Dry Falls, You Will Become a Catastrophist

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The dry falls are an amazing thing to think about. The facts show that multiple times the whole area was covered is glacial outflow that consistently happened and changed the landscape. The flood waters that shaped the basin required cataclysmic water flow. J Harlen Bretz was able to see the scale of the impacted basin and presented the evidence to his colleagues for many years. Harlen’s peers were unwilling to accept his findings due to the scale of flooding required. Nearly all geologists at the time were unwilling to accept the proposals from Harlen, repeated cataclysmic floods of the scale needed to impact the basin were not conceivable. Eventually Harlen’s peers were convinced by the evidence.

The water that exists today is due to seepage from the water table forming the visible springs.

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J Harlen Bretz
Columbia River drainage basin

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