Palouse Falls and the Palouse River Canyon - Ice Age Floods Features

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  • čas přidán 3. 06. 2013
  • Explore Palouse Falls and the Palouse River Canyon. Ice Age Floods cut this spectaucular feature of the channeled scablands in eastern Washington. Layers of the Columbia River Basalt Group are on display. Visit hugefloods.com/ to learn more about the Ice Age Floods, Glacial Lake Missoula, Lake Bonneville and the Bonneville Flood.

Komentáře • 79

  • @alyssar3664
    @alyssar3664 Před 2 měsíci

    My intro to geology prof showed us these videos seven years ago and I'm still coming back to rewatch. Awesome stuff!

  • @RVGrannyWA
    @RVGrannyWA Před 6 lety +11

    When I lived in Moses Lake WA we drove to look at the falls several times. Great to at last understand how it was formed. Beautiful spot in the PNW.

  • @debbiemeyer6396
    @debbiemeyer6396 Před 3 lety +4

    Thank you so much for reminding me how much I love geology. I'm a retired teacher who has always dabbled in geology and paleontology. I used to love surprising Florida kids with "real" rocks. I would have loved to use this with my kids.

    • @ankurbiswas80
      @ankurbiswas80 Před 2 lety +1

      Hi Debbie. What do you mean real rocks? Fl. do not have rocks?

  • @hunglo666
    @hunglo666 Před 2 lety +1

    i catch myself binge watching all your videos so fascinating

  • @bmwrider1931
    @bmwrider1931 Před rokem +1

    Thank u Nick. This is one of my favorite place besides hells canyon to vist. Growing up in Yakima I had no idea of this until I started college at CWU. One would have thought we would have learned of this while in high school.

  • @Ellensburg44
    @Ellensburg44 Před 11 lety +19

    So pleased that you like our channel! It's mostly the work of Tom Foster. I just show up to speak. So many different ways to make hills....tough to generalize.

  • @anoniconoclast2030
    @anoniconoclast2030 Před 3 lety +2

    Love these videos. Makes the chicken fried steak breakfast so much better.

  • @brianvittachi6869
    @brianvittachi6869 Před 6 lety +2

    I've always loved mountains but thanks to Nick Zentner's programs I now look at them with more respect and awe.

  • @ctcollinthib
    @ctcollinthib Před 4 lety +3

    This is an amazing resource. If you're from any other part of the country and visit the Pacific Northwest (and are curious), you're bound to want to learn more about the geology of the place.

  • @TommyCheese-cd2fd
    @TommyCheese-cd2fd Před rokem +2

    Love your videos

  • @geoffgeoff143
    @geoffgeoff143 Před 4 lety +1

    The shot of the falls before the snow shows great detail.

  • @mothertisfast
    @mothertisfast Před 9 lety +7

    i love these videos. LOVE them. great job guys :-D

  • @JETZcorp
    @JETZcorp Před rokem +2

    I was riding my motorcycle in the Columbia Gorge today and the whole time I had "2 minute geology. 2 minute geologyyy!" stuck in my head as I'm gawking at basalt columns and stuff. Fortunately I survived.

  • @aditya-xt4it
    @aditya-xt4it Před 2 lety +1

    Thank you so much

  • @johnharmon1403
    @johnharmon1403 Před 7 lety +1

    The two minute geology series have gotten me interested in geology.

  • @daylornix
    @daylornix Před 3 lety +1

    Really nice

  • @garynorris4648
    @garynorris4648 Před 7 lety +1

    Where has Nick gone? What a superb geologist and teacher.

    • @nobody8328
      @nobody8328 Před 4 lety +1

      Nick is currently doing livestreams from home!
      Please join us Tue, Wed and Th at 9pm EST (6pm PST) and Sat and Sun at 12pm EST (9am PST) ☺

  • @fufdbuhy44
    @fufdbuhy44 Před 9 lety

    Beautiful water fall.

