Oh how I miss the originals. Glad Nick isn't that funny because Ive nearly crashed the car listening to Prairie Home Companion...several times from laughing so hard.
Nick, so nice that you honored Matt McClincy’s former Masters work regarding the Chumstick region. Like most Masters students, Matt will not go down in the annals of the Geological Hall of Fame. Nonetheless, he did work 30+ years ago that is proving helpful to geologists of today. That is exactly how science works, as so eloquently stated by Sir Isaac Newton: “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” Great that you gave due respect to Matt’s work that is helping Eddy and Donaghy today. Matt, also thank you for your career working on Superfund sites -truly making a difference!!! Always a treat to Erin Donaghy….so smart and with such great expertise.
wow Erin has a twin an identical twin, wow what wonderful guests you have had on. Matt that was wonderful you coming on as a guest. Such powerful work, that is still being added too. what a link. by the way kudos to Nick for having the courage and tenacity to continue improve his computer skills, camera skills, connecting folks together and showing us stuff that is hard to get a look at.
Thanks for another great show! Thanks to Erin and Matt for sharing their time and info with us. I loved hearing about where a geology degree can go. See you all tomorrow.
You were so right! A wonderful holiday season spent with my awesome "sister" ( a very long story indeed) but now it's time to catch up with the replays, Mr. Nick! Time to get back in the groove!
Had to watch this one again. Too much going on at our house this weekend. I did get a laugh from that giant loaf of bread!! The quests were so good. It’s so wonderful to see these amazing people. Matt mcClincy seemed a little shy at first but then The Zentner personality got him all cheerful and talkative. Erin is such a sweetie and her twin sister. Wow! Every guest you’ve had on has so much to offer.. Great job Nick.
Well that's just brilliant! A scientist who published 35 years ago and whose work has been used by contemporary scientists to further their investigations into this topic gets the call to come on down and give us an insight into the lines of thinking back in the day! It's a near infinite game of pass the parcel and we get to hear about (and now meet) some of those whose hands were involved decades ago. I wonder how many Geology students, graduates and professionals will be dusting off old notes and papers in case they get a Zoom call in the not too distant future! All credit to Matt for being game for the challenge of speaking to a worldwide audience and giving us a glimpse into that time in his career. And in the next breath, we have Erin picking up the parcel and explaining how that previous work informed and guided her work in the present and recent past. The chain will never break as long as there are such people to keep it going. I wonder if 30 years from now if the likes of Patrick will be telling us how they were guided and inspired by Erin and others in turn. Please keep it going!
Fascinating yet again. From photograph worthy visual effects, to really interesting information, to a great illustration of process. This is the best series yet Nick. Thank you (and Erin and Matt)
Wow what an episode! Thank you Nick, Erin and especially Matt for this wonderful bringing together of field work over the Chumstick from the 40 years to today. And the Rustic Siletzia sour doe loaves from Vinmans Bakery!! What a riot!!
No, I can’t imagine talking about what I did 35 years ago, but I since I was only 9, I was probably watching Spaceballs, building LEGOs, eating pizza rolls, or reading Garfield comics. I’m not flippin’ you off either, Nick. Another great show! ✌️
Thank you so much Nick, Erin and Matt (and the people in chat and every previous and future guest)! This is so exciting! I think this beautiful exchange of information and ideas between wonderful people (who happen to be geologists) brings together all this research from the past and present in such a way that the outcome will be long lasting and beneficial to everyone FOREVER!
That was exceptional. I love that you compare older and newer data. It validates much of the older data as well as narrowing down the dates. Well done Nick.
That was awesome, Nick!😘💫💛 Thank you for that discipline on that subject today and rescuing me from my brain being exproded😂😉🤣 I'm much more clear on what we're talking about now than before, and I have much application to Matt McClincy's work!!💗💫
The last comment in live Chat was about Slicing Selitzia and off to Alaska MUSH There was a postulation that Selitzia was formed over a hotspot at a Tripple junction and that Selitzia North took a different plate before docking in Alaska
Late on Saturday after two rock club Christmas parties, I got a new Eastwing hammer and a book on tumble polishing rocks. I gave a picture puzzle of Victorian Mineral poster and three plant fossils in shale of Pennsylvanian times.
