The time scale and natural forces that formed these features are beyond human comprehension (at least mine). I find this information truly amazing and educational. You tell the story so well it's very entertaining as well leaving my curiosity wanting more!
One of the most unique things about the Pacific Northwest are the vast differences in habitats. Driving West to East you have the coast, the coastal mountain range, the Willamette Valley, the Cascades and then the high desert. Each zone is unique in its composition, climate and trees (or lack of trees in the desert). Nowhere else in America has this variety. I miss my home state so much. Every tidepresses. Oregon I get so homesick and depressed.
What the liberals have done to my hometown of Portland would make you even more depressed. Avoid it when you come back to visit to avoid pure condensed heartache.
@@whiskeymonk4085 Homelessness is a problem everywhere and not just in liberal areas. I've been all over this country and it's getting worse. Stop blaming the libs and figure out a solution not just complain about it.
Professor Zentner - I really enjoy your teaching. Thank you for all the hard work you have put into it, plus your genuine curiosity for the subject matter!
7:05 when I was a teenager I had the privilege of volunteering 30 hours a week at the Vista House. I spent a few summers there 5 days a week. I love that place. So much marble!!!
5'20" ... once I was westbound on The I-84 just out of The Dalles ... dry and hot ... it was like a curtain, within a minute the air turned mild and moist ... I could literally smell the seaweed ...
I can relate! Driving through the Gorge from east to west, it felt like the desert would never end, then by Hood River it became rainy and densely green!
Second video in and feeling very nostalgic. I grew up in Wenatchee and my memories there are surrounded by all the volcanic activity that I awoke too. My Dad was a part of the group “The Erratics” who (as you probably already know) drove all over looking for said erratics. I have only become more engaged with geology after a few spats with YEC’rs and wanted to know more about our planet. Thanks!
I spent four years of my childhood in Maupin, Oregon. The best time of my life. Learned to swim at an Indian reservation, caught horned toads in the lava fields and had the beautiful Cascades to see in the distance. We drove to Portland several times a year; over the mountains in the warmer months and the Gorge in Winter. I never realized how huge the Columbia River was until moving to the East coast. The only river I saw that comes close is the Cape Fear River in North Carolina.
My words could never describe how much I appreciate your work, Prof. Nick Zentner. All your passion and dedication have been clearly displayed through all your works and presentations. Your videos educated me tremendously about PNW geology. I'll eternally be a big fan of you! Cheers!
I just got my pilot's license and I've been flying around the Gorge lately, COMPLETELY oblivious to all this fascinating geology. I want to put Nick in the right seat and just fly around the PNW for weeks, listening to him describe the landscape.
For those who think major floods can't scour out a giant gorge in short amounts of time, all one has to do is look at the scouring that happened below the Oroville Dam in only 2 months. A deep chasm, 100 feet deep and 80 feet wide was carved into the bedrock. Imagine walls of water a thousand times larger than Oroville, over and over again over a million years. Walla....Columbia Gorge.
This was the best for me so far! It covered quite a few mysterious. I'm a truck driver and get to see all this stuff, I may have mentioned before. The deep fissures that created the incredible amount of lava making up the Columbia River basalt group, is that in any way connected to the supervolcano (hotspot) which traveled along with the subducted plate and resides in Yellowstone presently? I'm trying to get a grip of the why, so much lava was able to cover the land. Thanks for pointing out that all those areas were flat for this event.
Nobluffbuff Do you know of any popular truck driver blogs? We are making I-90 geology videos...and we're wondering if there are popular spots online where our videos might be enjoyed by truckers. Any tips? Thanks. Nick
Back in the 1970s I registered for geology in college several times. It always got cancelled for lack of interest. Now you are feeding my curiosity and I thank you! Great series
OMG I just found these videos and thank goodness, I'm recently semi retired. I spent the whole day watching and am hooked. I am a native Oregonian and live in Bend and in one day learned more about our Beautiful Pacific NW Geology than a lifetime of curious reading and research. I went looking for a video of the ice dam(s) in Montana that failed during the ice age and found these. Hit the mother lode. Keep them coming. Can't wait for my next road trip to go exploring and put this new knowledge to good use.
