Essays Tagged: "Columbia Plateau"

Volcanos: types, formation, elements, activity in different parts of the worl

lava. In India, the Deccan basalts cover 260,000 square kilometers, and in Oregonand Washington the Columbia Plateau basalts cover approximately 130,000 squarekilometers. No eruptions of this extent h ...

(5 pages) 137 0 4.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography

Colville Indians tribes. The PNW pacific northwest indian tribe. describes it's resources and colville in general

ds held in federal trust status for the Confederated Tribes. The vast desert land is located in the Columbia Plateau.The Colville Indians have accomplished many things; some of which are below.*1872- ... oil, the Lake, the Palus, the Wenatchi, the Chelan, the Entiat, the Methow, the Okanogan, the Moses Columbia, and the Nez Perce. Prior to the influx of Canadians and Europeans in the mid 1850's, the a ...

(2 pages) 44 0 3.5 Mar/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

A short report on the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens. All vital facts and a bibliography included.

Evarts, Pringle, and Vance, 1989, IGC Field Trip T106: Cenozoic Volcanism in the Cascade Range and Columbia Plateau, Southern Washington and Northernmost Oregon: American Geophysical Union Field Trip ... Evarts, Pringle, and Vance, 1989, IGC Field Trip T106: Cenozoic Volcanism in the Cascade Range and Columbia Plateau, Southern Washington and Northernmost Oregon: American Geophysical Union Field Trip ...

(3 pages) 67 1 4.8 Dec/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences

Palouse Falls

of the lake, swept across northern Idaho into eastern Washington, then rushed southwest across the Columbia Plateau, and split at a bluff--part of the flood traveled east but the main thrust traveled ... ly over millions of years producing layer after layer of basalt stacked in a vertical sequence. The Columbia River Flood Basalts in Washington, Oregon and Idaho are an example of extensive flood basal ...

(2 pages) 3 0 0.0 Oct/2011

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays