Harder Road Site. Harder Rd crosses the Cheney-Palouse scabland tract. This roadcut is mentioned in Baker (1973) and other articles on...

Reconnaissance Men of the Columbia Basin & Okanogan Highlands A significant number of geologists visited Eastern Washington prior to J...

Lidar hillshade image. Giant current ripples atop a terrace surface near Omak, WA. Hwy 97 is at the center of the image. The ripple field...

A robust association between thick pedogenic calcretes (petrocalcic horizons) and lowland alluvial deposits is a key finding of my recent...

Shear stress at the base of the overriding flow is transmitted to the substrate. Soupy and clay-rich substrate material is partially...

Non-flood sediments of Pleistocene age are well exposed along Crab Creek in Lind Coulee east of O'Sullivan Dam. Very little has been...

Structureless sand is fairly unusual in the geologic record. Sandy sediment deposited by flowing water typically preserves bedforms....

I took a swing at correlating 26 of Kevin Lindsey's stratigraphic columns from White Bluffs (Lindsey, 1996, Appendix A). A couple day's...

The Old Maid Coulee site, located near Connell, WA, contains convincing evidence of "pre-late Wisconsin" flooding. Geologists distinguish...

Outcrop sketch: For large outcrops, I will take a panoramic photo, draw a quick map, and make a sketch in my field book. If I have the...