Sheeted Clastic Dikes in the Megaflood Region
The definitive article on clastic dikes in Eastern Washington. Origin, age, character, and distribution are discussed. Data driven research.
Clastic Dikes: The Tops
The tops of clastic dikes in the megaflood region appear five ways. 1.) Truncated at a bedding contact or an erosional surface 2.)...
Predicting liquefaction extent in the Yakima Fold Belt
Geologists have long debated how large of an earthquake Yakima Fold Belt faults can produce. Some claim these shallow (<10km), intraplate...
How I Take Field Notes on Clastic Dikes
"You can tell the cut of a Geologist's jib by the state of his field book." Above is a page from one of my field books showing what data...
Evidence for Long Periods Between Fillings in Sheeted Clastic Dikes
Crosscutting relationships establish the order of events in a sheeted clastic dike exposed near TriCities, WA. 1.) Injection of yellow...
Fracture Fillings at Weaver Pit, Walla Walla Valley, WA
College students with access to quality information on the geology exposed near their schools will cause Geology professors to raise...
Curious Clastic Dikes of the Columbia Basin (Reprint)
Reprint of this article: Cooley, S.W., 2015, The curious clastic dikes of the Columbia Basin (p. 91-92), in Carson, R.J., Many Waters:...
Investigating Effort
Their study consists of 83 locations in the Pasco Basin. In 1999, a group of senior geoscientists at the Hanford Nuclear Site, lead by...
Flood and Slide Deformed Deposits - Priest River, ID
The Ice Age floods inundated the southern portion of the Priest River Valley in northern Idaho, though this area is rarely mentioned in...
Flood Count Controls Clastic Dike Width in Columbia Basin, WA-OR-ID
Pleistocene age clastic dikes in the Columbia Basin, WA grew incrementally by repeated injection of sediment into cracks. Injected...
