‘Nick From Home’ Livestream #61 - Spokane Geology

well good evening everybody welcome to Ellensburg Washington USA the local time is 548 p.m. here on the west coast of North America and we will begin our program called Spokane geology at the top of the hour at 6 o'clock 12 minutes from now how's everybody doing tonight hello Karen Robert thank you for the report audio and video is good nice to see that liz is upstairs doing Pilates but we will assume that the Wi-Fi is gonna be a friend to us tonight you bet we're checking in making sure this is working properly we're also kind of saying hi to each other making sure things are good in your world hello John thanks for all the information I haven't had a chance to reply to you great to hear what's going on up there mark in Arizona hello Washington DC the hockey fan is checking in lots of comment scrolled very quickly there thanks for the report loud and clear focused kenneth's from orcas island Wisconsin Rapids ah the memories Wisconsin Rapids I had an absolutely crazy and wild roommate college roommate from Wisconsin Rapids I can still hear his screams in my ears go Packers oh yeah them guys are looking good this year oh geez Rodgers hello Rob if you're new to us and you're confused why we're not beginning weekend we begin these about 10 minutes or so early just to visit so if you're watching this and replay for him go ahead and scrub ahead ten minutes and we'll begin the program but it's it's still about 10 minutes to 6 let's look at the schedule for the week Oh daddy just spilled his box of markers I got a lot of stuff out in the grass here and the wind of course just picked up so I've got everything anchored down but lots lots to look at and get the chalkboard police make sure that they're happy okay so tonight we're talking about Spokane geology and tomorrow night George Beck who's a petrified wood expert was a petrified wood expert a hundred years ago and I have made contact with his grandson who lives still in Yakima and will explore the history of George Beck we did a little bit of that a couple months ago but I've got a few tricks up my sleeve for tomorrow night George back Thursday night starting from scratch I don't know I guess I'll start Thursday morning guy named Bob sent me some amazing links to the geologic work done by Israel Russel so we're back to more than a hundred years ago the early days of wash and statehood and some amazing geologic work done by Israel Russell so I'm particularly excited to dig into that thank you Bob for the links Saturday morning hope the weather holds we'll be outdoors that's the valley that I live in Kittitas Valley Oh son of a gun we're getting some Sun which means we're gonna we're gonna get the dancing oak again all right I can handle that and then speaking of starting from scratch I've got some homework to do I've always meant to present somewhere on paleomagnetism because it keeps coming up so it's good for me to learn new things we've had a particularly windy week and somebody turned off the wind machine last night in the middle of the night and then it's been raining most of the day but somebody turned the rain machine off so everybody is out and about a lot of walkers a lot even when it's it may sound weird but when it's super windy here it's not even pleasant to go out and walk a whole lot so very pleasant evening here if that Sun stays out I'm gonna shed a couple layers still doing okay hello Patrick good to see you and mother Teresa mother Teresa worried I know I steal my mugs from my wife she's the one that has an eye for good mugs so it's a communal coffee mug cabinet so I help myself I don't even ask I don't even ask Patrick haven't been in trouble too much yet a couple of thank-yous without a piece of mail from Spokane Consuelo in Spokane she sent me this DVD so we'll see tonight that we're going to be talking about Spokane but using a number of things that we've already discussed in in past sessions so we had a Bing Crosby session so we'll we'll touch on Bing again tonight Thank You Consuela for that this book that I did not know existed short nights of the shadow catcher short nights of this shadow catcher talking about a photographer named Edward Curtis and his brother they had some bad blood famous author by the way so I guess I need to I've been meaning to talk about that too I always call him Curtis but Consuela corrected me on the pronunciation what did you say here actually to see if we can get a consensus I really like Asheville Curtis but the pronunciation according to Consuelo is a jewel long a and a soft J so I'll practice in the mirror a jewel you give me a thumbs up if that's the way to do it I'm from Wisconsin I still have manure on my boots I mean what do I know orange jell-o right Patrick so Thank You Consuela for the book in the DVD I especially use the book in short order and pure the animator in Boston has been scheming we're not doing any cosy fort tonight but I do want to share with you a little mock version of a very short little animation Pierre has been a fan of our live streams and he's kind of thinking how he can kind of lend his talents to what we do so this is a little silent movie but you might enjoy it sorry Patrick there it is there will be some muffler boys tonight Pierre thanks for making that no idea how you do it how do he do it it seems like we got a little extra delay here tonight for some reason in the comments but I'm so I'm seeing you react to that right now when I watch these in replayed the the comments are pretty much real-time so it's a little easier to watch I wonder what that's all about alright easily I easily have 25 different items here in the grass so freewheeling tonight man I got I got a plan the Europeans are fast asleep except for a few that might have a little insomnia hello Natalie from Portland it's nice to check in with you yesterday Beaverton Oregon yeah makes sense you know these weeknights is kind of a slightly different crowd just because of the time zone we got some Spokane people oh we got a Switzer in the crowd somebody from Switzerland's awake oh yeah huh I don't know what that was about hello Belgium I saw that weird buffering which I'm not fond of so I need to quick check in with you and then we'll I'll do my little meditative walk here for a minute we doin okay don't like that word buffering are we okay okay Linda Anchorage how long Florida boy delay delay delay 10 10 10 10 10 no buffer five by five okay great give me a minute and we'll get started thank you that's we got some uh I want to get comfortable you get comfortable too well good evening everybody a pleasant good evening to you thank you for joining us here in Ellensburg Washington USA I'm so glad you took the time to join us we have a nice evening here and our topic tonight is Spokane geology Spokane is a city in Washington and it's three hours away I mean I was just thinking about that today I get over to spare Spokane quite a bit I enjoy that city very much and I have many good memories of visiting there for a bloomsday or Hoopfest a bunch of stuff I got offered my first teaching job at a conference there at the convention center back in 1989 so there's a lot of lot of pleasant things that come back to me for Spokane but it's three hours away and I was just thinking if I if I drove north three hours from here I'd almost be to the border so what am i doing driving three hours east west all the time why don't I go north well not something we touched on in a while back so the point is I've been to Spokane enough I have enough contacts former students who are teaching there and other kind of geologists who have taught me over the years that I feel semi comfortable about the Spokane area and so I'm happy to pass along what I know as an outsider about the geology not only a Spokane proper but this kind of general region that you see on the on the chalkboard here we'll head over to Ritz Ville briefly we'll be up towards pend oreille Sand Point even over to Coeur d'Alene down to Pullman I'm not really sure where we're going but anyway I've got a bunch of potential ideas and to start with let me just pass along that as I was starting to kind of put together what I wanted to do with you tonight about Spokane III I was writing out stuff just kind of that came to my head and I thought well wait a minute I actually wrote all