Because I’m mostly a visual and kinesthetic learner and have had a mostly really hard time learning math and science the way it was taught to me, I ❤ those embossed maps and other 3-D learning tools and visual aids. Thanks for using that!
Fantastic information given while driving through a beautiful landscape. Thank you for sharing your curiosity with us. I never look at "rocks" like I used to. Have a blessed day.
We went to Paradise June 20th, a Thursday. We came from the West side from Hwy 12. It was packed. The last 2 miles or so to the gate took 2 hours. We were in line at 12:45 for a 1pm entrance time. Parking was packed, we finally found a spot, and we were in my Miata, so didn't need a large spot. I miss the days when you could just drive up and find a place to park at the viewpoint and visitors center.
My favorite backyard. Used to go there everywhere when I lived 45 minutes away. Climbed it three times. I bought the book "Roadside Geology " because of my time there.
What could be better on a dark and rainy evening than to watch you ride through a beautiful scenery and learn something new about igneous rocks? Thanks so much.
Thank you. The five times I was in Washington, I only daw Rainier from the air one time. This was a geeat visit... educational and beautiful. Have a great weekend.
You found the cover art! lol The inclusion in the stones they quarried to make the arch bridge over the Sunbeam Creek were cool, too! Anyone else watching have their nose stuck to their computer monitor when Nick zooms in on the rock? What a beautiful place. I'm so jealous I live in the flatlands. Thanks, Nick!!
Remarkable. Drove to Paradise in 2018, enjoyed the scenery and wildflowers, knew nothing of the picturesque rock outcrops. Now, have a deeper appreciation of the area. Thank you.
Thanks Nick. I'm beginning to think that you have opened the door (if just a crack) for me. Geologists construct amazing and beautiful stories describing what they see in the rocks that they study. You are a gifted interpreter and educator. Thank you for your presence here.
Pyroclastic flows, plutons, andesite lava, waterfall, wildflowers, stratovolcano, glaciers…a unique and wonderful spot on this planet. Thanks for bringing us with you on such a beautiful day!
Watching along with my Washington roadside geology book! Really brings my book to life. Hope to travel to your great state from New Mexico soon. Thanks Nick!
This is so great that you are showing us the hand specimens up close. I am learning. How fortunate of you Washingtonians are to have so much bedrock to look at that is devoid of vegetation. Not so in my state, Vermont! Thanks, NIck.
Currently reading John McPhee’s Annals of the Former World, and I bet if he had written it today you’d be mentioned somewhere. And also, his book makes so much sense to me after all the years of learning I’ve done with you. Thank you.
Great video - I am going to have to take a day trip up to Mt Rainer National Park. Thinking about Spring time. Then I can photo the wild flowers in bloom along its the geology formations. Prosser is close to the mountain, I can see it from my front window. Rock On!
Cool! Thanks again, Nick! Lots of rocks and terms I had to stop the video and look up. Always a fun way to learn new things, especially with the great scenery!
Great road trip Nick. I’m rather jealous being down here in Southern California where we’re gonna be around 100° today. At least I was able to get a little virtual cool down up in MRNP.
Steven's Ridge is a beautiful place to admire the geology there. The vista from the side of the road at 9:20 is spectacular! Always nice riding shotgun with you Nick.
It was great to meet you at Sunrise last week! The 19th was actually my birthday so meeting you a fun plus to the day. Wish I had been more aware of geology when I hiked hundreds of times. This was a particularly fascinating video! Thank you, Mr. Zentner! (Fran McL)
I was just there on Sunday. Also drove over North Cascades Highway and passed Moses Coulee on the way. I got to try out my new America the Beautiful pass too! Thanks for the heads up on that, btw! There is a new Paradise Visitor Center since the last time I was there about 20 years ago. Nice Ranger person said it was built in 2008.
