My late father told me a story about a job he was working at. On top of Queen Anne Hill. A cement truck just rolled over a part of the driveway and a bit of the surface gave way. Luckily nothing was lost, and nobody was hurt. What they found was a Glacial void. My understanding was that it took about 23 dump trucks of sand to fill. This is part of Seattle’s Clacier history. Now up at the county line, they found a small rock at the SW corner of 205th and Aurora, about the size of the building they wanted to build.
Would like to see Nick finish the I90 series as a tribute to Tom! Anyone that's following along, I believe they had more stops planned for the series. It would be wonderful to see this project completed!
I moved to Seattle from VA at age 13. I didn't like it, so I got out for college at age 18 to CWU. The best part of Seattle was the 1962 world's fair. Yes, I attended it. But this review of some Seattle and finally learning some geology of the area is great. My first main earthquake was 1965. Thnt woke us up at the time. I wandered Washington for a long time settling in Eastern Washington in the mid-70s. Thanks, Nick, for this series. I'm looking forward to learning more about the cross state geology. I traveled Hwy 10 and I 90 all my life in Washington.
There is a magical feeling I get thinking about western Washington, Seattle and Puget Sound. I moved from Gilbert, AZ to Seattle when I was 17 and left when I was 26. It was the best time of my life. The beauty of rain forests to the bustling city and skyline. Great video, thank you!
My first welding job was building those piles that anchor the stadiums. We also built piles for the Bremerton Naval Station and Washington ferry system.
Your name came up when watching youtube last night 'Learning Geology- Grand Canyon Geology with Wayne Ranney , from 3 years ago and he called out NICK ZENTNER in the online q and A session- I got a chuckle when i realized u were in the same classroom, great work Nick
As a teen growing up in Leshi we wold go into the I-90 bridge at night when it was under construction to drink etc... there's a underwater pontoon system that spans the whole length of the bridge with submarine doors every 50ft or so..the echos in there were insane! :)
My old stomping grounds. Grew up on Seattle history, my grandparents were early settlers and merchants there. One day, in the 1960’s, Meydenbauer Bay on Lake Washington suddenly went dry, exposing the lake bottom. Then the water rushed back in. That bay is located along the Seattle fault. No major earthquake associated with the event, but obviously something gave way below the lake.
Driving south from Bellingham, where I took a few geology courses at WWSC (yes "C") I would always marvel at the Moraines and Erratics easily seen along I-5. While working in the Russian Far East many (many) years later, it was easy to spot the exact same features caused by the exact same ice flows. Thanks Nick, I have greatly enjoyed watching your videos.
This was SO cool! My jaw was dropped the whole episode. I can’t wait for more; I drive I-90 a lot since my folks are in eastern WA and I’m in Seattle. Also, go wildcats 😂
Wow, was not planning on watching a geology video before bed, but this was super interesting, most certainly a good random TH-cam recommendation, definitely make sure to watch the rest of these
First time seeing your content - loving it! Reminds me a ton of the types of videos my teachers would share back in Middle & High School when talking about Washington History.
Good timing on this one! I just drove up from Idaho today, across the bridge and through the tunnel. Love hearing about the way it all fits together. Thanks Nick!
Hi Nick, I truly enjoy your videos. I just got a notification that YOU subscribed to MY Chanel??? You’re the COOLEST GUY EVER. We’re in San Diego California, getting retire in Washington with hubby and the kids. I’m getting informed of the WA state geology, THANKFULLY through you’re Chanel. First I thought I listen, for informational purposes, now I’m hooked. It’s beyond fascinating. It’s my crack. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU❤
I started watching Nick’s geology videos during the pandemic. They keep getting better and better. I’m loving this one on the geology of Seattle - it has many similarities to Anchorage; a 3,000 ft ice sheet depositing glacial till of varying materials, nearby active volcanos and earthquake faults. What we don’t have are dozens and dozens of skyscrapers, old buildings made of brick, or four million people. Yikes.
Man I've lived here my whole. I'm 37 and you taught me even more. Than I already knew. Which I didn't think was possible. So good job my man! The way you put it all together worked very well.
