NEW DATE DUE TO ICE STORM IS FEBRUARY 15, 7PM

The Lower Columbia Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute and Tualatin Historical Society present:

Dr. Scott Burns:

Ancient Ice Age Floods Before the Missoula Floods

We have had Ice Age Floods in the Pacific Northwest over the past 2.8 million years. We mostly concentrate on the last ones which are called the Missoula Floods. They happened between 15,000-20,000 years ago.  

There is a story in the Pacific Northwest of many Ice Age Floods before the Missoula Floods. Erica Medley, a MS student of Scott Burns, did her thesis on the topic and discovered many outcrops of these ancient floods which are rarely discussed.  

Dr. Burns will talk about these oft-forgotten floods and the very interesting story of them in the study of the Ice Age Floods in the Pacific Northwest.

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 Dr. Scott Burns has been teaching geology for 54 years in Switzerland, New Zealand, Washington, Colorado and Louisiana before coming in 1990 to Portland State University. He loves talking about the geology of the Pacific Northwest and this subject that is so many times neglected. Professor Emeritus of Engineering Geology, Portland State University. President IAEG (International Association of Engineering Geologists and the Environment). Member Board of Directors, Lower Columbia Chapter Ice Age Floods Institute. Co-Author revised Second Edition: "Cataclysms on the Columbia"