Touchet Bed Clastic Dikes - Olympic-Wallowa Lineament Seismicity

This page contains information regarding my on-going research into the genesis of the Touchet Bed clastic dikes and their possible relationship to Pleistocene seismicity along the Wallula fault zone segment of the Olympic-Wallowa Lineament.

Seismic Hazard Investigation Team

Published abstracts

Neill, A. R., Leckey, E.H., and Pogue, K.R., 1997, Pleistocene dikes in Tertiary rocks: Downward emplacement of Touchet Bed clastic dikes into co-seismic fissures, south-central Washington: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, n .5., p.55.

Cooley, S.W., Pidduck, B.K., and Pogue, K.R., 1996, Mechanism and timing of emplacement of clastic dikes in the Touchet Beds of the Walla Walla Valley, south-central Washington: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 28, n. 5., p. 57.

Pogue, K.R., 1998, Earthquake-generated(?) structures in Missoula flood slackwater sediments (Touchet Beds) of southeastern Washington: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, n. 7, p. 398-399.

Silver, M.H. and Pogue, K.R, 2002, Analysis of plan-view geometry of clastic dike networks in Missoula Flood slackwater sediments (Touchet Beds), southeastern Washington: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, n. 5, p. 24.