Photographs taken of a landform on the Oregon coast caught PSU geology professor Scott Burns off guard. They showed something he’d never seen before.
PACIFIC CITY, Ore. — Scott Burns, professor emeritus in geology at Portland State University, thought he had seen it all — until he saw a couple of photos of an extremely rare sand formation on the Oregon coast.
“I’ve never seen it anywhere … in the text books, in this region,” he said. “I mean, I’ve read many, many, many, many books.”
His colleagues in PSU’s Geology Department hadn’t seen it before either.
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