My exceptional niece has recently arrived in Seattle after securing a job in medicine there. She's from Florida. She's already found a native plant club with which to hike , and I'm linking her to two primary features of Washington, beyond the Cascades: Lake Chelan and the Scab Lands. I think she'll enjoy learning about these topics as much as have I, thanks largely to Prof. Zentner, whose efforts I have been following for three or four years now.
I LOVE geology. And you sir, have my full attention on all of your videos. I cannot wait, to see the next one. I have always been fascinated on how everything was formed. Like the Grand Canyon, The Great Lakes, ect.
Thank you for this excellent production. In the recent past I had the opportunity to take a small ship from Astoria to Lewiston and your presentation adds significantly to what I learned on the cruise.
Is it weird that this video made me proud to be an Oregonian? I can't imagine living anywhere else. Thanks for reminding me just how unique our corner of the world is. I need to get out and see more of it!
Yeah, well, we moved to Oregon and I am ashamed of what Oregon has become. Lavoy Finicum? Taxes up the ying yang and a Governor who works with Obama and Hillary? Who only cares about her own paycheck?
I know Oregon well, having just moved back here I am horrified at the taxation, the brainless leadership and above all the LaVoy Finicum assassination. Selling OUR land to Russia to mine Uranium? That was the entire impetus that the ranchers were trying to stop. To do right by our duties to protect our constitution. Go ahead and live in La La land, be comfy, keep you blinders on. Red or blue, how assine a statement! Your are a hard wired dumb down sheep that won't see, hear or speak anything that might cause you to lose your la la land/attitude. Yay. Great American! We Americans deserve to lose everything we THINK we have. Grrrr. What the fred is a RED state? You've fallen for the idiocy of distraction; red blue, dems pubs...you and other that think like you are the problem. Period. What happened to REBELS that actually pay attention? They get murdered.
I'm a truck driver so I've been all over I have to say the drive I i84 along the Columbia River is the most beautiful stretch of interstate in the country
Very recently I made the drive from Goldendale, through to the gorge of the Klickitat river and on to the Columbia. the change in the topography was very interesting. The Gorge, especially the east side, is hands-down my favorite part of Washington/Oregon.
Mr zentner, you truly have a gift delivering this subject matter. By far some of the finest lectures I have had the pleasure to hear as well probably some of the best on the internet. I hope you will be producing more in the future.
Congratulations sir for the espetacular video of Columbia River and the complex of mountains. Video and photos very professionals. I, m just sending the video to my son. Today he is visiting the complex respective in oregon. With my best regars from the city of Mogi Guaçu, SP state, Brazil.🇧🇷👍🏻👅🙏
SWEET! Love this video! Im a Ranger at Horsethief Lake and give tours to the "She Who Watches" pictograph that you have 21:58 of the video. Great Information! Intend on using a few notes from your video today on the tour! Keep up the great work...
Wow. That is a lot to absorb. Thanx Nick. I feel sad about the Salmon and Steelhead populations becoming extinct on the Columbia, but there is hope. As you questioned, I too wonder how the fish were able to survive with lava dams changing their environment.
I've been binge watching your videos for awhile now. The nostalgia is setting in. I'm going to have to make a trip back to E- burg one of these days soon. I'd love to meet you and see the new building. There are a few stories I can tell, like when sweet ole Bob would launch his chalk missiles at us errant students. Or the time Jack Powell blasted by me on the rim of Ubehebe Crater, ran all the way to the bottom and back up the other side, then back down and three quarters of the way back toward us when he slowed to a crawl and finally dragged himself back to the rim spuddering, "maybe I shouldn't have done that!"
Got a tip: If you are going by I-90 in Post Falls, Idaho, exit 2 Pleasant View Rd., going north pass Seltice Way and just beyond the railroad road lines on the east side, you will find a recent working of virgin ground with rafted boulders that settled in the Rathdrum prairie. If you want to see a float half the size of bus, you can see that one mile away in Mr. Beck's driveway. He had locals drag it over to his house a few years back. You can see it right off the road. Just take that Pleasant View Road exit and go north. Take a left at Seltice Way and go a mile to turn right on Beck Road. Look for his house on the east side just after the racetrack.
