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Chronicle OnLine > Features > Area geology
Okanogan Country Geology
(or How the Okanogan grew)

Glen and Elizabeth Widel photo
Basalt far from its providing cliff.. The problem of how heavy (tons) chunks of rock could turn up miles from their source is solved by the icebergs which swept along with the floods from Lake Missoula when its ice dam burst and turned loose a torrent unmatched in the record.
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