Summer of '61 and I'd just finished 1st grade at North Hill Elementary in Seattle. Dad was inspired to take the family's yearly vacation at Grand Coulee Dam and Lake Roosevelt. En route in our '56 green-and-white 4-door Ford Faiirlane, I stared in complete awe at the lunar landscape that was the coulee. I've been fascinated with Eastern Washington's geological history ever since that magic summer. Watching Nick as he crunches over the trails and 'round sweetly-scented sage bushes ... it's like watching Dick Proenneke build a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness: you can actually feel your blood pressure go down and your sense of well-being and purpose rise to the surface. Thank you Mr. Zentner ❤️
I love how science never stops investigating. I love that geologists are pushing the envelope of what we know. Thanks for the education, entertainment, and presentation of our beautiful state. You're the best, Nick.
Genuine teaching come from a clear focus. Thanks for the continued series; captivated by your good nature and ability. Your lecture class is fortunate. Cheers Nick.
This popped up in my feed based on my enjoying geography videos and I will tell you it is one of the best videos I have watched regarding such a specific topic like this. Well done and those are some lucky students.
Nick, I love your stuff. You are living proof that a true scientist doesn't get excited about what they do know, rather about what they don't. Enjoy your summer of discovery.
I like the point Mark Earnest makes - this looks like another chapter in a developing story. I've been in this area so often via TH-cam it's beginning to feel like home. If I lived in the Pacific Northwest I'd be out driving / stomping around looking at all the landforms, contours, rock types, etc. - the names of which I have not memorized, and can usually just barely pronounce. Fascinating stuff, and my thanks to Professors Bretz and Zentner. Keep it up!
Ray, I first moved to Washington in 1962 at age 13. Much of these decades I lived in Eastern Washington. From 92 to 2008 I had a side track to Kansas and Colorado. I moved back to the soap lake area in summer of 08. I decided one day to drive up the lower grand Coulee. When I got to Lenore lake I parked in the parking lot showing in this video. As I turned off the car it suddenly hit me and I said out loud "I'm home! ". I've always loved the dry falls area. I've been many times but never have had enough time there. So you are not alone in felling like it is home. BTW, the Coulee looks large in the video. But it is much larger than the video makes it seem. To stand in the bottom and try to imagine the water of even the Missoula floods above you is truly incomprehensible. I hope some day you can come see this state. It is amazing what is here.
Nick I want to thank you . I am a 55 year old Bozeman Mt based mule Geologist who has gained greatly from your hot mike self pep talks . I have made self talk a daily routine with great success . Your lessons have deep impact. God Bless you
im 22years old from norway. not really the guy in class who manages to learn quickly, you explain things very good and i learn from you. listening to a guy who actually has a passion for this is soo much fun. thank you for making these videos.
I was born and raised in Washington. Always had a proclivity for rocks, mountains, and geology in general. I've been to most of the places you make videos about and I love sharing what I learn with my family during those long eastern Washington drives. Appreciate all the thought and effort you put into illuminating us about the amazing geologic utopia that is Washington. Many thanks!
I am subscribed to about 90 youtube channels and my 12yr old son asked me.... 'if I could choose only one youtube channel which one would it be?' The first one that popped into my head was Nick Zentner. This video is another reason why.... an honestly, genuinely passionate look at one's surrounding. Just like humans have been doing from the first humans. Without agenda or bias you follow the evidence wherever it leads and give respectful credit to all involved. Thank you Nick for doing what you do and sharing it with us all.
Mind blown Nick and thanks so much. I'm about to spend 4 weeks in this area in June and July and have a Masters in Glacial Geology (not used much during my work life but now that I'm retired I'm getting back to it). I'm fascinated by this entire region after passing through it last summer and I so appreciate the work you're doing and service you're providing to put out these constantly evolving ideas. Keep the great work doing coming and maybe we'll run into each other :). The thought of another waterfall complex larger than Dry Falls boggles my mind!
Hello Nick, just landed on your channel today not having planned to do so! Fascinated with the revelations you are pursuing as I have been slowly consuming presentations on TH-cam related to the Younger Dryas event and it’s effect on the North Carolina Basins and speculation as to a major Impact of a presumed Asteroid or Comet. A long time ago while on business trips in Oregon and Washington, I had little knowledge of the Scablands. So, I have now entered a stage in life where my investigative interest is solely for my edification and enjoyment. I will be viewing your several TH-cam videos and related videos of others. I am not a true scientific minded person, having only a BS/BA in Marketing and Management earned in1966 at Fenn College which became Cleveland State Univ. In my final year. Your style and ability to link A to B to C to D has kept my attention in a subject not at all familiar. Thank you, looking forward to more knowledge of this subject from your perspective. Ray
You are giddy with excitement Nick! It is wonderful to gain a fresh perspective on a well worn topic. You have the eyes of a child seeing the world for the first time... again! Congratulations! It brings great joy to me to see You absolutely beaming with happiness. i love You 💜 and God bless 🙏 !:-)
I'm 82 and remember learning about gondwana land as a possibility when I was in grammar school. I was hooked! Your students are lucky to have such an enthusiastic and curious professor and I''ll be watching you in future.
