The Anacortes area is one of my favorite hiking destinations, so it's fascinating to learn more about the geology of the area. Until now, I never really pondered about hiking on 160,000,000 year old rock. Very cool!
I am a geologist, and I live in Anacortes. Didn't know my bedrock was 160M years old. It's easy to see the glacial striations and we have lots of trees falling in the forest because our soil is so thin due to recent glaciation. A veritable paradise of geology processes in full view. Thanks for the video.
Outstanding episode. My wife and I are relocating to Anacortes in two weeks and were just at Washington Park over the weekend. So great to learn about this!
I love the Pacific Northwest...travel 50 miles in any direction and it feels like another planet. My favorite memory of the place comes from the Good Friday quake: we were living in Bremerton hill-top (a mound of glacial till) at the time. This amplified the shaking...we had several windows in our house break, many neighbors lost their chimneys, water-mains ruptured and a nearby bridge pulled two feet away from its abutment!
Whidbey Island was in the "shadow" of Anacortes and Fildalgo. The Island is composed of mostly sand that was deposited by that glacier 16,000 years ago. I had a well dug on South Whidbey island. When we got down through about 160 feet of sand, the well drillers started pulling up 16,000 year old wood from the forest that once covered that area.
This series is done so well; I can’t wait to see all the stuff coming! Wishing your wife a speedy recovery and peace to your entire family during this hard time. We are all thinking about you!
I love these episodes - just wished they were like 1/2 hour long...or more! Here's a tip - go to Cypress Island which is north of Anacortes. Land at Pelican Beach, then climb to Eagle Cliff - about 200-300 ft above the water. There are glacial striations in the rocks way up there!
the Wave wall is about 100 ft from the waters edge & probably a half mile from Sunset beach at Washington Park.... just a few miles past the ferry terminal.
I love learning about my home, the Pacific Northwest of America..... and especially about the Inland Northwest. Geology, Geography & history is what i love Nick has taught me alot, and i appreciate it🤘
Hugs and prayers, dear prof nick... I been in your corner since the backyard TENT days!! Trying to keep up, but I been helping 97 year old mom, on chat, and staying... God richly bless you, Liz, kids, family, and work!!
Interesting how it all came together. I remember watching you, Brady and Back country Gary when you first were thinking about it all. Thanks for being a breath of fresh air!
Awesome! I am from anacortes, I used an application that was for dinosaurs and Pangea locations and movements! It showed Anacortes With San Juan Islands and Vancouver isl. all together down where eastern island sits in the far lower west pacific, over time it showed anacortes slowly moving upwards this was before Jurassic era as it finally shifts to where it is today! Not sure how correct the app is. But I was always taught anacortes was here.
I don't give a Schist, Nick is the best, so much to see here by my home and I knew from their scout video that this would be a great presentation. Now to go out and find that half pipe in the ACFL!
Nick on the Rocks is shot really well !😊 It would be interesting to see nick continue the story near Fossil Bay on Sucia island to cover the Baja BC theory that spans 50 to 80 million years ago!
As always, an amazing video! Informative, surprising, interesting, and leaving me wanting more! Thank goodness Anacortes is just a short car ride away! Time for a field trip!
Good stuff Nick! If I remember correctly from my undergrad geology class trip to nearby Mt. Erie there was serpentinite rock on the top of that mountain (a specific metamorphic rock). Regardless, a wonderful trip into PNW geology! Thanks.
Great episode Nick! This is so well done, production is top notch. Glad you and yours are moving in a good way. Was a privilege to see you in Portland back in May at OHSU. Love PNW Rocks!
Thanks, Nick for coming to Anacortes! I live very near where you filmed and I wonder about and marvel at the story I see around me! I am VERY curious about the sequence of events that created the exposed profile on Guemes Island. I hope you'll investigate that someday. I'm a big fan!
I am from Anacortes and we were made aware of Ice Age evidence from an early age. Erratics, moraines, roche moutonnees. Its all here. I often wonder what the landscape looked like within 100 years of the glaciers leaving.
That striated wall is sooooo cool... I have seen some pretty amazing features during field trips/schools/work etc, but this one may be in the top 5! I come down to the BC Lower Mainland from central BC fairly often, and may do the Canadian glacier thing and cross the border to bond with it😉 Not now, but in the summer... And when our dollar is doing better 😖
On the striations etched into the curved vertical wall, a narrowing of the ice flow could cause that. The ice and rock debris would have to ride up the sides of the narrowing. Over time it could round out the wall.
