Be Smart - 2022-10-11
Head to http://actnow.climeworks.com/besmart and learn more about removing CO₂ from the air. ↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓ One day around 15,000 years ago, a wall of ice 2,000 feet tall and 30 miles wide suddenly broke wide open, and it unleashed the largest flood that we know of in the history of Earth. Come and hit the road with me as we search for the geologic fingerprints of the Missoula Ice Age Floods, and learn the story of one of the worst natural disasters that’s ever happened! High fives to Nick Zentner for educating me on the geology of Eastern Washington. He makes incredible geology videos on YouTUbe: https://www.youtube.com/user/GeologyNick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHaL04gZQwc&list=PL18y1vgsGPLbl3wrSZwUyvkAiUJHZTS5Y Follow me to @PBS Eons for more Kallie and more prehistoric adventures: https://www.youtube.com/c/eons SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss a video! ►► http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub We’re on PATREON! Join the community https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart ----------- High fives to all our Brain Trust Patrons: NullBlox.ZachryWilsn paul andre bouis Mark Littlehale Ali Freiburger Mehdi Damou Barbora Bei Ken Board Attila Pix Burt Humburg Roy Lasris dani bowman David Johnston Salih Arslan Baerbel Winkler Robert Young Eric Meer Dustin Karen Haskell Join us on Patreon! https://patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart Twitter http://www.twitter.com/DrJoeHanson http://www.twitter.com/okaytobesmart Instagram http://www.instagram.com/DrJoeHanson http://www.instagram.com/okaytobesmart Merch https://store.dftba.com/collections/its-okay-to-be-smart Facebook https://www.facebook.com/itsokaytobesmartpbs/ 00:00 Introduction 00:54 A geologic mystery 01:53 A very large lake 03:32 A mountain made of ice 05:15 The dam breaks 06:25 Biggest. Waterfall. Ever. 07:57 How the damage was done 10:10 Witnesses to destruction 10:49 A brave new idea 12:00 Stay curious.
I live in Yakima, Washington. I’ve done the geologic journey through Washington, Idaho and Montana. It’s still hard to believe. When you’re standing in front of dry falls, you get a scope of the magnitude and it’s mind boggling.
It truly is. No camera can do it justice.
Nice, my husband is from Yakima. It was at YVCC that he started his Geology degree and completed it in Spokane. We went on many Geology field trips. Field camp was in Dillon, MT.
I’ve been to dry falls several times, and recently went to Niagara Falls. I used to think that sure, these falls would have been pretty big, but now I have a better perspective on what that really would have been like, and it would have been epic!
Hopefully you’re not around for the next cycle of these floods😅
@@nerd_alert927 That’s really awesome! I’m just an old rock hound, and amateur geologist. The geologic history of the earth fascinates me.
Anyone that is entranced by this topic, look up Nick Zentner, he covers this in broad scale to fine detail really allowing the viewer to rationalize and internalize the scale and immensity of each successive event, as well as many others that are directly connected to him covering this topic.
i'm 2 minutes into the video and immediately thought of prof nick zentner. yes for anyone who is nuts about plate tectonics, glaciers/megafloods, or geology...yall need to check him out. i believe its central washinton university. he also does hour long lectures for what appears to be amateurs or continuing education students. very accessible stuff.
Nick is responsible for the creation of the animation of the floods going over Dry Falls seen in this show.
Nick on the Rocks! I’m yet to make it to one of his lectures or hikes. Bucket list
The first time I read about the events surrounding Glacial Lake Missoula I was astounded, years later I took a trip out that way and saw all the witness marks for myself, the strandlines on the hillsides, the ripples on the prairie and the Channeled Scablands to really take in the scale and it is just awe-inspiring.
I drove through that area myself after acquiring a USGS pamphlet on the Scablands, and was very impressed with the magnitude and unseal terrain.
Didn't GOD flood earth to rid the world of evil?
@@richardoutlaw7550 no cause there is no god. U are watching science video dude
Is Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge part of this?
@@richardoutlaw7550 If he did it didn't work.
