Fall 2002 Field Trip - The Channeled Scablands
20-27 September 2002
Contents
Background
This semester, the Planetary Geology Field Practicum (PTYS 594A) took us to southern Washington and northern Oregon. Our primary targets of study were Mt. St. Helens and its 1980 eruption deposits, the Columbia River flood basalts, and the Channeled Scablands.
Pictures
![]() | Large version 0265 kB | Full size 0405 kB | Date: 20 Sep 2002 | Hanging out in Tucson Int'l Airport before the flight to Portland. |
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![]() | Large version 0036 kB | Full size 0385 kB | Date: 21 Sep 2002 | Rachel Mastrapa discusses Cascades volcanism. |
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![]() | Large version 0330 kB | Full size 0353 kB | Date: 21 Sep 2002 | Jason Barnes discusses ecological changes since the 1980 eruption. |
![]() | Large version 0031 kB | Full size 0377 kB | Date: 21 Sep 2002 | North face of Mt. St. Helens and eroded 1980 deposits. View from near Johnston Ridge. |
![]() | Large version 0238 kB | Full size 0355 kB | Date: 21 Sep 2002 | Rachel Mastrapa discusses the seismology of the 1980 eruption. |
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![]() | Large version 0273 kB | Full size 0380 kB | Date: 21 Sep 2002 | Jim Richardson discusses 1980 debris flows. |
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![]() | Large version 0032 kB | Full size 0359 kB | Date: 21 Sep 2002 | John Weirich talks about the directed blast of the Mt. St. Helens eruption. |
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![]() | Large version 0295 kB | Full size 0366 kB | Date: 21 Sep 2002 | More hummocks. |
![]() | Large version 0033 kB | Full size 0382 kB | Date: 21 Sep 2002 | Matt Pasek talks about MSH magma chemistry and andesitic volcanism in general. |
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![]() | Large version 0268 kB | Full size 0383 kB | Date: 22 Sep 2002 | The concrete Stonehenge at Maryhill, WA. (Actually a monument to those from Klickitat County, Washington, killed in WWI.) |
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![]() | Large version 0285 kB | Full size 0347 kB | Date: 23 Sep 2002 | Matt Tiscareno discusses scabland formation and wake-vortex scouring. |
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![]() | Large version 0283 kB | Full size 0384 kB | Date: 24 Sep 2002 | The Ephrata boulder. People for scale. |
![]() | Large version 0268 kB | Full size 0381 kB | Date: 24 Sep 2002 | Take away the brush, the people, the cars, the road, and 99% of the atmosphere, and we'll have something that looks like the Mars Pathfinder site. |
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![]() | Large version 0270 kB | Full size 0379 kB | Date: 25 Sep 2002 | Jason and Ross discuss cameras. (Mine is better than theirs.) |
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![]() | Large version 0032 kB | Full size 0363 kB | Date: 25 Sep 2002 | A tender moment among the faculty.... |
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Mosaics
| West Bar | ![]() | Large version 1197 kB | Full size 1604 kB |
| Frenchman Coulee | ![]() | Large version 601 kB | Full size 2552 kB |
| Dry Falls | ![]() | Large version 536 kB | Full size 2494 kB |
| Amphitheater Crater | ![]() | Large version 708 kB | Full size 2919 kB |
| Ephrata Fan | ![]() | Large version 290 kB | Full size 2349 kB |
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Author: Peter Lanagan (planagan@lpl.arizona.edu)
Last updated: 29 Oct 2002