As a resident of Kelowna I am glad that someone has got you here to view some of the geology that this area has to offer. Since viewing your videos and online classes I really appreciate the interpretation of some of the geology that we look at every day. Wouldn’t a pop up geology session be great up here? Looking forward to the next stop.

I took a 10 day field course in the south Okanagan 15 years ago through BCIT. and 2 six week in class courses the Autumn before. then got a job with an exploration company to build Core Drilling platforms on the North Face of a mountain 20 minutes north by helicopter of Revelstoke. We took a helicopter to and from the jobsite daily for 2 months, what an adventure that was. Now I'm studying more of the geology in the area because I plan to retire around there within 5 years spending my leisure Prospecting and such. I have enjoyed many of Nick's videos and always wished he'd go and visit southern BC. Great to see you have finally.

Really enjoyed that, Nick on location with guest speakers on their home turf is always a special treat. Thank You!

This was great! What an eye-popping assortment of 'really cool rocks!' And that Layer Cake Mountain across the way is fascinating. More "northern Disneyland" please! I bet these students are really enjoying Jerome's class.

I could spend hours looking at those rocks. What an assortment. And then the layer cake across the way. I loved the comment Jerome made regarding 'the other parking lot for Disneyland'.

That was enjoyable. Thanks for filming continuously. I’m sure it wasn’t convenient but made it easier to watch. I learned a lot. Nice afternoon surprise.

Welcome to Canada Nick. So glad you were able to make it. Living close to the Okanagan, the rocks are fascinating as they are in the Kamloops area. I look forward to when you can make it here too.

Having watched Mr. Z's videos for quite some time now, I sleep well knowing that our future geologists at the US GS and Universities, Colleges and all the private geotechnical firms in North America have been educated by some of the finest minds in the field.

@Paleoman

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheDanEdwards its a joke u idiot

Nick, thank you for introducing Professor Lesemann to the ZentNerd family! Very interesting field lecture!

Wow what a great adventure, I just loved the look of most of those huge boulders. very interesting.

Welcome to Kelowna and the Okanagan! I hope you enjoyed the visit! Cheers 🇨🇦

Nick loved see you in the Okanagan! Thanks for taking us along. Wish I could be there so cool!!!

I spent my early years in the high Okanogan. There is a small deposit of Zoisite above Riverside that was uncovered about 1960. On our ranch ( which we no longer own ) there is a large lens shaped piece of granite, roughly 10 plus feet in diameter. The ranch is about 2,600 feet in elevation.

@allensylvester6484

2 жыл бұрын

Aloha Laurence, I spent my early years around Tonasket, but spent my time caring for apple trees and a little time wandering around in the hills above the T&O irrigation canal.

@laurencelance586

2 жыл бұрын

@@allensylvester6484 I can't imagine a better place on earth...although the Big Island is pretty danged close.

Thank you Professor Zentner

This was a great excursion to be part of...thank you.... fascinating stuff😀

Hi nick ive just turned 50 and i'm getting very intrested in geology. Love your work , all the best for 2023 from GRIMSBY N.E COAST U.K.

Welcome to Canada Nick, great show

Wonderful seeing the layers in that area, especially the Layer Cake Mt. And with the ice originating in Canada, it would make sense that the rocks found there are so diverse. Thanks Nick

ITS NICK ON THE ROCKS!

Hooray, till!! Thanks for covering this and posting a video about it! I had hoped you might cover it in the 351 course, but getting a whole field trip about it is extra cool!

Nick, It’s fun watching your brand grow. Are you ready to be the “Neil deGrasse Tyson” of geology? I can see you poking you nose everywhere, perhaps having your own dedicated show, interviewing various scientists and their studies. There’s definitely a growing audience for it to happen.

Oh, this one was so exciting! The variety of rocks and that layer-cake formation are amazing! Kelowna (and the Okanagan River) is just one river valley west of the Columbia River drainage. Where I live, south of Kettle Falls on the Columbia, there is an astounding variety of rock types found on the cliffs and beaches of what is now Lake Roosevelt, similar to those in Kelowna. 1500-2,000 above the lake are gravel pits...on top of the mountain range, full of glacial till. Fascinating stuff. Glad you brought us along for the ride, Nick. Thank you.

