CWU's Nick Zentner from his home in Ellensburg, Washington on Saturday, June 20, 2020 during the global coronavirus pandemic. Giant current ripples, Missoula Floods, Joseph Pardee, J Harlen Bretz, Columbia River, etc.
All my very few favorite professors have had your passion for their respective discipline. And all taught with a bit of humor as well. Your students are fortunate to have you.
I just want to thank you for these live streams. And I completely found them on accident just because I looked up volcano eruptions. I've been hooked, ever since and I don't see the geography I navigate the same, at all. You are truly inspiring. Thank you so much for sharing your gift. I'm originally from northwest Indiana, born and hand spanked. My father was drafted into the army for Vietnam as stationed at Fort Lewis before training in Kentucky. His story brought my here, to Seattle. I know this state better than my home state and now I wonder about my home state, lol😂. You are a treasure!
I have lived in this state for 52 years. I have learned more about it and its history in the last few months, watching your programs, then I could ever have imagined. What a fascinating history this state has. You make the geology of Washington absolutely fascinating, Prof Nick. I hope some day to be able to sit in live on one of your lectures. You have made the last few months so enjoyable for so many of us. Keep up the great work you do. Please thank Mrs Nick for sharing you with us. 🤪🤪🤩🤩🧐🧐
I am a year and 5 months late to view this video... but, OMG how interesting it was/is.. And the animation of the flood waters ... wow. I can't even imagine such a mass of water.. Thank you Nick for such a great video,
What a great and imaginative gift from pat and mrs miller, thats the most wonderful gift for Nick. thank you for following your instinct. that was a great reveal.
Missed it live this morning. Still watching the preamble. Face it, Nick. Your cabeza is large. And it's full of knowledge and wisdom. Back to the show....And I wanted meringue, ruffles are too easy...and apparently the famous RV survived, and decided to go back upstream for more...and we just love you cause you're Nick. Best teacher ever. And I will add, that I absolutely howled at the "News on the March" segment. My belly and face still hurt...I'm done.
What a great gift! I am so impressed by your gratitude for all things you have received. I can tell that you carry love, honor, and respect, so that makes you one of my favorite people on the planet. Take care and keep on teaching us about our glorious earth and all of its history.
Hey there Mr. Nick, MommaD checking in from Waldo Florida! I've been in Covid isolation since March because of a medical condition, and can't stand being cooped in like this. You, and Larry the Ladder, the Cozy Fort, and all the things ya gotta love have given me so many things to look forward too, and laughter, and such amazing topics to this devil in the details kind of gal. You put human perspective to geological history, the science, and about building our knowledge a bit at a time. I hope these sessions can continue for a while through the summer, but if not, your presentations are going to be rewatched many times! Thank you with everything those small words mean.
Like you, I've been in isolation since March, due to some medical issues as well as my age. Thanks to Nick I've learnt so much, and I feel like I've been to Washington myself, even though I may never actually get there. Much love from Germany! 👋😊
@@shibolinemress8913 oh I have been, a LONG time ago. It's wonderful. I've been to Germany, Switzerland, and northern Italy. I can now look at these places with more knowledgeable eyes! Bless you, Shibolene! We'll get through this!
Thank you Nick. I’m sure going to miss your geology lectures. I discovered your past lectures recorded in Ellensburg in 2016 and earlier over a year ago, and really enjoyed them. You have me know looking at the rock formations. Can’t wait to enjoy Yellowstone. Thank you and God Bless you and your family.
Just watched this one again. Such a great one! It made us laugh all over again and it was wonderful to see the dropped hammer gift. The giant ripples were so interesting. And the lodgestick!! It was weird how people didn’t know who you were in 2020 and by this last summer , people recognized you all the time! It was great to see how much you are appreciated.
I was watching from the treadmill at the gym when Nick stuck his nose in the bag of chips and inhaled all of that potato-y goodness. I laughed out loud and almost missed a step!
