NOTE FROM MYRL: "I was continually supported by the efforts of a guy named Russ Burmester. That’s Dr. Russell Burmester, Princeton Ph.D. Russ was with me much of the time in the field, ran our lab, worked one-on-one with students, and told me when my ideas were full of sh&#! Without Russ I would be pretty much nowhere. And, of course, in later years Bernie Housen was of great assistance. But Russ was my main man."
And that's another worthwhile 45 minutes of my time. Thanks Nick for setting this up and adding another name of the previously unknown-to-me depth of knowledge in the PNW about where we came from. / Matt - Baja-BC adjacent on the 3 mile thick portion of the basalt (aka Pasco)
@@1MommaD1 I don't think so. Most people, even those well-educated, exhibit signs of slowing down as they age. At 87 (I think?) he is still pretty sharp.
I was a student of Myrl's at WWU in his heyday. I learned alot from him. However, he could be a bit ornery. He liked to throw chalk at students who weren't paying attention. It's good to see him getting some recognition. Go Myrl.
Amazing guy. Don't you wish you could download all that he's seen, all that he's done and all that he knows. Myrl is too humble. Thanks to you both, Myrl & Nick.
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OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One of the best episodes ever!!! What a wonderful interview with Myrl. I totally appreciate and love him! Over the top, Nick! Thank you so very much!
I first became aware of Mt Stuart when I started college at CWU in 1967. Within just a few years it had become a central feature because of hiking near it and living in places I can get views of the range. I have a chunk of Stuart granite in my medicine bag.. I am looking forward to your Baha BC series this winter.
RAY WELLS is one of the children you need to interview. Dr. Beck certainly inferred it would be well worth the effort. And Nick, this engaging interview allowed us to see this modest man’s insightful genius through his own unscripted and plain spoken words. Nice job! So go find Ray Wells and get busy. Thanks from San Antonio!
I lost my sister to Ovarian cancer. This man has my respect both from his life's work and his current passion to help the cause of work with Ovarian Cancer awareness and research.
My thanks to Merl for his work with the Hutchinson Center. They believe my great grandmother died of ovarian cancer. I am benefiting from the Hutchinson center's work with my kidney cancer treatments. My father went to the Hutchinson center for his colon cancer treatment in the 80s. Merl's support there is very important. He is honoring his wife!
Great interview; in fact an historic document. Really appreciate your conducting it and sharing it with us. I'm old enough to recall the emergence of plate tectonics when I was just beginning to become really interested in geography and earth science and the old ideas of synclines and antisynclines were so unsatisfying in contrast to the new ideas. These insights are a delight. Thanks again, Cheers.
How often we lament the fact that we missed the opportunity to discuss important insights and history! Such a great interview for all to appreciate now, and for posterity as well. Thanks, Nick,
Thank you Nick for bringing Myrl to us... I feel honored to have been able to see and hear him. Amazingly clear explanation of the moving poles and dating... thank you and hugs to you both!
Nick, is there anything that can be done to help Dr. Beck be invited into the NAS? He so richly deserves that honor, and I find it very irritating, indeed, that with his body of work he has not been tapped. His descriptions of the "Baja BC", paleomagnetism, et al, were so clearly stated that I understood it fully without having to listen twice, and I'm not a geologist! Thank you, Nick, for yet another brilliant interview/lecture! We love you!
Yes! I was quite impressed with Dr. Myrl Beck's story and articulation. It's a rather sad story when historical significance of scientific expertise is not recognized. I wonder how Dr. Beck's work influenced Dr. Lisa Tauxe, (Geology, Geophysics) member of NAS since 2005.
I watched this again. It's amazing to be able to hear a pioneer talk about his trials and tribulations and successes. This was a great idea, Nick. Now it's saved for the ages.
That is one for the National Book of Treasures! Thank you so much, Nick and Meryl. Paleomagnetism has always been on of those aspects of geology that I believed, but didn’t know how to interpret how they were able to extract the actual magnetic history from a particular specimen or larger area of terrane. This helped so much! Tanya Atwater is a rock star for me. She was in the Restless Earth Film back in the early 70s. I’ll never forget her contributions to plate tectonics and paleomagnetisml!
Being a pioneer, a forerunner is lonely and hard. I hope he gets the same acclaim and honor that Bretz received. Occam's Razor comes into play here. Bless you sir for your work. Thanks, Nick, for this interview.
