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would hate to see speaker nancy having to cling to her ice cream containers as pfd's. if the big one hit.her freezers would be safe, right?
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I remember reading about one in science FACT... the Inland Sea that had most of the Midwest underwater in the Late Cretaceous and prevented the eastward spread of the Tyrannosaurus-Triceratops bullfights.I recall reading about The Great Nebraska Sea in a sci-fi story many years ago...it could still happen, y'know.....
Google driving directions from Indianapolis to Denver. Drive 200 miles to Missouri, take jet ski 800 miles to Denver..For those of you, like me, gifted with a long memory, here is the full story of how the USA gained its very own 'sea between the states', sometime in 1973.
It never happened, of course, but it might have done...
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Not totally implausible since it DID happen long before us, and there were reversions to a smaller Inland Sea during the Cenozoic.For those of you, like me, gifted with a long memory, here is the full story of how the USA gained its very own 'sea between the states', sometime in 1973.
It never happened, of course, but it might have done...
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Officials: A dam in Oregon could fail in a large earthquake
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has determined that a large earthquake — which is expected to occur again in the Pacific Northwest sooner or later — could cause the spillway gates of a dam in Oregon to buckle, resulting “in a potentially catastrophic flood.” The Corps announced late Monday it...www.yahoo.com
Does that mean anywhere in the WV that is below 450ft of elevation was under water?During the end of the Last Glaciation, when the last ide dam at the Clark Fork river let go, draining Glacial Lake Missoula of 500 cubic MILES of water, the resultant flood down the Columbia River and its tributaries raised the level of water in the Willamette Valley to just over 450 feet from one end to the other.
Does that mean anywhere in the WV that is below 450ft of elevation was under water?
And it ticks me off about it's leaving all those rocks I hit every time I put a shovel in the dirt here.Just about everything - look at the map I posted, figure out where you live, and let me know. As my Masters was based mainly on the last Cordillerian Glacial Period and its resultant flooding, I'm interested to know.
What piqued my interest in the period was standing in the car park at Crown Point, Oregon, and looking up the Gorge. Noting the numerous hanging valleys and their incredible waterfalls, like Multnomah, I got to thinking what the view might have been around 12500 years ago, when the last gasp of the last Glacial Lake Missoula flood came down the river, 500 feet high and travelling at 60 -70 mph, clearing away everything that isn't there any more.
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Makes ya feel small, eh?