Busy with Saturday chores, just sat down and pleased to see a field trip is waiting for me! Love that I can catch you when I can enjoy at my leisure. Must say, that carving is just beautiful.
This was terrific! I drive through there frequently and I’ve never understood or appreciated what I was seeing. All God’s blessings on you for these videos! They are the best! 🙏🏼🥰🤗 from Cashmere.
I am so sad that i Missed the Live stream! I love this story! Thank you Nick, for taking us to the proof in the pudding to Bretz, Pardee, and Vic Baker.
Missed the first part this day. Pat and Karen are amazing, that is the most uniquely awesome gift. So personal and neat and cool. Nick you really touch people and they love you for it. That work of art depicting a moment in your life is also a moment for all your fans who have seen the hammer video, so cool.
haveing spent many years traveling western states, and continualy fascinated by the geology. thank you for the explanations . years worth of questions now have answers .thanks again.
WHAT BEAUTIFUL ARTISTRY PAT AND KAREN!! Love the exciting feature. Nick loves it!! The pick, inside... wow, what a treat!! We out here sure love it too!! Nick is so deserving! Stay well in Yakima!
I CANT BELIEVE ITS ONLY ONE MORE WEEK LEFT, I ONLY JUST FOUND OUT YOU WERE DOING THESE! I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THESE WHENEVER YOU GET A HANKERING TO TALK ABOUT THE SUBJECT! ITS ALWAYS ENTERTAINING AND EDUCATIONAL IN A SPECIAL WAY THAT IS HARD TO DESCRIBE. THANK YOU NICK!
Nick, thank you once again for doing these. I started watching your RU-vid public lectures several years ago and had been looking forward to this year's set until everything was upended by the pandemic. Then I found out you were putting these out on your own and was overjoyed. I've been a student of geology since the late 2000's and it is always a pleasure to attend a lecture from a subject matter expert. Your lectures helped me immensely in my geomorphology classes, and I really enjoyed being able to decipher glacial and periglacial land features during my east coast field trips and vacations. If you ever get bored of the Pac NW glacial features (I know, not likely!), I'd love to hear your take on the east coast glacial drainage basins. The Susquehanna has terraces akin to those in your Thorp Prairie video, with similar roads that cross perpendicular to the terraces. (The lower part wasn't covered by glaciers though!) And New England is a veritable playground when it comes to exploring glacial flooding events. One of my favorite things about the study of geology is that every land form has a story. Thank you for taking the time to tell some of those stories to us in the way that you do. Cheers from Pennsylvania. :)
This is one where you definitely DON'T want to skip past the intro, otherwise you'll miss that cool basalt sculpture mini-hammer storage container. I'm envious.
Thanks so much Nick! I enjoy your talks so much and laugh out loud at your occasional tongue in cheek comments. I am also an amateur photographer and am planning on visiting many of the spots you talk about and visit for my own Ice Age Floods photo book project.
I love current ripples, I studied sedimentary basin analysis and there were all sorts of sizes of current ripples ! I once dug on a sandy beach to try and make cross sections of them ripples
Hello, just want to say thank you for this whole home streaming. Now i have even less time than before :-) it will be 80+ hours i guess... Greetings from czech republic (and no, we are not in eastern europe... its remnant of political iron curtain... geograficaly we are in the very middle of europe, its called central europe. And its not only differnet in geografical meaning, but also cultural compared to eastern europe. ;-) )
Hello from a Czech expat in Virigina, USA! Excited to see that someone out there in the old country found Nick's incredibly interesting streams. He makes the topic so much fun and so intriguing!
@@janmaska1231 You are absolutelly right. Few years ago I found his lectures while getting informations about an end of ice age. Before i was never interested in geology, and iam pretty fond of knowledge in many areas, and last few years, thans to Nick, iam learning a lot of new things. I even had to to write an email to Nick i think two years ago to personally thank him for my enlightement :-) and he did answered in half hour. :-) humanity needs more people like Nick who can really wake up a man :-) so have a nice time in virginia :-)
Dear Nick, While I would never dream of making the comparison, especially in that you know somewhat whereof you speak, and considering that I love your programs and even made a trip in 2018 to the scene of some of your crimes, and in that I did learn a few things I didn't already know, my impression is that this lecture was almost as organized as one of our president's ( 0 ) press conferences. You, however, referenced real source documents and didn't call anyone (except yourself) any names! Enjoyed the show. Thanks.
