Hells Canyon and the Ringold Formation

[@j50wells]

This guy needs an award. He is simply the best geologist I've listened to on KZbin, and I've listened to a lot of them. He's very good and explaining things.

[@aaronbaum3932]

He is good, I also like GeoGirl.

[@j50wells]

@@aaronbaum3932 I'll check her out. I like anything geology.

[@j50wells]

@@aaronbaum3932 If you like geology, one of the best I've ever seen is Myron Cook. He does a lot of stuff in Wyoming. The guy really gets into the hidden stuff of geology, especially the old seaway, and the Morrison stuff. Wyoming truly has some of the best geology in North America. He travels into Colorado and Utah. I haven't seen a video yet about the old supervolcano in Colorado, but I hope he does a video about this as well. It would be good because it would get into the uranium deposits, and much of the gold in Colorado. It would also get into much of the dinasour bones found on Dinosaur Ridge. He did do a very good video about the Red Rocks in the front range and how today's Rockies are not the original Rockies.

[@josephdupont]

One of the most fascinating lectures I've ever heard proving once again that we don't know what the h*** we're doing . Thank you so very muchright now

[@churlburt8485]

I own the Granger Clay Pits that Nick and Dr. Lydia Stasch visited at about 53 minutes into the presentation. Dr. Stasch has dates for the zircons from my property, 10 million years old from the Salmon River.

[@shimoda5771]

Thanks for supporting our geologists!

[@philfromspokane6198]

This is one of the lectures that first got me wanting to take a class from Nick. What a blessing that he has put together several classes and nearly 100 lectures in 2020 that we could listen to remotely and even participate in. Can’t thank you enough, Nick. Hope to hear many more in the new year. Happy Holidays.

[@adamrash4771]

RIP Jerry Smith. I learned of his work through this video and then learned of his passing in 2022 while seeking more information about his career.

[@HE-pu3nt]

Oh my goodness you guys have it all in Washington state. Faralon plate crashing in, ice age floods, the Cascades, super volcanoes. And most of it is so new, we have the Jurassic Coast (UK) but that's a bit dull. I've got to say it, you are one fine Teacher. Thank you for finding the time to put all these videos on line.

[@Xtinnoker]

I am watching this video from a couple years ago but enjoying the lecture thoroughly, Today happens to be my first boat ride east of Vernita Bridge. This Desert does not disappoint, It is absolutely breathtaking. Between the beautiful Columbia River sights that is loaded with numerous waterfowl including Pelicans, Blue Herons just to mention a couple. The White Bluffs are something to behold, A unexpected beauty in a world surrounded by Basalt.

[@sharonwhiteley6510]

Even though I will never visit the area, I always learn something. Thank you

[@chrisfordham6221]

I've seen this three times but, hell I like these lectures from Nick. Can't wait for him to continue Nick from Home.

[@stefancocciolone3277]

You West Grove or Lancaster ? ....... White dove

[@wendyspicer8588]

These videos are timeless. No matter how long ago they were posted, for the viewer it seems like yesterday.

[@Nobluffbuff]

Nick is back!!!!

[@jeffbyrd424]

You are the mister Roger's of geology you have brought me into something that I didn't know that I was interested in, I appreciate you!!

[@janketza0206]

you are a great teacher!

[@ronbuckner8179]

Dr. Zentner is perhaps one of the best lecturers I've ever heard. What about Up-Lift from the Yellowstone.

[@dennistate5953]

Perhaps, my opinonated patootie! Hot patootie, bless my soul, i really love that rockNroll! Missing Meatloaf and meatloaf, my grandpa's fave sandwich.

[@dennistate5953]

Uplift & seperate, new geological Playtex bra😂

[@markvanleeuwen6678]

After 100 zener streams. I can now predict the dates on this video while its going.. Thanx nick.

[@UncleOhRed]

I live in Lewiston, 4th grade we did the jet boat tour. Was awesome but we just covered native American history.

[@thesparkypilot]

Back in the day!!!

[@KathyWilliamsDevries]

Love the white water rafting story ♥️

[@GeoRockNerd]

I read the type locality paper on the Ringold Fm by RC Newcomb where he talks about the damming of the ancestral Columbia by the Horse Heaven Ridge Uplift that made Lake Ringold. I’m curious if that is still the accepted mechanism for lake formation and what the underlying tectonics of that uplift are. Hopefully Ms Staisch will address that topic in her research!

[@jamesdownard1510]

btw that paper, Smith, Gerald R., Neil Morgan, & Eric Gustafson. 2000. “Fishes of the Mio-Pliocene Ringold Formation, Washington: Pliocene Capture of the Snake River by the Columbia River.” University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology No. 32. has a pdf available at www.researchgate.net/publication/30849423_Fishes_of_the_Mio-Pliocene_Ringold_Formation_Washington_Pliocene_Capture_of_the_Snake_River_by_the_Columbia_River And for fun, Idaho’s wine industry operates in the valley of that old paleo-Lake Idaho a 2006 article www.researchgate.net/publication/43280455_Geology_and_wine_11_Terroir_of_the_Western_Snake_River_Plain_Idaho_USA/link/5554bd2b08ae6943a871acee/download

[@sean_b_drummer]

Would love to know the date of the layer with all the fossils!