It was an erratic, and also, it was transported there under obligation per contract between the farmer and the developing company whom bought the land from him. It was found in the gravels just north of Seltice Way, down below and east of Beck Road. It took a massive effort to transport it only one mile.
You could easily do several hour long videos on all the information covered in just this video. So many subjects and just the surface scratched on each one.
Nick you have taught me so much about geology and just got back from Grand Coulee dam and dry falls and Ginkgo Petrified forest museum and Thanks for talking about the Thorp fruit store great Cherries. BTW Perkins is an awesome place to eat in Ellensburg we ate there on the way over and back. I did get some cool Basalt and granite rock samples to but didnt loose my Hammer LOL
I wish people wouldn't say how the lava flows into the ocean in Hawaii. It did for brief periods of a few months and then stopped 4 or 5 years ago. Tourists still show up and ask where they can see lava flowing and it doesn't. hugefloods says , in Hawaii the lava flows flows into the ocean today. 6:38
Nick, great video! I love all your videos, but this is my favorite. I am a geology (and wildflower) enthusiast living in Hood River, and have a question. West of Lyle, before the rest area, there's a weird spot where lots of vegetation is visible between two lava flows. I stop there sometimes and dig around for semi-petrified branches. Have you stopped there? Are there any papers on how this happened? I'd also like more info on the Ortley Pinnacles.
***** Lloyd DeKay has a theory about the "vegetation push up" spot, but I want more info. I'm really curious about it. So, to be more clear about the location, it's on Hwy 14, West of Lyle, less than a mile fwestof the Klickitat River bridge. The road cuts through basalt, and reveals two triangular areas of semi-petrified (fossilized?) vegetation. I'm hoping someone must have evaluated the soil layer... who would do that?
I’m no Geologist. Could this volcanoes 🌋 be from the Yellowstone Caldera? I would think that the volcanoes would have to be huge. In another video, I think you mentioned that the Yellowstone Caldera traveled through the years. It looked like a swirl on the map as it travel to where it is now. Just a passing thought. Again, I am not an expert. I’d like to know if It is possible.
I keep trying to imagine the physical actions (in action!) necessary to start, expand, and finally finish engraving those giant potholes at Horse Thief Point (@9:18... in the video); wow! such physical violence as, at first a instant barrage of "everything" banging at, eroding the original surface...down down down to bedrock exposing what(?) to expose weak joinery areas perhaps? This repeated millions of times, impacts upon impacts, time after time, flood after flood perhaps a 100 times. The hydrodynamic effects of this stupendous slurry would create whirling eddies, when and where these passed over the developing potholes would cause a slight drop in pressure in the local water column allowing yet more debris to (even if at first only glancingly) drop down, into and impact against the deepening depression's walls. Combined with the coriolls effect, I posture all the sinkholes wall scourings will show a decided counterclockwise rotation of the abrading objects...I digress. What a noise, even muffled by hundreds of feet of water and the noise that made, making these sinkholes must have been! What a video such an activity might produce, even if mostly CGI.
the pillows just west of Hood River that golden mix I see quite often in hundreds of locations hiking and driving. The gold mix between the basalt seems very common--is it mud? is it known what the goldish mix is?? River mud mixed with iron or something in the mix that gives the same common color each time.?
That orange stuff is called palagonite....black volcanic glass originally that weathers to a crumbly orange mix. See our Pillow Basalt video for details. Thanks for watching.
The Vista House at Crown Point is a knockout, and the site of the first car swap in the movie Bandits after they robbed the bank in Oregon City. I think I'll watch it again.
Your work is beautiful, however, what are you not telling us? or do you know what caused the earth to have such upheaval at that time? Does solar minimums have anything to do w/it? and are we currently heading into another grand solar minimum?
How do you explain the mini Grand canyon in My Sy Helens basin, cut 145feet deep basalt in less than 2 hours time that would / did alter the entire time scale matrix you base your time sales event upon. And the other elements that accursed like coal formation shown real time literally.
