For me, the Full Meal Deal is important. If, like today, I can’t watch the whole thing, I wait until I am ready to sit down and soak up all that you’ve got for us, Nick!
I am 70, but still working full time. Your videos are among my favorite work buddies. I work alone in my leather furniture repair workshop. My hands are always busy but most of the time my brain is free and hungry for good stuff to chew on. So I set my phone up just to the side or behind what I'm working on and glance as needed to catch the visuals. This means I often watch a second time when I break for a meal and set you just behind my plate leaning on my water bottle. Sometimes you are tucked under the arch of my sewing machine while it goes pucketa-pucketa. Sometimes you get moved around on top of a hide as I mark and cut. Sometimes at my large work table you are propped up against a bottle of denatured alcohol, just behind the bottles of colors and mixing bowl, as I create a custom color and make test swatches. Sometimes you lean against a chunk of upholstery foam while I cut threads and pry out staples to disassemble seats, backs, arms and ottomans to make a pattern. But when I go into the spray booth, I take audio podcasts only and leave you outside. I don't think I can take in the content without being able to see the screen.
😃Is Chilliwack Batholith the everlasting Gobstopper?!!🤣🟢🔴🟡🟣🌈✨Makes so much sense now!!!✨Yes!! I'm loving this evolution, Nick, thank you SO much for being open minded with Ned!!💞🩷✨ Geez, Gary, thank you so much for the photo work!! And, big thank you to Jeff for guiding us to your geological world!! The episode of the Cascade series!!
Fluid color schemes are welcome and needed so that I can see and be aware of the fact that there maybe pluton intrusions in various time periods that make a batholith!...If there are natural breaks in between that is though..., hmmm...
Nick, I am sitting on the couch watching these shows on the TV, whether live or recorded. Usually it's while relaxing after work and enjoying a beer. I watch and pay attention to the videos because I don't want to miss the visuals.
HI NICK BEV FROM AUSTRALIA I'M WATCHING YOU IN REPLAY 4HRS AFTER YOUR P SESSION. I USALLY WATCH THE VIDEO AFTER YOUR PRESENTATION BECAUSE OF THE TIME DRIFFRENCE. PLEASE DO NOT MAKE IT AN AUDIO ONLY. I LOVE YOUR TALKS WITH OTHER GEOLOGIST AND THEIR PICTURES
Hi Nick. don't get too hung up on what we think. Present it how you feel most comfortable. You have drawn us in with your unique way of delivering the truth about an area of the world that few of us had a clue about. I could hold a huge conversation at a cocktail party on the rocks of Washington. I'm glad you moved into the Cascades. You were avoiding them for years. The make up of that area is incredible. When you finish these alphabet shows. Where are you going
I sometimes listen 🎧 while cleaning… but I prefer to sit and watch during & after dinner..,because otherwise I have to stop and go back and review. ** I don’t watch television anymore; Thank you for providing some of the highest quality educational content on UA-cam. And 😊I look forward to being able to support the CWU Geology Friday Speaker Series and students again.
I watch by replay usually within 24 hours; I concentrate but usually don't research the papers. Sometimes I go back and watch again if I didn't understand the issues. I'm impressed with the quality of your programs. I've now watched all the classes and extra videos. I think the color system works to differentiate each magma flow; but I'm comfortable with keeping the color with the new dates. What's important to me is to understand that the mountains next to each other were not formed at the same time. Audio only would not work for me I need both audio and visual. Thanks for all your hard work. And thanks to all of your experts that support the class. I miss the bakery.
A geologist/geophysicist coming in after the fact. I can’t express enough how much I enjoy your programs and your approach to teaching geology to the masses. As for your questions I very much support your new color series and tying it to the quiet times. In my work it is the quiet times that hold the most important information.
We are working our way through the Nick on the Rocks episodes with the kids and my daughter is a big fan of the animations. She was disappointed when one episode didn't have one. I think they are hitting the mark. Well done.
I’m 75 and my listening just to Audio seems to be regressing. I can’t tell you how many times my brain has be buzzing with thoughts, you show a picture or have a video and IT ALL COMES TOGETHER. Please don’t stop the visuals. (Everybody at any age needs information presented their brain finds easiest.) This Cascades series is a challenge for those who just want the Cascade Arc presented in its own little box. That’s not how you teach: You talked long ago about the scientific method guiding your lessons. That’s why you changed the color scheme. It’s the same with you leading us with you on this amazing journey through the times before the Arc. Prepping us-to be in the “place” when that Arc fires. LOVED the Chilliwack Rainbow and that Mt. Baker triangle. Actually got chills as you drew those different colors!!!
I watched your Zent Nickner episode of Znick on the Rocks, battling batholiths. For an old retire geologist, it was great, so well presented. Made anyone who watched it just want to know more, and WHAT, that dark one came from WHERE? What a hook for wanting more. Leave 'em wanting more! Loved it.
ill provide some feed back nick , i watch on a 58 inch flat screen that's at the foot of my bed on the wall. sometimes i can keep up other times you guys nerd out on me and it puts me to sleep . I'm not a geologist never had any interest in geology until i found your ice age floods stuff . that was so fascinating to me . i also loved the way you had lecture series up on stage . for me that was the best way to learn. you are a great communicator . your animated ,your funny ,your entertaining which for me helps in learning. love the nick on rocks series . i understand that the ice age stuff is behind you now and I'm ok with that . i also understand that these a to z series are more geared for geologist than the average viewer like me and I'm ok with that too. I'm watching shawn willsey more lately because his stuff is geared towards beginner geology and that's where I'm at . ill still turn your stuff on and hopefully there will be something that tweaks my interest. if not i let it play . don't ever stop what you are doing. i wouldn't want to get in the way of this hardcore stuff. the world don't revolve around me ,and I'm ok with that. just feedback ....rock on lol
Like the new color scheme. There’s nothing wrong with some areas with more than one color. It reflects the long time span over which it formed. Just a lot going on! Thanks Nick and all for the sharing of all this information!!! So fun!
