I am a geologist, and I live in Anacortes. Didn't know my bedrock was 160M years old. It's easy to see the glacial striations and we have lots of trees falling in the forest because our soil is so thin due to recent glaciation. A veritable paradise of geology processes in full view. Thanks for the video.
@@Dred.Pirate.Roberts The fact that you have lots of trees falling because of thin soil due to the recent glaciation, I find this extremely interesting. We have a little cabin out on Center Island. I either put in at Washington Park or take the water taxi over from Skyline. Anacortes is a cool town.
@@jacobaccurso We love living here. We just walked Washington Park yesterday. You can see how thin the soil is (typically 2 to 4') and see lots of downed trees after every windstorm. Cool place to live, but be careful of what's overhead.
The Anacortes area is one of my favorite hiking destinations, so it's fascinating to learn more about the geology of the area. Until now, I never really pondered about hiking on 160,000,000 year old rock. Very cool!
This series is done so well; I can’t wait to see all the stuff coming! Wishing your wife a speedy recovery and peace to your entire family during this hard time. We are all thinking about you!
Whidbey Island was in the "shadow" of Anacortes and Fildalgo. The Island is composed of mostly sand that was deposited by that glacier 16,000 years ago. I had a well dug on South Whidbey island. When we got down through about 160 feet of sand, the well drillers started pulling up 16,000 year old wood from the forest that once covered that area.
I love the Pacific Northwest...travel 50 miles in any direction and it feels like another planet. My favorite memory of the place comes from the Good Friday quake: we were living in Bremerton hill-top (a mound of glacial till) at the time. This amplified the shaking...we had several windows in our house break, many neighbors lost their chimneys, water-mains ruptured and a nearby bridge pulled two feet away from its abutment!
Outstanding episode. My wife and I are relocating to Anacortes in two weeks and were just at Washington Park over the weekend. So great to learn about this!
Hugs and prayers, dear prof nick... I been in your corner since the backyard TENT days!! Trying to keep up, but I been helping 97 year old mom, on chat, and staying... God richly bless you, Liz, kids, family, and work!!
Interesting how it all came together. I remember watching you, Brady and Back country Gary when you first were thinking about it all. Thanks for being a breath of fresh air!
I love learning about my home, the Pacific Northwest of America..... and especially about the Inland Northwest. Geology, Geography & history is what i love Nick has taught me alot, and i appreciate it🤘
the Wave wall is about 100 ft from the waters edge & probably a half mile from Sunset beach at Washington Park.... just a few miles past the ferry terminal.
@jetryder yes there is... not sure exactly what trail # You can get there either from the trail at the bench on the loop road, & from the craggy tree at the lookout towards Burrows island. It's just up from a little cove in between the two & you can look on Google maps
I don't give a Schist, Nick is the best, so much to see here by my home and I knew from their scout video that this would be a great presentation. Now to go out and find that half pipe in the ACFL!
Lol, and to think: a few short years ago, we used to join Nick on a Thursday evening with a glass (or bottle) of wine on a live stream. Talking about rocks. So awesome to see your trajectory, and thank you for all your shared passion.
As always, an amazing video! Informative, surprising, interesting, and leaving me wanting more! Thank goodness Anacortes is just a short car ride away! Time for a field trip!
Nick on the Rocks is shot really well !😊 It would be interesting to see nick continue the story near Fossil Bay on Sucia island to cover the Baja BC theory that spans 50 to 80 million years ago!
Thanks, Nick for coming to Anacortes! I live very near where you filmed and I wonder about and marvel at the story I see around me! I am VERY curious about the sequence of events that created the exposed profile on Guemes Island. I hope you'll investigate that someday. I'm a big fan!
I love these episodes - just wished they were like 1/2 hour long...or more! Here's a tip - go to Cypress Island which is north of Anacortes. Land at Pelican Beach, then climb to Eagle Cliff - about 200-300 ft above the water. There are glacial striations in the rocks way up there!
Great episode Nick! This is so well done, production is top notch. Glad you and yours are moving in a good way. Was a privilege to see you in Portland back in May at OHSU. Love PNW Rocks!
I moved to Vancouver Island years ago and always contemplated about how the glacial striations were created and over what time along with the glacial deposits that we are building on all over the island especially at southern end of the island. I wonder how all of this is may play out in an earthquake! Your video about Anacortes is awesome and I want to see more. Subscribed!
Awesome! I am from anacortes, I used an application that was for dinosaurs and Pangea locations and movements! It showed Anacortes With San Juan Islands and Vancouver isl. all together down where eastern island sits in the far lower west pacific, over time it showed anacortes slowly moving upwards this was before Jurassic era as it finally shifts to where it is today! Not sure how correct the app is. But I was always taught anacortes was here.
