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	AmeriScan: January 3, 2005
		But it is possible that the current cluster of earthquakes may have one or more events left in it — some clusters within the past 10,000 years have had clusters of up to five events — and within a cluster, the average time interval between earthquakes is 300 years.
		During at least 17 of these events, the entire fault zone appears to have ruptured at once, causing an earthquake around magnitude 9, and major tsunamis.
		The Asian event happened where the India plate was being subducted beneath the Burma microplate, and it ruptured — for the first time since 1833 - along a 600 mile front that is just about the same length as the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/jan2005/2005-01-03-09.asp (4105 words)

	GEOLOGY (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He regarded geological processes as natural and orderly events that could be studied in the light of reason, rather than as supernatural interventions.
		The geologic periods in these eras are sometimes named for the regions where rocks of the period in question are well exposed; for example, the Permian period of the Paleozoic is named for the region of European Russia called Perm.
		Geological processes may conveniently be divided into those that originate within the earth (endogenic processes) and those that originate externally (exogenic processes).
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..ge029600.a (5586 words)

	Bridge of the Gods (modern structure) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bridge of the Gods is a steel truss cantilever bridge that spans the Columbia River between Cascade Locks, Oregon and the U.S. state of Washington.
		It is approximately 40 mi (64 km) east of Portland, Oregon and 4 miles (6.4 km) upriver from the Bonneville Dam.
		The bridge is named after a famous geologic event also known as Bridge of the Gods.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bridge_of_the_Gods_(modern_structure) (129 words)

	Physical Geography of the U.S.
		Geologically, the Middle Rockies are mainly folded mountains like the Bighorn Mountains, which have been eroded exposing the crystalline rock core (mainly granite), uplifted fault blocks like the Tetons, and the remains of volcanic plateaus like the Absaroka Mountains.
		The events include the rafting in on an oceanic plate "immigrant" terranes that were jammed against the continent, sedimentary rock formation some of which was eventually metamorphosed, the subduction of the Kula and Farralon plates causing widespread volcanism and plutonic action, which emplaced the great granitic Sierra batholith, faulting, and uplift.
		Geologically, Florida is the emerged part of the Peninsular Arch, which is underlain with Cretaceous limestone that accounts for the large number of sinkholes and most of the nearly 8,000 lakes.
	users.california.com /~parvin/geology.html (16748 words)

	Bridge of the Gods (geologic event) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The original Bridge of the Gods was created by the Bonneville Slide, which dammed the Columbia River (see also Columbia River Gorge) in the modern-day Pacific Northwest of the United States in the eighteenth century.
		It has been verified geologically, and there are native legends of it.
		It is now the name of a bridge, the Bridge of the Gods, across the Columbia between Oregon and Washington.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bridge_of_the_Gods_(geologic_event) (123 words)

	Mount St. Helens
		Perhaps the most famous of these is the Bridge of the Gods legend told by the Klickitats.
		According to geological evidence, St. Helens started growth in the Pleistocene 37,600 years ago with dacite and andesite eruptions of pumice and ash.
		As with the Kalama cycle, the sequence of events started with an explosion of dacite tephra followed by an andesite lava flow and then culminated with the emplacement of a dacite dome.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/mount_st__helens.html (2902 words)

	Bridge photos, Bridge postcards -- Bridgepix.com
		The Bridge of the Gods is a steel truss cantilever bridge that spans the Columbia River between Cascade Locks, Oregon and Washington state near Stevenson.
		The higher river levels resulting from the construction of the Bonneville Dam required the bridge to be further elevated and extended to its current length of 1,856 ft. The bridge is named after a famous geologic event also known as Bridge of the Gods.
		The Pacific Crest Trail crosses the Columbia River on the Bridge of the Gods and the lowest elevation of the trail is on this bridge.
	www.bridgepix.com /bridgeblog/?p=522 (211 words)

