CWU's Nick Zentner returns for another visit with retired WWU geology professor Myrl Beck in Bellingham, Washington. Nick's 2020 interview with Myrl Beck: • A Paleomagnetism Inter...
Myrl said he learned new information from watching your videos. Now you’re teaching the teachers, legendary ones at that. You’re bringing the geology community together. Way to go! Put that feather in your hat Nick.
Great interview, fascinating topic,.. top notch I can hear the lifetime of frustration though in Myrl's voice, I am dealing with the same enigma. im not a classrom trained geologist, I've sent you countless emails I wish you'd take a look at one of them I realize you probably get a lot of weird half baked ideas.... I've been working diligently on this for many years I didn't set out to do this I was just a prospector I just noticed that every Rock has a Pacific shoreline on the right side of it I wanted to know why that same structure you see all over the mountain ranges eagle nebula oh the list goes on and that of all by itself doesn't mean a lot but when you shoot a bullet into the dirt it does the same thing when a train slams on its brakes and scrapes metal off of the railroad track and it bunches up like a wad of Kleenex it does the same thing the same thing being I can put that piece of metal from the railroad tracks in a photo next to lone pine peak and you can't tell the difference they're identical. I wanted to know what the hell that meant and why why you can shoot a bullet into the dirt and it looks like the pattern that repeats itself from the Pacific plate boundary to the flanks of the Atlantic the mid-ocean ridge the Great rift zone on up into the Tibetan plateau or lake Baikal it's the same pattern that caught Alfred wegener's eye 100 years ago. only he didn't have enough data in front of him to make the right assumption very prematurely attributed an effect as the cause. we've been seeing a lot of that ever since attributing one effect to the next effect when the cause is never mentioned. yeah I sense the frustration in Myrl's voice, him and I are a lot alike. only I don't have peers to review my work. yeah I doubt I could get anybody to look at it I can't even get people to respond which means you probably haven't read anything I've sent you but that's okay I'm not mad at you I I just I just wish I feel like Geoff Tate over here from Queen'sryche screaming hey hey listen to me... you were looking at it just the other day that serpentonite I got some interesting photos you should see actually you don't need to look at mine you just look around... I'm still going with this because I'm hoping somebody will read it somebody that's nearer to you and say let me buy you a cup of coffee I want to show you something.. the next time you see some of that pegmatite just take a note of where it is in relation to your exotic terrains and then when you get some time just Google what minerals are popular on the moon I wish I could put a picture up with this reply I'll just put up a short video instead on my channel here on this tin foil hat channel my name is Dave Davis anyways thanks Nick and great interview and superb subject I wish I could buy Myrl a beer! thanks Merle love you! love ya too Nick. cheers from SoCal this is the Isaac Newton of geology checking out
Indeed, Nick you and Myrl are bringing insight to the how and why of the Baja B.C. debate within the professional community at he same time exposing us novices to geology on a level we didn't know existed. Thank you Nick! We have lost a great mind in Myrl Beck, R.I.P. This was a terrific, enlightening interview.
I was very saddened to hear of his passing. Myrl Beck was highly respected by his colleagues, and his contributions to the field will have a lasting impact. Rest in peace Myrl, you will not be forgotten.
I just love Myrl Beck, he is so intelligent and has been way a head of his time with his paleomag and has taught us a wealth of information we may have never learned. Thank you Myrl for all you have done and bless you and enjoy your retirement
Awesome interview. I spent a decade building, calibrating, and repairing high precision measurement equipment for Hewlett-Packard. I worked with R&D and saw just what it took to improve measurement performance; 10^-5 is tough, 10^-6 is an art-form. ~20 yrs ago I began to pursue mining engineering and took Geo 101 at Western WA university where I learned about paleomag. I was intrigued and almost detoured into the field. My instructor failed to mention the godfather of p-mag was at Western! I'm the guy who would've spent half my time in the field and the other half tinkering with measurement equipment. Thanks Nick for connecting such a wonderful community.
Such an honor to hear your interview with Meryl. Wonderful he is still interested in being helpful in your work with your friends. Such a brilliant man.probably one of your important contributions to your field is increasing communication and cooperation of expert scientists in geological studies. Thanks for letting us hear this.
Wow, Nick, this might be my favorite interview you've done! What an honor to hear Myrl explain his career and work. He is a gem to PNW geology with all his knowledge and experience. I hope we hear more from him during your Baja-BC livestream series.
To coin a phrase, what a treat! When the Mt Rushmore of Baja BC is created at Mt Stuart someday, I’ve got Myrl and Nick on there. Myrl should get a Penrose medal!
