Exposed -- Latourell Falls at Guy W. Talbot State Park, Oregon
by Darin Volpe
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Exposed -- Latourell Falls at Guy W. Talbot State Park, Oregon
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Darin Volpe
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Over ninety waterfalls drop into the Columbia River Gorge, where lava once flowed to create the incredible display of stone that erosion has exposed.
6.7 million years ago, I think it may have been on a Tuesday, lava burst from the ground in what is now the northeastern United States. It was the start of a period when many flows erupted, each pouring an extraordinary 240 cubic miles of lava across the Pacific Northwest. For over the next million years, these flows covered most of eastern Washington and Oregon in basalt over a mile deep. An ice age and a few million years later we have the Columbia River Gorge that we know today.
One of the most interesting places to see the remnants of these ancient lava flows is Latourell Falls, where water drops past 224 feet of columnar basalt formations until it crashes into the rocks below. The waterfall is the highlight of the Guy W. Talbot State Park on the historic Columbia River Highway in northeast Oregon.
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November 29th, 2023
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