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"It was the biggest flood in the world for which there is geological evidence...It was so vast a geological event that the mind of man could only conceive of it but could not prove it until photographs could be taken from Earth satellites."

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Norman Maclean

The PBS program NOVA aired Mystery of the Megaflood , a program about the formation of the channeled scablands and related phenomena.

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With room to spare, two Empire State Buildings could have stood one atop the other against Glacial Lake Missoula's ice dam, which experts believe reached as high as 2,000 feet above water (and perhaps another 1,500 feet below).

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Click here for a preview of the program.


Edited by Hill (08/21/07 12:37 PM)

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