The army of Zentnerds grows constantly.

Ordered every book recommended in this lecture as they came up. Just over $200 Australian and I am guessing it will be worth it.

As a truck driver and an amateur geologist, I have traveled up and down that route many a time. that is one of the things that occupied my mind as I passed by these geological events. The writing is literally on the walls of the cutaway for the highway. They Show such an interesting story I've always been fascinated by these cataclysmic Events that carved the land that we live on! Thank you so much for sharing this. Please continue To teach us😊

Just 15 hours after recording, and 10,500 views! I love being a ZENTNERD!

Just want to give a thumbs up for Tom Foster.

You are the GOAT of explaining the present condition geology. I am a fellow wisconsinite. Keep making these videos!

Jefferson Oregon. I’ve been watching for over two years. Quite enjoyable. The glacial floods stories keep bringing me back to live in fantasyland. I was a heavy equipment operator for most of my career. I’ve spent my life inspecting the different layers of residue from those floods. I’ve worked with soils engineers on different jobs. It was like a college education…though I have none. Through Tualitin Valley silts to the basalts along the Clearwater River in Idaho I’ve observed the story of our violent earth. WHAT A STORY!

Every time I listen to Nick talk about past events I just want a time machine so I can go back and watch all these events. Just in a fast forward episode. Lol.

Nick, I'm an old timer originally from Upstate NY and I fell in love with geology attending a great old teacher from Maine named Ralph Robinson. He'd spin stories like yours to show us the marvels of how the earth changes over time. We'd go on field trips in Orange County, NY and see some really cool glaciation and rock formation. Man, that was an awesome class. Anyway, wanted to say thank you for bringing the Missoula Floods story to life. I was particularly staggered by the speed of what happened when that ice dam broke. Holy moly, that'd been awesome to see and hear (from your friend's hang-glider of course as I think it would have been an instant karma event!) Gracias.

Nick really is a national treasure. Kudos to you sir.

It never occurred to me that I would be following a geology series - cheers.

I love the visiting pre-class. If I'm in a sad mood, I watch one of your programs and I'm guaranteed at least one good laugh. Except the Mt. St. Helens video. Yeah, that was a tough one, especially when I have so much family in Washington. All safe, thank God. Now I'm going to settle in for another fascinating lecture.

Lord, here comes the flood.... thank you very much for this series Sir! This was my first video. I'm not a geologist, but who isn't fascinated by the scale and violence of these events? And what a mindblowing dramatic landscape it left behind

I grew up in Walla Walla, I've been in, what we call. The little grand canyon. I was 15 and hunting with my dad, for upland gamebirds. it was a sight I will never forget.

Have to catch these on replay. Missed being on the live by an hour. So far, I see 2.1K views showing and I'm sure there will be more added to that.

This was such a thorough and fabulous review/ intro!!! I am so excited to share your new discoveries with my students!!!

Two Comments: 1. Loess hills were planted in wheat even before motorized combines could handle the steep slopes. My father was one of several wranglers who manned 24 horse combines. 2. Early geologic guides started in the 1950’s when Bretz’s booklets were available at Dry Falls. We would make tours of channelized scab lands. My dad was a farmer and mechanic, but we drove in our 1956 Plymouth station wagon to follow Bretz’s maps and descriptions. Cheers, looking forward to hearing when the Moses Coulee formed, if not less than 25K years ago. From: Battery Fully Charged.

❤ I am finally caught up, here A-C *oh my!! I DID see the balloons 😅 🎈🎈🎈... I am trying hard to be at the "live" again, 😢 ...I been here, since the COZY FORT DAYS, 😊.. bust, though, now, with 96 year old mom, the yard, new rescue dog, and learning irish 🎉...but--- STILL a loyal nick follower of the great outdoors of rocks galore!! ThNk you, keep up the great passion AND the kind compassion... we love you!!❤🙏🙏🙏

I like the lava rhino cast in the coulee just below the Falls and splash lakes... hearing the whistle of a bird"s wings as they circle down into the amphitheater to land in the splash lake. They did submarine crew training in that glacial lake near Sand Point in N. Idaho because it is so deep so close to land... I picked up a fine chunk of white erratic granite on a pond building project in the middle of the Willamette. It wasn't as big as the Willamette meteorite though...

found it! watching replay

it's great to get the backstory of how this geologic juggernaut came to be.

