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Mountain Press Pub
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
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Glacial Lake Missoula and Its Humongous Floods tells the gripping tale of a huge Ice Age lake that, when it suddenly drained, unleashed more that ten times the combined flow of all the modern rivers of the world. This is also the story of geologists grappling with scientific controversy -- "of how personalities, pride, and prejudice sometimes supersede scientific evidence". Illustrated with photographs and two-color maps, the book follows the path...
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Bulletin. Division of Mines and Geology) volume no. 45
Publisher
Division of Mines and Geology, Washington Dept. of Conservation
Pub. Date
1959.
Language
English
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Oregon field guide volume 1001
Publisher
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
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Spectacular floods changed the landscape of Oregon and Washington some 17,000 years ago, when Ice Age glacial dams near Missoula, Montana, broke apart and unleashed an inland sea. The powerful flood--what geologists believe was the greatest moving body of water in the earth's history--tore open the landscape of eastern Washington, merged with the Columbia River and left what is now Portland, Oregon, under 400 feet of water. The floods carried fertile...
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