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71.99 Ma granite sample site - 47.973639736095116, -118.98259196897968
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This location near Aasgard Pass is featured in Nick Zentner's geology videos, where he explores Pacific Northwest geological features and their...
1901
Albion College, Albion, Wi
Bretz got his biology degree here 1901-1905
Ancient Columbia River - Emerald Road Cobbles - 46.32475555675922, -120.15980560000001
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Ancient Lakes Lower Trailhead
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Missoula Flood gravel pit Thesis Paper
Avery Gravel Pit
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Missoula Flood gravel pit Thesis Paper
Beebe Springs Natural Area -- Trailhead Parking
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three early Pleistocene, one Middle Pleistocene: Busaca 1988, McDonald and Busacca 1988 Thesis Paper
Black Bear Spot - 47.59556611665762, -120.38245110552256
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Blue Mountain Trail Head
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Bretz boulder collection at Kresge Hall, Albion College
Bretz's collection of rocks from Boulderstrewn are now on display in the courtyard at Kresge Hall.
1914
Bretz home, 6303 21st Ave NE Seattle
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House that Bretz built in 1914
Bretz Michigan family farm (section)
The Bretz farm was located in S4, T5R7. near the Limerick School, SE of Saranac, Mi
1910
Bretz Seattle rental home, 1910 (SV)
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Bretz rented this house (according to 1910 census) at 115 W 78th St in Seattle
1940
2114 Cedar St, Homewood, IL, in the 1940's (and still to be verified that this is his only home in the Chicago area) Bretz taught in Chicago from...
1913
Bretz's Rental 1014 NE 61st St, Seattle
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Bretz rental home in Seattle fall of 1913-1914 (at the time named Sylvester Pl, though maps list it as Slyvester PL)
1902
Broadway High School, Seattle, 1907
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Broadway High School opened as Seattle High School in 1902 in what is now Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood at East Broadway and East Pine Street....
One Middle Pleistocene: New Thesis Paper
1965
C130 Cheney Till examined by Weis
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The deposit at Cheney, Wash. , is now covered by a building. However, at another locality three- fourths of a mile distant, at the south edge of...
C130-651965
Cheney Bar Glacial Till Weis
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The deposit at Cheney, Wash., at locality three- fourths of a mile distant, at the south edge of Cheney (NW2 SE4 sec. 12, T. 23 N., R. 41 E. ) ,...
C130-651965
Reardan Drift Border
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Flint ( 1937 , p . 211 ) noted certain differences in topography on loess- covered hills north and south of his inferred drift border near Reardan,...
C130-651965
Weis Re-examination of RFF Site 1
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At Flint's locality 1 , north of the confluence of the Spokane and Columbia Rivers, a layer of compact silty clay till with erratic stones occurs in...
1965
C130-Weis Re-examination of RFF Site 14
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At one of several roadcuts indicated at Flint's locality 14, a lenticular mass of soft, gray calcareous massive till which consists of silt, clay,...
C131-651965
Opportunity ridge till
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The maximum elevation of the ice margin must therefore be below them. Two examples of this deeply weathered residuum ... and on a ridge south of...
C131-651965
WA/ID State Line weathered residuum @ 2,650 AT
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The maximum elevation of the ice margin must therefore be below them. Two examples of this deeply weathered residuum are on a ridge crest near the...
1965
C131-Post Falls Kame
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About 2.5 miles east of Post Falls, Idaho, a large remnant of a kame reaches an elevation of about 2,350 feet ; thus the ice there must have reached...
C132-651965
Long Lake kame delta
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At its maximum extent, the Colville lobe abutted the basalt rim of the Columbia Plateau about 212 miles south of Long Lake, Wash. , on the Spokane...
C132-651965
Shoemaker Butte
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To the south (of Long lake) the distribution of deep residual weatheredrock, locally overlain by loess and bearing no erratic material, shows that...
Calcrete - 46.884423116254304, -119.15056096441762
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one Middle Pleistocene: New Thesis Paper
one Early Pleistocene (correlates to Othello): New Thesis Paper
Chelan Migmatite - 47.82196240933521, -120.21444537790978
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Chelan Migmatite - 47.81496139294471, -119.98218083743453
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Chiwaukum Schist - 47.89832358282828, -120.88761548650591
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at least one early Pleistocene, more Early-middle Pleistocene. Bjornstad 2006 Thesis Paper
Columns - 47.15753235965458, -119.99322152944777
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one Middle Pleistocene: Busacca Thesis Paper
1927
Cosmos Club, Washington DC (SV)
Site of Bretz 1927 Ice Age Floods presentation that went south, as it were.
Crab Creek Marsh Unit #3
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One Middle Pleistocene flood Bjornstad et al 1980, Moody 1987 Thesis Paper
Diablo Lake Vista Point
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Drumheller Channels - 46.897980447384946, -119.28194976441766
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East Connell (SV)
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one Middle Pleistocene: New Thesis Paper
This location near Echo Basin is featured in Nick Zentner's geology videos, where he explains the dramatic flood-carved landscape of the Channeled...
Eightmile Trailhead
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Entiat - 47.75084922524043, -120.3569264509263
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1919
Ephrata Erratic boulder benchmark @ 1283
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Ephrata, Wash. "3.7 mi. south of Ephrata, aluminum tablet in large granite bowlder, 1,283.102." Leveled in 1903, by R. A. Farmer and in 1909 by C. H....
Missoula Flood gravel pit Thesis Paper
one Middle Pleistocene gravelly flood deposit : New Thesis Paper
This location near Finger Rock Trail is featured in Nick Zentner's geology videos, where he explores Pacific Northwest geological features and their...
1937
Flint Freeman till exposure Sec 1, T.23N., R.44E (SV)
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Cuts along new state and county highways in the Spokane district afford more and better exposures than were formerly present; two of the deepest are...
1923
Flint MI Central High School
Flint Central High School was one of the Flint Community Schools, located in Flint, Michigan, USA. Flint Central was the city's oldest school. Its...
1937
Flint P215 Cheney BrickYard
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FLYNN: The Cheney Exposure is in an abandoned pit at the west edge of the State Normal School Grounds Flint 1937 Drift Paper BRETZ: At Cheney the old...
1937
Flint P218 Orchard Prairie
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the other on the north slope of Orchard Prairie, in a road cut near center N line sec 24, T26N, R43E. These exposes are not included in the list of...
1937
Flint P224 Sanpoil Valley glaciation
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The exact nature of the evidence at the Sanpoil Valley locality is not made clear by Pardee. Perhaps the contrast between ice abraded lower slopes of...
1937
Flint PG218 GNER Trestle (SV)
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Till... in a cut on a curving road passing under the trestle of the Great Northern Electric Railway at what was formerly the corner of 16th and...
One Middle Pleistocene: Baker et al. 1991 Thesis Paper
1908
Franklin High School, Seattle
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Bretz taught physiography here 1908. Still an active high school.
Frenchman Coulee
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no Flood deposit, weathered bedrock below palesosol: Bjornstad 2005 Thesis Paper
Gateway Trailhead - McDowell Sonoran Preserve
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Ginkgo State Park
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Glacial Lake Columbia - 47.902893324396054, -118.30895904048221
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Glacial Lake Columbia - 47.906151486075764, -118.33378980979974
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Glacial Terraces near Ellensburg - 47.11545254207458, -120.7143718288353
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Gorge Overlook Trail
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Horse Lake Trailhead
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One Middle Pleistocene: New Thesis Paper
Ice Caves Trailhead - Big 4
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John Pierce Falls - 48.71958922190486, -121.06904755337294
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This location near Lake Caroline is featured in Nick Zentner's geology videos, where he explores Pacific Northwest geological features and their...
Lake Wenatchee State Park
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Leavenworth Ski Hill
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One Early Pleistocene, one Middle / Late Pleistocene: Baker et al. 1991 Thesis Paper
1931
Lewis & Clark High School, Spokane
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Thomas Large taught at Lewis & Clark High school in 1931
LFG-1 South Perry and 10th Ave
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The shales are to be found, still undisturbed, in the horizontal position in which they were laid down, in spite of the volcanic disturbances all...
LFG-1 South Perry and 13th Ave
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The shales are to be found, still undisturbed, in the horizontal position in which they were laid down, in spite of the volcanic disturbances all...
LFG-2 SouthEast Blvd and 10th Ave
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The shales are to be found, still undisturbed, in the horizontal position in which they were laid down, in spite of the volcanic disturbances all...
LFN-2 Manito outpourings
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The next in order was formed in a manner a bit less peaceful. From a crack through the underlying rocks began to pour hot, molten lava. From Lincoln...
LFN-2 S Division and 8th Ave
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The shales are to be found, still undisturbed, in the horizontal position in which they were laid down, in spite of the volcanic disturbances all...
LFN-2 Sunset Blvd basalt outpourings
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The next in order was formed in a manner a bit less peaceful. From a crack through the underlying rocks began to pour hot, molten lava. From Lincoln...
LFN-3 High Drive and 28th
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An excursion along High Drive from Grand Boulevard to 29th with an ocassional scramble down some distance on the steep wall of the 600 foot canyon...
LFN-3 Lincoln Park basalt outpourings
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The next in order was formed in a manner a bit less peaceful. From a crack through the underlying rocks began to pour hot, molten lava. From Lincoln...
LFN-3 Latah (Hangman) Creek
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An excursion along HIgh Drive from Grand Boulevard to 29th with an ocassional scramble down some distance on the steep wall of the 600 foot canyon...
LFN-5 Marshall Plateau
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An old plateau has been to a great extent carved away by the streams; the Spokane River, the Little Spokane River and (Latah) Hangman Creek,...
LFN-5 P2-22 Moran Prarie
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No glacial material seen along the IEERR south of Moran Station Bretz Field Notes
LFN-7 Little Baldy Mt
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But since (the lava) did not fill the valley above Little Baldy Mt, the ice and drive would have dammed the valley waters and made a lake with its...
LFN-7 S Grand and 33rd Ave excavation
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Uniformly mingled through it are granite pebbles and boulders of very resistant character and very much worn. In an excavation at 33rd and Grand...
LFN-8 Cannon Hill Park
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This slow draining of the lake will account for the fine peaty garden soils to be found at various levels in the valley. The vast flow of waters from...
LFN-8 P3-22 Mica (SV)
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Here is a pretty opportunity to find some conslusive evidence at the village of MIca there is a break in the wall of hills at just above the 2,400...
LFN-9 Flagpole Hill
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A few minutes spent in examination of Flagpole HIll will show that while it gives no evidence of icea action it was once an island ina mightly river...
LFN-9 Fort Wright
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Peat forming swamps and marginal lakes are found in the side valleys. This glacier pushed as far south as the County Club and Whitworth College. Such...
LGF2 and P1-22 Garden Springs SP&S RR Cuts
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4 cuts here on each RR in 2 miles distance Upper RR is SP&S, Lower railroad was OW, now Fish Lake Trail. Chiefly in shale along SP&S, tho basalt and...
Lime Kiln Point State Park
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This location near Lion Rock is featured in Nick Zentner's geology videos, where he explores Pacific Northwest geological features and their...
one Early Pleistocene: BAker 1978, Patton and Baker 1978, Baker et al 1991 Thesis Paper
Marblemount area - 48.535217759874385, -121.29998793005942
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no deposit: Baker 1978 Thesis Paper
Middle Fork Snoqualmie Trailhead
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1923
Mouth of California Ck
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At this location near Mouth of California Ck in 1923, J Harlen Bretz observed the flood-stripped basalt and channeled terrain that would become...
Mt Stuart - 47.4483146692871, -120.65255647791172
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Mt Stuart - 47.547945687468435, -120.78926072883532
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Napeequa Ultramafic - 47.929172990237994, -120.90745512883531
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Naqeequa - 47.67699617061367, -120.30968205720977
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Northrup Canyon Trailhead
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OConner LGM Till
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compelling evidence of LGM ice down the Columbia past the Spokane River confluence. Till over glacial Lake Columbia lacustrine deposits at: 47.86925,...
Old Maid Coulee
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one Early Pleistocene: Bjornstad Thesis Paper
one Early Pleistocene slackwater below: New Thesis Paper
1916
P 15-16 Conlon's ranch rock knob
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Knob of rock close to river at Conlon's ranch, 2 miles east of Cascade Lox, of peculiar character. Weathers into bluffish colored slabs and plates....
1920
P-P10-20 Wilbur Caliche
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10/7/20. Caliche forms in discontinuous layers in the soil west of Wilbur at 2-4 foot depth. The layers a Alre 1-2 inches thick and ave ` foot or...
1925
P-P10-25 Hazelwood Farms well
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The deep well at the Hazelwood farm lies 7 miles west of Spokane, 4 miles west of the plateau. As reported in the log the well is 1,135 deep....
1920
P-P10-4160-20 Sunset Prairie Glacial Drift
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10/7/20 Glacial Drift: Basalt plateau W of Spokane for 4-5 miles along the Sunset Highway both sides of Deep Creek there is a moderately thick layer...
1923
P-P11-4163-23 Basalt Pleasant Prairie
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7/3/23 Quarry in Bigelow Gulch near road forks - branch going south to Millwood Exp irreg jointed basalt deeply weathered. shows tendency to weather...
1920
P-P12-20 West Grand Coulee
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10/8/20 W. wall Grand Coulee W of Steamboat rock. Showing delta at Nespelem silt level. This placemark and view matches the hand drawing on P13-4160...
1925
P-P12-25 Columan jointing on Sunset Highway
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Plate 4, B Detail of columan jointing in cut on Sunset Highway. Particular fine columns 2-3 feet in diameter are to be seen in the cut on the Sunset...
1910
P-P12-4139-10 Wright terraces
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6/17/10 In the vicinity of Wright and Athol extensive gravel terraces and between Athol and Spokane is quite smooth gravel plains. Handwriten notes...
1910
P-P12-4141-10 St. Maries departure
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Oct 25, 1910 St Maries 6:30 a Pac time. Lv St Maries 6:30 am on the "Flyer" for Coeur D'ALene. Rainy St. Joe valley below St. M. 1-4 miles wide,...
1923
P-P12-4163-23 Latah Ck SP&S cut Miocene shale
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7/4/23 Miocene Shale Slope W of Latah Cr above SP&S cut #1 Road Grade under old electric RY grade. Pardee Cursive Notes 4163
1911
P-P12-4187-11 Harvey Ck (MT) strand lines
IDAHO
9/24/11 Lake Missoula beaches Hell Gate Valley Beach lines quite plainly seen on E slop of prominent hill on W side Harvey Ct at Mouth. Up to about...
1920
P-P13-20 Grand Coulee Nespelem Silt
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10/8/20. Nespelem Silt Grand Coulee. LIght gray, think beddded horiz fine sand or silt very loosely consolidated, covers much of the floor of Grand...
1910
P-P13-4141-10 Harrison rock terraces
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Oct 25, 1910 At Harrison and below rock terraces 300 to 400' high and less prominent ones at about 50' and 100' above the lake. The smaller raviens...
1923
P-P13-4163-23 SP&S Cut #2 Miocene shale
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7/4/23 Miocene Shale SP&S cut #2 1/2 mile beyond #1 Abt 40' exp fine sandy Micenaeous shale Color chiefly light to lead grey thin rusty layers...
1920
P-P131-4189-20 Lake Pend Oreille glacial drift
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9/19/20 Glacial Drift along the north of Lake Pend Oreile. Patches also from vicinity of Clark Fork to Sandpoint. All show age conditions similar to...
1920
P-P134-4187-20 Clark Fork River gravel terraces
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9/19/20 Gravel terracxes Cabinet to Clark Fork Id. A 50 foot terrace (elev 2180, location of pin) and a 150 terrace. Both comp of medium gravel with...
1920
P-P14-20 Banks Lake erratics
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10/8/20. Granitoid Erratics Grand Coulee. Many large fragments that resemble Colville granite on floor of Grand Coulee for 8-10 miles north of Coulee...
1925
P-P14-25 Road cut at corner of Thor and 12th Ave
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A Twelfth Ave and Thor Street, Spokane, the street cut exposes a similar contact. Here a single bed of fragmented lava and pillows rests with a very...
1925
P-P14-25 The Cliff near Milan
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It is thought that the lack of regularity is due largely to the fact that the exposures most commonly observed in the vicinity of Spokane are near...
1910
P-P14-4141-10 Coeur dAlene gneiss on Tubbs HIll
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Oct 25, 1910. At foot of knoll S of Coeur D Alene Lumber Co mill, Exposed coarse gnessoid light gray abundant large ...l Muscovite... sheared...
1910
P-P14-4141-10 Coeur dAlene River glacial gravel
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10/25/10 Along beach betwen outlet and Coeur dAlene sawmill, occasional sub-angular basualt 4'x'4'x3'. a boulder granite 3' x2' x 1' a hornblende...
1920
P-P15-20 Mansfield glacial drift
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10/8/20 Glacial drivt pleateau W of Grand Coulee. Drift appears at top of hill along road from Coulee City to Mansfield. Typical morain topography...
1921
P-P15-21 Chatteroy stop
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Sept 16, 1921 To Deer Park via Pleasant Prairie & Chatteroy & return to Spokane.
1921
P-P15-21 Deer Park stop
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Sept 16, 1921 To Deer Park via Pleasant Prairie & Chatteroy & return to Spokane.
1921
P-P15-21 Pleasant Prairie stop
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Sept 16, 1921 To Deer Park via Pleasant Prairie & Chatteroy & return to Spokane.
1921
P-P15-21 Sandpoint stop
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Sept 13, 1921 To Sandpoint. Fine day.
1921
P-P15-21 Squaw (Neachen) Bay stop
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Sept 14, 1921. To Spokane via Squaw Bay & Coeur D'Aelend. Fine Day. Put up at Dever Hotel
1925
P-P15-25 Marshall terraces
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In the valley of Latah Creek and in that of Lake Creek (now Marshall CK) are large terraces at an altitude of about 2,300 feet built of gravel that...
1910
P-P15-4141-10 Coeur d'Alene basalt spur
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10/25/10 Walked N on Hayden Lake troly line about 2 m to Woodlawn. Here a basalt spur from the E wall of valley appears rounded as if moutoneed up...
1923
P-P15-4163-23 Milwaukee Cut #2 Miocene shale
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7/4/23 Cut abt 1000 feet long silt almost continuous along bottom of cut. In 2 places masses 100 ft wide and rise 200 or more into the shale....
1917
P-P15-6876-1-17 Cheney Train Observations Mima Mounds
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Aug 21, 1917. Notes along CM&SP.Ry. Ride on Obs. Platform of Olympian train from Spokane west. CHeney Wa Prominent soil dunes 10'+ high N & W of...
1917
P-P15-6876-1-17 Emden streamlined hills
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Aug 21, 1917. Notes along CM&SP.Ry. Ride on Obs. Platform of Olympian train from Spokane west. 1 Mi SE, prom flat topped hill - soil or gravel?...
1917
P-P15-6876-1-17 Marengo stream erosion
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Aug 21, 1917. Notes along CM&SP.Ry. Ride on Obs. Platform of Olympian train from Spokane west. Marengo Ry cut in gravel - from Cheny to Emden a strip...
1920
P-P156-5554-20 Grass Valley terrace gravels
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9/5/20 Terrace gravels Sections NPRY Cust Coeurd'Alene branch at curve W of Grass Valley. Both gravels show faceted stones and distinct striae obs on...
1920
P-P16-20 Deltas in Lake Lewis
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10/8/20 Deltas in Lake Lewis. Grand Coulee. Gravel terrace at mouth of small trib from E 9 miles above Coulee City. Has flat top and about 1750 elev....
1910
P-P16-4141-10 Atlas boulders
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10/25/10 At Atlast (about 2 mi) many large boulders and frags and the fine gravel which becomes coarser beyond. Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes...
1923
P-P16-4163-23 Saltese erratics
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7/7/23 Erratics E side Spokane Valley Obs on lower slopes surrounding Saltese marsh & saddle at 2440 elev W of Liberty Lake. Consist of hornb-biot...
1927
P-P16-4172-27 Washtucna caliche road cut (SV)
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9/28/27 Res NW of Washtucna. Section Exp N side road cut in Sec 19, T15-36. Center section of cut has 1-6' with lime streaks - caliche curved bedding...
1917
P-P16-6876-1-17 Lind gravel deposits
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Aug 21, 1917. Notes along CM&SP.Ry. Ride on Obs. Platform of Olympian train from Spokane west. LInd - There is considerable gravel along Lind Coulee...
1917
P-P16-6876-1-17 Marengo railroad cut
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Aug 21, 1917. Notes along CM&SP.Ry. Ride on Obs. Platform of Olympian train from Spokane west. 1/2 Mi W of Marenga - Ry cut in a heavy gravel bank...
1917
P-P16-6876-1-17 Othello view of Saddle Mt strandlines
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Aug 21, 1917. Notes along CM&SP.Ry. Ride on Obs. Platform of Olympian train from Spokane west. Othello, Looking S the E end (N slope) of Saddle mtn...
1917
P-P16-6876-1-17 Tauton ash deposits
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Aug 21, 1917. Notes along CM&SP.Ry. Ride on Obs. Platform of Olympian train from Spokane west. Taunton Good exp beds of light buff silt & gray vol....
1920
P-P17-20 Winthrop glacial till
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10/9/20 Drift of Okanogan Glacier Plateau between Mansfield and Winthrop Characteristic drift topography with many enormous erratics of basalt. A few...
1921
P-P17-21 Lidgerwood terrace
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Sept 21,1921 Short trip to Lidgerwood Terrace.
1923
P-P17-4163-23 Valleyford basalts
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7/4/23 Basalt near Spokane. Near Valleyford along Inland Empire Highway basalt flos occur as high as 2600'. Pardee Cursive Notes 4163
1917
P-P17-6876-1-17 Tauton landslides
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Aug 21, 1917. Notes along CM&SP.Ry. Ride on Obs. Platform of Olympian train from Spokane west. W. of Tauntgon Ry crosses area of landslides over N...
1920
P-P18-20 Waterville plateau basalt
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10/9/20 Waterville Plateau. Clay from basalt. Road cuts along Sunset Highway 10-15 miles _more W of Coulee City. Shown material similary to the...
1911
P-P18-4141-11 Trent gneiss hill
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11/8/11 Glacial Spokane Valley Geniss hill 1/2 m S of Trent Stat on NP. Darg gray to white banded gneiss smooth outcrops apparently glaciated. very...
1920
P-P18-4160-20 Withrow Terminal moraine
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10/9/20 A conspicuous terminal moraine trends NW/SE 1 mile north of Withrow. It is about 200-250 feet high. Handwritten notes at P18-4160. Pardee...
1923
P-P18-4163-23 Latah Ck Miocene beds
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7/5/23 Miocene beds. H. Feise's sand pit On npoint between Latah and Rock Cks (near Latah dam site) slope no Exp. Pardee Cursive Notes 4163
1927
P-P18-4172-27 Washtucna gravel streak in cut
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9/30/27 Gravel streak ini loesss bank road cut at 1475 alt. in NE4 Sec 23 T15-35. Gravel stream - basalt - ang to sub angular mostly fine some 5-6"...
1912
P-P18-6876-1-12 Belair Station gneissoid cuts
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June 14, 1912 Belair Sta. to N. Ry cuts expose gneissoid cut by dark colored dikes. Loess is discontinuous. Looks like very interesting region....
1912
P-P18-6876-1-12 Palouse River basalt erosion
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June 14, 1912 Loess exposed in Ry cuts drab or buff to pale brown in color. Palouse river in vicinity of Palouse town has eroded the loess away and...
1912
P-P18-6876-1-12 Ringold dune hill
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June 14, 1912 Ringo Sta W. of track is fine example of large dunelike hill about 100' high - unsymmetrical to the NE (insert drawing) Handwriten...
1912
P-P18-6876-1-12 Valleyford Sta sand and loess cuts
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June 14, 1912 Valleyford Sta 1/4 N. Ry cut through sand, next cut again in the loess. Looks like good place to determine relations of the two...
1912
P-P18-6876-1-12 Viola gneiss bedrock
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June 14, 1912 Ry cut on S&I.E electric Ry at Viola exposes granatoid or gneiss bedrock beneath the loess appears to be a spur from hills to the east....
1927
P-P19-4172-27 Washtucna flood channel
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9/27/27 Reservoir NW of Washtucna. Occupied a part of a stream channel that was dev by a Pleistocene flow from NE. In sec 31 - T16N36E & adj lands to...
1927
P-P19-4172-27 Washtucna steamboat hill
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9/27/27 Reservoir NW of Washtucna. "Teamboat Hill" of Palouse clay - remains in SW 4 Sesc 31 T16-35. Was an island in the ancient river. Handwriten...
1920
P-P2-20 Colfax loess
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10/4/20 Palouse "loess" or clay Section along road N of Colfax Wa near top of long grade
1920
P-P2-4160-20 Palouse "Loess"
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10/4/20 6 Miles W of Pullman is cut 20 feet deep on road to Colfax Pardee Cursive Notes 4160
1923
P-P2-4163-23 File Mile shale exposure
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6/28/23 Miocene shale. Gully SE slope File Mile Prarie 4 mi N of Spokane C.H. B 2120 1st exposure about 25' of beds exposed above stream bed on W...
1921
P-P2-6877-21 Latah Creek quaternary gravel deposits
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January 4, 1921 Walked along transcontinental line of NP Ry to the vicinity of "Outlook" siding on the SP&S then back to town on the Sp&S. A long...
1912
P-P20-4141-12 Greenacres moraine material
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1/22/1912 Glacial Spokane Valley. Riding out on trolley from Spokane to Coeur d'Alene very fine exposues of morainal material seen at Pine Creek Dair...
1920
P-P20-4160-20 Mansfield ravines
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10/9/20 Moses Coulee -- Several ravines E. of Mansfield....in which the drift is removed in places exposing the scab rock, coursing at the head of...
1920
P-P21-20 Harrington caliche
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10/10/20 Palouse clay + soil with Cailiche. NE of Harrington, from 2 miles along GN RW. Handwritten notes P22-4160. Pardee Cursive Notes 4160
1920
P-P21-20 Davenport road cuts
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10/10/20 E. of Davenport. 3-4 mile E of Davenport along Sunset highway - road cuts show typical Palouse clay. Beneath light fine sandy soil 1-4 feet...
1920
P-P21-4160-20 Odessa gravel flat
WASHINGTON
10/10/20 Delta in Lake Lewis? Gravel flat 6 miles E of Odessa (B=1800, corrected el of 1700 (this bar at 1750), altitude of Nespelem terrace. Pardee...
1927
P-P21-4172-27 Washtucna flood scarp
WASHINGTON
10/1/27 Reservoir NW of Washtucna. The basalt scarp in N2 sec 31 at head of the valley is prob receded from the end of a flow, the ancient stream...
1923
P-P22-4163-23 Division St basalt flows
WASHINGTON
7/6/23 Basalt of Spokane Falls. Division St cut N of River. B=1940' (location of pin, all developed land now) Pardee Cursive Notes 4163
1920
P-P23-4160-20 Harrrington erratics
WASHINGTON
10/10/20 Granitoid erratics. 6 m. north of Herrington along North Central Highway the first granitoid erratics observed on our trip from the S They...
1923
P-P23-4163-23 Ash & Fairview St basalt flows
WASHINGTON
7/6/23 Basalt Spokane Falls flow Ash & Fairview Sts (NW) B at foot (of) cliff 1960, B top at 2040. Pardee Cursive Notes 4163
1917
P-P23-6876-1-17 Plummer Junction loess
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Aug 22, 1917. Loess Coeurd'Aene Reservation Along CM&StP between Plummer Junction and Spokane Ry climbs from Lake Chatcolet to summit of basalt...
1927
P-P24-4172-27 Rattlesnake Coulee well of R.C. Watson
WASHINGTON
9/30/27 Rattlesnake Coulee Res South Branch. Well of R.C. Watson Sec 12 NE4 T14-33 Said (watson) 590' deep water up to nearly 500' strong flow 16' to...
1917
P-P24-6987-1-17 Kruger Mt terrace
WASHINGTON
10/16/17 Terraces - Okanogan Valley. Small but plain and well developed remnants the core on S slope Kruger Mt between 1400' and 1,500' elevation....
1917
P-P24-6987-1-17 Omak silt deposits
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10/16/17 Terraces - Okanogan Valley. Interesting section along road grad up moraine W of Omak Road grade sesctions shows deltoid structure. Fine sand...
1917
P-P24-6987-1-17 Simikameen River terrace
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10/16/17 Terraces - Okanogan Valley. 1150' terrace S bank of Simikameen Riv W of Oroville. Slide exp 100'/approx of white silt and ....by 50-' stream...
1917
P-P26-6987-1-17 Chelan Butte moraine
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10/18/17 Traverse N slope Chelan Butte. Lateral moraine 40' or so deep graves gulch s of town at elev 2050' Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes...
1917
P-P26-6987-1-17 Omak Pogue Flat glacial drift and terrace
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10/17/17 Terraces - Okanogan Valley. Pogue Flat 1200-1300' el. Comp chiefly boulder drift strongly..... and ..... glacioflumatile gravel. Handwriten...
1917
P-P26-6987-1-17 Omak Wagonroad Coulee
WASHINGTON
10/17/17 Terraces - Okanogan Valley.Wagonroad coulee strongly eroded channel Hummocky flooor, glacial drift partly overlain by silts. Handwriten...
1922
P-P29-22 Plaza Gravel Pit w. decomposed basalt
WASHINGTON
This gravel pit described via Kirk Bryan in his 1926 paper THE "PALOUSE SOIL" PROBLEM WITH AN ACCOUNT OF ELEPHANT REMAINS IN WIND-BORNE SOIL ON THE...
1920
P-P3-20 Colfax decomposed basalt
WASHINGTON
10/4/20 Decomposed basalt Palouse Country - Road cut just beyond long grade N from Colfax. Also P4-4160 for additional details and drawing
1922
P-P3-22 Shelley Lake
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May 29, 1922 To Shelley Lake near Vera. Fine day.
1922
P-P3-22 Five Mile Prairie
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June 5, 1922 Five Mile Prairie & 9 mile school
1922
P-P3-22 Hillyard stop
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May 30, 1922 To Hillyard and Chester.
1922
P-P3-22 Loon Lake stop
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June 4, 1922 Loon Lake, fine day
1922
P-P3-22 Oakesdale stop
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May 25, 1922 To Oakesdale. Put up at home of John H Bailor
1922
P-P3-22 Pullman stop
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May 26, 22 Stop at Russell House in Pullman
1922
P-P3-22 Tyler stop
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June 3, 1922 To Tyler and Waukon
1922
P-P3-22 Waukon stop
WASHINGTON
June 3, 1922 To Tyler and Waukon
1920
P-P32-4187-20 3 Mile Ck terrace erratic
IDAHO
9/1/20 Erratics Lake Missoula. Porch's ranch. Terrace N of 3 Mile Cr. B=3810' Granite somewhat gneissic 7x7x5 high. On surface over loose gravel....
1920
P-P32-4187-20 Cowell Butte Erratics and beaches
IDAHO
8/31/20 Erratics Lake Missoula. Ravine W of Cowell Butte. 3 pieces medium grained gray granites not schists. B=3825. From Pardee's 1910 Paper on...
1922
P-P32-8966-22 Schuler well log
WASHINGTON
6/5/22 G Schuler Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes 8966
1927
P-P33-4172-27 Rattlesnake Resv Dam Site
WASHINGTON
9/30/27 Rattlesnake Res N. Branch. Damsite in Sec 1 T14-33 Well defined stream channel 10'-15' wide gravel (basalt) bed. Bedrock prob near. Cross...
1927
P-P34-4172-27 McChesney Spring sand dunes
WASHINGTON
9/30/27 McChesney Springs. Exp N bank of Wind deflated hollow S22 T15-34 Yellow sand, lite gran fine aeolian sand, active dunes. Handwriten notes...
1921
P-P34-4187-21 Tuscor Hill erratics
IDAHO
9/12/21 Erratics and gravel. Tuscor Hill near Noxon Mt. Summit at road crossing about 300 feet above valley floor opposite a terrace at 500 feet...
1917
P-P34-6876-1-17 Castle Peak
WASHINGTON
10/15/17 Castle Peak (Wenatchee quad) Erosional remnant of dike or nect, cutting the seds (varigated light colored vol ash, clay and arkose sands in...
1922
P-P34-8966-22 F.J Hoscheif well log
WASHINGTON
6/5/22 FJ Hoscheif Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes 8966
1922
P-P35-8966-22 Geo. Detlaff well log
WASHINGTON
6/5/22 G Schuler Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes 8966
1921
P-P36-4187-21 Butler Creek hill drift
IDAHO
9/6/21 Erratics of Lake Msla Old (Pioneer) Drift on the mills N of Missoula. Hill betwen Butler & Ravalli (now "La Valle" ) creeks about 10 acres on...
1917
P-P36-6876-1-17 Wenatchee RR cut boulders (SV)
WASHINGTON
10/14/17 Subway roadcut S of GN depot Wenatchee bank 15' boulders up to 8' diameter consist of gneiss & granite .. schist (decomp) greenstone all...
1940
P-P37-6876-1-40 Wenatchee Bridge deposits
WASHINGTON
6/19/1940 Torential or glacial? Columbia river valley at Wenatchee Bridge. A.C. Waters is of the opinion that this deposit (see ref in earlier notes)...
1922
P-P38-6876-1-22 Deep Creek basalt layers
WASHINGTON
5/21/22 Basalt in Deep Cr. Canyon Sec across canyon 3/4 mile above mouth. Valley cut in old basalt & shale - filled with newer lava flow & partly...
1922
P-P38-8966-22 G.E Schuglen well log
WASHINGTON
6/4/22 G.E. Schuglen 1418 W fairwell Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes 8966
1920
P-P4-20 St. John gravel pit
WASHINGTON
10/5/20 Quarry west of St. John shows rather complete change Also P5-4160 Hand written notes for additional detail
1920
P-P4-20 Steptoe loess
WASHINGTON
10-5-20 Palouse Loess -- Steptoe to Eway Pleasant Valley - cut down into the basalt from a point a few miles W of Steptoe. Road cuts at seveal places...
1922
P-P4-22 Burbank stop
WASHINGTON
June 13, 1922. To Pasco. Eureka. Touchet & Burbank for the nite. Fine day
1922
P-P4-22 Connell stop
WASHINGTON
June 12, 1922 To Connell. Fine Day
1922
P-P4-22 Eureka stop
WASHINGTON
June 13, 1922. To Pasco. Eureka. Touchet & Burbank for the nite. Fine day
1922
P-P4-22 Kahlotus stop
WASHINGTON
June 14, 1922 To Kahlotus, Washtucna & Lacrosse for the night
1922
P-P4-22 LaCrosse stop
WASHINGTON
June 8, 1922 Sprague to LaCrosse via Winona & Ewan.
1922
P-P4-22 Lind stop
WASHINGTON
June 9, 1922 LaCrosse to Lind via Wahtucna. Showers.
1922
P-P4-22 Newport stop
WASHINGTON
June 6, 1922. To Newport. Fine Day. Sampson arrived this evening.
1922
P-P4-22 Pasco stop
WASHINGTON
June 13, 1922. To Pasco. Eureka. Touchet & Burbank for the nite. Fine day
1922
P-P4-22 Spangle Stop
WASHINGTON
June 7, 1922 Sampson left for Talache, Id. To Sprague via Spangle.
1922
P-P4-22 Touchet stop
WASHINGTON
June 13, 1922. To Pasco. Eureka. Touchet & Burbank for the nite. Fine day
1922
P-P4-22 Washtucna stop
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June 9, 1922 LaCrosse to Lind via Wahtucna. Showers.
1922
P-P4-22 Winona stop
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June 8, 1922 Sprague to LaCrosse via Winona & Ewan.
1910
P-P4-4139-10 Hope Idaho
WASHINGTON
Hope Idaho Arriv 1:45 pm June 12, '10. New water town on hill back of town. A small rock terrace bears a little medium fine gravel with rolled...
1910
P-P4-4139-10 Petroleum and Gas claim
WASHINGTON
June 13, 1910. Route: Hope by motor boat to N. Fork of Clark Fork 1 mile , thense arond to the mouth of the South fork and landing on S shore of Lake...
1923
P-P4-4163-23 Crater Basin basalt knobs
WASHINGTON
6/29/23 1 1/2 mile W of Ft Wright Spokane "crater basin' knob basin due to sapping from under layers? (see detailed drawing in notes) Pardee Cursive...
1927
P-P4-4172-27 C.E Cox Washtucna well
WASHINGTON
9/27/27 Reservoir site NW of Washtucna Wa. Wells C.E. Cox NE4 Sec 30 T15N Alt 1530 Drilled Well. 230'. Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes 4172
1922
P-P40-8966-22 City of Lind well log
WASHINGTON
6/10/22 Town of Lind Well Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes 8966
1912
P-P42-6876-1-12 James Canyon erratics
WASHINGTON
7/1/12 Road down James canyon N of Wilber. Two or more large angular grangs of granidoid lie on basalt about 900' above river. prob dropped from ice...
1912
P-P42-6876-1-12 San Poil river terraces
WASHINGTON
7/1/12 Pleistocene terraces Columbia & San Poil rivers. In vicinity of San Poil Ferry terraces developed on either side Col River at elev approx...
1912
P-P43-6876-1-12 Keller Erratics
WASHINGTON
7/6/12 Pleistocene erratics Keller Sec 5 (t29-333) near 600' adit on Walla Walla claims (300') at elev 1700' about boulder of medium textured...
1912
P-P43-6876-1-12 Meadow Creek Erratics
WASHINGTON
7/6/12 Pleistocene erratics Meadow Cr tp several bowlders of same granite noted in keller lie on slopes along Meado creek in vicinity of Jaunots...
1922
P-P43-8966-22 City of Ritzville well log
WASHINGTON
6/12/22 Town of Ritzville Well (6 different wells and 1 drilling) Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes 8966
1912
P-P44-6876-1-12 Bridge Creek moraine
WASHINGTON
7/18/12 Valley of Bridge Cr. Heavy moraine along Bridge Cr 1-2 miles below Congress mine. Elv top of moraine 2250' or about 600' above San Poil...
1912
P-P44-6876-1-12 Cache Creek ice level
WASHINGTON
7/18/12 Ice was about 600' deep at mouth of Cache Creek. Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes 6876-1
1912
P-P44-6876-1-12 Capoose Ranch moraine
WASHINGTON
7/18/12 Partly obscured moraine at lower end of Cappose ranch 1 sec below Bridge Cr. Below Cache Cr erratics and morainal material plentiful....