Nick I've been watching your stuff for a couple of years now really enjoy your passion and style a teaching. The interview video with Myrl is simply outstanding your best work yet!!! It is inspiring to see Myrls passion, the sparkle in his eye, Clarity of thought . You honored him well in the interview. Well done Nick What an important video to have for future Generations
This solidified for me how significant our scientific community is. My deepest respect for bringing forward the story of this profound work. This example is inspirational of how new findings continue to build upon our foundationally understanding of how we got to where we are today. - thank you for this gift.
Thanks Nick I miss the Sunday morning live streams, so I’m going back and catching up on shows I missed. I’m your age, one thing I have always enjoyed is talking with “old guys” today’s young people could really learn a lot from that! Meryl is great!
Brilliant ,what a gent ,pioneer in every way ,if it was'nt for the likes of Dr Beck we'd still be in the dark ages ! lovely interview Nick ,thanks .From UK.
I've been following your work for several years now. Ive never commented mostly because I'm shy. I took this opportunity to get over myself and say something. I love your work it's very appreciated. These interviews on the Baja BC theory are amazing. Thanks for sharing these guys. . Thanks for sharing yourself, your knowledge and insights. I especially enjoy this 'Nick on the fly' series. Great Idea. great work.
This was a great interview. I love to learn about the people involved in the progress of the science of geology. Their stories are a fascinating part of the story of geology. Thank you for bringing this to us.
Nick this is unbelievably interesting from an ol BC boy. I can see it all from here. It makes do much sense from the ground I look at everyday. Its just so clear.
Such an admirable man. A career well lived. His vast knowledge of the work of others connecting with his certainly shows his love of his profession over self recognition. Complex information shared easily for others to understood. Thank you, Myrl and Nick.
Thanks for all your work Myrl, Baja BC changed the way I look at my province! Lots of Vancouver Island bedrock in my videos if anybody wants to have a look!
Nick, I didn't notice the microphone issue, so it wasn't so bad. I appreciate that you're outside your comfort zone while using tech during these episodes, and I've seen lots of improvement since March, and even during the Nick on the Fly episodes. It was great getting to listen to the two of you talk, without worrying about "the clock." I have learned a lot during the last few months, and am sure looking forward to the Exotic Tarranes series that's starting soon. :)
Nick when you live in BC and you have an incling into the rocks and can see the ground for what it holds this man makes so much more clear to wtf has gone on here.
What a charming, generous, articulate gentleman. Thank you so much Mr. Zentner for bringing this man and his work to your show! All the best to you both.
My Geology professor in Geo 101 in the early 60s was the head of department. One of the students asked him about plate tectonics or as it was called then, continental drift and he poo poo'd the idea and said it was most unlikely. Talk about 'grey eminences'.
What a wonderful and intelligent guy. Sharp and open minded, and a great ambassador for geological thinking. An absolute joy to listen to. MUCH RESPECT!!!
Such a great man. So smart. After all these years his work is coming to fruition. Thanks nick. Much love brother. I'll be on standby for next vid. I've also emailed you but it may have went to the wrong email. Thanks again
Myrl was my main thesis advisor (and geophysics teacher) at Wester Washington when I sampled some Eocene volcanic rocks in the Republic graben (in eastern Washington State). I thought there was paleomagnetic evidence of clockwise rotation of some of the sampled rocks, which would fit with normal faulting with a component of right lateral strike slip that could have caused clockwise rotation of the rocks contained between the faults bordering the graben. I don't know if this is the prevailing view of what happened there, as I have not kept up on the tectonics of that area for around 40 years. Maybe I should ask Myrl about this. Anyway, it was great to listen to this interview with Myrl! I enjoyed my time spent at Western Washington State College (now University) learning about paleomagnetism and plate tectonics from Myrl.
What a fantastic interview! Professor Beck is the empitome of perseverance and belief in his scientific methodology. We really appreciated hearing about his back story and how Baja-BC came to be. Thanks Nick!
Playing catch up spent the last 10 days in Eastend Saskatchewan and Cyprus Hills P.Park. This is just treat after unpacking and sitting down.to this wonderful engaging interview. Please more interviews like these just plain AWESOME. Ps next to none 4G down outside of Elkwater and Eastend proper. Could spend a couple months and there and not see it all. Plants terrain and surface geological features beyond belief. I wish that someone like you Nick can do an interview someone with this with smooth and easy engaging manner on Cypress Hills. Cheers.
