I can't get any lower. Still I feel I'm sinking. -Soundgarden Calcrete is not a caprock . Thick pedogenic calcrete is intrinsically...

Thanks for all who attended the 2023 Friends of the Pleistocene PNW Cell's field trip and for sending in your pics! Calcrete. Proper...

Locations of paleoseismic trenches and Quaternary faults in Eastern Washington. Trenches excavated across fault scarps, visible in lidar...

Exotic clasts in gravel . An exotic clast-bearing conglomerate at White Bluffs Overlook was left by an ancient Ice Age flood. The...

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...

I took a swing at correlating 26 of Kevin Lindsey's stratigraphic columns from White Bluffs (Lindsey, 1996, Appendix A). A couple day's...

Any excusion into Lind Coulee will include some adventure. This outing involves recent faulting and interesting Plio-Pleistocene...

Structureless sand is fairly unusual in the geologic record. Sandy sediment deposited by flowing water always preserves bedforms....

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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Time did not allow our NWGS group to visit the Red Tank area in September 2021. The Saddle Mountains crest is an incredibly photogenic...