#yaquina head

[summerwages]

please be pacific...

[bettergeology]

The cobble beach at Yaquina Head Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Oregon.

Cobble beaches are uncommon - they are a regular beach but instead of sand they are made of… well, cobbles. They require a source of hard rock, powerful waves to keep the sand from piling up, and enough time to tumble the hard rock into rounded cobbles. Yaquina Head has all three of these things! Sticking out about a half mile into the Pacific Ocean, Yaquina Head is a rocky finger of basalt about 16 million years old. It's one of the most distant outcrops of Columbia River Basalt, which flowed all the way from huge fissures in the Washington-Oregon-Idaho border area about 300 miles (500 km) to the east! At that time, this was underwater and the basalt was flowing into underwater canyons and infiltrating the soft ocean mud. This caused all sorts of strange formations within Yaquina Head, and also explains why the rock is so fractured (called brecciate in geology terms) with so much orange glassy sand in the outcrops. The powerful waves wash the orange oxidized sand (called palagonite) away, leaving behind solid hunks of basalt which slowly tumble and round out over hundreds of years.

The Pacific Ocean crashes headlong into this beach, beating the basalt with relentless power, just as it has done for over 16 million years.

[grumpyoldork]

Foggy day at Yaquina Head Lighthouse, Newport, Oregon

[necrophytes]

In which John and Dave road trip down to the oregon coast for beach shenanigans

[eopederson2]

Almost the season of storms, Yaquina Head Lighthouse in late autumn, Oregon Coast, 2004.

[dailylighthouse]

Yaquina Head Lighthouse

Newport, Oregon, United States

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Constructed: 1873

Automated: 1966

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Extra Pictures:

First Order Fresnel Lens:

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View from the observation deck:

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[nordinor]

[summerwages]

minus tide at agate beach..

[scrapblring]

Yaquina Lighthouse, Oregon

[q8q]

Bald Eagle @ Yaquina Head, Newport, Oregon - November 2024

[grumpyoldork]

Yaquina Head Lighthouse the next day... no fog.

[leathernlacee]

yaquina head lighthouse

[seoafin]

Hi Morgan! I hope you’re doing okay and wish you the best with the grad school stuff!! I was wondering how you did your Oregon coast trip and if you would mind sharing your itinerary? Did you roadtrip it/take the train?

of course I can share it!!! i just copied and pasted it below but i 100% recommend otter crest loop and Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor which were the highlights!!!!

my friend and i rented a car! for 5-6 days it came out to roughly $300 so ~$150 split

Portland Powell's City of Books Carver cafe (Twilight diner) Voodoo Doughnut The Grotto

Roadtrip portion Canon Beach Ecola State Park Breakfast at Osprey Cafe Lighthouse Oswald State Park Tillamook Creamery Cape Meares State Park Neskowin Beach/Ghost Forest Breakfast at Otis Cafe Depoe Bay Scenic Park Otter Crest State Scenic Viewpoint Devils Punchbowl Arch Moolach Beach Yaquina Head Lighthouse Devil’s Churn Viewpoint John Dellenback Dunes Trailhead Gold Beach Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor Harris Beach State Park Redwood Forest

[lighthouse-whore]

Yaquina Head Lighthouse, Newport, OR

The Yaquina Head Lighthouse was built in 1872 and was first lit August 20th 1873. It has 114 steps and it stands at 93 feet tall. It uses a first-order fresnel lens made in Paris, 1868.

[daily-public-domain]

Day 85: Sea Urchin at Yaquina Head in Newport, Oregon

Sorry for forgetting yesterday. I'm very very busy as it's the exam period

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