So pleased that you like our channel! It's mostly the work of Tom Foster. I just show up to speak. So many different ways to make hills....tough to generalize.
Thank you so much for reminding me how much I love geology. I'm a retired teacher who has always dabbled in geology and paleontology. I used to love surprising Florida kids with "real" rocks. I would have loved to use this with my kids.
Thank u Nick. This is one of my favorite place besides hells canyon to vist. Growing up in Yakima I had no idea of this until I started college at CWU. One would have thought we would have learned of this while in high school.
I was riding my motorcycle in the Columbia Gorge today and the whole time I had "2 minute geology. 2 minute geologyyy!" stuck in my head as I'm gawking at basalt columns and stuff. Fortunately I survived.
This is an amazing resource. If you're from any other part of the country and visit the Pacific Northwest (and are curious), you're bound to want to learn more about the geology of the place.
Great video! Thanks for sharing. I'm a Ranger at Columbia Hills State Park down near The Dalles, OR. We have a lot of Ice Age flood erosion. It would be very awesome to consider doing a video of this end of the erosion in our gorge.
It's actually 1-2 miles north of Lyon's Ferry which is part of the town of Starbuck, not part of Washtucna or Kahlotus which are both nearly 20 miles away. Thought I'd set the record straight, as I live not far from Palouse Falls myself.
Nick, this video, which I have watched several times now, and my recent visit to Palouse Falls State Park, has inspired me to do another virtual geocache called an Earthcache at the state park. The work you and Tom and the rest of the Huge Floods folks have done to educate us non-geologist about the geological make up of Washington State is amazing. Thank you for your efforts. If you would be so kind to allow me to use a couple of the diagrams/maps noted in the video to teach geocachers about the geological make up of Palouse Falls, I would be most grateful.
Beautiful video. I learned a lot, as always. Had to watch three times and go into Google View 3D (totally recommend it!) to understand it. At 3:26 you showed a map which was inverted 180 degrees with respect to the other maps you had previously shown which threw me off. But I'm glad because it made me watch it a couple more times and really understand most of what you said. Thanks for these, I wish you made more!
The sole reason we exist is because of the relatively quiet geologic time. It's not luck, it's the reason we exist ti begin with. Otherwise the planet would have been uninhabitable.
I was watching a video of a guy picking agates out of an unconsolidated, fairly sorted layer of what I thought looked like glacial material. Are the agates coming from that basalt? Is the layer in fact glacial in origin?
You've talked about the ice age floods and the ice age basalts, but which came first of these two? Were they even in the same place? (I'm not from WA, so I don't know where all these things are exactly in relation to one another)
The video is a very useful tool. Thanks for the video, is very useful ´to show students that don't have the chance to see this processes alive, in Tropical America the impact of the glaciations is hard to explain
Very educational. Re: Time and open-mindedness; are scientists open-minded enough, amd creationists believing in divine knowledge and power enough to consider the earth may have been created using pre-existing space matter? Matter that had existed for 50 billion years, or maybe just 5 billion? Are they able to consider that the earth may not have been created out of "thin air", but from matter that had a previous use? A masterfully planned use, so that over billions of years, there would eventually be natural, integrated sources for sustaining life, such as air and water; and energy sources such as fossil fuels etc.? The term "a day" could mean "a period of time" which could have been a million, or a billion years. Then everyone would be partially right, but noone is likely absolutely 100% accurate with our limited perspective and knowledge. Beautiful regardless.
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My intro to geology prof showed us these videos seven years ago and I'm still coming back to rewatch. Awesome stuff!
Love your videos
i catch myself binge watching all your videos so fascinating
So pleased that you like our channel! It's mostly the work of Tom Foster. I just show up to speak. So many different ways to make hills....tough to generalize.
You do such a great job. I love this series.
"2 minute geology" would be a perfect channel name and a great way to capture the short attention spans of today's youth.
@@guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248 🔥hahaha. Great idea too
You're a great narrator, Nick.
When I lived in Moses Lake WA we drove to look at the falls several times. Great to at last understand how it was formed. Beautiful spot in the PNW.
Nice to hear. Thanks.
The shot of the falls before the snow shows great detail.
Thank you so much for reminding me how much I love geology. I'm a retired teacher who has always dabbled in geology and paleontology. I used to love surprising Florida kids with "real" rocks. I would have loved to use this with my kids.
Hi Debbie. What do you mean real rocks? Fl. do not have rocks?
Thank u Nick. This is one of my favorite place besides hells canyon to vist. Growing up in Yakima I had no idea of this until I started college at CWU. One would have thought we would have learned of this while in high school.
I was riding my motorcycle in the Columbia Gorge today and the whole time I had "2 minute geology. 2 minute geologyyy!" stuck in my head as I'm gawking at basalt columns and stuff. Fortunately I survived.
I've always loved mountains but thanks to Nick Zentner's programs I now look at them with more respect and awe.
