Here is a reprint of a short article I published in Northwest Geology v. 49 in August 2020. I've made a few fixes that were not included...

Geologists have long debated how large of an earthquake faults in the Yakima Fold Belt are capable of producing. Some claim these shallow...

Crosscutting relationships establish the order of events in a sheeted clastic dike exposed near TriCities, WA. 1.) Injection of yellow...

"There are Field Geologists, microscope types, and valley walkers. No others." The Saddle Mountains form a coherent ridge that runs for...

An exotic clast-bearing conglomerate at White Bluffs Overlook was left by an ancient Ice Age flood. The post-Ringold unconformity appears...

Calcretes are hard pan soils that form in semi-arid to arid climates. Calcretes - at least pedogenic CaCO3 cements - first appear in...

The kame terraces of the Okanogan Valley are Alaskan in scale, but treeless and fully exposed. This extensive multi-level flight is...

In 1941, the talented cartographer Erwin Raisz of Harvard University's Institute of Geographical Exploration published a map showing the...