Super kudos to the two anonymouses for making the extra effort to support local businesses. It's really important to pass up the convenience of giant corporations and find the little guys.
Great lecture! I love the interactions between the :"Townies" and the students. They will never forget the experience in which they (the students ) shared the classroom with willing learners from all over the world.
You are a good teacher and a long time ago I realized that the brightest people are not the best teachers and I think it is because the brilliant can't relate to lesser mortals.
@@Ellensburg44 actually it’s a huge compliment, coming from a bright person who is a woeful teacher as I lack human interactive skills. From clarinet teaching experience, rapport with the students is half the battle, as is having worked hard on technique so better to help students overcome their technical difficulties. Being able to explain the same concept several different ways which you do beautifully is also another important skill
Woah! mr cash creek you rock, its so wonderful, to see generosity in action, motivation for all the students. Wow to you Annoymous 1 you rock as well. thats so awesome.
I’ve been hooked on your various lectures for a few years now. You’re an amazing lecturer and teacher, and deserve an even wider national/international audience! You have the unique ability to take some of the traditionally “dryer” aspects of the subject matter and breathe an excitement and freshness to it. Well done!!!
Hey Nick, I was finally able to watch your class Live! Took a day off, we’re heading to Lincoln City later. Just want to thank you for letting us watch you work, it’s really fun to see your passion for the regional geology, I think your students are really lucky for having the opportunity to learn the information from someone like you!
Beautiful! Recognizing janitors and grad students and others by giving them the extra cards! Your thoughtful respect for the students is only surpassed by your knowledge and love of teaching Geology.
Have watched all of your Nick from Home livestreams and currently rewatching them in order during a second lockdown but this lecture was an absolute BELTER, thank you!
Absolute legend! Im from Harlingen Tx and have enjoyed every minute of all of your content. Thank you so much. At this point we may meet, you've peaked my interest in CW!
Another wonderful lecture! Now I'm going to have to re-watch your public lecture on Ghost Volcanos of the Pacific Northwest and also your 'Nick from Home' lecture #13 about them and then pull all three together. Where oh where were you when I was in college??? These students have the advantage of having you teach them in their now. I hope they realize how fortunate they are to have you.
Hey Prof N from Melbourne. Is there a minimum angle of interaction between two plates that determines whether subduction takes place? Thank You v much, as usual, for your energy and sensitivity to your class - oh, and to us. You are a credit to science, and not only for your powers of communication. We so need more thinking and employment of the scientific method through all walks of life now to replace superstition and folly.
I caught your comment about shallow subduction near the end of the video, I live in AZ and grew up at the base of the Sierra Estrella Mountains. This range is out of place and time. Modern thinking is that a slab of the Farallon was rotated inland and upended creating this billion y/o range. They do not look like anything surrounding them. I would not dismiss shallow subduction as it does offer explanations to the crazy geology of the American southwest. So crazy that we have "Roof Pendants" ( Four Peaks) that are at 7k+ feet in elevation. Laramide study is exciting :).
There's an interesting video about Mt Paektu in Korea/China that goes a little bit into this stuff. If you haven't watched it, I highly recommend it: ua-cam.com/video/3C2HVOB-g5s/v-deo.html
Hay Nick , Blessings from Hartlepool , Northeast England .... Strange VolcanismUpticks , Sinabung , Etna , Indonesia and Iceland 👀🙏❤️Thanks Nick ... love your Work here , always amazed with your presentation , inclusion , inspiring 🤩
Nick, traits that a good teacher must have: a nurturing ability. empathy, the will to try different strategies to get the message across. Notice that I never mentioned brilliance or the g word. You must be willing to put the effort out to bring the student from the point they are at when they first come to to the place where you want them to be and realize the student may be a little slow or they may be a late bloomer that you can place on the path to greatness.
It's interesting how these features split at right-angles! Even the mid-atlantic zigzags from one end of the earth to the other by splitting at right-angles. Maybe the rotation of the earth has some affect?
I guess my question would be, what happens when a continental plate slides over the East Pacific Rise? If forces are pulling in opposite directions under the continental plate, do these forces affect what's above? Is it warmer if you're right above a spreading zone? I understand the subduction/volcano part. Maybe his next lecture will address this. This guy teaches geology the right way.
