Friday, October 23, 2009

Now what should I do for my finals paper?

I’m in the beginning stages of putting together my final in Geol 102. I have a few ideas in mind. One is an angular up lift that I found on the S.E side of NF 90 about 4 miles short of Lower Falls in the St. Helens area. This will require a lot of ground work on my part, as I cannot find any data pertaining to this. I believe it to be well weathered and eroded Basalt, so maybe I can get some help on the dating to start out. What you see is only about 20 ft.of the right side. The fractures level out and become nonexistent on left as it continues for another 50 or 60 ft.




The other is of mass wasting. A huge landslide I found about 15 miles south of St. Helens on NF 54. It involved the entire side of the mountain. I should be able to obtain some data from USFS on the slide. That should help.



The above picture is taken from the river bed looking up.


A view from top. You can't even see the trees in the 1st picture.

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