

Clastic Dike at Craig's Hill - Ellensburg, WA
Craig's Hill is located in Ellensburg, WA at the Rodeo Grounds near the Campus U-Tote-Em burger joint. Easy walkable access via roads...


Clastic Dikes in Lake Roosevelt Bluffs - Northeastern WA
Clastic dikes filled with coarse sand, pebbles, and up to golf ball-sized cobbles intrude shoreline bluffs along Lake Roosevelt in the...


Soft Sediment Deformation, Upper Columbia River
The northern reach of the Columbia River, or "Upper Columbia", runs for 100km from Kettle Falls to the Hellgate bend. This is granite...


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...


Transport Histories of Exotic & Not So Exotic Clasts
COLUMBIA BASIN, WA -- Erratics in the Columbia Basin are rocks of "exotic" lithology brought here by glacial ice, by icebergs rafted in...


Alder Ridge Landslide
Twenty gullies cut the Alder Ridge Landslide. The slide plane resides in the clayey Selah interbed (Ellensburg Fm) and involves Miocene...


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...

Ngram and the High Himalaya
The two images below were created from datasets entirely unrelated to each other, yet result in strikingly similar curves. The first is...


Worthington Glacier Hike
Thompson Pass near Valdez is one of Alaska's great places. You get the sense you could hike in any direction for miles, summitting craggy...