Someone who did great videos on this and goes real in depth is Nick Zetner . He’s a professor with his own PBS videos. He also has a three hour lecture online of this subject alone .
This winter, 2023/24 Nick Zentner (Central Washington University) is doing a 13 week series on this subject. check it out. Best to watch it from episode A (A-Z). Right now, December 1st, he is on episode F. Very heavy in details from this flood.
Professor Nick Zentner even uploaded his entire Geology 101 lectures he gives at Central Washington University as well 😊
@@dadskrej5226Agreed! Another armchair student from Alberta Canada here! 🇨🇦 🌋🗻🗺⏳️
Nick is fantastic! 🫶
I was addicted to his channel after discovering it during lockdown
Can we take a moment to thank Randall Carlson for his work?
Randall Carlson hasn't done anything to progress our understanding of these floods. Why would we thank him?
Yes, without RC, this YTer wouldn't even have bothered making this video.
@@BlGGESTBROTHER yeah bringing it to the attention of hundreds of thousands of people really isn’t anything now is it.
@@BlGGESTBROTHER So upset lmao
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That portion of Washington genuinely has some of the weirdest geology anywhere and it's awesome. Like a lot of other folks, Nick Zenter's great videos informed me on how all this happened. I visited Palouse Falls and Dry Falls/Sun Lakes quite a few times to admire the crazy landscape. Highly recommend those places to people visiting Washington.
+1 for Nick Zentner!
I love his videos! I'm subbed to his channel.
About two years ago i found Nick on the Rocks and never looked back. i live in Boston and more than anything want to visit this wild place. I need to see this. German Chocolate Cake
@@dukecity7688 yes, Nw local here - no camera does the cake justice.
That guy is great! Might I recommend Shawn Willsey channel
The Zanclean flood (flood that filled the Mediterranean Sea 5 million years ago) had an estimated maximum discharge rate of 100 million cubic meters per second. The Missoula flood (The one in this video) had an estimated maximum discharge rate of 2.7 million cubic meters per second. The Missoula flood was definitely epic, but I don't know if it was the most epic flood in Earth's history.
The bible records a worldwide flood! Why not believe that?
And then the one after that, when the land dam at the Bosporus finally failed and a huge inhabited valley became the Black Sea.
Americans being egocentric , what else is new?
How cool would it have been to sit on the rock at Gibraltar and watch that happening in front of you.😮
@@stevehoffmann543 What makes you think, the area was inhabited?
Being from Eastern Washington, and having been to all the places in the video, it's really cool to see my local history on such a large channel.
Was thinking the same, I grew up going camping in the potholes (as my dad referred to them) and going to the Coulee gorge for concerts. I always wondered why the landscape was so flat, with random jutting cliffs going up and very deep and scattered round holes pock marked throughout. Never saw the rippling in the valleys cause it's mostly farmland and never had a birds eye view to see the areas not covered in farms.
@@SgtDreamzyou can see some rippling between othello and royal city
One of the most phenomenal things about Bretz's observational skills, is that he formulated the original hypothesis without the benefit of aerial photographs, and had to conceptualize the scale of events from ground observations and maps.
Why would he refuse to use aerial photos or direct observation?!
@@m.dewylde5287 aerial photos were not available at that time.
@@glacier68Is this a joke? Bretz studied the grounds in the 1920s. This is a simple Google search that took 5 seconds:
"The first known aerial photograph was taken in 1858 by French photographer and balloonist, Gaspar Felix Tournachon, known as "Nadar".
Wilbur Wright was the first pilot in remote sensing history that took photographs from an aeroplane. Wilbur's passenger, L. P. Bonvillain, on a demonstration flight in France in 1908, took the first photograph from an aircraft."
@@m.dewylde5287 5 seconds of Google search can show you a lot of things...
