CWU's Nick Zentner presents 'Flood Basalts of the Pacific Northwest' - the 16th talk in his ongoing Downtown Geology Lecture Series. Recorded at Hal Holmes Center on January 25, 2017 in Ellensburg, Washington, USA. www.nickzentner.com
What the heck just happened? An hour ago I was watching a "how to" video on teaching my cat to use the toilet. I just finished an hour long geological lecture on basalt lava floods of the Pacific Northwest.
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I am in Australia but I can tell you all about the geology of the pacific north west. I started watching these lectures during Covid lockdown and really enjoy them. He is a great teacher.
This is as good as teaching gets. You can completely forget all the modern techno BS, literally all you need is a chalk board and chalk. If you have a teacher who 1) Knows his or her stuff, 2) Is absolutely passionate about it, 3) can tell a story. That is all you need. This guy is fantastic.
This is ignorance at it's best. Not to be rude but dang . These are tree conglomerates they have been heated and inundated by salt water. This causes crystallization and mineralization. Hense basalt. These forms are all over the planet found in giants causeways wich are same shape different vegetation. Some on Africa and india. South America practically everywhere the area is volcanic but those pillars are not of that. Sorry.
This should be on television. Instead of Jersey Shore, Kardashians and all the other mindless bullshit that is litteraly destroying young peoples(and older) minds.
This. This is what the internet was invented for. On a cold winter evening in Minnesota I can curl up with a relaxing beverage and see what The Great Algorithm at RU-vid suggests for me. Tonight it was flood basalts in the pacific northwest. As I enjoy the lecture by the AMAZING Nick Zentner, in another window I periodically look up various things in Wikipedia as he mentions them. (The mass extinctions are fascinating!) I don't know how much of the details I'll retain, but I'm left with such a sense of awe and wonderment at our amazing planet and what "we" have learned through the countless hours of hard working geologists etc. being able to weave our billions of years of history into a compelling story. Huge thanks to Nick for making geology too interesting to pass up, and to CWU for providing this wonderful material to us for free!
I'm watching this on a rainy night somewhere in Australia. I noted that we have flood basalts in the southwest corner of Western Australia ... only about 3,000 km from here. Very interesting and entertaining lecture ... I learnt something tonight - thanks!
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Being a truck driver in Washington, and an ex well driller, I've seen above and below the ground these basalt flows, and they always amaze me. In north Spokane thru Deer Park there is a silica sand formation under 200 to 300 feet of basalt with burnt cedar trees. The sand is loaded with water, and the wood so well preserved you can smell the cedar just like a fresh cut board. Amazing
Austin Nassat, so glad you mentioned this! The mainstream continues to ignore the remains of megafauna on our earth today. In the form of heaven reaching Cedar Trees. Not only are they mentioned in Ezekial 31, cultures worldwide speak of giant cedars, elms, ash, etc. in their legends. In my own research, I had suspected , some intense heat event had transmuted some of these giant trees to basalt. I also discovered this occured not that long ago. Approx. 3,500-4,000 yrs. ago. When ancient chronicles speak of cosmic events causing world conflagrations(fires). You and I both know those columns never were a result of lava flows. Darwin, really screwed up the sciences eh?
I saw a video showing petrified-looking silica - the beach was like concrete. As I recall, it was a process that occurred over time. A chemical reaction. Crazy stuff our world has going on. Wow. 🙂💛🌻
Outstanding - I'm 84 and I never blinked for the whole video. I'm from Ireland, and we have a little bit of basalt columns too known as the Giant's Causeway.
Hi, Roger, MudFossil University, showed these the other day. He says its Giants' hair and scalp 'sebum' at the flakey scalp we use for making China plates, etc. Very interesting
Yes! On the north coast of County Antrim... we were there in 2019 - it was spectacular! Not only are there classic columnar basalt flows, but also textbook examples of pillow basalts from flows that were rapidly cooled in seawater.
basalt columns are remains of old world silica trees, there is no way lavas can cause those hexagonal shapes, they resemble plant cells on a large scale
This guy is one of my favorite teachers, ever, even though I have never had him IRL, as my own teacher. Whenever RU-vid guides me here I stay and I don’t even bother to look at the topic of his lecture at the moment, I just listen, and enjoy! Thanks for the amazing personality and lectures!!
