A big thank you to Nick for the opportunity to be a part of the fun! Appreciate everyone's interest in Eastern Washington geology. Get out there and see it.
I have tracked Nick (and you previously) hammering away on the open questions... I taught in the area as a regional geologist interested in most things; I learned a lot from John Bush and Bill Rember paleobotanist & Idaho geologist. imagine starting in 1893 ?!!!!
Thank you for your perspective Sky! REALLY Enjoy every topic you are excited about sharing, and taking the time to add a element of humanization with the kit people utilized as well as taking a moment to call out the exceptional talents of those that came before with the tools they had available to them at the time. It really adds a lot to the narrative to understand a little about the characters we are following, and you are Nailing that added element.
Nick, what you are doing is really great!! Dont sweat the whiners, you cant please everyone. I'm ole and slow, trying to take it all in, and enjoying each video. Thanks so much!
I'm enjoying the learning. Skye is a good speaker! Gotta do additional research. I like incorporating the thoughts of the pioneer geologists with modern interpretation. THANK YOU!
Thanks Nick and Skye! This is what we signed up for! This is part of the human history of teasing out the geologic history! How did Bretz become informed about the region before arriving? Those that came before him.
As I watch yet another wonderfully informative production by you, Mr. Nick .. et al, I’m compelled to give thanks. You may not realize just how much ‘we’ learn from your endeavors. You ‘endeavor’ to bring knowledge to the layman, ‘endeavor’ to clear up long held misconceptions, ‘endeavor’ to tie together all these bits and pieces into one coherent presentation. You do well, teaching, Mr. Nick. Very well. As a fellow of similar age, I must say that you’ve broadened my understanding of the geology of the north west immensely. Just in the last few years. Sharing this process freely with all of us is wonderfully met with eager anticipation of what we’ll learn next. Seriously, man. I can’t say ‘thank you’ enough to adequately express my appreciation. Thank you and have a wonderful week.
Just finished the replay - excellent show, Skye explains things so well it makes me feel like I actually know stuff (I don't). Nick, I don't know who is complaining about the content per hour ratio, but you increase the retention of the material by thorough review and discussion andhaving your guests do the same. Keep up the great work!
I can't believe you would get criticism for the incredible programs you are providing us with. I think it's brilliant and I am truly grateful for the background, the foundation that you build as you tell the story. To me that is true learning. I also appreciate you carrying on as planned! Wow - I am caught up now! Thanks as always for a wonderful well spent two hours! (Oh - and great ending!)
you are doing an amazing job with the Series!!! Its so fun to be seeing your "Nick on The Rocks" series down here as well, while I watch this!!! I love hearing about the history of discovery, the journey that helps us understand why we understand things the way we do, and So excited to learn about the thoughts and insights of Bretz and all his experiences and collaborators!!! All while we learn now and improve our understanding of hos the world was made!!! The Story is SOOO exciting and fun, it reallh helps us engage on a personal level, because it is about the STORY of us and our understanding!!! I've loved all of it!!!
Plus, this is so much more than a doctoral thesis!!! I feel like it is an active journey, with so many people coming together to magnify our knowledge!!!
This episode certainly helps us all better understand the significant challenges that Russell faced in analyzing the basic lacustrian and riparian geologic history of eastern Washington. Say nothing of the physical day to day challenges of living in the wild and floating the rivers. You have provided us a wonderful insight into both the geology and the challenging work of the geologist. Thank you Nick and Skye for a terrific program. Your style of presentation is wonderful and greatly appreciated, Nick. Thank you!
Watching in replay and I will watch it all, I really enjoy it being different from the "normal" collage class. Thank you for the fun you put into this work.
Another awesome show. Thank you Nick and Skye for your time, it is very much appreciated. Nick, don't get too down with any comments about the content, history is part of geology even if it's history of the geologists. Love all of it! This is such a wonderful community, Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
Watching the second time was really helpful for me to better understand the information. Thank you Skye for giving us this, and the historical perspective. Your maps and slides (and Bruce's) are so challenging/interesting! I enjoy the way the A-Z series is going. Cool! Bretz's notes!!
I can’t believe anyone would complain about your content, it’s all great stuff that enhances my life in depth and breadth that can’t be matched in any other time or place!
How many binge watched these 4 videos? Between yesterday and today, I'm all caught up. I enjoy hearing about the history. It's all part of the content. Complainers will always find something to complain about.
I am so glad you are doing John Day Beds! After reading Russell's paper, I was asking myself "what the heck are the John Day Beds?' I am off to find out!
