How fortunate am I, as Skye’s mother, to watch him on video, doing the geology field work that he loves! Way to go, son; I’m proud of you, your professionalism and incredible love of detailed analysis.
No geology textbook or lab exercise could ever impart as much information on how to interpret an outcrop and it’s history like a video such as this. Thanks Skye and Nick!
Was thinking the same. Skye appreciates Bretz work in the field- the real test of the mettle of a man. Computer derived data doesn’t compare to boots on the ground research.
A man gets acclimatized to heat in daily work but it takes a couple of weeks. I wore long sleeve shirts made of heavy cotton and put 23 years of kiln maintenance behind me . Not fun but it didn't kill me . Thank you , Nick and Skye . You are machines .
What I really enjoy is that Nick often remembers his instructor’s mindset and asks the “dumb” questions to which he already knows the answer. Example: Nick knows darned well what a paleosol is; for his audience, he asks Cooley to clarify. Now I know a paleosol is an ancient sediment without having to stop to google it.
Skye Cooley is a great describe. Fascinating stories that are evolving. Keep up the great work guys. And wear some proper boots Nick! Your in the field man. We want Papa to keep up with Skye.
Today I drove to Spokane, and back (!), but mainly I imagined Bretz and his students in the HEAT, trekking all over this immense landscape. Unthinkable. But also wondering about timing of glaciation influence, and glacial Lk Missoula floods. Soils, cicadas, calcrete, Missoula flood gravel!
And I'll say it yet again, professor Ned zinger, you've outdone yourself once more, you sir are the very best geology professor on the face of this planet, and I don't say that as an exaggeration, I mean that lol, thanks nick for all you do for us, and big thanks for skye coming out with you to help, I'm feeding on your knowledge every chance I get, in the meantime I'm on Facebook keeping everyone posted on the earthquakes and the volcanos, and if you haven't heard the fagradallsfjall volcano in iceland is erupting again. Started early this morning. Lots of coverage on it on TH-cam now, wonder how juicy its gonna get this time 🤔
Absolutely fascinating. Thank You Nick and Skye. How many people pass through these arid areas and think that it's nothing but dry, beige, boring landscape. So very far from it. Incredible. Thank You for sharing. 🌻
Absolutely fascinating discussion! Thank you Skye and Nick! You have mentioned the "allocation of financial resources" that puts many studies at the bottom of the (rock) pile. Have you considered some crowd funding? I think many here would love to support your research. Also, has anyone considered lateral coring of the loess above and below the lowest strata here to investigate possible flora (pollen, etc) and faunal remains (potential microscopic fossils), etc. ? Obviously that would involve a multi-disciplinary team but there are so many scientists in different fields that are passionate about investigating the mysteries of our earth. Finally, not gonna lie, I'm gonna really miss Larry the Ladder and the Cozy Fort!
You poor things. That is the weather I've worked in the last few months in Austin, TX. Too weird having it up in the Scablands. Maybe Bretz was lucky with mild summers. 🥵 Thanks, again, Nick and Skye for another fun and informative geohike. I get a lot more out of these than just reading the papers! I have to keep my phone plugged in and running while I do food deliveries and overheating is a risk. If possible, keep the phone screen shaded, and as often as possible let it cool. I made a wire and hair tie holder that I fit onto a vent and just run the A/C on the back of the phone while I drive. When out in the field maybe keep a baggie of ice around to hold next to your phone for a bit between shots to help it cool down?
I so enjoy listening to Skye explain all of the fine details contained in the loess! That lower gravel is fascinating. Oh, for some dates on those layers!
So, the loess-capped upland remnants rest on river gravel. The same can be found here in western Kansas where the high ridges capped with loess and calcrete were once stream drainages filled with gravel from the Rocky Mountains. I love this stuff.
What a great pair of guys to be out in the field with. It really brings the feel of what boots on the ground interpretation of the land is like, and makes imagining what those summers out with Bretz would be like at those sites as he slowly built up the pieces of his amazing puzzle. Hard evidence and intuitive leaps, fitting together into a coherent whole. There will always be some bits that later can be subject to different interpretation, of course, but some of the stories , maybe many of them, might bear up, over time.
