Megaflood Movie Grip
In the summer of 2008, a movie producer with National Geographic called me from England. They needed me right away. To be clear, they...
Liquefaction at Finley Quarry, WA?
Two reports by two different teams of geologists describe the same outcrop, sediments, and structural features at Finley Quarry, WA...
Columbia Basin vs. Columbia Plateau
Controversy continues to swirl among geo-nerds as to whether to call the vast inland region located east of the Cascade Mountains the...
Clastic Dikes in Lake Roosevelt Bluffs - Northeastern WA
Clastic dikes filled with coarse sand with cobbles up to golf ball size intrude shoreline bluffs along Lake Roosevelt in the Upper...
Silt-Capped Rhythmites at Old Lady Canyon, WA
The publication of Richard Waitt's paper describing the stratigraphy of Burlingame Canyon in 1980 opened up a can of worms. In...
Alder Ridge Landslide
Twenty gullies cut the Alder Ridge Landslide. The slide is developed in the Selah interbed and involves Miocene basalt bedrock, but...
The Original Starbucks Store
The first Starbucks store was in Pike Place, Seattle. They sold coffee and spices. But the original store was in Starbuck, WA. They sold...
Save the Touchet Beds Stickers
No one needs to save the Touchet Beds. They are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves. But everyone needs this sticker. Now...
Soft Sediment Deformation in Touchet Beds
Soft sediment deformation features in the Touchet Beds of WA, OR, ID (that are not clastic dikes). I took all of these photos. Wallula...
Video: Density of Dikes at Willow Creek, OR
Most geologists are familiar with the Touchet Beds of the Walla Walla Valley and Pasco Basin that formed upstream of Wallula Gap in...
