an estimate be calculated for the amount of time between eruptions?

[@tunneloflight]

Campi Flegrei 39k. Humans experienced the impacts of both Toba and Campi Flegrei. Mankind was nearly wiped out by each. And in fact, they caused all of the extant strains of humanity (sapiens, erectus, neanderthals, denisovans and others) to merge. The impacts are so immense though that no human ever survived seeing one erupt.