I wish I'd have studied geology when I was in college. I quite possibly would have finished college if I had. I live in Liberty Lake Washington, and was born and raised in Spokane. In my youth I use to dislike what I called the desert we had to endure while travelling to and from Seattle. Today, thanks to your videos, I find myself incredibly attracted to the Channeled Scablands. As a matter of fact, I'm planning on visiting as much of it as I can this summer to make a photo journal. Thanks for your presentations. I really enjoy them.
Hi Nick, I just stumbled upon your videos and I love them. I live in NY's Hudson Valley and I'm an avid outdoors-man. Now you've got me searching high and low for Geology Lectures pertaining to my home. Thanks for the videos, I really like them!!
Thanks for doing these videos for us......I have watched 6 or 7 of your videos so far....I would love to see someone doing what you have done for the great Northwest down here in the SE....from a sw georgia boy.
at 3:44, you state that the pre-flood basalt sloped gently down to the Columbia. This gentle slop is visible over your head where we can see the next point on the river upstream from the I90 bridge sloping gently from the high ground on the left toward the river at the center of the frame.
These are just great. Excellent intro on reading the terrain. I ll see if I can apply what I learned to decoding my Nova Scotia landscape :) Thanks bunch for putting those up!
Niagara Falls retreated as well. I spent time stationed in Tacoma, Washington always admired Washington geology. Michigan doesn't have the same features but I still see the effect of a melting glacier!
Hi Nick, I know how much you love Washington. I love watching your shows, but I'm in Oregon. I was wondering if you would do a little bit about your southern neighbor? Thanks!
Ha! Thanks Jennifer. We have a new PBS video series that aims to eventually visit key spots all across the Pacific Northwest. Washington stuff first....but the Bonneville Landslide across the river from Cascade Locks, OR will be featured in a new video next winter. Thanks for your interest.
to think we have a petrified wood forest, with most of the denizens of that forest, from so long ago is simply spectacular. to get a full representation of all the trees, in such a small area, when the whole thing could have burnt up. nature gives and then takes away. time. an enemy, but mysterious too.
>^..^< In my college years (mid 1970s) I had a friend who had a friend that needed a Chevy Vega driven from Pennsylvania driven from to SanFrancisco. I 8o goes directly from NYCity to SF and is with in ear shot of my home and my collage ESSU. So we took I8o west until entering southern Illinois. Just for fun once in IL we headed north and hopped on I9oW and ended up driving over that bridge to mentioned in the intrduction to this video.... Think we racked racked up almost an additional 1,ooo miles on the Vega just for fun. Earlyer in time my Father's last comment after being made an officer in WWII in the US Navy was to deliver YO (Yard Oiler) to the Mediterranean. The navy written orders only told him what date he needed to deliver the YO, not the rout to take. So he took this littel ship a few miles longer and decided since he had ever made it around the world thru the Suez canal. He diced to accross the Pacific ocean from Bremerton WA to the Med in the YO just for fun. And ended up bringing back a big Persian run which was in our family living room for decades as a souvenir of his trip. I guess that was his rout 90 detour just for fun with someone else's vehicle.......
Bravo , Butte , Nick about 6 :30 , you note and comment on the wild flowers , you are a geologist ! Dmnt man ! That's biology , cut it down and burn the evidence , it's in the way of progress! I want to see nothing but rocks ! Boi is a separate Dept. Down the hall , along ways , somewhere . Forget them ! Focus on the stone! ...c yaz!
...a Louisiana Cajun Coule, pronounced coo-la...with a long A at the end, like the Spanish word Ole, is a big ditch. Similar to a water drainage canal.
How about google geology? Boredom make you look at weird stuff. The Chixitlub asteroid impact had to cause a shockwave right? I went looking for the antipodes location, just out of curiousity. I figured whatever was on the opposite side of the planet was going to take a hit from impact shock right? Looking at continental drift maps, India rolled thru there and obliterated the evidence. Either that or rock broken up by the shockwave allowed India to cruise hard into the Asian plate. That would mean that the Chixitlub impact had an indirect part in pushing up the Himalayas? Any geologists out there?