Wonderful mix of geology, stories, history, pictures! All great content! Keep it up. Watching delayed, while on vacation in Hawaii. Couldn't wait until back home. Aloha 🌴
Skye Cooley…sneaky good TEACHER! Thanks for helping me piece together the 4 dimensional geologic picture! A nice legacy of teachers! Israel Russell couldn’t have a better spokesperson!! Thanks Ni..Nick!🤣
Wonderful stuff. KEEP THE FORMAT!!! Not only am I learning but as “we” fish … I can ponder. I have the time during the session to imagine in my mind what the area looked like. As I listened to Cooley I could envision a time and even the temp he referred to at the end. Your sessions allow me to imagine the land before time. Thank You. Look forward to the next one. GREAT JOB
Great video, great content. A few of us old geological types, also explore old litature and visit interesting outcrops. Really part of the joy of geology. So complex and interesting. Happy thanksdiving.
So... being a rank amateur, educated as an engineer and making a living as a trucker these days, I get around. A lot. So I see a lot of rocks in different settings. Thinking about what was discussed here and putting together video shot in Iceland recently helps put together the sedimentary icing that frosted the basalt cake. You can see the lava flowing out in Iceland, covering the soils that accumulated over time. Something like that occurred in eastern Washington ages past - although we're talking about lake sediments. So the loess has a part of the ice age story since obviously, there were existing drainages before the floods started carving up the basalt. These pre-flood drainages must have had some level of influence on the initial flood channelization. Now we're suggesting that there were up to 100 Missoula floods, so all of the scabland excavation didn't happen in one great bang. And, somewhere along the line, Canadian ice melted. What happened to that water? It didn't just sublimate into water vapor. Things to ponder. BTW, you're doing just fine in the presentation.
Thank you Nick and Skye! This information added another layer to my understanding of the land before the floods!! Grew up N of the John Day Beds. Never knew how complex and extensive such features were to OR and WA.
Great program as usual Nick, and thank you Skye! Looking forward to seeing Skye again in future episodes. Nick, never doubt yourself - always follow your instincts for what works for you and the community will always be here. There will be those who think they know a better way or are too used to instagram style content, and that comes with the territory. These programs are fun, enriching, meaningful and relevant to the general scientific process. Speaking for myself, just today during your program I had a minor epiphany of sorts when Skye was talking about his appreciation of Russell's work. The details we can discover and quantify today are great, and necessary to building the most clear picture up to any current point in time, but how amazing it was for the pioneers in a new area, like Russell, to come in and quickly absorb what he is seeing - only what was on the surface - in a brief period of time over a huge geographical distance and yet be able to paint such a rich and eloquant picture.
In reply the the "Content" pacing, I REALLY Enjoy the Personalization that is added from the pacing that we have. learning and understanding the perspective of the characters we are following along with, and why they formed the ideas they did in period. We don't always get that underlying humanization, just as Sky took a moment to comment of the NO Nonsense pragmatic equipment utilized, it tells us a little about the people and what who they were. That a detail that helps us understand this story and these people. Please continue to follow your instincts, for many of us the pacing and detail we are exploring is welcomed and a interesting departure from efficient facts glossing over the back story.
Thank you Skye, Bruce, and of course, Nick. This was a lot of fun in replay. I enjoyed Skye's appreciation of exploration-wear. The feedback echo didn't bother me one little bit. Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Travelled thru most of Eastern Oregon with my dad when I was much younger, he was a cattle buyer. Seen a lot of country interesting to hear your teachings. Thank you. 👍😎🦅🇺🇸
thanks you two!! really appreciate your hard work! I grew up in Lewiston and Asotin and love this area! and have a few questions for you guys about the flood basalt around the mouth of hells canyon, specifically up Lindsey creek, some of it looks like pillow lava, so i would always amagine it was under water, I'll have to go take some pics and send you guy's!!
Thanks Nick and Skye. I found Skye's discussion of Russel descriptions and the current explanations to be very interesting. Have a good Thanksgiving. See you in the chat on Nov 30th.
This was great. I will use the term John Day Sediments to include all those post-eruption and inter-eruption sediments. Skye's photographs were stunning. Thanks again, Nick.
Nick and Skye, thanks from Naches, WA. Your combined efforts turned on a light today to answer some of my questions and to better understand the geology in my backyard. I immediately drove up to the Naches-Wenas ridge (3 whole minutes from my house) and had very new eyes for the deposits evident here.
Some asked if Israel Russell overlapped with Oregon’s Thomas Condon of John Day Fossil bed fame. They did. Condon was appointed Oregon’s state geologist in 1872. Russell did a survey and wrote a book on his survey of Southern Oregon in 1884.
2 hours well spent. Not only does include geology, but history and personal experiences. You, Sir, are not only an outstanding teacher, but an excellent story teller. I think those complaining about content and time are just too self-centered.
One of the things I am enjoying most is how you are telling a whole story of what is happening. We usually get a story of just one place only. We never get to see how all the places look together.
I'm sorry I wasn't able to view the livestream, but thank you, Nick and Skye! Personally, I think the stories help to put the geology into perspective. I like being able to associate the historical findings, the geologic timeline, and what we know today with each other.
