Introduction As I hiked up to the tallest point in my field area, I looked to the south in awe, observing thousands of feet of sedimentary rocks that make up the Swauk Formation. And as I turned to the north, I tilted my head up to see the very top of the even higher mountains, […]
Kellie Wall is a second-year graduate student at Oregon State University working toward her PhD in geology. The daughter of a rock collector and a master rock wall stacker, Kellie has the rock gene in her blood—though it took a college science class to activate it! Abandoning initial career plans, she pursued an undergraduate […]
The rugged and heavily glaciated Cascade Range stretches from northern California through Oregon, Washington and into southern British Columbia. The Cascades are the result of millions of years of collisions, uplift, and volcanic activity. Lassen Peak and Mt. St. Helens were the only volcanoes to erupt during the 20th century with major eruptions in 1915 […]