Once the juan de Fuca plate subducts under the North American Plate will the clockwise rotation stop as there will no longer a force being applied to that section of the plate.
What is it called? "An embarrassment of riches". I see a lot cycling around the wilds of Denver and hardly any of it could be described as kindness. Thanks for a little hope and inspiration folks.
It seems that the 'Rise is still active as it appears that the continental mas gets weakened enough to break off from the N. American Plate and get added to the Pacific Plate. Are there any estimates as to where under California the stationary E.P. Rise would be sitting right now? Certainly, it isn't still beneath the existing S.A. Fault. If the existing fault was completed about 5ma and assuming the N.P. Plate moves at least 1 inch a year to the west, that would place a stationary rise at least 78 miles further east of the existing fault.
The last animation kind of explains the San Andreas fault, it is an artifact of the consumed fault line under the continent. As the plate gets consumed by the mantel, I would assume that fault will disappear to some extent.
Had to leave early but caught the balance tonight. I thought the consensus that 10Ma the p!are will be gone, amazing. IS IT POSSIBLE that the volcanos just become rounded mountains like the Smokey Mountains?
I think that when the Fallon plate sub-ducted under North American it heated the upper mantle and it made the Rockies raise 7000 feet in elevation in the past 30 million years.
I guess more gift cards etc. will be coming from anonymous persons who name themselves Nanaimo, Wrangellia, Quesnelia, Chiliwack, Chugach, Stikinia etc.
I would really like your take on teaching through covid. Midterms are always a time for evaluation and im curious about your thoughts on this topic. Regardless of opinions this black swan event is going to shape teaching going forward. As an old school style teacher before the pandemic (an aspect that i like, respond to, and others do as well), what changes brought on by this do you like and would want to keep? What don't you like, and has to go asap? Class cohesion was bad at the start without meeting in person, and its obvious the first midterm suffered from it. Class size is also a double edged sword. You've been forced to embrace the technology side, with its blessings and curses. Do the recorded lectures stay because students can go back to your actual words over topics they struggle with or classes they miss, or do they go because they create the impression that study groups aren't a requirement anymore, i can always go back to the tape. Im curious on your evaluation of this situation you and the students are forced into, and the shaping education going forwards, with an old school perspective.
Perhaps you cover this in a newer lesson but I've noticed how you talk about how the Rockies don't fit the normal patterns. Does the fact that the Pacific and farallon plate boundary was a spreading plate have anything to do with forming the Rockies? (Once it went under the North American plate that is)
If the Cascades will erode away soon after subduction stops, but the Appalachian mountains have been around since Pangaea, what keeps the Appalachians from eroding away?
No. The hotspot is separate from the Farallon/Fuca plate. The Farallon/Fuca plate also deep slab subducts off the coast of Washington, Oregon, and California, and Canada, as such, it does not extend to under Yellowstone.
I just stumbled upon this lecture today, so I am not expecting a reply from Professor Nick, but here goes: I understand the last remnants of the Farallon Plate (most notably the Juan de Fuca Plate) will be fully subducted under the North American Plate within the next 5 to 10 million years (I have seen both used by him) -how do you know it is within the next 5 to 10 million years? Where did you come up with those numbers?
Depends on the amount of spreading, low levels might lock up, or you get basin and range thinning and uplift like the western US at moderate levels and rifting at high levels of magma production.
Outstanding gift cards for the students... (while I've never been there, I suspect they don't burn the beans as much as Starbucks does...) and Vinman's Backery???? Again, magnificent.
AS THE AMERICAN PLATES MOVE WEST AND CLASH WITH THE PACIFIC PLATE IS THERE ANY EVIDENCE OF CURRENT OR FUTURE SUBDUCTION. IF NOT WHAT IS HAPPENING AS WE NARROW THE PACIFIC ON THE AMERICAN SIDE. Sorry I don't catch the live stream.
I've been begging for months to visit s.f. bay area geology.... There is alot going on down here and it will effect 10s of millions of people eventually... Does anyone have a bay area "Nick" I can look into???
USGS has offices in Sacramento and Menlo Park, CA. Obviously not everything they do involves SF but it's probably not a coincidence that the Menlo Park facility is close to the San Andreas Fault. Their presentations are available on YT.