Oh WOW!😄 Nick, I'm very excited to keep track on your new developing thoughts on older maybe more significant Ice Age Floods from Spokane glaciations hundreds thousands years ago!!💫💗
Brilliant, Nick! Keep weaving this tapestry into a magnificent rug. It is now in your hands. We are all with you and waiting for the next chapter, or page :)
For us arm-chair Geologists who are always looking for new and exciting content, I say to you Mr. Nick that was 28 minutes of the best "on the edge of your seat" commentary you could have ever asked for. I salute you sir, and Thank You Dearly.
The geology of the great state of Washington is absolutely fascinating. The strikingly dramatic structure of the coulee area and the mind-boggling timeline of the events contributing to its creation holds such fascination it's little wonder Prof. Zentner can't leave it alone.
Dear Nick, I started watching you about 3 to 4 yrs ago. I didn't like school and could have cared less about geology. I'm now 60yrs old and absolutely love and am fascinated about this subject. Where were you back in the late 70s? You have a way of making learning fun!
Think of all the minds now stimulated and thinking about the questions together coming to various conclusions and through investigation and discussions helping others to come to some new and different conclusions . Really so exciting.
Wish I would have known all this 50 years ago when I hunted and fished all over eastern Washington. I always was impressed with the landscape especially at Banks Lake.
The energy comes thru the TH-cam somehow. It's like spooky action, at a distance, bringing excitement to those of us who remain entangled. Im glad the energy focuses on the geology, which my dad turned me on to. ( He was into Wyoming) Thanks!
Really enjoying your revelations. I always thought it was too simplistic to put all the erosion down to one glaciation event. Keep it up. You definitely are not boring!
Thank you for these presentations. My lady (deceased two years ago) and I became fascinated by these geological events. We did manage to visit Missoula, MT about five years ago. Unfortunately we did not continue West to the Scablands. Your videos help me realize what we missed. I do not have the energy for another PNW trip this Summer. I do, providing the doctors can figure out my anemia, plan on traveling to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland to observe the landscapes and geology of those places. Not to mention the food, music, whiskey, and women. That will be an interesting trip. Again, thank you for your work. GregW
Good stuff and again, the difficulty of grasping the enormous passage of time in a geologic sense requires constant recalibration of our sense of the process. Thanks for recalibrating my brain this morning!!!❤
Greetings from the UK. These videos were so fascinating that I arm-twisted my brother into a road trip to the Scablands a week back. I didn't have much time in the States, but boy was it worth the drive. I've never seen a landscape like it, and your posts really helped bring the scene to life. The Dry Falls took my breath away. Oh, and those map illustrations in this video are fabulous. Thank you. I look forward to your future musings on how this marvelous landscape evolved.
I am traveling to Ellensburg to hunt for agates before heading to MT, ID, and OR to check out the local geology along my route and do some gem mining for my birthday month! Hopefully someday I will get to see one of your public events there in Ellensburg. I am an alumni from MSU Bozeman ('99) and you have revived my love of geology now that I am living in WA. I'm a huge fan!! 🤩
As a rather long in the tooth retired maths teacher in the UK, I love your posts. I used to grapple (physically!) with the geology of the Cuillins on the Isle of Skye and the Torridon mountains further north in Scotland and marvelled at what had happened there in the past.
Nick. Thank you for your videos. I live in the east where red clay is everywhere. I see my home sitting on dry flood slurry. My home was built in the 70's and no grading was done. Just digging a little shows a lot of activity. So much small quartz everywhere.
Excellent, and the side view made all the difference in my understanding. New info keeps turning up, and Sharon, big thanks. (I was just thinking about that box of rocks and how carefully they were documented.) It's fabulous for us that you want to learn, and share Nick! 👍🏻💕
It does not surprise me that Bretz realized the pre-wisconsin glacier(s) were more instrumental in the carving of the scablands. Being a midwesterner, Bretz was aware that the same phenomenon shaped the great plains and eastern landscapes, and very obviously in his home state of Illinois. I have long wondered where all of the outwash basalt was deposited, which should be enormous, if this happened during the last glacial cycle. Very good to hear, looking forward to more!
Of course depending on just much ice is built up into a glacial advance the more potential erosive power that melt water will have when the glacial advance ends and the interglacial begins. But that erosive power will depend on just how much water is impounded in glacial lakes that is then released in outburst floods. If the melt water is released in one continuous gradual glow I would expect the total erosion to be less. On another note. Just how much does sub glacial flow have to do either fast continental glaciers disappear. Do they erode as much as they melt?
I have wondered the same all while I was researching the Missoula and Bonneville Floods. The sheer volume of rock and dirt should be evident somewhere, but where? Some say it is off in the ocean, but looking at satellite views I'd expect to see a bulge of debris, but dont, so unless I missed it somewhere. I also wondered where the moraine went that would have formed where the ice stopped in the Clark River Valley. There are some hills there but no other evidence of a moraine. A moraine would have stopped a lot of the water from going under the ice, no one ever has mentioned it..... ever.
There is a huge section just south of the coulee that fans out like a river delta for miles. Somewhere on TH-cam is a video about it. I've driven through it, The whole area north of Ephrata and south of Soap Lake is one giant boulder field.