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I grew up near the Columbia Gorge. What a blessing!
I'm in North Georgia and by watching your videos, I know more about the geology of Washington than I do my own state! Thank you for the great videos!
Ha! Thanks much. Come visit!
Excellent video- good narration and beautiful photography. What you do sir is one of the best uses of the internet.
Appreciate the kind words. The camera work is all Tom!
The time scale and natural forces that formed these features are beyond human comprehension (at least mine). I find this information truly amazing and educational. You tell the story so well it's very entertaining as well leaving my curiosity wanting more!
One of the most unique things about the Pacific Northwest are the vast differences in habitats. Driving West to East you have the coast, the coastal mountain range, the Willamette Valley, the Cascades and then the high desert. Each zone is unique in its composition, climate and trees (or lack of trees in the desert). Nowhere else in America has this variety. I miss my home state so much. Every tidepresses. Oregon I get so homesick and depressed.
What the liberals have done to my hometown of Portland would make you even more depressed. Avoid it when you come back to visit to avoid pure condensed heartache.
@@whiskeymonk4085 Homelessness is a problem everywhere and not just in liberal areas. I've been all over this country and it's getting worse. Stop blaming the libs and figure out a solution not just complain about it.
@@whiskeymonk4085 And, I have seen it for myself. Again, it's everywhere, not just Portland.
@@samsmom1491 Solution : Get a fucking job. Problem solved.
Professor Zentner - I really enjoy your teaching. Thank you for all the hard work you have put into it, plus your genuine curiosity for the subject matter!
Prof. Zentner seems to enjoy the act of teaching as well. Such a blessing to love what you do, and be accomplished at it.
Beautiful country and great information. Thank you.
7:05 when I was a teenager I had the privilege of volunteering 30 hours a week at the Vista House. I spent a few summers there 5 days a week. I love that place. So much marble!!!
This is a delightful video. Thanks! And I enthusiastically endorse a road trip through the gorge for anyone visiting the region.
Thanks Claire. Yes, the drive through the gorge is memorable....even without thinking about geology!
These are some of the best geology videos on youtube. Keep up the great work!
+Michael O
Thanks for your encouragement, Michael.
5'20" ... once I was westbound on The I-84 just out of The Dalles ... dry and hot ... it was like a curtain, within a minute the air turned mild and moist ... I could literally smell the seaweed ...
I can relate! Driving through the Gorge from east to west, it felt like the desert would never end, then by Hood River it became rainy and densely green!
Second video in and feeling very nostalgic. I grew up in Wenatchee and my memories there are surrounded by all the volcanic activity that I awoke too. My Dad was a part of the group “The Erratics” who (as you probably already know) drove all over looking for said erratics. I have only become more engaged with geology after a few spats with YEC’rs and wanted to know more about our planet. Thanks!
I spent four years of my childhood in Maupin, Oregon. The best time of my life. Learned to swim at an Indian reservation, caught horned toads in the lava fields and had the beautiful Cascades to see in the distance. We drove to Portland several times a year; over the mountains in the warmer months and the Gorge in Winter. I never realized how huge the Columbia River was until moving to the East coast. The only river I saw that comes close is the Cape Fear River in North Carolina.
One of the very best explanations of Gorge Geology and history!
My words could never describe how much I appreciate your work, Prof. Nick Zentner.
All your passion and dedication have been clearly displayed through all your works and presentations.
Your videos educated me tremendously about PNW geology.
I'll eternally be a big fan of you!
Cheers!
Wow Kim. Thanks much. Glad you are enjoying these programs.
I just got my pilot's license and I've been flying around the Gorge lately, COMPLETELY oblivious to all this fascinating geology. I want to put Nick in the right seat and just fly around the PNW for weeks, listening to him describe the landscape.
For those who think major floods can't scour out a giant gorge in short amounts of time, all one has to do is look at the scouring that happened below the Oroville Dam in only 2 months. A deep chasm, 100 feet deep and 80 feet wide was carved into the bedrock. Imagine walls of water a thousand times larger than Oroville, over and over again over a million years. Walla....Columbia Gorge.
