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 basalt columns at Takachiho Gorge formed some 270,000 years ago due to four eruptions of the Mount Aso volcano. Since then, the Gokase River has cut through the columns, ...

Scrambles for September: four rocky trails leading to breathtaking views. Published: ; Sep. 06, 2008, 2:00 p.m.

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.

In 1915, as highway workers blasted through the basalt formations to build the Historic Columbia River Highway, masons created stone retaining walls and viaducts that still stand today.

Location: Columbia Gorge, east of Portland. Length: About a mile and a half round-trip. Level of difficulty: Level-to-moderate dirt/gravel trail; near the falls, the trail is muddy and very narrow ...

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 ...