I feel like my University failed me because my geology professors didn't care about engaging students or whether anything was really learned. If you weren't at the School of Mines (Golden CO) then why would you take a geology course anyway. They just assumed we were all idiots. The professors there killed my spirit. Thank you for the lecture. It reminded me why I fell in love with geology in the first place. I'd rather be in the field than working at a bank any day.
Ever since childhood, I have been fascinated by "pretty rocks". I am 75 now. I lived on a farm in the Willamette Valley just east of Lebanon. After watching these fun lectures, plus a few books about the region, I better understand what I was seeing. There was a hole that we called the quarry which contained water. Now, I think it was a vent hole. On that farm, there were tons of quartz, agates, thunder eggs, all over the fields so we could just pick them up. I have been lucky enough to travel through many areas discussed. Now I know that those "dinosaur backbones" were beautiful vent remains. So cool. Look forward to continuing to watch these shows. I went to school at Central, then Central Washington College in 1964 and was in the library during an earthquake when the building went east-west, then north-south. Thank you so much. I would love to come and visit Prof Zentner's class. He is a great teacher!
If I had had a teacher like this, I would have gone into geology! After 25 years of teaching, he is still excited about what he's learning, and well able to share it!
Every now and then the RU-vid algorithms pass something across your viewing. This was a absolute gem, I'm not a American but a Australian and I was taken in by the lecture, wit and enthusiasm. Man I would have loved to be in your classroom. Many thanks. Jeff Moore
I revisit professor Nick for an educational weekend about once a year. Now 2021 and all the English speaking world needs a flow to bury the freedom stealing libtards under! Pay attention and question everything! Did you know Nazi party only got 38% of the votes in the last free election. Then the emergency measures went into place. Sound familiar? IMHO Canada will start the new REVOLUTION
I have noticed that most of the worlds politics seem to have a 2nd agenda that's why i building my own small town community to be able to operate independent of the worlds directions. Aussie Jeff
This guy is awesome. Reminds me of my geometry teacher in high school, who would just walk in and start 'chatting' about things, life in general. Then in the last minutes of the class, Mr. Rowlands would suddenly switch to the math portion of the lesson, and tie it all in so incredibly elegant the the simple chat we had been having. Kudos to this guy, and Mr. Rowlands.
When I first came to Oregon, I drove along the Columbia gorge and gazed in awe at the incredible basalt cliffs on either side of the river. I'd previously lived in places dominated by sedimentary rock, and seeing basalt, hundreds of feet high was a humbling and awe inspiring experience. I tried to conceive of the violence and scale of a lava flow that might generate that. I remember thinking, "no, this can't be. This must be some kind of original bedrock that's exposed somehow. There's no way you could have a lava flow like this." Then I drove a bit further and saw basalt atop metamorphic, layered rock. My jaw hit the floor. I'd been trying to grasp what I was seeing ever since. Thanks for explaining it to me finally.
Love this guy and his methods, plus the fact at the end, he welcomes anyone interested to come join a class. If I was in the area, I certainly would have taken him up. Thank you for real teaching. A lost art nowadays. Nick is a gem.
I was kid in the 60s too . We didnt have videos then , but the old guy next door , use to take me gold panning , and hed tell me rock stories like this . If he was alive today , he would have loved this .
A big thank you for this and other great videos that have taught be so much more than I learned in the last 60 + years . As others have commented , if half of the.teachers were as knowledgeable in their given subject as you we would have so many brilliant people the world would be a different place .