Been watching your videos for years and love them all. I was living in Tukwila and working at a business on 1st Ave South, about a mile south of the stadiums in February 2001 when the Nisqually quake hit. I can attest to the "bowl of jello" effect and the mud slurry pumping out of the cracks in the streets. If we have a full rip of the Cascadia fault, Seattle will be no more from I5 west. It will simply slip into the sound.
I have so much to catch up before the next series ! So many summer videos and papers, and like always it is a great pleasure and a real treat to have access to that kind of information. Thank you Nick, I am looking forward the start of A-Z Ice Age Floods series.
I hit 150mph heading westbound on the I-90 floating bridge in my 300zx Twin Turbo back in 1999. It was early on a Sunday morning with no traffic. I'll never forget it (my wife won't either) 😎
Going on my walks here in Kitsap peninsula I regularly see evidence of glacial till and wonder how many years it has been here. Vacant lots that had been cleared I walk through are the best to observe this. Of course the many granites strewn all over the neighborhoods. Thanks Nick.
Drumlins are part of why the Link light rail is so expensive. $54 billion across 25 years, because it has sections elevated about halfway up the drumlin, then tunnels through, and exits into another elevated section. Because Seattle's drumlins can have a grade of 18% or more, but trains have difficulty with inclines of more than 1%.
3:30 You forgot Denny Hill. It was razed into the flat Denny Triangle after, I think, the 1905 fire, both to use for the regrade and to gain a flat space in the middle of the city. Seattle's downtown used to be at sea level and flood every high tide, so after the 1905 fire they regraded it to 8-35 feet above sea level. This created a literal underground market with speakeasies and all kinds of other illicit good times.
My excitement for the day! Must have missed this presentation before. When looking at the I-5 to 90 footage I realized "I was there, I was there". May sound silly, but I drove up there the year a new family member was born,and I remember the terrain. Of course, the terrain I remember is much more understandable to me after watching you all this time. It was my first grandson and he turned 5 today. They live in eastern WA, DNI.
Like many areas, Seattle has amazing geography mixed with politics that might complicate travel into and through the area. The rest of the State has amazing geography with fewer complications. Hope your family is well - I've also lived in Seattle but am in Eastern WA.
I spent my early years in Issaquah and the Seattle area. I90 and the tunnels and floating bridges were still a wonder at the time as they replaced either two highways around the lake or a ferry trip across the lake to get to Seattle. Awesome. I remember that the science teacher who taught us about the ice flows speculated that the 'brand new' Space Needle's saucer would sit atop the ice flow . . . I guess their view of general statics and the glacial evidence was incomplete at the time.
Being my stomping grounds, eager to learn about our scary deep lakes Was "Issaquah Alps" part of ancient Mt range? Finally... ...we apologize for our poorly sorted rocks 😔
Very nice, sent a link to my granddaughter who live in Auburn. Kay & I drove that route last ❤year. It is nice to know now what we seen. On the way back from N Cascade NP to Prosser WA.
Really a terrific, illuminating presentation. I’ve been aware of a number of its “parts”, for years, but this puts together a lot of details into an impressively coherent big picture. There’s one detail that grates a little in a Northwesterner’s ear. Nick refers numerous times to “•the• Puget Sound” - for example, “A bedrock platform, visible today at Restoration Point and Alki Point, was formerly under the waves of •the• Puget Sound” (at 10:47-10:56). But natives of this area almost never say that; folks around here just don’t use the definite article “the” in conjunction with the place name, “Puget Sound”. A native Northwesterner would, for example, construct the quoted statement above, “. . . was formerly under the waves of Puget Sound.” Nick has lived in the Northwest over thirty years; even though his home is east of the Cascades, it’s still surprising to hear him use the decidedly non-local construction, “the Puget Sound”.
Almost back to the bow tie era, great stuff
My late father told me a story about a job he was working at. On top of Queen Anne Hill. A cement truck just rolled over a part of the driveway and a bit of the surface gave way. Luckily nothing was lost, and nobody was hurt. What they found was a Glacial void. My understanding was that it took about 23 dump trucks of sand to fill. This is part of Seattle’s Clacier history. Now up at the county line, they found a small rock at the SW corner of 205th and Aurora, about the size of the building they wanted to build.
Would like to see Nick finish the I90 series as a tribute to Tom!