What an amazing video! I don’t know how old Myrl is but he’s obviously not twenty something, and likes a beer like a lot of us, yet he’s still completely on top of his subject. Thank you Nick for bringing Myrl to us but more importantly, thank you Myrl for agreeing to add your knowledge and thoughts to this discussion even though where i am in northern Australia living on the North Australian craton it bears no semblance of reality. Our rocks were well mostly dead millions of years before Mt Stuart but I still love these videos. Nick Zentner, you are a living Legend
Good morning Nick, George here. Nick, it is so nice to see courtesy and respect survive the accumulation of intelligence. Sometimes it does not. You are a gentleman I respect. Thank you for posting your work.
Looking forward to the Baja BC series this fall. Thanks Nick for all you do for the online community - us interested in geology. Always great content. :)
What an amazing mental capacity Myrl has. At age 69 I sometimes struggle to remember my friends names. And Myrl goes on and on recalling so much significant information. I thank you both for another great video. I hope to see you and Myrl with Basil next summer! ♥️
@@mikekirk1513 I meet hundreds+ people a year. I remember by eyes and voice. But names are illusive, until we become personal friends. Even then, since my Traumatic Brain Injury, I'm finding g that harder too. Just adjust, compensate & apologize. What else can I do? Big Smiles, Love ❤, Peace & Joy works well for me. They forgive me.
Wow, what a guy; so much experience and fruitful thought, striving to understand a fearsomely complicated set of events. A scientist of the highest order, hats off for Myrl and thank you Prof N., once again for your sterling efforts. Can't wait for another alphabetical exposition.
Really some of my favorite episodes are when Nick interviews experts in the field. He ask such good questions -- like you don't usually get on most RU-vid geology channels --- and they give such interesting informative answers, often touching on some of the still open unanswered questions and areas of speculation that I personally find fascinating. Makes you think And now I have an urge to go out and buy a couple of six packs from some local microbreweries ; _)_
So great to see Myrl Beck again, Nick. What an amazing guy! He seems to really enjoy your videos , just like the rest of us. Thank you both for a wonderful video!
I watched this video again after learning of Myrl's passing. Great interview, Nick. Thank you for documenting his thoughts and knowledge in video format. P.S. His promotion of Irish Death was priceless.
Damn! That just about covers it. Holy crap, I wish Myrl could put his knowledge and thoughts on a series of videos for us to watch and learn from. Such an incredibly intelligent man. Thank you Myrl for your time and insights and thank you Nick for trekking to Bellingham and spending your time capturing his knowledge!
Thank you Myrl and Nick. These interviews are always interesting. While I'm not sold on Baja-BC, I agree that it's not a question IF things have move, but HOW MUCH things have moved. Looking forward to your series this fall to see what we can learn!
Thanks Myrl and Nick! Thanks to both of you for providing yet another tool to get additional data to help solve all the Geology mysteries still out there! Hopefully a few grad students in need of a topic tune in....sounds like a few good topics to study were suggested....
Great interview once again with Myrl Beck - thank you both for sharing your research, thought processes and theories relating to our complicated little corner of the world. I am excited to see how these ideas began and are ever evolving.
WOW! What a brilliant guy and what a loss. Thank you for posting this in its entirety. I've watched dozens (if not hundreds) of hours and for the first time, the westward subduction issue "clicked" in my mind. Nick, you deserve that PhD for the way you are advancing the science we love to so many by bringing the heroes like Myrl Beck into our homes.
Thanks for sharing 👍 another great time. Been on Adventures for sure here on Oregon Central Coast 🙌. ❤ & miss all of you. Have had the Pleasure of meeting some of you. Loved It. Take care, I am with many Miracles included. Got to Love It. Meet again soon. Doing Chicken Dancing to Celebrate Life.
Fascinating and informative interview. Wonderful to hear such clear explanations from someone with so much experience. Nick's courtly respect is actually rather heartwarming. Very timely in view of Dr. Beck's recent passing. Thanks for this.
Thank you Nick and Myrl for this intriguing and charming interview. Your questions are getting meatier Nick and Myrl has a complete grasp of the subject, making this fall's sessions and the Penrose Conference more important. I hope new post grad students will pick this up!
I watched Bernie's first session again, and then this one to anchor in the paleomag information. Myrl had a such a memory and clear style of explaining. I am so glad you interviewed him.
Just a couple of guys having beer and talking Geology. I wish we could do what you have done here with all the scientists and save their thoughts and wisdom on their areas of expertise. You have started a digital library for all of us and your school for the future. Like Myrl said we should go back every 10 on so years and reexamine areas in Geology we have already inspected to see if new science can tell us more about that place. I am looking forward to Baja BC.
