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The name "Cascadia" was first applied to the whole geologic region by Bates McKee in his 1972 geology textbook Cascadia; the geologic evolution of the Pacific Northwest. Later the name was adopted by David McCloskey, a Seattle University sociology professor, to describe it as a bioregion. McCloskey describes Cascadia as "a land of falling waters."
The Pacific Northwest from outer space.. The Pacific Northwest (PNW; French: Nord-Ouest Pacifique), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in Western North America bounded by its coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains to the east.
English: A map showing the two definitions of the proposed "Republic of Cascadia." Green shows the American states of Oregon and Washington; and the Canadian province of British Columbia (which make up the standard definition). The black-dotted line marks the border of the Cascadia bioregion (which is also mentioned as a border).
Ross was the first European-American to explore the Methow River area and likely the first to explore the Stehekin River and Bridge Creek region. Due to the difficulty of crossing the northern Cascades and the paucity of beaver, fur-trading companies made only a few explorations into the mountains north of the Columbia River after Ross.
Back in North America, in 1700, a 9.0 earthquake and monster tsunami rocked the Cascadia region, an area that stretches along what would become Western Washington, Oregon and northern California ...
English: Map of the proposed Cascadia region, on a map of North America. This is a retouched picture , which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Colored in the states of Oregon and Washington and province of British Columbia .
The region is sometimes referred to as Cascadia, which, depending on the borders, may or may not be the same thing as the Pacific Northwest. The region's largest metropolitan areas are Greater Seattle , Washington, with 4 million people; Metro Vancouver , British Columbia, with 2.84 million people; and Greater Portland , Oregon, with 2.5 ...
Chadwick is a research professor with Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center.. He said that the region sits atop a plate boundary where the Earth's tectonic plates are spreading ...