Making and shaping the Columbia Basin. Columbia River basalt lava flows ; Inside a basalt flow ; Pillow lavas ; What good is Columbia River basalt? ; Lewis and Clark meet Columbia River basalt ; ...
Rocks rock — especially formations like Balanced Rock in Big Bend National Park, Texas. Getting there requires a gentle hike, which is short and relatively easy, with some light scrambling at parts ...
Big Four Mountain's mystery: 82-degree tilted rock layers defy geology's horizontal rule. There’s a basic rule in geology: Sedimentary rock layers build up horizontally. So how did the slabs of Big ...
Why does the New York City skyline look the way it does? In part, because of what happened there 500 million years ago, says ...
Courtesy of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History The University of Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History has hit the road this summer offering hands-on learning through its Oregon ...
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. – “Geology underlies it all” and in West Virginia you’ll find Limestone and Dolomite, Sandstone, Salt , Clay and Shale and Sand and Gravel, according to the West Virginia ...