That was a fantastic walkdown of Brietz's trail. Its good to hear the money resources are the likely cause of departure from his 1920s field observations. Skye kind of put it into perpective for me.
This is so cool. Dry Falls was one of my favorite parks in the state growing up, it’s great to see how much we still can learn from the area. Eastern WA is so underrated. Also, stay away, it sucks there, lol
Thank you Nick and Skye. I no longer look at the Palouse as 'boring.' Moved to the TriCities in 1990. I have learned more about eastern Washington (and western US) geology in the last 2 years (since discovering you via the Atwater/Steamboat Rock video) than I did in the previous 31 years. It's just amazing. 🙂
That was GREAT! Nick and Skye! Thank you. I am always amazed at the depth of knowledge and common sense deductions shown by the guests in the field. Question; Why don't more geologists wear wide brimmed hats in the field? I think Skye fleshed out something Bretz touched on with the pre-flood topography determining the initial flood patterns. What was the lowest flood gravel composition?
LOVE these videos ! I'm fascinated by the geology of the Pacific Northwest (though I live on the East coast). Nick is one of the best presenters and instructors. He has a gift for teaching !
I'm an airline pilot based in Western Canada. I often fly over the Channeled Scablands and surrounding areas. I love Nick's videos on geology. Thank you to both Skye and Nick.
I just received my copy of ‘Bretz’s Flood’. You and Myron Cook have rekindled my interest in geology. My uncle was a geology professor at Mankato State In Minnesota, and he showed me much glacial evidence when we used to go visit from Nebraska. Michelle Pierce
New thought's in my head, to what makes up the Palouse. Loess, calcrete, caliche, flood gravels, and lot's of flood history. Relatively easily classified in broad daylight, on a sunny Sunday morning. Work ahead.- a different narrative is developing given proper scrutiny, time, and funding.... T hank you Nick & Skye!! SOLID GOLD💯🙏🏻🥰
Thanks Skye for imparting a new and different way of looking at soils and obtaining a clearer understanding of the formation of them. So much better than using a txt book. Thanks Nick for getting Skye to open up in this way. 🐻
Ok, that was extremely interesting. All those meters thick layers, with gravels and cobbles embedded in layers deep in the loess islands. Interesting idea for a research project, pull out 25 different deep samples along that margin from the Dalles to Spokane, maybe even up into Idaho towards Lake Pend O'Reille. Use some of that fancy rock dating/analysis that's been used on the erratics in the region. That rodent burrow filled with ash really stuck out as well, what kind of dating would that give for these?
The upper gravel could possibly pre-date Missoula cycle, but that's hard to say. The Cheney-Palouse tract was not completely abandoned after old floods shut off. It certainly received Missoula cycle floods.
I was just on GoooooogeEarth looking at where you were. If you were in the bend below where N Marengo Rd crosses the RR tracks, you might not have been in the same cut as Bretz. There is an older cut, tightly curved outside the one you were in. Unlike a flood it crosses a drainage instead of following it.
The sandy loose with smaller composits?? Could that be the end of the under ice water flows? Carrying smaller and smaller particles until it was just ground up spooge wandering like lava?
I have to say Nick, Skye's love and how he talks about equals yours. I love how enamored/enthusiastic he is about soils/paleosoils he is. There is plenty of space so give him a nudge on starting a TH-cam channel.
I think Skye’s love of rocks began as a young boy, collecting beach agates and glass on a Samish Island in Washington state where he grew up. He had shoe boxes filled with rocks under his bed. I’m thankful
Excellent! An untrained enthusiast, I see no reason to argue with either the logic or the evidence on/in the ground, and this whole topic raises - for me, at least - a whole additional level of questions and speculations about pre-Missoula floods and landscapes. Having toured the Drumheller Channels and Frenchman Coulee on a 97° day in 2022, continued exploration of this topic gives me a handy excuse to return to central Washington from Minneapolis in 2024 (this year is already booked). By then, there will have been a whole new "A to Z" series of videos from Discovery Hall in Ellensburg. I'm looking forward to them.
