Roadside Geology - Vantage Erratics

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@windsurfing2long 7 жыл бұрын

Hi Mr. Zentner, I am fascinated by your geology lecture. So fascinated that I have watched ALL of them, and some of them multiple times ! You are a great teacher and geologist. Please keep recording and posting !

@Ellensburg44 7 жыл бұрын

Appreciate your encouragement. Thank you! 4 new lectures coming this winter.

@ammobake 8 жыл бұрын

I live in Interior Alaska but I've learned so much from these Lectures, Nick. You have character and I respect your charisma for teaching geology. As I've been learning I've been teaching my parents and my children about geology. I think that's only possible because you explain things in a way you can easily understand.

@Ellensburg44 8 жыл бұрын

+ammobake Very nice comments. Thanks much for taking the time to write.

@cindyleehaddock3551 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for yet another oldie but goodie! Love the map of Lake Lewis--it really helps you see just how much got covered, and a better idea of how those boulders ended up where they did.

@ronwoch 10 жыл бұрын

Thank you for these videos, they are both entertaining and educational!

@Ellensburg44 9 жыл бұрын

+ronwoch Thanks for the encouragement. We enjoyed making these...

@ronwoch 9 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! My wife and I really enjoyed them. We even made it over to the petrified forest as a nice overnight trip. It was really cool from my perspective to see the actual makeup of several landmarks I stared at while standing out of the hatch of a stryker on my way back and forth to Yakima :D

@PacoOtis 7 жыл бұрын

Dude! I just looked at the comments and want to join in and tell you these videos of yours are terrific! It is true I am a septuagenarian and find such things fascinating but your efforts are not wasted. Thanks for the educational narration you provide! Excellently accomplished! Best of luck from Idaho!!

@Ellensburg44 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Joseph!

@trumpetmano 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for these video's Nick. They are quite engaging.

@Ellensburg44 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Paul.

@Chompchompyerded 3 жыл бұрын

I actually applied and was accepted to CWU in the mid-1970's, but ended up going to a school in Cambridge, Mass instead. I was studying music, and thought that the word "Harvard" might sound a little better. I was sorely tempted to go to CWU however, because some of the geology looked like the area where I grew up in Northwestern Colorado. Plus it was closer to home. Home was the White River area, and our ranch backed up against the Flat Tops Wilderness area, which is comprised mostly of ancient flood basalt overlaying red sandstone. There are lots of rocks there which have those air bubble holes in them. Looks like petrified black Swiss cheese. That area was not subjected to the mind-boggling flooding which the last glaciation brought to the Pacific Northwest. At least not on that sort of scale, or which left any sort of evidence of it's passing. I think if I were ever to go back to school (I'm way to old, disabled, and impoverished to do it), I might just choose to go to Ellensburg. You are definitely in the heart of some of the world's most fascinating geological fun spots, and it would be a dream just to learn about it. Since that's out of the question, I'll live it through these videos instead. This is certainly the best side of the Internet. I wish there were a lot more "academic" content than there is (not that there is a dearth, but I'd gladly substitute things like this for social media any day). Great job with this. I see you have a great deal more on here, and I'm off to find out what else I can learn.

@davidboerner2677 7 жыл бұрын

This is a great series on Washington geology where you learn information fast.

@Ellensburg44 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks much, David. Plenty more - if interested - at nickzentner.com

@stormysampson1257 6 жыл бұрын

Nick, had I found you 6 years ago while living in Cle Elum, I would been you biggest groupie! And no one could have torn me away to go to Oregon.

@Ellensburg44 6 жыл бұрын

Oh well....

@priscillapastimes 7 жыл бұрын

I love your videos! Basalt is not just in Washington or Hawaii. There's some wonderful places in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and some of the vesicles contain copper and other minerals. These were mainly quiet flows. It's a real shame many of the 'waste rock' piles from copper mining have been sold and nothing left to pick or they're marked 'no trespassing'.

@Ellensburg44 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Nice report.

@1101millie97 2 жыл бұрын

I saw a program on those basalts in Michigan, and they are billions of years old, formed as a result of an embryonic North America that nearly tore itself apart.

@pprehn5268 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the explanations, and also your Yakima River Canyon...it compares then to the confusion of the Grand Canyon

@Ellensburg44 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Both canyons pretty well understood in my world.

