Nick Zentner, an awesome geology instructor at Central Washington Univ., has kept quite busy since Covid curtailed his in-person lectures and professional video productions with a series of home-made videos exploring a broad range of geologic topics. Each of his engaging “Nick from Home” series last Spring went in-depth for an hour or more into a plethora of topics he briefly covered in his earlier “Nick On The Rocks” and other short videos. This Fall he decided to explore and learn more about the exotic terranes of the Pacific NW in another series of engaging at-home videos.
These “Nick at Home” videos are not exactly elaborate productions. They are generally about an hour long and livestreamed with a cell phone to his YouTube channel where the y are recorded as videos and available for others to discover. His ‘aw shucks’ demeanor has garnered fans from around the world, many of whom get online at all hours of their day or night just to watch Nick talk and digress about geology.
Do you want to know about Baja BC, how whole blocks of the earth’s crust that originally formed in Mexico found their way to underlie a large part of the Pacific NW? Nick has videos about that. How about how giant mudflows roared down a flank of Mt. Rainier and now underlie much of Tacoma, Washington. Yep, Nick has videos about that too. Or maybe something about gold in the Pacific NW. Well, you get the idea.
Nick has just completed 26 videos exploring the ‘Exotic Terranes of the Pacific NW”, one for each letter of our alphabet. These livestream presentations are not rehearsed, Nick just takes his experience from 30+ years of teaching geology to not only teach about the subject, but also to get you wanting to understand and interested in what he is presenting. If you haven’t discovered Nick you’ve got a treat in store. And if you have discovered him, he is always offering something more to whet your geologic appetite.
Here’s Nick’s YouTube channel gateway link so you can explore the geologic wonder-world of Nick Zentner. We hope you enjoy it.