When I noticed this was almost an hour long, I asked myself do I really want to spend an hour watching this video? I'm really glad I did. It gives a glimpse into the personalities of these geologists.
Wow....!!!! Nick...!!! You've done it again. What a historic occasion. So many super stars of the subject in one place and you there to record it for us here at home wishing we could have been there. I could almost smell the sage brush. Thanks again for your great work. Isn't the internet and youtube a wonder of our time!?
Brian is a character I wish we could see more on camera! Even the way he walks, there is an urgency in his steps, he is so enthusiastic bouncing from one spot to the next, it's absolutely captivating as a audience member!
They're holding some kind of similar meeting this coming August in northern Idaho, but this time it sounds like they wouldn't mind having a few Zentnerds hanging with them; I think those who can or want to attend have a more or less open invitation to do so by Basil Tikoff. I plan to do it, I think it would be a rare opportunity to do a meet-and-greet and absorb a bunch of knowledge from the geological elite.
Wow! “Super Heroes of Geology”!!! This has to be the best “fly on the wall” reporting ever. Really cool to see the places and faces from your lectures. Fan “Jim” said it the best. “Thanks Nick.” Shout out to Bijou
so wonderful these geologists are recognizing Professor Nick's work in geology, classes and videos like us zentnerds and townies do. That's just wonderful. So look forward to more Nick, thanks.
Is nick just a baby scientist compared to them? He always felt like superman to me lol. Like all the other scientists should be asking HIM for advice. I forget that he's not the only gig in town lol
@@dethmaul As Nick himself says, his Super Power is in communicating not doing the research itself. He IS however well respected by the cutting edge researchers for the most part; to the extent that they are now coming to him to join them as their Outreach expert when they have a major project on the go.
Everything is better with Nick around. So glad you came. What a group! We'll get that Okanogan Valley story sorted soon enough - I'm mapping between Tonasket and Brewster now. Hope to catch up with you again in the field!
Skye, seeing you clean up those clays was a delight! You and Nick bounce off each other so well that peering over your shoulders makes learning so very natural. Thank you!
There's potential in the science community for clashes of egos, and I saw none of that here. I didn't see anyone objecting to Nick's presence among the "card-carrying" members of the group, and I'd like to think it's because they're quite aware of his contribution to the field and to CWU. You're a nice guy, Skye, one of those dudes I'd gladly shake hands with because you're approachable, even by a layman just wanting to learn some geology in his old age. We'll probably never cross paths but if it were to happen I'd thank you just as much as I thank Nick for your contributions, your enthusiasm for the field, and just being a decent human. Got a lot o' respect for all of ya.
A whole new thing… geology paparazzi! You don’t get many opportunities to see scientists scurrying away from the camera in their natural habitat! Go Nick go!
How could you, Nick not go and talk to these very thoughtful and creative people in the field that you love !?!?!? Very observant, geological data collectors! Thank You for the very beautiful and instructive video of that day!
Any perceived intrusion and interference with the group will easily be offset by the positive videos that will come for people many years to come! Even people that are hesitant to speak and be on camera, you can tell they get the importance of what these videos are. Thankful that you are archiving them and allowing us along! Just think if there where archival video of Bretz's out there, think how thankful we would be to have that today, this is no less significant.
Even if this technology had been around in Bretz's heyday, I suspect he'd have been least likely to embrace it -- on account of the pushback he was getting from the academy, his own ego, and the suspicion that getting on camera and talking about it would be worked against him.
I had Dr. Baker for a Quaternary and Glacial Geology class my senior year in university. It was very mind blowing to learn about all the things that have happened just in the last few million years in the US.
LOVE THIS EPISODE. Geological EDUCATIONAL History - happening right in front of us. Gosh. What a privilege. Thank you, sir! Looks like you enjoyed it too.
Nick, thank God, The Universe, etc that you seized the opportunity and got what you did on film. This should be archived and watched by all who have an interest in this subject. To have the researchers who are actively trying to solve the Ice Age Floods all in one place, at the sight of these catastrophic floods is beyond once in a lifetime. Great job Nick!! 👍
Just yesterday, I told my nephew about the road trips we took to New Hampshire in the early 1950s. I remember the autumn leaves, Bensons Animal Farm, and the huge boulders, as big as a house. Having listened to Nick, I now think those boulders were erratics from the glaciers. Glad you met up with the NH geologist to bring this all to my mind again.