However, the difference between experimental use of aerial photos and systematic aerial surveys was several decades. For instance, the oldest aerial survey photos for Washington State are typically mid 1930s to early 1940s, and those weren't necessarily comprehensive, being flown by govt agencies like the Army Corps of Engineers or the Department of War for their needs. As such, these photos wouldn't be publicly available.
https://www.archives.gov/research/cartographic/aerial-photography
(Practicing Washington environmental geologist with 25+ years experience. Uses historic aerial photos for due diligence projects)
@@m.dewylde5287 I think it was just not that common and widespread back then. The costs were also perhaps a reason. The most aerial observations were done after WWII
Thanks for covering the geology of eastern Washington so well! I've been to Palouse falls countless times to appreciate the beauty and utter chaos that occurred merely thousands of years ago to create our special landscape
My dad recently told me about these floods! We live in SW Washington and in my yard he's pretty sure we have a big huge rock in our garden that came from Idaho when the floods happened, bc of the type of rock it is are usually found over there. Neat stuff :)
Noah from the Bible: I told you so.
LMAO NOHA
Yeah, the fact that the floods happened around 39 times really blows that silly primitive Sumerian flood story out of the water.
@@WWZenaDo and the fact that these floods not only submerge everything but also utterly PWN everything in their direction.
They’re called glacial erratic’s
As a resident of Washington state, I have visited the Channeled Scablands and the Potholes Areas of Central Washington multiple times. Dry Falls is truly impressive. I’ve also fly fished in the small lakes that are the remnants of that humongous river of ice age waters. If you ever travel through this area, it is definitely worth your time to stop and explore the natural beauty of these unique geological wonders.
You lucky guy. Geology was one of my favorite subjects in college. A professor encouraged me to be a geologist, but I ignored him. Today, it's still absolutely fascinating to me, and I'm truly regretful of the fact that I didn't listen to my professor. I especially love those basalt columns. Wow!
@@GladysAlicea you should really try to make a visit. I live a few hours south of it and am always amazed of the landscape it created.
I would suggest starting in Portland and driving Eastbound on I 84 through the Columbia river gorge to Hermiston, then head North to Dry falls. Seeing the landscape along the way tells a great story.
@@sunrisetacticalgear2676 Funny thing...I drove through Portland years ago, headed from airport to a conference at a country resort I can't remember the name of, but didn't know about this place. The drive was long and so beautiful and green.
I've been semi-obsessed with this subject for 25 years and I've yet to see a better constructed, more succinct and accessible summary of it. Congratulations to all involved.
Do you know about the Zanclean flood?
That's a good one.
Featured in Randall Munroe's "Time"
Don't you think people got more curious about geology these days? I'm a huge fan of Nick Zentner, he started streaming his geology classes during covid. Changed me forever! I will never look at the mountain same way ever again!
Zentner is the best! I especially enjoy his "In the Field" series of videos where he goes and explores geologic sites with other practicing geologists.
fellow Zentnerd here
I grew up in the Channeled Scablands (near Connell), and have probably visited Dry Falls and Palouse Falls at least 5 times each on various family outings and school field trips. I still find it fascinating. It's nice to see our columnar basalts, rugged geography, and fascinating geologic history get some YouTube love!
So many myths and legends about ancient floods its pretty fascinating. Athabascan indian tribes tell tales of ancient floods and can even point to the excact mountain their ancestors climbed to escape it.
That's because floods happen all the time, and they're a frequent and often cataclysmic disaster.
Interesting! Which mountain do they say it was on?
Yeap and Europeans (And therefor colonialists when they spread out to rest of the world) thought they were liars for hundreds of years. I blame it on two things:
1) The "Dark Ages". I think it destroyed a lot of historic knowledge in Europe. If you go to any other civilization that's been around for(ever) they have history tracing back for thousands of years that is verifiable. Europe, not so much.
2) It's also great tactic for conquerors to claim local knowledge is a myth. It gives you validity with the people in the area you're coming from because you can say "You're making things right" so they support you and give you money, fight the wars etc etc. It also causes cognitive dissonance in the people you're conquering. They see that you're "more powerful" and start to think that your story of history must be right. (And Colonizing an already populated area is a form of conquering).
------------It' Gas Lighting at it's finest!