1922
P-P44-8966-22 City of Odessa well log
WASHINGTON
6/10/22 Town of Odessa Well Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes 8966
1912
P-P47-6876-1-12 Nespelem late ice moraine
WASHINGTON
7/3/12 It appears the the moraine in the s 1/2 Sec 15 Tp 33N31E marks the S. limit of later ice and earlier invasions reached as far at least as...
1912
P-P47-6876-1-12 Owhi Lake moraine
WASHINGTON
9/5/12 Extensive moraine south of Owhi Lake to W head of Little Nespelem River. Typical potato hill forms with numbers of huge erratics 90% of which...
1912
P-P48-6876-1-12 Fruitland glaciation limits
WASHINGTON
10/5/12 Fruitland - Deer Trail Country. Fine view of this country from above summit. Wide valley trending S. Filled with silt and gravel thru which...
1922
P-P48-8966-22 City of Almira well log
WASHINGTON
6/20/22 Town of Odessa Well Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes 8966
1912
P-P49-6876-1-12 Ninemile Ck falls
WASHINGTON
10/3/12. Statement of Mr Robt Stoltesburg. Ck falls 500' in 1 mile above mouth in may small leaps, one of 50' or more. This apparently correct as the...
1920
P-P5-20 St. John loess
WASHINGTON
10/5/20 Palouse Loess Steptoe to Ewan. In/general the loess (clay) has the same appearance and characteristics as noted elsewhere. East of St. John...
1922
P-P5-22 Almira stop
WASHINGTON
June 19, 22. Left Spokane 3 pm to Mondovi, Davenport, Wilber & Almira for the night. Stop at Almira hotel
1922
P-P5-22 Dry Falls
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June 21,1922 Pardee visited Dry Falls
1922
P-P5-22 Ephrata
WASHINGTON
June 15 1922 Stayed night in Ephrata after Winona, Ralston, Line, Nespel. Fine Day
1922
P-P5-22 Hartline stop
WASHINGTON
JUne 16, 22. Overnight in Hartline after visit to Marlin, Krupp, Grand coulee, Steambboat Rock
1922
P-P5-22 Lincoln
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June 22, 22. Wilbur N to brink of Columbia gorge at Symons ranch, to Creston Peach & Lincoln stop at Lincoln Hotel
1922
P-P5-22 Mansfield stop
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June 20, 22. North from Almira to head of Grand Coulee to Coulee City to Mansfield. Overnight at Cross hotel.
1922
June 17, 22. Visited Odessa from Wilber to Spokane
1922
P-P5-22 Wilbur stop
WASHINGTON
June 21, 1922. Mansfield to brink of Columbia to Paternos back to Pilot Rock, Dry Falls, Coulee City and Wilber.
1923
P-P5-23/25 SP&S railroad cut #1 -shale
WASHINGTON
7/1/23 Several cuts along the Spokane, Portland & Seattle and Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railways in the city of Spokane west of Latah Creek...
1925
P-P5-25 Deep Creek fossil leaves (and P-P39-6876-1-22)
WASHINGTON
On the west bank of Deep Creek about half a mile above its mouth, at a locality that is shown in plate IIIA and that has yielded a large part of the...
1923
P-P5-4163-23 Indian Canyon falls fossilif. shale
WASHINGTON
6/29/23 Indian Canyon Looking up at falls 1/2 mile below Sunset Highway. (see detailed drawing in notes) fossiliferous shale exp 20' prob 40' thick...
1922
P-P50-8966-22 Lamont well log
WASHINGTON
6/8/22 Lamont Well for SP&SCo 3 artesian wells reported in vicinity Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes 8966
1922
P-P52-8966-22 City of Sprague well log
WASHINGTON
6/8/22 Town of Sprague Well Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes 8966
1922
P-P53-8966-22 Palouse Falls well log
WASHINGTON
June 1922 (est, no date on log) Log of well drilled at Palouse Falls Wash byh N.C. Jounsen, Portland Ore (or Yakima) (pin location approximate, no...
1922
P-P55-8966-22 La Crosse well log
WASHINGTON
6/9/22 LaCrosse City well log at 90' (1560) above town (pin is at city water tank) Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes 8966
1912
P-P57-6876-1-12 Fallbridge gravels
WASHINGTON
10/19/12 Columbia Riv valley below Pasco. On S.P.&S train Portland to Spokane. Vicinity of Fallbridge. Remmanents of horiz bedded gravels overlie the...
1917
P-P59-6876-1-17 Moses Coulee delta
WASHINGTON
10/26/17 Moses Coulee went dry when river at 850'-900. Potholes went dry when river at 100-1100 elev. Wagnersburg delta same elevation. (see detailed...
1917
P-P59-6876-1-17 Wagnersburg delta
WASHINGTON
10/26/17 Moses Coulee went dry when river at 850'-900. Potholes went dry when river at 100-1100 elev. Wagnersburg delta same elevation. (see detailed...
1920
P-P6-20 Ewan scabland channels
WASHINGTON
10/5/20 Glacial erosion Channels Along W. border - Palouse Country. At Ewan the Palouse country suddenly ends + the Coulee country begis. This is a...
1922
P-P6-22 Edwall stop
WASHINGTON
June 27, 1922. Reardan to Edall, Sprague, Marcellus, Ritzville, Malden for the night. Put up at Empire Hotel. Fine day but rather hot.
1922
P-P6-22 Ford stop
WASHINGTON
June 24, 1922 Springdale to Spokane via Ford, Long Lake & Country Club. Fine day.
1922
P-P6-22 Fruitland stop
WASHINGTON
June 23,22 Lincoln to Fruitland Hunters & Springdale for the night. Fine day
1922
P-P6-22 Hunters Stop
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June 23,22 Lincoln to Fruitland Hunters & Springdale for the night. Fine day
1922
P-P6-22 Lone Mt stop
WASHINGTON
June 29, 1922. Lone Mts and Rathdrum
1922
P-P6-22 Long Lake
WASHINGTON
June 24,22 Springdale to Spokane via Ford and Long Lake
1922
P-P6-22 Malden stop
WASHINGTON
June 27, 1922. Reardan to Edall, Sprague, Marcellus, Ritzville, Malden for the night. Put up at Empire Hotel. Fine day but rather hot.
1922
P-P6-22 Mt. Hope stop
WASHINGTON
June 28, 1922. From Maden to Plaza, Waverly, Fairfield, Rockford, Mt. Hope & Spokane. Fine day.
1922
P-P6-22 Plaza stop
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June 28, 1922. From Maden to Plaza, Waverly, Fairfield, Rockford, Mt. Hope & Spokane. Fine day.
1922
P-P6-22 Rathdrum stop
WASHINGTON
June 29, 1922. Lone Mts and Rathdrum
1922
P-P6-22 Reardan stop
WASHINGTON
June 26, 1922. Spokane to Davenport, Egypt, Peach, Creston & Reardan for the night. Fine day
1922
P-P6-22 Rockford stop
WASHINGTON
June 28, 1922. From Maden to Plaza, Waverly, Fairfield, Rockford, Mt. Hope & Spokane. Fine day.
1922
P-P6-22 Sprague with Large
WASHINGTON
June 25, 1922 Drive Large to Sprague and back
1922
P-P6-22 Springdale
WASHINGTON
June 23,22 Lincoln to Fruitland Hunters & Springdale for the night. Fine day
1922
P-P6-22 Waverly stop
WASHINGTON
June 28, 1922. From Maden to Plaza, Waverly, Fairfield, Rockford, Mt. Hope & Spokane. Fine day.
1923
P-P6-23/25 Biglow Gulch shale
WASHINGTON
7/3/23 Along the road up Biglow Gulch about 2 miles northeast of HIllyard the shale is exposed an an altitude of 2,200 feet. First visted in 23,...
1925
P-P6-23/25 Vera(dale) clay pits
WASHINGTON
6/29/23 Somer's clay pits, about 2 miles south of Vera (now Veradale), expose 20 or 20 feet of compact micaceous white, yellow and red clay in nearly...
1925
P-P6-25 13th Ave and Perry St., Spokane
WASHINGTON
At Thirteenth Ave and Perry St, in the southeastern part of Spokane, thin-bedded soft sediments that range from clay to fine sandstone are exposed to...
1925
P-P6-25 Fivemile Prairie cuts (north)
WASHINGTON
Very light-colored beds that contain abundant fossil leaves and are composed of clay, fine quartz sand, and white mica crop out at an altitude of...
1925
P-P6-25 Fivemile Prairie ravine
WASHINGTON
Very light-colored beds that contain abundant fossil leaves and are composed of clay, fine quartz sand, and white mica crop out at an altitude of...
1925
P-P6-25 Indian Canyon fossiliferous shale
WASHINGTON
in Indian Canyon, above the falls, is a small exposure of fossiliferous shale at an altitude of 2,200 feet, just above the outcrop of a basalt flow.
1925
P-P6-25 Latah Ck sand pit
WASHINGTON
On the front of the spur between Latah and Lake (now Marshall) creeks half a mile east of a cut on the SP&SRR a sand pit shows the following:.... the...
1925
P-P6-25 Medimont, ID sediments
WASHINGTON
Above Medimont in the valley of Coeur d'Alene River, about 35 miles east-southeast of Spokane, are fine white and varigated sediments described by...
1925
P-P6-25 Mica specimens
WASHINGTON
Specimens optained at MIca, Wash are said to have come from a well at an altitude of 2,450 feet. They consist of brownish-gray clay or shale that is...
1925
P-P6-25 Stanley Hill fossils in well
WASHINGTON
A particularly valuable part of the fossil collection came from a well on the Edwards ranch, about 2 miles northeast of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. When...
1927
P-P6-4172-27 Earl Baker Washtucna well
WASHINGTON
9/27/27 Reservoir site NW of Washtucna Wa. Well Earl Baker well T15-36 SW4 Sec 18 400 ' deep alt 1470. Handwritten notes Pardee Cursive Notes 4172
1921
P-P6-6876-1-21 Spokane oil seep
WASHINGTON
9/19/21 Oil seep & supposed oil shales at Spokane. Oil Seep. In a cellar about 6 ft deep with earth floor at 1029 Southeast Boulevard. A small hole...
1917
P-P61-6876-1-17 Sherman Sta terrace
WASHINGTON
2/4/1917 River valley E of Dalles Oregon. Opp. Sherman Sta on OWRN .... terrace is shown N of river for dist of 1/2 mile or more. Terrace lies on...
1931
P-P65-6876-1-31 Big Sheep Creek Lick C moraine
OREGON
8/18/31 Glacial Wallowa County. Big Sheep C - Lick C. Heavy moraine in forks of these streams. Boulders ice greenstone dorite, gabbro, prplyned......
1931
P-P65-6876-1-31 Canyons of Imnaha River
WASHINGTON
8/18/31 Glacial Wallowa County. Big Sheep C - Lick C. Heavy moraine in forks of these streams. Boulders ice greenstone dorite, gabbro, prplyned......
1931
P-P65-6876-1-31 Skookum Ck glaciated outcrops
OREGON
8/18/31 Canyon of Imnaha River At Skookum Ck shows glaciated outcrops of greenstone & scattered patches of drift to top of river Ice must have been...
1911
P-P69-4187-11 Bearmouth Lake Missoula sediments
IDAHO
6/9/11 Lke Missoula sediments near Bearmouth Mont. Railway cuts (sec CM&PS sheet 13) in SE4 Sec 11 and SE4 Section 12 T11NR14W. Exposed horizontally...
1920
P-P7-20 Cheney Erratics
WASHINGTON
10/5/20 Glacial erratics SW of Spokane 6 mi SW of Cheney. Granitoid erratic 5 ft x 3 feet lying on Basalt Also P8-4160 for handwritten notes.
1910
P-P7-4139-10 Bernard Peak bedrock outcrops @4,500
WASHINGTON
6/15/10. Route from "Idlewild" southerly up to 4,500 level of Bernard Peak.. above the morainal hillocks, first outcrop of bedrock observed gray...
1920
P-P7-4187-20 Cabinet strand lines
WASHINGTON
9/19/20 Lake Missoula beaches. Several distinct strand lines shown on slopes S of Heron and ... a hill SE of Clark Fork Id (about S of Cabinet) ... a...
1912
P-P7-6876-1-12 Division St glacial outwash
WASHINGTON
6/16/12 Between Spokane River and File Mile Prairie which is a flat topped basalt mesa 400' high - old valley is deeply filled with glacial outwash...
1912
P-P7-6876-1-12 Pantops St. gravel cut
WASHINGTON
6/17/12 Pantops Sta on I&IE Ry. South Spokane Ry cut exp 50' back coarse pebblye sand and fine gravel containing numerous avg and subavg frags of...
1913
P-P7-6876-2-13 Duley Lake alkaline ponds
WASHINGTON
8/7/13 Alkaline Lakes, Okanogan Plateau. Ponds show white incrustation around edges of pond, 2 mi NW of Duley Lake. Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive...
1913
P-P79-6786-1-13 Park City
WASHINGTON
7/21/13 Park City lies in a deformation that is all old. N-S valley at 3000' elev Prob Strawberry Cr & upper Gold Cr formerly flowed through this...
1913
P-P79-6876-1-13 W Fork of Sanpoil River drift
WASHINGTON
7/19/13 Physiography TS 34-31 and 33-31 Sec. 12 Steep slope above W Fk (Sanpoil R) shows small bunches of drift up to 500' above stream. Handwriten...
1920
P-P8-20 Moran Prairie Glacial Drift
WASHINGTON
10/6/20 Glacial Drift Vicinity of Spokane. W. side of Moran Prairie (spokane topo) Medium to fine gravel. Chiefly basalt cobbles. prob. carried by...
1920
P-P8-20 Pantops moraine
WASHINGTON
10/6/20 East Spokane and Pantops sta. on S.+I.E. Ry. Large granite, gneiss + schist erratics plentiful + in places, they occur with material that...
1912
P-P8-6876-1-12 Hangman Cr terraces
WASHINGTON
Extensive terraces in valley of Hangman Cr (Lata Ch) between Spolake and Marshall . Partly rock cut, but chiefly of horizontally bedded sands and...
1912
P-P8-6876-1-12 Marshall gravel deposits
WASHINGTON
6/14/12 1/4 mile N of Marshall Ry cut exposes loose coarse sand, boulders...hued with sub ang pebbles & cobbles and a few boulders. some of which are...
1913
P-P8-6876-2-13 Omak Creek cascades
WASHINGTON
8/9/13 Omak Cr cascades - this narrror tortuous post glacial gorge in granitoid Nesp gr. 100' of face. Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes 6876-2
1913
P-P8-6876-2-13 Omak Lake sample
WASHINGTON
8/9/13 Took 1 gal sample of water from bay in NE end of Lake. Elev -1100; (current el 956'). Pass from (St. Maries) Missions S to head of lake....
1913
P-P80-6876-1-13 Glaciated township 34-31
WASHINGTON
7/18/13 to 7/21/13 Glacial Tp 34-31 whole TS glaciated Outcrops of bedrock mountoneed - especialy on N. side of higher slopes. Ice moved southward in...
1913
P-P81-6876-1-13 Nesplem erratic boulder
WASHINGTON
7/25/13 Glacial Tp 31-31 Photo 13 Erratic boulder of Nesplem Gr on pedestal 2' high of ... Nw4 sec 17 Tp 32-31 Underside of boulder planed flat rests...
1922
P-P82-6876-1-22 City of Reardan well log
WASHINGTON
NPRy Co well in Reardan, WA Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes 6876-1
1922
P-P83-6876-1-22 City of Cheney well log
WASHINGTON
NPRy Co well in Reardan, WA Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes 6876-1
1922
P-P83-6878-1-22 Eltopia Well Log
WASHINGTON
Eltopia Well log NPRYco NE 1/4 sec 11 T 11 R30E Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes 6876-1
1922
P-P86-6878-1-22 Cactus well log
WASHINGTON
Cactus well log NPRYco sec 16 T 13 R31E Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes 6876-1
1922
P-P86-6878-1-22 Mesa well log
WASHINGTON
Mesa well log NPRYco SE 1/4 sec 13 T 11 R30E Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes 6876-1
1922
P-P88-6878-1-22 Connell well log
WASHINGTON
6/12/22 (assumed) Connell well log NPRYco sec 25 T 14 R31E Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes 6876-1
1922
P-P88-6878-1-22 Lind NPRR well log
WASHINGTON
6/10/22 (assumed) Lind well log NPRYco sec 13 T 17 R33E Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes 6876-1
1925
P-P9-25 Davenport Hotel Well
WASHINGTON
In the city of Spokane the well in the Davenport Hotel, after passing through 430 feet of gravel and basalt, entered shale and sand and ended in...
1925
P-P9-25 Duncan ridge
WASHINGTON
The Latah formation extends up Latah Creek about 10 miles to Duncan, where a ridge of granite and other rocks is exposed by the erosion of the valley.
1925
P-P9-25 Mt. Hope Hinch well
WASHINGTON
The Hinch well, near Mount Hope, east of the crrk, in the SW 1/4 section 14, T22N., R44E., penetrates 53 feet of soil....
1925
P-P9-25 Oil well drilled E29th ave and Southeast BLVD
WASHINGTON
Several wells, about which conflicting stories are current and much misinformation exists, were drilled in a vain search for oil near the...
1921
P-P9-4187-21 Heron strand lines
IDAHO
9/13/21 Lake Missoula beaches. Heron (MT) Hill S 50 degrees E shows 2 forms beaches higher one near top, slope 50 est dist 2 miles 900' above valley...
1912
P-P9-687-1-12 Plaza basalt cut
WASHINGTON
6/14/12 1/2 mile N of Plaza, County road, west of Ry track exposed basalt beneather the loess. Lookes like good place to observe the contact and...
1912
P-P9-6876-1-12 Marshall prairie country
WASHINGTON
6/14/12 South of Marshall the railroad (N.P) climbs out on the prairie coungtry. Level surface of basalt flows with shaollow soil. bears scabbly...
1912
P-P9-6876-1-12 Spangle palouse hills transition
WASHINGTON
6/14/12 At Spangle rolling country begins and timber ends. Small dunes of loess first appear over the level basalt surface that give place further on...
1913
P-P9-6876-2-13 Duley Lake glacial scoring
WASHINGTON
8/7/13 Glacial Scorings Okanogan plateau - W of Duley Lake. Top of bas. sliff shows patch of bare basalt (scabrock) alternating with small soil...
1922
P-P90-6878-1-22 Cunningham NPRR well log
WASHINGTON
6/9/22 (assumed) Cunningham well log NPRYco sec 33 T 16 R32E Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes 6876-1
1922
P-P91-6878-1-22 Ritzville NPRR well log
WASHINGTON
6/12/22 (assumed) Ritzville well log NPRYco sec 33 T 16 R32E Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes 6876-1
1922
P-P93-6878-1-22 Keystone NPRR well log
WASHINGTON
6/12/22 (assumed) Ritzville well log NPRYco sec 9 T 20 R37E Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes 6876-1
1922
P-P93-6878-1-22 Sprague NPRR well log
WASHINGTON
6/8/22 (assumed) Sprague well log NPRYco NE 1/4 sec 23 T 21 R35E Handwriten notes Pardee Cursive Notes 6876-1
P1-151925
Altitude at Clarkia, on Milwaukee branchline.... Bretz Field Notes
P1-161916
July 15, 1916 Region around Springdale looks like the Willapa terrace. Hills dissected and rolling but notably flatter than that below or above along...
P1-161916
Troutdale gravel cliffs
OREGON
Great cliffs of gravel along the Columbia Highway from Troutdale bridge to the Portland Auto Club bridge. Gravel contains much qtzite. Bretz Field...
P1-191919
Lyle Highway to Goldendale
WASHINGTON
Highway follows Klickitat Valley for first 1 1/2-2 mi, but climbs notably. Then swings eastward up a trib. valley and at about 5 1/2-6 mi. from Lyle...
P1-201920
Colfax is in the bottom of this valley, steep sided but fairly flat and broad on the bottom. Rock walls up to top of cliffs, in many places. Bretz...
P1-201920
In a real stream valley, however, and from here to Elberton plenty of rock in walls of the narrow valley. Perhaps the broad valley and mature...
P1-221922
Garden Springs - NPRR RR Cuts
WASHINGTON
NPRR on east side of Latah Creek, only gravel exposed Bretz Field Notes
P1-221922
Garden Springs O-W RR Cuts
WASHINGTON
4 cuts here on each RR in 2 miles distance Upper RR is SP&S, Lower railroad was OW, now Fish Lake Trail. Chiefly in Basalt along O-WRR Bretz Field...
P1-221922
Garden Springs SP&S RR Cuts
WASHINGTON
4 cuts here on each RR in 2 miles distance Upper RR is SP&S, Lower railroad was OW, now Fish Lake Trail. Chiefly in shale along SP&S, tho basalt and...
P1-221922
Pantops Gravel Pit
WASHINGTON
North of Station on west of track is large gravel pit The gravel is fresh, dark gray in color, current-bedded with dip to southward. Depth exposed is...
P1-221922
Pantops Station on IEE RR
WASHINGTON
1/4 mile east of Pantops Station. Gneissic granite, schistosity dipping 35 degrees to SE...Pegmatite veins and dikes. 8/1/22 Bretz Field Notes
P1-221922
Pit Mile North of Pantops
WASHINGTON
A Pit about a mile N of Pantops on northward slope of the basalt mesa here, shows the same thing as at Pantops. Altitude is about 25 feet higher than...
P1-231923
Browns Butte saddle erratics
WASHINGTON
Brown's Butte is a quartzite Hill projecting... on summit of saddle east.... north slope..erratics above 2500.. ( this placemark at ~2,500) Bretz...
P1-231923
Latah Creek Brown Till
WASHINGTON
In Latah Creek Valley about a mile south of Parental School, Roadside section show a brown.... Bretz Field Notes
P1-231923
Paradise Prairie
WASHINGTON
This tract, between NPRR on west and Latah Creek on east bears scattered granites.... Bretz Field Notes
P1-231923
Parental School
WASHINGTON
280 E Meadowlane Rd Bretz Field Notes
P1-251925
Almira Road loess
WASHINGTON
The white silts.... deposit along the Almira Road at the angle between the coulee and Columbia is a terrace Bretz Field Notes
P1-251925
Oscar Osborne ranch bar
WASHINGTON
A splendid bar.... lies in an alcove in the coulee's east wall just south of the fairly continuous granite ridge near Oscar Osborne's Ranch.. (Town...
1925
P1-25-Hunter's Landing
WASHINGTON
...traverse to Hunter's Landing (believed to now be Hawley's Landing CG) Bretz Field Notes
P1-261926
In a topograpic setting of waste-covered mountain slopes....almost vertical cliffs...Such is the contrast at Red Rock Pass Bretz Field Notes
P1-291929
The lower parts exposed in only one place seen the bluff east of the river a mile north of Florence. Bretz Field Notes
P1-291929
Bitterroot Valley with nearly uniform width of 8 miles from Missoula south to Hamilton Bretz Field Notes
P1-521952
Clarkston Gravel Pit (Silcott Island)
WASHINGTON
Clarkston, June 17, 2953 (Alone) In secs. 20 and 21, T 11N, R45 E., the bottom of Snake River canyon is 3/4 mile across, somewhat of a widening of...
P10-161916
Basalt outcrops and fragments of basalt along the trail up to 1300 ft. At this altitude is an outcrop in the trail of an agglomeratic or...
P10-201920
Up from Goble, at 325 ft A.T. and exposure along road of stratif. gravel, most of whose consitituents are much decayed. Granite present. Bretz Field...
P10-201920
Rainier cuts (SV)
WASHINGTON
Along the Col. R. Highway west out of Rainier, gravel is exposed in different cuts from 200 ft above the station to 380 feet above. Bretz Field Notes
P10-201920
Rainier Station road
WASHINGTON
From Goble to Rainier by the very poor road over the hill, there are not exposures. No pebbles of any sort were seen. Road climbs 1000 ft above the...
P10-201920
St. Helens basalt
WASHINGTON
July 29-1920. Basalt at St. Helens, Washburn's recent or Pliocene lava about Goble. Bretz Field Notes
P10-221922
Five Mile Prairie
WASHINGTON
Five Mile Prairie flanked orignally by outwash Bretz Field Notes
P10-221922
Lidgerwood Terrance
WASHINGTON
Outwash Terraces - Lidgerwood Terrace (aka North Hill) at 200+ feet east of 5 Mile prarie Highpoint of terrace is 2035 Bretz Field Notes
P10-221922
Northern Part of Five Mile -- Erratics
WASHINGTON
Northern Part of File Mile Prarie, especially on the brink along the hill road, is strew with glacial erratics Bretz Field Notes
P10-231923
Palouse Canyon, Park Station
WASHINGTON
Granite bldr at Park Station, at bridge in canyon. Bretz Field Notes
P10-241924
Alpowa - here valley broadens as Lewiston Syncline is reached (Alpowa is now Silcott Island) Bretz Field Notes
P10-241924
Sloping terrace on north side Bretz Field Notes
P10-241924
Starbuck-Kellogg Ck Valley
WASHINGTON
See Tucannon Valley (Kellogg Cr Valley ) at Starbuck. Here the basalt gravel reaches 4 miles back Bretz Field Notes
P10-251925
Grand Forks BC
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Republic to Grand Forks to Kettle Falls Sunday Aug 9 Bretz Field Notes
P10-251925
between Three Forks and Aladdin is a deep notch also on P174-26 Bretz Field Notes
P10-251925
Between three forks and Aladdin is a deep notch, two or three miles long across from Mill Creek Bretz Field Notes
P10-251925
Bonaparte Lake Valley
WASHINGTON
Eden Valley and Bonaparte Lake Valley both are .. Bretz Field Notes
P10-251925
Chesaw Trip Valley of Antoine Cr and region SW of Chesaw... Bretz Field Notes
P10-251925
Eden Valley and Bonaparte Lake valley both are long, flat-floored valleys Bretz Field Notes
P10-251925
Gravels east of Colville (SV)
WASHINGTON
Delta-bedded gravels in scarp above the silt plain a mile or two east of Colville.... A gravel terrace flat east of Colville at 1850 Bretz Field Notes
P10-251925
Kettle Falls Amphibole Gneiss (SV)
WASHINGTON
Very striking glaciated amphibole gneiss at Kettle Falls Bretz Field Notes
P10-251925
Laurier deposits
WASHINGTON
Large deposits of splendidly varv-bedded silts in Kettle River Valley south of Laurier Bretz Field Notes
P10-261926
Southward from Anatone (a little E of S stretches the plane surface of the rising Plateau Bretz Field Notes
P10-261926
The plateau immediately south of Asotin as... Bretz Field Notes
P10-261926
A large gravel deposit in Snake River Valley At Silcott Bretz Field Notes
P10-281928
LIke Union flat, Rebel Flat, Willow Creek Valley, Pleasant Valley, etc, in its low gradient for many miles. Decends into its canyon as far as Hay...
P10-291929
Near Cobden, the terrace top is about 100 feet above the river and only the upper 30 feet or so is silt. Gravel lies beneath. Bretz Field Notes
P10-291929
Perma high-level fills
IDAHO
But the most interesting and most puzzling forms seen between Plains and Perma are the high-level fills in the larger steep-grade gulches. At least a...
P10-291929
Plains Silt Terraces
IDAHO
A mile or so east of Plains is the typical glacial silt in terraces 40 feet and more... Bretz Field Notes
P10-291929
North of Plains, a wide structural valley leads north from the river valley. Its mouth contains a great terrrace of clay or silt 120 feet high in its...
P10-291929
Thompson Falls and eastward. July 4, 1929 The "moraine" that Davis describes here is a very exceptional feature of valley fill and must be seen in...
P10-521952
DeRuwe Ranch and vicinity
WASHINGTON
June 20 (Alone) The rock-terraced shoulders of Fields Gulch north of the bar blockade clearly do not record a broad valley floor, comparable with the...
P100-271927
Emigrant Buttes
WASHINGTON
Emigrant Buttes have scabland!! It is not striking: the ledges are only a few feet high and very limited. Only the western edges of the summits...
P100-271927
Hermiston Butte
WASHINGTON
To accompany this scabland topograhy of Umatilla Butte, Hermiston Butte, the section 22 buttes and Emigrant Buttes is a prodigious amount of gravel....
1919
P100C-19 Prosser Horse Heaven rise
WASHINGTON
HHH rise as a definite, tho undulating marginal ridge along junction w. Yakima River Valley and the HH Plateau. Probably asymetrical erosion and...
P102-271927
A mile and a half out of Arlington on the hiway East. A sidehill bar that is diagrammatic in its clearness. It is a segment of an ellipsoid, built on...
P102-271927
Arlington Delta
WASHINGTON
The front, as seen from west side of Alkali Canyon, is very striking indeed. But it does not have an even crest.. There are sags in front of...
P103-271927
Another pit, south of Boardman, in section 16,4N,25E on the north side of the EW road between sections 16 and 21, shows gravel beneath sand, both...
P103-271927
Traverses carried west to Cecil, and except for one hill, 1000 ft AT, the whole region is a monotonous dissected plain in its youth. Bretz Field Notes
P103-271927
Umatilla to Arlington. As far as Irrigon, the gravel of the Umatilla lowland constitutes a conspicuous bluff, utterly without ravines or gullts (sp)...
P105-271927
Silt, showing stratification but faintly, occurs in well-dissected terrace remnants from Rhea northward for a few miles. Bretz Field Notes
P105-271927
Willow Creek crosschannel
WASHINGTON
Channel-like cross valley between Willow Creek and Alkali Creek, north of these true scabland spillways, is 800+ in its highest place. Bretz Field...
P106-271927
The great bar in John Day Canyon, seen from the west side of the John Day river, is nothing short of amazing. It stands up fully half as high as the...
P107-271927
The most remarkable, the most spectacular, perhaps the most significant single separate areal record of the Spokane Flood yet discovered lies in...
1919
P10C-19 West Bank of Bingen Anticline E Hood R. Town
WASHINGTON
Satsop at RR cut directy E of bridge dips n-ward 25-25. Determined to be beds of cemented sand, so not cross bedding. Nick's Field Notes
1920
P10C-20 South Fork John Day River
OREGON
July 16. Canyon begins a mile S. of Dayville. Only the lower three miles traversed. Bretz Field Notes
P11-161916
Ruckel Creek at Cascade Locks. formerly flowed to the Columbia near site of Locks but was diverted to present course when the canal was made. Bretz...
P11-221922
About Bluestem, the first cycle topograpy appears more mature.. Bretz Field Notes
P11-221922
Next one to the west is crossed by GNRR about a mile east of Canby Bretz Field Notes
P11-221922
Sunset Prairie by Lyons Station
WASHINGTON
Sunset Prairie is on the surface of horizontal basalt flows. The prarie is not level but has broad, nearly level summit tracts.....presence of what,...
P11-221922
The easternmost of these (channels) appears to be the channel which is crossed by the BNRR a little east of Waukon Bretz Field Notes
P11-231923
O-W RR follows canyon of Alkali Creek to Hay Bretz Field Notes
P11-231923
O-W RR follows canyon of Alkali creek to Hay, and a tributary from there to Jerita which is essentially on the divide between Alkali Creek drainage...
P11-231923
Lacrosse O-W RR
WASHINGTON
The high point on the O-W RR between Lacrosse and Raparia is about 1600 Bretz Field Notes
P11-231923
Further evidence for this conclusion is the character of the mouth of Palouse Valley at Perry. Two canyons exist here, one carrying the Palouse and...
P11-231923
Raparia Gravel deposits
WASHINGTON
Great gravel deposits in Snake River Valley between mouth of Palouse and Raparia Bretz Field Notes
P11-241924
At Babcock, two miles farther up the median line of the valley, bedrock is encountered at 40 feet below the surface. Bretz Field Notes
P11-241924
A mile west of Clyde, bedrock outcrops in a small waterway. Bretz Field Notes
P11-241924
Eureka Flat is a curious, almost an anomalous area July 23, 1924 Bretz Field Notes
P11-251925
Spokane Drift, Chewelah
WASHINGTON
Spokane drift, reddish in color, up the creek valley toward Red Marble Mt. (this placename corresponds to the Red Marble Mt. magnesite Quarry which...
P11-251925
Ada (Cedar) Lake
WASHINGTON
Deep Lake and Ada Lake (now Cedar Lake) lie Bretz Field Notes
P11-251925
Addy to Hunters to Springdale via Maud Aug 12 Bretz Field Notes
P11-251925
Wisc. TM crossed by road near Cedonia, alt 1850 Bretz Field Notes
P11-251925
Deep Lake and Ada Lake ... lie in a remarkable valley Bretz Field Notes
P11-251925
Echo Delta-bedded Terrace
WASHINGTON
A delta-bedded terrace north of Echo.... topset and foreset beds show along road grade Bretz Field Notes
P11-251925
Gifford to Hunters -- high moranic terrace at 2000 Bretz Field Notes
P11-251925
Addy to Hunters to Springdale Bretz Field Notes
P11-251925
Wisc. drift completely over the range along the road from Addy to Maud. Bretz Field Notes
P11-251925
Wisconsin TM at Waitts Lake.. Bretz Field Notes
P11-291929
Paradise lateral moraine
IDAHO
..them lateral moraine of this ice tongue. One of these was examined in detail. It lies just back of the round-house at Paradise. It is a broad fill,...
P110-271927
Fairbanks gravel
WASHINGTON
The broad flat floor above the bar disappears at Fairbanks and a great lobe of gravel 200 feet high projects out into the valley from the north side,...
P112-271927
Hood River High School pit
WASHINGTON
A new pit (now overbuilt), southwest of the new high school building, (now HR Middle School) 480 ft AT. Foresets present dip south. Bretz Field Notes
P112-271927
Petersburg Station bar (SV)
WASHINGTON
Fifteen Mile Creek valley, east of the Dalles, has another bar, downstream from the Fairbanks feature. It is about a mile east of Petersburg Station....
P114-271927
Gresham gravel pits
OREGON
Another pit on the east side of Section 4 a mile north of Gresham shows 25 feet of material. (this gravelpit is one mile west of Gresham, the one in...
P115-271927
That part of the delta on the Troutdale sheet is clearly show by the disposition of the contours. It lies west of Sandy River, of course, and extends...
P117-271927
the northwestern extremity of the delta extended by today's observation a mile north of Felida in Washington, a mile and half farther than previous...
P118-271927
Kelly Butte was an island in the delta. The southeast channel, between Kelly and Mt. Scott, is a continuation of the channel between...
P118-271927
At Salem, it appears to be all sand, tho exposures were not good. Bretz Field Notes
1920
P11C-20 Sutton Mt. plateau
OREGON
This isolated tableland of CRB S. of J.D. River & between Girds Creek on the east and Bridge Cr on the Wes is known as Sutton's Mt. Bretz Field Notes
P12-161916
Basal lava below basal conglomerite at Bonneville. Several exposures in the grounds of the State Fish Hatchery at Bonneville of a fine-grained lava,...
P12-211921
Chenoweth Cr erratic
WASHINGTON
A granite bldr of about 7 tons lies at 650 back in field on N side of Old Mosier Highway, west of Chenoweth Cr. (boulder not identified, placename is...
P12-211921
Elephant teeth near The Dalles
WASHINGTON
E. primigenius teeth found by Mr. Read of the Buick garage on D.P. Ketchum ranch, 7 1/2 miles from The Dalles by road at 420 A.T in deep gully...
P12-221922
West of Adrian Delta Front
WASHINGTON
West of Adrian, the gravel plan.. terminates abruptly with a long straight front Bretz Field Notes
P12-221922
Adrian Gravel Pit
WASHINGTON
Big gravel pit along GNRR near crossing of GN and NP east of Adrian Also reviewed in P79-29..The notable constriction of Crab Creek valley bottom...
P12-221922
Gravel Bar, junction of Coal Creek and Crab Creek (SV)
WASHINGTON
A large gravel deposit in Crab Creek Valley at Jct of Coal Creek. 25-foot sections. Bretz Field Notes
P12-221922
Lamona, on Coal creek, is near the head of the second cycle valley Bretz Field Notes
P12-221922
Marlin (Krupp) Gravel Patches
WASHINGTON
A few gravel patches and bars reaching half way up on rock bluffs toward Marlin (aka Krupp) Bretz Field Notes
P12-221922
At Marlin, broad valley floor again... station stands ona prominent terrace of rock Bretz Field Notes
P12-221922
Odessa gravel pits
WASHINGTON
At Odessa, gravel in pits 50 feet or more above valley floor Bretz Field Notes
P12-221922
West of Stratford
WASHINGTON
West of Stratford, the valley disappears and a gravel plain... Bretz Field Notes
P12-221922
Wilson Creek Terraces
WASHINGTON
One to three miles east of Wilson Creek Station are great gravel terraces on the north side of the valley Bretz Field Notes
P12-231923
Benner Gravel Pit
WASHINGTON
At Benner is a sand and gravel pit Bretz Field Notes
P12-241924
Snake River Scablands
WASHINGTON
Scabland in the Snake River Valley now established! Bretz Field Notes
P12-251925
Colville Valley
WASHINGTON
This valley varies very much in width, in some places... Bretz Field Notes
P12-251925
Pend O'Reille Lakes - Thompson, Frater, Lee lie at the summit of the mountain's divide Bretz Field Notes
P12-251925
Pend O'Reille Lakes (Thompson - Frater - Lee) (though 1934 Metaline quad names it Leo Lake) Bretz Field Notes
P12-251925
Pend O'Reille Lakes (Thompson - Frater - Lee) Bretz Field Notes
P12-261926
The valley of Snake River between Grange City and Perry is full of amazing things. This place is situated in Columbia County, Washington, United...
P12-261926
Powers Station Terrace
WASHINGTON
At Powers Station, about 2 miles north of Starbuck, is a prominent Gravel Terrace on the east side of valley Bretz Field Notes
P12-261926
Starbucks Flood Gravel (SV)
WASHINGTON
The farthest up-valley record of the flood in Tucannon Valley, apparently lies 2 miles S of Starbuck on Pomeroy Road where common pale buff valley...
P12-521952
Ralston head of Lind Coulee
WASHINGTON
June 21 No scarps, or such faint ones that they are not convincing, marging this particular head of the Lind Coulee channel system. Same is true for...
P12-521952
Ritzville island
WASHINGTON
June 21 (Alone) There are two channels at this town, separated by a small island I never saw when making my 1928 map. RR and hiway follow the...