Thanks for doing this Nick, and welcome to BC. I would love to see Jerome Lesemann doing what you do with your field trips in Washington, here in British Columbia. Thoroughly satisfying.

I’m glad that you enjoyed the glacial till! I always thought that it was kind of boring.

Glad to see you as mystified by Layer Cake as I always have been. A professor at Okanagan College once told me the layers are due to cooling of a large lava “pool” that sat without flowing, and each layer cooled near the surface and settled to the bottom sequentially.

Yay nick you finally made it to British Columbia

Wow, great fun! Thanks y'all!

Saw this pop up and got excited. Thanks Nick.

“The city spent four-and-a-half million dollars contouring that face….” I just had to laugh out loud on that comment. That must be a fun class. Nick looks at a rock and says. “You’re not from around here, are you?

The columnar jointing on the layer cake is quite spectacular, and very similar forms exist beside Fingals Cave on Staffa. Its not the case that columnnar jointing is straight, they deform quite spectacularly with a chaotic cooling regime.

Can't wait to see more from this series!

It seems like there's a direct relationship between a geologist's level of expertise and the number of times they say "I dont know".

Kettle Valley Columns are just a few miles east of there, on the way to Big White ski resort :)

I'm like Nick, as soon as I saw Layer Cake Mountain, I was thinking forget about the glacial till, tell me about this spectacular mountain

@northwoods3d

2 жыл бұрын

right? absolutely spectacular!

@andysAudio

2 жыл бұрын

a historic channel of the columbia river ran passed either side of layer cake mountain, now gone leaving a mess of old river gravels and gold. the hill behind layer cake is black knight mountain, once larger then the rockies apparently

Always have a blast coming by fam. Keep on living the dream fam. Gold squad out!!!

What an exciting time to be a geology fan. We are right in the middle of a major paradigm change. Something tells me BC's missing glacial till is related to the the missing topsoil of the eastern Washington's badlands. The Lake Missoula "ice dam burst" is on very shaky ground. It's looking like "gradualism" is loosing it's death grip on the scientific community... or at the very least, gradualism is interrupted by massive cataclysmic events.

I lived on the other side of Layer Cake Mtn. for 22 years, on Gallagher Rd. I hiked in that area you are in and spent many afternoons in the swimming pools at the bottom of the canyon.

Really interesting. Super video.

Wow, so many different rock types with striations on more than one side. Very interesting.

Our old stomping grounds. We raised the kids in Kelowna and did lots of hiking around layer cake rock.

Finally geology I know! My country (Netherlands) has quite some glacial sediments like boulder clay, push moraines and glacial erratics.

I love your videos. My wife lives Pacific Northwest during the summer but mostly I live in Texas. But I love hiking up there and your videos give me a virtual kick. Keep up the good work!

IIRC, the unconsolidated form is just called “till” (the generalization is a “diamicton”, till, being a special case thereof), and the consolidated form is a “tillite” (whose generalization is then “diamictite”). Edit: that gneiss at 28:00 reminds me of an Icelandic knit wool sweater

@jeromelesemann1855

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, 'glacial till' is redundant. It's either till or glacial diamicton. There's no other till (no fluvial till, eolian till, etc). Till is glacial by definition. There are other types of diamictons (e.g. debris flows, etc). Tillite is for lithified or indurated till (not consolidated specifically since some type of till are often consolidated or over-consolidated). Should have clarified this but the students were already up to speed on this - this take is freeform to say the least!

I'm late to the party, but it's good to see Nick covering BC. I paid my way through UBC with mineral exploration (1978-85) and have always loved my geology courses. I wish there was more of this. Canadian glaciers exported a lot of sand and gravel to the US over the Pleistocene. Perhaps that's where the till went. There's more till to the west of that location, in places such as the Fraser Canyon and Similkameen River.

The difference in their glaciation compared to ours is amazing. The rock is extraordinary.

Nice to get a look at the BC geology. I'm wondering if western BC geology is much of the same crash and smash hodgepodge that makes up much of the Puget Sound coastline under the glacial depositions or if its more genuine continental bedrock.

Wow learned another tonight

thank you

Check out the hanging beaches near Crawford canyon. Also Knox Mountain.

