Scientific confirmations of Old Testament history . n-tan, after another early explorer of this region, and hasbeen fully described, in a monograph of the UnitedStates Geological Survey, by the late Professor IsraelC. Russell. But it is not important here to go intodetails. One of the most interesting of all the recently dis-covered evidences of the vast extent of glacial floods isthat which was brought to light in 1903 respecting thoseof the Missouri River Valley. The facts are so strikingand pertinent, as well as new, that it will be profit-able to detail them at some length. In tracing theb
Scientific confirmations of Old Testament history . n-tan, after another early explorer of this region, and hasbeen fully described, in a monograph of the UnitedStates Geological Survey, by the late Professor IsraelC. Russell. But it is not important here to go intodetails. One of the most interesting of all the recently dis-covered evidences of the vast extent of glacial floods isthat which was brought to light in 1903 respecting thoseof the Missouri River Valley. The facts are so strikingand pertinent, as well as new, that it will be profit-able to detail them at some length. In tracing theboundary of the glaciated region of the United Statestwenty years or more ago, it was discovered that west The Deluge in North America. 335 of the Mississippi River the continental glacier did notcross the Missouri River below Jefferson City. Thetestimony of the various geologists who had surveyedthe region was very uniform upon this point. But in1902 Dr. Ball, who was employed by the State to makea geological survey of Miller County, reported that. Cross-section of the Osage Trough at Tuscumbia, with aCanadian Boulder. several large Canadian boulders were to be found atTuscumbia, in the trough of the Osage River, aboutsixty miles above its junction with the Missouri, andfully forty miles south of the extreme limit reachedby the continental glacier. Here. was presented aproblem of the greatest perplexity and interest, so thatit was worth while for me to devote the summer of1903 to its solution. To account for these boulders, there were four, andonly four, suppositions possible. 1. That there were outcrops of similar granite in 336 The Deluge in North America. the vicinity, so that the river floods could have broughtthe boulders into the places where they were this was negatived by the unanimous testimony ofthe geologists who had carefully surveyed the region,that there are no outcrops of such granite in the , Dr. Robert Bell, Director of the CanadianSurve
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