Another great segment. I really enjoy the mix of field trips and interviews with those who have made great contributions in the past and those working on the great contributions of the future. Nick, you have a gift of bringing out the best in those you interview and breaking down the complex into bits that can be communicated and understood by others who are not expert in the field. Your gift of summarizing and communicating is Hall of Fame worthy.
This is a wonderful interview with Myrl Beck. Very heartening human story on dealing with adversity and yet still pushing ahead, following the science to the truth. Thanks for introducing us to Dr. Beck, a great guy.
Sorry to hear about Myrl's recent passing. I'm not sure what he's sipping here, so I'll go with a toast using Quilter's Irish Death, which he obviously loved in the 2022 interview, and which runs neck and neck with Vinman's Downtowners for the best food/drink product to come from Ellensburg. Myrl Beck, you gotta love him.
Godarnit, just when I thought I was catching up, I've now gotta goin' study Palaeomagnetism. Thanks Nick, you've been keeping me sorely occupied these last few months. Thanks again Nick, Pete on the Isle of Wight.
I remember reading in National Geographic about "continental drift" when I was in high school. In my ignorance it was easy to see it and say that it made sense. It's another level of intellectual courage to be trained in the accepted knowledge of a field and then take new data, which is contrary to that knowledge, form it into a new hypothesis and say "this makes sense". Thanks for doing this interview.
What history would have liked was an interview with Bretz like this. This interview with Dr Beck should be a model for future discussions with geologic mavericks.
Thank you very much that was an interesting presentation. Even with my very casual grasp of geology from petrochemical classes years ago, that was quite interesting.
Excellent interview. Myrl is articulate, humble but a real ferret on this complex trail. BC is trisected north-south by major strike-slip fault systems 10 degrees and more long extending from south of the '49 into Yukon and Alaska. These are the Rocky Mtn trench system, Fraser fault (through the middle of the province) and the Pacific littoral; all which are active to some degree. They can provide evidence of both the northward movement and accommodating and perhaps stimulating the distral rotation in Washington and Oregon. The interesting loop in the Brooks Range (Alaska) has been investigated re Baja-BC motion. When the Brooks Range is straightened out, much of BC is returned south to its Baja paleomag-indicated formation position. So where did paleo Washington end-up on its northern trek? Northern Alaska, perhaps. Work accomplished north of the '49 needs fuller integration into the Baja-BC theory. I think that many of the PacNW distral motion mysteries may have explanation in the punctuated or non-continuous movement north of exotic terranes through BC on the aforementioned major fault systems.
ps: as a BCer I wish that we had a Nick evolving the public from Creationists into Geo-sapients. Keep up the good work, Nick. A Canuk fan of your program.
Thank you sir, you inspire us greatly. This ground report was pleased beautifully. But please upload some classes more for your worldwide students in different aspects.
Great interview! Did you see the new report out this week that deals not just with the strato volcanos of the west coast, but also integrates all the volcanic eruptive locations that have been identified and studied. Very interesting new information.
Danny McCarty Geology, 2020; DOI:10.1130/G47706.1 Time-evolving surface and subsurface signatures of Quaternary volcanism in the Cascade arc. Summary on Science News site, 8/15/2020.
Thanks for taking the opportunity to do this interview. What an engaging and sharp mind Myrl has. I get an ironic chuckle to think the Sea of Cortez is expanding and present day Baja is on the move as we speak. Didn't A. Wegner get a similar reaction to similar concepts many years prior?
Watching a third time without chat up... focusing on the story. And got parts I missed before, good depth in the interview. South America interesting concept.
Nick has recommended Dr Robert F. Butler's book, 'PALEOMAGNETISM: Magnetic Domains to Geologic Terranes', which Dr Butler has made available as a free e-book. It's at grad level, so don't expect an easy read. Makes one appreciate Professor Beck even more.
NOTE FROM MYRL: "I was continually supported by the efforts of a guy named Russ Burmester. That’s Dr. Russell Burmester, Princeton Ph.D. Russ was with me much of the time in the field, ran our lab, worked one-on-one with students, and told me when my ideas were full of sh&#! Without Russ I would be pretty much nowhere. And, of course, in later years Bernie Housen was of great assistance. But Russ was my main man."
