I've become addicted to Nick's lectures and have watched most of them on TH-cam (some multiple times). Love the way he presents things, you can tell he's a professional and gifted at what he does. I also love his calling out of the rude people on their phones, that's awesome.
_"I also love his calling out of the rude people on their phones...."_ Yes! And that didn't come from any kind of arrogance. Anyone who has listened to Nick's lectures know this is not an arrogant professor -- two words which typically go hand-in-hand. It's simply what anyone would expect if they're going to be _invited_ to give a lecture on a subject. "I was ASKED to come here; if I'm going to stand up here for an hour giving a lecture I've given several times I at least want the common courtesy of some attention." I don't think it's too much to ask of anyone, _by_ anyone.
Nick is a Super Hero in Geology the world and a major source of my Geology knowledge that I have learned and now I am able to share this with my friends and family about Washington states Geology where we live. Thanks Nick
Ain't he? I don't remember now how I stumbled upon his programs and lectures on YT, but I was hooked. Gives a great presentation, and though he's not afraid to admit when he's a bit out of his comfort zone, by the end of the lecture you're looking back at what he could've possibly missed. Gifted instructor and probably IS a superstar in Washington and among his peers worldwide. That's no small feat when you're teaching geology; as Chris Goldfinger once said, geologists are "the Kardashians of science." Well he and Brian Atwater and Nick are too modest; when one considers it's been only 57 years or so before plate tectonic theory was introduced, their contribution has increased our knowledge in those two disciplines exponentially. It's just a plus that Nick connects with his audience and doesn't talk down to them. And not afraid to talk AT them when they're not engaged (7:22).
This was a great perspective for me after spending a year (now more than 30 years ago) traveling the Eastern Washington area in the interest of agriculture.
Love love love listening to you about this quite thrilling landscape of the NW. I have to mention again, New Madrid Fault has a cycle we should not ignore! GSMs 206 years...Mississippi River? Your Totem? Grins...
Professor Zentner is a great presenter. I love every lecture of his that I have seen and some I haven't yet seen, I am sure. I loves me some geology...
Great presentation Mr. Zentner ! A scientist, teacher, speaker, and entertainer, all in one ! I am looking forward to many more presentations and conferences !
Nick, YOU are GREAT! I am from NH, and I wrote my high school junior source theme about vulcanology and glaciology of NH. Of course it was cursory as heck, so not much detail. But, I LOVE the Earth! I walked over areas in Cheshire County, finding potholes, basins, dry waterfalls, erratics, etc, some not in areas esp mentioned officially. There is also a sialic fault, (like the Niagara/Lewiston, NY rebound fault) running along the hills North of Keene, NH, where I found dendrites, iron, I think, liquid over quartzite). MY OWN DISCOVERY! Anyway, I want to be at ALL of your lectures, and I wish you were in NH, or focused on the glacial features of my home area. But, I'm living in Texas now, (I'm 69 in a few days)...Texas is BORING! No glaciers, but there IS a ten-million year-old impact crater 2 miles wide just SW of Uvalde, TX, most Uvaldeans don't know about. I truly wish I had gone into the career filed of geology, and I mean, IN THE FIELDS of the features, just to sit in a pothole, for example, to imagine what was happening under my body many thousands of years ago sufficient to wear the NH granite so extensively and creatively. LOVE IT! Have you written any books? I'll check online to see, because your analysis of the NW US topography is a LOT of fun to read about. When I was 14, my parents and I drove across country to see my oldest sister in Vancouver, Canada, but I didn't get to linger anywhere very long. We came from NH on hwy 90, and didn't stop often by that time in our travel route. I wish I understood more about that area before we drove through it. I didn't know about the fantastic glacial/flood features much back then, so all I remember was the Grand Coulee Dam, but I didn't know what else to look for in the topography,besides vulcanism... Gotta go, I am taking your time up. At this time in my life, I am virtually disabled, (can't do much walking or working), and low on living money. I need a part-time job, still, because I'm having to pay almost $280/month child support, (a long, sad story), $500/month single room rent, out of $900/month SS...sigh...I'm not making ends meet and will be jailed, I think, probably...My other passion is UFOs/aliens, as I had a very graphic sighting when I was 16 yeaqrs old. I'm going to be interviewed on line about it later this month as a podcast by a UFO/Mufon related site/org., if I can talk straight enough to express my thoughts. Thanks for your time!
