GigaFlood
Subtitle: the Lake Missoula flood in northwest Oregon and southwest Washington
By: Rick Thompson
Publisher: LMF Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Portland, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780989084017
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Glacial epoch; Floods; Stratigraphic Geology; Structural Geology; Geology; Pleistocene Geologic Epoch
Other titles: Giga flood
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-191) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the Lake Missoula flood story; title: The Ice Age; title: Ice sheets and ice lobes; title: The Lake Missoula floods; title: Discovering the floods; title: The channeled scablands; title: Water gaps; title: The Columbia River Gorge; title: Clark County Washington; title: Gravel pits and rock quarries; title: Portland area inundation; title: Portland area flood channels; title: Erratic boulders; title: Tualatin, Yamhill & Willamette valleys; title: The mad rush for the exits; title: The water departing through Portland.