Had to return to watch again. A great interview of a great geologist. 🍻 to Mylr, RIP.
And that's another worthwhile 45 minutes of my time. Thanks Nick for setting this up and adding another name of the previously unknown-to-me depth of knowledge in the PNW about where we came from. / Matt - Baja-BC adjacent on the 3 mile thick portion of the basalt (aka Pasco)
Fascinating subject, but what is really standing out for me is his clarity and fluidity of thought, he speaks like a man of 40.
He has a better memory than me and I'm 31 :p
Swamper60 I know! Right? He is an amazing man....
I think you underestimate people in that"certain age" group.
@@1MommaD1 I don't think so. Most people, even those well-educated, exhibit signs of slowing down as they age. At 87 (I think?) he is still pretty sharp.
This guy still has a great brain working there. Great history lesson.
Such a sweet interview. Especially nice to revisit. Thanks Nick.
I was a student of Myrl's at WWU in his heyday. I learned alot from him. However, he could be a bit ornery. He liked to throw chalk at students who weren't paying attention. It's good to see him getting some recognition. Go Myrl.
Amazing guy. Don't you wish you could download all that he's seen, all that he's done and all that he knows. Myrl is too humble. Thanks to you both, Myrl & Nick.
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One of the best episodes ever!!! What a wonderful interview with Myrl. I totally appreciate and love him! Over the top, Nick! Thank you so very much!
Thoughtful and sensitive interview to reveal a treasure of a scientist and man. Why don’t we celebrate people like Myra more in our nation.
Priceless...Don't know how you manage to draw out the humanity in everyone you interview.
Tom Hall: I agree! Like attracts like.
Shared humanity for sure.
That’s an important interview for the archives. Let’s elect him!
I second that.
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Congratulations Myrl, you're in.
I first became aware of Mt Stuart when I started college at CWU in 1967. Within just a few years it had become a central feature because of hiking near it and living in places I can get views of the range. I have a chunk of Stuart granite in my medicine bag.. I am looking forward to your Baha BC series this winter.
RAY WELLS is one of the children you need to interview. Dr. Beck certainly inferred it would be well worth the effort. And Nick, this engaging interview allowed us to see this modest man’s insightful genius through his own unscripted and plain spoken words. Nice job! So go find Ray Wells and get busy. Thanks from San Antonio!
I lost my sister to Ovarian cancer. This man has my respect both from his life's work and his current passion to help the cause of work with Ovarian Cancer awareness and research.
Thanks for your comment. Today would have been Linda’s 75th birthday, and I am missing her very much.
@@myrlbeck1931 Happy Birthday in Heaven to your sweet Linda. May peace be with you kind sir. Thank you for your good work.
My thanks to Merl for his work with the Hutchinson Center. They believe my great grandmother died of ovarian cancer. I am benefiting from the Hutchinson center's work with my kidney cancer treatments. My father went to the Hutchinson center for his colon cancer treatment in the 80s. Merl's support there is very important. He is honoring his wife!
I also lost a sister to ovarian cancer, back in 1994. She would've been 82 this year. My condolences.
Great interview; in fact an historic document. Really appreciate your conducting it and sharing it with us. I'm old enough to recall the emergence of plate tectonics when I was just beginning to become really interested in geography and earth science and the old ideas of synclines and antisynclines were so unsatisfying in contrast to the new ideas. These insights are a delight. Thanks again, Cheers.
How often we lament the fact that we missed the opportunity to discuss important insights and history! Such a great interview for all to appreciate now, and for posterity as well. Thanks, Nick,
Wonderful to hear directly from Prof. Beck. Thanks for another great interview Nick!
Thank you Nick for bringing Myrl to us... I feel honored to have been able to see and hear him. Amazingly clear explanation of the moving poles and dating... thank you and hugs to you both!
Myrl Beck is a treasure. Thanks so much Nick for bringing this to us.
Nick, is there anything that can be done to help Dr. Beck be invited into the NAS? He so richly deserves that honor, and I find it very irritating, indeed, that with his body of work he has not been tapped. His descriptions of the "Baja BC", paleomagnetism, et al, were so clearly stated that I understood it fully without having to listen twice, and I'm not a geologist!
Thank you, Nick, for yet another brilliant interview/lecture! We love you!
