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Talk focuses on ice age, floods

| December 30, 2016 12:00 AM

SANDPOINT — On Thursday, Jan. 5, the Friends of the Library will welcome Tony Lewis from the Ice Age Floods Institute. His presentation will be: “Ice Age Mega-Floods: A Phenomenon Unique to the Pacific Northwest”.

The program begins at noon in the Rude Girls Room at the East Bonner County Library District’s Sandpoint Library.

The Ice Age Floods have had a major impact in the formation of the physical and cultural landscape in the Pacific Northwest. The story behind the revelation and acceptance of these flood events is in itself a most interesting story, including academic blindness and massive egos. Our adventure into this climatic/geologic phenomenon will begin with a lecture focusing on the physical processes and the resultant landscape morphology closely associated with these processes. Regionally the lecture will focus on ice age flood features in eastern Washington and northern Idaho.