Northwest Exposures: A Geologic Story of the Northwest
Table of Contents
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Part 1. Back in the Precambrian
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1
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Chapter 1: The Old Continent
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3
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Chapter 2: Basement Rocks
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5
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Chapter 3: The Belt Sedimentary Basin
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13
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Chapter 4: The Great Continental Rift
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25
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Part 2. Paleozoic Time
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29
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Chapter 5: Early Paleozoic Time
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31
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Chapter 6: The Phantom Antler Mountains
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39
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Chapter 7: Late Paleozoic Time
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41
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Part 3. Mesozoic Time, The First Half
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51
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Chapter 8: Mesozoic Time Begins
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53
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Chapter 9: Plates Separate and Collide
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59
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Chapter 10: Folds and Granite: The Kootenay Arc
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67
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Chapter 11: New Mountains along an Old Coast
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71
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Part 4. Adding Pieces to the Collage
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77
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Chapter 12: Landing the Intermountain Terranes
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79
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Chapter 13: The Seven Devils and the Blue and Wallowa Mountains
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85
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Chapter 14: The Old Continental Margin
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91
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Chapter 15: The North Cascades Collage
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95
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Chapter 16: The Insular Terrane Arrives
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105
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Chapter 17: Northern California Takes Shape
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109
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Part 5. The Northern Rocky Mountains
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115
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Chapter 18: The Idaho Batholith
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117
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Chapter 19: The Early Mountains Collapse
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123
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Chapter 20: The Overthrust Belt
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135
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Part 6. The Late Cretaceous World, and Its Horrible End
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141
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Chapter 21: The Late Cretaceous World
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143
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Chapter 22: The Great Crash of 65 Million Years Ago
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151
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Part 7. Early and Middle Tertiary Time
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159
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Chapter 23: Tertiary Time Dawns
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161
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Chapter 24: More Terranes
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167
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Chapter 25: Core Complexes
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175
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Chapter 26: An Eocene Volcanic Chain
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183
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Chapter 27: Andesite, Rhyolite, and Granite
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187
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Chapter 28: Peculiar Igneous Rocks in Central Montana
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197
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Chapter 29: A New Generation of Mountains
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207
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Chapter 30: The Coastal Hills
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215
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Chapter 31: The Western Cascades
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221
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Chapter 32: The First Long Dry Spell
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227
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Part 8. Late Tertiary Time
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233
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Chapter 33: Horrible Catastrophe in Southeastern Oregon
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235
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Chapter 34: Floods of Basalt
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241
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Chapter 35: The Climatic Side Effects
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255
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Chapter 36: The Basin and Range
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261
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Chapter 37: The Snake River Plain
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267
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Chapter 38: The Yellowstone Volcano
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277
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Chapter 39: Folds and Faults in the Columbia Plateau
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283
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Chapter 40: The Olympic Mountains
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289
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Chapter 41: The Sheared Western Fringe
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295
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Chapter 42: The Second Long Dry Spell
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299
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Chapter 43: The High Cascades
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307
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Part 9. Pleistocene Time
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325
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Chapter 44: Ice Ages Come and Go
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327
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Chapter 45: The Modern Streams Begin to Flow
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333
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Chapter 46: The Many Landscapes of the High Plains
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345
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Chapter 47: Mountain Glaciers
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351
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Chapter 48: The Glaciated Northern Plains
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357
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Chapter 49: The Western Regional Ice
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361
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Chapter 50: Lake Bonneville and the Great Lake Bonneville Flood
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375
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Chapter 51: Glacial Lake Missoula Floods
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381
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Chapter 52: The Coast
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391
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Chapter 53: Epilogue
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403
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Glossary
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409
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Reading
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415
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Index
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429
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About the Authors
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443
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