Document Collection: Oregon's Geology and Paleontology

These articles and scientific papers provide information about past and present climate change, Oregon’s animals, plants, and ecosystems, and natural resources, including energy resources, and food. We have selected them as both readable and relevant to today’s issues. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns, or if there are publicly-accessible articles you’d like to see posted here.
 

• Columbia basin and Columbia River basalt field trip guidebook

• PDF File Mt. St. Helens

• PDF File Dinosaur extinction update

• PDF File Eocene-Oligocene extinction near Eugene, Oregon

• PDF File Dinosaur extinction update

• PDF File Antarctic Plesiosaur

• PDF File Ice Age Jaguar

• PDF File Cascade History

• PDF File Deposition and Transport of the Cretaceous Hudspeth and Gable Creek Formations. This is a technical paper that provides important new data to understanding how Oregon was built. (6.2 MB)

• PDF File Stratigraphy of the Columbia River Basalts (a chart with names and ages of major flows.)