Petrified Wood - 15 million-year-old Petrified Tree
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- Geologist describes process that turned 15 million-year-old logs to stone near Vantage, Washington. hugefloods.com/ presents "2 Minute Geology" episode that tells the story of logs protected from lava by lake water. Today the beautiful petrified logs are on display at Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park after being uncovered by the Ice Age Floods.
I like it that you're always calling me "young". Geologically, I'm young. But in human terms, I'm older than you! ;-)
+unclvinny
Young at heart!
I love it
I like the simple, concise format of your video. No extraneous graphics, etc. cluttering the screen. All of that makes it ideal for both my students and myself!
Beautiful. I had no idea about such beautiful aging rings in petrified trees.! Amazing!
There's petrified tree roots up the road from us (near Yambuk in Australia.) A sandstone cliff edge by the ocean called the Crags..
Also a beautiful spot...
So amazing! I've been fascinated with the geology of Washington since I first flew over it a little over 3 years ago. Your videos help me understand what happened. Thanks so much for sharing!!!
Nice to hear that our videos have been helpful, Tonya. Thanks.
i have watched so many of your videos, but never wrote to thank you for these WONDERFUL educational productions. totally fabulous. all kudos o you mr. Foster and your team. ab fab! (and thanks 4 reminding us "kiddos" how young and inexperienced we r)
i wanted to see what petrified wood was from playing rdr2, and im happy I did. thank you for this wholesome gem of a video you made, and thank you for teaching me something new.
Nick - your videos and teaching approach are terrific thank you for sharing your knowledge and passion of geology! I'm a Geology grad from Sierra College in Rocklin, CA and I love every aspect of this field of study - especially being surrounded here in Northern California and Nevada - I'm like a kid at Disneyland every weekend! All the best to you my geologic friend!
Thank you, Fred!
is it possible for me to get in touch with Fred to pick his brain re; his knowledge of the ancient events resulting in the abundance of fossil wood in my area?
I'd be petrified if I stood there for that long too
+Tony Michaud
Ha!
God made everything 6000 years ago
Think about it
@@JoseRodriguez-uk3sl no lol
I know its been 4 years. But can we please have another dad joke
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love this video! i work at a lapidary in Sedona, AZ, and i'm creating a blog about petrified wood. I plan to reference this wonderful video in our post :)
As always, Washington State geology rocks. Thanks for another fun video, Nick. GO WILDCATS!
Go CWU! Thanks.
Thank you greatly! Most excellent work! Greatly appreciated! Blessings!
Nice Tie! This guy might be favorite scientist ever.
I found a small hunk of fossil wood inside of a rock pile infront of somebody's house in Washington, perfectly preserved rings with that broken off structure of the wood
Stumbled upon you finding out more about petrified wood. I found a huge cache of juniper near Zion NP.
Thank you for all the great geology videos. My wife and I really enjoy them.
Thanks for taking the time to write, Steven.
What an amazing video thank you for this!
Fascinating. Thank you.
Lol thank you for posting this! As soon as I heard creationists trying to say trees found through multiple layers of stratum somehow disproved how long they took to form, this was EXACTLY the image I had in my head lol
Don't worry folks, he's already applied all the common sense critical thinking you need. There can be no other solution like silicone based life forms, like giant trees, such as the devil's monument in Wyoming. Nephillum/fellars/fell a tree/men of renown. Wake up he's just as lost as you are. Measure the temp of moonlight vs moon shade and watch your world view collapse.
@@cancerskryptonite Hahaha yes, because the bible is such a fabulous scientific book, full of credible explanations. Explanations on how to keep slaves, stone to death your unruly child or adulterous wife. Watch your god kill for not saying "Thanks". Yep, that seems fair.... Innocent boys murdered by your god because of what someone else did....yep, sounds fair and just. No wonder religious types are arrogant and self righteous.....just like the god they need to follow. Lucky that gods are bullshit.
Your videos reminds me of my meagre knowlage .
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Love your personality and candor. Great lesson, man!
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Thanks for the comment, Richard!
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Great job on this video.
(typing in song) So many videos on youtube to see, flat earthers, new cars and too much skin by the sea....the youtube algorthm brought me here, to...you guessed it.....3 min geology.
Wow! A thick, developed tree trunk out in the middle of a desert environment!!!! That alone tells how massively old the world that WE live in really is !!!!!
