Glacial Lake Missoula

Glacial Lake Missoula
Author: David D. Alt
Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2001
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780878424153

Glacial Lake Missoula and Its Humongous Floods tells the gripping tale of a huge Ice Age lake that drained suddenly--not just once but repeatedly--and reshaped the landscape of the Northwest. The narrative follows the path of the floodwaters as they raged from western Montana across the Idaho Panhandle, then scoured through eastern Washington and down the Columbia Gorge to the Pacific Ocean.

Ice Age Floodscapes of the Pacific Northwest

Ice Age Floodscapes of the Pacific Northwest
Author: Bruce Norman Bjornstad
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2021-02-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030530434

This heavily illustrated book contains descriptions and geologic interpretations of photographs (mostly aerial) illustrating the power and magnitude of repeated Ice Age flooding in the Pacific Northwest, as recently as 14,000 years ago. The scale of Ice Age floods was so huge that today it is often difficult to see and appreciate the power and magnitude of such megafloods from ground level. However, from the air, landforms created by the floods often come into clear focus. Aerial images, obtained via unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) as well as fixed-wing airplane, add a new perspective on evidence gathered by dozens of scientists since 1923.

Glacial Lake Missoula and the Catastrophic Floods

Glacial Lake Missoula and the Catastrophic Floods
Author: William a Szary
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2020-01-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781654556761

The Glacial Lake Missoula and the Catastrophic Floods takes a virtual tour of the field evidence associated with the catastrophic flooding of glacial Lake Missoula through Western Montana, Northern Idaho, Southern Washington, and the Columbia River Gorge to the Willamette Valley near Portland Oregon. Many photographs and images are used to help the reader view the physical evidence along the virtual tour. Details are provided on trip routes through each state along with descriptions of sites along the way.The book is divided into seven chapters. Each chapter presents field evidence for each state. Chapter 1 presents a short introduction to the geologic setting. Chapter 2 discusses the Great Ice Age and glacial Lake Missoula. Chapter 3 begins the field evidence descriptions for Lake Missoula in Montana leading a tour through western Montana to the northern Idaho state line. Chapter 4 presents field evidence for the flooding in Idaho to the southwestern state line with Washington. Chapter 5 described field evidence in southeastern Washington starting with the Spokane Valley and Columbia Plateau. Chapter 6 provides stratigraphic and geomorphic evidence for dozens of late glacial floods starting with the Grand Coulee and Dry Falls, Chelan area, Quincy Basin, Moses Coulee, and ending with the Cheney-Palouse Tract. Chapter 7 ends the tour with descriptions of the Columbia Valley and Columbia River Gorge ending with the Willamette Valley and the City of Portland.

Roadside Geology of Montana

Roadside Geology of Montana
Author: Donald W. Hyndman
Publisher: Mountain Press
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2020
Genre: Geology
ISBN: 9780878426966

Now, nearly 50 years after the first book, Mountain Press is releasing this completely revised full-color second edition that, like so many things in Montana, is big. But consider this: no other place in the world has such amazingly diverse and well-exposed rocks with such dramatic stories.

Bretz's Flood (Large Print 16pt)

Bretz's Flood (Large Print 16pt)
Author: John Soennichsen
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2010-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1458787176

The land between Idaho and the Cascade Mountains is characterized by gullies, coulees, and deserts--in geologic terms, it is a wholly unique place on the earth. Legendary geologist J Harlen Bretz, starting in the 1920s, was the first to explore the area. Bretz, a former science teacher at Franklin High School in Seattle and then a professor at t...

The Channeled Scablands of Eastern Washington

The Channeled Scablands of Eastern Washington
Author: Geological Survey (U S )
Publisher: Franklin Classics
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2018-10-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9780342596058

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