Love watching your videos Mr Nick. They’re fascinating. Thank you.❤❤❤

Zentnerds - I love it! Love you too Nick and thanks ❤

I applaud you at 21 minutes in, because this story needs to be looked into!!

Thank you Nick for your contribution to furthering geology educational content! I absolutely get sucked in to your lectures... Thank you thank you thank you!

The intrigue that your discussions created within me was a hunger to develop an understanding of the various dates. 16-19 ma McDermitt Caldera activity, 18 ma - Bonneville flood, 12-17 ma columbia basalt eruptions, loess accretion since then until floods in last 12,000 years. What a wild place we live in.

There is surely a place in many scientific disciplines for the enthusiasm of the dilettante , or if there isn't, there should be! This was a wonderful talk, as always, Nick. Your own enduring enthusiasm for your subject is a joy to behold and you have taught me, and I'm sure many others, more about geology over the years than anyone else.

Ah, good to see another "Eh to Zed" series to learn some things over the dark Vancouver Island winter season. Will have to start tuning in soon.

Man, I absolutely love these live series. Could not wait to watch after I finished work today. Thanks as always for sharing your knowledge and helping build a community of learning for everyone. ❤

Another A to Z winter! Much appreciated, Professor Nick

Thank you sir for teaching us Largo Florida here

Animations that show the scale of the events are invaluable

As far as what I'm hoping to learn: I am a total geology novice and am just looking forward to being open minded and learni g what ever the train brings my way. I am an Electrician turned Electrical Enhineer and worked at Lower Granite Dam for a few years. I lived and hunted in Palouse and worked in the canyon and was always intrigued at the land formations. I am now in Denver Colorado and teach substation electrician apprentices. I am always excited when I learn new things in my field from my apprentices, whether it is a new way to teach something or just new information about my field. I love that you are also looking forward to exploring and discovering new things.

There's truly nothing wrong with "popular geology," nor is there anything wrong with "scientific / academic geology." I taught history for 30 years, have zero geological training, and never got an advanced degree (life kept getting in the way). There's "popular history," and there's "academic history." Both have something to say, and not always to the same audience. I sometimes enjoy both. Introduced to the whole topic by Zentner videos during the pandemic, since - as a certified old person with extra risk factors - I was spending a lot of time at home. Daytime TV was awful, so I ended up skipping around on UKposts, and there was Geology 101, etc., etc.

aaand it's online already! 😁😁 Thank you Nick!

“Pat” from Yakama….. NICE job……. Well done 👍 cleverly done! ❤

You don't necessarily need a degreed person to pass on information to the next generations. You do need people who are curious and energetic to go out and look up what others have passed down, and look critically at that information. You have been fortunate to have found several people whose curiosity has led them to see if what they have read about is real and how real. They also wanted to spread that information to others. Keep up the great works, your easy to listen to.

I missed it but there's a lot to look forward to yay!! Nick, you are awesome, dude!!!

A and B are the first two letters of ABout a very good place to begin. Your first book is by Allen and burns (not Burns and Allen). "Just a popularizer", just? That you are doing it implies there's a need not being filled by academics. For people doing research at state funded universities not sharing what they learning is missing the point of public universities. Maybe they're dismissive towards you because they are uncomfortable with you for filling a need that they aren't.

Good Lord! I adore the model columnar basalt! So funny, with the rock hammer retrievable.

Nick, never mind about the times you get all wound up and the geology gushes like a geyser. We can take it.

