Geology Video Blooper - Columnar Basalt
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- čas přidán 4. 11. 2014
- Tom Foster (HUGEfloods.com) and Nick Zentner (Central Washington University) have been hiking together in eastern Washington for years. The result? A series of short geology videos that showcase geological wonders in the Pacific Northwest.
This brief clip was filmed in the Drumheller Channels - an important Ice Age Floods field site near Othello, Washington. Impressive basalt columns in the Columbia River Basalt Group were revealed by powerful Ice Age Floods. Nick’s rock hammer was accidentally dropped into a deep cooling crack in a 10.5 million-year-old lava flow. The hammer remains in the bottom of the crack! Tom & Nick returned to the site the next weekend - with a different hammer - to complete the episode.
More than a dozen ‘2 Minute Geology’ episodes are now available online.
Well, time for a new hammer anyway. And now, that's an artifact for a future archaeologist to find!
They will be confused!
@@Ellensburg44 Get a super magnet in a piece of string and fish around for it - he he !!!
"mysterious primitive tool employed by a long deceased race of humanoids".
That incident would have inspired me to get a tiny video camera and flashlight, and a long rope with a small plumb bob attached to it, and then lower away and record what it looks inside down those cracks. Insects, plants, watches, gold rings, credit cards? Who knows.
Pretty remote country, but I like your idea!
lol do it lol
i have watched so many of your videos, but never wrote to thank you for these WONDERFUL educational productions. totally fabulous. all kudos o you mr. Foster and your team. ab fab!
"Your hammer has now been lost to time itself, for I have claimed it, puny human, hahahahah!!!" -Earth.
2 weekend Geology lol
+Scott aka Ivape Wheeler
Ha. Yes, plenty of places to visit.
Nick I meant since you lost your hammer it turned in to a 2 weekend video
+Scott aka Ivape Wheeler
Ah yes. Sorry. Good one.
half expected the glasses to follow the hammer down
+poe fan
Ha!
That hammer is,part of history now lol
So true.
Lol that hammer probably going why did you drop me lol
More wonderful geology videos in the works I hope. I find Ice age geology fascinating. Keep up the great work! (And keep a wrist lanyard on your hammer.)
Yes, we've got a batch of new videos lined up! Thanks for your encouragement.
It happens. Thanks for the honesty and willingness to see and share the humor.
Glad you liked it, Gustav.
Stoked that new videos will be forthcoming.
Stoked that you are liking our little videos!
LOL! Thanks for sharing the awesome blooper! R.I.P. rock hammer!
Priceless
Glad your back! I used these religiously in my WA State History class for 7th graders.
Excellent. Glad our stuff is of use to you!
+alphy79d I use these video to teach Geology to my 9 &10 yr old Grandkids they know Gramps is addicted to Geology and Nick My youngest Grandchild thinks it's so cool you two have the same name and thanks to you Nick Nicky got 100% on a School worksheet on earthquakes and volcanoes and at the bottom of the worksheet it asked if they learned anything and he wrote "NO" cause my Grandpa has taught me this already LOL
+Scott aka Ivape Wheeler
Thanks for the note, Scott. Nice to hear that our videos are useful to your grandkids.
So let me get this straight!,...there are three types of lava? A'a', pahoehoe, and oh shit?
You know your stuff, Rodger!
@@Ellensburg44 he gets an A+
HAMMERTIME!
Haha.. hilarious :D
Btw, this could be a cool follow-up video.
Rope. Magnet. +another rope + camera!
Good idea!
Yeah, maybe we could get Geraldo to look for it!
That was good for a laugh, maybe worth the rock hammer even! :^D
Laughing is good!
A couple of years ago Nick put out a video (which I can't now find)of someone who did the magnet on a string thing and found his hammer. And returned it!!
That will be this one: czcams.com/video/x_c_izaMWjk/video.html
lJKXQPHDPyg at about 3:06, on Nick Zenter's channel, title is Rock Hammer Drop & Rescue, Etc.
@@gfjmember Gee, guess I didn't look hard enough. Thx!!
