Record Details
page 17
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 17 |
| Relation | Columbia River |
| Date | 2005-02-22 to 2005-04-11 |
| Rights | This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested. |
| Type | page |
| Format | Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 341.345 kb 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - greyscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit grayscale tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale tiffs edited in Photoshop 6.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
| Description | Basin is a region of great contrasts. Lofty mountains, studded with glaciers and shrouded in virgin forests, characterize some parts of the basin; in other vast areas, deserts supporting only drab sagebrush and a scanty growth of forage grasses are characteristic. One weather station in the basin records an average of nearly 118 inches of precipitation annually; another records less than 6. Thickly populated commercial and industrial centers contrast with vast stretches of virtually... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1478 |
