Delving into Deep Time in the Spokane Area
/On this trip, GSOC participants got to view some sedimentary, metamorphic and very very old rocks; a bit of a departure from our normal field trip fare. For this, we had to journey some 300-400 miles ENE from Portland to the NE Washington/Idaho panhandle border country. Our guide in this exceptional country was Dr. Chad Pritchard from Eastern Washington University in Cheney, WA. Dr. Pritchard was one of the co-chairs of the 2024 Cordilleran Section Conference of the GSA in Spokane, and two of the field trip guides found in the GSA field trip guide #69 from that conference were instrumental in planning this field trip for GSOC. He also co-authored the book Washington Rocks! which was the source of several of the other trip stops.
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