Most of the pages below are given in order of the physical field trip that you can take, mostly in one day. However, the topics after the return trip cover geological similarities between Earth and Mars that are not specifically related to the field trip. While following the field trip, you may segue into some of these other topics. Simply use your browser's "Go Back" arrow to return to the place you left the field trip.
- (1) Overview and Geological History
- (2) Spokane to Davenport:
Basalt, Buttes and Channeled Scablands
- Columbia Plateau Basalt (and pillow basalt)
- (2a) Spokane to Davenport, pg. 2 Basalt, Buttes and Channeled Scablands & Giant Floods
- (3)Davenport to Odessa: Channels, Pillows and Giant Ripples
- (4) Odessa to Pinto Ridge: Gravel Bars and Buttes Along Crab Creek
- (5) Pinto Ridge to Coulee City: Pinto Ridge, Lower Grand Coulee and Banks Lake
- (6) Coulee City to Grand Coulee: Lower Grand Coulee, Talus Slopes and Steamboat Rock
- (6a) Coulee City to Grand Coulee: Lower Grand Coulee, Talus Slopes and Steamboat Rock (continued)
- (7) Grand Coulee Dam:
Grand Coulee Dam and Roosevelt Lake
- More about Grand Coulee Dam
- (8) Grand Coulee Dam to Dry Falls: Crown Point Vista, Haystack Rocks and Lakebeds
- (8a) Grand Coulee Dam to Dry Falls: Crown Point Vista, Haystack Rocks and Lakebeds (continued)
- (9) Dry Falls and Lenore Caves Sheer Drops, Sculpted Islands and Cliff Caves
- (9a) Dry Falls and Lenore Caves, pg.2
Lakes and Lakebeds
Comparison to Ares Vallis Flood Plain- See Floods below
- (10) Soap Lake:
Flood Plains on Earth and Mars
Comparison to Ares Vallis Flood Plain- See Mars Pathfinder below
- (10a) Soap Lake, pg.2 (continued) Flood Plains on Earth and Mars
- (11) Soap Lake to Moses Lake:
Sand Dunes
- Sand Dunes and Martian Winds: Types of Sand Dunes
- (12) Moses Lake To Ritzville:
Loess-Covered Basalt Islands
- See Loess below
- (13) Ritzville to Spokane:
Fault Lines and Earthquakes
- Earthquakes
- (14) Ritzville to Palouse Falls:
Ice Age Plunge Pool & Palouse Falls
(this segue may be a trip for another day)
Read More About It:
- Dust Devils: Stirring Up Dust & Dust Devils on Mars
- Earthquakes: See also the Kid's Field Trip to Mars for more on Earthquakes
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Floods:
Evidence of Great Floods
- Loess
- Lakes
- Glaciers
- Glacial Lake Missoula
- See also the Kid's Field Trip to Mars for more on Floodplains
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Volcanoes (page 1) (page 2)
- Volcanoes Types
- Cascade Volcanoes
- Mt. St. Helens: page 1, page 2, page 3
- Resources, Books, Credits & Bibliography
Kids' Cosmos… Expanding Minds Beyond the Limits of the Universe
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