Yes most interesting and thought provoking. Thank you. It makes sense to me that there could have been multiple cycles that are hard to detect but with newer ways to age rocks it may be possible to collect more samples from multiple layers in various locations to test and possibly solve your queries.
Your love of Washington and Northwest area geology makes me think about the history of geology in this state (Washington) and this makes me very happy Nick, thank you.
Prof. Z, your summation of the earlier, Spokane glaciation--described by J. Harlen Bretz ninety-nine years ago--is absolutely intriguing. Although I sat in virtually in your Geology 351 classes years ago, I now envy the current crop of students who are completing a term with concentration on your ice-ages flood stories. Thank you!
Those caves are a great hike with kids! My kiddo loved exploring there! Those are neat revivals of literature! There is so much written down in old obscure books that gets lost. I ran across an out of print book about the old coal mining towns around the Carbon River near Mt Tahoma several years ago that had fascinating history. It was one of those 80s compilations with the crappy, black and white printed photos and everything that someone had taken the time to write down and put together, and while the small time publisher could still do another print run, there's a minimum amount and it's way beyond my personal ability to get a new copy. In the meantime, the old copies are wearing out in the libraries and getting lost. It just goes to show you that there's a lot of history and thought decaying in old out of print books on people's shelves and in libraries that needs preserving and to be more easily accessible in the modern information age! Thank you for those wonderful thoughts!
Nick. Wow...!! Very interesting. This whole period of geologic activity is just fascinating to me. I grew up in the Salt Lake Valley looking at the marks of the shorelines left by Lake Bonneville and wondering about the events that caused them. The way that and all the other ice age events in the western states would have been amazing to witness. I share your love of the search to uncover the sequence of events. Thanks for sharing.
Great to observe and think along with you, Nick. Thank you for sharing this while you're still exploring the literature and the land. Correlation to Illinoian Glacial period?
Your recent posts with Jerome and his shared passion for the Ice Age Floods have stayed in a prominent place in my daily navel gazing exercises! I hope you can find the time to share your future insights and wanderings for your fanbase out here who are insatiable 🤔! I can no longer climb and kneel among the rocks and rivers and your explorations help me enjoy a quality of life a lot of my peers in their dotage often can't fathom! Once a friend, after listening to our accounts of our last road trip through the Rockies in Canada, asked in amazement, "You mean you guys drive for days looking at ROCKS?!" Of course we do 🤓 I can't thank you enough for this latest brain calisthenics session.
i love older scientific papers--because it seems pre-1970s/1980s, these papers are all easier for me to understand. This includes mathematics papers on abstract algebra etc., engineering papers, oceanography, meteorology, and geology papers. nowadays papers are written in languages only people in extremely specified fields can understand. I love finding hidden gems in older papers!
Not long ago, if I looked out at the scene at 1:06 , I would simply have said a river has cut through here, thanks to you, I see a more complex story, and the more I look the more the story retells itself, adding a chapter at a time, cheers.
Thank you professor for the opportunity to experience the magnitude of time and geology. Your geologic sleuthing is mind boggling and educationaly entertaining. I have learned a lot about myself from your time lapse programs. Don’t stop digging because we are all in the pile.
Thanks once again Nick! I really enjoy learning with you, and this story of the earlier glaciation and flooding is fascinating to me. Your style is very informative, and you trigger my imagination!!
I travel south out of BC down the Okanagan valley from Canada all the way through Washington into Oregon for work. Thankfully I have found your work here on TH-cam, I have a better understanding of what they heck I am marveling at when i drive through this place. As a Geology nerd, it is both a fascinating and beautiful area. Thanks Prof. Zetner for the up loads, I feel after going through a lot of your past content over the years I have a far better understanding of what made this incredible place.
Fantastic Professor ! Wish had you for my Geology studies when I went to UNCC in '77. Got a dual BS in Geology/Meteorology. We didn't study much west of th Mississippi, my teachers focused on the Appalachian geomorphological stratus. Being a spelunker I did my Senior Thesis on the Flint Ridge cave formation. That was before the Mammoth Cave extension. I am a big fan of JH Bretz. Had a original cooy of "Caves of Missouri", unfortunately gone now. I started reading it a a kid, my budding days of Cave explorations. '68, I was 12... Great stuff... Your videos have really taught me so much about PNW Geology. Maybe I should follow up and get my MS degree with your guidance. Keep it up this summer, lots for me to learn. 👍
Love your clear explanations and visual evidence of ice. I've noticed on some petroglyphs, that they were carved before the glacial striations and it was puzzling me. This puts the events in order. Thank You.
The SHEER SIZE AND MAGNATUDE OF IT ALL IS BREATHTAKING. AND THEN AFTER TIME SOMEONE STARTS COMPREHENDING WHAT THEY SEE. THEY REALIZE, THE PUT THEIR UNDERSTANDING REAL EYES ON IT. WITH A BRAIN. WOW.
Thanks for the video, Nick. Greetings from Marshfield High School in Coos Bay, Oregon. My class watched it today and I was able to answer a lot of good questions. Thanks!
