‘Nick From Home’ Livestream #53 - Saddle Mountains

[@MrArdytube]

Nick, thanks so much for these videos. Before now, I kinda knew that geologists had been working hard to figure out all this stuff… but it was only theoretical for me. Now, with your videos, I find myself rather stunned to actually become more familiar with what all your collective efforts have uncovered. Quite a revelation

[@lcrain7840]

I love it Nick! Third Person Thursday is a mental break with some good chuckles- priceless!

[@eidrith493]

I am going to purchase a Fans of Bijou T Shirt from Kathy in Brisbane (We are both from east coast Australia). Great series. Greetings to you and your family and of course Bijou.

[@JenniferLupine]

I always learn something new from your videos! Thanks! ⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@wendygerrish4964]

That was lovely. A year away yet it seems like it was today on this similar autumn day. The cake drill!

[@johnr6754]

Nick, I am facinated by your programs and teaching methods. I am just an old wannabe geologist, but you can teach an old dog new tricks.

[@areceemaz]

Binge watching... Can't get enough. FASCINATING !!!

[@GregInEastTennessee]

Wow! I just visited Jarbidge! I didn't realize there was a caldera in the area. I should have watched this first. Also, i visited Saddle Mt. yesterday. I should have watched this first! At least I'm familiar with it now so I'll be prepared the next time.

[@Snappy-ut4bj]

Love your stuff. I worked many summers at the YTC conducting archaeological survey. We hiked all over the saddle mountains and I’ve seen much of what you talk about. This really brings me back. Thanks!

[@lindsaymalone9371]

This Saddle Mountain program was great for putting together so many geology concepts for the area. Thanks Nick! Thinking about Lydia's work on the Cougar Point tuff and old Columbia River Ringold formation makes me think of a passage from John McPhee's Basin and Range (p.82-83): "The problem was obviously too tough for the Chicken Valley Police Department, or, for that matter, for any ordinary detective. It was a problem, naturally, for a field geologist. "One shuffled in eventually. Scratched-up boots. A puzzled look. He picked up bits of wall and ceiling, looked under the carpets, tasted the ice cream. He felt the risers of the cellar stairs. Looking up, he told Hartford everything it wanted to know. For him this was so simple it was a five-minute job."

[@Ellensburg44]

Quoting McPhee! Congrats on your good taste, Lindsay.

[@ufp1701]

Awesome! Now I want to go to Saddle Mountains to explore and see this all in person! Hahaha.....LMAO at the drill into the lava cake. That tops even the hammer going down between the columns! Had a sudden vision of "Uncle Buck"....good stuff!

[@scottmadd1]

Ok people...1000 + viewers but only 360 likes??? Show Nick some love and hit that thumbs up!

[@jeandorsey7991]

Nick Lava Truffles! This ain't your childhood Racine Kringle 😉 (Now I gotta find some of these 🙄.) 🤣

[@Slowmodem1]

Working rotating 12-hour shifts, some nights I have to miss because I get up at 2-3:00 am EDT. I watched this Saturday morning. Great video! The replay has closed caption, too, in case you wondered. It also has the live chat. I miss being able to ask a question. I would be interested to know why the Columbia River turned west at Saddle Mt when the glacier was in place and went around the west end instead of going around the east end of the mountain. That seems like a more direct route. I think it's mostly a topography thing, but maybe there was something there at the time that's not there now? Thanks again! Greg in TN

[@paulebberson4884]

You were puzzled by 'Reefer' in Larry's account. It is a type of railroad wagon used to transport cool things. It may be a contraction of 'Referated car'. Sounds like there will be a railroad connection close to your missing drift tunnel. Keep up the good work.

[@johnbazaar8440]

Is there any community of geologists working on the East coast geology? I love this series.

[@SS-wu5du]

What are you drinking at the end?

[@dianemaher7197]

What's the rock drink??

[@malcolmcog]

Are the Saddle Mounts in the Scablands ? (the lands of Eastern Washington State where the melting glaciers dug out landforms)

[@markn.reprisal9472]

Those look so much better than donuts...you could bribe your way out of a speeding ticket with one of those !!!!

[@ragnarthesomewhatmagnifice7439]

Sorry Officer. I only have one left !

[@ronsmith5572]

What type of rocks were in the drink cup and what was the purpose of the rocks being in the drink or cup and was that wine you were drinking ? never seen anyone do that before ,thought that was very interesting , might try it some day . Btw like the live stream and iv'e enjoyed watching all your KZbin videos .All have been very interesting to watch .

