Western Cordillera and Adjacent Areas
Download or Read eBook Western Cordillera and Adjacent Areas PDF 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.
| Author | : Terry W Swanson |
| Publisher | : Geological Society of America |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0813700043 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780813700045 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Western Cordillera and Adjacent Areas by : Terry W Swanson
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.