Wow, all that geologist firepower in one place! The rocks are really going to have a hard time keeping their secrets if this kind of thing keeps happening!
Thanks, Nick, for sharing a few moments with some Giants of Geology; we just needed Bretz and Pardee to round out the crew! (Wouldn’t that be a meeting to behold.) We recently spent a day hiking the trails of southern Ohio’s Hocking Hills region and I couldn’t help but think of you as I looked at the layers of rock. My significant other commented that the layers of sandstone resembled layers of biscuits; you “bake” a geologic cake in the PNW and we’ve baked biscuits! Who knew geology was as much about baked goods as it is about rocks! Thanks again, Nick, for spreading the word about our amazing earth!
Wow. Its really amazing that you have been able to get this recording. It's historical value preserved for future generations of geology students and general interest.
I don't think I could have resisted the temptation to listen in either. It's so awesome to see so many of the geologists that have studied this area together in the field - thank you Nick for sharing this special moment with us.
Watched again specifically to listen to Vic Baker (I'm reading Bretz's Flood). And as a true scientist he said ," If you say something cant happen, you'll learn nothing about it." Bravo.
Fascinating as usual Professor Nick. Thanks from Canada. If this craziness ever ends , I will be travelling to the entire area, and play your videos for my friends at each location.
I had always thought Washington State was covered in Oceanic Rain Forests, this before these videos. A pleasure to watch, I am from an area dominated by Devonian rocks, folded.anticlines and synclines.
I just noticed that this was filmed on October 16. I was there that very same day. Stopped at that same parking lot and questioned the same piece of granite at about 10:30 am according to my travel history. Proceeded toward Steamboat Rock, Dry Falls, thence south into Oregon. It would have been awesome to meet you, as your videos about these locales played into my travel plans.
What a special afternoon! Imagine riding in the same van with these men as the field trip progresses. It's a wonder to me since I've been fascinated with the shapes and panorama of these areas of Oregon and Washington since childhood. Oh! The things I've learned from you and all the people you've shared with us!! Their work and the work of those who came before and those of the future is truly a never ending story. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family and Bijou.
This is the best of Nick series! So much to know about the great ice dams and “The Floods”. Thank you, Nick, for sharing these well-known and hard-working Geologists with us, and for sharing this location with us. Will try to get out there with my husband. We just joined the Ice Age Flood Institute too, where I found a good map with roads on it. Thanks again for being our eyes and intelligence on this, and for making sense of it all, as always!
Great video Prof Nick. I and many others are so grateful you went along on this field trip and collected the snippets of knowledge from all these great minds. Am looking forward to the next series of live streaming from the outside of the classroom. Many thanks again for sharing this gathering with us.
I just love this!! My heartfelt gratitude for braving crashing the field trip. The legends! The enigma.... their generous sharing. I'm in danger of gushing, so I'll stop here. Crazy great. Thank you. 👏❤❤
I'm starting to recognize faces and voices now (Baker, Cooley, O'Connor, Atwater, etc.) since I've been camping out on your TH-cam channel for the last couple of months. It's really neat to see these people . I view your videos with Google Earth Pro open plus my books...I'm constantly pausing and rewinding...a one-hour video takes me about 3 hours . I take what you explain to us re: the geology of the Pacific NW and apply those concepts to where I live (Mogollon Highlands/central Arizona.) I think this is one of your best vids. Thank you for all you do!
Phenomenal... I am so glad you made an appearance. These guys needed to meet the great St.Nick That's right On the rocks even What a treat To get to meet with you... These guys are so lucky... Fact I bet they all feel the same
I grew up in Tonasket. We found a line of shells, mussels, in exposed sediment layers near town. The line occurred about 1/2 down, several feet, from the top of the gravels and sands.
I remember, as a young child, while vacationing at Lake Chelan, my parents had some friends that took us to an out of the way place. They brought us to a side of a hill that us very cool in temperature, which was very odd in the Summer time heat. It was right off the side of the road inside the hill. They said it was buried ice in the side of the mountain. Could that have been remnants of a glacier? Is that possible? It was very odd, but I was very young. I just remember how amazing it was to feel so much cool air in that particular place in the heat of the Summer.