Anyone that's following along, I believe they had more stops planned for the series.
It would be wonderful to see this project completed!
I was thinking just the same. It would be awesome.
I love these older videos.
Amazing. I had no idea developers were even more nuts back then than they are now!
I moved to Seattle from VA at age 13. I didn't like it, so I got out for college at age 18 to CWU. The best part of Seattle was the 1962 world's fair. Yes, I attended it. But this review of some Seattle and finally learning some geology of the area is great. My first main earthquake was 1965. Thnt woke us up at the time. I wandered Washington for a long time settling in Eastern Washington in the mid-70s. Thanks, Nick, for this series. I'm looking forward to learning more about the cross state geology. I traveled Hwy 10 and I 90 all my life in Washington.
THE RETURN OF THE KING!!! nick zentner
Best geology class I have ever taken! Nick is the best
There is a magical feeling I get thinking about western Washington, Seattle and Puget Sound. I moved from Gilbert, AZ to Seattle when I was 17 and left when I was 26. It was the best time of my life. The beauty of rain forests to the bustling city and skyline. Great video, thank you!
Getting ready for the fall A-Z Ice Age floods Series I have been watching all the old TH-cam videos on this subject
My first welding job was building those piles that anchor the stadiums. We also built piles for the Bremerton Naval Station and Washington ferry system.
Thank you for all the informative videos! Now I have new found appreciation to my neighborhoods.
Bringing back the oldies I see
Some of the best...
So cool to see my home town on the thumbnail of a youtube video. Great place to live, great place to grow up.
Back on the trail.
Ive been watching since the TED talk.
Thanks for keeping us enthralled
1-90 from Seattle to the western half of South Dakota has some really amazing scenery.
Your name came up when watching youtube last night 'Learning Geology- Grand Canyon Geology with Wayne Ranney , from 3 years ago and he called out NICK ZENTNER in the online q and A session- I got a chuckle when i realized u were in the same classroom, great work Nick
Great program! Thanks Nick! 🌟🌟🌟
Wow, I learned something fascinating today! Thank you for this :)
As a teen growing up in Leshi we wold go into the I-90 bridge at night when it was under construction to drink etc... there's a underwater pontoon system that spans the whole length of the bridge with submarine doors every 50ft or so..the echos in there were insane! :)
My old stomping grounds. Grew up on Seattle history, my grandparents were early settlers and merchants there. One day, in the 1960’s, Meydenbauer Bay on Lake Washington suddenly went dry, exposing the lake bottom. Then the water rushed back in. That bay is located along the Seattle fault. No major earthquake associated with the event, but obviously something gave way below the lake.
Can't get enough of this. EXCELLENT! Grateful to the talented Tom Foster and Prof. Nick Zentner. What a video.
It may be an eight year old video but it will surely be a part of A-Z Ice Age floods coming soon to this very channel! More
to come. Thanks Nick!
Thank you for this informative video. Love the 90s style editing!
This is one of the coolest video on the history of Puget sound & Seattle that I've come across. Kudos 👏
The fact that us humans did that in less than 150 years, is absolutely amazing!
Driving south from Bellingham, where I took a few geology courses at WWSC (yes "C") I would always marvel at the Moraines and Erratics easily seen along I-5. While working in the Russian Far East many (many) years later, it was easy to spot the exact same features caused by the exact same ice flows.
Thanks Nick, I have greatly enjoyed watching your videos.
Burlington's flat farmland has some excellent views of these.
Thanks Nick for bringing awareness to what looms in Seattle's future. John Lasher.
This was SO cool! My jaw was dropped the whole episode. I can’t wait for more; I drive I-90 a lot since my folks are in eastern WA and I’m in Seattle. Also, go wildcats 😂
Wow, was not planning on watching a geology video before bed, but this was super interesting, most certainly a good random TH-cam recommendation, definitely make sure to watch the rest of these
It was the most profoundly informative and interesting video I've ever seen. Thank you!
Great video, I still remember your classes from almost 20 years ago. Great job Nick!
Love it! New to the area (moved up from PDX where we lived for 6 years) and really enjoy learning about the area from this perspective!!
Great job providing context and visualizations! Keep up the good work.
I know this was 100 years ago, but it was super interesting and informative. ❤
Vintage Zentner. You gotta love it!