You know what you just did, you through off some alien archeologist 100 million years in the future academic view of ancient hominid of Earth timeline when they find your hammer. Pretty funny .
Love it.Always healthy to be able to laugh at yourself. Similar, but usually not as funny, things happen to all of us.
You might be able to get it back by lowering a magnet attached to a cord down that crack. But it might be hard to find the exact crack again.
0:13 It's funny how that hammer looked like it suddenly jumped up and dove down that crack.
lol！ Hammer：“don't leave me alone…get me out there!! !"
+Lucifer Chen
RIP hammer.
Good on ya Nick, so many people would have binned that footage.
Oh no ! That was such a nice Estwing hammer.
That thumbnail was absolutely heartbreaking. :(
Claire told me to watch your videos so here I am.
Ha! Could've been worse!
I watched the original video and was thinking "be careful with that hammer"!
Legend has it the hammer is still at the bottom of the column
Life happens! Thanks for the giggles. :)
Two minute geology. He says it with such sarcasm at the end. Lol
That hammer is really going to confuse a distant future archeologist.
Someone retrieved the hammer in 2017 and was able to return it to Nick Zentner end 2021
A guy used a magnet to fish Nick's hammer up; it was down there I think 10 years. Pretty rusty. :) Nick has it.
Top of a column
Top of a column
*Top of a column*
Ha!
Lower a Strong magnet on a line!
Get that hammer back Nick!! 😁
Ouch!
Basault. To boldly go where no hammer has gone before.
Allright.... give the coordinates so I can go retrieve my Zentner souvenir.
Hi Nick I posed a question about a year ago if the path of the floods could reflect what already existed since the basalt filled valleys. Generally the available information covers well what the floods did. But as a person digs deeper they begin to wonder what the floods encountered. Basalt I have noticed decays quite rapidly when keeping in mind that it had been there 10 million+ years but the floods occurred yesterday. I wish there was more information as to the conditions that the first large flood encountered. An example is the Spokane area and cdlane lake. I have come to realize that the floods did not encounter a perfect flat plane of basalt--that after the basalt floods----- occurred the "water floods" encountered likely a situation in the Spokane area similar to deep creek canyon except on a bigger scale. After all those same valleys freshly filled in by the basalt would then immediately start being assaulted by the former water coming down the same valleys--first flowing across the basalt but working its way back down in long before the floods hit
Is there information as to the lay of the land lets say thirty thousand years ago in the Spokane area??. Cdlane lake at first was confusing but with multiple bike rides on the bike path I now realize that some of the top of the basalt (2600 feet) was actually quite weathered and rounded off before the floods encountered them. Now I have the issue that its well covered the what became final after the floods--but not what they encountered. Yet another example of the question is that in Spokane--the basalt such as at the level of five mile prairie and rimrock, the west plains--the south hill--the palouse-to the south and even to the north such as Chattaroy--means that beacon hill and Mt Baldy which are next to each other on the eastern skyline of Spokane would have been barely bumps above the surrounding landscape when the floods occured. If the top of the water was 4600 of Glacial lake Missoula than that would mean the floods placed the TOP of beacon hill a couple thousand feet under water. Is there info as to what the first floods encountered? thanks (for reference that time zone would be lets say 50,000 years ago)
Another example of why that zone of what the floods encountered would be good to address is the fact that to the top of the bedrock--in other words the bottom of the flood gravel deposits left behind in the bottom of lake Pend Oriele --that bottom of that channel is scoured clean-- a perfect ice channel several hundred feet below sea level. What that means is that the landscape at that time would be vastly different than available information. I think your the man for it
+KeyWestBluesX Thanks for the questions. I'm just beginning to learn the details of Spokane geology. A good resource for your questions is Bjornstad's "On The Trail of the Ice Age Floods: Book Two". I'll be thinking about your questions as we prepare to film the I-90 Rocks episode in Spokane.
