Willamette Valley Geology Online Resources

Last Saturday I presented for a workshop on Willamette Valley Geology for the Oregon Master Naturalist Program (henceforth OMN), an outreach program by Oregon State University. I'm now switched over to my new (to me) rebuilt computer, and while I'm not very accustomed to it yet, browsing and reading is definitely going faster than on my old machine, and it looks like I'll have more time to blog.

One of the components I was requested to submit was a list of online resources, and there's no doubt in my mind that first among those are posts by our wealth of PNW geobloggers, so that makes up the bulk of this list. Note this is not organized by topic, but primarily by blog and the order in which I found them.

In other notes, I'm initiating a label for OMN, to indicate topics that may be of interest to that group- I'll be primarily focused on earth sciences, but will likely include broader science topics dealing with Oregon's fabulous natural history.

Uncovered Earth (Michael Klaas, Portland, Oregon) http://uncoveredearth.com/

• Silver Creek Falls http://uncoveredearth.com/2012/03/06/take-a-hike-silver-falls-state-park/
• Fossils in CCC building at Silver Creek Falls http://uncoveredearth.com/2011/09/27/where-the-mundane-is-anything-but/
• Geo History of Sullivan's Gulch & Alameda Ridge, Portland http://uncoveredearth.com/2011/10/06/a-geological-history-of-sullivans-gulch/
• Picturing Columbia River Basalt Eruptions http://uncoveredearth.com/2011/10/04/hawaiian-fissure-eruptions-then-now/
• From this post http://uncoveredearth.com/2011/09/26/geek-art-lidar-nice-enough-to-frame/ , a LIDAR image of Willamette channel meandering near Corvallis (Older channels are darker blue, current channel darkest) http://www.oregongeology.org/pubs/ll/p-posters.htm#Willamette
• Run-down of PNW Geobloggers http://uncoveredearth.com/2011/09/05/geoblogging-the-northwest/

En Tquila Es Verdad (Dana Hunter, Seattle area) http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaesverdad/

• Learning from Lockwood (a very flattering post that made me blush) http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaesverdad/2012/07/23/learning-from-lockwood/
• Fun photo of Dana and me at Erratic Rock Wayside http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaesverdad/2012/07/10/im-back-feeling-a-bit-erratic/
• Our visit to Silver Falls in March http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaesverdad/2012/03/15/the-scenes-we-saw-day-four/

Got The Time (Aaron Barth, recently moved to Eugene, Oregon, just moved from VA) http://iapetancaptain.wordpress.com/

• McKenzie Crossing http://iapetancaptain.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/mckenzie-crossing/
• Skinner's Butte http://iapetancaptain.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/skinners-butte/

Outside The Inerzone (Lockwood DeWitt, Corvallis, Oregon) http://outsidetheinterzone.blogspot.com/

• Gold in Oregon (Not much, but more than most realize.) http://outsidetheinterzone.blogspot.com/2011/04/adoregon.html
• I Slept Through the Big One http://outsidetheinterzone.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-slept-through-big-one.html
• Reverberations of the (Tohoku) quake in the PNW, partway down this post: http://outsidetheinterzone.blogspot.com/2011/03/cobbles-and-gravel.html
• Lotsa Water http://outsidetheinterzone.blogspot.com/2011/01/lotsa-water.html
• Being Careful What I Wish For http://outsidetheinterzone.blogspot.com/2010/12/being-careful-what-i-wish-for.html
• The Geo Biz http://outsidetheinterzone.blogspot.com/2010/10/geo-biz.html
• Show me your sidewalk http://outsidetheinterzone.blogspot.com/2009/06/late-week-geo-meme-show-me-your.html
• The Great Flood http://outsidetheinterzone.blogspot.com/2009/08/great-flood.html

Fluvial (stream) Geomorphology (landforms)

• General overview of "mature" stream landforms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meandering_river#Associated_landforms
• Nice clear introduction to fluvial geomorphology http://www.scienceclarified.com/landforms/Ocean-Basins-to-Volcanoes/Stream-and-River.html
• Source for Willamette Valley stratgraphic columns and cross section: www.wou.edu/las/physci/.../willamette_geo_field_guide.pdf
• Source for images of meandering stream, oxbow formation: http://www.sci.uidaho.edu/scripter/geog100/lect/11-rivers/11-rivers.htm

New things- posted or found since the above were submitted in August:

• http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20120909/OUTDOORS/309090058/1103
• http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/rosetta-stones/2012/08/29/how-would-you-like-to-take-a-hike-across-a-geologic-diagram/ (Dana Hunter's other blog- she started with Sci Am fairly recently)
• http://www.flashearth.com/
• Natrolite http://www.sandatlas.org/2012/03/natrolite/