Awesome, Nick & Skye, two thumbs up!!😄. Thank you to both of you, I got to be able to differentiate more of the river lakes that had happened Pre-Ice Age Floods!!😉✨💙
Nick in my opinion if someone is only getting 30%as content they are not paying enough attention.personaly I'm enjoying the series I enjoy the pace and your attempts to keep it on layman's terms for I am not a geologist . Thank you Nick I am learning a lot Bob Moyer Thompson Falls Mt
Nick, excellent content as usual, love the all encompassing perspective. Having absolutely no background in geology other than Professor Peter Jacobs UW-WHITEWATER (as a former cut customer and friend) and yourself, I wouldn't have the indepth knowledge of my oldest of North America land on the Wisconsin Dome northwoods. My point is I have 24 years of not only Algonquin (Ojibwe) research but the very land knowledge we walk on. It has been instrumental in my quest to bridge the cultural divide we have up here, With this added knowledge I was compelled enough to enroll in the Native American Studies Program in my nearby Tribal University in Lac du Flambeau, WI. With this education I am confident enough to join a local board to help bridge cultural gaps of understanding of Tribal, a Sovereign Nation (reservations per sey), and non-Natives like me. (Political correct term used broadly in northern Wisconsin.) This is a HUGE ISSUE. So thank you for helping me learn in this quest for knowledge! This connection is the Ripple Effect for 80,000 of us whereby those few naysayers have missed this boat completely. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. Daddy needs some sleep. 😉
I think the “echo” is caused by internet lag. Nick’s comments reach Skye with a little delay and are picked up by his microphone as they emanate from his speakers. If Skye wears headphones, with his speakers turned off, the problem will be eliminated.
Hi Nick - I just finished a return journey through the Pacific Northwest with stops in Blaine, Ocean Shores, Tenino (meet up with a fellow investor for a liquid lunch) Bend, Burns, Caldwell, Boise, Castle Rocks, Arco (Craters of the Moon), Howe, Gilmore, Salmon, Bitterroot, Missoula, Flathead Lake and then back through the Roosville border crossing and Fernie back to Calgary and Red Deer. There is one hell of a lot of "open skies" geography through that region. (And too many spectacular vistas of mostly "empty lands" with the occasional fresh water supply and associated dryland farming operations and small communities.) A lot of country to travel through in 5 days - but something different than returning from Vancouver to Calgary through the Rockies. (Baja BC Country.) My question for you - because of your expertise in all the German Chocolate cake - is what are the conical hills standing proud of the lava plateau as you trvel east from Bend to Burns? Are some of them mini volcanic cones? Or are they merely the remnants of a pre lava flow landscape and range of hills? Some seem so much like the shapes of shield volcanoes (thinking Haleakala here on a smaller scale) having that typical symmetrical dome shape. I am guessing that the lava sheets here in this part of central to eastern Oregon are mostly earlier episodes to those just to the north in eastern and central Washington. I was travelling by van through here and it really impressed on me the challenges that must have faced both first Nations as well as any early travellers through this region. Knowing where to find water and shelter must have been a key survival skill. (I notice most of the hills rising up out of the flatlands all have their own weather - ring and boomerang clouds - and associated sparse conifers.) There seems vast tracts though with no surface water whatsoever. "Gilmore" was facinating too - early November, 7169' elevation, and no snow plus great clear highway. (There seemed to be an encampment of "Liberty Survivalists" up near the treeline forming "Gilmore" the settlement!) There is no shortage of space and geography out here in many parts of the Pacific Northwest.
From the papers I read over the summer after you started shifting focus to the ice age there is apparently evidence that the Cordilleran ice sheet started to form in the late Pliocene around the time ice started to form on Greenland which is interesting and sounds like it would make timing the ice age floods problematic if true.
Thank you Nick and Skye and Bruce... Can we look eastward to around the Great Lakes region for any evidence of similar glacial outwash responses that may help to explain or articulate what may have happened in the Pacific northwest in the event that some of our "smoking gun" evidence might have been washed out to sea? It seems like similarity of the hydrodynamic and geomorphic conditions and outwash response should have yielded comparable resulting site conditions and residual evidence. Maybe we have to look for more mountainous, plateau conditions of northern Europe... Just thinking out loud... Again, thank you.
Rewatching, I have often wondered about the CRB's and the theory of their weight depressing the land they flowed on. My theory is there was a basin from the Cascades to Idaho made by accreted terranes and the Laramide Orogeny(?). Proof might be at the bottom of the CRB's. So, as the rifts opened basalt flowed and filled in the basin(pillow lavas?). Making a sloping surface towards the coast. This theory seems partly born out in Nick's first reading from Russell's paper about a lake from the Cascades to Idaho on top of the CRB's. That infers their top was level or nearly so at one point. Yes, 2mi of lava is thick, yet look at the Great Central Valley of California, it is filled with sediments and not lava and has also been exhumed. Subsequent plate tectonics, raised the accreted terranes. On another point, last night I saw a video where they were talking about the loess in central China being key to civilization and cultivation of rice. In that case it was alluded the loess came from the deserts to the West.