WOW cool.! I will keep an eye out as time goes on for your information and Spokane of course is an interesting area because we took the brunt. (I should say the mastodons did). At the top of sunset hill westbound is an amazing cut like nothing Ive seen anywhere in which the floods left layers of the basalt rubble being washed away but frozen in time BEFORE IT COULD FINISH. I wont hound you but I will be watching for when you file the report but im not sure how. I will check into the Bjornstead book since I did not know there was a book 2. THANKS
YIKES I spotted a typo In that long winded post I first did i said the top of the water of glacial lake missoula was 4600 it was 4260 not 4600 that 2 was a typo.
Magnet Fishing opportunity -!
Thinking about a science fiction story featuring the finding of the Zentner rusty rock hammer eroded out of basalt on the isolated western north American continent after the landmass split and drifted apart along the basin and range province. Nick. Was your name on the hammer?
There should be a link on here where some guy who went and fished the hammer out with some magnets and strings, and reunited Nick with the hammer 🔨.
Adorable!
You are!
do you know much about the geology in Naches Washington or the bluff above it where Tieton is
Yes. Tieton Andesite lava that flowed from an ancient volcano in Goat Rocks Wilderness. 1.6 million years old.
@@Ellensburg44 Friend and I (fans) were just up on Pinegrass Ridge and Bear Creek Mountain this weekend, inspired by your Tieton Andesite backgrounders. Thank you!! I told the Ranger at Naches District that I was a geology tourist and to expect more of us. ;-) That was after I asked if she knew what made Blue Slide (above SF Tieton) unique, and she advised "there's a geologist over at CWU." ;-)
58K views! 😂❣
Ya, any time you work around any hole, anything you drop goes down the hole. You can be 20 feet away, and by God, it goes down the damn hole.
good luck ! you've got your work cut out for you --- and were counting on you
Love the hammer story Nick. I think that class you have now will find it for you.😂
Someone DID recover it! Sometime last year I think.
You need to ad #shorts to the title, it could go VIRAL!!!
omg i watched the episode and thought to myself you were going to drop your hammer and it turns out you did.
Nick, do you know if the head that rock hammer is made out of a metal that is attractable to a magnet? Mine is, a perhaps they all are.
Yes, a magnet will work....
Did you retrieve my cell phone yet? :-)
Not yet!
Oh his response was immediately magnet, I'm so late to the game. DID NICK GET IT?
No, watch “drumheller columns” recent video
A magnet on a long string might have been fun when you returned...
To retrieve it, find a couple of old hard drives, open them and take out the rare earth magnets inside. combine approx 4 of these magnets then secure them to some strong fishing line-lower this down to your hammer and you should be able to retrieve it if you haven't allready done so. I have done this for knives and fishing lures I have lost on the jetty while fishing. The rare earth ones in hard drives are very, very strong magnets and should work just fine. Happy fishing!
Good to know.
Paleo man has a great idea. I plan to be out there in a few weeks, and I just might try it. Hey Nick, do you remember what column it was where you dropped your hammer?
Try using some braided fishing line such as "spider wire" Its really strong, really small diameter and will work really well with the magnets. I have helped people recover lost keys, fishing lures, pocket knives just to name a few on the jetties where I have spent countless hours fishing.
AHHH! That sucks!! Poor hammer :(
Was not a cushioned landing!
A thousand years from now, scientists will be wondering why that is there. 😂
The things that happen when our attention is divided
We just need some new ice age floods to send that hammer free!
Rope, usb camera, and large magnet: rocker hammer fishing. Or you could train a ferret.
Magnet on a thin strong rope like paracord might be able to retrieve that.
+AlohaMilton
Thanks for the tip.
Why did you need the pick?
I'm a geologist - always with me.
I've learned a lot about Northwest American geology from watching Nick's terrific videos. None of it useful, living in Florida. Now this is a lesson that's practical. Also, why did you look down the crack? Were you expecting to see the hammer?
lmao watched the original first and I was thinking "surely he's gonna drop the hammer'
Haha!
And you set down a baseline for all the lichen that is growing on top. I suspect that increased lichen is world wide with changes to atmospheric chemistry. Time to revisit some of your greatest erratics ?