P120-271927
Mouth of Deschutes Canyon
WASHINGTON
A large bar lies in the mouth of this valley against the west wall. Its base is 165 AT essentially river level and its rather flat summit is 455...
P120-271927
Rufus upper bar
WASHINGTON
At Rufus, the western bar is much higher than noted a few days ago. The main feature has a summit altitude of 665 AT and is a very fine example of a...
P121-271927
Lyle Bar Its upstream end not conspiuously free from the bluff. Not as good a case as many Bretz Field Notes
P121-271927
A fine view obtained of it and its setting from the summit of the grade west out of Mosier. Bretz Field Notes
P121-271927
Mosier Lateral Canyon (Co.Line)
WASHINGTON
Is a real canyon. But the lower lateral channel near Hood River is simply a pass behing two grassy buttes. Bretz Field Notes
P122-271927
Maryhill fan slope
WASHINGTON
On the Washington side nearly opposite Biggs, and about two miles west of Maryhill "Castle" the long alluvial fan slope descending from Stacker Butte...
P122-271927
Old Lady Canyon bar
WASHINGTON
Two splendid bars sighted on the Washington side today... one in the mouth of Old Lady Canyon, opposite Jones Canyon, on the Arlington Sheet. Bretz...
P124-271927
Snake River Junction McCoy Canyon
WASHINGTON
McCoy Canyon, entering the Snake at Snake River Junction, is a preglacial drainage line, deeply incised in basalt in the lower twn (sp) miles of its...
P124-271927
Staircase Rapids current ripples
WASHINGTON
Staircase Rapids. The 1300 foot to 1325 to 1350 foot flat in lower two miles of this spillway is all gravel on top, with low, very much elongated...
P124-271927
Staley's (?) Coulee
WASHINGTON
The answer to both questions is found in Staley's (?) coulee which enters the pseudo-gulch from the east near its head. This coulee carried a glacial...
P126-271927
Dry Creek Valley
WASHINGTON
The divide between Dry Creek and Mud Creek, south from Paul School, alt 950 is covered with the silt. Bretz Field Notes
P126-271927
Paul School cut (SV) *
WASHINGTON
The best cut seen is a quarter of a mile south of Paul School. It is 27 feet deep and from top to bottom is in stratified silt and sand. definitely...
P126-271927
Prescott glacial limit
WASHINGTON
The glacial silts do not extend up the Touchet beyond Prescott (BM1058) Bretz Field Notes
P127-271927
Delaney Silt Deposit
WASHINGTON
This deposit extends in fragmentary terraces four miles and a half south of Delaney up Tucannon Creek Valley and the creek which the hiway follows...
P128-271927
Lowden pit (SV)
WASHINGTON
At Lowden and in the pit a mile south of Touchet, the coarse angular basaltic sand and gravel is very comspicuous. In the Touchet Pit, fully 20 feet...
P128-271927
Touchet pit (SV)
WASHINGTON
At Lowden and in the pit a mile south of Touchet, the coarse angular basaltic sand and gravel is very conspicuous. In the Touchet Pit, fuly 20 feet...
P129-271927
Traverse in the afternoon from Walla Walla to Sudbury to Lowden to Touchet to Gardena... the entire traverse on the silt deposit of the Spokane...
P129-271927
Spring Valley has the silt exposed at 950 in a low mount in the center of the flat along the N.S road at its lower end. Bretz Field Notes
P129-271927
Sudbury traverse
WASHINGTON
Traverse in the afternoon from Walla Walla to Sudbury to Lowden to Touchet to Gardena... the entire traverse on the silt deposit of the Spokane...
1919
P12C-19 Lava Cave near Guler Wash
WASHINGTON
Entrance in midst of what appears to be a pressure hill or ridge. Nick's Field Notes
1920
MItchell to Prineville July 18 John Day above Clarno, in hills west of Bridge Cr & N of Prineville Rd. Numerous hills caused by limited bodies of...
P13-201920
August 21 1920. Lava flows of the same material as above Petersons are crossed by the trail up S. side of Helens as far as N. Spur of Cinnamon Peak...
P13-221922
Neppel Erratics at the 1250 elevation
WASHINGTON
Followed southward on the downgrade of the mesa, the Erratics appear at about 1250 AT and are very abundant thru a vertical range of 10 feet Bretz...
P13-221922
Rocky Ford Creek high mesa
WASHINGTON
High mesa of gravel east of Rocky Ford Creek. Climbed at the springs. Springs alt 1050+ Very coarse gravel, much of it cobbles. Top is 200 feet...
P13-221922
Soap Lake Boulder Field
WASHINGTON
No berg-carried boulders... then very abundant as far south as the big springs at head of Rocky Ford creek Bretz Field Notes
P13-221922
Soap Lake Boulder next to GNRR tracks
WASHINGTON
One (boulder) close to GNRR tracks, abutting against the grade is 8' high Bretz Field Notes
P13-221922
Middle of old channel at south end of Soap Lake has a rocky knob, several city blox in extent Pg 76-29...Good exposures of abraded surfaces of the...
P13-241924
Wallula Gateway
WASHINGTON
The Spokane flood, ocean-bound, actually overflowed the gateway July 23, 1924 Bretz Field Notes
P13-241924
Wallula Gateway scoring
WASHINGTON
The top of the western bluff, for a mile back from the brink of the gateway P158-26 Wallula Gateway.. west side examined above the cliff... channels...
P13-241924
Wallula Guardians (SV)
WASHINGTON
....east side of gateway....The Guardians (Sentinels) and their associated hills July 23 Bretz Field Notes
P13-251925
Chamokane Creek
WASHINGTON
Two VT's out of south end of Colville Valley, one down Chamokane Creek Bretz Field Notes
P13-251925
Loon Lake, Springdale, Ford, Wellpinit Aug 15 Bretz Field Notes
P13-251925
Springdale High Terrace
WASHINGTON
High terrace at Springdale... on E side of the col between Colville and Chamokane creeks Bretz Field Notes
P13-251925
Loon Lake - Springdale - Ford - Wellpinit Aug 15 Bretz Field Notes
P13-271927
Winchester gravel pit
WASHINGTON
Pit for hiway gravel a few miles east of Winchester. Foreset bedding shows in two places, dip is west. Bretz Field Notes
P13-281928
Liberty School sand deposit
WASHINGTON
But the most surprising and most puzzling discovery of today is an enormus sand deposit on the north side of the Columbia in the western part of the...
P13-291929
Charlo is on the Post Creek moraine....a section in till 60 feet thick shows along lower Post Creek where the railroad follows the creek for a short...
P13-521952
Ritzville caliche (SV)
WASHINGTON
Ritzville to Moses Lake June 21 (Alone) The white, friable soil caliche is shown west of Ritzville in road cuts resting on bedrock in some places,...
P130-271927
Milton Freewater
WASHINGTON
Traverse made to Milton and Freewater, Oregon, thence to Wallula along south side of Walla Walla River valley as close to the HHH uplift as roads...
P130-271927
West from Sunnyside, there is a plain for several miles. River gravel exposed in the only two pits seen. Bretz Field Notes
P130-271927
Touchet silt exposure
WASHINGTON
Five miles directly west of Touchet is a fine expouser of the glacial silt in a hundred foot cliff along the west side of WW river near the road...
P132-271927
Asotin bar (Hells Gate State Park)
WASHINGTON
The bar across the river from, and north of, Asotin clearly is an old feature. Its furrowed slopes bear shallow branched ravines. They have begun to...
P132-271927
Silcott terrace
WASHINGTON
The Silcott terrace is 90 feet above the old channel floor around the south side of the terrace. 830 on top..... what is clearly another remnant of...
P133-271927
Lewiston-Pomeroy silt deposits (SV)
WASHINGTON
Vicinity of Lewiston, Sept. 7. At about 1000 a.t. on the Inland Empire Hiway from Pomeroy to Lewiston occur stratified silt and sand that in every...
P134-271927
Central Ferry silts (SV)
WASHINGTON
Along the hiway up from Central Ferry Bridge toward Colfax, the silts and sands are evident up to 1250AT (placemark) Bretz Field Notes
P134-271927
Dodge Service Station Pataha (SV)
WASHINGTON
One crumbling granite pebble found at the foot of the 8 foot cut at Dodge Service Sta., Jct of Central Ferry Road and Inland Empire Highway altitude...
P135-271927
Asotin terrace @1000
WASHINGTON
The 950 terrace in the mouth of Asotin Creek extends up to 1000. Bretz Field Notes
P135-271927
Stember (Alpowa) Creek Valley
WASHINGTON
Silts with Erratics up to 1300 A.T within 18 miles by hiway from Pomeroy, at the mouth of large stream from the south. Hiway follow the stream way...
P135-271927
Wawawai silt deposits
WASHINGTON
Still another deposit of this genesis was found today. It is in the canyon which enters the Snake at Wawawai. It occurs at 1175 approximately. In...
P136-271927
Mt. Hope schoolhouse
WASHINGTON
Occurance of erratic pebbles, cobbles and boulders near this station. Both in road cuts, one nearly in front of a schoolhouse a half mile west of the...
P138-271927
The floodplain level on the east side of the Columbia traversed by the new highway route from Ringold to Hanford Ferry Landing, about midway between...
P139-271927
Connell laminated loess (SV)
WASHINGTON
The laminated loess two miles or so northeast of Connell toward Lind is doubtless Ringold formation. It may be loess material but it is much older...
P139-271927
Four Lakes channel
WASHINGTON
Altitude of channel head at Four Lakes (probably Meadow Lake on Spokane soil map) is 2450, 100 feet higher than Cheney. Bretz Field Notes
P139-271927
the pre-Spokane canyon or valley in basalt heads about five to eight miles west of Ritzville, it is an inconspicuous thing, except that its slopes...
P139-271927
Ritzville channel
WASHINGTON
Ritzville channel is hardly etched into basalt at this city. A good loessial island in mid-channel in the west part of town indicates the minor...
1919
P13C-19 Footprints and Handprints in Lava at Goose Lake
WASHINGTON
The prints are located on the NE side of the lake on the tip of the rocky point of black lava on that side. They are close to the average water line,...
1920
P13C-20 Powell Butte
OREGON
Powell Butte, 9 mi S of Prineville, 5100 ft A.T & 2200 ft above the town is composed of light reddish rhyolite with flow structure Bretz Field Notes
1920
MItchell to Prineville July 18 John Day above Clarno, in hills west of Bridge Cr & N of Prineville Rd. But S-western slope of the divide has no...
P14-161916
The andesite along the trail between Benson Plateau and Chinidere remarkably prophyroitic. Large phenoclasts of transparent feldspar like sanadine....
P14-161916
Ascent on trail up from Conlon's Ranch. Over great fallen blocks, virtually hills to about 1000 feet, then on basalt to 3000 ... the plateau surface...
P14-201920
Big Bottoms is an exceptionally wide part of the upper Cowlitz valley, the floodplain making the entire width, for there are no terraces or other...
P14-201920
Morton to Kosmos (submerged)
WASHINGTON
The valley from Morton to Kosmos is wide and straight and steep-walled, apparently glaciated Bretz Field Notes
P14-211921
White Salmon Terrace
WASHINGTON
Wh Sal terrace, about 650 A.T. is floored with P.D Some new pits show that current flowed back from Columbia and eddied up col valley, much as at...
P14-221922
Basalt Outcrops on floor of valley at Neppel (Moses Lake)
WASHINGTON
Basalt outcrops on floor of valley at Neppel. Bretz Field Notes
P14-221922
Moses Lake Barchan Dunes
WASHINGTON
The barchan dunes a few miles south of Moses Lake PO cover 8-10 sq miles Bretz Field Notes
P14-221922
(Historic location of Moses Lake PO.) Terrace on which Moses Lake PO stands is composed of outwash gravel. Level of gravel = height of terrace = 100...
P14-231923
Lantz RR Siding
WASHINGTON
North from Benge to Lantz, the N-S road traverses a gravel flat all the way Bretz Field Notes
P14-241924
Also P101-27: At Kiona, a silt with sandy layers covers the gravel and is itself 30 feet thick. But it does not occur more than 50 feet above Yakima...
P14-241924
Kiona Gravel Pit
WASHINGTON
On SW side, gravel exposed on NPRR about 2 miles E of Kiona Bretz Field Notes
P14-241924
Lyle Grade gravel
WASHINGTON
Spokane gravel along Evergreen hiway northwest of Lyle on "Lyle Grade" reaches 390 feet.... gravel pits Bretz Field Notes
P14-241924
July 24 Near Vista, the flat is underlain by stratified silt and sand, the silt lighter in color than the sand but not as yellow as that associated...
P14-251925
Jctn of Spokane River
WASHINGTON
Silts of Colville and Columbia Valleys above jct of Spokane River Bretz Field Notes
P14-251925
Mouth of Chamokane
WASHINGTON
.... about the right altitude..at Long Lake and near the mouth of the Chamokane Bretz Field Notes
P14-251925
Spokane drift fairly abundant along the road... Chamokane Valley and TumTum Bretz Field Notes
P14-251925
Spokane drift.... vicinity of Wellpinit. Turtle Lake 5 m west of the town has no Bretz Field Notes
P14-271927
Rocky Ford Springs (McLeod's) Fish Hatchery
WASHINGTON
Bluff here on east side of creek is 135 feet high. Gravel to the base largely, tho with some basalt knobs and ledges in places Bretz Field Notes
P14-521952
Ephrata Channel
WASHINGTON
Ephrata and vicinity, June 22 (Alone) There is a good continuous gradient from Ephrata to the north edge of the Winchester Quad. Ephrata on road map...
P14-521952
Moses Lake -Wheeler Road gravel pit
WASHINGTON
June 21 Stratigraphic relations of this caliche to scabland gravel seems clear from the abundance of caliche fragments in the gravel at both...
P140-271927
Columbia River Station
WASHINGTON
And the whole deposit from Columbia River Station down to Trinidad is a series of irregular terrace-like bars, many of which are attached to the...
P140-271927
Mohler - Coal Creek valley
WASHINGTON
The head of the Coal Creek preglacial valley in basalt just west of Mohlers (sp) Bretz Field Notes
P140-271927
Odesssa spur buttes
WASHINGTON
Trenched spur buttes, interlocking or overlapping, one to two miles west of Odessa. Bretz Field Notes
P141-271927
Shutlers giant boulder
WASHINGTON
Another altitude too high for the flood record is the gigantic boulder near Shutlers, Oregon. It is at 1012 Ft AT while the flood has no...
P141-271927
Wenatchee River valley
WASHINGTON
Nothing seen in a rapid traverse from Denby to Wenatchee that indicates a slack-water deposit from the Spokane flood here. Bretz Field Notes
P147-271927
Trinidad Erratics @1400
WASHINGTON
Erratics are found up to 1400 E of Horseshoe Bend in GNRR east of Trinidad & up to 1383 on hill between Frenchman Springs cataract & Potholes...
1920
P14C-20 Prineville rim rock
OREGON
The "rim rock" lava flows which are so continuous a feature about Prineville & which are seen from Powell Butte to extend for miles up the Ochoco...
P15-141914
Kalama to Woodland 1914 The Columbia Valley south of Kalama and its slopes are sloping gently enough so that there are farms all the way from river...
P15-141914
Terrace at Kearns about 50 feet above the river, overlain by yellow silty clay with a few seams of gravel. A fine terrace top 120 feet above the...
P15-141914
Martin's Bluff Satsop formation (SV)
WASHINGTON
Satsop formation exposed 1 1/2 miles south of Martin's Bluff. Gravel at base (floodplain level) stratified sand above for 10 feet.
P15-141914
Woodland exposure (SV)
WASHINGTON
Another exposure two miles north of Woodland. Basalt portion yellow to orange sand with strata of gravel (containing some qtzites) 20 feet.
P15-161916
Illwaco yellow bluff
WASHINGTON
Yellow Bluff is a headland fifty or more feet in height facing Columbia Bay in th eastern part of the town of Illwaco. The lower thirty feet of the...
P15-161916
Wyeth cliffs (SV)
WASHINGTON
July 26 Best outcrops lie along the railroad about 2 miles west of Wyeth. Here are cliffs of this rock standing 50 ft above the river. In these...
P15-161916
Between Cascade Lox and Wyeth July 26, 1916 The terrace which shows so prominently, between these places, on the Mt. Hood sheet, is a collection of...
P15-201920
Riffle (by stage)
WASHINGTON
Chehalis to Morton by stage (!!!) Sept 1 1920. Glacial till unmistakably, along road between Riffle and Morton. At 1100 on Cowlitz slope, on summit...
P15-211921
Eyrie Inn on a rock terrace about 300 ft, above tide. This terrace determined by surface of a lava flow. Same surface & much more of it, on W side of...
P15-221922
Crab Creek channels
WASHINGTON
A most interesting country lies at the east end of the Frenchman Hills anticline. For ten miles or so, Crab Creek flows southward thru this...
P15-221922
Altitude of surface of Goose Lake is between 850.... Bretz Field Notes
P15-231923
Hillyard Quarry
WASHINGTON
Hillyard. One mile east, foot of Little Baldy Quarry in Granite. Bretz Field Notes
P15-231923
Location of the Lantz PO (approx) Bretz Field Notes
P15-231923
N. Pine Creek - Latah Creek
WASHINGTON
Abundance of granite boulders at the head of this channel Bretz Field Notes
P15-231923
Newman Lake Terrace
WASHINGTON
V.T. Dam of Newman Lake is a terrace of fine gravel 40-50 feet above main VT Bretz Field Notes
P15-231923
Pleasant Prairie School Gravel Pit
WASHINGTON
Pleasant Prairie School 1 1/2 miles east Gravel Pit (only gravel pit in 1 1/2 mile radius is WEST of the school. east of school are open fields)...
P15-231923
Spangle Granite Erratic *
WASHINGTON
Granite Erratic in middle of Sec 10, SE of Spangle altitude 2500 Bretz Field Notes
P15-231923
Spangle, Five Miles SE
WASHINGTON
Roadside section 25 above Latah Creek bed.. across creek from Hanging Tree Historical Monument Bretz Field Notes
P15-241924
Gravel deposit along hiway east of town has a terrace-like top 210 feet above the Station. Bretz Field Notes
P15-241924
Mosier Gravel Pit
WASHINGTON
Big gravel pit east of Mosier on old highway... Bretz Field Notes
P15-251925
Clarks Fork Valley
WASHINGTON
Clark's Fork Valley between Z canyon and Newport. Bretz Field Notes
P15-251925
The preglacial valley here had its head in the vicinity of Z canyon, 10 mi by road north of Metaline Falls Bretz Field Notes
P15-261926
.. the lower part of a large trib from the south (probably Fields Gulch of Walla Wall map) (also on Ayer quad) Bretz Field Notes
P15-261926
Patah Valley@1250
WASHINGTON
Gravel erratics in Patah Creek Valley along highway at 1250 Bretz Field Notes
P15-261926
Pleasant View Station
WASHINGTON
From hills on either side of Eureka Flat at the north end, a mile or so north of Pleasant View station, a most instructive panorama northward.......
P15-271927
The scarp which so strikingly truncates the piedmont alluvial slope west of Ephrata averages about 100 feet above the Ephrata channel floor Bretz...
P15-271927
South of Naylor, its slopes are very gentle indeed, tho it is probably 50 feet deep. Bretz Field Notes
P15-271927
Rocky Ford Channel
WASHINGTON
Rocky Ford channel for the three miles north from Hatchery to the GNRR is very definite, tho its walls are not more than 50-100 feet high. Bretz...
P15-271927
The valley of Willow Creek is really the continuation of Crab Creek south from Adrian. Drainage in spring floods finds outlet thru it. Bretz Field...
P15-281928
Wenachee sand bar
WASHINGTON
The same coarse sand and fine gravel deposit as in the Liberty School bar occurs along the east side of Columbia Valley opposite the mouth of...
P15-291929
Over in Boyer Creek, the hiway follows the edge and climbs up along the slope of a singular deposit associated with this moraine. Bretz Field Notes
P15-291929
A large lobe of glacial ice has occupied the valley of Lynch Creek which mouths into Clark Fork just west of this town. The evidence is in the...
P15-521952
Shell-bearing white, well stratified silt in excavation S. side of old hiway between Soap Lake and Adrian. Bretz Field Notes
P15-521952
Moses Lake gravel pit
WASHINGTON
Columbia Sand and Gravel Co. has a big pit in upper half of Moses Lake channel scarp, 2-3 mil north out of town. Imperfectly shown in cuts but very...
P15-521952
Soap Lake hatchery boulder field
WASHINGTON
June 22 Exceedingly boulder gravel, south along road from Adrian to Fish Hatchery, indeed, almost all the way to north edge Moses Lake quad. The...
P15-521952
Winchester canal caliche
WASHINGTON
June 22 Caliche in place along big canal north of Winchester for two miles or more. Has basalt pebbles in some layers. Bretz Field Notes
1919
P15C-19 Willards Ranch terrace
WASHINGTON
1/2 mil S of Willards Ranch (On map as Willards) this BLF lava is in a terrace about 40 feet above Willards bridge Nick's Field Notes
1919
P15C-19 Canyon of the Little White Salmon
WASHINGTON
beween Mill to Flat .attains notable depth nearing Cook where it flanks Cook Hill Nick's Field Notes
1919
P15C-19 Trail Peak
WASHINGTON
Olallie Ranger station to Cooks. Trail Peak has a cliff & talus on the west summit. Material like CRB .. Nick's Field Notes
P16-161916
Quincy, Or gravel pit
WASHINGTON
A large deposit of gravel, composing a dissected terrace 250 feet in altitude lies west of the town of Quincy. It is partially in the valley of the...
P16-161916
Shell Rock (now Shellrock) Mt near Wyeth July 27. G.E. Goodspeed Jr of Oregon agricultural college determines the rock of this mountain to be a...
P16-201920
Harmony terrace
WASHINGTON
Terrace at Harmony harmonizes with Klickitat Prairie terrace - Harmony and Mossy Rock being about the same in alt. Bretz Field Notes
P16-201920
Klickitat Prairie
WASHINGTON
Klickitat Prairie (575-650 alt.) is hardly the surface of the Satsop formation. It appears more probably to fall into the Cowlitz terrace level Bretz...
P16-221922
Nest of Erratics below Goose Lake
WASHINGTON
A nest of them along secondary road east from foot of Goose Lake on the large island between Goose lake and Crab Creek channels Bretz Field Notes
P16-231923
Four Mound Prairie
WASHINGTON
4 Mound Prairie, west of Nine Mile bridge is determined by basalt surface Bretz Field Notes
P16-231923
Spangle-Platonic School Channel (now Hangman Valley)
WASHINGTON
The Spangle-Platonic School Channel is well -defined.. this placemark is at the head of the driveable portion of the channel Bretz Field Notes
P16-241924
White Salmon Gravel Bar
WASHINGTON
Almost the whole town is built on the original sloping surface of the great eddy bar here. The summit is at the schoolhouse, on the Evergreen Hiway,...
P16-251925
Bead Lake Moraine
WASHINGTON
it is recorded by moraine dams for Marshall Lake and Bead Lake Bretz Field Notes
P16-251925
Little Spokane VT
WASHINGTON
The Little Spokane VT decends southward ...then totally disappears where the Little Spokane crosses a high ridge Bretz Field Notes
P16-251925
Marshall Lake Moraine Dam
WASHINGTON
it is recorded by moraine dams for Marshall Lake and Bead Lake Bretz Field Notes
P16-251925
Newport Ice Edge
WASHINGTON
Another projection of the Clarks Fork ...from Dalkena to the middle of the township immediatetly west of the one in which Newport is located...
P16-271927
Black Rock Coulee and Black Lake
WASHINGTON
Between Black Lake and Wilson Creek town are several different scabland routes, trending west, with wheat soil tracts between. Bretz Field Notes
P16-271927
Near Willow Lake the knobs are numerous over the valley floor and the local relief must be all of 40 feet. Bretz Field Notes
P16-271927
Wilson Creek scabland route
WASHINGTON
Between Black Lake and Wilson Creek town are several different scabland routes, trending west, with wheat soil tracts between Bretz Field Notes
P16-281928
Orondo northern terraces
WASHINGTON
Traverse made up the river on the east side about 6 miles above Orondo. Only a few of the merest fragments of the high gravel deposit.... but here is...
P16-291929
Camas Prairie "moraine terraces"
IDAHO
The southern half of this valley is known as Camas Prairie. Exposures show stratified gravel...the rising floor of this plain of washed gravel...
P16-291929
Dog/Rainbow Lake moraine
IDAHO
Dog or Rainbow Lake is clearly dammed by moraine at the West. That this moraine came from the same ice as that on the Boyer/Lynch divide Bretz Field...
P16-291929
structural valley... complety severed between Camas Prarie and Hot springs by a small narrow range of hills whose lowest pass (Markle Pass) is about...
P16-291929
Markle Pass is a bit of real scabland with ragged bare buttes separated by rather deep rock basins. Bretz Field Notes
P16-291929
A large strucural valley extends northward from Perma on the Flathead as far as Niarada. It is narrowed and interrupted by hills and spurs of bedrock...
P16-521952
Marlin-Wilson Creek scabland
WASHINGTON
I saw this scabland in driving north to Crab Creek on road south between Marlin and Wilson Creek. It has a vertical range of more than 100 ft, from...
P16-521952
Black Rock Lake buttes
WASHINGTON
Black Rock Lake scabland buttes in sight to the east. (This a quarry of basalt columns) Bretz Field Notes
P16-521952
J Harlen Bretz visited this coulee location near Nagel in 1952, documenting the massive flood-carved channels that mainstream geology refused to...
P16-521952
Nagel road gravel pit
WASHINGTON
Road east toward Nagel. Cut through a small bar-like form on west side W Willow Creek bottom. Foreset throughout, dip west away from channel, as seen...
1920
P16C-20 Hay Creek PO
OREGON
In the vicinity of Hay Creek PO rhyolitic tuff, very dense with some g some rhyloite lava and much yellow crumbling sedimentary material, all tilted...
1920
Prineville to Shaniko July 20, 1920. Bretz Field Notes
P17-161916
A broad symmetrical anticline is well exposed on the Washington side opposite Lindsay. Basalt beds involved in the western limb outcrop in the lower...
P17-161916
From Lindsay to Hood River July 27 At Lindsay, basalt comes down to the road grade, not 30 ft above the river. Cut by joints not like those common to...
P17-161916
Mayger road cut
WASHINGTON
Red decayed gravel is exposed in road cut in the western part of the Mayger at an alittude of about 120 feet. The material is largely sandstone and...
P17-161916
Mt Tabor is a prominent isolated hill four miles east of the business center of Portland. It is a mile long, half a mile wide, and rises 645 feet...
P17-201920
Mouth of Tilton River
WASHINGTON
"Tilted gravel" reported by Culver at bridge at mouth of Tilton is a delta deposit, made apparently in close association with glacial ice. Bretz...
P17-201920
Silver Creek hill
WASHINGTON
Satsop is present in 1000 ft hill N of Silver Cr. Wells on summit penetrate thru 8-10 ft of red declayed clay and reach a coarse cobbly to bowlder...
P17-221922
Limestone with Pebbles in NP and CM&STP cuts at Warden
WASHINGTON
A limestone with pebbles exposed in NP and CM& STP cuts west of Warden. Placemark is where both railroads share the same track for .3 miles....
P17-221922
Warden Erratic Bldr
WASHINGTON
At Warden two undoubted granite erratic bldrs on the surface of the basalt plain. One at the northwest corner of town on the CM&STP right of way,...
P17-231923
Crescent is on the glaciated plain. The Basalt plain about Crescent and north of Mondovi Bretz Field Notes
P17-231923
Hite Cross Roads
WASHINGTON
At Hite and at Cross Roads about a mile north Bretz Field Notes
P17-231923
Reardon Boulder Field
WASHINGTON
hills from Hite to Reardon are sprinkled with Granite and qtzite bldrs Bretz Field Notes
P17-241924
Arlington gravel pit
WASHINGTON
A gravel bar with a large pit above the highway 1 1/2 miles east of Arlington Bretz Field Notes
P17-241924
Artesian Coulee
WASHINGTON
Artesian coulee and its associated buttes...(now submerged) Bretz Field Notes
P17-241924
Blalock Island lowland was a great settling basin (now submerged) Bretz Field Notes
P17-241924
Vicinity of Cold Springs and Hat Rock all Scabland Bretz Field Notes
P17-241924
Low scabland type cliffs and basalt knobs in the river from Patterson to mouth of Glade Ck. Bretz Field Notes
P17-241924
vicinity of Cold Springs and Hat Rock all scabland Bretz Field Notes
P17-241924
Heppner Junction Gravels
WASHINGTON
Much of the bluff has a scrubbed appearance, tho it is considerably mantled with sand. Bretz Field Notes
P17-241924
Kennewick to Lyle
WASHINGTON
"Car window geology of exceptionally high value". July 24, 1924 Route studied with topographic maps as far as Goodnoe and with previous field...
P17-241924
Mouth of Six Mile Canyon
WASHINGTON
mouth of Six Mile canyon, south side of Columbia, has scabrock in bluffs Bretz Field Notes
P17-241924
Paterson (Patterson)
WASHINGTON
Bretz spells Patterson Low scabland type cliffs and basalt knobs in the river from Patterson to mouth of Glade creek Bretz Field Notes
P17-241924
Plymouth gravel cut
WASHINGTON
A long gravel cut along SP&S RR west of Plymouth.. Bretz Field Notes
P17-241924
Sillusi Butte Scablands
WASHINGTON
Sillusi buttes are very scabby, except on downstream side Bretz Field Notes
P17-241924
The bluff 500 at extending from 2-6 miles east of Umatilla Bretz Field Notes
P17-241924
Umatilla gravel bar
WASHINGTON
A long gravel bar constitutes the bluff west from Umatilla river for 3-4 miles Bretz Field Notes
P17-241924
Willow Creek flood deposits
WASHINGTON
For a mile at least back from the Columbia the east wall is all gravel. Also mentioned in P105-27 Bretz Field Notes
P17-251925
And if the VT ever did rise higher than its remaining terraces record, the escape would have been through Diamond Lake by way of the saddle (2500)...
P17-251925
Newport Gravel Terrace
WASHINGTON
A curious gravel terrace 4 miles north of Newport on the west side of the valley Bretz Field Notes
P17-251925
A prominent preglacial divide crosses the Little Spokane river....Tweedie and Scotia lie north of it. Bretz Field Notes
P17-251925
A prominent preglacial divide crosses the Little Spokane river....Tweedie and Scocia lie north of it. Bretz Field Notes
P17-261926
Tracts which bear the Palouse hills.... Dayton lies in such a transition belt... Bretz Field Notes
P17-271927
Wilson Creek gravel pit
WASHINGTON
About four miles by road up Wilson Creek valley from WC town, altitude 1550 along road, pit in fine gravel, all basaltic Bretz Field Notes
P17-271927
Wilson Creek Terrace
WASHINGTON
Approximately in section 11, about 9 miles up WC valley from WC town is a terrace of coarse rolled gravel, blue-black below a foot or two, altitude...
P17-281928
Sunnyslope District sands
WASHINGTON
In the Sunnyslope district, there is a great thickness of river sand with cobbles and pebbles up to 1250 certainly... Bretz Field Notes
P17-291929
Little Bitterroot gorge
IDAHO
The Little Bitterroot goes through a short, very marked gorge about two miles south of the Dude Ranch. Bretz Field Notes
P17-291929
No signs of a moraine found between the Dude Ranch and Markle Pass Bretz Field Notes
1919
P17C-19 Underwood ash (SV)
WASHINGTON
E. of RR bridge is 75 ft or more of ash, tuff & bombs Nick's Field Notes
1919
P17C-19 Tunnel 6 channel
WASHINGTON
At Tunnel 6 (1st tunnel W of Hood) 75 ft above tracks and 200 ft east of E end of tunnel is in CRB and filled with gravel containing granite Nick's...
1919
P17C-19 Underwood Ash Layers (SV)
WASHINGTON
West of Underwood are 2 more exposures of gravel beneath the Underwood lava, the western one being a mile out of Underwood. Nick's Field Notes
P18-161916
A well at Fort Stevens, situated in the extreme northwestern corner of the State of Oregon penetrates 130 feet of blue or gray sand, containing...
P18-161916
... perhaps Mt Defiance are andesite cones whose later activity has obliterated any topography resultant from the postulated deformation. McClintock...
P18-221922
Cow Creek Valley Bottom
WASHINGTON
Cow Creek Valley bottom hardly 100 ft below divide near Ralston Bretz Field Notes
P18-221922
About Emden there are no channel forms but level scabland extends to horizon Bretz Field Notes
P18-221922
Topology of region between Warden and Marengo along CM&STP RR (now John Wayne Trail) is mature. But the spacing of stream ways is much wider than in...
P18-231923
Probably no Spokane Ice at Larene (also spelled Lorene in Bretz notes) Bretz Field Notes
P18-231923
Mondovi Steel Arch Bridge Till
WASHINGTON
At the south end of the steel arch bridge, three miles by road... is till in a road cut Bretz Field Notes (Author's note: the original Mondovi steel...
P18-231923
Mondovi Unglaciated Hill (Horseshoe)
WASHINGTON
About 4 miles north of Mondovi is an unglaciated hill 2-3 miles long... (hill runs SW/NE) (ala the Mondovi Horseshoe) Bretz Field Notes
P18-231923
Rocklyn Scabland Area
WASHINGTON
...large scabland area north of Rocklyn Bretz Field Notes
P18-241924
Biggs Junction bar
WASHINGTON
big gravel bar (shoulder shaped) on west side of canyon at this station Also P120-27 Bretz Field Notes
P18-241924
Both wall are of rock. No gravel. Bretz Field Notes
P18-241924
Lower ledges along both sides of the river, upstream from, and alongside Columbia Mtn are badly scrubbed and carry the "Dalles" which characterize...
P18-241924
At Fallbridge (now Wishram) is a prominent rock terrace 100ft above the RR Bretz Field Notes
P18-241924
Goodnoe Gravel Bar
WASHINGTON
A gravel bar with good form lies against the north slopes of...west of Goodnoe Bretz Field Notes
P18-241924
John Day Canyon, Mouth
WASHINGTON
Mouth of, no bar, east walls too high Bretz Field Notes
P18-241924
Jones Canyon Gravel Bar
WASHINGTON
Big gravel bar with beautiful aggradational slope decending into the canyon from the east Bretz Field Notes
P18-241924
Lang Canyon Gravel Bar
WASHINGTON
same as Jones Canyon, save gravel deposit has steep slope Bretz Field Notes
P18-241924
Maryhill St. Gravel Bar
WASHINGTON
Gravel bar here on south side, on side hill, opened by pit Bretz Field Notes
P18-241924
Maryhill Station Terrace
WASHINGTON
Face of Maryhill rock terrace, carrying unfinished hill house Bretz Field Notes
P18-241924
Good gravel bars deepend down the Columbia Valley from salients. Bretz Field Notes
P18-251925
Chatteroy Terrace
WASHINGTON
At Chatteroy, the Wisc VT is in two terraces, the upper one about 50 feet high Bretz Field Notes
P18-251925
Now Eloika Lake..... lies in a valley 250-300 feet deep Bretz Field Notes
P18-271927
Cannawai (Connawai/Kanniwai) Creek bar
WASHINGTON
Canawai Creek (also spelled Connawai in Bretz notes, also Kanniwai on maps) (Dry Creek) apparently had no existence before the Spokane Flood. There...
P18-271927
Marlin ( Krupp) gravel deposit
WASHINGTON
For a mile or more, the northern wall of Crab Creek valley at Marlin is composed of gravel. Bretz Field Notes
P18-281928
Colocham Canyon scablands
WASHINGTON
If I can recognize channeled scabland in situations where not typically developed, then here is channeled scabland on the cliffs of the Columbia...
P18-281928
Traced up Wenatchee Valley, these prominent spurs of fine gravel disappear and the level of river deposits becomes lower. Between Dryden and...
P18-281928
but the ower terraces of coarse gravel extend with few interruptions all the way up to Leavenworth at least. At Leavenworth, the hiway cuts show a...
P18-281928
Wenatchee Valley upstream from Monitor has almost no high terraces. The benches from 50 to 75 feet above the river are common and are composed...
P18-281928
Waterville traverse
WASHINGTON
Traverse to Waterville, north to point where moraine leaves the plateau, down to Columbia Valley and back by way of Orondo. There is no trace of...
P18-291929
Sullivan's Hill shore lines
IDAHO
Lake Missoula shore lines up to the top of Sullivan Hill's highest summit, north of Niranda, are a swell marked... Bretz Field Notes
P18-291929
Looking east from the summit of Sullivan HIll, across the dissected silt plain in the foreground, one sees a flat-bottomed valley with out a stream,...
1919
P18C-19 Tunnel # 5 SP&S RR
WASHINGTON
A cliffed spur of CRB towering 200 feet above the Columbia oriented N25E of Big Mitchell summit. Also pg 56-16. Outcrop of Bonneville at Tunnel No 5...
1920
P18C-20 Antelope CRB's
OREGON
Margin of basalt extends a few mi. S of Antelope in the DesChutes - John Day divide reaching to the Antelope-Clarno road. Bretz Field Notes
1920
P18C-20 Hay-Trout Creek junction CRB's
OREGON
CRB in cliffs facing S at jct of Hay & Trout Creeks Bretz Field Notes
P19-201920
Satsop terrace also at Alpha and in the more dissected country between Kearney Cr and Beaver Cr. Bretz Field Notes
P19-201920
Burnt Ridge School
WASHINGTON
Burnt Ridge and the irregular hill between Kearny Cr. and Burnt Ridge School, are remnants of the Satsop terrace, whose max. alt. in the hill is...
P19-201920
Kennedy's Corners
WASHINGTON
At Kennedy's Corners, a mile W of Salkum, the terrace is the Cowlitz, about 70 ft above the outwash flat. It extends N. ward to Lacamas and is but...
P19-201920
Terrace at Salkum, on W. side Mill Creek, is outwash, not Cowlitz. Bretz Field Notes
P19-211921
White Salmon lateral moraine
WASHINGTON
Lateral moraine flanking E side of Wh Salmon River just N of Trout Lake Flat. Old road folows its summit on hill 1 and 2 Bretz Field Notes
P19-211921
Avalanche Glacier
WASHINGTON
The Avalanche Glacier is well named. The slopes below it fear no forest, as do the ridges & slopes below the other glaciers on the mountain. Bretz...