Yes! I was quite impressed with Dr. Myrl Beck's story and articulation. It's a rather sad story when historical significance of scientific expertise is not recognized. I wonder how Dr. Beck's work influenced Dr. Lisa Tauxe, (Geology, Geophysics) member of NAS since 2005.
From her (texting) fingers to God’s tablet!!
I watched this again. It's amazing to be able to hear a pioneer talk about his trials and tribulations and successes. This was a great idea, Nick. Now it's saved for the ages.
That is one for the National Book of Treasures! Thank you so much, Nick and Meryl. Paleomagnetism has always been on of those aspects of geology that I believed, but didn’t know how to interpret how they were able to extract the actual magnetic history from a particular specimen or larger area of terrane. This helped so much!
Tanya Atwater is a rock star for me. She was in the Restless Earth Film back in the early 70s. I’ll never forget her contributions to plate tectonics and paleomagnetisml!
Being a pioneer, a forerunner is lonely and hard. I hope he gets the same acclaim and honor that Bretz received. Occam's Razor comes into play here. Bless you sir for your work. Thanks, Nick, for this interview.
Wonderful!
Thank you, Nick, and thanks to Myrl. He’s got my vote!
Thank you, Nick, for bringing us this gracious soul... the man is truly a treasure.
Nick I've been watching your stuff for a couple of years now really enjoy your passion and style a teaching. The interview video with Myrl is simply outstanding your best work yet!!! It is inspiring to see Myrls passion, the sparkle in his eye, Clarity of thought .
You honored him well in the interview. Well done Nick
What an important video to have for future Generations
YOU saw it too!!! Great stuff!
This solidified for me how significant our scientific community is. My deepest respect for bringing forward the story of this profound work. This example is inspirational of how new findings continue to build upon our foundationally understanding of how we got to where we are today. - thank you for this gift.
Amazing interview with Mr Beck. Thanks you Nick !!!
Love your interviews of the bedrocks of the west coast geologic history, those guys tell fascinating story's, and I am now firmly a geology student!
Thanks Nick I miss the Sunday morning live streams, so I’m going back and catching up on shows I missed. I’m your age, one thing I have always enjoyed is talking with “old guys” today’s young people could really learn a lot from that! Meryl is great!
Great interview, Nick! What a treasure to hear from such pillar in local geology! Sweet guy!
This interview was a wonderful treat. Thanks, Nick.
Absolutely fascinating discussion! I want to read this man’s papers. Ty
So thankful we have this recording of Myrl telling his story. Rest in Peace. We will miss you fiercely.
Brilliant ,what a gent ,pioneer in every way ,if it was'nt for the likes of Dr Beck we'd still be in the dark ages ! lovely interview Nick ,thanks .From UK.
Just started on Bajha/BC, 11/2022. Refreshing my memories from the info from Mryl.
Love the way Myrl avoided drama. Nice man.
I've been following your work for several years now. Ive never commented mostly because I'm shy. I took this opportunity to get over myself and say something. I love your work it's very appreciated. These interviews on the Baja BC theory are amazing. Thanks for sharing these guys. . Thanks for sharing yourself, your knowledge and insights. I especially enjoy this 'Nick on the fly' series. Great Idea. great work.
This was a great interview. I love to learn about the people involved in the progress of the science of geology. Their stories are a fascinating part of the story of geology. Thank you for bringing this to us.
Nick this is unbelievably interesting from an ol BC boy. I can see it all from here. It makes do much sense from the ground I look at everyday. Its just so clear.
Thank you for this interview. He is a gem. Some one nominate him!
Such an admirable man. A career well lived. His vast knowledge of the work of others connecting with his certainly shows his love of his profession over self recognition. Complex information shared easily for others to understood. Thank you, Myrl and Nick.
Thanks for all your work Myrl, Baja BC changed the way I look at my province! Lots of Vancouver Island bedrock in my videos if anybody wants to have a look!
Dang it... Just blocks from my office. Wish I had know you were gonna be up here.
Thank you Nick, this is priceless.
Brilliant!!! Superb documentary!!! Great work!!! Loved every minute!!! and Thank you, Mr. Beck!!! Wow!
A true scientist, and a real person. And noble.
A great video for many reasons. Thank YOU Nick for your enthusiasm and efforts to make geology available to so many.
