The Oldest Bedrock in the North Cascades | Nick on the Rocks

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  • The oldest bedrock in all of the North Cascades sits high in the mountains near the Canadian border. Its origin story began over 400 million years ago and an ocean away - in Northern Europe.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 44

  • @windsorlewis3344
    @windsorlewis3344 4 місяці тому +1

    Awwww, loved the squeak of that little creature.

  • @DansBackcountry
    @DansBackcountry 5 місяців тому +16

    Oh sweet! A new episode! Glad to see Nick at it again.
    CWU alumni and PNW resident here!

  • @ml50486965
    @ml50486965 2 місяці тому

    Fascinating story! But the music finally got to you, Nick! We just can´t win them all!

  • @jayolson578
    @jayolson578 5 місяців тому +6

    These are classics. This is what I first started watching when I found Nick Zetner.

  • @sdmike1141
    @sdmike1141 5 місяців тому +7

    Thanks to Cascade PBS for bringing this series to light again. Well produced and…the talent is very good. He may have a future in communication! Thanks Nick.

  • @Valkyrie801
    @Valkyrie801 5 місяців тому +8

    Thank You Professor Nick. This is very Gneiss! 🙂

  • @gregsimones9295
    @gregsimones9295 5 місяців тому +13

    Nick, I hope you don't mind but you are introducing students in Connecticut to geology through these wonderful stories

    • @Anne5440_
      @Anne5440_ 5 місяців тому +1

      Nick has a passion for sharing geology. He would be glad students are learning anywhere. BTW, the animal that whistles near the end is a yellow bellied marmot. They are native in the Pacific Northwest. They are similar and related to the groundhogs you have on the East Coast.

  • @ninabjrnersvareid8205
    @ninabjrnersvareid8205 5 місяців тому +9

    Thanks to Nick and his team for this beautiful introduction to this mind-blowing "move" of bedrock !:-)

  • @datobaggu
    @datobaggu 5 місяців тому +6

    You and your co-creator have these productions NAILED !

  • @Steviepinhead
    @Steviepinhead 5 місяців тому +6

    Maybe the best episode yet! Beautifully conceived and executed, and photographed in perfect bluebird conditions.

  • @cindyleehaddock3551
    @cindyleehaddock3551 5 місяців тому +7

    Yay! A new Nick! Something else I didn't know.....best animation I have seen for that move, too!

  • @rickkearn7100
    @rickkearn7100 5 місяців тому +3

    I really enjoy this feature hosted by Nick. I don't have the luxury of much spare time so it's hard for me to get through his own channel posts which are usually over an hour, so this has been a pleasant surprise since I first became aware of it, holding Nick in such high esteem as I do. Cheers.

  • @AvanaVana
    @AvanaVana Місяць тому

    Wow, these videos are just so well filmed and produced. Really good work. 👍

  • @WASasquatch
    @WASasquatch 5 місяців тому +5

    These videos are awesome. Stuff like this I never knew about, right in our backyard.

  • @davec9244
    @davec9244 5 місяців тому

    outstanding thank you ALL stay safe

  • @Graybeard_
    @Graybeard_ 5 місяців тому +1

    I live on 40 acres right on the US/CA border at 4,000' in North Central WA about 110 miles due east of Yellow Aster Butte (above Molson). Recently, I dug a 400' trench for installing underground power cable. I dug up many wonderful large boulders, a few of which sure look a lot like this metamorphic rock. I washed them off and stood them up as part of a retaining wall because they look so unique. They are rounded quite a bit, so they likely traveled here via a glacier.

  • @davidduma7615
    @davidduma7615 5 місяців тому +1

    0:15 expected Nick to start singing "the HILLS are alive, with the Sound of Music........"

  • @gypsycopeland4207
    @gypsycopeland4207 3 місяці тому

    Love this guy. So informative and funny.

  • @Engineer1980
    @Engineer1980 5 місяців тому +1

    Love this new set of “Nick on the Rocks”!! Nick has matured and evolved from the original series and the video is stunningly beautiful! Thank you KCTS and Nick!! ❤❤

  • @Rachel.4644
    @Rachel.4644 5 місяців тому +3

    THE most beautiful scenery, but the hook is that it originated in northern Europe. Like, what?!? Zircons, sandstone metamorphosed into gneiss, tidbits for the curious to learn about. (Nice music too btw) Love these!

