Randall Carlson

the scab land tract, you go up to the top of the Telford and you can see a channel coming out, uh, flowing to the Southeast. And that was flowing out of Telford down here, flowing almost due West was flowing out of the, the, uh, Cheney Palouse. And I think both of these were flowing simultaneously. Um, so I've been all, you know, up and down through here, taking tours up and down there. And, um,

There's so, I mean, we could sit here for four hours and talk about just what we're looking at here, but we won't do that. Okay. Uh, let's go to the next one, Ryan. Oh yes. I'm just labeling stuff there. Strand lines on Mount Jumbo. This is Missoula.

There's so, I mean, we could sit here for four hours and talk about just what we're looking at here, but we won't do that. Okay. Uh, let's go to the next one, Ryan. Oh yes. I'm just labeling stuff there. Strand lines on Mount Jumbo. This is Missoula.

There's so, I mean, we could sit here for four hours and talk about just what we're looking at here, but we won't do that. Okay. Uh, let's go to the next one, Ryan. Oh yes. I'm just labeling stuff there. Strand lines on Mount Jumbo. This is Missoula.

This is one of the things that JT Pardee first noticed that led him to believe there had been a great lake and the uppermost strand line, which is a shoreline is nearly a thousand feet above Missoula, the town. And then I just have a quote from Genesis there because it seemed apropos. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth and all the high hills were covered.

This is one of the things that JT Pardee first noticed that led him to believe there had been a great lake and the uppermost strand line, which is a shoreline is nearly a thousand feet above Missoula, the town. And then I just have a quote from Genesis there because it seemed apropos. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth and all the high hills were covered.

This is one of the things that JT Pardee first noticed that led him to believe there had been a great lake and the uppermost strand line, which is a shoreline is nearly a thousand feet above Missoula, the town. And then I just have a quote from Genesis there because it seemed apropos. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth and all the high hills were covered.

That was the water that was, I believe, that was coming out of Canada. It filled the basin of Missoula Basin up 1,000 feet deep. where the town of Missoula now is. This is actually taken, I took this picture standing on the campus of the University of Montana. You can actually see it very clearly. And the question is, is where these separate floods or was it all one flood?

That was the water that was, I believe, that was coming out of Canada. It filled the basin of Missoula Basin up 1,000 feet deep. where the town of Missoula now is. This is actually taken, I took this picture standing on the campus of the University of Montana. You can actually see it very clearly. And the question is, is where these separate floods or was it all one flood?

That was the water that was, I believe, that was coming out of Canada. It filled the basin of Missoula Basin up 1,000 feet deep. where the town of Missoula now is. This is actually taken, I took this picture standing on the campus of the University of Montana. You can actually see it very clearly. And the question is, is where these separate floods or was it all one flood?

I think it was all one flood that subsided you know, incrementally as the water drained off. Right. Okay.

I think it was all one flood that subsided you know, incrementally as the water drained off. Right. Okay.

I think it was all one flood that subsided you know, incrementally as the water drained off. Right. Okay.

I think it was a lake that filled up rapidly and then drained off somewhat slower. And you can, and once you understand this, the, the, the basin here, Missoula basin, in order for this water to drain out, it had to go through this torturous route of, of valleys with constrictions, basins, 180-degree hairpin turns.

I think it was a lake that filled up rapidly and then drained off somewhat slower. And you can, and once you understand this, the, the, the basin here, Missoula basin, in order for this water to drain out, it had to go through this torturous route of, of valleys with constrictions, basins, 180-degree hairpin turns.

I think it was a lake that filled up rapidly and then drained off somewhat slower. And you can, and once you understand this, the, the, the basin here, Missoula basin, in order for this water to drain out, it had to go through this torturous route of, of valleys with constrictions, basins, 180-degree hairpin turns.

And what that meant was that the rise and the fall in water level is not going to be smooth. It's going to be a stepped process, right? And I think that's what you're seeing right here. But this is what Pardee saw back when he wrote his 1910 paper thought the strand lines. And then looking at the floor of the valleys had layered deposits, like you would expect to have occurred in a lake. Um, okay.

And what that meant was that the rise and the fall in water level is not going to be smooth. It's going to be a stepped process, right? And I think that's what you're seeing right here. But this is what Pardee saw back when he wrote his 1910 paper thought the strand lines. And then looking at the floor of the valleys had layered deposits, like you would expect to have occurred in a lake. Um, okay.

And what that meant was that the rise and the fall in water level is not going to be smooth. It's going to be a stepped process, right? And I think that's what you're seeing right here. But this is what Pardee saw back when he wrote his 1910 paper thought the strand lines. And then looking at the floor of the valleys had layered deposits, like you would expect to have occurred in a lake. Um, okay.

Next slide. All right, so this is the same thing, you see. And so this is the kind of evidence that when we are... You know, what I tell people is, well, we're like detectives, and we're going to try to solve this, because this might be part of the murder mystery. What happened to the great megafauna? Because for one thing, I can tell you this.