Andrew Alden lives on the Hayward fault. He's written extensively about SF geology. Like Nick, he knows how to describe technical details to the layperson.
Oh wow it's like the cause of Pangea to break up was ocean floor plate plus continental plate colliding stopping all motion and then the seafloor Ridge takes back in wedging itself up the two plates causing more pressure pushing the continents now over the ocean plates towards the opposite Ridge holy hell never thought of it that way.
I share Nick’s opinion that the JDF axis model should remain stationary, and that the NW Rotation is tied with the Basin and Range mantle mechanics. The evidence is overwhelming. Some models are created that assume too much, such as the Farallon/JDF changing its orientation to accommodate the Northwest Rotation. Easy to do on a small scale model, but it ignores how it cannot work with what’s at its margins, such as the rest of the Pacific Plate and its nearly straight as an arrow East-West 2000+ mile long transform faults. Right now, the JDF spreading ridge is positioned in a generally NE/SW axis, corresponding to the Pacific Plate’s NW movement and the Juan De Fuca Plate’s diverging SE movement. Projecting a model as facts to be shared by the esteemed PNSN.org or in a class, over the indisputable sonar image evidence is not science.
Sorry haven't got to watch class lately but do all the western Washingtonions's know of the PNSN shake beta test? It's on Feb 25 th of 2021. We can contribute!
What I think happens to the Farallon Plate is it gets grind up, melted down and spit out into the volcano's like the ghost volcano's which is no-longer being feed the Farallon plate, and like the volcano's that's in Washington, Oregon volcano's, and once all the Farallon Plate gets under and melted down and spit out it becomes a ghost volcano. Just what I think happens to the Farallon plate. It ends up on top of the North American plate as mountains. recycled magma.
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Are you going to develop an upper division class "Theories on Building the West Coast of North America"? No reason to waste all of your personal research and a reason to dig deeper into the topic. Or maybe it could be "Theories and Hypotheses ...".
Emeritus isn't a special status for developing a new course. It basically means "retired, but you can still use your email account and keep your medical plan."
Super kudos to the two anonymouses for making the extra effort to support local businesses. It's really important to pass up the convenience of giant corporations and find the little guys.
Great lecture! I love the interactions between the :"Townies" and the students. They will never forget the experience in which they (the students ) shared the classroom with willing learners from all over the world.
You are a good teacher and a long time ago I realized that the brightest people are not the best teachers and I think it is because the brilliant can't relate to lesser mortals.
Thank you?
@@Ellensburg44 ROFL
@@Ellensburg44 actually it’s a huge compliment, coming from a bright person who is a woeful teacher as I lack human interactive skills. From clarinet teaching experience, rapport with the students is half the battle, as is having worked hard on technique so better to help students overcome their technical difficulties. Being able to explain the same concept several different ways which you do beautifully is also another important skill
"...and the San Andreas is born!" was said with such a moment of triumph in your voice and smile on your face as if you were a proud Papa! 🙂
Woah! mr cash creek you rock, its so wonderful, to see generosity in action, motivation for all the students. Wow to you Annoymous 1 you rock as well. thats so awesome.
I’ve been hooked on your various lectures for a few years now. You’re an amazing lecturer and teacher, and deserve an even wider national/international audience!
You have the unique ability to take some of the traditionally “dryer” aspects of the subject matter and breathe an excitement and freshness to it.
Well done!!!
Hey Nick, I was finally able to watch your class Live! Took a day off, we’re heading to Lincoln City later. Just want to thank you for letting us watch you work, it’s really fun to see your passion for the regional geology, I think your students are really lucky for having the opportunity to learn the information from someone like you!
Beautiful! Recognizing janitors and grad students and others by giving them the extra cards! Your thoughtful respect for the students is only surpassed by your knowledge and love of teaching Geology.
Have watched all of your Nick from Home livestreams and currently rewatching them in order during a second lockdown but this lecture was an absolute BELTER, thank you!
Hope your visit with family goes well, and you have a safe trip to and from Oregon. Looking forward to learning more.
Nick, I really enjoyed todays lecture. Your enthusiasm is contagious. Thank you!