this out I wrote a whole script actually for the Spokane area in the geology there and it bring back back some painful memories because my collaborator for many years Tom Foster who had a website called huge floods dot-com the last project we worked on together before his untimely demise and his sudden death a few months ago which we're still trying to wrap our minds around we're still kind of numb to it but we basically had a series called I 90 rocks and there's three installments of that that that exist on huge floods dot-com in other words those are the three episodes that were finished so the idea for I 90 rocks was to take video viewers on YouTube from I 90 starts I at all and drive driving all the way to Spokane and my job was to write out a script for each of the legs in the journey so we had a Ellensburg segment we had a Vantage segment we had a Moses Lake segment etc and he had all these amazing visuals so we did a Seattle show and Issaquah show and a Snoqualmie past show but we won't finish it so I went through some old emails with Tom and found some photos that he had attached to some emails talking about the progress so here's one photo that we're supposed to go in the Spokane segment where I'm looking at some metamorphic rock right up next to i-90 they're kind of close to the medical leg exit or the leg exit to Cheney basically so we can talk about this briefly but so anyway I'm not going to I'm not sure what's going to happen with all his photos and and and the rough drafts of things that we were putting together it's still too early to try to figure out what's going on with that but anyway my point is not to be a downer to begin with but I've got some stuff already packaged from that work I was doing with Tom and before I forget when we were doing that he started an Instagram page and was posting photos like this so you can find on Instagram he called it huge floods on Instagram there's just a few posts but here's looking at some amazing pillow basalts at pitcher and bowl is that what it's called or bowl and pitcher pretty close down along the river just downriver from downtown Spokane amazing pillows and the priest Rapids lava and then many of you know that there are almost unbelievably perfect basaltic columns by the Spokane Airport and so somehow we're going to weave the basalt that's there in Spokane into our discussion today let's inside got the laptop open here's a photo that I just found I snapped of Tom at that saying these are the best pillow basalts I've ever seen and Tom read up on bowl and pitcher and we hiked in there it's not much of a hike really but that was going to be a featured part of our Spokane episode okay I'm getting sad now so we're gonna change the topic okay so what am I going to do with you tonight what did I write out in that script if I want to boil down all the amazing geology in the Spokane area can we get it down to just a couple of bite-sized things I think we can here's our road map for tonight he goes to the whiteboard so there is a pretty impressive variety of geology bedrock geology in the Spokane area and you'll notice that we have dates over here in millions of years so of course many of you who are veterans of our program know about the 16 million year old basalts that's the German chocolate cake so there is German chocolate cake at Spokane there's some plant fossils that are in some silt stones that are slightly older but also interbedded with the basalts there are some older Granite's between a hundred and seventy million years old Cretaceous basic we back during the age of the dinosaurs and then there's also in the Spokane Washington area some bedrock that's more than a billion years old one thousand million is the same as 1 billion right and so there's some metamorphic rocks from the earliest days of the Pacific Northwest plus some Ice Age floods and there's some major Ice Age floods stuff to discuss here so I'll keep coming back to this but I think my renewed my loose plan is to kind of work our way from bottom to top and maybe I can say it this way in many people's minds geology is just this like you open a text book and you see this is a stratigraphic column and there are some unconformity x' representing a huge loss in time between these units and you know what I don't you write them down and then you memorize them and then you regurgitate them out of test is that what geology is not to me this is just the beginning you know what I like to do I like to take each of these rock units and tell a story with them and I want to do that in a relatively short amount of time so that we have time for your live question and answers and we have some Spokane people who may be our absolute monsters with Spokane geology in other words they know a lot and we can kind of learn from each other because again I live three hours away but let's do the main story for each of these if you are a veteran of these backyard sessions you kind of already know what I'm about to say but let's let's try to do it quickly we start with these oldest rocks why are they here and what is the main story of the Spokane area more than 1 billion years ago well that's the supercontinents live stream that we did whatever three weeks ago five weeks ago time has kind of I'll blend it together in most of our minds so when I look at that very old Precambrian metamorphic rock and it pops up at Steptoe butte Precambrian metamorphic rock it pops up at areas closer to spokane and you're like where where where I don't know Hauser Lake you see this is a veteran move I wrote down so place names for myself because I don't know many of these places house it'll ache huh that photo off i-90 at the exit Medical Lake there's some good metamorphic rock there some nygma tighter some kind of some swirled nice so we're talking about nice and quartzite and argillite what is the main story from those old metamorphic rocks well here we go so let's take a moment soak this in I'm drawing you a picture actually a lot of people who grew up in Eastern Washington say pitcher I'm growing I'm drawing you a pitcher of John Stockton South Spokane aka Spokane and Australia has arrived from the West and backed up right into John Stockton's backyard and for hundreds of millions of years I'm not making this up those Precambrian metamorphic rocks tell us this story if you look at the court side and step to a Butte you look at that metamorphic rock next to the medical eggs eggs exit you looked at the belt supergroup in western Montana it's all telling this story that there was another continent right next to Spokane and you're like well this doesn't make any sense Spokane isn't at the coast it was back then older than 750 million years ago there was no Pacific Ocean here in Australia not everybody buys Australia by the way it's still an open question the newest data says Australia some holdout still like Siberia next to John Stockton south some like South China next to John Stockton South some even like Australia I mean sorry Antarctica but the point is we have a lot of evidence in the Pritchard formation and other specific key units that Andy buddington at Spokane community college knows very well tells us a story about a continent parked right at Spokane and then starting 750 million years ago that rock started to back away now we're just getting rolling with the geology but since I'm talking about John Stockton's house and some of you might be confused I don't know if you saw our last livestream it was Sunday morning I had just gotten some mail on Saturday we were about to talk about the San Andreas Fault and I was doing my little thank-yous and I showed this it was a piece of mail from John Stockton's house in Spokane Washington and the joke is for years i've instead of saying spokane i've said john Stockton's house because i I like the way he conducts his life just us just as a distant observer he said he's a major guy major celebrity career assistant and steals leader in the NBA all the NBA and yet he goes home and just leads a normal life in Spokane so this seems out of character for such a private reserved guy but I haven't heard from anybody since Saturday saying that they punked me ha ha ha you fell for it it's not John Stockton it's me a douche so I may be up to 75% that this is a real thing I'm allowing myself to believe that John Stockton heard about us thank you