How Galactic Rhythms Helped Form Earth’s Continental Crust
“To see a world in a grain of sand”, the opening sentence of the poem by William Blake, is an oft-used phrase that also captures some of what geologists do. We
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“To see a world in a grain of sand”, the opening sentence of the poem by William Blake, is an oft-used phrase that also captures some of what geologists do. We
height of dry falls Q – I am a long time resident and have been to Dry Falls several times. Can you please tell me the elevation change between the
Long before dinosaurs, Earth was dominated by animals that were in many ways even more incredible. Carnivores such as Titanophoneus, or “titanic murderer,” stalked enormous armored reptiles the size of buffalo. Many
Any idea what made this formation? Q – This is in the Utah desert, south of Green River. I keep hearing that it might be clastic dikes? I have sent
During the last ice age, humans ventured into two vast and completely unknown continents: North and South America. For nearly a century, researchers thought they knew how this wild journey
The rapid decline of the British-Irish Ice Sheet thousands of years ago may hold lessons for how melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica will influence sea-level rise in the
Quaternary—What is that??? Ice Age Floods Institute Members may have heard the term Quaternary during Chapter Presentations and Field Trips, or may have learned that the Quaternary Period represents the
Oregon State University archaeologists have uncovered projectile points in Idaho that are thousands of years older than any previously found in the Americas, helping to fill in the history of
ice in puget valley Q – My daughter and family live west of Dean Kreger Rd, above Silver Lake, west of Eatonville. I tease her that her yard is gravel
It’s difficult for most people to grasp the immensity of time as it’s viewed by archeologists, much less as it’s viewed by geologist or cosmologists. One way often used by
Moses Coulee, a Washington state wonder, has puzzled geologists for over a century. This massive canyon, carved into solid basalt, stands as a testament to some powerful force. The culprit?
A newly discovered crater suggests a second impact that would have triggered underwater landslides and tsunamis On its own, the dinosaur-killing asteroid had a staggering impact: Wildfires raged across the
THE GRAND COULEE – A Floods Poem THE GRAND COULEE Older than legends,Younger than mountains,The earth remembersThe Great Inland Sea. And that Sea emptiedIn torrential furyNever imaginedEven in dreams. Down
Have you ever thought about the how the weight of the ice-age Cordilleran ice sheet might affect the underlying Earth’s crust. There is strong evidence that the crust was depressed
What are Spokane’s Haystack Basalt Mounds? Q – Throughout the Spokane area there are what some call ‘haystacks’, basalt mounds that look like haystacks. There are many such on Spokane’s
Indigenous people have been in the Americas longer than archaeologists once thought. Stone tools unearthed from a rock shelter in Southern Oregon were last used more than 18,000 years ago,
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