P19-221922
Deep Creek Decaying Basalt
WASHINGTON
Deeply decayed basalt close to surface two miles north of Deep Creek station Bretz Field Notes
P19-221922
North of GNRR Tracks undulating plain
WASHINGTON
North of the GN RR trax, however, the plain is undulating, the relief due to the broad shally valles of deep Creek Tributaries. (ed note: these now...
P19-221922
Davenport Loess
WASHINGTON
All loess on mature slopes thence to Davenport and Mondovi Bretz Field Notes
P19-221922
Four Lakes Plain
WASHINGTON
To the north.... is an extensive plain which seen from the Washinton Central RR is covered with dark sand. Bretz Field Notes
P19-221922
About Hite is first cycle topography with wide-spaced valleys and gentle slopes. More pronounced, tho, than topography between Warden and Marengo....
P19-221922
Hite Abundant Granites
WASHINGTON
One mile east of Hite are abundant granites in fields and along right-of-way of RR Bretz Field Notes
P19-221922
Hite gravel pit
WASHINGTON
Gravel Pit one mile west of Hite, light-colored material, might be locally derived from granite. Seen from train and of course no definite opinion....
P19-221922
Medical Lake, Silver Lake, indeed all lakes in this region, lie in glacial drainage channels. These channels head in the latitude of Medical Lake and...
P19-221922
All loess on mature slopes thence to Davenport and Mondovi Bretz Field Notes
P19-221922
Rearden Scablands
WASHINGTON
2-3 miles west of Rearden it is scabby enough for a glacial drainage line Bretz Field Notes
P19-231923
Dentillion Bridge, now submerged
WASHINGTON
J Harlen Bretz visited this coulee location near Dentillion Bridge, now submerged in 1923, documenting the massive flood-carved channels that...
P19-231923
Egypt-Lincoln Glacial Till
WASHINGTON
On the road to Egypt and Lincoln, a few feet from the divergence of the road to Dentillion Bridge is an exposure of glacial drift Bretz Field Notes
P19-231923
Hunters Moraine
WASHINGTON
Wisconsin morain, very promineint at top of northern bluffs here Bretz Field Notes
P19-231923
Hunters Wisconsin Till
WASHINGTON
Wisconsin till and some moraine topography a few miles east of Hunters Bretz Field Notes
P19-231923
On the road to Egypt and Lincoln Bretz Field Notes
P19-231923
Loon Lake beyond the limits of the Wisconsin... Bretz Field Notes
P19-231923
Hunters to Springdale Bretz Field Notes
P19-231923
Springdale Terminal Moraine
WASHINGTON
Wisconsin terminal moraine 40-60 feet high and a .... west of Springdale Bretz Field Notes
P19-251925
Bonners Ferry Silt Terrace
WASHINGTON
The silt terraces around Bonners Ferry contain till in the lower part Bretz Field Notes
P19-261926
Umatilla Gravel Pit
WASHINGTON
Umatilla Gravel pit, west of the hiway, RR and town, in terrace 380 at the pit Bretz Field Notes
P19-271927
Black Rock Lake valley
WASHINGTON
Six miles south of Marlin is a very wide, gently sloped valley, about 2 mi wide and about 300 feet deep, oriented E-W that can only be a structural...
P19-271927
Ruff gravel pit (SV)
WASHINGTON
On the road to Ruff, a mile south of Crab Creek Valley out of Marlin, a pit at 1640 shows the same things as southern of the two summit pits on the...
P19-291929
The Elmo moraine is a very impressive thing, seen from the west and also from the summit. It's western slope is very steep Bretz Field Notes
P19-521952
Study of Columbia Basin Irrigation Project from R4-5720 Maps
WASHINGTON
Ephrata stands on a small fan built from the high hills to the west on the floor of the channel. (this section discusses a specific BoR map R4-5720,...
P2-161916
Chanticleer Inn to Crown Point
OREGON
Best exposure just below Chanticleer Inn. Highway decends from Chanticleer Inn to Crown Point and grading has exposed a magnificant section. Soil is...
P2-191919
Corfu Car Window Geology (SV)
WASHINGTON
At Corfu, landslips obscure much of the face of the Saddle Mts. The material slipping is the ash-ejectamenta formation above noted. Also P33C-19 are...
P2-191919
Othello ash deposit
WASHINGTON
Excellent sections in finely stratified and somewhat indurated ash at Othello substation for Milwaukee electrification, 5-6 mi W of Othello Bretz...
P2-191919
But at Smyrna this constitutes 2/3 or 3/4 of the height of the range and is more nearly a tuff than an ash. Bretz Field Notes
P2-201920
Crow Butte (Castle)
WASHINGTON
Castle (submerged) On western side (now submerged) a smal anticlinal fold (Crow Butte) parallel to river and dipping into it. Separated by structural...
P2-211921
Arlington Mammoth
WASHINGTON
Fossil mammoth found here last autum or winter came from hillslope in NW corner of NW1/4 Sec 29 3N22E at an estimated altitude of (read from map) of...
P2-221922
5 Mile Sand Dunes
WASHINGTON
Sand Dunes on VT Gravels directly east of Five Mile Prarie. Bretz Field Notes
P2-221922
Spokane to Dartford. Great valley train gravel fill exposed in north part of city. Must be 100 feet of it in bluffs in Spokane Valley. Bretz Field...
P2-221922
No glacial material seen along the IEERR south of Moran Station Bretz Field Notes
P2-221922
Vallyford Station
WASHINGTON
Outwash apparently went from Pantops SW along broad valley here over to Latah Creek. No glacial material seen along IEEE RR south of Moran Station....
P2-231923
Bonser Hill gravel pit
WASHINGTON
A pit opened on base of southwest side of this hill... exposes poorly sorted Bretz Field Notes
P2-231923
Bower coulee carried a trickle of glacial water Bretz Field Notes
P2-231923
Glacial Till N of Bonser school
WASHINGTON
Hill north of Bonser School is Granite, soil full of fine angular granite debris.... Bretz Field Notes
P2-231923
Marshall Gravel Pit
WASHINGTON
At Marshall is a delta front, opened by a gravel pit in the west wall Bretz Field Notes
P2-251925
Castle Lake Falls Pothole
WASHINGTON
The undercut sides of a pothole 40 feet across and 10 feet in max present depth located right on the brink of Castle Lake Falls Bretz Field Notes
P2-251925
Moses Coulee and Sunset Highway
WASHINGTON
The coulee was crossed on the Sunset Higway. On the west side, this highway climbs on the great ... (note, west side rerouted!) Bretz Field Notes
P2-251925
Wenatchee-to-Chelan Silt Deposits
WASHINGTON
Wenatchee to Chelan light-colored silt with varves.... well shown north of Knapp Coulee.... Bretz Field Notes
P2-261926
South of Declo is a notable alignment of high, rather steep slopes decending... Bretz Field Notes
P2-261926
Glenn's Ferry Gravel Terraces
IDAHO
Valley or canyon of Snake River from the Onsley Hiway Bridge down to Glenn's Ferry has fine terraces about 100 feet... Bretz Field Notes
P2-261926
Milner (Burley) Butte
IDAHO
Between Burley and Murutagh, the highway crosses a higher tract of the lava plain, a tract of very broad gentle swells and slopes and possessing...
P2-261926
Valley or canyon of Snake River from the Owsley highway Bridge down to Glenns Ferry Bretz Field Notes
P2-261926
The canyon of Snake River at Shoshone Falls is a magnificent example of the Dalles type of river channel Bretz Field Notes
P2-261926
A broad embayment at Yale with a large lateral flow apparently coming from the mts to the S. Bretz Field Notes
P2-271927
Arlington Delta
WASHINGTON
Pebbles are well rolled, all basalt. A great deal of silt in interstices. Bretz Field Notes
P2-271927
The only place seen.... where a suspicion of bar form or Character seems to have foundation was on the north side of the Snake not far from Bliss....
P2-271927
Ellensburg plain
WASHINGTON
A very wide plain east of Yakima floodplain and side of Ellensburg, 100 feet or so higher at scarp. Bretz Field Notes
P2-271927
About Pocatello. Gravel on the Snake River Plateau. Much of it, it is spread over the plateau. Farther west, it is largely confined to the valley....
P2-281928
Little Almota Creek Valley
WASHINGTON
An erratic boulder found at 900 AT. The highest found in this canyon (placemark at 900) Bretz Field Notes
P2-281928
Wawawai pumice (SV)
WASHINGTON
Pumice in several terrace-like deposits in Wawawai Canyon at about 1500 AT (placename at 1500) Bretz Field Notes
P2-291929
Arlee is on a broad gravel flat about 30-40 feet....a rock barrier a mile or so north of town, through which the river has cut a narrow gap. Bretz...
P2-291929
The road climbs over the summit a little south of Evaro.. Bretz Field Notes
P2-291929
Jocko Summit Shorelines
IDAHO
Summit between Jocko valley and Rocky Mt trench, east of Ravalli, is 3420....a broad gap with grass covered rolling hills on which are good shore...
P2-291929
Missoula brick works
IDAHO
About five miles north of Missoula is an abandoned brick plant, the clay for which.... Bretz Field Notes
P2-291929
Missoula Gravel Flats
IDAHO
Missoula to Polson. The gravel flat on which the city of Missoula stands and which extends along the road to Polson for 3 or 4 miles.. Bretz Field...
P2-291929
Ravalli silt Terrace
IDAHO
Where the road leave the railroad, a little north of Ravalli to climb over into the Rocky Mountain Trench...is a fine cut in the silt terrace. Bretz...
P2-521952
Starbuck Glacial Silts (SV)
WASHINGTON
Silts in Tucannon Valley near Starbuck, June 18 1952 (Alone) Relocation in part and reconstruction of road up the valley from the town affords the...
P20-161916
July 15. Silt along the road to Corbett. No gravel. Basalt at bottom. Basalt exposed along the railroad to Rooster Rock.
P20-161916
This flat apparently is determined by the horizontal lavas seen along the railroad between Ruthton and Hood River Bretz Field Notes
P20-221922
At Almira, the first cycle hills are gentle in slope, but the relief is a few 100s of ft. Perhaps the higher hills to the north are folded up, not...
P20-221922
A big hill, soil-covered, just south of Creston, probably a Pre-basalt topographic feature. As in the Palouse country, we are here close to the...
P20-221922
Creston granite outcrops
WASHINGTON
A few miles east of Creston are granite outcrops in low ridges and hills. Bretz Field Notes
P20-221922
Davenport plain
WASHINGTON
West of Davenport, a large plane tract, with slight undulations, no farming. No glacial debris of any kind seen. Bretz Field Notes
P20-221922
Govan gravel terrace
WASHINGTON
At Govan is a big gravel terrace, the summit at top of second cycle valley and filling it down to the bottom. The second cycle valley therefore is...
P20-221922
Two miles west of Rocklyn, a few low first cycle hills. Then level scabland. Bretz Field Notes
P20-221922
Rocklyn giant boulder
WASHINGTON
two miles west of rocklyn, a granite bldr., 6 feet in diameter, close to track, south side Bretz Field Notes
P20-221922
Rocklyn low first cycle hills
WASHINGTON
Two miles west of Rocklyn, a few low first cycle hills Bretz Field Notes
P20-221922
From Rocklyn to Telford, the channel forms are poor, etching not very deep. West of Telford, the country is all cut up into buttes, 20-30 ft high,...
P20-221922
At Wilbur, scabland, glacial drainage channels very definite, 40 ft deep, granites and much basaltic gravel. Bretz Field Notes
P20-221922
Wilbur Second Cycle Valley Start
WASHINGTON
A few miles below Wilbur, along Wilson creek, the first cycle hills are gently sloped. Head of a second cycle valley starts here Bretz Field Notes
P20-231923
Lamont RR Till deposits
WASHINGTON
One mile south of Lamont, in RR Cuts, are deposits in pockets in the basalt scab... Bretz Field Notes
P20-231923
Medical Lake Granite Hill
WASHINGTON
Big hill west of West Medical Lake is both Granite and a pepper-and salt... Bretz Field Notes
P20-261926
Another such scarp can be seen on the Washington Side.... reaching both east and west from Spaw Canyon Bretz Field Notes
P20-271927
Black Rock Lake
WASHINGTON
july 11, 1927 Six miles south of Marlin (Krupp) is a very wide, gently sloped valley, about two mi. wide and about 300 feet deep. Bretz Field Notes
P20-271927
Chain Lakes, two or three miles from Wilson Creek town, are about 100 feet above that place. Bretz Field Notes
P20-271927
Wilson Creek sag
WASHINGTON
Another very wide scabland route that apparently is the site of a structural sag is the route south from Wilson Creek Town toward Gloyd. Bretz Field...
1919
P20C-19 Mitchell Pt Satsop
WASHINGTON
Tunnel 5 Point section shows the Mitchell Point to cross the Columbia. P63C-19 Satsop exposed in logging operations on bench above M PT Creek at...
1920
Antelope to Ashwood to Madras to Sisters to Redmond July 21, 1920. Trout Creek vally north of Ashwood has a great cliff of light-colored columar...
P21-161916
Trail to Green Point Mountain
WASHINGTON
Trail from Wyeth toward Green Pt. Mountain. Outcrops of basalt up well toward the summit of the 3900 ft spur. Considerable talus material of...
P21-201920
Satsop formation and terrace E. of Chehalis. Route- Dillenbaugh Cr. north around head of Coal Cr., east on emile, down into Salzer Valley... Satsop...
P21-221922
Grand Falls of the Grand Coulee (Dry Falls)
WASHINGTON
The Grand falls in the floor of Grand Coulee is not a simple feature.... Bretz Field Notes
P21-221922
North End of Blue Lake
WASHINGTON
The best section to show this structure is at the north end of Blue Lake where the course of the coulee passes out.. Bretz Field Notes
P21-221922
At Coulee City, both walls of Grand Coulee are gentle. On the east, the slope decends from the Hartline aggradational plain by a series of low...
P21-221922
Hartline Valley
WASHINGTON
At Hartline and westward to the edge of the descent... there is a broad valley. P81-29 -- Hartline Basin is an integral part of Grand Coulee. Its...
P21-241924
Rocky Butte is a cliffed about the lower slopes on the east side and north end Bretz Field Notes
1924
Hidden, three miles northeast of Vancouver... A the ridges are long and narrow... the most prominent one.. Bretz Field Notes
P21-261926
Gable Butte consists of two gutted anticlinal structures, the nothwestern one striking parallel to and slightly north of the southwestern one. In...
P21-261926
Gable Mt Vicinity -- Gravel in 500 ft terrace about 2 1/2 miles south of Hanford is about 1/3 non-basalt Bretz Field Notes
P21-271927
Dry bed of rocky coulee at Batum yielded in 10 minute search 3 gray to white qtzites, one red qtzite, two qtz schists and one small granite boulder....
P21-271927
Batum gravel pit
WASHINGTON
Gravel pit at Y between Wash Cent Hiway and the road to Batum is 20 feet deep. gravel is all basalt. Bretz Field Notes
P21-271927
Irby uplift area
WASHINGTON
About four miles west of Irby along Washington Central Hiway, at 1650 AT, there is a broad area without buttes, canyons or basins but with scabrock...
P21-271927
Granite boulder (small) at 1300 1 1/2 mi north of Schrag and 1 mile west. along road. Bretz Field Notes
P21-271927
Second Coulee (Farrier)
WASHINGTON
Second Coulee (Farrier) carried no glacial waters. its floor bears about 10 feet of alluvial silt (directly south of Batum on road) above 5 feet of...
P21-281928
Crater Cataract
WASHINGTON
P222-116-40208 Columbia Basis Project, Washington. Crater cataract with Crater Draw in the background. View looking southeast. Bert Holmes, USBR...
P21-281928
Tekison Creek Canyon mouth
WASHINGTON
Scabland well-developed on the rock terrace on both sides of the mouth of this canyon, up to 1250 or 1300. Buttes, basins, channels, bare rock flats...
P21-281928
Trinidad bar - Crater Cataract
WASHINGTON
A splendid view of Crater Cataract from the east end of this bar. A remarkable break in the otherwise rather featureless soil-covered slopes. The...
P21-291929
Just north of Perma is one of the "delta" features which Pardee first noted. It lies in a re-entrant in the face of the bluff... it an elongated oval...
P21-521952
Rocky Ford gravel pit (SV)
WASHINGTON
June 25. Pit in tributary channel near jct. with Rky Ford channel has dozens of foreign bldrs., mostly gray, fine-grained granite, many of them 5-8'...
1919
P21C-19 Dog Mt CRB's
WASHINGTON
W. Flank of Dog Mtn (Bald Mt on Mt Hood Sheet) has CRB tilted down toward E. Clearly the remnant of the Bonneville anticline which crosses and...
P22-221922
Alkali Lake Folding
WASHINGTON
This structure is clearly a very unsymmetrical syncline near mid-length of Alkali Lake (V) Bretz Field Notes
P22-231923
Bower gravel pit
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a small gravel pit at crossing of main highway.. Bretz Field Notes
P22-231923
Downs- Lake creek crossing
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Lake creek where crossed between Downs and Marellus Bretz Field Notes
P22-231923
.... glacial waters went through Edwall... Bretz Field Notes
P22-231923
The Reardon scabland channel between Edwall and Gravelle is a very striking valley Bretz Field Notes
P22-231923
Lords Creek Gravel Pit
WASHINGTON
Lords Creek never carrried glacial.... gravel pit near old Crab Creek PO Bretz Field Notes
P22-231923
Marcellus is almost at the head of this scabland track Bretz Field Notes
P22-231923
Reardon Channel
WASHINGTON
The Reardon channel between Edwall and Gravelles (now named Pleasant Valley) Bretz Field Notes
P22-271927
Numerous foreign pebbles in gravel floor of Lind Coulee wash two miles east of Warden, but no scabby slopes here. Bretz Field Notes
P22-271927
Othello Gravel Pit
WASHINGTON
Pit one mile east of town, 20 feet deep, with fine gravel dominantly. Largely composed of dense white limestone. (development has filled in pit in...
P22-291929
Johnson Creek Spillway
WASHINGTON
All day was spent on the divide along the entire western wall of Johnson Creek in the vicinity of the spillway which ...as the probably high-level...
1920
P22C-20 Lower Hay Ck
OREGON
The great plain of the DesChutes valley extends from lower Hay Ck & Lower Canyon & Crooked westward to the very foot of the Cascade Range. Town of...
P23-201920
Appleton. Alt. 1/2 mile W is 2600. A mature topography, valleys rather shallow, wide-bottomed and not steep-sided. The head of Silvias Valley, on...
P23-211921
Wind River Gravel Pit
WASHINGTON
Portland delta gravels west of Wind Mt & E of Wind river are at 440 AT A large pit in the deposit here at 350 or so. Bretz Field Notes
P23-221922
Berg-carried Boulder at Grand Coulee
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Berg-carried granitic boulders.... one such bldr, now fragmented on the high rock island in grand falls, one mile south of Coulee City (not field...
P23-221922
Blue Lake Boulder
WASHINGTON
Another intact 8x8x8 about 40 feet above level of Blue lake 1 mile north of Bullock's Ranch (V) Bretz Field Notes
P23-221922
Bullock's Ranch -- tree cast *
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A tree mould... stands in the lava along Blue lake opposite bullock's ranch, reached by crawling into a small cave at face of bluff (assumed to be on...
P23-221922
RR north from Adrian follows "Dry Coulee" virtually all the way.... Bretz Field Notes
P23-221922
Soap Lake Gravels - 1,400 level
WASHINGTON
Granite....lies on the southern slope of the hill east of Soap Lake up to altitudes of 1400 ft Bretz Field Notes
P23-231923
Bluestem Spillway
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A smal spillway directly south of Davenport towards Bluestem Bretz Field Notes
P23-231923
Duck Creek Valley Gravel Fill
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...extensive valley fill at the lower end of Duck Creek Valley Bretz Field Notes
P23-231923
Harrington RR Cut
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A splendid section in a Palouse hill 1.5 miles north of Harrington.... GN improved cut Bretz Field Notes
P23-231923
Odessa Gravel Bar
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A huge gravel bar three miles in length at the mouth of Lake and Crab Creek Bretz Field Notes
P23-231923
Twin Lakes south of Wilbur
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scabland at the twin lakes 8 miles south of Wilbur and gravel... (note lowflying yellow cropduster airplane over northern half of lake at the "H")...
P23-261926
An eminence of basalt ....into the structural valley ... canyons of Walla Walla River at Divide, Reese and farther west. Bretz Field Notes
P23-261926
The Touchet canyon from Lamar to Touchet seems to mark the western limit of the loessial hills. Bretz Field Notes
P23-261926
Walla Walla River at Reese
WASHINGTON
An eminence of basalt ....into the structural valley ... canyons of Walla Walla River at Divide, Reese and farther west. Bretz Field Notes
P23-271927
Saddle Mt notch
WASHINGTON
The notch across Saddle Mt fold in section 5, 14N 29E with floor slightly higher than 1150 may have carried an early short-lived spill across but the...
P23-281928
Walla Walla River gravel fan
WASHINGTON
The gravel fan of Walla Walla River, whose existence I once questioned, underlies Milton and Freewater and extends northwest down Mill Creek and...
P23-291929
Bayview, on the south end of Lake Pend Oreille, is shut in on the drift plain side by a steep decent in till or gravel. Bretz Field Notes
P23-291929
Bayview Gravel Pit
WASHINGTON
Along the east side, adjacent to the mountains, is a gravel terrace 90 feet higher. A gravel pit shows fully 8 feet of dark stained gravel above the...
P23-291929
Along Temporary 95 hiway, which leads southward through Mica and near Bellgrove, another large collection of foreign boulders, cobbles and...
P23-291929
Cougar Creek Divide
WASHINGTON
The divide at 2810 crossed southward. In Cougar Creek, just below the road crossing of the divide, are dozens of erratic boulders, cobbles and...
P23-291929
Along temporary 95 hiway, which leads southward through Mica and near Bellgrove, another large collection of foreign boulders, cobbles and...
P23-291929
The spur of the Mica Peak group of mountains which lies between Spokane River and Cougar Creek clearly has glacial erratics on it and seems to have...
P23-291929
Ramsey Basalt Bench
WASHINGTON
A prominent bench of Columbia River basalt east of Ramsey lies against the mountain... Bretz Field Notes
P23-291929
Sandpoint Gravel Pit
WASHINGTON
A gravel pit two miles west of Sand Point (actually 2 miles west of Dover) along the Newport hiway shows excellent delta structure, with foresets...
P23-521952
Adrian Terrace bar
WASHINGTON
June 26 (with HTUS). A fine little bar crossed by Hiway in secs. 11 and 14 of 22N, 27E. It is 30 feet above the channel floor in the west side, 50'...
P23-521952
June 26 (with HTUS (Smithy)) The entire cut made under NPRR for the new Hiway 7 (now 17) route is in gravel It is so dirty that I thought, a day or...
1920
P23C-20 Crooked River - Des Chutes River
OREGON
In the gorge sections at the jct of the Crooked & the Des Chutes, there is a total thickness of 850-900 ft of river gravel & sand, with interbed...
1920
About Sisters, the plain is covered with lava . The flows here are so recent that the pressure ridges are common, the steep fronts of flows may be...
P24-161916
Mitchell Point Mill (est)
WASHINGTON
Mitchell Point Mill to Viento Creek Valley, July 30. the mill is perhaps 1800 ft AT. Andesite constitutes the surface bolders, but no bed rock was...
P24-161916
Riorden Hill drive
WASHINGTON
Hood River Valley July 30. Belmot road to Riorden Hill to Mitchell Point Mill the great level tract of H.R. valley lies on the Hood Valley (recent)...
P24-201920
Thus the 1000 ft lava is separated by a few hundred feet of gravel, sand and tuff near the Balch School (3 miles W of Lyle on Mj. Cr. Road) Bretz...
P24-221922
Badger Mountain
WASHINGTON
The southward front of the Badger MTN by Ephrata, Winchester and Quincy.....swings around.. No mt by that name in area, assumed to be now called...
P24-221922
Stratford Gravel Plain @ Adrian
WASHINGTON
The Stratford (Crab Creek) gravel plain, exposed in section at Adrian, is pre-Wisconsin Bretz Field Notes
P24-261926
Palouse Scabland
WASHINGTON
The Palouse scabland tract between Lyons Ferry and Washtucna is wonderful....the sheep ranch midway between.. is at head of a grand canyoned tract...
P24-261926
Scabland Photo View *
WASHINGTON
Walla Walla to Spokane.. if ever a professional Landscape photographer can be induced....place to take him.. high road from Staruck to Lyons Ferry.....
P24-261926
Winnett Canyon Basalt Hill
WASHINGTON
Big basalt hill in the angle between Wynett Canyon and Touchet Valley Bretz Field Notes
P24-271927
Frenchman Hills School
WASHINGTON
Granite boulders on Frenchman hills 1/2 m west of Fr. Hill School, along road. Bretz Field Notes
P24-271927
Goose Lake hill
WASHINGTON
Upper limit of flood waters west of the head of Drumheller channels is pretty fairly well marked by a scabby summit level of a prominent cliff and a...
P24-271927
The Hope Valley is eroded in the superbasalt sedimentary and is fairly mature. Bretz Field Notes
P24-291929
California Creek
WASHINGTON
The valley of California Creek at and above Mica was examined for glacial silts but none can be identified Bretz Field Notes .
P24-291929
Liberty Lake Valley
WASHINGTON
Liberty Lake valley is also similarly blocked, the surface of the barrier being 2150 at least 100 feet above the present surface of the lake Bretz...
P24-291929
Mica Pass Gravel
WASHINGTON
The eastern of the two passes across the higher ridge two miles or two and a half miles north of Mica contains a deltaic or fan-like gravel deposit a...
P24-291929
Rockford 2376 Benchmark
WASHINGTON
Rockford has a USGS benchmark near the station It is 2376 Bretz Field Notes .
P24-291929
Rockford boulders
WASHINGTON
Less than a mile above Rockford, along a tributary of Rock Creek, probably Mica Creek, are several foreign boulders and cobbles, one.. Bretz Field...
P24-291929
Saltese CK Valley
WASHINGTON
The mouth of Saltese Creek valley is partially blocked in an similar fashion, the drainage escaping far over to the west side of the valley, hard...
P24-521952
Wilson Creek bar
WASHINGTON
June 26. Bar deposit in angle between Wilson and Crab Creeks examined upstream for 2-3 miles up Wilson Creek. The gravel scarp on the ast side of the...
P24-521952
Wilson Creek giant current ripples
WASHINGTON
June 26 But the final proof came after return to USBR's collection of aerial photos. Clearly shown on AAR-3a-80 are giant ripples on the gentle back...
P25-161916
Troutdale to Cottrell July 31, 1916 Cottrell section along the Mt. Hood Railrood shows no bedded andesite in the gravel, but the altitude of the...
P25-161916
Maberry Terrace along Bull Run road
OREGON
Maberry terrace. No andesite exposed in the gravel in the cuts along the Bull Run road from the upland to the terrace. Bretz Field Notes
P25-161916
Andesite of Troutdale Point a typical fine grained rock of typical gray color. Columar in sharply terminated domes like arches of Gothic windows....
P25-221922
A peculiar feature of the gravel mesa and the terrace at Adrian is the gentle down-slope toward the north. The only explaination, if these terraces...
P25-231923
Creston Glacial Erratics
WASHINGTON
The basalt plain...and its incising canyons 4-5 miles north of Creston, bears abundant glacial erratics Bretz Field Notes
P25-231923
Telford Palouse hills
WASHINGTON
A group of Palouse Hills 7-8 miles north of Telford... Bretz Field Notes
P25-231923
Telford Scabland Plain
WASHINGTON
About Telford both north and south and extending north... Bretz Field Notes
P25-241924
Bingen Anticline crags (SV)
WASHINGTON
Along highway on south side, between Hood River and Messner, there are castellated crags with linear channels Bretz Field Notes
P25-241924
Hood River Gravel Pit
WASHINGTON
Gravel terrace in SW part of this city ... great gravel pit Bretz Field Notes
P25-241924
Rowena Mesa Overlook
WASHINGTON
Scabland along Columbia is well-expressed up to 700 Ft AT (level of viewpoint) Bretz Field Notes
P25-261926
Patah sediments
WASHINGTON
Clearly there are finer sediments.. in the Tucannon Valley above Starbuck... triangle formed by the Patah, the Tucannon and the hiway.... Bretz Field...
P25-261926
Sprague Scabland
WASHINGTON
Very good scabland south of Sprague (Colville) Lake with plenty of islands of Loessial hills Bretz Field Notes
P25-261926
Washtucna Scabland
WASHINGTON
A really eye-opening view of scabland is displayed along the highway from Washtucna to Ralston... must be seen from the south Bretz Field Notes
P25-271927
Anson Siding cuts
WASHINGTON
Just east of Anson siding, RR cut exposes a peculiar deposit utterly unlike any scabland detritus and not like anything yet seen in the superbasalt...
P25-271927
Corfu landslipping
WASHINGTON
The landslipping between Corfu and Taunton is due to the cutting away of the front of this slope. Very probably basaltic rubble would not slide like...
P25-271927
The graded profile...west of Corfu... turns out to be a structural profile it is the slope of the sedimenatary beds dipping down the north flank of...
P25-271927
Crab Creek Valley north of Anson and Taunton is largely floored with the top of the Columbia basalt. Bretz Field Notes
P25-281928
Arrowsmith gravel pit
WASHINGTON
Re-examination of the bar north of Arrowsmith, following last summer's route. about three feet of wind-blown sand above the gravel at the pit on top...
P25-281928
The westward slope of this bar, if one recons the slope to begin about 3/4 mile east of Bend, has no nodification whatever of the long smooth even...
P25-281928
Bar in mouth of gulch entering from the west at Vantgage completely closed this gulch up to 750 at, 250 feet above the river, and covered the...
P25-281928
Walla Walla Valley silts
WASHINGTON
How different, how entirely different this valley appears after seeing the Columbia, Snake, Wenatchee or scabland coulees. Everywhere along the lower...
P25-291929
Post Falls gravel scarp
WASHINGTON
Aproaching Post Falls from the west, the pronounced scarp in gravel (50 ft high) which puzzled me several years ago is encountered Bretz Field Notes .
P25-521952
Wilson Creek bar toe(nail)
WASHINGTON
Toe (nail) of the bar at angle between Crab and Wilson Creeks has a small pit in whose wall is shown an anticlinal dip of the gravel but the S limb...
1920
P25C-20 Redmond ridges (SV)
OREGON
Redmond to Prineville to Terrebonne to Culver to Mecca to Simnasho July 22 1920 Prominent & fine pressure ridges for a few miles E of Redmond. Bretz...
1920
P25C-20 The Pinnacles
OREGON
The pinnacles are composed largely, of not wholly, of indurated light colored tuff. The look as tho the original tuff strata stood at high LS & had a...
1920
P25C-20 Prineville lower valley
OREGON
West of the narrows at lower end of Prineville Valley, basalt lies beneath the "rim rocks" No granite here. Bretz Field Notes
1920
Redmond to Prineville to Terrebonne to Culver to Mecca to Simnasho July 22 1920 In vicinity of Terrebonne & at trail crossing definite fronts to lava...
P26-161916
Basalt in valley of Alder Creek, beneath the road bridge. Bretz Field Notes
P26-161916
At Brightwood, basalt in river and in the north side of Boulder Creek valley. Extends up to 200 ft. above the river. Andesite above this. Bretz Field...
P26-161916
Quarry one mile north of Sandy along the "Bluff Road" is in andesite. Bretz Field Notes
P26-161916
Satsop formation exposed in many cuts, resting on basalt. Basalt hills rise higher than the Satsop in the Council Crest Heights and hills northward...
P26-231923
Wilson Creek - North Central Highway bluffs
WASHINGTON
North Central Highway is on a summit of bluffs south of canyon... August 11 Bretz Field Notes
P26-241924
Messner Station
WASHINGTON
Messner to Stanfield. The entire route is almost featureless Also P103-27.. Early maps refer also to Coyote. Bretz Field Notes
P26-241924
What looks like a once complete valley blocking of the first prominent tributary below Roosevelt Flat is very conspicuous from south side. Bretz...
P26-241924
seen from the OW RR and N, the great talus or waste slope of Stacker Butte, east of the "blue lava flow" from summit volcano Bretz Field Notes
P26-241924
OW-RR cut-off Nessner to Stanfield Bretz Field Notes
P26-271927
Cash's Butte, of the sedimentary (which must be Ellensburg) is 50+ feet high and its base is 1100. Bretz Field Notes
P26-271927
The Natural Corral, on Red Rock quadrangle, is a fine scabland canyon-channel 100 feet deep 3 mile long and about 1/4 mile wide. At its head is an...
P26-271927
Natural Corral Spring
WASHINGTON
At the spring on the north brink of the Natural Corral (section 16) there is an abundance of non-basalt. Looks like a berg nest. Bretz Field Notes
P26-271927
Red Rock Coulee (SV)
WASHINGTON
But such a westward route did exist. Look at Red Rock Coulee and its headwater tribs. The trunk stream is entrenched in basalt itself for 2 miles,...
P26-281928
.. and reaches back into the creek valley about halfway between Barrett and Bates, or two miles back from the mouth Bretz Field Notes
P26-281928
.. and reaches back into the creek valley about halfway between Barrett and Bates (Bade on map), or two miles back from the mouth Bretz Field Notes
P26-281928
Butler Grade flat
WASHINGTON
Along the Butler Grade, an old road up the HHH nearly south of Touchet, there are no sections in the silt deposit higher than the general lowland...
P26-281928
Pine Creek Canyon
WASHINGTON
Pine Creek Canyon, about three miles west of Dry creek canyon, has terraces of silt in it for all of two miles upstream and up to 975 ft AT Bretz...
P26-281928
Vansycle (Van Sycle) Canyon
WASHINGTON
Vansycle Canyon, eroded along the steeply tilted, perhaps faulted basalt flows, enters the Walla Walla just west of the prominent spur Bretz Field...
P26-291929
Post Falls Gravel Form
WASHINGTON
The large bar-like gravel form north of Post Falls is composed of, at its southern end, next to the river, of fine gravel from bottom to top, about...
P26-291929
Spokane Bridge Prairie
WASHINGTON
Above Spokane Bridge, the river is close to the rock slopes along the south side of Spokane Valley. The broad flat in the middle of the valley...
1919
P26C-19 Rattlesnake Ridge
WASHINGTON
Rattlesnake Ridge, N of Prosser Sept 14 Yakima R at Prosser is flowing in shallow canyon cut in basalt. Basalt near surface thence Nward up into...
1920
P26C-20 Juniper Butte
OREGON
Juniper Butte (foreground) and Haystack Butte (rear) are composed apparently of the same rocks as those along Trout Cr. near Ashwood. Probably...
1920
From Madras Sta. on Oregon Trunk to brink of canyon at Mecca is about 8 1/2 miles in a straight line. The interval is a long smooth slope, all in...
1920
P26C-20 Trails Crossing
OREGON
At the bridge at Trail Crossing, tilted basalt older than the RR basalt lies underneath the canyon. Bretz Field Notes
P27-161916
Near Dee. Wholly of basalt. Rises high above the valley with andesite flows in the bottom. Overtopped by range to east of the valley of Hood River,...
P27-161916
Valley of East Fork Hood River at Toll Bridge east of Parkdale. Basalt pebbles in river gravels of both Trout creek and the river. Basalt pebbles up...
P27-161916
West Fork of Hood River - Logging Camp
OREGON
Basalt exposed in bed of stream at Logging Camp, about five miles above Dee. A mile farther up the valley, basalt in cliffs on the north side up to...
P27-161916
Two miles north of Winans on the west side of the river, the basalt dips 16 degrees to the northeast. Basalt is probably the CRB. Bretz Field Notes
P27-221922
Deadman's Gulch
WASHINGTON
The surface waters flow southward into Deadman Gulch, 6.7 miles each of Coulee City. (based on description and topology, assumed to be now called...
P27-221922
The Hartline "gravel Flat" ... begins at the eastern edge of the valley Bretz Field Notes
P27-231923
Black Rock Coulee Overflow
WASHINGTON
water escaped southward... through Black Rock coulee Bretz Field Notes
P27-231923
Coulee City First Terrace
WASHINGTON
First terrace east of Coulee City is 110 feet above the town Bretz Field Notes
P27-231923
Coulee City Second Terrace
WASHINGTON
second terrace is 165 feet above Coulee City back on the flat top August 12 Bretz Field Notes
P27-231923
Deadman's Gulch overflow
WASHINGTON
A fairly definite channel ... southward to Deadman's Gulch (now named Arbuckle Draw, which has a Deadman's Spring in it, so assumption of same place)...
P27-241924
Dam at the C-S Reservoir
WASHINGTON
Dam at the C-S reservoir is built on a basalt foundation, but imediately below the dam, no basalt Bretz Field Notes
P27-241924
Echo Gravel Terrace
WASHINGTON
An indurated gravel constitutes the terrace just north of Echo Bretz Field Notes
P27-241924
Stanfield (Foster) gravels
WASHINGTON
Same gravel north of Stanfield (Foster), exposed along RR and hiway. Bretz Field Notes
P27-261926
Cheney Mammoth Site*
WASHINGTON
The Mammoth reported by Hungate lies a few miles west of Cheney SW 1/4 of Sw1/4 of Sec 14, T23R41 in Palouse hills.. mammoth lies within.. on a...
P27-261926
Four Mound Prairie Scabland
WASHINGTON
There is real scabland, cliffed mesa... along the margin of Spokane Valley on the Indian and Four Mound Prairie margins Bretz Field Notes
P27-261926
Horseshoe Lake knobs
WASHINGTON
..the broad expanse of the basalt plain has a few rock knobs here and there, as at Woods Lake and Horseshoe Lake.. Note there are TWO Horseshoe lakes...
P27-261926
Indian Prairie scabland
WASHINGTON
There is real scabland, cliffed mesa... along the margin of Spokane Valley on the Indian and Four Mound Prairie margins Bretz Field Notes
P27-261926
The broad expanse of the basalt plain has a few rock knots here and there, as at Woods Lake and Horseshoe lake, but these are not cliffed and look...
P27-271927
This very broad bar in all probablity extends south and east of Arrowsmith and the point made by two converging slopes in Sec 28 14N26E Bretz Field...