[@darobk]

thanks for making this available !

[@tooligan113]

A very good, informative lecture

[@donhall2759]

I'd love to see some correlation between the fish fossils associated with the Ringold formation and those found near Clarkia, Idaho...much further east than these maps suggest. Love these lectures!

[@gerritroeterdink]

I allready watched this one today before Nick has uploaded this one to his own channel.

[@dennistate5953]

You partner hero!❤

[@onestudframer]

Has there ever been any consideration that instead of the lava basalt pressing down on the earth in the region, it's the removal of the lava from under the earth that is displaced to the top of the earth? Like in Hawaii's last Eruption you had the crater drop in the caldera and flowing lava miles away from where it had come from?...

[@tinkmarshino]

beautiful day? it's is cold and rainy here in vancouver today.. it is also corona virus time.. this was pre 19..

[@mikey33409]

How many fossils.are.buried in the ash flows? and.has anyone used an ultrasound device to map any mega fauna trapped fossils in the despoits? Thank you ms

[@johnnash5118]

An alternative age and mechanism for Hells Canyon would be variable. The Snake cut a canyon through the older sedimentary layers before the Columbia River Flood Basalts (CRFB,) then was dammed, penetrated through, collapsed the permeable dam, and continued the erosion. Layer upon layer, and many damming, penetrations and collapsing processes to its current state. Oregon's McKenzie River is evidence of the process; the river disappears for miles under lava flows then reappears at Tamolitch falls like a leaky dam.

[@beachbum200009]

If you can... give to your local food bank. Happy Holidays!!!

[@mrtony1985]

So next time someone tells me to go to Hell I'll just have to visit this beautiful place.

[@stefancocciolone3277]

Need a kick in the ass to get you started ? Maybe 2, Mr. 7 up

[@jw4620]

It seems like all this rotation has to be leaving a gap behind it in some form or other. If I take a slice out of the pie, it leaves a gap.

[@sean_b_drummer]

The "gap" you're looking for is in Nevada. The Basin and Range formation of central Nevada as a result of the crustal thinning due to it being stretched apart. 👍🏽😁

[@18Bees]

Old school chalk board ❤️😎🐝😎

[@7inrain]

@1:02:15 If the zircons in the Ringold formation are 8 million years old and they are from Lake Idaho does that really indicate there was a connection between Lake Idaho and Lake Ringold at that time? Couldn't it be that those 8 million year old sediments from Lake Idaho were transported to Lake Ringold 3 mya when the Snake River opened the connection between both lakes? My guess is that this connection must have been pretty violent at times with a lot of erosion involved because both lakes don't exist anymore.

[@dennistate5953]

Idaho Falls...don't she though? Hoosiers, don't start.❤😂

[@lynnmitzy1643]

4 chalkboard lectures every spring💪💛

[@johnjunge6989]

You have no pooka(?) shells? I did not think you were someone who categorized individuals, ha. And you needed a different brother in law, ha. Still these lectures make more sense every day.

[@richardservatius5405]

maybe you could suggest to the gal that she should check sands along the secesh and south fork of the salmon rivers, then upstream and down from the confluence of the s.f. and main salmon

[@dennistate5953]

Invoking a hero GOAT o'mine, Dr. Robert Gary Litchford, RIP w his bride reunited...i ask...what satellites/sensors might one best find mantle heat plumes, reckon?

[@donnalusti263]

We need to clone such wonderful teachers and plunck them into every public school in the USA!!!

[@thomashendron4356]

Cows guarding the Ringold Formation

[@AyntTang]

"In West Virginia, of all places" - as a West Virginian.. lol.

[@r.d.boschung8374]

Why couldn't the pacific exotic terranes bumping up against old north america cause deep gaps?, the deepest at Hells Canyon. When the two land masses joined together, why do you assume they meet one flush to the other? You seem to be locked in to the erosion idea.

[@guymuto4054]

Deformation from Yellowstone Hot Spot and the continental migration over it = flood basalt = Snake River in San Francisco, etc. ???

[@gregcollins7602]

I don't know. Somehow there lacks some credibility and scientific authentication without the bow tie. 😁

[@dennistate5953]

Tough finding Z peers fo hiz peer reviews, complain NSF stafferz...

[@davidharvey3743]

My guess is uplift.

[@ErikPukinskis]

Original video, much wider view, with more of the ending kzbin.info/www/bejne/naHWlnyedsajqpI

[@dennistate5953]

Shades of Woody Guthrie Grand Coulee Dam. Weirdly unsettling now. But Z be Grand!