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Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887
Members of the Palouse Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute were joined by visitors from across the state and Oregon and Idaho for a tour of the Cheney-Palouse Scabland Tract May 15. Pictured, from left, are chapter president Lloyd Stoess; Morea Shofield, who presented on Deciphering the Sprague Fracture Zone; and co-leader of the tour, EWU Geology student Chelsi Howard. Chad Pritchard, EWU Geology Department Chair, is seen in front, demonstrating fracture zones for the crowd. Pritchard was also a co-leader of the tour.
The Palouse Falls Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute led a car caravan tour of the middle/western part of the Cheney-Palouse Scabland Tract on Saturday May 15th.
Thirty-two people participated, including some from Portland Ore., Hayden Idaho, and Sequim and Port Townsend. Leaders were chapter President Lloyd Stoess and Vice-President Jacqui Hair; EWU professor of geology Chad Pritchard; and EWU student Morea Schofield.
Led from Ritzville City Park, the group headed east on historic Highway 10 to Sprague. Between Sprague and Lamont, Schofield gave a presentation on her studies of the Sprag...
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