geology

(Runtime 4:14) In the shadow of Mount St. Helens’ summit, 20 girls spent a week studying pumice, ash and lava at a GeoGirls camp. The famous Washington…

(Runtime 3:53) Local river guide Rob Winters was one of the first people to find the salmon shark on Shorts Bar, one of the the most popular beaches in…

The Channeled Scablands of Eastern Washington couldn’t be further away from waterfront property. But at the end of the last ice age, the area was, at times, underwater. Torrential flooding cascaded through the area and created the current landscape, including the Grand Coulee.Some 15,000 years later, that geological gravitas has inspired a composition for guitars.

(Runtime 3:53)On the banks of the Columbia River, tall columns of rock poke out from the cliffs.“So you see all of these black rocks that are on either…

Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan star in the new film, which imagines a romantic relationship between British paleontologist Mary Anning and Charlotte Murchison, the young wife of a geologist.

The work by researchers at Portland State University and the University of Oregon, published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, offers a solution to a common problem that arises when using radiocarbon dating to determine the past activity of faults.

The photos of Mount St. Helens’ eruption taken on May 18, 1980, suggest a cataclysm that remains in the past, safely ensconced in history and available for warm recollection of when the world exploded and we survived. But that’s wrong.