okay I want to keep going with the story that's docked ins house we separate Australia we start opening the Pacific Ocean and then do you remember our other whiteboard we gotta wait patiently hundreds of millions of years for the next bedrock unit in the Spokane area do you see how much time is missing here do you see how many stories we've been cheated out of that's kind of how things work in geology we only have a fraction of the rock record of a liqueur ting geologic time available to us all we can rely on are just the scraps of records that we can find most of the stories are lost ok so we go ahead to the Cretaceous the dinosaur time and we have significant Granite's where let's read together the seven mile area I don't know where that is the oh sorry sorry sorry sorry where can I find the granite that's Cretaceous and age Mount Spokane a major landmark north of Spokane the Dishman Hills just south of i90 those are two places you might have some others if you're a Spokane person can you type in a few other places where you know we have Cretaceous Granite's to observe what's the story of the Cretaceous Granite's do you know veteran person do you know veteran person why would we have a bunch of Granite's in the Cretaceous in the Spokane area what story could be told there I'll do it very quickly this is going back to the first live stream I did out here on st. Patrick's Day it also goes back to a Pacific Northwest tectonics live stream I did in the front porch maybe two weeks ago Idaho arc a volcanic arc a line of volcanoes and so now this is a time where we actually do have an ocean plate muffler boy called the Kula plate ocean plate subducting beneath North America and there was a line of volcanoes much like today's Cascades but back between a hundred and seventy million years old so that granite both north and south of downtown Spokane are ghosts volcanoes in other words Granite's that were the Magma's that we're feeding those cones that used to stand at Spokane back when the Cooley used to subduction oohs have shut off and you know what happens next if you know that lecture we have good evidence now that instead of the cooler plate subducting forget the dates now can I remember them off the top of my head I guess between about 60 and 40 I can't remember now between 60 and 40 million years ago there was a spreading ridge that was subducting making the chalice Magma's that were younger and then we add a bunch of terrains in Baja BC and we bring the Cascades to their present location so you're like boy that went by quick I don't know what you're talking about well you know what is this live stream 61 how many hours are we talking about total so I need to refer to things occasionally like we've been in class you and I for a whole academic term plus more now by the way it's finals week this week here at Central virtual finals week and so we've been at this a while I need to cut start time kind of referring back to things we've already talked about assuming you've seen it okay what am i doing I'm marching up through the stratigraphic column talking about basic rock stories so we had the old shoreline of North America back during the Precambrian the edge of the continent was that stock John Stockton's house then we flash-forward to less than 100 million years ago that's gets younger than Pangaea and we had big beautiful Mount Rainier like volcanoes and you're like really where was the Mount Rainier Mount Spokane oh really Mountain Spokane used to be a volcano no Mount Spokane is made out of the granite that used to be molten and feeding the cone that used to stand there okay now we're flashing too much younger days we're jumping to the middle part of the myosin epoch the mid myosin there was a climatic optimum at the time it was warm not quite as warm as 56 million years ago but it was still warm enough globally to have these hot humid fossils that have been found most famously at a place called Clark eeeh do you know Clark eeeh I had to look up Clark eeeh an hour ago on Google Earth I got tipped off of a couple of the local quarry owners that they've seen some of the programs and invited me over and I very much appreciate that I'm not a huge fossil guy but I want to go over there and take a look at those Clark e of fossils but they're just representative of the Latah formation so if you go in the hangman valley you go to a couple other places locally directly in Spokane you can get into these silt stones or some sands there's some clays but it's representing a time where there are lots of plant fossils and that same set of plant fossils can be found all through Washington tomorrow we'll talk about the ginkgo Petrified Wood same general time is what we're talking about right here even the plant fossils up at Coulee Dam same general story same general beds okay now we go to something that we know quite well the basalts now we've talked about the German chocolate cake a fair amount it's been awhile though let's remind ourselves of a couple basic things Once Upon a Time kids 16 million years ago there were a series of impressive fractures fissures we call them these black lines and those fissures produced crazy amounts of Hawaiian like orange lava and the abyss all it's called the Columbia River basalts my favorite name is the German chocolate cake because it's three miles thick in places started flooding the inland Pacific Northwest and pushed the Columbia River to a crazy course that most of it doesn't downstream of Wenatchee it doesn't do this anymore but upstream of Wenatchee it's still doing that today the point is look at Spokane we're right at the edge we're right at the edge of the Columbia River basalts so if you go to Spokane fall as the actual Falls right downtown you know it's pretty pretty amazing especially in springtime right down there where the old World's Fair Grounds of 1974 you know Hoopfest turn the whole downtown into three three on three tournament played in it coached in it great time there's one particular flow that's a little bit younger called the priest Rapids flow that came across and did approach Spokane and screwed up some drainage there to create those Clark iya plant fossil beds but my main point is its most of the Grand Ronde lavas the main phase lavas that approached Spokane from the south from the southwest and those lavas started burying a landscape that we're bringing the Columbia River basalts during Grand Ronde times 16 million years ago from the southwest and that love is getting to Spokane and even getting a little further north of Spokane let's look more carefully at where the edge of the German chocolate cake is in the Spokane area I'm fond of these maps I'm sure you can find a digital copy as well from Washington Geological Survey used to call it used to be called Washington Department of Natural Resources so there are these quadrant maps so you take the state of Washington split it into quarters and this is the northeastern quarter and there's all sorts of text in here and chemistry and everything else but their summary map showing structures and other things does a nice job and showing us what we've done so far in this live stream Spokane is here okay so the brown is our German chocolate cake so you can see how that Spokane and how you go south of Spokane it's it's a big giant cow pie there's nothing to look at save for a few little places now here's part of the old Precambrian coastline that used to be kissing Australia and then our pinks whether there are a dark pink or a light pink are some of our Granite's from the Idaho Hart arc and then also the chalice Magma's that we're talking about so back from this point of view I hope you can just see first of all if you've never seen a geologic map the colors are different kinds of rocks and different ages of rocks and my point is think of all the complex geology exotic terrains old shoreline of old North America think of how much of that is beneath this German chocolate cake it's down there but we can't see it because there was enough basalt to cover things 16 million years ago with just a few step toes poking their necks up above the basalt I've got a cartoon I want to show you now that introduces a key point I hope you're enjoying this I think that I think the thing I'm most excited to share with you tonight is one key concept with the ice age floods so I'm