I think the ancient ice sheets shoved the native ground along over the bedrock, and that's what gouged it, then deposited it out in the ocean. As the ice melted, it left transplanted Canadian gravel
Hi Nick, i live in Anacortes and have seen all these before, I have a house size boulder that is on my property here, I live on the south side of fidalgo island by Campbell lake
When I saw Ned Zinger on Cascade PBS I was like, "no way!!" (And yes, I know that's not his name.... Nick's regular viewers will know what I mean.) BTW, re: Pacific Science Center: My sister and I were such science geeks, that literally the first place we went when we moved to Seattle (I was almost 17, she was almost 18) was go to the Science Center! Went many times after that, too.
I wonder if you carefully remove the sand from the rocks on the sea floor striations, will you see the actual groove from each stone, did you get till that was after the original till that made the marks, inquiring minds want to know.
I take all my visitors to the Great Gouge, so I have seen it many times. I would like to know why the Gouge is lined by what looks like a crust. The crust has fallen off in many places, partly due to visitor vandalism. Naturally I can see how a rock-studded glacier could grind a gouge, but why would it leave a seeming crust? The Great Gouge crust looks like some very hot stuff flowed here, not a glacier. I like to remind my more sophisticated visitors of the ending of the sci fi movie Predator II and then I say, "Obviously this is no glacier's doing, instead it's the remnants of a tunnel that a Predator spacecraft left here possibly before the last ice advance. Probably came here for the big game." Seriously I would like to know what you think of that crust that coats the good old Great Gouge.
I wish we could sit on my ledge off Whaada island, Makah reservation at 60’. Follow me underwater and do your rock talk when we finish. Same at Koitlah point, 40’ of water. There’s formations that I am amazed with, Cabezon nursery as well. Earth is folded under water like nowhere I’ve seen.
Can someone tell me the monthly weather 300yrs ago. Or the size of rhe Buffalo heards in the 1500s compared ro the 1700s? How the heck do we know what happened and when whether one thousand five hundred years ago or hundrrds of millionsnof years ago 😂😂😂. Hard not to laugh about that time frame.
The Anacortes area is one of my favorite hiking destinations, so it's fascinating to learn more about the geology of the area.
Until now, I never really pondered about hiking on 160,000,000 year old rock.
Very cool!
Thank you Nick! I watch all your stuff and your lectures! I hope your wife is doing well and is recovering ❤
I must have missed something. What happened to his wife?
@@kathyamoshis TH-cam Channel Nick Zentner will explain his A-Z series will be delayed.
@@McSippy not sure but in hospital couple weeks ago
I am a geologist, and I live in Anacortes. Didn't know my bedrock was 160M years old. It's easy to see the glacial striations and we have lots of trees falling in the forest because our soil is so thin due to recent glaciation. A veritable paradise of geology processes in full view. Thanks for the video.
Outstanding episode. My wife and I are relocating to Anacortes in two weeks and were just at Washington Park over the weekend. So great to learn about this!
I love the Pacific Northwest...travel 50 miles in any direction and it feels like another planet.
My favorite memory of the place comes from the Good Friday quake: we were living in Bremerton hill-top (a mound of glacial till) at the time.
This amplified the shaking...we had several windows in our house break, many neighbors lost their chimneys, water-mains ruptured and a nearby bridge pulled two feet away from its abutment!
Not even 50 miles...
A ferry ride to Seattle is like landing on another planet.
We love seeing you highlight our beautiful island.
Whidbey Island was in the "shadow" of Anacortes and Fildalgo. The Island is composed of mostly sand that was deposited by that glacier 16,000 years ago. I had a well dug on South Whidbey island. When we got down through about 160 feet of sand, the well drillers started pulling up 16,000 year old wood from the forest that once covered that area.
Cool!!!
This series is done so well; I can’t wait to see all the stuff coming! Wishing your wife a speedy recovery and peace to your entire family during this hard time. We are all thinking about you!
That wall had to be an edge of glacier advance. That is some competent rock to withstand the incredible force of a flowing glacier.
Nick for President! He gets down to the bedrock 🪨
Well done, Nick. Wow, an 8-minute classroom on Hidalgo Island. Who woulda thought? Amazing what happens when you remove the jungle...
A fantastic teacher with all the right pizazz to motivate students young and ancient. Thank you Nick and team!
"Ancient"
🧓👍
We SO love this series! ⚘ Thanks to Nick and the whole crew.
my new favorite band is Nick Rock and the Glacial Erratics!
Nick does a wicked Amy Winehouse, look up his early videos.
I love these episodes - just wished they were like 1/2 hour long...or more! Here's a tip - go to Cypress Island which is north of Anacortes. Land at Pelican Beach, then climb to Eagle Cliff - about 200-300 ft above the water. There are glacial striations in the rocks way up there!
the Wave wall is about 100 ft from the waters edge & probably a half mile from Sunset beach at Washington Park.... just a few miles past the ferry terminal.