Your the best nick, thank you for these videos, your feeding my brain with exactly what it wants lol, if I could only be out in Washington in the field with you I'd be so happy. Be safe out there don't get too hot, we love you professor, gotta love it!!
As a former truck driver, I have driven up and down through the Scablands, Palouse, and Columbia Gorge areas hundreds of times. I always found it interesting, but with content like you provide, I would have looked a lot more closely. I wish I had known more.
Stoked on these new thoughts and theories from looking at old bibliography and research. It in parts reinforces Bretz's research, but also brings to light how the area might've looked like millions to even thousands of years ago. Cheers from Omak!
Very interesting....keep up the good work. So refreshing to see a geologist taking a new look at the history of the land forms. It seems that here in NC, the geology focuses mostly on mining and economics associated with it. It also seems that many of the geologists are satisfied with the work done in the 1800's and early 1900's without expanding the geologic story. Many, many thumps up to you for using your knowledge and expanding into new views on the story.
To many people that is the whole purpose of geology. And to state or national geologic surveys it primatily is. Perhaps a subfield of geology that studies landscapes and how they formed could be called Geologic Cartography or Geologic Geology.
I wish there was someone like Nick doing this for North Carolina. My adopted home has such a lengthy and complex geologic history, but the information isn't particularly accessible and is generally lumped into the general summary of the Appalachians. I'm at the northern edge of the Sandhills with only the vaguest idea of what lies under the sand-with-clay-lenses or how far down it extends. I'm guessing there is a coal layer because my well has a sulphur smell. (Being from western PA, I'm accustomed to the idea that a sulphury well means coal).
Recently my girlfriend asked me what my favorite word was. After thinking about it for a while, I told her it was "coulee." I wouldn't have ever heard that word if it weren't for you Nick! Excited about this video.
@@mpetersen6 The two words are spelled differently. The one that's an ethnic slang originated from the Hindi word kuli, which simply meant 'day laborer.' 'Coulee' comes from Old French. It meant 'to flow.'
@@toughenupfluffy7294 I know that. But you can't assume that someone will know that you are using the geology related word and not racially charged one.
So grateful for everything you and the University of Washington is doing for us. Much love to the whole geologist community! I learn so much from you, and it just gives me peace of mind, no matter how things are looking, I just love truth, love to know what's going on. God bless you all!
Thanks for starting with the hanging valleys. I've always wondered about those when I'm there. To me the lower Grand Coulee is the heart of this amazing state. I've always been uncomfortable about the Missoula floods being the whole story. As I've been with you on this floods story I've had a growing feeling that there is more and older story than Missoula. It began to start growing with Joel's first Waterville plateau channels video. The mild curiosity turned to how do I learn more when Skye Cooley talked about the deposit at the George gravel pit. His saying that deposit is from about 100k old lit the light bulb. So I for one am delighted that you are looking for more knowledge! This is making the story much more interesting. I am one who doesn't accept simple solutions. Yes it is a glaciation story but more than one glaciation has to be involved.
Thank you for continuing to put out great content. Maybe one of these days we will cross paths and I can thank you in person. These little chats out in the field are informative and relaxing.
You know with content like this television is dead. Thank you Nick Zentner.
Seriously. I don't watch TV anymore except to catch live sports.
There is just too much good content available here and elsewhere.
Agreed, I canceled my cable last year.
Word.
@Anne Frank Vape Pen tell us😅
@@swirvinbirds1971 Sports, other than Junior League, are too globalistic for my taste. Sorry for becoming political.
Summer of '61 and I'd just finished 1st grade at North Hill Elementary in Seattle. Dad was inspired to take the family's yearly vacation at Grand Coulee Dam and Lake Roosevelt. En route in our '56 green-and-white 4-door Ford Faiirlane, I stared in complete awe at the lunar landscape that was the coulee. I've been fascinated with Eastern Washington's geological history ever since that magic summer. Watching Nick as he crunches over the trails and 'round sweetly-scented sage bushes ... it's like watching Dick Proenneke build a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness: you can actually feel your blood pressure go down and your sense of well-being and purpose rise to the surface. Thank you Mr. Zentner ❤️
I love how science never stops investigating. I love that geologists are pushing the envelope of what we know. Thanks for the education, entertainment, and presentation of our beautiful state. You're the best, Nick.
Wow! Love this idea! A whole new wrinkle to this big story. Keep going with this.
Thanks Nick, your excitement is infectious.
Genuine teaching come from a clear focus. Thanks for the continued series; captivated by your good nature and ability. Your lecture class is fortunate. Cheers Nick.
This popped up in my feed based on my enjoying geography videos and I will tell you it is one of the best videos I have watched regarding such a specific topic like this. Well done and those are some lucky students.
Nick, I love your stuff. You are living proof that a true scientist doesn't get excited about what they do know, rather about what they don't. Enjoy your summer of discovery.
So well put.😊
I like the point Mark Earnest makes - this looks like another chapter in a developing story. I've been in this area so often via TH-cam it's beginning to feel like home. If I lived in the Pacific Northwest I'd be out driving / stomping around looking at all the landforms, contours, rock types, etc. - the names of which I have not memorized, and can usually just barely pronounce. Fascinating stuff, and my thanks to Professors Bretz and Zentner. Keep it up!