looking forward to getting there but we're kind of laying the groundwork for that I've showed you this once before people are very generous and especially if they all have old kind of prized things they they gift them to me so I'm very grateful so I've forgotten I'm sorry who sent me this this is an old publication by Fred Jones copyright 1947 he's basically the Coulee Dam from Hell to breakfast so I'm not at Spokane now we're over at Coulee Dam but the thing I want to show you his Fred must have been a very good illustrator and I love what he's done here he's showing our Granite's that we were just talking about that dominated the Spokane area up until 16 million years ago and then here comes the flood basalts and if you're a fan of studying Granite's and the stories that they tell you're not a big fan of the basalt and I guess vice-versa wait there's something else the point I want to make oh is that it hang on hang on hang on hang on Patrick yeah so this is still over at Grand Coulee but this could be very appropriate for a Spokane the the German chocolate cake pinches down to almost nothing in this Spokane area so yes I know we have the beautiful columns at the airport Spokane Airport and I know we have the amazing pillows train boy in downtown Spokane but it's not a three-mile thick German chocolate cake at Spokane that's a big point and you'll see why in just a bit but inter fingered with the basalts are some of those lake beds myocin lake beds that have the plant fossils within them okay so yes there's German chocolate cake but we're very thin we're right at the end of the flow and I meant to show you what that map I guess I'll do it here I meant to show you how far north the basalts get in the Spokane area here's that this is a another statewide geologic map of the state of Washington Spokane is that the tip of my finger here this is a bit more complicated now but the orange is the German chocolate cake and then the yellow is a bunch of loose we had a whole show on that the kitchen flour blown in on top but I want you to notice there is some German chocolate cake getting up pretty much close to show wheel I'd believe although I don't know that area as well as I could so the lavas didn't get right to Spokane and stop what am i setting you up for oh we're almost there a couple book recommendations to help flush things out I've already plugged this a number of times Marley Miller and Darrell Cowan the new edition of the roadside geology of Washington it is excellent and they have some excellent detail that you can plug into my general story I know I haven't shown you this one this is called Washington rocks by Eugene Keever who taught a full career at Univ Eastern Washington University and Chad Pritchard who is now at Eastern Washington University and Richard I'm sorry I don't know your story so this is kind of skipping around the state of Washington and going to specific sites and they just really have a page it's kind of almost like a coffee table type book so they've got a little page on Mount Spokane talking about the granite they've got a page of this boat the Dishman Hills and they're showing that a bunch of that granite was actually uplifted during the Eocene in other words during the chalice time that's called a core complex and we've talked about core complexes briefly during that Pacific Northwest session and while I'm at it just got this a friend of mine Rob Thomas over it Montana what's in Dillon Montana there's a brand new second edition of the roadside geology of Montana and they talk about the old Precambrian rocks they talk about those little floods of course and a number of other things so if you're an old-timer and you know these roadside books but you only know the yellow covered ones from 35 years ago they did great at the time but these new editions of these roadside books are such improvements as far as graphics to me that's a big part of this delivery is the images is the graphics is the maps that are that are created okay I think yeah 630 so um before I quit I want to do something here and I want to do something with the ice age so let's pause for dramatic effect Jr Harlen Bretz you heard of him we've had a number of programs on him let me give you a crash course if you haven't heard about him there was one guy one geologist named Jay Harlen Bretz University of Chicago he arrived in Spokane in 1922 he got off the train he had three science teachers in Spokane set him up for his first field season Thomas large Alonso trough Joseph McMann and all three of those guys taught science at Lewis & Clark High School in the 1920s and even earlier and those three high school teachers I want to learn more about are you watching this are you a Spokane person do you know how to get access to more history about those three names I just said there are a key part of this story because I am now convinced without any evidence by the way that those high school teachers my dad was a high school teacher my wife is a high school teacher I have a lot of respect they're smart people they know their local area as well those three high school teachers knew about the Ice Age floods I'm convinced of it by now and nothing is written about that brett's didn't give them any credit so you might go ah I don't I don't believe it then if Bryce didn't give any credit well so my point is we're going to get brett's into this area in 1922 and by 1930 he's written a half dozen or more scientific papers detailing all the evidence for these incredible cataclysmic floods of water coming from somewhere now first exciting thing I have for you Brett's had no trouble just in a couple of summers hot summers mapping channels like the Drumheller channels mapping the Grand Coulee mapping these places where there was evidence of lots and lots of water but Brett's had trouble mapping the Spokane area remember he's talking about the Ice Age now we're aware at the time we're up here now the rest of my session with you is is up here in the Ice Age less than two million years ago this these are truly loose rocks loose gravels and Brett's is like what's up with all these loose gravels and here's a map as late as 1928 where Brett's has the Canadian ice sheet over Spokane and the edge of the Spokane ice sheet as he called it south of Spokane and of course he had in pink here all of his Missoula flood channels and he didn't call it that he called it the Spokane flood so all through the 1920s Brett's was controversial because he was talking about something happening quickly sounded like a Bible guy to me he can't be a scientist if he's talking about a huge flood of water so say the established scientists of the day but Brett says all this amazing mapping down here Rhett's Veloz aus of ritz ville going down toward binge-watched ahkna hooper Palouse Falls all those places he did amazing work there but he didn't know where his water came from and his maps all through the 1920s had that Missoula had that Spokane flood water coming out from underneath the glacier and his mistake was and it wasn't just him Joseph Pardee was there also in 1922 from Montana a USGS guy and they thought those hills both north and south of Spokane were glacial till and they put that ice sheet there well by 1930 Brett's realizes that the source of this water is Montana and is not coming out from directly underneath this ice and in fact those hills and those prairies north and south of Spokane are not glacial till at all in fact let me read from one of his reports I just found this this afternoon and I had never really read it carefully I guess so this is from Brett's --is 1923 B paper if you're a fan of this it's his second 1923 paper and even his text here contradicts what his map just says I'm a little still confused on this J Harlen Bretz 1923 because the record of the ice sheet from which came the streams that made the scablands is best preserved on the basalt plain about the city of Spokane and all along the south side of Spokane River this has been named the Spokane glaciation then he starts talking about different vintages of the ice more than one Ice advance and then he says for the absence of a terminal moraine along the southern edge of the area reached by the Spokane Ice Sheet the writer has the writer himself has as yet no satisfactory explanation it seems clear however that a moraine never was deposited