Awesome video Nick,you're living dream by bing on a field trip with some of the "GIANTS" of Geologists from the Northwest including yourself Thank you. You're videos just keeping getting better and better
Our world really looks sometimes like a place for battle between good and bad spirits. Jeez!!! My prayers go out for all the geologist community, you Nick and prof Atwater and all the fellow scientists and future geologists. God bless you and thank you for all of you for the great work you do!
Thanks Nick for taking us along on this trip. Wonderful to see all these people you speak of and hear their ideas. I did microbiology but also natural history study on the side and feel first hand field or lab observation can't be replaced by computer analysis. You have to look at the real world to learn and confirm. Ideas. Great experience don't cut out any of it.
Thanks, Nick and company for another really informative and fun video! I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, but even though my parents drove us through this part many times and even though I took Washington history classes, none of this stuff was ever covered. Really enjoying this!
The sample you show the close-up of at 3:38 looks similar to granites found in the "mountains" of Northern New Jersey. Many boulders were brought down to the Jersey Shore to create jetties along the Atlantic seashore. The dark specks and lighter matrix are what we find here.
So very glad you got to join the group -- you DO belong with them!! I agree with another comment -- this has got to be (another) one of your best videos!!! This was a nostalgic adventure for me, I have lived all my life in So. Cal, but have had the opportunity to travel to most of the states in the US and a little of Canada and Mexico (Ensenada). That said, I did get to visit this Grand Coulee area and the dam -- it has to be one of the top 5 fave places that I have ever seen. I walked across the dam and stopped in the middle -- the view was absolutely stunning. I knew a little about the geology of this area at the time, mid '90's -- the Missoula Floods (and I have been to Missoula) and the basalt flows, but being there to see it all up close was one of the best experiences!! The thing that impressed me the most was the vast amount of fresh water there -- not to mention the amount of water that continues through the rest of the Columbia River. So glad you got to take us with you!!
I took the Empire Builder from Chicago to Portland a few years back (the track in Washington parallels the Columbia) and was, likewise, astounded by the amount of water in the Columbia. It just went on and on so deep and wide.
This reminds me of my field trips in the late 80’s at Sacramento City College. But, we went to Drakes Bay, Bodega Bay, and some town where the San Andreas fault has shifted curbs, sidewalks, and fences. I was just keeping busy during an unemployed period.
I’ve toured this dam when I was a young lad. It’s more impressive today especially as we get the opportunity to learn about the geology which I’m sure was an important part of the Grand Coulee Dam being built where it is. #Granite haha
These are always great Prof. Nick thank you. Great to preserve the record of what you are observing with the other geologists. It would be interesting if you could contact Chris Goldfinger of Oregon State about his recent research into sediment landslides in inland NW lakes and correlating them with the offshore landslides indicating the dates of Cascadia Megaquakes. Apparently the inland lakes don’t show all the events potentially indicating the inland shaking may not be as large as expected for all large events.
So glad you crashed the field trip. It’s great to put this area into perspective of these amazing geological events! I need to get N of Dry Falls to see this area in person!
Nick this is a fabulous video. The gentleman from New Hampshire recognized how much you have contributed to geology. May this non-geologist agree??!! Also loved your talking with Vic Baker. I would love meeting you guys at the site of the Clark Fork ice dam and spending two or three hours. Thanks for all you've done.
*PARAPHRASE* "Yeah, I read a letter to the group that I got from J Harlan Bretz back in the '70s. In it he asks a number of questions that are still unanswered 50 years later." Name-dropper! I'd provide his name here but that would be name-dropping ... *STANDARDIZATION OF GEOLOGIST HATS* - Some of the best minds in geoscience are clearly still working on it. *SPEAKING OF HATS* - go Wildcats at 44:15. Nick, watching your YT videos is like watching history being made. You raise the bar on what's possible on the good side of social media.
There are two good examples of Tuyas in Oregon's Santiam Pass, Hogg Rock and Hayrick Butte, they're about a mile from each other and have 700 foot basaltic andesite walls due to eruptions under an ice cap thick enough to compress their tops relatively flat. Their elevations are 4,823 feet and 5,482 feet respectively. They're evidence of the extent of ice age subalpine ice caps 400 miles South of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet 80-90 ka.
Geologist Jim from New Hampshire expressed the gratitude that all of us feel.
When I noticed this was almost an hour long, I asked myself do I really want to spend an hour watching this video? I'm really glad I did. It gives a glimpse into the personalities of these geologists.