I was old enough to get my lifetime America the Beautiful pass 3 years ago and I've used it about 25 times. It not only gets you into the National Parks, but also half-price camping in the National Forest. It's great!
As a non-geologist I would think that the answer to the pink question lies in the BADR sequence. Andescite (dark) fades to lighter dacite , then to pink rhyolite. And that this all represents the amount of silica available when the thing blew.
I think the pink is possibly due to the weathering of the mineral hypersthene in the andesite. That's what i recall from my geology classes at WWU in the late seventies!
Yeah Mt Rainier was out. It was plain and clear from Iron Peak in the Teanaway as I explained Baja BC and Mt. Stuart to my hiking budies. Love the view of the cascades from behind serpentinite rocks.
Nick, you picked a beautiful day! 🤩 Love getting to look at rocks with you and getting a little more detail from the Pringle guide. I tried using the Rockd app while hiking the Wonderland Trail last Sept. to understand the area. The Stevens Canyon area was broadly described as Mt. Rainier andesites, Stevens Canyon formation, etc. Not nearly the details and context you are providing. Thank you!
Relief map reminds me of the ones we used to make at school by tracing the contours onto cardboard, and cutting them out and sticking them together with flour and water paste. A bit heavier than Nick's plastic ones, I bet! :}
Thanks for the "Trip through time" with all of the different formations. It's a small world, I've been on the mountain twice within 2 days of your recent visits. If you find the source or more information on the pink inclusions within the andesite lava flows, please share them...
So the Tatoosh was active at the same time as the CRBS. Did I hear you right reading from James paper that the welded tuff was subaqueous when it flowed? The Stevens Creek Formation had some reddish inclusions, any idea what that is? Some beautiful scenery there Nick, yer phone does a great job! Can you take a vulcanologist next time? I've never been to Rainier, I have several cousins in the Seattle area who have climbed it a couple of times. Thanks for taking us along whilst doing yer homework!
It would be interesting to HEAR what it sounds like to “tap” on a fragment of Steven’s Ridge. Is it “fired” hard enough to sound like porcelain or ceramic? Maybe the pink andesite is due to some evolution in the magma body, that is not mixed evenly due to the high viscosity of the felsic material? Alternatively, as the andesite rolled down the ancient valleys, could it have interacted with surface water, or shallow ground water and been slightly altered for that reason?
That is a wonderful book your reading from with so much detail, are other areas of the USA also covered in such detail? There’s a tremendous amount of volcanic activity in my area of Idaho and I’d love to have a reference for our travels.
I love the videos with guests, always mind blowing stuff. However, in the field i love more. "A picture paints a thousand words". Question from all of us not in the US, how and why do you number your courses?
I think that the pink is a result of weathering and/or hydrothermal alteration. The pink is likely Fe(III) oxides left behind after alteration of the original lava...?
where can I get that book you are reading from? thanks for your great videos. the video you did on the Columbia River Gorge and the Bridge of the God's was my favorite. At my age I can watch your videos many times and it is like watching for the first time. I am a 81 year old student!
I still want to know why Mt Adams and Mt St Helens are due east to west from one another and each is off the general north south line of the Cascades. Mt St Helens is completely in the western side and Adams is 100% east of the Cascade divide. I've asked this question of many geologists and not one has ever responded. Will you respond?
I googled re: rhyolite and the pinkish color is because the other magma shooting out of volcano melts the existing walls of previous eruptions which turns the existing wall to rhyolite. Of course, AI and google could not be the correct answer.
I think I remember reading that they are the same. Can be hot ash falling from sky and welding like Smith rock in Oregon or the huge hot ash flows of the Yellowstone hotspots in Idaho. I have hiked on those miles into Nevada.
I'm turning 35, I only went to college for one year and that was when I was 23.. What should I do? I want to be involved with this kind of stuff but will I be a lonely guy away from my peer group? Can I go back to school? 😢
I went back to school at 44 to finish my engineering degree. It's a bit of culture shock but most students were helpful and kind. I was as old as their parents. I'm really glad I did it.
