Hi Nick nice to see your smiling face again after a few years of my roaming around. I am reminded of all the great tours and explanations you have provided me and do appreciate being with you again today. Thanks for your contagious enthusiasm. You are the perfect teacher and very much fun to learn with you.
Hannah Shamloo's Goat Rocks project, Mike Eddy's Spirit Lake project, along with the upcoming Cascade's A-Z... It's hard to imagine being more excited about geology than I am right now.
A video and a livestream on the same day! You keep tantalizing us with plutons - I hope this means that this winter we will gain a deeper understanding of our plutons, especially when they formed formed versus when they rose to "breath the air". This is great! Loving the correlation with volcanos. Thanks for another awesome field trip Nick.
I lived in Castle Rock in '89. After work my husband would scoop ash into his little VW truck for our organic garden. The ash was that same color. So the eruption powdered the underlying rock? (Maybe this is a Duh!) I was already awed by the loss of trees & the flooding of the Toutle River.....It was the best garden I've ever grown.
Nick, thank you for racking up the miles and miles to show, describe and teach us such very very interesting geology. Your not afraid to be out in the field studying what's already on paper. I can tell Nick your a "hands on" instructor which is what I love! You show us the proof in your geology teaching. If only more instructor's were open to applying field work with class time and NOT 100% lecture but hands on boot treads out in the woods or wherever but yeah your way of teaching "ROCKS" (pun intended)!!!! And thanks again for taking us out on all your field excercises, your appreciated more than you'll ever ever know. Looking forward to "our" next outing. 😊 I too love the history in rocks and soil. Later buddy.
Any igneous rock that has cooled underground and eventually exposed in an intrusive way for instance along a fault line or a hot spot is a pluton. The eroded granitic rocks here look like tempered window glass that was shattered into very sharp edged pieces! Nice rock hammer work professor. Loving the fall colors there too.
Yes, there was a very light white pumice floating in Spirit lake in the early 60s when my family visited there. It was all over the Spirit Lake area, in and out of the lake, but it was an extraordinary thing to see the lake then because of all the pumice floating in the lake. I have never gone there since then.
I remember seeing pictures of all the damage from when the mountain went boom right after I left for army boot camp. Wish I was still up to taking hikes like this and the joy of exploring and learning as you go.
Must have had your coffee between first and second stops. Third stop looked more blue-green than others on camera (maybe shade), but you did read about copper/pyrite veins.
That first sample looked like volcanic andesite to me. The others looked more like the granodiorite the book is describing. Thanks for taking us along!
Wow, just hours ago I reading about the Steelhead fishery in the Toutle in the book "After the Blast". The author followed the work of Hal Mahnke and Keith Keown to help Steelhead return to the Toutle, especially one tough buck.
Thank you Doc Nick! Your videos are really luring me to want to come back home to White Salmon. Just a short drive away to so many interesting places to learn about the backyard :) Ive drove through this area on 26, and loved the beauty ,now I can follow your lead the be more informed! THANK YOU !!!!!
Nick, thank you! This was really helpful. I poked around an exposure of the Spirit Lake Pluton in the Mt. Margaret Backcountry in August. When I got to the area that my map indicated would be plutonic rock I found it to look a lot like the first samples you shared in this video. Igneous yes, but extrusive or intrusive? Wasn't confident. Helps to have you, Pat P., Paul H., and Don S. come along to decipher things. 😊
Thanks, Nick, for an interesting field trip. I would have jumped to a wrong conclusion seeing that rock, and the conclusion would have jumped right back at me. It's a great format sharing the experience of looking and thinking and concluding...
There really is no better pleasure than smacking on outcrop with one’s Estwing and exposing its fresh secrets! Thanks for your videos from this retired “rock sniffer.”
Little boy pluton walks into the kitchen, mummy plutonium asks 'where have you been'?' Boy plutonium says 'Mummy I've been in the attic'. Mummy pluton says 'Don't lie to me, you have been in the basement... look at you, all covered in schist!'...