Crescent bar used to be full of orchards they would have cherries a month before anywhere else. Wish I would have been on line when you were live. I used to live in Quincy and my father used to haul silage to west bar. He tells a story of a sturgeon by the ferry that took him over there bigger than a railroad tie. This was back in the late 50's. The Elk winter on west bar every year. Love your teaching style and all the content.
I'm so sorry for your loss. He sounds to have been a terrific friend and colleague. I've been enjoying the videos on the Huge Floods website and his passing is a loss to the larger world as well.
Ah a nice mellow day, great scenery, and learning new things, with a friend I just never met ... lol I found you doing your lectures in the conventional way (on stage) in your interesting and informative way, by being you just as the shutdowns were happening... I stayed home most of the time, and you've been some of the best company I've found in a long time. I love the outdoors, the earth, history and education, and with a good amount of honest humor from a "real" person, RU-vid doesn't get better than this ! This is great :D >>> PS >>> that is some amazing gift! WOW and lol ... yes! ... thumbs UP!.. and NO , I, at least, don't love it "because [you're] an idiot" ... but because you let "oh shit" roll out so beautifully LOL... and we know that this is a lesson as well, because now if we ever go there, we won't do something, accidently, like that, too ;) I mean, holy cow... Don't go walking a small dog there !
*RANTS AND SOBER THOUGHTS:* - Ruffles ain't ripples. Stop eating the geology exhibit! - Stop putting on the 18000 ya sand bar! Have some respect for the Lake Missoula floods. May you triple-bogie the next 10 holes! - Best time in the desert is 15 minutes after a rain shower. Bonus is having Nick as your driver. - Before you buy a house on an arid hillside, consider wildfires. No joke, my old hillside neighborhood in Ventura, CA, got torched after a recent drought. One-third of the houses on my 1965 paper route ... gone in minutes.
The same basalt columns and gravel are up dead man's creek in BC, along with petrified wood and blue agate. perhaps the 13,000 years ago, flood. Hope yo make it to BC this summer, love your show. BECAUSE IT WAS WARMER IN THE INTERIOR THAN THE MOUNTAINS, LAKE MERITT AND KAMLOOPS LAKE PROBABLY DRAINED TO THE OKANOGAN.
Loved your livestream, watched the whole replay (ah, well, only skipped forward a couple of times . . .) Is there a place I can pull over on a road and get a good look at Lodgestick Bluff?
Just finishing reading Robert F Butler's book on paleomagnetism, on your recommendation. What a great introduction to the subject for gaduate students. What I picked up in my ignorance was that this was how Wegener was vindicated in his theory of Continental Drift, by paleomagnetic evidence. And that it's fairly reliable back to the Silurian, perhaps. It makes the brain boggle somewhat to think the Continents are bobbing about like corks on water; that North America has drifted down from the North Pole area. In fact the rocks prove it was once on the Equator as well. lol. For example, in the Cannon River Valley, Minnesota, we have sparkly calcium magnesuim carbonate deposits; only found today in modern seas in places like the Florida Keys and Sharks Bay, Australia. Minnesota must have been equatorial once ."L'Étoile du Nord" was once in the South. lol.
