The ice age floods and the geology of all of Washington state are so cool. Big thanks to Nick Zentner for making so much amazing information so accessible!
Brilliant presentation of a complex geological phenomenon! Thank you for sharing this informative video. Washington State is the most interesting geological place to live.
Years ago, we stopped at the Ephrata fan area (close to the airport) and marveled at the thousands of mostly round boulders. Walked among them for hours speculating on how it all happened and where they came from. Mystery solved! Thank you.
Also if you practice other natural sciences. My preparation is in archaeology, ethno-botany, and regional history - all in the PNW -and Dr. Z relentlessly builds my understanding of my own fields.
Outstanding video and explanation. I first encountered the fascinating story of the ice age floods many years ago when I read of the life and explorations of J Harlan Bretz. Your videos are so informative and interesting. Thank you.
Thank you so much for a great presentation!!! I was visiting Dry Falls Area last August and was so impressed !!! I love geology of WA!!! Its so unique. You explained so many interesting facts!!! I wish I had teacher like you when studied geography in Poland many years ago.....
Grew up in this area back in the 50s and hiked and camped in all these places. Always was very curious myself about all these unusual formation. This series is one of favorites and Nick is my all time favorite geology teachers. Rich Deline
Dry Falls is an amazing place. Had the privilege of visiting there a few years ago along with Mt. Rainier, Lake Chelan, Seattle and all points in between. Great video.
Great video and the perfect length. We don't have much for rocks here in Florida but it's fascinating stuff. Like a good detective story but real. Thanks!
I remember browsing in a bookstore 7-8 years ago (a Borders, remember those?-); I happened to pick up a book called "Bretz's Flood". I read the entire thing over the next four hours in their coffee hangout, transfixed by the story of these ice age floods, and have been fascinated by the events ever since. This is a great presentation, Nick, really gives you a great feeling for their power and scale. Keep up the excellent videos!
I love learning about geology. Took a class in geology at Everett community college in 1980...Just no jobs in the field back then...so I got a degree in civil engineering. Geology really helps in the understanding of soils, foundations and drainage.
Wow, did I enjoy this video. I'm an eastern Washington native, but rarely get back to visit. Had a fascination with Dry Falls from my youth; what a great explanation of what I remember seeing. Thank you so much!
There's geology all over the world, but Washington is a geologist's playground. The volcanic and ice age features are fascinating. Taking that thought full circle, I would guess the entire world is a playground for Nick Zentner!
When I was little I use to find miniture potholes in big rocks on the north fork river east of Salem going up Hwy 22. You could see rocks at the bottom swirling around slowly carving out the potholes.
Aerial photography is marvelous! Is that you flying that tiny thing, Nick? Superb vistas and fascinating geological commentary make for a unique presentation on Washington, in all its splendor!
Thankyou for doing this video. The Soap Lake area is of great interest to me. So what is the story about the alkaline waters? I saw in the movie, There Will Be Blood the alkaline waters are associated with oil? Thanks again.
Below Niagara Falls in the Niagara Gorge/Glen you can find drilled potholes, remnants of the old falls location further downriver. But these are small, just a couple of feet in diameter and a foot or two deep. Nothing like those of Dry Falls. The scale is amazing.
Even more amazing is that, after carving up the entire eastern half of Washington state, these floods still had the power to carve out the dramatic Columbia Gorge, flood the valleys of the Columbia and the Willamette rivers from the current site of the Portland metro area down to Salem, Oregon, and north into Longview, Washington under several hundred feet of water, and wash a huge sediment fan hundreds of miles out into the Pacific from the mouth of the Columbia River.
Now you can use Drones instead Of finding a gyrocopter and pilot to film from above. Nick, the presentation was well done. I have had many questions answered in your lectures and roadside geology. Thank you.
tremendous! great vid!THANKS! wHEN R U COMING THRU GRANGEVILLE? I'll treat lunch dinner etc. The whitebird grade and battlefield monument. Is a geo museum w breccias porpjry intrusions mafic layeres bifs regional metemorph U name it you can see many different historys in the road cuts^ the suture zone is here we have thrust fault next to deep basin extensional. and a freind owns a property near town 10 miles that was a working gold mine ore carts and all, I WOULD like to know its connection to your geology. LMK THANKS JAMES
I was wondering you gave the date of the floods the 40 floods and as 15,000 to 17000 years ago I was wondering Randall Carlson puts a 12900 years ago and I was wondering if you could comment on mr. Carlson and his ideas for the sudden melting of the ice Continental ice sheet thank you
There is no outlet to Soap Lake so the mineral content builds up and when the wind blows waves onto the shore it creates foam which looks like soap bubbles to some.
@@sandybowman9638 I've noticed that same foam on Priest Lake in Idaho. Always wondered what it was but now it makes total sense. There is a ton of sediments deposited into that lake by the many creeks and rivers that feed into it from the Selkirk Mountains. Thanks for the info!
The scale and force of these events is just beyond imagination. You could nuke Grand Coulee Dam and the resulting catastrophe would be like a light summer rain shower compared to the ice age floods.
If one were to wish to go back in time and witness these catastrophic events, you had better have some some research because appearing out of a time machine 20,000 years ago during potentially a cataclysmic event would be a very day day. You sure as heck wouldn't want to be at the base of the valley during an ice age flood.
I'm watching but I just too inquisitive...sometimes. how deep are the depressions that water sets in just over the edge of dry falls. so at the end of the glacier floors they must of been less destructive to carve the holes just GUESSING.....BUT STILL MASSIVE.....GREAT VIDEO THANKS FOR WHAT YOU DO
I wonder how many grazing Ice Age animals were caught up in those floods...and how many of their bones, teeth, and tusks we might find buried in flood deposits! Also, you have to wonder if the earliest Native Americans were there to see it happen.
The potholes are not from erosion or water. The winning Dr. Nick should think a lot more about what he's explaining. The marks and terrain reflect the geography of interstellar plasma cuts from an electrically driven universe. Those types of clean "craters" are also in Alaska and all over the Carolinas, Plus they are on the moons, Mars, comets. Also, this destruction happened way more recently than "millions" of years. Wasn't gradual as is being sold. The gravity paradigm doesn't model what's happening in front of our eyes or our radio-telescopes. Time to snap out of it.
Wow, Bob. The fact that you actually believe that is utterly astounding. Please tell me you didn't enlist in any government testing programs that involved Kool-Aid.