Love that spot
Every time i watch you i learn something new about the places I've been. Thank you so much
Glad you are back Nick. Prayers for you and your wife. Love the geology lecture in my neck of the woods.
I love learning about my home, the Pacific Northwest of America..... and especially about the Inland Northwest. Geology, Geography & history is what i love
Nick has taught me alot, and i appreciate it🤘
Well done Nick and team! The filmography was gorgeous!
Great content
Excellent information ℹ️
Hugs and prayers, dear prof nick... I been in your corner since the backyard TENT days!! Trying to keep up, but I been helping 97 year old mom, on chat, and staying... God richly bless you, Liz, kids, family, and work!!
Congrats Nick, you've earned this...
Long follower of Prof Zetner! He is such a Great Teacher! My Gosh I could listen to his thoughts and lessons for hours….. in fact I believe I have!
Wonderful video. Such a treat to watch. Wishing you and your family all the best.
Im really happy to see another Nick on the rocks
Nick got me into geology
Im Zentnerd #420. NIck why have you not taken here before to see this? Fantastic video Nick.
That wall is indeed a thing of beauty, thanks!
Interesting how it all came together. I remember watching you, Brady and Back country Gary when you first were thinking about it all. Thanks for being a breath of fresh air!
Thank you Nick and Co. for another great "Nick on the Rocks"! Wishing your wife a complete and peaceful recovery. My best to her and your family.💗
Always good to learn geology with Nick.I hope the best to the family of Nick❤
You’re just the best storyteller.
Awesome! I am from anacortes, I used an application that was for dinosaurs and Pangea locations and movements! It showed Anacortes With San Juan Islands and Vancouver isl. all together down where eastern island sits in the far lower west pacific, over time it showed anacortes slowly moving upwards this was before Jurassic era as it finally shifts to where it is today! Not sure how correct the app is. But I was always taught anacortes was here.
Thank You Nick, we are all thinking about you and your family and hoping for the best.
What an exciting look into the fascinating questions geology brings to a region! Beautiful!
Fantastic!!! Thank you.
super glad you included that rounded vertical wall - been there a number of times and it really is amazing, it honestly looks man made but it isn't.
Loving these new Nick On The Rocks episodes!
Awesome. I watched Nick's video with Back Country Gary as they scouted for this one.
I just moved to Spokane. I hope to come to one of your talks soon! Big fan!
This guy….Nick Zentner is a great teacher….love his presentations.
I don't give a Schist, Nick is the best, so much to see here by my home and I knew from their scout video that this would be a great presentation. Now to go out and find that half pipe in the ACFL!
Nick on the Rocks is shot really well !😊 It would be interesting to see nick continue the story near Fossil Bay on Sucia island to cover the Baja BC theory that spans 50 to 80 million years ago!
Definitely a hit, you got to love it! thank you all involved.
Thank you 🙏
As always, an amazing video! Informative, surprising, interesting, and leaving me wanting more! Thank goodness Anacortes is just a short car ride away! Time for a field trip!
Good stuff Nick! If I remember correctly from my undergrad geology class trip to nearby Mt. Erie there was serpentinite rock on the top of that mountain (a specific metamorphic rock). Regardless, a wonderful trip into PNW geology! Thanks.
An excellent video, as always. 🙂Thank you!
Beautifully done by Nick (the best geology communicator in the world), Brady, Gary P and crew!! 🥰
The best crew!
Great episode Nick! This is so well done, production is top notch. Glad you and yours are moving in a good way. Was a privilege to see you in Portland back in May at OHSU. Love PNW Rocks!
*cracks can open* ahh, a nice fresh glass of Nick on the Rocks
Thanks, Nick for coming to Anacortes! I live very near where you filmed and I wonder about and marvel at the story I see around me! I am VERY curious about the sequence of events that created the exposed profile on Guemes Island. I hope you'll investigate that someday. I'm a big fan!
Super fun. My geology class in college took a field trip to this beach and we got to hear some stories about the glacier.
I am from Anacortes and we were made aware of Ice Age evidence from an early age. Erratics, moraines, roche moutonnees. Its all here. I often wonder what the landscape looked like within 100 years of the glaciers leaving.
Howdy Kev! :)
Its so good to see some new local geology with Nick. I havent seen much of him lately. I've missed his lectures!
home sweet home
That striated wall is sooooo cool... I have seen some pretty amazing features during field trips/schools/work etc, but this one may be in the top 5!
I come down to the BC Lower Mainland from central BC fairly often, and may do the Canadian glacier thing and cross the border to bond with it😉
Not now, but in the summer...