It might be hard to find a happy photo from that era, at that time if memory serves the exposure time was so great that you had to hold a pose for like 30 seconds or more.
HHmmm. Look at the McMacken 1937 paper. At 40:29 - 41:30, specifically the map at 41:18.Notice that MacMacken map shows the " Okanogan River " joining the ancestral Columbia River north of Pasco.Gee..... the Okanigan River appears to be in the same area as...... Grand Coulee? The power of water is amazing. Does water have a memory? Or is it water searching/finding the Fall Line.
Spent time on the Sediments of Bovil and Latah Fm. Great aptronym -- Skye Cooley. Skye has you heard of the quartz arenite in the Vantage Member? After John Bush.
We drilled drilled & correlated quite a bit of the Wanapum and younger Saddle Mtns and sed interbeds were spectacular; see also Bush and Garwood. There are some obvious reasons that clean quartz arenite would be curious...
1:11:58 Whoe! Stop! Can someone please explain this photo? The vertical intrusion on the right appears to be an impossible deposit bedded at 90° to the horizontal deposits that it seemingly intrudes into! You can tell that the diagonal stripes are an artifact of erosion. What am i missing here ?:-)
Towards the end Skye was talking about lava outflow causing the land to sink, partly due to deflating the magma chamber. What is the evidence for this deflation? Surface faults? Hidden by the overflow?
RE Skye's blog; "Dual Sport Riding Gear for a Montana Commuter"---Skye should invite Noraly for a ride around the Channeled Scablands! Long live the Honda single-cylinder motos! And a toast to the Suzuki V-Strom! (I've ridden all of the above!)
Perhaps the Blue Lake Rhino (in the lower Grand Coulee) and the Gingko tree fossils (Vantage) can be added to these formations since they were also fossilized in the John Day formation.
Good thinking. I only have internal speakers on my MacMini. With headphones plugged in, I could still hear the echo from Nick. Guessing my internet is too slow or my ISP is throttling livestreams. My wife works through a VPN in a different room and never has trouble streaming. A second echo problem, which I fixed before Nick brought me on, was caused by me having both the livestream window (Melon) and the UA-cam livecast window open. Closing UA-cam solved.
Nick as best as I can figure that echo you heard was a problem on sky's end, not yours, especially since he was having trouble at the start of the show
A big thank you to Nick for the opportunity to be a part of the fun! Appreciate everyone's interest in Eastern Washington geology. Get out there and see it.
Great job, Skye! Really enjoyed it!
Thanks! Sorry about the fuzzy connection. I suspect my ISP is throttling live streaming.@@vinmansbakery
I have tracked Nick (and you previously) hammering away on the open questions... I taught in the area as a regional geologist interested in most things; I learned a lot from John Bush and Bill Rember paleobotanist & Idaho geologist. imagine starting in 1893 ?!!!!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us Skye. It's a delicious treat for the brain!
Thank you for your perspective Sky! REALLY Enjoy every topic you are excited about sharing, and taking the time to add a element of humanization with the kit people utilized as well as taking a moment to call out the exceptional talents of those that came before with the tools they had available to them at the time.
It really adds a lot to the narrative to understand a little about the characters we are following, and you are Nailing that added element.
Nick, what you are doing is really great!! Dont sweat the whiners, you cant please everyone. I'm ole and slow, trying to take it all in, and enjoying each video. Thanks so much!
Keep doing what you are doing. The mix between the science, history and stories is what makes your presentations appealing to such a wide audience.
I'm enjoying the learning. Skye is a good speaker! Gotta do additional research. I like incorporating the thoughts of the pioneer geologists with modern interpretation. THANK YOU!
Thanks Nick and Skye! This is what we signed up for! This is part of the human history of teasing out the geologic history! How did Bretz become informed about the region before arriving? Those that came before him.
Could Bretz have gotten glimpses from the train as he as and his wife headed west to Seattle?
I can listen to stuff like this all day. Skye is great at organizing his thoughts and presenting then coherently, and of course he knows his stuff! :)
your content, and the way its presented is way good. looking forward to more.
Thank you Skye. WOW! Fascinating! New horizons!
As I watch yet another wonderfully informative production by you, Mr. Nick .. et al, I’m compelled to give thanks. You may not realize just how much ‘we’ learn from your endeavors.
You ‘endeavor’ to bring knowledge to the layman, ‘endeavor’ to clear up long held misconceptions, ‘endeavor’ to tie together all these bits and pieces into one coherent presentation.
You do well, teaching, Mr. Nick. Very well.