Not according to the viewer comments here!
Thank you for the information. I'm studying petrology informally android petrified wood has been my focus for the 6 months. Please contribute more to that subject.
Don't worry folks, he's already applied all the common sense critical thinking you need. There can be no other solution like silicone based life forms, like giant trees, such as the devil's monument in Wyoming. Nephillum/fellars/fell a tree/men of renown. Wake up he's just as lost as you are. Measure the temp of moonlight vs moon shade and watch your world view collapse.
Excuse me, but your comment re; MY comment made absolutely no sense to me in that context. Granted i made some errors in my rush to complete my compliment, but i believe that somehow i have been misunderstood. in any case im sure your insult was out of line and uncalled for. i sincerely hope your perception improves and perhaps the hostility in your comments diminishes.
>^..^< Even thou I am not one of those "Young People" you greet at each beginning, Vary Interesting and Informative, Thank You.....
I am from India ,Your videos help me in geography, study.🤗...can you please make more videos of other landforms like ( potholes , valleys alluvial fans )and so on
The more I learn , the more I want to learn📚thank you professor
Don't worry folks, he's already applied all the common sense critical thinking you need. There can be no other solution like silicone based life forms, like giant trees, such as the devil's monument in Wyoming. Nephillum/fellars/fell a tree/men of renown. Wake up he's just as lost as you are. Measure the temp of moonlight vs moon shade and watch your world view collapse.
Lush! We have some amazing places here on the jurassic coast, UK. But this place is amazing. That tree is fantastic
I was just working in vantage Washington last month. I will have to try to make it back up there sometime.
Nice!
*EPIC* Thankyou for sharing!
What I have trouble visualizing is how the organic particles escape if they are first chelated and encased by the silica. Just how thorough is the displacement. Have different cuts of axes shown point for point reproduction? How far down in size are the castings? Are nuclei and organelles also preserved? What about instances where soft wood has been found in cores of petrified samples?
That's where my mind goes, too, when I hear about this.
I never knew they had petrified logs in Washington. I always thought they were only found in the Petrified Forest in Arizona. Looked on line and found there is one in WA, UT, WY and AZ.
Don't worry folks, he's already applied all the common sense critical thinking you need. There can be no other solution like silicone based life forms, like giant trees, such as the devil's monument in Wyoming. Nephillum/fellars/fell a tree/men of renown. Wake up he's just as lost as you are. Measure the temp of moonlight vs moon shade and watch your world view collapse.
Great video!
+Jasper
Thanks for watching.
Wow thank you so much
Thanks for watching our video, Geologia Aplicada H! Hello from North America!
I thought you said, "Advantage: Washington." No need to brag!
It would be interesting to see a follow-up video that has to do with the electrical aspect of wood petrification via high discharge into the material
🙄 Don't worry folks, he's already applied all the common sense critical thinking you need. There can be no other solution like silicone based life forms, like giant trees, such as the devil's monument in Wyoming. Nephillum/fellars/fell a tree/men of renown. Wake up he's just as lost as you are. Measure the temp of moonlight vs moon shade and watch your world view collapse.
I'm glad you explained that it was in a layer of pillow lava. "We had the right ingredients then, for petrification. A lot of water, a lot of heat and minerals, silica from the overlying basalt lava."
The Universal Model - A New Millennial Science also talks about pillow lava and helps this all make sense. It explains the overlooked ingredient of pressure!
Huh?
So the tree had a my pillow to age on ok At this point I'll believe just about anything Ya say the earth is oblong Do tell more and show pics if possible
We know solar flares change the decay rate of radiocarbons. We know geologists have not accounted for the global flood layers nor the asteroid impact ejecta displacement. Petrified wood doesn't petrify in air. It disintegrates and is eaten by bugs with a decade or two max. Petrified wood requires water and minerals. It is more evidence of the global flood and ensuing ice age. The reason why you have seen such a speedy decline in glaciers is because they are artificial. The Earth resides in the goldilocks zone which does not allow that to last. The melt rate indicates the recentness of the flood. The cause was the asteroid which killed the dinosaurs. Their dates are all wrong. If you don't want to know the truth then go hide. Everything will be known.