Good 2 b back . Hello Nick, from northeast pa

I LOVED your Nick on the Rocks series! So excited to find this new series on UKposts. Thank you, from this “closet”geologist and former resident of beautiful Washington State!

Here i am, all is well. 😁 Better late than never. Super excited for this series. Thank you professor!

Omg I'm super pumped to watch all of these. Thank you for this.

We are visiting in Missoula right now, missed the live- will watch it now!

So solid. This feels like going home for thanksgiving!

I am really enjoying how you have chosen to lay out the groundwork for the current A TO Z series. I like the background history of geologists whose amazing work in the field, documenting by hand their maps and notes, especially since they only had cursory tools available. Thank you and don't change a thing! Big thank you's to Skye and Jerome for all they (and others) bring to the table. Sue

Thanks for the new series Nick. It is too bad to see ads (never seen on your channel before) but perhaps that is the way she goes. If so I hope you are getting a cut. See you all in the chat now :-)

Wonderful conversational lecture style.

Thank you for sharing your passion with us! I have learned more over the years than I ever imagined i would... and enjoyed every moment! ML and many Blessings all!

I am going to share each session on my Facebook Page .

Excellent table setting for the series! I enjoyed the Tom Foster history. His photography is fantastic. RIP Tom

Watching in replay. Looks like UKposts is adding a bunch of ads. I don't remember any ads on Nicks videos before. Still a great lecture and I am looking forward to the series very much!

Tired: the cozy fort Wired: Nick in a bubble

Thank you for another amazing geology lecture. You are a wonderful and entertaining Professor. Wish you taught at my university. But thanks to the internet, I can learn from excellent professors all over the world from geology to paleontology to astronomy and medicine courses.

We (my mister and I) enjoyed Episode A and wanted to see more but with Episode B we are hooked! Thanks for taking time to do this series. Our library is growing too!

It’s been a while since I have watched your videos always love the videos you do a fantastic job much thanks. Looks like you have lost some weight your looking in good health. Big hello from Forest Grove (not the one you read off in the beginning of your video)

I'm from Florence Alabama. Home of the University of North Alabama, the oldest public university in Alabama, and was the first all teachers college south of the Ohio river. I've watched several of your lessons where you teach from the auditorium of Central Washington. I got into geology when I made my first trip to Walker County Alabama, where there once was a shallow ocean, and I believe it's one of the few sites that has as many fossil tracks by prehistoric animals. But the fossils didn't intrigue me, it was the landscapes I saw when we drove through the roughly 800' - 1000' high foothills. And where the highways were cut through the hills, where below the top soil, it was solid rock, or chunks of solid rock. And I've always been a geography junkie, map lover, state capital knower, and taught myself how to draw the entire north American continent, then the entire planet lol (It's not exactly like it, but it's enough to know what's what lol. And I've always been fascinated with the beauty of the Pacific northwest, the Rocky Mts, The Great Basin, Death Valley, The Cascades, all of those places. I seen the Missoula flood story back a few years ago. And it blew my mind to see how that all occurred. Even the Bonneville flood, the Scablands, and the ripples in Camos Prairie (I apologize if I misspelled the name of the place) Anyway, I've rambled long enough. Thanks for the upload!

Appreciate so much the emphasis you place on this knowledge being broadly accessible and pointing out that an academic pedigree, while sufficient for, isn't necessary to contributing valid information to a body of scientific knowledge.

I grew up in Oregon and moved to Eastern WA in my 20’s. I became a Truck Driver and enjoy the scenery in WA, OR, ID MT UT, WY etc. My last 15 years I made weekly deliveries all over Montana. I noticed lake water marks on the hills around Missoula and on hill North of Missoula. It’s nice to know the rest of the story. Thanks Nick.