Good stuff Nick! If I remember correctly from my undergrad geology class trip to nearby Mt. Erie there was serpentinite rock on the top of that mountain (a specific metamorphic rock). Regardless, a wonderful trip into PNW geology! Thanks.
That striated wall is sooooo cool... I have seen some pretty amazing features during field trips/schools/work etc, but this one may be in the top 5! I come down to the BC Lower Mainland from central BC fairly often, and may do the Canadian glacier thing and cross the border to bond with it😉 Not now, but in the summer... And when our dollar is doing better 😖
I am from Anacortes and we were made aware of Ice Age evidence from an early age. Erratics, moraines, roche moutonnees. Its all here. I often wonder what the landscape looked like within 100 years of the glaciers leaving.
If you're looking for that glacially carved wall, it's in Washington Park past the ferry terminal. Walk/Drive the loop counter clockwise, going with the flow of traffic. At the bottom of the last hill, just before the climb to the south facing overlook point, there is a forest trail off to the right. Follow that trail towards the water. At every junction just take the descending path. You can find it down there about 10 minutes walk from the road.
When I saw Ned Zinger on Cascade PBS I was like, "no way!!" (And yes, I know that's not his name.... Nick's regular viewers will know what I mean.) BTW, re: Pacific Science Center: My sister and I were such science geeks, that literally the first place we went when we moved to Seattle (I was almost 17, she was almost 18) was go to the Science Center! Went many times after that, too.
I think the ancient ice sheets shoved the native ground along over the bedrock, and that's what gouged it, then deposited it out in the ocean. As the ice melted, it left transplanted Canadian gravel
I wonder if you carefully remove the sand from the rocks on the sea floor striations, will you see the actual groove from each stone, did you get till that was after the original till that made the marks, inquiring minds want to know.
Hi Nick, i live in Anacortes and have seen all these before, I have a house size boulder that is on my property here, I live on the south side of fidalgo island by Campbell lake
On the striations etched into the curved vertical wall, a narrowing of the ice flow could cause that. The ice and rock debris would have to ride up the sides of the narrowing. Over time it could round out the wall.
I said striations as soon as I saw them! Ha! Even before you mentioned them. I feel like I just stuck in a thumb and pulled out a plum. 😂 The curved wall looks like the curl you get when you drag the ice cream scoop through the surface. This one remains frozen for millions of years.
I wish we could sit on my ledge off Whaada island, Makah reservation at 60’. Follow me underwater and do your rock talk when we finish. Same at Koitlah point, 40’ of water. There’s formations that I am amazed with, Cabezon nursery as well. Earth is folded under water like nowhere I’ve seen.
I just realized this is not Nicks page but I will ask the question none the less. I live in Tsawwassen Canada, which is the Canadian side of annexed Point Roberts Washington. Basically Northern Puget sound where this small peninsula sticks out between boundary bay on the east side and the open straight on the west side. I am asking because I was wondering if these Anacortes scoured Jurassic rocks can be found in other areas or is it a matter of looking for these same features in exposed bedrock? I certainly know of moraines that have formed here right on top of my house actually. I know the San Juans have some ancient rock. So anybody who might understand this, let me know eh ;)
I take all my visitors to the Great Gouge, so I have seen it many times. I would like to know why the Gouge is lined by what looks like a crust. The crust has fallen off in many places, partly due to visitor vandalism. Naturally I can see how a rock-studded glacier could grind a gouge, but why would it leave a seeming crust? The Great Gouge crust looks like some very hot stuff flowed here, not a glacier. I like to remind my more sophisticated visitors of the ending of the sci fi movie Predator II and then I say, "Obviously this is no glacier's doing, instead it's the remnants of a tunnel that a Predator spacecraft left here possibly before the last ice advance. Probably came here for the big game." Seriously I would like to know what you think of that crust that coats the good old Great Gouge.
No better science educator than Nick Zenter 👑
His enthusiasm is infectious.
I am a geologist, and I live in Anacortes. Didn't know my bedrock was 160M years old. It's easy to see the glacial striations and we have lots of trees falling in the forest because our soil is so thin due to recent glaciation. A veritable paradise of geology processes in full view. Thanks for the video.
@@Dred.Pirate.Roberts The fact that you have lots of trees falling because of thin soil due to the recent glaciation, I find this extremely interesting. We have a little cabin out on Center Island. I either put in at Washington Park or take the water taxi over from Skyline. Anacortes is a cool town.