I may be doing something else while listening but I stop and look at data, pictures etc. I usually watch episodes multiple times and go back and forth between your video library and alphabet. I really value the pictures etc because they make things a lot more clear. Actually seeing a formation really adds to my comprehension. Thank you for a great geology education.
Nick, this was one of the best episodes yet! Your excitement is contagious. I don’t think we need to get hung up on “decades” - to me, the colors represent the development, or phases, of the Cascades. Your work is greatly appreciated.
I prefer to watch live but sometimes it has to be replay. I appreciate the colors. They help me see patterns and keep track of the geography. As always thank you, Gary, Jeff and all contributors for your passion!
Watch both live and replay. All of the teaching tools are helpful that you use. (Especially being new to geology.) I like dates instead of colors. Most of all ,your sense of humor and teaching style keeps me wanting to come back for more! Thanks for being you.
Colors help visualization what really was going on over time, who was popping off and who was going to bed, Gary's work is just wow, he know his mountains from top to bottom north to south, east to west, I think the mountain goats even know Gary. I watch you live, then watch you again to go back over it so I can get it fully, I live in New Mexico, but I think I know Washingtons Mt better then our own, because of you, and the whole team.
I watch where ever I can. Usually at home on replay. I previously watched live from work at the Holden Mine Water Treatment Plant. In the Railroad Creek Valley via Starlink.
I watch your videos on my desktop computer monitor. I'm always focused on the presentation. Geology is a visual science. I have found the maps, drawings, and charts essential for my understanding of the videos. The photos, interviews, and field videos provide very useful context. I do keep my iPad handy, and use it to look up unfamiliar terms or things that strike my interest during the video. Personally, I like the colors. They make it easier for me to keep the dates straight than would be possible with just a bunch of numbers. Good teaching tool.
Dear Nick, I do other things with many UA-cam videos - but NEVER with yours. I always watch every minute. Please do NOT switch to audio only. Your visual content is of great value.
I always watch intently in replay just due to life usually within a day or two. I will go back and listen to old videos all the time. I find Nicks voice soothing and will sometimes use it to fall asleep. Other times just listening while I walk to the old episodes. Not being a geologist it sometimes takes me a couple times through to pickup the content.
Rewatch #1: the photos are wonderful, so pretty, and thanks so much for dotted lines, you guys! I'll need to watch again and take notes. Hope to remember better. The colors do help me.
Wow! This is science at work. You start with a starting hypothesis (here, equalling teens for the "chapters"), then data pours in, and you tweak the hypothesis whenever data comes up that contradicts the hypothesis. You already did that when you split up blue into dark and light blue. Now you had to tweak the "break" points between the colors. Everyone who has done scientific work knows exactly what you did there, slowly developing a model out of a starting hypothesis. So cool to watch that happening live and in color (pun intended)! Thank you, all involved!
I really like how you used the different colors in each batholith on the map. Colors work so well, I saw an age progression just in the Chilliwack batholith! West to east.
Nick, Do what you do best, be creative and your fun self; your colors are you. Gary Paul, For what it's worth, I liked the B&W pics better, because it makes the colored outlines and captions easier for these 61 y/o eyes to see. Jeff Tepper, Buddy!😄 Thank you for answering my oceanic questions despite not being on Nick's immediate outline. You took the time to answer 5 of mine. Perhaps I made you ponder volume + Time + exponentially increasing rates can = An LIP that is collectively attributed to plumes. The South Gorda is my home classroom.
If I'm off and can attend, I'm looking and listening. Full attention. You're talking to me. 2,000 miles isn't that far. It's how this cool world should work. I'm on several UK yt channels. I'm in Texas. You, Nick, is making this better.
I watch live whenever I can or replay if I can't. I also often rewatch all or part of some episodes I've already seen, especially if the material is something I didn't quite understand. I enjoy them all. They are a bright spot in my day!
Yes! to the new color scheme. And, Yes!, to any refinements to the color scheme as you learn more about the Cascade arc. The color scheme change is a double metaphor for the accumulation of scientific knowledge as you are learning about what to teach us. First, as you mentioned, the learning about rock units over time (the earlier "these are Tertiary volcanics" possibly connected at depth to the modern effect of precise dates on our understanding of the Cascades), and second, a very important part of any increase in geologic understanding of an area, the drilling down into finer and finer scale. The most telling, to me (besides the fact that my old nemesis, petrographic thin sections, got mentioned for the first time) was the detail you threw out about how the Chilliwack batholith is made up of an incredibly large number of plutons. That's both amazing and daunting (how many grad students does it take to fully investigate a batholith? How about 'one per pluton'? Yikes!). Last thought -- the original color scheme worked very well up until the 30s...and then it didn't. Okay, why?
I absolutely do listen to your presentations as audio only information while I am doing other things such as hiking working in the backyard or as right now preparing to go to bed and then setting a timer for 10 or 15 minutes to continue listening the next day yes I do Enjoy your program in an audio only form, but Also in audio videoalso
Hi Prof Z. I usually watch a couple times, sometimes 3 if I've "listened" while working or cooking. But I like to watch on our kitchen TV. You can follow with audio only but your visuals really help me grasp different aspects of the alphabets. I still haven't ever had any adds.
I'm usually knitting or crocheting so I'm not watching the screen all the time but the maps and cartoons and illustrations are very, very helpful. If this was just a podcast, I wouldn't be able to stay interested. Thanks for the question.
Your visuals are an absolutely essential tool in telling the story for us visual learners. Bottom line: whatever you do, please, please (please!) don’t quit making the Full Monty videos.