Fantastic end to my day - thanks to all involved - from Sam and Nick (bakers) through to Nick, Matt and Erin (geologists), the chat room and the wonderful "I'm not flipping you off" model.
The overlap in location but not in time is similar to the Ancestral Rockies, which existed in Colorado ~300 MYA, and the Laramide Rockies, at 80-40 MYA. Same location, different mountain ranges.
Finally the question i had asked last year is answered - why doesn't anyone just drill through the CRB to see what is below it. And they have, and they didnt really find anything exciting LOL.
I'm glad you were having a good time, because, we too were having a good time.. Amazing how same things change with time and advancement of technology. This is such a wonderful , informative class. Love it !!!!!
I would suspect somewhere around 2000 degrees +/-500 depending on pressure, just as a former boro glassblower, I would assume quartzite would be 3000+ and high pressure for the smoothness I've seen on quartzite, just a guess though
Great discussions. In this new series the scope of information and tying things together has expanded tremendously. And something I think is wonderful is the interviewing of these guest geologists, drawing them out about their life experiences, how their careers developed, ETcetera {lol, everybody does it}. I think Matt Mcclincy's story particularly interesting because in spending a couple of seasons mapping (compared to others spending thirty years), and it becomes a substantial step up for the "dream team's" effort to shed greater light on the subject. It must be gratifying to him. By the way, Nick, just wondering... Is that black cabinet thing to the viewers right useful? It seems it is 'running interference' with your chalkboards!
Wow, so disappointed I couldn’t make this one…will be able to tomorrow. But this one is a perfect example of Nick’s superpower: the power of people people, power to bring people and ideas together. I’ve got a lecture on the Earth Science Video DB from a guy who did his thesis in the Greenhorns during the 80s (cache creek related ophiolites and mélange), and it’s great to hear his recollections of those times, as he talks to current students about them. This felt similar to me. And as far as theses being useful for your future…I did my thesis in architecture as a manual for artists’ collectives to design and build DIY and recycled living and performance spaces…never used it since 😂 Not even an architect anymore. Edit: I also think this installment of the series is great in the way it shows a microcosm of the way the field (and science at large) works…building on the shoulders of those who come before us, hard-won data point by data point. Edit 2: with regard to the NW extent of the Chumstick pull-apart basin-I believe it is truncated by a jog in the Leavenworth fault, and the SCF is more to the west, you have the rest of the Nason terrane, the Chiwaukum Schist and Cascades Crystalline Core in between where the Chumstick basin ends in the NW and the SCF…so I don’t believe there would be any analog to it on the other side of the SCF. That jog in the fault is basically the reason the basin exists, as a pull-apart basin, and by definition of a pull-apart basin/rhombochasm, jogs in two strike slip faults (in this case, an northeastward jog in the southwestern boundary, the Leavenworth Fault) form the ends of the basin, while the strike slip faults themselves form the sides.
Always good stuff with Nick and friends. What an opportunity for fledgling geologists to understand the PNW! "Oh, and would you like your sour dough in a small, medium, or Siletzia?
I climbed on limestone all over Iowa, It made my day when we visited the quartzite cliff on the border of the FLAT Looking west from the border of MN always wondered ... What?! Quartzite?! Like Mount Arapiles in Australia?! What is this doing here?! Why the ledge?
totally the opposite side of the planet, I'm very curious if the quartzites on both side of the planet have the same dates.... I have rocks from Arapiles somewhere around here if you got samples from west MN to compare to
I thought the chumstick basin formed in 3 phases and also was internally folded and faulted with multiple thicknesses due to lateral variations of the deposition center in a wrench- fault style basin?
in a slipping fault is there something created by the friction of movement that could be used to nail it down tighter? I assume no since I'm sure someone thought of that before
Lol, “Chumstick basin” is one letter off from being my ex’s new nickname. ..I’m sure (some version of) that joke is as old as time but as someone from further east who’s never heard it, I had to make my contribution.
A very special thank you to The Good Sport Matt McClincy. So gracious.
Wow! So cool to have Matt and Erin on together. They're both great sports. Thanks to them and you Nick!