@@jacobaccurso We love living here. We just walked Washington Park yesterday. You can see how thin the soil is (typically 2 to 4') and see lots of downed trees after every windstorm. Cool place to live, but be careful of what's overhead.
@Dred.Pirate.Roberts Have you been to this wave wall? Someone else commented below that it's 100 ft from the shore between sunset beach and the ferry.
@@jetryder I have walked Washington Park a lot, but never seen this wave wall.
@@Dred.Pirate.Robertsjust found it today!! It's on trail 505, the burrows channel trail. The trail starts right before the viewpoint on the loop.
The Anacortes area is one of my favorite hiking destinations, so it's fascinating to learn more about the geology of the area.
Until now, I never really pondered about hiking on 160,000,000 year old rock.
Very cool!
A fantastic teacher with all the right pizazz to motivate students young and ancient. Thank you Nick and team!
"Ancient"
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Thank you Nick! I watch all your stuff and your lectures! I hope your wife is doing well and is recovering ❤
I must have missed something. What happened to his wife?
@@kathyamoshis UA-cam Channel Nick Zentner will explain his A-Z series will be delayed.
@@McSippy not sure but in hospital couple weeks ago
This series is done so well; I can’t wait to see all the stuff coming! Wishing your wife a speedy recovery and peace to your entire family during this hard time. We are all thinking about you!
Whidbey Island was in the "shadow" of Anacortes and Fildalgo. The Island is composed of mostly sand that was deposited by that glacier 16,000 years ago. I had a well dug on South Whidbey island. When we got down through about 160 feet of sand, the well drillers started pulling up 16,000 year old wood from the forest that once covered that area.
Cool!!!
We SO love this series! ⚘ Thanks to Nick and the whole crew.
I love the Pacific Northwest...travel 50 miles in any direction and it feels like another planet.
My favorite memory of the place comes from the Good Friday quake: we were living in Bremerton hill-top (a mound of glacial till) at the time.
This amplified the shaking...we had several windows in our house break, many neighbors lost their chimneys, water-mains ruptured and a nearby bridge pulled two feet away from its abutment!
Not even 50 miles...
A ferry ride to Seattle is like landing on another planet.
Outstanding episode. My wife and I are relocating to Anacortes in two weeks and were just at Washington Park over the weekend. So great to learn about this!
Nick for President! He gets down to the bedrock 🪨
That wall had to be an edge of glacier advance. That is some competent rock to withstand the incredible force of a flowing glacier.
This guy….Nick Zentner is a great teacher….love his presentations.
Glad you are back Nick. Prayers for you and your wife. Love the geology lecture in my neck of the woods.
Hugs and prayers, dear prof nick... I been in your corner since the backyard TENT days!! Trying to keep up, but I been helping 97 year old mom, on chat, and staying... God richly bless you, Liz, kids, family, and work!!
Well done, Nick. Wow, an 8-minute classroom on Hidalgo Island. Who woulda thought? Amazing what happens when you remove the jungle...
Long follower of Prof Zetner! He is such a Great Teacher! My Gosh I could listen to his thoughts and lessons for hours….. in fact I believe I have!
Every time i watch you i learn something new about the places I've been. Thank you so much
my new favorite band is Nick Rock and the Glacial Erratics!
Nick does a wicked Amy Winehouse, look up his early videos.
Wonderful video. Such a treat to watch. Wishing you and your family all the best.
Interesting how it all came together. I remember watching you, Brady and Back country Gary when you first were thinking about it all. Thanks for being a breath of fresh air!
I love learning about my home, the Pacific Northwest of America..... and especially about the Inland Northwest. Geology, Geography & history is what i love
Nick has taught me alot, and i appreciate it🤘
Thank You Nick, we are all thinking about you and your family and hoping for the best.
That wall is indeed a thing of beauty, thanks!
What an exciting look into the fascinating questions geology brings to a region! Beautiful!
the Wave wall is about 100 ft from the waters edge & probably a half mile from Sunset beach at Washington Park.... just a few miles past the ferry terminal.
Love that spot
Is there an ACFL trail to it or something? Ive been here since '99 and never heard of it.
@jetryder yes there is... not sure exactly what trail # You can get there either from the trail at the bench on the loop road, & from the craggy tree at the lookout towards Burrows island. It's just up from a little cove in between the two & you can look on Google maps
We love seeing you highlight our beautiful island.
I don't give a Schist, Nick is the best, so much to see here by my home and I knew from their scout video that this would be a great presentation. Now to go out and find that half pipe in the ACFL!
Congrats Nick, you've earned this...
