Nick Zentner Courses

Exotic Terranes in the North Cascades - Nick Zentner

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Explore how exotic terranes, superterranes, subduction, and slab windows shaped the North Cascades between 200 and 50 million years ago.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 8 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How Did the Cascade Range Form? - Lecture 1

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Discover the geological processes behind the formation of the Cascade Range in this lecture by Nick Zentner, part of the 2025 Downtown Geology Lecture Series.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Eocene F - Rocky Mountains with Rob Thomas and Darrel Cowan

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A debate over how flat-slab subduction and exotic-terrain collision shaped the Rocky Mountains, including contrasting Sevier and Laramide structural styles.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

North Cascades Highway Geology with Stacia Gordon and Bob Miller

A six-stop field trip traces North Cascades faults, plutons, and metamorphic rocks along Washington’s North Cascades Highway.

• YouTube
• 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Crystalline Core with Stacia Gordon

A geologist explains how North Cascades crystalline-core rocks reveal deep crustal pressures, rapid Eocene exhumation, strike-slip faulting, and regional uplift.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Eocene T - Montana Magmas with Kaleb Scarberry

A regional geology lecture tracing Montana's Eocene magmas, from the Boulder Batholith and Butte ore deposits to volcanic flare-ups and Rocky Mountain uplift.

• YouTube
• 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Eocene - Coast Mountains Batholith with Robinson Cecil

A geologist examines the Coast Mountains Batholith, Eocene magmatic flare-ups, subduction and slab failure, isotopic evidence, and the tectonic history of British Columbia.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Eocene R - Idaho Batholith with Dave Rodgers

Explores Eocene magmatism, tectonic rollback, and the geologic evolution of Idaho’s Batholith.

• YouTube
• 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Eocene Q - Challis Rollback with Jeff Tepper

Examines the southwestward age progression of Eocene Challis magmas and how it supports a slab-rollback model connected to Cascadia.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Eocene - Westward Subduction with Karin Sigloch

Explores how westward subduction, slab walls, and mantle tomography reshape interpretations of Eocene tectonics beneath the Pacific Northwest and North America.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Eocene O - Resurrection Plate with Spencer Fuston

Reconstruct the Eocene Resurrection Plate through seismic tomography, slab maps, near-trench magmas, and animated plate-tectonic models of western North America.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Eocene N - Chugach Translation with Darrel Cowan

A geologic investigation of how the Chugach terrain translated, using spreading ridges, plate-boundary structures, and paleomagnetic evidence.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Eocene - Near Trench Magmas with Jeff Tepper

Explores Eocene near-trench magmas in the North Cascades through slab-window models, adakites, geologic maps, and rock examples.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Eocene Strike-Slip Basins with Erin Donaghy

Examines how strike-slip faulting created the Eocene Chumstick Basin through fault offsets, sedimentation rates, and depositional models.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Eocene K - Chumstick Basin with Matt McClincy & Erin Donaghy

A field-focused look at the Eocene Chumstick Basin, tracing North Cascades sedimentary layers, tuffs, basin extent, and the research behind their interpretation.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video