Great Lakes Adventures

[Desdichado]

Lake Bonneville history

 

[ThaDium]

Cool. Thanks Dyal.

 

[jester47]

There is also lake missoula. I find it to be a little more poetic and fantastic than Bonneville. Missoula was blocked by an old ice dam. Eventually the ice dam broke and the lake hosed alot of the same area as lake bonneville.

In other words, DO NOT build you 100 billion year reich anywhere near spokane!


Aaron

 

[jester47]

http://www.glaciallakemissoula.org/

Interesting to note also that the Missouila floods were cyclic.

Also, check out the Channeled Scablands. They are a reasult of this flooding..

USGS has a site on it.

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/Glaciers/IceSheets/description_lake_missoula.html

This one is chock full of ideas!

I have actually thought about running a campaign set in the Pacific Northwest. This place is so fantastic in and of itself. I would just have to ignore the modern settlements on the USGS maps... rename the rivers, mount ranier, St helens, etc. Then all I would have to do is get a map of cities and towns durring the late 1800's. Settlement patterns would be pretty much the same, so this would tell me where the population centers would be.

Another thought is the humor of inland sea naming...

The Sea of Gallilee is called a sea. Lake superior is called a lake.

I love irony!

Aaron.

 

[alsih2o]

http://www.kentuckylaketourism.com/reelfootlake/how.html

reelfoot lake- the strangest lake in america....