  • @ComfortRoller
    @ComfortRoller 5 місяців тому +1

    I'm glad Pbs are running these but I really like the college lectures he does. Sadly I've exhausted that series already.

    • @Anne5440_
      @Anne5440_ 5 місяців тому +1

      Then you would like the A-Z series, this year is the 3rd year for those.

    • @ComfortRoller
      @ComfortRoller 5 місяців тому

      @@Anne5440_ I will look into it thankyou very much

  • @janicemartin1580
    @janicemartin1580 5 місяців тому +7

    Excellent! So nice to have Nick back on the rocks. The scenery is spectacular. I really enjoyed the transport map showing the route traveled by the gneiss.

  • @peacenow4456
    @peacenow4456 5 місяців тому +3

    Great job, Nick!! Go glad to see you have walking sticks! I l love mine so much!

  • @doranwisner497
    @doranwisner497 5 місяців тому +1

    Thank you for the deep knowledge of Yellow Aster Butte. The hike will never be the same for me!

  • @DansBackcountry
    @DansBackcountry 5 місяців тому +4

    What about the gold out there at Yellow Aster Bute? There's a bunch out there! I see you're at Twin Lakes and I was very curious about all the gold and jadeite there. Particularly along the back side of Goat Mountain there. It's all along those quartzite layers, especially by those glaciers and permanent snow fields.

  • @kevinthompson629
    @kevinthompson629 5 місяців тому +1

    Been there many times but I never knew that bit of geologic history. I'm glad you got up there. It's one of my favorite hikes.

  • @jeff119990
    @jeff119990 5 місяців тому +7

    this episode is gnise

    • @janacke11
      @janacke11 5 місяців тому

      😂
      I see what you did there, the geology dad joke!
      Well played!

    • @Steviepinhead
      @Steviepinhead 5 місяців тому +2

      Gneissly done (well, except for the spelling 😅).

  • @fern3913
    @fern3913 5 місяців тому

    Yellow Aster Butte has been on my travel list for years as a fan of serpentine soils!

  • @erickborling1302
    @erickborling1302 4 місяці тому

    Yellow Aster Butte looks exactly like the Lake Vicente basin.

  • @Bixthecat
    @Bixthecat 3 місяці тому

    They should call him Rock Steves

  • @scottowens1535
    @scottowens1535 5 місяців тому +1

    👍 😊

  • @user-vd4ko1wu7e
    @user-vd4ko1wu7e 3 місяці тому

    ❤❤❤

  • @floortap
    @floortap 5 місяців тому +2

    cool video but sound is desyncd!

  • @jamesdriscoll_tmp1515
    @jamesdriscoll_tmp1515 5 місяців тому

    Mountain went viking

  • @frankblangeard8865
    @frankblangeard8865 День тому

    A rock in Washington matches a rock in Europe. Does that prove that the rock now in Washington was once in Europe? Or does it prove that the rock in Europe was once in Washington? Or does it show that both rocks were formed in the same way in different places? Or...does it prove nothing at all?

  • @pfitech
    @pfitech 5 місяців тому

    That area has been discovered and is crowded with hikers all summer, even mid-week. Nick must've paid them all to get out of the camera view. But don't be fooled, it's a zoo up there. The USFS even went so far as to declare it to be a "blue bag" zone since there's nowhere to dig a "cat hole," and the human waste problem has become extreme. Be forewarned if you think it'll be anything like what this video falsely implies.

  • @amyspanne5629
    @amyspanne5629 5 місяців тому +1

    Ah! another Swedish immigrant! Ya sure yabetcha!

  • @hawaiiguykailua6928
    @hawaiiguykailua6928 3 місяці тому

    Only thing I learned is you can fabricate any timeline you wish in geology, as long as it's long enough to never have to be attempted in a lab, you can add as many zeros as you want, and some more! Now get back to your Mason pose before the helicopter arrives to lift your tub off the trail. 🤣