@lynnmitzy1643 5 жыл бұрын

Makes me wish I still lived there♥️👏🏼👏🏼

@frankblangeard8865 9 жыл бұрын

So...you were wondering what geologic force chipped all the rocks laying around in eastern Washington. Now you know that it was geologists with hammers.

@Ellensburg44 8 жыл бұрын

+Frank Blangeard Clever comment, Frank. Thanks for watching.

@donaldpowers5557 7 жыл бұрын

Nick Zentner now that you got hooked one this stuff IVE WONDERED FOR YEARS HOW THE GRAND CANYON WAS FORMED... AS IVED WATHCHED MANY OF YOUR HOUR LONG VIDEOS....YOU THRU UNDERSTANDING HAVE CHANGE WHAT WAS THOUGHT TO BE TRUE.....SO I WILL WATCH MORE OF YOUR VIDOES.. AND APPLY THAT AS I GO ON TO LEARN ...YOUR A GREAT TEACHER.....ON ROCKS! I DID LIKE THE THE HAMMER COMMENT.....AND TO THINK THAT THAT ICE BURG MAY OF BEEN BIGGER....TO FLOAT THE DEAD WEIGHT HAD TO BE SIZEABLE, AND HAVE IT STALL THERE AND MELT OR FLIP OVER....I THINK THE WATER MAY OF BEEN HIGHER....GREAT VIDEO THANKS FOR WHAT YOU DO.....

@teenieneenie630 7 жыл бұрын

lovin' these videos! Wonder if CWU knows that they have a " gem" of a Teacher in Mr. Zenter!?! Sorry couldn't resist!

@Ellensburg44 6 жыл бұрын

I see what you did there. Thanks!

@acs197 4 жыл бұрын

I grew up in western NY. Lots of glacial erratics! Deposited differently though. 🙂

@priscillaross-fox9407 7 жыл бұрын

My special place is the Keweenaw Peninsula of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Those basalt vesicles hold some really neat minerals such as Thomsonite (prehnite), Pumpellyite (they call it "Greenstone" up there) and some copper seen in some beach stone. This is a fantastic place full of old copper mines (I've been in two of them). There's still some copper to be found on the old waste rock piles at some of the mine. I could go on for a long time but I don't want to waste your time.

@Ellensburg44 6 жыл бұрын

Good to know.

@Elephantine999 2 жыл бұрын

Really cool. Boulders iceberg rafts! :)

@gregoryfox7551 4 жыл бұрын

The river is not 1000 ft above sea level rather 350 to 400 ft high so the erratic is much higher than stated.

@jeffbransky7966 3 жыл бұрын

He said the erratic is 1263 feet above sea level. Watch the video at 3:58.

@deroo56 7 жыл бұрын

I live in Ritzville and there are huge boulders in my basement! :)

@jeffdevine6387 7 жыл бұрын

are these 'erratics' also referred to as 'ablation till' ?

@Ellensburg44 6 жыл бұрын

Erratics just the boulders. Till a mix of boulders, sand, silt, etc.

@jeffdevine6387 6 жыл бұрын

ablation till refers to large boulders and till that are stranded on ice and melt down to surface.

@JJKHaywood 7 жыл бұрын

Good show

@Ellensburg44 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@tommymasters9410 5 ай бұрын

i may just be completely off on everything.... but here goes liberty g mine geology aligns with the teanaway infill deposit[blue agate fluids] covered by flood gravels and uplifted... moving n-nw as compared to n ne along with the rest of saddle mtn/rattlesnake/horse heaven hills/.. it would also be consistent with the drainage deposition switching from a ne-nse flow to a sw wsw flow as uplift continued[lib g mine sits roughly 2k ft above sea lvl-rotation and uplift based on hh hills se Kennewick puts 1800-2k ft since flood basalt stopped..the lava here was approx 2 miles deep jump off joe is sitting at 2200 ft above modern day sea level[300 ft higher than at the time of last Missoula lake flood ..all info is approximate and of my own study and calculations using Mr zentners dates and figures along with mr wilsey from university of idaho for the bonneville flood deposits and snake river movement and mr ralph for deposit information in nevada