🤣🤣🤣🤣 that hammer will catbon dated by future geologists to be approximately the year 2000 AD +- 50 years. Lol
beeping u r hear isn't nick its the hammer
Haha.
0:14 goodbye hammer
You need a neodymium magnet on a string👍🏼♥️
nice bounce! Ill bet there are 100 rock hammers in that crack! Now whos up for an adventure?
Enjoy the area!
💖
Heh.... probably best to bring a spare from now on.
I wonder how many pickaxes that stuff has eaten.
RIP
I kinda wanta try and get that hammer. lol IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM. :P
DUDE that hammer will be there for CENTURIES (I think) THATS AWESOME (idk how late this is)
You're so right.
Rest in rocks ham!!😂
think what humans think when if they come across that thing in the distant future??
+Ty Langford
They will deduce that not all humans were bright back in 21st century.
+Nick Zentner I think the archived twitter, instagram, and facebook posts will give them all the evidence they need for that deduction...
Lol
They probably,wander what it was for lol
"Hammers haven't changed much and they still work. Exile the engineers and hire cavemen for all design work."
LMFAO
subbed, greetings from a german university -..-
Hello from a university in the state of Washington!
That's why I now carry a magnet.
OMG...i watched your last video..and I guessed that might happen! then u had a the blooper link...and i thought..i wonder if he dropped that tool down...and YEP!! totally your fault! should have guessed that would happen too.
Funny. Wish I was more careful sometimes.
long string with a magnet might work
It will make for a nice artifact thousands of years from now ⛏
Don't worry in 100,000 AD an archeologist will find the remains of the metal head of your hammer and
wonder how it got there.
They will say it was 'ritual purposes'. They always say that when they don't know.
HAHAHAHA goodbye mah hammer
Yes.
All you need is several magnets tied on by twine and you can fish it out. Take it from a geologist that looses things down hole all the time! Called fishing!
magnet fishing expedition
You should have just re-shot it using your hand to point out the columns, and then added this at the end.
+Mark Newman
We needed that hammer for authentic vibe, Mark.
what good hammer .. damage
May it rest in peace.
I knew it! Lol
if someone would go there with a rare earth magnet and 550 cord they will have themselves a free hammer :)
Next time have a long thin rope tied to a super magnet (removed from a computer hard drive). Saved me more than once (keys, tools, etc)
Nice tip.
Try a heavy lift helicopter with a giant electromagnet. See how many hammers come up.
poor nick
Should have come back with a magnet on a string
But first a very quick lesson on retrieving your hammer with a strong magnet on a very long cord
How appropriate. You created a fossil :)
String. Magnet. ?????. PROFIT!!
please mark the spot on google maps for future magnet (instead of hooks) fishermen :)
czcams.com/video/kyW71H9GFqs/video.html is a fairly good revisit to the spot... the blooper does show that the hammer went down handle first... and Harbor Freight does sell a magnet the same width as a rock hammer... www.harborfreight.com/hardware/magnets/all-magnets.html?brand=HFT the middle sized magnet is about the width of the rock hammer head...
HaHaHa!!!
Hahaha!
Magnet on a string
At least it wasn't your keys, eh mate
Yes, I wouldn't have been laughing if it were my keys!
des kost nen Kasten
hilarious... I watched the other video first and i thought to myself, if he drops that hammer he'll never get it back... reminded me of a coworker losing one in the cavity of a roof system... we would have had to destroy our work to get it back... so it remained... but really, how long would that basalt take to weather down to be able to find it... the steel would probably have dissolved to rust before that happened..
People love this clip. Glad you liked it.
Nick, tie a Neodymium magnet on 1000 ft rope and lower it.
You might get your hammer back, but perhaps the effort and trip will cost more than the cost of a hammer. Ce est la vie.
Probably best that it's still down there. Makes for a good story!
***** Perhaps one day 5,000 years from now, one of you colleague find it and thought that nature made hammer :).
Have you ever seen Gunung Padang in Indonesia? People found it few years ago. I know it is made out of natural Basalt, but I never take it seriously as ancient man made structure, until recently Dr Robert Schoch went and verify it was 20,000 years ago.