Ancient places: people and landscape in the emerging Northwest

Map of Greater Northwest

Geologic time table

1. Chasing the Electric Fluid : Light and sound at our planet's geomagnetic frontier

2. Meltdown : Reliving the Northwest's Genesis story

3. The Longest Journey : the Willamette Meteorite sails across the universe

4. Biscuits : Tracking cultural identity through a diverse group of edible roots

5. A Possible Friend : what a casual collector learned from three traditional Plateau families

6. Riding the High Wire : How rocks created a valley, and the valley recreated the rocks

7. From Clay to Clay : Digging into the lore of a craftsman who worked in clay

8. Sisters : the beautiful disorder of ants

9. The Whole Bag of Crayons : a mother lode of Eocene leaf fossils teaches an artist how to share

10. Visited by an Earthquake : Changes in the perception of an 1872 trembler

Coda: Skate Away : Skating the geology of the Intermountain West.