The Oldest Bedrock in the North Cascades | Nick on the Rocks

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  • The oldest bedrock in all of the North Cascades sits high in the mountains near the Canadian border. Its origin story began over 400 million years ago and an ocean away - in Northern Europe.
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  • @Valkyrie801
    @Valkyrie801 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Thank You Professor Nick. This is very Gneiss! 🙂

  • @DansBackcountry
    @DansBackcountry 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Oh sweet! A new episode! Glad to see Nick at it again.
    CWU alumni and PNW resident here!

  • @gregsimones9295
    @gregsimones9295 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Nick, I hope you don't mind but you are introducing students in Connecticut to geology through these wonderful stories

    • @Anne5440_
      @Anne5440_ 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Nick has a passion for sharing geology. He would be glad students are learning anywhere. BTW, the animal that whistles near the end is a yellow bellied marmot. They are native in the Pacific Northwest. They are similar and related to the groundhogs you have on the East Coast.

  • @sdmike1141
    @sdmike1141 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Thanks to Cascade PBS for bringing this series to light again. Well produced and…the talent is very good. He may have a future in communication! Thanks Nick.

  • @cindyleehaddock3551
    @cindyleehaddock3551 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Yay! A new Nick! Something else I didn't know.....best animation I have seen for that move, too!

  • @jayolson578
    @jayolson578 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    These are classics. This is what I first started watching when I found Nick Zetner.

  • @ninabjrnersvareid8205
    @ninabjrnersvareid8205 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Thanks to Nick and his team for this beautiful introduction to this mind-blowing "move" of bedrock !:-)

  • @windsorlewis3344
    @windsorlewis3344 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Awwww, loved the squeak of that little creature.

  • @Steviepinhead
    @Steviepinhead 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Maybe the best episode yet! Beautifully conceived and executed, and photographed in perfect bluebird conditions.

    • @davidduma7615
      @davidduma7615 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah, gneiss job!

  • @datobaggu
    @datobaggu 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    You and your co-creator have these productions NAILED !

  • @rickkearn7100
    @rickkearn7100 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I really enjoy this feature hosted by Nick. I don't have the luxury of much spare time so it's hard for me to get through his own channel posts which are usually over an hour, so this has been a pleasant surprise since I first became aware of it, holding Nick in such high esteem as I do. Cheers.

  • @WASasquatch
    @WASasquatch 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    These videos are awesome. Stuff like this I never knew about, right in our backyard.

  • @Engineer1980
    @Engineer1980 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love this new set of “Nick on the Rocks”!! Nick has matured and evolved from the original series and the video is stunningly beautiful! Thank you KCTS and Nick!! ❤❤

  • @peacenow4456
    @peacenow4456 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Great job, Nick!! Go glad to see you have walking sticks! I l love mine so much!

  • @Rachel.4644
    @Rachel.4644 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    THE most beautiful scenery, but the hook is that it originated in northern Europe. Like, what?!? Zircons, sandstone metamorphosed into gneiss, tidbits for the curious to learn about. (Nice music too btw) Love these!

  • @janicemartin1580
    @janicemartin1580 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Excellent! So nice to have Nick back on the rocks. The scenery is spectacular. I really enjoyed the transport map showing the route traveled by the gneiss.

  • @DansBackcountry
    @DansBackcountry 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    What about the gold out there at Yellow Aster Bute? There's a bunch out there! I see you're at Twin Lakes and I was very curious about all the gold and jadeite there. Particularly along the back side of Goat Mountain there. It's all along those quartzite layers, especially by those glaciers and permanent snow fields.

  • @doranwisner497
    @doranwisner497 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for the deep knowledge of Yellow Aster Butte. The hike will never be the same for me!

  • @ml50486965
    @ml50486965 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fascinating story! But the music finally got to you, Nick! We just can´t win them all!

  • @kevinthompson629
    @kevinthompson629 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Been there many times but I never knew that bit of geologic history. I'm glad you got up there. It's one of my favorite hikes.

  • @davidduma7615
    @davidduma7615 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    0:15 expected Nick to start singing "the HILLS are alive, with the Sound of Music........"

  • @Graybeard_
    @Graybeard_ 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I live on 40 acres right on the US/CA border at 4,000' in North Central WA about 110 miles due east of Yellow Aster Butte (above Molson). Recently, I dug a 400' trench for installing underground power cable. I dug up many wonderful large boulders, a few of which sure look a lot like this metamorphic rock. I washed them off and stood them up as part of a retaining wall because they look so unique. They are rounded quite a bit, so they likely traveled here via a glacier.

  • @ComfortRoller
    @ComfortRoller 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm glad Pbs are running these but I really like the college lectures he does. Sadly I've exhausted that series already.

    • @Anne5440_
      @Anne5440_ 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Then you would like the A-Z series, this year is the 3rd year for those.

    • @ComfortRoller
      @ComfortRoller 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Anne5440_ I will look into it thankyou very much

  • @AvanaVana
    @AvanaVana 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow, these videos are just so well filmed and produced. Really good work. 👍

  • @benjaminroot6270
    @benjaminroot6270 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    That's so darn cool. Those are my stomping grounds, but I never knew that about YAB specifically. Now I want to go back there, with a little extra knowledge.

  • @gypsycopeland4207
    @gypsycopeland4207 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love this guy. So informative and funny.

  • @fern3913
    @fern3913 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yellow Aster Butte has been on my travel list for years as a fan of serpentine soils!

  • @jeff119990
    @jeff119990 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    this episode is gnise

    • @janacke11
      @janacke11 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😂
      I see what you did there, the geology dad joke!
      Well played!

    • @Steviepinhead
      @Steviepinhead 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Gneissly done (well, except for the spelling 😅).

  • @erickborling1302
    @erickborling1302 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yellow Aster Butte looks exactly like the Lake Vicente basin.

  • @scottowens1535
    @scottowens1535 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    👍 😊

  • @scottdoubet5458
    @scottdoubet5458 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    And Bell Pass Melange above Lake Ann in the shadow of Mt Shuksan

  • @Laura-i2g1j
    @Laura-i2g1j 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤❤❤

  • @davec9244
    @davec9244 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    outstanding thank you ALL stay safe

  • @Bixthecat
    @Bixthecat 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They should call him Rock Steves

  • @floortap
    @floortap 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    cool video but sound is desyncd!

  • @jamesdriscoll_tmp1515
    @jamesdriscoll_tmp1515 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mountain went viking

  • @amyspanne5629
    @amyspanne5629 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ah! another Swedish immigrant! Ya sure yabetcha!

  • @frankblangeard8865
    @frankblangeard8865 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A rock in Washington matches a rock in Europe. Does that prove that the rock now in Washington was once in Europe? Or does it prove that the rock in Europe was once in Washington? Or does it show that both rocks were formed in the same way in different places? Or...does it prove nothing at all?

    • @leestamm3187
      @leestamm3187 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Same way in different places.

  • @pfitech
    @pfitech 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That area has been discovered and is crowded with hikers all summer, even mid-week. Nick must've paid them all to get out of the camera view. But don't be fooled, it's a zoo up there. The USFS even went so far as to declare it to be a "blue bag" zone since there's nowhere to dig a "cat hole," and the human waste problem has become extreme. Be forewarned if you think it'll be anything like what this video falsely implies.

  • @hawaiiguykailua6928
    @hawaiiguykailua6928 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Only thing I learned is you can fabricate any timeline you wish in geology, as long as it's long enough to never have to be attempted in a lab, you can add as many zeros as you want, and some more! Now get back to your Mason pose before the helicopter arrives to lift your tub off the trail. 🤣