As a fellow of similar age, I must say that you’ve broadened my understanding of the geology of the north west immensely. Just in the last few years. Sharing this process freely with all of us is wonderfully met with eager anticipation of what we’ll learn next.
Seriously, man.
I can’t say ‘thank you’ enough to adequately express my appreciation.
Thank you and have a wonderful week.
Just finished the replay - excellent show, Skye explains things so well it makes me feel like I actually know stuff (I don't). Nick, I don't know who is complaining about the content per hour ratio, but you increase the retention of the material by thorough review and discussion andhaving your guests do the same. Keep up the great work!
I can't believe you would get criticism for the incredible programs you are providing us with. I think it's brilliant and I am truly grateful for the background, the foundation that you build as you tell the story. To me that is true learning. I also appreciate you carrying on as planned! Wow - I am caught up now! Thanks as always for a wonderful well spent two hours! (Oh - and great ending!)
you are doing an amazing job with the Series!!! Its so fun to be seeing your "Nick on The Rocks" series down here as well, while I watch this!!! I love hearing about the history of discovery, the journey that helps us understand why we understand things the way we do, and So excited to learn about the thoughts and insights of Bretz and all his experiences and collaborators!!! All while we learn now and improve our understanding of hos the world was made!!! The Story is SOOO exciting and fun, it reallh helps us engage on a personal level, because it is about the STORY of us and our understanding!!! I've loved all of it!!!
Plus, this is so much more than a doctoral thesis!!! I feel like it is an active journey, with so many people coming together to magnify our knowledge!!!
This episode certainly helps us all better understand the significant challenges that Russell faced in analyzing the basic lacustrian and riparian geologic history of eastern Washington. Say nothing of the physical day to day challenges of living in the wild and floating the rivers. You have provided us a wonderful insight into both the geology and the challenging work of the geologist. Thank you Nick and Skye for a terrific program. Your style of presentation is wonderful and greatly appreciated, Nick. Thank you!
The geology has a human history to it. Thank you for making that aspect a part of the presentation.
Appreciate what you're doing, Professor Zentner.
Thanks to Skye for sharing his insights with Nick and us #ZentNerds! Hope to meet Skye sometime when he's up in the Flathead.
Great sequence! Stay the course. The readings clearly provide breadth and valuable perspective content. Thank You!
Watching in replay and I will watch it all, I really enjoy it being different from the "normal" collage class. Thank you for the fun you put into this work.
Another awesome show. Thank you Nick and Skye for your time, it is very much appreciated. Nick, don't get too down with any comments about the content, history is part of geology even if it's history of the geologists. Love all of it! This is such a wonderful community, Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
Watching the second time was really helpful for me to better understand the information. Thank you Skye for giving us this, and the historical perspective. Your maps and slides (and Bruce's) are so challenging/interesting! I enjoy the way the A-Z series is going. Cool! Bretz's notes!!
This is the way to truly learn. Thank you Nick. Spot on format and presentation!
WOW,WOW, THIS IS SO MUCH TO THINK ABOUT. LOVE IT ALL.
I can’t believe anyone would complain about your content, it’s all great stuff that enhances my life in depth and breadth that can’t be matched in any other time or place!
How many binge watched these 4 videos? Between yesterday and today, I'm all caught up. I enjoy hearing about the history. It's all part of the content. Complainers will always find something to complain about.
Thank you so much for enriching our geology needs from way out there in pacific northwest. Congrates on your award-winning job.
I loooove the content of your video!!!!! They make my brain grow. Very enjoyable. Thank you, Nick!!!!! XOXO ❤️. HAPPY HOLIDAYS.
Another great episode with Skye. Thank you Nick.
I am so glad you are doing John Day Beds! After reading Russell's paper, I was asking myself "what the heck are the John Day Beds?' I am off to find out!
Wonderful mix of geology, stories, history, pictures! All great content! Keep it up. Watching delayed, while on vacation in Hawaii. Couldn't wait until back home. Aloha 🌴
Skye Cooley…sneaky good TEACHER! Thanks for helping me piece together the 4 dimensional geologic picture! A nice legacy of teachers! Israel Russell couldn’t have a better spokesperson!! Thanks Ni..Nick!🤣
Wonderful stuff. KEEP THE FORMAT!!! Not only am I learning but as “we” fish … I can ponder. I have the time during the session to imagine in my mind what the area looked like. As I listened to Cooley I could envision a time and even the temp he referred to at the end. Your sessions allow me to imagine the land before time. Thank You. Look forward to the next one. GREAT JOB
Great episode! Thank you, Nick and Skye! In my humble opinion, your content is just perfect!
Great video, great content. A few of us old geological types, also explore old litature and visit interesting outcrops. Really part of the joy of geology. So complex and interesting. Happy thanksdiving.
