The Giant Ice Sheet That Shaped Seattle | Nick on the Rocks

[@stevew5212]

Nick is the greatest geology professor. He will inspire you to learn geology. He has a way of hooking you into wanting to learn and that makes all the difference when it comes to learning.

[@briane173]

His own love for learning is infectious, and that's what makes his talent as a teacher so genuine. Nick can't get enough of learning, exploring new ideas, and imparting it on others -- whether it be his students or the community he's built on KZbin. They don't get any better than this. Nick is a unicorn among scientists; most scientists and university professors are either socially awkward or detached altogether just from living inside their own brilliant heads, but Nick is a gregarious, humble soul with a unique sense of humor, who loves people as much as he loves his subject and his career.

[@OkieJammer2736]

​@@briane173 Boom. You nailed it and beautifully said. I have total admiration for Prof. Nick.

[@stevengeorge5605]

The Nick on the Rocks series is the best. Many thanks to Cascade PBS, Brady, Paul, and Nick!

[@jetblast1212]

I know the backstory on why a Nick on the Rocks was made in Seattle, knowing that makes it more exciting that this may be one of the best storytelling episodes that Nick has done so far. Bravo to all involved. Thanks, Cascade PBS for making this great content possible.

[@Polymathes]

One of the amazing abilities of Nick Zentner's teaching skills is that he has a way to present the scale and magnitude of the forces that formed the land we now live on during our short sliver of time on the planet. It's exhilarating but at the same time humbling and It makes me want to know more!

[@OkieJammer2736]

Love this! 🎉 What a great series. PBS Seattle made a genius move with Nick on the Rocks.

[@Vickie-Bligh]

Yes, I'm so glad they revived the series.

[@KyleWessels-c8z]

Thank you Nick, the whole "On the Rocks" crew, and PBS for hosting and sharing.

[@johntiger5]

Nick is a " Rock Star "

[@MariaPNW]

16,000 years ago, 00:53, an almost 3000 ft tall ice sheet from Canada 05:08 shaped our beloved hills (drumlins), lakes, and connected Elliott Bay to the Pacific Ocean. I love this episode, and I love Seattle!

[@hestheMaster]

The drumlins that are around Seattle go in a north south direction with long axial shapes. Imagine a 3000 foot high ice sheet travelling slowly southwards plowing through this area. Wooh! The animation at the end tells the story as does Nick' s excellent storytelling of history through discovery.

[@markpatterson5250]

Not to mention the hundreds of small lakes between Puget Sound and the Cascades stretching all the way up to Canada. Lake Union, Green Lake, Haller Lake, Bitter Lake, Echo Lake, Lake Ballinger, Cottage Lake, Lake Stevens, Lake Serene, Silver Lake, Chase Lake, Martha Lake, Lake Stevens, the list goes on and on and on.

[@TheDavidN]

This is what started me to be curious about our geological history here! The Puget Lobe glacier on I-90 Rocks.

[@NH-il6uc]

Nick On The Rocks…well IT ROCKS!!!

[@paulmicks7097]

Thank you Nick , always great to meet a geologist who also appreciates a nice set of boulders to get their rocks off on.

[@paullucas6019]

Thank you Nick and team! I very much enjoy these interesting little tidbits, please keep making them!

[@MarcoPollo77]

Excellent video quality. I hope these are shown in schools to help younger kids understand that they too can learn to read the landscape. That is the greatest gift I've received from Professor Zentner and his counterparts after consuming days worth of lectures, forums, podcasts, and the like. Thank You Professor Z.

[@ocrow8079]

Love the enthusiasm. You make geology interesting and accessible. Thanks

[@carlenaponce9205]

Nick & PBS along with the Pacific Science Center makes for educational fun. 🤩♥️

[@jenniferlevine5406]

How I wish you could come up to BC and do one of these great films! Love your work!

[@paulmicks7097]

These PBS shorts are pretty cool Nick, congrads

[@marychristie6194]

Really good 👍

[@AndrasIlles-b3w]

This is one of my favorites! Thank you for all your hard work and I look forward to the next episode.

[@skysurfer5cva]

"The Giant Ice Sheet That Shaped Seattle"....But, but....the buildings are still there! 🙂 Another great video, Nick.

[@dancooper8551]

Another excellent episode!

[@raenbow66]

Excellent information! Highlighting areas I thought I knew.... and using the Columbia Center to help us see the height of the ice sheet is brilliant. Each video is my new favorite. Great locations, and the story is perfectly clear and fascinating. Super. ❤

[@georgeemeny6123]

Grew up on QueenAnne hill, knew there there was a ice sheet that covered Seattle but didn't know it was 3'000 feet thick. yikes. Thanks Dr. Nick.

[@leannevandekew1996]

Riding a bicycle, you discover the east-west difficulty.

[@raymondricci5323]

Skateboards as well!😊

[@mattcwatkins]

I'm always amazed at Nick's ability to not only explain new things to me, but also present things I kinda already knew in a way that deepens my understanding and illustrate the reasons and processes they happened. Plus putting Sammmaish, Washington, and Green Lake in perspective of places I know well further deepens the experience. Nick, Rick Steves, and Bill Nye are three examples of Washington State treasures.

[@tgsoapbox]

Nick is a state treasure - If you haven't watched his lectures from Central, you're mssing out.

[@patlynch6517]

Seattle freeze takes on a new meaning

[@Prodigious1One]

Pretty cool.