  • @amacuro
    @amacuro Před 7 lety +1

    Beautiful video. I learned a lot, as always. Had to watch three times and go into Google View 3D (totally recommend it!) to understand it.
    At 3:26 you showed a map which was inverted 180 degrees with respect to the other maps you had previously shown which threw me off. But I'm glad because it made me watch it a couple more times and really understand most of what you said.
    Thanks for these, I wish you made more!

  • @lynnmitzy1643
    @lynnmitzy1643 Před 4 lety +3

    Homework for 2morrows lesson👊😎

  • @drCarlosHimg
    @drCarlosHimg Před 10 lety +4

    The video is a very useful tool. Thanks for the video, is very useful ´to show students that don't have the chance to see this processes alive, in Tropical America the impact of the glaciations is hard to explain

    • @Ellensburg44
      @Ellensburg44 Před 10 lety +1

      Nice to hear that you're using our stuff so far south, Carlos!

  • @johnlord8337
    @johnlord8337 Před 8 lety +1

    10* Awesome WA geology and historical events.

  • @Poppageno
    @Poppageno Před 6 lety +9

    We humans are lucky we live in a relatively quiet geologic time.

    • @Ellensburg44
      @Ellensburg44 Před 6 lety +3

      So true. Hope it lasts.

    • @balikati
      @balikati Před 3 lety +2

      The sole reason we exist is because of the relatively quiet geologic time. It's not luck, it's the reason we exist ti begin with. Otherwise the planet would have been uninhabitable.

  • @brockwarrener3504
    @brockwarrener3504 Před 8 lety

    Great video! Thanks for sharing. I'm a Ranger at Columbia Hills State Park down near The Dalles, OR. We have a lot of Ice Age flood erosion. It would be very awesome to consider doing a video of this end of the erosion in our gorge.

    • @Ellensburg44
      @Ellensburg44 Před 7 lety

      Thanks Brock. You work in a beautiful place.

  • @judithdeydamia
    @judithdeydamia Před 4 lety +1

    Que belleza de agua

  • @cbrue1896
    @cbrue1896 Před 7 lety

    Nick, this video, which I have watched several times now, and my recent visit to Palouse Falls State Park, has inspired me to do another virtual geocache called an Earthcache at the state park. The work you and Tom and the rest of the Huge Floods folks have done to educate us non-geologist about the geological make up of Washington State is amazing. Thank you for your efforts. If you would be so kind to allow me to use a couple of the diagrams/maps noted in the video to teach geocachers about the geological make up of Palouse Falls, I would be most grateful.

    • @Ellensburg44
      @Ellensburg44 Před 7 lety

      Thanks much, Chris. Please email Tom at the Hugefloods website for permission to use his diagrams.

  • @peteaplin8324
    @peteaplin8324 Před 3 lety +1

    Pretty awesome thing.... but to be a fly on a wall observing!!!

  • @vistacruiser70s
    @vistacruiser70s Před 9 lety +1

    What a great guy.

  • @BadKittySpot
    @BadKittySpot Před 4 lety +1

    Why did you stop making these? I love 2 minute geology.

  • @thirstfast1025
    @thirstfast1025 Před 4 lety +1

    I was watching a video of a guy picking agates out of an unconsolidated, fairly sorted layer of what I thought looked like glacial material. Are the agates coming from that basalt? Is the layer in fact glacial in origin?

  • @KeyWestBluesX
    @KeyWestBluesX Před 9 lety

    your the man man--are you going to be at the meeting at scc on october 9th?????

  • @Paleoman
    @Paleoman Před 6 lety

    I cant believe I missed these older videos... Great job Mr. Z! Do the falls freeze completely or is there still some flow underneath the ice?

    • @Ellensburg44
      @Ellensburg44 Před 6 lety

      Not sure! Thanks for watching.

    • @Paleoman
      @Paleoman Před 6 lety

      Your welcome, thank you for taking the time to answer my endless questions.

  • @guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248

    at 54, its nice to be called "young people" now and then.