looked up a video that seems to include pictures of some interesting geology..... ice and lava type stuff th-cam.com/video/sv2e53cAgA8/w-d-xo.html Höga Kusten Trail 2018
I sure perked up with the mention of mima mounds Nick. We have them here on the eastern plains of colorado though the geologists here (school of mines) want to call them teepee buttes and ours are mostly much bigger with small ones at ten feet and most 20 or more feet high. Blessed with some on my land they are mostly sands and gravel but we normally have Pierre Shale for as far as one can dig and no source for such things as gravel let alone our very own version of erratics. They comprise rarely found on the surface boulders up to three hundred pounds each few and far between. I ran into most of them while trenching a water line several miles which tend to ruinate the carbide inserts in short order. We developed the technique of just backing up twenty or thirty feet and slowly angling a bypass loop around them as soon as the machine started it's violent objections on trying to bring one these things to the surface. A few shallow ones made it, we hit one about every mile. Which means there are way more than just a couple out there. Most are a good two feet or better deep in the gumbo soil we just call adobe. Our teepee buttes are often found on gentle rolling hills of that adobe as if the hill helped formed them and some hills are comprised entirely of foreign rose and other quartz. We have picked ours of all the Baculites we could find, but I'm sure there some teepee buttes that remain unscoured. My theory is that the sand and gravels along with erratics rode out here from the mountains a hundred miles away on top of ice thick enough to cover the land but not move as a glacier would tend to do. At a time of rapid melt, these torrents of meltwater moved the erratics which stuck willy nilly just about anywhere while the sand and gravels found their way to the bottom of the ice thru cracks in the ice giving the effect of Indian sand painting with a stationary hand delivering the sand. The erratics then buried themselves in countless freeze thaw cycles in totally saturated gumbo until they reached several feet deep. Roadside Geology of Colorado, School of Mines circa late 80s or early 90s is probably out of print but it does name the teepee buttes without going into how they were made. Please keep the theory in mind especially if no one else has suggested the same methodology - I'm sure of it here. Keep up the great work, top drawer stuff every time.
The mima mound and prairie pimples have different origins, which are yours? E. OK, W. AR down into Tx, etc. are wind blown, sub tundra arid conditions.
yea, but I hate when he has to put in comments to keep TROLLS from being toxic toward him. Like how he DIDN'T do the research he is referencing, but he does reference the person who did.
thanks nick ,,, i moved here (kettle falls) in 2009 ,,, love to learn this stuff ,,, fossils (trilobites) and gold panning and fishing are a few of my interest ,,, hope to run into you as i explore my new home ,,, i'm retired now so have all the time in the world, i hope ,,LOL
Sorry Nick, but the line of the night was at 7:22, which got well-deserved applause and I hope whoever was on their phone was embarrassed enough to recognize the rudeness. See, that's why I could never be a teacher or lecturer. If enough people trailed off while I was lecturing I'd either throw a chair at them or leave the stage and never do another presentation as long as I lived.
LOL ...like teaching a grade school class with a bunch of immature, disruptive kids who would rather be playing than sitting still & (god forbid) learning anything!
There is a story that my Mom told about a concert with Paderewski. The Maestro was playing and two old women were talking during the performance. They were near the front row holding forth on cooking. Suddenly he stops as one of them blurts out "I fry mine in lard!" He replies that perhaps she should go home and finish her cooking and allow the rest of audience to listen to the concert. So you see, it hasn't changed much.
My nephew is a preacher. One Sunday morning before he delivered the sermon, he politely scolded the congregation for being lax about silencing their cell phones during past Sundays. He asked everyone to check and silence their phones, which they did. While he was delivering his sermon, guess who's cell phone rang? Yep, it was his.
Just have a couple questions. Do the North Cascades and the Rocky mountains join near Tonasket? And have you visited Balancing rock near Omak lake? Thank you very much.
Got hooked on Nick on the Rocks. Have since inhaled every video I could find. Thank you.✌️❤️
I've become addicted to Nick's lectures and have watched most of them on TH-cam (some multiple times). Love the way he presents things, you can tell he's a professional and gifted at what he does. I also love his calling out of the rude people on their phones, that's awesome.
_"I also love his calling out of the rude people on their phones...."_ Yes! And that didn't come from any kind of arrogance. Anyone who has listened to Nick's lectures know this is not an arrogant professor -- two words which typically go hand-in-hand. It's simply what anyone would expect if they're going to be _invited_ to give a lecture on a subject. "I was ASKED to come here; if I'm going to stand up here for an hour giving a lecture I've given several times I at least want the common courtesy of some attention." I don't think it's too much to ask of anyone, _by_ anyone.
Nick, you are a brilliant educator. Thank you for your videos. You blow my mind with each video.
Thanks for watching, Matt.
Nick is a real treasure.
Keeping this information fresh in my mind
Nick is a Super Hero in Geology the world and a major source of my Geology knowledge that I have learned and now I am able to share this with my friends and family about Washington states Geology where we live. Thanks Nick
Thanks for watching, Scott.
