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Title page 103
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. 304.29 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 Wind-laid materials blanket much the greater part of the plain. These loessal materials, largely moved into the upper Snake Basin by prevailing winds from deserts and ancient lake beds to the west, range in depth from a thin sprinkling to heavy deposits exceeding 6 feet in thickness along the southern side of the plain. In the main, the wind-blown materials have been laid down on the surface of the basalt, but in some areas they cover or have been mixed with coarser, water-borne materials....
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1559

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