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,
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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.
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