missoula floods

NEW! Visualizing PNW Landforms Using Overlays for Google Earth®

Google Earth® is an amazing tool that has revolutionized how we are able to view the Earth through satellite imagery. Now it can be even better: we've turned it into a powerful tool for viewing bare naked landforms by stripping the "noise" of vegetation and the patchwork nature of the imagery.

Explore the big picture of physiographic provinces, or get down to the nitty gritty of volcanic debris, scoria cones and volcanic plugs. Compare the different types of volcanoes in one frame and see explore connections among them. View the entire drainage systems of Mts. Rainier, St. Helens, Hood, and others to predict where lahars will flow and who is at risk. The possibilities are endless.

Missoula Floods Video

In a geologic heartbeat, cataclysmic floods containing ten times the flow of all the world’s rivers thundered across the Pacific Northwest and changample of how major scientific theories have been challenged - and changed, with the emergence of new and compelling evidence - and how scientists are often not in agreement in their interpretations of that evidence.

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