Ain't he? I don't remember now how I stumbled upon his programs and lectures on YT, but I was hooked. Gives a great presentation, and though he's not afraid to admit when he's a bit out of his comfort zone, by the end of the lecture you're looking back at what he could've possibly missed. Gifted instructor and probably IS a superstar in Washington and among his peers worldwide. That's no small feat when you're teaching geology; as Chris Goldfinger once said, geologists are "the Kardashians of science." Well he and Brian Atwater and Nick are too modest; when one considers it's been only 57 years or so before plate tectonic theory was introduced, their contribution has increased our knowledge in those two disciplines exponentially. It's just a plus that Nick connects with his audience and doesn't talk down to them. And not afraid to talk AT them when they're not engaged (7:22).
This was a great perspective for me after spending a year (now more than 30 years ago) traveling the Eastern Washington area in the interest of agriculture.
Love love love listening to you about this quite thrilling landscape of the NW. I have to mention again, New Madrid Fault has a cycle we should not ignore! GSMs 206 years...Mississippi River? Your Totem? Grins...
Professor Zentner is a great presenter. I love every lecture of his that I have seen and some I haven't yet seen, I am sure. I loves me some geology...
Thanks Bob! All of my stuff is at nickzentner.com if interested.
Great presentation Mr. Zentner ! A scientist, teacher, speaker, and entertainer, all in one ! I am looking forward to many more presentations and conferences !
Thanks much! All of my stuff is at nickzentner.com
YAY, Nick! You've never even mentioned receiving these awards in other videos! A belated Congratualtions!!!!
Nick, YOU are GREAT!
I am from NH, and I wrote my high school junior source theme about vulcanology and glaciology of NH. Of course it was cursory as heck, so not much detail. But, I LOVE the Earth! I walked over areas in Cheshire County, finding potholes, basins, dry waterfalls, erratics, etc, some not in areas esp mentioned officially. There is also a sialic fault, (like the Niagara/Lewiston, NY rebound fault) running along the hills North of Keene, NH, where I found dendrites, iron, I think, liquid over quartzite). MY OWN DISCOVERY! Anyway, I want to be at ALL of your lectures, and I wish you were in NH, or focused on the glacial features of my home area. But, I'm living in Texas now, (I'm 69 in a few days)...Texas is BORING! No glaciers, but there IS a ten-million year-old impact crater 2 miles wide just SW of Uvalde, TX, most Uvaldeans don't know about. I truly wish I had gone into the career filed of geology, and I mean, IN THE FIELDS of the features, just to sit in a pothole, for example, to imagine what was happening under my body many thousands of years ago sufficient to wear the NH granite so extensively and creatively. LOVE IT! Have you written any books? I'll check online to see, because your analysis of the NW US topography is a LOT of fun to read about. When I was 14, my parents and I drove across country to see my oldest sister in Vancouver, Canada, but I didn't get to linger anywhere very long. We came from NH on hwy 90, and didn't stop often by that time in our travel route. I wish I understood more about that area before we drove through it. I didn't know about the fantastic glacial/flood features much back then, so all I remember was the Grand Coulee Dam, but I didn't know what else to look for in the topography,besides vulcanism... Gotta go, I am taking your time up. At this time in my life, I am virtually disabled, (can't do much walking or working), and low on living money. I need a part-time job, still, because I'm having to pay almost $280/month child support, (a long, sad story), $500/month single room rent, out of $900/month SS...sigh...I'm not making ends meet and will be jailed, I think, probably...My other passion is UFOs/aliens, as I had a very graphic sighting when I was 16 yeaqrs old. I'm going to be interviewed on line about it later this month as a podcast by a UFO/Mufon related site/org., if I can talk straight enough to express my thoughts.
Thanks for your time!
Nick you are a true ROCK STAR
Thanks for watching, Andrew.
Your lectures are additive.......a fascinating subject so clearly and expertly explained - Thanks
Thanks for watching. Nice to hear that you are enjoying them.
Thank you. Great talk and interesting topic for the agricultural community as well as the rest of us citizens.
Thanks for watching, Old Lady!
I'm surfing the comments on my phone while Nick complains about me surfing on my phone.
Lolol
I live in a geology world herritage "höga kusten" in Sweden. How I wish we could have a few lectures like this. Thank you.