So... being a rank amateur, educated as an engineer and making a living as a trucker these days, I get around. A lot. So I see a lot of rocks in different settings. Thinking about what was discussed here and putting together video shot in Iceland recently helps put together the sedimentary icing that frosted the basalt cake. You can see the lava flowing out in Iceland, covering the soils that accumulated over time. Something like that occurred in eastern Washington ages past - although we're talking about lake sediments. So the loess has a part of the ice age story since obviously, there were existing drainages before the floods started carving up the basalt. These pre-flood drainages must have had some level of influence on the initial flood channelization. Now we're suggesting that there were up to 100 Missoula floods, so all of the scabland excavation didn't happen in one great bang. And, somewhere along the line, Canadian ice melted. What happened to that water? It didn't just sublimate into water vapor. Things to ponder. BTW, you're doing just fine in the presentation.
Thank you Nick and Skye! This information added another layer to my understanding of the land before the floods!! Grew up N of the John Day Beds. Never knew how complex and extensive such features were to OR and WA.
Great program as usual Nick, and thank you Skye! Looking forward to seeing Skye again in future episodes. Nick, never doubt yourself - always follow your instincts for what works for you and the community will always be here. There will be those who think they know a better way or are too used to instagram style content, and that comes with the territory. These programs are fun, enriching, meaningful and relevant to the general scientific process. Speaking for myself, just today during your program I had a minor epiphany of sorts when Skye was talking about his appreciation of Russell's work. The details we can discover and quantify today are great, and necessary to building the most clear picture up to any current point in time, but how amazing it was for the pioneers in a new area, like Russell, to come in and quickly absorb what he is seeing - only what was on the surface - in a brief period of time over a huge geographical distance and yet be able to paint such a rich and eloquant picture.
Yes!
In reply the the "Content" pacing, I REALLY Enjoy the Personalization that is added from the pacing that we have.
learning and understanding the perspective of the characters we are following along with, and why they formed the ideas they did in period.
We don't always get that underlying humanization, just as Sky took a moment to comment of the NO Nonsense pragmatic equipment utilized, it tells us a little about the people and what who they were. That a detail that helps us understand this story and these people.
Please continue to follow your instincts, for many of us the pacing and detail we are exploring is welcomed and a interesting departure from efficient facts glossing over the back story.
Thank you Skye, Bruce, and of course, Nick. This was a lot of fun in replay. I enjoyed Skye's appreciation of exploration-wear. The feedback echo didn't bother me one little bit. Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Amazing episode! My favorite part was Skye’s map showing the different levels of the land forms and their ages! Thanks!!!
Have a great holiday Nick! Thanks for another amazing series!
Thank you Skye and Nick this is soooo good Love it it Rock's Man.
Nick, that was a great addition of new material covering the sedimentation stories before, during and just after the basalt layer production. Awesome.
Travelled thru most of Eastern Oregon with my dad when I was much younger, he was a cattle buyer. Seen a lot of country interesting to hear your teachings. Thank you. 👍😎🦅🇺🇸
❤❤ Thank you Nick and Skye!!
I love Skye!!! So interesting!!!
I AM LOVING THIS!!! Love the backstory -the history is incredible!!
Hi Nick, I am sorry I missed the Livestream here in the U.K. as it clashed with family function, Thanks for posting on UA-cam. 👍 🏴 🇬🇧
Great lecture Nick n Sky thanks much
This was really interesting and enjoyable! Thank you Nick and Skye!
thanks you two!! really appreciate your hard work! I grew up in Lewiston and Asotin and love this area! and have a few questions for you guys about the flood basalt around the mouth of hells canyon, specifically up Lindsey creek, some of it looks like pillow lava, so i would always amagine it was under water, I'll have to go take some pics and send you guy's!!
Love the stories, love the series. If I want the hard core, nuts and bolts; I would be enrolled in a class.
Thanks Nick and Skye. I found Skye's discussion of Russel descriptions and the current explanations to be very interesting. Have a good Thanksgiving. See you in the chat on Nov 30th.
This was great. I will use the term John Day Sediments to include all those post-eruption and inter-eruption sediments. Skye's photographs were stunning. Thanks again, Nick.
Nick and Skye, thanks from Naches, WA. Your combined efforts turned on a light today to answer some of my questions and to better understand the geology in my backyard. I immediately drove up to the Naches-Wenas ridge (3 whole minutes from my house) and had very new eyes for the deposits evident here.
Great program! Thanks Nick and Skye! 🌟🌟🌟
Seeing now...just perfect to listen and learn, thanks Nick and Skye🙏
It was even better watching the second time. Able to keep up with chat room, as well as Nick & Skye.
Thank you for teaching us!
Some asked if Israel Russell overlapped with Oregon’s Thomas Condon of John Day Fossil bed fame. They did. Condon was appointed Oregon’s state geologist in 1872. Russell did a survey and wrote a book on his survey of Southern Oregon in 1884.