Thursdays I work, so I watch after work. Yes, I do other things, but such that when referencing documents, or video so I can see what you and/or guests are talking about. Yes, occasionally I miss things, but often re-watch.
I think the colors or map markings are helpful to explain the concepts. I feel like the geology ideas and goals, will reach a wider population on UA-cam. Different populations watch PBS, UA-cam, watch a lecture in person, or listen to a podcast.
Nick you are doing great!!! Need to see the charts and drawings. We either set the screen between us, but do watch seperatly but listening at same time. Keep up the GREAT work. Watching in the evening.
I watch with full attention live and in replay. Learning geology from you, Shawn and Myron has been such a gift to me as I have spent a majority of my life in the western USA.
Thank you Nick for today. This was great and I learned lots. Thank you in advance for the Saturday lecture I will miss the Livestream but will catch the replay. Take care
nick long time follower, this program is my front yard, just moved from chilliwack to vernon okanagan last spring. Anyway im guessing the chilliwack pluton runs rite up the coquahala pass on hwy 1 here in canada. so familliar, would love to joinin on a field trip of this area if you ever host anything like that. Just an enthusiast, spent many many summers on the end of a rope in the mountains of souther bc. love your work brother thanks hope to meet one day.
I have watched the entire episodes in the past on my computer, but lately I frequently listen with the occasional switch of my single screen to looks at maps, animations, or rock samples. I did enjoy the Idaho arc visually and watched most of them to help with my desire for viewing places I haven't been to in the Pacific Northwest.
Re: new color approach: i like it! The color-coded “decade” approach seems to work well for early times for which we may have limited data; however, your new scheme makes a ton of sense as we enter more recent times, when more data are available. To satisfy both the visual-overview audience and the data-specific audience, maybe a blended approach would be most informative. For those who learn best by seeing broad-brush pictures, keeping some version of the color coding is really useful (albeit of limited use for the color-poor and the color-blind). For those who are really into specific dates, how about drilling down into your new color scheme by including specific date ranges for each formation within each color bar, if the info is available? That being said,, I salute you for taking on “time and space” in this complex, evolving, and fascinating journey!
Appreciate the episodes. I will listen and stop and review if I hear interesting comments about a photo or slide. Do the times the best way you see fit. I can deal.
To answer how I watch this: I usually watch it on the tv while I’m cooking dinner but I do sometimes ‘listen’ to it sometimes while I’m on long road trips
Some of us are visual learners and appreciate full color maps. Others can read tables of numbers and see the correlations mentally. Others hear explanations and can synthesize from that. How large an audience you want to reach can determine your teaching methods.
The way I watch this program depends on the time I have available. If I have a lot of time I will hook up my laptop to my tv bringing you to the big screen of my home. Typically then I'm busy with dinner: prepping food, cooking, eating, cleaning up. When I don't have enough time I simply watch the program in fragments. Like the pre-program tends to be a first cut mostly because there are announcements and news among the same names being mentioned over and over again. The walk get skipped, then I typically cut and continue when a chapter finishes, when a recorded interview starts or stops, when a personal story starts or ends.
Petrologists were my favorite helpers when I was diagnosing deteriorating concrete. Always they had such insights. thanks to Chris M. for is thin sections analysis. p.s. How do you get samples from subducting ocean plate? From Battery Fully Charged
I rarely watch live, due to work and grandchildren and timing issues. I save for the weekend and watch two at once. Sometimes I watch straight, sometimes I'll watch and do something else at the same time. Depends on the week, and maybe the topic. I like the colours, and the newer ones are better as they are more accurate. I drool too over some of the vista I see as well.
Nick, at near 70 and sub optimal health I sit in a high end gaming chair with my Apple tab playing Elvenar while my huge Samsung has you or Anton Petrov or Oz Geographics etc etc etc running right beside it here in Naples Florida. Being entertained and educated is, to me, peak 😻
Thank you Nick! Ok - I just can't help it - got to say... 35 - 25 Ma, I sit in a 32-33 Ma volcanic caldera in Colorado, many others surrounding the area, and can't help but think about how these ignimbrite flare-ups relate to the the green period of batholiths, etc. on the Western edge. Supposedly, the Colorado (and, extensions north-south into other states and countries) activity is also to do with Farallon Plate subduction and slab rollback, slab windows, etc. as North America moved along westwards. Similar situation as Washington. There - I said it. I would love to equate it all into the grand relationships, as we were seeing with Baja BC and The Crazy Eocene series. Those presentations got me interested in Mexican Geology, where tectonic trends also do not stop at a man-made borderline, but happily continue, with some grand results, in Mexico. But, I do know that you are only focusing on the Pacific Northwest. :)
I usually catch you after the live. I mostly listen with a few glances on the screen. I usually knit while listening. I also speed-listen most of the time. Hope this helps. I do think the video format is best because so much of geology is visual.
I hate to admit it but I am usually doing something while I listen to you. I do watch if I get enough time to sit and watch but since we all went back to work, I’m way more busy and don’t have that luxury. I’m a big fan though and never miss an episode!
I watch about half live and half on replay. I watch on my iPad with headphones except one time I watched on TV. I need the video along with audio to get a full comprehension.
Hurkey Jerky camera: Check to see if the camera's frame rates are the 30fps Mac Looks for. Color: keep 'em. when I was doing training at the corporate level, I usually only had one shot to expose the students to the material. Repetition is key to learning, right? Well, if you use multiple paths into the brain, it counts as repetition. Audible, visual text, visual color, visual movement (patterns) Sound patterns, even SMELLS will make an impression. Actually, smells is the most potent, but the most difficult to arrange. Impossible for online, forget smells. But using the colors helps in understanding. You've mentioned the refining of dates for bodies of stone (thanks, MIKE!)... refining dates of color eras fits that pattern, we're ready to accept that without a problem. And as a dyslexic, it really helps me work around my difficulty using lists of dates. :D
I will listen to longform podcasts (I.E. Joe Rogan or Lex Fridman), while I am doing other work. But I sit down and only watch these. I have the video and the papers with me. It would also work as a sound only podcast I believe, but then I would lose all the information that happens in the live chat.
