KSPS Documentaries
The Creation of Landforms
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The Missoula floods carved new river channels or altered exiting ones
The Missoula floods carved new river channels or altered exiting ones along the Washington/Oregon border, created dry falls in Central Washington similar to the falls at Niagara but twice the size, and quarried gullies and canyons, the Grand Coulee being the largest.
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KSPS Documentaries
The Creation of Landforms
Clip: Special | 4m 9sVideo has Closed Captions
The Missoula floods carved new river channels or altered exiting ones along the Washington/Oregon border, created dry falls in Central Washington similar to the falls at Niagara but twice the size, and quarried gullies and canyons, the Grand Coulee being the largest.
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The Acceptance of J Harlen Bretz’s Ice Age Flood Theory
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J Harlen Bretz provided photographic evidence of great floods (2m)
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Geologists conducted studies that the great flood occurred multiple times. (4m 38s)
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The Missoula floods flowed down to the Pacific Ocean, reshaping the surrounding landscape. (6m 17s)
Ice Dam and Glacial Lake Missoula
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An overview of Glacial Lake Missoula (1m 11s)
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Geologist J Harlen Bretz is the first to identify a theory of the ice age floods (4m 50s)
Joseph Pardee and Glacial Lake Missoula
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Scientist Joseph Pardee gathered evidence about the existence of Glacial Lake Missoula (3m 38s)
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Joseph Pardee confirmed Bretz’s theory of the ice age floods (4m 16s)
Landscape of the Pacific Northwest
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How floods and glaciers have shaped the landscape of the Pacific Northwest (5m 24s)
The Speed of the Missoula Floods
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The great Missoula floods flowed at 500 million cubic feet per second (2m 19s)
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