- Published: [United States] : WGBH Boston Video, [2006]
- Year Published: 2006
- Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
- Language: English
- Format: DVD
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- 1593753152 :
- 783421388796
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- Floods -- Washington (State)
- Paleoclimatology -- Pleistocene.
- Documentary television programs.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.
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Originally broadcast on the Nova television program in 2005.
Special features: Materials and activities for educators; a link to the Nova web site.
With the help of stunningly realistic animation, Nova takes viewers back to the Ice Age to reveal what happened when an enormous ice dam broke, unleashing a titanic flood that swept herds of woolly mammoth and everything else into oblivion.
DVD, all regions, widescreen; Dolby stereo.
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What caused Dry Falls?
Another solid NOVA effort exploring the science behind the puzzling 400-foot high, 3.5-mile Dry Falls in central Washington and how it came to be. It takes a while to suss out the full story, as the video takes its time with historical reenactments, contemporary interviews, and some of the sensationalized video production we've come to expect when revealing "secrets" and "mysteries" on film - spooky video effects and dramatic music leading up to the mind-blowing truth Soon To Be Revealed! And that mind-blowing truth - that all this peculiar geology was caused by the catastrophic collapse of an enormous ice-dam holding back the waters of the once-massive Glacier Lake Missoula 1,000 miles away - is just mind-blowing enough you'll happily sit through the animated sequence depicting the collapse of the damn several times.
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