September 2000 Ice Age Floods - President's Field Trip Review

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September 2000 Ice Age Floods - President's Field Trip Review

Date: September 2-9, 2000

Location: Columbia River Gorge, eastern Washington State, Idaho, Montana

GSOC President: Ray Crowe

GSOC Field Trip Director: Taylor Hunt

Guides: Richard B. Waitt, USGS

Eugene P. Kiver and Dale F. Stradling, Eastern Washington University
John H. Whitmer

Reviewer: various

Objective: View Ice Age Floods and related features

Persons attending the field trip:

Mildred Bennett
Stanley Bennett
Cecelia Creater
Dana Diller
Duane Diller
Donald Gedney
Margaret Giddings
Barbara Halverson
M. L. Henning
Helen Hiczon
Charlene Holzwarth

Jean Hunt
Taylor Hunt
Esther Kennedy
Rosemary Kenney
Elizabeth King
John King
L. D. McCroskey
Fran Pearson
Evelyn Pratt
John Pratt
Ralph Pratt

Gale Rankin
Archie Strong
Dorothy Taccogna
Phyllis Thorne
Louise Tolle
Elaine Weinberg
John Whitmer
Judy Whitmer
Kenneth Yost

Here are some photos of the trip from Phyllis Thorne:


Grand Coulee	Dry Falls


"The north wall of the big flood-scoured bowl into which Palouse Falls plunges"	"Maryhill Museum taken from the east side"


"Rhythmites that were laid down when Missoula Floods backflooded up Tucannon Valley"	"The channel eroded through granite/gneiss rocks below Post Falls, in a state park of the same name a bit east of Spokane"


Twin Sisters Butte	Palouse Falls