I watched Myron Cook Geologist talk about time, it takes millions of years to build even an inch of soil. The rocks you found way back in time amazes me had to be billions of years.
I watched the same video and that's not what he said. He said SOME sediments are very slow to deposit, others can be deposited quite quickly. Not all depositional environments are equal in speed of deposition.
Thank you both , very interesting and intriguing, someone here suggested crowdfunding some research, I’d second that and would definitely contribute! All the best Jules
Lookin pretty plio-pleistoceney to me. I struggled with all this stuff as a sedimentologist when i lived in Moscow. I took the dust queen to some of these outcrops!
Ritzville? Civilization? I guess for eastern WA. I love the drive from Ritzville down to Lyons Ferry, some of the flood features are awesome. I recognize the one building near the end of the video from my travels.
I enjoyed this and found it very informative. In addition I like the butterfly at the 31:30 minute mark. I'm not sure what kind it was. I don't ever remember seeing one like that here in Minnesota.
Thanks thats a great look into several of the loess landforms. I look at is though and see that you are only looking at an exposure that goes partway down the landform. It makes me really curious what a full column through those landfroms all the way down to the basalt looks like, and how widespread or not some of those different bedding events and buried soil layers are
Extremely enjoyable site visits. Learning that wind blown and water borne deposits cannot be differentiated illustrated how difficult it is assess what is going on. I would be interesting to know if you dug further down (at the railway cutting) whether there are any more large flood deposits showing similar layers historically?
Amazing trip into a turbulent past with eye-opening explanations. Thanks, Skye and Nick! And what was that critter at 26:00? Spider or leaf in the wind?
Companies that make wraps for cars could easily make Map Wraps of those you have on your hood, and then you could simply always have them on your hood.
I propose renaming the “channeled scablands” to the “channeled scourlands” to eliminate that sense of landscape-overwhelm and focus attention more on the pre-flood drainages. Love me an hour out among the paleosols with Skye Cooley!
Nick I have a thought. Skye is talking about floods that predate the Missoula Floods creating a pathway for them. Would Lake Unita be a possible source? Or Gosuite/Fossil lakes? Those are early Eocene I think, but if they dumped northwest before all the exotic terrain glommed onto western Idaho might they have sorta given a path? I had to laugh when Skye mentioned a backhoe....My brain has been thinking if I could afford it digging a big wide and deep trench would be great.
General questions. How many advances during the Quanentary? 25? 30? How many reached down into Washington? (1) How many flood stories? And how many times were previous flood stories erased by later episodes? The Missoula Floods seem to get all of the attention but l think part of that has to do with the total elevation change from the discharge point to the Lower Columbia. The floods resulting from glacial melting in the rest of the continent had to of reworked those landscapes in many ways just not as drastically. But not all that melt water was likely involved in floods. I wonder just how much simply flowed down the Mississippi, the Mackenzie, the Yukon and other rivers. 1) Would it be possible to determine the average extent of glacial advances during the last 2.5 MY?
I'm looking at frame 27:35 and I see a depression in the layering about 15 inches to the right of Cooley's hand, like something stepped into the mud and disturbed the bottom layers. It looks a lot like the mammoth excavations at Hot Springs State Park in Hot Springs, South Dakota. When excavating the site, they exposed in vertical profile where the mammoths had left impressions of their feet in the mud at the bottom of the pond where they were trapped. I'm not saying this was a mammoth footprint, but maybe the foot or hoof impression of a large animal in the mud of a shallow pond.
Seeing that 2nd gravel bench makes me wonder if that wall went to the rail grade are there any more gravel benches? Or if you went to the highest loess island and did a large core how many gravel benches could you find? Is it possible The islands are function of gravel benches acting like drumlin shapes from past floods even older
@36:32 there is a large rock above the older poorly stratified rocks from the earlier floods. It clearly doesn't appear to be from the early flooding, and is where you were talking about less energetic flooding, but that is a big rock.
How fortunate am I, as Skye’s mother, to watch him on video, doing the geology field work that he loves! Way to go, son; I’m proud of you, your professionalism and incredible love of detailed analysis.
