Does anyone else think Nick is the best Geological presenter on KZread?

@KathyWilliamsDevries

4 жыл бұрын

Atari Time certainly the most accessible. Doesn’t dumb it down too much, but not too geology nerdy.

@swirvinbirds1971

4 жыл бұрын

And he is very honest about what geologists or he himself does and does not know or what is still debatable on the subject he is discussing. Very refreshing compared to other videos out there.

@KathyWilliamsDevries

4 жыл бұрын

Swirvin' Birds it is. Very humble. I understand everything he talks about and my background is classical music performance. It’s lit a fire under me to maybe audit undergrad geology lectures at my local uni next semester.

For the past few nights I've been trying to watch the complete Super Volcanoes video. Although, not your fault I fall asleep so I'm having to rewind back to where I left off. Lo and behold, I see you struggling with a blanket, and almost fell off my chair. You're the only professor that I can say has kept my interest in Geology. Believe me. I've tried to look elsewhere while waiting for your next lectures, and no one compares. Thank you for brightening up our lives. Keep up the great work and know many of us appreciate it.

I love that you aren't hesitant to admit when you don't know something. It's very honest and admirable!

Hi Nick, we watched live from Cape Town South Africa, it was great! Thank you :D

Rewatching. Sure glad that guy came up with the framework for the cozy fort. 👍

Hysterical - laughing out loud watching your attempts at the 'Easter' purple blanket Cozy Fort. Well done on another REALLY interesting lesson. Thanks!

This is one of the best episodes you've done, Nick. Thank You for all you do!

Hello Nick. Virgil Viereck from Ferndale Wa., here. I’m sorry I haven’t been in class lately. But until I know we have socialism, globalism, and the threat of communism stopped, I’ll keep contributing my time and effort into preventing this threat to our country. When I know for sure, that threat to our country has been stopped, Then I’ll be back for more education. Thank you sir for understanding. Sincerely, Virgil V. Jr. Ferndale Washington 98248. PS; I’m sorry I haven’t been in touch with you on this. Your video was a reminder to get in touch with you and get this message to you. Thank you sir for understanding. And hopefully we’ll be taking soon. All the best sir, and I’ll talk to you soon. Virgil V. Jr. Whatcom County Wa.

I'm re-watching all these old shows from the pandemic - my husband credits these shows with us relocating back to the PNW after 38 years on the east coast. He may be right, although the pandemic likely contributed a bit as well lol Something I'm noticing as I re-watch these shows is just how much I've learned over the past 3.5 years of being a Nick groupie! And for whatever it's worth, Craters of the Moon is on our list of trips for next summer!

Being told im loved by a man with a mouth full of peeps was as wonderful as ive imagined.

Nick’s drawings on the chalkboard to accompany his geology stories are bringing back wonderful childhood memories of dear Father Nixon coming in every Wednesday for RE and drawing beautiful maps of Israel to illustrate his Bible stories. Happy days.

SUBTITLE: There are too many videos on KZread that imply that Yellowstone is "GONNA BLOW NEXT WEEK!" Happily, this is not one of those. Watching this one is highly recommended.

@harrietharlow9929

4 жыл бұрын

Nick's lectures on Supervolcanoes are a breath of fresh air and sanity next to a lot of the craziness on Yellowstone.

@catherinespark

3 жыл бұрын

*Then, when next week rolls around...* :p

Hello Good sir I thank you for your time and effort. I love learning and I appreciate you .

I know you were imagining thoes peeps were the jays lol much love xoxox thanks

The section under the blanket will live with me for a long time. It will be one of the few happy Covid memories. Thank you Nick, awesome content as usual.

That obsidian is absolutely beautiful. ❤ I hope I have the privilege of finding some one day.

mr. zenter, you are fantastic. please keep the programming coming..

Just can not get enough of you and your teaching, Nick. This has been oh so fun to see you at home where you are allowed to be YOU! Drag your boys and wife out to meet us. Or is that too weird? Anyway, if I ever get a chance to move it will be back to Cle Elum and Ellensburg! I used to live on coal mine territory and all of the tunnels. Even had ladies from Boulder, CO come to find all of the mine openings with GPS tech. They gave me a CD of all they found. They...wanted to 'foam in' all openings so 'kids won't be playing in the mine tunnels' where kids in cle elum have always played without a single injury. I LOVE the geology of that area!!

Thankyou Nick!I moved from Emmett Idaho last year to Three Rivers ca.Ive never missed an episode, in fact I watch them over and over, to understand whats all around us and why(the real world)is fascinating,raised in the Sierra Nevada range I can now explain to my grandsons and freinds where our mountains came from and why.The Black Canyon Dam above Emmett has a beautiful exposure of spatter that I new was significant, thank you again, you're an awsome teacher and comfort to listen to!A REAL ROCKSTAR!

Oh man, that intro brought back memories of 9 AM lectures...

Seems like everything Nick does hooks me on watching the whole production he is entertaining and informative.

Cheers and Thank-you for these lectures!