rather than it was some once built and subsequently removed I got to read that again it seems clear however that a moraine a glacial moraine never was deposited rather than that it was once built and subsequently removed that's awkward for me the functioning of some scablands racks absolutely required glacial ice against the North slopes of the unglaciated hills to their heads floated granite or attics among some of these hills also require blocking of valleys of glacial ice the puzzling set you upon situation regarding glacial drainage exists in the vicinity of the small spangle lobe well there was something else I wanted to read for you here here a previous geologist has in 1912 suggested that uh spree Spokane till beneath lusts at Cheney is of an older age if it is and if the post Spokane glaciation is correctly ascribed to the latest advance the Spokane glaciation should be a little bit older in age farther than this the writer does not care to go ordinary criteria in use east of the Rocky Mountains for differentiation of Dera of drift sheets cannot safely be used for the correlation of these glaciations in Washington the only one relied on here is the moraine building habit of the Wisconsin ice sheet a character which seems to have been worldwide so he's struggling with maybe more than one ice advance but he's really struggling where was the actual ice and where did the ice not reach he never found a moraine and yet he had this glacier this far south now we can go to 1960 you remember the Brett story he's not accepted until the 1970s essentially by everybody so even an old geologic map of Washington I've used for years stuff's gonna start flying away don't don't be too distracted by it I'll find it 1960 here's Spokane and the blue dashed line edge of the glacial ice they put a dash there like I don't know was the ice here so this is easily four decades after Brett's did his amazing work about ice age flood deposits and ice age floods and even glacial lake Missoula is the source and yet these guys from the state of Washington are ignoring Brits and just saying that the ice god as far south as Marshall South to Spokane all right enough screwing around let's get to the cool thing here's the cool thing do you know the Spokane area our youngest boy went to University of Montana so we were back and forth all the time oh no the i-90 drive quite well but if you've gotten off of i-90 at Spokane and have you done this drive from Spokane to Rathdrum I think we have a viewer from Rathdrum who usually checks in so if a few of you happen to know that drive everything under my hand is amazingly flat this whole area is amazingly flat and yet Brett's is talking about a Spokane flood in other words something isn't quite working out here why do we have like even today we say the Missoula floods came like this and they came through this narrow chute and John Stockton's house is right in the middle of this firehose why doesn't Spokane look like the Grand Coulee why don't we have towering walls and a flat floor I mean we've got basalt in the area if this is where the high energy water is screaming through and screaming right over Spokane why don't we think about Missoula floods at all I don't I'm a geologist in Washington I don't think of the Ice Age floods when I'm walking bloomsday I'm 65 to 80 you think I'm gonna run 26 miles give me a break walking was my move okay here's what I have for you if this works for you visually let me give you something just simply off of Google Maps Spokane is here here's this incredibly flat area from Spokane all the way up to Lake Pend Oreille now as a geology student I would hope you would look at this and go something's not right here look at how way I'm not flipping you off look at how wrinkling is here look at how wrinkly it is here look at how rugged the topography is in other words why does the rugged stuff just stop and why is it so baby skin smooth through there this is called the Rathdrum Prairie I'm talking about the Rathdrum Prairie and you might go well it's not that hard is it you just said that the the ice dam was here the I didn't say it but I think you know the Missoula floods had a huge ice dam and then they're fine there was enough water in Montana to break through the ice dam and this water is going 60 miles an hour easily down along this arrow and you might go well isn't this just a case where all that wrinkly stuff was just blasted away by the water and the answer is actually no what you're looking at is a deposit there's fast water for sure here's what we're burning out here's what we broke the ice dam in northern Idaho and here's this shotgun of water coming down to John Stockton's house but what I'm getting at is that there's 600 feet of gravels that were dumped into this area it's a deposit even though the water is moving very very fast you're dumping a bunch of Montana and northern Idaho rocks into this whole valley 600 feet of this stuff and the thing that I'm so excited about is that if you really know the area these black things are Lakes Spokane people can probably help us name some of these lakes that one that one I can't read backwards and then I've been labeled on this one they're like Newman Lake and Spirit Lake and a bunch of others even Lake Coeur d'Alene do you know why those lakes are there there used to be rivers that flowed in to this main river valley but all this belching of gravels 600 feet of gravels dumped into this valley and dammed each one of these rivers and it's no accident then that we have lakes along the margin isn't this cool I'll go back now that you understand the story you see the lakes now those are ice age lakes and you're like Oh ice age Lake so I guess what glacier was there in leg scoop no I'm saying these are all rivers that came in from the margins that were dammed up by all those marbles that were dumped into the valley floor I think that's amazing so I have one more sketch that I did in sharpie this isn't it but I'm gonna remind you one more time then I've got a thing that I drew in the sharpie which shows what I just told you the wrath from Prairie and the gravels that were dumped quickly on top of the Spokane Valley but also I've tried to put into my sharpie illustration these guys as well and a little bit more realistic way to view it and then we'll go to your questions no cozy for tonight so one more time what we started with photos that remain in rough draft form on Tom's computer this is the Precambrian rock along i-90 but if we do the Precambrian metamorphic rock the cretaceous Granite's the german chocolate cake and the ice age floods I stole this from Andy buddington he has a little short little roadside his little Spokane geology lesson online this I liked his cartoon here so I've embellished it a little bit let me give you a second to soak this in north to south across the Spokane Valley mount Spokane to the north of Spokane itself Dishman hills to the south of i90 we actually do have a that Spokane now this is me taking a little bit of artistic license I don't think we have the imagery to really see this Grand Coulee like walls but to me it makes sense that when we bring these huge Ice Age floods through here there's so much energy with the floods multiple floods we must have hauled a bunch of that basalt out of there and then in the place of this Grand Coulee quote-unquote Spokane cool if we're making up things we're gonna adopt this I'm not kidding now 600 feet of gravels and boulders and sand but it's mostly as I understand it real cobble II stuff and maybe we have some farmers from the raft drum prairie or somebody who can tell us about the details of that but there's a great aquifer at the bottom of that for drinking water in the Spokane area it's all tied to these Ice Age gravels that came in so this is my best attempt to summarize graphically our individual little chapters that we were talking about before Australia time Idaho arc time I guess I left off the plant fossil beds now that I think about it German chocolate cake ice age gravels let's see if I have anything else before we go to you yes I do I have one more thing so if you were with us on Saturday morning that was a program from Wenatchee and I had a very memorable unforgettable person with me Randy Lewis Native American go watch that one if you didn't see it I know that you'll enjoy it I