Like seriously, there is now archeological proof that humans(oids) have been here for at least 50,000 years. Potentially even LONGER but the current dating techniques don't go back that far. For decades we've been like "Nope, no one was here more then 12k years ago." And anyone that wanted to do deeper digging was thought to be a crack pot. Then someone finally said screw it and kept digging and kept finding more and more stuff. Now several other people are doing the same and finding the same stuff dating back as far.
And the Native Americans are like, "Uh, we've been here for 80,000+ years." Which, they probably have been.
I wouldn't be surprised if humanoids have been in the Western Hemisphere for as long as they have existed.
What I've always found weird is, why are there no major North American city ruins? We see evidence of such in Central and South but.. not so much here. And even the ones we find there are not as old as the ones we find in the Eastern Hemisphere... so, why did Western civilization take such a different direction and NOT gather into cities for so long? Civilization in the Eastern did... it's rather odd.
... all though, there are people that claim that European colonialists DID find ruins in North America and they were all torn apart and covered with modern cities. (Back in the time of wooden buildings etc etc.) That there is a major conspiracy to hide the fact there were major civilizations in the US etc.
Idk though, that seems more far fetched then just civilization taking a different route for some strange reason.
@@OgdenM ?
@@omranhashim1028 himalya .king manu went there
Im a geologist, i went to Humboldt State where 1 of my professors had a little known fact. It took decades for J Harlan Bretz to figure out where all that water came from. But he would have learned about it much sooner if he hadn't been a colossal jerk to work with. Another Geologist knew about Lake Missoula and didnt tell Bretz about it for a very long time, supposedly because Bretz would belittle and treat other geologists badly.
I read about the work of J. Harlen Bretz many years ago. He was so smart! He walked all over eastern Washington and took to the skies to prove his theories. He was finally vindicated but what a fight he started in main stream science. We need more people like J. Harlen Bretz.
I did a biography project on Bretz for my historical geology course. He was quite the character and really revolutionized the science
These floods were absolutely epic, but the one that formed the Mediterranean sea was even more massive and spectacular. It is believed that at its peak it caused the level of the entire Mediterranean to rise by more than 10 meters a day
The oveall amount of the water into the Mediterranean was perhaps thousands of times as great, but it might not have happened at as great a RATE. If the scablands flood took place over a few days, as the video claims, while the Mediterranean took hundreds of years to fill, then the record rate would belong to the scablands.
This was my initial reaction as well
I also want more content on the Messinian Salinity Crisis
@@peternyikos8020 it is estimated that it took a maximum of two years to flood the Mediterranean, with a maximum discharge rate of 100 million cubic metres per second.
@@flori5296while the Mediterranean flood is insane these events are pretty different
As a kid and young adult I visited the region bi-yearly. It’s just amazing how the canyon cliffs can be so high yet the water still as deep in places. Kinda eerie to swim across.. makes you feel very small.
Well, the Zanclean flood which may have occurred when the Straits of Gibraltar opened up would have been much larger. For similar outburst floods, the Bonneville flood and potential Altai flood are strong competitors. Still, very few have created such a stark landscape with such obvious flood features still around. Eastern Washington truly is a geologic wonderland
Was thinking this as well. Also, the flood when the bosporus opened up and the Black Sea level started quickly rising.
I was expecting that this was going to talk about the Lake Bonneville flood. I would say that the Lake Bonneville flood was bigger.
Indeed. The Missoula flood was awesome, too bad he had to say it was the most epic. Kind of a fail for a science channel.
The lake Missoula flood was about 4 times bigger than Bonneville flood. The Zanclean flood was about 200 times bigger, but took about 2 years to fill up the Mediterranean Sea.
Bonneville Flood is estimated to have lasted for years as it was also an erosion event rather than an Ice Dam burst. So while it may have drained more by volume, the extent of the flooding would be less extreme.
I live at the crest of the Tualatin Mountains, which form the western edge of the city of Portland, Oregon. Thirty years ago I managed a project to construct a 625 foot, externally reinforced ferro-concrete radio tower (a unique structure), next door to what is now my house. As part of that project we excavated three, 40-foot square foundation holes 20 feet down to the fractured basalt that forms the bedrock of the Tualatin Mountains.
