Regional Geology Field Guides

The Geology Program in the School of Earth & Environmental Sciences (SEES) has provided the following professional-level field guides (1976 GSA Cordillean Meeting-Pullman, WA) available for download (Adobe Acrobat files).

• Guide to Field Trip Between Pasco and Pullman, Washington (pdf) Emphasizing Stratigraphy, Vent Areas, and Intracanyon Flows of Yakima Basalt
  By Donald A. Swanson and Thomas L. Wright.

• Hydrology and Engineering Geology of the Columbia Basin (pdf)
  By Donald J. Brown, Gary T. Lobdell and George E. Neff.

• The Idaho Batholith and Related Subduction Complex (pdf)
  By Donald W. Hyndman and James L. Talbot.

Two recent and introductory-level field trip guides are also available . They are:

• Floods of Lava and Ice Water (pdf): A field trip from Pullman to Colfax, Dusty, Washtucna, Palouse Falls, Starbuck, Alpowa Point, Chief Timothy Park, and return to Pullman.
  See the geological processes in the surrounding area.

• Opals to Mountain Tops (pdf): A field trip showing geological processes within Pullman, Kamiak Butte, Palouse, Colfax, Steptoe Butte, St. John, and Rock Lake.