Tag: Geology
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Orrin Pilkey ’57—A climate change provocateur
Spring 2012
In August 1969, Hurricane Camille slammed into Mississippi with
winds of nearly 200 miles an hour. The storm blew many things far and
wide, including the career track of coastal geologist Orrin Pilkey
’57. Up to that point, Pilkey had...
Categories: Earth sciences, Alumni
Tags: Climate change, Geology, Ocean, Beach
A Fine Thin Skin—wind, water, volcanoes, and ice
Fall 2011
Different as they seem, the soils of Eastern and Western Washington have
one thing in common. They come—either by water, wind, or ice—generally
from elsewhere. And what takes eons to form can be covered over or erode
away in a geologic heartbeat.
Categories: Agriculture, Earth sciences
Tags: Geology, Soil, Agronomy
Safer skies
Fall 2009
When Alaska’s Mount
Redoubt volcano rumbled to life this past spring, images of the plume
of ash rising from it probably revived terrifying memories among 240
people who survived its last eruption in 1989. They’d been passengers on KLM flight ...
Categories: Earth sciences
Tags: Geology, Volcanoes
Gateway to Rodinia
Winter 2008
A cantaloupe-sized chunk of granite from the other side of
the world has revealed that nearly a billion years ago, the Palouse
was "ground zero" when a supercontinent called Rodinia broke
up.
"This was the edge of the continent," says Washington ...
Categories: Earth sciences
Tags: Geology, Rodinia, Supercontinents
An Exquisite Scar
Fall 2004
The beauty of the channeled scablands comes from unimaginable catastrophe.
Categories: Geography, Earth sciences
Tags: Geology, Palouse, Channeled Scablands