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Pages in category "Landforms of Washington (state)" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
Glacial erratic boulders of King County are large glacial erratic boulders of rock which were moved into King County, Washington by glacial action during previous ice ages.. The Pleistocene ice age glaciation of Puget Sound created many of the geographical features of the region, including Puget Sound itself, [1] and the erratics are one of the remnants of that age. [2]
The soil of Seattle, the state's largest city, is approximately 80% glacial drift, most of which is Vashon glacial deposits , [7] and nearly all of the city's major named hills are characterized as drumlins (Beacon Hill, First Hill, Capitol Hill, Queen Anne Hill) or drift uplands (Magnolia, West Seattle).
The Channeled Scablands are a relatively barren and soil-free region of interconnected relict and dry flood channels, coulees and cataracts eroded into Palouse loess and the typically flat-lying basalt flows that remain after cataclysmic floods within the southeastern part of Washington state.
Mountains of Washington (state) by county (29 C, 1 P) ... Landforms of Clallam County, Washington (3 C, 25 P) Landforms of Clark County, Washington (2 C, 4 P)
Federal, state The most illustrative examples of glacial erratics in the United States. Davis Canyon: 1986: Okanogan: State, private One of the largest and least disturbed examples of antelope bitterbrush-Idaho fescue shrub steppe remaining in the Columbia Plateau.
The Big Lava Bed, located in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in the southwestern area of the State of Washington, originated from a 500-foot-deep crater in the northern center of the bed. The Big Lava Bed is the youngest feature of the Indian Heaven volcanic field. The 0.9-cubic kilometer lava flow erupted from the cinder cone about 8200 ...
Petroglyphs in Washington (state) (6 P) Pages in category "Rock formations of Washington (state)" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.