Ray, I first moved to Washington in 1962 at age 13. Much of these decades I lived in Eastern Washington. From 92 to 2008 I had a side track to Kansas and Colorado. I moved back to the soap lake area in summer of 08. I decided one day to drive up the lower grand Coulee. When I got to Lenore lake I parked in the parking lot showing in this video. As I turned off the car it suddenly hit me and I said out loud "I'm home! ". I've always loved the dry falls area. I've been many times but never have had enough time there. So you are not alone in felling like it is home. BTW, the Coulee looks large in the video. But it is much larger than the video makes it seem. To stand in the bottom and try to imagine the water of even the Missoula floods above you is truly incomprehensible. I hope some day you can come see this state. It is amazing what is here.
How exciting, another chapter to the developing story of ice age flooding in the PNW. These episodes continue to amaze. Thank you, Prof Nick, again.
Nick I want to thank you . I am a 55 year old Bozeman Mt based mule Geologist who has gained greatly from your hot mike self pep talks . I have made self talk a daily routine with great success . Your lessons have deep impact. God Bless you
im 22years old from norway. not really the guy in class who manages to learn quickly, you explain things very good and i learn from you. listening to a guy who actually has a passion for this is soo much fun. thank you for making these videos.
I was born and raised in Washington. Always had a proclivity for rocks, mountains, and geology in general. I've been to most of the places you make videos about and I love sharing what I learn with my family during those long eastern Washington drives. Appreciate all the thought and effort you put into illuminating us about the amazing geologic utopia that is Washington. Many thanks!
nick....you are an excellent teacher!!!! kudos!!!! thank you pg
Since ME/CFS took over my life my days going walkabout were over. But through these videos you walk for me, Nick. Thank you. ❤
I am subscribed to about 90 youtube channels and my 12yr old son asked me.... 'if I could choose only one youtube channel which one would it be?' The first one that popped into my head was Nick Zentner. This video is another reason why.... an honestly, genuinely passionate look at one's surrounding. Just like humans have been doing from the first humans. Without agenda or bias you follow the evidence wherever it leads and give respectful credit to all involved. Thank you Nick for doing what you do and sharing it with us all.
Mind blown Nick and thanks so much. I'm about to spend 4 weeks in this area in June and July and have a Masters in Glacial Geology (not used much during my work life but now that I'm retired I'm getting back to it). I'm fascinated by this entire region after passing through it last summer and I so appreciate the work you're doing and service you're providing to put out these constantly evolving ideas. Keep the great work doing coming and maybe we'll run into each other :). The thought of another waterfall complex larger than Dry Falls boggles my mind!
Hello Nick, just landed on your channel today not having planned to do so! Fascinated with the revelations you are pursuing as I have been slowly consuming presentations on TH-cam related to the Younger Dryas event and it’s effect on the North Carolina Basins and speculation as to a major Impact of a presumed Asteroid or Comet. A long time ago while on business trips in Oregon and Washington, I had little knowledge of the Scablands. So, I have now entered a stage in life where my investigative interest is solely for my edification and enjoyment. I will be viewing your several TH-cam videos and related videos of others. I am not a true scientific minded person, having only a BS/BA in Marketing and Management earned in1966 at Fenn College which became Cleveland State Univ. In my final year. Your style and ability to link A to B to C to D has kept my attention in a subject not at all familiar. Thank you, looking forward to more knowledge of this subject from your perspective. Ray
You are giddy with excitement Nick! It is wonderful to gain a fresh perspective on a well worn topic. You have the eyes of a child seeing the world for the first time... again!
Congratulations! It brings great joy to me to see You absolutely beaming with happiness. i love You 💜 and God bless 🙏 !:-)
Your content is endlessly fascinating, and really changes how I see the geology of the area I live in.
I'm 82 and remember learning about gondwana land as a possibility when I was in grammar school. I was hooked! Your students are lucky to have such an enthusiastic and curious professor and I''ll be watching you in future.
Listening to your videos is MY idea of a good time!
Refreshing to see someone so excited about work they been in for 30 + years!
Oh WOW!😄 Nick, I'm very excited to keep track on your new developing thoughts on older maybe more significant Ice Age Floods from Spokane glaciations hundreds thousands years ago!!💫💗
Brilliant, Nick! Keep weaving this tapestry into a magnificent rug. It is now in your hands. We are all with you and waiting for the next chapter, or page :)
For us arm-chair Geologists who are always looking for new and exciting content, I say to you Mr. Nick that was 28 minutes of the best "on the edge of your seat" commentary you could have ever asked for. I salute you sir, and Thank You Dearly.
Oh my, I so appreciate how humble you are and so willing to accept and learn new information. Really got my respect Mr.
Thank you for actually practicing science professor. I enjoy your content very much.
Love it! I camped near "small" Dry Falls. Whole area is fascinating.
The geology of the great state of Washington is absolutely fascinating. The strikingly dramatic structure of the coulee area and the mind-boggling timeline of the events contributing to its creation holds such fascination it's little wonder Prof. Zentner can't leave it alone.
Thank you for you skill at bringing your knowledge to the masses.