P27-271927
A good sized bar along the Columbia River just north of the road bridge a mile south of Beverly. Bretz Field Notes
P27-271927
Red Rock Coulee head
WASHINGTON
On closer inspection, Red Rock Coulee head is clearly Post-Spokane, developed because of the great hole excavated here by the flood. Half mile above...
P27-271927
Sand Hollow (SV)
WASHINGTON
Sand Hollow is a stream valley eroded in a small syncline between the Frenchman Hills uplift and a low anticline to the south. (great basalt road cut...
P27-271927
Road from corner one mile south of Bend school east to Wahluke climbs from 600 to 800 in 1 1/2 miles over a slope covered with coarse rolled gravel,...
P27-281928
Gardenia Cliffs
WASHINGTON
Southwest of Touchet..There is a prominent scarp along the northern high edge of this higher tract of silt between Walla Walla River to the north and...
P27-291929
Spirit Lake Current Ripples
WASHINGTON
North of this channel is moraine on the valley floor....well expressed, a great series of nearly north-south longated ridges and sags with a maximum...
P27-521952
J Harlen Bretz Coulee (perhaps)
WASHINGTON
Grand Coulee June 29 Walcott says USBR is naming the Unnamed Coulee after me!! This JHB coulee, very well shown with the V bar on AAR-GA-9 has a...
P27-521952
Long Lake (Billy Clapp) dam
WASHINGTON
Grand Coulee June 29 USBR trip. Group of 14 geologists conducted by USBR on tour from Ephrata to Coulee dam. Long Lake dam. Water level 1335. Two...
P27-521952
View north from Pinto Ridge. The V: shaped bar between the nnamed coulee and the Main Canal's coulee clearly has been steepened on both sides by less...
1919
P27C-19 Mt. View School
WASHINGTON
In 1919, J Harlen Bretz documented flood evidence near Mt. View School in the Pasco Basin, where floodwaters pooled behind the Wallula Gap...
1919
P27C-19 Prosser erratic-a
WASHINGTON
One large granite erratic 6(+)x7x10 lies at 840 AT about 1/2 mile N Sunnyside Irrigation Canal on road to Mt. View School. (Location is one of two...
1919
P27C-19 Prosser erratic-b
WASHINGTON
One large granite erratic 6(+)x7x10 lies at 840 AT about 1/2 mile N Sunnyside Irrigation Canal on road to Mt. View School. (Location is one of two...
P28-161916
Crutcher Bench trail
OREGON
Along trail up to Crutcher Bench from Brightwood, at about 700 ft above river (2100 ft) a fragmental (clastic) exposed in shallow cuts. Appears to be...
P28-161916
Section on North Side Valley of East Forn Hood River along Elk Meadows Trail altitude of nearly 5000 ft, an andesitic tuff very similar to that in...
P28-161916
Section on East side valley of East Fork Hood River in latitude of Tilly Jane Creek. Great wall of tuff seen in east side valley, like that near...
P28-161916
Zigzag Mountain Section
OREGON
Aug 4. At Rowe or Rhododendron Inn, on east side of valley. Massive andesite is overlain by 1000-1200 ft of andesitec tuff Fragments of the tuff...
P28-221922
Spring Coulee, which contains Brook Lake at its mouth and Long Lake (now Billy Clapp Lake) in mid-length Bretz Field Notes
P28-221922
Head of Spring Coulee (SV) - Photo
WASHINGTON
FIg. 15 Head of Spring Coulee, a divergent canyon leading southward out of Lower Grand Coulee. August 18, 1922 Viewpoint matches photo on pg 14 of...
P28-221922
Spring Coulee, the one which contains Brook Lake at its mouth and Long Lake (now Billy Clapp Lake) in mid-length Bretz Field Notes
P28-231923
Bacon Viewpoint
WASHINGTON
The best viewpoint .... is from a Palouse Hill 1 mile south of Bacon Bretz Field Notes
P28-231923
Krupp(Marlin) - Crab Creek Valley
WASHINGTON
Krupp to Stratford Several places in Crab Creek Valley here have prominent buttes and mesas, isolated or partially isolated on the floor of the...
P28-231923
Stratford Terrace
WASHINGTON
... that of the Stratford terrace... 2 miles west of Stratford Station Near Big 4 Orchards Bretz Field Notes
P28-261926
Horseshoe Lake Pothole - Devil's Well
WASHINGTON
Horseshoe Lake carries a high rock peninsula with very steep slopes. The east and west side of the lake are likewise very high and precipitous,...
P28-261926
Horseshoe Lake - Trout Lake - Sacheen Lake.... all lakes in this region, from Eloika to Diamond, are beyond the Wisconsin terminal moraine. Another...
P28-261926
Sacheen Lakes gorges
WASHINGTON
Another extraordinary group of gorges is three miles north of the west end of Sacheen Lakes at the Y in the road on the map. Here is a granite and...
P28-261926
The gorge followed by the Little Spokane River and the GNRR between these two stations is 2 1/2-3 miles long. Its walls are exceedingly precipitous....
P28-271927
Eastern Othello Channel
WASHINGTON
bottom of easternmost channel in basalt, part on Scooteney Lake quad and part on Connell Map is below 950. The basalt outcrops east of Campbell...
P28-291929
Above Agatha, there is no road along the Clearwater Valley bottom as far as Ahsahka.
P28-291929
A miles east of Arrow along the highway, at an altitude of 1050
P28-291929
Fish (Twin) Lakes
WASHINGTON
This 1929 field stop near Fish (Twin) Lakes helped J Harlen Bretz understand how the Cordilleran Ice Sheet blocked the Clark Fork River, creating the...
P28-291929
It is very marked a mile and a half south of Hauser where its higher bluff, on the south, was read as 110 feet high Bretz Field Notes .
P28-291929
Several new and very interesting finds in the vicinity of Lone Mt. Both Fish (Twin) lake and Spirit Lakes are dammed by moraine. Around the northern...
P28-291929
Pittsburg Landing
WASHINGTON
Debris accumulations in Snake River Valley at Pittsburg Landing are almost wholly steep alluvial fans of coarse material. Sections in the in the...
P28-291929
A splendid sharp-cut notch in a spur about 2 miles north of Rathdrum. A side-hill gash! Bretz Field Notes .
P28-291929
Rathdrum Gravel Benches
WASHINGTON
Benches of gravel block minor valleys in several places along the northwest side of the big valley near Rathdrum. Two vary pronounced ones two and...
P28-291929
This 1929 field stop near Spirit Lake helped J Harlen Bretz understand how the Cordilleran Ice Sheet blocked the Clark Fork River, creating the ice...
P28-521952
Babcock Ridge gap
WASHINGTON
Potholes, Frenchman Hills, Drumheller, USBR June 30 (with party) If Neff's idea of a boulder--transporting current east through the Babcock Ridge gap...
1919
P28C-19 Dry Creek Valley
WASHINGTON
Dry Cr. Valley has plentiful glacial erratics granite predominately . Nick's Field Notes
1919
P28C-19 Satsop in Dry CK Valley
WASHINGTON
Satsop in shallow synclinal valley N of Dry Ck Valley proper, sec 23&24 a at the two x's on map. Stratified, cemented with lime. Nick's Field Notes
P29-221922
Threre are two great spillways over into Dry Coulee. near Bacon. Each is within a mile or so of the station. Each cuts across the low anticline which...
P29-221922
Bacon Spillway into Dry Coulee
WASHINGTON
There are two great spillways over into Dry Coulee from Grand Coulee near Bacon. Each spillway is a gorge of spectacular proportions and each...
P29-221922
Steamboat Rock Big as House Rock
WASHINGTON
Steamboat Rock reported to have a granite boulder on top as big as house. (V) Bretz Field Notes
P29-221922
Steamboat Rock Granite Ridges
WASHINGTON
The row of granite hills has a topology in striking contrast with that of the basalt cliffs. The granite is sheeted at a high angle to the horizon...
P29-231923
Steamboat Rock Channel
WASHINGTON
Steamboat Rock has a very good channeled surface.... 100 feet deep Bretz Field Notes
P29-231923
Steamboat Rock granite boulder
WASHINGTON
The largest intact boulder is perched on the very edge Bretz Field Notes
P29-231923
Steamboat Rock moranic ridge
WASHINGTON
The best evidence... moranic ridge ... trending NNE across the rock, many mornanic boulders Bretz Field Notes
P29-261926
Scotia Secondary Gorge
WASHINGTON
The Little Spokane is peculiar, very peculiar... at the top of the cliff, but not at the summit.. is a small gorge, carved in granite... parallel or...
P29-271927
Othello Channel into Esquatzel Coulee
WASHINGTON
The easternmost channel in basalt apparently is in or enters, a little way south of Campbell School, into a preglacial tributary of Esuatzel Coulee....
P29-271927
Rattlesnake Coulee
WASHINGTON
Mouth of Rattlesnake Coulee, east of Connell, has great basalt sand deposit flanking both sides at the mouth. Extends up to 970 Alt, 170 feet above...
P29-271927
Sulfur panorama view
WASHINGTON
The panorama from the new road down the south side of Washtucna coulee at Sulfur Lake is magnificent and exceedingly revealing. Bretz Field Notes
P29-291929
Clearwater River valley between Agatha and Myrtle, at altitudes between 1050 and 1300 there are numerous fr Bretz Field Notes .agments of non-basalt...
P29-291929
Grangeville to Nez Perce. Between these two places, the plateau is fairly plane and its local drainage pattern is very immature. One deep canyon and...
P29-291929
Clearwater river valley Between Agatha and Myrtle, at altitudes between 1050 and 1300 there are numerous fragments of non-basalt on the grassy slopes...
P29-291929
Grangeville to Nez Perce. Between these two places, the plateau is fairly plain and its local drainage pattern is very immature. One deep canyon and...
P29-291929
Rattlesnake Canyon Silt deposits
WASHINGTON
In the south of the creek valley just to the west of the rounded spur which carries striated stones up to 1250 is a remnant of a silt deposit about...
P29-291929
The Ancient Ones
WASHINGTON
Tribune: According to NezPerce Elder Allan Pinkham, these basalt chunks are called "The Ancient Ones" in a tribute to mammoths which once roamed this...
P29-521952
Winchester Canal scabland
WASHINGTON
East of the Winchester Canal (now West Canal) east of the Potholes, the prescabland surface still remains in the caliche-capped knolls and ridges....
1920
Traverse from Mecca to Simnasho to Wapinitia is across the "warm-chuck" or Warm Spring Mts. Bretz Field Notes
1919
P2C-19 Lyle Dikes
WASHINGTON
Midway in the steep grassy slope overlooking the basalt east of Lyle is a group of dikes which lead up to a small flow in the gravel. Nick's Field...
1920
P2C-20 Canyon City traverse
OREGON
July 14, 1920 Traverse made from Canyon City to Seneca, Logan Valley, summit & Prairie City. Bretz Field Notes
1920
P2C-20 Canyon Creek basalts (SV)
OREGON
About 3 miles out of Canyon Creek is an outcrop of a porphyitic lava, dark matrix with larger phenolths of a translucent yellowish mineral. Bretz...
1920
P2C-20 Prairie City traverse
OREGON
July 14, 1920 Traverse made from Canyon City to Seneca, Logan Valley, Summit & Prairie City. Bretz Field Notes
1920
July 14, 1920 Traverse made from Canyon City to Seneca, Logan Valley, Summit & Prairie City. Bretz Field Notes
P3-161916
mouth of Gordon Creek
OREGON
South from Knight's Corners to Gordon Creek. Satsop gravels in may cuts. Altitudes lower than at Chanticler Inn. Country considerably dissected. The...
P3-191919
Glenwood Cinder Cones
WASHINGTON
Klickitat Gorge, Glenwood to Goldendale Sept 5 1919 Cinder cones and lava cones of the gray lava which correlates with Herman Creek lie on CRB 10-12...
P3-191919
Structure of Grayback, as shown in these bluffs, where CRB rises back of gray lava terrace, is a southward dip... But Grayback is clearly a part of...
P3-191919
Klickitat Gorge lava flow
WASHINGTON
A notable lava flow entered the KL gorge at extreme SE corner of Mt. Adams quadrangle and flowed down the gorge to the sharp entrenched meander below...
P3-211921
Bonneville Point lava
WASHINGTON
The lava which makes the sharp ridge along E side of this point (Rr cut thru it) seems clearly an intrusive in the E.C the ridge seems to be the...
P3-211921
Latourelle gravels (SV)
OREGON
At 210 on highway between Latourelle & Bridal Veil is patch of indurated gravel on and against col lava. Col lava cliffs tower far above. gravel...
P3-211921
Sedimentary or pyroclastic material in W.P. trail at 1040. Good lava above this at 1090 August 2, 1921 Bretz Field Notes
P3-221922
Bell and valley of Mica Creek Bretz Field Notes
P3-221922
Freeman Big Pit
WASHINGTON
At Freeman, same situation in a big pit Bretz Field Notes
P3-221922
At Mica the entire hill west of town is composed of granitic waste. Thickness must exceed 100 feet. Waste is stratified.... Bretz Field Notes
P3-221922
Tekoa Mtn composed of tilted arguillite and qtzite. No slaty structure in argillite.... Aug 3, 1022 Bretz Field Notes
P3-231923
Wallace O-W RR Station formation
IDAHO
..opposite the O-W station at Wallace, and on highway east, is an exposure.... Likely covered up by I90 construction? Bretz Field Notes
P3-231923
Yellowstone Trail Basalt
WASHINGTON
Cuts on Yellowstone Trail (now I90) show basalt in two places.... basalt is columnar Bretz Field Notes
P3-251925
Conconully Lake Discharge
WASHINGTON
The discharge of Conconully Lake passes a broad, southeastward-trending valley on its left Bretz Field Notes
P3-251925
Okanogan terrace deposits
WASHINGTON
The great terrace deposits of the Okanogan Valley... at least from the town of Okanogan north Bretz Field Notes
P3-251925
Palmer Lake Valley
WASHINGTON
Two prominent N-S valleys here, the Toats Coulee and Palmer Lake Valley, and the Okanogan Valley. Bretz Field Notes
P3-251925
Peacock Mountain gorge
WASHINGTON
...to enter a narrow gorge cut across an eastern spur of Peacock Mtn. Bretz Field Notes
P3-251925
.. the former is deeper and narrower tho it carries ... Bretz Field Notes
P3-261926
Boise to Horseshoe Bend Over very intricately dissected high hills or sub-mountains. The southern slopes seem to be eroded in the Payette sediments...
P3-261926
Horeshoe Bend to Payette Lakes.... moraine ridges and hills.. enclose the lakes and diversify..the valley about McCall Bretz Field Notes
P3-261926
Valley of North Fork Payette River is a canyon almost all the way from Horeshoe Bend to Smith Ferry... Bretz Field Notes
P3-281928
Central Ferry gravels
WASHINGTON
At Central Ferry, 100 feet south of the south end of the bridge and therefore that far back in the mouth of Deadman Creek Valley from the Snake...
P3-281928
Deadman Creek Valley
WASHINGTON
Deadman Creek Valley, a few miles below the head, is broadly open and wide-bottomed. Quite unlike Bretz Field Notes
P3-281928
On the north side of Central Ferry terrace and about 1000 feet back in the mouth of the trib. valley followed up towards Dusty by the Highway. Bretz...
P3-281928
Gould City Erratic
WASHINGTON
Highest erratic was found in stream bed about a half mile east of Gould City at 1215. Bretz Field Notes
P3-281928
Illia (Ilia) Terrace
WASHINGTON
Terrace of normal Snake River gravels about 50 feet above the River at Illia (Bretz spells Ilia) Bretz Field Notes
P3-281928
Loess about Mayfield in road cuts is 40 feet thick. Typical red brown Palouse Loess. Bretz Field Notes
P3-291929
The south front of the Mission moraine is at the town (of St. Ignatius). Mission creek skirts it along its southern edge and crosses a part of on the...
P3-291929
Mission Moraine @ St Ignatius
IDAHO
This is the Mission Moraine....a massively broad feature which fills the entire floor of the trench at St Ignatius and for miles to the north.. Bretz...
P3-291929
Ninepipe Reservoir is a broad flooded tract over the surface of the northern part. Bretz Field Notes Also referenced on P8
P3-291929
Two portions of the moraine....the broad swale now used by Post Creek. Bretz Field Notes
P3-291929
Ronan rolling topography
IDAHO
A few miles north of Ronan is a rolling topography on the surface of the valley fill... but the material is silt Bretz Field Notes
P3-521952
Mid-canyon Bar (SV)
WASHINGTON
Road cut on steep grade up out of west end of fosse depression's deepest part shows coarse gravel, worn pebbles, forset towards the depression....
P30-161916
Mouth of Herman Creek Valley
WASHINGTON
the Carson andesite flow constitutes the ridge which deflects Herman Creek to the west at the mouth of the gorge. Bretz Field Notes
P30-221922
Grand Coulee Silt Terraces
WASHINGTON
The silt terrace at the north end of grand coulee (V) Bretz Field Notes
P30-231923
... to the brink of a very young, very steep sided.... Coberly (spelled Corberley in notes, but Coberly in 1901 USGS topo map) Canyon Bretz Field...
P30-231923
Pilot Rock, (aka Haystack Rock), the spectacularly large and spectacularly placed basalt bldr is 1000 feet above Coulee City on the upfold. Bretz...
P30-231923
Withrow Okanogan Moraine
WASHINGTON
Okanogan's Lobe Moraine on the plateau north of Winthrow is a magnificant thing Bretz Field Notes
P30-281928
Divide silts @ 550
WASHINGTON
The summit of the Gardena Cliffs is the same altitude as the broad silt filling at Divide, across the river, about 550 AT. But the long gentle...
P30-281928
State Penitentiary cut basalt
WASHINGTON
At 950 in Section 1, northwest of the State Penitentiary, no evidence of tiny pebbles of basalt or foreign fragments in the rain-washed roadside...
P30-291929
Fir Bluff Station
WASHINGTON
...the creek is about half a mile east of Fir Bluff Station Bretz Field Notes .
P30-291929
From Kamiah, the valley floor can be traversed by car as far as Harpster. Bretz Field Notes .
P31-161916
Red Bluffs Washington Aug. 23 1916. The section in Red Bluffs and Table Mt. is splendidly exposed because of the great slides which carry debris away...
P31-231923
Wenatchee Cut Showing seasonal silt (SV)
WASHINGTON
Along Sunset Highway, 4-5 miles north of Wenatchee is a cut showing seasonally banded silt Bretz Field Notes
P31-271927
The site of this town was traversed by the scabland flood..... altitude is just about 1300 and at 1325 contour, almost exactly, just south of the...
P31-271927
Wheeler Chalk Deposits
WASHINGTON
But farther north, within 2-3 miles of the latitude of Wheeler, there are outcrops of chalk-white limestone on the surface of the plain. And a few...
P31-281928
Berrymans RR silt cut
WASHINGTON
Section along RR one mile south of Berrymans shows 15 feet of material above basalt. Bretz Field Notes
P31-281928
This is hardly a terrace tho there are rude terraces between Hadley and Berryman. Bretz Field Notes
P31-281928
At 896, road forks 1 1/2 mile west of Russell, the foreign and basaltic fragments are well shown in rain-washed cuts, below 5 feet of clean loess...
P31-281928
Spring Valley terrace
WASHINGTON
Spring Valley in section 17 along road north out of Russell has terraces 25 feet high. A section, not exactly in the terrace but apparently in the...
P31-281928
At 1050 on road northeast out of Valley Grove, pebbly loess occurs in road cuts. A cobble of diorite porphyry found here. Bretz Field Notes
P31-291929
The hollow is a broad structural depression in the Lewiston Platform, about southeast of the city, at the head of the creek. Bretz Field Notes .
P31-521952
Coulee City gravel pit
WASHINGTON
June 30 (with HTUS) A definite bar form lying in front of the long gravel scarp where Hartline basin fill drops off to Grand Coulee floor. Has a huge...
1919
P31C-19 Priest Rapids Range (Umtanumn Ridge)
WASHINGTON
Named for convenience in describing it. Not named on map (later maps named Umtanum Ridge) Nick's Field Notes
1920
P31C-20 Schoolie Flat
OREGON
Schoolie Flat at about 2600-2700 is a lava plain which apppears to extend around well between the Warm Chucks & the Cascades to the W & to slope down...
1920
Wapinitia 1900 ft AT on a rolling surface, apparently a flava flow in the structural valley, 200 ft or so above the Wapinitia flat Bretz Field Notes
P32-161916
Greenleaf Creek cascade
WASHINGTON
Near Greenleaf Creek there are interbedded strata of gravel and andesite, indicating clearly that the two were contemporaneous. Sept 4 1919 Bretz...
P32-221922
Glacial Striae east of Leahy
WASHINGTON
Glacial striae on a well smoothed surface of basalt three miles east of Leahy...down on the slope of a valley 80 feet deep Bretz Field Notes
P32-221922
Basalt plateau at the head of Barker Canyon is much broken for a mile or so back from the edge... Bretz Field Notes
P32-221922
The general surface of the basalt plateau slopes NWward for many miles west of the Grand Coulee.. At Leahy, the valley is 250 ft deep and, were it...
P32-221922
Haystack rocks, which are huge bldrs of basalt like Pilot Rock, are abundant in some tracts....two photographed, one of them resting on a mound of...
P32-221922
Mansfield glacially scrubed basalt bedrock (SV)
WASHINGTON
Exposed sections of glacially scrubbed basalt. FB user in Friends of J Harlen Bretz page Bretz Field Notes
P32-221922
Mansfield Haystack Rock
WASHINGTON
"Haystack Rocks"... are abundant in some tracts....one of the resting on a mound of glacial till cut in section of making the road.. Bretz Field Notes
P32-231923
In the lower Moses coulee, below Apppledale and on the Malaga sheet, this terrace is present. Bretz Field Notes
P32-231923
Appledale Terrace
WASHINGTON
In lower Moses Coulee, below Appledale and on the Malaga sheet (USGS 1901), this terrace is present Bretz Field Notes
P32-231923
Columbia Valley Cliffs with Spokane Talus Photo
WASHINGTON
Cliffs of Columbia Valley on the east at the confluence of the rock walls have Spokane talus Placename view matches photo by L. C. Robinson (Figure...
P32-231923
Palisades Three Devils Cataracts
WASHINGTON
The Three Devils are three excessively steep and rocky grades in the road east from Palisades.. Bretz Field Notes
P32-231923
Rock Island Rapids Terrace
WASHINGTON
Rock Island Rapids (now under water) photographed from west side.... terrace here is strikingly mounded with many enclosed basins Bretz Field Notes
P32-271927
Crab Creek - Lords Creek Junction
WASHINGTON
Crab Creek, north of Keystone, about the junction with Lord Creek and farther downstream is in a deep valley, much deeper than the valley at...
P32-271927
Harrington scarps
WASHINGTON
On the road directly south from Harrington, crossing Crab Creek Valley, the base of the45-50 foot north-facing loess scarps is 175 feet above the...
P32-271927
About Keystone, the real scab channels begins in earnest. A main route westward is followed by the hiway and the NPRR west of Keystone Bretz Field...
P32-271927
Marcellus scabrock
WASHINGTON
Then east of Marcellus about 4-5 miles, scabrock begins to show and boulders of basalt appear in the roads, the fields and stone walls and piles....
P32-271927
Ritzville Channels
WASHINGTON
North and east of Ritzville, the contrast could hardly be more marked. I never realized before realized (sp) how many little scabland channels there...
P32-281928
The scattered grains, including plenty of foreign material, were found at 1020 at 1 1/4 miles south of Drum Bretz Field Notes
P32-281928
Dry Creek Station
WASHINGTON
Same conclusion seems justifiable from the terraces in the Trib. From Drum, thru Rulo and Thiel to Dry Creek Station. Bretz Field Notes
P32-281928
Ennis road forks
WASHINGTON
Half a mile north of Ennis, at 1060 at road forks, the cut shows nodular loess to the grass roots at east end, but gray silt above loess in northwest...
P32-281928
Silt is very prominent in the short trib followed south from Shaw by the road and RR. But it fails to reach Paddock. Bretz Field Notes
P32-281928
Prescott terrace
WASHINGTON
Prescott terrace where this road thru Hadley, Berryman and Ennis enters the Touchet Valley, is 1010 or 1020, typical gray silt full of tiny black...
P32-281928
Same conclusion seems justifiable from the terraces in the Trib. From Drum, thru Rulo and Thiel to Dry Creek Station. Bretz Field Notes
P32-281928
The terrace of silt in Touchet River Valley is a very prominent thing topographically. Yet it isn't the upper limit of silt deposits in this valley...
P32-281928
Same conclusion seems justifiable from the terraces in the Trib. From Drum, thru Rulo and Thiel to Dry Creek Station. Bretz Field Notes
P32-291929
The Nave pit re-examined. Plenty of upstream foresets here and in the river bluff for a quarter of a mile to the north. Bretz Field Notes .
P32-291929
Thorn Creek Valley
WASHINGTON
Silt with plenty of particles of granite, quartite, etc is abundent along the road three miles down Thorn Creek from Thornton. Bretz Field Notes .
P32-521952
Burke gravel pit
WASHINGTON
July 1 Neff's idea that a reverse flow, from the Columbia east to Quincy basin, through the Potholes gap, has excellent confirmation in structure and...
P32-521952
West Canal traverse south of Quincy
WASHINGTON
Traverse Along West Canal July 1 (with HTUS) Caliche encountered at intervals in the excavation, and where lacking, section shows only brown sand...
1919
P32C-19 Saddle Mt Ash layers
WASHINGTON
Saddle Mt E. of Beverly Sept 17. Clue & in some places two, strata or ash & ejectamenta, stratified with basalt near summit of cliff. Nick's Field...
1920
Structural valley at Maupin. Basalt dips down N Ward so that its summit is not much above river level at Maupin. Bretz Field Notes
P33-201920
Yale basalt escarpments
WASHINGTON
South of Lewis River below Yale, and separating Lewis River and the Yale flat, are two great N-facing escarpments of bedded lava flows which, in the...
P33-221922
Head of Jameson Lake
WASHINGTON
Moranic and outwash accumulations not noteworthy north of Jameson Lake. Coulee has broad aggraded floor, no rock anywhere. Bretz Field Notes
P33-221922
Spencer Gravel Pit
WASHINGTON
At the Sunset Highway crossing, near the old PO of Spencer, a glimpse of the moraine on the summit of the cliffs to the north.....A gravel pit along...
P33-221922
Tributaries Head of Moses Coulee S of Mansfield
WASHINGTON
Broad capacious tributary valleys eroded in basalt but little altered by glaciation, lead southward to Moses Coulee from a latitude a few miles south...
P33-231923
The falls which lie a mile south of Coulee City have two lakes in the canyon: Castle Lake (now empty) at the very foot and Deep Lake in the canyon...
P33-231923
Coulee City Eastern Overflow
WASHINGTON
The eastern most canyon of Lower Grand Coulee.. it takes origin about a mile southeast of Coulee City Bretz Field Notes
P33-231923
The falls which lie a mile south of Coulee City have two lakes in the canyon: Castle Lake at the very foot and Deep Lake in the canyon further down....
P33-231923
Deep Lake Holes in Canyon Floor
WASHINGTON
... canyon also has a number of remarkable holes in it Bretz Field Notes
P33-261926
Salmo River Mouth
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Valley of the Salmon (now Salmo) River, a tributary of the Pend Orelle from the north, joins the main river almost a 180 to its course Bretz Field...
P33-281928
Snake River Valley entered by road to Page from Eureka. No vestiges, no suggestion, of silt deposits down in this valley. Bretz Field Notes
P33-281928
Sudbury Station till lens (SV)
WASHINGTON
The till lens half a mile or so southeast of Sudbury Station is several feet long and about 4 inches thick. Bretz Field Notes
P33-291929
Cache Creek silts
WASHINGTON
Silts farthest up Cache Creek were found in the tributary entering from the south, half a mile above the junction of the two valleys. The silts are...
P33-291929
Latah Creek Valley
WASHINGTON
Spokane to Mt. Hope to Spangle....The valley of Latah Creek is the connecting link and has never seemed to have characters of either. The drainage of...
P33-291929
Lewiston gravel bluff
WASHINGTON
Cobbles are plentiful in the gravel bluff just south of the business district of Lewiston Bretz Field Notes .
P33-291929
Malden glacial river
WASHINGTON
The glacial river overflowed the rock hill just south of Malden leaving a small loessial island where the Malden water tower stand, but stripping off...
P33-291929
Malden glacial silt
WASHINGTON
Two miles south of Malden a diagonal road crosses Cache creek ...up the east slope of the valley along this road, the glacial silt is very...
P33-291929
This silt's upper limit is 135 feet above Malden station. (note imagery for view is 2020, roll to the latest imagery to see what burned in 2021)...
P33-291929
Squaw Creek erratics
WASHINGTON
No silts found in this valley but a number of erratics up to 2220 at. Bretz Field Notes .
P33-291929
Waverly glacial silt
WASHINGTON
The flat on which the village stands carries the glacial silt at 2380 (placemark) Bretz Field Notes .
P33-521952
Moses Lake bar sands (SV)
WASHINGTON
Moses Lake town July 1 (With HTUS) The marked lee slope of the bar where crossed by Hiway 10 (sec.36) is mostly black basalt sand. Within a city...
P33-521952
Othello Gravel Pit
WASHINGTON
The low bar east of Othello has two pits showing dominant Sward foresets, SE much more common than SW. Bldrs and cobbles and very abundant pebbles of...
P33-521952
Weber Coulee deposits
WASHINGTON
Mouth of Weber Coulee July 1 (with HTUS). In NE 1/4 ssec. 9 18N.,30E., the creek has undercut a higher bank and exposed two deposits in a clean...
1920
At Tygh, the material beneath the rim rock flow is largely ash and tuff. Bretz Field Notes
1920
P33C-20 Sherar's Bridge
OREGON
At Sherar Bridge, CRB basalt is about 1000 feet high. Large granite bldr is along road just E of Bridge, alt 755 Bretz Field Notes
P34-161916
Carson basalts (SV)
WASHINGTON
Nearer Carson, the railroad cuts are in a lava whose structure attitude and texture are very like the Herman Creek formation. Bretz Field Notes
P34-231923
Great gravel covered areas about Gloyd also fall into this category Bretz Field Notes
P34-261926
Brilliant Rapids
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Kootenay River from Nelson to Columbia River at Brilliant has a long series of cascades and white water.... Bretz Field Notes
P34-261926
Columbia Gardens
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Furthermore, there is a transverse valley across from Salmo to Columbia Gardens, about 20 m long Bretz Field Notes
P34-261926
Columbia Valley from Castlegar and Brilliant to Trail was one long succession of terraced benches Bretz Field Notes
P34-261926
Trail Upper Terrace
BRITISH COLUMBIA
The upper terrace at Trail is 1900 feet .... Bretz Field Notes
P34-261926
These features above Ymir are all in the bottom of the valley Bretz Field Notes
P34-281928
Johnson Bridge wall SV
WASHINGTON
A valley wall section along the road just east of Johnson Bridge is 100 feet high. Bretz Field Notes
P34-281928
Tunnel 8 bar bypass
WASHINGTON
Another bit of evidence that the pre-flood Snake used the bar-filled route from Tunnel 8 to Page is the gully shown on the map in the south east...
P34-291929
these stratified deposits, traced southward, become more and more sandy toward Duncan and beyond Duncan are stratified silts Bretz Field Notes ....
P34-291929
Latah Creek gravel bank
WASHINGTON
Beginning with the high bank of gravel along the NPRR on the east side of Latah Valley, these stratified deposits, traced southward become more and...
P34-291929
Pine Creek Channel
WASHINGTON
All seem to be a product of a huge volume of water flowing southward toward Pine Creek channel. The new data.... indicate the hugeness of the glacial...
P34-291929
Spangle- Latah Creek silts
WASHINGTON
...and as far south as the road crossing of Latah, file and a half miles east and one mile south of Spangle. All seem to be a product of a huge...
P34-291929
Spangle-Mt.Hope Scablands
WASHINGTON
In support of this is the presence of fairly well marked scabland surfaces up to 2500 east of the Spangle-Mt.Hope road crossing.... they are right in...
P34-521952
Beverly bar (SV)
WASHINGTON
Frenchman Hills and Lower Crab Creek July 2 (with HTUS and Neff) The Beverly bar is a marvel.... its proximal end is about 100 ft above the sump on...
P34-521952
Sand Hollow erratics
WASHINGTON
Frenchman Hills and Lower Crab Creek. July 2 (with HTUS and Neff) A few erratics, one a granite 18" dia., seen along township line road between sec...
1920
P34C-20 Jordan Creek
OREGON
Up Jordan Cr, the rim rock flow can be traced around to the W flank, or the nose, of the anticline. Bretz Field Notes 4
P35-161916
Carson St. Mattins Hotel and Hot Springs
WASHINGTON
Hot springs at St. Mattins Hotel and Shipperds rise thru the lava. Bretz Field Notes
P35-161916
Vicinity of Collins Aug 25 1916. Wind Mtn. is composed of the Shell Rock intrusive. Columnar structure is vertical where present, as on the west...
P35-221922
Palisades Station
WASHINGTON
A mile above Palisades station is a gravel terrace on the north side of the coulee, 60 feet above the aggregated floor of the coulee Bretz Field Notes
P35-231923
Rocky Coulee north of Wheeler just east of the gravel plain, just within the Palouse hill topography, is 150 feet deep. Bretz Field Notes
P35-231923
Rocly coulee north of Wheeler just east of the gravel plain, just within the Palouse hill topography, is 150 feet deep. Bretz Field Notes
P35-271927
South from Lamona 1 1/2 miles is a minor channel of the flood, alt of floor 1775 Bretz Field Notes
1919
P35C-19 Boylston
WASHINGTON
Boylston to Beverly Sept 17 Yakima basalt from summit down to about 1000 where Ellensburg proba is present in lower near flanx of Saddle Mts w. of...
1919
P35C-19 Sourdough Canyon Satsop
WASHINGTON
Road 4 Mi N of Br Rapids and 3/4 N of Sourdough Canyon, Alt 760 Satsop rests on basalt, probably Yakima. Unconformable contact with relief of some...
1920
Friend stands just west of the limits of CRB outcrops. Material westward for 6 miles is volc tuff Bretz Field Notes
P36-161916
The horizontal lava above the inclined basalt extends as far east as Bingen, its surface descending all the way. Bretz Field Notes
P36-221922
Palisades gravel deposit
WASHINGTON
A mile south of Palisades is a deposit of very poorly sorted material Bretz Field Notes
P36-231923
Campbell School
WASHINGTON
Flood spread 9 miles at the latitude of the Campbell School Bretz Field Notes
P36-231923
Gravel Bar west of Campbell School
WASHINGTON
A prominent gravel terrace.. lies 4 miles w of Campbell School Bretz Field Notes
P36-231923
Palouse Hill east of Gloyd
WASHINGTON
An isolated Palouse hill with a farm building group stands 2.5 miles east of Gloyd Bretz Field Notes
P36-231923
Spokane Glacial Drainage South of Othello
WASHINGTON
The glacial river which flowed southward....channel 150 deep.. Adams Franklin County Line Bretz Field Notes
P36-231923
Granite, etc, in gravel of stream course past Tiflis. A deep alluvium here, 34-40 feet thick. Stream now trenching it. Bretz Field Notes
P36-261926
Sutherland Creek
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Valley of Sutherland creek, east of the lake, is hanging at 500 feet above the lake surface Bretz Field Notes
P36-261926
Christina Lake Valley
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Christina Lake valley has much bare or nearly bare rock Bretz Field Notes
P36-261926
Valley from Rossland to Trail does not show much glacial erosion Bretz Field Notes
P36-261926
Sheep Creek Valley
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Sheep Creek valley at crossing of Hiway is 2300 Bretz Field Notes
P36-271927
Bluestem channel
WASHINGTON
The Bluestem channel seems to be the main discharge route from Davenport source channel to Crab Creek. It is more than two times as wide as Coal...
P36-271927
Lords Creek gravel pit
WASHINGTON
Yet in Sec 16, two mi up Lord Creek from the Crab Creek scabland, there is a pit for road material, composed of relatively fresh basalt rubble and...
P36-271927
Rock Creek Channel
WASHINGTON
Am in doubt as to which way the glacial river flowed in the E-W scabland channel of Rock Creek, 10 miles north of Sprague. Two or three side hill...
P36-271927
Unmapt Harrington channel
WASHINGTON
A previously unmapt channel enters the Coal Creek mapped glacial river on the west side at Harrington. Traced north to the great Rocklyn Flat, a...
P36-291929
The westernmost prominent spur of granite on the south edge of the Spokane Valley lies just west of the Chester embayment and the Milwaukee RR route...
P36-291929
Trent Granite knobs
WASHINGTON
About a mile south of Trent and south of the Spokane River is a group of granitic knobs in the midst of the gravel plain, here the lowest of the...
P36-521952
Jericho coulee islands
WASHINGTON
July 2 (with HTUS and Neff) We traversed both "island" basalt hills along the tandem scabland channel of Lower Crab Creek (Jericho coulee) Neither...
P36-521952
Red Rock Creek bar margins (SV)
WASHINGTON
Even the highest gravel on the flat north of these problem canyons has bar margins. the best examples are at cornering of 17-18-19-20 and on south...
1920
P36C-20 McLennan (Mc Lennon)
OREGON
Basalt on older tuffs & lavas at McLennon. A great series of tuffs,.... block columar with some flows of reddish to light colored lavas Bretz Field...
1920
P36C-20 Sherman (Moro)
OREGON
Sherman to Madras on O-W RR&N July 24 Sediments on basalt & apparently under basalt also on N side of Columbia Opp Sherman. Bretz Field Notes
1920
P36C-20 White River mouth
OREGON
Rimrock from mouth of White River to several mi S. of Maupin. Bretz Field Notes
P37-221922
Town of Trinidad stands on a terrace which is continuous up-valley with the Columbia River (town) terrace and the Moses Coulee fill. At Trinidad, the...
