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Don J. Easterbrook photographs, 1959-1992

Overview of the Collection

Photographer
Easterbrook, Don J., 1935-
Title
Don J. Easterbrook photographs
Dates
1959-1992 (inclusive)
1970-1990 (bulk)
Quantity
2000 slides (3 boxes) ; 2 x 2 in.
Collection Number
PH0797
Summary
Photographs by Don J. Easterbrook of Mt. St. Helens eruptions and other geological features.
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

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Languages
English
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Biographical Note

Dr. Easterbrook is Professor Emeritus of Geology at Western Washington University where he was department chair for 12 years. He was educated at the University of Washington, where he received his BS, MS, and PhD in geology. His doctoral dissertation was entitled Pleistocene Geology of the Northern Part of the Puget Lowland, Washington. Dr. Easterbrook has conducted geologic research in the North Cascade Range, Puget Lowland, Columbia Plateau, Rocky Mountains, New Zealand Alps, Argentine Andes, and various other parts of the world. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of the Interior, and other government agencies. He is a recipient of the National Award for ‘Distinguished Service to the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division’ from the Geological Society of America and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Northwest Geological Society. http://myweb.wwu.edu/dbunny/index.html.

Dr. Don J. Easterbrook has done extensive research into global climate changes, global warming and cooling, as well as the cause of abrupt global climate changes at the end of the last Ice Age. He studies the relationship of 25-30 year glacial and ocean warming and cooling cycles to solar variation and global warming and cooling. Additionally, he has analyzed the correlation of Quaternary inter-hemispheric climate changes, radiocarbon marine reservoir values, Holocene glaciation of the Cascade Range, and the Holocene climate changes, otherwise known as The Little Ice Age. He has analyzed the tephra and lahar chronology of Mt. Baker, and has extensively used shorelines to determine isostatic uplift rates in the Puget Lowland.

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Content Description

Slides of the Mt. St. Helens eruptions of 1980 and the aftermath, including early 1980 eruption activity, the May 18, 1980 eruption, the blast zone, pumice flows, fumaroles, mudflows along the Toutle River, Cowlitz River and other affected waterways, the later eruptions in 1980, the crater, and lava dome. Also features slides of geological features throughout the world including deltas, dunes, erosion, fans, faults, glaciation, pediments, shorelines, streams and rivers, structures, and volcanoes and other igneous activity, and slides of Mt. Baker.

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Restrictions on Use

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Donor: Don J. Easterbrook, 2014.

Processing Note

Processed by Sheila Mitchell, 2016. Updated by Maureen Hogan, 2020.

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