

Calcrete Growth in Alluvial Lowlands - Eastern Washington
I can't get any lower. Still I feel I'm sinking. -Soundgarden Calcrete is not a caprock. Thick pedogenic calcrete is intrinsically...


Sheeted Clastic Dikes in the Megaflood Region
The definitive article on clastic dikes in Eastern Washington. Origin, age, character, and distribution are discussed. Data driven research.


Giant Current Ripples at Omak, WA
The Okanogan Valley has for decades been considered to have played no significant role in Ice Age flooding of the Channeled Scablands....


Ancient Flood Gravel Beneath a Calcrete Ledge - White Bluffs, WA
Exotic clasts in gravel. An exotic clast-bearing conglomerate at White Bluffs Overlook was left by an ancient Ice Age flood. The...


Calcrete Field Trip - Hendricks Road at Eagle Lakes, WA (Revised Nov 2022)
Revised interpretation - I am revising my interpretation of the brown, cemented sediments at Hendricks Road. These same beds rest atop...


Calcrete-Capped Megaflood Gravel - George, WA
George gravel pit. George gravel pit. Location is N of historic Burke, WA and NW of non-historic George, WA. George is not Burke. My...


Clastic Dikes Literature Relevant to Eastern Washington 1820-2020
Fieldwork in Burlingame Canyon near Walla Walla in July 1995. Several dozen articles, abstracts, consultant reports, and field guides...


Dune Fields of the Upper Columbia River Region, WA
Palouse windstorms thicken Okanogan soils. - Silviculture/Soils Consultant I once knew In the Okanogan Highlands of northeastern...


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


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