Calcrete: Friends of the Pleistocene PNW Cell 2023 - Photos from Field Trip to Eastern WA
Thanks for all who attended the 2023 Friends of the Pleistocene PNW Cell's field trip and for sending in your pics! Calcrete. Proper...
Calcrete Growth in Alluvial Lowlands - New Findings in Eastern Washington State
I can't get any lower. Still I feel I'm sinking. -Soundgarden Calcrete is not a caprock . Thick pedogenic calcrete is intrinsically...
Paleoseismic Trenches in Eastern Washington
Locations of paleoseismic trenches and Quaternary faults in Eastern Washington. Trenches excavated across fault scarps, often visible in...
Ancient Flood Gravel Beneath a Thick 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-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...
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...
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...
Structureless Sandstone Beds - White Bluffs, WA
Structureless sand is fairly unusual in the geologic record. Sandy sediment deposited by flowing water always preserves bedforms....
Calcrete Field Trip 2021 - Overview
Geology Field Guide to the Rain Shadow Calcretes near Othello, WA Northwest Geological Society September 17-19, 2021 Skye W. Cooley
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Calcrete Field Trip 2021 - Red Tank
Time did not allow our NWGS group to visit the Red Tank area in September 2021. The Saddle Mountains crest is an incredibly photogenic...