Wow - again, great info lecture - encouraged further reading on my part about Bandelier Tuff from Valles Caldera closer to home - (what happened to that hot spot - fizzled out?) So fun to springboard from your presentations to reading about local topics!! Thank you so much for taking your time to expand our horizons 👍🏼👍🏼 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

That was classic, when he says there's a Blue jay behind me and a bunch of rocks here.......hmm.....it's Easter. This guy is awesome!

Nick, I've been fascinated by volcanoes since watching Mt. Saint Helen blow on live TV and among the many geologist that I follow you are my clear favorite! /Mikael Sweden

SUPER. ...WAITING FOR 3/30/21 geo351 wonder if you will ever see this. Good luck nick!

Thank you for doing these. They are very neat. I can’t wait to be able to go to some of these places that you show. Nikki from Loomis

Hello from Australia. I am very much enjoying your lectures.

I need a Missolua ice-age flood meets super volcano pyrocrastic flow cross-over disaster movie. I hope to get Nick on as a science advisor, but only if he agrees to recreate that partially covered with purple blanket look during story writing sessions. @ 45:05

Hi Nick, thanks for doing these live streams! They are a lot of fun to watch and educational to boot. Greetings from Santa Cruz, CA.

Why am I so happy to see a presentation on one of the earth's most destructive earth-originated forces of nature?

One thing I u derstand about the Hawaiian Shield Volcanoes is the magma source has has a high iron content. Hence the iron oxidizes contributing to flank collapses. Plus the soil is the color of rust pretty much In regards to Supervolcano eruptions. Toba on Sumatra seems to fit more into the stratovolcano class being next the a subduction zone. Yet Toba erupted somewhere around 2800 km3 of material. The eruption model seems distinctly different from the Yellowstone model

Love the humor too lol Great video the creator in Sudbury was 3 miles i believe but they said its hard to measure now or scientists cant agree But theres several cauldaras nearby on the maps

Oh geez that bunny intro' and street hazing intro before the big kabooms

Taupo (pronounced Ta-u-poh) is a fascinating place and well worth visiting. Just to the south are the North Island volcanoes Ngaurahoe and Ruapehu, Tongariro and Pihanga. From Ruapehu on a clear day you can see Taranaki, who according to Maori legend strode off in a temper when the lovely maiden Pihanga chose Tongariro instead of him. To the north is the Taupo volcanic region which extends through Tauhara, Okataina and Tarawera to Rotorua (another caldera), via Edgecumbe out to the recently active Whakaari/White Island. All are driven by the Hikurangi Trench subduction zone. The Ruapehu lahar at Christmas 1953 wiped out the Main Trunk railway line and derailed the overnight Auckland/Wellington train with much loss of life.

Thank you, Prof. Nick! Happy Easter to you and your family.

Hello from Ontario Canada. I really enjoy your lessons. I hope to return to your state for more personal inspections. We rv all over the continent, so we will return.

I believe I've heard the Toba volcano described as a mountain, which may indicate that it was more of a cone. But it did collapse into a cauldera which filled with water and became Lake Toba. I was there in 1992, and it was lovely!

I learned and laughed a lot... Thank-you! THAT WAS WONDERFUL!

Thank you for doing these videos! I love them!

you make me worry about my daughter living in Missoula.

"Oh, we're after the top of the hour! Let's do a few more!" You sound just like me No wonder I'm always running late! 🤣 I absolutely love your videos!

Wisconsin farmer sense of humor.

16:49 is a minor and possibly intentional error, Ol Doinyo Lengai in Tanzania erupts an exotic carbonate based magma/lava of as little as 0.25% silica by weight. It's also the consistency of motor oil. It is the only example of what he said being wrong that is currently active.

@davidpnewton

3 жыл бұрын

Actually not true. Nyiragongo erupts silicic lava with a silica content of 36%. That's why its lava flows are so dangerous: extremely low viscosity and so very fast. Ol Doinyo Lengai is carbonatite material: completely different composition and thus not relevant to the discussion on silica levels. Nyiragongo is relevant to that discussion however.

Thank You Nick , been watching the University Vids for years , just found your channel , Liked and Subbed :) QC

i saw a quote from another geologist that said its not the super volcano s they knew about its the ones they havent found yet that they worry about,

The Crooked River caldera being derived from the Yellowstone hot spot, sounds reasonable. Another geologist has said that the 29.5 million years ago caldera predates the development of the Yellowstone hot spot and that the chemical signatures are different in the Crooked River rhyolites relative to the chemical signatures of the Yellowstone hot spot rhyolites.

The "Iceman" - Watching from New Braunfels, TX - Rocks are hot, water is cool!

So, with your description of traveling north america, the yellowstone super volcano is finished. That hot spot must have traveled north east into Montana somewhere. Is that correct? Is a caldera something evident only after a super volcano event? How would we know where the next possible spot would be? I really appreciate your time to share your love of geology with the world. Never knew it was so interesting. You are a good presenter.

So, the hello Belgium. The one in Europe or the one in Wisconsin. You keep mentioning Muffler Boy. I feel your pain. I've got Muffler Family down the street. Everything has to loud.

Love the Peeps, Nick!

awesome

the jays are warning everyone about the killer lurking below in the form of - Bijou....

Those noisy birds are not hardly heard out here.

