THE GEOLOGY OF the Olympic Peninsula offers a fascinating glimpse into the massive forces of nature that shaped this land into one of the most complicated rock piles in the world. It began under the ...

The North Olympic Peninsula is riddled with earthquake faults, he said. May, who spends summers in Port Angeles, told about 30 people at the Port Angeles Business Association on Tuesday morning that ...

“These glaciers – all glaciers – affect high alpine water resources,” said Andrew Fountain, the report’s lead author and a professor of geology ... on the Olympic Peninsula, Fountain ...

The long-term loss of glacial mass found in the Olympic Peninsula is a strong indication of a warming global climate, he added. "This is a clear and compelling signal of changes that are rolling ...

Glaciers on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula have been melting and could ... Fountain is a professor of geography and geology at Portland State University. The cause of the melting glaciers?

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK, Wash. (AP) — Portland State University professor Andrew Fountain has been researching the dwindling glaciers of the American West since the 1980s. For years he studied ...

The first thing you notice is the squish. Over the summer, I trudged across a little-known stretch of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula behind Joe Rocchio, natural heritage program manager for the ...

NORTH CASCADE, Wash. — By 2020, hundreds of mountain goats had been moved from the Olympic Peninsula to the North Cascade Mountains. Researchers tracked 151 of them. To this day, only four of ...