Hmmm...I wonder if there are any pegmatites associated with this pluton? If so, there would be an interesting place to look for larger crystals forming from this as it cooled down.
I'd really like to see how that granodiorite would look when polished. Like Nick said - handsome. Could make a really nice kitchen counter, much lass boring than just granite.
Always fantastic addictive enjoyable. If I can’t stay awake I finish first thing next day before reviewing politics. I should really get a job. 73 anos
Nick, where were you when Mt. St. Helens erupted or shortly after the big blast? Friend and I took the Cessna 210 flew around the area. Got some sweat areal photos.
Pleased to say that when you broke open that rock and I saw the black crystals, the word 'hypersthene' came to me from a field trip more than 50y ago on the west coast of Scotland (Ardnamurchan). I hacked out one of the larger, dark bottle green, crystals, and still have it somewhere. Quite gratifying to hear you say yours must indeed be a pyroxene, though Wikipedia tells me I'm not allowed to call it hypersthene any more! :) It was a bit difficult trying to take compass/clinometer readings at the time, because a lot of the minerals were magnetic, and old military maps did not help either! One could compass steer one's self over a cliff in the Scotch Mist!
Able to follow some of the places you stopped to take examples for this video by using Google Maps, as well as some views across the road to distinctive mountain sides. Thankfully, street view is available on NF-26. Thank you, Nick.
Hi Nick nice to see your smiling face again after a few years of my roaming around. I am reminded of all the great tours and explanations you have provided me and do appreciate being with you again today. Thanks for your contagious enthusiasm. You are the perfect teacher and very much fun to learn with you.
love these vicarious field trips to places far off my radar. Thanks for introducing us to the Spirit Lake Pluton. Interesting rock and its phases.
Hannah Shamloo's Goat Rocks project, Mike Eddy's Spirit Lake project, along with the upcoming Cascade's A-Z... It's hard to imagine being more excited about geology than I am right now.
A video and a livestream on the same day! You keep tantalizing us with plutons - I hope this means that this winter we will gain a deeper understanding of our plutons, especially when they formed formed versus when they rose to "breath the air". This is great! Loving the correlation with volcanos. Thanks for another awesome field trip Nick.
I'd LOVE a video all about plutons!
Very interesting looking granite compared to other Cascade intrusives! Squarish jointing due to the augite xtals? Did you find any magic enclaves?
I lived in Castle Rock in '89. After work my husband would scoop ash into his little VW truck for our organic garden. The ash was that same color. So the eruption powdered the underlying rock? (Maybe this is a Duh!) I was already awed by the loss of trees & the flooding of the Toutle River.....It was the best garden I've ever grown.
Congratulations on your “Outstanding Achievement” award from AIPG. I have really enjoyed your videos over the past few years.
Nick in the morning can't be beat! Love it! Thanks for the am field trip Nick. Looking forward to all things Cascades in the next few months.
As a geology fan, I am grateful for plutons.
Rock Porn
Nick, thank you for racking up the miles and miles to show, describe and teach us such very very interesting geology. Your not afraid to be out in the field studying what's already on paper. I can tell Nick your a "hands on" instructor which is what I love! You show us the proof in your geology teaching. If only more instructor's were open to applying field work with class time and NOT 100% lecture but hands on boot treads out in the woods or wherever but yeah your way of teaching "ROCKS" (pun intended)!!!! And thanks again for taking us out on all your field excercises, your appreciated more than you'll ever ever know. Looking forward to "our" next outing. 😊
I too love the history in rocks and soil. Later buddy.
Any igneous rock that has cooled underground and eventually exposed in an intrusive way for instance along a fault line
or a hot spot is a pluton. The eroded granitic rocks here look like tempered window glass that was shattered into very
sharp edged pieces! Nice rock hammer work professor. Loving the fall colors there too.
Yes, there was a very light white pumice floating in Spirit lake in the early 60s when my family visited there. It was all over the Spirit Lake area, in and out of the lake, but it was an extraordinary thing to see the lake then because of all the pumice floating in the lake. I have never gone there since then.
