

Calcrete Growth in Alluvial Lowlands - Eastern Washington
I can't get any lower. Still I feel I'm sinking. -Soundgarden Thick pedogenic calcrete is intrinsically related to the presence of a...

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 Beds & Calcrete - 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
Recent faulting and interesting Plio-Pleistocene stratigraphy exposed in shoreline bluffs along Lower Crab Creek are worth checking out....


Structureless Sandstone Beds - White Bluffs, WA
Structureless sand is fairly unusual in the geologic record. Sandy sediment deposited by flowing water typically 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 - 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...


Calcrete Field Trip - Corfu Landslide Overlook
Directions - From Othello, drive Hwy 26 west to the White Bluffs Area gate. Do not turn. Instead, continue west on the highway 2.8 miles...