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NEWEST READINGS:

Northwest Geology Field Trips. 2011. Sequim mammoth believed killed by humans. retrieved from http://nwgeology.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/sequim-mammoth-believed-killed-by-humans/

University of Copenhagen (2011, October 20). First North American hunters 1,000 years earlier than previously thought, speared mastodon fossil shows. ScienceDaily. Retrieved October 31, 2011, from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111020145054.htm

 

PAST SUGGESTED READINGS:

Barry, T.L., S. Self, S.P. Kelley, S. Reidel, P. Hooper, M. Widdowson. New 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Grande Ronde lavas, Columbia River Basalts, USA: Implications for duration of flood basalt eruption episode. Lithos, 2010; DOI: 110.1016/j.lithos.2010.03.014

Bjornerud, Marcia, Reading the Rocks: An Autobiography of the Earth, Cambridge: Westview Press. ISBN: 081334249X

Carrapa, B. 2010. Resolving tectonic problems by dating detrital minerals. Geology. vol 38(2). p. 191-192. retrieved from http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/38/2/191.full.

Doughton, S. 2010. UW's geological map project struggles to survive. Seattle Times. 9 April. retrieved from http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011562107_geomap09m.html.

EMBAERGOED. 2011. Scripps Researchers Discover New Force Driving Earth's Tectonic Plates. retrieved from http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu/Releases/?releaseID=1178 on 1 September 2011.

Johnson, D.J., A. A. Eggers, M. Bagnardi, M.Battaglia, M. P. Poland, and A. Miklius, 2010, Shallow magma accumulation at Klauea Volcano, Hawai‘i, revealed by microgravity surveys, Geology vol. 38(12).

Lord, N. 2011, Early Warming: Crisis and Response in the Climate-Changed North, Counter Press.

Stanley, D., A. Villaseñor, and H. Benz. 1999. Subduction zone and crustal dynamics of western Washington: a tectonic model for earthquake hazards evaluation, U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 99-311. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1999/ofr-99-0311/.

Tucker, D. The Lake Stevens monster - largest erratic in Washington. Largest in the U.S.? retrieved from http://nwgeology.wordpress.com/the-fieldtrips/glacial-erratic-field-trips/the-lake-stevens-monster-largest-erratic-in-washington-largest-in-the-us/.

U.S. Geological Survey. 2010. Facing Tomorrow's Challenges - U.S. Geological Survey Science in the Decade 2007-2010. USGS Circular 1306. http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/2007/1309/

Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources. 2010. Geologic Maps of Washing-ton. 21 March. retrieved from http://www.dnr.wa.gov/Publications/ger_geologic_maps_wa.pdf.

Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources. 2010. Geologic Maps of Washing-ton. 21 March. retrieved from http://www.dnr.wa.gov/Publications/

Washington State University (2010, April 7). Northwest lava flows could have altered Earth’s climate, wiped out species, new evidence suggests. ScienceDaily. Retrieved April 7, 2010, from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100406142602.htm 

Williams, D.B. (2010, March 27). Estella Leopold (b. 1927). HistoryLink. Retrieved April 7, 2010, from http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9378