Reading the Washington Landscape

Two amazing warm sunny days in a row in November. I managed to get out in the field on both days; yesterday Whidbey Island and today a trip ...

I spotted this glacial erratic just starting to be revealed by erosion along the shore of Hood Canal. This erratic is a block of the Britis...

We are entering the time of year where it is highly advisable to keep close tabs on the weather when planning field work. Besides avoiding h...

Adakite at Tamanowas Rock Adakite is stretching my knowledge of volcanic rocks. Magmatists like using more than three names for lava and ha...

Two Orcas with Whidbey Island in background I had a good two day trip to the northwest side of the Olympic Peninsula. Besides the good fort...

I spent the day on the northwest portion of the Olympic Peninsula. Had a bit of dread given the storm off the coast and it was dumping all t...

Telford Scabland, a tough place for driving fence posts. Large tracts of Washington’s landscape were shaped by the Missoula Floods. One pro...