Do your neighbors just roll their eyes when you're wandering around the yard talking to yourself? "Oh, there'e crazy Nick wandering around. Liz! He's out again!"

What a beautiful show/seminar. Thanks Nick.

Mr. Zentner, of the many videos of yours I've watched intently as I venture into the world of Geology, I so enjoyed this one. Very informative and entertaining despite the technical punches thrown. You marched on and delivered the audience to the destination as great teachers always do. Nicely done.

OMG, he has a chalkboard at home. Nick Z is the bestest. About a year ago I found his lectures for Central and I have had the geography bug ever since. Love you professor

Best teaching I've ever seen on the different types of rock.

Cappuccino, cookies nearby, on the couch, watching home school. Man, what a start of the weekend. Have a nice weekend all. From The Netherlands. Mainly sediment, no bedrock.

Thanks for breaking up the sandstone. Several weeks ago I was home in the Bitterroot valley of Western Montana (Roadside Geology of Montana 2nd edition pages 194-199) and went for a hike in the foothills of the Sapphire range and climbed some similar looking rocks (the Sapphires are belt formation faulted East from atop mylonite layer atop the Bitterroots), couldn’t help but break it open and it looked exactly like your quartzite sandstone. You keep expanding my world helping me learn more about places I thought I already knew, thanks for all you do. A toast to you and yours!

Nick thank you so much for Rock Week! It's been fantastic going through this well-structured introduction to basic geology. Somehow I never acquired this basic foundation in my reading natural history resources. Many basic geologic descriptive terms have been a jumble of words that weren’t clearly nested in relation to one another, or I just plain glazed over them, or have aquired meaning only through repeated visits to mountains and canyons. Thanks to Rock Week(!) I was able to tab through my new copy of Roadside Geology in Washington last night and find more meaning in reading about the Ingalls Complex, “serpentinite forms by the alteration of ultramafic rock”. Thanks for this week and for all the data and story telling. Cheers to you and stay well!

@Ellensburg44

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Lindsay!

Love u nick..u help me find peace to sleep..the best!

Hueston Woods ROCKS! My area is fairly boring to many geologist but we have an abundance of sedimentary rock deposits. Hello from Kettering, OH.

rock week. I WILL have to go back and watch this series several times. I've always been a rock collector ("outside" the parks, of course). The house I'm living in at the moment in Arizona is surrounded by "washes" and those washes are lined with ... river rocks. Except on closer examination, some of them aren't exactly river rocks, and I'm spending more and more time out there studying those rocks. Today I found a piece of olivine. And a beautiful quartzite which apparently has some strange reddish fragment embedded in the top of it. I know some of them are truly oddballs, so I'm going to have to do some more studying. and no, I don't want to break them open. Excellent classes. :)

Really enjoyed this talk. So glad you decided to share this information - it's really entertaining the way you present it to us all. Thanks for all you do. It's so much fun to tune in during quarantine and hear your stories and see the samples. Keep it up - Here's to you!

You are a nut. Loving the series "from home", and caught the vids from this week also.

Yes, you know a lot about geology but I admire your teaching skills.

Mr Zentner, you are the best science communicator I have seen.

Rocks and cats...my two favorites things!

Electronic pressure cooker = Instant Pot. One of the most wonderful reinventions of an old kitchen device! Al dente spaghetti every time. All you have to do is add noodles, water, and sauce.

I had to miss tonight's show but the comment stream is still hilarious. Thanks for all you do Nick, and thanks for your crowd of silly gigglers too.

@KathyWilliamsDevries

4 жыл бұрын

Guy G what you don’t see in the livechat is the hardcore Zentnerds that log in 2 hours before the livestream and chat away.

for the person who was asking about sandstone in Wa. state. I get excited about it so have to share Peshastin Pinnacles state park on Highway 2 near Dryden, between Leavenworth and Wenachee.

This is the best lectures since the Hal Holmes Center. I love your work Nick and I own the Miller and Cowan book, thanks to you. Take care and I always enjoy your talks. I hope to meet you someday, I drive through your city from time to time and would just share a beer and a conversation. Cheers and be safe and healthy my friend. P.S. I live in Tacoma, sorry...lol I am still fairly bright and nice.