really I think you'll really you won't forget it and because of the kindness and generosity and abilities of Randy I'm now thinking much more about Native American stuff you know I really thought much about Native Americans just based on my upbringing not proud of it just the way it is but I got an email from Sharon this morning at 11 o'clock and I want to read it to you I Nick I've enjoyed your live streams blah blah blah I live in Wenatchee when you had Randy Lewis on last Saturday what a great program I was reminded about what I had found about Bret's and a possible exposure to Native American legends about the Spokane floods that I have speculated might have helped trigger his interest in our region so here's a whole nother approach to dealing with Bret showing up in 1922 he was invited out to do some mapping by the high school teachers but possibly Brett's had floods in his brain by being introduced to this Native American account of Ice Age floods in Spokane and I don't know Sharon I don't know how credible this is no offense Sharon by I'm just gonna read what she said to me and it sounds like she's working on some kind of book on passing along an excerpt about Breck's and the flood Spokane flood story from a book I'm writing good luck with your John Stockton house life all right so here's her passage first paragraph talks about Brett's who he was second paragraph what's what is interesting to note is that the Native Americans of the Columbia Plateau already knew about the great floods that reached such havoc with their homeland and this story was passed down orally generation after generation for literally thousands of years the native story was finally written down by Colville Indian agent Richard glider and read to the Spokane Historical Society in the late 1800s over 20 years before brett's came to the Spokane area did brett's hear of this native tale of flooding prior to their form formulating his theory what we do know is that Bret centered his initial fieldwork in the 1920s around the Spokane area and went so far as to call at first called the phenomenon the spokane flood here is the ancestors tale as told to guerre deer by chief lot a long time this is chief lot now speaking about this oral tradition he's been told a long time ago the country around where Spokane Falls are now and for many days journey east of it was a large and beautiful lake in the lake were many islands and on its shores were many villages with many people the Indians were well fed and happy for there were plenty of fish in the lake and plenty of deer and elk in the country around it excuse me for just a second there was a lake glacial lake Columbia sat over Spokane and we have dozens of glacial lake Missoula events and when we break the ice dam that water plows into a temporary Ice Age lake called glacial Lake Columbia so we do have Ice Age lake beds to back up to intersect with the story from chief lot but one summer morning this is back to the chief lots Native American tradition but one summer morning the people were startled by a rumbling and a shaking of the earth the waters of the lake rose soon the waves became mountains of water that broke with fury against the shore then the Sun was blotted out and darkness covered the land and the water terrified that people ran to the hills to get away from the pounding water for two days the earth rumbled and quaked and then a rain of ashes began to fall it fell for several weeks at last the ashes stopped falling the waters of the lake became quiet and the Indians came down from the hills but soon the lake began to disappear dry land rose where the water had been many people died for there was nothing to eat the game animals had run away when the people fled to the hills and no one dared go out on the lake to fish some of the water was flowing westward from the lake that remained the people followed it until they came to a waterfall soon they saw a salmon coming up the new river from the big river west of them so they built a village beside the waterfall in the new river and made it their home back to Sharon in her book apparently it took decades of geologic fieldwork to establish what the Native Americans already knew there was an ancient vast lake in the vicinity east of Spokane that was drained catastrophic Lee by a great flood there was a massive glacier peeped ephra eruption and some other conflagration about this time perhaps if scientists regard this story as an eyewitness account account they may also find correlating evidence of ash and tougher to support Native accounts that volcanism or conflagration also accompanied this event we have found some Glacier Peak ash in Montana it sits on top of those glacial lake Missoula beds but it's not out of the question from the evidence that we have so far she's got two final notes and then I turn it to you Bret's first published his theory in 1923 that's true a copy of good dears story about this bouquet flood as told to him by chief lot was printed in the washington historical quarterly in April 1907 Brett's was a high school teacher in Seattle from 1905 to about 1910 and then went to Chicago to earn his PhD in geology what and this is Sharon talking while I have been unable to discover the precise date that Guidera first learned this story chief Lott died in 1902 so it had to be prior to 1902 so thank you Sharon for that if we have you know that's one use of these live streams is to just kind of continue to learn and have experts chiming in so if you have leads on this I'd be very interested in following through on that and I actually emailed Randy a couple hours ago seeing if he had heard about chief lot let me check my we're gonna start our live Q&A go ahead and type in some use your upper case please to type in some questions but let me check my email quick see if Randy maybe Randy was checking with a couple relatives over in Spokane I know nothing from him Rob just sent an email about Spirit Lake Rob what do you got to say here's a picture of spirit lake hoodoo Valley North yeah now the email has been coming in fast and furious and there's a lot of great tips and a lot of great help and I appreciate all the help that people offer okay let's do some live Q&A it's 655 the winds still pretty strong grab my coat quick appreciate you joining us tonight I hope I hope I help to answer a few questions we'll see where you want to go here like and I might have a few extra things to offer I'll pop the chat out like a boss right between the eyes oh I'm a live chatter I know I'm not top chat I don't roll with top chat are you kidding me come on don't insult me like that Thomas could we say the water acted like a lahar that's an interesting thought Thomas thank you there's certainly plenty of sediment being carried in the water boulders being rolled ass over teakettle down the bottom of the flood path as we've talked about huge icebergs being carried in the top I mean it's quite a dynamic seen to that extent yeah thank you how did the ice gravel boulders get cleared out Michael well if we're talking about these guys Michael they're still there I mean there's wells for drinking water in the middle of the rafter on Prairie or Spokane Valley that go down 600 feet and those things were not scooped out of there by a younger event now the Spokane River I guess it's not over here right Spokane Rivers over here so it's cut down through some of the basalt and that's the different falls within the Spokane River course but we may be miscommunicating here Michael but I don't think they get close I got cleared out William could have moraine have been left behind a glacier but then washed away by the flood Brett's said he entertained that possibility but for some reason I don't know what his reasoning was he was sure that the moraine never was deposited there and it turns out it wasn't I if I didn't finish my story the maps were oh well I'll do it here so if Brett's made another team maybe he did make another map in the 60s I'm not sure but I I should do that I should look at Brett's later Maps he changed Oh God once Brett's was clear that the the Ice Age floodwater came from Montana and came through here then he he knew that there was never ice sitting on top of Spokane he didn't have evidence for that but he wanted this flood water to becoming underneath the ice and one of his rivals was Joseph