Nick, I didn't notice the microphone issue, so it wasn't so bad. I appreciate that you're outside your comfort zone while using tech during these episodes, and I've seen lots of improvement since March, and even during the Nick on the Fly episodes.
It was great getting to listen to the two of you talk, without worrying about "the clock."
I have learned a lot during the last few months, and am sure looking forward to the Exotic Tarranes series that's starting soon. :)
Nick, Fabulous interview. What a great storyteller. One of the best episodes yet!
Nick when you live in BC and you have an incling into the rocks and can see the ground for what it holds this man makes so much more clear to wtf has gone on here.
Amazing mind and wonderfully articulate!
What a charming, generous, articulate gentleman. Thank you so much Mr. Zentner for bringing this man and his work to your show! All the best to you both.
I would like to see a segment showing how a paleo-magnetic sample is taken while preserving its orientation etc.
My Geology professor in Geo 101 in the early 60s was the head of department. One of the students asked him about plate tectonics or as it was called then, continental drift and he poo poo'd the idea and said it was most unlikely. Talk about 'grey eminences'.
What a wonderful and intelligent guy. Sharp and open minded, and a great ambassador for geological thinking. An absolute joy to listen to. MUCH RESPECT!!!
Such a great man. So smart. After all these years his work is coming to fruition. Thanks nick. Much love brother. I'll be on standby for next vid. I've also emailed you but it may have went to the wrong email. Thanks again
Myrl was my main thesis advisor (and geophysics teacher) at Wester Washington when I sampled some Eocene volcanic rocks in the Republic graben (in eastern Washington State). I thought there was paleomagnetic evidence of clockwise rotation of some of the sampled rocks, which would fit with normal faulting with a component of right lateral strike slip that could have caused clockwise rotation of the rocks contained between the faults bordering the graben. I don't know if this is the prevailing view of what happened there, as I have not kept up on the tectonics of that area for around 40 years. Maybe I should ask Myrl about this.
Anyway, it was great to listen to this interview with Myrl! I enjoyed my time spent at Western Washington State College (now University) learning about paleomagnetism and plate tectonics from Myrl.
This is gold to me! Thank you both for this interview!
What a fantastic interview! Professor Beck is the empitome of perseverance and belief in his scientific methodology. We really appreciated hearing about his back story and how Baja-BC came to be. Thanks Nick!
Love that you bring out the humanity and dedication to research by many figures who work away "unseen" by the public eye!
I came back to this video after the last couple Baja BC A to Z with Bernie Housen. Now I understand much more of what Myrl was saying. Thanks Nick.
Playing catch up spent the last 10 days in Eastend Saskatchewan and Cyprus Hills P.Park. This is just treat after unpacking and sitting down.to this wonderful engaging interview. Please more interviews like these just plain AWESOME. Ps next to none 4G down outside of Elkwater and Eastend proper. Could spend a couple months and there and not see it all. Plants terrain and surface geological features beyond belief. I wish that someone like you Nick can do an interview someone with this with smooth and easy engaging manner on Cypress Hills. Cheers.
Another great segment. I really enjoy the mix of field trips and interviews with those who have made great contributions in the past and those working on the great contributions of the future. Nick, you have a gift of bringing out the best in those you interview and breaking down the complex into bits that can be communicated and understood by others who are not expert in the field. Your gift of summarizing and communicating is Hall of Fame worthy.
Another surprise show, and it's really excellent. Thanks for doing this Nick.
How cool is this interview. Intergenerational giants in the field. Different of course but equally important. Thank you both :)
This is a wonderful interview with Myrl Beck. Very heartening human story on dealing with adversity and yet still pushing ahead, following the science to the truth. Thanks for introducing us to Dr. Beck, a great guy.
Water from the source. It just doesn't get any better. Thanks to Myrl and Nick for this riveting presentation doesn't begin to cover it.
This was a great segment! Thank you Myrl AND Nick
Man that was fantastic. I’d like to have a beer with Myrl.
A real pioneer and American hero.
Great interview! Thanks Nick.
Great video capture of human and earth history from a man who did the work. It’s a treasure!
I skipped the premiere of this at 3 AM, but it would have been worth it. Great interview with a great man.
Thanks, Nick.
Sorry I missed both todays episodes. I was at sunset crater national park north of Flagstaff Arizona looking at the cinder cones.
GREAT episode...thanks very much for bringing living history to your band of groupies.