  • @thestadermann
    @thestadermann Před 11 lety

    You've talked about the ice age floods and the ice age basalts, but which came first of these two? Were they even in the same place? (I'm not from WA, so I don't know where all these things are exactly in relation to one another)

  • @siampals
    @siampals Před 11 lety

    It's actually 1-2 miles north of Lyon's Ferry which is part of the town of Starbuck, not part of Washtucna or Kahlotus which are both nearly 20 miles away. Thought I'd set the record straight, as I live not far from Palouse Falls myself.

  • @16nowhereman
    @16nowhereman Před 3 lety

    Ok, where does all this water come from?

  • @sonyak9879
    @sonyak9879 Před rokem +1

    😊

  • @Ellensburg44
    @Ellensburg44 Před 11 lety

    Thanks for the clarification, siampals. Washtucna was more fun to say! Thanks for watching.

  • @carinalima7991
    @carinalima7991 Před 4 lety +1

    Ô vontade de entender inglês, viu 😥😥😥

  • @jeanyvesangers3885
    @jeanyvesangers3885 Před 2 lety +1

    12 11 21

  • @hovertrout1
    @hovertrout1 Před 8 měsíci

    No one mentions the water is contaminated as holyhell…

  • @klandermet5551
    @klandermet5551 Před 7 lety

    Very educational. Re: Time and open-mindedness; are scientists open-minded enough, amd creationists believing in divine knowledge and power enough to consider the earth may have been created using pre-existing space matter? Matter that had existed for 50 billion years, or maybe just 5 billion? Are they able to consider that the earth may not have been created out of "thin air", but from matter that had a previous use? A masterfully planned use, so that over billions of years, there would eventually be natural, integrated sources for sustaining life, such as air and water; and energy sources such as fossil fuels etc.? The term "a day" could mean "a period of time" which could have been a million, or a billion years. Then everyone would be partially right, but noone is likely absolutely 100% accurate with our limited perspective and knowledge. Beautiful regardless.

    • @Ellensburg44
      @Ellensburg44 Před 7 lety

      Thanks Karen. I like to think I'm open-minded...

  • @revjjj260
    @revjjj260 Před 8 lety

    too many of your videos have music too loud

  • @ub2bn
    @ub2bn Před 6 lety

    andrew hall has presented a compelling theory regarding how these sort of features were formed.

  • @theshimonmor
    @theshimonmor Před 2 lety +2

    Not all of us are "young people". Even old farts are interested in geology.

  • @anoniconoclast2030
    @anoniconoclast2030 Před 3 lety

    Didn't a meteor strike cause the flood?

  • @Mrhotsax
    @Mrhotsax Před 10 lety

    The flood of Noah is what you mean, you're just confused.

    • @Ellensburg44
      @Ellensburg44 Před 10 lety +5

      My mistake. Won't let it happen again.

    • @thebaconized4733
      @thebaconized4733 Před 8 lety

      Obviously Noah's flood is responsible for the Earths layers. How else would we get different layers of volcanic ash, silt, igneous rock from eruptions, and sedimentary layers- including sand- in between? How else would nanobacteria and algae precede primitive eukaryotes, simple fossils preceding complex ones, and mammals preceding hominids- being the most complex group of species?
      A single giant flood wouldn't just mix everything together.
      Right? Wait a minute...

  • @thebaconized4733
    @thebaconized4733 Před 8 lety

    But I thought the Earth was 6,000 years old? Lol Creationists are funny.

    • @Ellensburg44
      @Ellensburg44 Před 8 lety

      Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but careful, open-minded study of geology in the field usually helps people see the need for much more time.

    • @oldparkhouse8136
      @oldparkhouse8136 Před 2 lety

      The earth is 4.6 billion years old.

  • @STP-dh9gd
    @STP-dh9gd Před 3 lety

    A bow tie huh?

  • @warrenwilson4818
    @warrenwilson4818 Před 5 lety

    We are very unlucky, living in a quiet geological age.