Really nice to hear from you, Anna. Hello from America!
looked up a video that seems to include pictures of some interesting geology..... ice and lava type stuff th-cam.com/video/sv2e53cAgA8/w-d-xo.html Höga Kusten Trail 2018
First time seeing a Geologist loose a Hammer :) QC
I sure perked up with the mention of mima mounds Nick. We have them here on the eastern plains of colorado though the geologists here (school of mines) want to call them teepee buttes and ours are mostly much bigger with small ones at ten feet and most 20 or more feet high. Blessed with some on my land they are mostly sands and gravel but we normally have Pierre Shale for as far as one can dig and no source for such things as gravel let alone our very own version of erratics. They comprise rarely found on the surface boulders up to three hundred pounds each few and far between. I ran into most of them while trenching a water line several miles which tend to ruinate the carbide inserts in short order. We developed the technique of just backing up twenty or thirty feet and slowly angling a bypass loop around them as soon as the machine started it's violent objections on trying to bring one these things to the surface. A few shallow ones made it, we hit one about every mile. Which means there are way more than just a couple out there. Most are a good two feet or better deep in the gumbo soil we just call adobe. Our teepee buttes are often found on gentle rolling hills of that adobe as if the hill helped formed them and some hills are comprised entirely of foreign rose and other quartz. We have picked ours of all the Baculites we could find, but I'm sure there some teepee buttes that remain unscoured. My theory is that the sand and gravels along with erratics rode out here from the mountains a hundred miles away on top of ice thick enough to cover the land but not move as a glacier would tend to do. At a time of rapid melt, these torrents of meltwater moved the erratics which stuck willy nilly just about anywhere while the sand and gravels found their way to the bottom of the ice thru cracks in the ice giving the effect of Indian sand painting with a stationary hand delivering the sand. The erratics then buried themselves in countless freeze thaw cycles in totally saturated gumbo until they reached several feet deep. Roadside Geology of Colorado, School of Mines circa late 80s or early 90s is probably out of print but it does name the teepee buttes without going into how they were made. Please keep the theory in mind especially if no one else has suggested the same methodology - I'm sure of it here. Keep up the great work, top drawer stuff every time.
Thanks much. Interesting report.
The mima mound and prairie pimples have different origins, which are yours? E. OK, W. AR down into Tx, etc. are wind blown, sub tundra arid conditions.
Nick is like a Hard Drug. I must Mainline him on the regular. Congratulations on Your Awards!!! You Deserve them All! 👍
yea, but I hate when he has to put in comments to keep TROLLS from being toxic toward him. Like how he DIDN'T do the research he is referencing, but he does reference the person who did.
Nick at Home is his current series, from the back porch. Real good geology, and banter. There will be cake.
thanks nick ,,, i moved here (kettle falls) in 2009 ,,, love to learn this stuff ,,, fossils (trilobites) and gold panning and fishing are a few of my interest ,,, hope to run into you as i explore my new home ,,, i'm retired now so have all the time in the world, i hope ,,LOL
Nice! Good luck.
great video!! big fan!
Great video, very informative!
+markevens
Thanks much.
Sorry Nick, but the line of the night was at 7:22, which got well-deserved applause and I hope whoever was on their phone was embarrassed enough to recognize the rudeness. See, that's why I could never be a teacher or lecturer. If enough people trailed off while I was lecturing I'd either throw a chair at them or leave the stage and never do another presentation as long as I lived.
I'm getting more edgy as I get older, Brian. Thanks for watching.
LOL ...like teaching a grade school class with a bunch of immature, disruptive kids who would rather be playing than sitting still & (god forbid) learning anything!
There is a story that my Mom told about a concert with Paderewski. The Maestro was playing and two old women were talking during the performance. They were near the front row holding forth on cooking. Suddenly he stops as one of them blurts out "I fry mine in lard!" He replies that perhaps she should go home and finish her cooking and allow the rest of audience to listen to the concert. So you see, it hasn't changed much.
My nephew is a preacher. One Sunday morning before he delivered the sermon, he politely scolded the congregation for being lax about silencing their cell phones during past Sundays. He asked everyone to check and silence their phones, which they did. While he was delivering his sermon, guess who's cell phone rang? Yep, it was his.
Another, great one.
I caught that video , where you lost your rock hammer, lol.
Thanks Lynn. I miss that hammer.
Wow this great information thank you so much
Thanks!
Nicks the best...only person to even come close to the love of geology is Jeff Williams...
Thanks much. Just googled Jeff Williams....very interesting stuff.
Just have a couple questions. Do the North Cascades and the Rocky mountains join near Tonasket? And have you visited Balancing rock near Omak lake? Thank you very much.
Very inexperienced up there. On my list. Have not seen Balancing Rock in person. Yes, you could say Tonasket is the meeting place...
I've been "asking God" (!) about earth geology and "what the heck" am I seeing all around me in the PNW. He "gave" me Nick. Thank You.
hugefloods.com seems to be down
I wonder what creatures are going to think one million years from now when they find Nick Zentner's rock hammer?
Ha!
I watched the video of the original loss. Priceless double take.
great lecture. He looks like Chip from the Muppet show
+Gannon Smith
Had to Google that. Ha! Ha!
Hope you don't take offense. I just had to say it! Great lecture by the way, good detail.
Geez. Tough crowd! 😐
Bold but ok!
Ha! Thanks.