During the last ice age, 18,000 to 13,000 years ago, the landscape of eastern Washington was repeatedly scoured by massive floods.
They carved canyons, cut waterfalls, and sculpted a terrain of braided waterways today known as the channeled scablands.
ROSEMARY WARDLEY, NG STAFF
SOURCES: USGS; ATLAS OF OREGON
1 posted on
03/09/2017 8:41:09 AM PST by
BenLurkin
2 posted on
03/09/2017 8:42:44 AM PST by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both)
To: BenLurkin
Fascinating!
I have another item to add to my bucket list.
3 posted on
03/09/2017 8:45:19 AM PST by
Zathras
To: BenLurkin
About time NGS got back to what they are supposed to be about.
To: BenLurkin
I was born in that neighborhood. Dry Falls is a very interesting landmark in the middle of, basically, nowhere. And when you go west of there on highway 2 you can see rocks the size of houses just laying there in the middle of flat farmland. It’s really a cool area.
6 posted on
03/09/2017 8:56:37 AM PST by
Mr. Douglas
(Best. Election. EVER!)
To: BenLurkin
NatGeo of course wouldn't ever consider the two likely sources for such a "massive flood" - that of
Noah's fame, or that of
the Exodus.
For those who are interested, these are both great reads on subjects atheists tend to misinterpret:
7 posted on
03/09/2017 9:00:48 AM PST by
detsaoT
To: BenLurkin
Good read.
Must get out to that part of the country sometime.
8 posted on
03/09/2017 9:04:52 AM PST by
ckilmer
(q e)
To: BenLurkin
9 posted on
03/09/2017 9:05:56 AM PST by
JimSEA
To: BenLurkin
97% of the scientist’s opposed him?
To: BenLurkin
Excellent article. And refreshingly lacking even a single use of the phrase “Climate Change”. The author will probably hear about that oversight and violation of compulsory requirements when he’s called into a session of Nat Geo’s Star Chamber.
12 posted on
03/09/2017 9:18:36 AM PST by
katana
(It still hasn't occurred to them that Trump doesn't give a s***)
To: NewJerseyJoe
13 posted on
03/09/2017 9:19:55 AM PST by
NewJerseyJoe
(Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
To: BenLurkin
Randall Carlson specifically spoke of this area the other night. There was no ice lake. Find Randall on Joe Roagan podcasts, or you can find links to him speaking on various podcasts at http://sacredgeometryinternational.com
16 posted on
03/09/2017 9:31:05 AM PST by
abigkahuna
(How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
To: BenLurkin
Been through there several times, the scenery is beautiful and the fishing at Jameson Lake and others can be real good, like the eight pound trout I saw brought in. Nice resort, campground and restaurant. Nothing fancy.
http://jamesonlake.com/
17 posted on
03/09/2017 9:37:16 AM PST by
dainbramaged
(Get out of my country now)
To: BenLurkin
19 posted on
03/09/2017 9:42:26 AM PST by
BlueLancer
(Ex Scientia Tridens)
To: BenLurkin
This is a great article!
I grew up in the Tri-Cities at the top of the bend of the Columbia just before it turns West.
21 posted on
03/09/2017 9:45:59 AM PST by
G Larry
(There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
To: BenLurkin
Thanks for the post.
It was fascinating.
When NatGeo isn’t moralizing about stuff they shouldn’t they have some really good articles.
22 posted on
03/09/2017 9:50:42 AM PST by
Adder
(Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
To: BenLurkin
The hills where I lived in Moscow, Idaho were current ripples from this.
25 posted on
03/09/2017 11:06:00 AM PST by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: BenLurkin
At the southern end of the flood scablands is the Wallula gap. It is a 2 kilometer opening in the solid basalt walls that the Columbia River flows today. When the Missoula flood hit the Wallula gap, the volume of flood was so great that it started to back up an form a lake in the lower scablands. At peak flow it is estimated the volume of water flowing through the Wallua gap to be 10 million cubic meters per second.
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