I was raised in Wenatchee Wa. I have spent years exploring the Columbia basin. I spent countless days exploring the Moses Coulee from the Columbia River to dry falls. All of Central Wa has amazing geology. Check out red top agate beds and table top mountain on Blewett pass. The geology of the methow Valley where i now live is also very interesting 👌

Sadly, as for this first in the series, I am unable to watch live on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of the month but, I will do my utmost to participate live in all other classes.

Grateful Oklahoman here! Love this. My GOSH. This editing is amazing, Nick. And TIME-CONSUMING. Dang.

Yes!!! My first time playing at bing!!!

Wonderful, thank you very much more watching to do for me.

Great start, Nick! Thank you! And since you asked, here's my WISH LIST: 1. What role did the Columbia River play in the Ice Age Floods story? (see LIDAR images of the enormous streamlined features on the west side of the Columbia at Hunters, WA) 2. What can the fantastic erratic deposits over several square miles at the ridgetop east of Curlew, WA tell us about the melting of those ice sheets? (Boulder Creek Rd, Deer Creek ski area)

I got to end of vidoe, I'm just here for the ride. I live in tricities wa 59 years old so many questions.been to the reach on my boat white bluffs experience. Somany questions so little time

Thank you Nick for all the geology stuff this is an 86 CWU Graton you bring back a lot of good memories of Ellensburg loved my years there

Hi Nick! Nice to see you again and glad to know you are doing another series.

Nick we need some info on the seabottom record of the floods

gemstones in the Pacific Northwest was also a early geology popularization book I think? also the large rock shop at Snoqualmie pass was a big popularizing of geology place for me also.. great work! love love love

Bubble boy don’t hear no muffler boy. Oh and I noticed the fresh cut, looks great. Oh and I noticed the 2 copies of Annals of a Former World, I think I would credit John McPhee1 for getting me really into Geology in the 80’s. I thought at the time I was too old to pursue Geology as a career ( I was 20 in 85) sad because it is one of the highlights of my life.

Thanks Nick, always good to go over the basics every so often. Good to see you were young once.

Thanks for the new series. Mike from Bridgeport WA

Thank you Nick for today's lecture, really appreciate it. It's great to have the livestreams back and looking forward to the series. Take care

I love it. Another A-Z. It's always weird watching stuff from the American Winter when in South Australia it's nearly 40 Degrees (Celsius) outside... Already in November. Global warming stinks. Great recap. I've seen the lectures before and some of the stuff from April. Looking forward to the discussion. I really like the way Mr Zentner presents these series. It makes it clearer to lay people how the process in the Sciences work. There is ideas, backed up with good evidence from more than one point of view. The consensus between the majority is usually presented as an end result. But there are a lot of grey areas to cover and differing points of view. For those who poo-poo the 'popular geology' in the world of Academia- -this is where the future is born. I predict that there will be several future PhDs that comes from these series world wide. -some of the best people in the world in their area of expertise are self-taught.

I've finally caught up with your channel over the last year. Thank you for your insights, teaching style and knowledge.

I almost always have to watch in replay, but I'm eager to follow this winter's series. So many questions I've never considered! Learning new things keeps us young.

Nick wish I had a teacher when I was in school that inspired my interest in geology the way you have I might have had. A totally different life

Love your work. My uncle lives just north of Wenatchee. I have visited Washington twice, taking the three passes through the Cascades, visited Chelan Butte Lockout, and many more. We hiked around hide lake, in the old growth forest, and the scab lands of many coulees. Talking with my uncle he told me stories of floods and giant rocks from Canada. That was nearly 20 yrs ago… now this series have added so much context to my miles of car journeys and hiking with hours of stories and great “lectures”. He is a teacher as well, a biologist. I listened to Randall Carlson and wasn’t sure of his story. But I believe this new story is the most accurate. I have three of the books you mentioned at the beginning. My background is in mechanical engineering, MSME and I specialize in building science. But now I am enjoying the geologic journey you are taking me down once again bringing up memories past. Please continue the conversation. All the best.

I'm new to the A - Z series. Watching on replay.

I’ve been waiting to hear this story again.