What a lovely presentation. I'm learning so much about my home.
spoken like a true drunk.
@@user-sw6gp8fb6j I'll drink to that. Cheers!
I'm in the Dalles Oregon, been to just about all these places. Great video.
Wow! I've seen dozens and dozens of geological and geographical videos, and this is one of the most memorable. Thank you!
This was the best for me so far! It covered quite a few mysterious. I'm a truck driver and get to see all this stuff, I may have mentioned before. The deep fissures that created the incredible amount of lava making up the Columbia River basalt group, is that in any way connected to the supervolcano (hotspot) which traveled along with the subducted plate and resides in Yellowstone presently? I'm trying to get a grip of the why, so much lava was able to cover the land. Thanks for pointing out that all those areas were flat for this event.
Thanks for watching. Yes, most geologists agree that the lavas from the fissures were related to a hot spot that now sits beneath Yellowstone.
Nobluffbuff Do you know of any popular truck driver blogs? We are making I-90 geology videos...and we're wondering if there are popular spots online where our videos might be enjoyed by truckers. Any tips? Thanks. Nick
Back in the 1970s I registered for geology in college several times. It always got cancelled for lack of interest. Now you are feeding my curiosity and I thank you! Great series
OMG I just found these videos and thank goodness, I'm recently semi retired. I spent the whole day watching and am hooked. I am a native Oregonian and live in Bend and in one day learned more about our Beautiful Pacific NW Geology than a lifetime of curious reading and research. I went looking for a video of the ice dam(s) in Montana that failed during the ice age and found these. Hit the mother lode. Keep them coming. Can't wait for my next road trip to go exploring and put this new knowledge to good use.
Appreciate your enthusiasm, Gordon. Thanks for the comments. Glad these videos are interesting to you.
My exceptional niece has recently arrived in Seattle after securing a job in medicine there. She's from Florida. She's already found a native plant club with which to hike , and I'm linking her to two primary features of Washington, beyond the Cascades: Lake Chelan and the Scab Lands. I think she'll enjoy learning about these topics as much as have I, thanks largely to Prof. Zentner, whose efforts I have been following for three or four years now.
Wonderfully interesting and informative, beautiful -- and friendly! Thank you, Tom Foster and Nick Zentner.
Thanks for watching. Tom is a very talented person.
I LOVE geology. And you sir, have my full attention on all of your videos. I cannot wait, to see the next one. I have always been fascinated on how everything was formed. Like the Grand Canyon, The Great Lakes, ect.
ladymudlogger Thanks for your high level of interest, LadyMudLogger. We have a few more in the works this summer.
Awesome. I know I will enjoy all of them. And thank you so very much for the knowledge.
Thank you for this excellent production. In the recent past I had the opportunity to take a small ship from Astoria to Lewiston and your presentation adds significantly to what I learned on the cruise.
Is it weird that this video made me proud to be an Oregonian? I can't imagine living anywhere else. Thanks for reminding me just how unique our corner of the world is. I need to get out and see more of it!
Yes, our backyard is terrific. Geology just one reason. Thanks for watching!
Yeah, well, we moved to Oregon and I am ashamed of what Oregon has become. Lavoy Finicum? Taxes up the ying yang and a Governor who works with Obama and Hillary? Who only cares about her own paycheck?
Please leave Oregon. You would love Texas or many other red states, and Oregon doesn't need you.
I know Oregon well, having just moved back here I am horrified at the taxation, the brainless leadership and above all the LaVoy Finicum assassination. Selling OUR land to Russia to mine Uranium? That was the entire impetus that the ranchers were trying to stop. To do right by our duties to protect our constitution. Go ahead and live in La La land, be comfy, keep you blinders on. Red or blue, how assine a statement! Your are a hard wired dumb down sheep that won't see, hear or speak anything that might cause you to lose your la la land/attitude. Yay. Great American! We Americans deserve to lose everything we THINK we have. Grrrr. What the fred is a RED state? You've fallen for the idiocy of distraction; red blue, dems pubs...you and other that think like you are the problem. Period. What happened to REBELS that actually pay attention? They get murdered.