Amazingly wonderful disscustionion equal to a semester or more of education, Thank you gentlemen!
Sorry to hear about Myrl's recent passing. I'm not sure what he's sipping here, so I'll go with a toast using Quilter's Irish Death, which he obviously loved in the 2022 interview, and which runs neck and neck with Vinman's Downtowners for the best food/drink product to come from Ellensburg. Myrl Beck, you gotta love him.
6 out of 5 stars Nick. Very interesting and well produced. Thank you and Myrl.
Great interview with Myrl Beck, one of the original rock stars!
Godarnit, just when I thought I was catching up, I've now gotta goin' study Palaeomagnetism. Thanks Nick, you've been keeping me sorely occupied these last few months. Thanks again Nick, Pete on the Isle of Wight.
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Bless this man ❤️
Nick please bring this beautiful man to BC. He is such a jewel to us all and dammitboys come to BC
he haves my VOTE ,A TRULY GRATE MAN THANK YOU !
I remember reading in National Geographic about "continental drift" when I was in high school. In my ignorance it was easy to see it and say that it made sense. It's another level of intellectual courage to be trained in the accepted knowledge of a field and then take new data, which is contrary to that knowledge, form it into a new hypothesis and say "this makes sense".
Thanks for doing this interview.
What history would have liked was an interview with Bretz like this. This interview with Dr Beck should be a model for future discussions with geologic mavericks.
For sure
Living history ! Amazing , loved it.
Enjoyed this immensely!! Excellent!! Thank you Myrl and Nick!!
Great interview thanks guys!
Thank you very much that was an interesting presentation. Even with my very casual grasp of geology from petrochemical classes years ago, that was quite interesting.
Nice videos, watching from Colombia!🇨🇴
What an interesting man. Thank you for a superb interview
Great interview, interesting guy. And a spectacular view from his deck!
Great interview with a fine scientist and good man.
Excellent interview. Myrl is articulate, humble but a real ferret on this complex trail.
BC is trisected north-south by major strike-slip fault systems 10 degrees and more long extending from south of the '49 into Yukon and Alaska. These are the Rocky Mtn trench system, Fraser fault (through the middle of the province) and the Pacific littoral; all which are active to some degree. They can provide evidence of both the northward movement and accommodating and perhaps stimulating the distral rotation in Washington and Oregon. The interesting loop in the Brooks Range (Alaska) has been investigated re Baja-BC motion. When the Brooks Range is straightened out, much of BC is returned south to its Baja paleomag-indicated formation position. So where did paleo Washington end-up on its northern trek? Northern Alaska, perhaps.
Work accomplished north of the '49 needs fuller integration into the Baja-BC theory. I think that many of the PacNW distral motion mysteries may have explanation in the punctuated or non-continuous movement north of exotic terranes through BC on the aforementioned major fault systems.
ps: as a BCer I wish that we had a Nick evolving the public from Creationists into Geo-sapients. Keep up the good work, Nick. A Canuk fan of your program.
Thanks nick
Thank you sir, you inspire us greatly. This ground report was pleased beautifully. But please upload some classes more for your worldwide students in different aspects.
Great interview! Did you see the new report out this week that deals not just with the strato volcanos of the west coast, but also integrates all the volcanic eruptive locations that have been identified and studied. Very interesting new information.
Valerie Henschel I don’t question your post - I’d like to read about it. Can you post a reference? Thanks!
Danny McCarty Geology, 2020; DOI:10.1130/G47706.1 Time-evolving surface and subsurface signatures of Quaternary volcanism in the Cascade arc. Summary on Science News site, 8/15/2020.
Thanks for taking the opportunity to do this interview. What an engaging and sharp mind Myrl has.
I get an ironic chuckle to think the Sea of Cortez is expanding and present day Baja is on the move as we speak. Didn't A. Wegner get a similar reaction to similar concepts many years prior?
Watching a third time without chat up... focusing on the story. And got parts I missed before, good depth in the interview. South America interesting concept.
Rotation in sheer zones tend to relate to side of equator and direction of planet rotation?
Nick has recommended Dr Robert F. Butler's book, 'PALEOMAGNETISM: Magnetic Domains to Geologic Terranes', which Dr Butler has made available as a free e-book. It's at grad level, so don't expect an easy read. Makes one appreciate Professor Beck even more.