You kept questioning the presence of pinkish colors in the lava flows. Wouldn't these just be a transition to rhyolite? After all, why should we expect unique viscosities according to our classifications of lava versus mélanges which is perhaps what happens all the time?
a most beautiful part of this continent. 09:37 stunning! you know? the guys who built that highway were true artisans. those bridges and tunnels are works of true masons.
My favorite videos are these kind. If just for the scenery, and to go along the hike with you. Thanks Nick!
Because I’m mostly a visual and kinesthetic learner and have had a mostly really hard time learning math and science the way it was taught to me, I ❤ those embossed maps and other 3-D learning tools and visual aids. Thanks for using that!
Sweet! I love the sound of geology in the morning! Thanks Nick!
Fantastic information given while driving through a beautiful landscape. Thank you for sharing your curiosity with us. I never look at "rocks" like I used to. Have a blessed day.
I can't tell you how much I love these videos. Thanks Nick!
I love these ‘Nick in the Morning’ videos! Just pure joy! 🥰 Thank you Nick! Greetings from Denmark.
Such beauty along with tons of knowledge. Wow!
We went to Paradise June 20th, a Thursday. We came from the West side from Hwy 12. It was packed. The last 2 miles or so to the gate took 2 hours. We were in line at 12:45 for a 1pm entrance time. Parking was packed, we finally found a spot, and we were in my Miata, so didn't need a large spot.
I miss the days when you could just drive up and find a place to park at the viewpoint and visitors center.
Love these videos, Nick. Feels like we’re just going on a stroll with you but I also learn so much!
Tatoosh Pluton...😏✨ What a beautiful morning we had on the roadside geology to Paradise!! Thank you, Nick, I really needed this day!!💞💚💛😁
My favorite backyard. Used to go there everywhere when I lived 45 minutes away. Climbed it three times. I bought the book "Roadside Geology " because of my time there.
Another great display of our fantastic state
What could be better on a dark and rainy evening than to watch you ride through a beautiful scenery and learn something new about igneous rocks? Thanks so much.
Thank you. The five times I was in Washington, I only daw Rainier from the air one time. This was a geeat visit... educational and beautiful. Have a great weekend.
You found the cover art! lol The inclusion in the stones they quarried to make the arch bridge over the Sunbeam Creek were cool, too! Anyone else watching have their nose stuck to their computer monitor when Nick zooms in on the rock? What a beautiful place. I'm so jealous I live in the flatlands. Thanks, Nick!!
We're having a blast watching your videos. You bring geology alive!
Remarkable. Drove to Paradise in 2018, enjoyed the scenery and wildflowers, knew nothing of the picturesque rock outcrops. Now, have a deeper appreciation of the area. Thank you.
Thanks Nick. I'm beginning to think that you have opened the door (if just a crack) for me. Geologists construct amazing and beautiful stories describing what they see in the rocks that they study. You are a gifted interpreter and educator. Thank you for your presence here.
Pyroclastic flows, plutons, andesite lava, waterfall, wildflowers, stratovolcano, glaciers…a unique and wonderful spot on this planet. Thanks for bringing us with you on such a beautiful day!
Always addictively fascinating . Thank you
Liked the couple taking images of the scenery.
Thank you Nick, I really enjoy these Rpadside videos
Thank you for sharing your learning experience . I love it and learn so much. It makes me want to dig deeper into the story.
Watching along with my Washington roadside geology book! Really brings my book to life. Hope to travel to your great state from New Mexico soon. Thanks Nick!
This is so great that you are showing us the hand specimens up close. I am learning. How fortunate of you Washingtonians are to have so much bedrock to look at that is devoid of vegetation. Not so in my state, Vermont! Thanks, NIck.
Great camera! Thank You.