Thank you Nick and Co. for another great "Nick on the Rocks"! Wishing your wife a complete and peaceful recovery. My best to her and your family.💗
super glad you included that rounded vertical wall - been there a number of times and it really is amazing, it honestly looks man made but it isn't.
Loving these new Nick On The Rocks episodes!
Always good to learn geology with Nick.I hope the best to the family of Nick❤
Awesome. I watched Nick's video with Back Country Gary as they scouted for this one.
Lol, and to think: a few short years ago, we used to join Nick on a Thursday evening with a glass (or bottle) of wine on a live stream. Talking about rocks. So awesome to see your trajectory, and thank you for all your shared passion.
As always, an amazing video! Informative, surprising, interesting, and leaving me wanting more! Thank goodness Anacortes is just a short car ride away! Time for a field trip!
Well done Nick and team! The filmography was gorgeous!
Im really happy to see another Nick on the rocks
Im Zentnerd #420. NIck why have you not taken here before to see this? Fantastic video Nick.
Definitely a hit, you got to love it! thank you all involved.
Excellent! Enjoyed seeing Anacortes and the 160 million year old rocks! Exciting that you can see the recent glacial striations! ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Beautifully done by Nick (the best geology communicator in the world), Brady, Gary P and crew!! 🥰
The best crew!
Great content
Excellent information ℹ️
Nick on the Rocks is shot really well !😊 It would be interesting to see nick continue the story near Fossil Bay on Sucia island to cover the Baja BC theory that spans 50 to 80 million years ago!
Nick got me into geology
Its so good to see some new local geology with Nick. I havent seen much of him lately. I've missed his lectures!
I never regret watching his videos, they are inspiring.
You’re just the best storyteller.
I just moved to Spokane. I hope to come to one of your talks soon! Big fan!
Thanks, Nick for coming to Anacortes! I live very near where you filmed and I wonder about and marvel at the story I see around me! I am VERY curious about the sequence of events that created the exposed profile on Guemes Island. I hope you'll investigate that someday. I'm a big fan!
An excellent video, as always. 🙂Thank you!
Fantastic!!! Thank you.
I love these episodes - just wished they were like 1/2 hour long...or more! Here's a tip - go to Cypress Island which is north of Anacortes. Land at Pelican Beach, then climb to Eagle Cliff - about 200-300 ft above the water. There are glacial striations in the rocks way up there!
*cracks can open* ahh, a nice fresh glass of Nick on the Rocks
Great episode Nick! This is so well done, production is top notch. Glad you and yours are moving in a good way. Was a privilege to see you in Portland back in May at OHSU. Love PNW Rocks!
I moved to Vancouver Island years ago and always contemplated about how the glacial striations were created and over what time along with the glacial deposits that we are building on all over the island especially at southern end of the island. I wonder how all of this is may play out in an earthquake! Your video about Anacortes is awesome and I want to see more. Subscribed!
Awesome! I am from anacortes, I used an application that was for dinosaurs and Pangea locations and movements! It showed Anacortes With San Juan Islands and Vancouver isl. all together down where eastern island sits in the far lower west pacific, over time it showed anacortes slowly moving upwards this was before Jurassic era as it finally shifts to where it is today! Not sure how correct the app is. But I was always taught anacortes was here.
Good stuff Nick! If I remember correctly from my undergrad geology class trip to nearby Mt. Erie there was serpentinite rock on the top of that mountain (a specific metamorphic rock). Regardless, a wonderful trip into PNW geology! Thanks.
awesome. what a great presenter this fella is
Super fun. My geology class in college took a field trip to this beach and we got to hear some stories about the glacier.
Heck yeah! Been waiting for this episode....and "back country" Gary is a field producer! Excellent!
Beautiful and fascinating place.
I wonder if the striations contain audio information like a vinyl record?
Thank you 🙏
Thanx boss love your videos
That striated wall is sooooo cool... I have seen some pretty amazing features during field trips/schools/work etc, but this one may be in the top 5!
I come down to the BC Lower Mainland from central BC fairly often, and may do the Canadian glacier thing and cross the border to bond with it😉
Not now, but in the summer...
And when our dollar is doing better 😖
I am from Anacortes and we were made aware of Ice Age evidence from an early age. Erratics, moraines, roche moutonnees. Its all here. I often wonder what the landscape looked like within 100 years of the glaciers leaving.
Howdy Kev! :)
THANK YOU!!!
thanks for the beautiful learning experience....again
I commercial fished and worked at a boat yard there, I love the harbor hill, used to bomb it on my skates!!
If you're looking for that glacially carved wall, it's in Washington Park past the ferry terminal. Walk/Drive the loop counter clockwise, going with the flow of traffic. At the bottom of the last hill, just before the climb to the south facing overlook point, there is a forest trail off to the right. Follow that trail towards the water. At every junction just take the descending path. You can find it down there about 10 minutes walk from the road.