Nick totally rocks man
Very interesting, I live in Toutle, on Spirit Lake Highway. Thank you for sharing your ideas about the Spirit Lake pluton ,
Many thanks for your continued zeal for teaching about rocks!!!
Always finding something that is old but new for me😅...that greenwish is awesome, pyrite😮
I remember seeing pictures of all the damage from when the mountain went boom right after I left for army boot camp. Wish I was still up to taking hikes like this and the joy of exploring and learning as you go.
Great stuff, thank you for all of these live streams and videos, Nick, it’s truly appreciated ❤
Love this place! I took a field course and we studied the Spirt Lake area!
Must have had your coffee between first and second stops. Third stop looked more blue-green than others on camera (maybe shade), but you did read about copper/pyrite veins.
That first sample looked like volcanic andesite to me. The others looked more like the granodiorite the book is describing. Thanks for taking us along!
Spirit Lake Pluton does have a different blend. Interesting to see all of the different forms of granite.
Love the way you "nick" off a fresh piece of rock! Aiyeee!💚
Any more samples your car will sink into the black top. One more favorite nicer than the last. Thank you for teaching us as we go.
you know i'm here within an hour of the upload. the people must be ready for some cascades action. blessings Nick!
I love this Nick, a new to me kinda rock formation
Thanks, Nick, interesting trip to see the Spirit Lake Pluton.
Always great to start out with a mystery.
That main phase is beautiful rock. I'm excited, even more, to hear about Mike Eddy's work.
Brilliant scenery with wonderful information
ty always a pleasure
I had to look up what Pluton meant, so I learned something new today, thank you.
Beautiful up there. That shot of the green river valley was amazing.
Thanks for the road trip.
This watershed used to be some of the best steelhead fishing anywhere in the world.
Wow, just hours ago I reading about the Steelhead fishery in the Toutle in the book "After the Blast". The author followed the work of Hal Mahnke and Keith Keown to help Steelhead return to the Toutle, especially one tough buck.
Thank you, Nick, from Mustang, OK
Terrific outing! Thanks for familiarizing us with what augite, pyroxene, and the area samples look like. I can't wait for what Mike Eddy finds, too.
thank you Nick
Thanks Nick. It was beautiful, even on a screen.
Thanks Nick!
once you get samples of all the various plutons, it would be cool to see them side by side
Sitting in my cubicle wishing I was there! Thanks for the field trip :D
Confetti cake! White base with sprinkles.
WOW, verery interesting. Finially caught the video a shown I think.! GREAT!
Thank you Nick you make brain do a bit of gymnastics ! I love lithology
I didnt know what a pluton was before this video.
I liked that pluton too.
another wander in the wild.
lovely!
Thank you Doc Nick! Your videos are really luring me to want to come back home to White Salmon. Just a short drive away to so many interesting places to learn about the backyard :) Ive drove through this area on 26, and loved the beauty ,now I can follow your lead the be more informed! THANK YOU !!!!!
Nick, thank you! This was really helpful. I poked around an exposure of the Spirit Lake Pluton in the Mt. Margaret Backcountry in August. When I got to the area that my map indicated would be plutonic rock I found it to look a lot like the first samples you shared in this video. Igneous yes, but extrusive or intrusive? Wasn't confident. Helps to have you, Pat P., Paul H., and Don S. come along to decipher things. 😊
Thanks for all the hard work on these videos!
Thanks for posting this!
Very interesting. I want those guides!
I have several pieces of that very outcrop in a rock retaining wall.
Great day to be a Geologist Prof. Thanks Nick Z.
Thanks, Nick, for an interesting field trip. I would have jumped to a wrong conclusion seeing that rock, and the conclusion would have jumped right back at me. It's a great format sharing the experience of looking and thinking and concluding...
Fans of the works of Sir Terry Pratchett would immediately recognize the specimen at 15.50 as Dwarf Battle Bread.
The outcrop seems to be a little too squared off to make the Scone of Stone, though.
