Comments on: Britain: only recently an island

By: Orygun

Orygun — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:22:00 +0000

The geography of the Columbia River Gorge also created Celilo Falls, which was home to one of the longest continuously inhabited areas known. People lived and fished at the falls for more than 10,000 years. The falls and the village were flooded when the gates closed at The Dalles Dam in 1957. The falls are on the East end of the Gorge. It is an interesting story worth learning about.

By: Doc

Doc — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:13:58 +0000

The Black Canyon, near Twin Falls, ID was cut to a depth of nearly 400 meters thru earlier lava flows (basalt) when Lake Bonneville sprang a leak – a BIG one. The gorge took less than a year to excavate, unlike its cousin to the south, the Grand Canyon of Arizona.

By: n2y2

n2y2 — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:17:08 +0000

I’ll mention the Black Sea deluge. Explorers have found entire well preserved villages beneath the Black Sea. The widely accepted hypothesis is that the deluge buried them and then preserved them in a low oxygen environment.

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:45:08 +0000

Wasn’t the strait of Gibralter supposed to have been the site of a massive waterfall or flood or something? Like the Mediterranean was a lake until “boom”?
Rich

By: Dick

Dick — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:12:25 +0000

“the beautiful Columbia River Gorge which separates Oregon and Washington wasn’t there a few hundred thousand years ago”

Err, no.

The Columbia River is over 20 million years old. It predates the Cascade Mountains, and the Gorge was cut by the river as the mountains rose.

The Missoula Floods made the Gorge wider, but not much deeper. The Floods took the route they did because the Gorge was already there.

By: NepentheSea

NepentheSea — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:29:00 +0000

“An almost unimaginably huge flood” Eh?
sounds Biblical.