[@KozmykJ]

@Nick Zentner Leave Chocolate Lava Cake unattended around My cats and it woud be subducted quick time ... That looked like a pretty old electric drill there. Resprayed ?

[@bagoquarks]

*PANGA SUGGESTION:* According to the PANGA map I looked at tonight there is no station on top of the Saddle Mountains Ridge. The closest stations are at Othello (OTHL) and Vernita (VRNT). It just seems that a station above a fault that needs more study would be helpful. "Yeah, but you ain't funding it, Mike!" *

[@thirstfast1025]

I've seen rail cars as recently as 2000 that still said "Reefer" on them, for that purpose.

[@gordongadbois1179]

NICK, IS THE BATHTUB RING IN SEDONA PART OF THE SUPER VOLCANO BLAST, JUST CURIOUS? THEY SEEM TO BE THE SAME COLOR OR IT'S BEEN TOO LONG SINCE I WAS THERE.

[@allencolvin656]

A new way to eat a cake!!! Gonna have to try that one now!

[@SS-wu5du]

Oak tree creeping in . LOL

[@garypage9515]

My favorite Saddle mountain location: Konowoc Pass! really cool location and geology.

[@deanbenedict707]

That's good stuff.

[@maggies5049]

Hey Nick people. You have to check out Ice Age Flood Scapes by Bruce Bjornstad, plus his personal stuff. Super cool stuff. Well done.

[@jamesdownard1510]

btw the Staisch 2017 paper is available at www.researchgate.net/publication/320321016_Miocene-Pleistocene_deformation_of_the_Saddle_Mountains_Implications_for_seismic_hazard_in_central_Washington_USA

[@briangarrow448]

Traveling along the old highway from Ellensburg to Yakima in the Yakima River Valley, I nearly hit a beautiful bighorn sheep ram. This happened years ago when my son was attending CWU and I would go visit him and do some fly fishing in the river when he was in class. All I could think of was how big the fine would be for hitting a bighorn sheep. LOL!

[@eloycastellanos4023]

Great❗❗❗❗😎

[@georgeklein9280]

Hi Nick IT HAS BEEN RAINING IN ST LOUIS MO AREA

[@allencolvin656]

Molten cakes are a challenge to make, even for the pros

[@Kr-nv5fo]

27:36 field STRIP guides...? Nick, a gun person? Or naturist maybe?

[@kayt4798]

All grand geo man

[@SS-wu5du]

Yummy

[@colleennobbs7218]

Eh eh eh Lava Cakes.....

[@geoffgeoff143]

How much would we all need to throw in the hat for you to clone yourself?

[@eidrith493]

Could you justify a satellite phone for your teaching purposes? People including my sister have satellite phones when they live in areas without coverage.

[@SS-wu5du]

Lol

[@aklgooshock]

post you up...lol

[@johnhopkins6658]

I knew you wouldn't be able to keep your mouth shut lol

[@janerussell3472]

"The Saddle Mountains pose a seismic hazard to surrounding communities and infrastructure. Should a large-magnitude earthquake rupture the Saddle Mountains fault, several population centers, including Ellensburg, Yakima, and the Tri-Cities area ( Richland, Pasco, and Kennewick ), as well as nearby infrastructure ( most importantly the Hanford Site and several large hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River ) would experience strong ground shaking." From Lydia Staisch et al. 2017, Geological Society of America. They calculate that the time required to accumulate enough strain energy for a large-magnitude earthquake (M ≥7) along the Saddle Mountains fault is between 2 and 11 k.y. So put that on the back-burner for the moment. There are more imminent hazards on the horizon.

[@janerussell3472]

As an aside, LIGO has one arm of its antenna pointed directly at the Hanford (decommissioned ) nuclear production complex. Whaaaaat? Way to go, LIE-GO.

[@davidpnewton]

"so put that on the back burner for the moment" That makes two silly assumptions: 1. It assumes we know when the fault last ruptured; 2. It ignores the enormous error bars inherent in a build-up time of between 2 ka and 11 ka. It also ignores the fact that the Saddle Mountains thrust fault is but one of many. Every one of those lines of mountains has an equivalent thrust fault forming them. Those individual thrust faults do affect each other in that an earthquake and thus release of stress on one will increase the stress on adjoining faults. However they are all at different points on the cycle. So whilst the Saddle Mountains thrust fault might be 1 in 2000 per annum to rupture that doesn't account for the Frenchman Hills thrust fault or the Manashtash Ridge thrust fault and their chances to rupture, or for dozens of other thrust faults in the area.