
Clastic Dikes: The Tops of Clastic Dikes
The tops of clastic dikes in the megaflood region appear five ways. 1.) Truncated at a bedding contact or an erosional surface 2.)...

Clastic Dikes: Sand Dikes Intruding Bedrock
Clastic Dikes in Basalt Bedrock Sheeted dikes with sandy fills intrude downward into Miocene Columbia River Basalt in the Walla Walla...

Clastic Dikes: Formed by Lateral Spreading?
Lateral spreads. A network of lateral spread fractures in pavement formed by an earthquake. Peru 1970. USGS photo. Lateral Spreading: A...

Clastic Dikes: Whence Upward Intrusion?
Upward tapering clastic dikes are very rare in the Touchet Beds and other Pleistocene-age deposits in the Channeled Scabland. Nearly all...

Clastic Dikes at Metalline Falls, WA
Olaf P. Jenkins took these photos in 1924 near Metalline Falls, WA. They show Pleistocene-age clastic dikes intruding rippled...

Dry Hollow Site Geology near Clyde, WA
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...

Fracture Notes - In progress
What are cracks and fractures? How does hydraulic fracturing work? How does HF relate to sheeted clastic dikes? In this post, I reveal...

Sanpoil-style Syn-sedimentary Deformation
Mud squirts. Mobilized lacustrine muds are dragged upward into an overriding sand bed deposited by a Missoula flood entering Glacial Lake...

Calcrete Field Trip - Warden Canal
Directions - From Othello, drive north on Hwy 17 and turn R (east) on Hwy 170/Rd 8 SE at the '76 gas station toward Warden. Follow for...

Calcrete Field Trip - Liesle Rd
Links to Other Stops: Calcrete Field Trip Overview https://www.skyecooley.com/single-post/calcrete-field-trip-2021-overview Stokrose...