I love how the series has progressed so far and the color scheme you have developed. Keeping with the decades and action words like the roaring twenty's help me remember different themes from each decade. On another note, here is a great song by a Canadian band, Chilliwack! Let it energize the Chilliwack development. ua-cam.com/video/7nYvmm0Ofmc/v-deo.htmlsi=zPmwgPRMmiVXltUn
52:00 one factor may be that grabens form along volcanic arcs due to the mass of giant stratovolcanoes along their axis. You can see this in today’s cascades, for example, east of three fingered jack and mount jefferson you have green ridge and the green ridge fault scarp, which is the eastern exposed scarp of the axial graben in which the cascades sit, at least the more southern section of the cascades, where there is more extension in the arc and less convergence (due to the clockwise rotation of the PNW and migration of the cascading trench). In an extensional context such as this, over the course of several million years, an active volcanic arc may dump a huge amount of volcaniclastic sediment into such a graben, and the subsidence would be exacerbated by more and more volcaniclastic sediment input.
I think that the colors are still valid with the caveat that there are exceptions to every generality, and “lumping” is valid in some circumstances, but “splitting” provides more detail (though challenging) when we have more precise data.
My wife and I normally watch live and enjoy the maps/ visuals. I will sometimes listen to your podcast also. You do,in my opinion, explain subjects more simply I think because you don't have the visuals to aid in the explanation. I gain from both. I often need repetition because I'm slow..... :) I am easily distracted when you mention papers new and old I'll jump over to your web sight and not pay attention to the lecture. But that is entirely on me. You need, in my opinion, to treat us like 101 students. I doubt if you react to some kid that wants you to change your proven method. So you know what you're doing tell us don't ask us. So glad Liz is well. I lost my first wife 30 yrs ago to cancer while my daughters were still in high school. Don't worry about how we absorb the program you've got plenty going on.
I am following but finding it hard to comment, i fear that i am way out of my depth. However, here goes, the Batholiths with different age Plutons, could that be because they are on a very thin/weak spot in the crust?, hence the combined activity over millions of years? Is there a map showing these multiple Pluton Batholith locations and do they link any "dots" in the greater picture?
55 plutons in the. Chilliwack batholith? How many plutons, and over what age ranges, must there be in the “Sierra Nevada batholith” extending from the Cascade-Modoc Plateau to Transverse Ranges in the Mohave Desert (not to forget the piece ripped off by strike slip faulting and hauled to NorCal)? In my “Geology of California” class 50 years ago there was ONE date of 120 Ma applied to the whole thing.
I like the video / visuals & the colors. ❣❣ I normally wouldn't try to associate impacts with geology, but 35 Ma does seem to have a big impact story 😜that may or may not be (somewhat) associated. The Chesapeake Bay (impact) crater (25 mi diameter), the Popigai impact structure (62 mi dimeter) in Siberia and the 'probable' Toms Canyon impact crater (13.7 mi diameter) off the east coast (of Jersey) all happening ~35 Ma. Then there was an Eocene / Oligocene extinction event & faunal turnover from ~33.9 to 33.4 Ma. Areas near Eugene, OR record a plant extinction ~33.4 Ma and marine invertebrate turnover ~33.2 Ma. (according to Wikipedia 'Eocene-Oligocene extinction event') Australia & Antarctica were separating between ~60 Ma and 30 Ma and completely detached by ~30 Ma. Plus the San Andreas started to form ~30 Ma. The first step of Antarctica becoming glaciated is also said to be ~34.1 to 33.9 Ma. 😻💖💞❣
You made the right choice to let the geology dictate a change to the timeline color scheme (please persist with colors if the geology presents groupings, even if color timelines overlap)
I listen to YT vids both live stream and recorded sessions. And, will just listen to audio if walking or driving or as an audio book as I tuck in for the night. And, frequently repeat view YT vids and YT shorts.
For me, the Full Meal Deal is important. If, like today, I can’t watch the whole thing, I wait until I am ready to sit down and soak up all that you’ve got for us, Nick!
Regular watcher since March, 2020, as well. The Covid crew!
I am 70, but still working full time. Your videos are among my favorite work buddies. I work alone in my leather furniture repair workshop. My hands are always busy but most of the time my brain is free and hungry for good stuff to chew on. So I set my phone up just to the side or behind what I'm working on and glance as needed to catch the visuals. This means I often watch a second time when I break for a meal and set you just behind my plate leaning on my water bottle. Sometimes you are tucked under the arch of my sewing machine while it goes pucketa-pucketa. Sometimes you get moved around on top of a hide as I mark and cut. Sometimes at my large work table you are propped up against a bottle of denatured alcohol, just behind the bottles of colors and mixing bowl, as I create a custom color and make test swatches. Sometimes you lean against a chunk of upholstery foam while I cut threads and pry out staples to disassemble seats, backs, arms and ottomans to make a pattern. But when I go into the spray booth, I take audio podcasts only and leave you outside. I don't think I can take in the content without being able to see the screen.
I have a Chromebook and wireless headphones in my stained glass workshop.
😃Is Chilliwack Batholith the everlasting Gobstopper?!!🤣🟢🔴🟡🟣🌈✨Makes so much sense now!!!✨Yes!! I'm loving this evolution, Nick, thank you SO much for being open minded with Ned!!💞🩷✨ Geez, Gary, thank you so much for the photo work!! And, big thank you to Jeff for guiding us to your geological world!! The episode of the Cascade series!!
Fluid color schemes are welcome and needed so that I can see and be aware of the fact that there maybe pluton intrusions in various time periods that make a batholith!...If there are natural breaks in between that is though..., hmmm...