Nick is great! I think he should always start sampling the wine when it comes to Q and A time! Great teacher, can hold my attention, especially when the wine begins to flow...lol. The wine just adds to his personality and my entertainment.... Some day, I hope to share a glass of wine or two with him!

Despite the technical issues, or maybe more so because of them, I so appreciate what you're doing! Lovin' it!

It seems so strange that anyone would ask if slates were really used in school as you're using it here... Your videos are always very good, technologically and otherwise ... but I get the replays... Sometimes the mic is too far away and the wind blows the sound away but I'm sure you're aware of that... I can still see the scenery from on top the hills / mountains, where you have to be as sure-footed as a Mountain Goat ... woo woo!! lol Finding your videos ( from lectures at the college, initially) was one of the BIG plus sides of the Coronavirus and the quarantine of 3 - 4 months that followed ... and when you went to NICK AT HOME and took us on FIELD TRIPS ... oh yeah... OUTDOORS AND FEELING FREE WHILE LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE MAGIC OF NATURE was just what I (we) needed :D [INSERT: Technology mixed with annoying comments is more irritating than a two-year old that keeps asking questions and refuses to take a nap when YOU need one ... Enjoy the wine lol] Thanks for the demos today and you're an inspiration for anyone who thinks they have to keep getting more degrees to be worthwhile teacher and to have a real purpose... thumbs UP!

Thank you nick! Love your stories!

Nick, I think you should consider taking Master Gardener classes from WSU Cooperative Extension Services. For the botany, biology, entomology and chemistry. What an incredible image so people learn about this service and connect. And start using this service!! Oh so inexpensive and always pertinent to the locality. No one could help you better than your Co-op. They also have preserving, composting and pruning classes to become a certified Master Gardener or Pruner or Food Preserver.

My geologist friend described the look of quartzite as "fudgy". Easy to spot now in the field.

So happy to find you livestreaming from home Nick. I have watched your lectures from CWU for years and totally enjoy your teaching method and style which make the subject of your lectures enthralling. Knowledge is useless without honest and engaging educators who can formulate effective presentations that transmit scientific knowledge to those interested and willing to learn. You sir, are a shining example of such an educator. Now I have to go back and catch up on all of your lectures from home that I have missed, but rest assured, I go willingly.

Thanks for sharing a topic you love!

Replay audio is fine :-) Fascinating lecture as always. Thanks Nick :-)

I think it would be nice for you to set up Pop Quizzes before and after each video. Change the questions for the end of the video test but one will know where they are going and where you want to lead them in learning the basics of geology. The best way to learn is by being tested. Then a big final before you get back to your normal classroom. I've had lots of training to KNOW what it is that will be on a professor's test. You can hear emphasis and see sly glances. You are so transparent Nick. Such a top-notch teacher. And I have the experience and credibility to say that.

Hi Nick, just had to say that SeaJay and I have been watching your entire series and we're digging it. Especially your last 3 Identifying minerals and rocks & ID'ing them. So a big thank you to YOU! If we can help promote you on our channel we will, your strait forward way of sharing this fun stuff is inspiring.

I once asked a geologist what a particular rock was and he said I don't know, a rock. How should I know. I specialise in plate tectonics.

The nice exposure of sepentines at Bartlett Springs Fault, California, indicates that the the San Andreas Fault is being right-laterally displaced along them. [ the San Andreas Fault Observatory Depth drill hole also found the serpentine along the creep section ] The serpentine-bearing BSF gouge fault has probably risen buoyantly to the surface from the hot depths. The porphyroclasts of antigorite serpentinite also include talc, chlorite, and tremolite‐actinolite, and some Franciscan metamorphic rocks, almost the perfect combination for slow slipping.

@KathyWilliamsDevries

4 жыл бұрын

jane russell so many big words! Now I can’t do math. 🥴

Veny nice fold sample! - Thanks for sharing. : )

Watching from New Braunfels, Tx - home of Americana Music!

Just got into petrographic as a hobby. I always learn something from your podcasts or vids. Lots of subduction here and shallow sea deposits. Great sediments and Rhyolite, trachyte Rhyolitic Ignimbrite etc.. Marlborough Chrysoprase. Mount Hay Rainforest Jasper (They dislike the name too). Mainly boreing gold. Mount Morgan.

