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Sculpted by Floods: The Northwest's Ice Age Legacy
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Join the scientists as they struggle to decipher this story.
It is a story of the earth's power, scientific discovery and human nature - one touted by enthusiasts as the greatest story left untold. During the last ice age, floods flowing with ten times the volume of all the world's current rivers combined inundated the Northwest. What left behind was a unique and often puzzling landscape that we call home.
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KSPS Documentaries
Sculpted by Floods: The Northwest's Ice Age Legacy
Special | 57m 20sVideo has Closed Captions
It is a story of the earth's power, scientific discovery and human nature - one touted by enthusiasts as the greatest story left untold. During the last ice age, floods flowing with ten times the volume of all the world's current rivers combined inundated the Northwest. What left behind was a unique and often puzzling landscape that we call home.
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The Acceptance of J Harlen Bretz’s Ice Age Flood Theory
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Clip: Special | 2m | J Harlen Bretz provided photographic evidence of great floods (2m)
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Clip: Special | 4m 9s | The Missoula floods carved new river channels or altered exiting ones (4m 9s)
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Clip: Special | 4m 38s | Geologists conducted studies that the great flood occurred multiple times. (4m 38s)
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Clip: Special | 6m 17s | 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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Clip: Special | 1m 11s | An overview of Glacial Lake Missoula (1m 11s)
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Clip: Special | 1m 27s | An overview of ice age flood story (1m 27s)
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Clip: Special | 4m 50s | 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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Clip: Special | 3m 38s | Scientist Joseph Pardee gathered evidence about the existence of Glacial Lake Missoula (3m 38s)
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Clip: Special | 4m 16s | Joseph Pardee confirmed Bretz’s theory of the ice age floods (4m 16s)
Landscape of the Pacific Northwest
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Clip: Special | 5m 24s | How floods and glaciers have shaped the landscape of the Pacific Northwest (5m 24s)
The Speed of the Missoula Floods
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Clip: Special | 2m 19s | The great Missoula floods flowed at 500 million cubic feet per second (2m 19s)
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