Nick, I am sitting on the couch watching these shows on the TV, whether live or recorded. Usually it's while relaxing after work and enjoying a beer. I watch and pay attention to the videos because I don't want to miss the visuals.
Great episode Nick. Colors on the maps and pictures are more than helpful. Keep on keeping on!
I’m 73, I watch Thursdays live, Sats in replay. I am learning so much! Thank you for all the time you invest in us! Dianne from Canby, OR
HI NICK BEV FROM AUSTRALIA I'M WATCHING YOU IN REPLAY 4HRS AFTER YOUR P SESSION. I USALLY WATCH THE VIDEO AFTER YOUR PRESENTATION BECAUSE OF THE TIME DRIFFRENCE. PLEASE DO NOT MAKE IT AN AUDIO ONLY. I LOVE YOUR TALKS WITH OTHER GEOLOGIST AND THEIR PICTURES
Hi Nick. don't get too hung up on what we think. Present it how you feel most comfortable.
You have drawn us in with your unique way of delivering the truth about an area of the world that few of us had a clue about. I could hold a huge conversation at a cocktail party on the rocks of Washington. I'm glad you moved into the Cascades. You were avoiding them for years. The make up of that area is incredible. When you finish these alphabet shows. Where are you going
I sometimes listen 🎧 while cleaning… but I prefer to sit and watch during & after dinner..,because otherwise I have to stop and go back and review.
** I don’t watch television anymore; Thank you for providing some of the highest quality educational content on UA-cam.
And 😊I look forward to being able to support the CWU Geology Friday Speaker Series and students again.
I watch by replay usually within 24 hours; I concentrate but usually don't research the papers. Sometimes I go back and watch again if I didn't understand the issues. I'm impressed with the quality of your programs. I've now watched all the classes and extra videos. I think the color system works to differentiate each magma flow; but I'm comfortable with keeping the color with the new dates. What's important to me is to understand that the mountains next to each other were not formed at the same time. Audio only would not work for me I need both audio and visual. Thanks for all your hard work. And thanks to all of your experts that support the class. I miss the bakery.
A geologist/geophysicist coming in after the fact. I can’t express enough how much I enjoy your programs and your approach to teaching geology to the masses. As for your questions I very much support your new color series and tying it to the quiet times. In my work it is the quiet times that hold the most important information.
We are working our way through the Nick on the Rocks episodes with the kids and my daughter is a big fan of the animations. She was disappointed when one episode didn't have one. I think they are hitting the mark. Well done.
I’m 75 and my listening just to Audio seems to be regressing. I can’t tell you how many times my brain has be buzzing with thoughts, you show a picture or have a video and IT ALL COMES TOGETHER. Please don’t stop the visuals. (Everybody at any age needs information presented their brain finds easiest.) This Cascades series is a challenge for those who just want the Cascade Arc presented in its own little box. That’s not how you teach: You talked long ago about the scientific method guiding your lessons. That’s why you changed the color scheme. It’s the same with you leading us with you on this amazing journey through the times before the Arc. Prepping us-to be in the “place” when that Arc fires. LOVED the Chilliwack Rainbow and that Mt. Baker triangle. Actually got chills as you drew those different colors!!!
I watched your Zent Nickner episode of Znick on the Rocks, battling batholiths. For an old retire geologist, it was great, so well presented. Made anyone who watched it just want to know more, and WHAT, that dark one came from WHERE? What a hook for wanting more. Leave 'em wanting more! Loved it.
ill provide some feed back nick , i watch on a 58 inch flat screen that's at the foot of my bed on the wall. sometimes i can keep up other times you guys nerd out on me and it puts me to sleep . I'm not a geologist never had any interest in geology until i found your ice age floods stuff . that was so fascinating to me . i also loved the way you had lecture series up on stage . for me that was the best way to learn. you are a great communicator . your animated ,your funny ,your entertaining which for me helps in learning. love the nick on rocks series . i understand that the ice age stuff is behind you now and I'm ok with that . i also understand that these a to z series are more geared for geologist than the average viewer like me and I'm ok with that too. I'm watching shawn willsey more lately because his stuff is geared towards beginner geology and that's where I'm at . ill still turn your stuff on and hopefully there will be something that tweaks my interest. if not i let it play . don't ever stop what you are doing. i wouldn't want to get in the way of this hardcore stuff. the world don't revolve around me ,and I'm ok with that. just feedback ....rock on lol
Ha ha, you thought we might get bored (regarding the magmatic episode)! Nope! Great video as usual!!!!
Like the new color scheme. There’s nothing wrong with some areas with more than one color. It reflects the long time span over which it formed. Just a lot going on! Thanks Nick and all for the sharing of all this information!!! So fun!
I like watching where you go and see what you do there! I like being able to watch what you find!
I watch live about 90% of the time and I am a note taker. A regular viewer since March 2020!
I may be doing something else while listening but I stop and look at data, pictures etc. I usually watch episodes multiple times and go back and forth between your video library and alphabet. I really value the pictures etc because they make things a lot more clear. Actually seeing a formation really adds to my comprehension. Thank you for a great geology education.
Nick, this was one of the best episodes yet! Your excitement is contagious. I don’t think we need to get hung up on “decades” - to me, the colors represent the development, or phases, of the Cascades. Your work is greatly appreciated.
I watch from my desk computer in my office at home. You have my full attention 100%. I am in it to learn motivated by my interest in Geology.
19:09 I am so in awe of your willingness to always change whatever you’re doing. I mean. Changing the color scheme. Bold.
i just had a major hip operation, so now that am home, you Nick,will be an much appreciated distraction.
I prefer to watch live but sometimes it has to be replay. I appreciate the colors. They help me see patterns and keep track of the geography. As always thank you, Gary, Jeff and all contributors for your passion!
