Record Details
page 12
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 12 |
| Relation | Power and the Pacific Northwest |
| Date | 2005-04-20 to 2005-05-09 |
| 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. 267.593 kb 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - greyscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale and 48>24 RGB color tiffs edited in Photoshop CS 8.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted, grayscale bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
| Description | miles wide, with a drop of over 400 feet. By way of comparison, Niagara Falls, one mile wide and with a drop of only 165 feet, would have been dwarfed by Dry Falls. The power at this point of the Ice Age diverted Columbia River was at least that of 100 Niagaras. Periodically, additional erosive power was provided by the massive floodwaters which resulted when the ice dam that held glacial Lake Missoula in check crumbled. As much as 50 cubic miles of water rushed westward toward the Columbia... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1937 |
