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Maps Websites NOVA—Mystery of the Megaflood Glacial Lake Allison in Oregon’s Willamette Valley http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/megaflood/ at the Height of the Lake Missoula Flood Explore the Channeled Scablands through an Reference Map interactive map, read an interview with geologist, The Ice Age Floods caused massive dams that Ice Age take a quiz, visit the teacher's guide, and more. forced water to temporarily pool into lakes throughout the Northwest. This map shows the Ice Age Floods Institute Floods most recent theories on the boundaries and depths http://www.iceagefloodsinstitute.org/ of Lake Allison, the glacial lake that was located in The Ice Age Flood Institute is a non-profit the Willamette Valley. organization of citizens throughout Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon committed to tell the Ice Age Floods in the Pacific Northwest story of the Channeled Scablands. Reference Map Produced by the Ice Age Floods Institute, this map University of Wisconsin, Green Bay— shows clear evidence of the nearly unimaginable Channeled Scablands: Overview floods that scoured channels throughout the http://www4.uwsp.edu/geo/projects/geoweb/ Northwest contributing to the unique geological participants/dutch/vtrips/scablands0.htm formations seen throughout the states of Montana, Field trip pages follow the floodwaters of Glacial Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. Lake Missoula. Lots of pictures & some nice maps. CVO Website - Glacial Lake Missoula Lake Missoula Flood Path from Missoula, Montana http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/Glaciers/Ic to Portland, Oregon eSheets/description_lake_missoula.html Reference Map US Geological Survey web site, with information Paired with smaller versions of the panorama and links about Glacial Lake Missoula. photos mentioned below, this publication includes a map of the sites photographed and an explanation Ice Age Floods Alternatives Study of the geological features therein. A brief history of http://www.nps.gov/iceagefloods/ each area and the floods themselves are included. Chapter D, Background, recounts the geologic history of the region and the story of the debate over the great floods. Lake Missoula Flood Path in Panorama Photos Reference Map Willamette Valley Pleistocene Project Play witness to the dramatic forces of the Ice Age http://www.willamettevalleypleistocene.com Floods by examining these beautifully rendered Local experts share their paleontological finds in photos of the various landmarks created by the the Willamette Valley, including the story of waters’ passing. Pictures note landmarks in Tualatin’s mastodon and glacial erratics. Montana, Washington, and Oregon, including Palouse Falls, Washington (pictured below). How the Northwest Was Shaped Picture by Rick Thompson Images courtesy of the Ice Age Floods Institute Washington’s Channeled Scablands Guide: Explore and Recreate Along the Ice Age Floods National Books Geologic Trail Videos Bretz’s Flood: The Remarkable Story of a By John Soennichsen The Great Ice Age Floods Rebel Geologist and the World’s Greatest Adult Nonfiction 917.973 Soennichsen DVD 551.792 Great Flood Explore the more than 2,000 square miles of In 1923, geologist J. Harlen Bretz proposed By John Robert Soennichsen terrain in eastern Washington that are home to that a catastrophic flood was the geologic Adult Nonfiction 550.92 Soennichsen sharp-edged coulees created by the Ice Age flood. genesis of the area, igniting a debate that raged Bretz's Flood tells the story of a scientific for half a century. The program tracks the maverick—how he came to study the region, The Channeled Scablands of Eastern Washington: clues leading to the final verdict that changed his theory that a flood created it, and how the The Geologic Story of the Spokane Flood geologic thinking and examines the floods that geologic community fought against an idea that By Paul L. Weis sculpted the landscape of Oregon. satellite photos would confirm decades later. Reference 551.792 Weis Weis's concise but informative guide summarizes Mystery of the Megaflood Cataclysms on the Columbia: The Great the sequence of ice-age events that culminated in DVD 551.489 Mystery Missoula Floods the flood and the spectacular landscape found in Maverick scientist, J. Harlen Bretz, found By John Eliot Allen, Marjorie & Scott Burns eastern Washington state. traces of an enormous ice dam half a mile high, Adult Nonfiction 551.35 Allen which had blocked a valley in present-day This book tells two stories. One follows Montana and created an enormous lake behind Ice Age Floods Driving Guides for the Willamette research that challenged the scientific paradigm it. With the help of realistic animation, Nova Valley, Clackamas County and the Tualatin, of the times, and the other chronicles the takes viewers back to the Ice Age to reveal Sherwood Area result of the research done by J Harlen Bretz: what happened when the ice dam broke. Adult Nonfiction 551.792 Ice the discovery of the floods that shaped the Reference 551.792 Ice Pacific Northwest. These guides explore the Missoula flood channels, Sculpted by Floods obstacles and overlooks, ripple marks, flood DVD 551.792 Sculpted On the Trail of the Ice Age Floods: A channels, and other landforms throughout Clark, Much of the landscape of America's Northwest Geological Field Guid to the Mid-Columbia Multnomah, Clackamas, and Washington counties. was sculpted by geologic catastrophe. During Basin the last ice age, floods flowing with ten times By Bruce Bjornstad the volume of all the world's current rivers Adult Nonfiction 551.31 Bjornstad In Search of Ancient Oregon: A Geological and combined, inundated the Northwest. In their This book explores the origins, timing and Natural History wake was left a unique and often puzzling frequency of the Ice Age floods and describes By Ellen Bishop Morris landscape ... a landscape sculpted by the floods. each of 19 geologic features they left behind. It 557.95 Bishop is also an exciting field guide to features, trails Morris, an accomplished geologist. relates the and tours in the Mid-Columbia Basin. evolution of Oregon’s diverse landscapes, with stunning photographs of geologic features shaped Graphic Novel by Oregon’s volcanic past and Ice Age floods. On the Trail of the Ice Age Floods: The Terra Tempo. Ice Age Cataclysm! Northern Reaches By David Shapiro By Bruce Bjornstad Glacial Lake Missoula: and its Humungous Floods Juvenile Graphic Novel Terra Adult Nonfiction 917.973 Bjornstad By David D. Alt Join in the adventure as three friends unlock The authors explore numerous flood features Adult Nonfiction 551.792 Alt the secret of time travel and journey back to and present dozens of trails and tours directing This book tells the gripping tale of a huge Ice Age witness the great Missoula Floods, the largest readers to experience, firsthand, the striking lake that, when it suddenly drained, unleashed floods on earth. Experience the world of the aftermath of the Ice Age floods. The book more that ten times the combined flow of all the past when mammoths and saber-toothed cats includes: explanations of 19 types of landforms, modern rivers of the world. This is also the story roamed the Pacific Northwest. Great for the guides to 65 flood-formed features and more. of geologists grappling with scientific controversy. little explorers in your life. .
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