Loved the sculpture at the end too. 😉
I just realized something. These lectures are the Prairie Home Companion of geology but without the music. My favorite!
Ohhh... nice analogy! Used to listen to that show. Cheers!
Oh how I miss the originals. Glad Nick isn't that funny because Ive nearly crashed the car listening to Prairie Home Companion...several times from laughing so hard.
We loved Prairie too. It was so darn funny.
Nick, so nice that you honored Matt McClincy’s former Masters work regarding the Chumstick region. Like most Masters students, Matt will not go down in the annals of the Geological Hall of Fame. Nonetheless, he did work 30+ years ago that is proving helpful to geologists of today. That is exactly how science works, as so eloquently stated by Sir Isaac Newton: “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” Great that you gave due respect to Matt’s work that is helping Eddy and Donaghy today. Matt, also thank you for your career working on Superfund sites
-truly making a difference!!! Always a treat to Erin Donaghy….so smart and with such great expertise.
wow Erin has a twin an identical twin, wow what wonderful guests you have had on. Matt that was wonderful you coming on as a guest. Such powerful work, that is still being added too. what a link. by the way kudos to Nick for having the courage and tenacity to continue improve his computer skills, camera skills, connecting folks together and showing us stuff that is hard to get a look at.
Nick thank you for allowing me to be a bystander and listen to your scientific Discovery process and Learning how science builds upon itself
Another production needing recognition for excellence
OMG. I've been watching the Eocene in replay. it's may 24th. Erin must be an Auntie by now! 💞
LOL! THANKS, VINMAN'S BAKERY! How awesome is THIS Silezia! YA GOTTA LOVE IT! 💚😁👏
You have nailed the presentations in this
A to Z by interviewing the field people
Thanks for another great show!
Thanks to Erin and Matt for sharing their time and info with us. I loved hearing about where a geology degree can go. See you all tomorrow.
This was a really cool show. A perfect illustration of how science builds builds on the work of others.
Just an awesome presentation!!!!! THANKS so much to Nick and especially Erin Donaghy and Matt McClincy.
You were so right! A wonderful holiday season spent with my awesome "sister" ( a very long story indeed) but now it's time to catch up with the replays, Mr. Nick! Time to get back in the groove!
Made me laugh hard there at the end!!! Great job to whoever made the Nick figure!!!
Yeah, 1:45:30 is kinda nice.
Had to watch this one again. Too much going on at our house this weekend. I did get a laugh from that giant loaf of bread!! The quests were so good. It’s so wonderful to see these amazing people. Matt mcClincy seemed a little shy at first but then The Zentner personality got him all cheerful and talkative. Erin is such a sweetie and her twin sister. Wow!
Every guest you’ve had on has so much to offer.. Great job Nick.
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Well that's just brilliant!
A scientist who published 35 years ago and whose work has been used by contemporary scientists to further their investigations into this topic gets the call to come on down and give us an insight into the lines of thinking back in the day! It's a near infinite game of pass the parcel and we get to hear about (and now meet) some of those whose hands were involved decades ago. I wonder how many Geology students, graduates and professionals will be dusting off old notes and papers in case they get a Zoom call in the not too distant future! All credit to Matt for being game for the challenge of speaking to a worldwide audience and giving us a glimpse into that time in his career.
And in the next breath, we have Erin picking up the parcel and explaining how that previous work informed and guided her work in the present and recent past. The chain will never break as long as there are such people to keep it going. I wonder if 30 years from now if the likes of Patrick will be telling us how they were guided and inspired by Erin and others in turn.
Please keep it going!
This session was a great combination of human interest and science - thank you for putting this together.
The Nick bobblehead will look great next to my Svengoolie bobblehead!
Thanks Nick, Matt and Erin. Alway interesting and educational. 👏👏👏
your seo is epic, you win man, you win
Fascinating yet again. From photograph worthy visual effects, to really interesting information, to a great illustration of process. This is the best series yet Nick. Thank you (and Erin and Matt)
What an amazing session! Highlight extraordinaire among many highlights.
Wow what an episode! Thank you Nick, Erin and especially Matt for this wonderful bringing together of field work over the Chumstick from the 40 years to today. And the Rustic Siletzia sour doe loaves from Vinmans Bakery!! What a riot!!
