Document Collection: Oregon’s Geology and Geologic History

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.

PDF File Columbia basin and Columbia River basalt field trip guidebook

PDF File Mt. St. Helens

PDF File Dinosoaur 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.)