Hi Nick Kind of like how the Hawaiian islands were formed too right. One hot spot and the plate/crust moving south east over the hot spot? Thanks for the shows

@FenrirGBG

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly, Nick has another presentation where he covers this very subject

They are synthetic diamond saw blades, not saw blades with real diamond tips

I like to think the shield volcano represents a more rounded ancient Greek shield rather than a Roman which is rectangular

No magmas with less than 45% silica? Ol Doinyo Lengai in Tanzania erupts natrocarbonatite with almost no silica. Relatively low temp but very fluid.

At least those jays werent shitting on you Nick. regards from Gleno in australia

@mpetersen6

4 жыл бұрын

I'm think that's shicst 🙄

Nick, do you have or will you have a lecture on the Spokane Aquifer? I grew up in Spokane and would love to hear what you have to say on the subject. I discovered J Harlan Bretz documented his visit to the aquifer in 1920! Thanks, Elizabeth

Thanks for putting out this series Nick, great way to spend some quality time with geology! I am curious if you think super volcanoes are somehow globally linked, meaning if the magma layer can ebb and flow similar to the ocean, but more pressure based? Hypothesis possible that the Krakatau volcano eruption is a signal of sorts of magma pressure increasing, similar to a pressure cooker... Just a thought, once again, thank you for your time..

USGS KZread channel for yellowstone updates. He also does weekly caldera chronicles on website.

DEFINITELY prefer KZread videos over Facebook. We're excited to audit your class from our living room recliners. Maybe by May Day you'll have a puppet sidekick!

Nick, do you know of any Geologist that are doing quality videos of Colorado Geology such as the La Garita super volcano. Maybe you read some papers/documents from my dad, Edwin Kelly Maughan who worked for the USGS for his entire carrier. Improving many maps in Wyoming, Montana, even Kentucky when I was in HS. We even lived for two years in Columbia, SA when he was part of the USGS AID project to Latin America to help with Phosphate discovery for food production.

when the Yellowstone hot spot was in the pacific was that a Siletzia?

@mpetersen6

4 жыл бұрын

Seems like

It is not surprising that a geology professor prefers to write with sedimentary carbonate rock on metamorphic slate......even at home. :-))

The animation shows clearly even without the blanket. But this is KZread. You can just include a link, and we can watch it at our leisure. kzread.info/dash/bejne/o2mnttSfesjeeag.html By the way, tuff has been called that way since the Romans called it tofus. It's only suffered minor modifications on its way (through Italian and French) to the modern world.

Love your lectures. First started watching your lectures (via KZread) when you were hosting them 3+ years ago at the center. What’s the name of the globe you have, and where did you purchased it from? I’d love to get one for myself.

@btollindds7

2 жыл бұрын

"Mova Globe"

my question is what is the connection between, if any, the hawaii hot spot and a continental hot spots?

Humans didn't arrive in New Zealand until circa 700 years ago.

@profd65

4 жыл бұрын

Some say they still haven't.

Nick, is Yellowstone hot spot connected to the mass extinction 250 mya?

Can you do AP geology in 11th grade because im in 11th grade now #juniorgang

Just throwing it out there. Was the garden of Eden created in the cooled down remains of a Super Volcano? Was Adam made from it's ash?

I'm taking 11th grade geology next year

Have you had your spoonful of ash today?

Schedule 8:10 Lecture: 13:40

get your self the software called streamlabs obs its made to stream to youtube etc and you wont need the cozy fort

what u drinking,

I don't know nick 😕 Easter bunny flipped me off 😕 you mite as well too I guess

I despise that UN disclaimer banner

I don't think the Yellowstone hot spot will move eastward any longer due to it having come against the craton . It will intensify as a result of stationary and continued heating of the overlying strata.

@swirvinbirds1971

4 жыл бұрын

I'm not so sure about that. The plumbing of Yellowstone goes much deeper than the North American plate.

@lamron2565

4 жыл бұрын

So it will subdue, or the magma will channel up the face of the plate. The latter is what I think. For many eons. When and if subduction occurs, the Yellowstone hot spot no longer exists. When and if it emerges on the opposite side of the continent, it will be called something different.

@swirvinbirds1971

4 жыл бұрын

@@lamron2565 lot's of possibilities. Just wish we lived long enough to know one way or the other. Geology is deep time while we are just a fleeting moment.😞 I see Yellowstone as more of a stationary blowtorch like plume coming up from the mantle with the continental plates floating above the mantle. Not sure how a blowtorch from down deep in the mantle is stopped by a plate floating on it's surface. I would suspect less frequent but more explosive eruptions as the thicker and deeper part of the North American plate crosses it and agree it could be possible it would go completely silent for a long. Frustrating the 'we' will never know the answer.

@lamron2565

4 жыл бұрын

Do you suppose the heat and pressure from below would penetrate the craton?

@swirvinbirds1971

4 жыл бұрын

@@lamron2565 I am totally guessing but I think it would depend on how thick the plate and how fast the plate is moving over the hotspot. Since it is blowing up through the Rockies I don't think the rest of the plate would be much different. Is the plate thicker east of the Rockies? I don't know.