There's also a NOVA documentary about this called "Mystery of the Megaflood":
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/megaflood/ Ed On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 6:40 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Images are here.. > > http://hugefloods.com/Video.html > > http://iceagefloods.blogspot.com/ > > One of these washed up the Willamette Valley, BTW. The "intelligent > design" folks use this stuff, too. Be careful out there. > > T > > > > > Feb 15, 2011 06:34:14 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > I think there's a computer generated model of this flood somewhere out > there...if I find it, I'll post it. > > "let me take you to the Channeled Scablands, baby!" > > T > > > Feb 14, 2011 07:58:53 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Interesting, Diana. Thanks > --Ediger > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Diana Tomchick > wrote: > > I first heard of the Glacial Lake Missoula flood in my Physical Geology > class at Washington State University. The most famous coulee that resulted > from the flood was of course the one that was filled with water as a result > of the Grand Coulee Dam. It was always a treat to hear about interesting > geologic formations (and the state of Washington is full of them), then go > on a short road trip to see them firsthand. > > > > For photos of the current landscape and an interesting graphic outlining > the extent of the flooding, see this article from the Washington State > University alumni magazine and also the Ice Age Floods Institute web site. > > > > http://wsm.wsu.edu/s/index.php?id=472 > > > > http://www.iafi.org/ > > > > Diana > > > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > > Diana R. Tomchick > > Associate Professor > > University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center > > Department of Biochemistry > > 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. > > Rm. ND10.214B > > Dallas, TX 75390-8816, U.S.A. > > Email: [email protected] > > 214-645-6383 (phone) > > 214-645-6353 (fax) > > > > > > > > On Feb 13, 2011, at 9:28 PM, Mixon Bill wrote: > > > >> The cave connection of this second item from the "Windy City Speleonews" > is just J Harlen Bretz. Yes, no period after the J, which was his full name. > I had lunch with him when he was 94 at his house, Boulderstrewn, in > Homewood, Illinois. I happened to drive by, on the way to the NSS convention > in Bellingham, Washington, a few years ago, the Dry Falls three miles wide, > where the state of Washington has a picnic area and displays. One > non-technical source on the falls is > http://www.gonorthwest.com/Washington/northeast/Dry_Falls.htm, although > links onward from that page are broken. -- Mixon > >> > >> Cavers know J Harlen Bretz mainly as the author of "Caves of Missouri" > and coauthor of "Caves of Illinois," which was published when he was 78 > years old. To speleologists, he is best known for his famous 1942 "Journal > of Geology" paper on vadose and phreatic features of caves. But his > geological studies were by no means restricted to caves, and he is probably > best known for (and is most proud of) of series of papers published between > 1923 and 1932 in which he described the very peculiar geology of a large > area in eastern Washington that he correctly attributed to a catastrophic > flood. This theory was considered outrageous at the time, partly, at least, > because it was a departure from the only recently ascendent geological dogma > of uniformitarianism. But more recent research has fully proved him right. > >> > >> A lake, called Lake Missoula, was created in western Montana by a dam of > glacier ice in northern Idaho. The lake contained some four hundred cubic > miles of water that were released suddenly when melting caused the dam to > fail. The resulting flood, called the Spokane Flood after the city presently > near the upstream end, scoured nearly three thousand square miles down to > bedrock and created huge canyons and cataracts, one three miles wide. It > deposited gravel bars, some of which contain boulders several feet in > diameter, a hundred feet high and a mile long, topped with giant current > ripple-marks ten feet high. The water ponded behind the Wallula Gap, through > which it poured a thousand feet deep. The peak flow from Lake Missoula, > attested to by current ripples fifty feet high, has been calculated at > twenty million cubic meters per second. (This is fifteen _cubic miles_ per > hour. For comparison purposes, it is one hundred fifty times the mean flow > of the Amazon River and ten or twenty times the total average flow of fresh > water into the oceans of the world.) In a few days, it was all over. > >> > >> (Actually, there were a good number of such floods, as the ice dam > reestablished itself. 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