Who can possibly resist...

peering into a freshly excavated hole? Certainly not a geologist!

While running errands around town yesterday I noticed these enormous sub-rounded basalt boulders piled adjacent to a stormwater retention basin for a new subdivision in Cheney, Washington (click to enlarge):

These gigantic clasts were likely saltating particles in the Missoula outburst floods that swept across eastern Washington, scouring the Channeled Scablands, at the end of the Pleistocene.  Here's a better indication of scale:

Don't fall into...

the largest holes on Earth. Mostly pictures with some descriptions - keep scrolling.

First rule of holes: if you find yourself in one, stop digging.