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FUDGE4 Andrew FOUNTAIN2 1North Cascades National Park Sedro-Woolley WA USA 2Department of Geology Portland State University Portland OR USA 3Olympic National Park Port Angeles WA USA 4Department of Earth and Space. The 7980-foot summit of Mount Olympus you can see the pacific ocean that stretchess 33 miles west.
Olympic National Park was formed when the Juan de Fuca Plate moved below the North American Plate.
Olympic national park geology. There is a Geology of the Olympic National Park on the USGS website. It contains interesting information including links at the bottom of the page. The link titled Geology field trip shows locations of geological interest.
Additionally the following websites provide much more information on Geology. A visit to them will be worthwhile. Olympic National Park is a part of the Pacific Border Physiographic Province and shares its geologic history and some characteristic geologic formations with a region that extends well beyond park boundaries.
This park was formed by the movement of an oceanic plate below a continental plate. This process termed subduction occurs at a converging plate boundary. Olympic National Park was formed when the Juan de Fuca Plate moved below the North American Plate.
The mountains riversforest and coast are the main landforms found in Olympic National Park. The Olympic Mountains at the extreme north-west corner of the conterminous United States are a unique part of the coast ranges. The 7980-foot summit of Mount Olympus you can see the pacific ocean that stretchess 33 miles west.
Ecology of Olympic National Park. A map of Olympic National Park. National Park Service Map of Olympic National Park.
Public domain To learn more about Olympic National Park visit the National Park. Within Olympic National Park certain conditions allow certain species to be more prevalent than others. West Side wetter conditions - Silver fir and Western hemlock East Side drier conditions - Silver fir only on cooler north-facing slopes.
Geological History of Olympic National Park With an area so diverse as Olympic National Park where on earth do you start. Olympic National Park has got just about everything going. Its got mountains its got lakes its got a beautiful coastline its got rain forest.
Olympic National Park has a wealth of geological formations including rocky islets along the coast formed by a continuously receding and changing coastline deep canyons and valleys formed by erosion and craggy peaks and beautiful cirques sculpted by glaciation. The geologic story of the Olympic is somewhat shorter and less dramatic than for most of the national parks. The rocks of the Olympic are almost all young–less than 40 million years.
Again please bear with uswe will justify these numbers before the course ends Before that the coastline must have been farther to the east perhaps in North Cascades National Park and before that even farther east. The information on the theory of plate tectonics and how the Olympic Peninsula was formed was from the very readable Geology of Olympic National Park by Rowland W. Tabor published by the University of Washington Press in 1975.
The frightening quote on a Cascadia subduction zone earthquake is from the article The Really Big One By. The Olympic Mountains are composed of obducted clastic wedge material and oceanic crust primarily Eocene sandstone turbidite and basaltic oceanic crust. The mountains were sculpted during the Pleistocene era by erosion and glaciers advancing and retreating multiple times.
Geologic Resources Inventory Digital Geologic-GIS Map of Olympic National Park and Vicinity Washington. ArcGIS 10x ArcMap document mxd file. Relative paths set to data in 10x file geodatabase olym_geologygdb within the same folder as.
Olympic National Park has got just about everything going. Its got mountains its got lakes its got a beautiful coastline its got rain forest. Probably best just to look at the geology of Olympic National Park in sections.
More current news and information on the Olympic National Park Facebook page. Mountains of Olympic. The Digital Geologic-GIS Map of Olympic National Park and Vicinity Washington is composed of GIS data layers and GIS tables and is available in the following GRI-supported GIS data formats.
1 a 101 file geodatabase olym_geologygdb a 2 Open. Exactly in the middle of the Olympic National Park are the Olympic Mountains located whose slopes are filled with huge ancient glaciers. The geologic composition of the mountains is a mixture of oceanic rocks and basaltic.
On the western side of the chain is situated Mount Olympus which rises to 2428 meters. Partnership Projects in Olympic National Park. 2002 - Persistent Organic Pollution and Heavy Metals in Glacial Fed Lakes and Aquatic Biota multi-park project 2004 - Transport of Suspended Sediment and Effect on Aquatic Habitat in Elwha River.
2006 - Construct a Nutrient Budget for Lake Crescent to Assess the Impact of Human Nutrient Enrichment. Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. Denali National Park and Preserve.
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Earth Science 1105 OSU Earth Science 1105. It has to be one of Americas most diverse national park landscapes. If you walked from west to east across Olympic National Park you would start at the rocky Pacific shoreline move into rare temperate rainforests and lush river valleys ascend glaciers and rugged mountain peaks and then descend into a comparatively dry rain shadow and alpine forest.
Olympic National Park encompasses several ecosystems. The coast section is 60 miles long but narrow with either sandy beaches or more rugged beaches. It can be difficult to hike due to weather and terrain but is the most easily accessible area for day hikers.
Geology The Olympic Mountains are composed of obducted clastic wedge material and oceanic crust primarily Eocene sandstone turbidite and basaltic oceanic crust. 5 The mountains were sculpted during the Pleistocene era by erosion and glaciers advancing and retreating multiple times. Glacier status and contribution to streamflow in the Olympic Mountains Washington USA JL.
RIEDEL1 Steve WILSON2 William BACCUS3 Michael LARRABEE1 TJ. FUDGE4 Andrew FOUNTAIN2 1North Cascades National Park Sedro-Woolley WA USA 2Department of Geology Portland State University Portland OR USA 3Olympic National Park Port Angeles WA USA 4Department of Earth and Space.