No geology textbook or lab exercise could ever impart as much information on how to interpret an outcrop and it’s history like a video such as this. Thanks Skye and Nick!
Great in the field visit with Skye who is substituting as a modern day Bretz quite nicely.
Was thinking the same. Skye appreciates Bretz work in the field- the real test of the mettle of a man. Computer derived data doesn’t compare to boots on the ground research.
Sky is a Brilliant Geologist and has added very interesting data to the Ice Age floods
My grandfather got his doctorate in Geology from Wisc. I wish he was still here to watch your videos with! Your passion is infectious.
A man gets acclimatized to heat in daily work but it takes a couple of weeks. I wore long sleeve shirts made of heavy cotton and put 23 years of kiln maintenance behind me . Not fun but it didn't kill me .
Thank you , Nick and Skye . You are machines .
What I really enjoy is that Nick often remembers his instructor’s mindset and asks the “dumb” questions to which he already knows the answer. Example: Nick knows darned well what a paleosol is; for his audience, he asks Cooley to clarify. Now I know a paleosol is an ancient sediment without having to stop to google it.
Loess is more.
Amazing. Thanks for bringing us along, Skye and Nick.
Skye Cooley is a great describe. Fascinating stories that are evolving. Keep up the great work guys. And wear some proper boots Nick! Your in the field man. We want Papa to keep up with Skye.
Today I drove to Spokane, and back (!), but mainly I imagined Bretz and his students in the HEAT, trekking all over this immense landscape. Unthinkable. But also wondering about timing of glaciation influence, and glacial Lk Missoula floods. Soils, cicadas, calcrete, Missoula flood gravel!
I hope they had pack horses to carry their gear, and a crew to set up camp. Otherwise it would be rough.
To see him "freshening up the cut" with his trowel in the clip made my day. That black strip was unexpected!
Thank you Nick and Skye for taking us into the field that we may learn cool new stuff.
It is always awesome to hear Skye Cooley's interpretation of the landscape. Thanks!
And I'll say it yet again, professor Ned zinger, you've outdone yourself once more, you sir are the very best geology professor on the face of this planet, and I don't say that as an exaggeration, I mean that lol, thanks nick for all you do for us, and big thanks for skye coming out with you to help, I'm feeding on your knowledge every chance I get, in the meantime I'm on Facebook keeping everyone posted on the earthquakes and the volcanos, and if you haven't heard the fagradallsfjall volcano in iceland is erupting again. Started early this morning. Lots of coverage on it on TH-cam now, wonder how juicy its gonna get this time 🤔
Sky’s observatories and knowledge along with Nicks investigative research is blowing my mind and convincing.
Absolutely fascinating. Thank You Nick and Skye. How many people pass through these arid areas and think that it's nothing but dry, beige, boring landscape. So very far from it. Incredible. Thank You for sharing. 🌻
Absolutely fascinating discussion! Thank you Skye and Nick! You have mentioned the "allocation of financial resources" that puts many studies at the bottom of the (rock) pile. Have you considered some crowd funding? I think many here would love to support your research.
Also, has anyone considered lateral coring of the loess above and below the lowest strata here to investigate possible flora (pollen, etc) and faunal remains (potential microscopic fossils), etc. ? Obviously that would involve a multi-disciplinary team but there are so many scientists in different fields that are passionate about investigating the mysteries of our earth.
Finally, not gonna lie, I'm gonna really miss Larry the Ladder and the Cozy Fort!
Me, too. That was the beginning for me.
I miss the Hal Holmes Community Center
Fantastic video quality. great sun position on an incredible landscape
I’m thinking you had a second Strawberry Margarita whilst editing this. Thanks again for your excitement and lectures.
Very interesting views.... and a fascinating conversation. Thanks guys!
You poor things. That is the weather I've worked in the last few months in Austin, TX. Too weird having it up in the Scablands. Maybe Bretz was lucky with mild summers. 🥵
Thanks, again, Nick and Skye for another fun and informative geohike. I get a lot more out of these than just reading the papers!