Watch both live and replay. All of the teaching tools are helpful that you use. (Especially being new to geology.) I like dates instead of colors. Most of all ,your sense of humor and teaching style keeps me wanting to come back for more! Thanks for being you.
Keep the colors. Keep the decades. Your are doing great Ned Zinger.
Colors help visualization what really was going on over time, who was popping off and who was going to bed, Gary's work is just wow, he know his mountains from top to bottom north to south, east to west, I think the mountain goats even know Gary. I watch you live, then watch you again to go back over it so I can get it fully, I live in New Mexico, but I think I know Washingtons Mt better then our own, because of you, and the whole team.
I watch where ever I can. Usually at home on replay. I previously watched live from work at the Holden Mine Water Treatment Plant. In the Railroad Creek Valley via Starlink.
I was just at Holden a week ago. Nice digs you have there!
I usually watch 'live' on the UA-cam channel on TV. In replay I watch on my laptop. Love the A to Z's
I watch your videos on my desktop computer monitor. I'm always focused on the presentation. Geology is a visual science. I have found the maps, drawings, and charts essential for my understanding of the videos. The photos, interviews, and field videos provide very useful context. I do keep my iPad handy, and use it to look up unfamiliar terms or things that strike my interest during the video. Personally, I like the colors. They make it easier for me to keep the dates straight than would be possible with just a bunch of numbers. Good teaching tool.
Dear Nick,
I do other things with many UA-cam videos - but NEVER with yours. I always watch every minute. Please do NOT switch to audio only. Your visual content is of great value.
I always watch intently in replay just due to life usually within a day or two. I will go back and listen to old videos all the time. I find Nicks voice soothing and will sometimes use it to fall asleep. Other times just listening while I walk to the old episodes. Not being a geologist it sometimes takes me a couple times through to pickup the content.
To Do List... 1.) Discover a new batholith. 2.) Name it the Tepper Batholith.
Rewatch #1: the photos are wonderful, so pretty, and thanks so much for dotted lines, you guys! I'll need to watch again and take notes. Hope to remember better. The colors do help me.
Wow! This is science at work. You start with a starting hypothesis (here, equalling teens for the "chapters"), then data pours in, and you tweak the hypothesis whenever data comes up that contradicts the hypothesis. You already did that when you split up blue into dark and light blue. Now you had to tweak the "break" points between the colors. Everyone who has done scientific work knows exactly what you did there, slowly developing a model out of a starting hypothesis. So cool to watch that happening live and in color (pun intended)! Thank you, all involved!
I really like how you used the different colors in each batholith on the map. Colors work so well, I saw an age progression just in the Chilliwack batholith! West to east.
Nick,
Do what you do best, be creative and your fun self; your colors are you.
Gary Paul,
For what it's worth, I liked the B&W pics better, because it makes the colored outlines and captions easier for these 61 y/o eyes to see.
Jeff Tepper,
Buddy!😄 Thank you for answering my oceanic questions despite not being on Nick's immediate outline. You took the time to answer 5 of mine. Perhaps I made you ponder volume + Time + exponentially increasing rates can = An LIP that is collectively attributed to plumes. The South Gorda is my home classroom.
Thanks for your comment about the B&W. I'll mix in more B&W in the future. But a lot of folks like the colors!
If I'm off and can attend, I'm looking and listening. Full attention. You're talking to me. 2,000 miles isn't that far. It's how this cool world should work. I'm on several UK yt channels. I'm in Texas. You, Nick, is making this better.
I watch live whenever I can or replay if I can't. I also often rewatch all or part of some episodes I've already seen, especially if the material is something I didn't quite understand. I enjoy them all. They are a bright spot in my day!
amazing photographs and visuals thnk u :)
Yes! to the new color scheme. And, Yes!, to any refinements to the color scheme as you learn more about the Cascade arc. The color scheme change is a double metaphor for the accumulation of scientific knowledge as you are learning about what to teach us. First, as you mentioned, the learning about rock units over time (the earlier "these are Tertiary volcanics" possibly connected at depth to the modern effect of precise dates on our understanding of the Cascades), and second, a very important part of any increase in geologic understanding of an area, the drilling down into finer and finer scale. The most telling, to me (besides the fact that my old nemesis, petrographic thin sections, got mentioned for the first time) was the detail you threw out about how the Chilliwack batholith is made up of an incredibly large number of plutons. That's both amazing and daunting (how many grad students does it take to fully investigate a batholith? How about 'one per pluton'? Yikes!). Last thought -- the original color scheme worked very well up until the 30s...and then it didn't. Okay, why?
I absolutely do listen to your presentations as audio only information while I am doing other things such as hiking working in the backyard or as right now preparing to go to bed and then setting a timer for 10 or 15 minutes to continue listening the next day yes I do Enjoy your program in an audio only form, but Also in audio videoalso
Hi Prof Z. I usually watch a couple times, sometimes 3 if I've "listened" while working or cooking. But I like to watch on our kitchen TV. You can follow with audio only but your visuals really help me grasp different aspects of the alphabets. I still haven't ever had any adds.
Watched live earlier from Thailand. Great show handling the new material. Also just watched the PBS show, the goat did well in his first co-star role.
I'm usually knitting or crocheting so I'm not watching the screen all the time but the maps and cartoons and illustrations are very, very helpful. If this was just a podcast, I wouldn't be able to stay interested.
Thanks for the question.
Your visuals are an absolutely essential tool in telling the story for us visual learners. Bottom line: whatever you do, please, please (please!) don’t quit making the Full Monty videos.
I love this guy !!!
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Thursdays I work, so I watch after work. Yes, I do other things, but such that when referencing documents, or video so I can see what you and/or guests are talking about. Yes, occasionally I miss things, but often re-watch.
