Experts Seek Trail to Mark Ice Age Floods (National Park Service Study)

Yahoo News ^ | 11/10/03 | Joseph B. Frazier - AP

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Geologists say that the Twin Sisters basalt rock formation and popular rock climbing spot near Wallula, Wash., seen June 3, 2000, are a result of erosion from a great flood near the end of the last Ice Age, 12,000-15,000 years ago. The National Park Service is proposing to set up interpretive sites in Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon, which would include significant features, including the Twin Sisters, along the flood's path to help explain the story of the Ice Age floods and their impact on today's landscape. (AP Photo/Jackie Johnston)

[LiteKeeper]

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Devil's Towers

The nearly vertical monolith known as Devils Tower rises 1,267 feet above the meandering Belle Fourche River. Once hidden below the earth's surface, erosion has stripped away the softer rock layers revealing Devils Tower.

Known by several northern plains tribes as Bears Lodge, it is a sacred site of worship for many American Indians. The rolling hills of this 1,347 acre park are covered with pine forests, deciduous woodlands, and prairie grasslands. Deer, prairie dogs, and other wildlife are abundant.

Proclaimed September 24, 1906 as the nation's first national monument by President Theodore Roosevelt.

[cookcounty]

Oh, oh, take cover. The floodites and anti-floodites are about to douse each other!

[NormsRevenge]

Idaho - In the Shadows of the Tetons

Linked from Outdoors Idaho program link on Idaho Public TV

[Oorang]

Cataclysms on the Columbia, written by John Eliot Allen and Marjorie Burns.

Absolutely fascinating book on the subject with lots of information about J. Harlen Bretz and his battle to have his theory recognized.

[11B3]

It's pretty bad when Idaho has to look into Wyoming for something of interest. But then again, having been through southern Idaho, I can understand.

[NormsRevenge]

From oregongeology.com


Graphic by Elizabeth L. Orr, Geology of Oregon, available from Nature of the Northwest

[11B3]

Accumulation of large basaltic boulders downstream of plunge pools at Dry Falls State Park. Dry Falls is a great cataract 3.3 miles wide and 396 feet high that formed during the cataclysmic late Pleistocene floods emanating from glacial Lake Missoula in Montana. The origin of the Channeled Scablands was the subject of one of the most famous controversies in the history of geology. When J. Harlen Bretz formulated the cataclysmic flood hypothesis in 1923, his ideas were rejected. Nearly 50 years passed before his ideas became a standard of geologic thinking. In 1979 and at nearly 90 years of age he was awarded the Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America, the nation's highest geological award.

[NormsRevenge]

I hear ya on Southern Idaho.

I would think that Wyoming might be included as well, as the grand Tetons cross state lines and I would think such a catacylsmic event(s) would have sloshed well over into Wyoming territory.

Maybe it's a partisan thing. Dick Cheney is from Wyoming. Ya think? ;-)

I love the Grand Tetons, by the way. Breathtaking.

[WackyKat]

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Oh please. Creation "science" has as much credibility as "Planet X"

[NormsRevenge]

GO Northwest.com

Looks to be a good website for information on all 4 states in the NPS spomdored study.

[NormsRevenge]

spomdored 8-?
LOL

sponsored

I'm watching the Packers Eagles game, OK?

[LiteKeeper]

Creation "science" has as much credibility as "Planet X"

Describe for me what you think that I believe then.

[Cacophonous]

I'm a Luddite myself...

[SunkenCiv]

Someone (maybe me) added this to the GGG catalog, I just noticed, and I'm going to ping the list. Don't drink and drive on New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, or any other time, please and thank you. :')

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[RightWhale]

J. Harlen Bretz formulated the cataclysmic flood hypothesis in 1923, his ideas were rejected. Nearly 50 years passed before his ideas became a standard of geologic thinking. In 1979 and at nearly 90 years of age he was awarded the Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America, the nation's highest geological award.

Some more bio

J Harlen Bretz (they neither put a period after his first initial nor explain why it isn't there) was a superb field geologist, one determined to see what was there rather than what theory predicted should be there---a rare and valuable talent in any scientist.

[ApplegateRanch]

Thanks for the ping.

I've criss-crossed that affected area just about every way imaginable, from the southern route, OR-140 Medford-Winnemucca-Wyoming; to the northern Portland-Columbia Gorge-Boise-Great Falls-Jackson run.

My favorite, being that the trips are Medford, OR to the SD Black Hills, is Medford-Klamath Falls via 140, then 97 north & cut across the Klamath Marsh to Silver Lake & Christmas Valley, and over to Burns. From there, south to Jordan Valley & into Idaho, use the west/south side highway to the Bruneau Dunes area before picking up I-84 east of Mountain Home over to Ogden, then up Ogden Canyon into Wyoming, then across on state roads.

Advice: Take along copies of Roadside Geology for each of the states, and make a vacation of the trip itself. Maybe a good guide book to the Oregon Trail, too.

There are some places that are marked concerning the floods from Lake Bonnieville, but I don't remember seeing any for the Lake Missoula Floods.

There is a GOOD interpretive site at the rest stop (first one south of the Idaho/Utah border--not the one at the border!) on I-84 between Snowville and Tremonton, UT concerning Lake Bonnieville & it's floods. Many of the old shoreline shelves, at least four as the lake levels changed, are easily visible all along the surrounding hills in the entire basin.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks, I'll heed your advice if ever I travel there. :')

[farmfriend]

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