Nick - your videos are incredible. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
Dear Nick, I started watching you about 3 to 4 yrs ago. I didn't like school and could have cared less about geology. I'm now 60yrs old and absolutely love and am fascinated about this subject. Where were you back in the late 70s? You have a way of making learning fun!
Think of all the minds now stimulated and thinking about the questions together coming to various conclusions and through investigation and discussions helping others to come to some new and different conclusions . Really so exciting.
Wish I would have known all this 50 years ago when I hunted and fished all over eastern Washington. I always was impressed with the landscape especially at Banks Lake.
The energy comes thru the TH-cam somehow.
It's like spooky action, at a distance, bringing excitement to those of us who remain entangled.
Im glad the energy focuses on the geology, which my dad turned me on to. ( He was into Wyoming)
Thanks!
You are never boring! This is exciting! Thanks to Sharon.
Thanks for taking your time to record and share your knowledge. Greetings from Sweden.
Really enjoying your revelations. I always thought it was too simplistic to put all the erosion down to one glaciation event. Keep it up. You definitely are not boring!
Thank you for these presentations. My lady (deceased two years ago) and I became fascinated by these geological events. We did manage to visit Missoula, MT about five years ago. Unfortunately we did not continue West to the Scablands. Your videos help me realize what we missed.
I do not have the energy for another PNW trip this Summer. I do, providing the doctors can figure out my anemia, plan on traveling to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland to observe the landscapes and geology of those places. Not to mention the food, music, whiskey, and women. That will be an interesting trip.
Again, thank you for your work. GregW
Good stuff and again, the difficulty of grasping the enormous passage of time in a geologic sense requires constant recalibration of our sense of the process. Thanks for recalibrating my brain this morning!!!❤
Greetings from the UK. These videos were so fascinating that I arm-twisted my brother into a road trip to the Scablands a week back. I didn't have much time in the States, but boy was it worth the drive. I've never seen a landscape like it, and your posts really helped bring the scene to life. The Dry Falls took my breath away. Oh, and those map illustrations in this video are fabulous. Thank you. I look forward to your future musings on how this marvelous landscape evolved.
I love your channel so much! Our regional geology is so fascinating. Thank you for making these videos, Nick.
I love watching your brain fizz...and it is contagious. Thank you!
Exciting stuff Nick! Looking forward to hearing more on this topic.
Sitting on a Talus slope in the lower Coulee reading Bretz with the1947 illustrations -- just the best Nick!!!
Humble Thanks!!!!!! Mammoth.....
Thanks for sharing these great expeditions for us at home. That's the most fascinating landscape I've seen.
Great story. Keep it going. We're with you, Nick.
I am traveling to Ellensburg to hunt for agates before heading to MT, ID, and OR to check out the local geology along my route and do some gem mining for my birthday month! Hopefully someday I will get to see one of your public events there in Ellensburg. I am an alumni from MSU Bozeman ('99) and you have revived my love of geology now that I am living in WA. I'm a huge fan!! 🤩
Beautiful soft colors today
As a rather long in the tooth retired maths teacher in the UK, I love your posts. I used to grapple (physically!) with the geology of the Cuillins on the Isle of Skye and the Torridon mountains further north in Scotland and marvelled at what had happened there in the past.
Great content. Love your work and Myron Cooks work. Both of the areas you guys predominantly work in are extremely interesting to me.
Thank you Sharon, wherever and whoever you are, for finding that paper! Sent us all in an exciting direction.
Nick. Thank you for your videos.
I live in the east where red clay is everywhere.
I see my home sitting on dry flood slurry.
My home was built in the 70's and no grading was done.
Just digging a little shows a lot of activity. So much small quartz everywhere.
Thanks Nick, I have developed an interest in these ancient floods and know more about this part of America's geology than my native Thames Valley.
Excellent, and the side view made all the difference in my understanding. New info keeps turning up, and Sharon, big thanks. (I was just thinking about that box of rocks and how carefully they were documented.) It's fabulous for us that you want to learn, and share Nick! 👍🏻💕
It does not surprise me that Bretz realized the pre-wisconsin glacier(s) were more instrumental in the carving of the scablands. Being a midwesterner, Bretz was aware that the same phenomenon shaped the great plains and eastern landscapes, and very obviously in his home state of Illinois. I have long wondered where all of the outwash basalt was deposited, which should be enormous, if this happened during the last glacial cycle. Very good to hear, looking forward to more!
Of course depending on just much ice is built up into a glacial advance the more potential erosive power that melt water will have when the glacial advance ends and the interglacial begins. But that erosive power will depend on just how much water is impounded in glacial lakes that is then released in outburst floods. If the melt water is released in one continuous gradual glow I would expect the total erosion to be less.
On another note. Just how much does sub glacial flow have to do either fast continental glaciers disappear. Do they erode as much as they melt?
I have wondered the same all while I was researching the Missoula and Bonneville Floods. The sheer volume of rock and dirt should be evident somewhere, but where? Some say it is off in the ocean, but looking at satellite views I'd expect to see a bulge of debris, but dont, so unless I missed it somewhere. I also wondered where the moraine went that would have formed where the ice stopped in the Clark River Valley. There are some hills there but no other evidence of a moraine. A moraine would have stopped a lot of the water from going under the ice, no one ever has mentioned it..... ever.