And when our dollar is doing better 😖
I commercial fished and worked at a boat yard there, I love the harbor hill, used to bomb it on my skates!!
Heck yeah! Been waiting for this episode....and "back country" Gary is a field producer! Excellent!
THANK YOU!!!
Way to go Nick!
On the striations etched into the curved vertical wall, a narrowing of the ice flow could cause that. The ice and rock debris would have to ride up the sides of the narrowing. Over time it could round out the wall.
I wonder if the striations contain audio information like a vinyl record?
My husband lived in Anacortes but mainly played in the forest.
Excellent video!!
Thanx boss love your videos
I think the ancient ice sheets shoved the native ground along over the bedrock, and that's what gouged it, then deposited it out in the ocean. As the ice melted, it left transplanted Canadian gravel
Hi Nick, i live in Anacortes and have seen all these before, I have a house size boulder that is on my property here, I live on the south side of fidalgo island by Campbell lake
Deception Pass dive, rock jock goggles on -
The wall and outside face of Pass island in the Pass would be a hoot to hear about…geologically speaking.
I like the music 🎵
When I saw Ned Zinger on Cascade PBS I was like, "no way!!" (And yes, I know that's not his name.... Nick's regular viewers will know what I mean.)
BTW, re: Pacific Science Center: My sister and I were such science geeks, that literally the first place we went when we moved to Seattle (I was almost 17, she was almost 18) was go to the Science Center! Went many times after that, too.
I wonder if you carefully remove the sand from the rocks on the sea floor striations, will you see the actual groove from each stone, did you get till that was after the original till that made the marks, inquiring minds want to know.
I take all my visitors to the Great Gouge, so I have seen it many times. I would like to know why the Gouge is lined by what looks like a crust. The crust has fallen off in many places, partly due to visitor vandalism. Naturally I can see how a rock-studded glacier could grind a gouge, but why would it leave a seeming crust? The Great Gouge crust looks like some very hot stuff flowed here, not a glacier. I like to remind my more sophisticated visitors of the ending of the sci fi movie Predator II and then I say, "Obviously this is no glacier's doing, instead it's the remnants of a tunnel that a Predator spacecraft left here possibly before the last ice advance. Probably came here for the big game." Seriously I would like to know what you think of that crust that coats the good old Great Gouge.
I wish we could sit on my ledge off Whaada island, Makah reservation at 60’. Follow me underwater and do your rock talk when we finish.
Same at Koitlah point, 40’ of water. There’s formations that I am amazed with, Cabezon nursery as well. Earth is folded under water like nowhere I’ve seen.
Not delicately etched. Gouged under a mile of ice using stones for carving. Huge pressure. Thanks for the geology lesson.
Is the first segment filmed at Washington Park? I want to go in search of these places!
Was the open shot from on top of Mount Eire? Anacortes side...
Cap Sante Park, just East of downtown Anacortes, directly East of the Cap Sante Marina (a lovely view, you can drive right up to it). Awesome views!
Geology rocks, but geography is where it's at .
we see what you did there
Canadian rocks whoa gonna have to place a tariff on that!
You beat me to it!!!!😀
Noooo! How did that wall happen? Have a like anyway.
Nice sponsor.
Hope your wife has recovered..!!
Could you drop some coordinates or directions to these sites so I can visit?
I believe the first site is Cap Sante Park: 48° 30.8'N, 122° 35.95'W
My guess is that the second site is in Washington Park: 48° 29.85'N, 122° 42.1'W
@@iviewthetube Thank you!!
@@iviewthetube Thanks again! I've heard there is some boulders down on Whidbey Island that are scraped up by glaciers.
@@gonearoundthebendPNW I somewhat know the area because I occasionally kayak there.
Surprise 😮! Glaciers in Washington! Impossible!
Can someone tell me the monthly weather 300yrs ago. Or the size of rhe Buffalo heards in the 1500s compared ro the 1700s?
How the heck do we know what happened and when whether one thousand five hundred years ago or hundrrds of millionsnof years ago
😂😂😂. Hard not to laugh about that time frame.
It’s called the scientific method. It’s exactly how and why you are watching this video on a device invented and developed by ‘the educated.’
That "wall" to me looked more like the side of a lava tube?
All those scratch marks are made from high speed waterflow not glaciers carring rocks. That is why they are found in an overhang!
So what, the earth climate always shifted from hot to cold and sold to hot. All of humans and animals learned to adapt.
If trump was prime minister of Canada, he’d want his sand and pebbles back.
Too much music👎👎👎👎👎💩💩😬
WHY???
Thats a beautiful area, I spent a lot of time there when I was stationed over on Whidbey Island.