My Geology Trip

[SylverStar]

I'm bored and I just got back from my geology field trip today. I live in Eastern washington and we pretty much just went up the state from here to look at stuff. Picked up a bag full of opal. That was fun running around in a quarry with a little hammer. ^_^ also looked at all our basalt. It was kind of fun. Me and my partner took over 130 pics so I will try and post some later in the week.

Anyways if anyones intrested about the geology of Eastern Washington I could fill you in on a little bit.

[Rockprincess]

Very cool. Let's hear all about it! Eastern Washington would be...the Cascades?

[SylverStar]

No the Cascades are Western Washington. The Cascades divide the state and block the ocean and rains from the eastern side. It's pretty much desert over here. So to the west is the cascades and than to the right is the rockies.

[SylverStar]

Here's a map of Wa. (http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/topo/img/wa.jpg)

The big round spot is where I live down where the rivers meet. It's basically a big flood bowl.

[LadyTrinity]

:wah: I never get to travel. You are so lucky! :fpraise:
Do post pics when they are developed! :woot:

[Rockprincess]

It's pretty much desert over here. So to the west is the cascades and than to the right is the rockies.Oh, ok, I have my bearings now :) You're directly south of Kelowna and Grand Forks BC then. They're sandwiched in the desert between the Cascades and Rockies too. I did a field school in Grand Forks - it was tick season. :holycow:

Now I'm looking even more forward to your pics :smile:

[Pesha]

Oh how lucky and wonderful for you. I used to love to go rock hounding when I had the use of my knees.

Looking forward to the pics.

BB
DS.

[Tsuchimaru]

Sounds like fun. My little brother just came back from a field trip, and brought a bag of coal with him! :bigblue:

[SylverStar]

we made a few stops.

We stopped to look at a massive pointbar from the floods. And than we stopped at sentinal gap (that's one of the places where all the flood waters poured in from). And than we went and looked a a coulee and some awesome basalt columnar joints. Than we went to soap lake. Soap lake is known for it's curative properties. It has 4 times as much salt as the ocean and also a lot of other minerals in it. It is also the open end of the lower grand coulee. Where the closed end contains dry falls. Which was our last stop. It is one of the largest waterfalls to exist. It's massive.

I should have pictures probably on Sunday.