P37-221922
Vulcan Gravel Pit
WASHINGTON
A large gravel pit between Trinidad and Vulcan along the GNRR excavated.... Bretz Field Notes
P37-221922
West Bar Current Ripples
WASHINGTON
A lower terrace, opposite Trinidad..... bears on its surface the giant current ripples Bretz Field Notes
P37-231923
Bluff of Ringold Material w of Mesa
WASHINGTON
West of Mesa 8 miles, the bluff of Ringold material along the western margin of the denuded ara is 325 feet high Bretz Field Notes
P37-231923
Highest gravel terrace at Estes on south side of coulee Bretz Field Notes
P37-231923
Koontz Coulee offers some interesting information Bretz Field Notes
P37-231923
Old Maid Coulee Gravel Deposit
WASHINGTON
A gravel deposit in Old Maid Coulee 4 1/2 miles south of Connell on the highway Bretz Field Notes
P37-261926
Cascade terraces
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Terraces in Kettle Valley at Cascade are all of gravel Bretz Field Notes
P37-271927
Head of Lords Creek Valley
WASHINGTON
Glacial water DID enter this valley at the head. The waters came thru from the Bluestem channel by the route now used by the GNRR for two or three...
P37-281928
The divide between Dayton and New Hope is 2100 AT New Hope is about 1350 AT. No stratified silts or pieces of foreign rock found along this creek...
P37-291929
Blue Creek Divide
WASHINGTON
The divide between Blue Creek and Wolf Lodge Creek at about 3000 carries large numbers of poorly worn but stream-carried cobbles Bretz Field Notes .
P37-291929
Post Falls Gorge
WASHINGTON
The Post Falls gorge, from which the river has been diverted, has.... it also is a fine narrow canyon in the gneiss, much better than any of the...
P37-291929
Silver Beach erratics
WASHINGTON
Drifted erratic boulders, about twenty of them, stranded on a little flat at 2691 BM near Silver Beach Bretz Field Notes .
P37-521952
Crater Coulee caliche
WASHINGTON
July 3 (with HTUS) Caliche undrlies the plain about Quincy, shown in cuts southward and westward. Gravel with caliche fragments in hiway cuts where...
P37-521952
Trinidad Terrace
WASHINGTON
The Trinidad terrace is the most perfect example I know of in the Columbia valley. The Colockum Pass (quad) contours do not do it justice. Bretz...
1920
Kaskela, on the bdry of the Clarno-like tuffs & the softer JD-like material with little assoc lava. Valley from Kaskela Sward past St Jct is a broad...
P38-161916
Mt. Pleasant station
WASHINGTON
Andesite in cliffs of the Columbia 1 1/2 miles east of Mt. Pleasant station, resting on Satsop in typical river phase, this in turn on columar...
P38-161916
Mt Zion is an andesitic cone rising above the Satsop formation. Qtzite pebbles and agate pebble found up at altitude of about 1000 ft. Summit of Zion...
P38-221922
Crater access to "The Potholes"
WASHINGTON
N/S road crossing GNRR...east of Crater stations was followed southward to the Potholes... two erratic bldrs, piled up at corner of road. Bretz Field...
P38-221922
N-S road crossing GNRR 1 1/2 miles east of Crater Station was folowed southward to the Potholes. Bretz Field Notes
P38-231923
Highest gravel terrace at Estes on south side of coulee Bretz Field Notes
P38-231923
The big gravel deposit on the south side of the coulee at Washtucna is but a bar Bretz Field Notes
P38-231923
Washtucna gravel deposits
WASHINGTON
Grael deposits north of Washtucna high up on the coulee walls Bretz Field Notes
P38-261926
Burrell Creek
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Traverse up to the forks of Burrell Creek.
P38-261926
Granby River Knobs
BRITISH COLUMBIA
... These half dozen knobs as far as Lynch Creek must be a Zungenbecken Bretz Field Notes
P38-261926
Lynch Creek Offset
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Another curious place is a mile above the jct of Lynch Creek Here the valley is sharply offset for half a mile or so Bretz Field Notes
P38-271927
Cheney till near Hite
WASHINGTON
The Cheney till has been located definitely in the "preglacial hills" about Hite. At the SW corner of section 19 25N40E, where the Sunset Highway...
P38-281928
Chard, read on aneroid set at Pomeroy, is 1200 (BM is actually 1179)... boulder of diorite prophyry, two feet max dia., along highway at 1085 just...
P38-281928
Smith Hollow @ 1141
WASHINGTON
Smith Hollow was entered near the head and traversed down to 1141 alt. mark. Plenty of the pebbly silt found at the road junction here and up the...
P38-291929
Beauty Bay Erratics
WASHINGTON
The erratics west of Beauty Bay in the saddle crossed by the road along the south side of Wolf Lodge Bay, occur at least up to 2590. The highest...
P38-291929
Echo Bay gravel cuts
WASHINGTON
Near Echo Bay a fine gravel and sand deposit is cut by the highway. The debris is 99 percent basalt and very angular. Bretz Field Notes .
P38-291929
... road thence to Worley, Ford and Coeur D'Alene. No erratics seen from car up to 2600 Bretz Field Notes .
P38-291929
Ft. Sherman Delta
WASHINGTON
A delta of poorly worn gravelly and cobbly debris lies just west of the former site of Ft. Sherman. Bretz Field Notes .
P38-291929
Nothing more than water-laid debris or silt deposits seen from Echo Bay to Harrison. Ferry taken here to a point directly west across the lake and...
P38-291929
No trace of glacial waters about Worley. Bretz Field Notes .
1919
P38C-19 Mottinger
WASHINGTON
A good deal of scattered river gravel on the bluff back of Mottinger (at mouth of Rush Canyon) & Spukshowki Canyon Nick's Field Notes
1919
P38C-19 Spukshowki Canyon
WASHINGTON
On S slope, 4 mi from Columbia below Spukshowki & Read canyons at about 1100 alt, a similar deposit, the highest found on this slope. Nick's Field...
1919
Canyon along Columbia from Tomar east is cut in CRB for full depth. Nick's Field Notes
P39-161916
Buck Creek leaf beds
OREGON
Buck Creek Sept 2 1916 Mr. J.B. Winstanley, the man who found the leaf beds on this creek, guided Williams, Chaney and self to the outcrop. Located...
P39-221922
Aug 25, 1922 The Potholes constitute the best example mapped of a receding waterfall over horizontal flows of basalt. The ancient stream spilled over...
P39-231923
Depression areas of small extent in the Palouse mature topography south of Lind .... one also seen near Earl PO north of Harrington Bretz Field Notes
P39-231923
Lind stream reversal
WASHINGTON
A curious reversal in a stream in the hill area south of Lind Bretz Field Notes
P39-231923
Michigan Prairie
WASHINGTON
Michigan Prairie is a great flattish tract... Bretz Field Notes
P39-231923
Othello channels @ Bruce
WASHINGTON
A large plain area extends 5 miles east of Othello, ... Rises from 1100 to 1200, Othello to Bruce Bretz Field Notes
P39-231923
Washtucna Basalt Exposure
WASHINGTON
On hiway up from Washtucna, basalt is exposed 525 feet above Washtucna Station. The summit of the Palouse hills nearly is 650. Bretz Field Notes
P39-261926
Boundary Falls
BRITISH COLUMBIA
But the character of the valley changes at Boundary Fallls and Rock Creek town. Here it resembles the valleys.... Bretz Field Notes
P39-261926
Vicinity of Eholt is considerably different from the country yet seen. It is a region of low mts that seem isolated.. Bretz Field Notes
P39-261926
Granby River Constriction
BRITISH COLUMBIA
... the same restriction applies also the the Granby River constriction about Midway between Grand forks... Bretz Field Notes
P39-261926
Greenwood
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Boundary Creek from Eholt to within 8 miles of Greenwood shows no valley deepening by glacial erosion Bretz Field Notes
P39-261926
Rock Creek Town
BRITISH COLUMBIA
But the character of the valley changes at Boundary Falls and Rock Creek town Bretz Field Notes
P39-271927
Fish lake cobbles
WASHINGTON
Plenty of cobbles and small boulders of gray quartzite, basalt..... on upper slopes of hill in NE1/4 of section 32, directly north of Fish Lake Bretz...
P39-291929
Cougar Bay Notches
WASHINGTON
The north side of the shoulder between Cougar Creek Bay on the south and Spokane River on the north is a broad ledge of basalt reaching a little...
P39-521952
Lind Coulee scabland knobs
WASHINGTON
July 4 (with HTUS & Neff) Two siphons in East Low Canal are being built across this coulee connected by a short open stretch. They are 5 mi. E of...
P39-521952
Potholes East Canal excavation
WASHINGTON
July 4 (with HTUS and Neff) Potholes East Canal north of Othello is excavated almost wholly in the flat-lying sedimentary that holds up Paradise...
1920
P39C-20 North Junction
OREGON
Apparently the Des Chutes flows did not reach thru the gorge cut in Clarno & J Day, between North Junction & Maupin. Bretz Field Notes
1920
P39C-20 South Junction
OREGON
Somewhere in the vicinity of S. Jct, the DesChutes formation thins out & disappears. Bretz Field Notes
1919
P3C-19 Bickleton
WASHINGTON
Sept 22 Traverse from Roosevelt to Bickleton. Considerable doubt instead of no doubt exists on matter of correlating Satsop and Dallas Nick's Field...
1920
P3C-20 Logan Valley
OREGON
From Seneca to Logan Valley & summit (S of Prairie City) this rock & this topography give character to the region. Bretz Field Notes
1920
P3C-20 Seneca Valley volcanics
OREGON
On N slope of Seneca valley (now called Bear Valley), rhyolite tuff & fragments of volcanic glass. The broad flat valley here, 1600 ft above alt of...
P4-161916
Angels Rest is a spur of andesite, overlooking the gorge of the Columbia the andesite with horizontal cleavage. Panorama here is magnificent. The...
P4-161916
Brower road andesite lava
OREGON
Andesite lava, some of it rather coarse grained, some scoriaceous at about 1100 on road from Brower road to LaTourelle (Sec.28) Gravel, typically...
P4-161916
Gravel, typically river-rolled, well stratified, much qtzite, at 1000 feet on northern road to Brower and Bridal Veil creek. Exposure is in a...
P4-161916
Crown Point Chalet to Multnomah Lodge
OREGON
July 18, 1916 Loess-like material mantles everything along the old road back of Crown Point Chalet to the LaTourelle Road. In LaTourelle Valley where...
P4-161916
Junction of Donahue Creek, Bridal Veil Creek and Palmer Mill Road. Andesite thense all the way to Donohue and Palmer and Angel's rest. Bretz Field...
P4-191919
Babcock Ridge is the eastward tip of a broad, plunging anticlinal fold from the high mts W of the river. It and a similar structure and elevation...
P4-191919
Badger Hills (now named Breezley Hills)
WASHINGTON
An anticlinal ridge like Frenchman Hills but larger lies N of Quincy and the Great Northern RR as far E as Soap Lake. No local name for it could be...
P4-191919
Ellensburg to Vantage
WASHINGTON
Sept 21, 1919. No outcrops, not quartzites, nothing but sage from Ellensburg to the summit of the road (2600 A.T.) Bretz Field Notes
P4-191919
Frenchman Hills anticline
WASHINGTON
Frenchman Hills anticline cut through by Columbia just above Vantage Ferry. Dips on both sides less than 10 degrees. Bretz Field Notes
P4-191919
Quincy School 27
WASHINGTON
Granite erratics on plateau south of Quincy. One near site of old schoolhouse (School 27, now moved to another location not shown on map) is 4x5x10....
P4-201920
Lava beds on Lewis River near Cougar
WASHINGTON
the flows are shown on topogr. map by absence of forest on them. Flows too recent for forest to have formed. Lava is dark gray, very vesicular....
P4-201920
Ortley anticline
WASHINGTON
Qtzites up on N. slope of Ortley anticline here at 2080. Ortley is a splendid feature, rising prominently all along Lyle-Goldendale road on the E....
P4-211921
Gorge of Tanner Creek
WASHINGTON
Contact betweeen EC and C lava is at ____ about half way between flume head and the falls at ____ about a quarter of a mile from the falls. Aug 2,...
P4-221922
Cliffs above Elberton
WASHINGTON
Ledges on almost all slopes, cliffs for half the total ... just above Elberton Bretz Field Notes
P4-221922
CM&STP RR cuts 30-40 feet deep east of Tekoa Bretz Field Notes
P4-221922
Valley at Farmington
WASHINGTON
Valley at Farmington a mile wide (placemark is on RR crossing) Bretz Field Notes Aug 1, 1922
P4-231923
Rodna Gravel Pits
WASHINGTON
South of Rodna, just over into Lincoln Co, there are large gravel pits for RR ballast on both sides of the track Bretz Field Notes
P4-231923
Amber (Calvert Lake)
WASHINGTON
At Amber, Palouse hills up close to lake. (Calvert Lake now called Amber Lake) Bretz Field Notes
P4-231923
Benge gravel pit
WASHINGTON
Gravel Pit in hill at Benge, north of town, west of track Bretz Field Notes
P4-231923
Cow Creek Valley Talus
WASHINGTON
Talus on Cow Creek Valley walls is 3/4-4/5 to the top. Bretz Field Notes
P4-231923
Ft. Wright Gravel Pit
WASHINGTON
Big Gravel Pits at Fort Wright in Wisconsin VT (now behind (east) Life Center Spokane) Bretz Field Notes
P4-231923
Lamont Gravel Terrace
WASHINGTON
Another large gravel terrace northeast of Lamont.... Bretz Field Notes
P4-231923
At Macall, west of RR, are very flat-topt (sp) dissected Palouse Hills. Bretz Field Notes
P4-231923
Rock Lake Channel
WASHINGTON
The main Rock Lake scabland channel joins Lamont area a few miles below Macall Bretz Field Notes
P4-231923
At Rodna, ledges of basalt seen up in the lower part... Bretz Field Notes
P4-251925
Boot mountain stands in the middle of the great valley in which these two lakes.. Bretz Field Notes
P4-251925
Nespelem Flat is held up to its altitude of 800 above the Columbia..... section along road paralleling river is poor Bretz Field Notes
P4-251925
Nespelem Valley Moraine
WASHINGTON
Nespelem valley just north of the town contains a frontal moraine Bretz Field Notes
P4-251925
TumTum -Chamokane Valley Summit
WASHINGTON
Spokane Drift fairly abundant along the road which crosses the hills between Chamokane Valley and Tum Tum. (placename at 2072) Bretz Field Notes
P4-251925
Wagonroad Coulee
WASHINGTON
Wagonroad Coule is the preglaicial course of Okanogan River Bretz Field Notes
P4-261926
Horseshoe Bend Mesa
WASHINGTON
At Horseshoe Bend a few mile south of Whitebird, there is a large mesa in the middle of the bend composed of old gravels Bretz Field Notes
P4-261926
Old Whitebird Grade
WASHINGTON
White Bird to Lewiston... a climb 12 miles long carries one from the Salmon River Valley bottom to the summit of a nearby fold in the basalt Bretz...
P4-261926
McCall to WhiteBird....Columbia Basalt appears south of Pollock.. July 4, 1926 Bretz Field Notes
P4-271927
Frenchman Springs Cataract
WASHINGTON
The scabland floor above the falls is rougher than the map shows, and possesses the same intricate anastomosing character that the scablands show in...
P4-271927
Frenchman Springs well
WASHINGTON
Photo shows contact of scab-basalt with 30 foot bluff of Ellensburg or Ringold at 1225 south of "well" Bretz Field Notes
P4-281928
Penewawa High School fill
WASHINGTON
But in the mouth of a small tributary entering at the Penawawa High School, about a mile west of the station, there is a splendid fill of this...
P4-291929
At Bigfork there is a gap where the Mission Range apparently discontinues and the Swan Range east of the Mission comes in to margin the valley Bretz...
P4-291929
Flathead Lake slope at Polson
IDAHO
and decending 3-4 times as far down its northern slope to Flathead lake. Bretz Field Notes
P4-291929
The Rocky Mt Trench terminates rather abruptly south of St. Ignatius. Northward as far as Kalispell, it is a very strongly marked feature ....the...
P4-291929
The Polson moraine is a prominent feature, seen several miles away. It is a fine ridge moraine rising perhaps 50 above the plain Bretz Field Notes
P4-521952
Flint's Dam for his Raparia Lake
WASHINGTON
June 18 (Alone) Wholly an imaginary thing. I traversed all roads to see remnants of the high distal part and the "conspicuous channels" around and...
P40-161916
Beacon Rock (Castle Rock)
WASHINGTON
Castle Rock Sept. 4 Of light gray fine grained lava. Pinkish in some portionis. Scoria on the summit. Clearly the plug of a former cone with...
P40-161916
Wind River canyon
WASHINGTON
Wind River, Sept 3, 1916. Canyon where crosst by suspension bridge is cut 250 ft. deep. Altitude of bridge about 570 at. Walls of canyon composed of...
P40-231923
Drainage channels perfectly definite north of Washtucna to latitude of old Fletcher PO Bretz Field Notes
P40-231923
Glacial channels N of Washtucna
WASHINGTON
Glacial drainage channels perfectly definite north of Washtucna to latitude of Fletcher Bretz Field Notes
P40-231923
Palouse River Valley @ Winona
WASHINGTON
Palouse river valley at and near Winona Bretz Field Notes
P40-231923
Scabland tract S of Hooper
WASHINGTON
Scabland tract south of Hooper about 2 miles wide Bretz Field Notes
P40-231923
Striking isolated hills near Hooper
WASHINGTON
Several striking isolated hills of Palouse Loess Bretz Field Notes
P40-231923
Willow Creek Valley deposits
WASHINGTON
Glacial waters in Willow Creek Valley .... depositional Bretz Field Notes
P40-261926
Arlington Lakes Gash
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Now such a gash does exist!! It is truly spectacular, also. It extends for about four miles along the east wall. Bretz Field Notes
P40-261926
Beaverdell Region
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Beverdell to Cookson. Perhaps the great find of the search for the cause of the Spokane Flood hs been made today! A part of a valley flow of basalt...
P40-261926
If the interrupted profile is not due to glacial erosion.... spurs overlap in the view down the valley from Carmi Bretz Field Notes
P40-261926
Cookson Station
BRITISH COLUMBIA
The many rock cuts along the Kettle Valley RR from the Wilkinston Creek Loop north to Cookson (station) Bretz Field Notes
P40-261926
Lakevale Station
BRITISH COLUMBIA
...to pass through the Arlington Lakes Valley at Lakevale Station. the lakes valley is parallel with the Kettle River Bretz Field Notes
P40-271927
Chapman Lake lies in the headward portion of the great scabland canyon which contains Rock Lake. Strong probablity that this is the locus of a...
P40-281928
Road up south wall of Snake River valley two or three miles east of Penewawa climbed to 1325. No trace of silts, corse basaltic sand or erratic...
P40-281928
This morning it is clearly see from this road east along the south side of the Snake that the surface descends, with undulations in it, upstream...
P40-291929
French Hill erratics
WASHINGTON
Drifted erratic boulders and cobbles are abundant on the hill between French Canyon (now French Gulch) and Fernan Lake, up to 2665 Bretz Field Notes .
P40-291929
No definite moraine ridging along the east side of the prairie from Coeur D'Alene city to Hayden Lake. Bretz Field Notes .
P40-291929
Post Falls high bar
WASHINGTON
The so-called high bar directly north of Post Falls is very probably moraine. It has shallow but undoubted sags in it and no channel scarps across...
P40-291929
Rathdrum Prairie
WASHINGTON
The problem of this prairie is solved. It is ground moraine of exceptionally pebbly till....Where railroads cross the prairie, their cuts and fills...
P40-291929
Near Sheridan, it is 125 feet below the Rathdrum prarie Bretz Field Notes .
P40-521952
Anson-Taunton bar
WASHINGTON
July 4 (with HTUS and Neff) Another remnant of this sedimentary lies at the foot of Saddle Mts. between Anson and Taunton, its surface 1000 to 1050...
1920
Madras to Arlington OWRR July 25, 1920 Slope of valley at Gateway composed of CRB not "rim rock" flow Bretz Field Notes
1920
P40C-20 Madras OWRR
OREGON
Madras to Arlington OWRR July 25, 1920 Slope of valley at Gateway composed of CRB not "rim rock" flow Bretz Field Notes
1920
P40C-20 Willow Ck drainage
OREGON
Drainage basis of Willow Cr. This stream course is followed by the SP&S RR (Oregon Limb) from the Des Chutes to Madras. This valley for this distance...
P41-161916
Hamilton Creek camp
WASHINGTON
Logging railroad follows the east bluff up to section 36, T3NR6E nearly five miles by rail from the road. Also Pg 62C-19. Camp 4 mi by rail from...
P41-221922
Ribbon Cliff, scene of a great slide about 90 years ago Bretz Field Notes
P41-221922
At Chelan, the great terrace of Russell, altitude about 1300, not on any topographic map. But there are terraces down from Chelan as follows: Bretz...
P41-221922
Columbia River Terraces (4)
WASHINGTON
At Columbia River Station 900+ Very definite, composed of gravel with large fallen blox of basalt from neighboring cliffs. Bretz Field Notes
P41-221922
Columbia Valley Terrace (1)
WASHINGTON
South side of Columbia 2-3 miles from E edge Chelan quad. Alt 1200+ Very marked tho not extensive Bretz Field Notes
P41-221922
Columbia Valley Terrace (2)
WASHINGTON
East side of Columbia for several miles below Troy. very large and very definite and sharp. Bretz Field Notes
P41-221922
Columbia Valley Terrace (6)
WASHINGTON
The Potholes Gravel Terrace against lower ledge at 900' Bretz Field Notes
P41-221922
Columbia Valley Terraces (3)
WASHINGTON
East side Columbia 2-3 miles from South edge. very definite and sharply outlined Bretz Field Notes
P41-221922
Columbia Valley Terraces (5)
WASHINGTON
Trinidad at 900 feet AT. essentially continuous from Columbia River Station to Trinidad. Bretz Field Notes
P41-231923
Is the Peone Prairie part of the Spokane VT Bretz Field Notes
P41-261926
Cookson Basalt Flow
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Here comes now the statement of the great find (perhaps). In the bottom of Kettle Vally at Cookson is a Valley Basalt Flow Bretz Field Notes
P41-271927
North Pine mouth
WASHINGTON
Indeed, in North Pine at entrance into Pine, the sharp canyon is a product of the gashing of just such a preglacial entrenched meander and slipoff...
P41-271927
Range of hills between Plummer and Lake Coeur d Alene and apparently no passes lower than the route used by O-W RR to Wallace. Bretz Field Notes
P41-281928
The "terrace" on the south side of the Snake between Central Ferry and Penewawa, known locally as Miller Bar (current maps list as Tucker bar) is...
P41-281928
Above and opposite Penewawa there is another "terrace" known as Rice Bar. Bretz Field Notes
P41-291929
This it swings from the middle of the valley at Athol to the east side at Chilco (a spokane International RR station due east of Ramsey) Bretz Field...
P41-291929
Spirit Lake Moraine
WASHINGTON
The plain east of this morraine and 125 feet higher than the Athol channel is not outwash as was thot a few days ago. It is ground moraine. Bretz...
P41-521952
Frenchman Springs bar
WASHINGTON
July 5 (with HTUS) Enormous bar cut by hiway S from Frenchman Springs southern alcove. Descending almost to Columbia valley bottom. Bretz Field Notes
1927
P42 Hillyard terrace
WASHINGTON
Western edge of the Lidgerwood terrace, a mile north of Hillyard, slopes definitely toward Pleasant Prarie, somewhat like the back slope towards...
P42-161916
Viento Creek Traverse Sept 6 1916. Top of basalt found close to 2000 ft A.T. Above this a clayey, sandy, ashy sedimentary for 500 ft and the top not...
P42-221922
Esquatzel Coulee - Connell terraces
WASHINGTON
Good gravel terrces at and a few miles below Connell Bretz Field Notes
P42-221922
Knapp Coulee is a narrow canyon with "holes" in its floor from its head down to 1440 AT its gradient must have determined a high velocity stream,...
P42-231923
Careywood Moraine
WASHINGTON
..near Careywood are low hills which appear to be morianic Bretz Field Notes
P42-231923
Columbia Basalt on the Rathdrum Prairie
WASHINGTON
Large ledges west of Lone Mountain and north of Hayden Also P40-29 references Bretz Field Notes
P42-231923
Newport Terrace
WASHINGTON
A big V.T. in terrace remnants at Newport Bretz Field Notes
P42-231923
Start of the Rathdrum Prairie
WASHINGTON
... and a few miles south the great Rathdrum Prairie starts Bretz Field Notes
P42-261926
Kelowna Silt Terrace
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Kelowna to McCulloch. The chief silt terrace east of Kelowna is 300 Ft above the lake Bretz Field Notes
P42-261926
Road down to Osoyoos Lake passes thru or close by a number of side-wall gashes or notches that are very marked Bretz Field Notes
P42-261926
Westbridge
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Review of features of west fork Kettle Valley about and below Westerbridge shows plenty of steep cliffs Bretz Field Notes
P42-271927
Monroe street pits (SV)
WASHINGTON
The foreset bedding of the pits on and east of Monroe St. South scarp of Lidgerwood, is duplicated in some big pits at SE corner of Pleasant prarie,...
P42-291929
Blanchard - Elk summit
WASHINGTON
A series of very good sections up the serpentines to the summit between Elk and Blanchard shows nothing but weathered granite Bretz Field Notes .
P42-291929
Blanchard Valley
WASHINGTON
A traverse up Blanchard Creek valley shows glacial drift almost to the head of the valley. Bretz Field Notes .
P42-291929
Hoodoo Channel scarp
WASHINGTON
Here is a great channel cut into it, its scarp nearly 300 feet high, and Hoodo Lake and Hoodo channel at the foot. A very marked terrace exists...
P42-291929
Spirit Lake dry valley
WASHINGTON
A dry valley, very similar otherwise to the one at the north end of the lake, extends a mile toward the south from the east end of the lake..... this...
P42-521952
Ellensburg gravel terrace
WASHINGTON
July 9 (alone) The very wide structurally determined Yakima Valley here has two gravel terraces on its east side, crossed by State Hiway 10. Both are...
P42-521952
West Bar basalt knobs
WASHINGTON
Trinidad July 8 Verticals.... show the giant ripples on West Bar rather convincingly as not rows of barchans, show the giant ripples at about 1300...
1920
P42C-20 Juniper Flat
OREGON
Absence of any trace of "rim rock" valley floor in between the Des Chutes Plateau and the Wapinitia plateau ("Juniper Flat") indicates that each is a...
P43-221922
Ritzville Scablands
WASHINGTON
Ritzville to Sprague, Along NPRR east of Ritzville, the first cycle hills are far apart and a wide tract between is essentially scabland. Bretz Field...
P43-221922
Sprague Lake Overlook
WASHINGTON
Colville (Sprague) Lake is a large water body lying on this tract.....here there is evidence, clearly represented. (overlook is a good place to see...
P43-231923
Alkali Creek Valley
WASHINGTON
... conditions of Alkali Creek Valley, above Raparia Bretz Field Notes
P43-231923
Baraboo - The Two Cycle Problem
Baraboo, Aug 31 (after leaving Spokane Aug 26) Hitherto the conception of two cycles of valley cutting in Whitman County has ben arrived at by...
P43-231923
Rebel Flat Creek Upstream from Winona
WASHINGTON
The valley of Rebel Flat Creek was followed from Winona Bretz Field Notes
P43-261926
McCulloch
BRITISH COLUMBIA
In the vicinity of McCulloch is an extensive basalt Plateau-like upland whose altitude is 4000.. It is the long sought lava flow, the cause of the...
P43-261926
McCulloch Basalt RR Cuts
BRITISH COLUMBIA
The basalt is exposed in three railroad cuts south of McCulloch from one to two miles. It is very rudely columnar with with huge joint-determined...
P43-261926
McCulloch Terrace
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Other terraces of silt occur up Mission Creek along the road to McCulloch A very prominent terrace of silt... lies at 2200..... Bretz Field Notes
P43-271927
Long Lake granite pinnacles
WASHINGTON
Long Lake, three miles southeast of, along road, a group of very jagged granite pinnacle project above the VT surface. Bretz Field Notes
P43-271927
The Lidgerwood gravel deposit blocked a capacious alcove-like valley that lies north of Pleasant Prairie and in this settled a gray clay deposit at...
P43-281928
Things are clearing up and the Spokane flood is going to prove to be a bigger thing than ever before conceived. As for alternatives, let the facts...
P43-291929
Newman Lake erratics
WASHINGTON
There are erratics on the west side of Newman Lake up to about 2580. Very few and probably berg-floated in Lake Spokane Bretz Field Notes .
P43-291929
Peone Prairie erratics
WASHINGTON
At 2660 erratics are abundant and thence down to the level of Pleasant Prairie. Bretz Field Notes .
P43-291929
Rathdrum Terraces
WASHINGTON
The terraces along the north side of the valley at Rathdrum and thense westward are all composed of stream gravel.... the one at Rathdrum and...
1952
P44 Rocky Coulee bar
WASHINGTON
July 9 (alone) The basalt sand and gravel of the bar which deflects Rky Coulee to the S is limited to the N and E of the rt-angled turn in coulee...
P44-221922
There is one hill of the Palouse time rising above the basalt plain Bretz Field Notes
P44-221922
Cheney Channels Railroad intersection
WASHINGTON
The most pronounced of the channels....Farrington (Fish) Lake.... portion is well seen from any of the three railroads. viewing overlook Bretz Field...
P44-221922
Cheney glaciated boulder
WASHINGTON
Some glaciated Qtzite Bldrs and many Granites as much as 8 ft in diameter lie on the basalt plain at 2450 to 2500 between this drainage tract and the...
P44-221922
Cheney to Spangle Traverse
WASHINGTON
Cheney start of the E Cheney-Spangle Road for traverse Bretz Field Notes
P44-221922
Spangle terminus of the E Cheney-Spangle Road for traverse Bretz Field Notes
P44-231923
Lewiston Syncline
WASHINGTON
Snake River at Lewiston flows in a great syncline Bretz Field Notes
P44-231923
Old Lewiston Hill
WASHINGTON
The famed Lewiston Hill... Bretz Field Notes
P44-261926
Purple Mountain
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Purple Mt at the head of Joe Rich Creek was climbed to about 4700 Bretz Field Notes
P44-271927
From Waukon down grade to Canby along the Edwall Channel, the gravel on the floor is graded and adjusted to a level at Canby is 50 feet or more above...
P44-291929
The apparent channel from Eight Mile Prairie around back of Lone Mountain is probably ground moraine. Bretz Field Notes .
P44-291929
Otis Orchards Valley
WASHINGTON
Another remnant is in the mouth of the capacious valley imediately west of Newman Lake valley and opposite Otis Orchard NP station. This valley has...
P44-291929
Pleasant Prairie Pit
WASHINGTON
The presence of the granodiorite here and also in a large pit half a mile south of BM 2431 (east end of the Pleasant Prairie) shows that it traveled...
P44-521952
Lind Coulee gravel scarp
WASHINGTON
July 9 (alone) The gravel scarp on N side of Lind Coulee at its entrance into Drumhellelr's lowest channels, S edge of secs 1 and 2, has been opened...
P44-521952
Adrian pumice deposit
WASHINGTON
July 9 (alone) A bed of fine granular pumice, too coarse to be called ash, under 40' of scabland gravel, has been exploited by Mrs. Ness of Soap...
P45-221922
Creston Large Boulders
WASHINGTON
Large granite bldrs, max dia 8 ft along Sunset Highway east of Creston. (possibly moved) Bretz Field Notes
P45-221922
Drumheller Channels
WASHINGTON
Show no Spokane discharge, and potholes show no Wisconsin. Interpretation is that interglacial warping of slight amount lowered Drumheller tract and...
P45-221922
Lorene Gravel Pit *
WASHINGTON
The Lorene tract has a gravel pit ... (really looks yellow) Bretz Field Notes
P45-221922
Lorene Gravelly Debris
WASHINGTON
...bearing several feet of coarse gravelly debris at Lorene, 6-7 miles north of Davenport Bretz Field Notes
P45-221922
Lorene Traverse
WASHINGTON
The foreign material....totally absent.... first cycle hills west of Lorene (4 miles traverse of them) Bretz Field Notes
P45-221922
Smaller ones of a great variety of igneous and metamorphic rocks scattered all the way to Peach. Sopil is thin, much scabrock, basalt close to...
P45-261926
Camels Hump
BRITISH COLUMBIA
The Creighton Valley - Echo Lake Valley, south of Camels Hump.... Camels Hump is a startlingly steep-walled monolith.... Bretz Field Notes
P45-261926
Cherryville
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Vernon to Cherryville. The thru valley between the Okanogan and Shushwap valleys is between 1700 and 1800.. Bretz Field Notes
P45-261926
Creighton Valley
BRITISH COLUMBIA
The Creighton Valley - Echo Lake Valley, south of Camels Hump and its associated hills to the east, is a remarkably narrow, deep, steep-walled canyon...
P45-261926
Basalt reported at Myra in RR cut. This must be seen. Also PG 193 reference Bretz Field Notes
P45-261926
Vernon RR Station
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Vernon to Cherryville. The thru valley between the Okanogan and Shushwap valleys is between 1700 and 1800.. Bretz Field Notes
P45-271927
Edwall Gravel pit
WASHINGTON
Three gravel pits were found in the Edwall channel. One which is two miles east of Edwall is full of very little worn cobbles and boulders of basalt....
P45-271927
Waukon scabland gravel pit
WASHINGTON
Gravel pit on Waukon scabland, 6 miles west and one mile north of Tyler. Bretz Field Notes
P45-281928
Couse Creek canyon
WASHINGTON
Another trib. Mouth bar lies on the north wall in the mouth of Couse Canyon, about 8 miles farther up the Snake. It is 175 feet thick and its base is...
P45-281928
Ten-Mile Canyon mouth
WASHINGTON
The mouth of Ten-Mile Canyon above Asotin contains a large portion of a fine tributary mouth bar on the north side. Bretz Field Notes
P46-221922
Pardee's Nespelem Silt in Hawk and Indian Canyon
WASHINGTON
Pardee's Nespelem silt lies in terrace fragments and hills in Hawk Creek and Indian Creek valleys, for 6-7 miles back from the Columbia....
P46-221922
Davenport Granite Hills
WASHINGTON
The tract of low granite hills north of Davenport rises perhaps 100 feet Bretz Field Notes
P46-221922
The cascades or rapids, commonly known as Spokane Falls, constitute a Dalles type of river channel, having a gradient steeper than the average, but a...
P46-271927
Green Bluff School
WASHINGTON
The basalt mesa or flat-topt spur north of Peone Prarie (Green Bluff school is central on it) carries a till sheet beneath Loess or dust. Bretz Field...
P46-291929
Lidgerwood terrace basalt hill
WASHINGTON
Lidgerwood terrace extends north to the mid-valley basalt hill two miles east of Dartford. Bretz Field Notes .
P46-291929
The Wisconsin valley train rather clearly begins on the west edge of the Rathdrum sheet. At Trent Station, it extends from the river (or a little...
P46-291929
The terrace breaks off into two minor terraced branches at the north, descending to the Little Spokane. Wisconsin valley train in the vicinity of...
P47-261926
Aberdeen Lake
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Vicinity of Aberdeen Lake. The upland south of Coldstream-Bessette Valley.... Bretz Field Notes
P47-261926
Edgerwood Road Pass
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Vernon to Kettle River on Edgewood Road. The pass used by the road from Monashee Creek to Kettle River... Bretz Field Notes
P47-271927
Deer Park gravel Pit
WASHINGTON
Pit in east part of Deer Park town is in fine gravel and coarse sand. Not stained. Bretz Field Notes
P47-271927
Deer Park highway cut (SV)
WASHINGTON
Cut along hiway one mile west of DP -- spokane till with 2 1/2 feet of dust. Bretz Field Notes
P47-271927
Lake lies in scabland channel Bretz Field Notes Also P21-23 Bretz Field Notes
P47-271927
Large area north of Marengo where Palouse loess has been removed Bretz Field Notes
P47-271927
Orchard Bluff School
WASHINGTON
A pit just west of the schoolhouse, north of the road, iin bouldery and cobbly and gravely material.. Bretz Field Notes
P47-271927
Pleasant Prairie gravel
WASHINGTON
Gravel in valley in section 25 at altitude of .... bears 2 1/2 feet of dust with gravel mingled with it. Bretz Field Notes
P47-281928
Tammany Creek bar
WASHINGTON
The Tammany Gulch bar is composed at north end of the old river gravel apparently and is the middle part, where the direct valley line, of black...
P47-291929
Long Lake valley train
WASHINGTON
Still further west, at the lower end of Long Lake pond in Spokane Valley the Wisconsin valley train is very marked, indeed, with a fosse in places...
P47-291929
Nine Mile Bridge
WASHINGTON
The wooded slopes from Nine Mile Bridge, at the mouth of the Little Spokane, downstream for several miles conceal any remnants of the Lidgerwood...
P47-291929
Tum Tum valley fill
WASHINGTON
A tributary valley fill at Tum Tum, almost undissected, is 1950 plus and 200 feet above the very definite Wisconsin valley train here. Bretz Field...
1920
P47C-20 Van Horn Butte
WASHINGTON
840 AT. The original bldr of granite is estimated by Mr. Willis Van Horn the discoverer, as 2 T in wt. It has been broken up & bld mts his fireplace...
P48-261926
Salmon Arm RR
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Vernon to Trinity Hills and Salmon Arm Bretz Field Notes
P48-261926
Trinity Valley
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Vernon to Trinity Hills and Salmon Arm. Dawson's granitic breccia on Trinity Hills was found represented abundantly in the drive near Bobbie Burns PO...
P48-271927
McElroy Lake spillway
WASHINGTON
The spillway in which lies McElroy Lake is a mile wide on the bottom of the highway crossing. Bretz Field Notes
P48-291929
Great Northern school
WASHINGTON
One of the most striking moranie ridges is south of the Indian Prarie road up from Spokane Valley, about midway betweeen Great Northern School and...
P48-291929
Indian Prairie moraine
WASHINGTON
Moraninic topography is as well developed on Indian Prarie as on Sunset Prairie to the south Bretz Field Notes .
P48-291929
Indian Prairie moranic ridge
WASHINGTON
One of the most striking moraine ridges is south of the Indian Prairie road up from Spokane Valley, about midway between Great Northern School and...
P48-291929
The Marshall delta is the edge of an outwash plain lying in front of the Sunset Parie moraine and spilling over in fine foresets into the valley near...
P48-291929
White Bluff School
WASHINGTON
One of the most striking moraine ridges is south of the Indian Prarie road up from Spokane Valley, about midway between Great Northern School and...
P48-521952
Low Gap borehole
WASHINGTON
Low Gap July 10. USBR drill hole here found 138' of sedimentary rock above the basalt in the floor of this prominent notch in the crest of the...