Pardee who was in the room when Pardee was embarrassed greatly in 1927 back in Washington DC that's a whole nother story but there was bad blood apparently between Pardee and Brett's for much of their working careers by the way this is i-90 interstate 90 and I think many I may be wrong about this but I think many if they hear that missoula flood water was in glacial lake Missoula like Missoula Montana true and that incredible floods of Missoula flood water came over Spokane true I think people assume at least some of them do that that Missoula flood came right down i-90 like that's the drive it's a three-hour drive from Spokane to Missoula maybe you're thinking Missoula flood the whole way that's not true Lookout Pass is too high so the glacial lake Missoula water broke through up by Lake Pend Oreille it wasn't a straight shot from Missoula to Spokane it was Missoula up to Sandpoint Idaho and then down to Spokane Rodney is there a date connected to the pillow basalts located near john stockton south on i-90 the pillow basalts which i think are amazing are at bowl and pitcher maybe it's called river no I don't know the name of the little city park there just go to bowl and pitcher and that's that's a priest Rapids lava which is maybe fifteen point nine million years old Robert is the fossil record part of the evidence for Australia as the former partner of North America can you give some examples Thanks yeah I did um a live stream on supercontinents and I also did a formal YouTube lecture on supercontinents where we got through all that evidence I think I erased it but when Australia was connected to John Stockton's backyard we have evidence lots of it one of the main pieces of evidence are things called zircons little durable minerals and we have Australian zircons that were brought by rivers and deposited in Idaho and Montana and we have zircons that were originally in in Idaho and Montana that are now in Australia when the two continents were together their rivers going back and forth isn't that cool and we didn't have that zircon work originally we had attempts to match Precambrian bedrock types and try to find distinctive metamorphic rocks to match up Patrick aged six are those gravels in there after on Prairie sorted by size like in rivers where they deposited by the Ice Age floods or from the ice sheet thank you always good questions Patrick I'm drawing them here as pretty well sorted wouldn't you say Patrick like all these rocks are pretty much I made my little green circles about the same like kind of Charlie Brown dit you know but this is fast water there's no time to sort out the rocks so I can think of a few places just off of i-90 in the Spokane Valley where there are huge boulders and I fully I think there's huge go there's huge quarries right off of i-90 right there to do sand and gravel operations so there's sand there's boulders and there's these cobbles as well but it was all ice age floods Patrick no I say no ice sheet there no ice sheet all ice age floods just just a big BAM and that's just one event we had multiple foot maybe dozens of floods through there Eric any other native accounts of these ancient disasters will Randy be back you all loved Randy and I know why he's he's a terrific he's so gifted at what he does I'm just starting to learn Native American stories and I'm hoping to continue with Randy to learn what I can and of course he's just Central Washington he doesn't know as much about native stories from the coast let's say with Cascadia earthquakes etc but I've always meant to look into this but I never found the right person to open up that world and Randy's the guy for me for sure Samuel more info on the Spokane aquifer I got all I got for you man I'm sorry you know you drive a 990 through here especially east of downtown and there are these huge like watertower you're looking things I think they're like red and white checkerboard is that right those are the pumps I think I don't really know what I'm talking about now but that's that's getting that tapping into that aquifer those are related to getting the water out of that aquifer beyond that I'm sorry I don't know oh the neighbors are looking at me now a little strange I need to stop yelling Jack have the carbonized trees in the basalt near Spokane been dated I don't know I don't know about those carbonized trees you don't mean petrified wood I mean there's petrified wood tied to those basalt layers and if so they're dated at 16 million is there limestone in the Spokane area nothing comes to mind Mary you might know of some limestone there if it is it would be part of the the oldest Precambrian stuff but I'm not aware of that Richard is the belt supergroup still considered to be the protolith for the metamorphic surround Spokane yes you know how this goes there's all sorts of subdivisions of subdivisions of subdivisions as far as names and labels and everything else but it is totally appropriate let me show you let me find that quad again Richard all these graves and these purples our belt our Precambrian rocks that are pretty much the same bedrock story as all through western Montana yep I wasn't even worth going to that map I don't know why I did that okay so you're can you guys are confused about what I said about the ice sheet yes the ice sheet never got over Spokane Bret's mapped it that way originally but there's no evidence for ice ever being on top of Spokane I'm sorry if I gave you the wrong impression I thought it was interesting that his early maps from Pardee and Bret showed the Spokane ice crossing over Spokane but now that we understand that the Missoula floods ripped through there regularly there's no evidence for the ice that far south is there evidence of sorting by size of the gravels okay did that glacier like Columbia asked John asking about gravel layers yes I one of these live streams I told the story of oh it was the British Columbia live stream I talked about meeting Jerome remember him and it was a multiple day field trip and one of our stops on the first day in Spokane area was going to a gravel pit near the Spokane Airport and I don't understand what I was looking at there's huge gravels in the floor of glacial lake Columbia big boulders sand it surprised me so if you go to the hangman Valley there's another name but I can't remember the other name of the hangman Valley the golf course there those are those are glacial Lake Columbia sediments and if I haven't been clear I know that I've been clear in past sessions it was common for a Missoula Flood to suddenly drained glacial lake Missoula but that water would dump into glacial lake Columbia so it was a daisy-chain you had one lake draining dumping into another one and then that lake suddenly that bathtub got to fall in the water spilled over the south edge of the bathtub and a flood happened so it's not like this was dry land most of the time I think the last couple of Missoula said right knows a couple that big eighteen thousand year flood over Wenatchee that truly was draining glacial lake Missoula and having dry land at John Stockton's house but for many of the Missoula floods there was Lakes coexistent at the time good questions as always when is Randall Carlson co-hosting is there a radon problem in Spokane due to the gravel from the floods I don't know about that sorry Peter did I understand you correctly volcanic ash at the time of the floods a couple other questions about Glacier Peak Glacier Peak is a volcano north of Stevens Pass I can't remember the exact date now it erupted hit famously erupted and sent to ash eastward I can't remember the date I'm gonna say 13,000 years ago but I I guess that's right because there's Glacier Peak ash on top of a Pangborn bar and then there's Clovis points on top of the Glacier Peak ash I meant to have Randy talk about that by the way and I forgot it's an amazing sight so there is Glacier Peak ash pretty sure the dates 13,000 maybe a geologist can correct me if I'm wrong calendar dates calendar years 13,000 Glacier Peak and so that's a little young actually I know that's too young right 13,000 is too young for any of them no missoula flood events that we have in the geologic record so I guess it now that I think about it I guess that Native Americans story where there's ashes falling out of the sky and a big flood the Devils in the details but I