Good morning Nick, I am in Eagle River, Alaska -5 degrees, will be back in Moses Lake tonight
Hello from the intersection of where the Colville lobe's moraine failed and the Rodinia rift.
2 hours well spent. Not only does include geology, but history and personal experiences. You, Sir, are not only an outstanding teacher, but an excellent story teller. I think those complaining about content and time are just too self-centered.
Agree!
One of the things I am enjoying most is how you are telling a whole story of what is happening. We usually get a story of just one place only. We never get to see how all the places look together.
I'm sorry I wasn't able to view the livestream, but thank you, Nick and Skye! Personally, I think the stories help to put the geology into perspective. I like being able to associate the historical findings, the geologic timeline, and what we know today with each other.
Awesome, Nick & Skye, two thumbs up!!😄. Thank you to both of you, I got to be able to differentiate more of the river lakes that had happened Pre-Ice Age Floods!!😉✨💙
Great talk.
Skye - Excellent!
Nick in my opinion if someone is only getting 30%as content they are not paying enough attention.personaly I'm enjoying the series I enjoy the pace and your attempts to keep it on layman's terms for I am not a geologist . Thank you Nick I am learning a lot
Bob Moyer Thompson Falls Mt
A great background wall behind Skye.
Nick, excellent content as usual, love the all encompassing perspective. Having absolutely no background in geology other than Professor Peter Jacobs UW-WHITEWATER (as a former cut customer and friend) and yourself, I wouldn't have the indepth knowledge of my oldest of North America land on the Wisconsin Dome northwoods. My point is I have 24 years of not only Algonquin (Ojibwe) research but the very land knowledge we walk on. It has been instrumental in my quest to bridge the cultural divide we have up here, With this added knowledge I was compelled enough to enroll in the Native American Studies Program in my nearby Tribal University in Lac du Flambeau, WI. With this education I am confident enough to join a local board to help bridge cultural gaps of understanding of Tribal, a Sovereign Nation (reservations per sey), and non-Natives like me. (Political correct term used broadly in northern Wisconsin.) This is a HUGE ISSUE. So thank you for helping me learn in this quest for knowledge! This connection is the Ripple Effect for 80,000 of us whereby those few naysayers have missed this boat completely. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. Daddy needs some sleep. 😉
great show today😎
Thank you!
Happy Thanksgiving Nick and Skye !:-) 💜🙏
Look at you on the cover of my KCTS Viewer Guide! Yay, Nick on the Rocks!
Thank you
I think the “echo” is caused by internet lag. Nick’s comments reach Skye with a little delay and are picked up by his microphone as they emanate from his speakers. If Skye wears headphones, with his speakers turned off, the problem will be eliminated.
The internet connection is slow here in prison.
There may be a delay if Nick is using a satellite link as the overall path may be much longer.
Thank you. Keep working, good luck to you.
Love the photos
Thanks nick just watched your video from yesterday, I love the story behind the men its not a payed class so can just soke up information
Hi Nick - I just finished a return journey through the Pacific Northwest with stops in Blaine, Ocean Shores, Tenino (meet up with a fellow investor for a liquid lunch) Bend, Burns, Caldwell, Boise, Castle Rocks, Arco (Craters of the Moon), Howe, Gilmore, Salmon, Bitterroot, Missoula, Flathead Lake and then back through the Roosville border crossing and Fernie back to Calgary and Red Deer. There is one hell of a lot of "open skies" geography through that region. (And too many spectacular vistas of mostly "empty lands" with the occasional fresh water supply and associated dryland farming operations and small communities.) A lot of country to travel through in 5 days - but something different than returning from Vancouver to Calgary through the Rockies. (Baja BC Country.) My question for you - because of your expertise in all the German Chocolate cake - is what are the conical hills standing proud of the lava plateau as you trvel east from Bend to Burns? Are some of them mini volcanic cones? Or are they merely the remnants of a pre lava flow landscape and range of hills? Some seem so much like the shapes of shield volcanoes (thinking Haleakala here on a smaller scale) having that typical symmetrical dome shape. I am guessing that the lava sheets here in this part of central to eastern Oregon are mostly earlier episodes to those just to the north in eastern and central Washington. I was travelling by van through here and it really impressed on me the challenges that must have faced both first Nations as well as any early travellers through this region. Knowing where to find water and shelter must have been a key survival skill. (I notice most of the hills rising up out of the flatlands all have their own weather - ring and boomerang clouds - and associated sparse conifers.) There seems vast tracts though with no surface water whatsoever. "Gilmore" was facinating too - early November, 7169' elevation, and no snow plus great clear highway. (There seemed to be an encampment of "Liberty Survivalists" up near the treeline forming "Gilmore" the settlement!) There is no shortage of space and geography out here in many parts of the Pacific Northwest.
