Opinion - in Our View: Path of Cataclysms; National Geological Trail Would Tell Story of Natural Disasters and Detective Work
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The water poured northwestward across the present sites of Washougal and Camas with a depth of nearly 500 feet. It swept up the Washougal and little Washougal Valleys and across the divide ... north of Washougal into the valley of Lackamas Creek, where it was joined by a similar torrent which had surged up Lackamas Creek, scouring out the depression now occupied by Lackamas Lake.
"Only the upper ... 200 feet of Prune Hill, west of Camas, stood above the waters. The entire Fourth Plains surface was inundated as far north as Woodland, 35 miles to the northwest. ... One broad channel paralleled the main Columbia River westward along Burnt Bridge Creek; others split off to the northwest and continued on into Salmon Creek ..."See the full content of this document
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Opinion - in Our View: Path of Cataclysms; National Geological Trail Would Tell Story of Natural Disasters and Detective Work
This passage from "Cataclysms on the Columbia (1986, Timber Press,) describes a relative picnic in comparison ...
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