Photograph of the Palouse Canyon below the falls, in eastern Washington. Basalt cliffs line the canyon walls and the Palouse River winds its way down to join the Snake River.
Cheney State Normal School -- Field trips; Fossils; School field trips
Photo of what appears to be a class field trip. Eighteen or nineteen students appear to be looking for fossils on a hillside of sedimentary rock. Students' apparel, including hats, is indicative of the 1920s.
Geology -- Washington (State); Waterfalls; Volcanic rock; Canyons
Photo of Dry Falls, a dry cliff that stands 400 ft. high and 3.5 miles wide. Dry Falls is a feature of Grand Coulee Canyon, which is part of the channeled scablands of eastern Washington.
Charred wood caught between layers of lava, indicating that there was enough time elapsed between flows to allow vegetation to grow on or around the older flow.
Showalter Hall (Eastern Washington University); Pillars of Hercules (Eastern Washington University); Rock formations;
Pillars of Hercules and Showalter Hall. Showalter Hall was named in honor of the school's president Noah Showalter, 1911-26. The Pillars of Hercules were built in 1915 as a memorial to the administration building that was destroyed by fire in...