A wonderful lecture! As a truck driver I often wondered about these because I saw them for thousands and thousands of miles of driving and I finally understand what they are all about and my enjoyment will be more so to look for the Fissures. I look forward to listening to this these lectures in the future as well
That was the most interesting video on Geology I've ever seen! I grew up in Southern New Jersey. When I moved out here to Springfield Oregon I couldn't believe how beautiful it was! Wish I'd taken an interest in Geology when I was younger.
As I sit here in the south of Britain on a blazing hot day, I find myself enthralled by this lecture! This was presented beautifully, and I wish I could have actually been there for the lecture as it happened. I consider it an absolute privilege to have watched this lecture, and I'd just like to say a big thank you for uploading it! Looks like I'll be binge-watching more of this now!
I recently found these lectures via RU-vid serendipity. I am a Scot living in Scotland, but my husband is American and from Washington State. I can now appreciate his birthplace. Scotland isn't short of fascinating geology- my parents gave me a love of reading the landscape from an early age. Sadly my father is no longer with us, but my mother is also enjoying your lectures. If you ever get the chance- Scotland is a great place to explore. Thank you- we enjoy your style!
As soon as he said "it began 17 MYA", I knew Yellow Stone was involved. Only because I watched the vid about the gold deposits. I love this man's delivery style. Easy to listent to, easy to understand, and easy to remember a lot of it.
Great presentation. In 10,000 years, some future archaeologist will find that rock hammer and be able to say a lot about the lost civilization that once lived here.
@@warpmine1761 most tools are made from some variation of cromium-vanadium steel. As long as that part of Washington doesn't get lots of rain, the hammer will last a very very long time.
Fantastic amount of knowledge displayed by Mr Nick Zentner about the beautiful region in our American West! Thank you,sir for sharing your videos free of charge to us
I like basalt! They are amazing ! There is a basalt formation in Dunsmuire CA called Hedge Creek Falls. The roof of the cave that the falls stream over befire spilling down as a falls, is basalt. To be able to stand under that roof and look up at the pillars of basalt is a marvelous experience!
'Organ Pipes' National Park, on the northwestern outskirts of Melbourne, Australia has a very similar feature - hexagonal basalt columns, a metre across and about 25 metres tall. Much of Melbourne's north and west, are a basaltic lava plain laid down in Australia's last major volcanic orogeny, about 25mya.
An hour long you tube video seemed to pass in five minutes..... i know nothing about geology and I failed school but can’t remember the last time I payed so much attention to somebody talking about something I never had an interest in. I was wondering what I am going to do with my two week Christmas holiday and now I know I will spend it watching more about basalt volcanoes Thank you for sharing your talk
I grew up in the Tri-Cities. I didn’t know anything about the geology of the area until I discovered the Roadside Geology series after I left college. Fascinating stuff! Nick, I have enjoyed watching your videos since I discovered them a month ago. The Teacher Company ought hire you to do a geology course of western North America. Geology, like history, can be boring or interesting, it just depends on the ability of the person telling the story. You are a good story teller.
I think I have watched every one of your videos. You are AWESOME!!!!! Thank you sooo much for the education. Nothing is more entertaining to me, than learning. I appreciate your hard work, and thank you soooo much!
I've watched many a lecture on various topics but this guy is just a mountain of enthusiasm and knowledge that I've yet to come across in other lectures. He really has a passion for Geology, as if he's also saying "we need to be aware of all these cataclysms - they are a huge part of our future coming from the distant past and we can't be ignorant of these events." Great stuff........................
@@BSokler1 Yap. I live in Copenhagen, Denmark, on chalk from the Tethys Sea, with a sprinkling of some upwards of 20 meters of moraine from the several glaciations :3
I started watching these geology lectures by Nick about 5 years ago. Somehow I always get sucked in by Nicks teaching style. As a trucker I know I can always turn on one of these lectures, and use them to rock me to sleep....pun intended. Thank you Nick and CWU. It's been very educational listening for so long now.
