Ice dam proponents claim that the Missoula Flood occurred many times. Geologists estimate that the cycle of flooding and reformation of the lake lasted on average of 55 years and that the floods occurred approximately 40 times over the 2,000 year period between 15,000 and 13,000 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_Floods So, not only did a catastrophic …
Let’s look at another interesting anomaly, the erratics. Scattered throughout the Channeled Scablands are boulders of various sizes. Most of them are igneous rocks. But granite boulders of many different sizes are scattered erratically throughout the area. Indeed, they are known as “erratics.” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcript … afloo.html mostly-granite-strewn debris fields over 15 square miles of Rattlesnake …
I don’t see how erosional patters are supposed to give any clues about what held back the water. Whether it was a rock wall, ice, a man made concrete dam – the floods that occur when it breaks look pretty much the same and leave pretty much identical erosional patterns. My theory is different from …
Here is another problem I see with the ice dam theory. The flood was supposedly strong enough to erode hundreds of feet deep of solid rock. When it approached Wallula Gap, all the water in the flood had to funnel through this small passage, yet it was only able to erode it one mile wide. …
It’s typically explained that Wallula Gap existed for at least 10 million years. “Early in the history of folding, the ridgecrest here was slightly lower than elsewhere along the ridge. This caused first the ancient Salmon-Clearwater River (precursor to the Snake River), and then the Columbia River to flow across the ridge over this low …
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The Wallula Gap was one of the deepest places during the flood. It is estimated to have been 1250 feet deep. http://www.iinet.com/~englishriver/Lewi … loods.html In the image below, we see erosion all the way to the top of the gap: Yet, it was also one of the narrowest points in which the flood flowed through: …
Some more photos to illustrate my points. Again, rushing water strong enough to erode hundreds of feet of solid rock should not leave columns of rock in the middle of the erosion area like this: http://www.iinet.com/~englishriver/Lewi … loods.html And an on rush of water to rapidly erode solid rock should also not exhibit such curves …
We have 50 cubic miles of earth eroded within 3 days. It eroded hundreds of feet of rock all the way down to the Columbia River Basalt Group. So, here is the problem. How could water (even if it was moving at 45 miles per hour) erode solid rock hundreds of feet thick within 3 …
Let me go a little bit into what the flood did… More than one hundred years ago, geologists began to ponder the landforms in eastern Washington State. They noticed that the land surface is essentially flat and underlain by thick and extensive basalt flows, with only a thin soil cover. They called this area a …
Let’s take a look at the ice dam hypothesis. Sometimes a glacier flows down a valley to a confluence where the other branch carries an unfrozen river. The glacier blocks the river, which backs up into a lake, which eventually overflows or undermines the ice dam, suddenly releasing the impounded water. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_dam A glacier created …