Video: Ice Age flood in Mid-Columbia

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• On this day: Jan. 14, 1977

  On this day: Jan. 14, 1977

  Kennewick firemen are flooding a basketball court at the east end of Keewaydin Park for the public to use as an outdoor ice skating rink as an alternative to unsafe ice on the backwaters and ponds along the Columbia River. City workers in Pasco attempted to flood the tennis courts in Sylvester Park but kids ran on it before the ice was set.

• Article uninformative

  Article uninformative

  Regarding Jan. 2 article regarding a local engineer's theory about a global flood.

  As a geologist, I find the article written describing "proof" of Noah's flood to be very uninformative, nonscientifically based and rather misguided.

  I have no problem with religion in this country and believe it is the cornerstone of freedoms which makes the U.S. so great, but to present these Mesozoic Era sediments as anything other than sand dunes is misinforming to say the least.

• Flood theory ridiculous

  Flood theory ridiculous

  Shame on the Tri-City Herald for perpetuating the ignorance and myth behind a global flood. Nothing could be further from the truth. Geologists for years have recognized the giant cross-bedded Navajo sandstone as deposited by wind, not by flood. Flood deposits have distinctive characteristics all their own and they are nothing like what is in Paria Canyon. Congratulations, you've been duped into publishing an article about Greg Morgan's ridiculous and scientifically unfounded creationist drivel. We deserve better.

  Bruce Bjornstad, Richland

• Ice Age lecture planned Jan. 10 in Kennewick

  Ice Age lecture planned Jan. 10 in Kennewick

  The Lake Lewis Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute will hold a free public lecture, given by Bruce Bjornstad, on Exploring the Ice Age Floods Through Science and Art at 7 p.m. Jan. 10 at the Benton County Public Utility District Building off 10th Avenue on Ely Street in Kennewick.

  Admission is free.

  The slide show will cover years of collaboration between Bjornstad and Oregon artist Steve Ominski along with inspiring images from ground and air that show the after effects of the Ice Age (Missoula) floods in the Mid-Columbia region.

• Ice Age group plans lecture in Kennewick

  Ice Age group plans lecture in Kennewick

  Ice Age Floods Institute will give a lecture staring at 7 p.m. Sept. 13 in the auditorium at the Benton County PUD building, at the corner of Highway 395 and 10th Street in Kennewick.

  Gary Kleinknecht will talk about geoscience and paleoecological research from flood deposits made in the Kennewick region millions of years ago. Admission is free.