I recently got a question from a reader about where to get good soil and compost. Part of her request was for “organic” soil ...

West of Spokane, soils are a mix of Palouse loam and the remnants of the glacial flood scouring and outwash. North of Spokane toward Deer Park, the soils are sandy remnants of the floor of glacial ...

which forms at the edge of a glacier at the valley side. Erratics are boulders carried by ice, often for many kilometres, and deposited in areas of completely different rock type. Outwash plains ...

Several valley glaciers that provide silt-laden outwash exposed to strong winds ... A large area of thick last-glacial loess abruptly borders the southeastern margin of the Nebraska Sand Hills ...

The outwash terrace slopes southward, and terminates in escarpments along the Nooksack ... The elevation of the bedrock surface beneath the Pleistocene deposits of the lowland varies considerably, ...