	Garden of the Gods Geology (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This type of geologic event is known as an epeirogeny.
		Two significant sequences of events, each directly related to the creation of Garden of the Gods, had occurred within the flurry of mountain building activity during the previous 65 million years.
		The second sequence of events of consequence was activity along a relatively small fault line in the Pikes Peak Batholith.
	home.att.net /~goggallery/frames/geology2.htm (3186 words)

	Legends_Columbia_Gorge
		The bridge was called “The Great Cross Over” and is now named “The Bridge of the Gods.” [Note: One can only assume that subsequent volcanic eruptions of Mt. Adam and Mt. Hood, directly across the river from one another, may indeed have collapsed the bridge as so colorfully described in the legend].
		The Bridge of the Gods as it exists today was created in a much less glamorous fashion than the legend proclaims.
		With the construction of the Bonneville Dam in 1938, the bridge had to be raised to accommodate the rise in backwater from the new dam.
	www.ampbreia.com /ampbreia2_064.htm (2402 words)

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		The Bridge of the Gods is a steel truss bridge across the Columbia River, conntecting Oregon and Washington approximately 40 mi (64 km) east of Portland, Oregon.
		The bridge is named after a famous geologic event called the Bridge of the Gods.
	www.display-cases.org /news18/gods.html (100 words)

	Jim E. O'Connor \| The Evolving Landscape of the Columbia River Gorge: Lewis and Clark and Cataclysms on the Columbia \| ...
		The Bridge of the Gods, completed in 1926, took advantage of the natural constriction of the Columbia between the eroded toe of the Bonneville landslide and the southern valley margin.
		Instead of a landscape of slow geologic processes involving unfathomable "millions and millions of years," as is typically droned out in visitor-center narrations throughout the West, the floods, landslides, and volcanic eruptions shaping the Columbia River Gorge involved tremendous forces over time periods ranging from days to decades.
		The recent ages of some of the geologic events that formed these features show quite emphatically that the pre-1805 landscape — including the land, people, and ecosystems — was not static but one of drastic and dramatic change.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/ohq/105.3/oconnor.html (9459 words)

	Bonneville Landslide (Site not responding. Last check: )
		They correctly stated that "the passage of the river through the narrow pass at the rapids has been obstructed by the rocks which have fallen from the hills into the channel," although they were off in their estimate that the landslide had occurred "within the last 20 years."
		Coyote caused the bridge to collapse in an effort to keep the feuding brothers apart.
		Signs of flooding Researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey have been examining sites downstream from the slide area to determine the effects of the flood unleashed by the river's breakthrough of the natural dam.
	landslides.usgs.gov /html_files/bonneville (1846 words)

	Digging in a Geologist's Playground
		In February, they traveled east along the Columbia River just past the Bridge of the Gods, the 80-year-old steel crossing that geologic evidence and Native folklore suggest was once the site of a natural rock bridge.
		Safran says geologists are fairly certain when landslides created the bridge, but less sure about when and how it was breached.
		Since the bridge would have backed up the Columbia River into a "Lake of the Gods," Safran says finding and dating sediments from that lake could yield valuable evidence.
	www.lclark.edu /dept/chron/geoplaygrounds06.html (403 words)

	90.03.11: The National Parks: Teaching the Geology of America
		Over Earth’s geologic history its surface has constantly been changed and revised by erosion and so we can look at formations in the parks as just a moment in time knowing that they are also destined to be worn away by the erosional agents of water, wind, and ice.
		Its geologic formation is that of a basin formed by the down faulting of large blocks and uplifting of surrounding mountain ranges.
		Kachina Bridge is the newest and is still enlarging, Sipapu is a mature bridge with its abutments far enough apart so that the stream passing beneath it is no longer cutting in, and Owachomo is a very old bridge, only 9 feet thick and 180 feet across.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1990/3/90.03.11.x.html (11461 words)

