Volcanic Sightings

It was a day of visionary beauty. From fog-shrouded rainbows to sunswept, rugged hills, to an ethereal mountain forest laced with cascading waterfalls and blanketed in falling snow and mist. Azaleas in full bloom south of Seattle, wisteria budding on the arbor outside our motel.

Hours in the car: 9
Miles traveled: 840-something
Children who got into the backroom walk-in cooler in a convenience store: 1
Cranky, overtired people at the end of the day: 6

We drove past the foot of a rainbow on the Moyie River today.

Here's an article describing where we were and what we saw today. As for yesterday's sodium sulphate mines, that was Chaplin, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Images of formations we saw:
Volcanic breccia (we drove past giant ones!)
Andesite
Tuffs
Block lava
Basalt colonnades--these are incredible.


Cool links:
The Volcanism Blog
Tieton Volcano (article with technical names of the rock formations)
Wenatchee National Forest
Igneous Cooling Rates and the Age of the Earth