I have to keep my phone plugged in and running while I do food deliveries and overheating is a risk. If possible, keep the phone screen shaded, and as often as possible let it cool. I made a wire and hair tie holder that I fit onto a vent and just run the A/C on the back of the phone while I drive. When out in the field maybe keep a baggie of ice around to hold next to your phone for a bit between shots to help it cool down?
Thanks great walk and talk and fun listening to the thinking process
One of my favorite Nicks. Thank you.
I so enjoy listening to Skye explain all of the fine details contained in the loess! That lower gravel is fascinating. Oh, for some dates on those layers!
Skye Cooley is easy for me to follow. I like his style.
So, the loess-capped upland remnants rest on river gravel. The same can be found here in western Kansas where the high ridges capped with loess and calcrete were once stream drainages filled with gravel from the Rocky Mountains. I love this stuff.
What a great pair of guys to be out in the field with. It really brings the feel of what boots on the ground interpretation of the land is like, and makes imagining what those summers out with Bretz would be like at those sites as he slowly built up the pieces of his amazing puzzle. Hard evidence and intuitive leaps, fitting together into a coherent whole. There will always be some bits that later can be subject to different interpretation, of course, but some of the stories , maybe many of them, might bear up, over time.
That was a fantastic walkdown of Brietz's trail. Its good to hear the money resources are the likely cause of departure from his 1920s field observations. Skye kind of put it into perpective for me.
This is so cool. Dry Falls was one of my favorite parks in the state growing up, it’s great to see how much we still can learn from the area.
Eastern WA is so underrated. Also, stay away, it sucks there, lol
Thank you Nick and Skye. I no longer look at the Palouse as 'boring.'
Moved to the TriCities in 1990. I have learned more about eastern Washington (and western US) geology in the last 2 years (since discovering you via the Atwater/Steamboat Rock video) than I did in the previous 31 years. It's just amazing. 🙂
Now watching second Skye video. Very good content.
That was GREAT! Nick and Skye! Thank you. I am always amazed at the depth of knowledge and common sense deductions shown by the guests in the field. Question; Why don't more geologists wear wide brimmed hats in the field? I think Skye fleshed out something Bretz touched on with the pre-flood topography determining the initial flood patterns. What was the lowest flood gravel composition?
Super question
I learned more in this video concerning the flood scape...than any other in recent memory.
You guys are awesome! Best field trips in decades. Thank you kindly!!
LOVE these videos ! I'm fascinated by the geology of the Pacific Northwest (though I live on the East coast).
Nick is one of the best presenters and instructors.
He has a gift for teaching !
Thank you Nick and Skye! Learned a lot about loess today!
Loving the soil information... would be cool to see more of it in the future. :P
I'm an airline pilot based in Western Canada. I often fly over the Channeled Scablands and surrounding areas. I love Nick's videos on geology.
Thank you to both Skye and Nick.
Skye said, "This shouldn't be here." I love it.
Excellent. The gravel bed in the railway cutting was quite convincing. Thanks to Skye for his time and knowledgeable imput.
I just received my copy of ‘Bretz’s Flood’. You and Myron Cook have rekindled my interest in geology. My uncle was a geology professor at Mankato State In Minnesota, and he showed me much glacial evidence when we used to go visit from Nebraska.
Michelle Pierce
this cut out shows much bigger tumbled rocks in Spokane flood, compared to the more recent smaller gravel Missoula floods. Good eye out there!
New thought's in my head, to what makes up the Palouse. Loess, calcrete, caliche, flood gravels, and lot's of flood history. Relatively easily classified in broad daylight, on a sunny Sunday morning. Work ahead.- a different narrative is developing given proper scrutiny, time, and funding.... T hank you Nick & Skye!!
SOLID GOLD💯🙏🏻🥰
Thanks Skye for imparting a new and different way of looking at soils and obtaining a clearer understanding of the formation of them. So much better than using a txt book. Thanks Nick for getting Skye to open up in this way. 🐻
Thank you guys So Much.!!😅
Thanks nick. Watch for tailshakers in those bushes.
