Fish Creek Road - highway 224 junction, Clackamas River localities, Clackamas County, Oregon, USA
2-20-'10 photo of Bill Tompkins collecting crystals at Fish Creek junction with Highway 224, Clackamas Co., OR., USA Mike Tompkins photo tiny crystals in very hard rock
Memaloose roadcut, Clackamas River localities, Clackamas County, Oregon, USA
Bill Tompkins 2-20-10 Memaloose Roadcut Clackamas Co., OR., USA collecting siderite, calcite, hyalite opal, & selenite
Big Cliff, Clackamas River localities, Clackamas County, Oregon, USA
Big Cliff siderite & selenite locality alongside highway 224, Clackamas Co., OR., USA Bill Tompkins photo 2-20-'10
photo from '04 shows the siderite locality known as Big Cliff in the center and the talus below, right beside the highway
© Bill Tompkins 2009
Fish Creek junction with Highway 224 Clackamas Co., OR., USA 2-20-'10 Mike Tompkins looking for zeolites and associated minerals
Mike Tompkins at the Memaloose Roadcut 2-20-10 collecting siderite, calcite, hyalite opal & selenite from a fresh exposure
Bill Tompkins photo shows the roadcut, Fish Creek road and Highway 224 2-20-'10 small zeolites and associated minerals are found in the rocks at the base of cliff please park well off the highway
Bill Tompkins collecting siderite at the Big Cliff locality Clackamas Co., OR., USA 2-20-10
Memaloose Bridge over the Clackamas River where you turn off highway 224 and go up Memaloose Road 2/3rds of a mile to collect siderite, calcite, opal, & pyrite Bill Tompkins photo
A view of the rubble in which zeolites are collected at the Fish Creek road cut. Note the large vesicles visible in some of the rocks in this photo. Photo taken November 2011. Dan R. Lynch
© Dan R. Lynch
This view looks up the immense basalt cliff at the Fish Creek road cut. Note the section of rock near the center of the photo where large masses and coatings of celadonite tint the cliff greenish-blue. Fist-sized masses of blue clay fall to the bottom where they can be collected. Photo taken November 2011. Dan R. Lynch