P48-521952
School No. 22 gravel pit (SV)
WASHINGTON
July 10 (with Neff) A pit near School No. 22, Malaga sheet, shows strong foresets of dirty gravel dipping downvalley through a vertical range of 30'....
1920
Parkdale region is a great sloping plain of coarse & poorly sorted stream material, they slope N-ward amounting to about 100 ft to the mile. Bretz...
1920
These cliffs & slopes southward from a point directly E of Summit show nearly or quite horizontally bedded material, apparently tuffaceous. A line of...
P49-161916
Goldendale pebbles
WASHINGTON
Goldendale to Summit on the Yakima Road Sept 10 1916. Quartzite pebbles abundant on the surface in the eastern part of Goldendale along the Yakima...
P49-261926
Drift deposits in the thru valley between Genema and the head of Okanogan Lake.... Bretz Field Notes
P49-261926
Ideal Lake
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Vicinity of Ideal Lake... Ideal Lake lies on the southern edge of the plateau.. Bretz Field Notes
P49-261926
Swan Lake Transect
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Another good case is that of the north end of Okanogan Lake and the Adjacent Swan Lake Valley Bretz Field Notes
P49-271927
The broad scabland containing Cow Lake, Middle Lake and Big Swamp Lake has its upper limit west of these lakes 50 ft max above the waters surface....
P49-271927
Terrace of bar in south part of Ralston, 30' above the station and valley floor. Bretz Field Notes
P49-271927
Ralston gravel pit
WASHINGTON
on the floor of the Ralston Channel is a pit 20 feet deep in a poorly sorted gravel with boulders three feet maximum diameter in it. Bretz Field Notes
P49-281928
Here, then, is the farthest upstream occurance of this clue erratic that will be found this season. It is almost a hundred miles from the mouth of...
P49-281928
Lapwai east of Lewiston Orchards
WASHINGTON
Rote to Lapwai along the south side of the Clearwater. No silts or other evidences of glacial waters seen in the canyon followed by the road out of...
P49-291929
A mile north of Dynamite, this scabland and becomes nearly obliterated under drift Bretz Field Notes .
P49-291929
Ft Wright fosses
WASHINGTON
A good fosse, 30 feet or more in depth, lies west of the terrace on which Ft. Wright stands. It is followed by the Great Northern RR. The fosse seems...
P49-291929
Granite Lake scabland
WASHINGTON
Granite scabland on the east side of the Granite Lake channel in a flattish topped shoulder up 60 feet above the lake Bretz Field Notes .
P49-291929
Paradise Prairie School gravel pit
WASHINGTON
What looks very much like ground moraine extends southwest from the butte to Paradise School. At the school, a gravel pit shows that outwash is...
P49-521952
Babcock Ridge bar
WASHINGTON
The transverse saddle across Babcock Ridge (sec. 20) has a real bar at its west end, rising 50' or so above the scabland beach, and so blocking the...
P49-521952
Liberty School bar
WASHINGTON
July 10 (with Neff) Checked on the 1200 + or - granitic sand deposit E of Wenatchee (the Liberty School "bar" of earler notes) It is a glacial and...
P49-521952
Mouth of Moses Coulee
WASHINGTON
Moses Coulee and Columbia Valley July 10 (with Neff) The 900-foot mound at Moses Coulee mouth contains nothing but basalt gaavel, Mackin to the...
P49-521952
Trinidad current ripples
WASHINGTON
July 10 (with Neff) The 1300 foot terrace with giant ripples found today but the ripples were disappointing when seen at ground level. There is an...
1920
P4C-20 Strawberry Mt.
OREGON
On Strawberry Mtn & adjacent peaks a thick, dark-brown series of lava flows may be seen with the binoculars. It lies almost horizontally on...
P5-191919
Goldendale cinder cones
WASHINGTON
5 Cinder cones closely grouped about 2 mi. SE of Goldendale. ropy and "taffy stick" lava all over summits and flanks. Bretz Field Notes
P5-201920
1745 Two quarries in basalt for road material. Large columns of basalt. Flow horizontal. Bretz Field Notes
P5-201920
Athena to Adams
WASHINGTON
1525 Two more quarries in basalt. Horizontal so far as could be seen. No thick silt or loess like north slope. Broad swales like old stream courses....
P5-201920
One mile south of Adams. Horizontal basalt. Bretz Field Notes
P5-201920
Blue Mt. Station
WASHINGTON
Blue Mt Sta, where RR loops to get out of Valley to upland. Here are ledges of basalt on ravine slopes. Dip 5 to 15 degrees northward. Bretz Field...
P5-201920
Much basalt in scab land on valley slopes. No dip detected Little or no loessial material on these slopes. Bretz Field Notes
P5-201920
Lies in stream valley. No structural valley visible from town. But summits are only a few hundred feet above town and there must be a gentle dip from...
P5-201920
Ledges of basalt on hillside apparently dip southward slightly. Not to exceed grade of valley between Havana and Saxe. Bretz Field Notes
P5-211921
Hostetter's ranch valley
WASHINGTON
A valley, certainly a stream valley, tho now dry, lies west of Hostetter's ranch between the rugged craggy basalt hills here and the gentle...
P5-221922
Malden (with mounds)
WASHINGTON
Rosalia to Malden, Aug 5 Saturday. Bretz Field Notes
P5-221922
Palouse River Valley below Colfax
WASHINGTON
Palouse River valley below junction of South Fork striking walled with black beetling cliffs. Bretz Field Notes
P5-221922
Rocky Spur across North Pine Creek
WASHINGTON
A rocky spur at jct of north pine creek and pine creek, 40 feet above the creek... Bretz Field Notes
P5-221922
Summit West of Steptoe Butte
WASHINGTON
At summit of IEEE RR west of Steptoe Butte Bretz Field Notes
P5-221922
West Slope Pine Creek Valley Rosalia
WASHINGTON
The west slope of Pine Creek Valley at Rosalia Bretz Field Notes
P5-231923
Devils Canyon Divide
WASHINGTON
Devils Canyon is a wild, spectacular gorge.... Bretz Field Notes
P5-231923
Hooper SP&S Station
WASHINGTON
To the east of Hooper (Sp&S station) the skyline is scalena for miles.... Bretz Field Notes
P5-231923
Kahlotus RR Cut
WASHINGTON
At Kahlotus, RR cut in Lacustrine sediments, 30 feet or so above lake level Bretz Field Notes
P5-231923
Ortley Anticline West of Fallbridge
WASHINGTON
Crushed zone in steep southern side shows in old SP&S cut a mile west of Avery. Bretz Field Notes
P5-231923
Snake River Junction gravel bank
WASHINGTON
Huge gravel banks.... east of bend.... 2-3 miles east of Snake River Junction. Gravel 3/4... Bretz Field Notes
P5-231923
Washtucna Station
WASHINGTON
At Washtucna Station, north walls of coulee show little rock Bretz Field Notes
P5-241924
Devil's Canyon Basalt Butte (SV)
WASHINGTON
In the middle of the flaring mouth... is a basalt butte Bretz Field Notes
P5-241924
Devils Canyon Gravel Deposit
WASHINGTON
....a gravel deposit at the mouth of Devil's Canyon.. it is about 160 feet above the river Bretz Field Notes
P5-241924
Snake River Gravel Terrace
WASHINGTON
A prominent flat top terrace lies across Snake River from mouth of Devil's Canyon Bretz Field Notes
P5-251925
Armstrong BC
BRITISH COLUMBIA
The divide is abougt a mile north of Armstrong. Here Deep Creek on the west side of the valley flows south and another creek on the east side flows...
P5-251925
Nespelem to Disautel to Okanogan July 30, 1925 Bretz Field Notes
P5-251925
Precipitously walled narrow notches.... two at south end of the lake basin, Ellemahan Draw Bretz Field Notes
P5-251925
Omak Lake and Goose Lake and Nespelem July 29, 1925 Bretz Field Notes
P5-251925
Nespelem to Disautel summit
WASHINGTON
A very deep and very narrow... crosses the divide between head of Omak Creek and Coyote Creek it is cut in granite.... Bretz Field Notes
P5-251925
Omak lake was seen at the north end only. Walled in by very high, precipitous and heavily glaciated granite hill slopes. Bretz Field Notes
P5-251925
Omak Lake peninsula
WASHINGTON
a large spur of high granite hills constitues the peninsula at the north end of the lake Bretz Field Notes
P5-251925
Oroville Wash to Armstrong BC and return Aug 1 and 2, 1925 Bretz Field Notes
P5-251925
Vicinity of Wannacut Lake, Chopaka Quad. July 31 1925 Bretz Field Notes
P5-261926
Camas Prairie Granite Hills
WASHINGTON
The plateau about Grangville, noteably between Cottonwood and Ferdinand and westward, is interrupted by granite hills... Bretz Field Notes
P5-261926
Grangeville Plateau
WASHINGTON
Salmon River, after crossing the upfold between Whitebird and Grangevillle... Bretz Field Notes
P5-281928
Rosalia terrace
WASHINGTON
Alolng the hiway two miles north of Rosalia is a remnant of the Rosalia terrace, directly opp. The formerly described (1927) terrace and at the same...
P5-291929
Dayton Bay Shorelines
IDAHO
The only shorelines about Dayton Bay are 65 and 180 feet above lake... they are cut benches only, are interrupted by valleys and gullies and are none...
P5-521952
Another striking bar shown rather imperfectly on the map (It was found) but very prominent in the view across the upstream Palouse-Snake angle. It...
P5-521952
Shoulder Bar - De Ruwe Ranch
WASHINGTON
June 19 (Alone) Flint is completely wrong. My opinion of his critical ability in the field is at a very low ebb. The great RR pit north of De Ruwe...
P50-161916
From the Simcoe Summit on the Yakima Road to Toppenish Sept. 11, 1916. The northern slope of the Simcoe range is such dissected, in notable contrast...
P50-261926
Ideal Lake Basalt
BRITISH COLUMBIA
The lake is enlarged... requires three dams to close...the western one which has...and basalt on the west side Bretz Field Notes
P50-271927
Staircase Rapids (aka Washtucna Cascade)
WASHINGTON
The minor channel which leads southwest across 1675 contour line from head of staircase. Bretz Field Notes
P50-281928
From Troy to Moscow, however, one passes insensibly into true Palouse hills. There is no break such as was seen north of the Walla Walla-Touchet...
P50-281928
Rosalia exposure
WASHINGTON
More of the silt of the Rosalia pond found. An exposure on the southern slope of the terrace on which the business section of the town is built show...
P50-281928
The summit of the basalt plateau about Troy does not carry well-developed loessial hills. Basalt ledges show in the trib canyon of Potlatch which is...
P50-281928
From Troy to Moscow, however, one passes insensibly into true Palouse hills. There is no break such as was seen north of the Walla Walla-Touchet...
P50-521952
Warden cataracts and giant ripples
WASHINGTON
July 10 (with Neff) AAR 4A-50 shows the ripples on both cataract channel floors at their convergence south of the isolated hill of sedimentary rock....
P51-161916
Yakima Reclamation Bureau office (SV)
WASHINGTON
Yakima Sept 12, 1916 Consulted the Ellensburg folio in the U.S. Reclaimation Service office. In 1916 the office was located in the Justice William O...
P51-271927
Decent to Ankeny from scabland near corner 17,18,19,20 on crooked road. Bretz Field Notes
P51-281928
There are prominent terraces from 50 to 100 feet or so high, along its norhern northwestern and western margin at Hause, Athol and at Rathdrum. Bretz...
P51-281928
Lake Pend Oreille mountains
WASHINGTON
The mountain slope facing Lake Pend Oreille, between the Lake Valley and Clark Fork Valley shows no major features that can be ascribed to the...
P51-281928
Paradise (Prairie)
WASHINGTON
At this location near Paradise (Prairie) in 1928, J Harlen Bretz observed the flood-stripped basalt and channeled terrain that would become central...
P51-281928
Paradise Prarie. The eastern margin, where crost by the Inland Empire Hiway, shows no till in the road cuts. The low rounded hill, mapt as loess,...
P51-291929
Sunset Prairie road cut
WASHINGTON
Much of the moraine on Sunset Prairie, where cut in road sections, is very gravelly and rather uniform in size of fragments. Bretz Field Notes .
P51-521952
Frenchman Springs Cataract bar pit
WASHINGTON
Frenchman Springs July 11 (alone) Pit at top of hiway grade has the most outstanding collection of large rejected bldrs I have yet seen in any...
P51-521952
Saddle Mts transition
WASHINGTON
July 10 Neff points out that this faulted and folded anticlinal ridge has two distinctly different portions, the division being in the longitude of...
P51-521952
Saddle Mts. west of Columbia River
WASHINGTON
July 11 (alone) The steep northern front of this mt. block shows very striking contrast on the two sides of the watergap. East of the river this...
P52-261926
Black Knight Mountain
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Black Knight Mtn has a heavy cap of igneous rock on a very much... Bretz Field Notes
P52-281928
Glacial Lake Missoula -- No records of that lake seen north of Dixon. But here appear both the silts and the faint shorelines. Bretz Field Notes
P52-521952
Hanford July 12 (with HTUS). The Cold Creek bar has one significant gravel pit at 775E in NE 1/4 sec 34. Gravel in it is all foreset-bedded SW by S...
P52-521952
Hanford July 12 (with HTUS) The 550 to 650 contours enclose an eastern flat-topt spur of Gable Mt. in SE 1/4 sec 28. Extensive dragline excavations...
P52-521952
Potholes Cataract upstream gravel
WASHINGTON
Mounds slightly trenched by N-S hiway out of Quincy show scabland gravel for 3 mi. N of the Burke pit Latitude. This gravel is higher than the...
P52-521952
Vantage Bridge erratics (SV)
WASHINGTON
Erratics west of Vantage Bridge July 11 (alone) Nest occur up at least to 1160 and many scattered granite bldrs occur on both sides of the coulee...
P53-161916
Ellensburg quadrangle Sept 12, 1916. Climed the ridge from the Yakima side, west of Union Gap. Two miles of summit searched before pebbles were...
P53-261926
Grand Prairie
BRITISH COLUMBIA
The basalt up Salmon River above Grand Prairie is..... (Grand Prairie now renamed Westfold) Bretz Field Notes
P53-261926
Red Pillars
BRITISH COLUMBIA
The basalt above Grand Prarie is splendidly shown in gorge-like valley walls.... red is a common color. Bretz Field Notes
P53-261926
Swalwell (Beaver) Lake
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Vicinity of Swalwell (Beaver) Lake Bretz Field Notes
P53-261926
Wrinkly Face Mt
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Vicinity of Swalwell (Beaver Lake) Wrinkly Face Mtn has only basalt exposed in its cliffs Bretz Field Notes
P53-271927
That glacial water went past Gray's Ranch Sec 32,16N, 37E is evidenced by gravel and sand on the broad bench at 1630 here Bretz Field Notes
P53-291929
Blue Lake Gravel area
WASHINGTON
A very extensive gravel-filled area east of the foot of Blue Lake and head of Lake Lenore (Alkali Lake) extends back towards the east for about two...
P53-291929
Coulee City gravel bar
WASHINGTON
A spendid bar lies back in an alcove or short wide tributary gorge entering Grand Coulee from the east, 9 miles north of Coule City. Bretz Field...
P53-291929
Lower Grand Coulee vista
WASHINGTON
Lower Grand Coulee was viewed this afternoon from several salient points on the high western rim. Never have I seen scabland so amazingly portrayed....
P53-521952
Estes gravel pits
WASHINGTON
July 13 (with HTUS) Between Estes and Kahlotus, on N. side of couleee, three active pits in base of slope of a big gravel deposit that covers all...
P53-521952
Sulfur Lake bar
WASHINGTON
Washtucna Coulee July 13 (with HTUS) A well-formed constructional bar, almost a midchannel feature, lies along N side of Washtucna Coulee at Sulfur...
P54-161916
Large numbers of angular granite bowlders and cobbles of a variety of kinds found on the lower southern slopes of Atanum Ridge and on the structural...
P54-261926
Klo Ck Basalt Deposit
BRITISH COLUMBIA
The third exposure of Basalt.. in the spur between Klo Creek and its tributary Pooley Ck Bretz Field Notes
P54-261926
Myra basalt area
BRITISH COLUMBIA
One tract extends down the slope below Myra along the old road from the Irrigation Canal. It is a ridge which bifurcates..another small basalt is cut...
P54-261926
Wrinkly Face Gold Prospect
BRITISH COLUMBIA
A Prosector has opened an unsual gravel deposit in Sec 18... Bretz Field Notes
P54-271927
Palouse River Canyon
WASHINGTON
Two canyons open south out of the old Palouse Valley, about a mile apart and lead southward toward the preglacial divide. They are easily overlooked...
P54-291929
Jasper Canyon bar
WASHINGTON
An examination also shows that the bar in the short transverse canyon between Jasper and the head of Blue Lake is 150 feet above the lake Bretz Field...
P54-291929
Lake Lenore east channel
WASHINGTON
but the most surprising thing discovered from these viewpoints is the existence of a definite broad scabland channel east of and essentially parallel...
P54-521952
July 13 (with HTUS) North of Sperry a pit in the lower slope of still another masking gravel deposit. Bretz Field Notes
P54-521952
Washtucna Lake bar
WASHINGTON
July 13 (with HTUS) A valley wall gravel deposit, tapering and descending westward, occupied nearly a mile of th enorth side of Washtucna Coulee just...
P54-521952
Washtucna south bar summit
WASHINGTON
July 13 (with HTUS) This huge deposit directly S of the town rises from valley bottom level (about 1020) to a summit more than 1200 in NE 1/4 sec. 33...
P55-261926
Peachland
BRITISH COLUMBIA
The side-hill gashes between Westbank and Peachland and ... Bretz Field Notes
P55-261926
Peachland Gashes
BRITISH COLUMBIA
The side-hill gashes between Westbank and Peachland and ... Bretz Field Notes
P55-261926
The side-hill gashes between Westbank and Peachland and ... Bretz Field Notes
P55-271927
Palouse preglacial divide
WASHINGTON
The scabland, so wide on the summit of the preglacial divide between Washtucna and Snake Valley... A preglacial drainage line, deeply etched in...
P55-271927
Palouse scabland viewpoint
WASHINGTON
The scabland east of Palouse Canyon is a simply magnificent spectacle from the hilltop just south of the farm house in section 34, on the...
P55-521952
H U Ranch cataract
WASHINGTON
July 14 (with HTUS) A really spectacular recessional gorge but a poor cataract brink. The stream, but cutting a channel 80 to 100 ft deep leading to...
P55-521952
Hardesty Coulee fill
WASHINGTON
July 14 (with HTUS) The fill in the mouth has a flat, level top close to 1100 and extends down to basalt in the gulch floor at about 950. Bretz Field...
P56-261926
(Water) Dog Lake
BRITISH COLUMBIA
The traverse this year from the west side of Dog Lake (now Water Dog Lake) to Fiarview by a road which climbs... Bretz Field Notes
P56-261926
The traverse this year from the west side of Dog Lake to Fairview by a road which climbs several hundred feet above Okanogan Lake Bretz Field Notes
P56-261926
White Lake
BRITISH COLUMBIA
One reason for the unusual amount of short hills and shallow valleys in the vicinity of White Lake perhaps is that this is probably the site of a...
P56-291929
Alkali Lake channel waterfall
WASHINGTON
Four miles or so upstream from the high edge transverse to the channel is a waterfall cliff comopletely across the channel, composed of long columns...
P56-521952
July 14 (with HTUS) The valley bottom at the ranch and downstream to the breakoff into Snake Canyon is flattish but has minor bar mouldings on it....
P57-161916
From White Swan to Hoppers Mill, near Lucas Sept 13. 35 miles by road from Ft. Simcoe to Hoppers Mill. Bretz Field Notes
P57-161916
Sept 13. Road from Hoopers Mill (on Summit Creek) to Goldendale (Lucas road) crosses the Simcoes in their lower portion at about 4000. Bretz Field...
P57-161916
The high Simcoes culminate in Satus Peak, 6000 ft. plus, lying east of the plateau noted. (1937 White Swan quad shows 4180) Bretz Field Notes
P57-261926
Deep Creek Basalt Sand
WASHINGTON
The vicinity of Deep Creek town and eastward....highway east out of Deep Creek climbs 100 feet or more over a basaltic sand deposit
P57-271927
Hooper upper limit of flood
WASHINGTON
The upper limit of the Spokane flood at corner of section 5,6,7,8 14N38E is 1485. It is clearly marked by scarp, scabrock and gravel deposit. Bretz...
P57-521952
Mesa gravel bar (north)
WASHINGTON
July 15 (with HTUS) The bar on the west side of Esquatzel, north of Mesa, is cut by a gulch now followed by the hiway. At least four clean sections...
P57-521952
Mesa gravel bar (south)
WASHINGTON
Mesa July 15 (with HTUS). The southern bar is 50' high at its terminus where it continues free from but nearly parallel to the valley wall. It has...
P57-521952
July 14 (with HTUS) A beautiful showing of regional joint control of the canyon, both below and above the falls, is readily seen from the trails in...
1919
P57C-19 Wind Mt. Slide Area
WASHINGTON
Aug 26, 1919 Slide are extends to the very foot of the cliffs in the light gray mtn straight N of Wind (Mt) Nick's Field Notes
P58-161916
Petrified Wood in Basalt
WASHINGTON
A stratum of petrified woody trash, stems, seeds, etc, like that found on summit of Ortley anticline, well shown along RR between Tunnels 7 and 8...
P58-261926
Cranbrook
BRITISH COLUMBIA
No notable climb or decent in crossing to the Rocky Mt. Trench at Cranbrook. This trench... Bretz Field Notes
P58-261926
Granite Station
WASHINGTON
Rock knobs in the middle of the Cocolalla Valley at the Wisconsin Terminal Moraine (Granite Station)... Bretz Field Notes
P58-261926
Granite Station Rock Knobs
WASHINGTON
Rock knobs in the middle of the Cocolalla valley at the terminal moraine.... Bretz Field Notes
P58-261926
Kootenai National Park
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Moyie to Kootenay National Park Aug 22 1926. Headwaters of Moyie River, so far as seen from hiway, are either high above the average level of valley...
P58-261926
Spokane to Moyie Aug 21 1926. No till terraces or gravel terraces high up on the mountain sides recognized in the entire traverse. Bretz Field Notes
P58-261926
Premier Lake
BRITISH COLUMBIA
The trench walls are closer together near the latitude of Premier Lake than any other place Bretz Field Notes
P58-261926
Sandpoint Rock Knobs
WASHINGTON
Rock knobs or hills in mid-valley a few miles north of Sand Point (Sandpoint) must be of the same origin Bretz Field Notes
P58-521952
Mesa bar north gravel pit
WASHINGTON
July 15 (with HTUS) A pit near the S. end of the northern bar shows rather fine material, another contrast with the southern bar. A lens of silt and...
P58-521952
Mesa flats gravels
WASHINGTON
July 15 (with HTUS) The flat tract west of Mesa crossed by the East Low Canal out of Schooteney Reservoir lies between 875 at the south and slopes...
P59-161916
top of hill a mile east of Big Mitchell shows andesite on summit. It is not typical felty andesite but shows resemblance to bldrs found on Hood River...
P59-261926
Columbia Lake silt terraces
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Rocky Mt Trench .... drift deposits...there are silt terraces about Columbia Lake Bretz Field Notes
P59-261926
Invermere
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Selkirk summits as far north as Invermere look much like summits of the interior plateau. But farther north, alpine summits appear, like those in the...
P59-261926
Silt Terraces at Baniff Junction
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Silt terraces at the jct of Banff and Golden roads are not much more that 300 feet above the valley floor Bretz Field Notes
P59-291929
Douglas Creek drainage
WASHINGTON
A final question.. is why Douglas Coulee escaped the drenching..the answer is that the plateau to the north and east, separating it from Foster Creek...
P59-291929
Head of Foster CK drainage
WASHINGTON
The divide between Foster Creek drainage and Moses Coulee drainage is hardly a mile north of the latitude of Mansfield. Bretz Field Notes .
P59-291929
Head of Moses Coulee
WASHINGTON
The head of Moses Coulee is just north of Grimes Lake. It is an abrupt termination, walled by 100 foot cliffs, identical with the features of...
P59-521952
July 15 (with HTUS) The higher part of town stands on a broad, low bar oriented for water out of Washtucna. Extensive excavations for gravel in this...
P59-521952
Connell caliche caps (SV)
WASHINGTON
July 15 (with HTUS) Caliche caps the 1100 scarp 3 miles w of Connell Bretz Field Notes
P59-521952
Rattlesnake Coulee gravel pit
WASHINGTON
July 15 (with HTUS) Rattlesnake Coulee mouth visited. The gravel pit half way up the slope of the couolee mouth shows chiefly fine gravel but also...
P6-161916
Multnomah Falls to Larch Mountain, July 19, 1916 Andesite continues to the summit of Larch Mt. At summit, the platy character is strikingly shown,...
P6-161916
Multnomah Falls
WASHINGTON
Multnomah Falls to Larch Mountain, July 19, 1916 Basalt up to 1300 ft. quartzite pebbles in the talus on the climb to the brink of the falls up to...
P6-161916
Oneonta Creek Gorge below the falls
WASHINGTON
July 20. Slaggy, scoriaceous surface of one lava flow comes close to stream bed, with columar portion of another flow above it. Bretz Field Notes
P6-191919
Coulee with smiling fertile farms, with streams and lakes on their floors walled in with somber red-brown frowning mural escarpments, extend far east...
P6-191919
Soap Lake River valley
WASHINGTON
Grand Coulee where crossed by GNRR (Soap Lake) shows a splendid river valley across the unnamed ridge (now Breezley Hills) N of Quincy and Ephrata....
P6-201920
Roosevelt sediments
WASHINGTON
Glock and Reinck erred in 1919 in their section N. and W. of this town. The E. end of the section is correct. At the W. and the lower fragmental is...
P6-201920
Structure in vicinity of Smythes Ranch controls topography, except where canyons dominate. Bretz Field Notes
P6-221922
Entrance of Pine Creek into Rock Lake Gorge
WASHINGTON
Gravel fill..... to the entrance of Pine Creek into Rock Lake gorge two miles below Kenova Bretz Field Notes
P6-221922
A deposit of stratified river gravel north of Ewan in hillside. Bretz Field Notes
P6-221922
Kenova Gravel Pit
WASHINGTON
A huge gravel pit for CM&STP ballast a mile south of Kenova Bretz Field Notes
P6-221922
Rock Lake cataract
WASHINGTON
Rock Lake clearly lies in a great river channel. Sheer bluffs of basalt rise 200 ft or nore above it on both sides for its entire length....Head of...
P6-231923
Cold Springs Reservoir Dam
WASHINGTON
Age of the gravel at Cold Springs Reservoir Dam is..... Bretz Field Notes
P6-231923
Juniper Traverse Gravels
WASHINGTON
Large and angular and in nests...none of this catetory found above 1014.. Bretz Field Notes
P6-231923
Juniper Canyon Mouth
WASHINGTON
Yet at the mouth of Juniper Canyon is a fragment... Also P160-26 Juniper Canyon. Bretz Field Notes
P6-231923
Wallula Gateway
WASHINGTON
The abandoned channels which separate the rock hills of ... Bretz Field Notes
P6-231923
Wallula Gateway scabland - Photo
WASHINGTON
Figure 12 Scabland on the east wall of Wallula Gateway. Smaller butte 300 feet, larger butte 450 feet above river. Perspective matches photo on page...
P6-241924
.another is essentially a delta terrace at Davin Station (now submerged) on north side of valley Bretz Field Notes
P6-251925
Armstrong Creek Divide
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Here Deep creek on the west side flows south and another creek on the east side (Fortune Creek) .. north Bretz Field Notes
P6-251925
Vaseux Lake and Skaha Lake Moraine
BRITISH COLUMBIA
A big moraine occupies the valley between Vaseaux Land and Skaha Lake. It must be 300 feet high Also reviewed in P182-26 Bretz Field Notes
P6-261926
Lower Asotin Creek Valley
WASHINGTON
Lower Asotin Creek Valley. Up to about 950 AT is Black Basaltic sand (placename is at 960) Bretz Field Notes
P6-271927
Crater Station Cataract
WASHINGTON
Willow Springs draw has low but typical scabland knobs on its floor as far up as the 1250 contour crossing.... 3/4 mi. below Crater Station is a 200...
P6-271927
The cataract between Willow Springs Draw and Lynch Coulee, the coulee which joins it, or which it joins, just below the rock knob is very striking....
P6-281928
Cottonwook Creek bar gravel
WASHINGTON
Bar gravel on the north side of Cottonwood, a little up from the mouth (IE the entrance into the main deep scabland channel here). It constricts the...
P6-281928
Kamiache Creek Valley
WASHINGTON
This is one of the normal mature valleys of the plateau, wide bottomed, flat floored, about 8 miles long... but at its very mouth it is constricted...
P6-281928
Pleasant Valley silts
WASHINGTON
Silts with bright black basalt pebbles and foreign pebbles other up Pleasant Valley (a trib. of Cottonwood from the south) to within two miles of St....
P6-281928
At this location near St. John in 1928, J Harlen Bretz observed the flood-stripped basalt and channeled terrain that would become central to the...
P6-291929
Farther around the compound bay, at the head marked by Elmo, this assemblage of moraine terraces assumes the magnitude of a great unit moraine in...
P6-291929
Flathead River cuts Moraine
IDAHO
The relief in this part of the moraine, 3 miles W of Polson, is 100 feet and its expression is a confused assemblance of hills and hollows Bretz...
P6-291929
More of this high moraine banked up on the west walls of Flathead Lake valley shows east of the highway, where it crosses a high saddle between this...
P60-271927
Sections in terrce remnants all the way from Starbuck to Delaney. Silt, sand and fine gravel. The section at the hill summit one mile south of...
P60-271927
Palouse loessial scarp
WASHINGTON
In section 12.... where the road runs close to the base of the Loessial scarps of the big island, altitude of scarp base is 1330. Bretz Field Notes
P60-291929
Moses Coulee normal tributary
WASHINGTON
Another trib entering just to the southwest did not receive the overpour and has perfectly normal slopes and profiles and waste cover on its sides....
P60-291929
West wall of Moses Coulee @ Sunset Highway
WASHINGTON
Scabland knobs, buttes and channelings are marked up on the west bluff of Moses Coulee along the Sunset Highway higher than 300 feet. (location is...
P60-521952
Harrington Highway Cut
WASHINGTON
Harrington, 2 mi. north. July 16 (with HTUS) GNRR cut in loess bluff here shows a clean section 30' high and Hiway 7 cut below RR grade adds another...
P60-521952
Ralston boulder pit
WASHINGTON
Lind July 16 (with HTUS) A bouldery bar at jct of Ralston and Lind coulees opened by three pits whose floors are so covered with rejected bldrs that...
1919
P60C-19 Hardy Creek Falls
WASHINGTON
Beautiful falls over a coarse grained rk or at least a porplylite rock Nick's Field Notes
P61-291929
Moses Coulee Bar
WASHINGTON
A great bar, probably at least 200 feet high, rests against the canyon's west wall north of the road. Other large bars, associated with a profusion...
P61-291929
Moses Coulee crossing
WASHINGTON
Another crossing of Moses Coulee was made a few miles south of this, along the road from Farmer to Ephrata. Here the floor is 750 below the upland...
P61-291929
Moses Coulee east bar
WASHINGTON
Other large bars, associated with a profusion of buttes and rock basis, high up on this high rock terrace east of the coulee floor. Bretz Field Notes...
P61-291929
Moses coulee floor
WASHINGTON
The floor of Moses Coulee from Palisades down is a bar-marked floor, not a valley train floor. Bretz Field Notes .
P61-521952
Odessa current ripples
WASHINGTON
Crab Creek, 2-3 miles E of Odessa July 17 (with HTUS) A magnificent showing of giant current ripples. 13 of them in 3300' Seen only on aerial photo....
P61-521952
Staircase bar current ripples
WASHINGTON
Washtucna July 16 (with HTUS) The staircase bar's aerial photo shows definite giant ripple marks. Ask Flint to explain them. They are not as marked...
1919
P61C-19 Hamilton Mt
WASHINGTON
The material of the western limb or shoulder was examined. at first hand it is thu out a volcanic tuff, the fragements being .. black basalt...
P62-271927
Lyons Ferry gravel flows
WASHINGTON
On the north side of the Snake, opposite the big Lyons Ferry bar, a part of the flood poured a stream of gravel down a minor tributary gulch carved...
P62-291929
Below a point three miles north of Entiat, the Columbia Valey narrows to about one third of its width where Knapp Coulee enters and so continues...
P62-291929
The Great Terrace, about 5 miles east of the lower end of Lake Chelan, is 1210 and there are remnants of other terraces 50-70 feet higher. Great...
P62-291929
Six miles below Orondo, on the west side of the Columbia, the higway cross a remnant which possess two terrace tops 30-40 feet apart. Bretz Field...
P62-291929
ValleyView School
WASHINGTON
In the latitude of ValleyView school, the orchards grow up to the upper limit, or nearly so, of this same Terrace Bretz Field Notes .
P62-291929
Valleyview School Terrace
WASHINGTON
In the latitude of Valleyview School, the orchards grew up to the upper limit, or nearly so, of this same terrace, here nearly 875 feet. Here is a...
P62-521952
Willow Creek bar disected in 1952
WASHINGTON
July 17, (with HTUS) A composite deposit of basalt gravel from the W and basalt sand and light brown silt brought from the east, also of two episodes...
P63-271927
Devils Canyon rail tunnel
WASHINGTON
The basalt barrier at the head of Devil's Canyon is 110 feet above the SP&S tracks at the south end of the tunnel. Bretz Field Notes
P63-271927
Nunamaker School channel
WASHINGTON
A fine channel in loess heads a half mile north of this school at 1350. Bretz Field Notes
P63-291929
Malaga school terrace
WASHINGTON
The Malaga school terrace is composed of well rolled cobbles and pebbles. Its structure is not exposed. Bretz Field Notes .
P63-291929
In a pit north of Mud Lake, the material is rudely sorted and stratified and almost all of well worn river cobbles and boulders. Bretz Field Notes .
P63-291929
Wenatchee Heights landslide
WASHINGTON
The supposed landslide topography on the south side of the valley east of the Wenatchee Heights remnant of the Entiat surface is truly landslide....
P64-271927
Devil's Canyon Bar
WASHINGTON
the bar at the mouth of Devil's Canyon projects a quarter of a mile out into Snake Valley beyond the base of the basalt cliffs on either side. Bretz...
P64-271927
Mouth of Cow Creek
WASHINGTON
The preglacial slopes near the mouth of Cow Creek are fairly definite. There are no real mid-channel buttes tho some buttes here seem to show...
P64-291929
Also the bar in the mouth of Colocham,noted last year, will do as well as a remnant of this hypothetical coulee-mouth bar as it will fit the...
P64-291929
Dry Gulch Terrace
WASHINGTON
Two accessory features of the Columbia Valley land color to the second interpretations. One is the existence, on the west side of the river, just...
P65-271927
Benge - Winona channel
WASHINGTON
A good channel in the Palouse formation crosses the range of hills between Benge and Rock Creek. That water flowed eastward. Bretz Field Notes
P65-271927
Benge to Ralston Hard road at crossing of O-W RR and Cow Creek is down 100 feet in a broad basalt plain, from which all Palouse loess has gone. This...
P66-271927
At Benner and thence east to Lacrosse, there is a plain of gravel at about the Lacrosse altitude, with but few foresets, those present diping west....
P66-271927
Lacross Channels
WASHINGTON
The discovery, a few hours after the above was written, of a number of long, narrow chanels oriented nearly N-S thru the large tract of palouse hills...
P66-271927
Willow Creek Valley..... Trenching shows a gray silt with some sand and a little fine basalt gravel. This at Pampa is 1350 Bretz Field Notes
P66-271927
Rock Creek Bridge
WASHINGTON
Rock Creek, east of the eroded group, has a very definite preglacial steep-walled valley, not a scabland canyon like Rock Lake, but 200 feet deep....
P66-291929
Liberty School Terrace Traverse
WASHINGTON
Another puzzle solved this morning. The Liberty School bar-terrace is a compound form of moraine and outwash. This fact came to light fram a traverse...
1919
P66C-19 Eagle Creek
WASHINGTON
Aug 29, 1919 Dep of CRB between 3' and 4' as fas as the tral takes, 1 1/2 mile or so above the forks on the W. Fork. Alt of CRB on EC at 1 m direct...
P67-271927
Cottonwood Creek
WASHINGTON
Cottonwood Creek and Rebel Flat Creek each have sand and silt, stratified, in 10-15 foot sections, with here and there some fine fresh basalt gravel....
P67-271927
Palouse River valley-canyon
WASHINGTON
The valley-canyon of Palouse river, 3 1/2 miles above its entrance to the scabland affords an instructrive contract with its character at and below...
1919
P67C-19 Latourelle and Rooster Rock
OREGON
Between Latourelle and Roster Rock Aug 30 Stratified black sand, thoroughly indurated in vertical layers along the RR between Latourelle to RRoc....
P68-271927
Ewan granite boulders
WASHINGTON
A granite boulder near the upper limit of scabland three miles south of Ewan is 9 ft max dia. It is at 1855 AT. Bretz Field Notes
P68-271927
Rock Creek Glacial Flood
WASHINGTON
The glacial flood down Rock Lake basin tore out the divide between Rock Creek (Lake) north of Ewan and crossed to the lower part of Cottonwood Creek...
1919
P68C-19 Coopey Falls
WASHINGTON
Between Bridal Veil & Angels Rest Aug 30 Satsop down to level of brink of falls. No basalt seen higher but abundance of granite gravel Nick's Field...
P7-161916
Wahkeena Trail and falls
WASHINGTON
July 19, 1916 Top of basalt in Multnomah Creek canyon is about 1300. Trail from Multnomah Canyon to Wahkeena Falls climbs around a shoulder of the...
P7-161916
Horsetail Falls bluff
WASHINGTON
Bluff east of Horsetail Falls July 20. Basalt up to 1350, then andesite to the summit of the climb 2600. Bretz Field Notes
P7-161916
Warrendale bluffs
WASHINGTON
Cliffs between Horsetail Falls and Warrendale (on river east of Dodson) A definite southwestward dip to basalts east of Devil's Creek. Bretz Field...
