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on Missoula Floods Revisited
I will keep checking here. Hope some pics turn up!
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Again replying to Jacob: As of the early 1990s there were found traces of 86 or so floods to the east and traces of 40 or so floods throughout central Washington all the way up the Willamette Valley. Another study posited that there were at least six major floods. Whatever the relationship in time and intensity (and it was not settled then and likely isn't settled now), certain floods altered the landscape in hours in ways that no slow process ever could have done over centuries. The work was not divided into 40 or 86 equal parts. You could not take two thousand years of rainfall and make these forms.
So I don't know what you mean by them not being Katrinas. The damage is visible from space. These were earth-altering events.
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If you have a picture, please post it and announce. A lot of interesting knowledge gets lost over the years. Professor John Eliot Allen may or may not have known everything there was to know.
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A search for OMSI on this page and one hit is returned. This OMSI event has apparently not been mentioned before.
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Jacob, I'm not sure what you mean. If you had focused a motion picture camera on the NYC twin towers since 1966, it would be a boring movie from 1966 to 2001 and from 2001-2010. But it would be anything but boring for a couple of hours between those two time spans.
Is that what you are talking about regarding the catastrophic floods of ~12-18 thousand years ago? Or did everyone just waste their time in reading your comment?
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It might be beneficial to put the date and time of the event on this page. Just a thought. I gather that it is happening/has happened.
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