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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1953)
FACTS ON ICELAND FISSiJRE GIVES ASSISTANCE TO STATE GEOLOGISTS By PHIL F. BROGAN people the western world. The An earth fissure in Iceland Crooked river flow has been from which three cubic miles of compared by geologists with some molten rock poured in historic of the recent lnvas that it it times has provided geologists canyons in Iceland. with some background relative to Like the lava from the Sk-,n Oregon’s prehistoric past. tar cleft, the flaming rock that The Iceland fissure is the grcai ' tumbled into the old gorge of Skaptar cleft, 20 miles in length. Crooked riverr was highly fluid From that fissure in 1783 spilled and followed the winding canyon lava that covered 280 square many miles, to the Deschutes miles. Some of the tongues of river junction, then on north to flaming rock reached a distance the confluence of the Metolius el' 40 miles before chilling. river. Finally, when the Crooked Depth of the lava in places was river flow cooled, all three gorg more than 100 feet. es were plugged with massive Flows from the Skaptar clert black rock, of the type known to were similar to those that spread geologists as basalts. over many parts of the northwest With its ancient channel choked in the fiery age known as the Mi with rock to a depth of nearly 80 ocene and were repeated on a feet downstream, Crooked river smaller scale until recent times possibly should have sought a new A comparatively recent fissure overflow route and cut its way flow is that which spilled into through the soft Madras forma the Crooked river gorge in the tion to a junction with the Des Smith rock area long before tht chutes west of Madras. But the coming of the white man to tne i Juniper butte volcano, one of continent, and even before the the oldest in the area, barred that first nomads from Asia crossed short cut, and Crooked river pro the Bering land connection i.o ceeded to gouge a new canyon, Beaverstias Bowling Score STANDINGS. A PR II. 31 W. L. ", '!e Lesm eister Ins 38 IS F reem an’s M arket . 35 » 2 20 ' • Kerr Hdwe............. 34 Tots, Teens Mint*".’*; 32’ 23 \ Viot through the soft adjacent sediments, but into the hard ba salt. The result was a canyon within a canyon. Through the ages, many an cestral eastern Oregon canyons have, been filled with lavas, and m 'uni~ instances stream divert ed by the lava, cut new channels ')-> •• side of the once-fluid! rock. Where this has occurred, the ancestral gorges remain as sort of ‘‘fossil canyons” filled with rock that marks their old courses One of the many canyons through which lava once flowed was the gorge of Willow creek. A tongue of lava filled the upper reaches of this creek, in south- astem Jefferson county. The ’•eeping river of rock finally froze in the gorge, about a mile from the present site of Madras. ’’sen 1 Tggcrct tes Don’s Cliff House Eagles Aux................. Cbetco Cafe 27 24 17 16 Brookings Harbor Pilot 9 32 33 40 Thursday. May 7. 1953 Freeman’s Market 2465 Ten High Average: Clara Goyke. 153; Katie Hall, 144; Vei- na Crabb, 141; Dana Baird, 134; Rickey Haggerty, 134; Audrey Keen. 126; Cleo Rogers, 125; F i sa Fisher, 125; Yolande Vaughn, 133. Kathy Karns. 122; Jean Malcolm, 122. HIGH GAMES APRIL 30 Ind. game: Dana Baird. 186; ’ d. senes: Clara Goyke, 513: Team games: Sisco Loggerettes, 87 S; Team series: Sisco Logger ettes, 2423. Y onrlu I/,- ’ Larrie Peterson Clara Govke Katie Hall Dana Baird 21 1 im tirulH al Series ’’lara Goyke .. Larrie Peterson ............... . Dana Baird ......................... Team (ramen— Chet co Cafe ......................... 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