[@Retr0racin]

Nick Rocks

[@JackMorningstar001]

Good stuff!

[@jaytolbert7538]

These NOTR productions are priceless.

[@candui-7]

I love the part where Nick says "highly pressurized water". Thanks Nick, Jerome, Skye, Joel, Brian, et al for my education on the subject.

[@judykinsman3258]

Nick on the Rocks!! 🎉

[@scottowens1535]

Nerd says hellos, seems like I was just watching you hahaha..( it's now 2:40 Thurs). Thank you Sir and it was a good session today and a great personal update and thank you for letting your other extended family know.. Ace's and Carry On!

[@123Goldhunter11]

Now we need one for Whidbey Island.

[@Thom4ES]

Try the longer formats....nick is fun

[@divernovs]

very well done. thanks Nick

[@timothymattson3680]

Low tide reveals scratches that line up with true north and south, seen in West Seattle at bottom of Jacobsen Rd. and again over on south shores of Bainbridge, where you also see those orphan boulders that stand alone . Digging the I 90 tunnels near Mt. Baker tunnel, they found black frozen ice that actually burned the guys who first touched with hands . After a few hours in sun the stuff melted into muddy water .

[@carnakthemagnificent336]

16,000 years is like a second in terms of the age of the Earth and there was 3000 feet of ice? Amazing! I just want to thank the oil companies and SUV drivers of that era for warming the Earth to give us Seattle. Kidding aside - Mr. Nick is fantastic.

[@TheDanEdwards]

So you reject the well-supported conclusion of anthropogenic climate change>

[@carnakthemagnificent336]

@TheDanEdwards What I reject is irrelevant. What's evidentially clear is that natural variations in Earth's climate far exceed the impact of the humans.

[@101rotarypower]

Envious of Washington having someone to explain all the little detailed geology nuances of your area. Is there anyone even close to as prolific for the Oregon area, and specifically around Portland to detail these topics as well as Nick does?

[@orcstr8d]

Now that we've bored our Seattle Light Rail tunnel(s) it's time to bore some arterial tunnels under the North/South hills like Phinney, View Ridge, Beacon Hill etc, and give those neighborhoods a break. Let's give SeaTown more than just Madison Street as the only uninterrupted E-W route between Puget S and Lake WA.

[@raymondricci5323]

Great idea.

[@Steviepinhead]

The Wedgwood erratic has a Mt. Erie connection, if memory serves. Right direction, but not quite all the way from Canada.

[@gregburkhart9764]

Those darned Canadians!

[@briane173]

Cover us with ice and then won't clean up their mess afterwards. Rude.

[@glennelliott708]

We want our boulders back, no questions asked. Signed Canada

[@CascadePBS]

😂😂😂

[@LisaAnn777]

I have quite a few boulders here in my yard, ill be willing to give them back to Canada a small fee 😅

[@kenmore01]

We knew the Canadians were up to something!

[@paulbrallier7028]

One more way to see the drumlins…Pull up Lidar images and see the land forms. Drumlins and subglacial drainages. From Battery fully charged

[@merlepatterson]

Lake Tapps outside of Puyallup is a great example of glacial scarring.

[@ericsonhazeltine5064]

Nice presentation. You should get some animation.

[@johnhagemeyer8578]

He used chock boards in lectures plus pictures in his lectures in Ellensburg College Utube channel, he is great at this.😊

[@RoxnDox]

A nice presentation. One view of a topo map of the Puget Sound lowlands would have been the perfect visual, though.

[@patrickmazza7055]

Hey from Eastlake! Lake Union may not be as big as Washington or Sammamish. But it’s more than a neighborhood lake.

[@jcee2259]

Florida had snow this week, Not Seattle. Ages ago, we had your ice sheets.

[@Fred_Lougee]

Um...Nick. Please correct me if I am in error but Lake Washington was, I am led to believe, salt water. A mud flow off of Mt. Rainier dammed the valley at some point closing the lake off from Puget Sound.

[@stellabrese1765]

I had heard those rock were from the Missoula flood?

[@arlenesobhani8739]

Okay, then what explains the Fremont Troll?

[@raymondricci5323]

Ferry tales

[@Giantkelp1]

Hey Nick. Land recognition to these geological locations first peoples? People have been living here since before the ice sheets living... nearby witnessing this ancient geology.

[@AnitraN-if6ku]

No evidence people lived here before the ice sheets. Glaciers started receding 14000 years ago. There is human evidence from 12000 years ago only so far

[@stevewiles7132]

The people of Seattle should be grateful for global warming, or they would still be under the ice.

[@dalenbickenbach9533]

Vastly improved from the blackboard days.

[@spencery7684]

If glaciers carved Puget Sound, then it stands to reason that much larger, similar features would be further north. The ice there was thicker after all. That is obviously not the case. This theory is hot trash. Just because the glaciers scraped the surface of the sound does not mean they carved it. Also, rocks do not float. Did the glaciers move rocks? Yes, but they traveled great distance during asteroid impact first. They are impactite boulders, having chemical properties that cannot be accounted for by ice, but instead fire. In ten years, this will seem like flat earth theory. Can't wait to prove this awful theory dead wrong!

[@TheDanEdwards]

Go take a geology class.

[@CosmicAliveness]

Who is this dude ? Saying 1/4 of the oceans were frozen at the poles sky spire axial roto max awesome

[@aaronlevitz4984]

I'm trying very hard to not make a political joke here, but it's very difficult not to....