Floods, Faults, and Fire

The ten geological field guides presented in this volume explore key areas of the geologist’s Paradise that is Washington State and British Columbia. These trips investigate a wide variety of geologic and geographic terrains, from the dry steppe of the channeled scablands and Columbia River basalt group to the east, across the glaciated and forested Cascade arc and Coast Mountains, to the geologically complex islands in the west. This guidebook may be unique in that four of the trips utilize boats to reach remote field areas and are therefore rarely visited by geologists. Although these trips were guided during the 2007 GSA Cordilleran Section meeting, the guides were written to ensure that people can easily guide their own trips. The result provides an excellent source of exciting, thought-provoking geologic adventures for years to come.
New developments in Late Pleistocene and Holocene glaciation and volcanism in the Fraser Lowland and North Cascades, Washington
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Published:January 01, 2007
Abstract
As the Vashon glacier retreated from its terminal position in the southern Puget-Lowland and thinned rapidly, marine waters invaded the central and northern lowland, floating the ice and depositing Everson glaciomarine drift over a wide area from southern Whidbey Island to southern British Columbia. The Everson deposits are characterized by vast areas of massive, poorly sorted stony silt and clay commonly containing marine shells. At Bellingham Bay and elsewhere in the Fraser Lowland, Deming sand is overlain by massive, poorly sorted, Bellingham glaciomarine drift to elevations of 180–210 m above present sea level and is underlain by Kulshan glaciomarine...
- C-14
- carbon
- Cascade Range
- Cenozoic
- clastic sediments
- Cordilleran ice sheet
- deglaciation
- digital terrain models
- glacial sedimentation
- glaciation
- glaciomarine sedimentation
- guidebook
- Holocene
- igneous rocks
- interstadial environment
- isotopes
- landslides
- lowlands
- marine sedimentation
- mass movements
- moraines
- Mount Baker
- outwash
- Pleistocene
- pyroclastics
- Quaternary
- radioactive isotopes
- sedimentation
- sediments
- United States
- upper Pleistocene
- volcanic rocks
- volcanism
- Washington
- Whatcom County Washington
- Fraser Lowland
- Vashon Glacier