From the papers I read over the summer after you started shifting focus to the ice age there is apparently evidence that the Cordilleran ice sheet started to form in the late Pliocene around the time ice started to form on Greenland which is interesting and sounds like it would make timing the ice age floods problematic if true.
Thank you Nick and Skye and Bruce... Can we look eastward to around the Great Lakes region for any evidence of similar glacial outwash responses that may help to explain or articulate what may have happened in the Pacific northwest in the event that some of our "smoking gun" evidence might have been washed out to sea? It seems like similarity of the hydrodynamic and geomorphic conditions and outwash response should have yielded comparable resulting site conditions and residual evidence. Maybe we have to look for more mountainous, plateau conditions of northern Europe... Just thinking out loud... Again, thank you.
Rewatching, I have often wondered about the CRB's and the theory of their weight depressing the land they flowed on. My theory is there was a basin from the Cascades to Idaho made by accreted terranes and the Laramide Orogeny(?). Proof might be at the bottom of the CRB's. So, as the rifts opened basalt flowed and filled in the basin(pillow lavas?). Making a sloping surface towards the coast. This theory seems partly born out in Nick's first reading from Russell's paper about a lake from the Cascades to Idaho on top of the CRB's. That infers their top was level or nearly so at one point. Yes, 2mi of lava is thick, yet look at the Great Central Valley of California, it is filled with sediments and not lava and has also been exhumed. Subsequent plate tectonics, raised the accreted terranes.
On another point, last night I saw a video where they were talking about the loess in central China being key to civilization and cultivation of rice. In that case it was alluded the loess came from the deserts to the West.
Oh heck I overslept n missed your live show,
I do miss your live mike lol
Hi Nick, fabulous session today. Suggestion if I may: could you provide an email link to all your guests, who have been outstanding
Geology is like unscrambling eggs.
It might be hard to find a happy photo from that era, at that time if memory serves the exposure time was so great that you had to hold a pose for like 30 seconds or more.
Do your thing sir. Forget all of those trying to steer you in one direction or another. My humble opinion.
You were hearing your voice, Nick, as it came out of his desktop speakers and fed into his mic. This happens with Skype and other tools sometimes.
HHmmm. Look at the McMacken 1937 paper. At 40:29 - 41:30, specifically the map at 41:18.Notice that MacMacken map shows the " Okanogan River " joining the ancestral Columbia River north of Pasco.Gee..... the Okanigan River appears to be in the same area as...... Grand Coulee? The power of water is amazing. Does water have a memory? Or is it water searching/finding the Fall Line.
Spent time on the Sediments of Bovil and Latah Fm. Great aptronym -- Skye Cooley. Skye has you heard of the quartz arenite in the Vantage Member? After John Bush.
We drilled drilled & correlated quite a bit of the Wanapum and younger Saddle Mtns and sed interbeds were spectacular; see also Bush and Garwood. There are some obvious reasons that clean quartz arenite would be curious...
1:11:58 Whoe! Stop!
Can someone please explain this photo? The vertical intrusion on the right appears to be an impossible deposit bedded at 90° to the horizontal deposits that it seemingly intrudes into! You can tell that the diagonal stripes are an artifact of erosion. What am i missing here ?:-)
Towards the end Skye was talking about lava outflow causing the land to sink, partly due to deflating the magma chamber. What is the evidence for this deflation? Surface faults? Hidden by the overflow?
RE Skye's blog; "Dual Sport Riding Gear for a Montana Commuter"---Skye should invite Noraly for a ride around the Channeled Scablands! Long live the Honda single-cylinder motos! And a toast to the Suzuki V-Strom! (I've ridden all of the above!)
Nick and Noraly talking geology and adventure! That would be world class.
Hutchinson, Kansas
Perhaps the Blue Lake Rhino (in the lower Grand Coulee) and the Gingko tree fossils (Vantage) can be added to these formations since they were also fossilized in the John Day formation.
I think you should put a picture of Bege on the wall like you used to do
I'm watching this entire program in glasses free awesome 3D on my Leia Lume Pad 2. Find an associate that has one for a show and tell.
Another echo culprit is external speakers, if no headphones are available, revert speakers to the internal computer speaker
Good thinking. I only have internal speakers on my MacMini. With headphones plugged in, I could still hear the echo from Nick. Guessing my internet is too slow or my ISP is throttling livestreams. My wife works through a VPN in a different room and never has trouble streaming. A second echo problem, which I fixed before Nick brought me on, was caused by me having both the livestream window (Melon) and the UA-cam livecast window open. Closing UA-cam solved.
Thank you Skye for your info
Nick as best as I can figure that echo you heard was a problem on sky's end, not yours, especially since he was having trouble at the start of the show
Did I hear Sky correctly: As lava filled the original terrain, it sank under the weight of it? Similar to the land under the south pole??