Great show, Nick! Different than your usual talks, but very enjoyable. Looking forward to the rest!
Hence the name, Shoreline Drive. Thank you for helping me figure that out.
Thank you, Nick! I love geology now!
First time seeing your content - loving it! Reminds me a ton of the types of videos my teachers would share back in Middle & High School when talking about Washington History.
Hey Zentner, uplift intensifies erosion! Thank you for all you do, you changed my life.
Good timing on this one! I just drove up from Idaho today, across the bridge and through the tunnel. Love hearing about the way it all fits together. Thanks Nick!
Thanks Nick for another great video.
Love your passion Nick!
Love it! SPU grad, been gone a long time but coming back soon
Hi Nick, I truly enjoy your videos. I just got a notification that YOU subscribed to MY Chanel??? You’re the COOLEST GUY EVER. We’re in San Diego California, getting retire in Washington with hubby and the kids. I’m getting informed of the WA state geology, THANKFULLY through you’re Chanel. First I thought I listen, for informational purposes, now I’m hooked. It’s beyond fascinating. It’s my crack. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU❤
These videos rock!! I love your enthusiasm and energy too
I absolutely love these talks. I def miss the old geology talks with both chalk boards 😅best material and immersive topics!
Brilliant. I always learn many new things. Thank you!
I started watching Nick’s geology videos during the pandemic. They keep getting better and better.
I’m loving this one on the geology of Seattle - it has many similarities to Anchorage; a 3,000 ft ice sheet depositing glacial till of varying materials, nearby active volcanos and earthquake faults. What we don’t have are dozens and dozens of skyscrapers, old buildings made of brick, or four million people. Yikes.
I just moved here and this video was so super interesting.
It's game time! 💙💚💙💚 😅 Excellent video, very exciting to view with our additional knowledge. This subject continues to fascinate! Thank you so much!❤
Man I've lived here my whole. I'm 37 and you taught me even more. Than I already knew. Which I didn't think was possible. So good job my man! The way you put it all together worked very well.
Same age and all
HELLO, YOUNG PEOPLE! I miss those 2 minute geology videos! This is yet another great work, Professor.
Been watching your videos for years and love them all. I was living in Tukwila and working at a business on 1st Ave South, about a mile south of the stadiums in February 2001 when the Nisqually quake hit. I can attest to the "bowl of jello" effect and the mud slurry pumping out of the cracks in the streets. If we have a full rip of the Cascadia fault, Seattle will be no more from I5 west. It will simply slip into the sound.
thanks for the nice photos of Washington State Tubs... the bridge across the Swinomish Slough was problematic as result of insufficient bedrock.
I have so much to catch up before the next series ! So many summer videos and papers, and like always it is a great pleasure and a real treat to have access to that kind of information. Thank you Nick, I am looking forward the start of A-Z Ice Age Floods series.
I hit 150mph heading westbound on the I-90 floating bridge in my 300zx Twin Turbo back in 1999. It was early on a Sunday morning with no traffic. I'll never forget it (my wife won't either) 😎
Well done, very interesting, on behalf of Canadians everywhere, "Could we have our Big Rocks back?" haha. Mike.
Please, come and get them, eh
I have one in my back yard but it's a u.s. citizen now !
LOL @@averteddisasterbarely2339
GREAT STUFF! I learned a bunch of new stuff - thanks Nick
Almost back to the bow tie era, great stuff. Almost back to the bow tie era, great stuff.
Can't wait for the next Ice Age! Great video thank you!
Going on my walks here in Kitsap peninsula I regularly see evidence of glacial till and wonder how many years it has been here. Vacant lots that had been cleared I walk through are the best to observe this. Of course the many granites strewn all over the neighborhoods. Thanks Nick.
I grew up here (Bellevue) and this just made my entire view of this beautiful place so much deeper and meaningful, well done!
The retro vibe is so much fun. 😂
Drumlins are part of why the Link light rail is so expensive. $54 billion across 25 years, because it has sections elevated about halfway up the drumlin, then tunnels through, and exits into another elevated section. Because Seattle's drumlins can have a grade of 18% or more, but trains have difficulty with inclines of more than 1%.
dude it's WILD how different the skyline is in these videos from not even that long ago
Hell yes. Still here all ears!
