Saturday, April 18, 2009

Lecture by Noted Local Ice Age Floods expert Rick Thompson

"Willamette Valley: Evidence of Cataclysmic Missoula Ice Age Floods"
Museum of the Oregon Territory, Oregon City
211 Tumwater Drive, Oregon City, 3rd floor

The Lower Columbia Floods Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute invites you to a lecture at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, April 22 by noted local Geologist Rick Thompson. Rick Thompson has extensively studied and mapped features in the Willamette Valley left by the Cataclysmic Missoula Ice Age Floods.

The lecture will explore the unique geology between West Linn and Salem. Features will be presented related to a remarkable history of Quaternary flooding (Cataclysmic Missoula Ice Age Floods) that occurred 15,000 - 18,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age.

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