Wow....!!!! Nick...!!! You've done it again. What a historic occasion. So many super stars of the subject in one place and you there to record it for us here at home wishing we could have been there. I could almost smell the sage brush. Thanks again for your great work. Isn't the internet and youtube a wonder of our time!?
I can practically smell the sage watching this video . A very distinct aroma in the early mornings .
Brian is a character I wish we could see more on camera! Even the way he walks, there is an urgency in his steps, he is so enthusiastic bouncing from one spot to the next, it's absolutely captivating as a audience member!
They're holding some kind of similar meeting this coming August in northern Idaho, but this time it sounds like they wouldn't mind having a few Zentnerds hanging with them; I think those who can or want to attend have a more or less open invitation to do so by Basil Tikoff. I plan to do it, I think it would be a rare opportunity to do a meet-and-greet and absorb a bunch of knowledge from the geological elite.
Wow! “Super Heroes of Geology”!!! This has to be the best “fly on the wall” reporting ever. Really cool to see the places and faces from your lectures. Fan “Jim” said it the best. “Thanks Nick.” Shout out to Bijou
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so wonderful these geologists are recognizing Professor Nick's work in geology, classes and videos like us zentnerds and townies do. That's just wonderful. So look forward to more Nick, thanks.
Is nick just a baby scientist compared to them? He always felt like superman to me lol. Like all the other scientists should be asking HIM for advice. I forget that he's not the only gig in town lol
@@dethmaul thank goodness we have him to share this information. Only one guy turned him down
Zentnerds. Ha! Brilliant! We are.
@@dethmaul As Nick himself says, his Super Power is in communicating not doing the research itself.
He IS however well respected by the cutting edge researchers for the most part; to the extent that they are now coming to him to join them as their Outreach expert when they have a major project on the go.
Good job Bijou. Thanks.
Everything is better with Nick around. So glad you came. What a group! We'll get that Okanogan Valley story sorted soon enough - I'm mapping between Tonasket and Brewster now. Hope to catch up with you again in the field!
And THANK YOU for sharing your time.
good to see you questioning what others think.
Skye, seeing you clean up those clays was a delight! You and Nick bounce off each other so well that peering over your shoulders makes learning so very natural.
Thank you!
There's potential in the science community for clashes of egos, and I saw none of that here. I didn't see anyone objecting to Nick's presence among the "card-carrying" members of the group, and I'd like to think it's because they're quite aware of his contribution to the field and to CWU. You're a nice guy, Skye, one of those dudes I'd gladly shake hands with because you're approachable, even by a layman just wanting to learn some geology in his old age. We'll probably never cross paths but if it were to happen I'd thank you just as much as I thank Nick for your contributions, your enthusiasm for the field, and just being a decent human. Got a lot o' respect for all of ya.
Geological Party Crashing: ya gotta love it Nick! Thanks for bringing us along too.
A whole new thing… geology paparazzi! You don’t get many opportunities to see scientists scurrying away from the camera in their natural habitat! Go Nick go!
lmao that's cute lol
Like having Einstein, Pasteur and friends in one place! Thanks Nick!
How could you, Nick not go and talk to these very thoughtful and creative people in the field that you love !?!?!? Very observant, geological data collectors! Thank You for the very beautiful and instructive video of that day!
Any perceived intrusion and interference with the group will easily be offset by the positive videos that will come for people many years to come!
Even people that are hesitant to speak and be on camera, you can tell they get the importance of what these videos are.
Thankful that you are archiving them and allowing us along!
Just think if there where archival video of Bretz's out there, think how thankful we would be to have that today, this is no less significant.
Even if this technology had been around in Bretz's heyday, I suspect he'd have been least likely to embrace it -- on account of the pushback he was getting from the academy, his own ego, and the suspicion that getting on camera and talking about it would be worked against him.
I had Dr. Baker for a Quaternary and Glacial Geology class my senior year in university. It was very mind blowing to learn about all the things that have happened just in the last few million years in the US.
Vic Baker is way-cool.
So much fun to hear from the Ice Age Flood Dream Team! As always....out standing work Nick! Thank you!
What a delightful video and beautiful area.
Thank you for re-posting this video. This was one of the best.
LOVE THIS EPISODE. Geological EDUCATIONAL History - happening right in front of us. Gosh. What a privilege. Thank you, sir! Looks like you enjoyed it too.
