- The ferry ride from Seattle to Bainbridge Island is the busiest route in the State ferry system. Every year, more than 6 million people use this ferry as a convenient way to get from Seattle to the more rural areas west of Puget Sound. The ferry ride lets passengers take in sweeping views of downtown Seattle from Elliott Bay and maybe even see a porpoise or two. But the path of the ferry also follows one of the most well-hidden geologic features of the Seattle area: the Seattle Fault.
- Mississippian (geology) (Wikipedia)
The Mississippian (/ˌmɪsɪˈsɪpi.ən/ miss-ə-SIP-ee-ən, also known as Lower Carboniferous or Early Carboniferous) is a subperiod in the geologic timescale or a subsystem of the geologic record. It is the earlier of two subperiods of the Carboniferous period lasting from roughly 358.9 to 323.2 million years ago. As with most other geochronologic units, the rock beds that define the Mississippian are well identified, but the exact start and end dates are uncertain by a few million years. The Mississippian is so named because rocks with this age are exposed in the Mississippi Valley.