Currently reading John McPhee’s Annals of the Former World, and I bet if he had written it today you’d be mentioned somewhere. And also, his book makes so much sense to me after all the years of learning I’ve done with you. Thank you.
Beautiful terrain! I just can't get my head around andesite flowing from Rainier and traveling the distances shown on the map. It's a wonderment.
Thanks, Nick!!! I love all your videos. I learn so much from you about our amazing state.
Great video - I am going to have to take a day trip up to Mt Rainer National Park. Thinking about Spring time. Then I can photo the wild flowers in bloom along its the geology formations. Prosser is close to the mountain, I can see it from my front window. Rock On!
The views and colors of that area are just breathtaking. And a great lesson in the local geology and history. Very nice video.
Thank you!! As always, I love your videos
Cool! Thanks again, Nick! Lots of rocks and terms I had to stop the video and look up. Always a fun way to learn new things, especially with the great scenery!
Great road trip Nick. I’m rather jealous being down here in Southern California where we’re gonna be around 100° today. At least I was able to get a little virtual cool down up in MRNP.
Steven's Ridge is a beautiful place to admire the geology there. The vista from the side of the road at 9:20 is spectacular!
Always nice riding shotgun with you Nick.
Thank you so much! Very exciting and excited!
Thanks for sharing this observation!
I was there 3 weeks ago! Super cool! Thanks Nick!
Great Video Nick!
Loved it!
It was great to meet you at Sunrise last week! The 19th was actually my birthday so meeting you
a fun plus to the day. Wish I had been more aware of geology when I hiked hundreds of times. This was a particularly fascinating video! Thank you, Mr. Zentner! (Fran McL)
There is a road trip in my near future. Thanks so much for this.
Right on Nick, thanks much
Thx, Nick. Pretty area.
Great field video Nick.
I was just there on Sunday. Also drove over North Cascades Highway and passed Moses Coulee on the way. I got to try out my new America the Beautiful pass too! Thanks for the heads up on that, btw! There is a new Paradise Visitor Center since the last time I was there about 20 years ago. Nice Ranger person said it was built in 2008.
I was old enough to get my lifetime America the Beautiful pass 3 years ago and I've used it about 25 times. It not only gets you into the National Parks, but also half-price camping in the National Forest. It's great!
Is there any irony that Nick is listening to “Wrong Side of the Road,” as he drives the road to Paradise?
Great video by the way…
Thanks Nick! This is a gorgeous area, I shot some video up there two weeks ago for my youtube channel.
As a non-geologist I would think that the answer to the pink question lies in the BADR sequence.
Andescite (dark) fades to lighter dacite , then to pink rhyolite.
And that this all represents the amount of silica available when the thing blew.
I think the pink is possibly due to the weathering of the mineral hypersthene in the andesite. That's what i recall from my geology classes at WWU in the late seventies!
Rocks look just like the picture!
Yeah Mt Rainier was out. It was plain and clear from Iron Peak in the Teanaway as I explained Baja BC and Mt. Stuart to my hiking budies. Love the view of the cascades from behind serpentinite rocks.
Nick, you picked a beautiful day! 🤩 Love getting to look at rocks with you and getting a little more detail from the Pringle guide. I tried using the Rockd app while hiking the Wonderland Trail last Sept. to understand the area. The Stevens Canyon area was broadly described as Mt. Rainier andesites, Stevens Canyon formation, etc. Not nearly the details and context you are providing. Thank you!
Oh, and now I'm really excited to read the Mattison 1977 paper! Just gotta go find it. 😁
We were just there and there is also pink on the shores of the beaches there on the pacific coast in Mt Olympic national park.
thanks
Relief map reminds me of the ones we used to make at school by tracing the contours onto cardboard, and cutting them out and sticking them together with flour and water paste. A bit heavier than Nick's plastic ones, I bet! :}
Thanks for the "Trip through time" with all of the different formations. It's a small world, I've been on the mountain twice within 2 days of your recent visits. If you find the source or more information on the pink inclusions within the andesite lava flows, please share them...
