From 2017: CWU's Nick Zentner at West Bar in central Washington. "Nick On The Rocks" is a series of short geology videos that air on Public Television stations across the Pacific Northwest.
Nick is getting everyone up to speed for the Fall lecture A-Z series.Yup I have done my prep work .I expect also to be learning news things about the Ice age Floods Some of what I am learning can here in the UP of Michigan .15,000 years ago The UP was under a mile or more of ICE.
Thanks Nick, for the great episode. And, let's not forget to thank all the folks that support the series, and those "behind the scenes" that make the series possible.
I've seen my share of shows at the Gorge and had already been fascinated by the geology of the whole region, so I really appreciated seeing this animation of where the flood would have cut through the landscape.
Measure the dates of the rocks, knowing the rocks, knowing about Faults, Sudcion Plates, Ice Flows, River Flows, so many things i learn on the canal of Nicks, awesome
I was watching your videos a couple of years ago, then somehow you disappeared from my radar. I'm SO happy i found you again. Nobody makes geology as interesting as you. You make me wish I was a young man so I could sign up for your classes !
One of your greatest enthusiast, John Young from Rhododendron ,just passed. He took great pleasure in your series and pride in immersing himself in your guidance. Do keep up the great service. Thanks.
Nice animation, but you didn’t include the icebergs that would have been in it! Flown over West Bar many times and looked at the Mega-ripples. The age dating technique is interesting!
Interesting animation. Would be something if a CGI company went to the effort to create an animation of the whole Ice Age Floods epic. I think it would be pretty dramatic. I'd even pay to see it.
Another Interesting thing you could point out is that all of the boulders you noted have been rounded (no sharp edges), which is a feature created through transport by water, resulting in all of the rocks banging into each other and smoothing the edges, much like a tumbler does.
Just started watch nick’s series’ and college talks about a month ago. Knew about Randall Carlson and his ice age flood stuff. This all jives with his timeline too. Very interesting. Great content. Because of a religious upbringing, on my college vulcanology field trip I argued for the “religious” view of a 6000 yr old earth. That God “made it that way”. But now older and wiser I don’t see how/why God would do that. This stuff is fascinating. Also Gobeckli Tepe.
Randall Carlson interpretation of the floods is completely wrong, he believes their was only 1 flood that was triggered by a meteorite hitting an ice shelf. Their is no evidence for this, his younger drias impact theory was recently debunked by a research paper refuting his claims. Missoula floods happened around 100 times during the retreat of the glaciers but also weren't the only megafloods in the area during the whole ice age.
Great segment Nick and Team! Powerful simulation of the water flowing. Great to learn about the radio isotope exposure measurements, how many years have these been used? What methods were used to calibrate the measurements to "reality of geologic time"?
