Glacial Lake Missoula

While all three of the videos we have watched during recent labs have been interesting, I was most intrigued by the scablands.   I was most amazed by the fact that one man understood that the landscape had been shaped by a single cataclysmic event.  He realized that his idea was radically different than the thoughts of his peers.  The common geological belief at that time was that the land was shaped overtime by slow processes.  His proposition was considered radical and foolish by many of his peers. While one of his peers was aware that a flood had probably occurred at that time with enough strength to produce the effects that he suggested, that man did not share his information for fear of professional suicide.  Eventually his work was vindicated when the man was able to share his information.