New tonight. I’m a lover of geology and documentaries. I will be back.

Fantastic production 👏 always appreciate your expertise and insights!!!

Thanks Nick, I lived in Portland, Oregon area for 10 years back in the late '70's and 80's. I was living there when Mt. St. Helens erupted and learned about the power of volcanic eruptions. I moved away in the mid 1980's but I continue to return to Oregon for vacation most every year for the last 40 years. I have driven thru the Columbia Gorge many times and visited my uncle who lived in Wenatchee. I was always curious about the erratics and scarred basalt walls along the Columbia and Snake Rivers. I have driven through the pass from Lewiston, Idaho to Missoula, Montana and observed those ledges along the face of the mountains. The ice age floods are a fascinating story that I read about years ago but look forward to learning more about. I found your website and UKposts videos a several years ago and have become an avid geology fan ever since. Keep on making these great videos that are educational and entertaining.

Put on this video to have in the background and then ended up riveted 😂 Thank you so much

I, as one, have enjoyed your lectures immensely. I have read almost all of the comments of your lectures and I can't help but agree with with everything that everyone has to say about your teaching style. You are are the most phenomenal teacher I've ever run into....bar-none. Michael said that, bye for now my friend. (And I'm 80 years old and met a lot of teachers for sure.)

Joining in replay from Coeur d’Alene, ID…been watching your stuff continually, learn so much from you…thanks for all that you do

Nick...love your work and personality.. I've spread your work too many folks.. and they love it also..BTW... on your latest where you explain how you got started and the Missoula Flood.. your honesty is a breath of fresh air..keep it up.. 😂

Cataclysms on the Columbia may be the book that sparked general interest in Northwest geology and the Missoula floods, but for popular geology on a national scale, John McPhee slightly predates it. His Annals of the Former World series runs: Basin and Range, 1982 In Suspect Terrain, 1982/3 Rising from the Plains, 1986 Assembling California, 1993 McPhee could make an interesting story about almost anything. I wish he'd turned north once he made it to California on I-80.

Thanks for your time and efforts, good job.😮

Magnificent presentation, Professor Zentner. Pray continue your educational outreach. I don't know if I'd have paid any attention to the geology you present if I hadn't lived in Pullman, WA in the 1980's, where I was busy demonstrating the absence of any academic aptitude on my part. But I saw (and didn't appreciate) many of the features that you show so effectively. Thank you.

We live in the foothills of the coast range west of McMinnville Oregon. Hopefully there will be some discussion about the Willamette Valley part of the floods. My understanding is that our great soil here is largely loess. We are near one of the glacial erratics. Standing next to it, looking out over the expanse of the valley below it is awe inspiring to think that there had been floods to that elevation reaching all the way to Eugene. Someday I would love to learn about the geological timeline where our home is at 1100f elevation. We have lots of various sized basalt cobbles. Back in the late '80's my wife and I were flying from Portland to Spokane in a small 16 passenger plane. Looking out the window somewhere over eastern Washington I noticed giant ripples below us - like in sand at the beach. I commented to my wife that there must have been a massive flood in the area in the distant past. Years later I discovered 'Nick on the Rocks' on OPB and have been a fan ever since. Thank you Nick for having awakened my interest in Geology.

Enjoyed A, looking forward to ALL to Z thank you stay safe

I'm here for the GCRs. Watching replay from SW Florida.

Great to see you again Nick. Looking forward to it.

This is exciting, see ya Sunday!!

Thank you so much for putting all this information out there. I have loved geology since I was a kid. At age 53, I still enjoy it. I was unable to go to college. You have no idea what this means to a person like me. ❤❤

Thank you, Nick! I’m watching because 1. Learn new/more and further clarify all those places where the floods flowed and about this extremely fascinating chapter in My Northwest. 2. Will enjoy the review info, too. 3. Your teachings always make me happy!! I’m envious of those fortunate students attending Geology etc. at your University.