Once we had scraped away the top 5 feet of soil, the part that had been shaped by vegetation and man's activity, the remaining soil was flour-fine and contained no rocks - I mean zero rocks. When I asked our soils/geology consultant about this, he told me that this was all wind deposited silt from the Missoula Floods.
This soil is so dense, that the roots of the Douglas Fir trees that we planted as part of the landscaping and which are now over 35 feet tall, run along the surface of the ground, unable to penetrate the soil.
-Gray Haertig
Nice! We learned about this in one of my Geology classes at uni. Most people in Central and Eastern WA learn about it, mainly because it's such a huge part of our history and Geology.
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@@arv_01 she probably has ch*nnel membership
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Nick Zentner (geology prof at the university in Ellensberg) has several videos on this as well. It is actually a series of floods and not just a single one. if you're interested in geology, look him up. He's a very fascinating guy.
Nick is not only fascinating, he is a great teacher/lecturer!
@@mrfriz4091 In this video he does say, later on, that the ice wall reformed and melted multiple times. So this is all the work of multiple, days-long floods separated by.. ice ages.
Yes he does. I’ve heard up to 40 or more. I live in WA state and driven through the scablands. Dry Falls formation is astounding.
Hello fellow Zentnerds!
It’s cool that this topic is getting more attention, funny that they used nick zentner’s animation of the flood!
That flooding animation was a visual delight. physics enabled indeed.
How could you not mention Randall Carlson in this video? He has been researching this and talking about it for decades. In fact, he's probably the only reason anyone is now talking about this. His recent appearances on Joe Rogan's show have drawn a lot of public attention to this idea.
That's easy to answer. Randy isn't a deep state puppet like PBS and these people are. They will give partial truths to hide the big lies. Fact is, there are many theories of earth's history geologically, it's civilizations, Biblically, and so on. It's pretty obvious our history that we've been fed has been altered or a flat out lie. The truth? It's out there probably buried or hidden in or under some ancient site.
Because while he is passionate, he has theories without evidence, evidence that are not evidence, and thinks all scientist never update what they think and that they never would admit to such a flood. This one is real, Randal’s is not.
And I’ve seen enough of him, and enough prehistoric archeology and geology in 4 years in university to separate those too. I just want the same proof we needed here, and I am almost certain to have already seen enough proof that that’s not the history of the places he mentions, not in this way, but maybe I missed one somewhere and it exists, nonetheless, the facts he needs for his idea are still absent, he doesn’t have them and still points at facts that aren’t at the moment.
Earth's climate change has been going on literally for billions of years.
@@Love-you-too It's amazing you are so critical of Randall Carlson when he has an episode that is almost an exact parallel of this program aside from advertising bogus claims about the need to reduce C02 which happens to be plant food and has been at much higher levels in the past than it is now. Randall Carlson - Episode No. 28. Destruction by Floods and Fire He uses the same evidence in his program that is presented in this video. This PBS video just corroborates Randall's science.
If anyone deserves credit, it's professor of geology at central Washington university Nick Zentner. He's been making videos and doing the actual research on the scabland floods his whole career. He does actual, real, quantifiable science.
Oh I love Washington state's geology! Learnt a lot from Nick Zentner's videos!
I'm an avid fan too. Glad to see his teachings reinforced with this video with a large audience! Really neat.
amen
Wow Earth's beauty never ceases to amaze me. I like how you used the analogy of "reading" landscapes as if they're shapes, colours, configurations and other properties are like words explaining it's history. I'm probably going to do a lot more research into the geology of the next place I vacation. I travel to witness natures beauty and knowing the history of a place I think would only compound this effect !
This was a particularly good video. I’ve learned about this event before and this still blew my mind like it was the first time. I love all the visual aids and amazing video!
A couple of years ago, I ran away from home on my motorcycle. All I took with me was a sleeping bag, 2 pairs of pants, & 3 underwear, & of course, my telescope. Ppl, the night sky was spectacular to say the least. I rode through there, & it was the most beautiful places my eyes have ever seen. I knew about what had happened in that part of the North American Continent due to our last Ice Age. This fantastic video doesn't do reality well. Seeing it live is something no one will ever forget.