Muy claro el tema y divertida la forma como presentas el tema del árbol fósil. Felicitaciones desde el Perú. Very clear the topic and it is funny the way how is showing the fosil tree theme. Congratulations from Perú.
Don't worry folks, he's already applied all the common sense critical thinking you need. There can be no other solution like silicone based life forms, like giant trees, such as the devil's monument in Wyoming. Nephillum/fellars/fell a tree/men of renown. Wake up he's just as lost as you are. Measure the temp of moonlight vs moon shade and watch your world view collapse.
Geology and rocks, Geology rocks!
love the song! :)
Juan Fraire Hey thanks!
I do too
This is cool!
I love the bowtie! It makes me want to wear a formal dress to the library.
My favorite reason for going to the library as a kid..........
Amazing
SUBEGAP Thanks for watching!
I love old things!
Me too!
Who knew I would be here watching a video on petrified wood and huge logs... Very cool though...
Is it possible to do tree ring dating with petrified wood? you mentioned that the cell structure is preserved.
Good question. No. Tree ring dating only works with trees that lived recently...and their ring patterns match living neighbors nearby. Since these logs are millions of years old, there is now way to look at the rings and determine age.
It is possible, the age won’t match the proposed age. Do a test and you’ll see the truth.
@@Ellensburg44 ; That's an oxymoron Unless you date it in specific way it could be from 1851 I recall seeing a picture of one taken by a photographer going west in a wagon train Please try harder I'm not sure your calculations are rock solid dude
May I ask a question please? Can you please explain the difference between Petrified Wood and Bog Wood? Thank you.
Don't worry folks, he's already applied all the common sense critical thinking you need. There can be no other solution like silicone based life forms, like giant trees, such as the devil's monument in Wyoming. Nephillum/fellars/fell a tree/men of renown. Wake up he's just as lost as you are. Measure the temp of moonlight vs moon shade and watch your world view collapse.
I have been to that state park in 1961. I have not been there since. Is the museum still there?
Yes!
so perpetrated wood is made of silica? any other mineral in it?
Imagine finding a petrified wooden coffin that’s been sealed for 15 million years... someone write a book or movie now!
Great job!
angelsarereal777 Thanks!
You deserve milions of view
Never new there was more places like Arizona petrified forest
I find that every time I wake up.
Health class will help you understand it.
@@Ellensburg44 ha ha
some of the tree castings still have the wood inside them. its sort of oxidized and crumbly brown caramel color. i know of a few a wish there was some way to date the wood.
Greg the egg. Brilliant stuff
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Wish I had the expertise to help you, TaylorVogt. Sounds cool. You might search 'Evolving Earth' - a website run by petrified wood research guys. Good luck!
Interesting.
So was this a forested area a long time ago???
petrified wood is millions of years old in the first place, awesome thx!
Good point.
How do you prove millions of years. ?
That is a petrified silica tree branch.
Have you seen the Devils tower in Wyoming?
Its an ancient petrified tree stump which used to be miles high.
I know its mind blowing but its TRUTH just like the FLAT EARTH.
Millions of years is determined from measuring the amounts of parent and daughter isotopes in the elements of the lava rock overlying the wood at Vantage. This technique has been used worldwide - and the ages are cross checked using field evidence involved relations between layers. There is no evidence to support Devil's Tower as being a petrified tree stump. The tower is made of columnar basalt...no wood pieces with growth rings. Thanks for the questions. Thanks for watching.
i think the question is not so much "Millions" but How many millions?
2? 3? 34?100? 33930384?
With this lava flow, the answer is 15.
Mine looks older because its fully hard and petrified, no joke its fully a fossil rock thing
I'm not gonna lie - floating tree slices kinda freaked me out a bit. LOL
Any idea what petrified trees have the most tree rings? I'm doing my best to help my friends that are stuck in the creationist ideology out of it, and this information might help a bit. Love the videos!
They've already been manipulated into believing that tree rings could have formed faster back then, cause you weren't there to see itm same with ice core layers. Good luck, they're prepared to do some wild mental gymnastics to avoid admitting they were duped.
Sadly, there's nothing you can tell them that will help.
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Mr. Zentner, these two minute geology videos are awesome! I'm a high school senior, and I'm looking for a career that allows me to explore and go on adventures around the world (I'm really interested in mountainous regions). Geology seems the most promising (particularly exploration geology). But to be quite frank, I have no idea what I'm getting myself into. Is there any advice you can give to an aspiring geologist?