Nick, thank God, The Universe, etc that you seized the opportunity and got what you did on film. This should be archived and watched by all who have an interest in this subject. To have the researchers who are actively trying to solve the Ice Age Floods all in one place, at the sight of these catastrophic floods is beyond once in a lifetime. Great job Nick!! 👍
Just yesterday, I told my nephew about the road trips we took to New Hampshire in the early 1950s. I remember the autumn leaves, Bensons Animal Farm, and the huge boulders, as big as a house. Having listened to Nick, I now think those boulders were erratics from the glaciers. Glad you met up with the NH geologist to bring this all to my mind again.
Wow, all that geologist firepower in one place! The rocks are really going to have a hard time keeping their secrets if this kind of thing keeps happening!
I am thinking this is historic!
Thanks, Nick, for sharing a few moments with some Giants of Geology; we just needed Bretz and Pardee to round out the crew! (Wouldn’t that be a meeting to behold.)
We recently spent a day hiking the trails of southern Ohio’s Hocking Hills region and I couldn’t help but think of you as I looked at the layers of rock. My significant other commented that the layers of sandstone resembled layers of biscuits; you “bake” a geologic cake in the PNW and we’ve baked biscuits! Who knew geology was as much about baked goods as it is about rocks! Thanks again, Nick, for spreading the word about our amazing earth!
Wow. Its really amazing that you have been able to get this recording. It's historical value preserved for future generations of geology students and general interest.
Quite true. No one lives forever and here's a chance to get the straight dope from the masters themselves.
What a great opportunity to be a fly on the wall as these famous geologists tour Grand Coulee and Banks lake! Thank you Nick! 🪨
Nothing like watching a herd of geologists early in the morning. Love the videos.
I don't think I could have resisted the temptation to listen in either. It's so awesome to see so many of the geologists that have studied this area together in the field - thank you Nick for sharing this special moment with us.
Watched again specifically to listen to Vic Baker (I'm reading Bretz's Flood). And as a true scientist he said ," If you say something cant happen, you'll learn nothing about it." Bravo.
Fascinating as usual Professor Nick. Thanks from Canada. If this craziness ever ends , I will be travelling to the entire area, and play your videos for my friends at each location.
Another interesting site in a beautiful location with fascinating ideas about how to explain what we see. Thank you.
I had always thought Washington State was covered in Oceanic Rain Forests, this before these videos. A pleasure to watch, I am from an area dominated by Devonian rocks, folded.anticlines and synclines.
I just noticed that this was filmed on October 16. I was there that very same day. Stopped at that same parking lot and questioned the same piece of granite at about 10:30 am according to my travel history. Proceeded toward Steamboat Rock, Dry Falls, thence south into Oregon.
It would have been awesome to meet you, as your videos about these locales played into my travel plans.
Thanks, Prof. Nick. Really enjoyed the thoughts and observations of these great minds.
I watch this video over and over, looking at a map side by side. The joy of inquiry is infectious in this one.
Life is such an adventure. These folks are a real inspiration, even for the common man, to think, and ponder, and discuss. Thanks everyone!
Thank you for this great gathering of people who provide progress in this field of study.
What a special afternoon! Imagine riding in the same van with these men as the field trip progresses. It's a wonder to me since I've been fascinated with the shapes and panorama of these areas of Oregon and Washington since childhood. Oh! The things I've learned from you and all the people you've shared with us!! Their work and the work of those who came before and those of the future is truly a never ending story. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family and Bijou.
This is the best of Nick series! So much to know about the great ice dams and “The Floods”. Thank you, Nick, for sharing these well-known and hard-working Geologists with us, and for sharing this location with us. Will try to get out there with my husband. We just joined the Ice Age Flood Institute too, where I found a good map with roads on it. Thanks again for being our eyes and intelligence on this, and for making sense of it all, as always!
Great video Prof Nick.
I and many others are so grateful you went along on this field trip and collected
the snippets of knowledge from all these great minds.
Am looking forward to the next series of live streaming from the outside of the classroom.
Many thanks again for sharing this gathering with us.
Mr. Jim is expressing all of your dear fans and my sentiments.