don't think we have that happening simultaneously as as we understand it so far now we might find some new field sites that can confirm that story so close but no cigar yet as far as the Glacier Peak ash and Missoula flood deposits bill says there's lower Cambrian limestone at the south end of Lake Pend Oreille thank you Bill lower Cambrian so slightly younger than our Precambrian story thank you so not right at Spokane but there is some there is some limestone Lake Pend Oreille where in Australia are the Washington zircons found I can't remember I'm sorry I I don't know the geography well enough to even know which portion which coast of Australia was was in John Stockton's backyard if you're trying to let you know why am I talking about John Stockton it's an inside joke no offense yeah it might rain who cares why are they no giant current ripples shot-glass philosophy asks interesting question there are some pretty impressive giant current ripples is it airway heights Spokane Airport I think just saw between the airport and airway heights there are some pretty amazing giant current ripples there I don't know off the top of my head if we have giant current ripples across Rathdrum Prairie now you know what I would go to to look for that if I had time if you were just asking me in real time I'd say let me let me check this book quick this is it man this is it this is book to the book one is just Bruce himself Bruce was a former graduate student at Eastern Washington and his adviser was Eugene Keever all the detail you would want about the ice age floods in northern Washington is in this book oh yeah here you go my bookmark the page for a reason oh there's a visa bill in here too you want to see how we did with the spending and Vinh men's bakery you gotta love it here's a nice map from Bjorn stad Rathdrum Lakes Dam the rivers Dam the port torpedoes ice dam so there may be some other giant current ripples on Rathdrum I'm not sure of them we'll do a few more it's already quarter after 7:00 oh and I'm getting Adobe updated right now isn't that nice bill says there's large cross beds visible in many of the local sandpits cross beds I believe it so cross bedded sans showing this incredible current different than giant current ripples but yes flow flow structures for sure Ellen could many of the erratics west of Spokane be from the Spokane area yes almost all those around no if you know of an erratic down here it's not glacial ice for sure it's Ice Age floods for Shore grafted it on ice most likely and many of these erratic s-- are from Idaho or even Montana but if you're asking is it possible to just take a little bit of rock better from the bedrock of Spokane and move it five miles and then drop it down by Cheney sure but I included argillite as one of the Precambrian bedrock units in the Spokane area and then going back into Montana because some of my favorite or attics down at where Tom Foster used to live in Pasco is argillite from the Rocky Mountain there's no other way to explain an erratic a boulder the size of me made out of argillite a very laminated bluish grayish metamorphic rock it's a unique rock that you're only gonna find in the Rockies and to have that rock be carried by water 300 miles or whatever it is amazing stuff if it hasn't dawned on you this is really the foothills of the Rockies here we're intersecting with a kind of a Cascades and rain shadow of the Cascades but by the time we get to hope fest we're in the foothills of the Rockies and you can feel it and you can see it with the bedrock itself three more and we're done let me scroll all the way down to the fresh here and work my way back more Elan go what is the basement layer made of in the Spokane area is it basalt or more exotic terrains the basement layer I would go with see the basement layer truly is this old west coast of North America rock beach rock when the beach of North America when the west coast of North America was there at Spokane that's what I would consider the basement Rock and I guess I had that in my sketch hang on Patrick yeah so here's our oldest Precambrian rock connected to Australia here's these Magma's coming up when we subducting plate when much of Washington is not there yet and by the time we get to the lavas we've built the entire state of Washington I just spit on the camera to more build the the Rathdrum community was dead set against Burlington northerns plan to construct a fueling facility at Houser due to the aquifer thank you yeah there's no bail works for the railroad he would know a couple more bruce says the zircons are found in the jack range of Northwestern Australia northwestern Australia Wow thank you for that Steve is it possible the sudden floods could cause dust storms from the sheer power involved well it's an interesting thought I mean I'm not really trying to think like a Native American necessarily but just as a any human being what would you experience be if you're sitting around a campfire advantage and is it a half an hour is it an hour before the water arrives from Montana that you noticed something is it a is it a sound is it a vibration on the ground is that a the animals doing something weird is it 10 minutes before the so a dust cloud or a bunch of air being displaced out infront I guess people must have thought of that studying that but I you know when I try to do things for the TV crew or something I try to get people there and so without any science behind me I try to just imagine what it must have been like and as always we can be very excited about the science and figuring all this out but we are almost certainly talking about unimaginable tragedy with the people in the area I'm going to look for one more seeing a lot of the same questions so I guess we've covered most of it come on I can't I got I got it get one more does Australia fit next to Spokane like a piece of puzzle piece Jim I think good question I think if we were able to carefully model what the old shoreline truly did look like and we do kind of have an idea about that it's called the strontium 706 line it's a it's a convoluted geochemical way to be able to figure out down below I 90 exactly where the old shoreline used to be and you can look at that you can google right now old Charla old North American edge in Washington you'll see different versions some point right at Spokane some put it at the county line some put the old edge of North America at the Precambrian days way out by Moses Lake but you can do some geophysical work to try to get that contour and then you have to do the same thing at Australia at the jack hills I guess is that right I thought Jack Hills was like the the oldest rocks on the planet we're not really talking about the oldest rocks on the planet here but anyway you could get those things to match but I don't think we have the resolution in the detail necessary to restore those former coastlines very well thank you everybody for your questions a toast to you and a look ahead to the rest of the week a toast to you and I could look ahead to the rest of the week tomorrow nada got a couple of surprises for you when we talk about George Beck Central Washington University geology professor from a hundred years ago who was instrumental in setting up ginko state park and was the authority on petrified wood in the Pacific Northwest Thursday we go back even earlier in time to a geologist that I've always meant to learn about his name was Israel Russel were back in the 1890s and he's around making geologic maps of Mount Rainier etc looking forward to learning what I can for you for that this is the valley I live in and I almost certainly will be outdoors somewhere broadcasting from the field and then Sunday I'm not flipping you off paleomagnetism globally a toast to you here's to you wanting to spend time with us on this beautifully calm Tuesday evening in Ellensburg Washington here's to you I thank you for joining us tonight I hope that you can squeeze us into your schedule again tomorrow night for a couple of surprises I'll be coy till then and I'll also be Nick until then and maybe even during then what lot of people under the age of 30 walking up the sidewalk let's just enjoy that for a second we're all just extras in their movie thank you and good night I love you

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Published: Tue Jun 09 2020