Take a video trip while sitting at your computer to learn more about the Ice Age Floods and geology in general, and get some ideas for planning your next field trip? These videos provide an amazing amount of useful and educational information that can help you better understand and plan your trips to see these things in person. And there are even more videos being added regularly to our Ice Age Floods Institute YouTube Playlists
Missoula Flood Rhythmites
Lake Missoula filled many times and emptied catastrophically in many Missoula Floods. Rhythmite sequences [a series of repeated beds of similar origin] at numerous localities provide this evidence: slack-water rhythmites in backflooded tributary valleys below the dam indicate multiple floods, … Read more…
Grant’s Getaways – Oregon’s Erratic Rocks
This episode of Grant’s Getaways features Lower Columbia President Rick Thompson and the Floods-borne erratics of the Willamette Valley Read more...
Nova – Mystery of the Mega Flood
Monument Valley, the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls: these ancient wonders show how nature’s forces have shaped the face of our planet on a vast timescale, how great landmarks are the work of millions of years of slow, imperceptible erosion by … Read more…
Williams Lake Cataract Video
Williams Lake Cataract is an ancient, dry waterfall left behind along the Cheney-Palouse Scabland Tract in eastern Washington after Ice Age flooding recessionally ripped out underlying basalt to produce this massive cataract. Video produced by Bruce Bjornstad, Ice Age Floodscapes Read more...
Drone Footage Of Icelandic Lava River
Lake Of Fire: Drone Footage Of Icelandic Lava River 1:46 mins A drone camera flies over a red hot lava lake in freezing cold Iceland and nearly melts in the process. The everchanging rivers of glowing lava shining through the … Read more…
Ice Age Flood Simulation Video
An interesting, 4 minute captioned video from UC Santa Cruz (ingomar200) of a satellite-view computer simulation illustrating flood paths and transient lakes of an Ice Age Flood. The video shows a physics-based computer simulation of the Great Flood from Glacial Lake Missoula … Read more…
Hydraulic Modeling of a Missoula Flood
Chris Goodell’s 1-hour video presentation of his Ice Age Flood hydraulic modeling is both enlightening and thought provoking. Chris is a hydraulic modeling professional for Kleinschmidt Group, whose personal interest in the Ice Age Floods phenomenon led him to privately … Read more…
6 New ‘Nick On The Rocks’ Episodes
6 new short episodes of ’Nick On The Rocks’ aired on PBS this past winter! Each of these gems are short enough to be taken in by even the busiest of us, and yet have enough information to whet the … Read more…
Columbia Gorge Geology in 22:22 Minutes
This video by Tom Foster and Nick Zentner about the Columbia River Gorge features an incredible variety of geology and human history as it slices through the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest. The Columbia River Basalts, the Missoula Floods, … Read more…
Ice Age Floods Touchet Bed Rhythmites
The Touchet Beds at Burlingame Canyon, White Bluffs, and Granger, WA are stacked lake deposits (rhythmites) from temporary lakes that formed as Ice Age Flood waters backed up behind the hydraulic dam constriction at the narrow Wallula Gap. Sediment thicknesses and … Read more…
Ice Age Floods – Giant Current Ripples
Check out this 2-Minute Geology expedition with Nick Zentner and Tom Foster exploring the Giant Current Ripples at West Bar and Camas Prairie. Ice age floodwater 650 feet deep – moving at 65 miles per hour – left Giant Current … Read more…
Killer Floods – A New Nova Video on PBS
Discover how colossal floods transformed the ancient landscape. All over the world, scientists are discovering traces of ancient floods on a scale that dwarfs even the most severe flood disasters of recent times. What triggered these cataclysmic floods, and could … Read more…
Uncovering a Columbian Mammoth
There’s a Columbian Mammoth hiding out in Coyote Canyon down Kennewick way, and MCBONES Research Center Foundation is working to uncover his/her hiding place. For a small contribution you can tour this hide-and-seek site, or you can volunteer to help … Read more…
A Short Dry Falls Video
David McWalter, Interpretive Ranger for Washington State Parks, shares a brief video panorama of the spectacular Dry Falls feature in the middle of the Grand Coulee. It gives a sense of the sweep of the landscape, but no video can … Read more…
Glacial Lake Missoula – A Portrait
In this video Tom Davis flies you back some 13,000 years ago to see and hear what the landscape of Glacial Lake Missoula might have looked and sounded like. A virtual recreation of the magical ice-age lake and its catastrophic … Read more…
Glacial Lake Missoula
This feature-filled video by Tom Foster and Nick Zentner explores the evidence for Glacial Lake Missoula, and provides a treasure trove of places to visit and sights to see when you plan your field trip to the area. Read more...
Ice Age Floods’ Features
This is an amazing compilation of extra ordinary photographs that have been expertly labeled to assist the viewer’s understanding of the evidence supporting the creation of the Channelled Scablands in Eastern Washington State, USA. The photographs are panned and zoomed … Read more…
Nick Zentner – More Geology Videos
Are you looking for new geology videos? Nick Zentner has done a long series live geology lectures from his home in Ellensburg and posted them online to his YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/GeologyNick/videos He is now recording a series of “Nick on … Read more…
Pillow Basalt and Palagonite – Lava Flowing into Water
Pillow basalt and palagonite are the result of lava flowing into water. We have a striking example in the Columbia River Gorge at the intersection of Hwy 30 and US 197 at the east end of The Dalles. This video gives … Read more…
Bonneville Flood Video
Shawn Willsey recently put together an overview presentation on the Bonneville flood that he wanted to share with IAFI. Shawn is an active and energized Professor of Geology at College of Southern Idaho in the department of Engineering, Physical and … Read more…
Lava + Ice + Water = Floods Geology
Floods of lava (Columbia River Basalts) and Ice Age Floods of water (Lake Missoula floods and the Bonneville Flood) are world-famous topics among geologists. To have both sets of floods in the same area means the geology of the Inland … Read more…
Frenchman Coulee Drone Video
Bruce Bjornstad is at it again with his awesome Ice Age Floodscapes drone videos, this one from Frenchman Coulee. Watch it below and visit his Ice Age Floodscapes YouTube channel.for many more. Read more...
PacNW Geology Videos – Nick Zentner
Do you want to learn about the fascinating general geology of the Pacific Northwest? Well, perhaps the easiest and one of the most ways to do that is to watch some of the many videos Nick Zentner and his film … Read more…
The Great Blade – Bruce Bjornstad Video
“…there were a few double falls each member of which receded at approximately the same rate, so that the island in mid-channel became very much elongated, like a great blade, as the falls receded and the canyons lengthened.” J Harlen … Read more…
West Bar Giant Current Ripples
Massive current ripples and dunes cover the surface of the West Bar pointbar. These unusual, huge current ripples deposited by Ice Age floods in eastern Washington are probably the largest and best example of giant current ripples on Earth. Video … Read more…