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GSA2017 Field trip to the Palouse Hills begins! Participants gather
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GSA field trip day 1 - The story begins at the Wallula Gap
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GSA field trip day 1 - learning the loess story
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GSA field trip day 1 - sediment dike
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GSA field trip day 1 - sediment dike
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GSA field trip day 1 - sediment dike with horizontal layers
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GSA field trip day 1 - looking at Mt. St. Helens tephra layer
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GSA field trip day 1 - parabolic blow-out dune
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GSA field trip day 1 - Top of the parabolic dune
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GSA field trip day 1 - blowout region of the parabolic dune
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GSA field trip day 1 - top of the parabolic dune
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GSA field trip day 1 - parked tractor
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GSA field trip - End of Day 1
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GSA field trip day 2 - gathering at hotel in Walla Walla
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GSA field trip day 2 - looking at soil layers
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GSA Palouse Hill field trip - Ancient sand sheet beneath loess deposit
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GSA field trip day 2 - Megaflood deposits
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GSA field trip day 2 - Megaflood sediments indicated
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GSA field trip day 2 - complex stratigraphy
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GSA field trip day 2 - Megaflood deposit movements
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GSA field trip day 2 - Flame structures in megaflood deposits
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GSA field trip day 2 - where megaflood hits bedrock
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GSA field trip day 2 - lunch at Palouse Falls
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GSA field trip day 2 - lunch stop at Palouse Falls, basalt outcrop detail
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GSA Field trip Day 2 - trenched and labelled roadcut detail
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GSA Field trip Day 2 - trenched and labelled road cut
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GSA field trip day 2 - wind-scoured face
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GSA field trip day 3 - flagged and labelled roadcut
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GSA field trip day 3 - View up a coulee
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GSA field trip day 3 - Home in the coulee