Dry Falls and Plunge Pool Erosion

by John W. Pakootas

 

 

Dry Falls was formed from the Missoula Lake flash floods over ten thousand years ago. It was just a little dip, then a canyon when the flood went through so fast. All the pressure made the biggest waterfall in the whole world, bigger than Niagara Falls.

The waterfall dug the dry falls walls backwards, deeper and wider in plunge pool erosion. Niagara Falls is about four times smaller than Dry Falls. Dry Falls is three and one half miles wide and over four hundred feet tall.

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Dry Falls

by Stephanie Stead

The waterfall of Dry Falls was five times the width of Niagara Falls. Today, it has created the lakes in Dry Falls near Soap Lake.

When water rushed and zoomed over Dry Falls; flood waters stretched across fourteen miles.

Battleship Rock is a rock that separates the lakes in Dry Falls.