Are we ruled out of careers in geology and paleo-geophysics because of weak math? Unfortunately, yes, because we won't pass the exams. Nevertheless you don't need to be capable of winning a Fields medal. Modern statistical packages will calculate the significance of Fisher tests, for example. But I always say, since it's ubiquitous, if you can't grasp George Green's theorem at the least, forget it. Science isn't the career for you. But ask yourself this: Why would inanimate objects, of any size or relationship, desire to be in a golden ratio? And why are only homo sapien sapiens the only lifeform found to be ON the Golden Mean for the whole genome? Others tend to the mean, whilst humans are ON the mean, despite 99% non-coding genes. The numerical, binary and undulatory hidden CODES that organize DNA, chromosomes and whole genomes are ignored by the materialisic mainstream atheistical "scientists". In the same way as they can't tolerate a Universe centred on the Milky Way and the Earth, the Axis Of Evil. Lawrence Krauss is typical of deniers when the data doesn't fit: "But when you look at CMB map, you also see that the structure that is observed, is in fact, in a weird way, correlated with the plane of the earth around the sun. Is this Copernicus coming back to haunt us? That's crazy. We're looking out at the whole universe. There's no way there should be a correlation of structure with our motion of the earth around the sun - the plane of the earth around the sun - the ecliptic. That would say we are truly the center of the universe." Or think of the Lead Paradox. Need I go on? They should try a Fisher Exact Test on Krauss and the other atheists. LOL.
To clarify, I'm not against atheists. They can believe what they want. I'm against agenda-driven science. For example, evolution is a serial process, by definition, on a random walk. So it can't account for parallel processes, two or more processes at the same time and co-ordinated together. An example would be over 5,000 of the correct enzymes getting together in the substrate to catalyse building (other) proteins. To take an extreme example to hammer home the point, the enzyme uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase is essential for the biosynthesis of hemoglobin and chlorophyll. But without it the process takes 2.3 by, equivalent to the difference between the diameter of a bacterial cell and the distance from the Earth to the Sun. Evolutionists won't even tackle that obstacle. Not Mount Improbable but Mount Impossible...........without ID. Sir Fred Hoyle picked up on this; and postulated panspermia. Others opt for the untestable, like Multiverses.
Crescent Bar Campground. Come and enjoy the German Chocolate Cake! And don't forget to visit the flood bar. Stop by the Cliff House and admire the basalt roof.
Nick, love your videos. Speaking of ripple marks, I have a ripple mark question about marks just west of the potholes reservoir. the half submerged sand dunes in the potholes and the fully exposed dunes to the west are those from wind or water from the Missoula flood or something inbetween? easily visible between the potholes reservoir and crab creek
"Gizmo" is not his car, it's the mount he holds his phone in while taking videos. It counters some of the vibrations when he walks, and has Bluetooth connection to control the zoom, pan and tilt. I think the first time he used it he referred to it as a gizmo, and the name stuck. (Edit: He's referring to taking the phone off of Larry the Ladder, and putting it into Gizmo for when he starts driving.)
1 hour 37...( ref ' folk being bored😢). Well , people should be interested to learn a bit about the processes that shaped our world so very long ago. I find it fascinating. ☺️. That pale area : gravel ? It's not still " loose" gravel after all those years ? Did it solidify ? Well, without explanation, we wouldn't know what we were looking at...☺️. These videoed trips are so good ! It's like having a one-to-one tutorial with your Professor ☺️. The more I see, the more I want to learn ! No boredom here ! ☺️🇬🇧. Many thanks .☺️🇬🇧. 🇬🇧💕🇺🇲⛏️🦉🌎 🦉🇬🇧💕🇺🇲⛏️🦉
Dont worry Nick. One thing you are not is an idiot. The Rock Hammer is priceless though. Eastwing should have sent you a new one The petrified logs. Right next to the short section sticking out you can see where another one is eroding out. Makes me wonder just how many more are entombed in the German Chocolate Cake.
At 11:37 that gift from Pat & Karen from Yakima is f'n awesome! Beautiful craftsmanship & artwork! It's better than that signed basketball from John Stockton. (Maybe it's a tie).
I'd like to hear Nick's thoughts on the "energy paradox". No thermal heating has been explained that would have been sufficient enough to melt the entire icecap in the time it was melted. With current heating simulations we still should have an ice cap. If this is not explained all the theories of ice dams go right out the window.