Absolute legend! Im from Harlingen Tx and have enjoyed every minute of all of your content. Thank you so much. At this point we may meet, you've peaked my interest in CW!
Another wonderful lecture! Now I'm going to have to re-watch your public lecture on Ghost Volcanos of the Pacific Northwest and also your 'Nick from Home' lecture #13 about them and then pull all three together. Where oh where were you when I was in college??? These students have the advantage of having you teach them in their now. I hope they realize how fortunate they are to have you.
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Hey Prof N from Melbourne.
Is there a minimum angle of interaction between two plates that determines whether subduction takes place?
Thank You v much, as usual, for your energy and sensitivity to your class - oh, and to us.
You are a credit to science, and not only for your powers of communication. We so need more thinking and employment of the scientific method through all walks of life now to replace superstition and folly.
best lecture yet, Professor Nick, love this one
I caught your comment about shallow subduction near the end of the video, I live in AZ and grew up at the base of the Sierra Estrella Mountains. This range is out of place and time. Modern thinking is that a slab of the Farallon was rotated inland and upended creating this billion y/o range. They do not look like anything surrounding them. I would not dismiss shallow subduction as it does offer explanations to the crazy geology of the American southwest. So crazy that we have "Roof Pendants" ( Four Peaks) that are at 7k+ feet in elevation. Laramide study is exciting :).
There's an interesting video about Mt Paektu in Korea/China that goes a little bit into this stuff. If you haven't watched it, I highly recommend it: ua-cam.com/video/3C2HVOB-g5s/v-deo.html
And heres to you Nick a new one cool.
Hay Nick , Blessings from Hartlepool , Northeast England .... Strange VolcanismUpticks , Sinabung , Etna , Indonesia and Iceland 👀🙏❤️Thanks Nick ... love your Work here , always amazed with your presentation , inclusion , inspiring 🤩
NICK...YOU ARE GENEROUS......THE HERD EDIFIES YOU THRU THEIR GIFTS....
You are a class act Nick!
Nick, traits that a good teacher must have: a nurturing ability. empathy, the will to try different strategies to get the message across. Notice that I never mentioned brilliance or the g word. You must be willing to put the effort out to bring the student from the point they are at when they first come to to the place where you want them to be and realize the student may be a little slow or they may be a late bloomer that you can place on the path to greatness.
Wow, missed this one. Don't know how.
This class could have been titled " Where, oh Where has the Farallon Plate Gone".
It's interesting how these features split at right-angles! Even the mid-atlantic zigzags from one end of the earth to the other by splitting at right-angles. Maybe the rotation of the earth has some affect?
I guess my question would be, what happens when a continental plate slides over the East Pacific Rise? If forces are pulling in opposite directions under the continental plate, do these forces affect what's above? Is it warmer if you're right above a spreading zone? I understand the subduction/volcano part. Maybe his next lecture will address this. This guy teaches geology the right way.
What happens with the transform faults at right angles to the spreading ridge as a plate subducts?
Once the juan de Fuca plate subducts under the North American Plate will the clockwise rotation stop as there will no longer a force being applied to that section of the plate.
IMHO, the JDF is being subducted obliquely; NA Plate Southwest>
What is it called? "An embarrassment of riches". I see a lot cycling around the wilds of Denver and hardly any of it could be described as kindness. Thanks for a little hope and inspiration folks.
It's more of a relay than a sprint. 20mya north america passed the baton to the pacific plate who is running in the same direction.
Why isn't there an oceanic trench associated with the Cascadia subduction zone?
It seems that the 'Rise is still active as it appears that the continental mas gets weakened enough to break off from the N. American Plate and get added to the Pacific Plate. Are there any estimates as to where under California the stationary E.P. Rise would be sitting right now? Certainly, it isn't still beneath the existing S.A. Fault. If the existing fault was completed about 5ma and assuming the N.P. Plate moves at least 1 inch a year to the west, that would place a stationary rise at least 78 miles further east of the existing fault.
The last animation kind of explains the San Andreas fault, it is an artifact of the consumed fault line under the continent. As the plate gets consumed by the mantel, I would assume that fault will disappear to some extent.
I have so many questions that will never be answered here. Pity i am over a year too late.