Ok, that was extremely interesting. All those meters thick layers, with gravels and cobbles embedded in layers deep in the loess islands. Interesting idea for a research project, pull out 25 different deep samples along that margin from the Dalles to Spokane, maybe even up into Idaho towards Lake Pend O'Reille. Use some of that fancy rock dating/analysis that's been used on the erratics in the region. That rodent burrow filled with ash really stuck out as well, what kind of dating would that give for these?
WOW, THIS IS MIND BLOWING GEOLOGY. LOVE IT.
The upper gravel could possibly pre-date Missoula cycle, but that's hard to say. The Cheney-Palouse tract was not completely abandoned after old floods shut off. It certainly received Missoula cycle floods.
😃Woo Nick , another awesome video!! 💞💛Wind and Water! ✨ Loess, gravels, and Floods in the inner finger...I am in love with you all!!😘💞✨I am in!!!
Another great one! I love to conceptualize these scenarios.
I was just on GoooooogeEarth looking at where you were. If you were in the bend below where N Marengo Rd crosses the RR tracks, you might not have been in the same cut as Bretz. There is an older cut, tightly curved outside the one you were in. Unlike a flood it crosses a drainage instead of following it.
That older cut was the original till there was a fatal accident in the overly sharp curve and I would imagine the new curve was laid well before 1923?
Yay!!
There I is!!!
Latest EVER!!!
thank you now I get too it!
The sandy loose with smaller composits?? Could that be the end of the under ice water flows? Carrying smaller and smaller particles until it was just ground up spooge wandering like lava?
Excellent field trip, which explained changes & repeat layers over a long span of time.
Wonderful! Thank you.
I have to say Nick, Skye's love and how he talks about equals yours. I love how enamored/enthusiastic he is about soils/paleosoils he is. There is plenty of space so give him a nudge on starting a TH-cam channel.
I think Skye’s love of rocks began as a young boy, collecting beach agates and glass on a Samish Island in Washington state where he grew up. He had shoe boxes filled with rocks under his bed. I’m thankful
Skye has really good teaching instincts! Works well with Nick…while he’s wearing his producer’s hat!🤣. Thanks Nick.
Great video as always - thanks Nick and Skye! It is great to view these features through the eyes of experienced professionals with curious minds.
Thank you guys this is fascinating!
thank you both, ALL stay safe
Excellent! An untrained enthusiast, I see no reason to argue with either the logic or the evidence on/in the ground, and this whole topic raises - for me, at least - a whole additional level of questions and speculations about pre-Missoula floods and landscapes. Having toured the Drumheller Channels and Frenchman Coulee on a 97° day in 2022, continued exploration of this topic gives me a handy excuse to return to central Washington from Minneapolis in 2024 (this year is already booked). By then, there will have been a whole new "A to Z" series of videos from Discovery Hall in Ellensburg. I'm looking forward to them.
Consistently great content. Thanks!
Thanks Skye ❣️ Thanks Nick ❣️
How many gravel benches could there be. Get out the backhoe!!! Really enjoyed this episode.
Better late than never. Good show!
Hey Nick - great video!! Seems like it would be really helpful if you guys had a drone for an aerial view of the areas you visit🤔
I watched Myron Cook Geologist talk about time, it takes millions of years to build even an inch of soil. The rocks you found way back in time amazes me had to be billions of years.
I watched the same video and that's not what he said. He said SOME sediments are very slow to deposit, others can be deposited quite quickly. Not all depositional environments are equal in speed of deposition.
Myron was discussing to offshore marine sedimentation processes not flood or aeolian deposition.
Outstanding content. Thank you.
Fascinating stuff. Very compelling thoughts.
A very interesting discussion! Lots to ponder. 😀
Skye and Nick, thanks for exciting new ideas!
I'm learning so much, thank you!
I followed the coordinates on Google Maps. The cut is labeled John Wayne Trail/Milwaukee Road RR cut. Thank you Milwaukee Road!
Thank you both , very interesting and intriguing, someone here suggested crowdfunding some research, I’d second that and would definitely contribute!
All the best Jules
Lookin pretty plio-pleistoceney to me. I struggled with all this stuff as a sedimentologist when i lived in Moscow. I took the dust queen to some of these outcrops!