I visited that place in 2016. I got there late afternoon, early evening but with enough day light to appreciate an amazing view. I was the only soul in the area at that time. Having read about the flood that caused the fall before my visit made the experience rather haunting. I mean, you just feel minuscule against the power of mother nature.
Yo that flood animation is sick.
Tell the animator I respect their work.
Thank Nick Zentner. His PBS program Nick on the Rocks produced the flood clip. It is pretty cool.
Well done! This is one of the better things I’ve ever seen on these floods. I became fascinated with this region after learning about these floods and what happened in one of my Geoscience classes at Oregon State. During spring break after that class ended, I took a trip up to the scab lands, and had a local friend take me around to some of the sites. I’m hoping to get back up there this spring to explore some more.
Great video, as usual. I live in the area that Glacial Lake Agassiz used to cover and one of my favourite activities is fossil hunting along the shores of the current-day lakes it left behind. There is a lot of limestone in this area and there are spots where you are basically guaranteed to find fossils if you know what to look for.
One of the most mind-blowing facts I learned about the ice age (that I think would make a good video subject) is about the isostatic rebound from the ice sheets that is still going on today and will be happening for centuries to come.
Glacial lake Agassiz was far larger than the one in Montana. When its collapsed the waters passed out through the St. Lawrence and we're so great as to change the temperature and salinity of the north west Atlantic Ocean. This video is greatly exaggerated.
@@brians5348 Lake Agassiz never "collapsed" per se. It drained (on several different occasions) over thousands of years and the water went in different directions, not just down the St. Lawrence. As far as the video is concerned, with all due respect to you, I think I'll trust the word of the PBS backed biologist and the scientist who has studied the region over some dude on the internet.
I watched this video with my 6th grade students and they LOVED IT!!! The kids enjoy your videos, keep up the great work!!
Many cultures have flood stories from thousand of years ago in their story telling. Excellent vid, guys.
So epic they lived to tell the story?
@@rosscourtney9913 Yes. Noah, his three sons and their wives all survived on the Ark.
@@tonyh7267 Incest reboot 🙄
Funny how Noah and the flood is disregarded yet it explains all the mass erosion events around the world.
Randall Carlson has been talking about this exact subject for decades. He's been an advocate for Bretz at least since the mid-1990s. Anyone interested in a more detailed exam of the subject should check out his channel.
just as I started to lose hope of someone even just namedropping Randall, I scrolled far enough down to find your 'shots fired' comment. thank you!
Randalls chapter format with spicier video than his topographical maps.
Great job if not for some level of likely plagerism.
@@josephgranger5261 Yeah, the big flood video near the beginning is directly from something Randall showed a year or two ago on one of his podcasts (if I remember correctly). Someone would have to track down the original vid to see if credits are cited.
Bible has been talking about it for millennia.
@@codymadison9993 Sure, but the timeline Carlson points to is far older than anything biblical scripture mentions. The commonality of the story worldwide doesn't disprove the scriptural concept. But all of the others claim that flood is much older than the guesswork timeline of supposed biblical scholars.
I’m already hearing the evangelicals turn around to get their bibles out 😂
There are a lot of similarities
@@rebekah4761
Yes the Biblical tale probably originally came from people who had experienced the same more local type of floods.
You read my mind 😂
This person doesn’t seem to understand the links between cataclysmic flood events around the world working their way in to local mythology and eventually coming together in stories that were included in the bible and many other religious texts. As the saying goes, many of the myths from around the world are rooted in events that probably happened.
Except that this flood happened thousands of years before noahs.
this story is so much cooler than the silly little myth with big daddy in the clouds
Fascinating natural science vs uninteresting religion mythos that's somehow still relevant today
@@TheDeadOfNight37 It's only relevant to ignorant and fearful minds.
