[NormsRevenge]

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]

YEC bump

[NormsRevenge]

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!

[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]

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.

[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. :')

Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
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[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
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[Outland]

"...Ice Age floods through four Western states that left canyons, valleys, lakes and ridges that still dominate the terrain today..."

And that was the result of the true beginning of our present and naturally induced period of "global warming" (why this is called an "interglacial" period).

Had there been liberal green groups around back then, I'm sure they would have blamed man for that too.

[sasquatch]

I'll bet that erosion was triggered by logging.

[Hot Tabasco]

Yet no marked trail commemorates the floods' path or explains their significance to the public.

I'm thinking that the public has a lot more things to think about. Things like "How much is THIS stupid idea going to cost me...."

[SunkenCiv]

Catastrophic Flooding From Ancient Lake May Have Triggered Cold Period
Newswise | 12-18-2004 | Jeff Donnelly
Posted on 12/18/2004 11:51:06 AM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1304205/posts

Sky-High Icebergs Carried Boulders From The Rockies To In South-Central Washington
Science Daily | 11-4-2003 | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Posted on 11/05/2003 6:29:54 AM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1015159/posts