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If you’re looking for a quick and rewarding waterfall stop along the Historic Columbia River Highway, Latourell Falls is one ...
The Picture Gorge Basalt, which Cahoon jokingly refers to as “the runt” of the Columbia River flood basalt family because of its smaller eruptive volume, was first identified near John Day.
Glide over Gjógv, the remote Faroese village nestled around a 200 m sea-filled gorge on Eysturoy—this drone footage captures ...
May 29, 2018 at 9:49 pm PDT. Last year's Eagle Creek Fire forever changed the way we will experience the Columbia Gorge, and definitely how we hike it.
The Columbia River Gorge is 10 minutes from Portland and home to the highest concentration of waterfalls in North America. Here's what to know before you go.
In places along the gorge, the basalt cliffs butt up so close to the river that there’s barely space for the existing Union Pacific railway and I-84.
Oregon's iconic Oneonta Gorge likely to stay closed into 2026-27 as ... He also said changes to groundwater from the fire have led to “to instability within the Columbia River basalt cliffs. ...
That regional basalt story is way older than the cutting of the Columbia River Gorge and therefore, way, way older than the basalt story here, the Beacon Rock cinder cone volcano.
GSA’s dynamic online journal, Geosphere, posts articles online regularly. Topics this month include an analysis of geoscience job applications; Uturuncu volcano, Bolivia; Picture Gorge Basalt ...
In places along the gorge, the basalt cliffs butt up so close to the river that there’s barely space for the existing Union Pacific railway and I-84.