@@stormytrails Why would you come to a geology video to talk about politics. There's plenty of other *more appropriate* places for that.
Love the longer video. And like the rest of them, makes me want to gas up and go find the places in the video so i know what i am looking at.
Good time of the year for a drive! Thanks for watching.
First time , I had my 1995 Toyota Celica Convertible just broke down today over here aha . Trying to head back to Tacoma. Mannnnnn
those celicas worked much better in the Nineties, ahem.
Lived in Washington all my life, you taught me so much in this vid. Thank you for your teaching.
I love your videos! I would love to hear more from you about the Columbia River bar crossing (Astoria) and Cape Diappointment/Long Beach area.
I've lived here all my life, And didn't know the gorge was this fantastic!
That's a great comment, Nathan. Thank you.
Amazing - Thanks from Denmark
Nathan Zaremsky said it best. You make our surroundings come to life. Thank you Nick
Thank for the nice comment!
By watching your videos I'm no geoglist I want to see this in person if I vacation in Washington.
I'm a truck driver so I've been all over I have to say the drive I i84 along the Columbia River is the most beautiful stretch of interstate in the country
These are so informative Doc! Oh how I wished I had a prof like you when I initially studied. You "rock"! Hee hee hee hee
Very recently I made the drive from Goldendale, through to the gorge of the Klickitat river and on to the Columbia. the change in the topography was very interesting. The Gorge, especially the east side, is hands-down my favorite part of Washington/Oregon.
Yes, a very interesting area. Thanks for watching.
Extraordinary combination of geology and travel guide! Superb presentation!
Thanks Mark! I'm a fan of your work.
Mr zentner, you truly have a gift delivering this subject matter. By far some of the finest lectures I have had the pleasure to hear as well probably some of the best on the internet. I hope you will be producing more in the future.
Thank you! nickzentner.com has all of my stuff.
Just lovely!
Congratulations sir for the espetacular video of Columbia River and the complex of mountains. Video and photos very professionals. I, m just sending the video to my son. Today he is visiting the complex respective in oregon. With my best regars from the city of Mogi Guaçu, SP state, Brazil.🇧🇷👍🏻👅🙏
SWEET! Love this video! Im a Ranger at Horsethief Lake and give tours to the "She Who Watches" pictograph that you have 21:58 of the video. Great Information! Intend on using a few notes from your video today on the tour! Keep up the great work...
Thanks Brock. Nice to hear that our stuff is helpful to you at Horsethief.
Wow. That is a lot to absorb. Thanx Nick.
I feel sad about the Salmon and Steelhead populations becoming extinct on the Columbia, but there is hope. As you questioned, I too wonder how the fish were able to survive with lava dams changing their environment.
Thank you for the awesome videos on the geology of the Pacific Northwest. Incredibly fascinating!
a golden nugget of youtube contribution ! just made a plan to get my first estwing pick,
+Robert Kerr
Enjoy.
dude yes. thank you for satisfying this info junkie's craving. I love hiking this area, and always wondered about this place
Nice to hear. Thanks much.
Wonderful video! Thank you..
Brilliant, thanks you for posting this superb video and for your expert commentary.
It is much appreciated.
Thanks for watching!
I've been binge watching your videos for awhile now. The nostalgia is setting in. I'm going to have to make a trip back to E- burg one of these days soon. I'd love to meet you and see the new building. There are a few stories I can tell, like when sweet ole Bob would launch his chalk missiles at us errant students. Or the time Jack Powell blasted by me on the rim of Ubehebe Crater, ran all the way to the bottom and back up the other side, then back down and three quarters of the way back toward us when he slowed to a crawl and finally dragged himself back to the rim spuddering, "maybe I shouldn't have done that!"
Please come visit us on campus, David. Will be happy to show you around the new place. Bob and Jack stories continue to entertain...
This is an outstanding video and the best you have done so far! Thanks for giving me a renewed appreciation of home.
Lance Wilson Thank Lance!
