Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

Download or read book Western Cordillera and Adjacent Areas written by Terry W Swanson and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title includes guides for field trips held in conjunction with the 2003 GSA Annual Meeting in Seattle. Topics covered include Glacial Lake Missoula and the Clark Fork Ice Dam; the Sauk Sequence in Utah; the geology of wine in Washington state; the Columbia River basalt and Yakima Fold Belt; Alpine glaciation of the North Cascades; and recent geoarchaeological discoveries in central Washington. Quaternary geology of Seattle, engineering geology in the central Columbia Valley, and the tephrostratigraphy and paleogeography of southern Puget Sound are also covered.