I think the colors or map markings are helpful to explain the concepts. I feel like the geology ideas and goals, will reach a wider population on UA-cam. Different populations watch PBS, UA-cam, watch a lecture in person, or listen to a podcast.
Nick you are doing great!!! Need to see the charts and drawings. We either set the screen between us, but do watch seperatly but listening at same time. Keep up the GREAT work. Watching in the evening.
As a hiker I watch field vids (Craters of the moon was my fav). I watch others in replay during supper. Gary Paull pics& vids are great.
So good to hear that Liz continues to heal!
The truth is that Washington is a MESS! Geology doesn't care for neat clear boundaries of time nor space.
I watch with full attention live and in replay. Learning geology from you, Shawn and Myron has been such a gift to me as I have spent a majority of my life in the western USA.
Thank you Nick for today. This was great and I learned lots. Thank you in advance for the Saturday lecture I will miss the Livestream but will catch the replay. Take care
nick long time follower, this program is my front yard, just moved from chilliwack to vernon okanagan last spring. Anyway im guessing the chilliwack pluton runs rite up the coquahala pass on hwy 1 here in canada. so familliar, would love to joinin on a field trip of this area if you ever host anything like that. Just an enthusiast, spent many many summers on the end of a rope in the mountains of souther bc. love your work brother thanks hope to meet one day.
Hi Nick--Stan from Asheville NC. Love the alphabet--your glitch is a glitch in the matrix. Thanks for all you do!
On Saturday morning I watch it on the TV. On Thursday I watch on work computer as I work from home. The visuals are very important to me.
Great episode! Keep the colors. Just provide legends, as you always do.
I have watched the entire episodes in the past on my computer, but lately I frequently listen with the occasional switch of my single screen to looks at maps, animations, or rock samples. I did enjoy the Idaho arc visually and watched most of them to help with my desire for viewing places I haven't been to in the Pacific Northwest.
🌈KEEP THE COLORS....KEEP THE COLORS!!! 🏳🌈
Re: new color approach: i like it! The color-coded “decade” approach seems to work well for early times for which we may have limited data; however, your new scheme makes a ton of sense as we enter more recent times, when more data are available. To satisfy both the visual-overview audience and the data-specific audience, maybe a blended approach would be most informative. For those who learn best by seeing broad-brush pictures, keeping some version of the color coding is really useful (albeit of limited use for the color-poor and the color-blind). For those who are really into specific dates, how about drilling down into your new color scheme by including specific date ranges for each formation within each color bar, if the info is available? That being said,, I salute you for taking on “time and space” in this complex, evolving, and fascinating journey!
All you have to do is ad the worksheets as supplimental... that is a great idea
i love hands free listening so I can get my chores done
Appreciate the episodes. I will listen and stop and review if I hear interesting comments about a photo or slide.
Do the times the best way you see fit. I can deal.
To answer how I watch this: I usually watch it on the tv while I’m cooking dinner but I do sometimes ‘listen’ to it sometimes while I’m on long road trips
Some of us are visual learners and appreciate full color maps. Others can read tables of numbers and see the correlations mentally. Others hear explanations and can synthesize from that. How large an audience you want to reach can determine your teaching methods.
The way I watch this program depends on the time I have available. If I have a lot of time I will hook up my laptop to my tv bringing you to the big screen of my home. Typically then I'm busy with dinner: prepping food, cooking, eating, cleaning up.
When I don't have enough time I simply watch the program in fragments. Like the pre-program tends to be a first cut mostly because there are announcements and news among the same names being mentioned over and over again. The walk get skipped, then I typically cut and continue when a chapter finishes, when a recorded interview starts or stops, when a personal story starts or ends.
I often watch at night in bed. And overall I’m watching 90% of the time and multi-tasking and listening the other 10%.
I'm a bit overwhelmed, but I'm sure things will fall into place as we go along.
Petrologists were my favorite helpers when I was diagnosing deteriorating concrete. Always they had such insights. thanks to Chris M. for is thin sections analysis. p.s. How do you get samples from subducting ocean plate? From Battery Fully Charged
I rarely watch live, due to work and grandchildren and timing issues. I save for the weekend and watch two at once. Sometimes I watch straight, sometimes I'll watch and do something else at the same time. Depends on the week, and maybe the topic. I like the colours, and the newer ones are better as they are more accurate. I drool too over some of the vista I see as well.
"Add Washington Pass to your map." - The goat you photographed
Nick, at near 70 and sub optimal health I sit in a high end gaming chair with my Apple tab playing Elvenar while my huge Samsung has you or Anton Petrov or Oz Geographics etc etc etc running right beside it here in Naples Florida. Being entertained and educated is, to me, peak 😻
Thank you Nick! Ok - I just can't help it - got to say... 35 - 25 Ma, I sit in a 32-33 Ma volcanic caldera in Colorado, many others surrounding the area, and can't help but think about how these ignimbrite flare-ups relate to the the green period of batholiths, etc. on the Western edge. Supposedly, the Colorado (and, extensions north-south into other states and countries) activity is also to do with Farallon Plate subduction and slab rollback, slab windows, etc. as North America moved along westwards. Similar situation as Washington. There - I said it. I would love to equate it all into the grand relationships, as we were seeing with Baja BC and The Crazy Eocene series. Those presentations got me interested in Mexican Geology, where tectonic trends also do not stop at a man-made borderline, but happily continue, with some grand results, in Mexico. But, I do know that you are only focusing on the Pacific Northwest. :)
I usually catch you after the live. I mostly listen with a few glances on the screen. I usually knit while listening. I also speed-listen most of the time. Hope this helps. I do think the video format is best because so much of geology is visual.
I hate to admit it but I am usually doing something while I listen to you. I do watch if I get enough time to sit and watch but since we all went back to work, I’m way more busy and don’t have that luxury. I’m a big fan though and never miss an episode!
