Exotic N - Western Cascade Foothills 

Just for the record Nick, all of your lectures are great! We are truly lucky that your so willing to do the work to create these lectures!!! Thank you as always!

thank you for your work, you doing a very good job. i think all the gifts you receive are a impressive sign of respect. you are at the forefront obf explaining what public service and science are for.

Thank You, Mister Zentner. I've been watching Your Geology videos....or CWU's videos and I"m excited to start learning about the West side of the Cascades. I'm in Orting, near Puyallup, and I keep trying to imagine what has happened, within a mile of my place, above Orting. I look forward to sitting in the front row.

Thanks Nick, went back and watched #26. Learn a lot, but liked the message about removing the blinkers. Good advice regardless of your profession.

I love all this new material! Thanks

The landscape behind Nick looks so beautiful.

I've been perplexed by the variety of bizarre rocks I've collected as a hobbyist around Mt Stewart over the past 25 years. I call them 'pastry rocks' because they appear much like fine pastries with multi-layered twists and folds. The Nason Ridge area is littered with migmatitic material straight out of my old Structural geology text, all the mushroom shapes etc. So glad it's not just me.

wow, I love the green rock, nick !

THE SHUKSTON THRUST REMINDS ME OF JOHNNY CARSON'S ART FERN SKIT OF TAKING THE SLOSSUN CUTOFF, WHERE YOU GET OUT OF YOUR CAR AND CUT OFF YOUR SLOSSUN. ALSO I THINK NAMING ALL THESE EXOTICS AFTER BEERS AND THEN MAKE A DRINKING GAME MIGHT HELP EASE THE PAIN OF REMEMBERING.

As the time is now 4am for me, I will be watching the rest of the Sundays videos on replay.

Rewatching, was interrupted 3x during the broadcast. Reiterating the new view is wonderful, the front yard has a lovely view.

Excellent stuff, Nick, and fascinating. Thanks for all your efforts to make this happen and for helping maintain sanity levels in a soggy England approaching new lockdown. Seen them all and am determined to keep the routine. With gratitude from Hereford, from Jane

The Springs were with The Mountaineers. They were dedicated hikers & climbers and many hiking books on the Cascades were written by them.

Here's to you, your health and your family's health, and to our community's health! 😍👍🏼 Smh about how complicated and mysterious all this is, really admire your ability to focus, disseminate, organize and share with humor and honesty. Did Karin's work not shed light on depth of Cascade accretions?

California Pizza Kitchen could afford to send you a heat lamp or fire pit to set Pizza Boxes next to the blackboard for some warmed "IN the Back Yard With Nick Geology". I'd love to hang with and have pizza mentally with others after the learning. Perhaps FUN if you had a second camera feeding a tiny screen in the bottom to show a wide view of the stage there. Then see Chain Saw Boy or Mufllers Mike going by, even Walking Gramps doing laps up & down the side street to replace that fun experience of sitting with others in the big hall. Amazed with Ellensburg.

Gary did an amazing job!! The photos are very helpful!!

I read where the old gold miners of North Cascades were confused to find old rocks on top of younger rocks. The term was over thrusting. Basically a jumbled up shook up mess.

Nick you do a great job! I have watched every episode of this series and many of your " on the fly " series. Thank You so much! By the way, your local " distractions " are more distracting than what comes through the live stream. Scott Stocking from the Boring Illinois Basin.

Now I'm waiting for a new series of 5-minute vignettes called "NOSE ON THE ROCKS"! [ James, from Armidale, Australia. ;

Incredibly photo!

One of the best things about watching Nick is that he is discovering and learning new information about the subject material as we move along. His own excitement at understanding more and more about these themes is what draws me in. It's all quite fascinating.

Thanks again. Endlessly fascinating.

1. Here's Dave Tucker's blog: nwgeology.wordpress.com/. 2. Here's a bio of Ira Spring (with very few photos but quite detailed): www.historylink.org/File/9356. 3. Just a paragraph on Wikipedia but several links to obituaries: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Spring. 4. And this website says "Through a collaboration between the Spring family and the Mountaineers History Committee, the Bob and Ira Spring B&W photographs have now been indexed and transferred to UW Special Collections, where they can be accessed and enjoyed by the public": cascadeclimbers.com/forum/topic/91859-the-bob-and-ira-spring-photographs/.

Nick you said your blood pressures a bit high, maybe you should ask Bijoux if you can bat Oregon around for abit? 😊💜

Bob & Ira Spring photos: perhaps talk with The Mountaineers Publishers

Chainsaws make happy noises doc. You just have to understand em.