The garnet adorned schist may have come from the Emerald Creek Garnet Area in northern Idaho. I went there years ago and collected a handful of tiny garnets out of Emerald Creek, which runs through there. There are no emeralds, but there are plenty of big garnets - legend has it that the Star Garnet is found only there and in India. It is within a state park and when I was there, years ago, they would alternate open areas where the public could recreationally dig for them.

@taniakippercorliss9643

4 жыл бұрын

www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd711585.pdf

Nice opening!

Nick's had a few glasses of wine before showtime, me thinks.

Hey Nick. The replay is almost perfect

Well done sir. Subscribed.

Super interesting as usual.

Remember tapes? They'd get old and warble. Sounded sort of like that. Started around ep. 7 or 10.

I saw Cullman, Alabama's answer to Muffler Boy this past Saturday (13 June). So, they're not just in Ellensburg, WA.

Happy wife _ Happy Life! Have a Beer

1:34:05 Re sugar-stone: There's a type of dolomite (magnesium carbonate sedimentary rock similar to limestone) in the Alps that is notorious among tunnel builders for its instability. It has the consistency of cubed sugar. It is called sugar grained dolomite.

Hello from CQ Australia.

brogan from seattle aka BUBBLE BOI was the best interuption ever!

the audio and video are having issues throughout the replay @min 58:50 it seems ok after @min 1:06:00

43 episodes in and I have not stumbled on a “Sorry Patrick” yet. Enjoying the series. Wait. Hold the horses. Commented too soon. At 1:36:49 Nick starts to answer one of Patrick’s questions, and is goes into a story about Nick’s mom mentioning he may have referred to Patrick by another name. Which upon reviewing the replay he did call Patrick by another name. He promptly apologizes to Patrick for calling in by the wrong name. Is this the first “Sorry Patrick”? Even though it’s not for using adult language.

I'm sorry, I meant five mile road up Tronson ridge. Trosper is on the pass.

Tip Top is at the top of Trosper rd of Blewett pass.

There was not one single audio problem on replay.

i can still watch the replay by the way

So sorry about the frustration of parking at school. I know that problem well.

I paint my house myself. I'm more than just an architect, but an amazing artist in all fields of tasteful design.

Nick, what I observed last night is that the stream got janky when you moved the phone around. It may be that the camera struggles to keep up when it has to capture a scene that is changing 100% from one frame to the next vs. a stable shot where less than 20% of the scene is changing.

Probably, by now you have the audio fixed ! 'It was there', but not a serious issue ! Monday 7:50 am, Crystal, Michigan.

When a geologist has been awarded his PhD he truely has Piled it Higher and Deeper

what era is that military(?) housing facility?. I've seen a defendable entrance before.

Did you spray Glyphosate or did you recently use a Trimec product in your fertilizer?

Heat and pressure -- Metamorphic. Temperature and pressure - Magma. Heat and pressure - crystals. Temperature and pressure - minerals. I'm thinking that heat and pressure could be an excuse. "I didn't...home late because heat... pressure."

Has Patrick applied to MIT yet? It's not too soon, there is a lot of competition.

Polished marble has a 'shield' of sorts.

SUBTITLE: What goes with a premium beef jerky from Cle Elum, WA? Why a premium red wine from Ellensburg, WA, of course! Wait, not two red wines, n-o-o-o-o-o-o-o! Holy Bretz and Wegener! Not one in each hand, n-o-o-o-o-o-o-o! Très gauche. Wait, both glasses are from Australia ... that saves it! Cheers mate!

@Ellensburg44

4 жыл бұрын

Love it! Always enjoy these, Michael. Thank you.

@KathyWilliamsDevries

4 жыл бұрын

Hate to bust your bubble, the glasses are from a US company www.thingsremembered.com/

@bagoquarks

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ellensburg44 You are kind to accept my sophomoric comments. I hope I am not offending anyone. I would send you a cheese steak hoagie from Philadelphia but it wouldn't age as well as the fine wines we see featured on your uploads. **>> THANK YOU

If you don't have acid in a bottle does it work to just vomit on the limestone?

Pause the screen with a single-click, and messages will stop scrolling

Epidote. Associated with low level regional metomorphism. A good indicator mineral.