Nice comment. Thanks Brian.
Where has Nick gone? What a superb geologist and teacher.
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This is an amazing resource. If you're from any other part of the country and visit the Pacific Northwest (and are curious), you're bound to want to learn more about the geology of the place.
Love these videos. Makes the chicken fried steak breakfast so much better.
The two minute geology series have gotten me interested in geology.
Nice to hear, John. Thanks.
i love these videos. LOVE them. great job guys :-D
Teresa Hunt Thanks Teresa.
Great video! Thanks for sharing. I'm a Ranger at Columbia Hills State Park down near The Dalles, OR. We have a lot of Ice Age flood erosion. It would be very awesome to consider doing a video of this end of the erosion in our gorge.
Thanks Brock. You work in a beautiful place.
Beautiful water fall.
Rod Efraim I agree!
Really nice
It's actually 1-2 miles north of Lyon's Ferry which is part of the town of Starbuck, not part of Washtucna or Kahlotus which are both nearly 20 miles away. Thought I'd set the record straight, as I live not far from Palouse Falls myself.
Nick, this video, which I have watched several times now, and my recent visit to Palouse Falls State Park, has inspired me to do another virtual geocache called an Earthcache at the state park. The work you and Tom and the rest of the Huge Floods folks have done to educate us non-geologist about the geological make up of Washington State is amazing. Thank you for your efforts. If you would be so kind to allow me to use a couple of the diagrams/maps noted in the video to teach geocachers about the geological make up of Palouse Falls, I would be most grateful.
Thanks much, Chris. Please email Tom at the Hugefloods website for permission to use his diagrams.
Beautiful video. I learned a lot, as always. Had to watch three times and go into Google View 3D (totally recommend it!) to understand it.
At 3:26 you showed a map which was inverted 180 degrees with respect to the other maps you had previously shown which threw me off. But I'm glad because it made me watch it a couple more times and really understand most of what you said.
Thanks for these, I wish you made more!
Homework for 2morrows lesson👊😎
We humans are lucky we live in a relatively quiet geologic time.
So true. Hope it lasts.
The sole reason we exist is because of the relatively quiet geologic time. It's not luck, it's the reason we exist ti begin with. Otherwise the planet would have been uninhabitable.
Why did you stop making these? I love 2 minute geology.
Thank you so much
I was watching a video of a guy picking agates out of an unconsolidated, fairly sorted layer of what I thought looked like glacial material. Are the agates coming from that basalt? Is the layer in fact glacial in origin?
Que belleza de agua
Ok, where does all this water come from?
You've talked about the ice age floods and the ice age basalts, but which came first of these two? Were they even in the same place? (I'm not from WA, so I don't know where all these things are exactly in relation to one another)
10* Awesome WA geology and historical events.
Thanks John.
your the man man--are you going to be at the meeting at scc on october 9th?????
At GSA Vancouver!
The video is a very useful tool. Thanks for the video, is very useful ´to show students that don't have the chance to see this processes alive, in Tropical America the impact of the glaciations is hard to explain
Nice to hear that you're using our stuff so far south, Carlos!
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Pretty awesome thing.... but to be a fly on a wall observing!!!
I cant believe I missed these older videos... Great job Mr. Z! Do the falls freeze completely or is there still some flow underneath the ice?
Not sure! Thanks for watching.
Your welcome, thank you for taking the time to answer my endless questions.
What a great guy.
Glad you edited that...
Thanks for the clarification, siampals. Washtucna was more fun to say! Thanks for watching.
at 54, its nice to be called "young people" now and then.
Ô vontade de entender inglês, viu 😥😥😥
No one mentions the water is contaminated as holyhell…
too many of your videos have music too loud
+revjjj260
Great to hear from you!
Not all of us are "young people". Even old farts are interested in geology.
Didn't a meteor strike cause the flood?
No
The last meteor was 66 million years ago.
andrew hall has presented a compelling theory regarding how these sort of features were formed.
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Very educational. Re: Time and open-mindedness; are scientists open-minded enough, amd creationists believing in divine knowledge and power enough to consider the earth may have been created using pre-existing space matter? Matter that had existed for 50 billion years, or maybe just 5 billion? Are they able to consider that the earth may not have been created out of "thin air", but from matter that had a previous use? A masterfully planned use, so that over billions of years, there would eventually be natural, integrated sources for sustaining life, such as air and water; and energy sources such as fossil fuels etc.? The term "a day" could mean "a period of time" which could have been a million, or a billion years. Then everyone would be partially right, but noone is likely absolutely 100% accurate with our limited perspective and knowledge. Beautiful regardless.
Thanks Karen. I like to think I'm open-minded...
A bow tie huh?
But I thought the Earth was 6,000 years old? Lol Creationists are funny.
Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but careful, open-minded study of geology in the field usually helps people see the need for much more time.
The earth is 4.6 billion years old.
We are very unlucky, living in a quiet geological age.