I just love this!! My heartfelt gratitude for braving crashing the field trip. The legends! The enigma.... their generous sharing. I'm in danger of gushing, so I'll stop here. Crazy great. Thank you. 👏❤❤
Thank you Nick. You have rekindled a passion from 35 years ago. Your content is engaging and that was the tipping point. I plan on watching all of it.
So beautiful place😮
I even understood some of the wonderful conversation…thanks Nick
Awesome episode, Nick!! Thank you!!! I so enjoyed being able to tag along with this stellar cast of geologists in the field.
I'm starting to recognize faces and voices now (Baker, Cooley, O'Connor, Atwater, etc.) since I've been camping out on your TH-cam channel for the last couple of months. It's really neat to see these people . I view your videos with Google Earth Pro open plus my books...I'm constantly pausing and rewinding...a one-hour video takes me about 3 hours . I take what you explain to us re: the geology of the Pacific NW and apply those concepts to where I live (Mogollon Highlands/central Arizona.) I think this is one of your best vids. Thank you for all you do!
Phenomenal...
I am so glad you made an appearance. These guys needed to meet the great St.Nick
That's right
On the rocks even
What a treat
To get to meet with you...
These guys are so lucky...
Fact
I bet they all feel the same
Thank you Nick that was a great video. Locked and loaded field geology. Bam!!!!!!!
The conversation you had with Vic Baker was very illuminating. Nice job!
I grew up in Tonasket. We found a line of shells, mussels, in exposed sediment layers near town. The line occurred about 1/2 down, several feet, from the top of the gravels and sands.
Geology Renaissance, walking with the Giants! Thanks Nick
Thanks for taking us along! What a great gathering of professionals. Fascinating discussions.
Thanks for bringing us along! What an amazing time(to be alive)!
This is priceless but you are the treasure. Thank You!
I remember, as a young child, while vacationing at Lake Chelan, my parents had some friends that took us to an out of the way place. They brought us to a side of a hill that us very cool in temperature, which was very odd in the Summer time heat. It was right off the side of the road inside the hill. They said it was buried ice in the side of the mountain. Could that have been remnants of a glacier? Is that possible? It was very odd, but I was very young. I just remember how amazing it was to feel so much cool air in that particular place in the heat of the Summer.
Awesome video Nick,you're living dream by bing on a field trip with some of the "GIANTS" of Geologists from the Northwest including yourself
Thank you. You're videos just keeping getting better and better
Thanks Nick. Good job getting each of these geologists on camera. Love the closing shot.
Thanks Nick. So happy to be with you for the nuances. I am surprised that I am still shocked by the scale of events.
Our world really looks sometimes like a place for battle between good and bad spirits. Jeez!!! My prayers go out for all the geologist community, you Nick and prof Atwater and all the fellow scientists and future geologists. God bless you and thank you for all of you for the great work you do!
not good and bad, just different, which is what makes it interesting.
Thanks Nick for taking us along on this trip. Wonderful to see all these people you speak of and hear their ideas. I did microbiology but also natural history study on the side and feel first hand field or lab observation can't be replaced by computer analysis. You have to look at the real world to learn and confirm. Ideas. Great experience don't cut out any of it.
Thanks, Nick and company for another really informative and fun video! I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, but even though my parents drove us through this part many times and even though I took Washington history classes, none of this stuff was ever covered. Really enjoying this!
Beautiful! Thank You, Professor Nick. :)
Thanks Nick! I really appreciate your videos!
The sample you show the close-up of at 3:38 looks similar to granites found in the "mountains" of Northern New Jersey. Many boulders were brought down to the Jersey Shore to create jetties along the Atlantic seashore. The dark specks and lighter matrix are what we find here.
What? !!! Did he say sub-glacial volcanoes ? What sort of geologic amazement can be gleaned by contemplating That visual!
Greetings from the Northern California JdF subduction zone. Wish we had someone like Nick down here to explain the last 30 million years!
So very glad you got to join the group -- you DO belong with them!! I agree with another comment -- this has got to be (another) one of your best videos!!! This was a nostalgic adventure for me, I have lived all my life in So. Cal, but have had the opportunity to travel to most of the states in the US and a little of Canada and Mexico (Ensenada). That said, I did get to visit this Grand Coulee area and the dam -- it has to be one of the top 5 fave places that I have ever seen. I walked across the dam and stopped in the middle -- the view was absolutely stunning. I knew a little about the geology of this area at the time, mid '90's -- the Missoula Floods (and I have been to Missoula) and the basalt flows, but being there to see it all up close was one of the best experiences!! The thing that impressed me the most was the vast amount of fresh water there -- not to mention the amount of water that continues through the rest of the Columbia River. So glad you got to take us with you!!