Excellent. Just excellent.
Way to go Nick!
My husband lived in Anacortes but mainly played in the forest.
When I saw Ned Zinger on Cascade PBS I was like, "no way!!" (And yes, I know that's not his name.... Nick's regular viewers will know what I mean.)
BTW, re: Pacific Science Center: My sister and I were such science geeks, that literally the first place we went when we moved to Seattle (I was almost 17, she was almost 18) was go to the Science Center! Went many times after that, too.
Excellent video!!
I think the ancient ice sheets shoved the native ground along over the bedrock, and that's what gouged it, then deposited it out in the ocean. As the ice melted, it left transplanted Canadian gravel
I wonder if you carefully remove the sand from the rocks on the sea floor striations, will you see the actual groove from each stone, did you get till that was after the original till that made the marks, inquiring minds want to know.
Hi Nick, i live in Anacortes and have seen all these before, I have a house size boulder that is on my property here, I live on the south side of fidalgo island by Campbell lake
Deception Pass dive, rock jock goggles on -
The wall and outside face of Pass island in the Pass would be a hoot to hear about…geologically speaking.
home sweet home
grew up near stateline id. great water
On the striations etched into the curved vertical wall, a narrowing of the ice flow could cause that. The ice and rock debris would have to ride up the sides of the narrowing. Over time it could round out the wall.
I like the music 🎵
Is the first segment filmed at Washington Park? I want to go in search of these places!
I said striations as soon as I saw them! Ha! Even before you mentioned them. I feel like I just stuck in a thumb and pulled out a plum. 😂 The curved wall looks like the curl you get when you drag the ice cream scoop through the surface. This one remains frozen for millions of years.
The missing 'time' was scrapped off top of bedrock and deposited in Puget Sound
Was the open shot from on top of Mount Eire? Anacortes side...
Cap Sante Park, just East of downtown Anacortes, directly East of the Cap Sante Marina (a lovely view, you can drive right up to it). Awesome views!
Could you drop some coordinates or directions to these sites so I can visit?
I believe the first site is Cap Sante Park: 48° 30.8'N, 122° 35.95'W
My guess is that the second site is in Washington Park: 48° 29.85'N, 122° 42.1'W
@@iviewthetube Thank you!!
@@iviewthetube Thanks again! I've heard there is some boulders down on Whidbey Island that are scraped up by glaciers.
@@gonearoundthebendPNW I somewhat know the area because I occasionally kayak there.
I wish we could sit on my ledge off Whaada island, Makah reservation at 60’. Follow me underwater and do your rock talk when we finish.
Same at Koitlah point, 40’ of water. There’s formations that I am amazed with, Cabezon nursery as well. Earth is folded under water like nowhere I’ve seen.
Not delicately etched. Gouged under a mile of ice using stones for carving. Huge pressure. Thanks for the geology lesson.
Geology rocks, but geography is where it's at .
we see what you did there
Canadian rocks whoa gonna have to place a tariff on that!
You beat me to it!!!!😀
I just realized this is not Nicks page but I will ask the question none the less. I live in Tsawwassen Canada, which is the Canadian side of annexed Point Roberts Washington. Basically Northern Puget sound where this small peninsula sticks out between boundary bay on the east side and the open straight on the west side. I am asking because I was wondering if these Anacortes scoured Jurassic rocks can be found in other areas or is it a matter of looking for these same features in exposed bedrock? I certainly know of moraines that have formed here right on top of my house actually. I know the San Juans have some ancient rock. So anybody who might understand this, let me know eh ;)
Noooo! How did that wall happen? Have a like anyway.
Nice sponsor.
I take all my visitors to the Great Gouge, so I have seen it many times. I would like to know why the Gouge is lined by what looks like a crust. The crust has fallen off in many places, partly due to visitor vandalism. Naturally I can see how a rock-studded glacier could grind a gouge, but why would it leave a seeming crust? The Great Gouge crust looks like some very hot stuff flowed here, not a glacier. I like to remind my more sophisticated visitors of the ending of the sci fi movie Predator II and then I say, "Obviously this is no glacier's doing, instead it's the remnants of a tunnel that a Predator spacecraft left here possibly before the last ice advance. Probably came here for the big game." Seriously I would like to know what you think of that crust that coats the good old Great Gouge.
Canadian here, can we have our rocks and sand back now, please?.
Hope your wife has recovered..!!
Imagine Capt Vancouver exploring Puget Sound in the late 1700s.