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Glad you like it!

Yep. I love being constantly reminded that I dont live where there is ANY interesting geology. Like, literally nothing. (upstate South Carolina). OMG I would LOVE to see this stuff just once with my own eyes. So it is a bit annoying af to keep being reminded I can't just take a cool selfie and post it. I'm with you, Erik - leave the commercials out of it and just tell me the story.

Thank you, George! Glad you enjoyed it!

Glad it was helpful!

Why do people seem to think glaciers are nothing but water ice? You have massive walls of earth being bulldozed by the glacier called glacial moraines.

It seems incapable because it is not possible in those real world conditions. Your interpretation is correct, the ice dammed lake theory is very lacking. Just look at what happened in Lybia with the engineered dam failing. Now multiply that up to scale and do it dozens of times, while the ice sheet is simultaneously retreating. It's a nonsense theory taught as fact.

The timing is all wrong for such as the last of the of the floods predate the Younger Dryas.

then when the water of the lake went away, the earth crust might have rebounded, making it higher in elevation.

So what kinds of trees did you find, and what unusual qualities did they have? Spotted Owl nests, perhaps?

@@SeattlePioneer Wow! Great question! I can't say. I was 30 ft down in low-vis Spring runoff... Like walking through a fast flowing, thick fog, with patches of it getting a bit clearer to see into, and farther... And, the current slowed, and it was a bit more clear, on the bottom.... One patch had a bunch of them tipped over, and tangled.... With all of them being extremely straight, and useable, and valuable! I couldn't see the tops from way down there; but, I'm sure, they were Eagles... Not "Owls.". Get your birds right, son. Lol. (Some people's children! Damn!). I was just blown away, that I was basically strolling along, through a - standing - very thick Spruce forest... Like it were a fresh mowed Park. I even took my Doubles off, so I could swim under one that had fallen, long ago, that was 6 ft thick, at about 20 ft from the root-ball... And, the hole the roots left behind... Bark still on them all, too... And, they all had the same, slight lean. Incredible to witness! I want it studied! While I can still help. That was back in 1981... Looking for two dead fishermen, with Search and Rescue. And, I have a plan! And, it needs a good dive team... Preferable Saturation Divers... I want the first one. And, there are thousands and thousands of them! Any more good questions...?...

@@johnheigis83 > Sounds like you need the television program "Swamp loggers" or perhaps "Axe men" which does segments on underwater logging sometimes.

@@SeattlePioneer I'm familiar with them. I used to fell timber. Trust me, they could learn from my experience. They ain't good enough for this. However, thanks, to you, for the suggestion. I do need to get that done. In late summer, when the waters clear and low. Forestry personnel, who know timber sciences. A professional camera crew. And, we need to lift one out, and to get it wet-stored... ... Cut, and dried very slow, so to not check, warp or split. Can you imagine, the mineral stains in that softer wood. Thirty feet of multiple soil levels to study and test. And, to determine, if they grew before the last Ice Age, or right after Lake Missoula drained. I suspect, it's from long before!

@@SeattlePioneer Oh, too. I couldn't hear the birds tweet, or Owls hoot, way down there, cause my ears were full of water. Lol. (You do know, you were kinda being a dick; but, you did make me realize, it needed more effort.)

Sliding? Glaciers push in like bulldozers. Trapped in the low points? Not with an entire continent of ice pushing behind it.

@@swirvinbirds1971 I realize that glaciers do "push like a bulldozer" but there is no evidence of moraines left behind as the glacier would have melted back north on the flat ground just north of the Sandpoint area. Seems like there would have been moraines left in that area. There are none in the Kootenai Valley as well and no dropped boulders on the valley floor that might have been trapped in floating icebergs while there was a sizeable ancient glacial lake.

@@trebornoslo1951 absolutely false. The terminal moraine from the ice dam can still be found in the Clark Fork Valley today.

i think in this time in history the whole world experiened waters rising and flooding for instance the gibraltar straight was once connected and britain was connected to europe . once the water breeched the gibraltar straight it flooded in and would have flooded many towns around the med.

I watched a series called ancient apocalypse on Netflix very interesting it also states 1 catastrophic event is responsible for this.

Yes it’s called the great flood spoken of in Genesis chapter 6. It was a world wide flood and 20 feet above the highest mountain.

i was just thinking that , its too uniform for random floods...perhaps there was a blockage further down near the ocean, which froze every winter leaving water in place to make a mark , then following year it would go down another 20ft, and stop

Nope. The strand lines are a result of gentile wave action on a long lived lake shore.

​@@VirginiaPrepperno. That was the breaching of the Black Sea and has nothing to do with Glacial Lake Missoula.

You are in luck! We have both a closed caption version and a non-closed caption version. Here is a link ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JfBd7Got_TE.html

Neither a few hundred years nor hundreds of thousand of years but a few thousand years.

I agree 👍

Yup, we’ll just change keep changing the story and retelling it until it fits your “angle”, where ever that comes from. Religious?

Absolutely not. 😂 We would have a written record of such and the scarring would still be fresh.

For Missoula itself it is dozens, not hundreds of floods and NONE of the floods are from 12,800 years ago but in fact is even older. The last of the floods were long before the Younger Dryas. Just FYI sea level rise SLOWED during the Younger Dryas. The black mats are organic materials. They are wetland deposits.

@@swirvinbirds1971 🤦‍♂

@@petergaworecki2824 wow, what convincing evidence...🤔

What's the problem? Is it a big deal? Like the way you put it seems like it's the end of the world issue.