Okanogan Valley Kame Terrace Mapping
The kame terraces of the Okanogan Valley are Alaskan in scale, but treeless and fully exposed. This extensive multi-level flight is continuously exposed between Brewster and Osoyoos, a distance of 100 km. The terraces record voluminous ice-marginal sedimentation during the final downwasting of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet (Okanogan Lobe) from Eastern Washington. They are composed of a mix of outwash gravels, till, lacustrine sediments, and boulders. Tread surfaces are paired in
Thanks a Lot, Erwin
In 1941, the talented cartographer Erwin Raisz of Harvard University's Institute of Geographical Exploration published a map showing the Olympic-Wallowa Lineament, a "straight four-hundred-mile-long structural line extending from Cape Flattery to the Wallowa Mountains". The Olympic-Wallowa Lineament crosscuts the whole of Washington, extending from Cape Flattery to the Wallowa Mountains in Oregon. Map by Reidel and Martin (2003). The prominent line diagonally bisects Washingt