That mountain is bizarre. As somebody who grew up in and still lives in the Midwest, mountains are foreign to me anyway but wow, that one is the strangest.

One of those last boulders makes me want to jump in the truck, head north, snatch it somehow, and bring it back across the border to “decorate someone’s yard” (mine). Could add it to the glacial erratics already deposited here. It would fit right in. But not sure how they would charge duty on it.🤣😂😜

Are you coming to Vancouver Island? Shoot me a message if you are, I have keys to some key spots!

Welcome to Canada, Nick.

That gneiss at 27:45! You could cut a flat slab of it and polish it for a really nice small table top.

It's cool that when he dug his fingers in and pulled, that was the first time that boulder had been in motion for 10000 + years.

I am not sure how long your in the Kelowna area. But there is a volcano there called Mt Boucherie. I would like to know more about the Skaha bluffs. We’re these created via glacial til? There is so much to see in our province. Knowing all about Washington State and the glacial melt. British Columbia is another piece of the puzzle that I would love to learn about it all?

That rock at 18;50 looks a lot like the rocks around my hometown in southern/ eastern quebec, looks like some base for serpentinite, the term I'm using my be mistaken but it sure as helll looks like it, without the actual asbestos coton like mineral deposit

7:40 "what the hell's going on over there"...at Crystal Cove State Park here in Orange County, CA, the north end bluff, there's folding like this...takes place, I learn, when things are hot then cool, wet clay like then solid...I see this in the current volcano vlogs...lava is like water so hot, then cools off, loses it color like a dying mahi mahi!...so there's that...then there's the foldings that comes from pressure, the stuff of earthquake earth moving...and I imagine the moving and pressures could reheat a formation...folding a folding...clip notes some of the rocks could have been scratched one way by the glacier, another way by erosion, whatever else came along-scratches atop scratches atop scratches...is there a term for multiple events evolving rocks, rock formations?(edit:10:00 overprinting!)..maybe that's it, evolution...I dunno...😃😃😃unconformities disconformities crosscuttings!🙄migmatite self similarities🐬

So interesting, thankyou! I live on top of glacial till (edge of the coulees in Lethbridge, Alberta) and am now looking at those deposits much more closely. Will this be part of another course which you will record & post?

Welcome to B.C.!

Maybe the 'missing till' is in Washington, in an end moraine.

Cool! International geo field trip! Thanks, Nick! I wonder if the layer cake got smushed like the metamorphic stuff, so it is folded, too?

Disneyland, yes!

Any idea force needed to push glacial ice uphill? Eg a tongue of ice pushed 10 miles up the clarks fork up 100 foot elevation gain . From lake pend oreil beleave the ice was up to 3500 feet over the lake sloping to 2500 at lake mazoola so the ice was moving plastically

That columnar basalt mountain across the valley is intriguing. I am wondering what the shape of that face is. Looking up the valley along that face, is it U-shaped, V-shaped, or something else that might indicate what ripped the columns away in layers. It has that German-chocolate-cake look.

@andysAudio

2 жыл бұрын

mt guess is going to be an old columbia river channel that use to flow through that area. or other known as the lost river of gold ;)

at 20:20 what do you call that one Banded Gneiss Squared?

Hey Mr. ZENTNER the Volcano in LA Palma. Spain flowing laxa also is it hydro thermal. Thr geologist I got blurbs late in feed. But said Americs is watching fir a tsunami on our east?

I'm from there. Weird to see is as "Vancouver Island University". We always call it "UVIC" or "University of Victoria". As always, great video!

@jeromelesemann1855

2 жыл бұрын

Different schools

@p4p3rm4t3

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeromelesemann1855 Oh are they? I did not know haha. I asked myself right away, "is it in Nanaimo?". Yes it is.

@pamelapilling6996

2 жыл бұрын

Vancouver Island University used to be Malspina College, just like Thompson Rivers University used to be Cariboo College back when there were only 3 Universities in BC; UBC, UVIC and Simon Fraser.