Never spill red wine on a marble bench

Shaun the prawn. Fossil in Greek marble in Australian Parliment house. Whether it's really marble, I don't know. It could be really black limestone and just called marble. He's online.

Given how he talked about having to paint the barn back on the farm. Now wonder they hired a contractor

Too bad you didn't have any Arcosic Sandstone to show us.

Good morning to our teacher. Could you please inform us about the earthquake in an Extra Live-stream?

@geoffgeorges

4 жыл бұрын

do you mean the Nevada 6.5 was it ? I had a look at my quake app. quite a few 5+ - 6+ in Solomon islands, Tonga, Easter island, Japan, Peru- just in the last couple of days

@bjdevries4240

4 жыл бұрын

The Nevada one , as I think it might have been felt in Ellensburg.

Marble and gneiss are metamorphic rocks. Shale is sedimentary rock. Go over and over that. Get that locked into your little brains. There - Nick Zentner has taught you something.

Great keep on

@aurelioperez1363

3 жыл бұрын

Maye we call caliza limestone?

@aurelioperez1363

3 жыл бұрын

Marble i mean

@aurelioperez1363

3 жыл бұрын

Search aragonito is aparticular cristalización from iberia

@aurelioperez1363

3 жыл бұрын

You get two big balls of rock for keep us learning and teach us thanks a lot

@aurelioperez1363

3 жыл бұрын

I insist there are same rocks as garnets equists in mediterránea

Now that I think of it some of the limestones could have been dolomites, which might explain why they didn’t fizz

Replay audio all good.

If wood was more plentiful in Greece, then they would have used that instead of marble.

@HotelPapa100

4 жыл бұрын

At the time of classical Greece the Mediterranean hadn't been deforested yet. That happened under the Romans. The region never recovered and is mainly brush now.

1:15:49 that’s the money shot oh yeah.

Chrysotile is fibrous serpentine.

Blowey or blurry?

54:19 fun with acid. Wavy gravy. Kids, try this at home

@geoffgeorges

4 жыл бұрын

I do tile and stone slab work, and I always have to tell people to not use marble for kitchen counters and bathroom vanity tops, I see a lot of acid stains.

First he drops acid and then goes on a little trip.

Rock painting?

Probably dinner plate tectonics

New name for gneiss be blue cheese.

I still use a pressure cooker.

@minimaker5600

4 жыл бұрын

they're now marketed as "instant pots".

The episode where the Professor is double fisted then proceeds to drop acid. And my classical musician friends wonder why I follow a geology teacher from a tiny town in Washington state when I live in BrisVegas and have never taken a geology class in my life. Now flogging Zentnerd t-shirts on my website www.kathywilliams-devries.com at cost.

@jwcinc12

4 жыл бұрын

@Kathy Williams-Devries interesting. I might order. He is awesome, right?

@KathyWilliamsDevries

4 жыл бұрын

Jim Dewey Nick is the best!

Why is Craters of the Moon a big joke?

tec difficulties, all over the US this week, nothing to do with you at all. When the lightning hit the tower in China my game screen trembled like it was hit! wonder what that means. Same days my friends in Dimondale had no internet at all for two days, no explanation. we knew people were listening to us but this is goofy, isn't it? Hang in there. we will never give up on you. It is not you, it's them.

yes u do know the answer lol

Be careful with that want to be friends comment it's a hacker

Crysotile in serpintinite

9:39 I’m double fisted

@KathyWilliamsDevries

4 жыл бұрын

Bob Trenwith don’t make me use my post graduate degree in Shakespeare Studies to disprove that theory

@KathyWilliamsDevries

4 жыл бұрын

Bob Trenwith well I just about lost it yesterday when Nick quoted the title of one of the Bard’s funniest comedies 😆

Nick, the freak who gave you that ticket is only doing his job because he gets paid for doing it, and a warden in a concentration camp would also do his job for exactly the same reason. I no longer expect any academic qualities from anyone who simply does his job because he gets paid for it and nothing else.

@mpetersen6

4 жыл бұрын

There simply are some people who should never be given any authority

Riverting as usual.

If the broadcast was"perfect", would have stopped watching long ago. Just keep bringing it.