No, I can’t imagine talking about what I did 35 years ago, but I since I was only 9, I was probably watching Spaceballs, building LEGOs, eating pizza rolls, or reading Garfield comics.
I’m not flippin’ you off either, Nick. Another great show! ✌️
Thank you so much Nick, Erin and Matt (and the people in chat and every previous and future guest)! This is so exciting! I think this beautiful exchange of information and ideas between wonderful people (who happen to be geologists) brings together all this research from the past and present in such a way that the outcome will be long lasting and beneficial to everyone FOREVER!
Great show as always. Loved the giant bread loaf from Vinmans. Hope they don't make a scale sized German Chocolate Cake 😳
u gotta lov'it
That was exceptional. I love that you compare older and newer data. It validates much of the older data as well as narrowing down the dates. Well done Nick.
SO SWEET TO MEET ERIN'S TWIN! WOW!
That was awesome, Nick!😘💫💛 Thank you for that discipline on that subject today and rescuing me from my brain being exproded😂😉🤣 I'm much more clear on what we're talking about now than before, and I have much application to Matt McClincy's work!!💗💫
We need to bestow the title of “Honorary out-of-townie” to Erin’s sister!
This was great, and its great when geologist, archeologists and others talk about such things to narrow down dates or theories. Great video!
The last comment in live Chat was about Slicing Selitzia and off to Alaska MUSH There was a postulation that Selitzia was formed over a hotspot at a Tripple junction and that Selitzia North took a different plate before docking in Alaska
Time Stamps:
00:00 Video Starts
12:16 Lecture Starts
13:43 Review of Previous Sessions
17:02 Siletzia Sourdough Upgrade
20:07 Chumstick Basin
23:51 North Cascades vs Cascades
26:29 Eocene Sedimentary Layers
29:53 Old Chumstick Dates
36:59 New Chumstick Dates
39:10 Schedule and Eocene Papers
41:04 Nick's UA-cam Videos
49:22 Matt McClincy
52:00 Matt's Chumstick Master's Thesis
56:38 Matt's Recent Environmental Work
58:56 Oil Company Funding
01:02:49 Q&A with Matt
01:04:33 Erin Donaghy
01:05:10 Sunitsch Tuff
01:09:17 Clark Canyon 4 Tuff
01:13:19 Master's Thesis Guidance
01:16:11 Erin's Sister
01:17:16 Q&A with Erin and Matt
01:32:01 Chumstick Basin Photo
01:33:28 Matt's Thesis Figures
01:38:31 Q&A with Nick
01:42:48 Toast and Goodbye
Videos Mentioned:
GEOL 351 - #19 - Swauk Formation w/ Ralph Haugerud (field trip) - ua-cam.com/video/KwtmYYHMatM/v-deo.html
Randy Lewis @ Camas Meadows - Nick From The Field - episode 9 - ua-cam.com/video/nCDYVVHJc_w/v-deo.html
GEOL 351 - #15 - Peshastin Pinnacles (field trip) - ua-cam.com/video/plSXKnt0w9w/v-deo.html
GEOL 351 - #25 - Leavenworth Ski Hill (field trip) - ua-cam.com/video/WDOmFdTtIOM/v-deo.html
Chumstick Formation with Erin Donaghy - Nick From The Field #33 - ua-cam.com/video/KG74jeGtDQY/v-deo.html
Late on Saturday after two rock club Christmas parties, I got a new Eastwing hammer and a book on tumble polishing rocks. I gave a picture puzzle of Victorian Mineral poster and three plant fossils in shale of Pennsylvanian times.
Just when you think the guest situation can’t get cooler, it does.
Fantastic end to my day - thanks to all involved - from Sam and Nick (bakers) through to Nick, Matt and Erin (geologists), the chat room and the wonderful "I'm not flipping you off" model.
The overlap in location but not in time is similar to the Ancestral Rockies, which existed in Colorado ~300 MYA, and the Laramide Rockies, at 80-40 MYA. Same location, different mountain ranges.
Finally the question i had asked last year is answered - why doesn't anyone just drill through the CRB to see what is below it. And they have, and they didnt really find anything exciting LOL.