Thank you for doing these videos. I have been wondering. Will the Pacific rise create a rift zone in the North American plate?
Had to leave early but caught the balance tonight. I thought the consensus that 10Ma the p!are will be gone, amazing. IS IT POSSIBLE that the volcanos just become rounded mountains like the Smokey Mountains?
I think that when the Fallon plate sub-ducted under North American it heated the upper mantle and it made the Rockies raise 7000 feet in elevation in the past 30 million years.
Dang I was late again.. so I just waited until the replay.. Sorry your majesty!
I guess more gift cards etc. will be coming from anonymous persons who name themselves Nanaimo, Wrangellia, Quesnelia, Chiliwack, Chugach, Stikinia etc.
Will you/can you produce/provide a set of lectures/discoveries of this geology of our world, soup to nuts past to future? A DVD set would be fabulous!
I would really like your take on teaching through covid. Midterms are always a time for evaluation and im curious about your thoughts on this topic. Regardless of opinions this black swan event is going to shape teaching going forward. As an old school style teacher before the pandemic (an aspect that i like, respond to, and others do as well), what changes brought on by this do you like and would want to keep? What don't you like, and has to go asap? Class cohesion was bad at the start without meeting in person, and its obvious the first midterm suffered from it. Class size is also a double edged sword. You've been forced to embrace the technology side, with its blessings and curses. Do the recorded lectures stay because students can go back to your actual words over topics they struggle with or classes they miss, or do they go because they create the impression that study groups aren't a requirement anymore, i can always go back to the tape. Im curious on your evaluation of this situation you and the students are forced into, and the shaping education going forwards, with an old school perspective.
Perhaps you cover this in a newer lesson but I've noticed how you talk about how the Rockies don't fit the normal patterns. Does the fact that the Pacific and farallon plate boundary was a spreading plate have anything to do with forming the Rockies? (Once it went under the North American plate that is)
Starts at 17:30 min
I wish I had teachers like u when I wAs in college
If the Cascades will erode away soon after subduction stops, but the Appalachian mountains have been around since Pangaea, what keeps the Appalachians from eroding away?
I forgot to ask during livestream, if the Yellowstone Hotspot will become extinct once the Juan de Fuca plate entirely subducts?
No. The hotspot is separate from the Farallon/Fuca plate. The Farallon/Fuca plate also deep slab subducts off the coast of Washington, Oregon, and California, and Canada, as such, it does not extend to under Yellowstone.
I just stumbled upon this lecture today, so I am not expecting a reply from Professor Nick, but here goes: I understand the last remnants of the Farallon Plate (most notably the Juan de Fuca Plate) will be fully subducted under the North American Plate within the next 5 to 10 million years (I have seen both used by him) -how do you know it is within the next 5 to 10 million years? Where did you come up with those numbers?
I wonder how many of the students take pictures of the test that they cant take home? Or the answer page in the hall.
Who’s to say that the Pacific plate won’t also begin subducting as well? Since it is oceanic, wouldn’t that be the case?
And the prequell question would be: Does the spreading cease once subducted?
For a model, look no further than the San Andreas.
Depends on the amount of spreading, low levels might lock up, or you get basin and range thinning and uplift like the western US at moderate levels and rifting at high levels of magma production.
So is the NA Plate going over / sub-ducting the E.P.R. contributing to BASIN/RANGE EXT ?
OPPS.....Nick just gave us the answer
Outstanding gift cards for the students... (while I've never been there, I suspect they don't burn the beans as much as Starbucks does...) and Vinman's Backery???? Again, magnificent.
Me: The Cascade volcanoes will quit in 10 million years.
DH: (Working on something) Set your clocks.
What in earth got you so would up Nick! I've never seen you like this!
AS THE AMERICAN PLATES MOVE WEST AND CLASH WITH THE PACIFIC PLATE IS THERE ANY EVIDENCE OF CURRENT OR FUTURE SUBDUCTION. IF NOT WHAT IS HAPPENING AS WE NARROW THE PACIFIC ON THE AMERICAN SIDE. Sorry I don't catch the live stream.
I've been begging for months to visit s.f. bay area geology.... There is alot going on down here and it will effect 10s of millions of people eventually... Does anyone have a bay area "Nick" I can look into???
