Would you like to take part in a field trip?
AEG Washington will not be hosting a field trip this season, but check out what's happening over at Friends of the Pleistocene!
The 2012 Joint Pacific Northwest/Rocky Mountain Friends of the Pleistocene field trip will visit the spectacular Owyhee Canyon volcanic region of southeastern Oregon on August 23-26, 2012. Participants will examine the geomorphic impacts of channel-encroaching lava flows and landslides that potentially play a significant role in creating and maintaining the landscapes of uplifted volcanic terranes throughout the western U.S. Over the last 2 Ma, numerous lava flows and landslides have entered the canyon of the Owyhee River in southeastern Oregon, dramatically and repeatedly altering the river’s course and profile.
Field trip participants will visit the Cenozoic lava dams and landslides along the eastern rim of the Owyhee Canyon, ponder the unusually extensive and persistent landslide and earth-flow complexes at The Hole in the Ground, and explore the Holocene Coffee Pot crater and lava lake in the Jordan Craters area. The trip will include moderately strenuous hiking into the Owyhee canyon to the most recent Pleistocene West Crater lava dam and associated lacustrine deposits.
For more info about the trip, enticing photographs, and registration go to https://sites.google.com/site/owyheefop/.
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