There is a huge section just south of the coulee that fans out like a river delta for miles. Somewhere on TH-cam is a video about it. I've driven through it, The whole area north of Ephrata and south of Soap Lake is one giant boulder field.
I was right where you were seated last week as part of the Ice Age Floods Institute’s “Rock Out” meeting tour of the Dry Falls area.
As I tell my grandkids, learning is fun! My uncle taught me a lot about glaciation in Minnesota. Your videos are fun to watch.
Yes most interesting and thought provoking. Thank you. It makes sense to me that there could have been multiple cycles that are hard to detect but with newer ways to age rocks it may be possible to collect more samples from multiple layers in various locations to test and possibly solve your queries.
Your love of Washington and Northwest area geology makes me think about the history of geology in this state (Washington) and this makes me very happy Nick, thank you.
Thank you Nick for the updates. I love this.
Fantastic lesson! And it all fits...shaping our minds to fit the terrain.
Prof. Z, your summation of the earlier, Spokane glaciation--described by J. Harlen Bretz ninety-nine years ago--is absolutely intriguing. Although I sat in virtually in your Geology 351 classes years ago, I now envy the current crop of students who are completing a term with concentration on your ice-ages flood stories. Thank you!
Thank you kindly, Sir!
Those caves are a great hike with kids! My kiddo loved exploring there!
Those are neat revivals of literature! There is so much written down in old obscure books that gets lost. I ran across an out of print book about the old coal mining towns around the Carbon River near Mt Tahoma several years ago that had fascinating history. It was one of those 80s compilations with the crappy, black and white printed photos and everything that someone had taken the time to write down and put together, and while the small time publisher could still do another print run, there's a minimum amount and it's way beyond my personal ability to get a new copy. In the meantime, the old copies are wearing out in the libraries and getting lost. It just goes to show you that there's a lot of history and thought decaying in old out of print books on people's shelves and in libraries that needs preserving and to be more easily accessible in the modern information age!
Thank you for those wonderful thoughts!
Nick. Wow...!! Very interesting. This whole period of geologic activity is just fascinating to me. I grew up in the Salt Lake Valley looking at the marks of the shorelines left by Lake Bonneville and wondering about the events that caused them. The way that and all the other ice age events in the western states would have been amazing to witness. I share your love of the search to uncover the sequence of events. Thanks for sharing.
Great to observe and think along with you, Nick. Thank you for sharing this while you're still exploring the literature and the land. Correlation to Illinoian Glacial period?
Excellent!! You have a true gift and unique ability when it comes to the conveyance of knowledge... Thanks!! 🤠
Your recent posts with Jerome and his shared passion for the Ice Age Floods have stayed in a prominent place in my daily navel gazing exercises! I hope you can find the time to share your future insights and wanderings for your fanbase out here who are insatiable 🤔! I can no longer climb and kneel among the rocks and rivers and your explorations help me enjoy a quality of life a lot of my peers in their dotage often can't fathom! Once a friend, after listening to our accounts of our last road trip through the Rockies in Canada, asked in amazement, "You mean you guys drive for days looking at ROCKS?!" Of course we do 🤓 I can't thank you enough for this latest brain calisthenics session.
Totally agree
I have done this hike before. Now I understand what I did not see before. Right on thanks.
i love older scientific papers--because it seems pre-1970s/1980s, these papers are all easier for me to understand. This includes mathematics papers on abstract algebra etc., engineering papers, oceanography, meteorology, and geology papers. nowadays papers are written in languages only people in extremely specified fields can understand. I love finding hidden gems in older papers!
Thanks Nick for putting a new perspective on such an amazingly beautiful place. 🐻
Not long ago, if I looked out at the scene at 1:06 , I would simply have said a river has cut through here, thanks to you, I see a more complex story, and the more I look the more the story retells itself, adding a chapter at a time, cheers.
Thank you professor for the opportunity to experience the magnitude of time and geology. Your geologic sleuthing is mind boggling and educationaly entertaining. I have learned a lot about myself from your time lapse programs. Don’t stop digging because we are all in the pile.
Never apologize for a passion to learn and teach. : )
I like the direction you have taken in your quest. Lead on.
Thanks once again Nick! I really enjoy learning with you, and this story of the earlier glaciation and flooding is fascinating to me. Your style is very informative, and you trigger my imagination!!
I travel south out of BC down the Okanagan valley from Canada all the way through Washington into Oregon for work. Thankfully I have found your work here on TH-cam, I have a better understanding of what they heck I am marveling at when i drive through this place. As a Geology nerd, it is both a fascinating and beautiful area. Thanks Prof. Zetner for the up loads, I feel after going through a lot of your past content over the years I have a far better understanding of what made this incredible place.
Fantastic Professor !
Wish had you for my Geology studies when I went to UNCC in '77. Got a dual BS in Geology/Meteorology. We didn't study much west of th Mississippi, my teachers focused on the Appalachian geomorphological stratus. Being a spelunker I did my Senior Thesis on the Flint Ridge cave formation. That was before the Mammoth Cave extension.