I still like the colors
I watch about half live and half on replay. I watch on my iPad with headphones except one time I watched on TV. I need the video along with audio to get a full comprehension.
Keep the colors and the decades
Hurkey Jerky camera: Check to see if the camera's frame rates are the 30fps Mac Looks for.
Color: keep 'em. when I was doing training at the corporate level, I usually only had one shot to expose the students to the material. Repetition is key to learning, right? Well, if you use multiple paths into the brain, it counts as repetition. Audible, visual text, visual color, visual movement (patterns) Sound patterns, even SMELLS will make an impression. Actually, smells is the most potent, but the most difficult to arrange. Impossible for online, forget smells. But using the colors helps in understanding. You've mentioned the refining of dates for bodies of stone (thanks, MIKE!)... refining dates of color eras fits that pattern, we're ready to accept that without a problem. And as a dyslexic, it really helps me work around my difficulty using lists of dates. :D
Colours are helpful. All good.
Are there any other gabbro overriding granite mountains in the area? Gabbro related to seletzia, or another terrane?
Love getting some insight into how the sausage was made.
I really depend on the visuals! Maps, are great and what you call your little cartoons. Need em all!
LOL, literally making bread on a Friday morning for the weekend. Sourdough wheat. 😂
I will listen to longform podcasts (I.E. Joe Rogan or Lex Fridman), while I am doing other work. But I sit down and only watch these. I have the video and the papers with me. It would also work as a sound only podcast I believe, but then I would lose all the information that happens in the live chat.
I usually listen and only loo at the video to see the cool maps and photos. Usually I am also doing other things at the same time
I love how the series has progressed so far and the color scheme you have developed. Keeping with the decades and action words like the roaring twenty's help me remember different themes from each decade. On another note, here is a great song by a Canadian band, Chilliwack! Let it energize the Chilliwack development. ua-cam.com/video/7nYvmm0Ofmc/v-deo.htmlsi=zPmwgPRMmiVXltUn
52:00 one factor may be that grabens form along volcanic arcs due to the mass of giant stratovolcanoes along their axis. You can see this in today’s cascades, for example, east of three fingered jack and mount jefferson you have green ridge and the green ridge fault scarp, which is the eastern exposed scarp of the axial graben in which the cascades sit, at least the more southern section of the cascades, where there is more extension in the arc and less convergence (due to the clockwise rotation of the PNW and migration of the cascading trench). In an extensional context such as this, over the course of several million years, an active volcanic arc may dump a huge amount of volcaniclastic sediment into such a graben, and the subsidence would be exacerbated by more and more volcaniclastic sediment input.
I mostly listen. I look at the visuals when they come up.
Darn, I missed the live, but I've watched it the same evening.
I think that the colors are still valid with the caveat that there are exceptions to every generality, and “lumping” is valid in some circumstances, but “splitting” provides more detail (though challenging) when we have more precise data.
Keep the new colors. Great for maps
My wife and I normally watch live and enjoy the maps/ visuals. I will sometimes listen to your podcast also. You do,in my opinion, explain subjects more simply I think because you don't have the visuals to aid in the explanation. I gain from both. I often need repetition because I'm slow..... :)
I am easily distracted when you mention papers new and old I'll jump over to your web sight and not pay attention to the lecture. But that is entirely on me. You need, in my opinion, to treat us like 101 students. I doubt if you react to some kid that wants you to change your proven method. So you know what you're doing tell us don't ask us. So glad Liz is well. I lost my first wife 30 yrs ago to cancer while my daughters were still in high school. Don't worry about how we absorb the program you've got plenty going on.
I am following but finding it hard to comment, i fear that i am way out of my depth. However, here goes, the Batholiths with different age Plutons, could that be because they are on a very thin/weak spot in the crust?, hence the combined activity over millions of years? Is there a map showing these multiple Pluton Batholith locations and do they link any "dots" in the greater picture?
I watch at my desk and pay attention. All lot of this material needs to be listened to closely.
P.S. It's Clear, 77°F, 25°C (in SOCAL)
I watch live when able, otherwise in replay at my desk. Also listen to the podcasts using earbuds.
55 plutons in the. Chilliwack batholith? How many plutons, and over what age ranges, must there be in the “Sierra Nevada batholith” extending from the Cascade-Modoc Plateau to Transverse Ranges in the Mohave Desert (not to forget the piece ripped off by strike slip faulting and hauled to NorCal)? In my “Geology of California” class 50 years ago there was ONE date of 120 Ma applied to the whole thing.
I like the video / visuals & the colors. ❣❣
I normally wouldn't try to associate impacts with geology, but 35 Ma does seem to have a big impact story 😜that may or may not be (somewhat) associated. The Chesapeake Bay (impact) crater (25 mi diameter), the Popigai impact structure (62 mi dimeter) in Siberia and the 'probable' Toms Canyon impact crater (13.7 mi diameter) off the east coast (of Jersey) all happening ~35 Ma.
Then there was an Eocene / Oligocene extinction event & faunal turnover from ~33.9 to 33.4 Ma. Areas near Eugene, OR record a plant extinction ~33.4 Ma and marine invertebrate turnover ~33.2 Ma. (according to Wikipedia 'Eocene-Oligocene extinction event')
Australia & Antarctica were separating between ~60 Ma and 30 Ma and completely detached by ~30 Ma. Plus the San Andreas started to form ~30 Ma.
The first step of Antarctica becoming glaciated is also said to be ~34.1 to 33.9 Ma.
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As a visual learner and a non geologist, I like the colors
You made the right choice to let the geology dictate a change to the timeline color scheme (please persist with colors if the geology presents groupings, even if color timelines overlap)
I listen to YT vids both live stream and recorded sessions. And, will just listen to audio if walking or driving or as an audio book as I tuck in for the night. And, frequently repeat view YT vids and YT shorts.