Randall Carlson
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and the rocks of their countries bear evidence, yet more conclusive, of the same calamities which probably swept off the populations in the plains, and as their traditions say, left scattered remnants on the summits of the Andes and the Rocky Mountains.
Amongst all these tribes, as well as amongst the present Mexicans and the numerous tribes to the north, even to the Kiowas and the Comanches, I have found distinct traditions of three successive cataclysms, two by water and one by fire.
And in the rocks and mountains both in the West India Islands and on the Mexican coast, as well as in Yucatan and its ruins, I have found from chemical and geological tests undeniable evidences of the same catastrophes.
Now, of course, this was completely ignored by geology, which, you know, subsequent to this, Lyellian uniformitarianism became the primary dogma of geology once it became an academic discipline in the late 1800s. And at that point, all references to great floods, deluges, catastrophes was expunged from the curriculum. Why? Well...
It was only a few generations earlier that science had been able to finally dominate over a strictly theological or biblical interpretation. And they say, we're not going to compromise our hard-won, you know, supremacy over the biblical doctrine by going back to deluges and floods and all of that.
And this is why in the 1920s when Harlan Bretts first proposed these great floods out in the Pacific Northwest, they didn't want to hear about it. And it took 25 years before they finally acknowledged and admitted that, you know, Brett's was right. But they then, they imposed upon that an explanation that I think basically straitjacketed any further explanation.
interpretations of what caused this flood. And this is a satellite view here of the Channel Scablands. This is the Columbia Basalt Plateau. You might see upper and lower Grand Coulee. And notice that sort of arc-shaped, darker area to the west of Grand Coulee. You see that? That is called the, that is the Withrow Moraine Plateau.
And that defines the southern limit of what is called the Okanagan ice lobe. And it's so loaded with rocks and boulders and stuff that there's been very little agriculture on it. And so that very distinct arcuate line there is the transition to where south of that is where you have the outwash plain. And that's mostly farms now.
But as soon as you get to the mooring, it's too hummocky and you can't plow it. You can't grow anything on it. So that's kind of right there, that arcuate plain. features the southern lobe. It's called the Okanagan lobe, a part of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet. And you've got those darker areas. You see one coming down there about the middle of the screen. That's called the Telford Scabland Tract.
And when Bretz discovered this, he assumed that it was a discharge. That's the Columbia River coming down, like from... just center right, makes a sharp bend to the west, goes over, and then you can see where Grand Coulee starts, and then the Columbia arcs to the north and then back to the south. He assumed that this was water discharging from the ice sheet right there at that great bend region.
Okay. That's not accepted now. Okay. The theory now is that it came from several hundred miles to the east from discharging Lake Missoula. Then over to the right-hand side of the screen, you've got what's called the Cheney-Palouse scab land. Okay. And that is coming just south of Spokane, Washington. It's right up there in the upper corner of the screen.
And it comes down and it meets, you just see down there in the lower right-hand corner, you see a little piece of the Snake River. That came down and hit the Snake, the Valley of the Snake River. And all of this water coming from Grand Coulee, Telford, Cheney Palouse, and look at the snout of the Okanagan Lobe.
You're going to see a big channel coming off of there, comes down and it hooks to the west and then does another sharp 90. You see that, what I'm talking about? Yeah. That's called Moses Coulee. That was another gigantic discharge. Almost the scale of Grand Coulee. 300 million cubic feet per second, roughly.
So all of those, now the question is, is where all of those flowing simultaneously or were they sequentially? The current view is that they were sequential. I don't accept that.
I think they were all flowing simultaneously and we can, you know, be, I don't want to get into too much detail why I think that, but, uh, I think I've got good reasons for thinking that, but this is the overview of the channel scab land. And let's go to the next slide, Drew. Ryan, sorry. This is a colored version, satellite view, taken from about 500 miles up.
Grand Coulee is off the scene to the left, but you see the Telford Scabland, you see the Cheney Palouse. You can see the Snake River now pretty clear. And you can see, for example, if you look at coming about halfway down Cheney Palouse, you're going to see an elongated lake, and then you're going to see this dark channel going to the west. That's like an overflow. That's a spillway out of Cheney.
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.
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?
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