Eric Cheney will be speaking about a special class of “calling cards” in the Puget Basin at the March 2 meeting of Ice Age Floods Institute, beginning at 7 p.m. in the Edmonds Senior Center, 220 Railroad Ave.
Cheney will present his preliminary findings regarding the Pleistocene dispersal in the Puget Lowland of clasts of Mesozoic red chert derived from the western Cascade Range. Clasts of red chert are a minor, but geologically conspicuous and revealing, component of many beaches in the Puget Basin.
After receiving his bachelor of science and doctorate from Yale, Cheney joined the University of Washington geology faculty in 1964. He semi-retired in 2005 and is now an emeritus professor in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences. His principal teaching and research topics have included the geology and social relevance of mineral and fuel deposits, and the structural geology of the Pacific Northwest. With students, he has conducted extensive geologic field mapping of Washington.
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