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Diluvial Catastrophes and the Ancient World

Diluvial Catastrophes and the Ancient World

October 21, 2016 by Comments are Disabled

In a recent two part article I introduced the reader to one of the great natural events in Earth history – the mighty Bonneville Flood. However, as I made clear, this enormous fluvial event was only a regional manifestation of a much larger event, one of such scale and magnitude that it almost defies comprehension. In this article I will […]

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Image: Lynn Topinka 2005 http://columbiariverimages.com/Regions/Places/wallula_gap.html

The Great Bonneville Flood – Part 1

October 1, 2016 by 2 comments

In a recent article I told the story of the Teton Dam disaster that occurred on June 5 of the year 1976 in the headwaters of the Snake River, Idaho. In conclusion to that installment I wrote that this modern catastrophic flood “overlapped the region of a gigantic prehistoric flood in the vicinity of American Falls as another juxtaposition of […]

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