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MY TURN: Mega floods, massive basalt flows and monarch butterflies

by JIM PEARL/Guest Opinion
| March 8, 2024 1:00 AM

Twenty years ago, Bill Buley of the Coeur d’Alene Press wrote an article titled, “Noah Next Door” (2004). The article was on worldwide catastrophism and geological methods.

Outdoor enthusiasts will know of some of the Earth’s Ice-Age (Pleistocene) lakes and associated catastrophic floods. As early as 1890, geologist G.K. Gilbert noted that huge ancient Lake Bonneville in northern Utah had partly drained into the Snake River of southern Idaho. 

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