Driving across the state of Oregon takes a few hours, but on that drive, you can witness millions of years of geology unfold outside your car window. The spectacular snow-capped volcanoes of the ...

PORT TOWNSEND — In “Assembling the Pacific Northwest,” geology professor Ralph Dawes will take listeners back 200 million years, when the West Coast was located at Spokane, at the edge of the “craton” ...

Off and on over the next eight months, airplanes will be flying low over Northwest Arkansas. But this isn't a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, so there's no reason to rush to the ...

CROOKSTON, Minn. — A low-flying airplane will soon be visible to residents in seven counties in northwest Minnesota, including the city of Thief River Falls and parts of the Red River corridor along ...

For many people, the "King" Columbia River begins and ends with the Grand Coulee Dam, the iconic 1930s project that produces cheap hydroelectric power to fuel homes, heavy industry and harnesses water ...

Making and shaping the Columbia Basin. Columbia River basalt lava flows ; Inside a basalt flow ; Pillow lavas ; What good is Columbia River basalt? ; Lewis and Clark meet Columbia River basalt ; ...

The 14-mile Northwest Lancaster County River Trail along the Susquehanna River has been tremendously popular since it opened in 2014. And for good reason. It’s a beautiful path along the river with ...

History of faulting in the eastern Uinta Mountains, Colorado and Utah / Wallace R. Hansen -- Seismic and borehole evidence for important pre-Laramide faulting along the axial arch in northwest ...

Multiple teams of earthquake researchers are looking in what may seem like an unlikely place to figure out how strongly the Pacific Northwest shook during great quakes in the past. They're poking ...