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 dust storms thicken Okanogan soils. - Silviculture/Soils Consultant I once knew In the Okanogan Highlands of northeastern...
Great Terrace of the Columbia #1 - The Explorers
Geologists have long been fascinated with the high terrace that stands well above the modern Columbia River between Brewster and Chelan....
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...
Before Bretz
Reconnaissance Geologists of the Columbia Basin & Okanogan Highlands A significant number of geologists visited Eastern Washington prior...
Lind Coulee Fault near O'Sullivan Dam - Potholes Reservoir, WA
Any excusion into Lind Coulee will include some adventure. This outing involves recent faulting and interesting Plio-Pleistocene...
Repeated Soft Sediment Deformation - Lake Rufus Woods, WA
Shear stress at the base of the overriding flow is transmitted to the substrate, forming these structures. Soupy and clay-rich substrate...
Pleistocene(?) Alluvial Stratigraphy - Lind Coulee, WA
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 Sandstone Beds - White Bluffs, WA
Structureless sand is fairly unusual in the geologic record. Sandy sediment deposited by flowing water always preserves bedforms....
