
The Oldest Stone Tools Ever Found in the US
Indigenous people have been in the Americas longer than archaeologists





Indigenous people have been in the Americas longer than archaeologists

It’s difficult for most people to grasp the immensity of

The mantle hotspot now under Yellowstone is thought to have

Nearly 10,000 years ago, Earth came out of its most

The Lyle Cherry Orchard Trail is a moderately strenuous trail

The 2023 GSA Outburst Floods Penrose Conference made a field

The Wenatchee Valley Erratics’ next program will be on Tuesday, June

The first wave of humans into the Americas during the

By measuring radioactive elements in rocks from Earth and other

Spring is coming and the trail is starting to wake

Appearing much different than the nearly ubiquitous Columbia River basalt

Tucked into the Lenore Canyon are the Lake Lenore Caves. Along

During the last ice age, which route was taken by

Timing, Topography and Type (“Rock Type” that is) Most of

Palouse Falls is visited by thousands each year. The number
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This 1/2-hour video begins with the Ice Age Floods impact on the Palouse area, then goes on with a fascinating oral and pictorial history of the area. The video was produced by Mortimore Productions for the Whitman County Library with materials and information provided by a bevy of contributors, including

National Geographic has published an outstanding article, “Formed by Megafloods, This Place Fooled Scientists for Decades”, about J Harlan Bretz and his outrageous, fantastical theories of a landscape shaped by huge floods. Most Ice Age Floods aficionados are generally aware of the story, but this one is so detailed and

The Washington Geological Survey (formerly the Division of Geology and Earth Resources) has just released an ESRI story map about the Ice Age Floods in Washington. The story map: “tells the story of cataclysmic outburst floods that shaped the landscape of the Pacific Northwest during the last ice age. With

Check out Bruce Bjornstad’s Ice Age Floodscapes YouTube channel. A growing library of surreal aerial video and pics of other-worldly megaflood features.These drone videos and images that can only be achieved and appreiciated from close range in the air give a unique perspective on large landscape features, such as: Gardena Cliffs Rhythmites, Streamlined

Bruce Bjornstad is at it again with his awesome Ice Age Floodscapes drone videos, this one from Frenchman Coulee. Watch it below and visit his Ice Age Floodscapes YouTube channel.for many more.

There is considerable controversy regarding when humans first migrated into the Americas and whether they might have been in the local area during any of the Ice Age Floods. This 2016 video, produced by reputable sources, doesn’t answer that question, but it is an interesting and instructive visualization of human

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 hundreds of feet beneath the ice, and since the crust is relatively thin and rigid over a plastic aesthenosphere, that

Robert Frost finished his poem “The Road Not Taken” with this verse: I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. As our President Gary Ford has