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Peak Ice on Moses Mountain?

September 23, 2019

Cordilleran ice sheet glacier ice age Moses Mountain nunatak Okanogan Highlands Okanogan lobe

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How did rock from the bottom of the ocean get to the roof of the world?

February 19, 2019

Totally Lunar! The Eclipse on Sunday Night, January 20, 2019

January 22, 2019

eclipse lunar penumbra refraction super blood wolf moon umbra

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Satellites at Bennu and "Ultima Thule"

January 03, 2019

Apollo asteroid asteroid asteroid belt dwarf planet KBO Kuiper Belt object near-Earth asteroid New Horizons Nile Valley satellite Ultima Thule

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The Geology of the Okanogan Region!

accretion Challis arc Challis volcanics detachment fault graben Laurentia metamorphic core complex Okanogan Okanogan lobe plate tectonics Quesnellia terrane

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Geologic Hazards on Whidbey Island

February 21, 2018

active fault Chuckanut sandstone earthquake geologic hazards field trip glaciation landslide liquefaction Northwest Geological Society Puget Sound tsunami Whidbey Island

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Rattlesnake Ridge Landslide Updates - plus a riff on earthquake warnings

January 23, 2018

Ralph Dawes: Wenatchee, Washington, United States; A geologist by training, with a previous degree in literature, my primary job is Professor of Earth Sciences at Wenatchee Valley College, a community college in central Washington state. Wenatchee, where I live, is 150 km east of Seattle, in the rain shadow of the Cascades, on the dry side of the state. The city of Wenatchee is built on land that slopes down from the east side of the Cascade Mountains to the shoreline of the Columbia River. The Cascade Mountains are an active volcanic arc and a zone of ongoing orogeny (mountain-building) with a long and complicated plate tectonic history. The Columbia River is the mainstay of this region's agriculture and electrical power supply. The western periphery of the Columbia Plateau is just across the river from here and is famous (among geologists) for its Columbia River flood basalt, Yakima fold belt, and Channeled Scablands. I teach classes on geology, meteorology, climate change, and astronomy.

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