Wenatchee Washington - Ice Age Floods Geology 

Like the bow tie. Grew up in Wenatchee and took my first geology course at Wenatchee Valley College in 1973. Our teacher, a chemist(!), took us on field trips where we saw the physical evidence of the flood waters released during the ice age. That geology course got me hooked as I look back as a retired geologist. Very good presentation.

Really appreciate your comments, wafflesnfalafel! Just what we were trying to do! Thanks for watching.

That is really nicely done - enough information to be educational, excitement for the material, local references for folks to tie it close to home.

For autodidacts, these really are wonderful videos. Congratulations.

My Mama's family lived in Wenatchee in the 1940's on Mission or Methow Avenue. They had 2 huge boulders in their backyard; a "ship" which was long and low and a "castle" that was larger than the house! The kids loved the adventures there.❤

My grandfather and his father & mother and four brothers were all homesteaders in the Wenatchee Valley among the earliest homesteaders in the area. My grandfather drove a stagecoach between Clelumn and Wenatchee in those early days.

Nice to know. This kind of stuff wasn't covered at the local schools. I can tell this video was shot around mid April - mid May when the hills are still green and the Yellow Bells are in bloom. Almost all of the marketing pictures of Wenatchee are shot during this time of year.

Nick Thank you for your videos. We actually drove from Cougar, Wa. to The Dry falls yesterday. We took pictures of the places you showed in your videos. It has helped me and my friend leslie understand more of what we are looking at and therefore makes it more beautiful and exciting. Our trip lasted 17.5 hours and 650 miles it was epic. We want to visit the Wallula Gap next.

Hello young people? I'm 62 and I enjoy the presentations.

Great informative videos packed into short clips. Keep up the good work!

This video is great!!

I first saw this on our local PBS station between shows. Very nice to see the video with explanation. Really like the part that shows the current speed and water depth. I love driving out to Quincy and seeing those down at Crescent Bar. Really amazing to know how they were formed. The geological evidence is fascinating to comprehend.

These were all just random facts until I moved to Wenatchee in June. I'm from the Midwest, around the Eastern Nebraska bluffs along the Platte River. I bet Nick would have some interesting things to say about Nebraska too, especially the bluffs (over almost all of Nebraska) and the giant rock formations in the West, like Chimney Rock. He may even have something to say about the Sandhills in North central Nebraska.

Love it Nick!

Thanks! I now have a much better understanding of this area I call home.

This is a great series. Thanks for posting.

I suspected that before, thanks for the confirmation for Leavenworth

Excellent!

We need a guy like you in Utah.

I loved this video. It's nice learning new things about Wenatchee. I love spring time here because that's when the foothills and the plateau are green.

I very much enjoy the complex nature of the valley's development. Thank you for these videos. While building a house not far from where you were standing above Sunnyslope, we found shells as we were digging our foundation. Amazing how deep the water was.

I was wondering why those high peaks stood that tall around Leavenworth but it makes sense the ice age because I haven’t heard of giant peaks created by crust plates crashing…

Could you possibly clone yourself and come down to Southern California and explain what went on down here in such an informative way? ;-)

It's NOW 2020 GOOD JOB KID

Ice rafted erratic found at the upper margins of a periglacial lake/basin, that is very cool. I hadn't thought about that possibility when geologising.

This is perfect! I am half done a novel set in Wenatchee, and the more I know, the better setting I create!

Very interesting and very entertaining.

Great stuff. Somehow, I just discovered this. I teach PNW History in the White Salmon School District and these are perfect conversation starters/project reinforcement! Thanks TONS!!!

Hey Nick, will you do a video on Moses Coulee? My family tried to farm the land east of the coulee just off of Highway 2 (Whitehall Road) and Jameson Lake, but lack of water in the basalt rocks made it hard to irrigate the fields in the summer month and crops failed. I have always loved this coulee and this is where I found my love for geology as a child. There is so much geologic history in the Waterville Plateau with glacial erratics, floods, and more. Go Wildcats!

So I am an archaeologist monitoring a construction project in Wenatchee, about a half mile south of the confluence of the Wenatchee and Columbia. They have cut down from the surface to about 5 meters. Its all stratified sand, silt. I think I have at least one rhythmite visible in some of my profile photos. Its just a stark white layer of silt loam about 5 cm thick. My geology map calls it fan deposits, but strats seem generally flat. Is it safe to assume that this terrace or fan might be from these floods.

Talk about the floods of 1948 & 1949, I remember houses floating down the Columbia River. We all had to get typhoid vaccination.

Hi there, I prospect for gold at the sleepy hollow bridge and I found a couple pieces of what seem to be rock (whitish) with an almost black rounded friction mark in each piece. One of them is actually stamped with the number 42 on it and I have been wondering for years now, and I figured who better to ask then you 🙂

What would happen if the rocky reach dam and rock island dam failed?

Isn't it true that there are still some buried glaciers in the Okanagan valley?

Oh by the way I see you're giving a lecture at the Sandhill Crane Festival next weekend. I hope to encourage my friend Leslie to go and to hear your talk. Until i went to the website I thought the festival was all ballon animals and face painting, I'm happy to be wrong on that. Maybe you could make a wiener dog out of a ballon!

I live in Wenatchee

I WILL KEEP ON SAYING WHAT YOU SEE AND HEAR ON THE COMPUTER IS A LOT DIFFERENT THAN WHAT YOU GET OUT OF THE TEXT BOOKS. IF YOU WANT TO GET A LOT OF GOOD INFORMATION READ DAVID ALT'S BOOK.. ON THE GREAT MISSULA FLOOD..HE HAS BEEN ALL OVER THE AREA.

none of these videos are 2 minutes long

brownwaterboys

It's a guess. We don't know

"ice age"... lol.

Is it hotter than Seattle there

60 years ago my grandfather and his friends shot .22s at eachother playing cowboys and Indians at the giant rocks.