Got a tip: If you are going by I-90 in Post Falls, Idaho, exit 2 Pleasant View Rd., going north pass Seltice Way and just beyond the railroad road lines on the east side, you will find a recent working of virgin ground with rafted boulders that settled in the Rathdrum prairie.
If you want to see a float half the size of bus, you can see that one mile away in Mr. Beck's driveway. He had locals drag it over to his house a few years back. You can see it right off the road. Just take that Pleasant View Road exit and go north. Take a left at Seltice Way and go a mile to turn right on Beck Road. Look for his house on the east side just after the racetrack.
We're on it. Thanks!
I wondered about that rock--I pass by it and take pictures sometimes on my bike--I wondered if it had been transported there or was an erratic
It was an erratic, and also, it was transported there under obligation per contract between the farmer and the developing company whom bought the land from him. It was found in the gravels just north of Seltice Way, down below and east of Beck Road. It took a massive effort to transport it only one mile.
Jeff C. Sorry about that, Jeff. Looks like I tried but hadn't replied directly to your inquiry there.
I love these lectures; wish they were 2 hours long. Geology you can use.
Nice comments. Thanks Nelson.
i absolutly love your videos and lectors
I have been there and its absolutley mindblowing ❤️
I love this guy's work. He's my geology guru.
Thanks Ann.
Some amazing information! Thank you!
Thanks for watching, Harold.
Lovely
Great video, thanks.
Hello Nick Zentner, my name is Luiz Urbano Chiorato, from Brazil,
You could easily do several hour long videos on all the information covered in just this video. So many subjects and just the surface scratched on each one.
Agree! Reams of scientific papers on each topic available to you on the Internet. For free. We're living in a great time for learning...
Nick you have taught me so much about geology and just got back from Grand Coulee dam and dry falls and Ginkgo Petrified forest museum and Thanks for talking about the Thorp fruit store great Cherries. BTW Perkins is an awesome place to eat in Ellensburg we ate there on the way over and back. I did get some cool Basalt and granite rock samples to but didnt loose my Hammer LOL
Sounds like a great trip.
I think Randall Carson has great info on this flood !
Thank you!
Very detailed history of the Columbia Gorge where did you get the vintage photos?
Thank you very much for another fantastic video. You can just see the enthusiasm you have for geology in your videos.
eveningstar1968Thanks for the comment!
Of course
Thanks so much for further educating me about some of the details I've seen and photographed over the years...tragic about Celilo Falls, though.
P Prehn Glad you enjoyed it!
I wish people wouldn't say how the lava flows into the ocean in Hawaii. It did for brief periods of a few months and then stopped 4 or 5 years ago. Tourists still show up and ask where they can see lava flowing and it doesn't.
hugefloods says , in Hawaii the lava flows flows into the ocean today. 6:38
They show this video at the Gorge Discovery Center in The Dalles
Nick, great video! I love all your videos, but this is my favorite. I am a geology (and wildflower) enthusiast living in Hood River, and have a question. West of Lyle, before the rest area, there's a weird spot where lots of vegetation is visible between two lava flows. I stop there sometimes and dig around for semi-petrified branches. Have you stopped there? Are there any papers on how this happened? I'd also like more info on the Ortley Pinnacles.
***** Lloyd DeKay has a theory about the "vegetation push up" spot, but I want more info.
I'm really curious about it. So, to be more clear about the location, it's on Hwy 14, West of Lyle, less than a mile fwestof the Klickitat River bridge. The road cuts through basalt, and reveals two triangular areas of semi-petrified (fossilized?) vegetation. I'm hoping someone must have evaluated the soil layer... who would do that?
Fascinating and very well presented. Geology is my favorite science.
Nice!
I wish they showed me your vids in science class when I was in school
Thanks Chris.
The Columbia River Gorge almost forces you to wonder how it was made. Also the Snake River Canyon.
Did we discuss that in this video?
Very very useful and interesting information I received. This is a great video.From Georgia(country). :)
You'll have to come visit us here in the USA! Thanks for watching.