I'm glad you were having a good time, because, we too were having a good time.. Amazing how same things change with time and advancement of technology. This is such a wonderful , informative class. Love it !!!!!
I would suspect somewhere around 2000 degrees +/-500 depending on pressure, just as a former boro glassblower, I would assume quartzite would be 3000+ and high pressure for the smoothness I've seen on quartzite, just a guess though
Great discussions. In this new series the scope of information and tying things together has expanded tremendously.
And something I think is wonderful is the interviewing of these guest geologists, drawing them out about their life experiences, how their careers developed, ETcetera {lol, everybody does it}. I think Matt Mcclincy's story particularly interesting because in spending a couple of seasons mapping (compared to others spending thirty years), and it becomes a substantial step up for the "dream team's" effort to shed greater light on the subject. It must be gratifying to him.
By the way, Nick, just wondering... Is that black cabinet thing to the viewers right useful? It seems it is 'running interference' with your chalkboards!
Pahashtin Pinnacles, where Bryce became “the Rock Licker.”
Wow, so disappointed I couldn’t make this one…will be able to tomorrow. But this one is a perfect example of Nick’s superpower: the power of people people, power to bring people and ideas together. I’ve got a lecture on the Earth Science Video DB from a guy who did his thesis in the Greenhorns during the 80s (cache creek related ophiolites and mélange), and it’s great to hear his recollections of those times, as he talks to current students about them. This felt similar to me. And as far as theses being useful for your future…I did my thesis in architecture as a manual for artists’ collectives to design and build DIY and recycled living and performance spaces…never used it since 😂 Not even an architect anymore.
Edit: I also think this installment of the series is great in the way it shows a microcosm of the way the field (and science at large) works…building on the shoulders of those who come before us, hard-won data point by data point.
Edit 2: with regard to the NW extent of the Chumstick pull-apart basin-I believe it is truncated by a jog in the Leavenworth fault, and the SCF is more to the west, you have the rest of the Nason terrane, the Chiwaukum Schist and Cascades Crystalline Core in between where the Chumstick basin ends in the NW and the SCF…so I don’t believe there would be any analog to it on the other side of the SCF. That jog in the fault is basically the reason the basin exists, as a pull-apart basin, and by definition of a pull-apart basin/rhombochasm, jogs in two strike slip faults (in this case, an northeastward jog in the southwestern boundary, the Leavenworth Fault) form the ends of the basin, while the strike slip faults themselves form the sides.
Always good stuff with Nick and friends. What an opportunity for fledgling geologists to understand the PNW! "Oh, and would you like your sour dough in a small, medium, or Siletzia?
The bread is hilarious
You mean the basalt sample ;) lol
you have the luxury of LIDAR maps of a large area of WA is there any app that you can see them on?
If the volcanic tuffs date in the 49 million year range and the Cascades date to 44 million years, what was the source of the tuffs?
I would buy a Ned Zinger bobble head doll.
With a falling hammer!
The Reed reactor is totally still there.
I climbed on limestone all over Iowa, It made my day when we visited the quartzite cliff on the border of the FLAT
Looking west from the border of MN always wondered ... What?! Quartzite?! Like Mount Arapiles in Australia?! What is this doing here?! Why the ledge?
totally the opposite side of the planet, I'm very curious if the quartzites on both side of the planet have the same dates....
I have rocks from Arapiles somewhere around here if you got samples from west MN to compare to
That bread by now must be hard as basalt!
I thought the chumstick basin formed in 3 phases and also was internally folded and faulted with multiple thicknesses due to lateral variations of the deposition center in a wrench- fault style basin?
Ash/tuft beds provide SiO2 for cementation, chert formation. Sad no plant fossils to agatize.
in a slipping fault is there something created by the friction of movement that could be used to nail it down tighter? I assume no since I'm sure someone thought of that before
I love sourdough
Hi Nick.
Lol, “Chumstick basin” is one letter off from being my ex’s new nickname.
..I’m sure (some version of) that joke is as old as time but as someone from further east who’s never heard it, I had to make my contribution.
How is Randy doing?
That’s one hell of a loaf of bread!
Blackwood nj
fyi hydraulic press channel will smash lots of stuff for clicks, give them some stuff to smush? for science.