	where did the story of the rainbow bridge come from - www.ezboard.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Immediately after the bridge was mapped and made a monument, members of the Cummings/Douglass expedition were embroiled in arguments over which white man saw the bridge first and which Paiute guide actually knew the way to the bridge.
		Bifrost, the rainbow bridge was a bridge the gods used to travel to and from earth, and where worthy Norse warriors crossed to Valhalla.
		I'm sure the Rainbow Bridge story is also based on a lot of ADCs, after-death communications, in the form of dreams or waking visions people have had of their pets, seeing them playing with other pets in beautiful surroundings.
	p079.ezboard.com /fpetlossfrm1.showMessage?topicID=15097.topic (5197 words)

	Physical Geography of the U.S. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Geologically, the Middle Rockies are mainly folded mountains like the Bighorn Mountains, which have been eroded exposing the crystalline rock core (mainly granite), uplifted fault blocks like the Tetons, and the remains of volcanic plateaus like the Absaroka Mountains.
		The events include the rafting in on an oceanic plate "immigrant" terranes that were jammed against the continent, sedimentary rock formation some of which was eventually metamorphosed, the subduction of the Kula and Farralon plates causing widespread volcanism and plutonic action, which emplaced the great granitic Sierra batholith, faulting, and uplift.
		Geologically, Florida is the emerged part of the Peninsular Arch, which is underlain with Cretaceous limestone that accounts for the large number of sinkholes and most of the nearly 8,000 lakes.
	www.sfo.com /~parvin/geology.html (16870 words)

	Articles - Mount St. Helens (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The lack of a significant ash layer associated with this event indicates that it was a small eruption, which may have been nothing more than billowing clouds of steam and dust.
		Between 1989 and 1991, a series of seismic events occurred, sometimes accompanied by small explosions from the dome.
		As of May 5, 2005, the highest point on the new dome was 7,675 feet (2339 meters), 688 feet (210 meters) below the highest point of the volcano.
	www.kamero.net /articles/Mount_Saint_Helens (3475 words)

	Myth information \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Geologic evidence supports the idea of rising water 7,500 years ago in the Bosporus Strait.
		The bridge was destroyed, and the brothers, chagrined, withdrew to the locations where they remain today, as the mountains white explorers later called Adams and Hood.
		The Bridge of the Gods landslide appears to have occurred in the same era, says Pat Pringle, an earth science professor at Washington's Centralia College who's studied it for two decades.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20060215/news_lz1c15myth.html (1541 words)

	Veniceblog
		We looked out of a wide bank of large windows that I speculate once led to a little loggia, suggesting that the apartment was situated on the piano nobile, the main and fanciest floor in Renaissance-era homes in Venice and elsewhere.
		For the unrestrained form of exuberance, you had to be closer to one of the 3 bridges crossing the Canal Grande, where kids were playing cat and mouse with the Polizia free-diving into the pitch dark from the crest of the crossings.
		The Calatrava bridge over the Canal Grande, connecting the train station with Piazzale Roma was supposed to be completed in June 2004.
	www.veniceblog.typepad.com (10280 words)

	God, the Universe and Darwin; The Jury Speaks
		For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I [am] the LORD; and [there is] none else.
		Genesis 1:24 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
		God is not a naturalistic explanation and accordingly, they say, God cannot enter the equation even as a consideration.
	www.ukapologetics.net /1NEWCREATION.html (18077 words)

	Lounge (Site not responding. Last check: )
		By unifying the naturalized and the civilized, it appears to work as a bridge over the 500 years of culture clashes wrought by the colonialist enterprise.
		These hold no distinctions between the sacred and profane, the spirited and spiritless, as all the world is considered a bridge to the Divine and all the world sacred because of it.
		By singing of this daily event and holding the image of its outcome, the menstruation is tied to the inevitability of the sun sinking below the horizon.
	www.tribesofcreation.com /newsite/pages/lounge.html (8877 words)

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