Thank you 😊
thanks again.
so what is the gray brn rock behind the outcrop
There really is no better pleasure than smacking on outcrop with one’s Estwing and exposing its fresh secrets! Thanks for your videos from this retired “rock sniffer.”
Fruit Cake also came to my mind when looking at this nice looking rock.
Not that it matters but I kinda thought it looked like that birthday cake confetti frosting. Just my opinion tho.
Hi Nick, looks nice where you are.
You are going to have fun Nick.
I’m lichen these field videos, Nick is a gneiss guy.
And we don't take him for granite!
YES!
Nick... What brand hiking boots do you wear?
Excited for November!
Little boy pluton walks into the kitchen, mummy plutonium asks 'where have you been'?' Boy plutonium says 'Mummy I've been in the attic'. Mummy pluton says 'Don't lie to me, you have been in the basement... look at you, all covered in schist!'...
Hmmm...I wonder if there are any pegmatites associated with this pluton? If so, there would be an interesting place to look for larger crystals forming from this as it cooled down.
Good morning deer professor ☕ reminds me of choc chip mint ice cream with the mini chips
Bedazzled Pluton
Mint Chocolate Chip
That's what I thought too! ;p
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@16:00 Oreo mcflurry
That must have been a pretty massive bathoilith , covering all that real-estate.
Green Gray Mossy Muesli Granodiorite. G.M.G.! oi! oi! Is it green or is gray? G.M.G.!
❤🎉
I'd really like to see how that granodiorite would look when polished. Like Nick said - handsome. Could make a really nice kitchen counter, much lass boring than just granite.
Always fantastic addictive enjoyable. If I can’t stay awake I finish first thing next day before reviewing politics. I should really get a job. 73 anos
Nick rocks! That granite you cracked and are looking for a name. “Dragon fruit pluton”
Nick, where were you when Mt. St. Helens erupted or shortly after the big blast? Friend and I took the Cessna 210 flew around the area. Got some sweat areal photos.
Pleased to say that when you broke open that rock and I saw the black crystals, the word 'hypersthene' came to me from a field trip more than 50y ago on the west coast of Scotland (Ardnamurchan). I hacked out one of the larger, dark bottle green, crystals, and still have it somewhere. Quite gratifying to hear you say yours must indeed be a pyroxene, though Wikipedia tells me I'm not allowed to call it hypersthene any more! :) It was a bit difficult trying to take compass/clinometer readings at the time, because a lot of the minerals were magnetic, and old military maps did not help either! One could compass steer one's self over a cliff in the Scotch Mist!
Whatchamacallit Bar
YES!!! That's what he should've named it.
TEMU pluton...not quite what you were expecting.
Ryan Lake is about 10 miles from the Science and Learning Center at Coldwater as the Raven flies… buuuut the drive is about 2.5 hours (104 miles)😂
At 3:01 to 3:07 ; rocks on the extreme right, horizontal / darker brown... are those weathered holes or larger pieces of hornblende?
Able to follow some of the places you stopped to take examples for this video by using Google Maps, as well as some views across the road to distinctive mountain sides. Thankfully, street view is available on NF-26. Thank you, Nick.
What good does this look like.
Mouldy cheese!😂 It definitely does nt look like a normal if there is such.a thing diorite. Definitely Bedazzled!🎉
That 10% looks more like the Idaho Batholiths!
Blueberry muffin!
Trachyte porphyry maybe
It's mint chocolate chip!
16:00 looks like Sourdough raisin bread made with spoilt sourdough starter
or the Idaho batholith! No it just is much different!
Beautiful! Do you have any idea of the timeline on Hannah and Mikes projects?
this is a destination video omgoodness what sexy rocks!
'Stollen' cake @Nick, or even 'Haggis'! :)
Finer grained at 26:30, right?
Wry interesting looking granite for the Cascades! Square jointing due to all the augite xtals? Did you find any magic enclaves?
It looks like a dragon fruit.
See if there are nice polished ones in the river....