Would not miss it! Thanks!

missed the live, but I am here, now... had a family situation, to help out, on... not neglecting you, :) missed you !

Labeled the boot. Priceless.

You will be a Highway Star if, instead of saying dark purple, you say deep purple.

*DUNITE* must always be done right. *THE ALEXANDER TERRANE* means that James Hutton's backyard is just as important as John Stockton's.

Thanks Nick, I am feeling like I kind of understand a complex scenario, but there are so many variables. I see why it is such a hard subject to get 100% consequences on a theory. I guess if we hash it out here on your series maybe there will be that one thing nobody wanted to say out loud that will she’d a little more light on the subject! 🤓🍻

This is great missed loved enjoying later

I grow catnip in a pot for my cat family.

It's all fluid

He had 2cry over that picture !

Hey there, MommaD in Nogeology florida again. This is probably the first of the entire series that I am having trouble wrapping my head around! Seriously, I think it's too many years of being momma and grandmom that's the problem. I look at melange and I want to yell "who made THAT mess and how long will it be before YOU get it cleaned up!!?? ". Honestly, I'm going to have to watch it again or twice in a different frame of mind.. I'll get there!

Missed the live stream. Hello from Southern Virginia from a former Washingtonian. 👋

Where does the Chuckanut Sandstone fit into all of this?

Is the green rock you showed possibly jadeite? I know that is found in California and Oregon and Washington but I'm not sure what jadeite or Jade actually in minerolog terms. Thanks for a great talk

Nice photos Gary. Reeeall nice!

Sorry I missed the live stream... When I was doing some consulting for a big software co in western Washington I took a little field trip to see the Dunite...(I am not a geologist). Hahaha

It's not a low hah, Oregon. It's aloa, said quickly. Aloha to you.

I'm wondering, at the end of the show, you mentioned the speed of the plates moving. From what I have heard, the rotation of the earth was faster than it is now, and the land was more grouped to one side of the planet. I'm assuming the rifts would guide the masses as they travel. But could the centrifugal force on the land have anything to do with the speed of the land masses?

So Nick, later on, are you able to tell us how the order of Nappes may change depends on the regions of terranes eventually? , Or we don't know that??

Hi, Laurie Nielson! Sorry I got lost in the beginning of the class!

What is the procedure to rename terranes discovered and studied years ago, but recently connected with terranes in other states or even other countries? It would be confusing to name for instance, a SE Oregon terrane "Cache Creek" or "Stikine" of British Columbia, especially IF (hypothetically) the terrane was studied years before the BC terranes were named. Would the naming be more accurate scientifically by recognizing their origins instead of their popular study locations?

Could the Bell Pass be from subduction direction changing?

Jimmy Hendrix asked "have you ever been experienced?" Geologists ask "have you ever been Twin Sisters Dunite?"

HELP! How do I join the livestreams? I'm in Pasco Wa, do I have to contact the college for a password or invite?

Hey Nick! I'm 32 and working on my bachelors in geology at Appalachian State University. Fortunately and unfortunately classes are kicking my behind currently so I can't keep up with your videos and what's coming up. I am curious though, will you be getting into the sedimentary basins like the Chuckanut Formation in the near future? I chose the CM for a semster long research project for a Preparation of Geological Reports class I'm in. It would be an awsoome coincidnce if you happened to cover it before, or already have before I have to give my presentation. Mostly because of the complexity of the geology int hat area and the disagreements I continue to find in research papers. For example if the Chuckanut, Swuak and Puget Formations were once the same of if they were deposited separately in their respective basins. But anyways, I love your video! Fantastic productive procrastination media! Your methods of teaching make me want to grind out the tougher parts of the undergraduate degree.

The toy might contain Cat Crack, my 13 year old cat goes nuts for it. A product of Canada.

OWL people. Olympic Wallowa Linament!

Be a little careful with the name "Dunite". From the late 1880s through the 1950s (and, to some extent, later) , the term "Dunnite" (with two "n"s), under the alternate name EXPLOSIVE "D", being the very insensitive (to heat and shock) high explosive chemical ammonium picrate, was used as the exclusive main filler for most ammunition in the US Navy and, to a somewhat lesser extent (they used more TNT), the US Army, most especially in projectiles that had to punch through heavy armor and remain inert until their fuzes set them off (a major problem with most other explosives). So, do not be confused about cross-references if you look this up on the Internet.

You know it would look fine if you were just fully in shade?

On about 20m into it your breaking up bad, 2 x 2 at best, reception must be thin. At times mouth movements, words do not match to 30m into it. Really distracting.