Roadside Geology of Parts of Walla Walla, Franklin, and Columbia Counties, Washington

Robert J. Carson and Kevin R. Pogue

Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geology and Earth Resources: January 1996

This field trip guide covers the geology of some of the areas affected by two catastrophic events: enormous basaltic lava flows of about 17 million years ago and giant glacier outburst floods from about 15,300 years ago.

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