Celebrate the New Year with new lidar images!

Happy New Year from the Washington Geological Survey! In honor of the New Year we’ve created many new lidar-derived images that we would like to share with you. These new images cover the state from east to west and include mountains, floodplains, glaciers, and other landscapes sculpted by geologic forces. Scroll down to read more […]

More new lidar images of Washington’s landforms!

The Washington Geological Survey has just added 10 new lidar-derived images of the State’s landforms to our image collection. This new set includes landscapes shaped by glaciers, ice-age floods, rivers, and landslides. For more information, check out the image descriptions below and use the associated links to view and download high-resolution versions of each one. […]

New Map Poster Available-The Cheney-Palouse Tract of Washington’s Channeled Scablands

A new map poster is available titled The Cheney–Palouse Tract of Washington’s Channeled Scablands. Using elevation data, it highlights a remote portion of the Eastern Washington landscape shaped by catastrophic ice-age floods. During the last ice age, a lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet formed an ice dam that blocked a major valley in what […]