Ritzville? Civilization? I guess for eastern WA.
I love the drive from Ritzville down to Lyons Ferry, some of the flood features are awesome. I recognize the one building near the end of the video from my travels.
I enjoyed this and found it very informative. In addition I like the butterfly at the 31:30 minute mark. I'm not sure what kind it was. I don't ever remember seeing one like that here in Minnesota.
I kept getting sucked into the speculations and possibilities of this field trip.
Small Flooding caused by heavy rains? Could the heavy particular stones moved by Tornado winds? I've Binge watched since I found you, can't stop.
Love it! Thanks Guys!
Thanks thats a great look into several of the loess landforms. I look at is though and see that you are only looking at an exposure that goes partway down the landform. It makes me really curious what a full column through those landfroms all the way down to the basalt looks like, and how widespread or not some of those different bedding events and buried soil layers are
Extremely enjoyable site visits. Learning that wind blown and water borne deposits cannot be differentiated illustrated how difficult it is assess what is going on. I would be interesting to know if you dug further down (at the railway cutting) whether there are any more large flood deposits showing similar layers historically?
Amazing trip into a turbulent past with eye-opening explanations. Thanks, Skye and Nick! And what was that critter at 26:00? Spider or leaf in the wind?
So cool. Thank you!
Companies that make wraps for cars could easily make Map Wraps of those you have on your hood, and then you could simply always have them on your hood.
I searched "Skye Cooley" and could not find it on Google earth. LOL
So 😁 funny I doubt you'll find a dot on a map showing where the man is located at the time
It does sound like a rock formation haha 😂
Excellent
I propose renaming the “channeled scablands” to the “channeled scourlands” to eliminate that sense of landscape-overwhelm and focus attention more on the pre-flood drainages.
Love me an hour out among the paleosols with Skye Cooley!
hello from Ogden UT
Cooley in the groove.
Should have stopped by Towell Falls. Its a bit of a trek to get there but lots of excellent geology!
Nick I have a thought. Skye is talking about floods that predate the Missoula Floods creating a pathway for them. Would Lake Unita be a possible source? Or Gosuite/Fossil lakes? Those are early Eocene I think, but if they dumped northwest before all the exotic terrain glommed onto western Idaho might they have sorta given a path?
I had to laugh when Skye mentioned a backhoe....My brain has been thinking if I could afford it digging a big wide and deep trench would be great.
General questions.
How many advances during the Quanentary? 25? 30? How many reached down into Washington? (1) How many flood stories? And how many times were previous flood stories erased by later episodes?
The Missoula Floods seem to get all of the attention but l think part of that has to do with the total elevation change from the discharge point to the Lower Columbia. The floods resulting from glacial melting in the rest of the continent had to of reworked those landscapes in many ways just not as drastically. But not all that melt water was likely involved in floods. I wonder just how much simply flowed down the Mississippi, the Mackenzie, the Yukon and other rivers.
1) Would it be possible to determine the average extent of glacial advances during the last 2.5 MY?
Here we go!!
I'm looking at frame 27:35 and I see a depression in the layering about 15 inches to the right of Cooley's hand, like something stepped into the mud and disturbed the bottom layers. It looks a lot like the mammoth excavations at Hot Springs State Park in Hot Springs, South Dakota. When excavating the site, they exposed in vertical profile where the mammoths had left impressions of their feet in the mud at the bottom of the pond where they were trapped. I'm not saying this was a mammoth footprint, but maybe the foot or hoof impression of a large animal in the mud of a shallow pond.
Seeing that 2nd gravel bench makes me wonder if that wall went to the rail grade are there any more gravel benches? Or if you went to the highest loess island and did a large core how many gravel benches could you find? Is it possible The islands are function of gravel benches acting like drumlin shapes from past floods even older
Maybe try a small umbrella to keep phone in the shade....neat field trip.
@36:32 there is a large rock above the older poorly stratified rocks from the earlier floods. It clearly doesn't appear to be from the early flooding, and is where you were talking about less energetic flooding, but that is a big rock.
Damn. This is interesting.