+Captain Wubbles Thanks Captain. If you enjoy science and being outside, geology is a good choice for you. There are so many different kinds of job prospects that all stem from a basic geology degree. You're ahead of the game. Most college geology majors stumble into it by accident. To know about geology while still in high school is unusual. Good luck to you.
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sadly... you are being taught rubbish!
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pffft.... mainstream anything is crap! especially ms science.
Why does the basalt lava have less structural integrity than the petrified wood that causes it to be eroded away and the wood not? Does the purity of the silica in the petrified wood as opposed to the basalt give it longevity?
Don't worry folks, he's already applied all the common sense critical thinking you need. There can be no other solution like silicone based life forms, like giant trees, such as the devil's monument in Wyoming. Nephillum/fellars/fell a tree/men of renown. He's just pedaling the Rockefeller "fossil fuel" lie they made for the giant trees. Wake up he's just as lost as you are. Measure the temp of moonlight vs moon shade (infrared thermometer) and watch your world view collapse.
yeah either that or the chamber of secrets was opened back thn
A couple questions and observations...
So, it's obvious that 15 million years ago, the climate in this region was very different. Currently, eastern WA is dry because the cascade mountains create a rain shadow effect, while the olympic peninsula has 360 inches of rain per year. Can we speculate that the cascade mountains are at least younger than 15 million years? Or is there other geology / geography at play here to cause this wet climate?
If the logs were being cooled by water while the lava was enveloping them, do we know anything about where the water was coming from? Is there evidence of any ancient rivers? Or maybe glaciers? or lakes?
Would it be possible to find fossilized wildlife from the 15 million year time period? Or was that all washed away?
And a totally random shot in the dark: I'm guessing that the current yellow stone hotspot used to be under eastern washington and it was the source of all the lava flows. Either the north american continent has moved over 15 million years by the distance difference between Eastern WA and yellowstone, or the hotspot itself has moved somehow, or maybe a little bit of both. However, if the hotspot has moved, wouldn't we be able to find geological evidence of past hot spots between yellowstone and eastern washington? Have we?
Good questions. The Cascades have existed for 40 million years....but there is good evidence they were quite low 15 miillion years ago....so no rainshadow effect then. There were inland lakes that the lavas encountered due to lava dams of the Columbia River. A cast of a rhino was famously found at Blue Lake from the time of the lavas...in fact the lava killed the rhino. And yes, there are a string of older calderas between Yellowstone and the Cascades. Try my TH-cam lecture on Liberty Gold and Yellowstone Hot Spot. Appreciate your thoughts...
dont forget plate tectonics 15 million years ago according to scientists the north american plate was futhur south and east then now. I cannot imagine that a tree for example would remain for millions of years without being damaged or pushed out or destroyed by the constant motions of tectonic plates and subduction which they claim reclaims and remakes rocks and land and from other events lhappening, was that location always peaceful all this time? not sure if timeline is correct, I have no reason to believe scientists on their time lines because they have not proven or shown us how they arrived or anything to convince us except trust us we are experts analogy, there large numbers are based on assumtions, according to this books about this stuff I have been reading it does say that in their aging of rocks and fossils etc they operate on several assumptions, they even admit it as such, and one thing is that many things studied would take millions of years to occure. I couldnt beleive I was reading this in some magezines and books I had gotten from the library.
I've never seen anyone wear a bow-tie while hiking. Very stylish.
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It involves soaking a section of wood in hydrochloric acid for two days and then in either a silica or titanium solution for another two days. After air-drying, the wood is placed in an argon gas filled furnace and slowly heated to 1400° Celsius over a period of two hours.1. jul. 2015
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Wait so..this whole forest was buried in lava, but then the trees didnt burn because they were also underwater at the same time....?
Because "Prehistoric" forests are only a few thousand years old and they need an excuse for why the trees are exposed, perfectly intact, and weren't covered in sediment.
It takes more then a coupla thousands of years to petrify a whole tree. PILLOW BASALT happens when lava hits water, the trees, forests where probably flooded some time before the lava flow.
Listen to it again... and research lava and basalt. Cheers!