***** Well,I am a geology student,a future geologist.So,hope I will have a chance to visit the USA!
Nick, thank you again for these well crafted videos on NW geology so is it Loess or luss or other?
Is this the same video that plays on a screen at the Columbia river gorge discovery center?
Fabulous video, thoroughly well written narrative. makes me want to study Geology
Thanks Tim! Why not major in geology?
Wonderful video..!
Thank you for posting...LLP
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks!
I’m no Geologist. Could this volcanoes 🌋 be from the Yellowstone Caldera? I would think that the volcanoes would have to be huge. In another video, I think you mentioned that the Yellowstone Caldera traveled through the years. It looked like a swirl on the map as it travel to where it is now. Just a passing thought. Again, I am not an expert. I’d like to know if It is possible.
I keep trying to imagine the physical actions (in action!) necessary to start, expand, and finally finish engraving those giant potholes at Horse Thief Point (@9:18... in the video); wow! such physical violence as, at first a instant barrage of "everything" banging at, eroding the original surface...down down down to bedrock exposing what(?) to expose weak joinery areas perhaps? This repeated millions of times, impacts upon impacts, time after time, flood after flood perhaps a 100 times. The hydrodynamic effects of this stupendous slurry would create whirling eddies, when and where these passed over the developing potholes would cause a slight drop in pressure in the local water column allowing yet more debris to (even if at first only glancingly) drop down, into and impact against the deepening depression's walls. Combined with the coriolls effect, I posture all the sinkholes wall scourings will show a decided counterclockwise rotation of the abrading objects...I digress. What a noise, even muffled by hundreds of feet of water and the noise that made, making these sinkholes must have been! What a video such an activity might produce, even if mostly CGI.
Well presented, easy to understand and very enjoyable. Thanks for a great learning experience for geology enthusiasts like me as well as for students.
Daniel Taylor Lots going on in the Gorge, Daniel. Glad it made sense to you. Appreciate the comments.
Bruker XRF loves this video :)
Great videos!!!! Extremely fascinating
Thanks Jack!
Such great vision..
Tom Foster photos and videography.
Nick Zentner......" GODs creation....
This is awesome 📚🖐thank you
Beautiful awesome
Thanks for watching.
the pillows just west of Hood River that golden mix I see quite often in hundreds of locations hiking and driving. The gold mix between the basalt seems very common--is it mud? is it known what the goldish mix is?? River mud mixed with iron or something in the mix that gives the same common color each time.?
That orange stuff is called palagonite....black volcanic glass originally that weathers to a crumbly orange mix. See our Pillow Basalt video for details. Thanks for watching.
The Vista House at Crown Point is a knockout, and the site of the first car swap in the movie Bandits after they robbed the bank in Oregon City. I think I'll watch it again.
Fun watch thanks! Anyone know what kicked off the massive melting?
Mysixofnine global warming caused by the natives campfires.😂
thanks. great information. I have been bitten by a bug that seems to have turned me into some kind of weird geology fanatic.
Embrace the weirdness!
Nick Zentner lol. I have. resistance is futile.
Live on the washington side
This guy is TERRIFIC! good speaker and informative.
Thanks Susan!
Columbia River gorge is my home
Your work is beautiful, however, what are you not telling us? or do you know what caused the earth to have such upheaval at that time? Does solar minimums have anything to do w/it? and are we currently heading into another grand solar minimum?
Nice that you can appreciate the beauty. Tom Foster photos. Thanks. I am reporting all that I know. Nothing to hide.
Whats the picto on the last shot of?
“She Who Watches” (Tsagaglal)
Why are you always sporting a backpack?
because he's a salesman w something to sell.
But what about the noah flood?
Didn't make the final cut.
I certainly hope you are joking.
3.000 ft of uplift in the last 3 mln yrs! That's a 1.000 ft per year!
Double-check that math?
Embarrassed :) I must have been drinking!
How do you explain the mini Grand canyon in My Sy Helens basin, cut 145feet deep basalt in less than 2 hours time that would / did alter the entire time scale matrix you base your time sales event upon. And the other elements that accursed like coal formation shown real time literally.
This is a lot of guess work. But interesting
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