Like Jeff who commented just down the list, I’m in Australia as well. This is probably the 4th or 5th of these videos that I have watched and I think that they are exceptional. Bringing knowledge to the people who want to learn for no reason other that to seek knowledge and presented in an outstanding manner. Thank you, I will be sure to watch more and if the world ever settles down enough to travel again I will certainly come visit, buy a burger at some of the roadhouses you mention and maybe even drop into what appears to be a fine University.
Love your way of teaching. The energy shows. I dont have anything to do with Washington Geology or even USA Geology But I watched all your roadside Geology video and following up on these lectures. Amazing. Keep up the energy. and humor :D
Shoot, I'm too old, mean and cranky now for picking up and going back to school here. This is an awesome lecture, my musician brain can handle this. Since I can't shoulda, woulda, coulda, I'm going to remember your name, Mr. Nick Zentner, and watch more of these just for the fun of it. I have already shared this with others.
@@Ellensburg44 thank you Nick, I love your lectures. I use them to learn and fall asleep to, not that you are bad anyway kinda good sleep aid. I love science, but wasn't that good in school. Now I at 40 I love to learn new things and old too.
My parents were both geologists so I know a lot of this, but you do a great job of bringing it all together and making it interesting. Excellent presentation.
Man I think it's pretty awesome that you let anyone come join your class like that. It'd be great for us older folk who don't really have time or money for actual courses but still enjoy some learning. Sorry about your hammer!
And school still push the lie of no such thing as a visual learner. Amazing how much influence silly doodles of the intended verbal information expressions can have on particular cognitive formats used by humans. I always find drawing ruff depictions of what I'm attempting to express makes my ability to express that info verbally
I've heard the rock hammer story several times. I didn't know the event was on video! I howled with laughter. I'm also glad your hammer was returned to you eventually. If belongs on display at the new geology department. I so enjoyed this video. Volcanos of all forms are a passion of mine. I'm currently studying the ice age floods but also starting on studying volcanos. Being covered by st Helen's ash cured I desire to see a live eruption in person. It also made my desire to learn more about volcanos stronger. Now that I'm turning 75, it is time for this studying. I just ordered the large igneous provinces book. Thank you Nick for all the teaching videos from the beginning to now!
I was lucky to have a professor like Nick Zentner....who made the topics in Geology 101 come alive. I was also lucky to grow up in San Bernardino, CA only a few miles from the San Andreas Fault system and lots of rock outcrops. These are the most likely reasons why I spent a 30 year career as a geologist. Some of the credit must also be given to my graduate school professors as well.....
Just stumbled upon these CWU lectures by Nick Zentner. The wife and I have been watching them every night for the last week. If I wasn't so old (I witnessed the Mt. Mazama eruption) I'd go back to school and study geology.
What age? I'm 41 and believe that it's too late for me to study volcanology and make anything out of it in life in all honesty. Plus I don't think I'm clever enough or even have enough money to study volcanology on a professional level but the older I become, the more regret and shame I have for not taking it up when I fell in love with volcanoes at age 10. I never was encouraged to go for what I really wanted in life and now I'm pretty much stuck in jobs going nowhere wishing for the end to make it's raging ugly aftermath known to me in a painless way (I definitely wouldn't want to be incinerated by a pyroclastic flow however for this sounds a really horrible way to go ;-) )
I struggle more with geology than I do volcanology admittedly but I'm just starting to watch these videos as I discovered this lecturer only last night. I want to buy that pyroclastic rocks book at some also as I have another book by fischer (Volcanoes - crucible of change and that is a fabulous book)though £100 for me is a little too much :D
This is very interesting. I was raised and still live around George, Wa. I work for a water well drilling company based out of Moses Lake and I’ve always thought it was cool so see the geology underground down to 800’ or more. I’ve always felt like it’s a special opportunity to see geology that most people never get to see on a daily basis all across Central Washington. I also manage a crushed stone operation out of Royal City so I look at rock formations and deposits every day. It’s interesting to see this and correlate my own thoughts and ideas about what we see every day on the job. It’s amazing how many different formations are underneath us and often wonder how they got there.