@@rawkinj6609 BS. Show me one fallen tree that lasts more the 20 years. We know solar flares change the decay rate of radiocarbons. We know geologists have not accounted for the global flood layers nor the asteroid impact ejecta displacement. Petrified wood doesn't petrify in air. It disintegrates and is eaten by bugs within a decade or two max. Petrified wood requires water and minerals. It is more evidence of the global flood and ensuing ice age. The reason why you have seen such a speedy decline in glaciers is because they are artificial. The Earth resides in the goldilocks zone which does not allow that to last. The melt rate indicates the recentness of the flood. The cause was the asteroid which killed the dinosaurs. Their dates are all wrong. If you don't want to know the truth then go hide. Everything will be known.
If you listen to his presentation he explains EXACTLY how and why the logs, water and lava arrived at the results we see.
+Nick Zentner Hey there, great videos, very informative :D I've also been reading some of the comments especially on this video and unfortunately it seems quite a few people (who are oddly hostile) are right into some various claims of massive rock formations actually being enormous petrified trees, simply because some pictures of the formations look like tree stumps (ironically they never mention this, seemingly to try to avoid saying it and they just challenge you). It's quite astonishing and disappointing for "your average Joe" to come on here and try to refute science/geology and your expertise. Regardless everyone can have an opinion and again great videos, I've enjoyed watching them so far.
A bit of research on one of the dissenters shows a preference for a young flat earth.
Thanks for the nice comments and your insight. Refuting the interpretations are fine with me...but refuting basic field observations is the problem.
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So water removed lava rock but left the tree?
Wow
3.505 minute geology.
I own property in Yakima with petrified wood on it. Looked for property in the area to go for sale for the last 10 years for that reason. Clyde friend ring a bell?
How do they know how old is a petrified tree?
The age of the petrified wood is determined by age-dating the rock layers above and below the layer of logs.
Is that the age of the tree only when it lived, but not the age of the time after it died...?
I don´t think there was 15 million layers on that tree..
If a person got stuck in that lava flow, could a human body become petrified?
You haven't seen Pompeii?
@@TylerShacklefordDurden the pompeii bodies are not petrified, those are casts. The bodies got covered in layers of ash which hardened into a shell, the tissue decomposed, and they filled the empty cavity with plaster.
I wanna see like a literal human body that’s been fully mineralized. I googled it and turns out there are some that have been found.
@@JustAnotherBlader layers of ash? They're frozen in vertical positions?
@@JustAnotherBlader not saying I don't believe you lol just, how? Like I remember the mother shielding her kid specifically. It was a fast thing, I don't get how that could be from ash raining down, they were frozen in time as if from the second they died.
So the big bang produced a really hot lava .. but in the pillow zone there was enough water to protect the wood , so where did the water come from ?
On some of the other postings I found on utube they claim is these logs are only 220 thousand years old , not 15 million , a big difference , so who is right ?
The lava flows of central Washington have been dated using radiometric dating of elements in the lava. 15 million years old is the undisputed answer among scientists. The lavas blocked the Columbia River at times....creating lakes.
none of em all lying cunts
Big bang= Time space and matter in that order. In the beginning (time) God created the heavens (space) and the earth (matter).
What are your thoughts on "Devils Tower"?
Defo a tree
Devil's tower is small in terms of petrified wood. Think mountain ranges and seashore cliffs.
🤔 looks like those log ended up there just like the logs at Spirit Lake. Sinking vertically to the bottom
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Sounds about right
If this is correct can we make more?
Yes, but it is unclear how long the petrification process takes...
how is 8t that the lava flow didn't just incinerate the tree to begin with?
We discussed this in the video. Water was present (lake) to protect the logs from the heat of the lava.
I may need to watch again! Thank you!
Nick Zentner the standing tree wasn’t under water science simply doesn’t know how to explain so theories pop up.
@@76Pou ; You could watch it everyday for the rest of your life And the explanation will still leave your brain petrified
@@felipedeoliveira_ ; Now that's a conspiracy theories
there are petrified REDWOOD (metasequoia occidentalis) trees in south east Oregon.
What is a stomatolite ? Because ...
Stromatolites are fossil mounds of algae more than 1 billion years old. Because...
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I like his bow tie
I have learned
If you understand what petrified wood looks like then start looking for it in LARGE peices in mountain ranges.
He's giving me Bill Nye vibes
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