I took the Empire Builder from Chicago to Portland a few years back (the track in Washington parallels the Columbia) and was, likewise, astounded by the amount of water in the Columbia. It just went on and on so deep and wide.
Amazing time with amazing people !!! Thanks for sharing! 🥰❣️
Yer my favorite Teacher. Thank You.
The meeting of the minds!!! Amazing!!!
The Rolling Stones of Geology! :)
Gorgeous morning. Thank you Nick.
you frikn rock Nick awesome videos all the time thnx so much,,
Good morning zetnerds!
This reminds me of my field trips in the late 80’s at Sacramento City College. But, we went to Drakes Bay, Bodega Bay, and some town where the San Andreas fault has shifted curbs, sidewalks, and fences. I was just keeping busy during an unemployed period.
Awesome Video!! Thanks for sharing.
Wow, how lucky are people in this group to be learning from and being in the field with Who's Who of geology!
I’ve toured this dam when I was a young lad.
It’s more impressive today especially as we get the opportunity to learn about the geology which I’m sure was an important part of the Grand Coulee Dam being built where it is. #Granite haha
These are always great Prof. Nick thank you. Great to preserve the record of what you are observing with the other geologists. It would be interesting if you could contact Chris Goldfinger of Oregon State about his recent research into sediment landslides in inland NW lakes and correlating them with the offshore landslides indicating the dates of Cascadia Megaquakes. Apparently the inland lakes don’t show all the events potentially indicating the inland shaking may not be as large as expected for all large events.
So glad you crashed the field trip. It’s great to put this area into perspective of these amazing geological events! I need to get N of Dry Falls to see this area in person!
Very interesting Nick! Thank you!
Nick this is a fabulous video. The gentleman from New Hampshire recognized how much you have contributed to geology. May this non-geologist agree??!! Also loved your talking with Vic Baker. I would love meeting you guys at the site of the Clark Fork ice dam and spending two or three hours. Thanks for all you've done.
Thank you professor.
*PARAPHRASE* "Yeah, I read a letter to the group that I got from J Harlan Bretz back in the '70s. In it he asks a number of questions that are still unanswered 50 years later." Name-dropper! I'd provide his name here but that would be name-dropping ...
*STANDARDIZATION OF GEOLOGIST HATS* - Some of the best minds in geoscience are clearly still working on it.
*SPEAKING OF HATS* - go Wildcats at 44:15.
Nick, watching your YT videos is like watching history being made. You raise the bar on what's possible on the good side of social media.
Did a motorcycle road trip there . Love the Grande Coulee country...
Hi Bruce! Hi Jim!
Glad I woke up early today... something interesting to stimulate the grey matter.
Really enjoyed Victor Baker section.
There are two good examples of Tuyas in Oregon's Santiam Pass, Hogg Rock and Hayrick Butte, they're about a mile from each other and have 700 foot basaltic andesite walls due to eruptions under an ice cap thick enough to compress their tops relatively flat. Their elevations are 4,823 feet and 5,482 feet respectively. They're evidence of the extent of ice age subalpine ice caps 400 miles South of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet 80-90 ka.
So interesting
Very historic gathering. Thank you for recording it b B
This is wonderful. Closer photos of rock faces??? Or perhaps micro type photos???
Vic MFin' Baker! Such a nice surprise this morning!
Patrick, "MF" means "mountain formation."
Great adventure! I understand a little more about the Ice Age!
Funny thing is, I just learned about how to New Deal helped the construction of the Grand Coulee dam in class.
Answer: At Ralph's. Usually in the meat section. But sometimes from Adam.
It's better with every viewing. ❤
you did a very good thing ,( filming ) even if Atwater is bit jumpy , in the end its about the ones you meet along the way of discovery
Hey now, , you’re sharing my favorite boat camping spots…… please go back to the mountains!,
I live in Spokane Washington by the river lots of granite around here some of it perfectly round like a ball
Monday, July 17, 2023; just finished Atwater/Nick pgm
“36:03 Where do you get your ideas?” Nick dropping the Norm Macdonald reference made me so happy!
RIP Norm 😿