Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Announcing a geology guest lecture...

next week:

"An Iceberg Graveyard: Ice Age Flood Deposits of the Vantage, Washington Area"

Tuesday, 6 October, at 6:30 pm in SCI 137

Presented by: Ryan Karlson, Interpretive Program Manager, Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission

The lecture will detail how the Ice Age floods impacted the Vantage Reach located between Frenchman Coulee and Sentinel Gap within the Columbia River Valley. This one-hour presentation will focus on extensive field research of ice-rafted erratics and other flood deposits along the northwest margin of Lake Lewis within modern day Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park.

The event, sponsored by the Cheney-Spokane Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute, is free and open to the public.

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