I am a big fan of JH Bretz. Had a original cooy of "Caves of Missouri", unfortunately gone now. I started reading it a a kid, my budding days of Cave explorations. '68, I was 12...
Great stuff... Your videos have really taught me so much about PNW Geology. Maybe I should follow up and get my MS degree with your guidance. Keep it up this summer, lots for me to learn. 👍
Love your clear explanations and visual evidence of ice. I've noticed on some petroglyphs, that they were carved before the glacial striations and it was puzzling me. This puts the events in order. Thank You.
This new program style is awesome! Your talks are great, but these vids brought geology to a whole new level! Thanks.
The SHEER SIZE AND MAGNATUDE OF IT ALL IS BREATHTAKING. AND THEN AFTER TIME SOMEONE STARTS COMPREHENDING WHAT THEY SEE. THEY REALIZE, THE PUT THEIR UNDERSTANDING REAL EYES ON IT. WITH A BRAIN. WOW.
Love sitting and staring into your space!
Thanks for the video, Nick. Greetings from Marshfield High School in Coos Bay, Oregon. My class watched it today and I was able to answer a lot of good questions. Thanks!
Your the best nick, thank you for these videos, your feeding my brain with exactly what it wants lol, if I could only be out in Washington in the field with you I'd be so happy. Be safe out there don't get too hot, we love you professor, gotta love it!!
I have wondered about Grand Coulee geology since a family vacation there when I was a kid. It's complicated! Thanks for the help!
As a former truck driver, I have driven up and down through the Scablands, Palouse, and Columbia Gorge areas hundreds of times. I always found it interesting, but with content like you provide, I would have looked a lot more closely. I wish I had known more.
Stoked on these new thoughts and theories from looking at old bibliography and research. It in parts reinforces Bretz's research, but also brings to light how the area might've looked like millions to even thousands of years ago. Cheers from Omak!
This is some great stuff! Thanks so much for going out in the sun for us! (And, you, too, of course.)
Nick,you’ve got me hooked. I’ll be following along.
Great video! Thank you for being so excited about this. Your excitement alone is inspiring.
Thank you Nick.
Very interesting....keep up the good work. So refreshing to see a geologist taking a new look at the history of the land forms. It seems that here in NC, the geology focuses mostly on mining and economics associated with it. It also seems that many of the geologists are satisfied with the work done in the 1800's and early 1900's without expanding the geologic story. Many, many thumps up to you for using your knowledge and expanding into new views on the story.
To many people that is the whole purpose of geology. And to state or national geologic surveys it primatily is. Perhaps a subfield of geology that studies landscapes and how they formed could be called Geologic Cartography or Geologic Geology.
I wish there was someone like Nick doing this for North Carolina. My adopted home has such a lengthy and complex geologic history, but the information isn't particularly accessible and is generally lumped into the general summary of the Appalachians.
I'm at the northern edge of the Sandhills with only the vaguest idea of what lies under the sand-with-clay-lenses or how far down it extends.
I'm guessing there is a coal layer because my well has a sulphur smell. (Being from western PA, I'm accustomed to the idea that a sulphury well means coal).
@@mbvoelker8448What about the Carolina Bays? Huge fascinating mystery there.
Recently my girlfriend asked me what my favorite word was. After thinking about it for a while, I told her it was "coulee." I wouldn't have ever heard that word if it weren't for you Nick! Excited about this video.
Be careful to explain the word and that it has no possible cultural ramifications in todays world.
@@mpetersen6 The two words are spelled differently. The one that's an ethnic slang originated from the Hindi word kuli, which simply meant 'day laborer.'
'Coulee' comes from Old French. It meant 'to flow.'
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I know that. But you can't assume that someone will know that you are using the geology related word and not racially charged one.
Very interesting 🧐
I’m along for the adventure.
Thank you Nick.
Thanks, Nick for staying so curious and inquisitive! I'm going along for the ride with ya.
Thank you for another great presentation Nick. 0:45
So grateful for everything you and the University of Washington is doing for us. Much love to the whole geologist community! I learn so much from you, and it just gives me peace of mind, no matter how things are looking, I just love truth, love to know what's going on. God bless you all!
PS: Noone knows in my environment how good is some German chocolate cake for Saturday morning, after long hours of work
Nick is still the brick..
The morning java and your video is waking me up..
Thanks for starting with the hanging valleys. I've always wondered about those when I'm there. To me the lower Grand Coulee is the heart of this amazing state. I've always been uncomfortable about the Missoula floods being the whole story. As I've been with you on this floods story I've had a growing feeling that there is more and older story than Missoula. It began to start growing with Joel's first Waterville plateau channels video. The mild curiosity turned to how do I learn more when Skye Cooley talked about the deposit at the George gravel pit. His saying that deposit is from about 100k old lit the light bulb. So I for one am delighted that you are looking for more knowledge! This is making the story much more interesting. I am one who doesn't accept simple solutions. Yes it is a glaciation story but more than one glaciation has to be involved.
Thanks for everything Nick. Okie checking in
Just staggering Nick. Keep this stuff coming baby..pour it on!
Thank you for continuing to put out great content. Maybe one of these days we will cross paths and I can thank you in person. These little chats out in the field are informative and relaxing.