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state. The gap is "a water gap where erosion by the Columbia River was able to keep pace with folding, faulting and uplifting across the Saddle Mountain anticline". During
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runs along the east side of the river through the gap, and the river is spanned by the
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On the Trail of the Ice Age Floods: A Geological Field Guide to the Mid-Columbia Basin
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Lindsey, Kevin (July 25, 1983). "Columbia's early course visible at Sentinel Gap".
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Ice Age Floods: Glacial Lake Missoula, Lake Bonneville and the Ice Age Floods
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sentinel Gap
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from the floods can be seen on the basalt walls of the gap.
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water gap
Columbia River
Saddle Mountains
Mattawa
Washington
Ice Age floods
Channeled Scablands
Wallula Gap
Strandlines
SR 243
Beverly Railroad Bridge
Wanapum
Priest Rapids
Priest Rapids
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sentinel Gap


Bjornstad 2006
Soehnichsen 2012
Bjornstad 2006
"Sentinel Gap and Mattawa Bar"
Tri-City Herald
ISBN
9781879628274
OCLC
70697754
ISBN
978-1-59485-483-5
OCLC

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