JULY 1998 FIELD TRIP REVIEW
- Date: July 11, 1998
- Guest Speaker: Ken Cameron, DEQ, formerly USGS
- Topic: "The Buried Forests of Mt. Hood"
- Location: Old Maids Flat and Clear Fork of the Sandy River, near Zigzag, Oregon, and the upper White River Canyon near Timberline Lodge
- Reference Article: Cameron, Kenneth A., and Pringle, Patrick T., "Prehistoric Buried Forests of Mount Hood", Oregon Geology, March 1991
The GSOC crowd gets the briefing from Ken at Old Maids Flat.
One of many snags we saw in Lost Creek.
More snags in the creek.
This is the ash layer deposited by the pyroclastic flow.
Evelyn Pratt and Carol Cole (now deceased) listen attentively while Ken describes how you can date rocks by measuring the size of certain lichen patches.
One of the larger snags coming up out of the ash layer in the forest.
A tree well in the forest.
On Mount Hood, we saw this magnificent volcanic bomb with the typical radial cracking pattern.
Ken explains about the interaction between glaciation and volcanic activity on Mount Hood.
Glacial striations on a boulder on Mount Hood.