P7-201920
Silvias Canyon basalt
WASHINGTON
On Silvias Canyon road, 3-4 miles out of Lyle, about Sec. 23, about 100 ft of basalt above the Dalles tuff and gravel. Bretz Field Notes
P7-211921
The Dalles Terraces
WASHINGTON
North side of the Columbia. The Terraced benches faintly marking the re-entrants between spurs, N. Side, E side Ortly & on the lower flanks are only...
P7-221922
Ewan Channel Hills
WASHINGTON
At Ewan, the channel is interrupted by many butte-like hills, flat-topt hills, of basalt, which was not removed in the erosion which made the...
P7-221922
Ewan RR Gravel Pits
WASHINGTON
A deposit of stratified river gravel north of Ewan in hillside... two pits used for railroad ballast Bretz Field Notes
P7-221922
Lamont road, First cycle valley
WASHINGTON
North of this a belt of wheat land, loess-covered basalt hills rising above the flood of glacial waters. Then another valley, parallel to those...
P7-231923
Mesa gravel terrace
WASHINGTON
Large gravel terrace down in coulee west of track 2 miles above Mesa Bretz Field Notes
P7-231923
Connell Limestone Gravel exposure (SV)
WASHINGTON
The Limestone gravel is exposed near the well in a road cut. (visible in Google maps / GE Street View) Bretz Field Notes
P7-231923
Esquatzel Coulee
WASHINGTON
Esquatzel coulee a few miles north of Eltopia loses its basalt walls to the west.. Bretz Field Notes
P7-231923
Jackass Mountain Basalt Exposures
WASHINGTON
First basalt exposure east of Jackass Mt.. Bretz Field Notes
P7-231923
Basalt again much in evidence at Mesa Bretz Field Notes
P7-231923
Mouth of Washtucna Coulee
WASHINGTON
..where Washtucna joins Esquatzel coulee Bretz Field Notes
P7-231923
Paradise Flats Scarp
WASHINGTON
North of it is the scarp of the Paradise Flats (placemark at 1,100 A.T.) Bretz Field Notes
P7-241924
Snake River Valley between Perry (Mouth of Palouse R) and Raparia. A great gravel deposit on the north side of the Snake, extends from about three...
P7-241924
.... Snake River valley between Perry and Raparia Bretz Field Notes
P7-241924
Raparia Gravel Deposit
WASHINGTON
A great gravel deposit on the north side of the Snake, extending from about three miles above the mouth of the Palouse River almost to the railroad...
P7-241924
Snake River Gravel Deposits South Side
WASHINGTON
Only two gravel deposits lie on the south side of the Snake... one is above Perry a few miles. Bretz Field Notes
P7-251925
Bonaparte Creek
WASHINGTON
Bonaparte Creek, which enters the Okanogan near Tonasket by decending several hundred feet over ledges... Bretz Field Notes
P7-251925
Pardee describes a reversal of drainage in the headwaters of the San Poil...at the Devils Elbow Bretz Field Notes
P7-251925
Republic to Keller Aug 3 & 4 1925 Bretz Field Notes
P7-251925
Republic to Keller Aug 3 & 4 1925 Bretz Field Notes
P7-251925
San Poil Lake lies on the divide and discharges both ways Bretz Field Notes
P7-251925
.... on the divide and discharges both ways.... Deer Creek - N Fork Granite Creek Valley past Tom Thumb Mine Bretz Field Notes
P7-251925
Tonasket to Wauconda Aug. 3 1925 Also P56-26 Bretz Field Notes Bretz Field Notes
P7-251925
Tonasket to Wauconda -- Bonaparte Creek drainage Aug 3, 1925 Bretz Field Notes
P7-261926
Lewiston Gravel Deposit
WASHINGTON
A large gravel deposit on the east side of Snake River about two miles below (N) Asotin. Bretz Field Notes
P7-261926
Lewiston Gravel Deposit - Trib (SV)
WASHINGTON
A large gravel deposit on the east side of Snake River about two miles below (N) Asotin. Located on Tammany Ck Road in Hells Gate State Park (V) It...
P7-271927
Burke roadside gravels
WASHINGTON
But a shallow lake with plenty of current is recorded in roadside pits 1/2 mi south of Burke where the upper 3 ft or so of gravel is forset bedded,...
P7-281928
Lancaster (Willada)
WASHINGTON
Scarp base on the road from Ewan to Lancaster is 1866. A shallow valley, down to but not in basalt, fllowed by the road back into the Loessial hills...
P7-281928
Lancaster to Palouse R valley @1615
WASHINGTON
In the valley which draws from Lancaster to the Palouse, followed by the road southwest out of Lancaster, the highest of the pebbly silt was found at...
P70-271927
Lyons Ferry basalt hills
WASHINGTON
There are two scabby basalt hills south of the ferry and north of the preglacial trib which carries so much gravel on the south side here. Both hills...
P70-271927
Walker Station cliffs
WASHINGTON
Snake Canyon bluffs above Walker Station tell the flood story in no uncertain terms. There are more channels among the loess hills and more loess...
P70-291929
Willow Springs Draw Terrace
WASHINGTON
The Trinidad terrace, which continues back up the Willow Springs Draw, is a product of the Crater Cataract discharge. its material is gravel with...
P71-271927
Malden sand deposit
WASHINGTON
Pine Creek valley has a sand and silt deposit 1/2 mile north of Malden at 2086 banked back into a tributary valley (note imagery taken after Malden...
P71-271927
At Pine City, Alt 2019, on north side, fine delta bedding in basalt sand and gravel, dipping down Pine Creek Valley. Bretz Field Notes
P71-271927
Rock Creek City bar
WASHINGTON
The creek valley north of Cottonwood, mouthing at Rock Lake City townsite, was completely blocked by a bar of gravel at least 40 feet high. Creek has...
P71-271927
Rosalia terrace
WASHINGTON
Rosalia terrace two miles north of town, of basalt sand and silt with angular pieces of basalt dip upostream, IE south. Bretz Field Notes
P72-271927
Juniper Canyon scablands
WASHINGTON
Scabland all over the top of the spur between the Columbia and Jniper Canyon. Rock basins, buttes, scab surfaces, a subsidary small gorge right along...
P72-271927
Spring Gulch loess
WASHINGTON
And, very strikingly, the basalt cliffs on either side of Spring Gulch, which are 1250+ have no loessial scarps back of a stripped marginal tract,...
P72-291929
Saddle Mountains
WASHINGTON
Both the Saddle Mts and Frenchman Hills anticlines rise to conderably greater elevations west of the Columbia. The hiway crosses from Vantage to...
P72-291929
Frenchman Hills
WASHINGTON
Both the Saddle Mts and Frenchman Hills anticlines rise to conderably greater elevations west of the Columbia. The hiway crosses from Vantage to...
P72-291929
Yakima River Canyon
WASHINGTON
Ellensburg to Yakima. The tortuous canyon of the river should possess forms simulating scabland, if any normally eroded canyons should. Bretz Field...
P73-291929
Yakima valley silts
WASHINGTON
The hiway along the northern edge of the valley, paralleling the OWRR, has dozens of cuts between Union Gap and Zillah, in which these silts are...
P74-271927
Kennewick-Hover Road gravel pit (SV)
WASHINGTON
In the extreme southeast corner of section 18, 30E8N is a gravel pit at about 450 at It is just across the high-line irrigation ditch from the...
1919
P74C-19 Chenoweth mounds
WASHINGTON
I On spur between Chenoweth Creek and the Columbia vallley. Proportional and dimensionally like the Puget Sound mounds. cobbles in intermound areas...
1919
P74C-19 Mosier mounds
WASHINGTON
II On Flattish slope of CRB ledges in Mosier-Lyle syncline. Not examined closely. Nick's Field Notes
1919
P74C-19 White Salmon River mounds
WASHINGTON
III Imperfect mounds on E side White Salmon Valley e of NWern Electric dam. slope is 15-20 degrees. mounds are abnormal for such slopes, as erosional...
P75-291929
Granger brick plant
WASHINGTON
A pit at the brick plant in Granger, opened in the terrace, shows 45 feet of well stratified sand and silt, looking much like the galcial silt and...
1919
Husum to Gilmer, fir forest heavy dense prob not CRB alt 1757 Almost flat in a silted up lake damed by the White Salmon recent lava. Nick's Field...
1919
P75C-19 Goldendale mounds
WASHINGTON
IV On Glenwood Road, 1 1/2 mi W of Goldendale. Area of a few perfect many imperfect mounds. perfect ones av. 40 feet across & 4 feet high. Nick's...
1919
P75C-19 Husum CRB's
WASHINGTON
CRB hills on east side of valley as far as Husum, with an irregular surface of gray lava. Nick's Field Notes
1919
Laurel is on the edge of a recent lava flow from the N. Lava vesticular & gray Nick's Field Notes
P76-271927
This district has been neglected in the study of the scabland problem. Its forbidding monotony, its sandy secondary roads and its high temperature...
P76-291929
Snipes Mountain exposure
WASHINGTON
The relations are best seen along the south side of Snipes Mountain, near the extreme western end of the irrigation ditch that leads westward past...
1919
P76C-19 Glenwood
WASHINGTON
The Sag Flat road from Glenwood to Trout Lake, the northmost road and the shortest passes close to the foot of Quigley butte at an elevation of 2330....
1919
P76C-19 Quigley Butte
WASHINGTON
The Sag flat road passes close to Quigley Butte at an elevation of 2330. Ropy lava in fragments along road. Nick's Field Notes
P77-271927
Gable Mt Climbed. Scabland in typial form over the northern slope and on the crest of the cleaver blade up to and above the isolated butte at 987...
P77-271927
Gravel Pit near the Horn - Hanford
WASHINGTON
Gravel pit along the Hanford road near The Horn has just a few inches of dust on top. A large percentage of basalt, perhaps about 50% Bretz Field...
P77-271927
Old Maid Coulee pit (SV)
WASHINGTON
Old Maid Coulee pit, 200 honey quartzite pebbles Bretz Field Notes
P78-271927
Burbank gravel area
WASHINGTON
One of these broad, low gravel piles lies between Two Rivers and Burbank, in the downstream angle between the Snake and the Columbia. It is more than...
P78-271927
Eltopia gravel pit (SV)
WASHINGTON
Pit on the Connell Hiway, about a mile east of Eltopia,m exposes 30 feet of 99% basalt gravel, frech, with the granitoid porphyry present Bretz Field...
P78-271927
Eltopia scabland
WASHINGTON
Scabland knobs for two miles and a half west of Eltopia. Then no more basalt. Bretz Field Notes
P78-271927
West of the island between Koontz Coulee and the parasitic coulee there is no gravel. Bretz Field Notes
P78-271927
Ringold parasitic coulee
WASHINGTON
Mouth of McKnight's parasitic coulee, on road down to Ringold, has 40 feet of well stratified fairly clean basalt gravel, 99% basalt, fresh, with...
P78-271927
Smith Canyon sands
WASHINGTON
Basalt sand, unstained, up Smith Canyon as far as junction with the hard road diverging East. This sand seems to mantle the slopes. Bretz Field Notes
P78-291929
Benton City scablands
WASHINGTON
The final culminating piece of evidence by which the Spokane Flood hypothesis will stand throu all the storms of criticism lies in the Yakima Valley...
P78-291929
Mabton erratics
WASHINGTON
South of Mabton along the higway to Bickleton, various fresh glacial erratics were found up to 1040 and a few a little highter. Some of these are...
P78-291929
Prosser erratics
WASHINGTON
Upper limits of erratics north of Prosser, on the road from one mile east of Lone Pine School, is 1130. Plenty of fresh boulders here of various...
P79-271927
The region from Eltopia to Two Rivers is heavily covered with gravel (under sand for much of the area), the gravel fresh, with a high precent of...
1919
P79C-19 Arlington mounds
WASHINGTON
VII Arlington Or, SE of 4 mi direct section 1&2& 35&36 ... mounds abundant tho nowhere very closely groupt Nick's Field Notes
1919
P79C-19 Goldendale more mounds
WASHINGTON
VI S of Goldendale 4-5 mi. and 1/2 mi West of Road Mounds seen in profile. Nick's Field Notes
1919
P79C-19 Goldendale Mounds (SV)
WASHINGTON
V S.E of Goldendale, on NW flanks and adjoining flat land are numerous mounds, not well grouped, but otherwise well developed. Nick's Field Notes
1919
P79C-19 Roosevelt mounds
WASHINGTON
VIII Roosevelt WA Mima type all over the flat N of the town. Blt on rock floor Nick's Field Notes
1919
P7C-19 Bingen Anticline
WASHINGTON
Bingen Anticline - Canyon Road is northernmost of the 3 which cross from Lyle to ..... The publihed alt is 1800 and here it is laid out on an EW...
1920
P7C-20 John Day Rattlesnake Formation (SV)
OREGON
Rattlesnake formation. The rhyolite tuff marker & ledge-maker in this formation does not outcrop E of John Day. One exposure between John Day and...
1920
Rhyolite tuff dips below valley floor for 6-8 miles west of Mt. Vernon. Bretz Field Notes
P8-161916
McChord-Kelly-Pierce Creek
WASHINGTON
July 20. This creek, whose name eventually will probably stick as Kelly (actually is McChord) follows overt a steep, bowlder-strewn course from 3000...
P8-161916
Nesmith Mt (now called Nesmith Pt) is a remnant of a volcanic cone of andesitic lavas and ejectamenta. Bretz Field Notes
P8-221922
First cycle hills to the northeast..these hills are the Fishtrap Hills. They are like the first cycle hills north of Ewan, no basalt much above the...
P8-221922
Hills near Lamont
WASHINGTON
Summits of these hills rather broad and flattish near Lamont, as tho remnants of an original plain Bretz Field Notes
P8-221922
Lamont to Sprague
WASHINGTON
Lamont to Sprague is one maze of scabland buttes and knobs and ridges, with separating channels and pockets. More bare rock than soil covered...
P8-221922
Sprague gravel plain
WASHINGTON
An extensive Gravel plain to the northeast of Sprague, north of NPRR. Almost all the material is basalt, but more foreigh matter than elsewhere in...
P8-221922
Tyler Loess Hills
WASHINGTON
Map shows serveral patches of a few square miles...recognized from the train as hill tracts Bretz Field Notes
P8-231923
Hardesty Coulee
WASHINGTON
Mouth of Hardesty coulee largely filled with gravel... Bretz Field Notes
P8-231923
Rattlesnake Canyon
WASHINGTON
..pre-spokane drainage line...Rattlesnake Canyon are examples Bretz Field Notes
P8-231923
Sulfur Station Scabland
WASHINGTON
An area of scabland on south side of Washtucna a mile west of Sulphur Station Bretz Field Notes
P8-241924
Also P152-26 Central Ferry -- "A well develolped terrace Bretz Field Notes
P8-241924
Terrace on south side of river not 30 feet above July level, flat-topt, fine sand and gravel Bretz Field Notes
P8-241924
Milepost 14 Terrace
WASHINGTON
Milepost 14 to Central Station -- on south side is flat-topped terrace Bretz Field Notes
P8-241924
Ridpath Terrace
WASHINGTON
About 50 feet above river (now likely submerged) by Wild Goose reservoir Bretz Field Notes
P8-241924
Purrington Station terrace
WASHINGTON
This station at the upstream end of terrace.. about three miles long Bretz Field Notes
P8-251925
The preglacial drainage of Aeneas Valley appears... Bretz Field Notes
P8-251925
Republic to Aeneas Valley to Toroda to Curlew Aug 7 Bretz Field Notes
P8-251925
Vicinity of Republic has some remarkable drainage features. The most striking is the granite pass by way of Curlew Lake from Kettle River to the head...
P8-251925
Republic to Aeneas Valley to Toroda to Curlew Aug 7 Bretz Field Notes
P8-261926
Clarkston Residential Delta
WASHINGTON
The Same terrace in Clarkston.. it rises southward Bretz Field Notes
P8-261926
Lewiston Residential Delta
WASHINGTON
The Lewiston Residental section is built on a gravel delta top whose flat ranges from ... Bretz Field Notes
P8-261926
Mouth of Potlatch River
WASHINGTON
Potlatch River Valley shows no suggestion at its jct with Clearwater that it carried any part Bretz Field Notes
P8-261926
Orofino - Lower Clearwater Valley
WASHINGTON
Lewiston to Orofino. Valley traversed from Lewiston almost to Orofino, which is 47 mi. from Lewiston. There is no gravel in this valley except for...
P8-281928
Endicott Exposure
WASHINGTON
At 1495 in section 20, at Jct of road north to Endicott, a very good exposure showing abundant foreign pebbles. But not clean enough to show...
P8-281928
Endicott pebbly silt
WASHINGTON
Pebbly silt, typical of the Spokane flooded valleys, found about two miles west of Endicott Altitude 1500 (no current 1500 in that area, suspect...
P8-291929
Dunes are pominent about three miles south of Pablo, their material typical dune sand. Further southeast is the tract described... Bretz Field Notes
P8-291929
Pablo Reservoir Feeder Ditch
IDAHO
The feeder ditch for the Pablo Reservoir crosses a broad, low tract in front of the Polson Moraine, a tract closed off from the river immediately to...
P8-371929
George Brett Pit, Grand Coulee Dam
WASHINGTON
Bretz inspected pit Nov 28-29 1937 Topographically the deposit called the "Brett gravel deposit" by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation lies in an...
P80-271927
Ephrata to Neppel and return The hypothesis advanced yesterday....The scarp, N-S in NW part of Moses Lake quadrangle averages close to 100 feet in...
P80-271927
West Shore School dunes
WASHINGTON
Another marked feature of this kind leads in a similar way a mile and a half north of West Shore School and is lost in the dunes about a mile south...
P80-291929
Corral Canyon Bar
WASHINGTON
This flattish tract is not plane, Its broad gentle swells are bar forms leading soutwestward and westward to the big bar front on the east wall of...
P80-291929
Kennewick Gravel Ridge
WASHINGTON
The road to Plymouth crosses a broad gravel ridge about 700 at file miles out of (Kennewick) and betweeen the two elevations 1025 to the west and...
1919
P80C-19 Arlington rim rock
WASHINGTON
Rim Rock, a cliff of CRB is conspicuous at about 800 at in Col valley & Alkali Canyon about Arlington Nick's Field Notes
1919
P80C-19 Bickleton mounds
WASHINGTON
IX Plateau between Roosevelt and Bickleton Mounds limited to "scab land or "rock swales" These tracks li on the general plane of teh surrounding...
P81-271927
Othello cataract
WASHINGTON
Cataract west of 1355 triangulation hill 9 miles north of Othello is eroded in scoriaceous basalt whose disintegration has been enough in excess of...
P82-271927
Quincy Basis west of the Dishaw School is largely covered with basalt sand. Some Dunes. Bretz Field Notes
P82-271927
Ephrata (Dishaw) Channel
WASHINGTON
Clearly a record of Spokane waters across the gravel plain of Quincy Basis. ... Winchester sheet shows at least three strands uniting to form the...
P82-291929
Cold Creek Valley iceberg nests
WASHINGTON
A road from the gas wells east across Cold Creek Valley to the Kenewick Hanford Road. From 825 down to 625 is a most startling development of huge...
P82-291929
Lind Coulee Ringold deposits
WASHINGTON
Thick Ringold or possibly Ellensburg is exposed in the lower part of Lind Coulee, north of the Soda lake of Drumheller Channels. Bretz Field Notes .
1919
P82C-19 Wood Gulch CRB's
WASHINGTON
Wood Gulch enters Columbia N of Town. Bluff W of mouth of Wood Gulch composed of CRB up to 1200 Nick's Field Notes
P83-291929
Ephrata erratics
WASHINGTON
Highest erratics along the north-south road, .... just east (which is decending, must mean west) of Ephrata are 1437AT At about 1400 is coarse...
P83-291929
Ephrata rolled boulders
WASHINGTON
Large numbers of large rolled boulders lie aloong the hiway from Ephrata toward Soap Lake. many are four feet maximum.... Bretz Field Notes .
P83-291929
Lake Lenore bar
WASHINGTON
The lower end of the abandoned eastern lower coulee again examined. ....here in the floor of the main coulee is a bar 70 feet above Alkali (Lenore)...
P85-291929
Soap Lake Station
WASHINGTON
Altitude of the floor in the notch west of Soap Lake Station is 1127AT, 75 feet lower than the station. Bretz Field Notes .
P85-291929
Stratford tributary delta
WASHINGTON
A small tributary entering Crab Creek from the south, half a mile west of Stratford Station, has a fine bar blocking its mouth, now trenched. It is...
P86-271927
Douglas Coulee apparently is the preglacial main drainage line of this part of the plateau and the stream which cut the original notch of Moses...
P86-271927
Three Devil's Vista
WASHINGTON
And the most interesting view is to be obtained from the northern part of Section 2,22N24E, almost on the county Line. Here one stands on a broad...
P86-291929
Adrian terrace channel
WASHINGTON
The Adrian terrace.... East of this terrace is a channel about 60 feet deep, its floor terminating in lower terrace up onto which the highway climbs...
P87-291929
Two miles or two and a half miles east of Stratford on the south side of the valley is another fine bar, 140 higher than the rail road grade. A very...
P88-271927
Another new spill discovered. A shallow stream evidently went west over the divide between Almira and Hartline. Hiway is in it at its angle west from...
P88-291929
Another and more striking case of scabland gravel above Palouse Loess is in a very high and massive bar a mile or a mile and a half north of Bacon,...
P88-291929
The pre-scabland Palouse loess of Hartline basin still underlies the flood gravel in at least one place. At the east corner of Section 25 and 36,...
1919
P88C-19 Mabton hogback
WASHINGTON
On small hogback shown on map Series of little hogbacks, now show W, SW & Sward from one shown. looking eastward hogback can been seen about 2 miles...
P89-271927
Lower Moses Coulee schoolhouse
WASHINGTON
Lower Moses Coulee floor has bars all over it as far south as the Schoolhouse near north edge of Malaga Sheet. Their vertical range is 50 feet or...
1919
P89C-19 Glade Valley
WASHINGTON
Glade Valley has a very gentle synclinal structure. It has been deepened as much by erosion as the the original structure was beveled down. Nick's...
P9-161916
Fine sand and shale with abundant leaves in an excellent state of preservation. The fine materials of the conglomerate immediately below the basalt...
P9-211921
Summit of Ortley Anticline
WASHINGTON
N. of the Dalles Summit altitude directly north of The Dalles is a little more than 3000 ft A.T. Route followed was directly north from the great...
P9-221922
4 Lakes Glacial Drainage Channel
WASHINGTON
Glacial Drainage channel between 4 Lakes and Cheney Bretz Field Notes
P9-221922
Brickyard top of hill
WASHINGTON
Top of the hill behind the brickyard, possible location of clay quarry Bretz Field Notes
P9-221922
Cheney BrickYard
WASHINGTON
At Cheney the old till reported by CAmpbell and examined by Leverett was seen. It is exposed in an abandoned brickyard northwest of Normal school at...
P9-221922
Cheney loess-imbedded basalt
WASHINGTON
layer of loess with two lighter 6" bands, single black frothy basalt rounded pebble size of golf ball (author) Bretz Field Notes
P9-221922
Deep Creek Canyon
WASHINGTON
Trailhead, Deep Creek Canyon exhibits splendid Bombs in yellow ash (overlook is .5 miles) Bretz Field Notes
P9-221922
Farrington (Fish) Lake Channel
WASHINGTON
Cut as low as the Farrington Fish Lake channel Bretz Field Notes
P9-221922
Farrington Lake Granitic Hills
WASHINGTON
North of Farrington (Fish) lake is a group of wildly rugged granitic hills overwhich glacier water spilled Bretz Field Notes
P9-221922
Grandview School
WASHINGTON
Nar the Grandview School, east of Connelly, the typical Palouse loess overlies qztite and qtz schist, cut by granite dikes. Bretz Field Notes
P9-221922
Granite Lake, a few miles north of Cheney, lies in what I am assured by Miss Martin is a rock basin. So far as seen, granite surrounds the lake. The...
P9-231923
Dunnigan Coulee Traverse
WASHINGTON
Traverse south from Sulphur to Dunnigan Coulee, thense east and northeast to Kalotus. Topology of this upland has some peculiar features. Bretz Field...
P9-231923
Old Maid Coulee
WASHINGTON
The main valleys (Old Maid and Dunnigan coulees, Rye Grass Flat) drain SW by W Bretz Field Notes
P9-241924
Wawawai Granite Outcrops (SV)
WASHINGTON
Granite outcrops at upstream edge of this terrace Bretz Field Notes
P9-241924
East of Almota and west of Hunts Spur, a big shoulder of gravel with convex profile on south side of river. Bretz Field Notes
P9-241924
Terrace on south side. Flat Bretz Field Notes
P9-241924
now submerged Bretz Field Notes
P9-241924
on terrace of snake river gravel 30-40 feet abover river (Now Lower Granite Dam) Bretz Field Notes
P9-241924
Opposite this station . a low terrace on south side Bretz Field Notes
P9-241924
One mile above on south side an alluvial fan terrace. Bretz Field Notes
P9-241924
Penewawa Terrace
WASHINGTON
Penewawa one mile above on south side an alluvial fan terrace Bretz Field Notes
P9-241924
One Mile below, terrace on south side. Flat. Similar terrace but with alluvial fans on top. Extends to MP33.5 Bretz Field Notes
P9-241924
terrace likely largely submerged Bretz Field Notes
P9-241924
Sloping terrace upper part composed of ... Bretz Field Notes
P9-241924
At mouth of large Trib from north, a similar terrace Bretz Field Notes
P9-251925
Curlew Lateral Moraine
WASHINGTON
A splendid lateral moraine on the west side of Curlew Valley south of the town of Curlew. Bretz Field Notes
P9-251925
Mt Annie gashes
WASHINGTON
....waters were in part thrown across the NW flank of Mt. Annie. Two splendid gashes cross this flank Also P195-26 Bretz Field Notes
P9-251925
Southeast end of Aeneas Valley
WASHINGTON
The southeast end of Aeneas Valley... has been greatly eroded by glacial ice Bretz Field Notes
P9-251925
Spokane subglacial course
WASHINGTON
Another Spokane subglacial stream course lies in the extreme SE corner of the Osoyoos sheet on the south side of Lost Creek Bretz Field Notes
P9-251925
...immediately south in the valley lies St. Peter Flats, a great terrace fill with very good ice contact ... Bretz Field Notes
P9-261926
Lewiston Orchards
WASHINGTON
Lewiston Orchards stand on the lower plateau top, altitude... Bretz Field Notes
P9-271927
The northern alcove has a bar along its north side for the lower mile of its length. The bar crest is distinct, it is enlongated like a great beach...
P9-271927
Potholes gashes
WASHINGTON
The scabland bench along the Columbia between Trinidad and the Potholes .... though deeply gashed opposite the Potholes, it neverthelsss is perfectly...
P9-271927
Trinidad Rock Terrace
WASHINGTON
Rock terrace between Trinidad and The Potholes. Scabland on this terrace extends as far north as the Road up from Crescent bar to Babcock Ridge Bretz...
P9-281928
Pampa Flat sands (SV)
WASHINGTON
The slopes bordering Pampa Flat carry the pebbly silt, here pebbly sand, at least 25 feet higher than the Willow Creek Flood Plain. Bretz Field Notes
P9-281928
Willow Creek mouth bar (SV)
WASHINGTON
The bar in the mouth of Willow Creek valley has a total vertical range of 200 feet. It can be traced up on the basalt hill slope to the...
P9-291929
Grass Valley Meander
IDAHO
North of Grassy Valley is another dissected terrace remnant of silt 85 feet above the meander scar at its base. Bretz Field Notes
P9-291929
Missoula Silt Meander
IDAHO
There is an extensive silt plain out in Clark Fork Valley west of Missoula and east of the river. Two big meander scars in it, each three or four...
P9-291929
There are terrace fragments at intervals to Nine Mile. Here the silt terrace is 100 feet above the floodplain. Bretz Field Notes
P9-291929
South of Post Creek, the surface of the till deposit rises gradually to a maximum of 100 feet above the stream. Bretz Field Notes
P9-291929
Ravalli Deposit (SV)
IDAHO
A section about three miles south of Ravalli is very interesting. Silt, fine sand, coarse sand, gravel and rubble are here intimately associated...
P9-521952
Dayton Radiator Repairs (SV)
WASHINGTON
June 20. Waiting for radiator repairs (Alone) I must go back to the Shoulder bar, either now or after Smitty arrives. I've missed something. Bretz...
P9-521952
June 20. The prominent terrace here, west of the river and south of Pleasant View road, has a smooth top that slopes valleyward some 50' in its width...
P91-271927
Hartline buttes
WASHINGTON
Hartline basin along road straight east out of Coulee City has several striking features whose significance must not be ignored. There are scabland...
1919
P91C-19 Snipes Mountain
WASHINGTON
S side of W end Sept 11 1919 Composed of nearly horizontal Satsop 200 ft thick Nick's Field Notes
P93-271927
Wilbur gravel pit *
WASHINGTON
Another exposure yielding evidence for this new principle, examined today, is a gravel pit just north of Wilbur, near the upper limit of the Wilbur...
P93-271927
Wilson CK spill
WASHINGTON
Examination of a road metal quarry in the floor of the newly discovered spill from Wilson Creek to Deadmans Draw, one mile west of the Lincoln Co....
P94-271927
Head of Mondovi channels
WASHINGTON
Channel heads north of Mondovi are curious. The Mondovi channel east of Davenport is very broad, very flat, almost without scabland almost without...
P94-271927
Head of Telford Channels
WASHINGTON
Now if the glacial ice failed to reach the heads of the Telford Tract Channels, it failed to cover the tracts north of the channel heads where there...
P95-271927
Welch Creek Canyon @2450
WASHINGTON
Ponded water stood in Welch Creek Canyon and in it floated boulder-laden bergs. Tho there is no evidence of glacial till or glacial shapes, there are...
1919
P95C-19 Toppenish Ridge
WASHINGTON
Not a simple anticline but composed of various asymetrical minor folds, some shallow orientations somewhat different. A persistent white ash......
P96-271927
Espanola Spillway
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Why was the water so high at the head of the Espanola spillway? Espanola is 2490 and the spillway here is 4 miles wide. Bretz Field Notes
1920
P9C-20 John Day limestone formation
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3 Mi E & one mi S, in grass-covered foothills of the range, above the gravel terraces, outcrops of a dense xlime bluish-gray marble Bretz Field Notes
one Middle Pleistocene: New Thesis Paper
Palouse to Cascades- Army East Trailhead
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Parking lot Mt Si
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Peshastin Pinnacles State Park
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Popular Heights
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one Early Pleistocene Bjornstad 2006 Thesis Paper
Potholes Coulee
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one Early Pleistocene and one Early-Middle Pleistocene: Bjornstad 2006 Thesis Paper
1909
Queen Anne High School Seattle
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Bretz taught physiography here 1909-1911. Building is now condos.
Rattlesnake Dance Ridge Trailhead
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Reese Coulee (SV)
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At least eight separate calcrete paleosols (each overlies flood deposit) at least one Early Pleistocene and many more early-middle Pleistocene...
one Early Pleistocene, one Middle Pleistocene: Baker 1978, Patton and Baker 1978, Baker et al. 1991 Thesis Paper
1937
RFF Location 1 Lincoln
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W 1/2 sec 33 T29N, R36E about 5 miles from LIncoln. Several road cuts showing 4 ft layer of foreign stones in "Palouse-soil" like matrix Flint 1937...
1937
RFF Location 10 Mica Brick Pit
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Silica-brick pit of Gladding-McBean Co., 0.5 mi. N of Mica; 4 ft of compact loess on max 8 ft of till with "Palouse-soil"-maktrix, with some rubbly...
1937
RFF Location 11 Mica (SV)
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NW 1/4 SW 1/4 sec 24 T24N R4E About one mile E of Mica: 1 ft of pebbly loess in 3-7 ft of till with "Palouse-soil"-like matrix, on thoroughly decayed...
1937
RFF Location 12 Freeman
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NW corner sec 1, T23N., R44E., at Freeman station. 9 ft of compact loess on max 10 ft till withi "Palouse-soil"-like matrix, on thoroughly decayed...
1937
RFF Location 13a Five Mile Prairie
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On Fivemile Prarie: E 1/2 NE 1/4 sec 24 T26N R423E 2 road cuts showing 18 in. of superficial loess on till with "Palouse-soil"-like matrix. Flint...
1937
RFF Location 13b File Mile Prairie
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On Fivemile Prairie: Near center W line sec 14, T26N, R42E 2 road cuts showing 18 in. of superficial loess on till with "Palouse-soil"-like matrix...
1937
RFF Location 14a Orchard Prairie
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Many road cuts throughout secs 25 and 26 T26N R43E. Flint 1937 Drift Paper
1937
RFF Location 14b Orchard Prairie
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Cuts near NE corner sec 22 T26N R44E Flint 1937 Drift Paper
1937
RFF Location 14C Orchard Prairie (SV)
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near center W line sec 29, T26N, R44E Flint 1937 Drift Paper
1937
RFF Location 15 Green Bluff
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On Green Bluff Prairie, Cut along W line sec. 19, T27 N R44E Flint 1937 Drift Paper
1937
RFF Location 2 Davenport
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NE 1/4 sesc 13, T25N.,R36E cuts on hiway US-10, about 3 miles NE of Davenport 18-in layer of till consisting of foreign stones in abonduant matrix...
1937
RFF Location 3 Mondovi (SV)
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NW corn. sec 35, T26N, R38E, about 3 miles NE of Mondovi. In road cut: 2 ft of stony grit in "Palouse-soil"-like matrix. Rests on "Palouse soil" and...
1937
RFF Location 4 Reardan
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W line sec. 1, T.25N, R39E, about 3 miles NE of Reardan. In road cut: lens 25 ft long, max 18 in thick, of stony grit with till balls and balls of...
1937
RFF Location 5 Waukon (SV)
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Center E line sec 14, and SE cor. sec. 14, T.24N, R39E, about 2 miles N of Waukon. 2-4 ft of till, consisting of stones in "Palouse-soil"-like...
1937
RFF Location 6 County Line
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Center W line sec. 31, T26N, R40E cut on Spokane-Lincoln county-line road: 4 in zone of stony grit in "Palouse-soil"-like Matrix, grading down into...
1937
RFF Location 7 Hite Station (SV!)
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W line sec 28, T26N, R40E. Cuts along N-C county road between Hite Station and Coulee Creek. Show numerous exposures of till and stony zones,...
1937
RFF Location 8 Latah Creek
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Near center S line sec 31, T23N, R44E. Road cut; 4 ft of till on 3 ft of laminated silt on basalt. Overlain by 1 ft of superficial loess. Flint 1937...
1937
RFF Location 9 Palouse Hwy (SV)
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W line sec 25, T2N R43E, at intersection of side road with Palouse Highway; 3 ft of superficial loess on 2 feet of laminated pale silt on 8-11 ft of...
Ripples site - 48.44715525899067, -119.4842265865059
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one Middle Pleistocene: Busacca Thesis Paper
Ross Lake Overlook
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multipe middle Pleistocene: Gastineau 2011 Thesis Paper
salmon glacier 56°11'19.6"N 130°03'16.5"W
BRITISH COLUMBIA
film set location of john carpenter's the thing (1982)
Saranac, Michigan, Bretz's birthplace
Bretz grew up on a farm near the village of Saranac, Mi.
Shuksan Blueschist - 47.335362008874526, -121.18294305889549
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Siletzia Pillows - Marys Peak - 44.480463588226165, -123.5394524466265
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one Middle Pleistocene: New Thesis Paper
one Middle Pleistocene: New Thesis Paper
one Middle Pleistocene: New Thesis Paper
Slate Peak Trailhead
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South Bombing Range Rd
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one Middle Pleistocene: Bjornstad 2006 Thesis Paper
St. Petersburg Bar
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Missoule Flood Deposits gravel pit Thesis Paper
Stevens Pass - 47.70930306773892, -121.10659784048222
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Stevens Pass - 47.80078848416023, -121.05855023558236
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Stonehenge WWI Memorial
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Stuart And Colchuck Lake Trailheads
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Swakane Gneiss in Olalla Canyon - 47.58234572154623, -120.4959722
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Swokane Biotite, vista point - 47.5477457355376, -120.28637451104508
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Table mountain - 48.848256839356644, -121.7102198806746
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Terraces site - 48.57944864097705, -119.39144888650591
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The Dalles HWY 197 (SV)
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Two Early Pleistocene, three early-middle Pleistocene: Cordero (1997) Thesis Paper
The Great Terrace - 47.9207617450816, -119.8984400134941
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The Snake River at Saddle Mountains (parking spot) - 46.79723872573603, -119.9102885288353
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1928
Thomas Large home, Spokane
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East 1528 18th Ave, Spokane in 1928
Tieton Andesite Columns - 46.68411865946332, -120.9400287779117
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Tieton Nature Trail access point
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Tilikum Crossing Bridge
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Tomyhoi/Yellow Aster Butte Trailhead
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1914
U of Chicago Geology Department During Bretz's Tenure
Ryerson Hall, Building where Bretz got his geology doctorate, taught Geology at U of C from 1914-1947 and retired from 1947-1981
Umtanum Creek Recreation Site
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1913
University of Washington Geology Department
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Bretz taught here in 1913
Vantage Erratic (parking spot) - 46.95416944624603, -119.99785037116469
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Vantage Erratic - 46.96403180359367, -120.00447756441764
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Volcanic Mudflow from Cascades Volcano - 47.09666487405008, -120.68930023558237
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This location near Wake 'N Bakery is featured in Nick Zentner's geology videos, where he explores Pacific Northwest geological features and their...
Washington Pass Observation Site
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one Middle Pleistocene: McDonald and Busacca 1988 Thesis Paper
Water Works Canyon Trail Head
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West Bar Overlook - 47.203786, -119.987425
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White Chuck Boat Launch
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White Pine Trailhead
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White River Bridge - 47.874456280464884, -120.8701496288353
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White River Falls Campground
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One early Pleistocene and one Middle Pleistocene: Spencer and Jaffee 2002 Thesis Paper
One middle Pleistocene : Spencer and Jaffee 2002 Thesis Paper
12 Early -Middle Pleistocene rhythmites, and two Middle Pleistocene gravelly flood deposits: Baker et al 1991, Fecht et al 1999 Thesis Paper
Yellow Aster lunch spot - 48.949608841279094, -121.68771817668647
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This location near Zentner Road, Wisconsin is connected to the Ice Age Floods story through J Harlen Bretz's career and the broader history of...