It's one reason there are so many atheists in Seattle. "Forty days and forty nights" of rain might impress people some place, but in Seattle we call it a damn dry winter.😄
It's called denial. The fact is the whole world was under water. Where did all that water come from? It had to be created anew and fall from the sky. There are mass erosion events all over the world and on the continental slopes that can only be explain by a massive worldwide flood that deepened the oceans and caused upheaval on land. Open your eyes!
as a native to sw washington this has fascinated me my whole life, and i think this video is about to send me down another research spiral
🕳….. 🐇 Haha!! Down the rabbit hole!!! I’ve been there many times! 🤣
Check out Nick on the Rocks. You'll find lots of great videos on this and related topics by professor from Central Washington University
I grew up dead center of this part of Eastern WA. May not be “evergreen” like other parts of Washington but it’s thrilling to go into the geology of the area. Awesome video!
I find it interesting that a lot of people who have never been to Washington are completely unaware that this state has deserts and canyons and stuff.
Imagining the roar of all that water would sound ALMOST as loud as a Seahawks game when Russell Wilson came back to play with the Denver Broncos 😎🤣
But seriously really cool to see all the comments from people like me that live in the PNW
Omg. The extreme beauty of the landscape took my breath away! America is one lucky, blessed country.
Why thank you!
I don't think the people who lived there when the flood happened shared that opinion
I watch a geologist in Washington, seen a documentary about this as a kid and a few random videos about this. It makes me want to do a state by state geologic study!
Randall Carlson has some great information about floods at the end of the last ice age.
No, because a lot of that is misinformation. Among other things, these floods were not one-off disasters: similar floods happened at the end of EVERY Pleistocene ice age.
Randall Carlson is awesome. Everybody should watch his videos.
He hypothesised about this so many years ago and was simply laughed at. I loved watching his clear evidence through his presentations that made such sense, and now it seems he is finally being proven all he said and studied is finally recognised and also taken seriously as academically accepted! Go Randall!
Mr. Carlson understands the floods fully, except in two ways. He doesn’t believe in Lake Missoula and he has the dating all wrong. But his cult are blind to this, hence the writing below or above.
Antonio Zamora is another fascinating guy that has done a ton of research into the ice age geology of North America. There are some theories about a comet impact on the ice sheet towards the end of the last glacial maximum. There are thousands of elliptical depressions known as the Carolina bays that could be the result of huge chunks of ice being blasted across the continent due to the comet exploding on the ice sheet.
I once traveled from western Oregon to visit cousins in tri-cities in Washington, and deliberately took not the fastest route but one that would take me through obvious features from these floods (though at the time I don't recall talk of multiple floods). It's impressive when you know what to look for!
BTW, that waterfall is worth a visit!
There's no such thing as a mediocre waterfall, all are wonderfully amazing
Now when I drive to Seattle, I can't help but imagine myself traveling the path of this great flood. Really really interesting history, and also thank you for exploring eastern Washington. This for some reason gives me an ego boost coming from the east myself (specifically the rolling hills)
Really cool reading comments from all our fellow PNWers !! Pretty awesome to think about what this part of the world might have looked like thousands of years ago. And the giant faunal that
roamed the land.
Now, do a story about the day Lake Bonneville burst it's walls, emptying the Great Basin. My home lies on land that once was underwater, yet more than 1000' above the bottom of Lake Bonneville.
Nick Zenter did a video on it.
@@sophierobinson2738, yes, as have others.
@besmart - 2022-10-11
This ancient flood was so bad, it caused an emergent sea
Thanks for watching! See if you can post a better flood or geology dad joke below 🤓
@eg_manifest510 - 2022-10-11
you're not the best comedian, but I guess all geologists have their faults
@ronsamborski6230 - 2022-10-11
I think that those floods were guilty of basalt and battery! 😊
@LuisSierra42 - 2022-10-11
I read about this in the manga, The Bible
@rubiks6 - 2022-10-11
How is it that geologists don't see this same sort of event as creating the Grand Canyon?? (Sorry. Not a joke.)
@nerd_alert927 - 2022-10-11
What did Gold say to Pyrite?
You're a fool and a fake.