Long time Seattle resident here. The Duamish river is a tidal river. when the tide is coming in, the water is brackish.
3:30 You forgot Denny Hill. It was razed into the flat Denny Triangle after, I think, the 1905 fire, both to use for the regrade and to gain a flat space in the middle of the city. Seattle's downtown used to be at sea level and flood every high tide, so after the 1905 fire they regraded it to 8-35 feet above sea level. This created a literal underground market with speakeasies and all kinds of other illicit good times.
9:30 Fantastic, that line goes right over my house.
My excitement for the day! Must have missed this presentation before. When looking at the I-5 to 90 footage I realized "I was there, I was there". May sound silly, but I drove up there the year a new family member was born,and I remember the terrain. Of course, the terrain I remember is much more understandable to me after watching you all this time. It was my first grandson and he turned 5 today. They live in eastern WA, DNI.
Like many areas, Seattle has amazing geography mixed with politics that might complicate travel into and through the area. The rest of the State has amazing geography with fewer complications. Hope your family is well - I've also lived in Seattle but am in Eastern WA.
I spent my early years in Issaquah and the Seattle area. I90 and the tunnels and floating bridges were still a wonder at the time as they replaced either two highways around the lake or a ferry trip across the lake to get to Seattle. Awesome.
I remember that the science teacher who taught us about the ice flows speculated that the 'brand new' Space Needle's saucer would sit atop the ice flow . . . I guess their view of general statics and the glacial evidence was incomplete at the time.
Enjoyed the video thanks Nick send us more!
Being my stomping grounds, eager to learn about our scary deep lakes
Was "Issaquah Alps" part of ancient Mt range? Finally...
...we apologize for our poorly sorted rocks 😔
Good stuff, pacific northwest geology and weather are the best
Great to see this! Thanks Nick, and Tom Foster, too. (RIP Tom)
Great series. If I was closer, I'd offer to help edit.
That Puget Sound lobe stopped here in West Olympia and left big gullies that run to Bud Bay. The runoff must have been like several huge rivers.
Ah, Seattle, my old stomping ground.
I knew some of this but still learned quite a bit!
Anybody else catch his nod to Ivar's? "Acres of clams"!
Remind me to watch the hole series again. thank you stay safe
Ahh, my old haunts. Growing up on Mercer Island is there any surprise I am fascinated by geology as an adult?
Living your best life ! Love to see it
As a geographer I love it.
Great geology video. Easily worth a watch if you are even remotely interested in the geologic makeup of the Seattle area. Thanks for this!
Nice information! Exciting to visite 🙏🙏
These videos are perfection lol.
Thanks Nick!
Thank you, love your knowledge. 😊
I gotta say that you sure used one of the greatest thumbnails I’ve ever seen as random as that is. Gottta be because I’m part of the PNW myself.
Thanks for the education, I appreciate it.......😎✌️
Thanks for helping to renew my interest in Geology.
There is the Duvall erratics next to the Welcome to Duvall sign coming into town from the south side of Hwy 203
I like the bike bridge!
i loved this series, please finish it!
great video! Thank you 🙏
Excited to view this series.
Very nice, sent a link to my granddaughter who live in Auburn. Kay & I drove that route last ❤year. It is nice to know now what we seen. On the way back from N Cascade NP to Prosser WA.
Really a terrific, illuminating presentation. I’ve been aware of a number of its “parts”, for years, but this puts together a lot of details into an impressively coherent big picture.
There’s one detail that grates a little in a Northwesterner’s ear. Nick refers numerous times to “•the• Puget Sound” - for example,
“A bedrock platform, visible today at Restoration Point and Alki Point, was formerly under the waves of •the• Puget Sound”
(at 10:47-10:56). But natives of this area almost never say that; folks around here just don’t use the definite article “the” in conjunction with the place name, “Puget Sound”. A native Northwesterner would, for example, construct the quoted statement above,
“. . . was formerly under the waves of Puget Sound.”
Nick has lived in the Northwest over thirty years; even though his home is east of the Cascades, it’s still surprising to hear him use the decidedly non-local construction, “the Puget Sound”.
Always liked this series 👍
Amazing video!!! You Rock!