USGS has offices in Sacramento and Menlo Park, CA. Obviously not everything they do involves SF but it's probably not a coincidence that the Menlo Park facility is close to the San Andreas Fault. Their presentations are available on YT.
Andrew Alden lives on the Hayward fault. He's written extensively about SF geology. Like Nick, he knows how to describe technical details to the layperson.
@@wiregold8930 does he have a y.t. channel? Kinda joking, related to allen alda
Could a divergent plate become a hot spot after it subducts under a continent?
Do any students in the class experience color vision deficiency (aka colorblind)? On avg, 1 in 4 males are colorblind.
Oh wow it's like the cause of Pangea to break up was ocean floor plate plus continental plate colliding stopping all motion and then the seafloor Ridge takes back in wedging itself up the two plates causing more pressure pushing the continents now over the ocean plates towards the opposite Ridge holy hell never thought of it that way.
Delited to see students go from 'failing' to an 'A' ... townies will have to arrange a 'Most Improved Player' award!
Some evidence of spreading ridges are subducted is when they are brought to the surface as things called amphibolites
How about showing some of the yummy things the bakery makes ?
I share Nick’s opinion that the JDF axis model should remain stationary, and that the NW Rotation is tied with the Basin and Range mantle mechanics. The evidence is overwhelming.
Some models are created that assume too much, such as the Farallon/JDF changing its orientation to accommodate the Northwest Rotation. Easy to do on a small scale model, but it ignores how it cannot work with what’s at its margins, such as the rest of the Pacific Plate and its nearly straight as an arrow East-West 2000+ mile long transform faults. Right now, the JDF spreading ridge is positioned in a generally NE/SW axis, corresponding to the Pacific Plate’s NW movement and the Juan De Fuca Plate’s diverging SE movement. Projecting a model as facts to be shared by the esteemed PNSN.org or in a class, over the indisputable sonar image evidence is not science.
Solid stuff! Second viewing as fun and interesting as the first. Grateful for videos. Karin Sigloch too. Thanks! 💕😍
Sorry haven't got to watch class lately but do all the western Washingtonions's know of the PNSN shake beta test? It's on Feb 25 th of 2021. We can contribute!
Did Emily 2 become a geology major?
I got it 20 million years ago cross into sudjuction plate.
You need a T-shirt that says, This whole thing should be loopy😂😂
15:20 Nick and silent Jack. 😆
Burnsville, North Carolina old water well driller Md. 35 years
QUESTION: IN CROSSING THE FINISH LINE AHEAD OF SOUTH AMERICA!! HOW DO WE KNOW THE WEST COAST WILL STILL BE THE SAME IN ANOTHER 10 MILLION YEARS
Nick, you need to go back and edit this in order to insert about a dozen or so
"Sorry Patrick's" lol
Why not call the Juan de Fuca plate the Frallon plate. I think it would help to understand the of everyone.
For folks living in the towns and cities on Puget Sound that plate might be referred to as the ‘One to F*** You Plate.’
Mason Rocks.
OOOppppppssssss - it's Ghost Volcanos in the Cascades NOT the PNW
Mason asking too many questions. 😂
It's a cold, damp, foggy, dreary day? Fight back. Wear CZ earrings or a sparkly necklace. Guys will have to think of something similar.
What I think happens to the Farallon Plate is it gets grind up, melted down and spit out into the volcano's like the ghost volcano's which is no-longer being feed the Farallon plate, and like the volcano's that's in Washington, Oregon volcano's, and once all the Farallon Plate gets under and melted down and spit out it becomes a ghost volcano. Just what I think happens to the Farallon plate. It ends up on top of the North American plate as mountains. recycled magma.
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Are you going to develop an upper division class "Theories on Building the West Coast of North America"? No reason to waste all of your personal research and a reason to dig deeper into the topic. Or maybe it could be "Theories and Hypotheses ...".
Could probably get his p.h.d. on this topic...
@@adamlewellen5081 CWU could give him Professor Emeritus status.
Emeritus isn't a special status for developing a new course. It basically means "retired, but you can still use your email account and keep your medical plan."
@@Steviepinhead i stand corrected. I was thinking meritorious doctorate.