Such wonderful photography and discussion. I have seen these places all my life, and recently have learned this geology, hiked these channels. But to see them stitched together in your videos really releases the power of imagination to visual the sequence and power that created these marvelous structures.Thanks so much!
Thanks Eric! Watched a couple of them due to your recommendation, and they were indeed great. I now know how I'm going to be spending a good part of my day, since it seems he has a lot out there.
What I would give to learn from one or more eye witnesses. Their unique account into those catastrophic events would once and for all, put goosebumps on a shudder.
Very, very interesting. My sister, a good friend, and I are planning on exploring the area next year. This is definitely something we don't want to miss! Thank you so much for sharing this. Wow! I continue to learn more about the results of the flood events. Absolutely fascinating!
Beautiful! I’ve never been there. I’m so fascinated by the geological history. It’s unfathomable, the amount of water that carved this terrain. And multiple times! We humans are a mere tick in the clock of time. This planet will save herself sometime, I suppose.
Your videos are so amazing. You can pick up a rock and wonder how it got there. You launch a drone and show us how an entire state was moved around, glorious. Thank you and have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
To the makers of these films, I give great thanks for making it's so easy to discover and learn about what took place millions of years ago. I have been in the Wenatchee area as a resident since 2004. Until the discovery of this series, I had no idea of the magnitude of what has happened and what was left behind as a result of the floods. I would like to address the subtitle portion of these films. I find it difficult to focus on what's being shown and what has to be read to understand what is being Shown. Because of the frequency on subtitles in the amount each subtitle contains sometimes it's impossible to catch the third element which is the visual part good lesson. It would also be more informative to those younger audience members who can't quite read so well yet at this point in their life
@8:48 RED arrows? Hummm... I would consider Lake Bonneville as an earlier source... run an elevation flood plain analysis and see where the high ground is today... what it there when Bonneville flooded?
I submit that the opposite happened. The upper layers above the Columbia regardless of which side were scoured first and at some point as the flow declined and was channeled into lower, narrower channels, it was increased in velocity by the constriction and cut faster.This can be seen in flood streams today. Any additional pulses (all floods are pulsed) would have now followed the new narrower, lower channels and sped up the channelized scouring even more. Ultimately the Columbia itself was the lowest and most constricted and most violent channel of all.. A single flood answering all details.
Thank you for the timelapse explanation, I was having a difficult time with some other explanations that did not include the reformation of glaciers that rerouted the flows. When do you believe humans first inhabited North America?
I know about Glacial lake Missoula, but Glacial Lake Columbia is a new one to me. Where was it? Were there other glacial lakes in the region too? I read a comment on another video from a Canadian viewer who said something about Lake Missoula style "bathtub rings" up in British Columbia. Is that where that lake was? Is it the mountainous terrain which caused these to happen in the Pacific northwest, but not elsewhere? Or did it happen elsewhere, and I just don't know about it?
Glacial Lake Columbia was at the location of today's man-made Lake Roosevelt. It filled the Columbia and Spokane River valleys up to 2400 ft elev, which would have been 2000' ft above today's Lake Roosevelt. The ice dam that blocked the Columbia River during the ice age, forming glacial Lake Columbia, was at about the same location as today's Grand Coulee Dam.
When you use the word "incredible", you are using it in its true meaning: not credible, not believable, beyond comprehension. I look at it, and my mind tries to imagine the flow of the water; its depth, speed, and what the flow consisted of, given it literally tore the territory apart, and was able to leave such massive bars. There are very few things on this planet which I struggle to visualise and imagine - this is one of them.
While this is unusual and beautiful landscape it is worthless as far as agriculture and any type of farming is concerned. A few Jeep trails but nothing else over the entire area and certainly no area that is habitable. What a waste.
