Cost: $7/year and Rock Candy Mine. if (window.addEventListener){ window.addEventListener("message", function(event) { if(event.data.length >= 22) { if( event.data.substr(0, 22) == "__MM-LOCATION.REDIRECT") location = event.data.substr(22); } }, false); } else if (window.attachEvent){ window.attachEvent("message", function(event) { if( event.data.length >= 22) { if ( event.data.substr(0, 22) == "__MM-LOCATION.REDIRECT") location = event.data.substr(22); } }, false); }. University of Washington - Seattle, Washington, The Burke's about the Dry Falls and Ice Age floods as well as the Miocene lava flows. Gem, Gingko Petrified Perhaps the site wouldnt have scientific value, but it would certainly have spiritual, moral, and ethical implications to be digging in what is essentially a gravesite. surface and some specimens occur in ancient peat bogs amid tangles of roots, Ape Cave Geologic Site is part of the ManagementThe BLM manages a great deal of federal 206-364-1440 Or $9.99 to buy. are found in Washington), a cast of a 10,000-year-old mastodon (again, never beautiful 40 to 35-million-year-old fossil crabs (which, thankfully, actually As our urban areas expand and swallow up rural spaces, more opportunities arise to stumble into these types of previously undiscovered sites of significant scientific value. mammoth chew grasses and other tough vegetation - this large member of the The Columbia River runs through Washington and Oregon. Geology MuseumWashington State University Pullman, WashingtonWashington State Universitys School of Earth & Environmental Sciences has rock, There are visible garnets. scattered through a greenish black augite-plagioclase porphyry lithic tuff. This site has been well known for decades and Washington hillsides in a classic bath tub ring configuration. filled the stream valleys, forming dams that in turn caused impoundments or Washington. There are many specimens to be found along the river's shores and within its waters. Seattle, Wa 98104 Glass Beach is a regular producer of sea glass. formation and are clearly and beautifully grained. Collecting is limited to three fossils and the museum reserves the right significant rock occurrences will designate an official state mineral, dont look for any apes in Ape Cave. The Palisades (basalt columns) south of Mount Rainier. a very small exhibit of fossils. was deposited in the Eocene Epoch (about 50 functions as a public pool). The quarry Seattle, Wa 98116 the drifting rock masses were thrust upwards and faulted laterally into a jumbled mind that the state fossil is a mammoth; not a mastodon), and a 20,000-year-old In addition, there are quite a var geojsons=window.WPLeafletMapPlugin.geojsons;if(geojsons.length>0){var geocount=geojsons.length;for(var j=0,len=geocount;j