"holy sh*t" sorry patrick

@coolworx

2 жыл бұрын

I clearly heard "Holy Schist"

@travis303

2 жыл бұрын

@@coolworx Maybe I misheard

@travis303

2 жыл бұрын

@@coolworx If that's the case I'll delete the comment but I rewound it a couple of times and I always thought I Heard the same thing

@coolworx

2 жыл бұрын

@@travis303 Dude... I was joking. ;-) He definitely dropped the S bomb.

@travis303

2 жыл бұрын

@@coolworx Oh, lol, I honestly thought I misheard hahaha. Glad I'm not crazy.

I watch a lot of Canadian Prospectors and I always see so much heavy bedrock in the BC area and I have to wonder why the Cordillera ice sheet didn't grind it to till like here in Western Washington. It makes me sad to see their prospers have bedrock with good gold on it but I have to drive over to at least Central Washington. Do you know how their bedrock survived Nick?

Nick , you looked like a kid in a candy store.

How'd you get through the border? You must know Justin personally.

out of the park Mr. Zentner ,out of the park

NICE, NICK HOW THICK ARE THE TILLS UP THERE ON AVERAGE, AND ANY GOLD ON THE BEDROCK?

What's the organic material content by volume of till and does it differ in any way from soils or reworked wash? Could heating samples of each and testing the produced off gassing with a spectrometer tell us anything diagnostic? I dunno, just rambling.

@emilywalner2777

2 жыл бұрын

The organic content of till is essentially zero. Organic content of soil ammended with organic matter for the purpose of agrictulture (or that includes a lot of forest duff or sod) is easily 50-80% by weight, but keep in mind that organic material is mostly water. Organic content of soil you may find miscellaneous places near the ground surface (i.e. near highways or buildings) might be around 20%, but will vary widely. I have never tested organic content other than by weight and never to greater accuracy than 0.01% of the total volume, so I can't speak on that.

@brentkeller3826

2 жыл бұрын

@@emilywalner2777 ok. Thanks for the explanation.

If Washington is the Disneyland then BC must be Canafornia Adventure.

Dibs on the two striped rocks at 18:38 and 20:15. ;-)

The variety of rock is almost as numerous in our area of NW Ohio. We do not have the vulcanics like seen there. But plenty of metamorphic.

Any Cherts?

I could show you some till. Northwest Illinois, under a peat bog. Edge of the fruitless area

@clevelandbrown8542

2 жыл бұрын

Driftless area

Layer cake! I assume it’s fairly mostly vertical columns? Seeing as how geometric cooling tension forms a basalt column I suppose a contraction limit could also occur longitudinally creating the repetitive horizontal fractures? Vertical columns should naturally form a terrace after sloping by passage of ice I am imagining.

Any gold in that till?

First :) I finally got to do that

@GSProspecting

2 жыл бұрын

Lol. You got it fam. Gold squad out!!!

Ahhh tillite👌 okay so I don't know too much I'm just a poor City kid😊

*VANCOUVER* - a primer. Vancouver, BC, CA is a city NOT on Vancouver Island. Both are, of course, proudly Canadian. Vancouver, WA, USA, is on the Columbia River. Denizens of Portland, OR might view Vancouver, WA as a northern suburb. OTOH, Vancouver probably views Portland as the Kansas City, KS to its Kansas City, MO. *COLUMBIA* - a primer. A river, a "district" between Maryland and Virginia, and a supercontinent roughly 1/3 the age of Earth, but I digress ...

@Rachel.4644

2 жыл бұрын

Ooooooh, those last boulders are incredible, like easter eggs. Wow. I really enjoyed the class, too, and wth must look up layer cake mtn. ALWAYS more questions. Thank you, Nick! 🤓💗🤗

Thanks Nick. They let you into Canada? Huh. 😉

Ogopogo?

Looks like Limestone Muds?

Part of Baha BC?

@lizj5740

2 жыл бұрын

*Baja (Spanish "j" pronounced "h" as in San Jose)

I love listening to homie talking to Randall carlson. Buncha fluvially transported rocks if you ask me, super unedjumacated person

Ductile German chocolate cake?

Geology always yielding to encroaching land development.

Nick you didn’t pick up that trash!

Acting like a bunch of children that are just going to take over family license😂 ..as an abolitionist bloodline I rele hate the trick-life model🙄🥸

YELLOWSTONE HOTSPOT!!!!!!!!!