Very interesting, it is interesting that as the metal cools and becomes attractive to magnetism that grain boundaries align to the directions of a magnetic force. When blacksmithing we heat up iron/steel it order to change the ductility, soften and hardness. The metal is heated until the transformation phase occurs (body centered to face centered) which is right after the metal becomes non-magnetic. Depending on if we want to harden (quench the metal) or soften the metal (cool slowly in an oven, heat sand, etc) will dictate the grain structures and sizes.
I hope he gets his question anceried too about the Mount Stuart Batholith. As eloquently as he put it " before he leaves his miserable existence"! spoken like a true Old timer
The Ingalls is a complete ocean crust, but thinner than mid ocean ridge crust. Most current interpretations are that most such ophioloitic crusts are formed in a back arc setting as a result of extension. The Chiwaukum schist is presumably sediments that accumulated on top of oceanic crust. The Chiwaukum is tied to that Ingalls back arc setting because the Stuart intruded them both as the Ingalls was being thrust over the Chiwaukum. But the Ingalls was formed in a back arc 60+ million years before the thrusting/intrusion, so the arc that the Ingalls formed behind is long gone. When were the ocean bottom sediments that formed the Chiwaukum deposited? Are they debris from that earlier arc? By Stuart time, is that Chiwaukum schist going down a trench (continental or oceanic)? Is the Ingalls being obducted onto whatever plate lies above that trench? Is the Stuart magma melting above that downgoing ocean plate? What explanation best ties together, and best localizes in time and space, all the things that we know about all three of these formations? Great stuff, Myrl and Nick!
IMHO, there are no arguments against absolute migration occurrence, but the interpretation of the evidence still relies on conflicting educated opinions, which there are numerous. I like Baja-BC, it’s still happening with… Baja, but it has too many assumptions to accurately emplace the evidence without more… evidence. Myrl, thank you for giving us more of your thoughts. Nick, thank you for this gift.
At 1690deg f iron (fe) changes from a body centered cubic to a face centered cubic that is non magnetic (austenite/non-American or gamma iorn) that will change to lower temp. By adding upto o.8% carbon the eutectoid (lowest melting point of sreel).I am fascinated with how formation of metal and rocks are the same.
In memoriam, I’ll borrow from T.H. Huxley’s inscription upon the gravestone of Charles Lyell, in Westminster Abbey: “Throughout a long and laborious life he sought the means of deciphering the fragmentary records of the earth’s history in the patient investigation of the present order of the nature, enlarging the boundaries of knowledge and leaving on scientific thought an enduring influence.”
Fascinating episode. Love your show. Nick, you should pay more attention to the image you're getting during interviews. If you haven't noticed that Beck's head was half in and half out of shadow the first half of the interview yet, well, this is the kind of thing I'm referring to. It's not a biggie, but it is important that these interactions are easy to watch and get lost in.
There has been and is still is so much excellent fine detail research being done at such a wide range of sites, taking up geologists entire carreers and funding, that it has now become very worthwhile to also fund collation and overview that data. This is probably of less value to industry so funding from that sector would be unlikely, so perhaps it's time for universities to start collaborating with each other to fund and encourage geologists looking at the broader picture.
Baja BC is going to be good. I don't feel as bad when giants like Dr. Beck say "I don't know" or "I had never heard of that before". I'm in the weeds but at least within sight of the road.
What a treat! My revelation tonight is the thought that there is a point that with that much northward translation over 40 million years how can one show that there wasn’t large block ‘tilting’. Doubters must answer the question which came up as to where the MSB came from if not from way south? Am I thinking about this correctly?
Just wondering. In the Sierra Nevada you can see a lot of folding in curved layers, also there were tremendous effects later caused by glacier movement resulting in displacement of huge rocks. Could these factors cause a muddying of the magnetic rocks making it harder to interpret the data??
What he's describing in the various magnetic domains is very similar to the way a thiol terminated self assembled monolayer (SAM) forms on gold ((Au(111)). They also have domain boundaries which are at 120 degrees to each other.
49:45 There must still be mantle movement that will add another complication to correlating mantle-slab location to its originating subduction Longitude.
Okay guys I’m a newbie to your channel. I’m met Bob who lived across the street from the café I believe it was Highway two in liberty about 15 years ago. He had brain cancer, does this ring any bells to you? I showed him the map of the different minerals in the area and he said “ did you check “”such and such an area” Im not gonna say it on here since blues are so valuable. And I said no I have not. I don’t know if Bob is still alive. But he had millions of dollars worth of the agates in 5 gallon buckets inside of his shack. My question is, is the majority of your research based on Ellensburg blues? Second question do you know Bob or remember him?
