

Investigating Effort
Their study consists of 83 locations in the Pasco Basin. In 1999, a group of senior geoscientists at the Hanford Nuclear Site, lead by...


Flood and Slide Deformed Deposits - Priest River, ID
The Ice Age floods inundated the southern portion of the Priest River Valley in northern Idaho, though this area is rarely mentioned in...


Are dates on carbonate cements in Pasco Basin regionally relevant?
Uranium-thorium is a radiometric technique for dating carbonates. Paces (2014) estimated the ages of secondary carbonate cements in the...


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, WA?
Two reports by two different teams of geologists describe the same outcrop, sediments, and structural features at Finley Quarry, WA...


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 - Northeastern WA
Clastic dikes filled with coarse sand, pebbles, and up to golf ball-sized cobbles intrude shoreline bluffs along Lake Roosevelt in the...


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...


Alder Ridge Landslide
Twenty gullies cut the Alder Ridge Landslide. The slide plane resides in the clayey Selah interbed (Ellensburg Fm) and involves Miocene...