Monday, April 29, 2013
Mystery of the Megaflood
The movie, "Mystery of the Megaflood," was about a place 200 miles east of Seattle in Washington that is a very weird terrain that is over 100 miles deep with large boulders scattered throughout it. There were different explanations on how the "scablands" got there. One was that there was a river running through it, but there was no river ever actually found. Another explanation was that a glacier had once been sitting on top of the area, but no evidence was ever found of a glacier. Scientist Harlen Bretz figured out that there was a huge flood that came pretty much overnight. People did not think this was possible because it was a "catastrophism". It turns out there was a glacier dam that was holding water from a lake in and it broke which released the water onto the scablands and this is how the scablands formed. This is how the "mysterious megaflood" occured.
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