Flood Count Controls Clastic Dike Width in Columbia Basin, WA-OR-ID
Pleistocene age clastic dikes in the Columbia Basin, WA grew incrementally by repeated injection of sediment into cracks. Injected...
Megaflood Movie Grip
In the summer of 2008, a movie producer with National Geographic called me from England. They needed me right away. To be clear, they...
Liquefaction at Finley Quarry? A critique of Sherrod et al. (2016)
"Our current understanding of the Western Cordillera was built from equal parts science and personality. The Geology and the Geologist...
Columbia Basin vs. Columbia Plateau
Controversy continues to swirl among geo-nerds as to whether to call the vast inland region located east of the Cascade Mountains the...
Clastic Dikes in Lake Roosevelt Bluffs
Clastic dikes filled with coarse sand with cobbles up to golf ball size intrude shoreline bluffs along Lake Roosevelt in the Upper...
Silt-Capped Rhythmites at Old Lady Canyon, WA
The publication of Richard Waitt's paper describing the stratigraphy of Burlingame Canyon in 1980 opened up a can of worms. In...
Video: Clastic Dikes in Umatilla Basin Gravel Pit
Large outcrops are hard to come by in the Umatilla Basin. Here we check out clastic dikes in coarse Missoula flood deposits exposed in an...