I truly enjoyed this! When I take my motorcycle trips through all those areas I feel like I'm stepping back in time. I truly enjoy all the fanciest flows in the French Glen, OR area. Thank you for this posting
This is what teaching should look like. Humility to point out that which isn’t known, or has various possibilities, or is the best current hypothesis being included is the icing on the ‘German chocolate cake’!
This video was recommended to me over a dozen times before I finally said "okay, fine RU-vid. I'll watch it." And so far, it's a really good presentation on German Chocolate Cake!
If I lived out there, I'd definitely attend this professor's class. Always great to see someone in education who loves what they do. Thanks Mr. Zentner. Your are a fine educator, otherwise I wouldn't be living in Philly and enjoying a great talk on Flood Basalts of the Pacific Northwest.
Nice to see a lecture where the professor is willing to admit he/she is still learning as well. Just because you have a PhD doesn't mean you know everything. It means that you are good at learning.
I am 8 minutes in but I love this show. More to come.i am an amateur geologist and I've seen parts of Columbia River also and it has crossed my mind as to how those rocks were formed. Now I'm learning. Also more about a lot of other stuff.this guy knows his stuff.and funny.
I've ridden a bicycle around the world. It took three months to cross Russia. Since I'm really into science, I study a bit about the areas I'm going through. I remembered the Sibierian Traps as being a biggy in the history of the planet. Now there's a 1,000km wide swamp in that area of Russia. It also has Lake Baikal, an enormous rift lake, which I SCUBA dove in. It's so large it's practically an inland freshwater ocean. Even has seals, sponges and shrimp.
His teaching style will educate those who arn't interested. Never monotone, crisp, clear and punctuated with humour. I opened this vid by accident and I'm still here watching his stuff 90 minutes later LOL!! Obviously he's paid attn to what doesnt work.
Thanks Nick, this was a blast! I did not know either that there were pyroclastic deposits associated with the CRBs. I hope that the future generations will be able to retrieve your hammer.
I am watching a series on Prime Video called Voyage Of The Continents. There is an episode that talks about India drifting from Africa to Asia. During it's travel, India went over a hot spot, similar to Hawaii. There was massive lava flows for many many years. It is now called the Deccan flood basalts. When they started talking about the lava coming up through fissures and cracks, it reminded me of this lecture by Nick. So at least some of the information from his lectures sinks into my old hard head. I think I'm making progress. Thanks Nick! :)
I am not a geologist (or even close), but these lectures are wonderful! Anyone can understand the principles behind these eruptions and can view nature with different eyes! Thank you!
Nick you are a boss, I am a simple HVAC techie with a shitload of wonder just moving up here from the deserts of AZ, and this level of passion speaks on many volumes, even without any prior basis in Geology in general. Keep the spirit alive on the academic front mate, cheers! Also, am I the only one sensing a strong "spirit of the Dodo" on your board drawings right from the start? ^.^ You got a new fan regardless!! Take care of yourself as well, as much as possible
Thanks Mike. Shitload of wonder...a nice ring to that. If you mean my chalkboard drawing is on the verge of extinction, I agree, although it speaks to some.
Appreciate the reply chief! Hope all is well and smooth sails for ya, definitely not entirely extinct with that much personality up there buddy, undying!!! And haha yeah I am nothing without my witty western catch phrases and the little moments of volunteered humiliation, that's progress baby!!! Cheers
Very interesting subject. Great teacher ! I once had a botany professor that was so good I took every class he taught. It's so great to hear a knowledgeable opinion that all the media hype about Yellowstone is total BS.
Yet ANOTHER gr-r-r-r-reat Nick Zentner lecture! He makes a complicated subject--like Pacific Northwest geology--much easier to understand. If people here haven't checked it out yet, his "Nick at Home" series, I can highly recommend it.