So the Tatoosh was active at the same time as the CRBS. Did I hear you right reading from James paper that the welded tuff was subaqueous when it flowed? The Stevens Creek Formation had some reddish inclusions, any idea what that is? Some beautiful scenery there Nick, yer phone does a great job! Can you take a vulcanologist next time? I've never been to Rainier, I have several cousins in the Seattle area who have climbed it a couple of times. Thanks for taking us along whilst doing yer homework!
Good morning Prof Z
It would be interesting to HEAR what it sounds like to “tap” on a fragment of Steven’s Ridge. Is it “fired” hard enough to sound like porcelain or ceramic?
Maybe the pink andesite is due to some evolution in the magma body, that is not mixed evenly due to the high viscosity of the felsic material?
Alternatively, as the andesite rolled down the ancient valleys, could it have interacted with surface water, or shallow ground water and been slightly altered for that reason?
That is a wonderful book your reading from with so much detail, are other areas of the USA also covered in such detail? There’s a tremendous amount of volcanic activity in my area of Idaho and I’d love to have a reference for our travels.
Professor discovers new mineral. Names it "Pinkstuff". 'Cause that's what it looks like.
The Road up to Paradise with St. Nicolas.
Very pretty
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You found the photo shoot!
I love the videos with guests, always mind blowing stuff. However, in the field i love more. "A picture paints a thousand words". Question from all of us not in the US, how and why do you number your courses?
Isn't Rhyolite generally pink?
Great video Nick, but what's the story on the pink?
I think that the pink is a result of weathering and/or hydrothermal alteration. The pink is likely Fe(III) oxides left behind after alteration of the original lava...?
Could the pink stuff be due to lots of K-feldspar??
Good morning
where can I get that book you are reading from? thanks for your great videos. the video you did on the Columbia River Gorge and the Bridge of the God's was my favorite. At my age I can watch your videos many times and it is like watching for the first time. I am a 81 year old student!
So i was curious and did some googling. Is there iron in the mt rainier andesite?
Is this a 3D model? Fantastic!
I still want to know why Mt Adams and Mt St Helens are due east to west from one another and each is off the general north south line of the Cascades. Mt St Helens is completely in the western side and Adams is 100% east of the Cascade divide. I've asked this question of many geologists and not one has ever responded. Will you respond?
I googled re: rhyolite and the pinkish color is because the other magma shooting out of volcano melts the existing walls of previous eruptions which turns the existing wall to rhyolite. Of course, AI and google could not be the correct answer.
What is the difference between welded tuff and ignimbrite?
I think I remember reading that they are the same. Can be hot ash falling from sky and welding like Smith rock in Oregon or the huge hot ash flows of the Yellowstone hotspots in Idaho. I have hiked on those miles into Nevada.
36:00 - how do you tell this is a lava flow versus say some darker granite?
I sense another idaho miniseries followup with chris…
Mazama from what os now Crater Lake area?
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Looks like the San Jacinto Monzonite. Salt and Pepper
The Rainier paper opens fine.
Plate-e andesite? How does that work?
Doesn't look as platey as shale or slate. As expected?
Oxidation?
I'm turning 35, I only went to college for one year and that was when I was 23.. What should I do? I want to be involved with this kind of stuff but will I be a lonely guy away from my peer group? Can I go back to school?
😢
I went back to school at 44 to finish my engineering degree. It's a bit of culture shock but most students were helpful and kind. I was as old as their parents.
I'm really glad I did it.
You kept questioning the presence of pinkish colors in the lava flows. Wouldn't these just be a transition to rhyolite? After all, why should we expect unique viscosities according to our classifications of lava versus mélanges which is perhaps what happens all the time?
a most beautiful part of this continent.
09:37 stunning!
you know? the guys who built that highway were true artisans.
those bridges and tunnels are works of true masons.