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

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Geologists will tell you that lakes and rivers are temporary. Ultimately they will be changed. Evidence is clear on Falls Creek about 10 miles above Winthrop, a prime example of a hanging valley, cut off at valley by ice which lowered the valley floor and thus left the creeks falling over a scarp into the valley.
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